What is the name of the Italian lake with the town of Stresa on it's shores?
Stresa and Geneva. Stresa Stresa is a town and "comune" of about 5,000 residents on the shores of Lake Maggiore in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, about northwest of Milan. It is situated on road and rail routes to the Simplon Pass. The name of this town first appeared in documents in AD 998. In the 15th century it grew into a fishing community and owed feudal allegiance to the Visconti family. It subsequently came under the control of the Borromeo family. In 1948 American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway visited the town. He had
By the Shores of Silver Lake By the Shores of Silver Lake By the Shores of Silver Lake is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1939, the fifth of nine books in her Little House series. It spans just over one year, beginning when she is 12 years old and her family moves from Plum Creek, Minnesota to what will become De Smet, South Dakota. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1940, as were the fourth through eighth books in the series. Though Wilder began writing the books as autobiographical recollections, they are considered historical fiction. The novel