Waterfall in the Heavens: Growing Up in Rural Sicily in the 1940's Volume 1 - D'Arrigo, Mario
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Poverty is relative and when growing up in a village in which most of the people you know are in similar economic circumstances, no one is poor - that's just life. And so it was with young Mario growing up on the foothills of Mount Etna, Sicily in the 1940's. He tells the first person account of a place and time frozen in the middle ages, of the customs and traditions of a bygone era, of pride in and strength of the family, of reverence for one's progenitors, of bombardment during a passing War and its aftermath, of trips up Mount Etna to tend crops on its slopes and gather wood for the…mehr

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Poverty is relative and when growing up in a village in which most of the people you know are in similar economic circumstances, no one is poor - that's just life. And so it was with young Mario growing up on the foothills of Mount Etna, Sicily in the 1940's. He tells the first person account of a place and time frozen in the middle ages, of the customs and traditions of a bygone era, of pride in and strength of the family, of reverence for one's progenitors, of bombardment during a passing War and its aftermath, of trips up Mount Etna to tend crops on its slopes and gather wood for the cooking fire, of a river of lava that threatens a village, of summer days exploring vineyards and fruit groves, of found money and stone fights and witches and werewolves and ghosts and Catholicism and miracles and hypocrisy and ignorance and kindness and intended and unintended cruelty.
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Mario D'Arrigo is an attorney, a family man and the embodiment of the American Dream. He and his family came to America when he was a young boy following the end of the Second World War. Mario Spent the first 10 years of his life in rural Sicily where his parents endured a passing War and struggled hard to put food on the table, and to earn the money, find the means and make the journey to America with Mario and his three young brothers. He came of age in America and through happenstance, serendipity and perseverance, Mario forged a path toward fulfilling his family's dream of being the first in his family to be college educated. He earned a degree in and worked as an engineer with a large corporation before going on to law school and establishing his own legal practice in upstate New York where he has spent most of his adult life. Mario enjoys working with his hands, spending time outdoors, going out to dinner with friends, and spending time with his wife Elena, his children and his grandchildren. Having spent years writing technical legal briefs, he has turned his hand to more creative writing by focusing on recounting his extraordinary experiences in 1940's rural Sicily, experiences which helped to define and shape the person that he has become.