The Family Tree (La Famiglia Albero)

Submitted by Biagio Pietroburgo

Each family should delegate a member to create and maintain their family tree and, of course, pass it on. My social studies class in high school gave me this assignment, and I have kept it for nearly 50 years, accumulating about a dozen pages.

NIAF Announces Italian Business Leader John Elkann to Receive Special Achievement Award

The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is pleased to announce that John Elkann, Chief Executive Officer of Exor N.V., Chairman of Ferrari N.V., and Chairman of Stellantis N.V. will be honored at NIAF’s 50th Anniversary Gala on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Elkann joins world-renowned tenor maestro Andrea Bocelli, who was previously announced as the recipient of NIAF’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Entertainment.

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Read With Alexandra (RWA)

Submitted by Alexandra Marino Durmišević

Set in the Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo, Italy Crystal King’s take on the story of Persephone and Hades is an eerie, romantic fairy tale. Julia Lombardi is a young model who is offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with Salvador Dalí in Vicino Orsini’s Garden of Monsters. She is to be Dalí’s muse of Proserpina (Persephone), and he insists she is the goddess incarnate. At first she thinks it is a tactic to get her into character, but a series of strange events take place that has Julia thinking that she very well might be the Goddess of the Underworld.