Historic Happenings Blog

Sunday, March 8 – Salem County at 1:30 p.m. Historical Society Presentation by  Attorney Sharon M. Hallanan, who will speak about Women’s Suffrage and the 19 th  Amendment.  The program will be held at the Friends Village, 1 Friends Drive, Woodstown, NJ 08098 in the Fenwick Auditorium. 1:30PM—Free and Open to the Public. Information: 856-935-5004 or www.salemcountyhistoricalsociety.com .

Sunday, October 20 – Salem County Alvin Q. Corbett Announced as the Presenter for the 16 th  John Stewart Rock Memorial Lecture       The Salem County Historical Society has announced that Alvin Q. Corbett   will present a talk on  “The Logistics of the Underground Railroad”  for the 16 th  John S. Rock Memorial Lecture to be held on Sunday, October 20, 2019, at the Friends Village, Fenwick Auditorium, One Friends Drive, Woodstown, New Jersey 08098 at 3:00 P. M. The public is invited to enjoy this free educational program.     Alvin Q. Corbett is a Burlington County New Jersey resident who hails originally from Wilson, North Carolina. Corbett is a descendant of a United States Colored Troops Civil War soldier, as well as a historical preservationist, historian and avid researcher of African and American history. He served as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Underground Railroad Museum of Burlington Cou...

Sunday, March 10 – Salem County Quarterly Meetin g Salem County Historical Society, 1:30 at the Friends Village, 1 Friends Drive Woodstown, NJ 08098 Join us for our March Quarterly Meeting with a presentation by  Rachel K. Wetzel entitled, "Daguerreotypes and the Robert Cornelius Database Project." Rachel joined the staff at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in 2007 where she currently holds the position of Senior Photograph Conservator.  Prior to coming to Philadelphia, she completed the Andrew W. Mellon funded, post-graduate Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at the George Eastman Museum and the Image Permanence Institute in Rochester, New York (2007). She holds a Master of Arts degree in Art Conservation from the State University of New York, Buffalo State College (2005) and a Bachelor of Art from the University of Pittsburgh (1997), where she majored in the History of Art & Architecture.  Speaker Rachel Wetzel, the Senior Ph...