So maybe you don't like the fact...

...that I have been able to achieve

a good part of a 29 year old GOAL?

When I visited Italy, for the first time, I was intent on shooting research shots...because I was then a Scenic Designer/ Scenic Artist...very intent upon replicating anywhere in Italy, when necessary.

These are my shots, which I never had the money to make the coffee table book I so wanted to do.

I am more than pleased to be 'still alive at 65' and share this 1982 tour through Genova, the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, with all of you.

All 35mm slides have been digitally scanned, color-corrected, cropped  and Photoshopped (TM) to enhance your viewing pleasure.

I hope some of you enjoy?

Any other questions, or if you have a photo you would like retouched or restored, go to RPFreeSpeech@gmail.com

Come, take a walk with me...

...through 1982 Genova.

Columbus Day

Columbus Day closings

Monday is Columbus Day, a federal holiday. The following public services will be affected:

Schools: Chicago's public schools will be closed. Most parochial and suburban schools also will be closed.

Government offices: Federal, county and city offices will be closed.

Postal service: No regular mail delivery, but express mail will be delivered.

Courts: Federal, state and county courts will be closed, except for Cook County Central Bond Court.

Banks: Most will be closed.

Transit: CTA, Pace and Metra will run on weekday schedules.

This is the atrium of what remains of what is known as the Casa di Cristoforo Colombo (The House of Christopher Columbus) in Genova, Italy. I took this shot on my first visit to Italy in 1982.

This is what it looks like today, via Google Maps:

Personally, I prefer my shot, and I felt very privileged to be on the same spot where Columbus lived and walked and dreamed--centuries ago. A few short blocks away was, I guess you'd call it a 'market street', where, in 1982, banners announced 900 years of markets on that street.

For more on Christopher Columbus, read this at American Thinker:

"Christopher Columbus: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"