Joseph Van Blunk
Joseph Van Blunk is a Freelance Writer who has written for the Olde City Times, The Jewish Exponent, The Sun by-the-Sea and Chris Mottola Inc., a national Media Consulting Firm. For several semesters he attended Philadelphia Community College and Temple University to study Creative Writing and Screenwriting. Mr. Van Blunk is also the Co-Creator and Co-Producer of two Documentary Films and a Travelogue: Echoes From A Ghost Minyan, The Waterfront Peacemaker and Boardwalk.He has two Daughters and a Grandson. Mr. Van Blunk resides in South Philadelphia where he supplements his income as an I.L.A. Longshoreman, Local 1291.
Bob Ingram
Bob Ingram is a writer/journalist/editor whose work has appeared in Philadelphia Magazine, Atlantic City Magazine, Broad Street Review, South Jersey Magazine, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly, Atlantic City Weekly, Philly Arts, the South Philadelphia Review, the Cape May County Herald, the Wildwood Sun By-the-Sea, the Drummer, the Plain Dealer, the Philadelphia Free Press, the South Street Star, Food Trade News, Food World, Supermarket Business, Progressive Grocer, and Frozen Food Age, among others.
He received the Philadelphia Bar Association’s “Scales of Justice” Award for a story on Juvenile Court and an award from Sigma Delta Chi, the national journalism fraternity, for a story on Vietnamese refugees.
He has also co-written, co-produced and narrated a documentary film about the Boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ, called “Boardwalk: Greetings from Wildwood By-The-Sea,” and published a book of eighteen short stories set in Wildwood called “Sun Songs.”
He was managing editor of Chilton Company’s Marine Products Magazine, publisher of the Temple/Philadelphia Free Press, twice editor of The Drummer/Thursday’s Drummer/Distant Drummer, founder and editor of the South Street Star in Philadelphia, editor of Food Trade News, and senior editor at Supermarket Business and Progressive Grocer magazines.
He currently lives and writes in Burleigh, New Jersey.