 This week, learn about airplane paintings 🛫🎨, Sandy Hook’s newest restaurant 🍴, the snowiest NJ winters ❆, honoring veterans 💗, and an ancient game board 🙿 and LOTS more! Sign up for the full newsletter here. Military air museum murals enhanced with text By Community Bulletin (image above courtesy of p47millville.org) Historic building at Sandy Hook to be converted into bar-restaurant by summer, park service says By Anthony G. Attrino for NJ Advance Media / NJ.com N.J. weather: These were the 15 snowiest winters in the Garden State By Len Melisurgo for NJ Advance Media / NJ.com Youngstown man parlays love of history into honoring veterans By Gary Angelo for The Vindicator 4,000-year-old gameboard uncovered by Polish, Omani archaeologists By Jerusalem Post (photo below courtesy of Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquties Authority) 
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 This week, learn about newspaper art 📰🎨, a very old flag 🏴🦅, a TikTok gravestone hero ⛨, kids digging for artifacts 💪, and Hogwarts history 🏰! Creating art from newspapers every day for 18 years By New Jersey Stage New Jersey State Museum's first Civil War flag unveiling since 2019 By Drew Mumich for Trenton Daily This TikTok star uses grave cleaning and genealogy to bring the past to life By Kelsey Dallas for Deseret News (image above courtesy of manicpixiemom on TikTok) Anglo-Saxon workshop where the treasures of Sutton Hoo were forged By Sarah Cascone for Artnet News (photo below courtesy of Suffolk County Council) The history of every Hogwarts house explained By Aaron Young for Looper   This week, learn about a strange island 🏝, audio about the American Revolution 📲, a hidden Black burial ground 🏫, an old kitchen gadget 🍳, and the best of 2021! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!!! 🧨🎇🎆🎉🥳 The mystery of Burlington Island and New Jersey's first capital crime By Carl LaVO for the Bucks County Courier Times New Smartphone-based audio tour helps visitors access New Jersey's Revolutionary War History By Crossroads of the American Revolution for Insider NJ (painting by Emanuel Leutze [1851]) Search pinpoints Black burial ground on property of Bergen grammar school By Jerry DeMarco for Daily Voice Mystery artifact stashed at Revolutionary War-era site turns out to be kitchen gadget By Mark Price for Kansas City Star (photo below courtesy of Saratoga National Historic Park) Ninety-nine fascinating finds revealed in 2021 By Meilan Solly for Smithsonian Magazine   This week, learn about local film history 🎥, a free old house 🏡, a statue reveal 🎤🎵, cool highway markers 🚘, and where horses came from 🐎🐎! Next week will be a SPECIAL HOLIDAY ISSUE, with heartwarming and inspiring stories. Share it with friends or have them subscribe through this email. How New Jersey became the birthplace of the U.S. movie industry By Carole Horst for Variety (photo above courtesy of Fort Lee Film Commission/ Barrymore Film Center) Owner of NJ estate wants to give away historic home for free, but it comes with a catch By Adam Harding for NBC New York Secret revealed about new Frank Sinatra statue in Hoboken By Caren Lissner for Patch Inside Idaho’s campaign to include indigenous history in its highway markers By Jennifer Nalewicki for Smithsonian Magazine Ancient DNA reveals the long-sought homeland of modern horses By Ann Gibbons for Science (image below by Ludovic Orlando)   This week, learn about a different holiday tree 🌲, a new local liberty bell 🔔, WWII pilots 🛫, finding an old Mexican book 📙, and tools made from green stone 💚! Cardboard Christmas tree gets mixed reviews in New Jersey town By John Russell for Learning English Paterson’s Underground Railroad site gets a bell By San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Staff (photo above courtesy of Dolores Van Rensalier) WWII veterans reunite at American Airpower Museum after honor flight By News 12 Staff Valuable 18th century book found in Freehold returned to Mexico By Catarina Moura for Patch Vast trade network in prehistoric Russia was centered on pretty green rocks By Andrew Califf for Haaretz (photo below by Alexey Tarasov)   This week, learn about gingerbread houses 🏠, an old train 🚂, a seaside 1663 house 🌊, a shocking find in Wildwood 🚫, and women’s items from a lost city 💎! Happy Hanukkah!! 🔯 Traditional gingerbread houses fill museum space in Garden City By Greg Mocker for PIX 11 News Historic Hoboken diesel locomotive retires to Boonton By William Westhoven for Morristown Daily Record This is the oldest place you can possibly go in New Jersey and its history will fascinate you By Kristen for Only in Your State Beach homes evacuated after WWII era explosive found along the shore, NJ officials say By Julia Marnin for Miami Herald Graves of rich, powerful women found in lost city of Herodotus By Viktoria Greenboim Rich for Haaretz (photo below courtesy of Iryna Shramko)   This week, learn all about lacrosse 🥍, newly found cemeteries in NJ ⛼, mastodons 🐘, rock art 🎨 and an old fishing rod 🎣🐟! The Native American origins of lacrosse By Lesley Kennedy for History More historic burial grounds for African Americans discovered in New Jersey By Ricardo Kaulessar for NorthJersey.com What lies beneath Warren County? Mastodons, apparently. By Steve Novak for lehighvalleylive.com Rock art found near Canada's Wanuskewin Bison Jump By Archaeology (photo below courtesy of Wanuskewin Heritage Park) Archaeology breakthrough after discovery of ancient human fishing rod: 'Amazing' By Joel Day for Express Daily UK   This week, learn about fun with 3-D art 🎨, seeing the past in color 📸, a cemetery gone wild ⾋, a boy finding his Native roots 👪, and an ancient cloth 👚! Looking for a road trip? Check out the Tilt Museum at American Dream By News 12 Staff New book enlivens vintage photographs of Jersey Shore By Tom Wilk for New Jersey Monthly (photo above courtesy of Local Color/Down The Shore Publishing) This historic Brooklyn cemetery shows us a future without lawns By Ryan Goldberg for Popular Science 11-year-old learning about history of Native Americans in school takes a step further to learn more about their culture By Emily Adams-Bentley for Times Tribune What was ancient clothing like? See one of the oldest pieces of cloth in the world By SciTechDaily (photo courtesy of Antoinette Rast-Eicher, University of Bern)   This week, learn about an incredible battleship 🚢, a cool NJ mine 💎, a scuba diving discovery 🛶, a hidden passageway 🚪, and an Egyptian king’s temple 👑! Exploring one of the greatest battleships in history: The USS New Jersey By Geoffrey Morrison for C/Net The Sterling Hill Mining Museum is a must-visit for an adventure in time By Eva Grall for Hoboken Girl (photo above courtesy of sterlinghillminingmuseum.org) A Wisconsin archaeologist was scuba diving for fun. She found a sunken 1,200-year-old canoe. By Sophie Carson for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Property developer discovers secret passageway behind bookshelf in 500-year-old house By David Kindy for Smithsonian Magazine Archaeologists uncover decorated blocks from King Nactanebo I temple By Nevine El-Aref for ahram online (photo below courtesy of Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)  |
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