[slideshow=48] While on a heritage tour with an Italo-American family who had come to meet their Italian relatives, we spent some time with their family near the tiny hilltop village of S. Giorgio la Molara in the province of Benevento. This is a vast farming region of rolling hills and an immense checker-board effect is […]
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S. Lucia in Sassinoro: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
[slideshow=49] Read published article at Italian Notebook I wound my way up the narrow road towards the tiny, secluded sanctuary of S. Lucia in Sassinoro. I was on my way to meet Giovanna, a volunteer in the shrine’s wee gift shop. She and her husband Giorgio were part of the family I was researching for […]