Okey, here the extended family. The ocassion?, a big event?, yes, it happened in Tucson, (AZ) at the Desert Museum. December 1994, to celebrate 11 years of being far apart from each others. The next extended family meeting will be in Santa Fe (Argentina), year 2000.
From left to right:
Ariel Chialvo and Mary Sosa-Chialvo (Univ. of Tennesse, Knoxville). Abel Chialvo and Mary Rose Gennero-Chialvo (Preline, Universidad del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina). Myself, Dante Chialvo, my son Federico and my daughter Florencia holding Pablo Chialvo (Ariel and Mary's son). Sebastian Chialvo (Ariel and Mary's son) and Cesar Chialvo (Abel and Mary Rose's son) and finally la MAMA! Judith Milessi Chialvo.
Our grandfather
came from Envie, a small town in northern Italy in the region of Piamonte
(meaning "foothills"). Hundreds of thousand "piamontesse"
emigrated to Argentina in the period between 1880 and 1910. They were given land,
hope and nothing else esentially. Starting with almost nothing, they built
most of what the country was around 1930. All of that was wasted during
the next generation (that is my own personal opinion, anyway) In this picture
Alfredo Chialvo, (at left) our grandfather, and Hoevel Mireilt Chialvo,
(at right) our father are in the backyard of the windmills' factory the
family owned for half a century in Rafaela, (Argentina). The family factory
built the very first "made in Argentina" farm machinery used
troughout the Santa Fe province's farms.
Sorry under
construction...