By Ben Morreale, Gaetano Cipolla
This can be a memoir of the Morreale kin spanning a century and continents: the USA and Sicily.
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Caroline, who was now thirty and beginning to thicken around the waist, her fair skin turning a sallow grey, cursed Don Baldassare’s brothers for letting the disaster happen. Her sharp tongue grew bitter in her accusations that the brothers had purposely flooded Don Baldassare’s section of the mine. It was not a good time for such an accident. The price of sulphur 56 had dropped and there was no money coming in to put Don Baldassare’s section of the mine in operating condition. To let the gallery remain flooded was to let the supporting scaffolding rot and collapse.
The brigands in turn were given protection in their criminal activities. If the rise of Socialism was an international phenomenon, so were the tactics of the urban political boss. The Baron had a gang of men for his protection and use. But he also worked hard at being popular: talking to everyone, doing favors, punishing enemies. His favorite expressions were, “Who makes a mistake pays,” and popolo cornuto—The People are Cuckolds. This last was his motto which he began using as an opposition member of the municipal council.
The 37 picconieri gave an advance to the father of, flour, grain and other food stuffs, and the boy worked it off, doing about fifty such trips a day. The mines were wet, hot and fetid. The smell of acid hung heavy in the air. Men worked naked. A slight cut could fester for months. In the salt mines one hardly ever survived beyond the age of 40 without some form of crippling arthritis. The temperature was so high perspiration cut into the slightest wound. At times they came up to the top so exhausted that they would not return to town, but slept in the surrounding caves, covered with tarpaulins.