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Rock Solid History Digest 06.25.21

6/24/2021

This week, learn about a young musician 🎻, a school mural 🎨, a statue 🗽 featured in Night At the Museum, cool new coins 🤑, and helpful cemetery caretakers 🛉🛉🛉🛉!

Grover Cleveland Middle School seventh-grader selected for NJ teen arts festival
By Tap Into West Essex

Questions about future of New Jersey school threatens historic mural
By Lisa Rozner for CBS2 News (photo above courtesy of CBS2 News)

Famed Theodore Roosevelt statue at New York’s Natural History museum will be relocated
By Associated Press in the Chicago Sun Times

US Mint to issue quarters honoring notable American women
By the Associated Press in the SanteFe/New Mexican (photo below of candidate art courtesy of https://www.usmint.gov/)

Roma boys help restore forgotten Slovak Jewish cemetery
By Radovan Stoklasa and Jan Lopatka for WHBL (photo by Reuters)

Rock Solid History News Digest 06.18.21

6/17/2021

Passaic deli owned by immigrants serving up a side of local history
By Matt Fagan for NorthJersey.com

Dr. Still Center digs up new questions about the American Dream
By Alyssa Biederman for CentralJersey.com

Restoration resumes for 200-year-old factory that drove Bridgeton's early development
By Vincent Jackson for The Press of Atlantic City (photo above of Cumberland Nail & Iron Works postcard)

Goats arrive at De Pere Greenwood Cemetery
By Rachel Hopmayer for NBC 26 Green Bay

Fragments of 4,500-year-old Neolithic cabin discovered in southwest China
By Jesse Holth for ARTnews (photo below by Chiangmai Life Architects)

Rock Solid History News Digest 06.11.21

6/11/2021

An eagle from Grand Central is at New Jersey zoo
By Michelle Young for Untapped Cities (photo of Space Farms above by Veronica Ditko)

This day in history: the first drive-in movie theater opens
By Elizabeth Blackstock for Jalopnik (photo below courtesy Orange County Archives)

Matawan woman's painting on display in Barcelona art museum
By Carly Baldwin for The Patch

Tale of childhood theft, braggadocio and eventually, decades later, the return of a stolen sword
By Kerry Benefield for The Press Democrat

‘They’re taking over’: Groundhogs unearthing human remains in Montreal cemetery nightmare
By Phil Carpenter for Global News

Rock Solid History News Digest 06.04.21

6/3/2021

N.J. city honors, restores largely forgotten burial ground of Black Civil War Veterans
By Michael Mancuso for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

“Cricket is in my blood” say new immigrants who are expanding the game in NY and nationwide
By Ela Dutt for News India

The debate over the Geographical Center of North America
By CBS NEWS Sunday Morning (see photo above)

How Loki shapeshifted from Nordic folklore to a Marvel icon
By Sarah Durn for Gizmodo

Singapore collectors series: why this jewellery designer donated a 75-Carat diamond he owned
By Amelia Yeo for Singapore Tatler (photo below courtesy of the Asian Civilisations Museum)

Rock Solid History News Digest 05.28.21

5/27/2021

This day in history: Supreme Court says Ellis Island mostly in NJ
By Bill Doyle for New Jersey 101.5

National Taffy Day is May 23 and you have New Jersey to thank for it
By Mike Brant for New Jersey 101.5

Watch the test run of Six Flags Great Adventure's thrilling Jersey Devil Coaster
By Michael Tanenbaum for PhillyVoice Staff

Archaeologists, Native American tribes studying pieces of 4,000 year old canoe found in Cooper River
By Lexi Moore for Count on News 2 (NBC, Charleston, SC) (photo courtesy of NBC News 2)

Megalithic site from Karnataka among six finalists for UNESCO Heritage tag from India
By Amit S Upadhye for Express News Service (photo courtesy of Express)

Rock Solid History News Digest 05.21.21

5/21/2021

Lenni-Lenape student helps bring new indigenous studies minor to Montclair State
By Danielle Licht for The Montclair Clarion (photo courtesy of Brianna Dagostino)

All-Star baseball player Yogi Berra celebrated on Forever stamp
By USPS

How Mohawk ‘Skywalkers’ helped build New York City's tallest buildings
By Tony Tekaoniake Evans for History.com

Top 10 misconceptions about historical clothing and fashion
By Alex Miller for Listverse

Melodies from an ancient flute still strike a chord centuries on
By Zhu Ying for Shine (China) (photo courtesy of Ti Gong)

Rock Solid History News Digest 05.14.21

5/14/2021

Sussex County 'gem': NYC museum to unveil 22-ton slab of glowing rock from Ogdensburg
By David M. Zimmer for NorthJersey.com (photo courtesy of Sterling Hill Mining Museum/ Paul Michael Kane)

Paddling the Passaic
By Virginia Citrano for MyVeronaNJ

Tusky titan finds new home at Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex
By The Intelligencer/Wheeling New-Register (Virginia)

New art display in Bartlesville meant to honor Native American culture
By Julia Gorman, FOX23 News (Oklahoma)

Gold for the Gods: Rare 1,500-year-old pendants found in Norse ritual hoard
By Jesse Holth for ART news (in Norway) (photo by Margrete F. Simonsen / UIO Museum of Cultural History)

Rock Solid History News Digest 05.07.21

5/7/2021

New Jersey middle schooler set to make history as one of the 1st female Eagle Scouts
By Ashley Johnson for ABC 6 Action News (photo courtesy of ABC 6 Action News)

Moses, Satchel, Smokey Joe, Cool Papa: The Negro Leagues celebrate 100-plus years of overlooked baseball
By Peter Genovese for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

The history of pork roll vs Taylor ham in New Jersey
By Erica Commisso for Hoboken Girl

TikTok discovers hidden cemetery at popular Hudson Valley mall
Jess for 101.5 WPDH

1,200 years ago, Maya children decorated this hidden cave with handprints
By Nora McGreevy for Smithsonian Magazine (photo below courtesy of Sergio Grosjean)

Rock Solid History News Digest 04.30.21

4/30/2021

African American Civil War veterans honored in Matawan
By Matthew Ward for Matawan-Aberdeen, NJ Patch

Basking Ridge Old White Oak remembered; call for more pictures
By TAP into Basking Ridge

At N.J.’s new 3D art museum, you can look like you’re climbing the Statue of Liberty
By Allison Pries for NJ Advance Media & NJ.com

How new technology is revealing Civil War secrets of an old house
By Andrew Beaujon for The Washingtonian (photo above courtesy of RB Toth Associates)

Fingerprint from 5,000 years ago found in Orkney
By BBC News (photo below courtesy of Jan Blatchford)

Rock Solid History News Digest 04.23.21

4/23/2021

'Proudly she served:' Late Montclair woman honored with painting
By Eric Kiefer, Patch

Big Bird meets Calder on the Metropolitan Museum’s roof garden
By Margie Goldsmith for Forbes (photo above courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Hidden history: Archaeologists turn to technology to look for clues at Fort Owen
By Perry Backus for Ravalli Republic (Montana)

Salem's Chinatown unearths cemetery shrine
By Kimberli Fitzgerald for Salem Reporter (Oregon) (photo below courtesy of Willamette Heritage Center)

French officials perplexed by gold bars and coins found stashed in old house
By The Guardian

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