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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 . Every Friday - Sunday through January 7, 2018 - West Orange, Essex County Holidays at Glenmont Children Friendly The sights and sounds of the season will greet visitors when they come to Thomas Edison's home in Llewellyn Park during "Holidays at Glenmont." Glenmont will be decorated much as it was while the Edison family lived there. Greenery and red poinsettias will deck the mantles above the fireplaces. Staircases will be ringed with boughs and red ribbon bows and wreaths will hang in every window. In the den, the majestic ten foot tree will be set and the presents underneath will be waiting as if the Edison children Madeleine, Theodore, and Charles, will soon come running down the stairs from their rooms - after they've checked their stockings in the upstairs living room! Family china will be displayed on th...

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Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Flight Over the South Pole By Laurie Gwen Shapiro On this day, December 21, 1929, Congress made handsome 41-year-old Virginian Richard Evelyn Byrd the youngest admiral in US Naval history in recognition of his flight over the South Pole. Sixteen months earlier, Admiral Byrd had departed New York to great fanfare on the first American expedition to Antarctica. After almost a year on ice waiting for the right conditions – enough hours of sunlight, little wind and less snow – a meteorologist from the US Weather Bureau finally gave the okay. On November 29, Byrd left the expedition’s base camp of Little America, headed for the pole. Richard Evelyn Byrd. Used with permission.

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Friday - Saturday, December 15 - 16 - Wall Township, Monmouth County Christmas Lantern Tour Children Friendly Event The weather is cold, but the scent of Christmas is in the air! Come celebrate the holidays with a stroll through Allaire's lantern lit village, and learn about Christmas in 1836!  Music, history and a little bit of theater, the Historic Village at Allaire should be your new (or continuing) holiday tradition. Advance purchase recommended. $15.00 per person (not recommended for children under 5 as it is a walking tour and strollers are not permitted in buildings). Group rates are available to parties over 25 individuals, please call the office to book your group tour 732-919-3500. Spaces are limited, so advanced ticket purchasing is highly recommended! Lantern tours begin at 5:00 pm and leave t...

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 ! Diggers' Delight South Plainfield, NJ Estate Sale South Plainfield, NJ  07080 10:00 am - 2:00 pm   Friday 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Saturday

Urban / Rural: Landscapes of Passaic by William P. Campbell (1943-1992)  Exhibit at Lambert Castle December 13, 2017 through March 25, 2018 The Passaic County Historical Society would like to announce the opening of its newest exhibit Urban / Rural: Landscapes of Passaic by William P. Campbell (1943-1992) . This exhibit is a career spanning retrospective, featuring the landscape paintings of local artist William P. Campbell (1943-1992). A Paterson native formally trained at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts and the School of Fine Arts at William Paterson College, Campbell spent his life painting the landscapes of Northern New Jersey, while working as a letter carrier for the United States Postal Service in Passaic. Dundee Rail Yards , Passaic  1963. Image courtesy of the artist's family.

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Every Friday - Sunday through January 7, 2018 - West Orange, Essex County Holidays at Glenmont Children Friendly The sights and sounds of the season will greet visitors when they come to Thomas Edison's home in Llewellyn Park during "Holidays at Glenmont." Glenmont will be decorated much as it was while the Edison family lived there. Greenery and red poinsettias will deck the mantles above the fireplaces. Staircases will be ringed with boughs and red ribbon bows and wreaths will hang in every window. In the den, the majestic ten foot tree will be set and the presents underneath will be waiting as if the Edison children Madeleine, Theodore, and Charles, will soon come running down the stairs from their rooms - after they've checked their stockings in the upstairs living room! Family china will be displayed on th...

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 ! Collector's Home Union, NJ Estate Sale Union, NJ 07083 10:00 am - 4:00 pm   Friday & Saturday