homes look more and more like a Toys R Us annex. In the tricycle world, the cream of
the crop are the tricycles made by Italtrike, a company based outside Venice. A simple
tubular steel frame is tricked out with royal blue and black wheels, a robin's-egg-blue
seat, green pedals and a yellow bucket for a trunk, all in cartoonishly curvy plastic forms.
We'll figure out where it's available around town.
Seeds from Italy. U.S. mail order distributor for Franchi Sementi S.p.A of Bergamo,
Italy. They sell more than 300 varieties of traditional Italian vegetable, herb and flower
seeds. They also have a quarterly newsletter featuring recipes that can be prepared
using the fruits of your efforts.
Surf.it. This sites provides you with links to "beach-cams" for the most popular Italian
beaches.
Bonici Brothers. Italy doesn't figure prominently in the Europa section of Worlds of Fun
-- the only feature is Bonici Brothers Pizzeria (www.worldsoffun.org/explore/index.htm).
This franchise concept is owned by Tyson Foods, which describes it as providing "the
look and feel of an authentic pizzeria with old-world charm and family ambiance."
Il Sole 24 Ore. Italy's version of the Wall Street Journal ran an article in 1996 about
Kansas City. Provides some interesting commentary of our city from an Italian
perspective.
Spoils of war. On the walls of the Basilica of Constantine in rome, along the street from
the Colosseum to a main square, hang copper medallions commissioned by Benito
Mussolini. Read how some made their way to Kansas City and then to a farm in
Sheldon, Missouri.
