There is more than the moon to know about up in space. See below!

Astronomy for Everyone: Size & Scale of the Universe
 

Monday, July 22, 7 - 8:30 p.m.

 

Ages 7 - 100!

 

Astronomer Kevin Manning, a former consultant with NASA, has always been passionate about astronomy, and wants to share the excitement with you!  You’ll learn about the size and scale of the universe, the stars, and other celestial wonders using hands-on activities and assorted visuals.

 

Weather permitting, from 8:30-9 p.m., we will go outdoors to view celestial bodies etc. through a powerful hand-crafted telescope.

 

Register here or call 856-854-2752.Haddon Twp. Library

off Cuthbert Blvd. in Collingswood.

In case you are not on this mailing list - Revolutionary War era events this summer.

Make your Summer Revolutionary!

Revolutionary New Jersey is as active as ever! History comes alive this July and August with dozens of events taking place around the state. Below are just a few of the many events scheduled in the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area. Consult our online calendarand Facebook page to explore the rest... and plan your visit to Revolutionary New Jersey!  July 19 Colonial Ice Cream Making at Bouman-Stickney Farmstead in Stanton. Join Heart to Hearth Cookery in reproducing the way ice cream was made in the 18th century! 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. More information. July 20 Songs and Stories of the American Revolution at Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville. Matthew Dodd dresses in colonial-era clothing and will perform various rousing songs and stories of the period. 2:00 p.m. More information.  July 21 Tour the 1761 Brearley House in Lawrenceville. Enjoy more than 40 acres of parkland plus a tour of this 18th century gem. 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information. Historic New Bridge Landing Summertime Tour in River Edge. Learn the story of the "Bridge that Saved a Nation" and visit three Jersey-Dutch sandstone houses. 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. More information. Tour Historic Potter's Tavern in Bridgeton. Learn how notable Patriots joined forces at the local tavern to publish a pro-independence broadsheet in the early days of the Revolution. 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information. The Village Inn House Tour in Englishtown. Visit the tavern that hosted a conference of Continental Army leaders on the eve of the Battle of Monmouth. 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. More information.  July 23 "The Greatest Captain in the World" at the Warren and Reba Lummis Genealogical and Historical Library in Greenwich. Kids are invited to join A.J. Meerwald Captain Johann Steinke in telling the children's story he co-authored. 6:00 p.m. More information. July 24  "Revolution in the News" Lecture at the David Library in Washington Crossing. Historian Joseph Adelman discusses the role of printers, newspapers and broadsides during the Revolution. 7:30 p.m. More information. Mid-week Museum Tours at the Crane House in Montclair. Visit for a view into the birth and progression of America from the Revolution to the movement for civil rights. 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. More information. July 27 Colonial Morristown Walking Tour. Take a mile-long stroll featuring sites associated with Washington, Hamilton and others, led by historian Pat Sanftner. 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Tickets and more information. July 28 DAR Van Bunschooten Museum Tour in Wantage. Tour the historic home of Rev. Elias Van Bunschooten and other buildings. 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information. Tour Historic Potter's Tavern in Bridgeton. Learn how notable Patriots joined forces at the local tavern to publish a pro-independence broadsheet in the early days of the Revolution. 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information. Alexander Hamilton: A Military Career at the Dey Mansion in Wayne. Join historian Damien Cregeau for a presentation on Hamilton's rise to glory. 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Reservations and more information.  August 3 Morristown Churches Walking Tour. Visit some of the community's oldest churches and discover their contributions to the community. 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. More information. A Revolutionary Rave at the Taylor-Butler House in Middletown. Enjoy an afternoon of 18th-century style music and games. Period clothing encouraged but not required! 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tickets and more information. August 4 Walking Tour of the Battle of Monmouth at Monmouth Battlefield State Park in Manalapan. Take a walking tour of the site of the longest battle of the Revolution. 1:30 p.m. More information. Walking Tour of Lambertville. Start at the Marshall House to walk your way through the history of this charming Delaware River town. 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. More information. Tour the 1760 Joseph Turner House in Hampton. Discover the story of the Union Forge and how it provided ammunition to the Continental Army during the Revolution. 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information. Ice Cream - Edible History! at Historic Walnford in Upper Freehold.Help crank and then consume several flavors of ice cream made with historical recipes. 3:00 p.m. More information.  August 6 American Revolution Night with the Trenton Thunder at Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton. Baseball and Revolutionary New Jersey combine for a roaring good time with the capital city's professional ball club. Visit with the troops before the game, watch George Washington throw out the first pitch, meet local historical groups and enjoy and Trenton baseball! 5:30 p.m. Tickets and more information. August 10 People & Places Walking Tour in Morristown. Take a guided walk through the community, focusing on historical buildings, people, and places. 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Reservations and more information. Tour the Samuel Fleming Home and Gardens in Flemington. Discover the early history of the Hunterdon County seat through the life of the 18th century Irish immigrant who gave it his name. 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information. August 11 DAR Van Bunschooten Museum Tour in Wantage. Tour the historic home of Rev. Elias Van Bunschooten and other buildings. 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information. August 17 240th Anniversary of the Raid on Paulus Hook, at Historic New Bridge Landing in River Edge. The Brigade of the American Revolution adds Revolutionary flair as historian Todd Braisted relates the story of the raid and the role New Bridge Landing played in the incident. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information.

