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The Museum and The Memory



Museo Della Civiltà Contadina Ed Artigiana Di Ripatransone
Il Museo Della Memoria

Maroni Editore 1995





The title of this little book is very demanding, its title is  The Museum and The Memory” and your expectations won’t be disappointed.

The collection consists of 1500 tools and objects used in the rural area of Ripatransone and typical tools of the twentieth century.

The first pages are dedicated to the history of Ripatransone where it is remembered the  feast of threshing wheat, gastronomy and folklore.

The following chapters are dedicated to its history and the thematic areas, such as:
·         Blacksmith

Terracotta Pottery
Lighting and Games
·        Weights and Measures
·         Canteen
·         Pottery
·         Transports
·         The Work In The Fields
·         Weaving
·         The Kitchen
·         The Room
·         The Shoemaker
·         The Carpenter


This museum is dedicate to the life and work of the local farmers in a period without technologies and comfort.

At that time the life was characterised by local traditions and by hard work  made by men and animals.

Visiting this museum we can see the creativity of the persons and the use of a couple of tools for a bit of comfort like "Priest and Monk" The Warmer, the Hot Water Bag, The Walkers, The Kitchen, the bedroom with all of their original pieces.

In the last part of this book there are the conference proceedings related to life in the camps, their typical gastronomy, their songs, legends and the arrival of the first agricultural machines, the importance of the bread for religious purposes and also to feed the diners.

A typical illness was the "Pellagra" due to a lack of bread which contains the PP Vitamin.
Other detailed information are about the new entrepreneurship, Agriculture and Crafts.

The last chapter is dedicated to the Poems and Ditties, the most suggestive was written by Giuseppe Martelli - The Lost Days dedicate to Ripatransone and The Old Threshing written by: Arturo Sardini dedicated to the countryside.

This is a poem of four stanza with an ABAB rhyme and it is dedicated to the life in the countryside which describe the working environment and the festive atmosphere in occasion of the threshing in ancient times.

This poem is also a denunciation against the progress and consumerism considering them as monsters.

The second poem written by Giuseppe Martelli which is dedicated to Ripatransone is more intellectual.

The inner voice is an old oak it tells us of its remembrances, the difficulties of an entire life always subjected to a strong wind but it is there.

This is a pure love for a village everything of it is a source of remembrance even an old wall and a particular place coloured by a red sunset, the voice think at the voices of the old dead friends.

In the last stanza the inner voice reveals that Ripatransone is a quite and peaceful place where it is possible dreaming and this is the reason for its love, and like an old oak, lashing by a strong wind and with its roots on a slippery rock.
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