Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Photo from Jimmy LaRocca: Remains from "Old" Salaparuta


As I reported two stories below, Salaparuta, Sicily suffered its own Katrina in 1968 in the form of a massive earthquake. It destroyed the entire town and made the whole population of 3,000 people homeless.
The people who returned after the disaster rebuilt the town in a different location. Today the new town is prospering, and it has a new cultural center called the "Nick" LaRocca New Orleans Jazz Cultural Arts Center. It is attached to the auditorium, the "Nick" LaRocca Concert Hall.
The "Old" Salaparuta is just ruins today. The photo here from Jimmy LaRocca is a small piece of the floor from a destroyed church in "Old" Salaparuta which he acquired on a trip to Sicily in 1999.
Like Katrina in New Orleans, the earthquake of Salaparuta makes us realize what we have lost, and that we should never take things for granted.
To learn more about the "New" Salaparuta and the new Jazz cultural center, see www.odjb.com
Thanks again to Mr. Jimmy LaRocca for the great photograph.
--Adrian

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