The Cover of “Do You Believe in Magic” - by Dom Capossela

The cover of “Do You Believe in Magic” illustrates one of the thousands of traditional Italian American families that comprised Boston’s North End in the 1950s and 60s, forty thousand people crammed into a tiny, isolated neighborhood scarce 1/3 square mile.  The collaboration of the related or near related families created a safe harbor, a safe neighborhood in which we children developed the foundational elements that prepared us to face life’s challenges.