WRITINGS, 1970-2007

The collection contains personal papers (letters from family and friends, photographs, educational records, employment files, musical performances, and professional trainings taught) and writings (poems, songs, novels, short stories, and letters to the editor) which comprise the bulk of the collection (written by Joseph Hamburger while in college and after graduation) plus one box of family papers pertaining to his parents, grandparents, and extended family (Friedland, Rosenstock, Gold) documenting their activities in the Jewish chicken farming community of the West Farms section of Howell Township and Farmingdale, New Jersey, including the Farmingdale-Lakewood-Freehold Feed Mill Co-op, and his paternal grandparents' Evergreen Farm Vegetarian Hotel. The songs are mostly draft versions; the poems are mostly final typed copies plus the journal issues in which they appeared. The short stories include the original handwritten manuscript and various edited typescript versions. Also, includes original typescript edited copies of record and film reviews in the Florida Flambeau, 1982, and tear sheets of the letters to the editor, Centre Daily Times, 2005. The majority of the works were written between 1973 and 1982.