http://thisamericanriver.com Afloat on New Jersey's Passaic Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:35:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://thisamericanriver.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-1872 Roger Mills Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:11:48 +0000 http:/?page_id=2#comment-1872 I lived close to the Passaic River (Passaic Township, aka Long Hill Township) and spent many a day as a boy along it's banks, floating on it, wading in it, skating on it and occasionally swimming in it. Yes, it was muddy and polluted, even further up stream, but we were young and adventurous. I almost drown in it one time. I came very, very close to losing my life. It was a thing of a twisted sort of beauty back then and to this day it is "the river that runs through my dreams." I hope some day it runs clean and free as it once did over a century ago. I lived close to the Passaic River (Passaic Township, aka Long Hill Township) and spent many a day as a boy along it’s banks, floating on it, wading in it, skating on it and occasionally swimming in it. Yes, it was muddy and polluted, even further up stream, but we were young and adventurous. I almost drown in it one time. I came very, very close to losing my life. It was a thing of a twisted sort of beauty back then and to this day it is “the river that runs through my dreams.” I hope some day it runs clean and free as it once did over a century ago.

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