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This is a class photo taken in 1947 in San Nicandro Garganico, a town about 80 miles northwest of Bari, Apulia region, inthe far south. Itvwas 735 ft above sea level. It is a large class of 47 pupils, all boys. That is very large for a primary school making it impossible for the teacher to offer any special attention io the children. In the photo there are the school principal and the teacher. We can note some differences in the economic situation of the children. Probably all of them belonged to working class meaning low income families, but some of the boys were very poor. Many years later one of the pupils remembered the only barefoot boy in the photo. He lived in the poorest town neighborhood, called Terravecchia. He attended the five grades of the primary school always barefoot, in both summer and in winter. After he finished school, his family emigrated to northern Italy seeking better paying jobs.
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