Notes from the land.
Field notes about diaspora, roots, weddings, and the things only those who live here know. Written one at a time.
The English-language journal is published less frequently than the Italian one — typically once a month, in the form of a long letter rather than a daily blog. Subscribe to the newsletter to receive each issue.
Topics return regularly to: the history of the Calabrian diaspora in the Americas and Australia; how to research your ancestral village; Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis) for Calabrian heritage; field guides for getting married in Calabria as a foreigner.
Older Italian-language pieces can be machine-translated through any modern browser — but the originals carry the voice better.
One letter a month, from Calabria.
Stories of weddings, villages, returns. I write it as I'd write to a distant cousin.