 In this week's "Rock Solid History News Digest," learn about a museum fire 🔥😭, a rare & cute caboose 🚂, a cool canal 🌊, rediscovering a rich culture 🍵🏮, and an amazingly old find ⯅! Sign up at the button above to get the FULL weekly newsletter. Fire under investigation at The Stone Museum; building structures destroyed By Kathy Change for Centraljersey.com (photo courtesy of Sheena Chi on flickr) Mahwah caboose is one of only two left of its kind. An effort is under way to repair it By Marsha A. Stoltz for NorthJersey.com This month in Wayne history—the Morris Canal opens! By Chris Jenner & Tessa Payer, Wayne Museum, for TAP into Wayne Archaeology illuminates Chinese businesses in Eugene, Oregon By Lexie Briggs, University of Oregon, for Phys.org Eagle-eyed boy finds 5,000-year-old arrowhead on Cork beach By Eoin English for the Irish Examiner 
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 In this week's "Rock Solid History News Digest," see optical illusions 👀, a new kids book 📘, hiking in Mt Holly 🥾, a statue for Sally Ride 🚀, and a fairy sculpture 🧚! Sign up at the button above for the FULL NEWSLETTER with family-friendly events! American Dream announces a new mind-bending attraction: Paradox Museum By Allison Pries for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark donates Paterson silk strike children's book to Paterson By Gabriella Dragone for TAP into Paterson (see photo above) Hiking New Jersey: The Mount Holly Rail Trail in Burlington County By Shawn Michaels for 92.7 wobm Cradle of Aviation to unveil sculpture dedicated to space pioneer Sally Ride By Brian Heyman News12 New Jersey (image courtesy of Cradle of Aviation Museum) 12th century Apsara carvings found in Angkor Archaeological Park, Cambodia By Khmer Times (photo below by Yi Sotha/APSARA National Authority)   In this week's "Rock Solid History News Digest," get a glimpse into girlhood 📸, take a kayaking challenge 🕱🛶, explore a former Lenape reservation 🔎, learn who the real McCoy is ❔, and see a giant history-telling puppet 🧝! These stories are selected to engage youngsters & their families in local New Jersey/New York history, as well as history outside of these borders. Click the button above to sign up! Rutgers-Newark exhibit focuses on the experiences of Black girls in America By News 12 Staff (image above courtesy of expressnewark.org) Test your sea skills with new Pirate Rum Challenge at Independence Seaport Museum By Maggie Mancini for PhillyVoice Hands-on history lesson: Archeologist explores abandoned Lenape reservation By Katherine Scott for ABC 6 Action News Google honors the Black inventor who likely inspired the phrase ‘the real McCoy’ By Joe Hernandez for WHYY PBS Gnomus, the giant puppet, entertains visitors at the ancient monument By BBC News (photo below courtesy of puppetswithguts.com)   In this week's "Rock Solid History News Digest," learn about Ben Franklin & his son 👑, a locomotive coming to NJ 🚂, a special highway for veterans★, what Navy tattoos mean ⚓, and all about dingoes 🐕! Click on the button above to sign up & get full newsletter with events and day trips as well. Brian Donohue visits Proprietary House Museum for lesson on Benjamin Franklin By Brian Donohue for News 12 New Jersey Lackawanna M.U. coach to be restored for display in New Jersey By Trains.com Blue Star Memorial Highways, honoring America’s veterans, began in New Jersey By Ken Schlager for New Jersey Monthly (photo above courtesy of NJ Department of Transportation) Tattoo: Maritime art form has featured many popular images over time By Julia Triezenberg for Discover Our Coast (photo courtesy of Columbia River Maritime Museum) A new study unspools the dingo's mysterious origins By Matthew Rozsa for Salon.com   In this week's "Rock Solid History News Digest" for kids, see vintage computers 💻, an asparagus-loving town 🥦, cool old cars 🚘, camp at the Underground Railroad 👣, and an old tomb ⛼! Click the button above to sign up for this family-friendly newsletter. Vintage Computer Festival East is this weekend By Tom Nardi for Hackaday N.J. town celebrates all things asparagus, marks 100th anniversary of historic flight By Bill Duhart for NJ.com Vintage Automobile Museum celebrates its founder By Anthony Garcia for Star News Group All aboard for the Peter Mott House Museum's first Underground Railroad camp By Nicolette White for Burlington County Times Archeologists