A very interesting series of videos filmed in Barga recently have just been published on youtube by an American filmmaker known for the moment only by their nickname of “LuchiniMaddox1”.
Hopefully more information about LuchiniMaddox1 will shortly be available but the moment here are the six short videos with the following text which was attached to the images: A six part series showcasing the medieval Tuscan town of Barga.
This series is dedicated in memory of my grandfather, Pietro Luchini, who was born and raised in Barga, left for Scotland at age 13, ended up in Kentucky, USA, then returned to spend much of his retirement years in a home he built on the Canteo in Barga; also dedicated to my mother, Clara Luchini Maddox, who lived in Barga for 8 years as a child and teen and made sure that her children and grandchildren got to experience and understand the beauty of Barga and the Italian people and culture.
Belle viste di Barga: Le antiche strade di Barga/ The Barga Series: The Cobblestone Streets of Barga
Belle viste di Barga: I Campanari/ The Barga Series: The Bell Ringers
Belle viste di Barga: Gente e luoghi/ The Barga Series: People and places
Belle viste di Barga: Le vedute del Duomo/ The Barga Series: Views of the Duomo
Belle viste di Barga: Panoramas/ The Barga Series: Panoramas
Belle viste di Barga: I Fiori / The Barga Series: Flowers
The amiable and talented Lucchini-Maddox family were in Barga this spring. I believe it was Eric who shot these lovely, wonderfully quiet videos. His mother Clara, a true Barghigiana and celebrated exponent of Italian culture in the U.S., was very nostalgic and stayed on alone for a few weeks after her two sons and their families left. She has quite a story. Pietro Luchini’s children, including Clara, traveled here from America in the late 1930s and were marooned by the war. When the Axis forces occupied Barga, they liked the Lucchinis’ Canteo house so much that they made it their officers’ club with the family as its staff. The Wehrmacht high command never knew that their suppers were being cooked by the enemy — American girls from Frankfort, Kentucky.