Meadowlands
Personal memory by Carolee Lowry
1950 • East Rutherford, NJ, USA
My dad has told me stories of growing up near the Meadowlands. He used to trap muscrats and hunt pheasants there. He spent his summers swimming and fishing in the many waterways. He then watched the first giant stadium and the racetrack be built. This brought an increase in traffic and pollution which changed the ecosystem dramtically he says. Animals of all kinds started to disappear. He says the Meadowlands of today is nothing like the rich clean one of his youth.
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