This Week >> 12/11/2008
Would you like to know more about Italian Americans or do you think you already know a great deal? Are you unable to go to the American South presently? Then join Let's Travel! and hear what Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa has to say about Italian Americans and Italy and what Wanda Mann has to say about her travels to the American South. What are some of the myths about Italian Americans? How come they just keep on going and going? Do you know about the newly opened Italian American Museum in New York City? How does a New York born, African-American woman and descendent of Southern slaves, feel in the American South? What are some of the myths of the American South? Myths vs. realities? How do movies describe history or define history? Is a movie a portrait or does it become a portrait?
Guests
The Italian American Museum
Italian American Museum
155 Mulberry Street
New York, NY 10013
Tel: (212) 965-9000
www.italianamericanmuseum.org
Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, the President of The Italian American Museum, is an expert in Italian-American affairs, including Italian-American Civil Rights. He is active in numerous Italian-American organizations, e.g., the Columbia Club, Regional Board of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), etc. As an author and editor, Dr. Scelsa has written various articles and reports on ethnicity, pluralism and education. In 1997, Dr. Scelsa contributed to an essay entitled, "The 80th Street Mafia" in the National Italian American Foundation's newly published book, "Beyond the Godfather", in which 23 Italian American writers share their real life experiences.
About the Museum
The Italian American Museum is dedicated to exploring the rich cultural heritage of Italy and Italian Americans by presenting the individual and collective struggles and achievements of Italians and their heirs to the American way of life. By collecting, preserving, and interpreting tangible objects and reminiscences, the Italian American Museum displays notable contributions of Italians and Italian Americans to American culture. The Italian American Museum is a cultural and educational institution promoting constructive pluralism by educating Americans to the heritage of Italian Americans and their European roots, values, language, and traditions. The Italian American Museum sponsors exhibitions, festivals, lectures, symposia and educational travel programs to Europe with a focus on Italy and its contributions to the world, as well as house precious collections of objects and memorabilia on the Italian American experience.
ManAboutTown.com
A native New Yorker and avid traveler, Wanda Mann lived in Spain for two years and loves, in addition to New York, Barcelona, Chicago, Dublin, and Vancouver. As the Founder of www.mannabouttown.com, New York City Events and More, she is a professional events planner, a freelance TV Reporter, and a writer. Wanda knows how to travel, whether it is domestic or international travel. She very quickly knows how to be a native wherever she finds herself. Her travel budgets run the gamut of very inexpensively, a.k.a., cheap, to more upper crust and in-between. Join Wanda in her journeys to the American South - Clayton County, Georgia and St. Augustine.