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Woodbury Heights, New Jersey - 1950s and 1960s

I spent a good deal of my life growing up in a small town in Southern New Jersey called Woodbury Heights. My childhood home is at one of the far ends of town, the corner of Walnut Ave. and Egg Harbor, now Tanyard, Road. It will always be my home. The Heights was a good place to grow up in the 50's and 60's; small town America with all its virtues. For a few years that corner was my own private world of imaginary friends whose voices I supplied. I was separated from all the kids my own age for a time, simply because they did not live close to me, so I invented my own. I do not remember their names, but we ran and chased each other all around my yard, fighting pirates and exploring the seven seas. Our yard was large; almost an acre, and we had woods bordering us in the back.
I loved the woods. The worlds one created were of story book creatures and Indians, the jungles of Africa and Brazil. It was my Sherwood Forest, and I its Robin Hood, free to spend the day robbing the rich barons who dared trespass my domain. I was master of it all until Mom called me in for supper.

"Soups' on!" was her cry, and the merry men would fade away.

I had to play outside most of the time when I was very young. My father was a railroad man who worked long night shifts at the time. He was always asleep during the day, so I had to be quiet indoors. I preferred my outside world where I was free to whoop and holler.

My world of isolation and imagination would affect my relationship with the outside world in the years to come. It was a world of my own making that I controlled. I became a loner in those years, always able to find something or invent something to do. I was never bored. I guess that's why I cried the first day of Kindergarten. I was being torn away from my Mom and my own private kingdom into a world of strangers and ways unknown to me.
Follow me down this path and we'll go on a journey of youth and memory. Of loyal dogs and shiny new bikes,brothers and friends, a world of joy and irony. Did I understand anything then? Do I know anything now?

Hop on my bike and we'll go for a ride.

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Wenonah, New Jersey - Jack's tale of growing up in a quiet South Jersey town.
Wenonah is a small town. Before we join my youthful self in 1958 you should know how it's laid out. It's bisected east and west by the West Jersey Railroad, a now mostly unused railroad line that was in fact the reason the town was built. North and south it's cut in half by Mantua Ave., the main street of Wenonah, which turns into Wenonah Ave. when it rolls into the adjacent town, Mantua. The northern end of town is bordered by Woodbury/Glassboro Road and the southern end by the Mantua Creek which orginates in the Delaware, a few miles upstream.
The town is surrounded on the eastern, southern, and western borders by a small woodland area. This area is called the Wenonah Woods and was purchased through a gift by a local naturalist in the early 1970's. Here is a link to the google map of the town

Mantua, the town on the southern edge was a largely Italian working class community. Just past Mantua farms stretched for miles and miles. Tomatoes and peaches as far as the eye could see. The northern, eastern, and western edges were part of Deptford Township. Deptford was an amalgam of small settlements and suburban developments that in the 1960's began to grow. The area directly east of Wenonah in Deptford was known to us as Jericho. It was an African American community with long standing roots. When I was young it was mostly working class black people. People in Wenonah didn't talk to people in Jericho. More on that later.
The next town up the road on the eastern side was Woodbury Heights, then Woodbury. My father lived in Woodbury as a teenager and it was this connection that led us to Wenonah. My father moved our family from a Levittown development outside of Philadelphia in 1957, first to a rental property in Woodbury, and then to Wenonah. None of us live in Wenonah now but all of us carry pieces of it with us. You don't really get to leave Wenonah.

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