3.18.2013

Saving washers

Stored in My Memory Bank: The Pink Pig, Dad’s Silver 'Washers'

Dad was a carpenter, and each week he gave me the washers from his pay envelope. I’d plunk them onto my piggy bank. Yeah, that’s right, washers as in nuts, bolts and washers. He told me washers weren’t money and I couldn’t spend them on candy or toys. When we filled the pink pig, we brought them to the big, boring stone bank. They said when I turned 16, I could take the money out.
Continue reading

2.15.2013

Channeling Dad

During one Super Bowl, I spent the evening changing the door knobs on all the doors in our old house. “That,” my daughter has said for 25 years, “is why none of them close.”

 Who needs football to prove manliness? Men build stuff, use saws, hammers, nails, screwdrivers and pound nails. Me, I don’t use those electrical gadgets you find in the box stores these days. I use the hand-tools Dad left behind 33 years ago. The ones with his initials burned into the handles. He was a carpenter, and had a lot more practice, but I can still hit my left thumb pretty good....

Continue reading

1.01.2013

Reunions, Ghosts Holy and Unholy

Saturday night I stood in my fourth-grade classroom for the first time in 48 years. A young girl conducted an alumni tour. I said, out loud, unfiltered, "I was sitting here when they told us Kennedy was shot." 

The pubescent guide continued to explain how the room is used today, but I was years away. By the time my mind was in sync with her, we were down a level and outside the dreaded principal's office. I shivered waiting for that bowling ball in flowing black robes to rumble into the corridor.

I never had much love for school. I was ready to drop out in second grade but somehow hung so I'd enjoy going to high school class reunions. I've been to four, including the 25th and the 40th.

Continue reading

11.19.2012

Uncle Tonoose - Posting since June 2005

If you've got the time, we've got the archives.


Here you'll find an eclectic mix of snark, maudlin, straightforward prose and some verse, along with some photographs you'll wish you took.

Enjoy yourself.

-- Anthony

8.31.2012

On the Civil War

Anthony Buccino to speak to Belleville Historical Society 
on three Belleville casualties in the Civil War

Who:    Local historian and author Anthony Buccino                    
What:   Will speak on the 150th anniversary of the Civil war focusing on the three men
from Belleville who died in that war.
Where: Belleville Public Library & Information Center, 221 Washington Avenue, Belleville, New Jersey
              (973) 450-3434
When:  6 P.M., Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012

Buccino is the author Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War – A Brief History.

7.21.2012

Zamboni moves towards 11th birthday

Waiting for cake on his 10th birthday!
How many dogs besides Zamboniour chocolate Labrador retriever, have their own web pages? 


He may have slowed down for the most part, but his heart is as full of love as ever. He even wants to be friends with cats!


But he's sweet and he's smart and there will never be another Zamboni. 


Happy 10th birthday, chooch, and many more.

6.05.2012

Free Jersey City Snapshots for your Kindle today

Get out your Kindle (Fire) and check out Jersey City Snapshots. A new book by Anthony Buccino. Download it free today on Kindle.



More than 200 color snapshots of Jersey City, New Jersey, from Pavonia/Newport to Paulus Hook, from Grundy Park to Grove Street, along the Hudson River from the Colgate clock to Exchange Place, Harborside and through neighborhoods that have no names.

Color photos are ideal for viewing on Kindle Fire, and bring you up close to New Jersey's second-largest city, its building boom and its broken ground.

Writer/photographer Anthony Buccino, who worked and walked these streets for nearly ten years, leaves words behind and speaks through the camera lens and we see the commonplace wildlife, the glimmering structures and the grandeur of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center and the memorials erected in Jersey City.

This collection is ideal for fans of Jersey City, and folks who've always wanted to visit.


Don't forget to add your comments to the Amazon listing after you've devoured these photos!


Don't have a Kindle eReader? Simply download a free version to your PC or smartphone.

6.01.2012

Relief at the gas pump?

Don't worry, it's only temporary.

We thought this was a mirage at Delta, but the price was correct.

The reality of  the gas pump - NJ prices on Memorial
Day.

Remember the good old days when a gallon of gasoline cost  about a quarter?

Would you be in favor of seeing how much of your gasoline cost goes to state and federal taxes?

Where your gasoline tax dollar goes.
Hidden taxes you and I pay

Copyright © 2012 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved. Content may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission.

5.18.2012

Free Jersey City Snapshots for your Kindle today

Get out your Kindle (Fire) and check out Jersey City Snapshots. A new book by Anthony Buccino. Download it free today on Kindle.



More than 200 color snapshots of Jersey City, New Jersey, from Pavonia/Newport to Paulus Hook, from Grundy Park to Grove Street, along the Hudson River from the Colgate clock to Exchange Place, Harborside and through neighborhoods that have no names.

Color photos are ideal for viewing on Kindle Fire, and bring you up close to New Jersey's second-largest city, its building boom and its broken ground.

Writer/photographer Anthony Buccino, who worked and walked these streets for nearly ten years, leaves words behind and speaks through the camera lens and we see the commonplace wildlife, the glimmering structures and the grandeur of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center and the memorials erected in Jersey City.

This collection is ideal for fans of Jersey City, and folks who've always wanted to visit.


Don't forget to add your comments to the Amazon listing after you've devoured these photos!


Don't have a Kindle eReader? Simply download a free version to your PC or smartphone.

5.14.2012

Buccino blog wins Journalism Award

Congratulations!
Your work has earned you a prize in the 2011 Society of Professional Journalists – New Jersey Excellence in Journalism Awards contest. Your entry ‘Don the TV Man’ won 2nd Place in the Media-Affiliated Blog category.
The entry by Anthony Buccino first appeared on Belleville Patch as Don the TV Man .... in Old Belleville on June 27, 2011.

The memory of growing up in the 1960s is in the newly published collection Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey, collected writings by Anthony Buccino.