Il Piccolo Giornale September, 2020
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Founded 1994 Il Piccolo Giornale September, 2020 Il Piccolo Giornale is the official newsletter of Club ItaloAmericano of Green Bay, Wi. Website: http://clubitaloamericano.org/ Facebook: Club Italaloamericano of Green Bay Board of Directors Send contributions/comments to: [email protected] Officers: Facebook: 230 likes & 239 followers as of 8/25/2020 President Website: 206 visits as of 8/28/2020 L. V. Teofilo Vice President Richard Daley Treasurer Vicky Sobeck Secretary Mary Prisco Past President Richard Gollnick Directors It was held on Wednesday, August 5 Please see the following article for John Contratto at Green Isle Park in Allouez. The details. Ron Cattelan evening was picture perfect with a La Terza PASSEGGIATA Dom DelBianco sunny ski and temps in the high 70’s. Marlene Feira Fifteen club members gathered at After a successful PASSEGGIATA at 5:30, all with masks, and took a short Janice Galt LA SECONDA GreenIsle Park on August 5th, the leisurely walk around the park. Most Susan Milewski board of directors decided to offer PASSEGGIATA ? of us hadn’t seen each other Darrell Sobeck another passeggiata on September 15th. Judy Sulzmann Because La Prima Passeggiata had since before the COVID pandemic, so conversation was lively! Lynn Thompson to be cancelled twice, the second The Board decided to go to another passeggiata was actually the first of After the walk, we sat 4 to a table to park that has a nice walking path and the season (LOL). Ambassador at maintain social distancing and en- a roof-over-head picnic area. We will Large joyed the meal we chose to bring be meeting at Voyageur Park in De Riccardo Paterni either a bag lunch or pizza from Pere, along the Fox River walk path Luigi’s. I think all would agree that it at 430pm. Editor was a great opportunity to see our Due to Covid issues, we will only Paul Marino friends and to participate in a varied have a “brown bag” food option. version of one of our club’s summer Walkers in the passeggiata may do events. as they please and if they wish to The Board has decided to offer “La order take-out or if they can find a Terza Passeggiata” in September. delivery to the park pavilion option, it will be entirely up to the mem- bers. You can may bring your own re- Join us at the Colburn Park Bocce Courts around the world. Thirty nations partici- freshments, your own meal, or any op- at 3:30 for a few hours of “non- pate in World Bocce Championship games tion that suits you. competitive” fun! every odd year. The biggest tournaments are in France and Italy that include 4000 We will furnish disinfecting cleaner for the Please bring your own set of bocce balls, participants in each!!! Bocce is an event in park picnic tables, and wear masks. There a rake, a mask, a lawn chair and hand the Special Olympics and is being consid- will be no need to pre-register or notify sanitizer. ered to be played in the World Olympics. of your intent to attend, just show up. History of Bocce Ball Other interesting facts: Hipocrates con- Meet at 4:30pm, September 15th, in the sidered bocce therapeutic with health Voyageur Park-De Pere parking lot (by (La Storia delle Bocce) benefits; George Washington built a boc- the restored decorative old-fashion gas Lenora Rhyner ce ball court at Mt. Vernon; Mayor Fiorel- filling station la LaGuardia established the first public Bocce ball has been part of Italian culture Your Board of Directors is trying to do all ball court in NY in 1934; The oldest USA since the time of the Roman soldiers we can to keep our club going in this very bocce club is in San Francisco founded by However, the game can be traced even difficult time. We hope that you will Italian immigrants in 1942. Shakespeare earlier to 5200 BC where it is documented attend so that we can maintain some refers to bocce in some of his plays; Henri in an Egyptian tomb painting of two boys semblance of Club ItaloAmericano - via- Matisse painted "Il Gioco Delle Boc- playing with what appears to be polished ble and in contact with each other! ce" (check it out on-line). stones. The game spread from Egypt to Board News Palestine and by 800 BC to Greece and Most of the information for this article from there to the Roman Empire where it was obtained on-line from a site titled We have received a letter of resignation provided soldiers with entertainment be- ARI. from Board member Margene Mar- tween battles during the Punic wars (246 cantonio. Margene has been an active BC). The game has evolved utilizing member of Club ItaloAmericano for many bound rags, fruits, coconuts from Africa, Green Bay Italian Conversa- years and will continue to serve as a proxy balls made from olive