When I flipped through the pages of New Jersey for Kids, the first thing I saw was the photo at the beginning of the chapter “History Made Fun.” It was a picture of a bunch of children at the edge of a cornfield and the caption explained that at the Howell Living History Farm, the kids were shucking corn. This is history? Don’t those kids help their parents shuck the Jersey corn for one of those summer dinners, when the corn is as tall as you know what and the tomatoes are ripening on the vine in the garden?
This new Rutgers University Press book by Patrick Sarver, former editor of New Jersey Monthly and author of the…
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