 This week, visit an old naval base ⛴, a restored church 🏫, a Harriet Tubman monument 🗿, learn all @ peaches 🍑🍑, and see a jug with a face 😊! Uncovering N.J.: Dive into the depths of military history at the tip of the Jersey Shore By Kathleen Butler for Jersey's Best (photo above courtesy of United States Lighthouse Society) Cape May is adding Allen A.M.E. Church to its central core of Black heritage sites reimagined as community hubs By Tommy Rowan for The Philadelphia Inquirer Montclair architect Nina Cooke John wins national competition to design Newark monument By Kristin Wald for Baristanet Farmer's table: black bean salad with peaches and pecans By Susan Maslowski for Kanawha Metro Neolithic arrowhead and part of medieval 'face' jug found By Alexandra Wood for Yorkshire Post (photo below courtesy of Gary Longbottom) 
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 Dinosaurs are roaming N.J. and you can walk past them at new Six Flags exhibit By Michael Mancuso for NJ Advance Media/NJ.com (photo above courtesy of Six Flags) 1938 Belmar, NJ ambulance goes to Ford Museum By Tribune Content Agency in Journal of Emergency Medical Services Rail Bridge in Roxbury: a century of trouble with trucks By Fred J. Aun for Tap into Roxbury Granddaughter and some dedicated woodcarvers restore a 113-year-old Syracuse grave marker By Johnathan Croyle for syracuse.com Rare stone discovered outlining ancient Rome’s city limits By Associated Press (photo below courtesy of Ara Pacis Museum)   This week, celebrate a long-ago baseball player ⚾, bookmobile 📚🚗, a little-known monument 🏛, burial ground ⛼ and ancient moon stones 🌙! Larry Doby celebrations return to Passaic County By InsiderNJ In Montclair, this bookmobile got rolling in 1969 By Ariel Zeitlin for Montclair Local In New Jersey, an unlikely monument to the Syrian and Armenian communities By Valentina Di Liscia for Hyperallergic (photos above courtesy of artist Bryan Zanisnik) Bedford-Church African Burial Ground Coalition aims to stop development, educate community on Flatbush history By Christopher Edwards for BK Reader (photo below courtesy of Bedford-Church African Burial Ground Coalition) The mysterious moon-tracking stones on Mull that were 'portals to the afterworld' By Alison Campsie for The Scotsman   This week, learn about an upcoming museum 🍏, big dances 💃, sunflowers 🌻, ancient carved bone 🦌🦴 and a house in the desert 🏠! Sign up here for much more!! Jersey City in the preliminary stages of converting Apple Tree House into historical museum By John Heinis for Hudson County View (photo above by King of Hearts at Wikipedia Commons) They were popular in the 1700s, but cotillions are still alive and well in N.J. By Steve Strunsky & Aristide Economopoulos for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Sunflowers - a native plant with an amazing history By Marion Barnes for Walterboro Live A 51,000 year-old carved bone is one of the world's oldest works of art, researchers say By Tom Metcalfe for NBC News (photo below by V. Minkus courtesy of Lower Saxony Office for Heritage) A tour of Al-Husainan Historical House By Abdulraouf Murad for Kuwait Times   This week, learn about a young chess grandmaster ♞♕, new park 🌳, Chinatown monument 💓, bridge for buffalo 🐃, and a carved snake 🐍! 12-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra becomes youngest grandmaster in chess history By Ben Morse for CNN Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners names new County park in honor of Thomas Mundy Peterson By New Jersey Stage (photo above courtesy of New Jersey Stage) Landmarks designates Kimlau War Memorial an archeological site By Veronica Rose for Cityland NYC Where the buffalo roam: world’s longest wildlife bridge could cross the Mississippi By Kari Paul for The Guardian Sinuous Stone-Age snake sculpture unearthed in Finland By Kristin Romey for National Geographic (photo below by Satu Koivisto)  |
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