If the pictures on a legislator’s walls tell a story, the story portrayed in the office of 1st Plymouth District Rep. Vinny deMacedo is unlike any other in the Statehouse.

Along with photos of his wife, son and daughter are a wood cut-out map of the Cape Verde islands and a map of Plymouth. He has a framed photograph of Ronald Reagan, another of himself and national GOP strategist Andrew Card, and a black-and-white grip-and-grin shot with former Cleveland Browns running back and blaxploitation film hero Jim Brown.

“Being a big football fan, I thought it was pretty exciting,” deMacedo says of the souvenir from Brown’s Statehouse visit.

Reagan and Card’s photos speak to a set of conservative values forged by the Republican legislator’s experience as the child of hard-working immigrants and his years of experience working with and owning small businesses in Massachusetts.

The map of Cape Verde speaks to a lifelong love affair with the place of his birth, kept alive through stories and photographs his parents shared with him.

The eclecticism on his walls is reflected in his work on a wide range of issues at the Statehouse.

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