LONG HILL TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY
MEETING DATES & PROGRAMS

2010 MEETING AND PROGRAM SCHEDULE

• February 11, 2010 "Stoneware of the 18th to 20th Centuries" by David Breslauer
• March 11, 2010 "Women's Suffrage"
• April 8, 2010 "Hannah Caldwell & The Battle of Connecticut Farms" by Barbara Grillo
• May 13, 2010 " A Visit to Paul Vickery's Collection of Antique Vehicles" at the former Clancy Farm, Millington; Antique Vehicles in a classic old towship barn.
• June 10, 2010 "The Old Mine Road" by Bob Brandt (Many historians believe that the Old Mine Road is the oldest continuously used road in the nation. It is 104 miles long running from Kingston, N.Y. to the Delaware Water Gap.)

summer vacation

• September 9, 2010 "New Jersey Country Houses: The Somerset Hills" by W. Barry Thomson, Introduced by Walter S. Carell
• October 14, 2010 "The Gilded Age"
• November 11, 2010 "The War Man--The True Story of a Citizen Soldier Who Fought from Quebec to Yorktown" by Robert Mayers
• December 9, 2010 "Mrs. Fezziwig's Christmas" by Laurie Gaulke

Meetings are held at the Long Hill Township First Aid Squad building, 949 Valley Road, Gillette (between the Town Hall/Library and Pathmark Mall). Meetings and presentations start at 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public- Refreshments will be served.

• February 12, 2009 "Thomas Edison" by the Thomas A. Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, NJ.
• March 12, 2009 "Back Roads of Morris County" by Jim DelGuidice
• April 9, 2009 "Life in the Slow Lane" by Lois Hockenbury
• May 14, 2009 "Morris County Canal" by David Phraner
• June 11, 2009 "Tour Basking Ridge Presbyterian Cemetery" by George Fricke

summer vacation

• September 10, 2009 "Riding The Rails on the Gladstone Branch" byFrank Reilly
• October 8, 2009 "George Washington-Retreat to Victory" by Alf Walton
• November 12, 2009 "Walnut Grove-Cyrus McCormick's Homestead" by Walter Carell
• December 10, 2009 "Christmas Program" "Christmas of Olde" Bring an item to show or tell of an event (or both) from a past Christmas at the December meeting.

• February 14, 2008 "The Silk Mills of Stirling" by Rene Phelan
• March 13, 2008 "Mary Todd Lincoln" by Laurie Gaulke
• April 10, 2008 "Buried Artifacts" by Rick Pressl
• May 8, 2008 "Local Scouts Go to Philmont N.M. 1980" by Willy Paralari
• June 12, 2008 "Jockey Hollow Soldier" by Tom Winslow

summer vacation

• September 11, 2008 "National Register of Historical Places" by Kathleen Galop
• October 9, 2008 "Theodore Roosevelt-His Life and Times" by Charles McSorley
• November 13, 2008 "1870's Agriculture in the Great Swamp" by Charles Whitmore
• December 11, 2008 "The Story of Mary Hudspeth Benson" by Rev. Victoria Geer McGrath

• February 8, 2007 "The National Wildlife Refuge Right In Our Own Backyard" by Dorothy Smullen
• March 8, 2007 "George Catlin - Painted the Wild West" by Alf Walton
• April 12, 2007 "Basking Ridge Churchyard Update" by George Fricke
• May 10, 2007 "The Jersey Devil" by Angus Kress Gillespie
• June 14, 2007 "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About the Morris County Historic Trust" by Larry Fast
  • What is the Trust Fund, who is eligible, where does this year's $2 million come from, which historic sites have been helped?

summer vacation

• September 13, 2007 Do it Yourself "Antiques Road Show"
• October 11, 2007 "Barns Are Noble" by Mark Pilipski
• November 8, 2007 "Pictures of the Great Swamp" by Sherb Naulty
  • Sherb Naulty, a resident of Gillette, is a photographer of note who has turned his former occupation into a serious hobby. He has long had a passionate interest in The Great Swamp and will share that interest in pictures at the November meeting.
• December 13, 2007: "A Kaleidoscope of Color for Christmas"
  • Peg Arnold, a member of the Long Hill Township Historical Society, will present the history of kaleidoscopes and have many from her collection to demonstrate the "colors" at the December meeting.

Thursday, September 14, 2006 "Is it a Duck or a Weasel?" by David Welch (about rebuilding vintage military vehicles)