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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Turncoat’s Widow
Washington Headquarters Museum at Morristown NHP 30 Washington Place, Morristown, NJAuthor Mally Becker will talk about her award-winning novel The Turncoat's Widow which is set primarily in and around Morristown, New York, and the Ford Mansion. Washington's Headquarters Museum. Seating […]
Archeology in the Park
Washington Headquarters Museum at Morristown NHP 30 Washington Place, Morristown, NJMonmouth University professor and archaeologist Dr. Richard Veit will present a talk and slideshow on some of the work he has recently performed within Morristown NHP and some of the […]
4th of July Celebration
Washington Headquarters Museum at Morristown NHP 30 Washington Place, Morristown, NJCelebrate our Declaration of Independence with July Fourth activities beginning at noon on the park's Washington's Headquarters grounds with a "Warm-Up for the Declaration" including eighteenth-century stories, jokes and riddles […]
