The island of Burano is a simple fishing village, true haven of tranquility, though the olden days of ladies making lace on the doorsteps of their brightly colored houses, artists on the quay and no hustlers is all but history.
These days, not many old ladies make lace on their doorsteps.
Long after, when Nixon was blasted as an anti-Semite, my father told in print and in person of the Nixon he  kind; concerned about all on his staff, regardless of ethnicity; pro-Israel; pro-Jewish in every important cause.