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Relive History at Re-Creation of a 19th-Century Baseball Game

June 19, 2010

One of Hoboken’s “100 Firsts” is hosting the first officially recorded, organized baseball game played under Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.’s rules, on June 19, 1846. According to historical records, the New York Nine defeated Cartwright’s Knickerbockers, 23 to 1, in four innings at Hoboken’s Elysian Fields, which were located near the Hudson River, about where the former Maxwell House Plant was located. The Museum is commemorating the event with a re-creation of a mid-19th century game by two teams of historic interpreters, on Saturday, June 19, at 1 p.m. at Stevens Institute of Technology’s Dobbelaar Baseball Field.

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Heirloom Tomato-Tasting Festival

August 29, 2010

Come see why New Jersey is called the Garden State at the Museum’s 9th Annual Heirloom Tomato-Tasting Festival on Sunday, August 29, from 1 – 5 p.m. in the breezeway outside the Museum’s entrance. Taste and select your favorite from among over a dozen varieties of heirloom tomatoes grown by New Jersey farmers Rich and Sue Sisti of Catalpa Ridge Farm in rural Wantage Township. The event, as always, is free.

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7th Annual Pet Parade

October 10, 2010

October is the perfect month for a stroll on the waterfront, and the Museum’s Annual Hoboken Pet Parade is back for its seventh year, on Sunday, October 10, starting at 1 p.m. This year, the Parade moves to the northern waterfront, along the walkway and pier by Maxwell Place, between 11th and 12th Streets.

Family pets of all kinds and Hoboken citizens of all ages are welcome to participate, with or without costumes. The Parade was founded in 2003 in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition, City Animals, which explored the evolution of people’s relationships with animals in an urban setting.

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Annual Hoboken House Tour

October 24, 2010

The variety of homes in our city means that every year there’s a new crop of homes sure to surprise and delight even the die-hard tour goers on the Annual Hoboken House Tour. On Sunday, October 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., around eight to ten generous homeowners will open their doors to visitors as a benefit for the Hoboken Historical Museum. Tour goers will be treated to an array of domestic retreats, from restored Victorian brownstones to contemporary condos.

The homes selected for the House Tour change every year, but they reflect Hoboken’s rich architectural history, as well as some of the hottest properties in newer buildings. Once in a while we include a home that was a crowd-pleaser in years past. The tour is self-guided and typically takes a little over two hours to visit all the homes.

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Heirloom Garlic-Tasting Festival

October 17, 2010

Come sample heirloom varieties of garlic from New Jersey farms at the 4th Annual Heirloom Tomato-Tasting Festival on Sunday, October 17, from 1 – 5 p.m. in the breezeway outside the Museum’s entrance. Taste and select your favorite from dozens of heirloom garlic varieties brought in by farmers Rich and Sue Sisti of Catalpa Ridge Farm in rural Wantage Township. The event, as always, is free.

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Christmas Caroling with St. Dominic’s Women’s Choir

December 15, 2010

For the past two years the Museum welcomed a group of Christmas carolers from the St. Dominic Academy Women’s Choir, the Dominoes, who set off on a winding path from the Museum’s entrance at the Shipyard to spread holiday cheer throughout the neighborhood. The St. Dominic Academy Women’s Choir was formed in 2001; most of its members were part of the academy’s award-winning choir during their high school years. Many young women from Hoboken have attended the Jersey City-based all-girls high school. The group has performed at Carnegie Hall three times, and has recorded a CD of Christmas music.

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Winter Holiday Family Concert with Dave Lambert & Howard Olah-Reiken

December 5, 2010

Catch the holiday spirit with a fun, family-friendly concert by Dave Lambert and Howard Olah-Reiken on Sunday afternoon, December 5, at 3 p.m. The event moves to The Shipyard Playroom in the neighboring Independence building on the south side of Shipyard Park. The pair of singers have entertained Hobokenites and led sing-alongs of favorite holiday and winter-themed music at the Museum for the past five years.

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We Were Not As They Thought Chapbook Release Event

November 7, 2010

On Sunday, November 7, at 4 p.m., the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Friends of the Hoboken Public Library will release another oral history chapbook, We Were Not As They Thought, based on the recollections of Angel Padilla. Born in Puerto Rico, Angel and Gloria Padilla met at St. Joseph Church and have been active parishioners for decades. In We Were Not As They Thought, Mr. Padilla describes his arrival in Hoboken in the late 1950s, the challenges new arrivals faced, and the assistance members of the city’s growing Puerto Rican community received from priests like Father Eugene Zwahl, a Franciscan based at “St. Joe’s.” The event is free and open to all.

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Final Tour of Macy’s Parade Studio

July 14, 2011

All aboard for the last Macy’s Parade Studio tour! On Thursday, July 14, at 6 p.m., the Macy’s Parade Studio director has invited the Museum to bring 30 people for a guided tour of the facility before it moves to Moonachie. Since 1968, Macy’s talented parade float designers have made their fantastic creations at the former Tootsie Roll factory building at 1515 Willow Ave.

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Immigrants in Hoboken: One-Way Ticket, Book Talk

July 17, 2011

Hoboken was a sleepy village of about 2,600 people in 1850, a popular destination for landscape painters and day-trippers from Manhattan seeking a leafy refuge and stunning views. In just a decade, however, waves of European immigrants more than tripled the population to 9,662 in 1860 and then tripled again by 1880 to nearly 31,000. Another 20 years later, in 1910, the city’s population had swollen to more than 70,000.

Just who made up these waves of newcomers and how the different ethnic groups shaped Hoboken’s cultural and economic landscape from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s are among the topics covered in a fascinating new book by local historian Christina Ziegler-McPherson, Immigrants in Hoboken: One-Way Ticket, 1845–1985 (The History Press, 2011). Dr. Ziegler-McPherson will visit the Museum on Sunday, July 17 at 4 p.m., for a talk and book signing.