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New Jersey is America’s secret treasure-house of culture.
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Of course, think “New Jersey” and cultural epicenter doesn’t immediately spring to mind. Instead, the name summons up unsparing caricature: grime, gangsters, pollution, ugly highways, Byzantine shopping malls, Saharan parking lots and a level of culture somewhere between troglodyte and troll.
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So why all the antipathy toward a place that is also the first colony to ratify the Bill of Rights, that contains numerous beautiful towns and villages, that boasts an ocean, mountains and a vast forest among its natural wonders, and that has more horses per square mile than any other state?
Giddy up. Also, this sentence is too good to ignore:
The Garden State Parkway is something like the fulfillment of the modern dream of harmony between nature and technology — where rivers like glass meet winking airports.
It’s almost as lovely as one of our state’s most treasured slogans, courtesy of The Outlawz: I’m from N-E-W Jerz, where plenty murders occurz.
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what a great way to wake up after a nice nap
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I agree but……Where is Kevin Smith?
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New Jersey: Don’t worry, we send the worst parts to New York for the weekend.
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