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Posted in Family, Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery on Feb 11th, 2021
World Politics Hitting Close to Home. PLEASE HELP FREE MY FRIEND AND FORMER COLLEAGUE. Bobo is a friend and fellow employee at the institution I worked at before I got to the U of Rochester. He is one of the kindest, hardest working individuals I have ever known. He came to America after being incarcerated […]
Posted in Environment, Family on Dec 26th, 2020
My father-in-law’s home was, for many many years, heated by coal. (In my own apartment in NYC, we had oil heat, which I contend is no better). The job of the coal delivery driver was not at all fun. He had to muscle and finagle an enormous truck close enough to the house so that […]
Posted in Family on Dec 25th, 2020
My father-in-law;s family emigrated from Poland to end up working in the coal mines of Scranton, PA (really Dickson City). Here is the home he grew up in: Just wanted to share a few things about his life not so long ago. Just northwest of this house up the hill was one of very many […]
Posted in Family on Jun 19th, 2020
My family came to the United States starting 100 years ago from this tiny Adriatic seaside town in southeastern Italy. This photo of Giovinazzo is courtesy of Tripadvisor