The following essay is by Wayne Eastman, long-time South Orange resident and former President of the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education.
Wayne Eastman, Darcy Hall and a then-future student in the South Orange-Maplewood School District.
Twenty-seven years ago, I moved from the Ivy Hill neighborhood of Newark to South Orange, impelled by a mixture of idealism and calculation.
At
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