A version of this story appears in the Feb. 29, 2012, edition of the Rutland County Express.
Call it a tale of two Naples (Napleses? Napoli?). In Rutland, the connection to towns of this name runs deep — a generationally-embedded locus where, for some, the two have become touchstones of family and heritage.
There is the Naples in southwest Italy, from where, at the turn of the last century, many Rutland families (mine included) emigrated. And there is the Naples of southwest Florida, to where many of them make their second (and final) flight. It’s the Alpha and the Omega: from whence we came, hence shall we proceed.
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