Buskers
I Love New Jersey
“A Boy And His Ball”,
Everything Jersey City Street Festival,
Central Avenue,
Jersey City, New Jersey,
May 2012
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vintagememry asked: I don't understand your answer to my question. I realise now that my wording was more than a bit off, but i'm not sure how my question is equivalent to a trick? I'm sorry to follow up with more questions, but I'm genuinely trying to understand.
You ask why feminists are critical of certain preferences you have. It’s a trick because they’re not. If you have friends who are critical, don’t blame feminism.
A Collingswood, N.J., lawyer made a documentary film, “The Lonely Bones,” after rediscovering that Johnson Park Cemetery in East Camden, N.J., is the final resting place of about 120 members of the United States Colored Troops, who fought for the Union in the Civil War following the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
The site, Camden’s first black cemetery, and the grave site of between 250 and 300 former residents, has fallen into disrepair.
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A Vignette for Camden
by mensah demary
No one, they say, moves to Camden, N.J. by choice.
Camden is, comparatively speaking, no worse than north Philadelphia or west Baltimore or at least two of Washington, D.C.’s quadrants. None of these places are inhabitable, so they say, but habitants remain in Camden, though pushed away from the Delaware River, shoved deep into hollowed buildings and corridors where, if trapped, a tourist miles away from the aquarium is set up by yellow eyes undulating like beacons in the dark.
Through my work, I regularly travel to cities throughout the State - mostly in the North - Newark, Paterson, Plainfield, Elizabeth, Irvington, Morristown, Trenton, Hackensack, New Brunswick - nowhere else do I feel the sense of hopelessness that I feel in Camden. Every other city has, at it’s gritty core, a vibrance, a rhythm. There are people striding quickly through the street to work and to school. There are mothers pushing strollers as they shop. Near college buildings there are music and clothing stores and coffee shops. Near courthouses there are lawyers’ offices, restaurants, delis and more coffee shops. Not in Camden. This is one of the reasons why I feel so strongly that this Rutgers/Rowan College deal is wrong - I suspect in a few years Camden will be abandoned by one of the few institutions left.
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Every Act of Creation - Long Branch
Newark Mayor Cory Booker helps save neighbor from fire.
How freaking awesome is this guy?
Snowy Owl in the Meadowlands (NJ)
By J Gilbert
