Robert Sullivan's The Meadowlands tells the tale of a young man's two year love affair with a marshy wasteland just a few minutes west of New York City. This book is Sullivan's detailed journal, containing many months' worth of stories told by interesting characters encounter...

Alex Alampi Jr., a watercolor artist from Gloucester County, New Jersey, features the people of the Mid-Atlantic region. "Working Portraits," as he refers to them, are images reminiscent of a simpler time. Although Alex enjoys painting a wide variety of subjects from the Delaware Bay region and th...

What exactly does it mean to be American? What are the boundaries of freedom and liberty? Do we have the freedom to speak from the heart? Allen Ginsberg believed so, and he did just that. Ginsberg grew up in a small town in New Jersey where he could have been very happy had he not been born ...