May 15th is National Dinosaur Day! Imagine taking your stegosaurus for a walk. Everything is going well as you try to keep pace, hoping that it does not become sidetracked and decide to chase a squirrel or mailman, slapping you…
Category: Blasts from the Past!
The Poison Papers
Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, a lot of headlines in the NJ Digital Newspaper Project papers deal with deaths and tragedy. I suppose this is to be expected, after all, tragedy nets an increase in views, or–at least in…
Edgar Allan Poe
We can not end National Poetry Month without mentioning short story writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe. His writings transformed horror fiction with short story classics such as “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” and “The Fall of the House of…