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We had the very special experience to attend a performance— at Manhattan’s Symphony Space—of the extraordinary music troupe of Teresa De Sio, an artist and historian of Southern Italian folk music. She sings both traditional and re-interpreted Napolitano songs accompanied by electric violin, two guitars, electric bass, percussionist and full drum set. The audience was wild.  This video is poor, shot with a phone camcorder, but the sound quality is pretty decent. Click on the Youtube image to share in the experience!

On April 17, 2010 Christopher John Ambrose had a 1st Birthday party at his Pop’s and Marzena’s place. Here he is performing at the piano!

Then we sang Happy Birthday to Christopher. That’s Ian screaming in the background

Alex demonstrated how to blow air into a traditional party favor noise maker

Renowned violinist Eric Grossman performed Bach and Bartok pieces before an appreciative audience consising of family and friends of Marianne Colaneri at her mansion-like home on Boulevard East in Weehawken, N.J.
April 10, 2010

Check out this future World Cup Champ

This past Easter Sunday we and Marzena’s parents attended “Resurrection Mass” at Sacred Heart in New Britain, Connecticut, one of the largest Polish American communities and certainly one of the largest Polish Catholic parishes in the USA.
The Mass is preceded by a procession with players symbolically re-enacting Jesus’s the Way to the Cross.

Smell the incense?

Talcott Mountain and Heublein Tower

Then the youthful fiance —it’s no secret, she’s twenty years my junior—led me on an incredible arduous, 40 minute, 1.25 mile, uphill climb up Talcott Mountain in Connecticut’s State Park— atop which sits a castle-like set of structures owned by the man who brought Schmirnoff Vodka to America (and, A1 Steak Sauce!) It reminded me (after I caught my breath) of extravagant silk magnate Lambert’s Castle atop Garret Mountain on the Clifton/Paterson border. Heublein’s is open after Memorial Day.

What a panorama! Can you tell we’re miles up and standing on a delicate precipice?

Here’s Marzena standing in front of the Heublein Tower I strongly urge you to click on the preceding link to read about this worthy attraction, to which Marzena and will certainly be returning in the future.

Ah, nature! Here’s what some ambitious woodpecker had done to a tree in the interest of ridding it of termites.

If anyone took photos that they would like me to post from the Palm Sunday get-together, please send them to me as .jpgs
Here are the few photos which I and Marzena took.