Recurring events and site tours* Every Wednesday Tea and Tour at Historic Morven in Princeton. Enjoy a cultured afternoon at the home of Declaration of Independence signer Richard Stockton and his wife, poet Annis Boudinot Stockton. 1:00 pm. More information. Tea at the Proprietary House in Perth Amboy. Following teas and homemade desserts, discover the only original Royal Governor's house still standing in the United States. 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. More information.   Every Friday Tour Morven's Reimagined Historic Gardens in Princeton. Enjoy a 45-minute tour of what's in bloom. Garden guides will share how the house and gardens evolved under each family that resided at Morven, starting with Annis Boudinot Stockton, based upon writings and journals. 11:00 a.m. Online registration and more information.  Every Sunday Proprietary House tours in Perth Amboy. Learn the fascinating history of Royal Governor William Franklin's home and its many "lives" since his arrest in 1776. 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information.  Schuyler-Hamilton Open House in Morristown. Visit the home where Alexander Hamilton courted his future wife, Betsy Schuyler during the 1779-80 Morristown encampment. 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. More information. *Please contact site to confirm dates and times before visiting. Discover Revolutionary New Jersey all summer long. Watch your inbox for our August eNewsletter

The Immigrant Issue - Follow up to Lights for Liberty Vigil

Welcome to everyone who joined our mailing list this past Friday! The Lights For Liberty vigil was an inspiring evening of community and outrage. We thank South Jersey Women For Progressive Change, Collingswood Progressive Democrats, and Action Together for co-sponsoring and adding their organizational talents to the evening. We also say thank you to our speakers: social worker Erica Lamancusa, immigration attorney Jeff DeCristofaro, Reverend Ryan Paetzold, and Congressman Donald Norcross.When we all work together, the results are amazing, and last Friday was a demonstration of what we can do. 

Our work, however, is not done. So what comes next? Here are some suggestions: 

1. If you didn't get a chance at the vigil, sign up with Sanctuary Network South Jersey. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJ9vd-x_Z2jGGa2eL5AniC1h9awprTSur1kIOiWZweOA3GLw/viewform
2. Consider donating to organizations helping immigrants at the border. In particular, RAICES (Texas-based immigrant org) and Wind of the Spirit (an NJ immigrant resource org) are doing great work. 
3. Stay tuned to our Facebook and this mailing list for opportunities to get involved. This stuff comes at you fast, and we'll get the word out when there's something we can do through those methods. 
4. Attend CRI's next meeting on 9/11 at the Collingswood Library. Our next meeting will be devoted to immigration issues, and we are lining up some special guests to talk more about what we can do right here in South Jersey, as well as all the other things that we're involved in.

Another Moon Mission Movie Review

Every day this week I plan to watch another movie or documentary about the missions to the moon.  Today, after a grueling set of errands (grueling due to the HEAT) I settled down with a snack and watched MISSION CONTROL, which was fascinating.

It was a blow by blow documentary of the experiences of the engineers in the control room during the Apollo missions.  It really brought home to me what an almost impossible task was accomplished by the people of that time and place.  To make from almost nothing, a building, a team, and the machinery to send men into space, to the moon, and get them back alive!

