FREE ACRES NEWSLETTERS,, 1929-1996

Summary: Originals and facsimiles of Free Acres Association newsletters. Also includes logo of the Free Acres Newsletter, (1964-1967). Gaps in publishing as well as collection.

Subjects covered include local items, including announcements of births, marriages, and deaths, the arrival of new leaseholders, parties and celebrations, Free Acres Association meeting announcements, and regulations.

The newsletters were more political during the 1930s, (see satire directed at Hitler in 1934, for example), and less satirical, more reminiscent in the 1970s. 1980s editors, Martin Bierbaum and Laurel Hessing, emphasize historical coverage and fiction.

The Free Acres Town Crier, 1933-1934, and the Free Acres Review, 1938-1939, contain pointed columns about Nazism and events occurring in Europe at this time. The Wanoga Voice, 1947, contains information about Camp Wanoga. The Free Acres Newsletter, 1964-1973, documents life in Free Acres at this time, and the New Free Acres Review, 1990, adds more features to its coverage of Free Acres.