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 Chao and +Carol Reichert Waters in the 2nd row. Many others you might know,+ Rita Stevens Hodi, +Gertrude Rogers Wakeman +Richard Rotelli, +Olga Zaffino Bartels 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.