Joel Morgenstern (The Wall Street Journal)

Best Moon Movies for the 50th Anniversary
First Man
Apollo 11
Apolo13
For All Mankind
Moon (2009) I was not familiar with this one
and although it isn't about the moon, it is about flight training for astronauts - The Right Stuff (my choice to add)

All along the week, I have had questions and looked them up and found out some facts.  I wondered exactly how many men did go to the moon.  The answer is 12.  There were 4 successful moon landings the last of which was Apollo 17.

The first women in space were Russian.  There were two of them.  We didn't send one until 1983, Sally Ride.  All in all, there were 64 women astronauts.

Side note:  It was a "man's world" for sure in the 1960's, and that was reflected in the fact that almost all the engineer were men.  I remember well how some colleges were closed to women entirely, and colleges that did let women in, sequestered them in 'female appropriate' courses of study, such as education.  Engineering was closed to us, as was law, physics, and many of the sciences.  

Nonetheless, it was a marvel that we could engineer, create, and successfully operate a rocket-ship to space.  I am celebrating that marvel every day this week!  

Many of the engineers said we couldn't do that now.  We would have to start from scratch and begin all over since technology has changed so much since then.  Interesting.  Well, we are doing other things, Mars, Hubble, and so on.  Thank heavens for one thing we did NOT do, and that is to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon which was something that was discussed and then prohibited by international space treaty (another interesting topic).

I am not sure which of the top ten movies about the moon I am going to watch next.  The Right Stuff was a possible choice!

Happy trails, even contrails
Jo Ann wrightj45@yahoo.com

Moon Reviews

Sorry I didn't get to tell you about this one in time, but I only found out today:  Victorian Vanities presents:  20 secrets you didn't know about the Space Race!  I took notes but the only detail I will give you here is that Werner Von Braun, rocket expert, was recruited from Germany's rocket weapons program, and he was a Nazi.  The presenter was Excellent; she gave background to the Cold War and lots of down to earth everyday details like sharing air raid drill experiences and listing items we didn't have before the space race (Tang, to name just one).  If you get a chance to hear this, don't miss it - she is going to Princeton Library tomorrow

Still to enjoy - Woodbury Library is doing a presentation on the Apollo mission.  It will be at 6:30 and I will be there!

Today I watched a superb movie about the moon landing called FIRST MAN starring Ryan Gosling. I watched it on amazon prime but it was recommended to me by a friend who saw it in the theaters, so it may still be in theaters near you!  Very good - riveting action and excellent acting.  It brought it all back so vividly and I learned a lot that I didn't know.

Five days to BLAST OFF - July 20 is the actual date of the moon landing.  I hope you have something planned to celebrate!

Happy Trails!
Jo Ann    wrightj45@yahoo.com

Lights for Liberty Protest

Last night, Friday, July 1, 2019, I set out around 6:00 pm, tired and reluctant because:  It was going to be a long walk, carrying a camp chair in a bag over my shoulder And it was going to end with me having a sore shoulder and a back ache when I could be home sitting in the living room watching NCIS.  Nonetheless I was 100 percent certain it was my duty to go to the protest at Knight's Park in Collingswood and add my voice to the others, outraged at the kidnapping of immigrant children from their trapped families at the border, and placing them in prison camps throughout the South.  

Sometimes your heart aches so much you have to take an action or slide into despair.  So I put on long pants, got my chair out of the shed, and went over to the park.  Taking a back way in case I needed to park in a side street, I passed many people, mostly my age or middle aged, walking down the sidewalk carrying their camp chairs.  I didn't have to park  far after all.  

We sat or stood around the big picnic pavilion and a lawyer spoke of how the breaks the laws, a social work talked about the long range damage from the trauma inflicted on vulnerable children, and several ministers part of the Sanctuary Network (kind of like the Underground Railroad spoke of their efforts to hide and protect immigrants from ICE.  

All the people around me were  kind and fervent, though limping and using canes and walkers.  There were may young families as well, however, and I couldn't help but think how lucky those children were in comparison with those poor kids in the tent camps with no help, no proper nutrition or hygiene, no kind or reassuring adult.  It is heartbreaking and shocking that men would make profit from these camps and the abuse of these children.  It is akin to the slave labor the Germans inflicted on captives in the 1930's and 40's.
Here we are again.  

