Sherman Lee Goon
of Belleville, 55
Sherman Lee Goon, 55, a lifelong resident of Belleville, died Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008.
Services will be in the Irvine-Cozzarelli Memorial Home, P.A., 276 Washington Ave., Belleville (973-759-1114) on Wed., Dec. 24, at 10 a.m, followed by interment in Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Complimentary valet parking is available. Sherman was born in New York City, and became a lifelong resident of Belleville.
He graduated from Belleville High School. He was employed by Northeast Automotive, Belleville, as a parts salesman. Prior to that, he was employed by the Belleville American Gas Station as a mechanic.
He was the loving son of Yuen Yung Goon and the late Tom Hop Goon; cherished brother of Lily Zuccarelli, Lauman, Betty, Ruth, and the late Julie Collett; dear brother-in-law of Edward and Jamie; treasured uncle of Danielle, Steven, and Shannon.
Star-Ledger
12/22/08
12/21/08
Belleville Sons Honor Roll
Belleville Sons Honor Roll, second edition
is now available in print or as a download.
Biographies of the men of Belleville, N.J., who died while in service. Remembering the men who paid for our freedom. These Belleville sons proved that freedom is not free. These sons, brothers, fathers, friends and uncles walked, played, worked and died for our little township. In the last century, 156 Belleville sons died while in service to their country.
The 174-page second edition updates information from the 106-page original printing, including more information on Belleville actions in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and peacetime casualties.
Hero Way and Hamilton Street
Sgt. William Hamilton was killed in action in Germany on April 2, 1945. He served with the 7th Army. Hamilton grew up in Newark but lived on Arthur Street for years before he entered the service in 1942.
His nephew and namesake was our classmate.
is now available in print or as a download.
Biographies of the men of Belleville, N.J., who died while in service. Remembering the men who paid for our freedom. These Belleville sons proved that freedom is not free. These sons, brothers, fathers, friends and uncles walked, played, worked and died for our little township. In the last century, 156 Belleville sons died while in service to their country.
The 174-page second edition updates information from the 106-page original printing, including more information on Belleville actions in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and peacetime casualties.
Hero Way and Hamilton Street
Sgt. William Hamilton was killed in action in Germany on April 2, 1945. He served with the 7th Army. Hamilton grew up in Newark but lived on Arthur Street for years before he entered the service in 1942.
His nephew and namesake was our classmate.
8/18/08
Italian Americans of Newark, Belleville and Nutley
Book Signing and Lecture
"Italian Americans of Newark, Belleville and Nutley"
by Sandra S. Lee
Monday, August 18, 2008, at 6:30pm
Belleville Public Library and Information Center
221 Washington Avenue
Belleville, NJ 07109-3189
Tel: (973) 450-3434
Fax: (973) 759-6731
"Italian Americans of Newark, Belleville and Nutley"
by Sandra S. Lee
Monday, August 18, 2008, at 6:30pm
Belleville Public Library and Information Center
221 Washington Avenue
Belleville, NJ 07109-3189
Tel: (973) 450-3434
Fax: (973) 759-6731
8/5/08
Voices On The Bus - commuting in NJ
Voices on the Bus is now available for preview and purchase.
Commuting daily on the bus, train, subway or PATH, one settles into a routine of familiar seating and faces. You can stare out the window listening to your own music, or read a book, or write poems about the experience. This is the latter.
Working class verse and tales, musings and random observations about commuting in Northern New Jersey.
Check out ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY
Copyright © 2008 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved. Content may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission.
Three collections of essays by Anthony Buccino are now available on Kindle.
A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection;
Sister Dressed Me Funny;
Rambling Round, Inside and Outside at the Same Time
Carnival
Commuting daily on the bus, train, subway or PATH, one settles into a routine of familiar seating and faces. You can stare out the window listening to your own music, or read a book, or write poems about the experience. This is the latter.
Working class verse and tales, musings and random observations about commuting in Northern New Jersey.
Check out ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY
Copyright © 2008 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved. Content may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission.
Three collections of essays by Anthony Buccino are now available on Kindle.
A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection;
Sister Dressed Me Funny;
Rambling Round, Inside and Outside at the Same Time
Carnival
5/22/08
Brookdale Soda ... remember?
"I never drank milk except in coffee when I was a kid. That was back in the days when milkmen made house calls...
"When I was a kid, I called the fruit punch flavor 'blood' and the cherry pit flavor tickled and chilled my chest after a hard day of play...."
