Memories of Sally Potestio Hudson
The origins of Bologna Inside was a confluence of events that unfolded in 1998. The spring of that year brought together a small core of women, led by Julie Wade, and included Ann Gagliardi, Elizabeth Garvey, and Ann Rathkopf, to talk about starting an organization for English speaking women living in or near Bologna. The purpose was to […]
Memories of Joanne Maloney
My part for the Guidebook was preparatory and mainly “behind the scenes”. I had been living in Bologna with my Italian husband for almost 20 years, we were raising our two boys who were in Elementary School. We were both pro-active in our community, having established a neighborhood Association in our Quartiere. When word got […]
Memories of Ann Gagliardi
It was an exciting time. Julie Wade had decided Bologna needed an association for anglophone women, and she set out to find them: amazing, independent women who had figured out how to build lives for themselves in a foreign country, women who had learned Italian, cracked the cultural code, and worked out how to take […]
Memories of Julie Wade
The exact details about how the guidebook came about are fuzzy, but the excitement around the initial idea is still fresh in my memory. I remember the bright blue flyer that Sally Hudson Potestio shared with us enthusiastically at one of the first meetings, a tri-fold flyer chock-full of English-speaking resources in town. Potentially, a […]