How Italians Became 'White'

[empedocles]

12. My son and his wife spent their last vacation in Sicily about a year and a half ago.

They wanted to visit the small town where his wife's [wife is blue-eyed blond] father was from, about a third of the way along the Southern coast of Sicily. They discovered that the languages in the different towns along the coast were still different from one another - a product of long ago invasions and minimal immigration into those towns. We were all surprised at the differentiation being so marked in short distances. I knew that my maternal grandmother who was from Messina, and my grandfather from the Abruzzi/upland Pescara, spoke basically different 'italian' languages.

Son and his wife thoroughly enjoyed that vacation. My dds recently took a 2 week vacation on a Rick Steve's tour of small Italian towns.

My family, over the years has taken several trips to Rome, Venice, Florence, Pescara].

[Empedocles the greek phisosopher, was from Sicily, Agrigento, on the SSW coast. ]