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Vol. 71 No. 27 | July 4, 2018 southphillyreview.com s 3NYDER !VE s WWW DANCEADELPHIA COM

An American Holiday

GRACE MAIORANO/South Philly Review

Bill Ronayne, president, secretary and publicity director of the Mario Lanza Institute and Museum, and Pete Bilotti, owner of the Alexstone Marble & Granite Co., including its entire property on 12th and Reed streets, walk through the museum’s current location at the rectory of St. Paul and St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi at 712 Montrose St.

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ack in the day, the Fourth of July really used to be something in our family. Grandpop was born on July 4. We used to call it Independence Day. Maybe they still do, but I never hear the term anymore unless it’s some DJ introducing that Springsteen song. Anyway back then, most of our family lived in sideby-side row homes around 9th and Wolf. My Aunt Betty’s back yard was, by today’s standards the size of a postage stamp, but we thought it was glorious. And it was big enough for our celebration. We even had family halfball games back there. All of us idolized Grandpop. He put the “grand� in “grandpop. A mane of silvery hair. The kind of hair that befits a king. He was beautiful if you can call a man “beautiful.� As were the roses that he grew in his garden. Roses, corn, and figs. That was Grandpop’s crop. Kind of summed up who he was – elegant and practical. He was what was best about the Old World. You knew that whenever Grandpop visited, he’d be armed with fresh corn and figs. And, of course, beautiful roses. He was our greatest contribution to America. Our Yankee Doodle Dandy. He’d come here as a young man from the region near Naples. I never did find out exactSee CARDELLA, page 4>>

Tom

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Duo aims to raise funds for Mario Lanza Institute, scholarship

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