Anyone who attended our Wine and Spirits Prohibition Party in January 2020 or any of our Bus McGinnity Speakeasy parties prior to that will probably recognize DJ MAC Michael Cumella. Mike, a Nutleyite now living in Brooklyn, New York, is a great friend to the Historic Restoration Trust. MAC had a radio show on WFMU 91.1 FM with his partner, Michael Haar, also known as Mike the Barber. The show was called The Ragged Antique Phonograph Program. They spun old 78s on antique phonographs and provided the history and context of each song played. In April 2015, MAC and Mike broadcast their show from the Ballroom of the Kingsland Manor in honor of Preservation Week. A year later, MAC, by then working solo, once again broadcast The Antique Phonograph Music Program from the Ballroom.

In September 2016, knowing of our desire to have an antique phonograph of our own for the Manor, MAC donated a VV-260 Victrola. He also donated needles and several 78 records. The Victrola was manufactured by the Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey, in December 1921. It has a mahogany finish and is 33 inches wide, 21 inches deep, and 36 inches tall with the top cover closed. It is displayed and played in the Ballroom.

In 2020, after the Wine and Spirits Prohibition Party, MAC donated a stereograph viewer and eight stereograph slides to our artifacts collection. The viewer can be enjoyed in the Museum room upstairs.