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Class of ‘62 travels
to Tuscany and Sorrento for reunion
Thirteen of us, seven
1962 classmates and assorted spouses and friends, spent two weeks in
Italy this spring, staying one week each in villas in Tuscany and
Sorrento.
Our 12-bedroom
Tuscan country villa, a 100 year-old former winery just south of
Siena in the Commune of Monteroni d’Arbia, looked out upon rolling
hills dotted with grazing herds of sheep. We left the villa each
morning for destinations including small, walled medieval hill-top
towns hundreds of years old, larger towns like Florence and Siena,
and winding routes with incredible patchwork quilt views of hills in
multiple shades of green and tan, dotted with olive trees, grape
vines and spectacular towering cypress trees. Returning to our
villa at night we enjoyed chats in front of the fireplace.
Amazingly, we were almost always able to eat together in restaurants
and a favorite was in the ancient village of San Gimignano, where we
had a long table overlooking gorgeous layer upon layer of green
hills in the distance.
The second week was
spent in a large 100 year-old family town villa overlooking the
Mediterranean near Sorrento, Naples, and the Isle of Capri. The
ride down the Amalfi coast is breathtaking and the village of
Positano with narrow paths winding down past elegant tiny shops to
the beach and open-air cafes on the beach is picture perfect. We
enjoyed lunch high atop the hill on the Isle of Capri, looking down
on yachts in the Marina far below and shopping the narrow streets
(no cars here). Breakfasts were great on our large 3rd
floor terrace under 50 foot trees in the garden below; a garden that
included several chickens and many lemon and orange trees.
Many of us then
toured Rome for one day and some extended their visit to Venice or
the Italian Riviera. If you missed it, you just should have been
there. Those classmates who went were Carol Miley Middaugh (OH),
Susan Murray Newman (MI), Peggy Gregg Jackson (FL), Barry Kayne
(DE), Sharon Downard (OH), Sondra Schwartz (CA), and Diane Borror
Richardson (VA).
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Pictured top to
bottom, left to right: Susan Murray Newman, Larry Wiener, Peggy
Gregg Jackson, Judy Wiener, Doug Jackson, Barry Kayne,
Roger Middaugh,
Reiko Kayne, Sharon Downard, Diane Borror Richardson, Sondra
Schwartz, Carol Miley Middaugh, Gloria Miller
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