ASIN: B00457XEQG
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 187
Many generations ago, seven families fled Albania to escape a Turkish invasion. These were royal families and they feared their conquerors would follow. The seven families sailed around the boot of Italy and up that country's western coast. Beaching their boat, they began life in a new land. Then one day, they looked to sea and spotted Turkish sails. Fearful, the seven families moved further into the hills until they came to a large rock. Circling over the rock was a falcon, so they named their town Falconara and built their church upon the rock. Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Rose Musacchio heard her mother tell the tale of the seven families and how they founded a tiny mountain town in southern Italy. But when did this migration occur? And was she, as her mother suggested, descended from royalty? The tale seemed preposterous, particularly given the poverty in Falconara that ...
