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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 . Saturday, January 27 - Montague Township, Sussex County Winter Festival Family Friendly Event Bring the whole family for a day of winter fun at High Point State Park. Activities will include winter-themed crafts, a story corner, guided winter hike, sing-along, hot cocoa and cookies by the fire, winter weather program, sled dogs, curling, snowshoeing, and ice-fishing demonstrations (conditions permitting). Please park in the gravel lot and walk up to the Interpretive Center. The New Jersey Dog Sled Club will attend and present an education program and sled dog demonstration. The Plainfield Curling club will share their love of curling on Lake Marcia so be sure to stop by for a demonstration and to tryout the sport for yourself.    Interpretive Center: Bird Feeder & Winter Themed Crafts for Children Cookies &

All Aboard…Trains!  Exhibit Expanded at the Gloucester County Historical Society Museum Now Through March 30, 2018 The current exhibit at the Gloucester County Historical Society Museum, All Aboard…Trains! , has been expanded! Several more train platforms have been added - running train displays are throughout the entire museum! Train memorabilia and local railroad history are also on display. Also featured is the extensive Tyco Train collection which was once the private collection of the Tyler family, who founded Tyco Trains/Toys in Mantua, New Jersey in 1926.

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 ! Historic House Estate Sale Millington, NJ Estate Sale Millington, NJ 07946 10:00 am - 2:00 pm  Friday 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Saturday & Sunday

1927 - The “Chicken Fancier” and  His Lady Friend By Joseph G. Bilby An excerpt of chapter 5 from  New Jersey Noir: Bizarre Tales of the Garden State from 1921 to 1952 Medical doctor A. William Lilliendahl also allegedly had a law degree, so the seventy-year-old physician should have known better, but the Feds caught him prescribing opiates to drug addicts from his offices in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey and New York City, while he was allegedly running an addiction rehabilitation program. In the wake of that incident, the Doctor, scion of a wealthy New York family, gave up his medical license and moved with his forty-year-old wife Margaret and eight-year old son Alfred to South Vineland, New Jersey, where, over the next two years, Margaret took a fancy to Willis Beach, a nearby fifty-seven-year-old poultry farmer, known locally as a “chicken fancier.” As a neighborly friendship apparently transitioned into a full-blown love affair, Margaret and Willis allegedly plotted to el

The Passaic County Historical Society Library Hours Extended January 31, 2018 The Passaic County Historical Society is happy to announce that beginning the week of January 31, 2018, the Elizabeth A. Beam Local History and Genealogy Library will be extending its public open hours. Researchers can now access the library's resources Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (1:00 pm - 4:00 pm or 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm in the summer), as well as the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month (1:00 - 4:00 pm or 12:00 - 4:00 pm in the summer). Please be advised that for use of the library, regular museum admission applies.

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, January 20 - Somerville, Somerset County Twelfth Night Concert at the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Family Friendly Event On Saturday beginning at 7:30 pm, balladeer Linda Russell will perform historic holiday music at the Old Dutch Parsonage historic site. Usher the new year in and celebrate like it’s 1778! For most American colonists, Christmas Day was not a major holiday. But over the course of the following twelve days, leading up to Twelfth Night on January 6th, there were great feasts, church services, dances, games and other entertainments. Join balladeer Linda Russell as she explores the tunes and traditions of the Twelve Days of Christmas. Playing the hammered and mountain dulcimers, penny whistle and guitar, Linda sings and plays the carols, dance tunes and drinking songs of the past, interspers

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 ! Over 6,000 45's and Vintage Pinball Machines Randolph, NJ Estate Sale Randolph, NJ 07869 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Friday & Saturday

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, January 13 through Sunday, April 15, 2018  - Cape May, Cape May County “Franklin Street School: From Segregation to Unification” Children Friendly Until Sunday, April 15, view the Center for Community Arts (CCA) Exhibit in the Carroll Gallery on the grounds of the Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington Street, Cape May, NJ. From its opening in 1928, the Franklin Street School was a symbol of segregation and separation. It stood as a reminder of a racial divide, even after school integration in 1948. For two decades the Center for Community Arts has worked to preserve, stabilize and restore the school. Now a collaborative effort by CCA and the City of Cape May aims to renew the school as a community center, offering meeting space, arts and history programs, exhibits, events and senior activities and services to bring

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 ! Vintage Collectibles Toms River, NJ Estate Sale Toms River, NJ  08757 9:00 am - 3:00 pm   Saturday 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Sunday

Twelfth Night Concert at the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Saturday, January 20, 2018 On Saturday, January 20, beginning at 7:30 pm, balladeer Linda Russell will perform historic holiday music at the Old Dutch Parsonage historic site. Linda Russell performing at the Old Dutch Parsonage.

  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 ! Vintage Collectibles Springfield, NJ Estate Sale Springfield, NJ 07081 9:00 am - 3:00 pm   Friday