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The cheese saga finale: Did the pecorino pass?

Posted in Amalfi coast, Carl, Cheese, Codispoti, Customs, Daniela, Dino, Driving, Frine, Geneaology, Isca, Marina, Nanny, Nino, Pecoraro, Poppy, Rome, Sant'Andrea, Serra San Bruno, Uncle Al, Uncle Angelo, Uncle Bruno, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I can’t tell you whether we got the cheese into the country. We may have simply shipped it over. We may have left it for Dino and the family. We may have even left it for Nino’s consumption.
I CAN share a could-have-happened, might-have-happened, would-have-been-nice fictional story that the U.S. Customs office would probably object to [...]

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The land by the beach

Posted in Marina, Poppy, tagged , , , , , , on November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I think it was last year that Nanny and Poppy sold their share of this tract of land by the Marina — it can’t be more than 500 feet from the beach — to Uncle Angelo and his family.
For many years before the sale, the land went untouched. Now it has two buildings — a [...]

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Geneaology jackpot

Posted in Geneaology, family, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »

One of the greatest parts of the trip for me was getting to see the our family’s civil records up close.
After years of research online and through interviews with family members, Angela and I compiled a tree of more than 600 people (let me know if I haven’t invited you to Geni.com). But I had [...]

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