giovedì 8 gennaio 2009
domenica 4 gennaio 2009
ANNUNCIO PER LOREDANA COZZA
Qualche giorno fa mi è arrivata questa mail che pubblico per intero:
Ciao Domenico, mi chiamo Mario, nel lontano 1980,conobbi 2 sorelle di Umbriatico, Loredana e Franca Cozza, oggi dalla tenera eta'di circa 42-43 anni. Studiavano in quel periodo in un istituto magistrale a Castrovillari, e poi successivamente so che si trasferirono a Napoli. Sapresti darmi notizie, magari chiedendo ai tuoi compaesani che oggi hanno all'incirca quella eta'? E' un caro ricordo di quella dolce e felice eta'.
Saluti Mario
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martedì 30 dicembre 2008
SALUTI E AUGURI AGLI AMICI TEDESCHI
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SALUTI ALL'AMICO MARKUS
Un saluto all'amico MARKUS REICHT, che vive a BERLINO dove fa il designer e che non vedo da qualche tempo. Pubblico questa cartolina che mi ha inviato per natale realizzata da lui (una renna con il suo volto...che ficata!). ciao markus a presto...
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lunedì 22 dicembre 2008
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sabato 6 dicembre 2008
PETE RESLEY, UN UMBRIATICESE IN AMERICA
I'm sorry to write in English, but I don't know Italian. I hope you can read this message or get it translated.
I'm just writing to tell you that I've enjoyed seeing your films about Umbriatico posted on You Tube, and looking at your blog site. I'm interested in Umbriatico because my mother's father came from there. His name was Francesco Mazziotti. He was born in 1878, immigrated to the USA in 1911, and died in 1956 in Toledo, Ohio. My mother is also deceased. I live in Columbus, Ohio, and know very little about contemporary Umbriatico, so your films help to give me some idea of the place.
I'm also intrigued to see the list of your favorite books on your blog profile, including titles I'm familiar with by Bukowski, Fante, and Philip Roth. I see that you relate strongly enough to Bukowski to use his name and the name of his fictional alter-ego as names on your email accounts, and that you use an epigram from Jack Kerouac on your profile as well. I, too, am interested in these and other 20th century American writers. I'm also familar with the movies you list on your profile, and with the American musicians, but not, I'm afraid, with the Italian ones.
I thought you might like to hear from people who had seen your films and your blog online and were interested in them. I'd be glad to hear back from you if you feel like writing to me. In any case, thanks for posting those films, and good luck with your future projects.
Pete Risley
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Hey Domenico,
Thanks so much for writing me back.
Don't apologize for your English, it's not bad. I wish I could do as well in Italian! I use the (rather faulty) automatic translation device on the Yahoo internet search engine to read your website.
Thanks also for the invitation to stay at your home, if I were to visit Umbriatico. I don’t have any plans to travel anytime soon, but I much appreciate your kind offer.
Have you been to America? If you ever plan to come to Columbus, Ohio, be sure to contact me, and we’ll make some arrangements. I hope that, if you haven't visited America yet, that you will someday.
I hope you’re enjoying your trip to Germany. I saw on your website that you had gone there recently. I’m sorry to say that I’ve never been to Europe at all, my travels have all been in the USA and Canada.
I’m a lot older than you. I'm 54 years old now, and so I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. I’ve lived in Ohio most of my life, but also, long ago, in New York state, where my father’s family is from.
I’m employed at the library of Ohio State University here in Columbus. By the way, the title story of Philip Roth's first book GOODBYE, COLUMBUS refers to this city and to Ohio State University, though the story is set in New York and New Jersey, I think..
As for my grandfather, after he came to America in 1911 (almost a century ago!) he worked for many years at an automotive plant in Toledo, Ohio. He had four children here in the 1920s, three of whom graduated from college.
I didn’t know my grandfather, he died when I was a small child. I know little about his life before he came to America. However, my mother often said that he came from a town called Umbriatico in Calabria, and indeed, it says the same on his US citizenship papers.
I’ve been told that my grandfather went by his mother’s surname, Mazziotti, but that his father’s surname was Greco. His mother’s first name was Vittoria.
Here are some names for a married couple that I’ve found on an internet genealogy site, who MIGHT have been my grandfather’s parents, though this couple married 20 years before his birth. These records list a person's mother's surname after their father's surname. The site is familysearch.org.
