Sister Dressed Me Funny by Anthony Buccino

Dressed by Nuns

... The Sisters did not take long to decide that the four boys standing in the hall near the aromatic MaryAnn, had, in some sort of boyish sympathy, soiled their slacks. They must have, the Sisters reasoned, why else would the hall still smell so foul.

In turn, the Sisters asked each boy, standing before God in the sacred hall of this Roman Catholic school, which of them had soiled his pants. Sister knew a boy had done it in sympathy of someone else. ...


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.

Essays recount childhood the 1950s and 1960s and later in Belleville and Nutley, N.J.

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'In catholic school, our seats were used for many things besides sitting. It was in these seats with swivel back rests that fourth grade boys discovered a penny inserted into the swivel 'just so' would bend President Lincoln into a C.

Penny benders got in trouble. When caught, they were warned that if the damage to government property continued, "God, help you, the Federal Bureau of Investigation would come and haul you away and lock you up for defacing government property."

We didn't know what defacing meant but we could picture Eliot Ness and his Untouchables bursting through the front and rear fourth grade doors, Tommy guns flashing and hauling away the bad boys....'

Sister Dressed Me Funny by Anthony Buccino


Table of Contents

Lardier's Fountain

Grandma's House In The Country

Bell The Cat

Cat Lick School Flashback

Dressed By Nuns

Billy Newtner's Bus Rides

The Abie Statement

No Christmas

Job Rock In Prose

No Place To Work

Don't Forget, It's A Birthday Party

Countless and 21

Who Is Brother, Uncle Bim

At Spatola's

Jewels At Thanksgiving

 

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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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Cherry Blossom Press

Nonfiction books by Anthony Buccino

A Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection

Sister Dressed Me Funny

Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at the Same Time

Retrieving Labrador Days dog tales in prose and verse

Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey collected writings

This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

Nutley Notables, Volume One

Nutley Notables, Volume Two


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New Orleans, New York, Jersey City, Nutley photo collections by Anthony Buccino

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Nutley, NJ, Books


Belleville, NJ, Books

Belleville NJ books by Anthony Buccino


Military History

Military History books by Anthony Buccino

Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War

 Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

WW2 Letters Home From The South Pacific


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Eight Poetry Collections by Anthony Buccino


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