San Giovanni in Fiore Tidbits

by Pasquale Lopetrone

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Today, I made a visit in to the sea. I have taken this photo of the snails on a small cactuses.
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Beppe Lopetrone (above) has come to find me, so that I could accompany him to the Sila. The view outside the car is the place where I have my house in Sila.
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Beppe plans a photo shoot in the area. He says that the locations that are in Calabria are more original in comparison to others. He has taken back some photo in these special places where I have brought him. The photo shoot will take place very soon.

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The pink house is a wood house of the 1920 era, a structure typical of the Sila. This type of cottage once was normal, now ancient. Most are in disrepair and nobody has reconstructed them to their former state. (Silvana Mansio)

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These pine trees are very tall (120 feet around) and very big (6 -7 feet around of diameter). These trees are not near in the pink house, but 3 miles away. (Camigliatello)

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This is the wine cellar of the restaurant "La Tavernetta" (Campo San Lorenzo- Camigliatello).

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The ham in the foreground was seasoned for 24 months. Johnny Lopetrone of Alaska has eaten at my house the "sozizza" (sausage) and the "supressata", he knows the taste and the quality of these foods. In the photo you see Caterina, my wife, Beppe Lopetrone, and Pietro Lecce the owner of the restaurant "La Tavernetta", very famous in Italy.

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This photo of the fresco is of Gioacchino da Fiore the abbot that founded SGF in 1189. (Santa Severina, fresco 1590 ca)

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This is an old postcard of Saint Severina taken back in 1905. The road is somewhat the same from how it is shown on the postcard. I have sent to you this postcard to make you understand how your great grandfather, Anthony Lopetrone, traveled from SGF to Cosenza. In Italy, it is called -- Carriage to Horses.

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