Calling America

Stories By Real People From Real Places

Places beginning with ‘Cedar Grove’

5November2007

The 37-Year-Old Version

Posted under places beginning with: C; Cedar Grove; New Jersey.

This story about a ‘homecoming’ in New Jersey comes to us from award winning essayist Joel Schwartzberg. The article was previously published in the New York Times Magazine (August 12 2007) and is republished here with the author’s consent. Joel writes a blog for NJVoices and is also currently a nominee for the 2007Weblog Awards.
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