by Anthony Borrelli

Don Puglisi, 84, of Vestal, was born and raised in Binghamton during the Great Depression and grew up in an Italian American family. He worked his way over the years from the Endicott-Johnson shoe factories to General Electric, to Link Aeronautical Corp., where he assisted with efforts to determine how to conserve power aboard the Apollo 13 space craft.

On growing up in the 1930s: "I lived on Conklin Avenue and my grandparents had a farm on Burr Avenue, so when I was 2 years old, they sent me to the farm to live. During the Depression, we lived with our grandparents until we started school."

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