 This week, learn about September 11th honors ⚾⚽, a rare flower 🌷, a police station 🚨 turned house 🏠, the world’s longest cave 👷, and a queen-like grave 👑! 20th anniversary of terrorist attacks marked by NY teams By Associated Press Rare flower blooms again in Plainfield cemetery, but no new examples of endangered plant found By John Penney for The Bulletin Carriage house of historic Brooklyn Heights police station is now a modernized townhouse asking $6M By Devin Gannon for 6sqft World’s longest cave just got even longer after discovery at Kentucky national park By Chacour Koop for Lexington Herald-Leader (see above photo) Archaeologists astounded by contents of Viking woman warrior's grave: 'It's something else' By Joel Day for Express (drawing by Mirosław Kuźma) 
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 This week. learn about cows caught in a record storm 🌀🐄, an artist who imagines the past 🖉🖉, a lady in baseball ⚾, landscape stories 🌄, and stone balls 🎳! About 120 cows rescued from collapsed barn in Mullica Hill farm after destructive tornado By Kerri Corrado for CBS 3 Philly NJ artist makes her debut at the Morgan Museum By Abby Montanez for New Jersey Digest (photo above courtesy of @katrinaeugenia in Instagram) How the only woman in Baseball Hall of Fame challenged convention—and MLB By Pat McManamon for History.com Narrating landscapes: how indigenous storytelling can unlock our environment’s past By Sasha Starovoitov for State of the Planet Archaeology: polished stone balls thought more than 4,000 years old are discovered in Orkney tomb By Today UK News (photo below courtesy of Mark Lawlor)   This week, learn about fountains ⛲, the Underground Railroad 🚸, a forgotten performer 🎭, a heroic dog 🐕, and old metal jewelry 🌟! In summer, what's better — or wetter — than a fountain? Our favorites in NJ By Jim Beckerman for NorthJersey.com Rethinking the Underground Railroad | Opinion By Miriam Ascarelli for The Star-Ledger Headstone for long-forgotten Black cantor unveiled in NJ cemetery By Renee Ghert-Zand for The Times of Israel HOLY COW! HISTORY: Meet Sallie, The Civil War Vet By J. Mark Powell for Inside Sources (photo above courtesy of Einar E Kvaran on Wikipedia Commons) Hundreds of Bronze Age Artifacts Found in France By Archaeology Magazine (photo below courtesy of University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès Laboratory)   This week, learn about Jersey style club dancing 🕺🕺🕺, a famous ballplayer ⚾, a nearby cemetery cleanup 🧹, an art 🎨 contest winner, and old jewelry 💍! Doin’ it Jersey-style: Internet dance & music craze has roots in the Garden State By News 12 Staff (photo courtesy of Alex Da Goat on YouTube) Before Jackie Robinson made history, he played in New Jersey minor leagues 75 years ago By Joe Strupp for Asbury Park Press Volunteers clean up Civil War-era cemetery in Freehold By News 12 Staff (photo above courtesy of Bethel AME Church) Detroit 9-year-old wins White House art contest By Randy Wimbley and David Komer for Fox 2 Detroit Viking ‘amulet factory’ discovery forces rethink of enigmatic artifacts By Andrew Curry for National Geographic (photo below courtesy of Museum of Southwest Jutland)   This week, learn about a chocolate museum 🍫, a giant waterfall’s past 🌊, rest stop names 🚻, a famous horse breed 🐴, and man-made caves 🌄! Open for Business: Chocolat Michel Cluizel Museum in West Berlin By Vittoria Woodill for CBS3 Philly Descendants of Lenape explore their culture at Paterson Great Falls National Park By News 12 Staff Opinion: New Jersey renames its rest stops as a nation rethinks monuments By Simom Says for NPR The horse that won the Revolutionary war almost disappeared. Here's how it's making a comeback By Carol Motsinger for Greenville News Discovery of man-made caves brings history into focus By Desirai Thompson for The Reykjavik Grapevine (photo below courtesy of Sigurjón Ólason/Vísir)   This