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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
My family was Italians who came to work the coal mines in the 1910s and lived in company houses on the hill outside of town, next to the mines.

Parli Italiano? In case you don't, do you speak Italian?

781 posted on 12/14/2010 11:18:35 AM PST by southernsunshine
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To: southernsunshine
Parli Italiano? In case you don't, do you speak Italian?

Un po'. I had some Spanish in high school and college and between that and dating a girl from near Bologna for a couple of years, I can do okay when I go visit the cousins in the old country. Italian and Spanish are pretty close, and where they differ they differ consistently so with some Spanish you can usually guess the Italian or at least communicate.

My family is from way up north, almost Switzerland. Mountain people. We're going again next October.

This is the town.

This the church where my great grandparents were married.

812 posted on 12/14/2010 2:00:29 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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