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Mi Famiglia,
We've been looking at different ways to share the great number of pictures we're gathering for the reunion. One option is 2 Google programs called Picasa & Hello. These are free to everyone and you can download them at the new link we've added. Let me know if you're interested and I'll help you get set up if you need. Here's a screen shot! There are other websites that do similar things as this. If you know of reasons not to use these particular programs please let us know.


The following is the site descriptive for the Hello program:

Share
The hardest part of sharing your pictures is choosing your favorites.
Send photos via email that are a joy to receive.
Take the guesswork out of sending photos. Picasa automatically resizes and attaches pictures to email messages at sizes your friends will be able to open. Works with most email programs, including Google’s Gmail.


Hello™ instant picture chat lets you share pictures back-and-forth in seconds.
Hello is Picasa’s instant-message product – it’s chat with pictures. You can send out hundreds of pictures instantly using the "Hello" button; it’s a great way to look at pictures with friends and family online. Just point at a picture or website and tell the person who sent it exactly what you think (but when you criticize their artwork, remember – they can do the same).

Hello sends pictures using an encrypted person-to-person connection, so the pictures you share are sent directly to your friend’s computer, and nowhere else online (unless you use Bloggerbot to post pictures to your blog; see below). Picasa shows shared pictures in your From Hello collection, sorted by Hello usernames. And it’s as easy to remove shared pictures as it is to get them.

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Francesco, Rosa, Bruno, and Jennie and others will be proud you did.

Top 5 all things Italiano:
Sauce
Family
DaVinci
Moonstruck (the movie..."Bella Luna"!)
Mikey Piazza (yea, my wife's pick...maron)

what's your 5?

Ciao,
KB

Say cheese!.....
Christopher Barone and his nephew Derek Barone at the San Diego Zoo recently. They said the photo opportunity was "too good to pass up." It has been rumored that the Rhino are actually pushing to get shorter work days and a 401k program and will continue with this strategy until a compromise is met.

Introducing......

A few weeks ago we featured a few younger relatives here. We also sent out a questionnaire to find out some basic things about them. We intended it to be an “icebreaker” and hope it will cause other young relatives to see that they have some things in common. There is of course much more to these kids than this survey shows, but we’ll show more as the year goes on. Please continue to send in stories you’d like us to post and we’ll be sure to get to them.

My name is Jenna Angelee Shoosmith.
My mom, Kathi Barone, says my name was made up by mixing together the names of my relatives. My great-grandmother was Vincenza Barone but everyone knew her as Jennie. My mom’s middles name is Jennifer and she has a cousin named Jennifer and another cousin named Jena. (With just 1 n.) My middle name is a mix of my great aunt Angie’s name and my grandma’s nickname of Lee.


My birth date was: November 2, 1997
My age is: 7 3/4
I live in this town: Tempe, Arizona
I go to this school: Hudson Elementary
My favorite subject in school is: P.E
I would like to be a: Dentist
My favorite band is: The Who
My favorite Author is: Dr Seuss
My 3 favorite foods are: Salmon,rigatoni, and Cookie Dough Ice Cream
My 3 favorite books are: Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business , Monster Road, Cam Jansen Books
My 3 favorite movies are: The Princess Bride, The Nightmare before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
My 3 favorite hobbies are: playing soccer, roller skating, reading.

My name is Emily Rose Berberich.
I live in Tappan, New York. I love my mom, my daddy, and my stinky little brother Fred. Wait is this going to be on the Internet?
I’m half Rowell and half Baroney. I love to draw. I’m named after a tornado. I won a bike with no traning wheels in a raffle. I just love my little brother, Fred. I love my cousin, Jenna who lives way, way far away from me. She lives in AZ. I love my Grandpa because he likes the Jets and I like the Jets too. I love my grandma (Rose Rowell) because she reminds me to wash my hands. I like the soap she gets me.

My birth date was: Feb 27th, 1999
My age is: 6
I live in this town: Tappan, NY
I go to this school: William O’Schafer Elementary
My favorite subject in school is: P.E
I would like to be a: Mommy & Teacher
My favorite band is: The Dixie Chicks
My favorite author is: Tomie DePaola
My 3 favorite foods are: Macaroni & cheese, mozzarella sticks, and spaghetti & meatballs
My 3 favorite books are: Junie B. Jones, Almost a Flowergirl, Little Women, and Richard Scarry's The Best First Book Ever!
My 3 favorite movies are: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Little Women, and Annie.
My 3 favorite hobbies are: Drawing/Painting, playing with friends, and playing with Barbies.


