From the outside, it doesn’t look like much. A standard LED “open” sign shines (or doesn’t) under a conventional red awning. An asphalt apron holds three tables sharing a pair of faded umbrellas. …
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Flesh and Blood

Two framed commemorations hang outside the doors of Ferraro’s Market in Fair Haven. The first is a picture of Salvatore Ferraro Sr. accompanied by Psalm 23. The second is a poem—for Salvatore F. Ferraro Jr.…
Life’s Work

As a boy, Giuseppe Sabino watched his father take a pickaxe into the fields of Caserta, Italy, and upturn acres of cracked Italian soil so they’d be ready for the rain. Meantime, Sabino…