 In the latest "Rock Solid History News Digest" for families, learn about a Juneteenth book 📗, battlefields in NJ ⚔, vintage bathrooms 🚽, a very old monument ⭖, and an unknown culture 🐢! Sign up at the button to get a list of upcoming family-friendly events as well. Struggle and celebration: Montclair author gives kids an insight into Juneteenth By Talia Adderley for Montclair Local (book cover courtesy of Amazon.com) Guide to exploring New Jersey Revolutionary War history for July 4 By TAPinto Hackettstown Staff Luxury is not a walk-in shower with a toilet. It’s a vintage tile L.A. bathroom By Krystal Chang for the Los Angeles Times Burzahom: the story behind Srinagar’s Stonehenge By Saumya Ancheri for Conde Nast Traveller (photo below courtesy of searchkashmir.org) Newly found Chinese artifacts illuminate mysterious ancient kingdom By Patrick Smith for NBC News 
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 In this week's "Rock Solid History News Digest" for families, learn about dinosaurs in NJ 🦖, an updated arcade 🎮, summer fun ⛱, a new coin 🥈, and an unexpected finding in a cave 🦞! Sign up at the button above 👆 to get the full newsletter with family-friendly events and activities in NJ/NY. New Jersey is a great paleontology state By ZuzuRU for Off Tackle Empire (photo above courtesy of the Library of Congress) One of the Jersey Shore’s most beloved attractions is getting a facelift By Bill Doyle for New Jersey 101.5 How to spend summer 2022 in New Jersey By Urban Matter A new quarter honors Native American leader and activist Wilma Mankiller By Tekella Foster for NPR/WNYC (image below courtesy of U.S. Mint) Elusive creature was feared extinct-then it surfaced in cracks of dark Alabama cave By Alison Cutler for Sun Herald   In this week's "Rock Solid History News Digest" for families, learn about the “down the shore” moniker 🌊, a Depression-era castle 🏰, a Civil War cemetery caretaker 🍂, a lost city 🌆, and cave houses 🏠. Also get the low-down on tons of NJ/NY area events for kids and their families. Sign up at the button above! ‘Down the shore’ explained: a history of Philly’s favorite summer travel phrase By Asha Prihar for Billy Penn This could possibly be the strangest house in all of New Jersey, maybe America? By Shawn Michaels for 92.7 wobm (photo above courtesy of the-palace-of-depression.business.site) N.J. man dedicates his spare time to maintaining graves of Black veterans who served in the Civil War By Amethyst Martinez for NJ Advance Media/NJ.com Lost Maya city discovered in the Yucatan By Heritage Daily Viking-era cave system larger, older than previously thought By Larissa Kyzer for Iceland Review (photo below courtesy of Kristborg Þórsdottir)  |
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