Publishing runs in the family: Great-Great Uncle F.C. Van Velzer and his father ~ and his father ~ traveling from the East Coast to the West in the 1800s start the Van Velzer story. The Van Velzer elders’ simple travel plans turned into a decades long crusade ~~ along the way stopping in towns that had no reliable contact with the outside world and helping them start local newspapers, then moving on until stopping in another similar town. Finally the Van Velzer family settled in Fall Brook, CA (near San Diego). In 1902 they started a weekly paper as the family grew.
All branches of the Van Velzer family seem to have been blessed with some kind of literary gene. The mother of the poet ~Walt Whitman ~ was Louisa Van Velzer from Long Island.
Therefore we are proud to continue the family business in the art of literary magic. We will concentrate on our glorious country that boasts of such a rambling, brave, innovative history.