My name is Derek Thomas Barone.
My father is Richard Barone who is the son of Keith Barone who is my grandfather. I love my family who likes to have other family over for dinner and take me and my sister Madisyn on vacation to California. We just got back from San Diego and Sea World. I like it when my parents help me with my homework. It is going to be great to come to the reunion and meet relatives I haven't known before.


My birth date was: Feb 9th 1994
My age is: 11
I live in this town: Flagstaff, Arizona
I go to this school: Sechrist Elementary
My favorite subject in school is: Reading
I would like to be a: in the Military and then a Firefighter
My favorite band is: Linkin Park
My favorite author is: Beverly Cleary
My 3 favorite foods are: Pizza, wings, and spaghetti.
My 3 favorite books are: Frankenstein, Dracula, and Witchcraft
My 3 favorite movies are: Star Wars 3, Alien vs Predator, and Alien.
My 3 favorite hobbies are: Roller Skating, Biking, and Dirt Biking

My name is Nicholas Bruno Barone.
I am named after my great grandfather Bruno of course. I find it very special to be born at 3:13am, considering my grandfather Charles Barones’ Postal Letter Carrier number was 313. It should be great to go to the reunion and meet everyone and I hope someday to move to NY! Oh yea, that's me with my mouth wide open in the earlier post.

My birth date was: Dec 26th 1985 (at 3:13a.m.)
My age is: 19
I live in this town: Tempe, Arizona
I go to this school: Mesa Community College
My favorite subject in school is: English Composition
I would like to be a: Public Relations Director
My favorite band is: Deftones
My favorite Author is: Tennessee Williams
My 3 favorite foods are: Wings, my Nona's homemade Lasagna, and Spaduch; an Italian lamb shish kabob
My 3 favorite books are: Street Car Named Desire, Rumblefish, and Goosebumps 4…the Mummy one.
My 3 favorite movies are: The Usual Suspects, The Godfather II & One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
My 3 favorite hobbies are: Golf, concerts, and sleep.


My name is Freddie.
I am 2yrs old. Do you know me yet???

My name is Madisyn,

and this is my mommy Andrea. Do you know us?

2005 Graduates

We have a few graduates from the Barone side of the family. Congratulations to Bill & Linda Blosser who have 2 recent graduates in their family. Linda is the daughter of Frank & Lorraine Barone in Nyack, NY. Linda and Bill's son, Will Blosser, has graduated from Middletown High School this past May and is going to attend Orange County Community College.
Their daughter, Lori Anne Blosser graduated from Twin Towers Middle School and will be attending Middletown High School this Fall.


Shelly Cochrane, Linda's sister, also a daughter of Frank & Lorraine Barone, saw her son Ryan graduate from St. Joseph's School in Middletown and will be attending Middletown High School this Fall.




And not to forget, Congratulations to Frank & Lorraine Barone who should be very proud of their children and grandkids!!!



We know there are more so send in pictures and details. If you don't have a computer or scanner, please mail them to Ken Barone 1256 N. Tapadero Dr #A. Dewey, AZ 86327.

Check your mail!!!
The Pugliese-Barone Family & Friends Reunion invitations went out this past Tuesday and should be in your homes already. If there is someone you'd especially like to see at this reunion please let us know so we can make sure they receive an invitation. If you can help us with a phone number or address it would be appreciated.

We would like to thank everyone for their patience since the rumors surfaced of a possible reunion. Hopefully everyone is as excited as we are and although it's nearly a year away, many will need this time to prepare for it.

We are especially looking forward to feedback from all friends and family. If there is anything you'd like to share with us we'd love to post it. Tell us about your children if you have them, of yourselves, spouse, or professions if you'd like.

We have been posting pictures of children who you may not recognize; the "do you know me?" kids I guess we should call them. We haven't told you who these kids are as of yet, but we will. Several of these kids are currently working on a project to introduce themselves to everyone and we feel this will be a great way to get the younger generation involved in the family history. This is something we are very much looking forward to and we hope you'll come back regularly for updates. If your children would like to get involved as a "do you know me?" kid, please let us know.

Photos and stories can be emailed to either Jennifer Rowell at jehero@optonline, or myself, Ken Barone at either kgbarone@hotmail.com or kcbarone@cableone.net.

Leaving Nyack

For years no one even knew how to pronounce the name Barone. They’d say, Baron…Bar One…Baroneeeeee…even Barne. But in recent years, since a particularly popular TV show came about, they have NO problem saying the name but always start to ask….”you mean like... ?”, and I stop them short of saying what I KNOW they’re going to say, and tell them, “yes, Like Ray Barone”.then I give the obligatory rolling of the eyes.

