In Virginia

At Williamsburg, Va., the Virginia Lodge of the Sons of Italy last week donated $1,000 to the College of William and Mary. The College is building a new men's dormitory, Monroe Hall; and the Lodge indicated that its money was to endow a memorial room in this hall in honor of one Charles Bellini. And who, pray, was Charles Bellini?

Thomas Jefferson once experimented with a vineyard in Albemarle County. importing skilled husbandmen from Italy. With the workmen came. Charles Bellini, citizen of Florence. Try as they...

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