Vineland founder's imagination took him to Mars

Spung-Man

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Jan 5, 2009
978
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Richland, NJ
loki.stockton.edu
Hats off to Pat Martinelli, Tom Kinsella, Jerseyman, the Vineland Historical Society, and Stockton University's South Jersey Culture and History Center for a job well done. Charles K. Landis, founder in part of the Pinelands towns of Elwood (1854, including New Germany – today Folsom – and Newtonville), Hammonton (1857), Vineland (1861), and Landisville (1870), was a visionary in so many surprising, even quirky ways. Now we have his science fiction piece about an early interplanetary adventure. I can't help but chuckle a little every time I hear about this intriguing manuscript!

S-M
 

Spung-Man

Explorer
Jan 5, 2009
978
666
64
Richland, NJ
loki.stockton.edu
See you there?

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(reproduced with SJCHC's permission)
At least Landis no longer thinks he's a tree!

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I love Vineland's quirky history. Carved out of Pine Barrens wilderness as agrarian utopia, there were ~50 inhabitants in 1861, and ~5500 by 1865.

S-M
 
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