 This week, learn about a strange island 🏝, audio about the American Revolution 📲, a hidden Black burial ground 🏫, an old kitchen gadget 🍳, and the best of 2021! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!!! 🧨🎇🎆🎉🥳 The mystery of Burlington Island and New Jersey's first capital crime By Carl LaVO for the Bucks County Courier Times New Smartphone-based audio tour helps visitors access New Jersey's Revolutionary War History By Crossroads of the American Revolution for Insider NJ (painting by Emanuel Leutze [1851]) Search pinpoints Black burial ground on property of Bergen grammar school By Jerry DeMarco for Daily Voice Mystery artifact stashed at Revolutionary War-era site turns out to be kitchen gadget By Mark Price for Kansas City Star (photo below courtesy of Saratoga National Historic Park) Ninety-nine fascinating finds revealed in 2021 By Meilan Solly for Smithsonian Magazine 
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 This week, learn about local film history 🎥, a free old house 🏡, a statue reveal 🎤🎵, cool highway markers 🚘, and where horses came from 🐎🐎! Next week will be a SPECIAL HOLIDAY ISSUE, with heartwarming and inspiring stories. Share it with friends or have them subscribe through this email. How New Jersey became the birthplace of the U.S. movie industry By Carole Horst for Variety (photo above courtesy of Fort Lee Film Commission/ Barrymore Film Center) Owner of NJ estate wants to give away historic home for free, but it comes with a catch By Adam Harding for NBC New York Secret revealed about new Frank Sinatra statue in Hoboken By Caren Lissner for Patch Inside Idaho’s campaign to include indigenous history in its highway markers By Jennifer Nalewicki for Smithsonian Magazine Ancient DNA reveals the long-sought homeland of modern horses By Ann Gibbons for Science (image below by Ludovic Orlando)   This week, learn about a different holiday tree 🌲, a new local liberty bell 🔔, WWII pilots 🛫, finding an old Mexican book 📙, and tools made from green stone 💚! Cardboard Christmas tree gets mixed reviews in New Jersey town By John Russell for Learning English Paterson’s Underground Railroad site gets a bell By San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Staff (photo above courtesy of Dolores Van Rensalier) WWII veterans reunite at American Airpower Museum after honor flight By News 12 Staff Valuable 18th century book found in Freehold returned to Mexico By Catarina Moura for Patch Vast trade network in prehistoric Russia was centered on pretty green rocks By Andrew Califf for Haaretz (photo below by Alexey Tarasov)   This week, learn about gingerbread houses 🏠, an old train 🚂, a seaside 1663 house 🌊, a shocking find in Wildwood 🚫, and women’s items from a lost city 💎! Happy Hanukkah!! 🔯 Traditional gingerbread houses fill museum space in Garden City By Greg Mocker for PIX 11 News Historic Hoboken diesel locomotive retires to Boonton By William Westhoven for Morristown Daily Record This is the oldest place you can possibly go in New Jersey and its history will fascinate you By Kristen for Only in Your State Beach homes evacuated after WWII era explosive found along the shore, NJ officials say By Julia Marnin for Miami Herald Graves of rich, powerful women found in lost city of Herodotus By Viktoria Greenboim Rich for Haaretz (photo below courtesy of Iryna Shramko)  |
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