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Scully Poet. Chronicler. Remembrances of the 1950s. Photo by Beltrami & Co. Photography. https://authorjacktscully.com/excerpts daily 0.75 2021-09-26 https://authorjacktscully.com/praise daily 0.75 2021-09-26 https://authorjacktscully.com/mianus-village daily 0.75 2021-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/364a8519-6c75-4e9f-9672-9978667ad272/0E3DA2E2-7BD0-4A24-92D3-1836957872A7_1_105_c.jpeg Mianus Village Outdoor barbecues and sharing life stories were always popular in Mianus Village. Two vets in this photo: Foreground, Hook Scully; background, Joe Fuscaldo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/ebdafda2-a842-4f5d-a62e-8347597c5754/19E56EE5-7CBF-4DE5-8F69-2D36D31C9006_1_201_a.jpeg Mianus Village Aerial view of Mianus Village’s 40 houses on the banks of the Mianus River, Riverside, Connecticut. 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About 1958. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/0c3554ed-03ee-4c1d-9f40-2eb56e6b950c/4E00E906-4FE7-4899-AD49-E3ADD22AA7CE.jpeg Mianus Village When not dressed up, everyone wore dungarees and hightop Ked sneakers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/4212000e-75bf-4c71-acc6-0d4ca7b3657d/8D774137-2F0E-4734-9554-D646F8F2F749.jpeg Mianus Village GREENWICH GAS-sponsored Little League ballplayers, 1958. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/6af93f1a-2ae1-4f31-8ec9-5d6332f189bc/39A9A115-F32F-4FC7-86A7-125D0D39B1C2_1_201_a.jpeg Mianus Village The author’s parents. Mary and John, aka Hook, Scully in 1942, just before he shipped out to the European theater for the “duration” of WW II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/14c417ee-ec00-4e77-9f5f-d135029f9ff0/A17D3C53-EDF3-4E8D-9F6E-A218199CBEAA_1_201_a.jpeg Mianus Village The photo that inspired the lyrical tale "Halloween” in MIANUS VILLAGE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/cec5f35c-76bf-4d97-bc66-6f9888e52477/B642ECAC-330D-4194-ADCA-74718F744918_4_5005_c.jpeg Mianus Village Best friends, Marybeth MacNamee and Eleanor Antes in the village, about 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/7b0364c9-ba74-4c53-80c9-1f82ee1b9326/F0AF5C6B-06A1-4846-98D1-3EE8B662D02D_1_201_a.jpeg Mianus Village Dennis Scully and Skip Antes with two primary modes of transportation on Cary Road in Mianus Village, circa 1953. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/50e7d02e-9770-467f-a189-141a23a827e8/F3EAEDAC-9286-4C94-ADA1-2D1513F4836D.jpeg Mianus Village Fisherboys snagging and scooping bony herring below the Mianus Dam, about 1960. This photo inspired the harrowing story “Bony Herring” in MIANUS VILLAGE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/e104d711-0a6e-4860-88b2-17ff79fdcd71/1CF4E866-3B60-4D2C-82CD-25FF661CAAA0.jpeg Mianus Village The author’s boyhood home (750 square feet) in Mianus Village. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/8d07d970-2146-4538-b17c-354ef34e2c71/76AC15C0-29E3-4548-990D-191C4450758C_4_5005_c.jpeg Mianus Village The photo of Mickey Kalinski in his St Mary’s High School hockey team uniform inspired the tale “An Unwanted Christmas Present,” in MIANUS VILLAGE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/27fe03a9-f622-43dc-a6ad-ba49c60ef505/A28EE49F-FE0E-4022-A1D0-4D2BA22BB15A.jpeg Mianus Village Mianus Village produced many great athletes, two of whom (Artie Fronio, center, and Pat Fuscaldo, right) were inducted into the Greenwich high School Athletic Hall of Fame. https://authorjacktscully.com/buy-now daily 0.75 2021-07-12 https://authorjacktscully.com/bio-history daily 0.75 2021-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1626114592310-TKE6D9GMUBINO7BCLZ0D/Jack+T.+Scull+Vermont+Author Bio & History - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1626114340830-AUQL7IBUBCWIEIL9NGDQ/F3999C47-76AA-4E14-A710-0B4473D6FDBD.jpeg Bio & History Photo credit: Lynne Stewart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628739763452-4U5C37672XG36LKZSK0A/487393EC-7FE4-4129-BF3A-F8FF8E8C736E_1_201_a.jpg Bio & History Two vets with wives (left, unknown; right, Mary and Hook Scully) one month after the end of WWII. At the Halfway House restaurant, Stamford, CT, a bottle of whiskey was comp’d to every GI still in uniform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628741157681-KXV3YFPAOUEG79S4QA6E/39A9A115-F32F-4FC7-86A7-125D0D39B1C2_1_201_a.jpg Bio & History The “Greatest Generation” parents (Mary and Hook) of Jackie and Dennis Scully in 1942, just before he shipped out to the European Theater for the “duration” of WWII. