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Louis Franci and the story of the Ship Hotel
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Postcard of the Ship Hotel (personal collection). Likely this is in the 1950s. Sorry for the degraded nature of the image.
In 1930, 33-year-old Louis “Lou” Franci and 37-year-old Emilio Rosso were living in the Turtle Creek Valley. They were not only neighbors on Humbert Street, with the Rosso family living in house 69 and the Francis in house 68, but were both Italian immigrants. The census from that time shows an Italian enclave in the area: of the nine families in Patton Township’s Mellon Plan, a jurisdiction in Turtle Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (PA), eight of them had Italian heritage. [1] Louis Franci and his wife, Jennie Baccarini, both Italian immigrants themselves, definitely felt at home.
Originally posted on the WordPress version of this blog on Jul. 24, 2019
Emilio lived with his 25-year-old wife, Adelina, his 5-year-old daughter, Clara, and 1-year-old son, Raymond. As for Louis, he lived with his 29-year-old wife, Jennie, 8-year-old daughter Lena, 6-year-old son Frank, 3-year-old daughter Alma, and seven-month-old daughter Ellen. While Jennie had come over to America in 1900 or 1901, as a baby carried in her mother’s arms, the story went that Louis was, a stowaway on a ship bound for America and joined by an unnamed friend. [2] However, this story is completely false, which should be explained in later posts on this blog. As for Emilio, he was an Italian immigrant and a World War I veteran who fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and Battle of St. Michel in 1917.
Both Emilio and Louis had one thing in common: they were building contractors or more simply they were construction managers. In 1930, a hunting buddy of Louis, Dominick/Dominico Rustici, who was, like Louis and Emilio, an immigrant from Northern Italy, listed two people as witnesses for a naturalization document. [3] One of these men was Emilio, who was described as a general contractor from Wilmerding, PA, with his last name spelled incorrectly as Rasso by an unnamed immigration official. In later years, Rustici was a lodger with the Baccarini family, who likely treated him like a family friend since he listed John Baccarini, the father of Jennie, on his draft card as a person who would know where he lived.
Emilio and Louis would soon work on a project that would stand for years as a tourist attraction and symbolic of their achievement. Family lore had claimed for years that Louis was in charge of building the entire ship, but this is obviously an exaggeration. Dutch-born Herbert Paulson, had the idea for what would become the Bedford, PA landmark, the S.S. Grand View Point Hotel or Ship Hotel for short, and he would be its captain from the 1930s until the 1970s. Census information shows his progression into this role. In 1920, he was listed as a married employer in a boarding house, in 1930 he was listed a married storekeeper with a grocery store and in 1940 he was listed as a hotel keeper. [4] By 1940, he had been living in the Ship Hotel from 1932 onward, with his wife, Mary, and German-born children, two of whom (Walter and Erna) worked as clerks. Two other clerks, Cecilia Davis and Etta Pellis, were also listed as living with them.
In order to provide some more context, it is worth talking about the architect of the Ship Hotel, Alfred Sinnhuber. He was born in or around Berlin, Germany, arriving in the U.S. in 1903. He often called himself a “building designer” or architect and lived in Turtle Creek, but he had a job at the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh. [5] He was at one point a “checker” and at another worked on the lathe, even as he was married to Elsa Marie Kristen and his children joined him in the plant. Working in the Westinghouse plant was the norm for those living in Pittsburgh and its suburbs, with Louis and Emilio likely working there at some point as well.
1931 would be a fateful year where 57-year-old Herbert and 56-year-old Albert would work with Emilio and Louis to build the Ship Hotel. [6] As the story goes, Herbert invited Emilio and Louis on a hunting trip, proposing to these two men the idea of expanding his existing hotel into the Ship Hotel. As local historian Brian Butko notes, Herbert has chosen these two men, who lived near the Westinghouse plant where he (and they likely) worked, assuming that folks living in Turtle Creek Valley “knew all about building on steep hillsides.” As Albert designed the new hotel and reportedly supervised the construction, Emilio and Louis were the construction managers. As for Herbert, who was a tool and die maker in the Pittsburgh plant, he reportedly told the PA state government, “it's my property, either you let me build it or you buy the property!”
