The Black Cat and those Eleven Days in the Mahoning County Jail

About the Book

Most of the stories are taking from my personal experience referring to the huge impact with the life of quarter of a century Spending in the United States of America. Also this writing is creating in base of our American Heritage "The Bill of Rights." All my life was inhibited, by the Communist system, which interdict to people to express by the speech or by the write. What made me come from a country located in Eastern Europe, border between east and west, "jumping" almost a half of the Meridian Terrestrial Globe just to test a new kind of life? Yes this is the naked truth. It is a great and exciting change under unknown differences: Culture, tradition, habits and most important, the language which is most frequent in the world. Why did I choose America? Many reasons. But in principal because is a multinational country. Here, people never have been suspicious to foreigners. (At least I thought!) Under J.F. Kennedy administration, in my country an exhibition was opened about the very first man who visited our natural satellite, the Moon. As a young man I was fascinated seeing a small rock from our natural satellite. Who brought it down the Earth? An American! No Russian, no Chinese, no France or German. I choose this land because here was born Abraham Lincoln and Elvis. Thomas Edison and JFK. Errol Flynn and Reagan. End so on... As a curious child, I was passionate to search under all circumstances possible this society; men and women, children and elders, people from schools and universities, factories and businesses, streets and malls, etcetera. From the all domains I have been in touch, just with the Law enforcement and the Justice I was unfortunate. Why? Too many things: Lack of money, vulnerability, broken English, material interest of policemen, lawyers, judges; prosecutors and investigators. Everybody need jobs! Most of stories were taken from incidents and situations from my life. Some of the chapters are dedicated to life spent at the country of origin. But certainly, all of them are true in a proportion of 100% and originates from emotion recollected by the past. I hope, the people will enjoy reading and understanding that the target is to make a modest contribution, making the world a much better than it is.

About the Author

Gregory Fesko, also known as Grigore losifescu is originally from Romania. He was born in 1934 in the city named Piatra-Neamt. In Romania he studied and completed work at the following educational institutions. "Forester Professional" (3 years); HighSchool (12 years); "Art School" (3 years) ,"Art University" (2 years). Between 1951 &1985, before migrating to the United States, he worked as a Painting Decorator; Display-Window Painter; Packaging Creator for the National Food Industry (22 years); Graphic Designer; Book Illustrator; Packaging Creator; Advertising Producer; etc. In Romania, between 1970-76, he opened several Art Exhibitions in different locations of Romania such as: Bucharest, Turnu Severin , Craiova, Constanta, Piatra and Neamt. Other achievements in Romania included: Award No.1 at the National Art Festival (Bucharest, city level); Award No.2 at the National Art Festival, country level and the title "Laureate of The Festival"; "Stefan Luchian" award for painting, Bucharest, Romania. Thanks to the International Accord "Helsinki" he immigrated from Romania to Youngstown Ohio as a refugee in 1985 with his wife and two daughters, Cristina and Karina. Between 1985-1999, he participated in "The 47th Area Artists Annual" (Butler Institute of American Art); Downtown Youngstown, "Phar Mor Center"; "Winter Art Show"; "Fesko Art Show"; "From Where We Where" (Retrospective Art Exhibit); 'The 620th Annual Juried Student Exhibition" with an award, in 1998 at "The McDonough Museum of Art" ; "The Holiday Sales Fine Arts & Exhibition Sale" - The McDonough Museum of Art (Coy Cornelius Studios and Gallery); "The 63rd Annual Juried Student Exhibition" with award at "The McDonough Museum of Art". Also, he participated in the Trumbull Art Gallery, at the “45th TAG Annual Juried Exhibition” (Aug. - Sept. 2009) with Award of Merit. He also worked at the "Dinesol Plastic Corp." in Niles, Ohio from 1995-99. After receiving the basic knowledge of English language, he became American citizen and opened a shop in 1995 called the "Fesko Art & Sign Co." in downtown Youngstown which was in business from 1995 through 1999. He also attended Youngstown State University as an Art Studio Major receiving 100 credits between 1996 and 1998. In 1996, The State of Ohio Department of Education granted him a Teaching Certificate in the Commercial Art Area. In 2007 and 2008 Gregory won first place at The Senior Olympics of Northeast Ohio for table tennis. He was selected as a writer for the Ohio Writer' Conference (in Columbus) for Adult Education in 2010. Today, his art is displayed at the "Fine Art Sale Gallery of "The Butler Institute of American Art" in Youngstown, Ohio.