Views: 26,743 Krug’s Tavern Hits the Spot Down Neck NEWSFLASH: A NEW WOODEN KEEPSAKE HONORS NEWARK’S KRUG’S TAVERN Serving up great food and spirits with a friendly laid back attitude. Ready to take a step back in a time when… Read More »Best Burger in New Jersey – Krug’s Tavern Tops the List
Views: 43,123 Father of the American Army Artillery Father of the American Navy Father of the Military Draft Fate has it often where those who put themselves in constant danger and face death every day are often spared until some freak… Read More »General Henry Knox – America’s Forgotten General
Views: 11,751 Funny how things work. Museums and historic sites are created to save historic works for the public to view and enjoy. But with declining government and corporate financial support, the burden on keeping museums open rely on those who run… Read More »Musuems and Historic Sites Better Change or Face Closing Forever
Views: 50,253 2012 – Turpin Realtors in Far Hills posted that Blairsden, once New Jersey’s largest mansion, is offering the prestigious estate for sale on its website. Blairsden is noted as probably the most famous mansion in the area, and… Read More »Historic Blairsden NJ Mansion For Sale – At a Discount!
Views: 20,118 Bernardsville News –Consolidation of five local towns advocatedPosted: Friday, July 15, 2011 3:00 am EDITOR: When will enough be enough? The runaway costs for public services have come to a point where hard decisions have to be made… Read More »Consolidate 5 NJ Towns NOW – New Somerset Hills Township
Views: 7,102 Map Identifies Historic Properties, Owners, Building Locations, Local History Including the Often Ignored Pluckemin Artillery Park With over 2,000 hours of painstaking research and countless renderings, the landscaping firm of John Charles Smith & Associates of Far Hills… Read More »Bedminster Map Project Reveals Historic Pluckemin Artillery Park
Views: 16,304 Update The Mr. Local History Project recently learned there is a Sky Farm Historical Society under the direction of Janice Gersky that is working to digitize their document and photo archives. Might be time to schedule a visit.… Read More »America’s Oldest Clothing-Optional Club is in Basking Ridge
Views: 4,588 It was back in December 2007 when George Washington’s Society of the Cincinnati medal was auctioned off at Sotheby’s for a whopping $5,305,000. Founded by General Washington and other officers of the Continental and French armies who served… Read More »George Washington’s Society of the Cincinnati Medal Sells for $5.3million
Views: 40,671 Noted High Society Playboy and Titanic Survivor Brings Notoriety to Bernards Township. It’s a fun story, but you have to hang in there. First, we must provide a little background about John’s father, who didn’t survive the Titanic… Read More »Titanic Survivor Astor and Basking Ridge
Views: 14,889 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… Read More »Glen Beck Founding Fathers Series Needs General Henry Knox
Views: 9,579 Everyone knows how controversial lists can be. But then again, it does give you something to talk about. And it probably sells a bunch of magazines to boot. So where does Irvington rank/560 – Camden/481 – Newark/ You… Read More »New Jersey’s Best Towns 2010
Views: 5,327 Communicating Life Stories – Digital Storytelling Oral History Publishing in a Digital Age Technology is moving so fast that sometimes it’s tough to stay in tune with the latest trends. A high school history program teacher at Ridge… Read More »Communicating Life Stories – Digital Storytelling Oral History
Views: 8,671 It’s New Years Day and you don’t want to move from the couch. Don’t worry, if you’ve got cable, then no fret, it’s time for a TV marathon. Step aside college football, it’s Marathon Friday! But which one… Read More »Best New Years TV Marathons
Views: 10,294 The anniversary of America’s alliance with France was celebrated on the 18th of February at Pluckemin, at a very elegant entertainment and display of fireworks given by General Knox, and the officers of artillery. It was postponed to… Read More »The 13 Paintings at the Pluckemin Academy
Views: 10,353 Morristown – Where America Survived – a documentary aired on NJN. It should be replayed again Sunday, October 17, 2009 at 7:30pm on NJN. Morristown: Where America Survived is a thirty-minute High Definition documentary which revisits that winter… Read More »NJN Airs Morristown RevWar Documentary Film