The construction itself began in October 1931 the hotel, which would be shaped like a ship since fog in the valley reportedly looked like the sea. Herbert told them that they had from October until May of the following year to expand the hotel, a time frame of less than eight months, mostly in cold and snowy weather. A former owner of a car dealership in the area, Walter T. Matthews, told Butko that the ship needed over 63 tons of steel and cost about $125,000 to build, which was borrowed at 16% interest. [7] Matthews further claimed that Emilio and Louis went broke in attempting to build the base of the hotel, having to drill down 32 feet to find rock. But, this doesn’t tell the full picture. The site was over 2,400 feet above sea level and 500 feet below the Allegheny Mountain summit, making it hard to build. Specifically, there was burrowing under the Lincoln Highway (also known as U.S. Route 30), in order to insert the three heavy I-beams, with embedded huge concrete piers allowing the ship to “ride.” Other than the cement and 18 steel piers, numerous carloads of lumber were used for the 3/4-inch thick wood which was overlaid with metal siding, coming from at least 22 junked car frames to cover the hotel’s exterior. Also, nails and 72 tons of steel, by some counts, went into the construction of the expanded 5-floor-hotel, coupled with water piped from half-a-mile away.
Emilio and Louis undoubtedly did manual work to build the expanded hotel. However, as construction managers, they had a crew to help them with the laborious process. Years later, a living relative, Lou Balya, noted that her father, Joseph Ovarec had, in the words of the article writer, “helped build the Ship Hotel with the Paulson family back in the 1930s” and that four generations of her family were associated with the hotel itself. [8] In 1931, Ovarec, according to census records, was a 42-year-old coal miner from Czechoslovakia. He had a family of five, including himself, which were his 34-year-old wife, Anna, his 16-year-old daughter, Mary, and his 14-year-old daughter, Josephine. Later information described him as an “outside laborer.” This means it is possible then that many of the other laborers on the project were Eastern European.
After 1931, the Ship Hotel blossomed. At noon on May 29, 1932, after it was announced in the local Bedford Gazette, the ship opened, offering tours, staff inspections, and concerts. [9] On that day, the Bedford American Legion Junior band, a local German band, and Bedford High School band played, while a plane flew overhead dropping flowers on the ship’s deck and a stilt walker entertained guests later in the day. With the hotel, it remained, as one book put it, “one of the most significant scenic views on the North American continent” with views of a fertile region of PA, West Virginia, and of Maryland’s rolling hills. The main claim was that you could see “3 states and 7 counties” from the ship, with no official list of what one could see from the ship itself.
As years went by, the hotel stayed on despite difficulties. The Paulson family lived on the ship for years upon years, with Clara Paulson having the distinction as the only person who was born on the ship, and the family worked to keep it running. [10] As a part of day-to-day entertainment, a local comedian used his craft, a grand orchestra played, and much more, even when it was snow-bound in the winters. Beyond this, the ship was remodeled numerous times, thrived even with the building of the PA turnpike, suffered the brunt of anti-German discrimination during World War II, and stayed busy until the 1970s when public interest in roadside attractions was beginning to seriously wane.
It is not known whether Louis revisited the Ship Hotel later in his life. Despite the seventy-mile distance from Turtle Creek to the hotel, there is still a possibility he, or some of his related family members, visited again the ship he, along with many others, had worked laboriously on. [11] If he had visited it in 1954, for example, he would have been among the ranks of the reportedly 2 million people who visited it by that point, covering 20 volumes of registers, including those living in 62 foreign countries and possibly famous celebrities such as Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and others. He likely would have seen the big business in souvenirs and refreshments the hotel did starting in 1932 and until Herbert’s death in 1973. Due to his death in 1967, he never saw the Loyas, who still have the old guest registers, owning the ship, after 1978 and turning it into “Noah’s Ark” before it fell into disrepair, then burning down in October 2001. He saw the Ship of the Alleghenies, as some called it, in its glory days, in its height.
