Big party for the "grandfather of Rotondella" between plaques and poems
ROTONDELLA - There was a ceremony or event, was a real birthday party. And at this festival were indeed everyone from relatives, authorities, citizens. Because for a century a small community can not remain indifferent. All the more so if that anniversary is called Antonio Lapergola.Il grandfather, in fact, has never been an anonymous citizen. Born in 1907, was already a mature fifty in January 1956. It was in those days that his name was tied to an episode intended to remain in the memory collettiva.Un group of workers and poor families organized a peaceful protest against institutions, an unarmed procession shouting "bread and work". After a few days many of those protesters were arrested, tried and then executed only after many wanderings, and many court days of unjust detention. Antonio wooden pergola, a laborer, was one of them. In fact, maybe it was one that included more class consciousness inherent in that particular year gesto.Erano, struggles, and ideological contrasts. Years in which the shivering protesters refused - as he himself said - even the help of the parish priest, Father Felix, ready to offer the Church for them riparare.Sarà difficult to offer an objective assessment of those facts and actual responsibilities, but the proud memory with a wooden pergola which expresses the memories Strikes listeners. And so it happened yesterday, in front of microphones broadcasters locali.Ma that yesterday was not only the celebration of a man with a political color. It has been the first celebration of a man. Celebrated for his past, but also for its present. A mind that yesterday was the face of dozens of young and old revelers, proud of the man who gave birth to their offspring. It was his large family (9 children, 20 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren), also composed of people who came from Milan, Piacenza and Torino.Forse is this people cheering, even more of his battles, the biggest thing he has built. Also because this man, in his one hundred years, has had to endure an experience that is perhaps harder than prison: the death of his wife and the (recent) of a child. This applies, in the end, fate forced (beautiful and terrible at the same time) of those fortunate enough to live in lungo.E 'Perhaps that's why yesterday, more than welcome plate of the mayor and some beautiful words about his political past should have rewarded the poetry that her children have held in public, recalling his greatest gift: education. And this passion for education has also emerged yesterday, in his stories to life, pronounced in a tone of weak arguments but always sensible. Even his hundredth year was not in vain.
SOURCE: The Daily Basilicata
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