This is the way it starts.
Paul Gromosiak, at 75, the great student of Niagara history, remains a bottomless source of information about Niagara, for visitors and journalists from around the world.
My sister, a fellow writer and a born-and-raised Western New Yorker, moved to Ohio with her family years ago. As it is for so many of us, old loyalties never die, and she wrote an autumn note on Facebook about giving her husband a box of peanut sticks from DiCamillo’s Bakery as a birthday talisman from home.
I asked how such a thing came to be. She replied that she had reached out to DiCamillo’s in Niagara Falls and “was transferred to Betty, a wonderfully helpful person and a DiCamillo by birth. She mentioned offhandedly that she is 90 years old.”
For a columnist, that’s like: Say no more.
I called DiCamillo’s, the 103-year-old bakery institution in the North End of Niagara Falls. I was soon speaking with an enthusiastic Michael DiCamillo, whose specialty is marketing but who said the best way to explain how much Betty DiCamillo King matters to their operation is by taking a look at the picture.
He referred to a family photograph from 1934, the bedrock of DiCamillo tradition, built around the late Tomasso and Addolorata DiCamillo – immigrants from…
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