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Abruzzo Unscripted is a portrait of the culture, places, and history that define a people. Hosted by Joe DiMeo, a storyteller with deep personal roots in Abruzzo — grandparents born in the mountain villages of Lettopalena (CH) and Prezza (AQ, childhood years spent in Sulmona — the podcast digs into the region's culture, heritage, and language with honesty and rigor. Please note that this isn't a travel show.
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36 minutes
English
United States
8 episodes
since Jan. 16, 2026
episodic
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Gone, But Never Gone — The Abruzzese Diaspora
Next week, I'm boarding a flight to Abruzzo for three months of work on this very project — and even with a return ticket in my pocket, I can't stop thinking about leaving without my wife. That ache is what sent me down this road: what did it feel like …
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Episode Title: An Emptying Village: Lettopalena, in the Province of Chieti, 1910–1920
Before German forces leveled Lettopalena in 1943, this small mountain village in the Abruzzo interior had already spent a generation quietly emptying itself — to a dying shepherding economy, to mass emigration to …
A pot of polenta, boiled over an open fire and spread across a bare stone so a group of displaced neighbors could eat from it together — that's the memory my grandmother gave me from Lettopalena during the German occupation of late 1943. I carried that image around for years as just another old war…
I've lost count of how many times someone connected to this project has asked me the same question: aren't you afraid to move back to Abruzzo, knowing what that ground can do? It's a question I ask myself too — probably once or twice a month. So this episode is my honest answer.
I lived in Abruzzo …
Once Full of Life: A Childhood in Abruzzo, a Region That's Gone Quiet, and the Truth About Bringing It Back
Growing up outside Sulmona in the early '80s, I rode in the back seat of my grandfather's candy-apple-red NSU Prinz, windows always sealed shut against a "colpo d'aria" he was sure …
The Man They Believed In: Mussolini's Charisma, and What It Cost Abruzzo
Mussolini's birthday — an uncomfortable anniversary, but a revealing one. Before he was "Il Duce," he was a poor blacksmith's son and a socialist journalist. In this episode, we go beyond calling him a monster and as…
On November 21st, 1943, German paratroopers entered the Limmari forest near a small Abruzzese village called Pietransieri. Inside four remote farmhouses, roughly 125 men, women, and children were sheltering — people who hadn't obeyed evacuation orders, who had hoped the trees would hide them.
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