Tag: 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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Coming to America

March 30, 2018

As I listened to the recorded stories and viewed artifacts of the many immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, I thought about my ancestors and the great journeys that they made to find freedom and opportunity in America long ago. While I have made a lot of journeys in my own life, I cannot imagine…

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