Plainfield, New Jersey, as I see it

Mention the name of Plainfield, New Jersey to anyone listening, and mostly they'll look at you as though you are minus a few or they being to groan in disgust and turn away.

Plainfield, located at the western end of Union County, was once known as the Queen City, for it's numerous and varied lovely old homes lining its many streets. Granted many of those old homes are in disrepair, but many have been restored. The sheer variety of architectural styles range from the many types of Victorian, Georgian, Edwardian to Craftsman cottages and 1950's modern. A drive down any of the major streets will take the viewer's breathe away for each house is different from the one next door.

I wrote about Plainfield in my first novel Imperfect Past, for I love Plainfield for its beauty and its historic past (yes, George did sleep in town), for its magnificent leaders such as the late Dwitt Dukes Barlow, for what it offers to anyone who can see beyond poverty and crime.