Even though Louis Franci died on March 13, 1967, the Ship Hotel stood as a testament to his achievement as a contractor and builder, standing for seventy years (1931-2001) after its construction. In the end, his memory lives on not just in his living relatives but in the blueprints of the Ship Hotel still sitting in the office of his late son.
Editor's note: This is a story I wrote back in September 2016 but am publishing here to start off this blog on a strong footing. Some revisions have been made to protect living individuals.
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[1] U.S. Federal Census of 1930 for Patton, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Courtesy of ancestry.com; Route from Humbert Street to Mellon Plan, Google Maps, accessed September 5, 2016.
[2] According to conversation with my cousin M.G. on July 31, 2016 and in Summer 2016. Apparently, two of his sisters, Angelina and Barbara came to the United States while three of his sisters stayed in Italy along with his parents.  Emilio Rosso Veterans Compensation Application, February 10, 1934, World War I Veterans Service and Compensation File, 1934–1948. RG 19, Series 19.91. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Courtesy of ancestry.com.
[3] Dominico Rustici Petition of Citizenship, November 24, 1930, Naturalization Petitions of the U.S. District Court, 1820-1930, and Circuit Court, 1820-1911, for the Western District of Pennsylvania, National Archives Microfilm Publication M1537, Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of ancestry.com; Dominico Rustici Petition for Naturalization, 1930, Record of Admissions to Citizenship, District of South Carolina, 1790-1906, National Archives Microfilm Publication M1183, Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of ancestry.com; Passenger list of the Pesaro, 1921, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897. Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. NAI: 6256867. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C. Courtesy of ancestry.com; U.S. Federal Census of 1910 for Young, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, NARA microfilm publication T624, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of ancestry.com; Draft card for Domenico Rustici, United States, Selective Service System. Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration. Records of the Selective Service System, Record Group Number 147. National Archives and Records Administration. Courtesy of ancestry.com; 1940 U.S. Federal Census, April 1940, Alleghany County, PA, Patton Township, Mellon Plan. Courtesy of ancestry.com. This census claims that there are four people in the Baccarini house: John (aged 65, a coal loader), Celesta (his wife, aged 59, houseworker), Mario (aged 35, a coal loader), and Domenico Rustico (aged 48). The latter is a lodger who has, it seems, more money coming in, and working more hours than them in one category and the same in another.
[4] U.S. Federal Census of 1920 for Alleghany, Somerset, Pennsylvania, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of ancestry.com; U.S. Federal Census of 1930 for Juniata, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Courtesy of ancestry.com; U.S. Federal Census of 1940 for Juniata, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Courtesy of ancestry.com.
[5] Birth of Elsa Irene Sinnhuber, Pennsylvania (State). Birth certificates, 1906–1908. Series 11.89 (50 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Courtesy of ancestry.com; Draft card of Albert Sinnhuber, United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm. Courtesy of ancestry.com; Albert Sinnhuber declaration in Pennsylvania, March 3, 1917, Naturalization Petitions for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1795-1930. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1522, 369 rolls); Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21; National Archives, Washington, D.C. p. 258. Courtesy of ancestry.com; Albert Sinnhuber declaration in Pennsylvania, March 25, 1929, National Archives at Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; ARC Title: Petitions for Naturalization, 1820 - 1979; NAI Number: 2837692; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Record Group Number: RG 21. Courtesy of ancestry.com; U.S. Federal Census of 1930 for Turtle Creek, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Courtesy of ancestry.com; U.S. Federal Census of 1940 for Turtle Creek, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Courtesy of ancestry.com; Draft card of Albert Sinnhuber, United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm. Courtesy of ancestry.com; U.S. Federal Census of 1930 for Turtle Creek, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Courtesy of ancestry.com; U.S. Federal Census of 1940 for Turtle Creek, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Courtesy of ancestry.com.
