“The Garden State: Where
Ideas Grow” -- The
Jefferson Township Historical Society will hold a general membership meeting and
program on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Lodge at Camp
Jefferson, Weldon Road, Lake Hopatcong, NJ.
New Jersey author Linda J. Barth will present a talk on her
new book, A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to the
Ice Cream Cone. Many people are
familiar with Edison's "invention factory" in Menlo Park, where he
patented the phonograph, the light bulb, and many more innovations. Yet many
other ideas have grown in the Garden State. New Jerseyans brought sound and music to
movies and built the very first drive-in theater. In addition to the first
cultivated blueberry, tasty treats like ice cream cones and M&M's® are also
Jersey natives. Iconic aspects of American life, like Bubble Wrap®, the
boardwalk, the Band-Aid®, and even professional baseball itself started in New
Jersey. Life would be a lot harder without the vacuum cleaner, plastic, air-conditioning, and many other important advances in medicine and
surgery that were developed here. Join author Linda Barth as she explores
groundbreaking, useful, fun, and even silly inventions and
their New Jersey roots. Copies of Linda Barth’s
book will be available for purchase and signing at the meeting and also
available in the Jefferson Township Museum’s gift shoppe, Miss Elizabeth’s
Shoppe. The next open house of the
Jefferson Museum will be on Sunday, May 4, 2014 from 1 to 4 pm. Anyone
interested in joining the organization is encouraged to attend this
meeting. The purpose of the Jefferson
Township Historical Society is the maintenance of the George Chamberlain House,
known as the Jefferson Township Museum, as a historic site for this and future
generations. The Jefferson Township
Museum was entered into the National and State Registers of Historic places in 2009. For
further information, refer to the Jefferson Township’s Historical Society
website at www.jthistoricalsociety.org,
or call Christine Williams, Jefferson Township Historical Society President at
973-697-0258.
