WORCESTER, Mass. – The tent is up here on Massasoit Road. Organizers and volunteers said they’re looking forward to a great weekend of celebrating Italian heritage at Worcester’s Italian Festival.
“This is the original Italian festival. A few thousand people coming in from Thursday until Sunday,” Domenic Mercurio Jr. said. “And you’ve got every possible Italian food you could think of with a lot of great things for kids to do to like bouncy houses and adults too. If you know, if you’d like to have a beer and bounce around a little bit. Could get messy later.”
Mercurio and many others spent Thursday putting the finishing touches together for the Italian Festival…