Founding Fathers Series turns Glen Beck into a History Teacher.
No one knew how popular the Glen Beck Show would become.  Commonly referred to as a TV shock jock (sorry Howard), no matter how you feel about the personality, Glen Beck has become a lightening rod. Liberals hate him, conservatives love him. Now there’s a new angle – he’s a teacher with his new weekly segment “Founder’s Friday”, where he’s profiling some of America’s most prominent American figures of all time.
What’s all this interest in the late 18th century figures? Some …

Getting published – Making a local history book using Arcadia.
Arcadia Publishing is America’s largest publisher of regional and local history books. Do you have a great idea for a history book and you want to become an author? Arcadia does have a proven process for getting your idea compiled, printed, and distributed. It’s actually quite easy if you have a strong archive, a good sense of history and the research needed, and a small group of promoters that can get the word out.
Here’s your chance to tell your story – …

The New Jersey Gazette – Trenton, March 3, 1779
A description of the thirteen paintings exhibited at the first anniversary of the Franco-American Treaty of Alliance, celebrated at Pluckemin on February 18, 1779.
The anniversary of America’s alliance with France was celebrated on the 18th ultimo at Pluckemin, at a very elegant entertainment and display of fireworks given by General Knox, and the officers of artillery. It was postponed to this late day on account of His Excellency General Washington’s absence from camp. General Washington — the principal officers of the army: …

Morristown – Where America Survived – a documentary aired on NJN. It should be replayed again Sunday, October 17, 2009 at 7:30pm on NJN.

A great story about the revolutionary war in New Jersey.

Morristown: Where America Survived is a thirty-minute High Definition documentary which revisits that winter of 1779-80 when Washington’s troops arrived at the densely-wooded area just south of Morristown known as Jockey Hollow, to build a log hut city for their winter camp. The film is an eye-opening look at how the camp saved the army – and the …

Widow White’s Tavern
Widow Whites Tavern – Lee Lodge Research
Basking Ridge New Jersey’s Most Famous Incident:
At about noon time on December 13,1776, General Charles Lee (1731-1782), was alarmed by Major Wilkinson while he was writing a letter to General Gates about George Washington in an upstairs bedroom of the Widow White’s Tavern.
Widow White’s Tavern, named after Ebenezer White’s wife Mary Brown White, became the centerpiece of Revolutionary War history on that day, because It was on this most unfortunate day for General Lee that General Lee became a prisioner of the …

The Knox Trophy is an award that was established on October 8, 1910 and given annually by the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York to the United States Military Academy cadet with the highest rating for military efficiency. Named in honor of Henry Knox, the first US Secretary of War, the original trophy, made by Tiffany & Company was originally kept on display in the office of the West Point Commandant and is the oldest continuously presented award at the US Military Academy.
2010 will mark the 100th …

While attending a program entitled “Early American Schoolhouses” at the Brick Academy in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the instructor passed out handouts that discussed rules for students, rules for teachers, and punishments back in 1872. Meg Wastie, program coordinator at the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts in Madison,  and a former teacher, presented a great program overview relating to the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts partnership with the The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills in the Somerset Hills area (Bedminster, Bernardsville,Far Hills, Peapack/Gladstone) . The historical society has recently launched a new program …

Estate to Founder of Far Hills Hits the Auction Block
Go back to 1917 – Grant Schley dies, and son Evander B. (known as Van / 1883-1952) takes ownership of Froh Heim, tears it down, and builds a new spanish styled Froh Heim. The year before The New Jersey Hunt Cup moves to Grant Schley’s Froh-Heim Estate in what was then called Bernards. (Today it is Far Hills/Bedminster). The New Jersey Hunt Cup race still remains on the Far Hills Race Meeting’s race card today at the same location.

Concierge Auctions is …

Krug’s Tavern Hits the Spot Down Neck
Serving up great food and spirits with a friendly laid back attitude.
Ready to take a step back in a time when life was simple and the neighborhood had a friendly active pulse. We’re heading to the Ironbound section of Newark, for a good ole
fashioned neighborhood watering hole that’s also serving up some great food. Grab a chrome bar stool, stare at a Yankee repeat from the night before, and begin to hear and smell the meat sizzling on the flattop. Order a 12 ounce draft …

“Bet you didn’t know that ” series continues
Liberty Corner’s Most Famous Resident? You decide.
 Cartoonist Bill Griffith’s comic strip entitled “Zippy the Pinhead” was inspired by Liberty
Corner’s William Henry “Zip” Johnson, a local resident born back in 1842. Known as the son of a former slave, and the “Dean of Freaks” in P.T Barnum’s freakshow,  Zip Johnson might just be the town’s most infamous resident.
Born in 1842 to Liberty Corner, New Jersey parents William and Mahalia Johnson, former slaves, William Jr. was know to be a microcephalic (pinhead), a person with a small, tapering cranium and impaired mental …