ABOUT
Nutley, 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. The
Pushcart Prize-nominated writer published several collections of
essays, photography, military history, and verse.
Buccino's
latest
photo
collections include Harrison Next, Gas Stations, In Our
Old Kitchen, and Old Spices.
And don't miss New
Orleans in Plain View, Jersey City Snapshots, Nutley Snapshots in
Plain View, and New York City Snapshots in Plain View.
Buccino first wrote rock and roll record reviews
for local newspapers in the 1970s, and ultimately made a career in
writing and editing including a 12-year stint with Dow Jones
Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
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Thanks for your
Jersey Choice Award votes
NJ
Monthly magazine announced another chance to win an
incredible prize valued at $2,600! YOUR votes may have helped Anthony
Buccino win!
Buccino entered the four photos in Cover Search 2023,
presented by New Jersey Monthly and Unique Photo. Voting closed
September 15.
The photo with the most votes by September 15th will receive the Jersey Choice Award and a Fuji X-T30 camera, plus the photo in our December 2023 issue.
And the only time we ever heard
about somebody who went to Albino Village was when they came back and
told us about how scared they were and how lucky to get out before they
were grabbed by the Albino people.
He looked at me plainly, trying to put it simply, “Your chimney
flue is blocked and your headaches are from carbon monoxide fumes.”
Italian American Roots in Belleville and Nutley
Growing up on the border of Belleville and Nutley,
the kids in my neighborhood along Meacham Street knew that
when we grew old we would speak Italian.
Great-gramps was a 'pumkin'
Anthony Buccino Photo
Books & Galleries
BACK TO
SCHOOL!
Brown bagging lunch
through the years
Coworkers tried not to be
obvious as they craned to see if my new wife scored my brown bag
lunch orange as my mom had for the past five years.
Penny Candy
From the Corner Store
From the earliest grades to grad schools everywhere,
when that end of school bell rings, children queue,
nickels in hand, to be the first to reach the candy counter...
Yellow
Cracker School Days
My favorite cafeteria snacks were
yellow crackers with the peanut butter filling... For variety, the orange
crackers had yellow filling. These treats held together
with preservatives and red dye No. 3.
Band Parents Give Up Saturdays
It’s the parents who are sitting on heavy
blankets, wearing thermal underwear, thermal socks, thermal neckwear, thermal
hats and special gloves with places for shake-activated charcoal hand-warmers
Where Are You
Tonight, Peggy Sue?
But here I am, in striped bell-bottom
slacks, a tie-dyed shirt and long hair hiding any kind of collar – leaving
the seeming safety of an institutional green homeroom for some unknown class.
It was a terrific job. They sent me out
from under the concrete bleachers into the crowds and I yelled,
“Pretzels! Pretzels!” and people would call me up the rows and rows of
bleachers to buy a pretzel or two.
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Do we ever stop
missing our folks?
Scouts Hike Over
Mountain In Search of Nudist Camp
After breakfast our troop packed up and followed Hiney, our
Explorer, past the swamp end of Wildcat Lake, over the
mountain in search of the nudist camp.
Chasing the Mosquito Man
For all the DDT sprayed on us kids on our bikes, the killer fog never
dulled our senses or killed mosquitoes. One always managed to squirm through a tiny hole in
the screen and spend the night buzzing your ear.
Switching Cable
Triple Play Providers, Fios to Optimum
Equals Growing Pains Real and Remote
Fios Rids House of Annoying Shopping Channels
'Let me guess, you're switching to Verizon?'
More Taxes You Pay Without a Thought
Travels With Tonoose
Having some fun with travel writing, Anthony
Buccino taps into his years as a commuter in metro New York and New
Jersey, some nearby vacations and even a few celebrities met traveling
for business.
Solo Print
Photography Exhibit July Through August 2023
Art @ The
Nutley
Library hosted an exhibit by photographer
Anthony Buccino during July and August at the Nutley Public Library, 93
Booth Drive, Nutley, N.J.
Thanks to all who stopped
by the reception, and to all who visited the exhibit! Maybe we can do it
again next year.
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Latest books
HARRISON NEXT
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Nonfiction

A
Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection
Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey collected writings
Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here Anymore and other essays
Nutley Notables: The Men and Women Who Made a Memorable Impact on Our
Home Town, Nutley, New Jersey
Nutley Notables, Volume Two
Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at the Same Time
Retrieving Labrador Days dog tales in prose and verse
Sister Dressed Me Funny
This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

Gas Stations
Harrison Next
In
Our Old Kitchen
Jersey City Snapshots
New Orleans In Plain View
New York City Snapshots
Nutley
Snapshots in Plain View
Old Spices
Military History

Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Remembering
the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom
WW2 Letters Home from the South Pacific
Poetry Collections

American Boy: Pushing Sixty
Canned
One Morning in Jersey City
Retrieving Labrador Days
Sixteen Inches On Center
Sometimes I Swear In Italian
Voices on the Bus
Yountakah Country