Here is a news report on the Lights for Liberty Effort:

Updated July 13

The national Lights for Liberty campaign brought out thousands of people across the Philadelphia region on Friday. At daytime marches and evening vigils, they were protesting the anticipated raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, as well as federal law enforcement’s treatment of immigrants in detention centers at the border.

Upwards of 300 marchers swarmed the Pa. Convention Center at 12th and Arch in Center City at around noon.

Edward Deliman stood out among the crowd, wearing a clergy collar in the near-90 degree heat. As an auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he’s spent 27 years in parishes with large immigrant populations — like Saint Agnes Parish in West Chester and Visitation Bless the Virgin Mary in Kensington.

“I’m here today to be in solidarity with our brothers and sisters down at the border,” Deliman said. “You gotta do whatever you have to do to catch the attention of those who can fix broken immigration laws.”

Another apt comparison is with fugitives fleeing the South during the period before, during AND after the Civil War.

Here is a chance to do the right thing.  I plan to get more involved through the Friends Service Committee.

Happy Trails!

Jo Ann

Update on Peaceful Vigil against imprisonment of migrant children in for-profit camps in unsafe squalid conditions

This was the final detail memo on the peaceful protest against separating children from their parents and imprisoning them in the unsanitary, unsafe run-for-profit prison camps.  Our tax dollars are paying these companies $750 per child which is definitely not being spent on food or health care for these children.  If you are upset about this happening in our country, here is a chance to find out more and make your voice heard -

Time & Location: 7:00 PM, Knight Park, Collingswood, NJ. We've moved to the Pavilion area to accommodate more people. This is only a few hundred yards from the Gazebo, where we were previously located. If you enter the park on the Collings Ave or Park Ave side, you'll see us. The pavilion is a large structure by the small river that winds through the park. We have access to the park beginning at 7:00 PM and the night's proceedings will begin at approximately 7:15. We will conclude with a moment of silence and a song at sunset. 

Weather: This is a rain or shine event. The weather looks good as of right now, but it is currently raining, so the field may be damp. 

What to bring: 

1. A blanket- There is very little seating available at the Pavilion area. Please bring a blanket for your comfort if you need to sit down in the grass. 
2. LED Candle- We will have a limited supply of candles available, so we ask you to bring your own candle. Flameless is much preferred for safety reasons. 
3. Signs- Signs are welcome, but keep in mind the mood of this event is somewhat more somber and serious than other events that we've organized. We won't be censoring any signs, however, and we leave it completely up to you to determine the right message. 

Where to park: 

1. We urge you to take public transit. The Collingswood PATCO Station is only a 5-minute walk from Knight Park, and is without a doubt your best option. 
2. If you must drive, please plan NOT to park at Knight Park itself. There is very limited parking there and we expect far more people to attend than there are parking spots available. Please park instead at the Collingswood PATCO Station lot. There is ample parking there. 
3. If you have physical restrictions that make such a walk difficult, please reply to my email and let me know, and we'll discuss what you should do. 
4. The town has expressed some concern about how many people are coming, so again, plan NOT to park at Knight Park. This will help with the traffic concerns. 

Facilities:

There are bathroom facilities a short walk from the Pavilion, but I cannot say whether Collingswood Public Works will leave them unlocked for our use. 

Agenda:

We'll have a full agenda planned out for tomorrow, but the basic outline is this: 

• 7:15- 8:15- Main program: Speakers, signing of letters to our Members of Congress, Sanctuary Network South Jersey signups, etc. 
• 8:15- Moment of silence, non-denominational litany
• 8:20 to end of program- Crowd songs

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow night, and thank you for being part of a movement to close these concentration camps immediately. Please feel free to share this email with anyone you know who's coming, but didn't sign up through our Mobilize link. 

Adam Sheridan

Lead Organizer

Cooper River Indivisible

Peace in a time of stress - CHAIR YOGA

Chair Yoga

Monday, July 15 @ 6 p.m.

