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Notes: Selected text from website of Hudson County History Advocates about event. http://www.hchistoryadvocates.org/ ==== Committee Bob Foster - Executive Director, Hoboken Historical Museum John Hallanan - Treasurer, Lincoln Association of Jersey City and the George Washington Commemoration Society of Jersey City Cynthia Harris - Manager, New Jersey Room, Jersey City Free Public Library Carmela A. Karnoutsos, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus at NJCU, Member of the Bayonne Historic Preservation Commission; Historical Researcher of the Jersey City Website Project - Jersey City: Past and Present (Sponsored by the New Jersey City University) Bob Murgittroyd - Founding Director, Hudson County Genealogical & Historical Society Muriel D. Roberts - President, Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society - New Jersey Chapter Patrick Shalhoub - Head, Periodicals & U.S. Government Documents Department, Congressman Frank J. Guarini Library, New Jersey City University; Director of the Jersey City Website Project- Jersey City: Past and Present (Sponsored by NJCU); Author, Images of America: Jersey City (Arcadia Publishing, 1995) ==== Keynote Speakers 11:00 a.m. Steven Hart - American Dictators: Frank Hague, Nucky Johnson, and the Perfection of the Urban Political Machine Mr. Hart is a journalist and freelance writer based in New Jersey. He is the author of American Dictators: Frank Hague, Nucky Johnson, and the Perfection of the Urban Political Machine (Rutgers University Press, 2013) and The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder and the Construction of America's First Superhighway (The New Press, 2007). He has also written two novels. His first essay collection, Let the Devil Speak, will be published in 2014. Hist freelance work has appeared in online magazine Salon as well as the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. For more information: http://stevenhartsite.wordpress.com/ 12:30 p.m. [note: presentation was moved to 11 a.m. - see program] Holly Metz - Killing the Poormaster A Hoboken resident for more than 30 years and a freelance writer since 1985, Holly Metz has written extensively on legal, cultural, and social issues for the American Bar Association and for publications including The Progressive, Labor History, Metropolis, and the New York Times. Her non-fiction book, Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression (Lawrence Hill Books) was awarded the New Jersey Historical Commission's McCormick Prize and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities’ Book of the Year Award in 2013. For more information: www.thepoormaster.com. 2:00 p.m. John Gomez - Legendary Locals of Jersey City Architectural historian John Gomez holds a master's degree in historic preservation from Columbia University. He is the founder of the non-profit Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy and is the architecture and preservation columnist for The Jersey Journal, where he has published over 150 major articles. In 2012 he established Historic Preservation Network, an online portal for architectural and preservation history, theory, discovery, discussion and discourse (hpnetwork.org). Mr. Gomez is the author of Legendary Locals of Jersey City (Arcadia Publishing 2014). ----- Programs Please Note: Times of presentations are subject to change. 350 Years of New Jersey History, From Stuyvesant to Sandy Presented by Joseph G. Bilby Room 317 @ 10:00AM Mr. Bilby will cover highlights and personalities from 350 years of New Jersey history, based on the book. "350 Years of New Jersey History, From Stuyvesant to Sandy," which he co-authored with James M. Madden and Harry Ziegler. Joseph G. Bilby received his BA and MA degrees in history from Seton Hall University and served as a lieutenant in the First Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1966-1967. Mr. Bilby is retired from the New Jersey Department of Labor and currently part time Assistant Curator of the New Jersey National Guard and Militia Museum in Sea Girt, New Jersey and a free lance writer and historical consultant. He is the author, editor or co-author of seventeen books and over 400 articles on New Jersey history and folklore and military history in both Internet and print venues, has lectured widely on those subjects, and is a columnist for The Civil War News. He is publications editor for the New Jersey Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee and editor of and contributor to the award winning New Jersey Goes to War, a book on 150 of the state’s Civil War era personalities and Freedom to All, the story of New Jersey’s African-American Civil War soldiers. His most recent book, with James M. Madden and Harry Ziegler, is 350 Years of New Jersey History: From Stuyvesant to Sandy. Mr. Bilby has been awarded the Jane Clayton award for contributions to Monmouth County (NJ) history and has received an Award of Merit from the New Jersey Historical Commission for his contributions to the state’s military history "Ask Granny" Presented by the Hudson County Genealogical and Historical Society. Room 312 @ 1:30 PM A short class in the basics of researching your family tree Hudson County in Vintage Postcards Presented by Cynthia T. Harris Room 317@ 1:30 PM Sending and receiving picture postcards was all the rage in the first few decades of the 20th Century. This program will take a peek at what people received from their Hudson County friends and relatives giving them an opportunity to travel without going further than their mailboxes. Some scenes will be familiar…others, unrecognizable as they are long gone from the landscape of our cities. Cynthia Harris was born in Jersey City and spent 25 years as a teacher in the Jersey City Public Schools. She is the Manager of the New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Public Library. The African Community of 1664 Presented by Neal Brunson Room 317 @ 11:30 PM Mr. Brunson will discuss the African Community in the 1664 settlement of Bergen. Neal Brunson is the Director of the Afro-American Historical Society Museum of Jersey City. --- Film Presentations (Exhibit Hall A) 10:15 am "Hidden Footsteps" narrated by former Jersey City Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham 12:15 pm "Jersey City: 24 Hours in Public Places", presented by the NJCU Media Arts Department 1:30 pm "Immigrant Stories in Film and Videos", presented by the NJCU Media Arts Department 3:00 pm "Jersey City: Soft Focus", presented by the Embankment Preservation Coalition ---- Participating Exhibitors Bayonne Historical Society Hoboken Historical Museum Jersey City Free Public Library Lincoln Association of Jersey City George Washington Society Hudson County Genealogical & Historical Society Jersey City: Past & Present website (NJCU) Weehawken Historical Commission Richard LoRovere: Jersey City's Visual Historian Historic Preservation Network Jersey City Parks Coalition NJ Civil War Heritage Association Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy Friends of the Loew's Theater Friends of Liberty Stat Park Free Public Library and Cultural Center of Bayonne Afro American Historic and Genealogical Society - NJ Chapter History Department - New Jersey City University West Side Community Alliance, Inc Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium South Greenville Neighborhood Association Riverview Park Neighborhood Association Project Greenville Embankment Preservation Coalition Joyce-Herbert V.F.W. Post 226 Veterans Museum Old Bergen Church Stevens Institute of Technology Saint Peter's University Admission Dept. New Jersey City University Riverview Neighborhood Association The Historic Jersey City Harsimus Cemetery ==== ==== Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-10-20