"Growing Up Italian in the 50's: or How Most of Us Became Good Wise Guys a Growing Up Memories Book" by Tom DePaoli
Whether you’re Greek, Irish, Russian or Cuban, chances are your family has deep pride in your ancestry. Tom DePaoli shares not only his pride in being Italian, but also his childhood in a small Pennsylvanian town in his memoir, “Growing Up Italian in the 50’s: or How Most of Us Became Good Wise Guys a Growing Up Memories Book” (ISBN 1467992364).
While children today are surrounded by video games, iPods and personal computers, DePaoli believes that his childhood in the 1950s was much better than those today. He demonstrates how he and his neighborhood friends didn’t rely on modern-day conveniences to entertain themselves. Rather, they escaped to nearby woods and participated in little league baseball and sandlot football.
DePaoli shares his memories so that more recent generations can realize how that time period really followed “the good old days” description. He also highlights the importance of family, as most of his memories involve his large, loving Italian family.
“I primarily wrote this book to capture the experiences of growing up, and the 1950s seemed to be much better for children,” DePaoli shares. “Not everyone turned out the better from this, but most of us did.”
“Growing Up Italian in the 50s” will instill a sense of nostalgia in baby boomers while showing younger generations what life was like for their parents and grandparents.
“Growing Up Italian in the 50’s: or How Most of Us Became Good Wise Guys a Growing Up Memories Book” is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author: Tom DePaoli was raised in the small town of Royersford, Pa., where he was surrounded by a large Italian family. He went to the Sacred Heart Grade School, and became involved with many neighborhood sports, including baseball and football. He had a very normal childhood experience, playing with local friends daily, exploring nearby woods and holding the title of classroom mischief maker. Some of his greatest accomplishments include batting .333 in little league, getting a perfect score on all of his final exams in third grade, lighting his grandpa’s pipe the most out of all the grandkids and setting a family record of being confined to his room by his parents for two weeks. DePaoli later received four university degrees, including his Ph.D., and retired as a captain in the Navy Reserve. He currently teaches at Marian University in Fond du Lac, Wis.
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