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Beginning Genealogy: Starting Your Family Tree
2026-01-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom Online
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 @ 7 pm via Zoom
Registration Required: Please see the Pennington Public Library’s website, https://www.penningtonlibrary.org/ to register.
If you’re just getting started with family history, this presentation is for you! Together, we’ll walk through the basic steps, so you can feel confident as you begin your research. You’ll get help choosing family tree software, and we’ll explore the many kinds of records that can reveal your ancestors’ stories—like census pages, military files, courthouse papers, and old newspapers. Direct links to the most helpful free and subscription genealogy sites in the US will also be shared, so you’ll know exactly where to look. With practical suggestions from an experienced genealogy librarian, you’ll have everything you need to get started on the right track.
About the Presenter: Archivist, librarian, and genealogist Nancy Loe has been helping researchers with their family trees since 1977. She specializes in US and European family history research, presenting at webinars and conferences in the US, Canada, and Australia. Nancy’s genealogy e-books and free monthly newsletter are available at sassyjanegenealogy.com. Nancy works on her own tree in the US, Prussia, Scotland, Austria, Romania, Norway, and Sweden. As of summer 2025, she visited all eight villages of her great-grandparents in Europe.

Princeton and the American Revolution: The Ten Crucial Days
2026-01-08 19:00 - 20:00 | NJ
This is the story of the desperate hours at the end of 1776 when the American Revolution seemed lost. Struggling through unimaginable difficulties, the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River on Christmas, winning three battles in 10 days, culminating in the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777. These victories changed the course of history and enabled the birth of our free nation. Presented by Barry Singer, Princeton Historical Society. Please visit events.mcl.org to register to receive the link to the program.

Cézanne: True to the Essence of His Subjects
2026-01-14 08:00 - 17:00 | NJ
Virtual program hosted by the Mercer County Library SystemMonday, February 9, 2026, at 7:00 p.m.
This virtual lecture, hosted by the Mercer County Library System, examines the life and legacy of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), one of the most influential artists in the history of modern painting. From his early years in Aix-en-Provence and initial study of law to his lasting impact on generations of artists, Cézanne’s relationships, inspirations, and working methods offer fascinating insight into his art.
The program is presented by Jeanne Johnson, docent at the Princeton University Art Museum and Morven Museum and Gardens.
Registration is required. Visit events.mcl.org to receive the virtual program link.

FREE Native Gardening Educational Video Call
2026-01-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom Online
Learn how to grow a beautiful native garden while supporting local wildlife. Join our Native Seed Sowing event series—great for beginners and experienced gardeners alike.
• Native Plant Gardening 101
• How to choose the right plants
• Preventing common seed-starting problems
RSVP for your link to join. It’s free! tinyurl.com/NativeSeeds2026

New Jersey Homeschooling Basics
2026-01-14 19:00 - 20:00 | NJ
Join us for an overview of homeschooling in New Jersey and get answers to your questions. Are you considering homeschooling your child in NJ? Has your child asked to be homeschooled, but you don’t know where you would even start? A panel of experienced homeschooling parents will cover the basics of homeschooling in NJ, including homeschooling law, the range of approaches to homeschooling, resources and communities that support homeschooling (in-person and online), paths after homeschooling (high school, college, work, trades, etc.). A Q & A session will follow the presentation. Please visit events.mcl.org to register to receive the link to the program.

Speaker Series: "to be found in every house": Cider in Eighteenth-Century America
2026-01-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 W Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ, 08525, United States
Consumed by everyone from wealthy landowners to day laborers, cider was the most common beverage in early America. Much of it was made simply to be drunk, but a few Americans, like Washington and Jefferson, tried to create something truly special. We will explore the range of American cider culture from earliest settlement to the 1790s and see how cider was so ingrained in American culture that even the early Temperance movement thought it was safe.
Co-sponsored by the Hopewell Museum, the Hopewell Valley Historical Society, and the Hopewell Public Library.
About the Speaker: For over twenty years Mark A. Turdo, historian and museum professional, has been researching and recreating historic alcoholic cider. He is especially interested in early American cider and cider culture. In 2013 he began the Pommel Cyder blog (https://pommelcyder.wordpress.com), where he shares his adventures in cider research and his experiments in cidermaking. Turdo has shared his cider research at several cider events, cideries, and museums, including the Pennsylvania Cider Fest, Pour the Core Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cider Week, Pennsbury Manor, the Sigal Museum, Manoff Cidery, and Ploughman Ciders.

