Volume 15

North Carolina - 10/97

Chimney Rock

The town of Chimney Rock

Lake Lure from the top of Chimney Rock

Lake Lure

Italy - Part 1, Rome and south to Almafi.

Sorrento

Positano

The Almafi Drive

Vesuvius as seen from Sorrento across the bay of Naples

Pompeii

Pompeii was completly covered with volcanic ash and not lava. I was there in 1955 and very little of it was restored

The courtyard of a home

A fresco from the home above

A public bath

A bakery

Rome - the Eternal City

Castle San Angel

Piazza Navvona

The Coliseum, built in 100AD

Outside the Coliseum - Take my wife, please

Inside the Arch of Tiberius, depicting the conquering of Israel and bringing the menorah from the temple in Jerusalem to Rome.

Part of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. It took Michelangelo 6 years to complete lying on his back. He actually hated painting as sculpturing was his love. He would take cadavers from hospitals to study anatomy.

A copy of painting by Raphael made from mosaics

Moses by Michelangelo

There are no words to describe the beauty of the sculpture

The Fountain of Trevi

Synagogue in Rome

The Ghetto in Rome

During the Second World War, when Mussolini lost power, the Germans came in en-masse. They started to round up the Jews in Rome. When the Italians realized what was happening they hid the rest of the Jews and the Germans were only able to get 2,000.