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Baby, it's Cold Outside...Let's Help Warm Things Up
Torna with Michael Grande of Morganville's Rock Out Loud music school Every once in a while you meet someone who you just know is special. It may be their personality, or it may be the way they make the world a better place. In the case of Torna Bell, she checks both boxes. Torna is a ball of light - warm, funny, and generous. You just love her. But most of all, she makes good things happen. When she saw a need to feed families at the start of the pandemic, she didn’t just th

Dana Howell
Dec 1, 20212 min read


Dressing Day: The Psychology Behind the Who, What, and Wear of Reproduction Clothing
...RANaway from the subscriber, a mulatto man named Tom...he had on him when he went away a blue broadcloth coat almost new, striped nankeen overalls and vest, a rorum hat almost new, and some other clothes… - Joseph Taylor, Monmouth County, October 14th, 1796 The canvas-colored cloth mannequins stood bare, aside from the varying shades of brown fabric skins that had been custom made to fit snugly over their heads and limbs. MCHA Director of Collections, Bernadette Rogoff, mo

Dana Howell
Oct 18, 20215 min read


A Fence Post
The war memorial known as “Patriot Isle” is located at the Historic Four Corners in Shrewsbury, NJ. On Memorial Day 2021, a group of...

Dana Howell
Oct 14, 20212 min read


Deeply Rooted - The Taylors of Freehold
We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. - Bruce Springsteen If you live around the Freehold area,...

Dana Howell
Oct 5, 20214 min read


Middletown Midden: Finding "Treasures" in 19th-Century Trash
"Anything dirty or dingy or dusty Anything ragged or rotten or rusty Yes, I love trash.” — Oscar the Grouch Late last fall, I took...

Joe Zemla
Mar 29, 20213 min read
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