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I am happy to share with you a link to an article written by Sante Matteo entitled “Birds of Passage”. This is the link to the article published on the Journal River River: http://riverriver.org/issues/ten/birds-of-passage/
This is a link to an article on “La Gazzetta Italiana” about the cancellation of the 2020 Feast of the Assumption in Cleveland. Very sad.
Please check this link to read the interview by Dr. Mary Kovach to the Italian American singer Aaron Caruso for the ItalyUSA Magazine:
https://www.italyusa.org/2020/07/an-old-world-proponent-intellect-and.html
We all know that in the last few years there have been protests about Cristoforo Colombo: statues of him have been destroyed, and there is a proposal of renaming Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day. The time is right to re-examine history through a documentary and a fiction film entitled “Columbus on Trial”. The film screening and the discussion are hosted by the Calandra Italian American Institute.
To register for the screening via Zoom on August 27 at 4:00 pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FIEG4rjmSqi8EGsbn71Gyg
This letter, written by the Mayor of Petrella Tifernina is placed on the back of a framed picture of Sante as a child.
The picture has been presented to Matteo at a reception in his honor to commemorate his first visit as a distinguished speaker in the regional capital, Campobasso, 2002. The letter says: “A very special thank, from the Mayor and the City Council, to our fellow citizen Sante Matteo. Yesterday he was an emigrant, today he is a protagonist. ‘…a spread spore of our Italianness.'”
Sante Matteo at Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) probably Junior Year, Fall, 1969.
Here Sante Matteo is near to his father, Nicolino Matteo, who is holding Sante’s younger sister, Franca, c. 1954. Sante was 6 and Franca was 2. The picture was taken before Nicolino left for America.
Matteo’s passport and ID pictures: c. 1975 (top left) to c. 1985. Bottom: elementary school, Petrella Tifernina, c. 1955.
Sante Matteo (left) and his first cousin Domenico (right), circa 1950. Domenico is the son of the younger sister of Sante Matteo’s father, born on July 10, two days after Sante. Domenico’s family emigrated to Argentina when he was two.
Many thanks to Sante Matteo for sharing this picture that depicts him at the time of his first communion.
First communion, age 7, Petrella Tifernina (Campobasso, Italy), 1956