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"Train Ride Along Raritan Bay (Part 1 of 3)" JERSEY BAYSHORE COUNTRY

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. H...

Thursdays, March 5, 19, 26 – Hunterdon County    This year marks the one-hundred-year anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which granted women the right to vote. As a part of our current Threading the Needle quilt show and exhibit, we invite you to join us for movie nights. Thursday March 5 : Iron Jawed Angels Thursday March 19 : CANCELLED Not for Ourselves Alone, Part One Thursday March 26: CANCELLED - Not for Ourselves Alone, Part Two  (*please note: parts one & two can be viewed independently if you can't make it to both!) Visit our  website  for more information!   http://www.lebanontownship.net/services/museum.aspx The Museum 57 Musconetcong River Road Phone: (908) 638-8523 x405 museum@lebtwp.net Hours Tuesday 9:00 am - 3:30 pm Thursday 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm Saturday 11:00 am - 4:30 pm ADMISSION IS FREE

Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden with Perdita Buchan Wednesday, March 25 at 2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Doors open half an hour before each session Tickets for afternoon talk only: $10; free for Friends of Morven Tea/Tour/Talk: $27; $18 for Friends of Morven Tickets for evening lecture: $10; free for Friends of Morven CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden  author Perdita Buchan explores eight New Jersey utopian communities with a focus on Roosevelt, New Jersey. From a cooperative colony in Englewood founded by Upton Sinclair, to an anarchist village in Piscataway centered on an educational experiment, to the Physical Culture City in Spotswood, where drugs, tobacco, and corsets were banned, but where nudity was widespread, all but one of the utopias—a single-tax colony in Berkeley Heights—failed to survive. Buchan’s lecture will show how each colony left a legacy of much more than the buildings or street names that remain today—legacies th...

Tuesday, March 24 -- Mercer County The Sourland Mountain is a natural oasis filled with remarkable plants and creatures - many rare or endangered - located in the middle of the most densely populated state in the nation. The 90-square-mile Sourland region, which stretches from Hillsborough to Hopewell and Montgomery to Lambertville, is home to the largest contiguous forest in Central New Jersey. This mosaic of forest, wetlands and grassland habitats serves as an important rest-stop and breeding area for migratory songbirds. The sparsely populated mountain benefits millions of people, too, by offering a source of recreation and renewal, carbon sequestration, and clean air and water. The Mountain’s streams form headwaters for the Raritan, Millstone and Delaware Rivers.   The Watershed Institute and the Sourland Conservancy invite the public to enjoy a special visual evening of film, stories, and community on March 24th at 7 PM at  The Watershed Institute  (31 Titus Mil...

An Evening of Entertaining History The Borrows Mansion, 94 Main Street, Matawan, NJ 07747 March 23, 2020, 7:30 pm JOIN ME FOR AN EVENING OF ENTERTAINING HISTORY As the producer and host of a weekly television series called Raritan Bayshore Living (shown on Comcast and the Internet), I have grown to genuinely love sharing the local beauty and colorful history of our area to help people understand and appreciate the relics and spirits of the past which surround them.  Today, more than a million people every year see my television programs of travelogues and historical documentaries. This weekly program -- available to Comcast subscribers in Toms River, Ocean, Monmouth and Union Counties -- has featured episodes on the Revolutionary War, tours of local towns and villages, interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, walking tours and many other subjects. I have also developed more than 60 Facebook groups comprising some 125,000 members for towns and villages where my historical program...

Sunday, March 22 -- Morris County Women of Chatham Township: New Gallery Exhibit Speaker: Patricia Wells Location: Chatham Township Municipal Building, 58 Meyersville Road, Chatham  In conjunction with the new Historical Society Gallery exhibit at the Municipal Building,  Pat Wells will talk about some of the notable women who have lived in the Township during its long history.

Sunday, March 22 – Union County  2:00 to 4:00 “Maple Sugar Sunday” Miller-Cory House Museum, 614 Mountain Avenue, Westfield The production of syrup and sugar from the sap of the maple tree was known in America long before the first European colonists arrived. The Native Americans taught the settlers how to collect the sap, and sugar making became one of the most important seasonal tasks of farm life. The museum’s presenter will talk about the technique of maple sugaring, explaining how the maple sap rises and flows, how it is collected using wooden buckets and handmade spiles, and how sugar and syrup are made from the sap. (Please note that no tree will actually be tapped.) Two presentations are scheduled, one at 2:30 and one at 3:30, each lasting about one-half hour.      The museum will be open from 2:00 to 4:00 and will also offer tours of the restored, 1740 farmhouse and authentic open-hearth cooking demonstrations. Members of the cooking committee...

Sunday, March 22 -- Middlesex County Historic Cranbury Walking Tour You are invited to walk through Cranbury's historic district and learn about its history & architecture from a knowledgable and experienced tour guide. ‎Mar‎ch ‎22‎ at ‎2‎:‎00‎ ‎p.m. Cranbury Museum, 4 Park Place E, Cranbury, NJ

Sunday, March 22 – Cumberland County 2 to 4 p.m. This event will be held at the Warren and Reba Lummis Genealogical & Historical Library located at 981 Ye Greate Street, Greenwich Guest Speaker: Dr. James Elton Johnson, author of  Henrietta Crawford: African American Suffragist of South Jersey. CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PO Box 16, Greenwich, New Jersey 08323 Office Telephone: 856-455-8580 Email:  cchistsoc@verizon.net     Website:  www.cchistsoc.org

Sunday, March 22 – Ocean County 2:00pm— Re-Clam the Bay  program at the Little Red Schoolhouse Museum in Waretown. Reservations are not required.  This interesting program explains the life cycle of shellfish, and how they are once again living and thriving in local waters. This program has many interesting exhibits and contains great information for anyone concerned about the Barnegat Bay ecosystem. Remember, if snow or sleet is forecast for a program day or meeting night, check your email. I will send an update if we have to cancel.  If you have any questions about the weather status of a meeting, please call or text me at 609-661-1733.