Continue reading
Brookdale Soda Blog
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2/27/08
Yellow Crackers and the School Cafeteria
"As one who brown bagged it 99 percent of the time, I often pitied the bus kids who had to buy the hot lunch in the school cafeteria. Theirs was an endless stream of mystery meat in brown gravy with vegetables no one could identify. Plus Jell-o, of course. Surely, at that price, it was a bargain, but what it was, was anybody's guess.
"School cafeterias always had the greatest food accessories. My favorite cafeteria snacks were the yellow crackers with the peanut butter filling. In the old days, a school cafeteria was the only place you could buy those six-pack crackers. For variety, they had orange crackers with yellow filling. These treats were held together with preservatives and red dye number three."
Yellow crackers
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"School cafeterias always had the greatest food accessories. My favorite cafeteria snacks were the yellow crackers with the peanut butter filling. In the old days, a school cafeteria was the only place you could buy those six-pack crackers. For variety, they had orange crackers with yellow filling. These treats were held together with preservatives and red dye number three."
Yellow crackers
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2/21/08
Fwd: Who's the mystery signer of your guestbook, Anthony
I really don't believe anybody I know would sign my Classmates page. It's much easier to simply Google me, no?
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Delicious ideas to please the pickiest eaters. Watch the video on AOL Living.
1/8/08
Miss Battleaxe
WARNING, THE FOLLOWING
MAY SEND CHILLS DOWN YOUR SPINE ...
AND ELSEWHERE.
READ AT YOUR OWN RISK
**************************
Miss Battlexe
a memoir by Anthony Buccino
Miss Battleaxe had a pointy face like a battle axe and a nose carved from a granite promontory. Her beady dark eyes pierced through books and walls and little boys pointless shields and left a cold iceness on every smartass kid.
She taught us history for the 7th and 8th grades. We figured she was there with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, and she proofread the Monroe Doctrine.
In seventh grade I lost the draw and got her for Social Studies. That's a fancy name for history. There wasn't much social about it. She never let us talk to each other. She ruled with an iron look.
Our class was in the corner of the second floor, opposite the auditorium, down the hall from the band rooms, and next to one of the main staircases.
That classroom, the one with the unfinished portrait of George Washington hung among the spitballs stuck on the wall above the black board, was one flight up from the office.
Just one floor below her room the office buzzed with administrators administrating, secretaries filing and answering ringing bells, "Hello, Belleville Junior High School. To whom may I direct your call?"
Through a half-door, hidden behind a built-in shelf of cubby-hole mailboxes, and a counter, the door at the right led to the guidance counselors counseling guidance and placing more poor unfortunates like myself into the quiet crowded classrooms of Miss Battleaxe.
She wore her long dark hair twirled into a flume styled in the day like a beehive. The hair was pulled taut with the force of so much dried Aqua Net hair spray that it pulled every wrinkle out of her face, even the wrinkles that were supposed to be there. Her face distorted her eerie half-smile on the rare occasion when she had one - usually from putting a lowly seventh grader into his place - into an evil sneer like the one behind the Phantom of the Opera on the Million Dollar Movie. It was certainly enough to creep out most kids. Even the good kids who didn't have the brains to think of something evil to do were freaked out by the lineless face and the axe blade-like nose...
Read more ...
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MAY SEND CHILLS DOWN YOUR SPINE ...
AND ELSEWHERE.
READ AT YOUR OWN RISK
**************************
Miss Battlexe
a memoir by Anthony Buccino
Miss Battleaxe had a pointy face like a battle axe and a nose carved from a granite promontory. Her beady dark eyes pierced through books and walls and little boys pointless shields and left a cold iceness on every smartass kid.
She taught us history for the 7th and 8th grades. We figured she was there with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, and she proofread the Monroe Doctrine.
In seventh grade I lost the draw and got her for Social Studies. That's a fancy name for history. There wasn't much social about it. She never let us talk to each other. She ruled with an iron look.
Our class was in the corner of the second floor, opposite the auditorium, down the hall from the band rooms, and next to one of the main staircases.
That classroom, the one with the unfinished portrait of George Washington hung among the spitballs stuck on the wall above the black board, was one flight up from the office.
Just one floor below her room the office buzzed with administrators administrating, secretaries filing and answering ringing bells, "Hello, Belleville Junior High School. To whom may I direct your call?"
