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Rock Solid History Digest 07.30.21

7/29/2021

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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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Rock Solid History News Digest 07.23.21

7/22/2021

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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)


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Rock Solid History News Digest 07.16.21

7/16/2021

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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 
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Rock Solid History News Digest 07.09.21

7/8/2021

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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


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Rock Solid History News Digest 07.02.21

7/2/2021

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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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