Token on the Freedman's Coat: The Story Behind Thomas Mundy Peterson's 1884 Voting Medal
2026-01-15 19:00 - 20:00 | NJ
Thomas Mundy Peterson is celebrated as the first African American to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment. Gordon Bond, independent historian and publisher of NJ history website Garden State Legacy, will discuss the story of Peterson and how, on May 30, 1884, citizens of Perth Amboy, NJ, pinned a gold medal to his coat in honor of his having done something that, in another part of the nation, a noose might have been put around his neck for daring. Based on Bond’s book, To Cast a Freedman’s Vote. Sponsored by Friends of the Ewing Library. Please visit events.mcl.org to register to receive the link to the program.

A Community Conversation on Rainwater Solutions to Control stormwater runoff and protect our local waterways,
2026-01-16 08:00 - 17:00 | NJ
The Pennington Environmental Commission will host a virtual Community Conversation on Thursday, February 5 at 7:00 pm via Zoom. This conversation will focus on rainwater solutions to control stormwater runoff and protect our local waterways, including practical steps residents and businesses can take to reduce flooding and help keep our community’s streams clean.
Speakers will include experts from The Watershed Institute, G.P. Caminiti (Pennington Borough Administrator), and Brian Friedlich (Pennington resident and water resource engineer).
Dial-in information and the Zoom link will be available on the Borough website at penningtonboro.org

Native Seed Sowing Extravaganza
2026-01-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Hopewell Valley Central High School, 259 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell , NJ, United States
$5 per ready-to-go greenhouse jugs loaded with seeds (grows ~10 native seedlings)
Experienced volunteers will help you select seeds and prepare for success.
Over 60 species of native seeds to choose from!
RSVP at tinyurl.com/NativeSeeds2026

A Night for Gaza: Live Concert, Art Auction + Art Market
2026-01-17 17:00 - 20:30 | Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 W Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ, 08525, United States
An evening of community, music, and art to support children in need. All proceeds from the event will go directly to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Come early to peruse the art auction and art market, featuring 25+ artists, and including works by Ironhorse Quillwork, Phoebe Wahl, and Hopewell’s own Source Element Designs . Then enjoy a live concert featuring Kristin Cahill (classical piano), followed by Princeton HUP (traditional Irish music performed on traditional Irish instruments). Refreshments provided.
5pm: Doors for the Art Auction + Art Market
6pm: Doors for the Live Concert
6:30-8:15pm: Live Concert (there will be one intermission during the performance. Art auction winners will be announced after the performance concludes, at about 8:15pm.)
To purchase a ticket:
1. Donate $30 per ticket via our Instagram fundraiser (if you don’t have Instagram, you can donate directly to The PCRF here)
2. Email your donation receipt to aNightforGaza@gmail.com

3. You will receive an email reply with your ticket(s) attached

More on the musicians:

Kristin Cahill holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Bowling Green State University. She also holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance with additional studies in Collaborative Piano from the University of Houston. An active adjudicator, Ms. Cahill is a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music College of Examiners. She has published articles in Piano Magazine (formerly Clavier Companion) in addition to presenting at the New Jersey Music Teachers Association State Conference, the MTNA National Conference, and the National Conference for Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP). Ms. Cahill is a member of Legacy Arts, where she co-directs the bitKlavier course for children in Princeton. At the New School, she is an instructor for theory courses, and she coaches the Junior PEPS Program, working with students as they advance in their studies and prepare to join PEPS.
Princeton HUP is a collection of Princeton area-based musicians who are dedicated to bringing the traditional Irish session experience to local spaces. Consisting of various traditional Irish instruments, the group is named after the expression that a lead musician will traditionally use to signal the change of a tune – “HUP!” More information can be found here: https://www.bethmeyersmusic.com/princeton-hup

