Everyday People: Profiles From The Garden State,Used

Everyday People: Profiles From The Garden State,Used

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In this time of evershorter news stories telling us everything thats wrong with the world, its a nice change of pace to read about someone like Felix Addeo, who takes time out of his busy schedule to teach middle school kids what its like to be an accountant. Or biomedical engineer Lois Ross, who twice a year leads a group of volunteers to clean up a local pond. These are just two of the ordinary, yet extraordinary, people profiled in this collection of feature articles by New Jersey reporter Al Sullivan. Through richly detailed storiesa kind of writing that has all but disappeared from our local newspapersabout smalltown people in extraordinary situations, Sullivan depicts the characters that enliven life in the Garden State. While his stories always have a strongly local feel, each contains an element of the universal that draws in readers whose interest lies not in a specific location, but in the diverse experiences and stories of people who live in and shape a community.Sullivan has written about people from nearly every walk of life, from minister to prostitute, from jail warden to undercover cop. Everyday People takes readers to the funeral of AIDS activist Ronald West, Jr., and to the office of James Delson, owner and operator of Jersey Citys Toy Soldier Company. Youll follow Sullivan from the Hoboken workshop of violin maker Jon Van Kouwenhoven to the rooftops that are the office of chimney sweep Ron Simpson. Youll go on a ride with the Glen Ridge Volunteer Ambulance Squad and along the Hackensack River with Captain Bill Sheehan, founder of the Hackensack Estuary and River Tenders Corporation, which monitors the rivers ecology.You dont have to live in New Jersey to recognize the people in Sullivans stories. They are the librarians and tax assessors, attorneys and hotdog vendors, firefighters and bee keepers, poets and politicians, that make every American town special. In Everyday People, Sullivan records their stories for us all to read and remember.

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