I leaned forward to look for a—“Sharpener! Damn it, how do we say it in Galician?”
Easter time is a vibrant period in the two Greek-speaking communities of southern Italy.
Here in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh (Ballyferriter Village), the language is not some abstract entity, but embedded in the world around us.
Every February 21, on the eve of feast of the Chair of St. Peter, people light huge bonfires called biikebrennen.
In the summer, the Ferme Seguin in Southern France provides weekly guided tours in French, English, and Occitan.
A village festival in the middle of snowy January in an unheated barn? No problem!