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Rock Solid History News Digest 12.31.21

12/31/2021

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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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Rock Solid History News Digest 12.24.21

12/24/2021

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Rock Solid History Weekly Digest 12.17.21

12/17/2021

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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 🐎🐎!

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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)


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Rock Solid History News Digest 12.10.21

12/10/2021

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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)

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Rock Solid History News Digest 12.03.21

12/3/2021

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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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