Students across Locust Valley and Bayville celebrate Italian history and culture

Posted Friday, January 16, 2026 12:03 am

Locust Valley High School student Riley Iannotti, right, helped younger students create Italian-themed arts and crafts.

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Locust Valley High School Italian Club and Italian Honor Society members taught intermediate school students about the country’s culture and history as part of the Italiamo festival on Jan. 9.

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Locust Valley Intermediate School fifth graders colored in famous Italian art pieces.

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Locust Valley High School students Cristina Villella, left, Abby Madden, Emily Gallo and Mia Marcantonio wore colorful Italian dresses as they taught students how to dance “La Tarantella.”

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Locust Valley Intermediate students Holden Higgs, left, and Hadley Austin waved Italian flags as they departed Italiamo.

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Locust Valley High School Italian Club and Italian Honor Society members celebrated the annual Italiamo festival on Jan. 9. The students welcomed fifth graders from Bayville Intermediate and Locust Valley Intermediate and taught them about Italian culture and history.

High schoolers led stations where the intermediate school students molded clay into Italian icons, learned to converse in Italian, recreated their favorite pizzas using stickers, colored in famous art pieces while laying upside down like Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel and learned how to dance to “La Tarantella.”

–William Sheeline

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