Word: bisaccia
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...Louis and his wife Maria did not forget Bisaccia, and they did not forget that the bell of Bisaccia would not ring: long before, it had split during an earthquake, and no one had bothered...
After World War I, another Bisaccia emigrant to the U.S., Giuseppe Sullo, had built a new church tower for the town at a cost of $12,000, expecting that this would encourage Bisaccia to recast the bell. (It didn't.) After World War II, Louis decided to recast the bell in honor of his son Major Raymond Salzarulo, who was killed at Midway. Louis sent $500 to Don Guerrizzo, the parish priest...
...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...
...ceremony, Arduino Donatiello, the mayor, made a fine oration. "A son of Bisaccia has not forgotten us," he said, ". . . nor will we forget his son." Then Louis presented a bronze plaque from the city council of Richmond that summed up the years he had been away. It read: "To the people of Bisaccia, Italy, in recognition of the high esteem in which we hold your native son . . . Louis Salzarulo...
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