I wonder – on Sunday, Feb. 22, I went to church at the 7 a.m. Mass. I saw D.J. Tranchina go into the church. When Mass was over, I know that I was the first one out of church. But I did see D.J. still in church before I left. I made a “bee-line” to …
Do You Believe in Miracles? If you were sitting in a room and a vase would rise up from the table and be suspended in mid-air, would you call that a miracle or an optical illusion? Or if a man falls out of a plane at 20,000 feet hits his head on a cement road …
I had a phone call recently from Mrs. Leo Grizzaffi. Her name was Tina Rousso before she was married. She called to tell me how much she enjoyed my column “Recollection” in The Daily Review. She said she enjoyed the article that I wrote about her daddy’s sister, Mrs. Granada, who used to live in …
What has happened to all the Italian men in Morgan City and Berwick? They are forgetting their heritage and the old customs of their parents. We meet at the coffee shop every afternoon from about 1:30 to 3 or 3:15 p.m. Recently, this Italian man asked me, “What is a biscotti? How do you pronounce …
If a train is going 60 mph, going a distance of 60 miles, and starting at 2 p.m., where will it meet another train going 15 miles an hour starting at 2 p.m.? For an answer – ask Professor Black Blanchard. I was in Richard Loeb’s Dry Good Store one day in the ’50s. Mutt …
Do you remember when Berwick and Morgan City had an abundance of China-ball, pomegranate and persimmon trees? What happened to them? Martel Campus has a China-ball tree in Morgan City – beautiful in the spring with purple blossoms and a delightful smell. The Berwick walking trail presently also has one. Do you remember when there …
I was driving from Franklin to Berwick a while back, and the fog was very thick between Franklin and Patterson. They were also burning the cane fields and that smoke and fog together was absolutely unbearable. You couldn’t see three feet in the front of you. Another place that I saw fog that was thicker …
If you haven’t been to the Berwick Walking Trail lately, try it. There are over 50 different species of trees – oak, maple, pecan, China, white and red mulberry, willow, elm and many others. There are crepe myrtle trees from one end to the other planted next to the trail. Black and tan squirrels are …
After fixing the nose, the doctor performed a skin graft on my Aunt Clesa’s face – like you would not believe. The doctor got all the wrinkles out of Aunt Clesa’s face with that skin graft. What he did was graft on her face the skin from the smoothest part of her body that he …
I met a lady on the Berwick Walking Trail a while back and I asked her why she hadn’t been walking on the trail regularly like she use to. She said that she walks the trail in Morgan City because t have a restroom. I said: “Lady our trail here in Berwick is 1 1/8 …