"Vernon-grown Danny Kass is living the good life", West Milford Messenger, September 29, 2011. Accessed February 15, 2024. "Danny Kass had his epiphany at the age of 17, although it’s doubtful he used that word to describe the moment when he beheld his future and saw that it was totally cool. He was still a student at Vernon Township High School at the time, but his real love was, as it had been since he was 9 years old, riding skateboards and snowboards and doing things on them that others would pay to see.... He grew up in the Scenic Lakes section of Vernon. Because he had a Hamburg mailing address, that borough claimed him on signs at the town border, but, he says, he’s only lived in Vernon."