OCTOBER 9-10: Colonial Times IV, Event & Banquent!

Please join the Meadows Foundation for their fourth annual Colonial Times Event & Banquet at the Wyckoff-Garretson House!

DATES/TIMES: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 10AM-5PM
Sunday, October 10, 2010, 12PM-5PM
PLACE: Wyckoff-Garretson House
215 S. Middlebush Rd., Somerset

Exciting & FREE family-friendly events include:

• Live Music of the Period!
• Open Hearth Cooking Demonstrations!
• Encampment of Daniel Morgan's Rifle Company & John Lamb's Artillery Company!
• Rifle & Cannon Demonstrations!

THE BANQUET
DATE: Saturday, October 9, 2010
TIME: 6PM
PLACE: The Hageman Barn
209 S. Middlebush Rd., Somerset
TKTS: $30.00 per person
Checks payable to: Van Wickle House, 1289 Easton Ave, Somerset, NJ, 08873
RSVP: MUST reserve before October 4

After dinner, Dr. Marc Mappen will speak about his latest book, There's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos! Books will be available for purchase and signing for $20.00.

Postponed: LIVING HISTORY SERIES SHOWCASES COLONIAL COOKING!

Unfortunately, this event has been postponed due to Friday's predicted snowstorm, please stay tuned for further information.
The Meadows Foundation is proud to invite you to a delicious installment to their Living History Series with Michele Dansak's "Historic Foodways Demonstration and Lecture"!

DATE: Saturday, February 27, 2010
TIME: TBA
PLACE: Wyckoff-Garritson House
215 South Middlebush Road, Somerset
TKTS: $10.00 per Person
RSVP: Space is limited to 20. Please call or email to reserve your spot.
PHONE: (732) 560-1977
EMAIL: Meadowsreserve@aol.com

Michele Dansak is a expert at the nearly lost art of colonial open-hearth cooking and she is the unit cook and seamstress for Outwater's Militia. Attendees will assist Ms. Dansak in the preparation of a historically inspired dish, and there will be plenty of opportunity to learn- and ask questions about colonial foodways while the dish cooks over the fire. When it is ready, everyone partakes in the best part--eating!

Why not become a member of the Meadows Foundation or volunteer and get in on all the fun?

December 5: LECTURE AT THE WYCKOFF-GARRETSON HOUSE "WHO WAS THE REAL MOLLY PITCHER?"

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Molly Pitcher "The Heroine of Monmouth" Currier & Ives

The Meadows Foundation is proud to invite you to the debut event of their exciting new Living History lecture series, a presentation by Robert C. Goodyear about the woman behind the legend surrounding his great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ludwig "Molly Pitcher" Hayes!

DATE: Saturday, December 5
TIME: 2:00PM
PLACE: Wyckoff-Garretson House
215 S. Middlebush Rd., Somerset
TKTS: $10.00 per person
RSVP: (732) 748-7657
Reservations Recommended

The Living History series is designed to bring history alive! Event will feature talks about the lives and contributions of historic figures in American history, as well as demonstrations of cooking in colonial times, medical procedures, militia demonstrations, and much, much more!

First Photos Are IN For "Weekend Journey Through The Past"! Photo Submissions For Posting Are VERY Welcome!

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.

Please send us more photos to share on the RMVE Blog! Anyone willing to publicly share their personal photographs of the Weekend's festivities on this blog are encouraged to email them in .jpg format to the blog's primary writer/editor/monitor, Jan ten Broeke, at tensart@gmail.com! Please include any identifying information with your submissions including site location, activities, and names of individuals prominent in the photo(s).**

THANK YOU to everyone who made Somerset County's 3rd Annual Weekend Journey Through The Past such a smashing success! Everyone in the RMVE Blog community looks forward to seeing you at future events celebrating Central New Jersey's unique cultural and historical heritage and precious environmental preserves!

**While no compensation for your photos is available, you will be providing everyone who views them with lasting memories and joy, as well as helping your community document these significant activities for the benefit of many generations to come. In that spirit, we hope you will be generous--and judicious--in your photo submissions!

October 11 and 12: Somerset County's "Weekend Journey Through The Past"

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

First Dutch Reformed Church

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