Lots of History Events this weekend in NJ - Something for everyone

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Saturday, April 2 – Mercer County
Pottery symposium -- This year’s Trenton ceramics symposium will focus on the many facets of Trenton’s ceramics decorating industry. The day-long symposium called Skin Deep: Trenton’s Decorating Trade will be held Saturday, April 2, 2011, in the Auditorium of the New Jersey State Museum and the galleries of the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion. When a ceramics industry grows as large as the one that existed in Trenton at the turn of the twentieth century it becomes extremely complicated with many sub industries that feed into it and off of it. In Trenton these sub industries included merchants who dealt in raw materials and specialized machinery as well as independent decorating workshops. The workshops provided mass market decorations as well as custom painting on order to the potteries or to retailers and middlemen in the retail business.
Award-winning historian and author Regina Lee Blaszczyk will present the keynote address (www.imaginingconsumers.com). She will explain how the workshops supplied the potteries with decorations and decorators and highlight the work of selected decorating shops. Additional speakers for the day will focus on the current exhibition at Ellarslie, Artists and Decorators of the Trenton Pottery Industry, which is on view until May 8, 2011 (www.ellarslie.org).
The symposium will begin with registration and coffee at 10:00 a.m. The morning session will include Blaszczyk’s keynote address and one or two shorter talks. Lunch will be served at Ellarslie, where participants can view the current exhibition. A show–and-tell session will follow at Ellarslie from 2 to 4 p.m. Audience members can bring items decorated in Trenton for experts to examine and discuss. Each participant will be limited to submitting one item and no appraisals will be given.
The symposium, which is cosponsored by the New Jersey State Museum (www.state.nj.us/state/museum) and the Trenton City Museum, is being presented in conjunction with the Ellarslie exhibition Artists and Decorators of the Trenton Pottery Industry. The exhibition features the work of the artists and artisans, known and anonymous, who worked in Trenton’s premier potteries from 1882 into the 1920s. In addition, the museum’s permanent exhibition and study collection on Trenton’s pottery industry includes mass market decorating by Trenton’s many workshops operating well into the twentieth century.
The symposium is open to the public. The registration fee is $35 if paid by March 18. Members of the Potteries of Trenton Society, the Friends of the NJ State Museum, and the Trenton Museum Society may attend for $30, if paid in advance. Everyone who pays at the door will be charged $40. Registration includes all lectures, lunch, and the show-and-tell session. A mail-in registration form may be downloaded and printed from POTS website: wwwpotteriesoftrenton.org; or interested parties may contact POTS President Patricia Madrigal at 609-695-0122 x 100 or [email protected].
Patricia A. Madrigal, President, Potteries of Trenton Society, 120 W. State Street, Trenton, NJ 08608; 609-695-0122 x 100; 609-695-0147 (fax); [email protected]; www.potteriesoftrentonsociety.org
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March 31 to April 1 – Passaic County
Frame Your Past: Exhibit
Van Riper-Hopper House Museum, 533 Berdan Ave., Wayne, NJ 07470
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
This free exhibit features framed photos and other framed collectable objects by award-winning framer Robert Bottge. The display gives visitors creative ideas for preserving their own family “treasures” the way museums do. Also featured is photography for sale by Peggy Wegmann. Extended weekend hours are April 16 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
For information call 973-694-7192 or e-mail through website www.WayneTownship.com.

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Saturday, April 2 – Morris County
The Historical Society of Old Randolph Holds Annual Yard Sale to Benefit Randolph Museum
The Historical Society of Old Randolph will hold its fifth annual yard sale in the Freedom Park pavilion (behind the Randolph Museum) on Millbrook Avenue in Randolph on Saturday, April 2, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., rain or shine. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the historical society, which oversees the Randolph Museum and provides programming for the community and for Randolph schools. The museum will be open to the public from 10:00AM-1:00PM on the day of the sale.
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Sunday, April 3 – Essex County
Family Walking Tour
Sunday April 3 from 1 to 3 PM
Israel Crane House, Montclair Historical Society, 108 Orange Road, Montclair, NJ 07042
Designed to work in concert with the March 6th Build Montclair in Legos program, this walking tour is geared to families and will take you past the REAL buildings that you created in Legos. Great for families who participated in the Legos program, or any family interested in architecture and Montclair’s history. $10 per family, $5 if your family participated in the Lego program. Call 973-744-1796 or send a note to [email protected] to for information.