Jennifer Hayden and Patrick McDonnell in conversation with Gregg Yupanki Bautista
2026-01-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Wull & Oak, 10 E Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ, 08525, United States
Join Echo Thread Projects for an evening of conversation with Jennifer Hayden in celebration of her book Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner – a peppery mix of anecdotal comics and recipes which pay tribute to Hayden’s lifelong love of cookbook illustration as well as her utter hatred of making dinner every night. Hand-painted in mouth-watering color and bursting with flavor and messy emotions, this memoir digs deep to explore the intersections of food, feminism, frustration, and family.
Joining us in conversation will be special guest Patrick McDonnell, creator of the beloved comic strip MUTTS. The evening will be moderated by poet and artist Gregg Yupanki Bautista, followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing by both comics authors.
Copies of Jennifer’s book Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner and Patrick’s new book The Gift of Everything will be available for purchase at the event.
Jennifer Hayden is a graphic novelist whose breast cancer memoir The Story of My Tits was nominated for an Eisner Award and has been translated into three languages. The French edition, Nénés Chéris, was shortlisted for Elle France Magazine’s 2022 Comics Grand Prix. Jennifer’s first collection Underwire was excerpted in The Best American Comics 2013. Her new graphic cooking memoir is called Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook, and she hopes fervently to use the proceeds from this book to hire a personal chef.
Patrick McDonnell is the creator of the award-winning comic strip, MUTTS, which has appeared in hundreds of newspapers internationally and has recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not only recognized for its gentle humor and powerful themes of kindness, compassion, and friendship, MUTTS is renowned for its artistic excellence and advocacy for animal welfare. Charles Schulz called it “one of the best comics strips of all time.” Patrick is also the author of several New York Times bestselling picture books including The Gift of Nothing and Me… Jane (a biography of Jane Goodall), among many other titles and children’s books. Patrick was a member of the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States for 18 years and currently serves on the boards of The Charles M. Schulz Museum and D&R Greenway Land Trust.
Gregg Yupanki Bautista is a poet, artist, and musician born to Peruvian immigrants. He is the author of the illustrated chapbook Un Lugar Lejos: Valleys and releases music under the name Yupanki. He facilitates a monthly poetry open mic series in Hopewell, NJ called Poets & Storytellers Open, and is the founder of Echo Thread Projects.

Voices Chorale is Auditioning!
2026-01-19 19:15 - 19:30, 2026-02-02 19:15 - 19:30 | Music Together Worldwide, 225 Pennington-Hopewell Rd, Hopewell, NJ, 08525, United States
Join Voices Chorale now by scheduling a brief, stress-free audition on January 19, 26 or February 2. All voice parts are welcome, especially tenors and basses! We rehearse Mondays 7:30pm-9:30pm at Music Together, 225 Pennington-Hopewell Road in Hopewell, NJ. Our spring concert will be 4pm Saturday, May 2nd accompanied by an orchestra and featuring music by American composers in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Visit VoicesChoraleNJ.org for more information.

Virtual Author Talk: Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz
2026-01-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom Online
Information and Registration: https://libraryc.org/penningtonlibrary/105403
Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging.
The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?”
Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art, nature, movement, and volunteer service into patient’s daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons for depression, “culture vitamins” for anxiety, a fishing club for ADHD, a farm-based day-care for dementia, a phone-buddy program for social isolation, and many more.
As the first book on social prescribing, The Connection Cure empowers you to find, experience, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. The success stories Julia finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better.
Register today to find out how you can use the wisdom of social prescribing to live your best life!
About the Author: Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. The Connection Cure is her first book.

Introduction to Smart and Safe Investing
2026-01-20 18:30 - 19:30 | NJ
Chase Bertoldo, from the Seton Hall University School of Law FINRA Investor Advocacy Program, will cover a range of practical financial concepts, including budgeting and inflation, as well as different investment and savings products. Throughout the program, he’ll focus on smart and safe investment practices, illustrating the challenges facing every investor and how to avoid common pitfalls. Please visit events.mcl.org to register to receive the link to the program.

Art Talk: Yayoi Kusama - The Moment is Imminent
2026-01-20 19:00 - 20:15 | Zoom Online
At age 92, contemporary Japanese painter and sculptor Yayoi Kusama is having a moment—today she is one of the world’s most popular and recognizable artists. Her Infinity Mirror Rooms immersive experience installations took the world by storm in the 21st Century, but she has been making vibrant and innovative art all along. Her artistic practice is rooted in her lifelong fascination with the natural world, inspired by her intimate engagement with the colors, patterns, and life cycles of plants and flowers.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Pennington Public Library and the Hopewell Valley Arts Council

Paper Bag Books
2026-01-21 13:30 - 15:30 | Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 W Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ, 08525, United States
Come join Mickey Waring in making your own one of a kind Paper Bag Book. Utilizing brown bags and various techniques such as collage, watercolors/gouache, frottage and pen and ink you will be able to create a one of a kind book. Come start your book with us in this class!
Registration required

Paper Bag Books
2026-01-21 13:30 - 15:30 | Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 W Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ, 08525, United States
Come join artist Mickey Waring in making your own one of a kind Paper Bag Book. Utilizing brown bags and various techniques such as collage, watercolors/gouache, frottage and pen and ink you will be able to create a one of a kind book. Come start your book with us in this class! Registration required

