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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  e-mail  to be featured in our weekly post! Be the first to know about these sales on  Facebook ! Victorian Furniture Short Hills, NJ 07078 Pachinko Machines, Dolls, & More Randolph, NJ 07869 Arrowheads, Ephemera, Vintage Gun Caps Bridgewater, NJ 08807 Alexander Doll Company Collectibles Essex Fells, NJ 07021 Vintage Clothing & Hats Somerville, NJ 08876 Packed!!!! Kitschy Sale Paramus, NJ 07652 Find more Estate Sales near you at  estatesales.net

Evolving Victorian Cemeteries of New Jersey Written by NJ Historian The nineteenth century ushered in a new way to bury the dead. Previously, those who died were buried in churchyards or family plots located on one's property. But overcrowding and unsanitary conditions within these church burial grounds led cemetery planners to rethink the way we bury our loved ones. The new design took the cemetery out of the control of the church, using an attractive park built on a grander scale, using architectural design and careful planting, inspired by the English garden movement. These cemeteries were often built on the outskirts of a town, surrounded by a stone wall and featured natural rolling hills, curved pathways, landscaping, and trees. Rural cemeteries, from their inception, were intended as civic institutions designed for public use. Before the widespread development of public parks, the rural cemetery provided a place for the general public to enjoy refined outdoor recr...

Mysteries of History: King Kong, America’s Monster, Turns 80 Written by Scott M. Cooper In 1929, Merian C. Cooper spent a few days talking with W. Douglas Burden, a well known naturalist and explorer of the American Museum of Natural History. Burden spoke of the exploration he just returned from, in the Far East, where he was studying the largest lizard known to man at that time, the Komodo dragon.  While the story unfolded from Burden’s voice, Cooper changed the dragon to a 40 to 50 foot tall ape, which came from an isolated island (Skull Island) and would later terrorize New York City. Merian Cooper, 1893 - 1973 Merian Cooper was very fond of strong hard sounding words that started with the letter "K". Some of his favorite words were Komodo, Kodiak, and Kodak. When Cooper was envisioning his giant terror gorilla idea, he wanted to capture a real gorilla from the Congo and have it fight a real Komodo Dragon on Komodo Island. (This scenario would eventually evo...

eBay Items of the Week! Click on each link for the eBay page! More items always going up. Stay updated about new items on  Facebook . **FEATURED** New Low Price! Wee Winkles & Wideawake Published 1905 Read my review of this antique novel! Book Sale! ~~~~ Life and Works of Washington Irving Late 1880s Walsh's New Primary Arithmetic Published 1904 Geography Primer Printed 1906 More Great Items! Rhone-Poulenc Set of 5 Collectible Mugs "I had a bad idea" Modified 1929 Atwater Kent Radio Table (Coffee Table) Great Piece of Furniture! Vintage Bush Dairy, Inc Receipts Flemington, NJ

WEEKEND HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS Know about a historical event happening in your area?  Send me an  e-mail  to let us know! Be the first to find out about these events on  Facebook ! Friday, October 25 - Bedminster, Somerset County Halloween Tales and Tunes Children Friendly Children and parents are invited to join balladeer Linda Russell, who will present songs and stories for Halloween on Friday evening at 6:00 pm. Playing hammered and mountain dulcimers, guitar, and limberjack, she'll present ghostly ballads, songs of fairy folk, and harvest tunes as well as the tale of the first jack-o-lantern. Children will be able to play rhythm instruments as part of the Goblin Band! Linda Russell explores history through music. Having served for many years as a balladeer for the National Park Service at Federal Hall on Wall Street, the site of Washington's inauguration, Ms. Russell now takes her music to historic sites, schools and festiva...