title Maplewood and Little-League Baseball, New Jersey - 29th April 2006 intro At the end of nearly two months working in California, Nosher heads back to the UK with a stop-off at old school-chum Phil's pad in the attractive New Jersey town of Maplewood. Before we head off to Lolly's beach house on Fire Island, we manage to pack in a trip to Kai's Karate class, a session of Little League Baseball (another American institution on the list of US icons to see or do), and a play in the form of a contemporary interpretation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at The Papermill Theater. imgp9325 Phil mows the lawn imgp9330 Phil rummages around in the garage for stuff imgp9333 More lawn-mowing imgp9335 A Maplewood sreet imgp9337 Gordon Dart Electric says "no loitering" imgp9338 Phil takes Kai back from Karate class imgp9339 We eat a picnic in the park imgp9341 Lolly's on the phone imgp9344 The baseball field imgp9346 Kai sticks his cap on imgp9349 The baseball cage imgp9361 Kai swings out imgp9375 The teams change over imgp9376 Practicing catching imgp9647 Downtown Maplewood and a 1920s-ish Cinema imgp9648 The leafy Main Street imgp9649 A curious gingerbread-like cottage-cum-church imgp9652 Leafy Maplewood suburbs imgp9654 Looking back up Main Street imgp9655 The St. James's Gate bar imgp9656 In a Maplewood café imgp9657 More Main Street imgp9660 The Maplewood Bank and Trust building imgp9661 Main Street, USA imgp9662 Lolly outside the Blue Moon Diner in South Orange imgp9664 Lolly in the comic book store where she works imgp9665 Lolly checks comics