by Vincent Panella | May 1, 2020 | The First Glass
DEMOLITIONPrimo Levi’s Moments of Reprieve is a story collection based on his one-year stay in Auschwitz. The stories follow his other writings about the experience, and for those those who don’t know, Levi was an Italian Jew and trained chemist. In 1943 he joined a...
by Vincent Panella | Apr 30, 2020 | The First Glass
HELL AND BACKIn A Playboy’s Life, Anthony Valerio tells the story of an ordinary man who, almost without effort, finds himself in an extraordinary situation. This lively and skillfully written biography takes as its subject John Aimola, a son of Italian immigrants who...
by Vincent Panella | Nov 6, 2019 | The First Glass
Palm Sunday, 2019, Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro.This is my short speech to the congregation as a Loaves and Fishes volunteer.Good morning, and thank you. My name is Vincent Panella, and I’m a retired teacher and a writer. I’ve been living in Vermont since...
by Vincent Panella | Nov 22, 2018 | The First Glass
[Read part 1 below — Vermont Views Magazine does not take part in partisan stances in local or national politics, but it does, from time to time, observe the state of people who vote, their knowledge and acuity, if any.]A Beto volunteer calls. “Have you been...
by Vincent Panella | Nov 21, 2018 | The First Glass
What made me go to Texas? Last spring the news filtered in that a U.S. Rep from El Paso named Robert Francis O’Rourke, nicknamed Beto, (Bet-oh) was challenging Ted Cruz for a senate seat held by Republicans since the early nineties. Cruz was considered a lock at...
by Vincent Panella | Jul 24, 2017 | The First Glass
The house still stands, wrecked, silent, blackened and charred. Once the flames were extinguished an excavator ripped off part of the roof and flattened walls on the second floor to expose enough of the house so that the last ember could be put out. Now the second...
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