2023-07-30 18:52:35
Sunday 30/Jul/2023 at 20:52 – Updated at 20:55 Culture – Leisure
Between archives, black and white photos taken on the spot and “alive” testimonies, the members of the Letia-Catena association chaired by Patrick Cerruti cultivate the art of reminiscence. To the point of transforming the exercise into a small collective adventure. Because, it is all together, associative actors and villagers that we brew the centuries and that we bring to life the scenes of yesteryear. And, from volume to volume, the number of local contributors increases in significant proportions. “120 people participated in the production of volume III of the Letia series, testimonies and documents, which has just been published. We are seeing a little enthusiasm”we welcome Letia-Catena.
A reunion and a lively emotion
Memories paid homage to peddlers, merchants, stonemasons, doctors and other prominent figures of the past. “We have chosen to insert chapters that serve as biography. People find familiar faces, fragments of life before. It is very moving”, admit the editors. Letia sepia thus brings back to the Place du Fondu in Saint-Roch, near Patriziu Fella, the bankruptcy Italian who sold everything from flea combs to checkered fabric coupons and cologne “extra for tissues”. Other times, it’s the arrival of Jean-Marie Fieschi, the canister that we are looking forward to. Always in overalls, he comes from Renno, on the back of a donkey and “speak loudly like all people” of his village. In the memory of Letia still nestle Ange-François Padrona, “Néné” Who “brings up the bread twice a week and supplies the groceriess”Well, Joseph Tidori, “the only one to have a butcher’s CAP in Corsica following the war”. When he is not organizing electoral farandoles, he sells his meat “until Muna, Salice and Pastricciola”. The silhouettes of Augustin Mosca, the postman who until the 1960s made his rounds on his red horse, of Antoine Nivaggioli, the grocer whose two sons will be among the dead of the Great War, as well as Andria Callegari on the doorstep of his shop, “To the City of Vico”. Letia’s diaries also highlight Feliciola – Félicie Raffalli -, the grocer from Poghju to Botte who offered sweets to children, or César Arrighi, who each year at Easter had the responsibility of lighting the fire of the Resurrection. 60 years ago and more, Sébastien Chiappini, built retaining walls on the side of the Ragazzacci house, that of Zia Filiciola or the road to Noce. They are still part of the contemporary landscape. “Do it to Bastianu…”
1690744296
#Letia #family #photos #happy #days
