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Extending from the church on the left there was a short wall with a gate that gave access to a small rectangular lot where in years past people were buried. Even though there were no markers or gravestones, the spot was still called "the cimitorio" when I was growing up. Now on this spot they have built a little function room. In the thirties when the floor of the church was replaced, I remember that as one entered the church, on the left there was a huge stone slab which closed a passage to the sub-floor where they used to bury people in the distant past. I remember some old coffins and bones being removed from under the church floor which was then permanently sealed.

The other church in Fallo, La Chiesa della Madonna, with a clock on the roof, was unfinished. Sabatino Mariano, the mayor of the village in the 1930s, was always in the process of securing funds to complete this church. Above the church door there is a stone inscription dating it to 1871. This church was finally completed in the late '50s or early '60s. The clock on this church, still functional, used to sound the hours, the quarters of the hour and the half-hour thus providing the time to the villagers even when they were working in the fields. Most importantly I remember the ding-dong of its bells at nine A.M. calling the children to school. The three elementary schools were in reality three single large rooms available in some uninhabited houses in different parts of the town. The elementary schools no longer existed in 1994 for lack of

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There were two little stores in Fallo when I grew up there; they usually were opened on request and sold some available dry goods, such as pasta, canned goods, flour, sugar, liquors, salt, cigarettes. There were two butcher shops that were opened once or twice a week only if some lamb was available (beef was never available and baby goats were seasonal).

In the early '30s the only potable water available was outside the village. The main source of water was "Fumbrat ", the dialect name for "fonte murata", the walled fountain located about half a mile outside the town. The women came with the "conche" to fetch water from its three spouts and carried the conche full of water on their heads back to town. Men also came to fetch water but with two special barrels carried by donkeys or mules. This fountain also had two drinking troughs for animals and a