Set in the 1940s and 1950s in Lackawanna, Erie County, NY, Visitors To My Street (Outskirts Press, 2022) by Bernard T. McCann is a nostalgic look back at the life of a boy growing up in the postwar era.
Visitors to My Street is a series of vignettes about life in Lackawanna, New York, from 1947 to 1961 — told by a the author as he reflects on his experiences as a young boy. The memoir details the lives of people who lived on the author’s street and in his neighborhood, and how those people interacted and supported each other. The stories tell of loss, love, happiness, travel, games, and the people who created the rhythm of daily life in the immediate postwar period.
Bernard McCann is from Lackawanna, New York. He graduated from Niagara University in 1965 with a BA, cum laude, in History, and from Albany Law School with a JD in 1968. Mr. McCann served as a captain in the US Army and received his Master’s in Education from SUNY Albany in 1996. He practiced law for 28 years before beginning a 19-year career as a high school Social Studies teacher and served one year as an interim Superintendent of Schools.
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