News & Events 2005-2006

Food and Fun in Little Italy
 
Ryan Pagotto ’97, associate dean of admissions, and math teacher Wayne Rasmussen accompanied 30 students to New York City’s Little Italy for the 78th Annual Feast of San Gennaro on September 25. New York City’s oldest, biggest and best street festival, according to the event’s Web site, was actually celebrated for 11 days. The site noted, “Presented annually since 1996 by Figli di San Gennaro, Inc., a not-for-profit organization, this year’s Feast brought more than one million people to the streets of Little Italy in the annual salute to the Patron Saint of Naples. The street festivities – including parades, entertainment, food stands and a cannoli-eating contest – were capped on September 19 with a celebratory Mass and candlelit procession as the Statue of the Saint was carried from its permanent home in Most Precious Blood Church on Mulberry Street.

Frank Macchiarola, president of Figli di San Gennaro, Inc., said of the feast: “It is a time for remembrance and reconciliation, and a time for celebration.”

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