InThe the South Jersey Time Culture & Historyof CenterCoronavirus at Stockton University, Annual Report 2019–2020 Background of the South Jersey Culture SoJourn, our biannual journal, provides the op- & History Center portunity for devotees of local history to write for an Established in 2011, the South Jersey Culture & enthusiastic readership. Our book publishing eorts History Center (SJCHC) promotes awareness of the include new full-length treatises and biographical rich cultural and historical heritage of South Jersey,1 works, along with republications of important texts believing that such awareness fosters appreciation about South Jersey, long out of print and dicult to and understanding within our local communities. We nd. engage a diverse audience as we produce regionally Tom Kinsella, Professor of Literature, has directed relevant books and journals; participate in exhibitions the center since its inception. Paul W. Schopp joined of both art and artifacts; engage the public in South as Assistant Director in 2014. Together, and working Jersey centric events and symposia; supervise Stockton with approximately 40 students per year, they have students in meaningful internships with historical developed and maintain a local history press that is societies or historical sites; and conduct oral history supported by related exhibitions, symposia and digital interviews and video production to document the media. cultural and physical landscape around us. Student Internships at a Glance e lower eight counties of New Jersey include the Pine Barrens with its environmental wonders and Since spring 2014 (when Paul W. Schopp joined history of natural resource exploitation; the bayshore, the center), nearly 200 Stockton students have with oystering, shing, and shipbuilding traditions; enrolled in various SJCHC internships: agricultural belts that include a number of late nineteenth-century farming communities established • 16 students at the graduate and undergraduate level by Russian Jews escaping from czarist pogroms; the have enrolled in external internships at historical many seaside resorts; and urbanized manufacturing societies, museums and cultural sites including centers. SJCHC uses each of the methods detailed Atlantic County Historical Society, Atlantic County above to explore and share our rich culture and history. Veterans Museum, Batsto, Cold Spring Village, 1 South Jersey, by our denition, comprises the eight southernmost counties of New Jersey: Burlington, Ocean, Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem, Cumberland and Cape May. 1 Museum of the American Revolution, Rancocas older. e gender of students is approximately 2 to 1 Nature Center, Vineland Historical & Antiquarian female to male; they are diverse in racial and sexual Society and the Whitesbog Preservation Trust. orientation. • 25 students at the graduate and undergraduate level have completed internships on campus, not including The Editing Internship editing and library internships. Student projects have In spring 2016, with the encouragement of included oral history projects (seven students), library his Dean, Tom Kinsella inaugurated an ongoing exhibitions, research into the Alliance Colony (eorts Editing Internship. He established strategies through that paved the way for the Alliance Heritage Center), which Stockton students assist in the creation of and research on various South Jersey topics. publications, and today, proudly, SJCHC maintains • 14 students, largely undergraduates, have completed a student-staed local history press. To date we have internships at Special Collections & Archives within published eighteen titles and seven issues of SoJourn, the Bjork Library. ese students have beneted from our biannual local history journal. the excellent tutelage of Heather Perez and Louise During their internship, editing interns are Tillstrom with oversight by Tom Kinsella. provided with instruction in copy- and line editing as well as layout and design concepts using Adobe • Finally, 137 students, largely undergraduates, have InDesign. In this production-oriented course, students enrolled as editing interns. quickly join work on publishing projects: some interns inaugurate new projects, establishing the initial text Since 2014, under the supervision of Tom and completing copy editing; others join projects Kinsella, 192 students have enrolled in internships underway, completing necessary editing and beginning related to the study of South Jersey. During that layout and design; still others complete work begun same period, Kinsella twice oered senior seminars one or two semesters previously. Students have often to Literature majors on South Jersey topics that contributed new forwards which are printed in our enrolled an additional 41 students. As a result, the republished titles. total number of students introduced to systematic In summer 2019, fall 2019 and spring 2020, consideration of local history is over 230. While most SJCHC worked with many talented editing interns. of these students fall into the traditional 18–22- ose students helped complete work on the impres- year demographic, several students have been much sive list of publications listed here: Editing Interns at work on SoJourn. 