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A hidden trail, flowers solving a mystery, ancient scents...in latest digest!

4/8/2022

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This week in the Rock Solid History News Digest, delve into a hidden trail 👣, a land full of pine trees 🌲, a hotel on a battleship 🛳, flowers & a historical mystery 💜🔎, and identifying ancient perfumes 👃! Sign up HERE for more!

Have you explored the Hidden History Trail in downtown Toms River, New Jersey?
By Shawn Michaels for 92.7 wobm 

New Jersey man makes it his mission to preserve ‘piney’ culture
By News 12 Staff (photo above courtesy of Amazon.com)

Battleship Hotel? Book a night on the USS New Jersey
By Aaron Spray for The Travel

Irises found on a national park battlefield in Louisiana may mark razed homes in historic Black community ‘Fazendeville'
By The Associated Press for Fortune

Scents help researchers identify contents of Egyptian vessels
By Archaeology Magazine (photo below courtesy of J. La Nasa et al. 2022/Journal of Archaeological Science)
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Shark exhibit and more in latest issue of children's historical digest

4/1/2022

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This week's Rock Solid History News Digest (sign up for even more HERE!!!),  learn about SHARKS 🦈, a town that disappeared 🌆, a little known airport 🛫, a famous cemetery 🎭, and ancient fossils 🐟!

New Jersey State Museum will feature sharks in new exhibition
By Centraljersey.com (image above courtesy of state.nj.us/state/museum)

The lost village of Old Boonton: its history and disappearance beneath the waters of the Rockaway River
By Jeffrey V. Moy for Morristown Green

Historic New Jersey airport finds strength in numbers
By Grant Boyd for Flying Magazine

After 122 years, Hollywood Forever Cemetery finally designated historic-cultural monument
By Tom Tapp for Deadline

Archaeology breakthrough as experts retrace human roots with 518 million year-old rocks
By Antony Ashkenaz for Express UK (photo below courtesy of SWNS)


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Cool dolls, an interactive exhibit & more in the latest Rock Solid History News Digest!

3/25/2022

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This week, learn about fun old dolls 🎎, a touching museum ☝, a museum for a beloved Jersey singer 🎤, early Long Island history 🌳🌳, and a medieval find 🖃! And see a TON (yes, a ton!) of local events in NY and NJ. Click here to sign up for the WHOLE DIGEST!

Our Lives: New-York Historical Society’s Black dolls exhibit
By News 12 Staff (photo above courtesy of nyhistory.org)

A touching exhibit: Morristown’s Macculloch Hall comes to grips with ‘interactive’
By Kevin Coughlin for Morristown Green

Historic firehouse set to house Bruce Springsteen Museum
By Tobias Carroll for Inside Hook

What you didn't know about the early history of Long Island
By Aaron Spray for The Travel 

Boy digs up 'astounding' 800-year-old treasure
By Cover Media (photo below courtesy of Hansons Auctioneers)
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Rock Solid History News Digest 03.18.22

3/18/2022

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This week, learn about a local chocolate drink 🍫, a poet & a ballet ✍🩰, a submarine’s piano 🎹, a historic hockey jersey 🏒, and rock art with extinct animals 🦥! Also look ahead to lots of family friendly & historic events! Sign up here.

A look at Yoo-Hoo’s New Jersey roots
By Eva Grall for Hoboken Girl (photo above courtesy of yoo-hoo.com)

New Jersey poet collaborating with Brooklyn ballet on world premiere of events in American history
By News 12 Staff 

Jersey Proud: Piano that sailed aboard the Thomas Edison now a fixture at the US Navy Museum
By News 12 Staff 

How the Riveters’ Black Rosie jerseys came to be
By Holly Morrison for The Ice Garden 

How old is the rock art at La Lindosa?
By Archaeology Magazine (photo below courtesy of José Iriarte, University of Exeter)


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Upcoming (old) pandemic talk...

3/12/2022

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Want to learn about the pandemic that gripped Paterson, NJ nearly 100 years ago? Hear the story from the Hawthorne Historical Society (incl. me!) on Monday March 14 at 7:00pm. It is in turns gripping, earth-wrenching, and eye-opening, and much like today’s pandemic.

