Amerigo Vespucci

16th-Century Mapmaker's Amazing Knowledge

How was it that a German priest writing in Latin and living in a French city far from the coast became the first person to tell the world that a vast ocean lay to the west of the American continents? That is one of the bigger...

High school play a lot of fun

Possibly it’s never occurred to you that you could learn the entire history of the United States in under two hours! But that’s what’s in store if you attend the upcoming RCHS Drama Department’s production of “The Complete...

Group helps keep Italian culture alive in S. Jersey

By KRISTY DAVIES • Courier-Post Staff • October 30, 2008 MOUNT HOLLY — Family, food and love are the foundations of the Italian-American culture and the Amici Della Lingua Italiana club. "I saw the need of this area to keep the...

Society's HQ gets new look

Behind the freshly painted white columns, and thousands of individually placed cured stones that make up its facade, a house stands that has been a fixture in this Willow Avenue neighborhood for more than a century.