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PASCACK
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
19 RIDGE AVENUE
PARK RIDGE, NJ 07656
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
(All events
are at the museum and are free unless otherwise
specified. Children are welcome in the company of
an adult.)
****** PASCACK ADVENTURES PRESENTS******
JUNE 22, 2008 SUNDAY
1-4 P.M.
STONES & BONES
(Children’s
archaeology dig in our backyard)
Grades
2-6 -- Reservation required- limited
enrollment
$5.00 donation to cover
materials
Call:
201-664-7924 or 201-537-0307
Children will:
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Learn basic archeology techniques
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Learn thinking skills (analyzing, reasoning,
evaluation)
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Handle real dinosaur gizzard balls
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Play
discovery games
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Find
amazing artifacts
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Research their finds
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Prepare display for parents to view at day’s end
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Have
a healthy snack
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Be
history detectives
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Make
new friends
Taught
by licensed volunteer teachers (George Sherman, Carol
Riccardo, Barbara Farina, Marie Hennesey)
Thursday,
August 28, 2008 --
10AM - 1PM.
STONES & BONES
(Children’s
archaeology dig in our backyard)
Grades
2-6 -- Reservation required- limited
enrollment
$5.00 donation to cover
materials
Call:
201-664-7924 or 201-537-0307
Children will:
-
Learn basic archeology techniques
-
Learn thinking skills (analyzing, reasoning,
evaluation)
-
Handle real dinosaur gizzard balls
-
Play
discovery games
-
Find
amazing artifacts
-
Research their finds
-
Prepare display for parents to view at day’s end
-
Have
a healthy snack
-
Be
history detectives
-
Make
new friends
Taught
by licensed volunteer teachers (George Sherman, Carol
Riccardo, Barbara Farina, Marie Hennesey)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
“SCHOOL DAYS-200 YEARS
AGO”
(CHILDREN’S
PROGRAM)
1:30-3:30 P.M.
Grades 1-5 -- $5.00
donation for materials
Reservations
required-limited enrollment
Call
201-664-7924 or 201-573-0307
Children will:
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learn what school was like 200 years ago
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make a horn book to take home
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see how a quill pen is made
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write with a nib pen
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bring home your art work
Taught
by licensed volunteer teachers (George Sherman, Barbara
Farina, Marie Hennesey, Carol Riccardo)
SUNDAY,
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008 at 2 P.M.
“ LAURA
KEENE & HER PASCACK VALLEY LEGACY”
ADMISSION FREE
Coffee & Cake
served
Come and hear speaker Francesca M. Moskowitz,
president of the Pascack Historical
 Society,
tell you the fascinating life story of famous
Anglo/American actress LAURA KEENE (1826-1873)- a single
mother of two who left England almost penniless and
became America’s most famous actress. In an age when a
woman’s work was relegated to the kitchen and laundry
room this human dynamo became the FIRST woman to manage
a theatre in the USA. The FIRST woman to be taken
seriously as a producer, director, set decorator,
costumer, writer, etc. The list of her accomplishments
is too long to transcribe here.
She was starring in a play at Ford’s
theatre in Washington, D.C. the night Lincoln was shot.
Hear about how she ran to his box and how she cradled
the dying man’s head in her lap.
Learn about her strong presence in the Pascack Valley.
We guarantee you a few surprises!
No registration
required. Questions call 201-666-0121.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2008
“ DAVID DEMAREST AND HIS LEGACY” 2
P.M.
Our guest speakers are brothers who grew up in
Bergenfield.
David C. Major, PhD and John S. Major PhD are descended
from David Demarest, the early French Huguenot who
settled in the middle Hackensack Valley. The Major
brothers are co-authors of a number of books including
their latest-“
A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His
Legacy” (2007,
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
This scholarly book
examines Demarest’s life (1620-1693), the legacy of the
family, and the “wider Jersey Dutch” community in which
the family played a prominent part.
This is a must for those
interested in regional history, New Netherland and
American social history!
We hope to have their book available for sale that day.
Protestant
dress in the middle Atlantic colonies in the last third
of the seventeenth century: a Huguenot couple. David
Demarest and Marie Sohier would have dressed in clothing
generally similar to these examples. (From Elizabeth Mc
Clellan, Historic Dress in America, 1607-1870-1904).
Coffee
and Cake served
Click here for news and photos from past events
There is never a charge for admission to the Pascack
Historical Society Museum. Programs and events are free
unless otherwise noted. The Society is an independent
not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization and funded by
private donations and membership fees. We have Never had
a paid employee!
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