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Friday, September 15, 2023

Batsto

I don't get to the pinebarrens much these days but I always like to hear from them and today I got their quarterly newsletter in my e-mail, so I aam letting you know what is going on there: Save the date! Be sure to check out the Fall Glass and

Bottle show on September 24, 2023,

kicking off the Fall and Winter events at Batsto, including the Country Living Fair, the Haunting, and Winter in the Pines! Plans for the Fall show include an additional row to accommodate up to 100 anticipated dealers. For more on times and dates, google Batsto

Happy Trails!

Jo Ann

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Some Upcoming Events

March 26, Hancock House
3 Front Street,
Hancock's Bridge, NJ
www.state.nj.us/

April 1, noon, Whitall House
History Books and Conversation Club
April 6, 1:00 Open for Tours
Hessian Ave., Red Bank Battlefield,
National Park, NJ
www.co.gloucester.nj.us/government/.../parksnrec/redbank.cfm

April 16, 11:00
2nd Burlington Co. Historian's Roundtable
the Library Company of Burlington
West Union Street
http://www.burlcohistorian.com/

May 5, 5:30 p.m.
Professor Gillette lecture
Rutgers/Camden Campus
326 Penn St.
http://miller2011eventbrite.com/

May 7, Outdoor Club of SJ
Washington D.C. Trip
http://www.ocsj.org/

May 14, Betsy Ross
visits Indian King Tavern
233 Kings Hwy East
Haddonfield, NJ 08033
856-429-6782

http://www.indiankingfriends.org/
Sunday, May 15
Batsto, Classic Car
and Duck Decoy
Jim Albertson sings
www.batstovillage.org/eventsandtours.htm

May 21, 8:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Bus Tour
Burl. Co. Hist. Sites related to Civil War
http://www.burlcohistorian.com/

Upcoming Events at the Indian King Tavern

2/19 George Washington re-enactor visits for birthday cake and open house.
5/14 Betsy Ross will speak at open house.
7/4 Post-parade open house.
8/6 Dolly Madison re-enactor.
9/17 Ned Hector re-enactor.
10/15 Benjamin Franklin re-enactor
11/25, 12/2, 12/9 & 12/16 Candlelight shopping in Haddonfield and open house at the tavern.
12/8 Decorated Tavern Tour.
12/31 First Night Open House.
Hours are typically 1 to 4 p.m. with costumed docents to take you through fine dining, the bar and grille, tavern, keeping room, and upstairs, the Assembly Room, bedrooms (including one with Dolly Madison's bed) and a small museum room.

Events in 2011

For additional info. on any events, check these places on the web. I'm posting all the info. I have.

Sat. 1/29/2011, a band of Whitall volunteers with the leadership of Harry Schaeffer, will travel to Princeton to visit the battlefield, the Clark House and to see what might be Count Carl Von Donop's skull. That's right. We aren't forensic specialists, but we'll tell you what we think when we return and if photos are allowed, I'll post one!

Feb. 3, 2011, a presentation on samplers at Phila. History Museum.

Palmyra Hist. & Cultural Soc. free event, Valentines Day with the Ripper, Prof. Joe Wojie, Rider Univ. 7:30-9:30,

20 W Broad St., Palmyra

Camden Co. College Lecture Series on Sex and Society in America starts Feb. 16

Griffith Morgan House regular mtg. moved to 2/24 at 7:30, possible date for Open House March 12, 2011

Lines in the Pines, 3/13/2011 at Frog Rock Golf Course

Mail registration to Linda Stanton, Lines on the Pines, POBox 93, Elwood, NJ 08217