[6] Herbert Paulson gravestone. Find A Grave, updated May 13, 2010, accessed September 5, 2016; Albert Sinnhuber gravestone. Find A Grave, updated October 10, 2011, accessed September 5, 2016; Death certificate of Albert Sinnhuber, Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906–1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Courtesy of ancestry.com. Dates of Sinnhuber on his grave seem to be wrong if one relies on his death certificate, which says that he was age 68 at his death in 1943, meaning he was born in 1875. Also see Brian Butko, The Ship Hotel: A Grand View along the Lincoln Highway (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010), 34-5; “U.S.S. Grandview Ship Hotel: Lincoln Highway,” Miniature Railroad & Village, accessed September 5, 2016; Brian Butko, “Ship Hotel: Afloat with the Lincoln Highway's Most Unusual Landmark,” Pennsylvania Heritage Vol. XL, No. 2, Spring 2014.
[7] Brian Butko, Pennsylvania Traveler's Guide: The Lincoln Highway (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002), 230-231; “Carnegie Science Center Unveils 2003 Miniature Railroad and Village,” Allegheny City Society Reporter Dispatch, Winter 2003, p. 3, accessed September 5, 2016; William A. White, “Mountain Ship,” The Pittsburgh Press, Section Two, March 23, 1954, p. 21. Courtesy of Google News Archive; “Just Another Roadside Attraction,” The Pittsburgh Press, June 28, 1986, Sunday Magazine, p. 7. Courtesy of Google News Archive; “U.S.S. Grandview Ship Hotel: Lincoln Highway”; “Ship Hotel: Afloat with the Lincoln Highway's Most Unusual Landmark”; David Greenlees, “The S. S. Grand View Point Hotel On The Lincoln Highway,” The Old Motor, July 9, 2012, accessed September 5, 2016.
[8] Chris Wechtenhiser, “Historic Ship Hotel burns,” Bedford Gazette, October 27-28, 2001; 1930 U.S. Federal Census for Lansford, Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Courtesy of ancestry.com; 1940 U.S. Federal Census for Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Courtesy of ancestry.com. Oravec is not the same as one listed in the 1910 census as living in Spangler, Cambria, Pennsylvania and born in 1885. Also dates do not match up. Other workers on the ship included, but are not limited to, Cecelia Davies (Butko, The Ship Hotel, 88).
[9] Brian Butko, Pennsylvania Traveler's Guide: The Lincoln Highway (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002), 230-231; Butko, The Ship Hotel, 35-36; “Ship Hotel: Afloat with the Lincoln Highway's Most Unusual Landmark"; The Federal Writers Project, The WPA Guide to Pennsylvania: The Keystone State (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1940 (2013 reprint)), 451; Patrick M. Reynolds, “Western Pennsylvania Embraces Visitors,” Reading Eagle, June 25, 1978, Leisure, p. 73. Courtesy of Google News Archive; Doug Pappas, “Grand View Hotel Tribute 2,” Lincoln Highway Home, Society for American Baseball Research, accessed September 5, 2016.
[10] Butko, The Ship Hotel, 42-44, 46-47, 49, 51, 54-55; “The S. S. Grand View Point Hotel On The Lincoln Highway.”
[11] Route from Turtle Creek to “scenic overlook” (former site of Ship Hotel), Google Maps, accessed September 5, 2016; Butko, The Ship Hotel, 44; William A. White, “Mountain Ship,” The Pittsburgh Press, Section Two, March 23, 1954, p. 21. Courtesy of Google News Archive; Gilbert Love, “Bedford Immersed In History and Elegance,” The Pittsburgh Press, October 25, 1972, p. 23. Courtesy of Google News Archive; “Just Another Roadside Attraction,” The Pittsburgh Press, June 28, 1986, Sunday Magazine, p. 7. Courtesy of Google News Archive; Butko, The Ship Hotel, 57-58, 61, 66-68, 70; Associated Press, “Fire destroys quirky ship hotel in Pennsylvania,” Rome News-Tribune, October 28, 2001, p. 5A, no. 501. Courtesy of the Google News Archive; Mary Thomas, “Passing Scenery,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 8, 2004, Homes & Gardens, Section B, p. B-6. Courtesy of Google News Archive; “Just Another Roadside Attraction,” The Pittsburgh Press, June 28, 1986, Sunday Magazine, p. 6-7. Courtesy of Google News Archive; Associated Press, “Group wants to restore hotel in shape