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.
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Coming "home" to our apartment in |
Lynne contemplating the ruins of a castle amid an olive grove near |
Italians are very frugal. They even recycle rocks from old buildings when they're building
a new one. |
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