Princeton Library, 65 Witherspoon Street
Community Room
Thursday, Jan. 19, 7 pm
Film and Discussion: “The Big Uneasy”
Created by Harry Shearer, this award-winning film explores the true cause of the flooding that occurred in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Shearer’s investigation led him to the conclusion that taxpayers in more than 100 American cities are being affected by the shortsighted and environmentally damaging Army Corps of Engineers projects.
Following the film, Judith Robinson of Princeton Farmers’ Market and Tracy Carluccio, deputy director of the Delaware Riverkeeper, will lead a discussion of the Corps’ proposal to dredge the Delaware River.
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This Meadows Event has been Rescheduled to 2/25 due to Inclement Weather
The Meadows Foundation Presents a Fireside Chat: Murders Most Malicious.
January 21, 2.00 P.M.
van Liew Suydam House, 280 South Middlebusch Road
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Thursday, January 5, 2012, 6:00 PM – 8:15 PM.
Franklin Township Public Library 485 Demott Ln Somerset, NJ 08873-7700
IMPROMPTU presents "THE REACTIVATION SERIES" @Franklin Township Public Library
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December 2011 Events
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Very Sad News:
PASSING OF HISTORIAN URSULA BRECKNELL
League of Historical Societies
908-722-7428; barths@att.net
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ACTION ALERT: Call your Legislators to Support Clean Water
Many in the New Jersey Legislature and Governor Christie are supporting a bill that would pollute your water, pave over NJ's last remaining threatened and endangered species habitats, and promote more sprawl. We need your help to tell the Legislature that dirty water is bad for New Jersey, and to vote "NO" on S3156/A4335.
This bill is moving through the NJ Legislature faster than Santa on Christmas Eve. During this time of year when New Jersey families are coming together, the Legislature is preparing to weaken the very rules that keep your family's water safe and healthy.
S3156/A4335 dismantles and delays compliance with the Water Quality Management Plan Rules, adopted in 2008. The U.S. EPA gave New Jersey counties $1.6million to develop new plans under these rules. Most counties worked closely with their municipalities and have or are nearly finished developing new plans. But, instead of adopting those clean water plans, Governor Christie and the NJ Legislature are acquiescing to developer lobby requests to weaken the rules.
The Water Quality Management Plan Rules protect water by prohibiting the development of new sewer lines, and the intense development that they bring, in large tracts of environmentally sensitive areas. Those areas are wetlands that filter pollution and protect against flood damage, buffers along streams that are drinking water sources, and the state's last remaining threatened and endangered species habitats. New Jersey should instead be focusing sewer construction on repairing leaking pipes that discharge raw sewage into our waterways and ocean, not on building sewers in environmentally sensitive areas.
The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association works hard to be your voice in Trenton to protect your water and environment, but now we need you to make 3 phones calls to let your Legislators know how important clean water and the environment is to you. Ask your State Senator and two Assembly representatives to vote "NO" on S3156/A4335 when it comes up for vote.
Find your Legislators here: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/
Then "like" us on Facebook and encourage others to call their Legislators as well.
Thank you for all that you do to support clean water, the environment, and your Watershed Association.
Happy Holidays!
Sincerely,
Jennifer Coffey
Policy Director
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
Your water. Your environment. Your voice.
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Very Sad News
http://www.mycentraljersey.
Parts of this farmhouse complex are very historic, predating the American Revolution, and it is one of the few remnants of what was once called "Six Mile Run" and now Franklin Park.
Oral history from previous residents report that the building was also part of the Underground Railroad.
Cyanamid Superfund Site – Remediation and Future Plans
Wednesday, December 14, 2011; 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Van Horne House
941 East Main St.
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
(Parking is available in the lot behind Target in the Bridgewater Promenade)
Recent progress has been made at the American Cyanamid Superfund Site located on East Main Street in Bridgewater. Pfizer is hosting a series of educational sessions to inform the community about the restoration process.
This meeting will feature a brief presentation on the status of the site, the upcoming regulatory process, and the future vision for the property. Attendees will be provided the opportunity to talk with project representatives and provide input.
A revised site-wide feasibility study has been submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the property owner, Wyeth Holdings Corporation, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. The feasibility study is currently under review by EPA and other regulatory agencies, and may be available for public comment in early 2012.
For more information about the American Cyanamid Superfund Site, please visit: www.amcyrestoration.com.
History and Background During the first world war, supplies of German coal-tar chemicals, which were used for dyes and many other products, were completely cut off. A Somerville textile company, Cott-A-Lapp, begin experimenting with manufacturing their own dyes. Complaints from neighbors about pollution, caused them to move their operation to a site in Bridgewater just west of Bound Brook along the Raritan River. Under a new company name, Calco Chemicals, they started manufactured TNA (an explosive) and various chemical intermediates for dyes.
After 1918, the company began producing a variety of synthetic dyes and other related chemicals. Calco was acquired by American Cyanamid in 1929 and the site became one of the country’s leading manufacturers of dyestuffs, sulfa drugs and resins. The plant was expanded over the next 60 years to meet the increasing demand for chemicals, particularly during and immediately after World War II when 1600 people were employed at the facility.
