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Three Pipers, 1997 I was born in South Brooklyn in 1947. As a teenager I did not experience the Italian - Irish conflict that my parents, children of Italian immigrants, did. The fighting between Irish-American and Italian-American teen gangs had basically stopped. (Sadly, newer common enemies were found.) Locals continued to tag walls and store gates with graffiti featuring ethnic [...]
Barbara, Joan, Pat and someone at Rockaway Beach 1956 (photo by Robert A. Pryor) On a muggy summer morning in 1961, with my parents still asleep, I crept into the kitchen and turned on the oven. I was seven years old. I closed the living room window to let the heat build in the apartment. After it did, I turned [...]
