The woman lived in this house in the 1940s: for her it was a return to her homeland.
Seveso sees a boom in library attendance during this summer: it is also worth mentioning the story of 92-year-old Carla, who returned to her old home.
Attendance Success
An initiative to keep the public library open throughout August, including the week of August 15, has proved successful. Let us recall that in the entire library system only five (out of 39) – including Seveso – have never closed their doors.
The success of this kind of experiment is determined by the number and impressions collected during the first 20 days, when many users from neighboring and non-neighboring municipalities flocked to “Villa del Sole”, with attendance also recorded from Biassono, primarily to take advantage of the book subscription service. The average number of people present during the day was about 40 people (to collect, order and select books), including 4/6 boys and girls who regularly visited the study room, and people, especially the elderly, who “took advantage” of the newspaper library to read newspaper at a pleasant temperature and in a calm environment. Above all, it was also a way for them to get together and spend a few hours together at a time when most of their activities are suspended.
Carla goes home
And the icing on the cake on Friday at noon was the episode “from the book of the heart”, which amazed and excited the entire staff of the “Villa del Sole”: Mrs. Carla appeared with her daughter and son-in-law. But who is Carla?
This is a 92-year-old woman who currently lives in Genoa, by the sea, but between 1941 and 1945 was moved from Milan to Seveso, in the same room where the Villa del Sole library is now located on Corso Garibaldi . There were two families, the woman recalls, and her family lived on the ground floor. Accompanied by the librarian Ilaria, Carla made a journey into her personal memory, remembering the distant time in which she lived in Seveso during World War II, returning to the places where she spent her long days.
The “living room” and “kitchen” were where the children’s room is today, and the “rooms” were where the Department of Culture and Journalism is today. “Returning to her old childhood home was a wish that Carla had jealously kept for years,” the family explained, “and which she was able to fulfill on Friday.”