"Roots So Deep" Screening & Discussion
2026-01-21 19:00 - 21:30 | The Newtown Theatre, 120 North State Street, Newtown, PA, 18940, United States
Following the film, a panel of experts from Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, Princeton Hydro and Native Plants Healthy Planet Podcast will discuss the film and take questions.
“Roots So Deep” is a four-part documentary series about inventive farmers and maverick scientists building a path to solving climate change with hooves, heart and soil. Parts one and four will be screened at this event.
In the documentary, the question is asked, “Can an underutilized way to graze cattle, that mimics the way bison once roamed the land, help get farmers out of debt, restore our depleted soils, rebuild wildlife habitat and draw down huge amounts of carbon?”
“Roots So Deep” is guided by director and wrangler of scientists Peter Byck as he meets farmers on both sides of the fence – the folks practicing an adaptive way to graze, and their neighbors set in their family’s generations-old method of doing things. Byck’s team of outcast scientists are measuring what’s happening on both sides of the fences – exploring if this adaptive grazing could help slow down climate change.
Details

The doors open at 6:30 PM and the film begins at 7 PM.

Members may not reserve tickets for non-members.

All tickets are general admission.

Beer, wine and canned cocktails will be available for purchase at the theatre before and during the show.

All ticket sales are final. Refunds or ticket exchanges will not be offered. If you can’t attend, you’re welcome to give your tickets to someone else.

"Roots So Deep" Screening & Discussion
2026-01-21 19:00 - 21:30 | The Newtown Theatre 120 North State StreetNewtown, PA 18940, 120 North State Street, Newtown, PA, 18940, United States

Community Journalism "J Lab" Class
2026-01-22 17:30 - 20:00 | Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
The Community Journalism “J Lab” certificate course sponsored by Mercer County Community College with support from the Princeton Public Library is offered twice a year. This free eight-evening class teaches participants the basic newswriting and reporting skills needed to cover issues of concern to their community. All materials are provided. No experience is required but students must commit to attending at least 6 sessions and be prepared to write a full article for their final project. Sessions are led by a journalism professor and include guest presentations from writers and editors from several community publications and national media outlets. Final projects are published online. Spring Session Dates: January 22, 29; February 5, 12 (on zoom), 19, 26; March 5 (on zoom), and 12.

Opening Reception: “In Stillness”
2026-01-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Silva Gallery of Art / The Pennington School, 112 W Delaware Ave, Pennington, NJ, United States
The Silva Gallery of Art at The Pennington School will host an opening reception for In Stillness, an exhibition by analogue photographer Heather Palecek. The reception is free and open to the public.
Location: Silva Gallery of Art, The Pennington School, 112 West Delaware Ave., Pennington, NJInfo: 609-737-4133 |email SilvaGallery@pennington.org

Read, Dance & Grow: Carnival of the Animals
2026-01-24 13:00 - 14:00 | St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 300 S. Main St, Pennington, NJ, 08534, United States
Step into a whimsical world where stories leap from the page and come to life through music and dance!
This imaginative program begins with a short ballet performance, followed by a read aloud of the classical story Carnival of the Animals. Then, a professional dancer from the Roxey Ballet Company will guide an interactive dance class inspired by the story’s jumping kangaroos, waltzing elephants, and fluttering swans.
Recommended for ages 2+. No dance experience necessary.
Registration required.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Pennington Public Library.

Jennifer Hayden and Patrick McDonnell in conversation with Gregg Yupanki Bautista
2026-01-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Wull & Oak, 10 E Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ, 08525, United States
Original event date of 1/17 postponed due to inclement weather. New date: Saturday, January 24th!
Join Echo Thread Projects for an evening of conversation with Jennifer Hayden in celebration of her book Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner – a peppery mix of anecdotal comics and recipes which pay tribute to Hayden’s lifelong love of cookbook illustration as well as her utter hatred of making dinner every night. Hand-painted in mouth-watering color and bursting with flavor and messy emotions, this memoir digs deep to explore the intersections of food, feminism, frustration, and family.
Joining us in conversation will be special guest Patrick McDonnell, creator of the beloved comic strip MUTTS. The evening will be moderated by poet and artist Gregg Yupanki Bautista, followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing by both comics authors.
Copies of Jennifer’s book Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner and Patrick’s new book The Gift of Everything will be available for purchase at the event.
Jennifer Hayden is a graphic novelist whose breast cancer memoir The Story of My Tits was nominated for an Eisner Award and has been translated into three languages. The French edition, Nénés Chéris, was shortlisted for Elle France Magazine’s 2022 Comics Grand Prix. Jennifer’s first collection Underwire was excerpted in The Best American Comics 2013. Her new graphic cooking memoir is called Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook, and she hopes fervently to use the proceeds from this book to hire a personal chef.
Patrick McDonnell is the creator of the award-winning comic strip, MUTTS, which has appeared in hundreds of newspapers internationally and has recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not only recognized for its gentle humor and powerful themes of kindness, compassion, and friendship, MUTTS is renowned for its artistic excellence and advocacy for animal welfare. Charles Schulz called it “one of the best comics strips of all time.” Patrick is also the author of several New York Times bestselling picture books including The Gift of Nothing and Me… Jane (a biography of Jane Goodall), among many other titles and children’s books. Patrick was a member of the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States for 18 years and currently serves on the boards of The Charles M. Schulz Museum and D&R Greenway Land Trust.
Gregg Yupanki Bautista is a poet, artist, and musician born to Peruvian immigrants. He is the author of the illustrated chapbook Un Lugar Lejos: Valleys and releases music under the name Yupanki. He facilitates a monthly poetry open mic series in Hopewell, NJ called Poets & Storytellers Open, and is the founder of Echo Thread Projects.

