It was a special evening organized last week by the Macugnaga Walser community committee at the Kongresshaus. The title “Wir Valser” (or “we Walser”) summarizes the theme of the meeting which was reserved for the Macugnago people. Many participated, also having the opportunity to discover about fifteen photographic panels and stalls set up by the teachers of the elementary school and kindergarten on the rye supply chain, from sowing to bread. A compendium of the activities carried out by the Walser committee and the «Sons of the mine», with the San Bernardo fair and the publication of volumes of history, legends and local customs. All organized by the committee, led by the president Barbara Zanzi and the deputy Beba Schranz.
During the evening the works carried out in the last decades and started – as the member of the committee Giuseppe Corsi pointed out – in the 70s with the restoration of the roof of the old church and of the ovens were illustrated; interventions implemented by of the «Alte Lindebum» chaired by Luigi Zanzi.
There was also a parenthesis in the old German dialect with Edoardo Morandi, Lino Bettoli and Roberto Marone who, thanks to the Walser counter, also hold “titch” lessons. Angelo Basaletti, on the other hand, retraced the birth of the Walser museum in Borca which made it possible to fully preserve a seventeenth-century house. This was followed by the presentation of a documentary made by the museum on the production of rye bread.
The mayor Alessandro Bonacci he thanked the organizers and the public, recalling that “Macugnaga was the second Italian Walser community, preceded only by that of Formazza”. As Barbara Zanzi pointed out at the end, the evening re-proposed «the values of culture and solidarity of the Walser, hoping that young people too will become an active part of the committee, which is open to all».