From My Tuscan Window

In the fall of 1973 George his wife Sue and Italian-born 2 year-old daughter Anne noticed a bent over sign that read Gioviano and on a whim decided to see what lay at the end of the road. After 28 hair-pin turns up the side of a mountain on the flanks of the Apuanian Alps overlooking the Serchio Valley some 20 miles north of the city of Lucca the Russell family arrived at one of the most charming and unspoiled villages left in Italy. That little adventure would change their lives forever and perhaps even the lives and future of the little hilltown itself. FROM MY TUSCAN WINDOW chronicles the experiences of the Russell family over the course of 37 years in the little Tuscan hilltown of Gioviano.