Radio Free Montone: Fortunato’s Fortress Is Gone

Jul 24, 2015 614

By John Montone


Fortunato's fortress is gone. My grandfather or nonno, Fortunato Missaggia, built his house brick-by-brick in the early 1950s. It was a place, he once explained, to keep those he loved away from those he wanted nothing to do with. Friends and certain family members in...undesirables out.


He was almost 50 when he built it. Working off his second nest egg, the first having disappeared in an unfathomable economic crash which was never far from the thoughts of Fortunato and my, nonni, Angela.

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Source: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/

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