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Danny's Tavern: A Collection of Neighborhood Stories 1935-1975
Danny's Tavern: A Collection of Neighborhood Stories 1935-1975
Danny's Tavern: A Collection of Neighborhood Stories 1935-1975
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Danny's Tavern: A Collection of Neighborhood Stories 1935-1975

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Welcome to Danny's Tavern. There is a cast of characters that will take you back in time to a place where friends gathered and memories were made. Join Billy Flynn, the local bartender, as he spans a five decade story of a neighborhood and its cast of characters. Booker is the kind-hearted owner of Danny's Tavern. Chico is a tough seaman who has seen the rough edges of the world. Richie Quinn could have been a professional boxer, but the world needed him to make a living in the hard world of meat packing. Joe Scarletta, raised by first generation Italian parents, found his world behind the wheel of a big rig truck, always moving around the country. Casey found his home in the county lock-up as much as anywhere else, a tough troubled soul. These men found kinship in a local watering hole in Dorchester called Danny's Tavern...
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateJun 18, 2012
ISBN9781477203323
Danny's Tavern: A Collection of Neighborhood Stories 1935-1975
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Dr. Tom Melvin

Tom Melvin spent his first twenty-nine years growing up in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He attended St. Peter’s elementary school followed by the long closed, High School of Commerce. He learned the meaning of a dollar by hustling a buck working at any job that would pay him; newsboy, tomato factory worker, cutting weeds around the oil tanks on Chelsea Creek, steam pressing clothes in the heat of the summer, and washing cars in the dead of winter. As he matured so did the danger in his job choices; roofer, Plate Boy in the Herald Traveler pressroom, deckhand on a tug boat and, finally, volunteering as a U.S. Paratrooper 1953. After graduating from the school of “Hard Knocks” Tom’s fate took a turn when he graduated from Boston University with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He continued with his education and received a MS in Engineering from Northeastern University. In the early 1990’s he received a CAS from Harvard University’s School of Education and went on to finish his Doctorate degree from Nova University in 1996. Tom’s career focused mostly on the construction industry. He was a long time Capital Project Manager at Harvard University completing over 100 projects during his years at Harvard. He also taught Facilities Management at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He wrote Practical Psychology in Construction Management which was published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1979. Danny’s Tavern is his first novel. Tom lives in Stoughton, Massachusetts with his Black Lab, Jenny.

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