The Hawthorne Historical Society meets at the Passaic County Arts Center/John W. Rea House, 675 Goffle Road, Hawthorne, NJ. 

As Hawthorne approaches its 125th anniversary in 2023, the Society is doubling its efforts to share its historical knowledge in innovative ways. Visit us at http://hawthornehistory.org/  or @hawthornehistory on Facebook and Instagram.
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Rock Solid History News Digest 03.11.22

3/11/2022

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This week, learn about a school’s Black history project 🏆, then-and-now photos 📸, all about cricket in NJ 🏏, a historical house 🏠, and an old pearl 🦪!  CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR FULL NEWSLETTER W/FAMILY-FRIENDLY EVENTS & DAY TRIPS.

John P. Holland Charter School celebrates Black history month with "Hall of Fame"
By Gabriella Dragone for TAP into Paterson

Then-and-now: a look at the history of downtown Westfield’s buildings (PHOTOS)
By TAP into Westfield (photos above by Westfield Historical Society/ Margaret Hickey)

The unexpected history of cricket in New Jersey
By Eva Grall for Hoboken Girl

Tour a house full of Black history
By Corey Kilgannon for The New York Times 

Archaeologists find over 6,500-yr-old pearl bead in Qatar grave
By The Tribune India

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Update to ship in ice story!

3/11/2022

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Update to a story I shared last week! Things don't usually move this fast in the historical research world...by the way...(photo by Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute)

Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s Ship, Lost in 1915, Is Found in Antarctic 
By Henry Fountain, New York Times


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Breaking news...

3/5/2022

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As #readacrossamericaweek2022 comes to a close, I have exciting news! My children's book, "A Rock Solid History of Hawthorne, New Jersey" is now being sold at Colour & Whim in Hawthorne, NJ (https://www.colourandwhim.com/).

My book, which tells the history of the town through rocks, is a perfect adventure for the warmer weather. Everything mentioned in the book can be visited in person, reinforcing the history learned.

And Colour & Whim is located next to an award-winning sub shop. Sounds like a fun afternoon to me!
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#hawthornenj #newjerseyhistoryforkids #funforkidsnj #childrensauthor #homeschoolingfunnj #historyisfun #RockSolidHistory
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Rock Solid History News Digest 03.02.22

3/4/2022

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This week, read about special hockey jerseys 👿🏒, the NJ link to telephones 📞, hidden history at a museum 📸, pottery from a long-ago meal 🍯, and a lost ship ⛵!
Sign up HERE to get the FULL newsletter & special editions.


Three things: Black History Month jerseys
By Catherine Bogart for NewJerseyDevils.com/NHL.com

‘Ma Bell’ exhibit brings New Jersey technology to the forefront
By Rebekah Schroeder for Community News

Step into Black history at the African American Museum of Nassau County
By News 12 Staff

Ancient Native American cooking vessel found in Superior National Forest 
By The Ely Echo (Minnesota)

Track Marine archaeologists searching icy Antarctic seas for Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’
By David Kindy for Smithsonian Magazine (photo below by Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute)
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Rock Solid History News Digest 02.25.22

2/25/2022

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This week, learn about Minecraft 🧱, colorful quilts ⛋, a kid-made museum 🎨, Puerto Rican pottery 🥣, and an ancient shrine 🗿 to gazelles 🦌 & more! Click HERE to get the FULL newsletter with tons of family-friendly events.

Minecraft Exhibition World Tour kicks off at Liberty Science Center
By Gary Phillips for New Jersey Monthly (image above courtesy of lsc.org) 

Bisa Butler stitches Black history together one portrait at a time
By Maurice DuBois for CBS2 Evening News 

Brooklyn students open museum honoring Black inventors
By CBS4 New York 

Archaeology lab preserves Puerto Rican history
By Ciara Pysczynski for UGA Today (photo below by Kristine Schenk)

Archaeologists find 9,000-year-old shrine in Jordan desert
By Omar Akour for Associated Press

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