Barstool School: Goomba Happy Hour with the Authors of the Goomba Chronicles
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 5pm - 7pm
Location
Jilly's Music Room
111 N Main St
Details
BE A GOOMBA! Dress like a Goomba! Enjoy special Goomba cocktails! Hear great Goomba stories! Buy a Goomba book (makes a great gift!)! Get your Goomba book signed!
The Goomba Chronicles honors our Italian culture, traditions, food, experiences, faith, families and friends. The book features light hearted conversations among three close friends, who reminisce about growing up in Akron’s North Hill, Italian neighborhood. The reader may find that the experiences are similar to any Italian American neighborhood in the country during the 1950’s-1980’s. Each story is written from the heart with a comedic edge. The stories often incorporate real characters intertwined in a fictional account. Some stories are actual factual accounts. Many of the characters are composites of individuals who so richly represented the good people and good feeling of North Hill.
The stories cover the landscape of lives well lived. Topics include: business schemes, contests, sporting events, favorite foods, Goomba misadventures, as well as, true stories of influential people in our lives.
The authors, Tom Allio, David DiDomenico and Don Ursetti, view the Goomba Chronicles as “love letters” to our North Hill, Italian Neighborhood and it’s people. We grew up in the 1960’s. It clearly had it’s share of turmoil, however, in many respects, it was a simpler time. Everyone knew each other in the neighborhood. Ethnic stores and restaurants were plentiful. Italian and broken English were spoken in happy, animated tones.