of ship,” Gettysburg Times, Aug. 3, 1998, Vol. 96, no. 183, Digest, p. A2. Courtesy of Google News Archive; Associated Press, “Group wants to restore Ship Hotel,” Beaver County Times, Aug. 2, 1998, Sports, p. B7. Courtesy of Google News Archive; Tom Gibb, “Fire sinks the 'Ship,' U.S. 30 hotel-eatery,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 27, 2001; Chris Wechtenhiser, “Historic Ship Hotel burns,” Bedford Gazette, October 27-28, 2001; Doug Pappas, “Grand View Hotel Tribute,” Lincoln Highway Home, Society for American Baseball Research, accessed September 5, 2016; Doug Pappas, “Grand View Hotel Tribute 3,” Lincoln Highway Home, Society for American Baseball Research, accessed September 5, 2016; “The S.S. Grand View Point Hotel,” Lincoln Highway Corridor, 2016, accessed September 5, 2016; Patricia Lowry, “Ship Hotel has sailed, but a jaunty new book honors its history and heyday,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 12, 2010; Tom Gibb, “The Ship sails choppy seas,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 15, 1998; Doug Kirby, Ken Smith, and Mike Wilkins, “Lincoln Highway's Ship of the Alleghenies Burns,” RoadsideAmerica.com, Accessed September 5, 2016; David Greenlees, “The S. S. Grand View Point Hotel On The Lincoln Highway,” The Old Motor, July 9, 2012, accessed September 5, 2016; Richard Funk, Along Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway (San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), 91; “Local Fun,” Schellsburg, PA, Accessed September 5, 2016; Jeffrey J. Kitsko, “Lincoln Highway,” November 27, 2015, accessed September 5, 2016; “3 States And 7 Counties!,” WQED, August 15, 2008, accessed September 5, 2016; Jerin Miller and Angelica W. Capone, “A Coffee Pot for Giants,” Pennsylvania Center for the Book (Penn State), Fall 2010 and Spring 2011, accessed on September 5, 201; Charles Phoenix, “S.S. GRAND VIEW SHIP HOTEL, BEDFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1957,” Charles Phoenix, 2016, accessed September 5, 2016.
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Recently, the wonderful (and dedicated) Becks Kobel from Washington State, a death positive genealogist (and historian), asked Italian genealogists to name their surnames, noting that she was working "on an Italian line." Many people, whether family historians like Chris Russo, Josh, Wendy L. Callahan, Renee Pizzo, Ina Neugebauer, Zoe Krainik, Ashley Senske, and Chris Ferraiolo, professional genealogists like Derk Doran Wood, and other individuals (Olivia Meikile, "Ms Redacted," and Florian Straub) shared their surnames. But, for me, the idea to create this blog was born, along with the sharing of various resources on immigration in the 20th century (see here, here, and here), writing that "I've been thinking abt a new genealogy blog that focuses on my dad's side of the family, including one on my Italian ancestors." This is that blog! I've already briefly mentioned this before on Twitter, noting how "my great-grandfather worked on the S.S. Grand View Point Hotel (otherwise known as the Ship Hotel) with an Emilio Rosso," adding that "it's so important there us [sic] even a Wikipedia page on it (which I made extensive edits too, of course)." I've also tweeted a photograph of my ancestor, Annetta Rose "Nita" (or "Anita") Baccarini, who was born December 20, 1909 in Kiskiminetas Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and went to college. However, her life was short-lived as she died on August 31, 1932 in Avonmore, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, of pneumonia, after she had graduated, at the age of 22! Here's the photograph:
Originally posted on Jun. 16, 2019 on the WordPress version of this blog.
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I then shared a photo of my grandmother, Lena Adelaide (Franci) Hermann (1922-2005), who was 100% Italian, considered "second-generation" (I'll talk about that in a later post) and sent the following photo to my grandfather when he was building bridges in the Republic of Korea (ROK) in 1946-7:
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And with that, the blog is off!
