Lecture & Book Signing: Growing American

Join Dr. Tom Kinsella for a free lecture and book signing on Growing American: The Alliance Agricultural Colony in South Jersey at the Richwood Academy Cultural Center on Sunday, October 18, at 3:00 PM.

In 1882, families fleeing the pogroms of czarist Russia arrived in the South Jersey countryside and took up farming, a trade most had never practiced. Kinsella traces how they established the Alliance Colony, the first successful Jewish farming community in America, and how it grew into the villages of Norma, Alliance, and Brotmanville.

Kinsella is a Distinguished Professor of Literature at Stockton University, director of its South Jersey Culture and History Center, and the Elizabeth and S