Glen Rock May 1, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 9 Glen Rock author John Koster is credited multiple times in the New Mexico University Press book “Frontier Cavalry Trooper: The Letters of Private Eddie Matthews, 18691874” by Douglas C. McChristian. A retired research historian with the U.S. National Park Service and the author of several books and articles about the frontier, McChristian edited the letters of Matthews, a trooper from Maryland who joined the U.S. Army a few years after the Civil War and served one full hitch and part of another. The longhand letters were originally discovered by Ora Author credited in New University Press Book Matthews Bublitz, a stenographer with the municipal government of Teaneck and her husband Tom, a World War II veteran. “I am deeply indebted to John Koster, a former (sic) New Jersey newspaper reporter, for initially bringing the Matthews letters to public attention. During a serendipitous encounter with Ora Bublitz, Eddie Matthews’ granddaughter, Mr. Koster was shown a three-foot high stack of manuscript letters dating to the late 19th century and bearing addresses from various military posts in the American Southwest. Recognizing their importance as a chronicle of Man arrested on child pornography charges A 75-year-old Glen Rock man has been arrested and charged with one count of possession of child pornography which he reportedly downloaded from the Internet several years ago. A joint investigation by the Glen Rock Police Department and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Task Force reportedly found that the man owned a number of photographs of pre-pubescent children engaged in sexual activities. The man was asked to surrender his passport and was banned from use of the Internet pending his court appearance on May 7. He was arrested without incident. one soldier’s experience on the Western Frontier, Koster selected a journal Matthews kept during a six-week period in the field and published it as an account in ‘American Heritage’ (1980). Although Koster intended to publish the full collection in cooperation with Mrs. Bublitz, the project never came to fruition. Mrs. Bublitz, a stenographer by profession, did prepare a typescript of the letters and each party retained copies....Thanks to John Koster...the typescript survived to enable all of Eddie Matthews’ letters to finally be shared with the historical community and the public at large.” McChristian also thanked Koster for graciously relinquishing the copyright to the portion of the Matthews papers previously published and for other help with the new book. Koster has several books to his credit. Most recently, he published “Custer Survivor” in 2010 and “Operation Snow” in 2012.