My Family’s Fourth of July

    While we are celebrating this weekend, I remember picnics with dozens of aunts, uncles, and cousins in the locust-zizzling heat of the New Jersey Pines. We would be surrounded by the scents of barbeques chicken and hotdogs, the sights of impromptu softball games and horseshoe pitches, and the constant chatter of familial gossip. Everyone lurked around the dessert table, the most popular attraction of the day, but we would have pans of | Read More »