On January 26, 1999 Frank Masella in an email to Louis Gagliano wrote:
Memories of being brought in Brooklyn..... w/ grandma and grandpa!
Since we all lived in the same building, 57 Raplye St. Brooklyn New York, I can't help but remember those Good Old Days!!!
Making the family wine in the cellar.... the by everyone famous family dinners.
One of the memories that stick out the most in my mind is with cousin Johny who lived on the bottom floor by the yard. I remember both of us down by the chicken coop digging holes in the ground with the hopes that if grandpa would come chasing us again he'd trip into one of our holes and.... break a leg!!! (Sorry grandpa!!!) But if unfortunate us were to ever be caught!!!! He'd beat the living lights out of us!!!!
They are still wonderful times to remember....
In talking with Victor about this he also has basically the same memory except that with grandpa would have two people pick him up by the arms and then he'd slap him across the face!!!! Oooohhh, those good old days!!!!
If you want to hear funny stories you REALLY have to talk to Victor as I did.
What a great time... for growing up.
I'm trying to get more stories for my mom and dad... lets say more and happier stories.
Another memory that sticks out in my mind is about your dad and him taking my dad, my brother and myself for a short fishing trip. My brother and I fighting over the head about who was going to get sick first.... which we still kid about.
I leave you with this and hope you can find some way to maybe share these stories with the rest of the clan. I look forward to hearing these same types of stories form everyone else as well. Maybe you could make and adjacent page to the tree to include all the annecdotes....
I'm being explained that it might seem that perhaps no one else is going to remember my fathers and fellow friends and cousins beatings!!! but never-the-less I'd like to hear their own memories....
