I’m just going to pause in my Italian journey here to mention an amazing collection of photos I stumbled upon at the Colorado Historical Society/Denver Public Library. It seems the 10th Mountain Division trained in both Colorado and on Washington’s Mount Rainier in preparation for expeditions into the mountains of Italy. Their endeavors were extensively [...]
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Pausing at the Po
Posted in Adventures in Research, Check This Out, Museum Collections on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Time Traveling in Pompeii
Posted in Adventures in Research on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my dad’s box of WWII stuff, I found a little greenish ticket. “Tour C.I.T. Agency, Special Tours, Organized for the A.E.F. POMPEII, All fees included-Do not pay more.”
It was No. 5853, torn from a book, probably at the rest leave office, and issued to curious soldiers. Knowing that dad had been a Latin major [...]
Searching for Ghosts on Capri
Posted in Adventures in Research on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s be real, we’re not talking Ghost Busters or the Twilight Zone, we were simply looking for the places where the people in my photographs had once been. Since 60 years is “nothing” in Italia time, the places remained, but (obviously) the people were long since gone. Or were they? For some of the long [...]
In Search of the Tiber Terrace
Posted in Adventures in Research on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research Adventures continued…On Foot in Rome:
Back home, I had wondered why dad and his buddies would have checked in at one place, only to bail and go stay “downtown.” After finding that Rome’s public bus only goes so far and hoofing it for miles along the winding Tiber River, we figured it out. In fact, [...]
Hunting for Ghosts in Rome
Posted in Adventures in Research on August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Armed with a diary from 1945–just March to May–some photos, and some addresses from random tickets and papers my dad had saved, I went to find a pair of 60-year-old footprints amongst the millions in Rome. I had three destinations in mind, and I give a lot of credit to my best friend and many-time [...]
Bella Italia
Posted in Adventures in Research on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First step on a time trail in Roma.
A Flying Museum
Posted in Adventures in Research, Museum Collections on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hanging out at the CAF Aircraft Museum…
