Category: history

East Point Light

June 26, 2020

East Point Light. Heislerville, NJ, on the Delaware Bay, at the mouth of the Maurice River. The lighthouse was built in 1849 and is the second oldest in New Jersey. The light was inactive from 1941 and was nearly destroyed by fire in 1971. The light was reinstated by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1980….

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Juneteenth Celebrate Freedom

June 19, 2020

“Nothing ever stops; it divides and multiplies, and I guess sometimes it gets ground down superfine, but it doesn’t just blow away.” Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth Juneteenth is the annual observance to celebrate the date Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all remaining slaves in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. If you would like to…

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In Remembrance

May 25, 2020

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill On Memorial Day we honor those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. This picture was taken at Finn’s Point National Cemetery in Pennsville, NJ, and was edited in Adobe Photoshop.

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