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Extreme heat in Sicily could threaten summer tradition

In Sicily, record-breaking heat threatens a cooling tradition that has been handed down for generations. Every year in late July, a small village hikes to a mountain chasm for snow to make granita.

Joseph Leahy reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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