Gallery
Sneak Peek
This gallery offers a sneak peek at some of the images featured in The Stowaway in First Class. Buy the book to get the full story behind these photos and more.
SS Paris Promotional Poster
The Wedding Picture (Paris, 1928): Marie is above the right shoulder of the bride (her cousin Philomena). Gaetano is standing to her right.
The “family” boarding house in Paris (circa 1928). Back row, Ernesto (left), Alberto (center), and Gaetano (right). In front, Angela and the children.
The maiden voyage to New York of the SS Paris in June 1921. The anchor chain used by the stowaways is visible at the left front of the ship.
The interior layout of the SS Paris from the marketing brochure found by the author in 2003 while browsing bookstores on the Left Bank of the Seine River.
The house in Arce, Italy, built in 1697, where Guy was born in 1902 as it appeared in 2023.
The house in Paris where Guy and Marie met in 1928 as it appeared in 2024.
Marie and Guy meeting for the first time in 57 years, Coisy-le-Roi, France, in 1986
Guy and Dena on their wedding day, February 19, 1939 (with Dena’s brother Richard, best man, and her sister Ann, maid of honor).
Guy’s Certificate of Naturalization issued in Boston on August 29, 1944.
Guy and Dena on their 25th wedding anniversary in 1964.
Rose and Ernesto Zaino on their wedding day in 1934.
Marie and Guy during their last visit together in May 1990.
Guy’s granddaughter Nikki DeSantis with her Nonno in June 1991.
Gaetano DeSantis (February 21, 1902–August 9, 1991).