The company often received unfavorable publicity about its environmental abuse. When workers complained that their health was being compromised by exposure to carcinogens, they found management unsympathetic. During one strike, protesting against health hazards, the plant manager, Eldon Knape, told the workers that "we don't run a health spa."
During its years of operation, large quantities of waste products were generated and disposed of on the site. The environmental impact to the soil and groundwater resulted in the property being declared a superfund site in 1983
Thanks to the efforts of Susan Goldey, one of Franklin Township's Historic Commissioners, and one of the dedicated volunteers when the Franklin Inn Bookstore was in operation, theFor more information : "Susan Goldey" <sgoldey@comcast.net>
Wijckoff- Garretsen Open House, 215 S. Middlebush Road, Somerset, NJ
Open House
This Dutch farmhouse has been painstakingly restored and is more than 85% original.
Join the volunteers and staff of the Wyckoff-Garretson House for cider and cookies and enjoy a tour of the house with the display of 18th-century period American furniture and antiques. Enjoy a concert of 18th-century harp music in the formal parlor and a 18th- century cooking demonstration in the original kitchen hearth dated 1805.
Admission is free, donations are gratefully accepted. More information at 1-266-221-5259.
The house will be decorated appropriately for the day with greenery, fruits and garlands.
Hope you can visit and join in discussion of plans for turning this historic house into a living history house museum and preparations for the formal museum opening planned for April 14 & 15, 2012.
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Blackwell Mills Canal House
December 11, 2011 1.00-4.00pm
Christmas of Yesteryear
Santa and Mrs. Claus
Carolers from the Six Mile Run Dutch Reformed Church
Refreshments
Gift Shoppe
Come to a nostalgic Holiday celebration at Blackwells Mills Canal House
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Help to preserve it !
Thursday, December 1, 2011
There will be an important Planning Board Meeting on Thursday,December 1st
at 7:30pm at the Township Hall in Princeton, NJ. The Princeton Planning
Board will consider voting on the combined major subdivision and site plan
review for faculty housing slated for the Institute foe Advanced Study.
The housing would be built on the site of General Washington’s army
counterattack that won the day for the American forces at the Battle of
Princeton on 3rd January 1777.
The Princeton Battlefield Society has been lobbying to save this valuable
part of history. It is vital to our history that this portion of the
battlefield remains in tact. The Institute plans to bring in 120
truckloads of soil to construct a plateau for the new development,
entirely changing the topography of the site and our ability to interpret
accurately how the counterattack occurred. In addition the weight of the
trucks will destroy any artifacts that may still be buried.
The Institute has not performed an earth penetrating radar study with the
most current technology. There are still unanswered questions about the
Battle and as it stands now we might never know those answers. The
Institute for Advanced Study is an organization that can boost Einstein as
one of their members and yet why does their intellectualism stop with a
bulldozer? Surely these people understand American history and the
magnitude of the loss they are advocating. We rely on scholars to teach
the value of humanity and our culture. I ask how the Institute could
imagine touching sacred ground where not only American but British
soldiers served and perished. Thus is not just a Mercer County problem or
New Jersey problem but a national one.
Please join myself and others in this important fight by showing support
at the meeting in Princeton on December 1st. For further information
please contact the Princeton Battlefield Society at:
http://www.
R. Iain Haight-Ashton
New Hope, PA
As usual Princeton University is more interested in building stables for its Cash Cows than in preserving historic open space where its Tiger can roam.
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Friday, December 2, 2011 ~ 7:00 pm
Friends of the Abaham Staats House
Annual Meeting with Covered Dish Dinner .
at the Fellowship Hall of the Reformed Church, 113 Clinton Street, South Bound Brook.
Business meeting first (voting on Officers and Trustees for 2011), followed by gluttonizing, socializing, refreshments and a general nice time!
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Saturday, December 3, 12-4 PM
at the Updike Farmstead, located at 354 Quaker Road in Princeton.
Annual Holiday Shopping Party to benefit the Historical Society of Princeton
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Somerset County Historical Society's Fall, Open Public Meeting
Sunday, November 20, 2011, 2:00pm
Van Veghten House, 9 Van Veghten Drive, Bridgewater, NJ 08807
Guest speaker Alan A. Siegel, will discuss the infamous Daniel Cory, a man known as the Dictator of Somerset County.At the start of the Civil War, Cory expressed his support for the Confederacy and contempt for Abraham Lincoln. He was a member of the State Assembly and elected to five terms as a Somerset County Freeholder. Conspiring with his fellow freeholders, he engaged in a twelve-year crime spree of bribery, corruption, and fraud. By inflating the cost of bridge construction, as well as building bridges over non-existent streams, Cory and his friends paid themselves well for their public service.
Alan Siegel is the president of the Warren Township Historical Society and author of numerous books and articles including:
Beneath the Starry Flag: New Jersey's Civil War Experience;
For the Glory of the Union: Myth, Reality, and the Media in Civil War New Jersey;
Warren A to Z: An Entertaining Guidebook to the 275 Year History of Warren Township
Directions: From East Main Street in Bridgewater, turn south on Finderne Avenue. Turn right on Van Veghten Drive. The Van Veghten House is located at the end of the road (1 mile).
