ASIN: B009CZM3PY
Publisher: Stone Pine Books, Patri Publications
Pages: 167
Were the author's early years in Albany, NY idyllic? No, but they came close, Viglucci suggests, until his 16th year when his 48-year-old father died in his arms as an older brother, Mike, comforted his mother and another, Andy, held down the family shop, The State News.This, however, is not a book about family tragedy; in fact, humor peppers the pages as the retired newspaper editor and publisher recounts the exploits of his ten-year-old buddies and himself, denizens of Van Woert St. in North Albany during the Forties. There are the ubiquitous sandlot baseball games, rowboat trips down the Hudson River, visits to the Paramount and Palace to see westerns and gangster movies, even to the city dump to try to outwit the rats.There is also mention of the Irish and Italian connection with the challenging union of his mother, Helen (Nell)Fitzgerald with his father, Carmen A. (Jinx) Viglucci. ...
