The Rocking Chair

This is a picture taken today of our grandson Henry sitting in a rocking chair that once belonged to his great great grandfather Giuseppe Catanzaro who came to America from Sicily at the turn of the century and settled in Buffalo's West Side. He eventually owned a fish store on Grant Street throughout the 1920's and early 1930's but unfortunately went our of business during the Great Depression. The chair was given to him as payment for rent by a tenant in an apartment above his store. He kept the chair in the kitchen of their West Side home where he liked to sit while Becky's grandmother made meals for their large family that included Josephine, Antionette, Jenette, Grace, Gaspar, Catherine (my mother-in-law) and Rose.

Becky remembers sitting in that chair and being rocked by her grandmother. We have had the chair for many years and now Becky sits in it rocking her grandchildren. Me too.