Caro Amici, Thank you for visiting our Italian-American Club of West Michigan website. Our Club exists to promote Italian culture and heritage in West Michigan and is open to anyone who loves and appreciates Italian food, culture, language,… Read More

On Tuesday, August 3rd 2021, Board members Skip Micele and Denise Taylor delivered our IACWM donation to the Renucci House. In the foyer is a portrait of past IACWM members, Peter and Patricia Renucci, lead donors to the… Read More

On June 12, 2021, we held our Virtual Wine Tasting event over Zoom. In the past, the the Italian American Club host the wine tasting event at the Reserve Wine & Food downtown Grand Rapids. Due to COVID… Read More

In 1901, 135,996 Italians arrived in the United States to start a new life full of hope. Some were never heard from again. It was the Eve of Thanksgiving, November 27,1901, 115 years ago. Two trains, number 4 and number 13, collided head on at 6:46 pm between Seneca and Sand Creek, Michigan, in what became known as the “Wreck of the Wabash,” after a book by Laurie (Dickens) Perkins, a local historian from Adrian, Mi. Number 4 was heading east to Detroit and carrying passengers returning home for the family gatherings the next day. It was the “Continental Express” in Montpelier, Ohio made up of the engine, six coaches and two sleepers, one a restaurant, and another the luggage car. The second, the number 13, was traveling west full of hope.