Sexist Ad Spotted in Fiumicino
Bad Pun Intended
L’Americana
PHOTOS AND NARRATIVE WANDERINGS FROM A HILLTOP TOWN IN CAMPANIA, ITALY
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"On June 24th you pick the walnuts"
Excerpt from Four Seasonal Alta Irpinian Recipes from Calitri / The Ghosts Of Italy
San Vito, Adolescent of Great Miracles
Auguri di San Vito Martyr, June 15th
Altari nei vicoli fedele
The procession passes. The dogs bark.
Canonicals, Calyxes & Song
In Italy it’s all about the Saints
Cerca Trova
Those Two Brave Kids
Cerca Trova, (Seek and Ye Shall Find)
Second installment of my maiden memoir, THE GHOSTS OF ITALY (2020) newly serialized here on Substack.
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
‘Takes a smart cookie to get her own
Quadri di estate
It seems I may have come to this small village in Campania in reverse.
Back to the Future
It’s the little things… Two images from my long ago Mulholland Drive (life &) collection, The Beatles at Candlestick, 1966 by the legendary Jim Marshall and photojournalist Antonín Kratochvíl‘s Communion Procession, Poland, 1992 — are back where they belong, with me in my two-room stone house in Alta Irpinia.
MUSE RETREATS ITALY
Musa -ae, f.
Calling in the Muse, Creative Writing Retreats
A few months back I announced that I was offering a creative writing retreat in Italy.
Calling in the Muse
We are hosting our first retreat!
Strade Dorate
http://lamericana.blogspot.com/2025/02/strade-dorate-new-interview.html
Calling in the Muse
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L’Americana
‘The blogs are back in town..’ (Alex Dobrenko)I’ve been slow-blogging from Italy since 2006 • L’Americana’s PHOTOS AND NARRATIVE WANDERINGS FROM A HILLTOP TOWN IN CAMPANIA, ITALY now all here on Substack • I’ll be slow posting Hits & Misses from the archive as the mood strikes — here’s an old favorite that pretty much launched it all ……
Two-Room Stone House Designs
NEW L'Italiana Artigiana project has arrived!
"Not to a garden, but a cave. A girl cave."
“We go deeper in winter.
GHOSTS & SAINTS 2022
GHOSTS & SAINTS • Website has a new graphic look!
MAKARDÌA — "I DON'T WAVE SOVEREIGN STATES"
In collaboration with Filomena D’Andrea as MAKARDÌA