-Burkely
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Ravenna: 25 aprile, 79° anniversario della Liberazione, le iniziative in programma in città, nel forese e al mare. Nel 79^ anniversario della Liberazione, Ravenna si appresta a celebrare la ricorrenza del 25 Aprile con una serie di iniziative, momenti di riflessione e approfondimento storico, che interesseranno tutto il territorio comunale, dal centro alle frazioni del mare passando per quelle del forese. Giovedì 25 aprile si svolgerà la Pedalata della Liberazione – da Ravenna alla Pineta di Classe, lungo un itinerario che testimonia le azioni che, nel 1944, hanno contribuito alla liberazione di Ravenna. Il ritrovo è previsto alle 10 al giardino 9 novembre 1989 in via Keplero, mentre la partenza sarà alle 10.30. Il costo dell'iscrizione è 2 euro (che verranno devoluti al Comitato cittadino antidroga). Lungo l'itinerario avrà luogo la deposizione di corone nel parco Reginald Barton Stratton a Classe in omaggio al soldato inglese caduto durante la liberazione di Classe e, all'interno della pineta, al cippo in memoria di Vito Salvigni e Umberto Fussi, giovani partigiani del distaccamento "Garavini" caduti nella lotta di liberazione. All'arrivo, presso Ca' Acquara (Pineta di Classe) i partecipanti saranno accolti da un ristoro offerto da ATCRa2 e dalle associazioni venatorie. Alle 11, in piazza del Popolo, si terrà la deposizione di corone alla lapide dei partigiani caduti per la liberazione dal nazifascismo; sono previsti gli interventi delle autorità e dell'Anpi provinciale e l'esibizione della Banda musicale cittadina. Alle 14.30, nell'ambito del GranPremio di Ciclismo 25 aprile Città di Ravenna avranno luogo le iniziative promosse dalla sezione Anpi "Natalina Vacchi" di Ravenna e nell'area verde sportiva della Parrocchia di San Paolo, in via Sighinolfi, 20, si terrà Gioca con la tua bicicletta: gara di cross e gimkana. Sabato 27 aprile, alle 17.30, nell'Auditorium San Romualdo, Sacrario dei Caduti, in via Baccarini 7, si terrà il Concerto della Fanfara dell'Associazione Nazionale Bersaglieri - Sezione Cap. G. Galli – Ravenna con musiche bersaglieresche e patriottiche dopo i saluti di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale. L'ingresso è libero. Area Centro urbano Giovedì 25 aprile alle 10 cippo commemorativo - vicolo dei Francesi per la deposizione di una corona Area Ravenna sud Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 9.45, in piazza Brigata Pavia, partenza del corteo per i cippi commemorativi dei caduti nella lotta di Resistenza partigiana presenti nel quartiere. Il percorso si snoderà tra le vie Cassino, San Mama, Pasi e ritorno su via San Mama, piazza Romolo Ricci, via Montesanto, via Piave, Ponte dei Martiri. E' previsto l'intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale. Confluenza finale alla manifestazione in piazza del Popolo. Area Darsena Porto Fuori Mercoledì 24 aprile alle 13.45 ritrovo presso scuola elementare Cavina di Porto Fuori per la partenza del corteo diretto al campanile della Chiesa parrocchiale e al parco della Rimembranza per deporre corone di alloro in ricordo dei Caduti; alle 14.30, nell'area antistante Barakkacafè, in via Staggi 4, interventi di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale e dell'Anpi provinciale; spettacolo musicale a cura degli alunni e delle alunne della scuola elementare Cavina. Area Sant'Alberto Sant'Alberto Mercoledì 24 aprile, alle 10.30, nel parco XXV aprile, incontro con gli alunni e le alunne delle scuole Pascoli e Viali, cori scolastici con canti di libertà. Corteo fino a Piazza Garibaldi con deposizione di fiori sulla lapide ai Caduti. Intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale. Sant'Antonio Mercoledì 24 aprile, alle 10.30, nella Scuola dell'infanzia Bravi, in via Canalazzo 209, incontro celebrativo con i bambini, le bambine e i genitori; deposizione di una corona al monumento e un mazzo di fiori alla lapide di Walter Suzzi. Intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale. Giovedì 25 aprile presso il cippo Walter Suzzi, in via Romea Nord 233, deposizione di una corona alla presenza dell'Anpi e dei familiari. Mandriole Giovedì 25 aprile alle 9.30 piazza 2 Agosto 1980 Deposizione di corona e fiori alla lapide ai Caduti alla presenza