Ancestral Archaeology

01/21/2021

Advance planning alert: Great topic coming up via Zoom link in May.

Brown Bag Lunch: The Lattimore Circle: The Saga of an African American Family's Fight for Racial and Social Justice Published on Monday, January 18, 2021 — 5:14 pm Event Information Date Thursday, May 13, 2021 Time 12:00 pm Add to Your Calendar Event URL https://sspl.libcal.com/event/6305222 Regi....

10/14/2020

Montclair artist Carol Cohn will lead a Zoom session where participants can share their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic through art and memory.

The virtual event is an opportunity to capture the pandemic's personal impact while invoking the power of art to heal.

08/29/2020

At one time, the specter of tuberculosis created a movement to conduct classes where kids weren't packed together in tight spaces. The Montclair History Center rediscovers the time of the open-air classroom.

Montclair’s “Open Air School” helped combat the spread of TB in the early 20th century.

07/14/2020

Amazing cartoon -- and amazingly pertinent. Image via: https://twitter.com/adland/status/1282817713329455105?s=20

03/20/2020

This was interesting and kind of endearing ... and who knows, maybe it might come in handy for someone's social-studies assignment.

Clara's Official Website: www.welcometoclaraskitchen.com 93 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as...

02/18/2020

Holly Ann Green, who graduated Paramus High School in 1983, lost her class ring in Manhattan in June 1984. An air-conditioning repairman found it the next year and spent years trying to find her.

02/12/2020

Fascinating stories of Irish street gangs in Brooklyn during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1876, the New York Times described the conditions across the East River before the Brooklyn bridge connected Manhattan and Brooklyn. “Desperate outrages by organized gangs of ruffians have been …

02/06/2020

can be a wild ride on TikTok.

Prohibition Study Guide Part 2: 21st Amendment

12/06/2019

The fees could rise nearly 500 percent for files documenting the arrival of millions of immigrants to the U.S. between the late 19th and mid 20th centuries