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Honoring Italian heritage
Old Forge’s Felittese festival is a decades-old tradition BY JOSH MCAULIFFE Special to the triboro banner
Northeast Pennsylvania is teeming with Italian food options come this time of year. Of course, there’s La Festa Italiana, which takes place this weekend in downtown Scranton. And then there’s Old Forge’s wildly popular Felittese Festival, a tradition in the borough for more than 30 years. Next weekend, thousands of revelers will flock to the annual celebration in honor of Our Lady of Constantinople. This year’s Felittese Festival runs Friday, Sept. 6, and Saturday, Sept. 7, from 5 to 10 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 8, from noon to 10 p.m., at the Felittese Fairgrounds, 145 Third St., Old Forge. As always, the festival will feature its usual delectable assortment of Italian foods, plus live entertainment every night. Also on Sunday, the festival will hold its traditional procession of the statue of Our Lady of Constantinople immediately following the 10 a.m. Feast Day Mass at Prince of Peace Parish St. Mary’s Church, 123 Grace St. The procession will walk from the church to the Felittese chapel grounds at the festival. By now, most Old Forge residents are wellaware of the Felittese Festival’s origins. It pays homage to the Our Lady of Constantinople observance in Felitto, the Italian town where many Old Forge residents trace their lineage. The festival always takes place at the
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same time as Felitto’s celebration. “It’s a family-friendly festival that people just love to come back to. It’s good food and good people,” said Felittese Association chairman of the board and treasurer, Louis Mazza. Festival attendees will have dozens of homemade Italian delicacies to choose from, including tripe, sofritto, gnocchi, meatball platters and sandwiches, porketta sandwiches, sausage and pepper sandwiches, portabella mushroom sandwiches, pasta fagiole and pizza. And, no trip to the festival would be complete without a stop at the pastry tent, which will feature everything from cannoli and biscotti to cheesecake, cookies and pizza fritta. “Personally, I think the food is better than at La Festa,” Mazza said, noting the preparations start several weeks before the festival, with a dedicated crew of volunteers pitching in. For those who can’t stick around and engage in all the revelry, takeout packages timeS-tribune file photoS. will be available. Mark Wozniak of Taylor fills a tray with gnocchi during last year’s Felittese Festival. Meanwhile, the food isn’t the festival’s only attraction. Each night of the festival will feature a different local band. Mace in If you go Dickson Band will perform Friday from 7 to What: annual felittese festival 10 p.m., Danny and Kartina will take the When: friday, Sept. 6, and Saturday, stage Saturday night and The Wanabees will Sept. 7, 5-10 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 8, close the festival Sunday night. noon to 10 p.m. In addition to all the food and fun, Felittese Where: felittese fairgrounds, 145 third comes with a charitable component. ProSt., old forge ceeds from the festival benefit a host of comDetails: for more information on the fesmunity organizations and causes, from voltival, visit the felittese association’s Joanna Reviello of Old Forge makes unteer fire companies to school groups to facebook page. pizza frittas at last year’s event. fundraisers for borough residents in need.
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Sazia Nowshin of Moosic, a senior political science major at The University of Scranton, was awarded a 2019 Lackawanna County Federation of Democratic Women Scholarship. Nowshin also participates in the university’s undergraduate honors program. A dean’s list student at Scranton, Nowshin was inducted into Omega Beta Sigma, the women’s business honor society, in the spring semester. She is pursuing a minor in operations and information management. State Rep. Bridget M. Kosierowski, left, and Nowshin.
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ters, Lindsay and Leslie, are grown, Sheroda still has plenty of recipes up her sleeve. Friends and family know her for her dessert trifle salad bowl and strawberry cake as well as her homemade “ S u n d ay d i n n e r ” - t y p e dishes, such as meatloaf, chicken or eggplant parmigiana and all different kinds of chili. “I am like the chili queen,” she said, laughing. Her daughters like their mom’s chicken strips, homemade french fries and salads topped with the dozens of dressings Sheroda creates from scratch. “I never, ever buy anything in a bottle,” she said. “I’ll just make all that stuff myself.” S h e r o d a s t ay s b u s y through her work as an associate broker with Realty Network Group, but one of her favorite places to be is in the kitchen. “It’s something I’ll do when I have the time to really do it how I want it,” she said. “I enjoy that time I get cooking.”