Locations

Alice Paul Institute, Paulsdale, 128 Hooton Rd., Mount Laurel, NJ 08054, (856)231-1885, www.alicepaul.org
Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, Broadway and the Bay, Barnegat Light, NJ 08006 (609) 494-2016
Bass River State Forest, 762 Stage Rd., Tuckerton, NJ 08087 (609)296-1114
Belleplain State Forest, County Rte.550, Woodbine, NJ 08270 (609)861-2404
Brendan Byrne State Forest, Rte.72 East, Milepost 1, New Lisbon, NJ 08064 (609)726-1191
Burlington Co. Hist. Soc., 457 High St., Burlington, NJ 08016 (609)386-4773
Camden County Historical Society,1900 Park Blvd. Camden, NJ 08103 Museum and Library
Cape May Point State Park, Lighthouse Ave., Cape May Point, NJ 08212 (609)884-2159
Fort Mott State Park, 454 Fort Mott Rd., Pennsville, NJ 08070 (856)935-3218
Gibbon House, 960 Ye Greate Street, Greenwich Twp., NJ 455-4055
Gloucester Co. Historical Society, 17 Hunter St., Woodbury, NJ (856)845-7881, Museum (856)845-8531
Griffith Morgan House, off River Rd., Pennsauken, NJ 08110 (856)486-9561 or e-mail GriffithMorganHouse@yahoo.com, mailing address is P.O.Box 522
Hancock House Historic Site, 3 Front St., Hancock's Bridge, NJ 08038 (856)935-4373
Historic Cold Spring Village, 720 Rte. 9, Cape May 08204 (609)898-2300
Indian King Tavern, 233 Kings Hwy., Haddonfield, NJ 08033 (856)429-6792
James & Ann Whitall House, Red Bank Battlefield, 100 Hessian Ave., National Park, NJ 08063 (609)853-5120
Monmouth Battlefield State Park, 347 Freehold-Englishtown Rd., Manalapan, NJ 07726 (732)462-9616
Old Barracks Museum, Barrack St., Trenton 08608, (609)396-1776
Parvin State Park, 701 Almond Rd., Pittsgrove, NJ 08318 (856)358-8616
Pilesgrove-Woodstown Hist. Soc, 42 N. Main St., Woodstown 08098 (856)769-4588
Pinelands Preservation Alliance, Bishop Farmstead,
Port Norris Historical Soceity, Donna Moore, 785-9148 (no area code given)
PPA, Bishop Farmstead, 17 Pemberton Rd., Southampton, NJ 18088, 609-859-8860
Princeton Battlefield State Park, 500 Mercer Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540 (609)921-0074
Salem Co. Hist. Soc. Museum & Libr., 79-83 Market St., Salem 08079 (856)935-5004
Swedesboro Trinity Church, Kings Hwy. & Church Street, Swedesboro, NJ (856)467-1227, www.swedesboro-nj.us
Walt Whitman House Historic Site, 328 Mickle Blvd., Camden, NJ 08103 (856)964-5383
Washington Crossing State Park, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Rd., Titusville, NJ08560 (609)737-0623
Wharton State Forest, 4110 Nesco Rd., Hammonton, NJ 08037 (609)561-0024

Irish Societies in South Jersey

These addresses and phone numbers may be old, but it's a start!

Camden County Emerald Society, 201 W. Hobart Dr., Laurel Springs, NJ 08021 609-346-2221

Cara Irish Society, 49 Primrose Lane, Blackwood, NJ 08012 609-784-6171

Irish American Cultural Society of South Jersey, P.O. Box 195, Absecon, NJ 08201609-898-0725

Irish American Seashore Association, 217 West Pine Ave., Wildwood, NJ 08260609-729-9177

Irish American Unity Conference, South Jersey, P.O. Box 12, Palmyra, NJ 08065 609-848-3040

Irish Famine Curriculum Committee and Education Fund, James Mullin, Chairman 757 Paddock Path, Moorestown, NJ 08057 609-727-4255 jvmullin@aol.com

Irish Heritage Social Club, P.O. Box 1656, Blackwood, NJ 08012 609-374-IHSC

Irish Tenth Club, c/o Kathy Gorman 912 Monmouth St., Gloucester City, NJ 08030 609-456-0115

South Jersey Irish Society, P.O. Box 685, Burlington, NJ 08016 609-429-0312

Books I Bought at Greenwich, Cumberland County Historical Society Library

The Beloved Cohansie, of Philip Vickers Fithian
Early Shipbuilding Particularly in South Jersey, Ruth Cook Brown
The Autobiography of Thomas Harris of New England Town in Cohansey West Jersey
The Military Journal of George Ewing of Greenwich, Cohansey, West New Jersey 1775-1778

Books I already owned but am now reading:
The New Jersey Business, Dr. Henry Bisbee (a fictionalized account of the founding of Fenwick's colony in Salem)
ALWAYS at my side, the WPA Guide to 1930's New Jersey

the book I just finished that led me to this latest adventure:
Parallel Communities, the Underground Railroad in South Jersey, Dennis Rizzo

And newly arrived in the mail in time for Women's History Month:
The Diary of A Farmer's Wife 1796-1797 (Anne Hughes of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, England)

Books of Interest - only a partial list - more to come!