week, visit an old naval base ⛴, a restored church 🏫, a Harriet Tubman monument 🗿, learn all @ peaches 🍑🍑, and see a jug with a face 😊! Uncovering N.J.: Dive into the depths of military history at the tip of the Jersey Shore By Kathleen Butler for Jersey's Best (photo above courtesy of United States Lighthouse Society) Cape May is adding Allen A.M.E. Church to its central core of Black heritage sites reimagined as community hubs By Tommy Rowan for The Philadelphia Inquirer Montclair architect Nina Cooke John wins national competition to design Newark monument By Kristin Wald for Baristanet Farmer's table: black bean salad with peaches and pecans By Susan Maslowski for Kanawha Metro Neolithic arrowhead and part of medieval 'face' jug found By Alexandra Wood for Yorkshire Post (photo below courtesy of Gary Longbottom)   Dinosaurs are roaming N.J. and you can walk past them at new Six Flags exhibit By Michael Mancuso for NJ Advance Media/NJ.com (photo above courtesy of Six Flags) 1938 Belmar, NJ ambulance goes to Ford Museum By Tribune Content Agency in Journal of Emergency Medical Services Rail Bridge in Roxbury: a century of trouble with trucks By Fred J. Aun for Tap into Roxbury Granddaughter and some dedicated woodcarvers restore a 113-year-old Syracuse grave marker By Johnathan Croyle for syracuse.com Rare stone discovered outlining ancient Rome’s city limits By Associated Press (photo below courtesy of Ara Pacis Museum)   This week, celebrate a long-ago baseball player ⚾, bookmobile 📚🚗, a little-known monument 🏛, burial ground ⛼ and ancient moon stones 🌙! Larry Doby celebrations return to Passaic County By InsiderNJ In Montclair, this bookmobile got rolling in 1969 By Ariel Zeitlin for Montclair Local In New Jersey, an unlikely monument to the Syrian and Armenian communities By Valentina Di Liscia for Hyperallergic (photos above courtesy of artist Bryan Zanisnik) Bedford-Church African Burial Ground Coalition aims to stop development, educate community on Flatbush history By Christopher Edwards for BK Reader (photo below courtesy of Bedford-Church African Burial Ground Coalition) The mysterious moon-tracking stones on Mull that were 'portals to the afterworld' By Alison Campsie for The Scotsman   This week, learn about an upcoming museum 🍏, big dances 💃, sunflowers 🌻, ancient carved bone 🦌🦴 and a house in the desert 🏠! Sign up here for much more!! Jersey City in the preliminary stages of converting Apple Tree House into historical museum By John Heinis for Hudson County View (photo above by King of Hearts at Wikipedia Commons) They were popular in the 1700s, but cotillions are still alive and well in N.J. By Steve Strunsky & Aristide Economopoulos for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Sunflowers - a native plant with an amazing history By Marion Barnes for Walterboro Live A 51,000 year-old carved bone is one of the world's oldest works of art, researchers say By Tom Metcalfe for NBC News (photo below by V. Minkus courtesy of Lower Saxony Office for Heritage) A tour of Al-Husainan Historical House By Abdulraouf Murad for Kuwait Times   This week, learn about a young chess grandmaster ♞♕, new park 🌳, Chinatown monument 💓, bridge for buffalo 🐃, and a carved snake 🐍! 12-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra becomes youngest grandmaster in chess history By Ben Morse for CNN Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners names new County park in honor of Thomas Mundy Peterson By New Jersey Stage (photo above courtesy of New Jersey Stage) Landmarks designates Kimlau War Memorial an archeological site By Veronica Rose for Cityland NYC Where the buffalo roam: world’s longest wildlife bridge could cross the Mississippi By Kari Paul for The Guardian Sinuous Stone-Age snake sculpture unearthed in Finland By Kristin Romey for National Geographic (photo below by Satu Koivisto)  |
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