It’s 5:30 am as a group of women gather at Bernards Township’s Harry Dunham Park for an intense hour of hopping over parking lot rails, hanging from jungle gyms, and assorted calisthenics. This is a story about the New Jersey Adventure Boot Camp.

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Tewksbury poet Sondra Gash, whose collection Silk Elegy (CavanKerry Press, 2002) honors her immigrant relatives and their connection to Paterson’s silk industry, will lead a creative writing workshop on the 13th for 30 middle- and high-school language arts teachers during the second annual Ellis Island Institute Summer Teachers’ Seminar.

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