Memphis Italian Festival

June 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 2006

Thursday: 6:00pm-10:00pm HALF PRICE ADMISSION
Friday & Saturday: 11:00am-11:00pm $8 in Advance/$10 at the Gate

FREE ADMISSION FRIDAY 11:00am-1:00pm, come join us for lunch!

Marquette Park

(Molto Grazie, Memphis Park Commission!)
Corner of Mt. Moriah and Park Avenue, Memphis, TN

Bring a lawn chair, but no coolers, pets, bikes, skates, etc. All bags will be subject to random search.

Free Parking/Shuttle Bus Audubon Woods Business Park at Park & Perkins. Grazie, Trammel Crow and FedEx!

Questions? 901.767.6949 ext. 7334

The Memphis Italian-American Society

http://www.memphisbocceclub.org/

Established in 1870
4217 East Holmes Rd
Memphis, TN 38118
(901) 362–5250
For more information e-mail us at: memphisbocceclub@gmail.com

Schedule of Bocce Club Events

• Wednesdays 7:00pm - Men’s Spring Bocce League
• Sundays 3:00pm - Open Bocce Play

Fiorello Henry La Guardia, 1882 — 1947

Italian Historical Society of America

http://www.italianhistorical.org/SocietyStory.htm

The Italian Historical Society of America was founded by John N. La Corte at a meeting organized by John N. La Corte at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in 1949. The Society was created at a time when the public perception of the Italian culture had been greatly overshadowed by the notoriety of a number of celebrated criminal personalities of Italian descent.

It was John N. La Corte’s belief that these negative stereotypes could be overcome by popularizing the lives of the many Italians who have made significant contributions to Western Civilization. He also believed that Americans of Italian decent, as well as people of all other ethnic backgrounds, could be inspired by the great achievements of those who have preceded them. Inspiratio per Exemplum, “Inspiration through Example”, was the theme that became the motto of the Society, and which is proudly included in its logo to this day.

Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

Why the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge?

In the early part of the 16th Century, while the conquistadores were busy in Central America, Spain and France were at war at home. Francis I, king of France, wanted a share of the Oriental trade to finance his armies. He commissioned a Florentine navigator, Giovanni da Verrazzano, to find a passage to Asia, providing him with the ship La Dauphine. In 1524 Verrazzano touched the American coast at North Carolina and then sailed north to Newfoundland. On this passage he sailed past Sandy Hook, New Jersey and into the mouth of the Hudson River. Verrazzano’s report to Francis I contained the first description of the northeastern coast of North America and gave France its claim to American lands.