Nettie

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt>In September of 1989 Peter M. Franzese chose to write the life story of his Brooklyn Nana Nettie Boniface for a sixth grade English class assignment. While he sat with a spiral notebook and pen in hand over the course of a month Nana reflected on and shared the events that shaped the woman she was.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Born at the onset of World War I she told him the stories of her life during both world wars and the Great Depression leading right up to the end of the 1980s.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Over a pot of tomato sauce simmering on the stove Nana a </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags /><st1:place><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt>Brooklyn</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt> born daughter of Italian immigrants shared the joys and sorrows of her life and her Italian American family during the twentieth century in the Greenpoint-Williamsburg section of </SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt>Brooklyn</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt> </SPAN><st1:State><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt>New York</SPAN></st1:State></st1:place><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt>.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Fifteen years later through vivid storytelling of his own Peter M. Franzese brings us for a visit to the kitchen of his Nana's </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt>Brooklyn</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt> railroad flat where the aromas of the delectable meals that wafted into her hallway were as captivating as the tales she told.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /></SPAN></P>