New Jersey

Three years  sounds like I should be a lot of time to tour small states like New Jersey or New York, but there's so much packed in that you still have to be choosy or lucky.

This state has a lot of history and a lot of passion, and they can both be found roadside in any of the many small townships that clump tightly together, separated by just a "Welcome to" sign.  Memorials and Murals are liberally sprinkled everywhere. Everywhere. Some, I haven't been able to stop for because they are literally on the shoulder of a highway or in the middle of a stone bridge.

Photo by facilitron, where you can sign up to rent classrooms in the weekend.

George Washington Carver Elementary School, Newark NJ, has a huge mural of GWC in their chain-link-fenced in playground. (It may also be called Carver Bruce Elementary, according to the soft sign on the building.) And no, I don't know why there seems to be a bronze butt included in the mural.


"Una Gota Rompe La Piedra' or "A Drop Breaks the Stone” by Lenny Correa aka Layqa Nuna Yawar (pronounced 'Lunar New Year'. Mural on Handy Street and Jersey Avenue. 
"It is also intended to tell the stories of Latino community living in the Esperanza Neighborhood in New Brunswick." - Tom Hayden, 2018. Correa is a Latinx immigrant from Ecuador and graduate of Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. 
Image Credits: New Brunswick Tomorrow

IP, Captured in an alley in New Brunswick.

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