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Years emigration

E 'in the early twentieth century that the village of the Valle del Magra is empty, first temporarily and then permanently. Economic difficulties, which often results in a life extremely difficult for very many families led many young people to choose the way of America. They went in many, often in groups, looking for luck (sometimes to suck the call to arms on the eve of World War I), some to return some years later and buy with the money saved with difficulty, a portion of home ground, so as to provide a more dignified life for themselves and their families.
But very often the case that the return was only temporary: after a few years there they return to the path of Genoa (but the port of embarkation is also to Le Havre) for a second or third episode in "very distant lands "that aims to put aside some 'savings to take home along with more diverse experiences. Or to permanently close the door to face the perils Ocean along with his wife and children.
Archives of landings at the port of New York are full of names of emigrants Valdantena, Pracchiola, Cargalla, Cavezzana of Antena and Gravagna (to mention only those countries which directly concern us) down from the ships to address the quarantine and then the challenges of nuiovo world. And through the boarding passes available through www.ellisisland.com are found traces of many family stories: family reunions, the call of " friends, sometimes true, but often simple labor brokers who received sums of money for " call" unknown in the States, which then had to pay their service made through withdrawals from their salary on time. A story is repeated today, here with us, for people of other nationalities who seek their mirage in Italy. And around these facts are developed thousands of stories that would be worth finding. those who have reconstituted in a street or in a district of New York branch of a kind in the country of origin, who came to the U.S. to hear from relatives who had "called": "And now arranged .. ., "who made a fortune to those who have endured the difficulties of a incomprehensible language and the pangs of nostalgia and has resumed after a week away in Italy.
In those years, was born in New York " Pontremolese " genuine mutual aid societies, which aimed to provide help, in a world where social security was a term virtually unknown, many misfortunes suffered and risked total poverty would make them victims of an unscrupulous illegal hiring.
It was an association, which each contributed with modest contributions, which demonstrated several times its social function, especially when it came to repatriate borne by the Association for accidents at work (Many, since the occupations most often - and even more desirable, because the more profitable - those were related to work in mines).
The photo, taken around 1915, is Adolfo Lisoni of Toplecca, along with a fellow who is engaged in the laying of pipes outside of a mine. The Lisoni, back in Italy, began to use the experience gained in the U.S. when, a few years later, the fraction of Toplecca was plugged and he had to have the skills to turn the first rudimentary electrical systems when they, in many of houses in the country, were the tantrums.

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a life expectancy more than doubled in a century


It 's interesting to note that the average life of the population is gradually elongated during the twentieth century, to the point that life expectancy a current resident of Valdantena, Pracchiola area has more than doubled compared to his compatriot who lived in the years 1900-1910, ie in a decade, however, not characterized by specific situations, which were, in the late 20s, the first conflict world and, soon after the outbreak of English flu.
It 's true that the study of demography of Valdantena and other towns of the Valley of Magra partially distorted by the gradual expulsion of the younger population, but the age at death in the late nineties of the last century, is attested by the vast majority of cases well beyond the seventieth year of age, frequently exceeding the threshold of 90 years. It should be noted that, throughout the first half of the twentieth century, those who arrived at the age of 90 were rare and that the age reached by those who had escaped to the high infant mortality rate stood between 60 and 70 years.
In the coming time, just after some technical difficulties, and put some tables showing the network - a graph - the data from the study of population in the territory of Valdantena (statistical data drawn from the parish registers re-arranged by Mauro Bertocchi and today carefully preserved in the Diocesan Bishop of Pontremoli by Luigi Farfarana). They are the ones that we now have, data is still provisional, but I would say coming to lead to definitive values, since the differences which currently register are no longer significant percentage. Interestingly, the trend line (the one in red) indicates a gradual climb, unlike the previous century, when the trend in the average age at death results in a nearly horizontal line. At the same time I'm sure if the data are confirmed by analysis documents (State of souls and Book of the Dead) in the surrounding parishes (specifically Pracchiola).
My attention is now an emphasis on certain facts which I believe should be more accurate analysis: mortality attributable to the First and Second World War, the period of English flu, and some epidemiological situations (probably diphtheria) whose effects are really tragic found in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Another aspect to consider carefully is then the whole phenomenon of migration, both to the Americas that lasted almost until the sixties of the twentieth century, is that towards the industrialized areas of Italy and, in smaller numbers, to other European countries.

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When the mountains together ...

The photograph of the Magra river, whose waters flow under the old bridge ( of Va 'dark ) that, among Groppodalosio and Casalini, allowed one of the many who traveled route via Francigena to cross the river that lies a few kilometers upstream, is significant for introducing a land whose history can not not be understood if read with attention to the road that crosses it.
Valdantena Today is close to the route of the A 15 Cisa (which also affects countries in very close, essentially contiguous - Montelungo Gravagna, Cavezzana of Antena), in the past and Valdantena Pracchiola were crossed by at least two main roads that, going from Lunigiana - and, therefore, from Tuscany and from the port of Luni - were projected toward the Po Valley or the Cisa pass through (the way of Monte Bardone ) or through one of Cirone (the Valley of Parma). Important routes through which it is moved not only the history of ordinary people (small businesses, cultural ties, but also epidemics and destruction), but the big story, that of the armies, one way or another, crossed the Apennines with their Following the death, famine, large and small tragedies for those who remained alive, they were, after the storm, to have to start all over again.
last of these terrible experiences, the final phase of World War II, when German forces in the foothills of opposeronproprio Cisa, from Pontremoli to Fornovo, the last futile resistance to the advancing allied to Massa. The last bombing occurred on the territory of Valdantena the night between 26 and 27 April 1945. And the next day - say those who have lived and remember the experience of war - the road Cisa offered the tragic spectacle of the carnage of what was left of a routed army.