The ancient memory of Coreno Ausonio

The people of Coreno Ausonio who are a few years older remember a life that is very different from today. This life was linked to a subsistence economy, which was typical of agricultural areas. For example, they tried to use what nature offered to make useful things. Strammi, in the local dialect, are weeds that have the advantage of being very robust. Ropes were made from the strammi and sold at the market. The women got up early in the morning to collect the herbs, then softened and intertwined them. From the smaller weeds they made ropes for daily use, or they were used to stuff the chairs or cover the glass containers to protect them. Strugli was also obtained from the straws, harder parts that bonded together to form racks on which to dry figs or grapes. A plant that offered so many useful things was the oak: not only acorns to give to pigs and wood for heating and cooking, but also cucuri.Cucuri are berries that children used to play marbles, or with which they made rudimentary pipes. .