di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale. Percorso con deposizione di corone e fiori al Parco delle Rimembranze e ai cippi del territorio. Sant'Alberto Giovedì 25 aprile alle 10 in piazza Garibaldi corteo con deposizioni di corone e fiori alla lapide ai Caduti della Seconda Guerra mondiale in via Nigrisoli, al Parco delle Rimembranze, in via Cavedone, e al monumento e alla lapide in piazza Garibaldi. Intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale. La delegazione Anpi proseguirà poi alla volta del cippo Beltrami, alla lapide Onofri e al cippo 25 Aprile con deposizione di corone e fiori. San Romualdo Domenica 28 aprile, alle 9.30 in piazza San Romualdo celebrazione della Messa; alle 10 deposizione di una corona e di un mazzo di garofani alla lapide ai Caduti presso la Casa protetta in piazza San Romualdo. Intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale Area Mezzano Mezzano Mercoledì 24 aprile, alle 9.30 Monumento della pace - Istituto Valgimigli, via Don Tanasini 2, deposizione di una corona al Monumento della pace e interventi di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale e dell'Anpi di Mezzano. Interventi degli alunni e delle alunne della scuola primaria Rodari e secondaria Valgimigli con illustrazione dei contenuti degli elaborati sulla Costituzione, lettura di testimonianze, poesie e canti corali sulla Resistenza. Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 9, in piazza della Repubblica, deposizione di una corona alla lapide dei Caduti e interventi di rappresentanti dell'Amministrazione comunale e dell'Anpi di Mezzano, con letture di brani commemorativi. Corteo con sosta al cippo Marchetti e alla stele Bardi e deposizione di corone e fiori. Una delegazione dell'Anpi si recherà al cippo Bartolotti, al parco delle Rimembranze e al cimitero di Mezzano. A seguire deposizione di corone e fiori al monumento dei caduti in Piazza della Grande Rotta ad Ammonite Savarna Mercoledì 24 aprile, alle 14.45, in piazza Italia, Celebrazione della festa della Liberazione con interventi a cura dei bambini e delle bambine della scuola Primaria Bartolotti di Savarna. Intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 8.30, partenza da piazza Italia per la visita ai cippi del territorio con deposizione di corone e fiori; alle 10 sede sezione Anpi - via Savarna 269, Corteo e deposizione della corona al Monumento ai caduti e interventi un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale e dell'Anpi di Savarna, con letture di brani commemorativi. Una delegazione Anpi si recherà presso l'ex cinema e il cippo Orsini per la deposizione di corone e fiori. Area Piangipane Piangipane Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 9.30, in piazza 22 Giugno 1944, saluti di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale. Canti dedicati alla resistenza a cura del duo Luca e Sofia e deposizione della corona al monumento commemorativo che si trova a lato della piazza. A seguire corteo in bicicletta fino al Cimitero del Commonwealth di Piangipane e deposizione di corona; alle 10.30 circa deposizione di corona a Camerlona presso il sacrario della Brigata Cremona e in via Tagliata deposizione di fiori sul cippo dedicato a Caruso e Balella. Santerno Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 10, ritrovo in piazza 5 Dicembre e corteo al parco delle Rimembranze con deposizione della corona San Michele Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 9, deposizione della corona al cippo nel giardino della scuola dell'infanzia Area Roncale visione del film "I piccoli maestri" di Daniele Luchetti, con Stefano Accorsi e Stefania Montorsi; sarà presente il Direttore dell'Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell'Età Contemporanea in Ravenna e provincia Martedì 23 aprile, alle 20.45, sempre nel Centro Polivalente, in via Taverna 79, si svolgerà la presentazione del libro "Iris Versari: una biografia partigiana" di Sandra Bellini. Sarà presente l'autrice Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 9.30, nel Circolo Arci, in via Taverna 140, corteo con deposizione della corona al monumento dei Caduti. A seguire performance teatrale "E se io muoio" a cura dell'associazione di Creazione Drammatica; sono previsti gli interventi di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale