When Angel Stefancik was a kid, she would often play in the dirt. A lot of kids do the same, but the dirt in the hills around her home in Upper Ringwood — a close-knit working-class neighbourhood in the shadow of the Ramapough Mountains in New Jersey — was special. It was often bright and multicoloured, it glistened in the sun and had a particular scent.
“We would be out here all hours, day and night. We made mud pies, played chef, that kind of thing,” says Stefancik, now 22-years-old. “We had nowhere else to play.”
