- Plow a furrow & experience horse-power first hand
- Participate in a barn-raising
- Discover five centuries of New Jersey's history in one place
- Discuss Native American Indian place-names
- Attend a fashion show
- Invent your own working phonograph
- Watch a baseball game using 1864 rules, uniforms and equipment
- Put out a “house-a-fire”
- Try your hand at spinning wool
- Tap your feet to some bluegrass music
- Attend the wedding of Maria Allaire*
- Purchase a book on NJ’s history
- See a mid-19th century woodworking demonstration
- Meet Commanders of the USS Lehigh*
- Ride the Pine Creek Railroad ($)
- Watch a sheep-shearing demonstration
- Watch a side saddle demonstration
- Search census & cemetery records
- Shop at the General Store for unique keepsakes & souvenirs
- Revisit the days of air ships & the ill-fated Hindenburg
- Learn about Robert Erskine, George Washington’s geographer & Surveyor-General
- Witness the evolution of NJ’s cranberry harvesting
- Take a dance lesson
- Stroll among Model T Ford cars and trucks
- Experience the BOOM of cannon fire
- Discover how the Civilian Conservation Corps helped establish Parvin State Park
- Engage the senses with open hearth and Dutch Oven cooking
- Practice using Native American tools
- Research your family’s genealogy
- Acquaint yourself with NJ’s Sentinels of the Sea
- Talk with a wheelwright about making iron tires
- Explore a Revolutionary War encampment
- Use a drop spindle to make yarn
- Learn about grist milling at Historic Walnford
- Discover the architectural significance of the Roseberry Homestead
- Learn about Mary Hayes McCauley, aka Molly Pitcher
- Participate in historic games
- Tour a 19th century church
- Learn the art of paper marbling
- Get your mail hand-cancelled with a special postmark
- Meet Mrs. Woolley of the Eden Woolley House
- Play a game of bocce
- Have your silhouette portrait made
- Meet a female Civil War soldier*
- Join the Monmouth County Militia for a wooden musket drill
- See a display of historic fire apparatus
- Discover farming artifacts from Hunterdon County
- Observe writing techniques of the 13th – 19th centuries
- Examine the “Horseless Carriage”
- Take in the aromas of fresh baked goods at the Bakery
- Talk battle strategy with George Washington*
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- Hear stories of NJ’s most famous suffragist, Alice Paul
- Learn how a bill becomes a law
- Investigate what painter Thomas Eakins, naturalist John Burroughs & writers Oscar Wilde & Bram Stoker all have in common
- Stroll the Village Green
- Watch a U.S. Lifesaving Service Beach Apparatus Drill
- Take your picture with Revolutionary War & Civil War soldiers
- Survey an exhibit on NJ’s transportation history
- Shovel coal into a locomotive boiler
- Talk to a Confederate Cavalryman
- Learn about the Israel Crane House
- Discover America's first national historical park
- Celebrate the upcoming sesquicentennial of the Civil War
- Find military artifacts & documents from the National Guard Militia Museum
- Uncover the role of the Brisbane Family in establishing Allaire State Park
- Explore 330+ years of publicly accessible records
- Train with a Civil War unit
- Examine early Egg Harbor City tax records, early newspapers & photographs
- Listen to poetry by the Good Grey Poet*
- Learn about Jersey Shore jazz & blues music
- Listen to the sweet sounds of a dulcimer
- See artifacts once used by Thomas Edison
- Learn about the NJ veterans’ oral history project
- Master the task of corn shelling
- Feel the heat of the Blacksmith Shop
- Find out why NJ is the “Crossroads of the Revolution”
- View the history of Trenton, our state capitol
- Receive Professional Development Credit for NJ school teachers
- Hike the ½ mile Bog Iron Ore Trail along the Manasquan River
- Help save White Hill Mansion, a house with Revolutionary War significance
- Meet Elizabeth White*, creator of the cultivated blueberry
- Talk with the village tinsmith
- Attend a program on the Great Awakening
- View a copy of Washington's "Farewell Orders"
- See a Civil War era howitzer
- Watch the video “Ten Crucial Days”
- Discuss colonial politics with Benjamin Franklin*
- View a replica 1831 stagecoach
- Examine the ongoing research of the Ocean County Historical Society
- Try your hand at an interactive woodworking demonstration
- Hear stories of the ghosts of Bordentown
- Learn about the history of Woodbridge Township
- Explore the culture & heritage of the NJ Pine Barrens
- Participate in a children’s drill with a Bergen County militia unit
- Find out how charcoal was made
- Enjoy a family picnic
- Learn about the renovation work at Edison Memorial Tower & Museum
- Tour the “Big House” – Allaire’s family home
- Earn advancement requirements for Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts
- Examine paranormal research equipment used at historic locations
- Watch a quilting demonstration
*actor portrayal
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