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| Award Winning Website Visited From Around the World
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| Siamo un gruppo d’individui con una passione in comune per Torricella Peligna, un piccolo paese nell’Abruzzo che è simbolo della nostra eredità culturale ed etnica. Noi torricellani siamo sparsi qua e là per il mondo, tuttavia ci sentiamo legati. Con questo sito web vorremmo fornire un mezzo che permetta ai torricellani di conoscersi e condividere non soltanto dati e informazioni, ma anche ricordi, immagini ed emozioni che riguardano Torricella.
Questo progetto deve i suoi ringraziamenti a Pierangela Badia ed il personale di Abruzzo2000. Attraverso il loro sito web, www.abruzzo2000.com, Al Porreca del New Jersey, Dan (Donato) Aspromonte della California e Barry Miller (Di Valerio/Di Pietrantonio) della Georgia si sono conosciuti. Nel maggio del 2003 hanno unito le loro forze e creato il sito: www.torricellapeligna.com. Sotto la guida di Barry, il sito di Torricella si è successivamente ramificato dando vita ad un sito web dedicato a Fallascoso, www.Fallascoso.com, un paesino un tempo indipendente ma che ora è parte di Torricella. Presto altri si sono uniti al progetto, tra i quali Angela Di Berardino (California), Joe (Peppinuccio) Cionni diTorricella (ora in Ohio), Antonio Piccoli di Torricella (ora a Roma), Janet Di Pastena (Utah), Mirella Palizzi Piccone e Rob Piccone (Mirella di Torricella e Rob di Washington D.C., ora entrambi a New York), Marion Apley Porreca (GB), Francine Piccoli Ransdell (California), Massimo Ficca di Torricella (ora in Australia), Marziale Di Marino (Torricella), Joe Persichetti (Colorado), Eric Umile (Pennsylvania), Pierluigi Marsigli di Pisa (ora a Torricella), Joseph Bevins (Minnesota), Roberta Cox (Michigan), Ada Ficca (Torricella Peligna), Carlo Liberati (Rome). Il nostro sito web continua a crescere velocemente. Vi preghiamo di contribuire allo sviluppo di questo sito inviandoci aneddoti, biografie, alberi genealogici, foto, ricette culinarie, ecc. che facciano riferimento a Torricella. Insieme stiamo generando un sito che possa essere l’orgoglio sia dei Torricellani residenti che di quelli sparsi per il mondo. |
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| We are a group of individuals passionate about Torricella Peligna, the small town in Abruzzo that is home to our cultural and ethnic heritage. Torricellani are strewn here and there across the globe, yet we remain united in our common background. Through this website, we provide a medium that allows Torricellani to connect with each other and to share not only facts and information, but also memories, images and emotions.
This project owes special credit to Pierangela Badia and the staff of Abruzzo2000. Through their website, www.abruzzo2000.com, Al Porreca of New Jersey, Dan (Donato) Aspromonte of California and Barry Miller (Di Valerio/Di Pietrantonio) of Georgia connected. In May of 2003 they gathered forces to begin creating the website, www.TorricellaPeligna.com, which was launched in August 2003. Shortly afterwards, Barry branched out to create a website dedicated to Fallascoso, www.Fallascoso.com, which was once a town on its own, but is now part of Torricella Peligna. Soon others joined the project, including Angela Di Berardino (California), Joe (Peppinuccio) Cionni of Torricella (now in Ohio), Antonio Piccoli of Torricella (now in Rome), Janet Di Pastena (Utah), Mirella Palizzi Piccone and Rob Piccone (Mirella of Torricella and Rob of Washington D.C., now both in New York), Marion Apley Porreca (U.K.), Francine Piccoli Ransdell (California), Massimo Ficca of Torricella (now Australia), Marziale Di Marino (Torricella), Joe Persichetti (Colorado), Eric Umile (Pennsylvania), and later: Pierluigi Marsigli of Pisa (now in Torricella), Joseph Bevins (Minnesota), Roberta Cox (Michigan), Ada Ficca (Torricella Peligna), Carlo Liberati (Rome). Our website continues to grow rapidly. We encourage all of you to contribute to this project by submitting anecdotes, biographies, family trees, photographs, recipes, etc. Together we are creating a website of which the community of Torricella and the Torricellani the world over can be proud. |
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Torricella. The virtual community is born.
The prize winners are Albert Porreca and Dan Aspromonte who live respectively in New Jersey and California. Their merit was that a few years ago they created the website www.torricellapeligna.com which has enabled emigrants to meet each other within a sort of virtual community which unites them ever more closely: firstly with a forum group on “Yahoo” created by Edoardo Gentile and then when “The Week of Torricellans” was set up. This has brought many emigrants back to the village. In fact, you can hear many different languages being spoken in this small mountain center in these days by the emigrants who have returned from the Americas and from Northern Europe. The first citizen gave the prizewinners a papyrus certificate made by Paola Di Biase, and a silver tower handmade by Pasquale Imbastaro. The Mayor, The Deputy Mayor Piero Ottobrini, and the Culture Assessor Carmine Ficca, spoke of their desire to make the award a yearly institution. Others who contributed to the work include Marion Porreca, Angela Di Berardino, and Antonio Piccoli, who for years have maintained contacts with Torricellans abroad, and they update the site with news. (Walter Teti) |
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Editor’s Notes: 1. In the photo from left to right: Vice Mayor Piero Ottobrini, Mayor Tiziano Teti, Councilmember Carmine Ficca in charge of cultural affairs, Albert Porreca, one of the two award recipients, and Antonio Piccoli. Dan Aspromonte, the other recipient, was detained in California and was unable to attend the award ceremony. During the event the Mayor telephoned Dan to thank him personally. Due to the time difference, he was unable to reach him, but he left him a message of thanks. Dan subsequently responded with a letter to the citizens of the town. To read the letter, click here. 2. Brief News from Torricella – August 2007, click here.
Translation courtesy of Dr. Marion Apley Porreca |
Torricella Peligna: The epilogue of the first edition of “The Week of Torricellans in the World” was an awards ceremony by Mayor Tiziano Teti to two emigrants who distinguished themselves by promoting the culture of the village together with knowledge about the middle Sangro Aventino’s great potential.