Bold as Brass

Bold As Brass Is A Collection Of Twenty-Four Stories Set In Waterbury Connecticut Once Brass Capital Of The World. All The Stories Are Works Of Fiction. They Are The Author'S Look Into Long-Ago Lives Both Of Her Irish Catholic Family And Of Imagined Characters Who Might Have Joined Them In Their Daily Goings On In A Period Of Time That Stretches From The Thirties Through The Fifties. Whether The Characters Are Swimming At Scovill'S Dam On A Hot Summer Day And Wondering What Is Beneath That Water Or Telling Stories Around The Kitchen Table On A Rainy Afternoon Making A Pilgrimage To Saint Anne De Beaupre In Canada To Request A Baby Or Bearing Gifts To A Birthday Celebration With Mixed Results Their Stories Are Presented In A Way That Shows How Insightful Commonplace Occurrences Can Prove To Be.Bold As Brass Is The Authors Second Book Deliciously Anecdotal And A True Companion To Her First Book The View From Cracker Hill A Memoir Of 1950S Waterbury. These Are Stories Of Working-Class People Of Whom Betty Notes In Saturday Night Swells The Idea That Ordinary People Can Have Extraordinary Moments Is A Wonderful Discovery. The Author Says I Echo Betty'S Sentiment And I Am Delighted To Share These Stories.