Historic Happenings Blog

Thursday, February 13 – Hunterdon County Prallsville Mills Speakers Series: Ditching Disposables, at 7pm STOCKTON – In May 2019, the Sustainable Jersey Grants Program awarded the Lambertville Environmental Commission a $20,000 grant, one of just four in the state at that level. The Lambertville Environmental Commission, chaired by resident Liz Magill Peer, sought this grant to support its Ditching Disposables initiative.  The Ditching Disposables project was developed to support the implementation of the city's ordinance limiting the use of single-use plastic bags, plastic straws, polystyrene foam and Styrofoam containers by businesses in the City of Lambertville passed in September 2018. The goal of the Ditching Disposables initiative is to assist residents in the adoption of this ordinance via education, communication, workshops, and certifications. Come learn more about this initiative from Liz Magill Peer directly on Thursday, February 13, 2020, at 7pm at Prallsville Mills. ...

Sunday, September 15 – Essex County   Sunday, September 15 - Maplewood, Essex County Horseshoe Crabs: A Fascinating Conservation Study If you headed ‘down the Shore’ this summer, you may have brushed up against a few horseshoe crabs on the beach – and had hardly given a thought to these odd, distant relatives of spiders. Yet horseshoe crabs are 300 million-year-old living fossils that are so valuable that in the late 1990s they became the center of a perfect storm of competing interests. At 2:00 pm Sunday, New Jersey environmentalist Tedor Whitman will tell us why commercial fisheries, tourism officials, ornithologists, government (local, county, state, and federal) agencies, and pharmaceutical interests all fought to determine the use and future of these animals. Fortunately, the fate of the horseshoe crab fell into the hands of a resourceful biological technician and a handful of determined citizens. Tedor Whitman is the Executive Director of the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum and Bird...