 This week, learn about Minecraft 🧱, colorful quilts ⛋, a kid-made museum 🎨, Puerto Rican pottery 🥣, and an ancient shrine 🗿 to gazelles 🦌 & more! Click HERE to get the FULL newsletter with tons of family-friendly events. Minecraft Exhibition World Tour kicks off at Liberty Science Center By Gary Phillips for New Jersey Monthly (image above courtesy of lsc.org) Bisa Butler stitches Black history together one portrait at a time By Maurice DuBois for CBS2 Evening News Brooklyn students open museum honoring Black inventors By CBS4 New York Archaeology lab preserves Puerto Rican history By Ciara Pysczynski for UGA Today (photo below by Kristine Schenk) Archaeologists find 9,000-year-old shrine in Jordan desert By Omar Akour for Associated Press 
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 This week, learn about a fun book 📙👀, a little-known soldier ⚔, art inspired by a famous artist 🎨, an ancient kids drum, and old tablets 📑 (not the electronic kind 📱)! Sign up here to get even more in the FULL NEWSLETTER, such as family-friendly events and special editions. Local author inspires New Jersey students with imaginative book By Toni Yates for ABC 7 Eyewitness News (photo above courtesy of amazon.com) Black soldier who crossed Delaware with Washington will be honored in New Jersey By Matthew Korfhage for USA Today Deer Park students create art inspired by Alma Woodsey Thomas to honor Black History Month By News 12 Staff Archaeologists discovered a rare prehistoric drum decorating the grave of 3 children who had been 'cuddling' for 5,000 years Joshua Zitser for Business Insider (photo below courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum) Archaeologists uncover 18,000 Ancient Egyptian ‘Notepads’ By Jane Recker for Smithsonian Magazine   This week, learn about the Underground Railroad in NJ 🚸, a train full of toys 🧸🎎, a lively cultural center 💑, a lost ship ⛵, and an ancient Buddhist temple 🛕! Sign up to the right to get the whole newsletter with weekly events for children & families. A path to freedom: retracing N.J.'s key role in the Underground Railroad By Katrina Rossos for Jersey's Best Jersey proud: France’s ‘Merci Train’ arrives in Weehawken Feb. 7, 1949 By News 12 Staff (see photo above) Black History Month: exploring the T. Thomas Fortune cultural center By News 12 Staff Archaeologists may have found Captain James Cook’s ship off Rhode Island coast By Heather Hamilton for the Washington Examiner This may be one of the oldest Buddhist temples ever discovered By Tom Metcalfe for LiveScience (photo below courtesy of ISMEO/Ca' Foscari University of Venice)   This week celebrate the Intrepid’s birthday 🛳🎂, see a beautiful mansion 🏡👀, dinosaurs up close 🔎🦎, a hidden wall painting 🎨, and old drinking straws 🥤! SIGN UP here to get the full newsletter & a comprehensive list of Black History events this month in New Jersey! Take the kids to the Intrepid Museum’s 40th anniversary events By Ronnie Koenig for NJ Family (photo above courtesy of intrepidmuseum.org) This mansion is the most expensive house sold in NJ last year. Here's what $26M bought By Mary Chao for USA Today Take a close at the dinosaurs at the Long Island Children's Museum By News 12 Staff A couple renovating a 115-year-old building discovered two 60-foot-long hidden murals By Sara Smart for CNN Archaeologists identify the oldest example of drinking straws By Heritage Daily (photo below courtesy of Antiquity)  |
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