This collection of 65 casual essays includes 
these titles of interest to Italian Americans: 

Kids' Christmas
Great-gramps was a 'Pumking'
After the Titanic
Strangers in old photographs
 
Buccino’s essays are written from the heart and the hearth 
about family and the world. The sixty-five casual essays 
represent his best recent work. 

This showcase recalls New Jersey then and now from the 
western mountains outside Blairstown to the Hudson River 
shoreline at Wall Street West, and, of course, northeastern 
Essex County. Readers from Ashtabula, Ohio, and other 
points outside the Garden State will identify with many of 
life’s encounters described here.

Readers familiar with Buccino’s earlier writing tone will 
chuckle and groan through many of the author’s observations 
about family, house work, high school, and those dog days. 
New readers will feel like they are catching up with an old 
friend, and will want to take him to Starbucks for an afternoon 
of story swapping. 

Among the uncirculated essays here are Buccino’s fresh view 
of the New Jersey Turnpike, Garden State Parkway tolls, the 
Hudson River, Jersey City’s flats and the vanished Newark 
City Subway. 

Most of these essays appeared as the author´s Rambling 
Round columns in Worrall Community Newspapers including 
the Independent Press of Bloomfield, the Glen Ridge Paper, 
the Nutley Journal and the Belleville Post.