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Theresa Maggio

Sicily
and Vermont

Gioacchino Cataldo before he was rais

May 1, 2012
Tags: Gioacchino, Cataldo, Favignana, cemetery, rais, red carnations.
Gioacchino Cataldo, Favignana, circa 1994
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.
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Stone Boudoir is now a Kindle-eBook

November 4, 2011
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Click to buy. Lighten your luggage and take the Kindle-eBook edition on .your voyage
Just in time for the holidays! Stone Boudoir is now available on Kindle at Amazon.

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Reviews for "The Stone Boudoir"

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Vermont: Dummerston Apple Pie Festival promo

October 21, 2011
Tags: Dummerston Vermont apple pie festival Congregational Church fundraiser fall event autumn aprons apples sugar spice nice
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Natalie Oana Russo needs your prayers

October 8, 2011
Tags: Natalie Oana Russo Mondello Hawaii Honolulu Jeannin Brigitte Sicily marrow transplant leukemia prayers
Jeannin Russo, Natalie Oana Russo and Brigitte Russo.
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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Catania: Cloistered Benedictine nuns Meet the Masses at the Feast of St. Agatha

March 10, 2011
Tags: Catania sicilia sicily italy nuns suore monache di clausura cloistered saint agatha sing Feast Via Crociferi
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GIGA International School of Languages teaches teachers to teach English. Those who study in Catania in early February can participate in the Feast of St. Agatha, Catania's patron saint.

February 25, 2011
Tags: GIGA international school of languages catania sicily sicilia feast of saint agatha italy festa di sant'agata Direttore Professoressa Palma La Rosa fun study stay
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Marettimo Excursion

February 24, 2011
Tags: Marettimo Egadi island blue sea Mediterranean Sandokan favignana outing sicily sicilia italy italia travel
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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St. Joseph feast in Polizzi Generosa

February 24, 2011
Tags: Polizzi generosa Sicily sicilia palermo italy saint joseph feast procession
Polizzi Generosa: Saint Joseph's Day, March 19, 2000. St. Jpseph is the town's patron saint, and rival burial societies march in a grand religious procession.
The processors.
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Moffo and friend

February 24, 2011
Tags: Moffo Schimmenti Polizzi Generosa Pieta` Bassa Sicily Sicilia Italy stone boudoir
Moffo and friend, Pieta Bassa, Polizzi Generosa
Moffo and friend, Polizzi
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Mondello Lifeguards, end of 1986 season.

February 24, 2011
Tags: Photos sicily sicilia Theresa Maggio Foto Mondelo Palermo Piero Il cavaliere Corrao Toto` Podesta` Giuseppe Pino Lupo Locascio salvataggi lifegueards Charleston Lo stabilimento
Mondello: I Magnifici di 1986. Piero is bottom row, second from left, laughing. Pino "Lupo" LoCascio, left of him, used to be his scribe when Piero wanted to send me a letter.
My buddies the summer of 1986 when I lived in Mondello with Piero. This was the last day of the season, so they posed for me. I was doing a story about them for the monthly paper, Mondello Cultura e Sport, headed up by Michele LoMonaco, my Italian teacher.
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