Hampton’s hometown attorney Al Casassa (’57) celebrates 60 years
HAMPTON – In 1960, gas was 28 cents a gallon and 23 cents bought a loaf of bread, but when Al Casassa opened his Hampton law practice the day after Labor Day that year he had one immediate goal.
“I had two kids and a wife at home,” Casassa remembered. “I wanted to be able to put food on the table.”
He had a bachelor’s from Boston College and a law degree from Boston University. Casassa was a Navy veteran with a steady paycheck as an attorney with the Internal Revenue’s Portsmouth office before he left that security behind to set up his own one-man practice in his hometown, right above his folk’s Lafayette Road store, the former Colt News.