![]() ![]() ![]() Italians thrive on local markets and cultivate every last inch of the land they live on with flowers and vegetables. ![]() In her Italian farmhouse, Mayes says she learned to live by the seasons and with the sun, rather than the clock. The Georgia native has always believed that the sun was her oldest friend. There, she shared stories of eight-hour dinners seated outdoors at long tables under the stars. In mid-August in Raleigh, Mayes appeared before two hundred fans at the Art of Living Well Speaker Series at The Cardinal at North Hills, a senior living community. She and her second husband split their time between Tuscany and Hillsborough, where they’ve lived for the past ten years on a former farm with a thriving vegetable garden, just two miles outside of town. Eleven books later, including The New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun, Mayes continues to call Bramasole-Italian for “it yearns for the sun”-her home away from home. Thirty years ago, Frances Mayes abandoned her life as a university professor and poet in San Francisco and blew her savings on a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the rolling hills of Cortona, Tuscany. ![]()
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