Author Archives: marielscatena

Memories of Papa and Noni’s backyard and my childhood are inseparable. Their backyard was a place where my brothers and sisters and I played and posed awkwardly for family photographs. Noni had a vegetable garden where she tended tomatoes, Italian beans and tender June lettuce.  Fruit trees, flowers and vibernum snowball bushes that produced whiteContinue reading “Origin Stories”