Birth: 25 FEB 1834 Umbriatico, Catanzaro, Italy
Marriages: Spouse: Giuseppe Greco Chiarello
Marriage: 17 JAN 1858 Umbriatico, Catanzaro, Italy
Anyway, I’m intrigued that your favorite authors include Bukowski and Fante. Bukowski, especially, is very popular today among young people in the USA. I can remember, though, back in the 1970s, when he had only a small following, among poetry readers and people interested in the Beat writers (Kerouac, etc) and similar stuff.
I have a friend who saw Bukowski in person at a poetry reading many years ago. They said he was – you won’t be surprised – pretty drunk. I never got to see him myself, however.
I see that you list Bukowski’s novel WOMEN among your favorite books on your blog profile. I think that’s the best of his novels that I’ve read. I haven’t yet read Fante’s BROTHERHOOD OF THE GRAPE, but have read ASK THE DUST and some of his other works. I think I'll read BROTHERHOOD OF THE GRAPE pretty soon, in fact.
Thanks for mentioning Alessandro Baricco and Andrea De Carlo. I’d heard of Baricco and seen English translations of his books in bookstores, but haven’t read any of his work yet. I hadn’t heard of De Carlo, but I see that some of his works are available in English as well. On your recommendation, I’ll read their work.
The American novelist Thomas Pynchon is my favorite writer. I also especially like another American novelist whose work is similar to Pynchon’s, Don DeLillo. As you may know, DeLillo is the son of immigrants from Italy.. He grew up in New York. Otherwise, my main interests in literature are with 20th century American fiction, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, the Beat writers, and a lot of crime fiction writers.
Thanks again for writing, have a really good time on your trip,
Pete Risley,
Columbus, OH.
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CHI L´HA VISTO?
Caro Domenico, sfruttando la popolarità del blog tra la comunità Umbriaticese sparsa nel mondo volevo provare a lanciare un appello stile “chi l’ha visto”, ovviamente non è scomparso nessuno ma semplicemente si sono persi i contatti, ormai tanto tempo fa, tra questa famiglia e la mia. L’elegante signore in giacca scura era infatti un fratello di mia nonna: Tommasina Abenante. Le altre persone che gli stanno accanto sono la moglie e i figli, uno di loro si chiama sicuramente Antonio e tra l’altro, il ragazzo al centro con la divisa da paracadutista ha forse fatto il militare a Napoli per qualche tempo. Secondo le notizie fornitemi da mio padre, Angelo Abenante partì, bambino, da Umbriatico intorno al 1910 o comunque poco prima che scoppiasse la prima guerra mondiale. Il posto dove ha vissuto quasi sicuramente per un po’ di tempo, può sembrare banale ma è stato Brooklin nella città di New York. Purtroppo mio padre ricorda solo queste poche notizie, per quanto riguarda questa famiglia, per parte mia posso aggiungere che la foto conservata in una elegante custodia riportante la scritta “portrait by Valaché” e visto che Angelo Abenante è partito negli anni ’10 poco più che bambino e nella foto è invece ritratto con una età che si aggira intorno ai 50 anni dunque quei baldi giovani ritratti nella foto potrebbero essere ancora vivi, è a loro che mi rivolgo, sarebbe bello conoscersi, ritrovare le radici, conoscere le storie di vita e conoscere le tribolazioni, i sacrifici e le sofferenze di quando gli extracomunitari eravamo noi….
Dear Relatives, my names is Fulvio Cozza and i am a grandson of Tommasina Abenante sister of Angelo Abenante and mother of Domenico Cozza, my father. Angelo Abenante is the dark dressed man in the photo with his wife and his sons. Angelo Abenante is left in 1910-10 early of the beginning of world war I. He left from Umbriatico in Calabria, placed in Southern Italy to New York. I’m looking for the sons of Angelo Abenante portraied in the photo. I know one of this sons is called Antonio or Antony and one of this sons it was a soldier in Naples. The photo it was in one holder of a photostudio called “ valaché ”. this photo it was send to my Grandmother around 1960. Please contact me fulviocozza@gmail.com i want to know my relatives, i want know ther adventures, their lives, their stories. I can invite you in the land of your father. Forgive me for my bad english.
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mercoledì 3 dicembre 2008
KARLSRUHE
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lunedì 1 dicembre 2008
giovedì 27 novembre 2008
TORNA LA SLITTA DI BABBO NATALE!!!



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sabato 22 novembre 2008
ACHERN E LA FAMIGLIA REILING
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