These stories grow out of the pages of the Col Maòr, the 60th Anniversary Book and the Group’s own archive. Each one names its sources and keeps what the documents prove apart from what still needs checking.
A year of mourning, then the pennant
The Group was founded in 1963, but its celebration had to wait for the Vajont mourning: the rain-soaked inauguration of 1964 and the first pennant.
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General Pietro Zaglio
Born in Verona, a Bellunese by adoption, a lifetime in the 7th Alpini: the man who gave the Group its name, in the 1964 Col Maòr portrait.
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“It comes out when it can”: sixty years of the Col Maòr
From the 1964 mimeograph to the Section masthead of 1987 and the Group’s revival in 2003-2004.
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30 September 1973: the tenth-anniversary celebration
Mass, speeches and medals for the Knights of Vittorio Veneto handed over by the young members, on the hill that gave the newsletter its name.
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The Alpine Befana of Salce
From the donkey and cart of 1969 to Giulia Carlin’s Befanas and the hang-glider arrival of 1991.
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San Fermo and the Val di Siva bridge
A viaduct blown up in 1917, rebuilt by prisoners and women, bombed on St Stephen’s Day 1944.
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Three men on horseback
One photograph, two captions: Arcangelo De Biasi, who came back from Russia, and Antonio Coletti, missing at Popovka.
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It all began with the search for a photograph (in Italian)
A Mass among the ruins of Longarone, an altar boy dressed as an alpino and a memory that brought a 2009 folder back to light. The story from which MEMORIA was born.
Egidio Piacentini, the Veronese friend of the «Belluno» battalion
Officer on the Tofane and at the Bainsizza, pharmacist in Malcesine, a friend of Salce to the end: his farewell letter held a cheque for the Group.
More stories are in preparation.
