The Family Table: Summer Memories of an Italian-American Jersey Farm Girl

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Celebrating the author's 5th birthday on August 4, 1942. It was an annual event to have an outdoor family outing, for both young and old to get some R and R. Courtesy of Eleanor Rodio Furlong

Submitted by Eleanor Rodio Furlong, Naples, Florida

I’m a Jersey girl. I’m a farm girl. I’m an Italian American girl. I grew up on a family farm in a small town in rural southern New Jersey.