Lynne has delivered the manuscript for "Whoever Gives Us Bread" to her editor at D&M Publishing (formerly Douglas and McIntyre). The book will be published in the spring of 2011.

 

Lynne will read from her prairie book Muddling Through, The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colony at the opening of the Canadian Museum of Civilization's travelling exhibit "Acres of Dreams" at the Nanaimo Museum on Saturday, June 5th at 11:00 a.m.

 

Lynne and Dick (her husband, driver and travel companion) are leaving for a month in Italy. With the Italian manuscript finished, their only purpose is to be in Italy, eat its food, rub shoulders with its people and bask in its golden light.

 

"Our Italian Connections". Lynne will be speaking on the Italian families who settled in Nanaimo, Wellington, Ladysmith and Extension at the October 18, 2010 meeting of the Nanaimo Family History Society at 7:00 p.m. in the Beban Park
Social Centre.

 

 

Whoever Gives Us Bread,
Italian Immigration to British Columbia


            In 1992, Lynne and her husband, Dick, accepted a last-minute invitation from friends to share a house on the Tuscan coast. At the end of an enchanting week, Dick said, “Why don’t you write a book about Italy?” His motive was clear. Research for such a book would entail many more trips to this beautiful country.

Italian emigration has been described “as the largest exodus ever from one European nation,” “a situation so extreme that one writer has called it ‘well-nigh expulsion.’” Millions of Italians have emigrated from a land they had no wish to leave, from a climate and terrain essential to their being. After ten years of researching and organizing her material, Lynne is now writing her book about Italian immigration.

 

Coming "home" to our apartment in
Penne, Abruzzo.

Lynne contemplating the ruins of a castle amid an olive grove near
Spoleto in Umbria.

Italians are very frugal. They even recycle rocks from old buildings when they're building
a new one.
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