Manalapan looks forward to history fair
With May now here, it will soon be time for the annual New Jersey History Fair. The event will be free.
Arts and crafts vendors, antiques and collectible dealers, and entertainment vendors will be exhibiting. Some vendors will be selling their products right at the site. Other business and commercial exhibitors and vendors will be displaying their goods and services.
Children will be designing and coloring flags, crafting Santa Claus and Abraham Lincoln masks, playing with old-fashioned toys, and enjoying games and activities that were popular during the Revolutionary War period. The Howell Living History Farm will have them shelling corn, broadcasting seeds, and steering a horse-drawn plow.
Military encampments will show the daily life of a soldier. Guests will get to participate in drills and experience craft and living history demonstrations such as musket fire.
Actors will be portraying historical figures such as Dr. James Still (the ‘Black Doctor of the Plains’), Ben Franklin, Harriet Tubman, Walt Whitman, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, and Molly Pitcher. The 63rd Army Band will be giving a concert to close the festivities.
History buffs will no doubtr be bringing their cameras to capture pictures of the event in order to make personalized stationery, or to use later for poster printing.
The event is scheduled for May 13 from 11:00 am until 5:00 pm at the Monmouth Battlefield State Park, 16 Business Route 33, Manalapan.
Arts and crafts vendors, antiques and collectible dealers, and entertainment vendors will be exhibiting. Some vendors will be selling their products right at the site. Other business and commercial exhibitors and vendors will be displaying their goods and services.
Children will be designing and coloring flags, crafting Santa Claus and Abraham Lincoln masks, playing with old-fashioned toys, and enjoying games and activities that were popular during the Revolutionary War period. The Howell Living History Farm will have them shelling corn, broadcasting seeds, and steering a horse-drawn plow.
Military encampments will show the daily life of a soldier. Guests will get to participate in drills and experience craft and living history demonstrations such as musket fire.
Actors will be portraying historical figures such as Dr. James Still (the ‘Black Doctor of the Plains’), Ben Franklin, Harriet Tubman, Walt Whitman, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, and Molly Pitcher. The 63rd Army Band will be giving a concert to close the festivities.
History buffs will no doubtr be bringing their cameras to capture pictures of the event in order to make personalized stationery, or to use later for poster printing.
The event is scheduled for May 13 from 11:00 am until 5:00 pm at the Monmouth Battlefield State Park, 16 Business Route 33, Manalapan.