Cranberries in New Jersey: a long and rich history
BY GREG SAITZ Correspondent
     Good cranberries, it turns out, are like SuperBalls: they bounce. Cranberry growers were turned on to this useful tidbit about the little red fruit by a forerunner from the 1840s: a New Jersey grower named John “Peg Leg” Webb. The oft-repeated story, with slight variations, details how Webb and his peg leg had difficulty bringing a barrel of cranberries down some steps.
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      On April 8 at 6 p.m. the Rehab Center at Wedgwood Gardens, Route 9 north, Freehold Township, will host a free lecture, “Treatment Options for Chronic Knee Pain,” presented by Dr. Manuel T. Banzon, orthopedic surgeon of the Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute in Freehold.
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