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Story-telling Dads

17-Aug-08

Last year I interviewed Ronaldo Brunet at StoryCorps’ Grand Central booth which has since closed. He seemed an easy choice for a first try at the burgeoning oral history organization’s booth which gives the public a convenient way to document individual stories. In talking to Ronaldo I hoped to continue a dialog I had heard [...]

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Fifty-Five-Year Stint

27-Jun-08

On June 19, 1953, Mario DiCrocco, four years transported to America from Italy began a career at The Advance, Staten Island’s longstanding daily newspaper. It’s been fifty-five years, a span that saw his work evolve from lead and ink, to paste-up and film, and then to keystrokes via computer pagination.
The composing room where [...]

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