BOOK TALK: WW2 Letters Home from the South Pacific

WW2 Letters Home From The South Pacific by Angelo Buccino

Nutley-Belleville Old Guard, 9 a.m., Friday, June 14, 2019

Historian Anthony Buccino will meet with the Nutley Old Guard at 9 a.m. on Friday, June 14, to discuss his dad's letters home from the South Pacific during World War Two.

WW2 Letters Home from the South Pacific by Angelo Buccino is one GI’s view of the war amid the heat, bugs, carnage and noise in an artillery battalion supporting First Marine Division at Guadalcanal and other islands that never get mentioned.

Buccino wrote these long-lost letters to his best friend back in the states asking about the old gang. They turned up nearly sixty years after they were mailed, censored, read by his buddy and then found again in a forgotten footlocker in his old friend’s attic.

Hear the whole story of their discovery, the words of a young man far from home, and why they were published in November 2018.

The Old Guard of N.J., Nutley Chapter No. 7, meets weekly on Friday at 9 a.m. at the Frank A. Cocchiola Parks Building, 44 Park Avenue, Nutley, NJ. 

New members always welcomed. Stop in at any Friday meeting and say hello.

Order your copy online WW2 Letters Home from the South Pacific by Angelo Buccino 

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January 2018

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Clifton Up & Comers

The January 2018 issue of Clifton Merchant Magazine published Anthony Buccino’s profiles about three young Cliftonites taking on the future. You can find the issue in stores throughout Clifton, or online.

NUTLEY SNAPSHOTS - In Plain View

Now available in print only, Anthony Buccino’s second photo book, NUTLEY SNAPSHOTS In Plain View. It’s volume one in a series of photo collections to showcase the all-around beauty and some of the history of the northern New Jersey township of Nutley. NUTLEY SNAPSHOTS is Buccino’s sixth Nutley book.

Book Projects

Last summer, Anthony Buccino issued the print edition of Jersey City Snapshots. The ebook was first published in 2012.

Anthony’s research continues on Nutley Notables Volume 2, the follow up to Nutley Notables. Another secret project involves research into murder, mayhem and major crime in a safe Jersey town. And, in the meantime, Buccino is curating photos for Snapshots volume two.

Don’t forget, Anthony’s books are all available on Amazon. Checklist:

A Father's Place, an Eclectic Collection

American Boy, Pushing Sixty

Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War

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

CANNED booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, ...

Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey - Collected writings

Jersey City Snapshots

Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here, Anymore and other essays

Nutley Notables - The Men and Women Who Made a Memorable Impact on Nutley, N.J.

Nutley Snapshots - In Plain View, vol. 1

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

One Morning in Jersey City

Rambling Round, Inside and Outside at the Same Time

Retrieving Labrador Days, dog tales in prose and verse

Sister Dressed Me Funny

Sixteen Inches on Center

Sometimes I Swear In Italian

This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

Voices on the Bus, Train, Subway, and in My Head

Yountakah Country, a Poetic View of Nutley Old and New

ICYMI (In case you missed it):

Social Media

Anthony continues to shoot photographs here, there and everywhere. There’s a Facebook page. He also created Facebook groups Nutley photos, old and new,  You Know You’re From Belleville and You Know You’re From Nutley, and other groups.

Follow Anthony’s World on Facebook and Twitter. For anyone who’s read this far, check out this page of links where you can read many of Anthony’s online pieces.

Voices of Nutley

Anthony Buccino, Preserving Nutley’s Place in History, an interview, was published in the Voices of Nutley site by NutleyKia.

Walk and Talk with the Author

Anthony Buccino led the successful Walk & Talk through Nutley parks in July. Anthony discussed Nutley history, the Nutley Sons Honor Roll, and growing up near these parks in the 1960s. Many of the views along the walk revisit photos in NUTLEY SNAPSHOTS.

Did you know Buccino created and maintained web sites for Nutley Historical Society and the Kingsland Manor for more than a dozen years? That helped him talk history on the Walk and Talk.

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Buccino Speaks to Old Guard on Friday

Local historian Anthony Buccino
will meet with the Old Guard
at 9 a.m. on Friday, January 23, 2015

NUTLEY N.J. -- Local author Anthony Buccino will speak about his latest book, Nutley Notables: The men and women who made a memorable impact on our home town, Nutley, New Jersey, to the Nutley Old Guard at 9 a.m. on Friday, January 23, at the Frank A. Cocchiola Parks and Recreation Building, 44 Park Avenue, Nutley, N.J.

Buccino will talk about the historical and current figures profiled in his new book and also solicit from the crowd suggestions for notable Nutley profiles to include in volume two of the local history collection.

The author says he will ask more questions than he answers on Friday because of the immense local history the members of the Old Guard hold and share among themselves is enormous.

Buccino is aware that many Old Guard members personally knew many of the past century's Nutley notables. In fact, at least two Old Guard members are already Nutley Notables and are profiled in his new book. You'll just have to stop by the meeting to learn who they are.

Founded in 1947, the Nutley Old Guard is open to men 55 or older who are either retired or semi-retired. The purpose is to provide fellowship and activities, which enrich one’s life. There are no military, religious or political connections. They meet every Friday at the Parks and Recreation Department.

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.