From The Clay Hills of Basilicata

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In the remote villages of Basilicata once known as Lucania-life unfolded in quiet hardship, where names, like fortunes, could vanish without warning. In 1832, a child was left in a foundling wheel, surrendered to anonymity.
No father recorded. No future promised. Yet from that uncertain beginning, a family line endured. Across five generations, this deeply human story follows a path through Italy's unification, the great wave of emigration, and the forging of a new life in America. It is a history shaped not by certainity, but by resilience where identity is built through necessity, sacrifice, and time. From the tay clay hills of southern Italy to the streets of a new world, each generation carried forward what could not be written in official records:
Memory. Strength. Survival.