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Joseph Balistreri of D’Aquisto Farms Keeps the Family Farm & His Family’s Italian American Heritage Alive by Christopher Forte A ccording to the American Farmland Trust (AFT), California loses 50,000 acres of farmland annually, and is facing a “crossroads” as the housing supply crisis accelerates

A fter being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, Little Italy San Diego’s Annual Christmas Tree Lighting and Christmas Village was back. I was able to capture the Tree Lighting Ceremony that had dignitaries like San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and State Assemblyman Christopher Ward . Other speak

T hanksgiving is coming up soon this year for us Americans and being a quintessential and distinctive American holiday, I’m sure many of us want to keep it as traditional as possible. That is with the traditional foods: turkey and stuffing, yams, mashed potatoes, corn (on or off the cob), and desser

A fter a year and a half of being closed by the covid lockdowns and mandates, the House of Italy at Balboa Park in San Diego has resumed in-person meetings. Its next meeting is Sunday, November 21st where Louis Pechi will share his book "I Am Lobo" from the Italian perspective and Megan Rigby

On Sunday, October 24th the Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America (OSDIA) Fratellanza Garibaldina Lodge #1627 in San Diego, California announced their "Italian American of the Year" for 2021. It was at their 89th Anniversary Dinner Dance and unfortunately their honoree, Tom Cesar

San Pedro's "Little Italy" In 2019 the Los Angeles neighborhood of San Pedro, located on the coast adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles, the largest in the nation, was officially designated "Little Italy" by the Los Angeles City Council. These ethnic designations of different neighborhoods, like C

In an introduction to my site, I shared a story that I discovered about a reason for the migration of so many people from my ancestorial village, Verbicaro, Prov Cosenza, Calabria. during the 1910s through the so-called "great war"(nothing great about it!) in 1916. It seems the relatively new King

M y parish, Our Lady of the Rosary (OLR ), is an Italian National Parish in San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood and as such holds many traditional Italian Catholic saint feast day Masses and events. Sadly, they were all postponed or celebrated via video with only a few select in person attend