Islamic Contribution to Civilization
2026-01-27 19:00 - 20:00 | NJ
Muslims have been influenced by and contributed to other cultures in numerous ways. Particularly, during the medieval Golden Age of Islam, Muslims made major contributions in diverse fields, including art, architecture, music, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, philosophy, and literature, as well as in hygiene, cuisine, clothing, and furniture. Presented by Samina Sattar of the New Jersey Islamic Networks Group.

Meet the Curators Tour: Northern Family, Southern Ties
2026-01-28 18:30 - 19:30 | Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Experience a behind-the-scenes, after-hours look at Morven’s newest exhibition, Northern Family, Southern Ties, with Morven’s curators and research team. The result of three years of research, this exhibit complicates the more traditional understanding of the “North” and “South” by following two families before, during, and after the Civil War and the interstate movement of the people they enslaved.

Virtual Author Talk: Secrets and Second Chances with Liz Moore
2026-01-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom Online
We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York Times bestseller and one of NPR’s 2024 “Books We Love” highlights. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances.
About the Author: Liz Moore is the author of five novels: The Words of Every Song, Heft, The Unseen World, the New York Times bestselling Long Bright River, and The God of the Woods. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia and teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University.
Information and Registration: https://libraryc.org/penningtonlibrary/105978

HV/M HS Salute to Service Ice Hockey Game
2026-01-31 20:00 - 21:30 | 650 Great Road Princeton NJ, 650 Great Rd., Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Come out and support our co-op Hopewell Valley Central High School and Montgomery High School teams at their 11th Annual Salute to Service Ice Hockey Game this Saturday, January 31st at 8:00 PM at the Lisa McGraw Skating Rink, located at Princeton Day School.
Salute to Service T-shirts will be available for purchase and will serve as your admission to the game. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Hopewell Valley Veterans Association and the Montgomery Veterans Association.
Please join us in supporting our veterans and our players. We hope to see you there! 🇺🇸🏒

Soup Sunday
2026-02-01 12:00 - 17:00 | Unionville Vineyards, 9 Rocktown Road, Ringoes, NJ, 08551, United States
Chase away the chills of winter with warm soup by Chef Nash Reba on Sunday, February 1st from 12-5PM. Grab a cup to enjoy on property or take a pint to go. Live music in the Tasting Room from 1-4PM. All ages welcome and no cover charge.
Soup Menu:
Honeynut Squash and Apple Soup
-Apple Butter, Spiced Hazelnut Crumble (vegan)
Play on Caldo Gallego
-Local Sage Sausage, Lale, Potato, White bean, Roasted Garlic, Lemon, Oregano & Rye berries
Roasted Garlic Parsnip Soup
-Sage Sunflower Seed Pesto

Abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey
2026-02-03 18:00 - 19:00 | NJ
Virtual program hosted by the Mercer County Library SystemTuesday, February 3, 2026, at 6:00 p.m.
This virtual presentation, hosted by the Mercer County Library System, explores Southern New Jersey during the Civil War era, when the region became a hotbed of fugitives from slavery, freedmen, and abolitionists. Activists such as Harriet Tubman, Abigail Goodwin, and Benjamin Sheppard assisted runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad through daring nighttime journeys in the Pine Barrens and coordinated signals from boats in the marshlands of Delaware Bay.
Author Ellen D. Alford will recount compelling narratives of abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey.
Registration is required. Visit events.mcl.org to receive the virtual program link.
