ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS – At a glance it’s a typical old book, a somewhat-worn hardcover shelved among others in the second-floor library of the Strauss Mansion Museum.
But the 500-page “The Victrola Book of the Opera,” published in 1917, did something odd last year.
While giving a tour of the mansion, Atlantic Highlands Historical Society board member Patty Bickauskas spotted the book perched on the edge of the top shelf, cracked open and “just dangling” at a bizarre angle.
