The wildly popular Cool Women Poets of New Jersey returns to the Meadows Foundation and the beautifully wooded, historic Tulipwood property with the seasonally appropriate theme, Over the River and Through the Woods!
These gifted poets have individually published numerous books of poetry and prose as well as recorded readings on CD. Materials will be available for sale at the event. Following the performance, the audience will have the chance to engage in conversation with the poets.
“One of the things that makes the group’s performances so unique is that the poets don’t know which poems they will be reading until they interact with the others. Their style of reading is concert-like (jazz), with the performers demonstrating their individual styles as well as being part of the ensemble.”
-Evelyn Maron, Meadows Foundation Arts & Culture Committee Chair
The RMVE Blog has lots of opportunities for you to pull on your favorite woolly sweater, get out into the crisp autumn air, and enjoy the vibrant colors of the turning leaves! Click on an event for more info!
Please join the Rockingham Historic Site, the Rockingham Association, and the MHS Live Historians in their much-anticipated final event in their celebration of General George Washington’s 1783 stay at the perfectly-preserved 300-year-old house called Rockingham!The Museum Store with a new array of gifts and toys will be open both days.
Please join us for a demonstration of George Washington and Thomas Paine's 18th Century experimentation with "Swamp Gas"!
Please join D&R Canal Watch for a FUN-FILLED 15-Mile Bike Ride along the beautiful stretch of towpath between the Griggstown and Millstone Aqueducts!
Musician/re-enactor playing period music at the Wyckoff-Garretson House's 4th Annual Living History Weekend during Somerset County's 3rd Annual Weekend Journey Through The Past!
Jan ten Broeke at the Wyckoff-Garretson House posing with 18th and 19th Century spinning wheels, hearth ironware, and kitchen table and chairs, all from his and his wife Barbara's personal collection.
The Meadows Foundation is proud to host:"This is the second in our three-part fall Fireside Chats lecture series. Our theme this fall is the election, and we want to help capture the spirit of this exciting time through our presentations."
The Board of Directors of the Meadows Foundation submitted the following resolution to the Franklin Council to encourage its adoption. It will be on tomorrow night's (Tuesday October 14) agenda for adoption by the Franklin Township Council. The Council will meet at 7PM in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Complex, 475 DeMott Lane. This meeting will be open to the public.
Please join us for Somerset County's 3rd Annual Weekend Journey Through The Past!Saturday, October 11 from 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sunday, October 12 from 12:00PM to 5:00PM
Somerset County's Third Annual Weekend Journey Through the Past is the perfect opportunity for your entire family to feed your curiosity and expand your knowledge by traveling through time and immersing yourselves in the past!
Twenty-five beautifully preserved, historically significant sites will be open and free of charge for you to tour and explore all weekend long! Through the rich tradition of oral history you will get to know many of the properties' former occupants, including very distinguished statesmen and national leaders, and experience what life was like in 18th and 19th century New Jersey, from daily work responsibilities and pleasurable pastimes to the difficult hardships endured during the American Revolution.
Other demonstrations offered at select sites include: period music, craft making, open hearth cooking, musket use, black smithing, military drills, and many more! Please click on the individual site below to see what events and demonstrations each site offers.
PARTICIPATING HISTORIC SITES
Bedensville One-Room Schoolhouse, Skillman (Montgomery)
Boudinot-Southard-Ross Property, Basking Ridge (Bernards)
Brick Academy, Basking Ridge (Bernards)
Codington Farmstead, Warren
First Reformed Church of Rocky Hill
Gen. John Frelinghuysen House/Raritan Public Library, Raritan
Griggstown School House, Griggstown (Franklin)
Kennedy-Martin Stelle Farmstead, Basking Ridge (Bernards)
Kirch-Ford House, Warren
Mount Bethel Meeting House, Warren
Old Dutch Parsonage, Somerville
Old Millstone Forge Blacksmith Shop & Museum, Millstone
Old Presbyterian Graveyard, Bound Brook
Daniel Robert House, Somerville
Rockingham, Kingston (Franklin)
Somerset County Courthouse Green (two sites), Somerville
Somerset County Historic Court House & Lord Memorial Fountain
South Branch School House, Branchburg
Abraham Staats House, South Bound Brook
Andrew Ten Eyck House, Branchburg
U.S. Golf Association Museum, Far Hills
Jacobus Vanderveer House, Bedminster
Van Horne House, Bridgewater
Van Veghten House, Bridgewater
Vermeule Mansion, North Plainfield
Wallace House, Somerville
Washington Rock/Washington Rock State Park, Green Brook
Wyckoff-Garretson House, RECOMMENDED! Join us for the 4th Annual Living History Weekend at Wyckoff-Garretson House, Somerset (Franklin) on South Middlebush Road in Somerset Township
SUGGESTED TOUR ROUTES
These suggested tours include sites grouped logically by area and linked by beautiful, winding, scenic by-ways in hopes of making your journey more pleasurable!
Northern Tour, The Watchung Mountains
Central Tour, The Old York Road
Southern Tour, The Delaware/Raritan Canal
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