Oakland’s Ramapo Hills Sanatorium By Kevin Heffernan This is that time of the ...
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Sofia Ebio, a junior at Indian Hills High School, in Oakland, NJ, appeared before ...
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Dear Veteran, First of all, Happy Valentine’s day and I hope your day is full of ...
Read more »AFTER HOURS at the OAKLAND LIBRARY and the New Jersey Theater Alliance Stages Festival Team Up New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s Stages Festival presents East Lynn Theater Company’s production of “Sherlock Holmes’ Adventure of the Speckled Band” at the Oakland Public Library located at 2 Municipal Plaza, Oakland, on Friday, March […]
Joe Biden. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. As reviewed by Ted Odenwald Former vice-presidents have been known to complain about being swallowed by an empty job, a basic sinecure. Joe Biden, President Obama’s VP for two terms, had no such […]
An Emotion Packed Theater Experience about the Life and Times of Civil Rights Activist – William Edward Berghardt Du Bois. (1868 – 1963) W.E.B. Du Bois, A Man for All Times to be performed “After Hours” on the Oakland Library Stage, on Friday, February 2 at 7:00 PM. The Library […]
February Special Events at the Oakland Public Library (Children’s Dept.) Original Library Building to Open with Exhibit “The Highlands of New Jersey- an Iron Age in Small Scale” an exhibit of Dan Yandrasevich’s historic models photographed by Nancy De Vries will open the original building on Thursday, February 1st. A […]
Looking Back, Looking Forward A Shared Journey By Kevin Heffernan Part 1 The Search for the Retro Man A very close friend once suggested that I spend too much time in the past to which I lamely said, “Really.!?” That mixture of denial and confusion over the gentle remark was […]
Amy Goldstein. Janesville: An American Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. As Reviewed by Ted Odenwald Janesville, Wisconsin, population 63,000 was the home of the oldest working GM plant. For eight and a half decades, the plant had operated “like a mythy wizard, order[ing] the city’s rhythms.” But two […]
