In the Hoboken Museum’s ongoing tour of county history as part of the “Greetings from Hudson County” postcard exhibition, we welcome historian Patrick Cullen to speak about the history of West New York, from prehistoric times to 1840, on Sunday, January 19, at 4 pm. Admission is free for members, $5 for nonmembers.

 

Patrick Cullen has directed the West New York Museum at the West New York Public Library since 2015. The Museum’s collections include artifacts from several wars, such as a three-volume set of WWII newspaper articles about WNY residents who served in the Armed Forces. It also contains a selection of West New York Fire Department historical items, donated by the West New York Exempt Firemen’s Association, numerous vertical files, important local history books, and historic photographs. He is the elected Vice President of the Hudson County Genealogical and Historical Society, of which he has been a member for the past four years. 

 

Cullen has been an adjunct instructor at New Jersey City University, where he taught “Introduction to Humanities,” “U.S. History to 1865,” and “Career Dimensions” from 1994-2000, and served as an Instructor of homebound students at Essex Regional Services Commission from 1997-2005. He served in the military from 1981-2005, including two tours in the Army and 17 years in the Army National Guard. He holds a Masters degree in Social Sciences with History Concentration from Montclair State College, and Bachelors degree Cum Laude in History from Jersey City State College, where he was the Phi Alpha Theta Distinguished History Graduate.