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  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Friday, March 31 - April 2   - Princeton, Mercer County Salon on Stockton Street: A Little Literary Festival in Princeton This Spring sees the return of Princeton’s own little literary festival, the Salon on Stockton Street, now in its second year. Two neighbors on Stockton Street, Morven Museum & Garden, and the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI), are collaborating again to run a varied international program of book interviews with authors from Ireland, the USA, New Zealand, Scotland, and the Netherlands, a one-man play on Charles Darwin, and a private tour of Morven’s Bruce Springsteen photographic exhibition – something for everyone, and all in the intimate setting of a literary salon in CTI’s Luce Hall and Morven. The Salon opens on the Friday evening, March 31st, with a reception at Morven to meet the authors and enj

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, March 25   - Madison, Morris County New Jersey Makers Day Children Friendly Event On Friday and Saturday, residents throughout New Jersey will come together for New Jersey Makers Day, a statewide event that celebrates, promotes and introduces "Maker Culture." This growing movement that values and encourages tinkering, science, technology, art, and math which has a significant impact on school curriculum development. The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (METC) will celebrate New Jersey Makers Day on Saturday from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm with a variety of hands-on projects for children of all ages. Paid guests to the museum can choose to make handcrafted wooden tool kits, observe hands-on demonstrations of simple machines and tour METC, a museum dedicated to the history of early trades and craftsman technolog

NEW JERSEY 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 ! Band Memorabilia East Brunswick, NJ Estate Sale West Orange, NJ  07052 10:30 am - 2:00 pm  Friday 10:30 am - 3:00 pm Saturday

Beginner Rug Hooking Workshop at Jacobus Vanderveer House Sunday, March 26, 2017 If you’ve ever wanted to learn rug hooking, here’s your opportunity to get hooked! Cheryl Halliday, a member of the Hunterdon County Rug Artisans Guild and an award-winning McGown-certified instructor, will introduce participants to the art and tradition of rug hooking, and help them create their own masterpiece. The workshop will be held from 1:00 - 4:00 pm at Bedminster’s historic Jacobus Vanderveer House, 3055 River Road, River Road Park, Bedminster, NJ. The museum will also be open to the public for tours during that time.

Historic Roebling Walking Tours Sundays, April 2 and 23, 2017 Saturday, May 6, 2017 Join former education teacher and member of the Roebling Museum board emeritus, George Lengel, and former park ranger, Doug Kiovsky, as they take visitors on a trip through time to experience what life was like living and working in a model company town during the first half of the 20th century. Three distinctly unique one and a half hour walking tours covering two themes will be offered: the Village Sampler Tour and the Saints, Sinners, and the Paycheck Tour. Tours depart from the lobby of the Roebling Museum in Roebling, NJ. Admission of $15 per person for the walking tour includes museum gallery access. Call the museum at 609-499-7200 for further details. Roebling Row Homes.

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Friday, March 17  - Sandy Hook, Monmouth County Ghost Hunting in East Amwell The Paranormal Activity Research Society of New Jersey (PARS) has been ghost hunting in East Amwell, and are ready to share their spooky discoveries with you on Friday at 7:00 pm. PARS members will show you the tools of their trade -- cameras, K2 meters, REM-Pods and more.  Then they'll tell you about their visit to the Clawson House before discussing perhaps the most haunted house they've ever investigated: a 1760 farm house in East Amwell. They will play for you the eerie audio voices and a conversations that occurred while no earthly being was in the room, and then show you what they captured on camera. EAHS is charging $10 for the entire seat, but you’ll only need the edge. Space is limited.  Proceeds benefit our efforts to restore the his

NEW JERSEY 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 ! Beautiful Artwork & Antiques West Orange, NJ Estate Sale West Orange, NJ  07052 9:00 am - 3:00 pm  Friday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Saturday

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, March 11 -  Bedminster, Somerset County Genealogy Workshop Interested in researching your family history but don’t know where to begin? On Saturday at 1:00 pm, g enealogists Carol Sheaffer and Nancy Nelson, of the Central Jersey Genealogical Club, will teach participants how to organize and begin researching your family archives for photos, documents, diaries, journals and oral histories to help tell your story. You will also learn how to use vital, immigration and military records; church and local records; and online sources.  For more on the Central Jersey Genealogical Club, based in Hamilton, NJ, visit  http://www.cjgcnj.com . Pre-registration is required and space is limited. Admission $10 per person. Members free. Children 12 and under, free. Register HERE .  The Jacobus Vanderveer House is located at 3055 Riv

NEW JERSEY 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 ! Military, Antiques, and More Butler, NJ Estate Sale Butler, NJ  07405 9:00 am - 5:00 pm  Friday & Saturday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun day

The Morris County Historical Society Presents "Florham: An American Treasure" Sunday, March 12, 2017 The Morris County Historical Society announces a special presentation on Sunday, March 12 at 2:00 pm at the Morristown and Morris Township Library, 1 Miller Road, Morristown, New Jersey featuring the book Florham: An American Treasure . A pictorial history of the iconic Vanderbilt-Twombly estate, the book follows the property from “home” to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Florham Campus. Meet authors Carol Bere, Walter Cummins, and Arthur T. Vanderbilt II as they share their insight into Florham’s history, recreate the family’s amazing lifestyle there during the Gilded Age, and explain how Florham survived, when countless other local mansions and estates did not. Enjoy viewing vintage photographs as well as new color images that were taken for the book by photographer Mark Hillringhouse. A program highlight will be the showing of a “lost” film recorded in the 1930s

The Women of Summer a Documentary Film Screening  At the Morris County Historical Society Wednesday, March 8, 2017 Join historian, author, and filmmaker Dr. Rita Heller, Associate Professor of History at the County College of Morris, on Wednesday, March 8 at 2:00 pm as she presents her award-winning National Endowment for the Humanities documentary film The Women of Summer: An Unknown Chapter of American Social History at the Morris County Historical Society’s Acorn Hall.  The film captures a little-known chapter in American educational and social justice history when blue collar women participated in a pioneering and influential educational experiment known as the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers (1921-1938). The program was funded by many well-known capitalists of the era, and it introduced women of all backgrounds to a wide array of humanistic and political thought.

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, March 4 -  Montague Township, Sussex County Friends of High Point State Park Spring Meeting Please join us for our spring meeting! The Friends of  High Point State Park  meets only three times a year - this is your opportunity to learn how to become more involved in our activities.  Members and prospective volunteers are always welcome. All Friends of High Point State Park meetings are open to anyone interested in attending. The meeting will be held at 1:00 pm at the  High Point State Park Interpretive Center. For more information,  e-mail friendshpsp@gmail.com  or visit  visit  http://friendshighpointstatepark.blogspot.com .

NEW JERSEY 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 ! Mid-Century Furniture and More Piscataway, NJ Estate Sale Piscataway, NJ  08854 11:00 am - 5:00 pm  Friday & Saturday