Belleville, NJ, Books
By Anthony Buccino
Six books about life and history in Belleville, N.J.
Belleville, NJ-born and raised author Anthony Buccino's stories of the 1960s, transit coverage and other writings earned four Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism awards.
He
published five essay collections, three
military history books and four photo colections.
The
writer, editor, and photographer writes with clarity and
humor in his verse and columns about growing up in the second half
of the Twentieth Century. He has been called “New Jersey’s ‘Garrison Keillor’
” or something to that effect,’ when that was a good thing to be
called.
Buccino edited business news for 12 years at Dow
Jones & Co. and The Wall
Street Journal professional web pages. He worked for several
years as an
associate editor at TheStreet.com.
He has written in online
publications about life and growing up in northern New Jersey. For five years he wrote about
commuting and transit in
metro New York-New Jersey. 
Greetings from Belleville, New Jersey, Collected writings
You don't have to be from Belleville, New Jersey, to enjoy this book! You'll just wish you were.
Anthony Buccino created a time
machine through words and stories of growing up the 1950s, 1960s
and beyond based on life and growing up
in Belleville, New Jersey.
You don't have to be from New Jersey to enjoy this book, you just need an inclination to remember when chasing the mosquito man and his big blue DDT cloud was a great thrill for kids on their bikes or running in their Keds!
And who can forget the excitement on hearing the bells of the approaching ice cream truck to the neighborhood?
If you remember defrosting refrigerators or the simpler things of times past, you'll enjoy Buccino's essay collection.
More than forty essays and reflections on everything from junior high school bullies to selling pretzels for Ed Strat at Belleville High School football games at Municipal Stadium. This collection includes the Excellence in Journalism award-winning Don the TV man.
Essays More
Belleville Sons Honor Roll -
Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom
In the last century,
Belleville lost 160 sons while in service to our country. This
collection, gathered from newspaper clippings and other sources
collects what we know about these young men in an effort that their
sacrifice not be forgotten.
The first edition of this book resulted in several town streets being named for our local heroes and the names of the fallen being etched into the war memorial on Union Avenue.
The latest edition includes additional information on Belleville in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WWI, WW II, Korea, Vietnam and peacetime casualties.
UPDATED September 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1470036515 242 Pages
Military history, biography More aboug this book
Belleville and Nutley in the
Civil War
A compilation of information documenting participation of New Jersey towns of Belleville and Nutley in the American Civil War.
Includes information on six local soldiers killed in action in the War Between the States, plus information on the battle campaigns in which they gave up their lives.
Also lists information on local participation in various New Jersey and other state militias.
Military history, biography, New Jersey
A Father's Place - An Eclectic
Collection
Here, Buccino writes
about family life, the father-son-dilemma, family day trips, encouraging his
newborn daughter to elope by painting lilies of the valley on the ladder,
Brookdale Soda, too much coffee, pets Libby the black Labrador Retriever and
Murphy the rabbit, friendships and much more!
Second edition includes restored Uncle Floyd Vivino reviews deleted from first edition.
Essays More about this book
"I wasn’t more than five years old the night my father grabbed me with his vise-like hands on his jackhammer arms and swung me over the banister of our second story back porch. Swinging me side to side twenty feet in the air above the concrete sidewalk, Dad and I were having fun. I was safe, safe from the world in his strong hands...."
-- A Father's Place
See also Thomas Francisco
Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at
the Same Time
Anchored in New Jersey, Anthony
Buccino pays tribute to the unique Garden State Parkway toll road, but you don't
have to be from New Jersey to enjoy this collection. In fact, by now the rest of
the country should be ready for Buccino and RAMBLING ROUND Inside and
Outside at the Same Time.
This collection represents the best of Buccino's humor and homage to living life every day with tongue firmly in cheek while hoping for something funny to happen.
On the occasion that he writes seriously, they are bound to give you a nice warm feeling. Buccino's essays are written from the heart and the hearth about family and surroundings.
Essays
Sister Dressed Me Funny
Sister Dressed Me Funny
adventures
close to the edge through humility and humor with these chronicles of catholic school
nuns, Cub Scout contests, Grandma's house in the country, junior high school bus antics
and more.
Tales about, of all things, a naked statue and the catholic school tie, Italian American family roots and that dress his sister made him wear.
Buccino's essays recounting childhood the 1950s and 1960s in Belleville, N.J., cut close to the edge of humor, humiliation and heartbreak chronicling education by the strictest nuns in the world at a school where the statues of saints were said to dance the Twist if you prayed real hard.
A wistful reminiscence of life on the farm with chicken coops and too many cats in what is now at the very least suburbia; being the butt of the Cub Scout skit gone wrong in front of the entire pack, and, of course, that dress his sister made him wear.
Essays
See also Thomas Francisco
More books with ties to Belleville, New Jersey
Bad News on the Doorstep: inspired by a true story by Joseph Rocco Cervasio
Banned in the Bronx: The Yankee Hater Memoirs 1953-2005 by Gene Hutmaker, Michael A. Hutmaker
WW2 Letters Home From The South Pacific by Angelo Buccino
A Problem in Doodleland by Kathleen Muraca
Doona and Friends by Joanne Fischer Schroeder and Bob Fischer
Images of America - Belleville, N.J. by Nicole Canfora
Italian Americans of Newark, Belleville, and Nutley (Images of America)
Images of America - Branch Brook Park
Clara Maass; a nurse, a hospital, a spirit by John T. Cunningham
No greater love: The gripping story of Nurse Clara Maass by Mildred Tengbom
The Rescue of Miss Yaskell and Other Pipe Dreams by Morley Safer and Russell Baker
Anthony Buccino
Essays, photography, military history, more
New Jersey author Anthony Buccino's stories of the 1960s, transit coverage and other writings earned four Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism awards.
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Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here, Anymore and other essays
Yountakah Country, a Poetic View of Nutley Old and New
CANNED booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, ... terminated, sacked, unemployed
Voices on the Bus, Train, Subway, and in My Head
Photo Collections
NEW YORK CITY SNAPSHOTS
In Plain View
Photography by Anthony Buccino
WW2 Letters Home
from the South Pacific
by Angelo Buccino
Nutley NJ books by Anthony Buccino
