Word: bisaccesi
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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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...
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...
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