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The Italian Heritage Club of Albemarle Plantation is a community organization of those residents who have an interest in learning about and/or sharing Italian customs, traditions, & language. Our goal is to embrace the many contributions that both Italians & Italian Americans have made in the areas of music, theatre, literature, science, art, medicine, architecture, culinary arts, etc.

10/15/2026

10/14/2026

In honor of Italian Heritage Month…..

10/14/2026

Last night, October 13, those in attendance celebrated “Italian Heritage Month”. After a sumptuous dinner, members engaged in a lively discussion of contributions made by Italians & Italian-Americans. Our heritage pride was obvious by many of the stories shared.
Our next meeting will be on November 10 at 5:00 p.m. in the Community Center.

10/14/2026

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10/06/2026

The next Italian Heritage Club meeting will be Tuesday, Oct. 13.

09/21/2026

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Ninety-two years ago today, in a Rome charity ward, a girl was born to a mother who had no husband and no money. They sent her home to Pozzuoli, to her grandmother's house, where nine people slept in a few rooms and the war came down on them hard. During the bombings the family ran to the railway tunnel with everyone else. She was so thin the other kids called her stuzzicadenti. The toothpick.

That girl is Sofia Villani Scicolone. We know her as Sophia Loren.

Here is the part I want you to sit with. In 1961 she played a mother in Two Women, dragging her daughter through the ruins of that same war she had lived through as a child. She won the Academy Award for it. No performer had ever won an acting Oscar in a language other than English. She did it in Italian, playing a southern woman, telling a southern story, and the whole world had to come to her.

Think about what that meant in 1961. Our people were still being told to soften the name, lose the accent, keep the food indoors. And there she was on that screen, unapologetically Napoletana, being called the most beautiful woman alive without changing a single thing about herself.

She never let go of where she came from either. Asked once what she was, she answered that she was Neapolitan first. Not a correction. A declaration.

Our grandmothers had that same face. The same hands, the same carriage, the same way of looking at you that said do not try me today. The world just never put a camera on them.

Buon compleanno, Sophia. Ninety-two years, and still ours.

09/21/2026

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09/10/2026

As part of MY Italian Heritage, the feast of La Madonna dei Martiri is one of my fondest memories. It is celebrated in Molfetta, Italy (where both of my parents were born & raised and much of my family still resides) beginning September 8 each year. Since many from Molfetta emigrated and settled in Hoboken (where I was born & raised) around the time of World War II, the festival also occurs there on the weekend after Labor Day. The best part of this event, in my opinion, is the dedication Mass celebrated at St. Francis Church in Hoboken prior to the procession of the statue through the town’s streets. For more information about La Festa della Madonna dei Martiri, go to

09/09/2026

Tonight’s meeting marked the beginning of our 11th year as a club at Albemarle Plantation! Membership has varied between 50-70 participants throughout the past 10 years as some members either “moved on” or “passed on”, but interest in our Italian culture & heritage continues to remain strong.
After enjoying the sumptuous food offerings prepared & brought by the attendees, we did an internet search to determine the origin & meaning of our Italian surnames. It was a fun way to learn more about our heritage and share our findings with the group.

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