 

Join us for Chair Yoga. This class is designed to bring yoga to your day. Just come as you are and utilize some of your time to maintain health and revitalize your body systems. Yoga develops a union connecting the body, mind, and breath, so in essence, it’s a whole body tune-up. This class is suitable for all experience levels. Classes are one hour long.

 call 856-854-2752.

defending NJ's Immigrant Families

Defending NJ’s Immigrant Families

Medford (NJ) Friends Meeting has engaged Nicole Miller to speak in an open community event on August 4 at the Quaker Meetinghouse, 14 Union St., Medford, NJ.
Ms. Miller is Legal Services Director for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Immigrant Rights Program. Their work encompasses providing legal representation to indigent NJ immigrants.Ms. Miller has also represented immigrants facing removal before the US Custom and Immigration Service (USCIS).
She is a current member of the Working Group on Immigrant Representation seeking increased access to immigration legal services in NJ and and a member of the New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children.
Ms. Miller was invited by Medford Meeting’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee to help both meeting members and the broader community to bridge an information gap and to better understand the scope and depth of issues facing many New Jersey families.
On August 4 open Quaker worship is held at10:00 a.m. and at 11:30 a.m., Ms. Miller will talk about her extensive work on behalf of New Jersey families. Light refreshments to be served; questions are welcome. Friends Meeting House, 14 Union St.Medford, NJ.
For more information visit: www.medfordfriendsmeeting.org  

 

ACTION to protest the kidnapping and imprisonment of migrant children in the West

If, like me, you have been appalled to be in a country that tears little children and even babies from their families and imprisons them in unsanitary and unsafe tent camps, you may feel conscience stricken and wish to make your voice heard.

Here is your first opportunity.  On July 12, 2019, in Knight's Park in Collingswood, NJ a peaceful candlelight vigil will be held to show that this action is intolerable to many Americans.  The vigil will be held from 7 pm to 9 pm.

In addition on August 4, a Friends Service Committee meeting will be held at the Friends Meeting in (I think) Marlton, NJ to tell those who care what they can do.

"All it takes for evil to flourish for for good people to do nothing."

Jo Ann

Family History Buffs - Events!

Although Camden County Historical Society closes during the month of August, this year, 2019, they will hold a series of lectures given by the talented, personable, and resourceful Bonny Beth Elwell.  I have had the pleasure of attending lectures and workshops given by Bonnie Beth Elwell and I even hired her to help me finish a family tree that I was copying to frame and give to my siblings for Christmas a few years back.

Bonnie has held Salem County Genealogy Society events at Friends Village in Woodstown for many years, and she has a charming and informative column in the Elmer Times called "Ancestors' Attic."  

If you have an interest in family history, are a beginner, or are a practitioner who needs some help or inspiration this may be just the thing to spark your creative problem solving skills or inspire you to get back on the case.

Sunday, August 4th from 1 pm to 2:30
Sunday, August 11th from 1 pm to 2:30
Sunday, August 8th from 1 pm to 2:30

It is certainly my plan to attend.  So far my family history projects included:   the aforementioned family tree, a color photo collage of everyone for whom I had a photo (photos scanned, resized,  collaged and then scanned and copied in large format at Belia copy center in Woodbury), a desriptive spiral bound booklet, a booklet with photos of our family heirlooms (no financial value but much sentimental value, as for example with my Great Grandmother's sewing machine which she used to make a living) and a series of postcards using family holiday photographs which I used for holiday greeting cards over the years.  For example, I had postcards printed from the oldest photographs in our family collection which date to 1884, the marriage portraits of my Great Grandmother and Great Grandfather, for a Valentine postcard.

I love family history and have found MANY wonderful resources at the Camden County Historical Society Library in the genealogy section.  They are very helpful there too!

Happy trails (whatever kind they may be - research or woodland)
Jo Ann
wrightj45@yahoo.com

World War II Meeting of Mt. Ephraim Seniors Get-Together Today

First Monday of the month, various seniors and not yet seniors get together to talk about ancestry, history (South Jersey history, Camden County history, and all kinds of history) and whatever else pops up!  If you are reading this, let me say you are invited to join us!  

Beginning this month, the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the War, if you count the beginning the invasion of Austria, Czechoslavakia and Poland (not all the same year, of course, but around '39), we are taking a look at World War II with a focus on the home front.

