| About this Almanac
Imagine an era when time was less certain, when people lost track of
the days of the week -- even the weeks of the month. Imagine people
with slender access to clocks and watches. The timepieces that do exist
are not always dependably accurate. You are imagining an earlier time,
when almanacs -- complex calendars in pamphlet form -- existed in most
homes.
Poor Will's Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1790, printed by Joseph Cruickhank (or Cruckshank) in late 1789, is one such almanac. Students in two sections of Introduction to Literary Research at Stockton College have worked to put this almanac on-line during the Spring term, 2005.
Most
students were responsible for a single page of the almanac -- entering, coding, and editing all appropriate text. Some
wrote the contextual essays that accompany the almanac. Four students
served as Text and Design managers, stitching the work of their
classmates into a finished whole: Dan Ackerman, Matt Cicalese, Claudia
Pianti, Jennifer Siwiec (everyone else has been named alongside their
work).
If you have questions or comments, send them to Thomas.Kinsella@stockton.edu. Tom taught the research class, owns the original copy of the almanack upon which this edition is based, and edited the whole.
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