Launch!

Soon to come...read about....my 2nd summer trip to Sicily & Rome. It will be the 1st time overseas with Anne, Emilia, and Joseph.

Last year's trip was wonderful. My sister, Janice, and I toured Sicily, reunited with Occhipinti cuginos(cousins) in Trabia and Ragusa, and tasted the most wonderful Sicilian dishes and pastries.

We stood in the house where our grandfather, Giuseppe Occhipinti, was born in 1876. Ragusa, Sicilia. The house is still in the family. It was built in the early 1700's, in the great reconstruction period following the devastating Sicilian earthquake in the late 1690's. Grandpa immigrated to the USA around 1900.

This year, I will show my children where their great-grandfather(bisnonno) was born.