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Finding My Italian Family (by Kathy McCabe)
Kathy McCabe is the host and executive producer of the award winning travel series DREAM OF ITALY on PBS and Create TV. Season 2 is particularly dear to us, not just because we are one of the proud sponsors of the show, but because Kathy traveled with her parents to her Ancestral town to reconnect to her Italian roots. This is what she was able to find with our help…
"I always knew I wanted to tell the story of Castelvetere sul Calore, my ancestral hometown in the Avellino province of Campania. When my mother and I first rediscovered the town 23 years ago, who could have imagined that our story would turn into an episode of my own PBS travel series Dream of Italy! If you haven’t seen the episode yet, you can watch it HERE. Piecing together any family story is complicated and as soon as I decided I wanted to bring it to TV, I knew that I would need experts to help fill out the research I had done on my own over the years.
One of the people I turned to was my friend Bianca Ottone of My Italian Family for help in fin
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[Kathy was profiled in The New York Times June 7, 2015]
Kathy McCabe makes Italian travel dreams, and soon European ones too, come true. She’s America’s #1 Italy travel influencer with an audience of many millions on PBS alone. Kathy is the host of the award-winning PBS travel series Dream of Italy (inspired by the award-winning travel magazine she founded in 2002) whose new third season recently won three Telly Awards. Her new series Dream of Europe premiered on PBS stations and the PBS app in January 2025. Kathy believes that Italy and indeed travel can change your life – whether you live like an Italian at home, travel there or move to Italy – which was the premise of her popular TV specials, Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform and Thrive, featuring Sting & Trudie Styler.
Dream of Italy has threes seasons and two specials currently airing on PBS stations, the PBS app, Create and PBS Passport. Many episodes can be also be found on YouTube and Amazon Prime. Season 3 of Dream of Italy is now premiering with special guests inclu
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Dreaming of Italy: The Life-Changing Stories of Kathy McCabe and Frances Mayes
Falling in love with a Tuscan villa in a serious state of disrepair transformed Frances Mayes’ life and career. Her tale of restoring Bramasole, in Cortona, is at the heart of Under the Tuscan Sun, her bestselling memoir and the film of the same name. Diane Lane played Mayes in the big screen version. She’s gone on to write eight more books about Italy, including Always Italy. Her latest novel, A Great Marriage, was recently published.
Kathy McCabe also had a dream of Italy. As founder and editor of Dream of Italy, a travel magazine she has published since 2002, she shares the discoveries and delights of a country that feels more like home than home. (When she’s not in Italy, McCabe lives in Denver.) More recently, Kathy created the television series Dream of Italy for PBS, now in its third season. She also hosts a podcast of the same name. A new special, Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform and Thrive, which includes Mayes, premiered on PBS in June 2021.
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