By Ben Morreale, Gaetano Cipolla
ISBN-10: 1881901238
ISBN-13: 9781881901235
This can be a memoir of the Morreale family members spanning a century and continents: the USA and Sicily.
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Whenever I came to visit, he would walk me to the cemetery of Santa Maria and show me his ancestors’ graves. On such occasions he would pause before his mother’s grave and weep unabashedly. He did this each time we went. When he was 58 years old he became secretary to the town council. It was he who made this remark about emigration; “I tell you it would have been better for everyone if America had never been invented. All that it did was to transfer the problems. Everyone here always said, ‘Why do anything?
In another photograph he is older, leaner and his bearded face gives the impression of seriousness the socialists of that period liked to convey. He lacked, totally, that air of pompousness that a leader of the right, such as Tulumello, tried to convey—a look the Fascists later were to call birbante with admiration—the look of a determined scoundrel. In Vella there was a bit of humor in his upturned moustaches, in the manner of King Umberto. Vella came from a wealthy family of sulphur mine owners who had begun, in his father’s time, as picconieri.
Santa was born the same year of the Fasci were organized in Cianciana and the year socialism came to that small town, although no one in the family remembered the revolution. Marco, many years later, in Brooklyn, remembered in this memoir written in an English which reflected his uneasiness in both languages—I leave his spelling: “From Ciangiana (Cianciana) my family leave to go Racalmuto—my father an’ his brothers with my father went to Racalmuto for speculation to bige track of land I think about 2,000 acres land was leasing for about 5 years.
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