I'm giving a talk about local Italian-American mutual aid societies on Saturday.

It's free.

If you're into free, mutual aid, society, or Italian-Americans, you might enjoy it....

#BostonMA #MutualAid #ItalianAmericans

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/66b3b266df94f01b4a7046b8

@TheWeeOwl The #ItalianAmericans who hunt these #mushrooms in the #SanFranciscoBayArea usually call them #Porcini. Wikipedia says, “Boletus edulis (English: cep, penny bun, porcino or porcini) is a basidiomycete fungus, and the type species of the genus #Boletus.”

Anyone know of any audio examples of #Italian as spoken by #ItalianAmericans who grew up speaking it? I got curious as there seems to be a dearth of general info on what their speech is like. The best I could find was this very short clip of #RockyMarciano speaking Italian. Most everything else seems to be people who grew up in Italy before migrating or who learned the language later in life.

https://youtu.be/sB0KGWG7kdI?si=gaZZOq93XrbaUm_v&t=442

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #Sicilian #Neapolitan #boxing

***NEW PODCAST DROP***

Meet MARK DEVITO of STANDARD DEVIANT BREWING:

* his Italian heritage
* elementary school shenanigans
* learning drums at a young age
* bands in high school and college years
* the decision to move to San Francisco

All this and more (lots more) up now at the link in our bio! Also available at all the podcast apps, now including Pandora!

Photography by Jeff Hunt

#NewHampshire #smalltowns #Boston #ItalianAmericans #music #musicians #drums #drummers #bands #NYstate #Berkeley #SanFrancisco #MissionDistrictSF #StandardDeviantBrewing #storytelling #WereAllInIt #podcasts

I’m surprised to discover that no one had hashtagged “Mangia” here yet.

Where are all my #ItalianAmericans?

#Mangia was uttered daily in my house!