Dom Capossela
domcapossela@hotmail.com
In 2024, established a home website for the North End called Questo North End!, a term of endearment for a remarkable neighborhood with 400 years of continuous history. Incorporating the Italian word “Questo” into the title of the website pays homage to the last 120 years of predominant Italian influence.
The platform connects residents and visitors with the neighborhood’s heritage, local events, and community stories, highlighting its unique character and ongoing legacy.
This is a non-profit enterprise, profits to go into the North End community.
The domain name is www.questonorthend.org
Completed “Conflicted,” a novel about Dee Mirabile, a seventeen-year-old vigilante, exorcist, and modern-day Hamlet who uses her powers to oppose Satan’s efforts to bring mankind into the End of Days.
Am will solicit representation from literary agents throughout the winter of 2024.
Edited and partnered with Victor Passacantilli "Do You Believe in Magic?" anthology of stories from the North End.” August, 2023
For details on this book and how to buy copies, go to the Shopping tab found on the Home Page of “Questo North End!” and follow directions.
All of the profits from the sale of this book will go to North End charities using the good offices of FONE to allocate the funds.
Currently publishing existentialautotrip, a weekly e-zine with articles on movies, art, holidays, travel, food, Gen Z issues, philosophy, chuckles, six-word stories, and lots more. The e-zine is 1640 issues deep, as of Jan 1, 2024. Started in 2015 after a solo car trip to the Grand Canyon. It’s free and non-profit. Its domain name is www.existentialautotrip.com
Married Katherine Howell of West Bridgewater and raised a daughter, Katherine.
Wrote and Published two books:
Cooking in Real Life in 2004 and
Dom’s, an Odyssey, in 2010.
For details on these books and how to buy copies, go to the Shopping tab found on the Home Page of “Questo North End!” and follow directions.
Operated Dom’s Restaurant from 1969 tp 1995.
Beginning in our school days together, Toni and I raised three sons, Dom, Mino, and Chris.
In 1969 passed the bar. Am still a member.
We attended different grad schools together: Toni getting her PhD in English at age twenty-five, while bearing three sons. I got my LLb.
At age twenty-one married twenty-year-old Toni-Lee Cerulli of Mountain Avenue, North Caldwell in 1966.
We never met Tony Soprano whose home was also on Mountain Ave in North Caldwell.
Grew up on Thacher/Endicott/North Margin Streets. Close early childhood friends of the Endicott Street gang were Sal Tecce and Richie Gambale.
Birthday - 3/9/1942