The Wonder of facebook...

I stopped by for an espresso with The Dog to visit one of my neighbors in Codiponte this Sunday morning. Once we each had una tazza di caffe' in front of us, she then told me this story... 

Her grandson received a message one day on facebook from a woman living in Argentina. They shared the same Italian last name of Argenti. She was curious if they could be related. Did he know of any Argenti relatives from Codiponte living in Argentina? 

The grandson knew nothing about it. He asked his mother. Thinking & thinking, it did occur to her that after the end of WWII, a great-uncle immigrated to Argentina and was never heard from since. The grandson replied to the message, but nothing more was heard from the Argentinean woman. 

Then, another message on facebook arrived. This time from a young Argentinean man with the last name of Argenti, who was studying in France. He thought for sure he was a distant cousin to the grandson. He was the nephew of the woman who had first contacted the grandson. Addresses were exchanged, etc. and again, nothing else was heard. 

A couple of months passed until, one day last week, a young man knocked on the grandson's door. It was the Argentinean student, who had traveled by train to Codiponte to look up the grandson & other relatives. 

The only thing he had brought were old photos of il Poggiolo, the house where his Argentinean grandfather was born!!!