A Brief History

My father, Jim Stevens, as one of the soldiers of the 601st Tank Destroyers, was on active duty for the entire engagement of the North African Campaign and The European Theater of Operations in WWII - for over 4 years. He experienced 546 days of actual combat. While he fought at the Kasserine Pass and El Guettar in North Africa and then in France and Germany, it is the Italian Campaign that I have chosen to focus on. Jim has often said that he would have liked to return to Italy. For him it would have been a ritual journey allowing him to reconcile the brutality of the war he fought with the people, culture, beauty and history of the country that he also experienced. At 91, he cannot take that journey so I am taking it for him.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

For my choir friends

I have heard so many stories of people who wander into a church to find an orchestra or chorus performing a glorious masterwork. I'm desperate to hear a little Palestrina while I'm here. Yesterday, Larry and I visited St. Maria Gorretti Basilica in Nettuno, Maria's home town. There was a mass going on so I'm thinking "OK, this is it!" and a guitar group started playing!!

We leave on Tuesday, the day the 16th Century Music Festival begins...
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