Growing up in New York's Italian South Village
This evocative memoir captures life in the South Village during the 1950's when this vibrant neighborhood was filled with close-knit Italian families. Tony Vivolo describes growing up on Sullivan Street: a world of stickball games and going to school at Saint Anthony's; generations of families living together; dinners or ravioli and lasagna, with baked calamari on Christmas Eve; grandparents speaking Italian dialects; wooden casks of vino rosso secreted in the tenement cellars; pushcarts lining the streets; gardens of tomatoes and basil growing on fire escapes. Growing Up in New York's Italian South Village vividly recalls a remarkable time and place.