Marc is Salvatore’s first born. They live near each other, Sal in the house on North Howard Street

next door to where they stand. His immigrant mother, Maria, and father, Pasquale, lived there in

the past, and it was purchased by Sal upon the death of his mother decades earlier. Marc resides

about one mile away on Uhler Avenue. They’re standing in the drive of a house also owned by Sal.

In the past, this area of Akron known as North Hill was home to many Italian-American families.

Marc’s mother, Marjorie, speaks of feeling quite lost when, newly wed she and Sal moved into the

house with Sal’s parents. Growing up in the small town farm atmosphere of New Philadelphia,

Ohio, Marjie found the house a foreign place thick with Italian culture forged hard by the Great

Depression. She tells of Maria’s turning off the hot water when she, Marjorie, was in the bathtub.

The large family would fight a lot when gathered for Sunday meals.