There were five of us and today, and surprise of surprises, one was a 92 year old veteran of World War II, a navy man named Tom Laverty.  What a charming, lively, informative man he was and what a memory!  I was stunned by his ability to remember ships, ports, dates and other details from so long ago.  Tom was the second living World War II vet I had the honor to meet this week.  On Sunday, I met Bob Leibrandt, an army vet who had been shot twice during the American assault on Germany by land, captured and interred in a POW camp and survived all that to live to the ripe age of 94!  To me, just to make it to 90 is an accomplishment but to survive two gunshot wounds and POW imprisonment is almost a miracle.

The ladies charmed me with their memories of the homefront.  One lady, now 90, was 12 when the war began and 16 when it ended.  She remembered rationing and making butter with lard and yellow food coloring capsules.  She also remembered hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor on the radio.

Speaking of Pearl Harbor, another lady, Marie, brought us a real treasure, a scrapbook of the headlines from the beginning of the war to the end.  There we could see for ourselves the headlines about the attack on Pearl Harbor and the first published photos of the ships on fire.

I have a couple of books that I plan to read before our next meeting, New Jersey Women in World War II, and MY LIFE, by Margaret Bourke White.  I had brought a German made portable typewriter a Rheinmetall beauty that I found in a 2nd hand store for $25 once, in perfect shape with all its accessories.  It was actually made a couple of years after the war in East Germany and the model serial number says "made in occupied Germany."  I had several print outs of photographs of women war correspondence of whom there were at least 120 certified, reporting for magazines and newspapers like Life and Look and Colliers, all over the world, and I don't know how many women photographers.  

But I do know one of the women photographers was New Jersey's own Dorothea Lange who documented the imprisonment of Japanese civilians in the West.  Margaret Bourke White flew with the air force and journalist Martha Gellhorne, whose biography I am reading, went ashore with the soldiers on the Normandie Beach Invasion after stowing aboard a Red Cross rescue ship.  My focus will be on the homefront and the hidden women workers of the war, a subject a little less well known.

I had a fascinating afternoon at the Charles Dougherty Senior Center today and I hope you will join us on the first Monday in August when we continue our look back at World War II.  Marie promised to bring her scrapbook back again and I promise to bring my early box brownie camera and my Rheinmetall portable typewriter too!

Happy Trails!
Jo Ann
wrightj45@yahoo.com

Camden County History Alliance Events for the Summer 2019

July 1 & 4: Watch Independence Week Fireworks on the Battleship New Jersey

July 6: Pirate Invasion on the Battleship New Jersey

July 9: Music Under the Stars at the Barclay Farmstead

July 11: “From California to Gettysburg: The Hancock Family” with the Old Baldy Civil War Round Table

July 14: Tours at the Gabreil Daveis Tavern Museum House

July 16: Music Under the Stars at the Barclay Farmstead

July 18: A Place in Time Open Mic Poetry Series at the Camden County Historical Society

July 23: Music Under the Stars at the Barclay Farmstead

July 28: Motown Sunday Afternoon and Fish Fry with the Still Family Historical Committee

July 28: Tours at the Gabreil Daveis Tavern Museum House

July 30: Music Under the Stars at the Barclay Farmstead

August 4, 11, & 18: Genealogy Presentations Lecture Series at the Camden County Historical Society

August 10: WWII Victory Day on the Battleship New Jersey

August 11: 150th Annual Still Family Reunion with the Still Family Historical Committee


My apologies that the links for the above items do not work!  I copied and pasted from an E Mail from the Camden County History Alliance of which I am a member and the html code always gets messed up in translation, but you can find all of this at the CCHA website if you google Camden County History Alliance.  You should get on their mailing list, it is invaluable!

By the way, my Seniors group at the John Dougherty Senior Center in Mt. Ephraim, free to all seniors here and in neighboring communities, meets at 1:00 first monday of the month, which is today, July 1st.  Our topic will be brushing up on WWII, so as the next five years will no doubt be filled with WWII events as we enter the 80th anniversary of that cataclysmic event, you may want to join us!  All are welcome.  It is the re-purposed fire station at the railroad and Lambert in Mt. Ephraim, behind the Mary Bray School which is on Kings Hwy.  Hope you can join us!

Happy Trails, 
Jo Ann
wrightj45@yahoo.com