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Theresa Maggio

Sicily
and Vermont

The Cuticchio family

October 17, 2014
Tags: cuticchio, puppet, sicilian, Palermo, sicilia, sicily, italia, Italy, Culture, Family, figli d'arte
A multi-headed monster puppet representing the Cuticchio family of puppeteers
In the hundreds of episodes that make up one drama from the repertoire of the Siciilan puppet theater, there is one many-headed monster which appears only once onstage. This lifelike sculpture is a spoof on that monster, representing instead the now-deceased head of the Cuticchio family and his children, puppeteers all, growing from his head.
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Nut and seed store

October 15, 2014
Tags: store, seeds, nuts, cereals, kalsa, Palermo, sicily, sicilia, italia, Italy, cereali, semi
Loved this storefront
I found this nut and seed store while wandering the back streets of La Kalsa, the central Palermo neighborhood directly across the street from my palace rooms in Via Vittorio Emmanuele. I just liked the way it looked.
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Kids in the street

September 29, 2014
Tags: Missione Santa Chiara, Palermo, sicilia, sicily, albergheria, ballaro`, immigrant, Children, happy
Immigrants' kids in the street leading to the Santa Chiara mission
I was walking home from an event at the Santa Chiara urban mission in the ancient, low-income Albergheria neighborhood of Palermo when these boys who were kicking a soccer ball around in the street said, "Take my picture! We'll be on YouTube!"
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Feathery Chandelier

August 16, 2014
Tags: chandelier, Via Maqueda, palazzo, Palermo, sicilia, sicily, elegant, beautiful, milky, White, glass, Murano
Milky chandelier in a newly renovated palazzo in Via Maqueda, Palermo.
A chandelier hanging from what used to be a frescoed ceiling in a Via Maqueda palace.
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Palermo pit bull

August 15, 2014
Tags: dog, pitbull, Palermo, sicily, fights, ballaro`
Pitbull, either victorious or untried, Albergheria, Palermo
I saw this beautiful dog most days chained up to this doorway, or heard him whine behind the shuttered saracensche of a storage shed in center city. His coat and confirmation were beautiful and unscarred, so he either he had never fought or he had always won.
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Three-seater

August 10, 2014
Tags: bike, mercato usato, Palermo, sicily, sicilia, ballaro`
Three-seater bicycle at the Mercato del usato, a flea market in Ballaro`, Palermo
Found this three-seater bicycle at the "mercato del usato", the used items market in Ballaro`. About a year and a half later I saw it again in the workshop of Palermo inventor Marcello Lampone.
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Olives at the Ballaro` market

June 11, 2014
Tags: olives, green, street, market, ballaro`, Palermo, sicily, sicilia, Italy
Green olives, Ballaro` market
A bank of green olives for sale in the Ballaro` market street.
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Rough looking

June 5, 2014
Tags: capo, market, food, clothing, doors, oalermo, immigrants, neighborhood, quartiere, siclia, sicily, Italy, south, old, rough
These ancient wooden doors lead to a flat above the Capo market.
Many southern Asian immigrants live in this, the Capo market neighborhood. These rough wooden doors looked positively medieval. Often, univiting, creaking, forbidding, even, heavy wooden doors lead to enchanted colonnaded courtyards filled with sunlight and a fountain, such a surprise. In Palermo, you never know what is behind the next closed door.
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culture clash

June 2, 2014
Tags: Palermo, capo, market, street immigrant, woman, girl, color, dresses, traditional garb, sicily, sicilia, cultural, melting pot, Culture, tradition, modern, traditional, clash
Immigrant woman and child in the Capo market street
The most colorful clothing can always be found in Il Capo market, whether on display or worn by the denizens.
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The Pink and Black

May 31, 2014
Tags: soccer, football, Palermo, sicily, team
Grafitti I found in Il Capo market
Palermo just made it back into the A league of national soccer. Their team wears pink and black uniforms.
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Eternal Embrace

May 16, 2014
Tags: naufragio, refugees, dead, drown, shipwreck, heart, embrace, undersea, sicily, mediterranean, racist, grave, cemetery, marine, coast guard, documentary, film, video, European Union, laws, care, Love, death
Watery grave, heart's embrace

This is a freeze frame from a video taken by Italian Coast Guard rescue and recovery divers of two refugees who died embraced on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea just off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Oct. 3, 2013, after the worst tragedy in those seas since 2000. Three hundred sixty-six people drowned together that day.
In this picture, two of them face each in what was left of their embrace. The empty space between them forms a heart. They died  Read More 
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