Lounging by the thermal pool

Mangia, Mangia!

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July 8th 2014
Last Tuesday evening, my flight from London touched down on the shores of Sicily in Palermo. I was picked up by my friend Serena, who teaches Spanish and chairs the World Languages department at Moreau where I work, and her dad Leonardo, or Len, among many other nicknames :-). As we drove the hour and a half to their home in Sciacca, a feeling of calm and happiness washed over me as I stared out t ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more