Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 5/21

Another year has come and gone. I turned 62 today. As Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull would put it: “To old to rock n roll, but too young to die.” I planned to celebrate on the golf course, but rain put a damper on that. When a friend suggested I do something special, I replied there wasn’t anything more special to me than selling copies of my books.
Here are some pictures from my life, starting with the pair who made it all possible for their often ungrateful son – Vittorio and Gaetana Fortezza, may they rest in peace:

Here’s me in action as a proud member of the Lafayette H.S. Redmen, 1966, a team that began a football renaissance at the school:

Here’s one circa 1966. All these baby boomers and, still, there are several missing from the shot. That stone fence still exists. There was a perpetual racket on summer nights back then that is absent these days:

This is my graduation day, 1967, with my buddy Sal, who also lived on Bay 37th:

Here I am with my lifelong friends Jim and Judy on a visit to Florida, circa 1974. Not hard to tell who the Sicilian is:

Jim and Judy are in this one too, along with their kids and our friend Joanne and her kids, and Judy’s dad Gene, circa 1990. Tom, Jo’s husband, took the shot. I’m the white knight all the way right. Note the Towers in the background:

Moving the timeline forward to 2009, here I am at my great nephew Ronnie’s confirmation, along with his sister, Danielle, my godchild:

And here is a recent shot of me running the floating book shop, courtesy of my friends Bags:

Here’s to life – L’chaim!
Visit Vic’s web pages:
Vic’s Third Novel (Print or Kindle): http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic’s Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic’s Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic’s 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic’s 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic’s Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f