I met Nick Mascolo of the BBC Salon in Tenafly, New Jersey while visiting my parents last Thanksgiving.
At that time Nick was working on a Christmas project for deployed troops, so naturally we got talking. I told him about Soldiers' Angels and he promised the next fundraiser would be for us.
True to his word, not only did he raise money, but he sat at a sewing machine outside his shop making hand and foot coverings for the wounded!
Mascolo and his dedicated band of family, friends and volunteers -- including his more than 80-year-old mother -- were out on the sidewalk last week in front of his hair salon in downtown Tenafly, sewing booties and mittens.
For those unfamiliar with Mascolo, the scene was odd -- Vietnam vet and his elderly mother outdoors at the sewing machine, material and bundles stacked all around, in upscale Tenafly. But to those familiar with the BBC Salon, it was just Nick being Nick; he was concocting another scheme to help out his brethren soldiers.
Read the article here.
MaryAnn has pictures here.
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