When I was a child, stories of family seemed to belong to another era. Do not listen to much, I was more interested in the work of my father and give hammered. grew, and became a carpenter, from family stories heard in the background as rumors of old, I remembered a few phrases that took effect. The
Cafiero were silk merchants, and lived in Malta. But they still had homes in Meta.
After the fall of Napoleon, they chose to leave the island, and get back to basics.
Probably, Malta under British customs was no longer a home affordable.
Years later, had left the silk trade and they became carpenters and shipwrights, like my father and me in mid-nineteenth century, the mulberry trees of Sorrento
were all replaced by citrus orchards, and this caused the end of production of silk, or perhaps, on the contrary, citrus became more profitable. Reconstructing a boat at the time (with the bones in mulberry), the childhood memories become family memories and help to reconstruct the family history. The bow of the wooden boats that we are building, "S. Maria del Lauro", modeled on the crop of my father's grandfather, will be dedicated to Our Lady of whose name he bore. But inside, the manufacturer will be a symbol of the cross of Malta.
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