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2012 Calendar Historical Preservation Society of Upper Twp.

Dec. 11, 2012 - We’re Celebrating Christmas!
Come join us for the Annual Upper Twp. Historical Society Annual Holiday Dinner on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 at at The Tuckahoe Inn.
Dinner choices will be either Chef Tyson’s Crab Cake Dinner or Prime Rib Dinner. $30.00 per person.  We will be donating to a local food bank this year so please bring some non-perishable items.
RSVPs are due by Dec. 3, 2012 to Carroll Bailey, P.O. Box 507, Tuckahoe, NJ, 08250.

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Santa Express - Tuckahoe, NJ:
The Santa Express on the Cape May Seashore Lines will be operating this month.  Check this link for a copy of the Santa Express schedule.  However, it is recommended that you visit the Santa Express website for the most current updates and other details.

 

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Greetings - We have a fabulous line of speakers for the three autumn meetings.  All meetings are held at the Upper Township Branch of the Cape May County Library.  Refreshments and networking begins at 7 pm and the meetings start at 7:30 pm.  The general public is always welcome.

March - 2012
• 13th – The first general meeting of the year will be the annual Covered Dish Supper and Show and Tell. It will be held at the Tuckahoe Methodist Church at 6:00 pm.
• 16th – The tentative date of Kindergarten Day, subject to the Primary School’s Calendar.
• 23rd - Tentatively the rain date for Kindergarten Day.

April - 2012
• 10th – The general meeting will be held at the Upper Township Branch of the Cape May County Library. Refreshments at 7 pm and the meeting will start at 7:30 pm. The speaker will be Tommy Champion. He helped build the Bellplain State Forest. His talk will feature pictures of the park's creation, including photographs of the large canoe that was found when the land was dug out to form Lake Nummy.
   > Bellplain State Park

May - 2012
• 8th - The general meeting will be held at the Upper Township Branch of the Cape May County Library. Refreshments at 7:00 pm and the meeting will start at 7:30 pm.

The speaker will be Kimball (Kim) Baker who is one of the group of residents who rallied together to preserve the Ocean City Life-Saving Station on site. He will bring copies of the book that he wrote about the station. They sell for $9.95; proceeds go to U.S. Life Saving Station 30. There will be a book signing and a time for questions and answers. Reference Link > http://www.uslifesavingstation30.org/

• Sometime in May, we intend to start visiting the fourth grade classes with our Traveling Trunk to introduce the children to our local history. Carol Williams is writing the curriculum and will arrange the dates with the elementary School. Details will be announced in the SHOUT.

June - 2012
• 2nd – The Strawberry Festival will be held at the Gandy Farmstead from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
• 3rd – The rain date for the Strawberry Festival.
• 12th - The general meeting will be held at the Upper Township Branch of the Cape May County Library. Refreshments at 7:00 pm and the meeting will start at 7:00 pm. The speaker will be announced in the SHOUT which is available on our website.
 

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Sept. 11, 2012 - Rocky Gannon, a local pilot who flew
hundreds of missions in World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam, will be our
speaker.  He has spoken at the Ocean City Historical Museum and will also
speak this September in Ocean City High School.  He started flying
whenever there was an unoccupied seat in sightseeing planes at age 9, and
“was an aircraft commander of a B-17 bomber at age 19, and had never
learned to drive a car”.  After spending 37 years in the military he
became an international aviation consultant, and the director of an
airport in South Carolina.  Now he and his wife have a home near today’s
Ocean City Municipal Airport.  With such an interesting life he is sure to
be a most interesting speaker.

Oct. 9, 2012 - Dr. Ralph Boerner will speak about the History
of Fire in the Pinelands.  He is Professor Emeritus of Ecology at Ohio
State University, where he served as professor and department chairperson
for 30 years.  He is currently a resident of the Cape May Beach section of
Lower Township, and a volunteer naturalist and scientific data analysis
for the Wetlands Institute in stone harbor.  Dr. Boerner has authored over
130 papers on the ecology of dry forests throughout the western hemisphere
and is particularly well known for his work on the ecology of forest fire
management.  He is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and a recipient of the Oak Leaf Award from the
Nature Conservancy.  This is a timely topic following a summer of
incredible forest fires in the American West.

AppleFest - Our annual AppleFest will be held Oct. 20,2012, with a rain date of Oct. 21.  We are already arranging the food, music, crafters and all of those things that make our AppleFest something that the entire town looks forward to.  Details about past events and pictures can be found on this website.  See What's New page for fliers about the event, and our old-fashioned apple pie baking contest!

 

Nov. 13, 2012 - Did you ever wonder how a place got its name?  Or what a name means?  Our speaker on November 13th is Lee Ireland who wrote “Place Names of the Jersey Shore Why Did They Name it That?” Lee is a lifelong resident of the area and has many interesting stories to tell and much information to share about towns in Southern New Jersey.  > Book Link

 

 

 

 

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