HeyJaredYour Hometown Too
Stories about America from Bruce Springsteen’s hometown, and mine.
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Their Hometown Too (opens the original)
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This post is part of the Main Street section. Visit the Your Hometown Too site on your browser to explore the other posts in the section.When ICE comes to town, and they have been coming to town more often lately, they usually come in the morning. Unmarked vehicles, tinted windows, no front license plates. They cruise the streets slowly, two or three together, prowling. You don’t see the flashing lights inside the windshields until they make a stop.Mia was on her way to work arou
A Necklace of Grief (opens the original)
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Our town held its annual 9/11 service this morning at the small memorial in front of borough hall. Like the memorials in many other communities in the orbit around New York, it was dedicated soon after the attack, and long before the memorial at Ground Zero itself. On an earlier anniversary of 9/11, I wrote this story for The New York Times about some of those memorials, and the people behind them.This post is part of the Deep Cuts section. Visit the Your Hometown Too site on your browser to ex
The Miracle of St. Rose? (opens the original)
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St, Rose of Lima mourned its beloved longtime pastor last week, Rev. James Conover, who was born and raised in the parish and returned to lead it for the last 15 years, his final assignment. Father Jim stood in a line that started in 1871 with the parish’s founding pastor, Monsignor Frederick Kivelitz, whose death in 1930 drew to the church thousands of pilgrims eager to witness what they thought was a miracle.This post is part of the Main Street section. Visit the Your Hometown Too site on your
September 1950 (opens the original)
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This post is number 13 in the His Hometown series, an ongoing narrative. Visit the Your Hometown Too site on your browser to explore how the posts fit together.When the 8:07 northbound train pulled out of Asbury Park on Thursday morning, September 14, among its passengers were five young men from Freehold, headed toward the war that had started in Korea in June. Selective Service Board 33 in Asbury had ordered them to report for i
Six Pounds (opens the original)
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This post is part of the Main Street section. Visit the Your Hometown Too site on your browser to explore the other posts in the section.She was not the kind of dog we ever would have chosen for ourselves – six yappy pounds of pampered, groomed, beribboned, perfumed Yorkipoo. Her name was Charlotte and she belonged to my beloved cousin Sharon Grasberger, who carried her in what looked like a large handbag wherever she went. Sharon even took her on visits to the doctor’s office, un
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