Founder and Chair of the Mr. Local History Project
Views: 56 This post is part of a series in which the Mr. Local History Project will document what we believe are the early stages of a new varsity sport across the state. We plan to meet with the New… Read More »New Series: Documenting the Ridge High School Sailing Program
Views: 323 The Statue of Liberty’s official name is “Liberty Enlightening the World”. In French:”La Liberté éclairant le monde” Her raised torch represents enlightenment, while the tablet in her left arm bears the date JULY IV MDCCLXXVI — July 4,… Read More »Statue of Liberty History, Then Some Facts – Jersey Style of Course
Views: 311 Long before football stadium lights, marching bands, and Friday night rivalries, a quieter competition was taking shape along New Jersey’s bays, rivers, and coastlines. Students were racing sailboats. Today, high school sailing is an established part of the… Read More »High School Sailing Teams in New Jersey …Who Knew
Views: 10,877 UPDATE: We published this story a while back, and we said people needed to see it again. It is a classic American tale that goes unnoticed, but we continue to root out these great American tales. Stop by… Read More »The American Flagman Honors Patriotism Every Day
Views: 1,851 Our first comment needs to be “NO, THIS IS NOT AN AI-GENERATED IMAGE.” At first glance, I honestly thought someone had listed Bernards Township’s Town Hall for sale. For a moment, it looked uncannily like the old Astor… Read More »Was Basking Ridge’s Town Hall Abandonded?
Views: 739 Most people think they know New Jersey. They picture highways, traffic, and a place you pass through on the way to somewhere else. But if you could step back into the mid 1800s, you’d see a very different… Read More »Why are We Called “The Garden State?” Spring Gardens- History and Happenings
Views: 1,212 “I want to try this ice boating. But I Need THREE EASIES: Easy to Set Up. Easy to Sail. Easy to Put Away.“ Ice boating has always lived in that wonderful space between ingenuity and obsession. For generations,… Read More »Production Ice Boats & Contraptions – Getting Started on Ice the Easy Way
Views: 990 In 1888, a fast and ambitious ice yacht named Rocket was built to race on the frozen reaches of the Navesink River at Red Bank, New Jersey. At a time when ice boating was one of winter’s great… Read More »Historic Rocket Ice Yacht Reborn on the Navesink
Views: 998 Although both the Raritan Yacht Club in Perth Amboy and the Riverton Yacht Club on the opposite side of New Jersey seem to have been founded in 1865, published sources currently give the Riverton Yacht Club the bragging… Read More »New Jersey’s Oldest Yacht Club is RYC – Riverton or Raritan?
Views: 1,074 “It’s time the Garden State Honors the Legends & Super Heros of New Jersey Iceboating.” Based on numerous interviews and research about the history of New Jersey iceboating, we hope that our New Jersey Legends of Iceboating list… Read More »New Jersey Iceboating Legends & Super Heros
Views: 3,995 How exciting to announce that the cold is back and there’s ice on our lakes, rivers, and bays across New Jersey. In fact it’s so cold, we have to pray to the snow gods to slow down the… Read More »Iceboats Flock to New Jersey Ice Again – Historic Winter Times
Views: 3,528 MLH Mini-Series: The Basking Ridge Rushmore 5 Series Now It’s the Ladies Turn…The Basking Ridge Ladies Rushmore 5 Okay, so I live in Basking Ridge, which is part of Bernards Township, but we all refer to it as… Read More »Basking Ridge’s “Rushmore 5” Ladies Honored
Views: 1,608 MLH Mini-Series: The Basking Ridge Rushmore 5 in our Community UPDATE:Our researchers have been watching this post carefully and have finally made the decision and create the Basking Ridge Rushmore 5 for five women that made and continue… Read More »Basking Ridge’s Rushmore 5 Ladies Deserving Recognition
Views: 1,786 I think I first heard of who I call St. Nick about 20 years ago, gathering on the town green in Basking Ridge on Christmas Eve, as thousands of people before me have done since 1924, for the… Read More »The Candy Cane Man – Basking Ridge’s Own Christmas Eve “St. Nick”
Views: 1,903 The Debate That Divides New Jersey… And Now There’s a Third on the Rise… SPAM In New Jersey, there are a few things guaranteed to start an argument. Traffic circles. Jughandles. What exit are you from? But nothing… Read More »Hey Jersey – Taylor Ham vs. SPAM