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A Droll New World

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Photo by Amanda L. Snyder

Sunday’s Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival made South Broad Street a mini Italy. City Council President Anna Verna, upper right, whose late husband Severino co-founded the parade in 1957, joined with proud residents to laud Christopher Columbus’ 1492 journey to the New World. Assistant parade coordinator and 1492 Society Inc. secretary Jody Della Barba and Grand Marshal Joe Piscopo, center right, likewise fraternized with their paisanos while musicians offered musical revelry.

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