Leap Year Trivia
This being leap year, we’ll again be celebrating an extra day in February that comes around every four years to balance our solar-based calendar with the sun’s actual 365-day journey. […]
History
Comic Sites
One of the most defining characteristics between DC and Marvel comic books is the settings used for the narratives. From its early days, DC chose mostly fictional urban centers like
Gifted Books
The two large bookcases that house an impressive collection of tomes once owned by Charles K. Landis and his family at the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society (VHAS) is beginning
Off the Shelf
Last month, Patricia Martinelli, curator of the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society, began the process of unlocking a portion of town founder Charles K. Landis’ archives that had never been
Songs of Love
The 1969 Amsterdam bed-in at which New Jersey Casino Control Commissioner Alisa Cooper interviewed John Lennon and Yoko Ono concluded on March 31, but its details, sounds and images would
Bedside Chat
As a junior at Atlantic City High School waiting for the elevator to reach the ninth floor of the Amsterdam Hilton where she would interview John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Fifty Decades Past
This past decade has celebrated its share of 50th anniversaries of events that helped shape a half-century of culture, politics and scientific accomplishments. So, it seems fitting to take a
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Two Dry Towns
The early 1860s brochure published by A. Cole & Co. to promote the settlement of Manumuskin shares many of the same ingredients found in Vineland founder Charles K. Landis’s newspaper
Town on the River
By the middle of the 19th century, the Manumuskin River shared its name with a community that was developed after the iron mill, forge and workers’ settlement instituted by Eli
Marvel Man’s Swan Song?
Not long after Ashland, Oregon resident Don Haynes lost his $25,000 bet to visit every state in the country while traveling sealed in a Kaiser DeLuxe automobile for 14 months,
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