A Century of Family, Community, and a Neighborhood Grocery
Daniel L. Frizzi, Jr.
A Wonderful and Nostalgic Read
245 pp. Published in 2026. Just a Grocer’s Son: A Century of Family, Community, and a Neighborhood Grocery is a story of a grocer and his sons growing up in a small neighborhood grocery store in Bellaire, Ohio. This story spans a century of vivid remembrances of family, loyal customers, and everyday work. Daniel L. Frizzi Jr. brings to life a world shaped by sacrifice, laughter, and quiet lessons taught by life in a small neighborhood grocery store begun by his Italian grandfather, continued by his own father, before he also stepped behind the counter. One delivery, one conversation, and one long day at a time, life in the grocery store comes alive. At the heart of this memoir is a proud Italian-American family whose store became both a gathering place for neighbors, a classroom for character, and a small business that survived for a century.
Author & Historian
Daniel L. Frizzi, Jr.
Daniel L. Fnzz1 Jr. is a practicing attorney in Bellaire, Ohio where he has engaged in the practice of law for nearly 50 years. He was born in Bellaire in 1952, attended the Bellaire Public Schools. He graduated from high school in 1970. He is a graduate of Ohio Universityfrom the College of Business Administration in 1974 and later graduated from the Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law in 1977.
The author has been an Adjunct Professor of business law at Ohio University Eastern Campus and Wheeling Jesuit University, while maintaining an active private general practice of law in his hometown.
Mr. Frizzi has always held a keen interest in history and has published books on local history topics, as well as being a lecturer throughout the Ohio Valley to historical societies and libraries. He is the past chair and founding member of the Great Stone Viaduct Historical EducationSociety, and has made numerous contributions to the Winter Lecture Series sponsored by the Bellaire Public Library for the past 14 years.
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Frizzi has also served 14 years on the board of trustees of the Bellaire Public Library and is currently a trustee of the Belmont County Tourism Council.
His civic membership has included the Bellaire High School Alumni Association and the Ohio University Alumni Association. When not practicing law, the author enjoys golf, photography, and railroad history as he approaches retirement.
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Other Books by Daniel L. Frizzi, Jr.
An American Railroad Portrait: People, Places and Pultney
272 pp. Published in 1993. A history of the development of railroads in Pultney Township of Belmont County, Ohio, and in particular the city of Bellaire. Extensive b&w illustrations. Includes bibliography, endnotes and index.
Honoring Our Father: A Bicentennial Salute to Colonel John Hamm Sullivan
179 pp. Published in 2003. A history of the beginnings of Bellaire, Ohio and its transformation into a bustling railroad town and pathway to the East.
History is civilization’s memory. When we preserve the stories, inventions, and sacrifices of those who came before us, we give the next generation a wiser place from which to build the future.