Sloan Rose the Miracle Baby

What a delight to write the story of miracle baby Sloan Rose. Her mom fought off cancer twice and was told not to expect children but then miracle baby Sloan Rose surprised everyone: the doctors, the fertility clinics that turned away her parents. And her parents Michael and Amanda never lost their faith until they held this miracle baby in their hands.

Read the cover story and the other love stories in this issue of Clifton Merchant. 

'Sloan Rose is all smiles, sitting in daddy’s lap awaiting a bottle of fortified formula. Her tousled blond hair fights the directions mom’s comb gave it, Sloan smiles at everyone and no one. She appears tiny in the cleft of his huge hands. This is what it’s like to hold a miracle in your fingertips....'

Buccino Publishes Nutley Notables Profile Collection

A New Book for Nutley History Lovers 

Nutley Notables: The Men and Women Who Made a Memorable Impact on Our Home Town, Nutley, New Jersey 

by Anthony Buccino

Nutley writer and author Anthony Buccino has published Nutley Notables, the Men and Women Who Made a Memorable Impact on Our Home Town, Nutley, New Jersey. 

Buccino published more than fifteen books including four essay collections, three military history books and seven full-length poetry collections.  He has been called ' “New Jersey’s ‘Garrison Keillor” or something to that effect.’ His poem  At The Vet has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

The township of Nutley, New Jersey, has accumulated a wealth of celebrated and eccentric people who over-shadowed the salt-of-the-earth folks who lived here, raised their families and built the town into the place that Norman Rockwell only dreamed of illustrating for the cover of the  Saturday Evening Post. This new book profile nearly 200 townsfolks,  some you may know and many you will not forget.   

Belleville Times profile of the poet

The Belleville Times, Belleville, N.J., published an 11-inch profile about Anthony Buccino, author of the poetry collection Voices on the Bus.

LITERATURE Resident publishes book of poetry by Meghan Grant appears on page 3 of the Jan. 15, 2009, issue.

Included with the story is staff photographer Deborah Ann Tripoldi's photo of Buccino boarding the N.J. Transit 74 bus to Branch Brook Station in Newark.

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