Putnam, Connecticut resident Anthony Cosentino earned his bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University in Queens, New York, and his master’s degree from Rhode Island’s Providence College. He has been on the faculty of Woonsocket High School in Rhode Island since 1999. Very active in the community and cultural activities, Anthony Cosentino volunteers on the Putnam Fire Department and belongs to the Woonsocket Teachers Guild and the Society Farsarotul.
The Romanian Cultural and Benevolent Society Farsarotul, as it’s formally known, was established in 1903 in the United States by Nicolae Cican, an immigrant from Bitola in what is now North Macedonia, a small landlocked country on the Balkan peninsula. The first element of the Society’s twofold mission was humanitarian: it provided assistance to new arrivals in America as well as to widows and orphans in the old country, as well as the impoverished and the disabled. It also served a deep-seated cultural purpose - keeping the Arumanian culture alive. This was done by hosting dances and promoting other activities for members and their families. The Society Farsarotul today continues its dual mission of providing humanitarian support and preserving the Arumani culture and heritage. In addition to maintaining a website, it produces a biannual newsletter that features essays by members, interviews, news of the community, and photographs, as well as scholarly articles. It plans a museum of Arumani culture and history, as well as genealogy; it also plans to establish a multi-media library and to organize Heritage Tours of that part of the Balkan Peninsula from which they and their ancestors emigrated. Further information about the Society is available online on its website at Farsarotul.org.
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