History Day
East Jersey Old Town Village 1050 River Road, Piscataway, NJExperience Living History at the East Jersey Old Town Village! Activities at the site will include Vintage Baseball, Historic Gardening & Agriculture, Stone Carving, a 19th Century Print Shop, Home & Hearth Demonstrations, Fife and Drum Corps, 18th century music with Anne and Ridley Enslow, Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides through Johnson Park, food trucks, and children’s […]
Three Early Black American Women in Words Phillis Wheatley, Hetty Saunders and Sojourner Truth
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ250 years ago in the spring of 1773 Phillis Wheatley traveled from America to England to publish Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, making her the first published African-American poet and the first African-American female published writer. This historic houses tour of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage introduces the works of three early […]
“Unheard Voices of the American Revolution” series
This spring, Camden County College and Friends of the Indian King Tavern Museum have teamed up to present a free seven-part lecture series that will give voice to the “Unheard Voices of the American Revolution.” These lectures -- along with a spirited “debate” between John and Abigail Adams on May 25 -- plus author talks, […]
Archaeology Day
Red Bank Battlefield 100 Hessian Avenue, National Park, NJEver wonder what it’s like to be an archeologist?Registration for Red Bank Battlefield’s highly popular public archeology program is open! Public days are May 21, June 4, and June 10. This year we are allowing children 14 and older to participate.Participants may select a morning or afternoon session. The program includes screening for artifacts, processing […]
Pinkster at Historic New Bridge Landing
1201 Main St, River Edge, NJ 07661 1201 Main St, River EdgeThe Whitsun crown has come again! Pinkster is the Dutch name for Whitsunday or Pentecost, and it was a major holiday among the early Dutch settlers, who held weeklong fairs that were also attended by English and German settlers, as well as Native Americans. The Tricorne Dance Ensemble will be dancing around the Maypole at […]
Living History Visit with Sojourner Truth
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJBorn Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was enslaved for nearly the first decade of her life by the Hardenbergh family of New York, relatives of Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh of New Jersey’s Old Dutch Parsonage. The slave from a small town north of New York City changed hands several times, sold by one brutal owner to […]
“Unheard Voices of the American Revolution” series
This spring, Camden County College and Friends of the Indian King Tavern Museum have teamed up to present a free seven-part lecture series that will give voice to the “Unheard Voices of the American Revolution.” These lectures -- along with a spirited “debate” between John and Abigail Adams on May 25 -- plus author talks, […]
Mr. President vs. “Mrs. President”: A Debate between Abigail and John Adams
The Haddon Fortnightly 301 Kings Highway, East Haddonfield, NJAbigail Adams was an educated, upper-class woman whose well-articulated opinions on government, politics and life influenced at least two American presidents: her husband, President John Adams, and her son, President John Quincy Adams. Being her husband’s respected confidant resulted in critics calling her “Mrs. President.” John Adams – America’s first vice president and second president […]
Grave Marking Ceremony Honoring Revolutionary War Surgeon Dr. Jabez Campfield
The Presbyterian Church in Morristown's Burial Ground 57 E Park Place, Morristown, NJMorristown, NJ: The Morristown Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is hosting this ceremony; the public is invited to attend and participate in this patriotic event over the Memorial Day weekend. Dr. Jabez Campfield was born in Newark, graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), and studied medicine before moving to […]
“Unheard Voices of the American Revolution” series
This spring, Camden County College and Friends of the Indian King Tavern Museum have teamed up to present a free seven-part lecture series that will give voice to the “Unheard Voices of the American Revolution.” These lectures -- along with a spirited “debate” between John and Abigail Adams on May 25 -- plus author talks, […]
