UN Garden Restoration in Nutley, NJ

Last summer, preparing for his guided walk through Nutley parks, Anthony Buccino was again reminded of the efforts put in several years back by an eager Eagle Scout candidate and his friends, family, and other volunteers.

Buccino recounts Tyler Huey's efforts toward his Eagle Scout project and the the way the UN Garden in Nutley was cleared, cleaned and restored ... for a while, anyway:

UN Garden Restoration, Nutley, NJ - 2009 - Eagle Scout Project by Tyler Huey

It's not the first time Buccino wrote about the UN Garden, one of Nutley's hidden treasures. UN Gardens was published in the underwhelming 2010 collection Yountakah Country - A Poetic View of Nutley Old and New. 

Two photos of the UN Garden appear in NUTLEY SNAPSHOTS.

UN GARDENS
A short walk from the gazebo
in the park where the Yanticaw Creek
splits with the grass 
and bridges in the middle, 
you'll come across stones
laid decades back 
in hopes of peace and love.
Long ago the stones
and the bushes, too,
we suppose, flourished.
But since those days,
whenever they were, 
the gardens have gone fallow
like the promise of peace and love
- by Anthony Buccino/Yountakah Country. 2010

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Anthony Buccino, Preserving Nutley’s Place in History

Anthony Buccino has made a name for himself chronicling the history of Nutley and the people who have lived in this town through books, photography and even social media. Hear more about his story and in this week’s Voices of Nutley! 

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Three Buccino paperbacks added to Amazon.com

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YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY A Poetic View of Nutley, Old and New 
Local writer takes some history, some folk lore and some current news and mixes them together in this humorous and thoughtful collection of verse about the little town in north eastern Essex County. On these pages, Anthony Buccino brings together the Lenni Lenape, Annie Oakley and pizza wars.




American Boy: Pushing Sixty
About life and growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s,1960s, and 1970s, and growing older in the 1980s, 1990s and the oughts.
From the center of the Baby Boom, this working class verse begins under a wooden class room desk as an air raid siren sounds, and captures the summer spell and its simplicity in drinking water from a garden hose.

"I read your book through and through twice. Absolutely enjoyed it. Your words flow so freely." 

Retrieving Labrador Days: Dog tales in prose and verse 

Stories about each of his three Labrador retrievers and some of the other dogs and people whose lives they touched.
Shaggy dogs, mutts, mongrels, three Labrador retrievers and a pet rabbit inspire the stories and poems in this collection. Pets of one kind or another have shared the past six decades of the author's life, and here are some stories that will make you laugh out loud and others that remind you of the escapades and exasperations you've been through with your pets.

Contains the Pushcart Prize-nominated poem At The Vet. 

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Buccino poem foretells newpaper editorial

 A recent Nutley Sun editorial discusses the scary and continuing story of local youths who walk across the railroad trestle, as documented in Yountakah Rite a poem by Anthony Buccino in his latest collection YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY.

Editorial: Nutley tracks can lead to tragedy
NorthJersey.com
Awhile ago, the Nutley Police Department received information that a number of children were walking on the railroad tracks and trestles throughout the township. The railroad companies informed the department that the tracks were active and trains ...

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YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY
A Poetic View of Nutley Old and New

Local writer takes some history, some folk lore and some current news and mixes them together in this humorous and thoughtful collection of verse about the little town in north eastern Essex County. On these pages, Anthony Buccino brings together the Lenni Lenape, Annie Oakley and pizza wars.

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YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY 
A Poetic View of Nutley, Old and New
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Cherry Blossom Press presents YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY A Poetic View Of Nutley Old And New by Nutley writer Anthony Buccino.

Buccino's own take on the township mixes history, tales and observations in a rich mix of what may or may not be the true history of Annie Oakley, the ITT tower, Leni Lenape, a Valium breeze, not to mention the Velodrome and the headless rider or the parlous water that rage through town on rainy days.

Knowing some of Nutley's history, readers will appreciate the twists and turns and maybe even learn something about the quiet little "Norman Rockwell town" in northern New Jersey.

For instance, did you know that the quiet little river that runs through Nutley was called Yountakah by Lenni Lenape, and so was their annual autumn feast - a predecessor to the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving? The name was also used by a large country club and golf course that bordered the Passaic River in town.

Buccino's verse also tackles a few local customs, including the senior high grads swimming in pool across town, and the rite of crossing the perilous rail overpass at Memorial Park.

And, of course, Buccino would never write about Nutley without homage to the men who paid the price for our freedom. Four poems recall the men who died in service and the veterans who lived in town and made it what it is today.

In other nostalgic verse, Buccino recalls summers at Booth Park, ice skating at ITT tower, school air raid drills at Holy Family School, pieces of an airplane landing on a Nutley lawn one night, the Nutley Museum and the Nutley Little Theatre.

Buccino weaves his poem Wonderful Life around Frances Goodrich, who grew up in town and went on to write the “Thin Man” film series and later won a Pulitzer Prize for the play “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

Buccino’s poem suggests Goodrich’s screenplay for the popular Christmas film “It’s A Wonderful Life” has hints of old Nutley, and that the scene of the angel and George on the bridge may have been inspired by the Lyndhurst bridge over the Passaic River, not far from where Goodrich grew up.

In recalling Nutley of about 100 years ago, Buccino cites Guthrie’s Dry Good Store and some of our famous residents and visitors, including Mark Twain, Annie Oakley and Richard Stockton lining up for that new invention called ice cream.

Goodrich was inducted into the Nutley Hall of Fame in 2005. Buccino stood in for the writer and her family at the ceremony.

Copyright © 2010-2016 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.

Yountakah Country is available in print, with 40 illustrations.

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