Rosanne Cash: First Girl in Country Music

Singer, songwriter, Grammy Award winner, and daughter of Johnny Cash, connects with her Italian ethnicity, inherited from her mother Vivian Liberto.

“It took a long time to establish myself in my own mind—longer than it did in the world,” she says. “I had success early, which was helpful. I probably pushed away from my family for too long just to make sure I was doing it on my own. I think it was necessary, to become independent and self-sufficient, and it made it that much sweeter when I could fully step into my family legacy, partly by making my last record, ‘The List.’”

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The First Edition 2012 includes:

• Rosanne Cash: Italian American
• The Barbers of Rome
• Foundry Marinelli: Creating Bronze Works of Art in Italy and America
• Henry R. DiSpirito: Stonemason Turned Sculptor
• The Italian Renaissance Cultural Garden of Cleveland
• NHL Hockey Greats of Italian Ethnicity
• Italy’s Struggle with Domestic Violence
• NYC’s Calabria Eatery
• Spring Recipe: Pasta and Asparagus and Crimini Mushrooms

Rosanne Cash: We turn to Rosanne to learn more about her mother Vivian and the effects she had on her. We learn Vivian came from a proud line of Italian immigrants who bucked the migratory trend to settle far from the New York gateway, many miles away from the guise of Lady Liberty.

The Barbers of Rome: Come with PRIMO on a tour of Rome’s old-fashioned barbershops. They provide a cut, a shave and a glimpse into the past of the Eternal City. Enter these temples to hair and you’ll hear the echoes of those who preceded you. The famous Italian phrase, “Barba e capelli, grazie!” – “A cut and a shave, please” – has bounced off these mirrors endless times.

Foundry Marinelli Creates Bronze Works of Art in Italy and America: With his long grey hair pulled back in a pony tail, I would have taken him for a famous painter or a ‘70s-era rock star. But the man welcoming me to one of Tuscany’s few remaining artistic foundries and its most important was its third-generation owner, Ferdinando Marinelli Jr.

Stonemason Turned Sculptor: The author pays tribute to her father, Henry R. DiSpirito, a Utica bricklayer who learned to sculpt and became artist-in-residence at Syracuse University.

Cleveland’s Italian Park: The Italian Renaissance Cultural Garden is not just plants and flowers. It is Cleveland’s monument to Italy, highlighting famous Italian cultural figures in the arts and sciences, as well as historical figures. It is the only cultural Renaissance garden in the United States.

NHL Hockey Greats: Professional hockey rivals the all-American sports of baseball, football and basketball in fan loyalty and enthusiasm. Italian Americans and moreover Italian Canadians have left their mark on this action packed sport. Here are five of the best Italians to skate the ice with stick in hand.

Italy’s Anti-Violence Centers: So it came as an arresting surprise that not only did Italy not have a network of women’s shelters, it did not even have a single shelter…

NYC’s Calabria Eatery: The name means gourmand or glutton, depending on the Italian dialect. Either way, Golosi Paninteca, Pizzeria and Gelateria lives up to its name in New York’s Upper East Side…

Spaghetti with Crimini Mushrooms and Asparagus: We delight in asparagus, thin green towers that sprout in the valleys of Piemonte or in the hilly grasslands of Lombardia…

• Publisher’s Note: Geologic Flaws Are Reason for Italy’s Slow Economy
• Travel: Hidden Treasures – Italian Regional Varieties of Prosciutto
• My Italian Family/Genealogy: A.P. Giannini’s Family
• Readers’ Corner: “The Voice of Vallemaio,” by Fiore Sireci
• Readers' Corner: “The Search for Authentic Italian Food in America,”by Robert Fumo
• Language: Italy’s Bill of Rights
• The Truth about Wine: Gambero Rosso: Italy’s Wine Rater
• Reviews: “Gelato Sisterhood on the Amalfi Coast,” by Chantal Kelly; “A Year in the Village of Eternity,” by Tracy Lawson
  

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