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April 2-24 – Ocean County
April Arts at the Seaport
On The Move! A spectacular month long fine art show and sale, a traditional arts show and sale plus a celebration of creative expression which includes artists, drama, poetry and music along with classes and demonstrations of South Jersey folk arts for both children and adults. 10am to 5pm Admission: Adults: $8, Seniors: $6, Children 6 to 12: $3
Children 5 and under: Free. Members Free. Tuckerton Seaport & Baymen’s Museum, 120 West Main St., Tuckerton, NJ, 609-296-8868; www.TuckertonSeaport.org
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Sunday, April 3 – Monmouth County
Baking Bread, the 1830s Way!
On Sunday, April 3rd, between 1-4 p.m., The Historic Village at Allaire will be holding a demonstration of the Bee Hive Oven and techniques used for baking in our 19th century village. Explore the bakery of the 1830’s Howell Works and the role it played in sustaining an entire community. Come join the workers as they prepare the dough, slide it into the oven, and smell the aroma of freshly baked bread.
In the 1830s, the communal bakery was essential to the Village’s workers and their families. Since the majority of homes did not have their own bake ovens, it was necessary to have the means of purchasing fresh bread. James P. Allaire, owner and founder of the Howell Works, now known as the Historic Village at Allaire, foresaw the need for a bakery able to produce enough bread for a community of, at times, four hundred people. He had the bakery constructed near the site of the Grist Mill and saw to it that all necessary ingredients were readily available at the General Store. This was an essential part of his plan for a self-contained community.
Visit our bustling village as they ready for the upcoming Spring Festival, and discuss the passing of James P. Allaire’s first wife. The young ladies of the village will be busy practicing their needlework, but rest assured, none of our villagers are too busy with their daily chores to stop and chat awhile.
Allaire Village, Incorporated is licensed by the State of New Jersey to operate the 40-acre, Historic Village at Allaire, the site of James P. Allaire's Howell Iron Works Company in the 1830s. Throughout the year, Allaire Village, Incorporated is able to present many fine-quality educational and interpretive programs. These programs are made possible by the support of private donations, membership fees, fund-raising events, admission fees, and patronage of our General Store and Bakery.
Allaire Village, Inc. received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State In addition, funding for our historical events is made possible in part to a generous grant from the Ocean First Foundation.
The Historic Village at Allaire is located in Allaire State Park on Route 524/4265 Atlantic Avenue, in Farmingdale, Monmouth County, NJ, off Exit 98 of the Garden State Parkway and off Exit 31B of Interstate 195. For more information, contact the Allaire Village office during business hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 732-919-3500 or visit our web site, at www.allairevillage.org. Allaire Village Incorporated, P O Box 220, 4265 Atlantic Avenue, Farmingdale, NJ 07727; 732-919-3500.
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Sunday, April 3 – Mercer County
The Ewing Historic Preservation Society & The Hopewell Valley Historical Society are proud to announce a joint program featuring John Nagy, Historian / Author / Professor, presenting research for his latest book,
Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution

“Spies have been around forever and have always used the latest tools toward their mission.”

Espionage and Spycraft is traced by John Nagy, from ancient China, through Elizabethan England, to modern times, concentrating on our Colonial Commander-In-Chief, who relied heavily on vast spy networks and sophisticated battle plan deceptions. Mr. Nagy's research encompasses ciphers, encryptions, code and a vast array of spy techniques and methodologies. ~ Come listen and Learn ~ Sunday, April 3 – 2:00pm, Benjamin Temple House, 27 Federal City Rd, Ewing, NJ. 08638; www.ETHPS.org
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Sunday, April 3 – Middlesex County
The Perth Amboy Ferry Slip Museum (maritime) will hold the next in its monthly Sunday Series of lecture/reception programs at 2 PM at the museum at 300 Front Street, Perth Amboy on beautiful Raritan Bay (foot of Smith Street). The requested donation is $5.00 and dessert and coffee will be served Richard Patterson, distinguished Executive Director of the Old Barracks Museum at Trenton, will be speaking about the importance of the British Barracks in New Jersey and the largest of which was in Perth Amboy.
Patterson will also show us rare images of the Perth Amboy Barracks that quartered regiments of the “46th of foot” and the “47th of foot,” the latter leaving to participate in the Battles of Bunker Hill and Saratoga. During the winter of 1776-1777 Perth Amboy was a garrison town filled with Scotch Highlanders, Hessians and British soldiers. Of the five British Barracks built in New Jersey, the one in Perth Amboy was the largest. Completed in 1759, it was the largest building in Perth Amboy and could quarter 300 men.
The Old Barracks at Trenton is the only French and Indian War Barracks still standing in the USA. Nearly 20,000 school children and thousands more people from all over the world visit the Old Barracks every year. It is one of the most visited historic sites in New Jersey. Imagine if Perth Amboy, a Colonial Capital of New Jersey, still had its barracks as a visitor attraction!
But we can still tell of the city’s distinguished historical role in the foundations of our republic and this we will continue to do at our museum! Please join us for another informative and enjoyable afternoon on Raritan Bay!
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Sunday, April 3 – Bergen County
Lenape New Year • Chwame gischuch -- 1:00 to 4:00 pm. The Bergen County Historical Society celebrates the Algonquian New Year, Chwame gischuch Bob Wills, of the Sunrise Trading Post, will share his knowledge of Lenape foods, herbs and customs, showing and selling traditional trade items representative of the Contact Period. Reproduction items for sale include real quahog shell wampum, hair pipes (which Dutch traders made from cattle bones), medicine bags, clay pipes, tomahawks, thimbles, mirrors, cloth, deerskin, knives, gorgets, and books. A special exhibit of rare native artifacts from the collections of the Bergen County Historical Society, including pottery, stone and bone tools, found throughout Bergen County over the past several centuries, will be displayed, along with Hungarian sculptor John Ettl’s famous 1921 bronze bust of Oratam, Sachem of the Hackensacks.
At 2:30 pm, historian and author Kevin Wright will speak on "Hearts of Stone: Ethnic Cleansing at Pavonia, 1643," at the Steuben House.
The first Dark Moon after the Long Moon marks the arrival of Chwame gischuch, the Shad Moon, and the New Year of the ancient Sanhicans and Minisinks, locally known as the Hackensacks and Tappans. Native peoples returned from their winter villages, gathering at the narrows of the great streams, in places such as Acquackanonck (Garfield) and Aschatking (New Bridge), to set their fykes and weirs and catch smelt and later shad as these fish ran up the rivers in great numbers.
Suggested donation: $7 adult, $5 children, BCHS members free. Photo: Tools in BCHS collections.
 

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