A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and Hessians at Princeton, 1776-1777, Collins
A Fort Delaware Journal, Diary of a Yankee Private, Wilson
A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution, Burgoyne
A Nest of Rebel Pirates, Franklin W. Kemp
Abigail Adams, Phyllis Levin
Albion's Seed, Four British Folkways in America, David H. Fischer
Almost a Miracle, The American Victory, Ferling
American Revolutionary Diaries, Thoms (biblio.)
Atsion: A Town of Four Faces, Sarah Ewing
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Batsto Lights: The Story of Batsto Glass, Ewing
Belonging to the Army, Holly Mayer
Benedict Arnold's Army, Lefkowitz
Burnt Tavern Road, I. Yevish
Camden County Historical Society: Historical Tours of Camden Co. I, II
Camp Follower, a novel, Suzanne Adair
Capture the Flag: The Stars and Stripes in Am. Hist. Arnaldo Testi
Capture the Flag: The Stars and Stripes in Am. Hist. Arnaldo Testi
City of Dreams, a Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam, Swerling
Colonial Craftsmen, Tunis
Extracts from the Diary of Christopher Marshall: Kept in Phila. and Lancaster During the Am. Rev, 1774-1781
First Generations, Berkin
Following the Drum, Women at the Valley Forge Encampment, Nancy Loane
Following the Drum, Women at the Valley Forge Encampment, Nancy Loane
Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers and the Industrious Revolution, John Bezis-Selfa
Forgotten Patriot: The Life & Times of Major-General Nathanael Greene, Anderson
Fortunes of War: NJ Women and the Am. Rev., Linda Grant DePauw
Forty Minutes by the Delaware, Anderson
Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts
Ghost Towns and Other Quirky Places in the NJ Pine Barrens, Barbara Solem
Good Wives, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Had on and Took With Her, Huesken
Historic Roadsides of NJ, SCWSNJ
History of Genealogists, Jacobson
Invisible Ink, John A. Nagy
Invisible Ink, John A. Nagy
It Happened in New Jersey, Cape
Making Thirteen Colonies, Hakim
Margaret Morris, Jackson
Meandering, John H. Corcoran
Memoir of a Rev. Soldier, Joseph Plumb Martin
New Jersey History, NJHS'78
New Jersey in the American Revolution, ed. Mitnick
New Jersey Museums and Historic House Museums, DCNJ
New Jersey's Historic Houses, Barnes
NJ History: Fighting to Be Heard, Farner
Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Phila., Karin Wulf
Old Mills of Camden County, Boyer
Open House in Fenwick's Colony, annual tour booklet
Pathways to Independence, Milgrim
Patience Wright, American Artist and Spy, Charles C. Sellers
Patience Wright, American Artist and Spy, Charles C. Sellers
Patriots, A. J. Langguth
Patriots, A. J. Langguth
Pleasant Mills New Jersey, Green
Pox Americana, Elizabeth Fenn
Rebellion in the Ranks, Nagy
Rebellion in the Ranks, Nagy
Revolutionary Medicine, Wilbur, MD
Revolutionary Mothers, Carol Berkin
Revolutionary Mothers, Carol Berkin
Revolutionary War Trail, for Families and History Buffs, Mark DiLonno
Roads to the Revolution, Sarah Comstock
Rum Punch and Revolution, Taverngoing & Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Phila., Peter Thompson
Seasons of the Pines, Birdsall
Sex Among the Rabble: Gender & Power 1730-1830, Clare Lyons
Shipwrecks Near Barnegat Inlet, David Seibold
Small Towns, Black Lives, Wendell A. White
The Batsto Manor House, Stuckert for BCCI
The Battle of Monmouth, Smith
The Battle of Monmouth: A Young Woman Goes to War, AAUW
The Beloved Cohansie of Philip Vickers Fithian, Palmer
The Bicentennial Guide to the American Revolution, The Middle Colonies, Vol. II
The Bold and Magnificent Dream, Bruch Catton
The Day is Ours!, Wm. Dwyer
The Day is Ours!, Wm. Dwyer
The Diary of Isaac Mickle 1837-1845
The Forks, Solem
The Hooked X, Wolter
The Hooked X, Wolter
The Long Retreat, Arthur Lefkowitz
The New York Colony, Them=lma Nurenberg
The Real Benedict Arnold, Murphy
The Rev. War, Nat. Geo. Soc.
The Rev. War, Nat. Geo. Soc.
The Unredeemed Captive, A FAmily Story from Early Am., Demos
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Annette Gordon-Reed
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Annette Gordon-Reed
Unravelling, Eliz. Graver
Unravelling, Eliz. Graver
Valley Forge, a novel, Kantor
Washington's Crossing, Hacket-Fischer
Weathering the Storm, Elizabeth Evans

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