Bernard Favussa, 52 (from the Sunday NYT)
Each time his wife, Vincenza, got pregnant, Dominick Favussa would buy a Lionel train set: engine, box cars, caboose, and tracks. It was postwar New York City in the 1950's.
He did this a month before Bernard's birth, and before the birth of his daughters. And at Christmas time, the trains would clack around the tree.
Bernard turned 52 on September 11th, and had taken to the same hobby. He built a miniature model of Ridgewood, Queens, in his house in NY State, with a train that whistled through his childhood neighborhood. He'd recently bought trains celebrating the birth of his nephew and his grandson.
He worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, and how his daughters, 32 and 24, will take care of his trains. |
