Happy 80th Birthday!!!

by Pasquale Lopetrone

My niece, Roberta, the second daughter of my sister, leaves to go to the University in Florence. 30 years have passed from when I have departed for studying in Florence.
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Roberta is a very intelligent and able girl. She deeply loves her land of origin, the Sila particularly.
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Yesterday, 22 September, we celebrated my father's 80th birthday.


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We celebrated his birthday in the restaurant of my brother (agriturismo Silvana Mansio).
My father lives together with Halina, his Polish companion, joining us yesterday was the daughter of Halina, Ursula, who lives in Verona.
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At the party were the three children (Pasquale, Francis and Filomena) with the respective families,
there was besides the brother of my father (Luigi Lopetrone with his/her/their wife Maria) and also his/her niece Filomena with her husband and his/her daughter. In total we were 21 people. .
My mother was very missed! She died 10 years ago and we've missed her since.
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My father has been happy of the party that we have organized. To end evening we have also turned on 80 fires of artifice to close the beautiful evening in joy.
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I send you two representative photos of this particular moment
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More Photos from Pasquale

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VIEW some of Pasquale's wonderful photographs!
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VIEW photos of Carol Heppner's High School Reuion!

Late Summer

by Pasquale Lopetrone

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This photo is an image of the Sila at the end of August (this is an angle of mountain that I see from my country house). You can see the trees - they are very green, but the clearings have the dry grass: it has not rained here since May 14.

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Pasqual, on the roof of the Abbey of SGF, to the start of the intense activities of restoration, 31 August 2007.

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On the blog of Andrea, my son, you can see the photograph of the finished cruise in the month of July.

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Below: Jazz under the starts

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Renea Lopetrone in Montgomery Herald

by Carol Heppner

A search of the Internet has found our Renea Lopetrone was quoted in the Montgomery Herald Newspaper. You can read the entire article here.

Singing the National Anthem

by Carol Heppner

My brother, Paul Marchelitis, sang the national anthem at the Scranton Yankees base ball game in August. Check out the still photos from the day. We are working on getting the video and hope to get it on YouTube in a few weeks.



After Paul sang, we enjoyed watching the game... you'll see some of my photos of the game as well.

Pasquale's Vacation

by Pasquale Lopetrone
The Pasquale Lopetrone Family has been on a week cruiser to Turkey (Istambul), Izmir, Greece (Olimpia) Katakolon, Croatia, Dubrovik and Italy, Venice and Bari.

25 July 2007 - Istambul - Santa Sphia. Photograph of the vacation group "Europe east" (from left to right) : Alessandro, Bernardo, Rosamaria, Caterina, Pasquale, Gianmarco, Andrea, Rose, Mattia. Also part of the group: Cicero, who took the photograph, and Silvia, who was near Cicero.
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25 Luglio 2007 - Istambul - Santa Sophia.
Foto del gruppo vacanze "europa oriente" (da sinistra a destra): Alessandro, Bernardo, Rosamaria, Caterina, Pasquale, Gianmarco, Andrea, Rosa, Mattia. Inoltre, facevano parte del gruppo: Tullio, che ha ripreso la foto, e la piccola Silvia, che stava vicino a Tullio.
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San Giovanni in Fiore, Italy

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This is a panoramic photograph of SGF, it is not easy to photograph. It is a very large country situated in the mountain. It has 20.000 inhabitants, but the number of its houses is very large and would be able to contain at least 50.000 inhabitants.

From Calabria to Canada, 2007

by Lina (DeMarco) Williams

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My cousin, Antonio Lopetrone, and his family came from Calabria to Canada to visit our family. In late June, 2007, we had the pleasure of meeting and spending quite a bit of time with my cousin and his family.
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This trip was their first plane ride and their first time to Canada.
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We enjoyed ourselves and they even experienced a field hockey game for the first time. This photo shows my son’s soccer game.

From left to right is: my mother Rosetta (Lopetrone) DeMarco, Antonella Lopetrone from Italy, my cousin Antonio Lopetrone, my father Francesco DeMarco (SGF) and front and center is Marilana Lopetrone.
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This photo is the group that also includes all of the above and Guiseppi Lopetrone (Italy), my husband Tom and two children Tyler and Andrew and myself (in the brown).
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