🚀 Steve Zettler was seven years old, living above his family's inn in 1950s Bucks County, and his parents were too busy running it to raise him.

The staff did instead. Five kitchen help, three waitresses and three bartenders, one of whom spent his day job flipping the switch on the electric chair in Trenton. Steve grew up inside the Washington Crossing Inn back when the stretch between there and New Hope was nothing but farms, and he has now written it down in his memoir Leave the Kid Alone: A Fractured Remembrance.

Anthony Pinto hosts Bucks Co Living and works as a top-producing RE/MAX REALTOR® out of Newtown, PA, with 16+ years as a Realtor, Property Manager and Relocation Specialist. He grew up in restaurants himself, so he knows exactly what Steve means about a family business putting you to work the moment it notices you have opposable thumbs. What comes out is Bucks County community history no listing sheet carries: bourbon poured into teapots to get around Pennsylvania's Sunday drinking ban, three inns in Doylestown, Pipersville and Washington Crossing run by three sisters in one family, and the December 1968 afternoon Steve landed home from Vietnam in uniform and was told to wait his turn.

🎧 Hosted by: Anthony Pinto

👤 Guest: Steve Zettler – Author | Actor | Marine Corps Combat Veteran

Steve Zettler is an American author, professional actor, and Marine Corps combat veteran. He has penned numerous works of fiction, including standalone international thrillers and the bestselling Nero Blanc Mystery Series, co-authored with his wife. Alongside acting credits in television shows like The Wire and Cold Case, his most recent release is the historical memoir, Leave the Kid Alone - A Fractured Remembrance.

💡 What You'll Learn: ✔️ Seeing the Washington Crossing to New Hope corridor as it was before development ✔️ Understanding what a room and board kitchen job meant to veterans of Iwo Jima and Korea ✔️ Recognizing how Pennsylvania's Sunday drinking ban shaped daily life at a Bucks County bar ✔️ Rethinking what counts as a strange childhood when you assumed everyone lived that way ✔️ Building a memoir out of genuine seven-year-old memory rather than research ✔️ Carrying what a Vietnam homecoming actually felt like in December 1968 ✔️ Making peace with turning into your father ✔️ Tracing a book title back to a Broadway actor and Rocky and Bullwinkle

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