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ProfessorGAC

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Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:24 PM

Dec 21

My dad's side was from Mortelle, Sicily (north of Messina).
My other side came from around Reggio di Calabria. The tip of the toe, so only a few miles to Sicily from there. Village called Paneteria (they obviously baked bread there).
I've never been south of Naples. Really Sorrento, where I went to eat. That's just around the bay at Naples.
My trips were all for work & I spent most of my time in a town a bit under halfway from Florence to Rome. Or in Milan where we had a reactor design & fabrication company we worked with.a lot.
I took days off just to drive and see things, probably half the time.
The site was sizeable but not huge, but a unique set of circumstances required more attention, including things that were barely tangential to my job.
It's the country I've been to most times, though England, Canada & Brazil are way up there too.
My dad was a medical corps interpreter the Army during the postwar occupation/rebuilding of Italy. He was stationed in Naples & got on a train to Reggio on his leaves.
He was fluent. He didn't translate; he thought in both languages. I can't do that except for a handful of common words & phrases.
I did enjoy my visits there.

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