From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. Wipe the Floor With It! In the tailor shop in Calabria, where my grandfather learned the trade, the Master Tailor was known for having a bad temper. As an apprentice in the shop, Grandpa not only learned…
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From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. The Shoe-Make Nannie’s seven children were all born at home. Six of the children lived well into adulthood, and five lived either just shy of, or well past, their 80th birthdays. The first five children were born…
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From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. Unless you somehow had inside access to this culture, you could never fully know what it meant to live in a twentieth-century, Italian-American home. Many of the people who lived in this world began with almost nothing,…
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From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. If You Want Good Weather… Even though this book is about my extended Italian-American family, I will begin with a story from the Irish side of the family. I am the oldest of two daughters. On the…
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Stand well back. Drum roll, please! Make way for the grand entrance of the magnificent Black Tiger. That’s the Year of the Black Tiger, of course, which bounds into the world on the 1st of February 2022, and swaggers on through until the 21st of January 2023. It’s been 60…
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