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Just my world of dreams, music and thoughts. Author of two books, one a novel of Love stories set in Framingham, Mass, Secrets of the Heart the 2nd book an autobiography of growing up in Framingham, Mass. Small Town America, Framingham My generation was the first teenage generation, that was when the word was coined. Ours was the generation that started cruising through town and to the drive in theater and drive in restaurant. In our area, Ernie Kampersal,from Holliston, drove his bucking car through town, picking up girls. It rose in the air, like a stallion! We went to the soda shops and played the juke boxes. It was a different town, a different time, and it belonged to us!

Monday, December 17, 2012



 SMALL TOWN AMERICA, FRAMINGHAM
 Can you find your grandparents in this picture below, I see Richard Belli and Fred Ablondi in the front row. Arlene Scansaroli and Carol Reichert in the 2nd row. Many others you might know, Rita Stevens, Gertrude Rogers, Richard Rotelli, etc...

From Kirkus Reviews...
"A first generation Italian-American born in the midst of the Great Depression, shares her real life childhood experiences during World War 2.  In this conversational recollection of her rural Massachusetts upbringing, Fafard, (Secrets of the Heart,2010) writes a paean to."The Greatest Generation."


Sixth Grade, Memorial School on Hollis Street, just after the end of the war.
 
Donald Duck was born in 1934 and Disney paved the way to a magical world that helped keep us all from the moment to moment  horrors of what was happening on distant shores.  We were so lucky to grow up in small town America.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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