Vineland Historical & Antiquarian Society - VHAS Book Club - "Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals" / 7-30-25

Join the Vineland Historical Society for its monthly book club! They are reading "Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals" by Laurie Zaleski.  Laurie will join the club at the museum for a lively book discussion!

About the Book: Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie’s dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey.

She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescue — horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs — when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie’s mission to save abused and neglected animals.