Mario Belforti Peppino Sigalini
Between Po and Ticino rivers
Peppino Secalini, born in 1932, has been a clerk and a farmers. For the Granaries of Memory he narrates his memories of the Po and the Ticino rivers.
He recalls episodes of the lives of of those transporters that barged logs and gravel along the rivers and the washerwomen of Ticino river.
Pavia covered bridge evokes memories of episodes happened during the 1930s-1940s, such as the inauguration of Pavia water airport and moments of the partisan war.
Comparing present to past, he notes a profound break in the bond that united the people of Pavia to its rivers, the Ticino and the Po: a rupture that makes the rivers today appear dead, abandoned.
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Country: IT
Region: Lombardia
City: Pavia
District: PV
Altitude: 77m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavia
Peppino Segalini
Languages: italiano
Document by: Michele F. Fontefrancesco
