#downneck

                                           ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE The section of Newark, New Jersey I called home was referred to as the ‘Down neck Section’ of Newark, why, I once read that it had something to do with the shape of the Passaic River as it passed the area where I lived.  And on the Sunday afternoon, closest to St. Patrick’s Day, the residents of my street were treated to what…

DOWNNECK I began my life on August 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, the Down Neck section, and lived in that city, in the same house, the same cold water flat for nearly twenty years.  This section of Newark is still known by this name for a few years ago, on a train to New York with my wife and two daughters, we passed a sign for a pizza place that stated, ‘ A DOWN NECK TRADITION’.  My hometown is…

                          GROWING UP IN NEWARK My youth and early childhood were spent in Newark, New Jersey.  Since then, I have traveled the country, lived in either coast or in the Midwest, yet never left Newark totally behind.  There is always a hint of Newark in my attitude, my approach to life.  Life changes, but the experiences that mold us come early instilling values we carry within…

 Here is a memory I rekindle this time every year.                                      DOWN NECK ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE                                                                 A NEWARK EVENT During my youth I lived in a section of Newark, New Jersey referred to as the ‘DownNeck’ Section of Newark. The area was also known as the Ironbound Section due to the many factories in the…