2 Ken Tompkins and Robert Gregg. Blogging 40. specialists, but rather attempting to provide readable, Eds. Taylor Cills, Diondra Meningall-Burney historically accurate, scholarly, and enjoyable texts for and Margaret Simek. Galloway, NJ: South Jersey all. Culture & History Center, 2019. 225 pp. We have the same goals of historic preservation Moses Klein. Migdal Zophim & Farming in the Jewish and dissemination in mind when selecting stand- Colonies of South Jersey. Foreword by Tom Kinsella. alone publications. Robert ompson’s Burlington Eds. Devyn Brown and Sara Brown. Galloway, NJ: Biographies (2016) provides a fresh look at the history South Jersey Culture & History Center, 2019. xxiv of Burlington, New Jersey, with its rich heritage + 266pp. and longstanding lore. Production of this hardcover William Stainsby. e Jewish Colonies of South Jersey; study was partially supported with a grant from Historical Sketch of eir Establishment and Growth. the New Jersey Historical Commission. Garment Foreword by Tom Kinsella. Eds. Sviatlana Buslovich Workers of South Jersey: Nine Oral Histories (2016) and Katie Cushinotto. Galloway, NJ: Alliance collects personal recollections from workers of various Heritage Center, 2019. 54 pp. ethnicities in South Jersey’s garment industry during the mid-twentieth century. Charles K. Landis’ A Ruth Weinstein. Back to the Land: Alliance Colony to Trip to Mars (2015), co-published with the Vineland the Ozarks in Four Generations. Eds. Tom Kinsella, Historical and Antiquarian Society, made available Sara Brown, Raymond Dudo. Galloway, NJ: to the public for the rst time the sci- ction of the Alliance Heritage Center, 2020. 226pp. founder of Vineland, New Jersey. Landis used this text Daniel L. Risley. Views of Pioneer Life. Galloway, NJ: as a vehicle to explore and express his Utopian town- South Jersey Culture & History Center, 2020. 26 planning viewpoints. Ted Gordon’s Herbert Payne: pp. Last of the Old-Time Charcoal Makers and His Coaling SoJourn: A Journal Devoted to the History, Culture, and Process (2015) relates the charcoal-making process Geography of South Jersey. Many student editors. 4.1 of Herbie Payne, an African American who, by the (Summer 2019). 102 pp. mid 1960s (the time of the description), had been making charcoal in a traditional Pinelands method for e broad variety of articles published in SoJourn, decades. seventy-ve articles to date with more on the way, You can nd the SJCHC Summer 2020 sales helps to illustrate our contribution to the exploration, catalog, rewritten and redesigned by two-semester enjoyment, interpretation, understanding, and preser- editing intern Lindsay Wilson, here: https://stockton. vation of New Jersey history. Articles such as “School edu/sjchc/publications/documents/Summer_ Segregation in the Post-Civil War Era: Burlington Cat_2020_online.pdf. County, New Jersey, 1865–1915,” “e Southern Pine Barrens: An Ethnic Archipelago” and “e Great Island Lying Before Shackamaxon: Petty Island, Lenape-Colonist Relations, and Provin- cial Rivalries, 1678–1701” present new and vital studies of New Jersey history. Other articles, including “From Butcher Knife to Scalpel: Four Generations of South Jersey Physicians,” “e First African American Excursion to Atlantic City,” and “Made in Nesco: e Inter- Generational Project of Place-Making,” capture slices of South Jersey life and culture in times past. e audience for SoJourn is the educated common reader. Herbert Payne working a charcoal pit, from Last of the Old-Time Charcoal Makers. We are not publishing academic texts for South Jersey Culture & History Center, Annual Report 2019–2020 3 Impact of the Coronavirus Event on Publication asking for support for the publication of four further e coronavirus event, taking full hold in mid- titles, each nearly ready for publication. If the grant March 2020, made it necessary for Stockton to is successful, four additional titles, described below, restrict nearly all remaining funding in the SJCHC should be in print by the summer of 2021. annual budget. is lack of funding has delayed the publication of our latest title: e Nature of ings by No Wild Rivers. By Claude Epstein, Stockton Dallas Lore Sharp. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies. A 300- We have several other titles nearly completed page study providing