Large festival in Pezzolo, Schiavo bridge and Briga Marina For the hundred years of grandmother Maria. Said “A Zangarotta”, Maria La Fauci was born in Pezzolo on 9/7/1925. Her parents, Nicola and Carmela La Fauci had three children before she arrived: Carmela, Nunzia and Nino La Fauci (poet and president III neighborhood “Norman” from 1993 to 2003). Often grandmother Maria recalls and tells of when she was small and there was war, fascism, Mussolini, poverty, hunger, but also the good moments spent around the Bratcere to listen to the stories that her father told, the arrival of the nuns in Pezzolo and learn to embroider, go to school to learn how to read, to write and account; And then again the songs, the jokes, the carnival, the parties in the village.
In January 1948 he married Salvatore Spuria, a wise man, and had three children: Rosario, Giovanna and Nicola Spuria. Until 2007 with his nephew Stefania Ausino lived in Pezzolo, where over time it was what a “caregiver” is called today, that is, grandmother Maria took care of her loved ones, friends, neighbors to keep company, supporting them at the time of need, cooking for them, welcoming them to her home, assisting them as a nurse would have done (injections, medications). Since the arrival of Covid-19, Grandma Maria lives together with her daughter Giovanna and the son-in-law Salvatore Ausino in Ponte Schiavo-Briga Marina, surrounded by the love of her grandchildren and pronodes and spending the days embroidering, reading the Bible, without the need to use the glasses, and entertaining himself on the phone with the distant grandchildren and with the “pezzoloti”, that is, the vicinity and friends