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Article: Stop and smell the rosemary: this woody, perennial herb with its fragrant, evergreen needle-like leaves is native to the Mediterranean region and has many delights.(Well-Being)(Recipe)
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- Natural Life
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- July 1, 2007
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High up in the Apennine Mountains of Italy, at the foot of Mount Cervati, set like a rose quartz jewel, lies the ancient village of Monte San Giacomo. Around it are 13 other villages, all of them with roots reaching back into Neolithic times, all of them stretching up into the mountains around the Valley of Diana, a lush, rich, fertile plain. This is my ancestral home, the place where my grandmother was born, and hers before her. This is where my ancestors are buried, where their spirits still live strong and can be deeply felt and communed with.
The women here carry heavy loads on their heads, they run up the mountainsides herding goats well into their seventies ...