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628739810306-GFDCS9ORHSV8R6EGW1C4/0E3DA2E2-7BD0-4A24-92D3-1836957872A7_1_105_c.jpg Bio & History 1950s block party in Mianus Village. Two vets in photo. In the foreground, Hook Scully; in the background, Joe Fuscaldo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628739961122-LED8X0QMKPEY9JJ4XB0K/D5A3B3FB-A5E7-4C7B-8249-0C8D88A7B450_4_5005_c.jpg Bio & History The author at age three in front of his parents' 9-inch screen RCA Victor TV set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628740132030-HJDDS74P7XR5KX1GB1WO/9051FBD5-6869-470D-9A13-EC2836CA844E.jpg Bio & History Larry Lee and Mark Morano in front of their Zenith TV set. Mr Morano was an Army-Air Force vet who brought home the empty casing of a 500-lb bomb that decorated his front lawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628740271311-6G3X6RPH2DZF4QZ52ONM/2A992E9C-EA32-44F8-802D-B58061114E4B_1_201_a.jpg Bio & History Unlike today, the Mianus River froze every winter. Eleanor Antes in foreground looking at the Scully boys with their snowman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628740593406-5X9R3UFHLN80B383U6KJ/4D53DC58-FC41-4AA1-8FA3-F4DCED9B77C1_1_201_a.jpg Bio & History Mary Ann Datolla’s fourth birthday party with 15 neighborhood kids. About 1951. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628740718685-HCSO0PAN3STCIEDRW4SA/4E00E906-4FE7-4899-AD49-E3ADD22AA7CE.jpg Bio & History Unless dressed up like Dennis Scully here, village kids lived in dungarees and hightop Ked sneakers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628740814268-DOGEZFTS1EHQ6129LLFX/8C61A3C5-E9CB-43A6-A2E8-8E6045647E59_1_201_a.jpg Bio & History From left, Jackie Scully, Teddy Roberts, Dennis Scully with crutches, and Patsy Fuscaldo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628740967095-XDFG6DOJ5Y2UEFOW29OV/8D774137-2F0E-4734-9554-D646F8F2F749.jpg Bio & History Teammates on the1958 GREENWICH GAS Little League baseball team. Photo taken in front of Joe and Lucy Fuscaldo’s house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628741562899-15PAWCHVZTIFU10JOZ7N/A17D3C53-EDF3-4E8D-9F6E-A218199CBEAA_1_201_a.jpg Bio & History The photo that inspired the poem, “Halloween” in the Mianus Village ballad that uses natural speech patterns and evocative imagery to tell a ghost story. In the background, Howard Shirmer, the ghost draped in torn sheets, who once led us kids around 40 village houses for “trick or treating." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628741694333-CVISQ73GS2VU7QUUE7ZP/F0AF5C6B-06A1-4846-98D1-3EE8B662D02D_1_201_a.jpg Bio & History Dennis Scully and Skip Antes with their primary means of transportation on the village’s main drag—Cary Road. About 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628741811200-FUJ2OSG9LRPTYV7J4M9S/B642ECAC-330D-4194-ADCA-74718F744918_4_5005_c.jpg Bio & History Village Girls: Marybeth MacNamee and Eleanor Antes, about 1954. The “Kittens” story in MIANUS VILLAGE was based on an event in the lives of the author and these girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628742081805-ZTRQGKO4XJ5D30QISVEB/76AC15C0-29E3-4548-990D-191C4450758C_4_5005_c.jpg Bio & History Mickey Kalinski, the inspiration for the poem, “An Unwanted Christmas Present,” in the "Mianus Village" book. After dominating hockey games on the river as a kid, Mickey went on to be a star puckster, shown here, at St. Mary’s High School, Greenwich, VT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628742602802-KNN38GX65FSE3E6XTLG6/F3EAEDAC-9286-4C94-ADA1-2D1513F4836D.jpg Bio & History Fishing for bony herring at the base of the Mianus Dam. It separated the river’s fresh water from the salt water of Cos Cob harbor and Long Island Sound. See the poem “Bony Herring” to learn what it was like wading into these brackish waters to snag and scoop up herring during their annual run each April. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628742936407-9XAH3CCFCVKW2ASVRAWF/19E56EE5-7CBF-4DE5-8F69-2D36D31C9006_1_201_a.jpg Bio & History Aerial photo of Mianus Village houses beside the Mianus River and its dam. These houses were threatened by the Great Long Island Sound Hurricanes of the 1950s. During Hurricane Carol, village residents were evacuated when an upstream dam threaten to burst and inundate the houses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e48331c39225517b8a09db/1628743155840-DIFU81SQ3FNRV36VPK8D/tempImageXLNdyG.jpg Bio & History #16 Cary Road in Mianus Village. 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