to open mysterious sarcophagus discovered underneath Notre Dame Cathedral during post-fire excavations By Joshua Zitser for Business Insider (photo below courtesy of Pexels)   This week, To learn about a beautiful train ride 🚂, a worthy walk 👣, a forgotten cemetery in NYC 👤, is it cake or not 🎂❓, and flying dinosaurs 💸! Sign up HERE for entire family friendly newsletter. Here’s your chance to ride historic train cars out of New York’s Penn Station along the Hudson River By Caroline Tanner for The Points Guy (photo above by Mark Forman/The United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey) To honor Harriet Tubman and others, this 165-mile ‘Walk to Freedom’ traces South Jersey Underground Railroad routes By Tribune News Service New York marble cemetery tells the larger story of New York By Penelope Gould for NYU Local ‘Is It Cake?’ builds on a lengthy tradition of visual deception By Maggie Cao for The Conversation/ Smithsonian Magazine (photo below courtesy of Netflix) Scientists discover ancient cemetery of flying reptiles in Chile's Atacama desert By Reuters   This week in the Rock Solid History News Digest, delve into a hidden trail 👣, a land full of pine trees 🌲, a hotel on a battleship 🛳, flowers & a historical mystery 💜🔎, and identifying ancient perfumes 👃! Sign up HERE for more! Have you explored the Hidden History Trail in downtown Toms River, New Jersey? By Shawn Michaels for 92.7 wobm New Jersey man makes it his mission to preserve ‘piney’ culture By News 12 Staff (photo above courtesy of Amazon.com) Battleship Hotel? Book a night on the USS New Jersey By Aaron Spray for The Travel Irises found on a national park battlefield in Louisiana may mark razed homes in historic Black community ‘Fazendeville' By The Associated Press for Fortune Scents help researchers identify contents of Egyptian vessels By Archaeology Magazine (photo below courtesy of J. La Nasa et al. 2022/Journal of Archaeological Science)   This week's Rock Solid History News Digest (sign up for even more HERE!!!), learn about SHARKS 🦈, a town that disappeared 🌆, a little known airport 🛫, a famous cemetery 🎭, and ancient fossils 🐟! New Jersey State Museum will feature sharks in new exhibition By Centraljersey.com (image above courtesy of state.nj.us/state/museum) The lost village of Old Boonton: its history and disappearance beneath the waters of the Rockaway River By Jeffrey V. Moy for Morristown Green Historic New Jersey airport finds strength in numbers By Grant Boyd for Flying Magazine After 122 years, Hollywood Forever Cemetery finally designated historic-cultural monument By Tom Tapp for Deadline Archaeology breakthrough as experts retrace human roots with 518 million year-old rocks By Antony Ashkenaz for Express UK (photo below courtesy of SWNS)   This week, learn about fun old dolls 🎎, a touching museum ☝, a museum for a beloved Jersey singer 🎤, early Long Island history 🌳🌳, and a medieval find 🖃! And see a TON (yes, a ton!) of local events in NY and NJ. Click here to sign up for the WHOLE DIGEST! Our Lives: New-York Historical Society’s Black dolls exhibit By News 12 Staff (photo above courtesy of nyhistory.org) A touching exhibit: Morristown’s Macculloch Hall comes to grips with ‘interactive’ By Kevin Coughlin for Morristown Green Historic firehouse set to house Bruce Springsteen Museum By Tobias Carroll for Inside Hook What you didn't know about the early history of Long Island By Aaron Spray for The Travel Boy digs up 'astounding' 800-year-old treasure By Cover Media (photo below courtesy of Hansons Auctioneers)   This week, learn about a local chocolate drink 🍫, a poet & a ballet ✍🩰, a submarine’s piano 🎹, a historic hockey jersey 🏒, and rock art with extinct animals 🦥! Also look ahead to lots of family friendly & historic events! Sign up here. A look at Yoo-Hoo’s New Jersey roots By Eva Grall for Hoboken Girl (photo above courtesy of yoo-hoo.com) New Jersey poet collaborating with Brooklyn ballet on world premiere of events in American history By News 12 Staff Jersey Proud: Piano that sailed aboard the Thomas Edison now a fixture at the US Navy Museum By News 12 Staff How the Riveters’ Black Rosie jerseys came to be By Holly Morrison for The Ice Garden How old is the rock art at La Lindosa? By Archaeology Magazine (photo below courtesy of José Iriarte, University of Exeter)  |
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