Saturday, February 20, 2010

"In altro mare" by Franco la Cecla

In altro mare (In Other Sea) by Franco la Cecla won the Best Coastal Culture Film award at the 2010 San Francisco Ocean Film Festival.

" Robert Kennedy said that “GDP measures everything that is important, except how to live,” but the Sicilian fishermen of Gloucester, Mass, always knew that. ‘Merica was the place to work hard and make money, but when fishing quotas were introduced, many of the fishers, rich and poor, knew it was time to go home—to Terrasini. —KH "

Googlebooks publishes a chapter from Endangered peoples of North America: struggles to survive and thrive by Thomas C. Greaves. It is chapter 13, The Sicilian Fishing Families of Gloucester, Massachusetts by Christopher Dyer.

* article by Paolo Pontoniere [la Repubblica]
* article by Stefano Biolchini and video with English subtitles [Il Sole 24 Ore]

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