Historic Happenings Blog

Annual Cornbread Contest! Historic Walnford 62 Walnford Road, Upper Freehold, NJ 08501 Sunday, September 22, 12:30-3:30 PM It’s friendly and delicious fun! All ages and experience levels are welcome to enter by bringing your favorite sweet or savory, innovative or traditional cornbread in a 9”x13” pan or similar volume along with a typed copy of the recipe. Bring your entry to Historic Walnford between 12:30-1:00 PM. Peer tasting and voting from 1:30-2:30 PM. Ribbons awarded at 3:00 PM by our panel of judges and the popular vote.

Golden Ear Corny Joke Contest Historic Walnford 62 Walnford Road, Upper Freehold, NJ 08501 Sunday, September 22, 12:30-3:30 PM Share your best family-friendly side-splitting joke, the “cornier” the better, while the cornbread judges deliberate and we tally the contest votes. Anyone may enter by submitting up to three jokes by 2:30 PM. Jokes will be read and the audience laughter will decide the winner of the 2019 Golden Ear trophy.

Saturday-Sunday, May 4-5 – Ocean County Carve Wars is Back!       11am-5pm     Join us as Tuckerton Seaport hosts Carve Wars, an epic chainsaw carving competition on May 4 & 5, 2019.  This festival will feature carvers from New Jersey, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. We will also have decoy carving, boat building, and blacksmithing demonstrations, as well as a food truck food court with craft beer from Pinelands Brewing and Ship Bottom Brewery!     Watch quick carving demos where giant logs are turned into works of art.  All items carved on site will be auctioned off.    Admission for this two-day festival is $10 (free for kids under 5 and Seaport Members).