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YankAboutSicilyMany miles back in Sicily’s hills lies a Ittle wine town named Pia-na del Greci full of incredibly pretty girls bred by a curious whim of sentiment, foolishness and accident They are Albanians, whose ancestors fled the Turks half a millenium ago and who were kicked around by various kings and princes until they stumbled upon this Sicilian hillside which they immediately called their own.Through all the wanderings of these people, they have stubbornly preserved their langauge, their costume and their Greek Orthodox ritual—as if 500 years ago they had been packed in a pickle Jar and placed on some forgotten shelf.Even if you startled the waiter in New York by asking for pnishel glij in the original Albanian when all you wanted was some fried lark’s tongues, you would have some difficulty understanding these villagers. They speak a language as remote from present day Albanian as Chaucerian is from Brooklynese.BACK IN 1487Under the watchful eye of the Madonna Odigitria, Guardian of the Way, a forlorn pilgrim bandNheai witJb sour zied Nlt; nevlt; high ium tion of t sour sino Cass It zel 1 mak seno with feat) wha reaa he t to t boys As idea tain ama boys Tlt; and
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Sicily Stars and Stripes
Palermo, Sicily, IT
Fri, Oct 01, 1943
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