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Every Monday, I highlight a non-profit related to history or the arts, a historical society, preservation group or friends group whose main objective is to promote the historical and artistic history of New Jersey. This week, I am featuring the Monmouth County Friends of the Parks. Formed in 1991, the Friends of the Parks is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) registered charitable organization comprised of area citizens and businesses committed to the support of the Monmouth County Park System. The Friends raise funding for recreation programs, park beautification, educational programming, and exhibits related to sites throughout the Monmouth County Park System. In the past, Friends funding has paid for the design and fabrication of Park System exhibits. Visitors can enjoy exhibits furnished by the Friends at: Historic Longstreet Farm, Historic Walnford, the Thompson Park Visitor Center, the Manasquan Reservoir Environmental Center and Visitor Center, Huber Woods Environmental Center,

Items up on eBay this week! Click on each link for the eBay page! More items always going up. Stay updated about new items on  Facebook . Vintage Gas Station Receipts Miss Stephens' Road Trip Yellowstone National Park Vintage Reproduction Kodachromes Vintage Wyoming Souvenir The Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole, Wyoming San Antonio, Texas Collectible San Jose Mission Nevada Souvenir Booklet 10 Plastichrome Reproductions Indianapolis, Indiana Ross Motel & Inn Vintage Postcard Conley's Motel Postcard Pittsburgh, PA

WEEKEND HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS Know about a historical event happening in your area?  Send me an  email  to let us know! Be the first to find out about these events on  Facebook ! Friday - Sunday, October 26 - 28 - Sandy Hook, Monmouth County Fort Hancock Days Gateway National Recreation Area begins its yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary with the annual celebration of Fort Hancock Days, to be held Friday through Sunday. Fort Hancock Days commemorates the establishment of Fort Hancock as an Army base on October 30, 1895. Fort Hancock was added to Gateway as part of the park's Sandy Hook Unit by an Act of Congress signed into law on October 27, 1972. On Friday from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, volunteers from the Army Ground Forces Association (AGFA) will conduct a lantern tour of the Fort, beginning at the Fort Hancock Museum and ending at Battery Gunnison, which was built in 1904. AGFA volunteers, wearing authentic World War II U.S. Army Coast Artillery Cor

WEEKEND ESTATE SALES Click on each link for more information on the estate sale! Find something neat at an estate sale? Let us know! Hosting an estate sale? Send me an  email  to be featured in our weekly post! Be the first to know about these sales on  Facebook ! Foreign Antiques Morris Plains, NJ Estate Sale 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Friday & Saturday (Same Time) Antiques Dolls & Pottery Morristown, NJ Estate Sale 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Friday & Saturday (Same Time) Mid-Century Furniture Morris Plains, NJ Estate Sale 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Friday & Saturday (Same Time) 19th Century Furniture Pottersville, NJ Estate Sale 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Friday & Saturday (Same Time) Antique Clocks & Fixtures North Plainfield, NJ Estate Sale 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Saturday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Sunday Vintage Cameras East Rutherford, NJ Estate Sale 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Saturday Find more Estate Sales near

Making the Grave: Cemeteries and Stone Carvers in New Jersey Written by NJ Historian Cemeteries and grave sites dot the New Jersey landscape. Whether it is a small family burial ground in the woods or along a country road, a historic graveyard surrounding a church, or a large memorial park in an open field, cemeteries are a distinct feature of New Jersey. They are peaceful places to remember our ancestors, to ponder life, and are sometimes associated with a ghost story or two! When looking at historic graveyards and grave stones, there is a subtle beauty associated with them. From the rolling hills and placid landscape of a Victorian era cemetery to the art of a skilled carver creating a masterpiece on stone to last generations, you find these cemeteries sitting idly, as life around them unfolds and changes. Yet, these monuments to time remain the same. These stones tell a story, offer inspiring words, and physically represent a traceable history of funerary art that can be see