>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:06:29 -0400 (EDT) >From: John Seitter <[email protected]> >Subject: HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS HUB FOR HERITAGE TOURISM >Sender: "New Jersey history and related topics." ><[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Reply-to: [email protected] >Delivered-to: [email protected] > >This year the Camden County Historical Society is proud to announce an added >bonus for its Spring Family Fun Day, Sunday, April 28th from 12 to 4PM. > In cooperation with the Battleship New Jersey, The Camden County Cultural >and Heritage Commission, The Peter Mott House (Lawnside Historical Society), >Barclay Farmstead and the Griffith-Morgan House, Camden County Historical >Society will have representatives from each of these dynamic historic sites >present on Family Fun Day. > This is an opportunity for New Jersey residents to see, in one visit, the >tremendous historic resources that the South Jersey region has to offer. > So come and visit the Camden County Historical Society and see first hand >why Camden County begins at the waterfront but doesn't end there. >Respectfully, >John Seitter > >HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS HUB FOR HERITAGE TOURISM > >CAMDEN, NJ -- What does the nation's most decorated battleship have in common >with one of the oldest stone houses in Camden County and a safe haven for >runaway slaves? They'll all be represented at the Camden County Historical >Society on Sunday, April 28, when the Society salutes Camden County heritage >tourism as part of its fifth annual Family Fun Day. > >Scheduled from 12-4 pm at Society headquarters at Park Blvd. and Euclid Ave., >Family Fun Day celebrates the skills and lore of Colonial homekeeping with >open-hearth cooking, crafts demonstrations and hands-on activities, >accompanied by music of the 18th century played by Flagstone on Appalachian >dulcimer, Irish folk harp and guitar. > >This year the Society also celebrates the diversity of Camden County history >by welcoming representatives from the Battleship USS New Jersey, Griffith >Morgan House, Peter Mott Underground Railroad Museum, Barclay Farmstead >Museum and the Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission to share in >this event. > >Battleship and Delaware River tugboat art by local artist Dave Boone, >featuring the USS New Jersey, will be on display. Costumed interpreters from >the Griffith Morgan House in Delair and Barclay Farmstead Museum in Cherry >Hill will be on hand to tell visitors about one of the oldest stone >structures in Camden County and describe 19th-century life on a Quaker farm. >Representatives from the Lawnside Historical Society will honor Peter Mott >and his role in helping runaway slaves find their way to freedom. And >visitors can learn more about the arts scene through programs like the Teen >Arts Festival and Musical Interludes offered by the Camden County Cultural >and Heritage Commission, located in historic Hopkins House on the banks of >the Cooper River in Haddon Township. > >Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free. > >For more information or directions, please call the Camden County Historical >Society at 856-964-3333, or visit their website at www.cchsnj.com.