Morris County - Morris Twp - CANCELLED - NORTH JERSEY CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE Presents A Program and A Quarter of a Program: ABE LINCOLN and the FRELINGHUYSEN ARBORETUM

Thursday, March 26 – Morris County 7:14 p.m.   North Jersey Civil War Round Table meeting. NORTH JERSEY CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE Presents A Program and A Quarter of a Program ABE LINCOLN and the FRELINGHUYSEN ARBORETUM                       The program: Historian and Author RICHARD SCHWARTZ presents LINCOLN LOSES!! (or does he?)    One of the most dynamic speakers who has presented before the NJCWRT is Richard Schwartz. He now returns to in what promises (Ed. Note: No promises, will be!) to be another great lecture. Richard Schwartz has taught history and government at Whippany Park High School for 40 years, where he also serves as Social Studies department coordinator. He is Lincoln scholar, having received scholarships with the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and the Civil War Institute. He is the author of The Prairies on Fire: Lincoln Debates Douglas (2010).      Fortunately for the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln won presidential elections in 1860 and 1864. But Lincoln had known the sting of defeat at various points in his political career. The most galling of these losses came in 1858 in his famous challenge to Senator Stephen Douglas for a US Senate seat. From Lincoln’s response to defeat, we see a crucial episode in the growth of the human being and statesman Americans have come to venerate through the generations. The Quarter of a Program: ANN FAHEY presents  A GEM OF MORRIS COUNTY (and NEW JERSEY!): THE FRELINGHUSEN ARBORETUM     Ann Fahey is the Superintendent of Horticulture Education, Division of Cultural and Environmental Resources Morris County Park Commission.     The Frelinghuysen Arboretum is located on a 127-acre tract with many beautiful gardens and walking trails; it fulfills its mission with its specialized collections of trees and shrubs labeled for educational and scientific study. It was also the home of nationally known exhibit Medicinal Plants of the Civil War.     NJCWRT Meeting is at the Haggerty Education Center at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum, 353 E. Hanover Avenue, Morris Twp. (opp. the Morris County Library). Admission $5 Students – free