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Saturday, November 12, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
At the East Millstone United Methodist Church, 6 Elm Street, Somerset, NJ
BLUE GRASS CONCERT by the Six-Mile Run Blue Grass Band
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Saturday, Sunday, November 12 and 13, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Blackwell Mills Canal House
Art Exhibit and Sale
Paintings and Prints by Barbara Della Peruta and the late Biff Heins
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Sunday, November 13, 2011, 1 PM
At Perth Amboy's historic City Hall Park, High and Market streets,
Celebrate the 328th anniversary of the founding of Perth Amboy, capital of the first successful Scottish Colony in North America. Witness the magnificent Scottish colors, the Cross of St. Andrew, raised high above City Hall Park to the accompaniment of music of the bagpipe.
Approximately 2 PM,
At Perth Amboy Ferry Slip Museum 300 front Street (at the end of Smith Street) the leading authority of Scottish Colonial history, and author of Scotland and Its First American Colony, Professor Ned Landsman, Ph.D., of the Department of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, will be our guest speaker,
A Scottish dessert reception will follow. Ferry Slip Museum, (Foot of Smith Street) 300 Front Street, Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
(Suggested) Donation $5.00
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Meadow Foundation Event
Saturday, November. 19, 2011, 2:00 P.M.
at the Wyckoff-Garretson House, 215 S. Middlebush Rd.
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Crossroads of the American Revolution Events:
Friday, November, 4, at 7:00 pm
The Battle of Princeton, Bringing the Battle Alive
Wade Catts, a professional archaeologist and a principal of John Milner Associates, will bring alive the Battle of Princeton beginning with Gen. Cadwalader's visit to Princeton as a spy the week before the battle. Catts will present archaeological evidence and the results of mapping the details for the original accounts. He will explain why the Battle of Princeton was the turning point of the American Revolution, the critical role of the topography of the area, and what mistakes were made by both sides during this battle. Co-sponsored by the Princeton Battlefield Area Preservation Society and the Princeton Public Library.
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Sun., Nov. 6, 7:30pm
The Old Dutch Parsonage
18th Century Candlelight Concert
Robert Mouland will perform music of the 18th century in the candlelit atmosphere of the Old Dutch Parsonage. Mr. Mouland sings and plays instruments of the period including English guitar, violin, wire harp, shuttle pipes, flageolet and flute. The concert includes popular and Celtic tunes. Admission is $10. Because space is limited, reservations are mandatory. Please contact 908-725-1015 or whouse3@verizon.net for reservations.
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Thurs., Nov. 10, 7:14pm
North Jersey American Revolution Roundtable
Guest Speaker: Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Join the North Jersey American Revolution Roundtable as we welcome historian Arthur S. Lefkowitz, author of several books on the Revolution, who will speak about various subjects of the American Revolution. At the Washington's Headquarters Museum, Morristown
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Sat., Nov. 19
New Jersey Historical Commission
New Jersey in the Crucible of the Civil War
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the New Jersey Historical Commission's 28th annual conference will explore New Jersey's experience of the war that divided the states. The day-long event will be held at Princeton University. For event information and registration please click HERE.
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Sat., Nov. 19, 10am-5pm
The Times that Try Men's Souls
Members from over a dozen living history groups will commemorate the 235th Anniversary of the British Invasion of New Jersey at Fort Lee Historic Park. Re-enactors representing Continentals, Militia, British, Hessian, and Loyalist troops will take part in field and camp activities throughout the day.
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Sat. & Sun., Nov. 19 & 20
235th Anniversary
The Bergen County Historical Society will proudly commemorate the 235th Anniversary of the British invasion of New Jersey with a weekend of living history and scholarly presentations at the site of the Bridge that saved a Nation. For detailed information about the commemoration, visit
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Saturday, November 5, 2-4 p.m.
Wyckoff-Garretson House, 215 S. Middlebush Rd., Somerset.
Amy Ellis Nutt, who won a Pulitzer Prize this spring for her reporting on the "Wreck of the Lady Mary" will be our guest speaker
Sunday, November 6, 2011, at 2 pm,
Metlar-Bodine House Museum, 1281 River Road, Piscataway,
For information and reservations, please call 732-463-8363.
RSVP by November 2 - Middlesex County
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Thursday, November 3, 2011, 6:00 PM – 8:15 PM.
Franklin Township Public Library 485 Demott Ln Somerset, NJ
Arts/Culture/Music IMPROMPTU presents "THE REACTIVATION SERIES"
Hosted by BLACK MOSES Music by "FREE THOUGHT" Jonathan Ware piano, Chris Barnett bass, Sulaiman Ismail drums.
Contact Jonathan Ware to be added to the open mic list or sign up on the libraries website www.franklintwp.org/
Remember The library has a closing time which we need to be out in advance so we'll be promptly ending 8:30 pm sharp
Join the Somerset Renaissance Be apart of something Special.
Contact Phone: 848-228-1594.
For more info visit www.youtube.com.
Free Admission
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