Greenwich Village Vignettes

Greenwich Village Vignettes is a collection of short stories or vignettes chronicling a boy's coming of age during the time period after the Second World War to the close of the tumultuous and life-changing decade of the 1960's. The area was always known for its artists bohemians and intellectuals. My world consisted of an Italian-American ghetto with all the hopes pitfalls and myriad characters such an environment produced. Pictures emerge that are happy sad funny poignant and tragic. Pictures of life that are an homage to the Greenwich Village I knew and grew up in and to those who passed through there with me. These recollections are based upon factual events. To a limited degree sequences have been rearranged or juxtaposed to fit the story line. Ultimately it is a memoir and not a document of history. Any failure to be exact is due to the many years that separate me from their occurrence. It is what I remember and relying upon that in itself exposes its fallibility.