Foreshadowing in Agropoli
During our October 2015 trip, we had only one day/night on the itinerary for Agropoli, the town where Jeb's grandfather was born on the southwest coast of Italy. Despite Jeb's attempts to reach out to his American relatives for clues of family ties, he had no contacts there. Decades and generations had passed, and with them, the treasured connections to long-lost relatives. Most of his grandfather's (very) large family had immigrated to America, so any remaining family in Italy would most certainly have been distant cousins, perhaps belonging to branches of the family tree several degrees from his grandfather. Nonetheless, we set out to explore the small city on foot, hoping that maybe, we'd get lucky. Once an ancient maritime settlement, Agropoli is now a normal working-class town. It's rare to find anyone who speaks English there and tourists are limited to Italians who come to the seaside on holiday. A beautiful beach with a smattering of hotels is the ...