e dell' Anpi Ragone Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 8.45 deposizione della corona presso il cippo Capra e a seguire presso il Cippo Martiri delle Mura Filetto Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 11.30, Cippo Pesa, via Roncalceci angolo via Rampina; interventi di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale e dell'Anpi Venerdì 26 aprile A partire dalle 9 Deposizione di corone e mazzi di fiori nei vari cippi del territorio: cippo Spazzoli (Ghibullo), cippo Longana, cippo Amadori e Teo Foschi (Ragone), cippo Minarda (San Pietro in Trento), cippo Romagnoli (Pilastro), monumento Bagattoni e cippo Pistocchi (Coccolia) parco Rimembranza (Filetto) San Pietro in Vincoli Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 10, ritrovo all'incrocio tra via del Sale e via Castello e corteo fino a largo Caduti; alle 10.15 Corteo e deposizione della corona al monumento ai Caduti. Interventi di rappresentanti dell'Amministrazione comunale e dell'Anpi. Area Castiglione Castiglione di Ravenna Martedì 23 aprile, alle 10, in via Marino Morini – parcheggio scuole, partenza del corteo per le vie Martiri Fantini, via Zattoni e via Zignani alla presenza della Banda musicale città di Ravenna. Deposizione della corona al monumento dei Caduti e nelle lapidi in via Zignani e in via Zattoni. Canti a cura dei ragazzi e delle ragazze della scuola secondaria di primo grado "G. Zignani". Partecipano tutte le scuole del territorio. Interventi di rappresentanti dell'Amministrazione comunale e dell'Anpi Savio Martedì 23 aprile, alle 14.30, nella scuola Burioli, in via Orfanelle 22, partenza del corteo con i bambini e le bambine della scuola alla presenza della Banda musicale città di Ravenna. Deposizione della corona al monumento dei Caduti. Canti e poesie a cura dei bambini e delle bambine della scuola primaria. Merenda presso area verde "Parco della Lilla" in via Agliardi offerta dal comitato cittadino di Savio; interventi di rappresentanti dell'Amministrazione comunale e dell'Anpi San Zaccaria Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 8, partenza della pedalata della Liberazione "Stones &Poppies" con ritrovo in via Dismano 575, con colazione offerta da Endas S. Zaccaria (circa 40 km). Iscrizione gratuita su https://tinyurl.com/25aprile2024; alle 8.30 deposizione corone e mazzi di fiori al cimitero in via Dismano, al parco della Rimembranza e al cippo Becchi Tognini all'incrocio con via Erbosa Mensa e Pineta di Classe Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 9, deposizione della corona al cippo in via Mensa (vicino al Bar Arci); alle 10.30 Corteo spontaneo dei cittadini a partire da via Mensa, Bar Arci, per raggiungere il cippo e il cimitero di Mensa. Deposizione di fiori al cippo alla Pineta di Classe Casemurate Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 8.40, deposizione di una corona al parco della Rimembranza Area Mare Punta Marina Terme Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 9, in piazza San Massimiano, deposizione di corona al monumento alla Resistenza. Intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale Marina di Ravenna Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 9.45, deposizione corona presso la lapide ai Caduti di via Garibaldi e intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale Casalborsetti Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 8.30, ritrovo presso il Monumento ai Caduti piazzale Marradi, deposizione della corona al monumento e corteo presso i cippi presenti sul territorio con deposizione di fiori e corone; alle 10.15, nel piazzale Marradi, conclusione della cerimonia con alzabandiera, deposizione della corona e intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale; iniziativa in collaborazione con l'Anpi, sezione di Casal Borsetti, Pro Loco, Auser scuola viva, Parrocchia di San Lorenzo, Cgil e Polisportiva di Casal Borsetti. Porto Corsini Giovedì 25 aprile, alle 11.15, ritrovo in via Cortellazzo, deposizione di corona e alza bandiera al monumento ai Caduti del parco Vilma Soprani, via Soprani, in collaborazione con Anpi di Porto Corsini; intervento di un rappresentante dell'Amministrazione comunale.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article
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