"GROWING UP ITALIAN" In Rhode Island; meet author Dr. Ed Iannuccilli at event to benefit PPL
Books / Literature - Lecture/Discussion
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
6:00 PM-8:30 PM
Providence Public Library, Central
150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
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Providence Public Library is proud to host a special visit by Dr. Edward Iannuccilli, local Rhode Island author of the recently released Growing up Italian: Grandfather's Fig Tree and Other Stories.
The visit is a fundraising event, the proceeds of which will be used to support a matching challenge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for technology. For information on attending this event, contact Dawn Kelly at dkelly@provlib.org or call 455-8050.
Book will be available for sale and signing.
About the Author and His Book
Remember a simpler time, when your house was filled with the aroma of Italian bread and grandma's "gravy"? When Christmas Eve was La Vigilia? Going to The Boston Store on the bus with your mother? Maybe you recall piling into the family car on Sundays to head for Lido's Beach? Grandpa's homemade wine? The older folks playing La Morra under the grape arbor?
Whether you share these memories or not, you'll love the nostalgic journey offered in the book Growing up Italian: Grandfather's Fig Tree and Other Stories by Ed Iannuccilli. Released in July by Woonsocket-based Barking Cat Books, Growing up Italian is a collection of charming stories covering all the wonders, joys, fears, anticipations and mysteries of childhood in an Italo-American family. But it also will summon up memories of Providence in the 1940s and 1950s for anyone who lived them or has heard about them from older loved ones.
A Providence native, Ed Iannuccilli is a distinguished physician, educator and innovator in Rhode Island. He was the first appointed Clinical Professor at Brown University Medical School and is a former Chairman of the Board at Rhode Island Hospital. He also served on the board of Lifespan. As one of the founding principals of Ocean State Physicians Health Plan (later to become United Health Care), Dr. Iannuccilli became its third Chairman of the Board. Dr. Iannuccilli and his wife, Diane, live in Bristol. Growing up Italian is his first book.
For more information, visit www.barkingcatbooks.com.
Suggested Audiences:
Adult
E-mail:
dkelly@provlib.org
Phone: 401-455-8050
Last Modified: October 2, 2008 at 1:30 PM
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"GROWING UP ITALIAN" In Rhode Island; meet author Dr. Ed Iannuccilli at event to benefit PPL
Books / Literature - Lecture/Discussion
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
6:00 PM-8:30 PM
Providence Public Library, Central
150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
Google Maps - MapQuest
Providence Public Library is proud to host a special visit by Dr. Edward Iannuccilli, local Rhode Island author of the recently released Growing up Italian: Grandfather's Fig Tree and Other Stories.
About the Author and His Book
The visit is a fundraising event, the proceeds of which will be used to support a matching challenge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for technology. For information on attending this event, contact Dawn Kelly at dkelly@provlib.org or call 455-8050.
Book will be available for sale and signing.
Remember a simpler time, when your house was filled with the aroma of Italian bread and grandma's "gravy"? When Christmas Eve was La Vigilia? Going to The Boston Store on the bus with your mother? Maybe you recall piling into the family car on Sundays to head for Lido's Beach? Grandpa's homemade wine? The older folks playing La Morra under the grape arbor?
Whether you share these memories or not, you'll love the nostalgic journey offered in the book Growing up Italian: Grandfather's Fig Tree and Other Stories by Ed Iannuccilli. Released in July by Woonsocket-based Barking Cat Books, Growing up Italian is a collection of charming stories covering all the wonders, joys, fears, anticipations and mysteries of childhood in an Italo-American family. But it also will summon up memories of Providence in the 1940s and 1950s for anyone who lived them or has heard about them from older loved ones.
A Providence native, Ed Iannuccilli is a distinguished physician, educator and innovator in Rhode Island. He was the first appointed Clinical Professor at Brown University Medical School and is a former Chairman of the Board at Rhode Island Hospital. He also served on the board of Lifespan. As one of the founding principals of Ocean State Physicians Health Plan (later to become United Health Care), Dr. Iannuccilli became its third Chairman of the Board. Dr. Iannuccilli and his wife, Diane, live in Bristol. Growing up Italian is his first book.
For more information, visit www.barkingcatbooks.com.
Suggested Audiences: Adult
E-mail: dkelly@provlib.org
Phone: 401-455-8050
Last Modified: October 2, 2008 at 1:30 PM
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