wood and to the tion Club Moves Online when needed. metal, composite material and thermoset Grazie mille Margene for everything resin ones that are used today . you have done to promote our club! At various times throughout the centuries, Because the COVID-19 pandemic has A few months ago, John (Giovanni) Con- playing had been restricted to the upper made in-person meetings problematic, the tratto retired and expressed his desire to class so that peasants could pursue war Green Bay Italian Conversation Club has rejoin the Board if and when a vacancy training, archery, bow and arrow making. moved online, at least temporarily. occurred. John was contacted and imme- When bocce playing reached Venice in The club, led by Angela Landt, had been diately accepted the position. 1576, it was condemned because the meeting once a month at Nardi’s Affogato Welcome back John! Catholic Church declared it a means of Bar in De Pere, but has not met in person gambling. The clergy and the laity were since March. Mary Prisco offered to host prohibited from playing. Punishment for a trial meeting online via Zoom on August playing the game involved fines and im- 8. Those who attended opted to have prisonment. Underground bocce circuits online meetings twice a month, on the in remote and rural regions were created second and fourth Saturdays. Members to evade attention from the law. of Club ItaloAmericano were sent email Many famous people played bocce in- invitations to this newly-christened Online cluding: Caesar Augustus (at the time of Italian Conversation Club in mid-August. Jesus ); Galileo and DaVinci; Sir Francis SUNDAY BOCCE CONTINUES A total of nine people, all Club ItaloAmeri- Drake and Queen Elizabeth I. Giuseppe cano members, attended the second Our Sunday afternoon bocce get- Garibaldi popularized the game as he meeting on August 22. They agreed that togethers will continue as long as the traveled through the country in the unifi- the online format, with only one person weather permits. The numbers partici- cation of Italy ( Risorgimento 1850-1870) speaking at a time, was actually beneficial. pating have been increasing each week. Today, Bocce remains a popular sport Everyone took part in the same discussion, asking questions and providing each other MUSICALE #13 My email address is: pao- with vocabulary and grammar help, and [email protected] there were only a few lapses into English. CANCELLED Questions— call me at 612-360-8246 Efforts were made to encourage everyone to speak. Well, it looks like the number 13 truly is CLUB MEMBERS IN BUSINESS unlucky! Due to the COVID-19 crisis our The next meeting will be at 10:30 am on We have several club members that are in Musicale #13, which was scheduled for Saturday, September 12. In order to the restaurant business: Tuesday, October 20, will have to be can- attend, you must be on the Conversation celled. Nardi’s Affogato Bar in DePere, Luigi’s Club’s email list. Ideally, you would use a Italian Bistro in Green Bay, Sammy’s Pizza computer/laptop, tablet, or smartphone Marlene and I had discussed waiting until Garden in Green Bay, Tarlton Theatre in with the free Zoom app installed to join August to see if cancellation was neces- Green Bay, Titletown Brewery in Green the meeting. (If you have never used sary and it looks like it is. We had a really Bay and Thumb Knuckle Brewing in Lux- Zoom, check out: https:// nice program planned which included emburg. www.youtube.com/watch? three sets of male/female duets. We are v=9isp3qPeQ0E&t=23s and other intro- toying with the idea that, if in early 2021 Whenever you visit these businesses, ductory videos on YouTube or on the things have cleared up, we could probably please mention that you are a member of https://zoom.us/ website.) It is also pos- put on Musicale 13 in January or February Club ItaloAmericano as a support of their sible to participate via telephone, but this and still plan for another in October. business and membership. does not allow for the full meeting experi- Stay safe! Stay healthy! ence. There is no cost to join the Conver- CLUB BUSINESS WEB SITES Giovanni and Marlena sation Club, and no obligation to attend Nardi’s Affogato Bar in DePere, https:// every session. If you are free the day of a Club Library gelato920.com/ meeting, drop in, and stay as long as you Luigi’s Italian Bistro in Green Bay, like. Sessions will run for about 90 We have a few additions to our club li- https:// minutes, but the length of each session brary. will depend on who attends and what they www.luigisitalianbistrogreenbay.com/ Two Italian language workbooks -one for have to say! Sammy’s Pizza Garden in Green Bay, beginners and one for advanced begin- https:// If you would like to be added to the ners.