The Grapevine

The Grapevine: Taking a Look, and Reviewing Work, of the Young Progressive Women's Association

Posted on October 13, 2022

The Young Progressive Women's Association, which is the young women's part of the PWA recently held a fundraiser t...

The Grapevine: Honoring Special Women as October is Italian American Heritage and Culture Month

Posted on October 06, 2022

Just about every month on the calendar emphasizes some special event and some months celebrate more than one.  Oc...

The Grapevine: Moving Back Home May Be a Full Circle Moment But the Memories are What Matter

Posted on September 29, 2022

The old saying “What goes around comes around” has certainly come true for me.  This past week I moved fr...

The Grapevine: Talk on Local Produce and Canning

Posted on September 22, 2022

The last couple of Saturday mornings I have been helping out at the Clarksburg Farmers Market, which is held at the pa...

The Grapevine: Shout Out to those Making this Year's Italian Heritage Festival Happen and be Successful

Posted on September 15, 2022

After last week’s events, I thought that I would follow up with an article on the Italian Festival.  But this w...

The Grapevine: From the Back to the Front at Annual West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival in Clarksburg

Posted on September 08, 2022

From the back to the front.  This kind of seems backwards, but this is what happened to me this weekend as I sat in f...

The Grapevine: A Little Girls Dream Coming True as Marissa Bailey is Regina Maria XLIII of Italian Festival

Posted on September 01, 2022

A little girls dream comes true.   On October 10,1996, Tom and Maria Lucente Bailey welcomed into this wor...

The Grapevine: Looking at Work of the PWA and How Effort Four Years Ago Changed One Family's Lives

Posted on August 25, 2022

What is the PWA?  What does the PWA do?    These are two of the most asked questio...

The Grapevine: A Historical Italian Festival Secret

Posted on August 18, 2022

I BET YOU DID NOT KNOW THIS: In 1998 when I was contemplating retiring from the Italian Festival, I wrote a grant to t...

The Grapevine: The WVIHF History of Regina Maria

Posted on August 11, 2022

DID YOU KNOW? Every year hundreds of individuals gather in front of the Main Stage to open the street portion of the W...

The Grapevine: Rewinding with Plenty of Photos from the Italian Heritage Festival during the Early 1980s

Posted on August 04, 2022

In this week's edition of The Grapevine, take a look at multiple photos from the early years of the West Virginia Italian...

The Grapevine: Early Italian Heritage Festival History

Posted on July 28, 2022

Editor's Note: The following linked PDF file is a rough draft and unedited submission of the early decades of the West...

The Grapevine: Reflections on an East View Legend

Posted on July 21, 2022

I ran across an article about Ben Portaro and it made me think about his East View connection.     He ha...

The Grapevine: Whether You Spell it Tiala or Tiella, or Another Way, Always a Good Time for a Good Dish

Posted on July 14, 2022

It’s “tiala” or “tiella” time.  Now that may not be the correct spelling, but we al...

The Grapevine: Recognizing Local Community's Top Women Volunteers who Continue to Make a Difference

Posted on July 07, 2022

It’s back!   This past Thursday the Progressive Women's Association held its All American Women of...
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