Mario Belforti Chiaffredo Depetris
My mill
Chiaffredo Depetris, born in 1935, tells his experience as a miller to the Granaries of Memory.
Chiaffredo Depretri recounts the work as a miller, a family profession, remembering old techniques of bread and flour production.
Showing the mill, he explains the mechanism of the mill, the work of the millstones and water.
He tells about the electrification of the production plant and the times during WW2, his meeting with the partisans, the experience of food rationing, and hunger in the valley.
Thinking of his native community, he tells about the popular devotion to St. Blaise and St. Rocco, and describes carnival, thr vigils in the stable, and wedding rites.
Looking to the present, he indicates the problem of pollution in the valley, and his commitment to "teaching" to school students, having opened the mill to school trips.
Video table of contents
- The work of a miller, a family tradition.
- The bread of the past: stone ground flour.
- millstone
- water drives the mill.
- Electrification, meetings with the partisans, ration card and hunger.
- Prayers,St. Biagio and St. Rocco, carnivals, vigils and wedding rites.
- The Po today: pollution.
- The joy of music in the house.
- The water wheel.
- Today: school visits to the mill.
- Images of the the mill.
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Revello
District: CN
Altitude: 352m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revello
Chiaffredo Depetris
Year: 1935
City: Revello
Profession: Entrepreneur
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Michele F. Fontefrancesco
