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YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY
A Poetic View of Nutley, N.J.

By Anthony Buccino

A poet and history
are a dangerous combination.
Readers must decide what is true
and what is stretched
– and that’s precisely the point.
Be mad, be amused,
but go out
and find your own truths.

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NUTLEY NJ 07110

First Posted June 21, 2006

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Neighborhood snapshot: Yanatacaw

On Page 2 of Newark This Week in The Star-Ledger on May 1, is a great photo and over all history of the neighborhood sometimes known as Yantacaw.

Compiled by staff writer Daniel DePasquale, the story web links included this blog.

Thanks, folks. If I knew you were coming - and most of you have come and gone - I'd have added a few starts of my poems about Nutley.

Here are a few photos I took recently:

Secret stream

Yanticaw School

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Brookdale Soda - Verse

BROOKDALE SODA

Who could wait to drive
the family sedan or wagon
To the Brookdale soda depot
on 6th Street or Sylvan?
Empty cases in the trunk
Scooting through tree-lined streets
To the back yard driveway off
Sylvan Avenue in Bloomfield
or the Allwood Circle cross town
Or off to downtown at Heller/Heller
Grab a hand cart and an empty case
Splintering wood and later dark-blue plastic –
Go through the stacks of cases and fill them:

Birch beer – two or three, Kola, cream,
ginger ale, Cheers – don’t forget quinine too
Blood red cherry and cherry-pit, another birch
and fill it out with root beer, more Kola, too
and orange soda, cream, and bright green lemon-lime
Life never got any better than this,
and we wouldn’t know that for a long while

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Brookdale Soda the blog

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