Living In the World, Not on It

1. What is your age?  Under 18 Years Old  18 to 24 Years Old  25 to 30 Years Old  31 to 40 Years Old  41 to 50 Years Old  51 to 60 Years Old  Over 60 Years Old 2. What is your gender?  Male  Female 3. New Jersey is also known as what?  The Keystone State  The Garden State  The Pollution State  The Empire State 4. How many issues of Weird New Jersey have you read?  Zero  One or two  Between three and ten  More than ten 5. Have you ever eaten taylor ham with cheese on a hard roll?  Yes  No 6. Have you ever found yourself at a diner at one o'clock in the morning?  Yes  No 7. In the summer, do you "go down the shore"?  Yes  No 8. Does summer for you begin on Memorial Day weekend and end on Labor Day?  Yes  No 9. Have you been to places featured in HBO's The Sopranos?  Yes  No 10. The PNC Bank Arts Center was once ...

Happy Thanksgiving! Farmer's Calendar After a treacherous voyage and first brutal winter spent along the shore of Cape Cod Bay, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony had a stroke of good fortune. Members of the Wampanoag Nation offered to teach them how to gather food from the wild and cultivate native crops such as corn. The first harvest, in 1621, proved so successful that Governor William Bradford ordered a feast to celebrate. We now call this the Pilgrim's first Thanksgiving, although they considered it simply a harvest festival. The event, however, was a far cry from today's observance. The thankful colonists soon joined by their generous Native American friends, took part in a 3-day party that included singing, dancing, musket and bow-and-arrow competitions, and footraces. Historians can document with certainty only two items on the menu for that day: fowl provided by the Pilgrims and venison provided by the Wampanoag. Seafood such as bass, cod, eels, clams, a...