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Bisaccia stands high amid the crags and chestnut trees of the Southern Apennines, 60 miles to the east of Naples. It is a small town of some 7,000 souls, and the land is poor and arid. So it has become the custom for many Bisaccesi to move elsewhere to earn their living: to Naples and to Rome, to Mexico and Brazil, and to the United States, where some 200 emigrants made their new homes in Richmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Bell for Bisaccia | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Last week, Bisaccesi hung their brightest bedquilts like flags on the window sills, and went down to hear the Archbishop of Conza bless the bright, new-shining bell. On hand, mopping his forehead with a handkerchief of many colors, sat Louis Salzarulo of Richmond Ind. "Isn't it wonderful of old Luigi," said one villager, "to have the money to have the bell mended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Bell for Bisaccia | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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