Rock Solid History News Digest 07.16.21

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