much any way you want,” she said. “I’ve made it and stuffed poblano peppers with it, and that’s really good. It just depends on what you like.” The stuffed mushrooms were a perfect light appetizer for a summer party. The stuffing was flavorful and rich while the mushr o o m g av e t h e i d e a l amount of texture to feel full but not overstuffed. While she doesn’t cook Contact the writer: gmazur@ large meals as often as she timesshamrock.com; 570-348used to since her daugh- 9127; @gmazurtt on twitter
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Ann Sheroda’s Stuffed Mushrooms 18 to 20 white button mushrooms, cleaned 1 small onion, finely chopped Olive oil Salt and pepper, to taste 1 pound sausage 1 cup chopped parsley 1 cup chopped tomatoes 8 ounces shredded Monterey jack cheese Parmesan cheese, to sprinkle Saute mushrooms and onions until soft, adding salt and pepper. take sausage out of skin and crumble into sauted mushrooms. Cook until done; add parsley and tomatoes. Cook until tomatoes are soft. take off heat and add Monterey jack cheese. Mix thoroughly. Spoon stuffing into mushrooms. Place mushrooms on cookie sheet and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake at 350 f for 10 minutes.
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Anderson is determined to move her rebellious children in the right direction. That means taking away their cell phones, tablets, and computers and moving to the house where Lily grew up in the rural town of Comfort, Texas. Soon Lily has a bigger challenge than two sulking teens. The house comes with Mack Cooper, high school teacher and longtime renter. The arrangement, just housemates. Mack’s devoted attention to the kids’ starts to warm Lily’s resistant heart. Then Lily finds an old leather-bound book in which five generations of her female ancestors shared their struggles and dreams. To Lily, it’s a bracing reminder about the importance of family and love. Now it’s time for Lily to add an adventurous new chapter to the cherished family journal, by embracing a fresh start and taking a chance on a man who could make her house a home “The Flight Girls” by Noelle Salazar Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It’s why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It’s why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began, and it’s why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, especially with Lieutenant James Hart. Then one fateful day, she gets caught in the air over Pearl Harbor just as the bombs begin to fall, and suddenly, nowhere feels safe. To make everything she’s lost count for something, Audrey joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots program. The bonds she forms with her fellow pilots ignite a spark of hope in the face war, and when James goes missing in action, give Audrey the strength to cross the front lines and fight not only for her country, but for the love she holds so dear. “Peach Clobbered” by Anna Gerard Nina Fleet’s life ought to be as sweet as a Georgia peach. Awarded a tidy sum in her divorce, Nina retired to Cymbeline, Georgia. But Nina’s barely settled into her new bed-and-breakfast-to-be when a penguin shows up on her porch. Or, at least, a man wearing a penguin suit. Harry Westcott is making ends meet as an ice cream shop’s mascot and has a letter from his great-aunt, pledging to leave him the house. Too bad that’s not what her will says. Meanwhile, the Sisters of Perpetual Poverty have lost their lease. Real estate developer Gregory Bainbridge intends to turn the convent into a golfing community, so Cymbeline’s mayor persuades Nina to take in the elderly nuns. Then Nina
finds the “penguin” again, this time lying in an alley with a kitchen knife in his chest. A peek under the beak tells Nina it’s not Harry inside the costume, but Bainbridge. What was he doing in Harry’s penguin suit? Was the developer really the intended victim, or did the culprit mean to kill Harry? Whoever is out to stop Harry from contesting the sale of his greataunt’s house may also be after Nina. “The Peacock Summer” by Hannah Richell Hidden deep in the dusty wing of an old manor house stands a locked room, forgotten by all, except one. Sixty years ago Lillian Oberon was mistress of Cloudesley, until one summer, when a doomed love affair changed her life forever. Now old and frail, Lillian is the sole guardian of Cloudesley, and its secrets. When her granddaughter, Maggie, returns to nurse her, as well as her own heartbreak, do the walls of the past begin to crumble, threatening to bring the tragic consequences of that summer to light? Can Maggie unlock her family’s tangled history, before all she holds dear is lost forever?
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more information, call 570-235-1738. Hunterdon Hills bus trips: There will be a bus trip to Hunterdon Hills Playhouse on Wednesday, Sept. 11, to see Neil Simon’s hit play “Barefoot in the Park.” This is a fundraiser for the First United Methodist Church of Old Forge. Price of the trip is $100 (includes, bus, entree, coffee, hot tea, show, tax, gratuity and driver tip). Bus leaves the Pittston Plaza at 9 a.m. To make a reservation or for additional information, call 570-603-1915 or email cathyg7@msn. com. • Taylor Community Library will run a bus trip to “Frozen: The Broadway Musical,” on Saturday, Sept. 14. Bus will leave the library, 710 S. Main St., at 7:30 a.m. and depart New York City at 7 p.m. (Showtime is 2 p.m.) Cost is a nonrefundable $135 per ticket (includes bus
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