 This week, learn about old-time ⚾ photos, segregation in NJ ➗, a forgotten cowboy 🤠, history helping right whales 🐋, and giant rocks in Korea ⛰! "Discover Greatness: an illustrated history of Negro Leagues Baseball" comes to Piscataway By New Jersey Stage Lawsuit to end school segregation in NJ will return to courtroom By Remy Samuels for Patch A hidden figure in North American archaeology By Stephen E. Nash for Sapiens (photo above courtesy of Kokopelli-UK/Wikimedia Commons) History project is helping inform a documentary on endangered right whales By Tom Lotshaw for Western Carolina University (photo below courtesy of Icelandic Museum of Natural History) Korea is the Dolmen capital of the world By Korean Herald 
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 This week, learn about old ski resorts 🎿, a children's book charity 📚, a bread factory turned condos 🍞🏢, using Cherokee place names 📜, & ostrich egg money 🥚💰! Skiing anyone? Inside the history of New Jersey’s long-lost ski areas By News 12 Staff (photo above courtesy of mountaincreek.com) New Jersey Dreamers featured on "Today" for Martin Luther King Day By Maureen Berzok for TAP into East Brunswick Historic Wonder Bread factory in Hoboken turns into luxury building By Mary K. Jacob for NY Post The remapping of America—from an indigenous point of view By Gregory Smithers for The New Republic Archaeologists discover oldest social network using ostrich egg beads - study By Jerusalem Post Staff (photo below courtesy of Jennifer Miller)   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)   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  |
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