For the record, I am a Barone who lives in Arizona. We live in Dewey Arizona. Sounds countrified don’t it? Well, down the street is Youngs’s Farm and a bar called Lef-T’s that all the locals hang out at, half of whom are named Rusty and own a horse as well as a Harley. But enough about that.

I am very much a Barone as well as a Pugliese in my mind. My father is Charles (aka Concetto, aka Sonny, aka Charlie) Barone who is the son of Bruno & Jennie Barone. For the first 8 years of my life I lived in South Nyack, NY. 11 Maple St was the place I remember most and enjoyed being completely surrounded by family. Down the street on Elysian Ave was Nona Rosa Pugliese who lived across the street from her daughter and my Grandmother Jennie Barone. Around the block, on Cedar Hill Ave, lived my Aunt Rose Rowell, who was one of my fathers’ younger sisters. Not far from us also lived Uncle Charlie Pugliese and my Aunt Rose (Boccino) on Piermont Ave. They have since died and I know the family and I miss him as well as his brother Tally and his wife Aunt Sally. Further up the road on Midland Ave lived my Aunt Lorraine and Uncle Frank Barone who was my fathers’ older brother. Just a bit further up Midland lived my Aunt Angie and my Uncle Jack. Aunt Angie was another younger sister of my fathers too

Whew! So, that’s a lot of family and along with my local friends Kenny Grey, Louie Scarangella, and others, I enjoyed life there. We’d play stick ball in the streets and at a young age were still allowed to walk to St Ann’s School by ourselves without worry of something bad happening along the way. All of the holidays were spent with relatives and everyone seemed to wear dress clothes more often than they do now. The whole atmosphere was “cool”. The cars were cool, the clothes including the PF Flyer sneakers were way cool,(which they always called “tennis shoes” in Arizona?????) The Beatles were just being discovered and Mickey Mantle was still THE man. Now THAT was cool.

Leaving Nyack came as a disappointment to me and also to the rest of my brothers and sister I believe. Arizona was not like the show “Rawhide” led us to think. Although it was loaded with tumbleweeds and cactus and scorpions and tarantellas and gila monsters (rarely seen), it was heat like the oven you bake in. But, there was no choosing where we were going as kids; we just went. It was culture shock that took years to overcome. Nyack was always on my mind and always intended on coming back to Nyack someday. I made one attempt after high school and it was a great experience for me. I’ll always remember the first day I came to Nyack then. I took a bus from Chandler, AZ and through the Port Authority NY and a bus from there to Nyack I found my way on foot to 48 Elysian Ave where my Grandfather lived. He was surprised I found it and maybe he was thinking how similar it was to his arriving in Rockland Lake around 50yrs earlier. But, he recognized me after many years had past, and we had a good talk. He gave me a sweater vest of his; something he was always known for wearing. Grandma said he had many of these in the dresser as they were one of his favorite things to wear; that and his short brim fedora type hats. We do have a picture of him wearing a cowboy hat while finishing a concrete walkway in a visit to AZ in the 60’s. True!



I bought a car while living in Nyack with the help of Grandpa Bruno and Grandma Jennie co-signing on a loan. It was a 1971 Chevelle and Grandpa Bruno was pretty proud that I asked him to do this which showed the character of the man he was. I didn’t let him down and paid the car off in 8 months. I remember Uncle Tally and Aunt Sally being very nice to me and Uncle Charlie and Aunt Rose being very good to me also during my time in Nyack. My cousin Steve Barone worked on my car when in need. He worked at a local gas station and garage, and Uncle Jack and Aunt Angie were always there for me. Uncle Jack actually gave me my first car when I first arrived in Nyack, a 1966 Chev Malibu station wagon with a engine that was shot which meant the time was going to be short for this car. 2 months later it gave up; hence the ’71 Chevelle and Grandpa’s help.

Within 14 months of coming to Nyack and living in the basement of Aunt Roses’ house, I left to go back to Arizona. I resigned myself to a future there. The time in Nyack made me very close to the Rowells and I appreciate it more than I can tell them. It was the single most important year in my life except with the meeting of my wife and the birth of our son years later.

I met my wife, Clara DiDonato, 100% Italian, from Massachusetts, 23 yrs ago in Tempe Az. We had a son, now 19yrs old, Nicholas Bruno Barone and I’m sure we’ll come back more often than we have in the past. And for the record, my son actually swears he’ll move to NYC before all is said and done. So beware Nyack, another Barone may be coming back to town!

Ken Barone