{"product_id":"old-dock-road-sketches-on-coming-of-age-in-a-small-new-jersey-village-9781425789329","title":"Old Dock Road: Sketches on Coming of Age In a Small New Jersey Village","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Don Bell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Xlibris Us\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris Us\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you had the good fortune to grow up in a small village of about 3,000 people in 1930 through 1940 - especially a village less than an hour away from a major city like New York, you may well relate to most of these essays. Unfortunately, most small towns have merged with other towns to form small or medium - size cities, in which case you may enjoy reading about a young boy growing up in a town that size - a town where there was little or no crime and the one policeman was a lonely as the Maytag repairman. The town - Closter - was a WASP (White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant) community and you can imagine the problems John Saladino - an Italian Catholic - had when he opened a barber shop in town, or when Sam Moscowitz (he quickly changed his name to Sam Morse) opened a drug store. Were either of them accepted by the locals? I'm not going to tell you everything in this synopsis. Please read on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Us","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47611725349015,"sku":"9781425789329","price":2697.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781425789329.webp?v=1775072480","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/old-dock-road-sketches-on-coming-of-age-in-a-small-new-jersey-village-9781425789329","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}