My mother and I, who grew up in Passaic and Clifton respectively, knew only Goosey night. After having taught a few classes of ESL adults this bit of our culture, I found an article in NJ Monthly which said Goosey Night was very Passaic County and attributed Cabbage Night to Bergen County. I did a p...

Goosey Night is Passaic County; Cabbage Night is Bergen County as far as I know. It is interesting that there are similarities between Brooklyn and some parts of Northern Jersey. On the playground did you slide down a slide or a sliding POND? Does anybody remember the first of May being petticoat da...