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Originally Posted by senior citizen

Well, it is a small world indeed..........I couldn't find your mom's town. The village must be very small. However, Naples was the big port city that everyone from Laurenzana sailed out of , in the late 1800's....to New York City. My dad also went to Newark New Jersey to work and that's where he met my mom. He later moved there; the only one to leave New York , except for the one who went to Connecticut. Earlier ones went all over for jobs.

I think the bread I was referring to was circular with a little "hole" in the middle..........great for cappacola (ham) sandwiches.

Getting back to Naples, it is in the province of Campania .
Naples is the big seaport. The "cousins" who stayed in Italy , all ended up in Naples for work. Some went up to Venice in the north.

Campania is right next to the province of Basilicata where Laurenzana was, high up in the mountains........it was kind of southeast of ANZI. I have photos of World War II American soldiers who , after the war ended, on their free time, went to my grandmother's village and took a lot of photos.....these were found in her suitcase in her closet when she passed in 1965....plus pics of the old castle on the hill.........all those old villages had castles dating back from the 11th century, built by the Greeks........

If you ever saw the HGTV channel, on the international homes, they've been going to Italy and people are buying these extremely old "humble" homesteads for like $40,000 or less..........nothing has changed. It's like time stood still. This is what they call the "old town" section of the towns.....all of these mountain villages are extremely HILLY.

She would have been very surprised to learn that I ended up in a mountainous state (out of New Jersey).

My grandmother's family had a bakery but in the '70s it was destroyed by an earthquake in Laurenzana. I have pics of that. Totally destroyed.

I sent you your sandwich. Didn't you get it????? Look in your in box.

Shucks, It's not there. I only had the Lean Cuisine stuffed rigatoni but somehow I survived. My mother and father went to Europe to visit their respective birthplaces and my cousin uploaded my uncles film video to youtube under "ciriello". I don't have access to it at this moment in time. I believe there are still relatives there but I don't know if their original structures are standing, (almost one hundred years old). My aunt and uncle who are also in the video are still living. He is 99 and she will soon be 97, (married 75 years).

My great grandfather's business was fireworks. Ironically, it went out in a bang as fire destroyed the factory.

My mother and father met while in Yonkers, New York and the rest is history............