Sicily
and Vermont
Brattleboro: Morris Dancers practice
June 9, 2012
I just bought a Flip videocam and carry it with me everywhere. Here is a bit of everyday life in Brattleboro, a great town where the sixties never died.
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Bread is Love with Sabrina Circo: S. Biagio Platani (AG)
May 26, 2012
Bread is Love, a 5-minute movie about a bread-baking friend of mine in San Biagio Platani ( AG) Sicily. They were very busy because they were preparing for the March 19, 2010 Feast of St. Joseph, one of the first feasts of the agricultural year.
Gioacchino Cataldo before he was rais
May 1, 2012
Gioacchino on his way to place flowers on the graves of Favignana's former raises.
I followed him on my bike and wrote about it in Mattanza. Honest to God, he was like a character straight out of the movie Quo Vadis.
I followed him on my bike and wrote about it in Mattanza. Honest to God, he was like a character straight out of the movie Quo Vadis.
Stone Boudoir is now a Kindle-eBook
November 4, 2011
Just in time for the holidays! Stone Boudoir is now available on Kindle at Amazon.
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Natalie Oana Russo needs your prayers
October 8, 2011
Natalie Oana Russo, of Hawai'i, whom I first met in Mondello in 1985, is recovering in Seattle from a bone marrow transplant performed on 20 September 2011. The transplant was successful but the next 100 days are critical. She has no immune system until her new cells generate healthy new white blood cells. Both her daughters, Jeannin, who just graduated law school, and Brigitte, a freshman at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, are with her in Seattle.
Please see her website at www.curenat.com
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Marettimo Excursion
February 24, 2011
In the summer of 2006, for the 20th anniversary of my first setting foot on Favignana, and of seeing my first mattanza, I brought my sisters and friends to stay at the house I rented at Bue Marino, while I was researching parts of Mattanza. We took a day trip to a sister island, Marettimo.
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Moffo and friend
February 24, 2011

Moffo and friend, Pieta Bassa, Polizzi Generosa
Moffo and friend, Polizzi