Through a half-door, hidden behind a built-in shelf of cubby-hole mailboxes, and a counter, the door at the right led to the guidance counselors counseling guidance and placing more poor unfortunates like myself into the quiet crowded classrooms of Miss Battleaxe.
She wore her long dark hair twirled into a flume styled in the day like a beehive. The hair was pulled taut with the force of so much dried Aqua Net hair spray that it pulled every wrinkle out of her face, even the wrinkles that were supposed to be there. Her face distorted her eerie half-smile on the rare occasion when she had one - usually from putting a lowly seventh grader into his place - into an evil sneer like the one behind the Phantom of the Opera on the Million Dollar Movie. It was certainly enough to creep out most kids. Even the good kids who didn't have the brains to think of something evil to do were freaked out by the lineless face and the axe blade-like nose...
Read more ...
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12/23/07
Jan's Pics - One
Photos courtesy of Jan Bonkowski Votaw, used with permission.
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Jan's Pics - 2
Donna, Jerry, Rosanne and Jan
Jan and Sherman (who does not have a computer!)
Sherman, Janet & George
George & Jan
Janet & Sherman
Photos courtesy of Jan Bonkowski Votaw
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Jan's Pics - 3
Jan wins the table prize!
Jacquie & Lou
Ron, who thought to bring his 72 Monad!
Mike & Lou
Photos courtesy of Jan Bonkowski Votaw
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12/17/07
Retro Food
Those were the days, my friend. Those were the days.
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12/14/07
Did Dan Graduate With Us?
Met my old lover in a grocery store
The snow was falling Christmas Eve
Stole behind her in the frozen foods
and I touched her on the sleeve
She didn't recognize the face at first
but then her eyes flew open wide
Tried to hug me and she spilled her purse
and we laughed until we cried
Took her groceries to the checkout stand
The food was totaled up and bagged
stood there lost in our embarrassment
as the conversation dragged
Went to have ourselves a drink or two
but couldn't find an open bar
Bought a six-pack at the liquor store
and we drank it in her car
We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now
Tried to reach beyond the emptiness
but neither one knew how
She said she'd married her an architect
Kept her warm and safe and dry
She said she'd like to say she loved the man
but she didn't like to lie
I said the years had been a friend to her
and that her eyes were still as blue
But in those eyes I wasn't sure if
I saw doubt or gratitude
She said she saw me in the record store
and that I must be doing well
I said the audience was heavenly
but the traveling was hell
We drank a toast to innocence we drank a toast to time
We're living in our eloquence, another old lang syne
The beers were empty and our tongues grew tired
and running out of things to say
She gave a kiss to me as I got out
and I watched her drive away
Just for a moment I was back in school
And felt that old familiar pain
And as I turned to make my way back home
the snow turned into rain
Dan Fogelberg: Same Auld Lang Syne
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Edited: 12/17/07
For Your Amusement
At the end of November, my plain, normal, ordinary English teaching wife went mad.
She whistled tunes about a fat guy, deer that stand in the rain and told me not to be naughty because I was being watched.
She cluttered the breakfast table with holly until I could not find my cereal bowl.
Eggnog filled each and every shelf in the refrigerator and all my root beer had been banished to the pantry. I awakened to smell the chestnuts.
It was too late to change her or find a cure, I married a Christmas Nut!
Continue reading Married to a Christmas Nut
... for a limited time
12/6/07
Linda's Photos!
Photos courtesy of Linda Costanza:
Photos courtesy of Linda Costanza, used by permission.
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Photos courtesy of Linda Costanza, used by permission.
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More Linda Photos
Photos courtesy of Linda Costanza:
Photos courtesy of Linda Costanza, used by permission.
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Photos courtesy of Linda Costanza, used by permission.
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11/25/07
More Photos?
If you've got them, email them and we'll post them with credit.
Also, if you can ID the people in these photos, email us the photo and caption or add the names in the comments section.
By the way, you can click on most images and it will open in a new window in a larger format.
Questions, comments welcome.
Thanks.
Anthony Buccino
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Also, if you can ID the people in these photos, email us the photo and caption or add the names in the comments section.
By the way, you can click on most images and it will open in a new window in a larger format.
Questions, comments welcome.
Thanks.
Anthony Buccino
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Random Photos
Debbie & Mary Ellen
Steve and George (or is it Lloyd, here? )
Jerry Price
Roseanne Tanzola
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Table Shots
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Dancing Along Memory Lane
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