The Historical Society of Haddonfield has received a new challenge grant in support of its planned new Archives Center building: starting in May, all donations made in honor of past president Pat Lennon will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a donor who worked with Pat at the Historical Society and admires …
The Historical Society is co-hosting a book launch for Jan Twitchell’s new book, A Fortunate Life. The event will be held on Thursday Dec. 7 at 3 pm at Brandywine Living, 132 Warwick Rd, Haddonfield. Jan began the book as an oral history for the Historical Society, before it turned …
The Historical Society of Haddonfield plans to build a new Archives Center on the site of an existing garage on the Society’s property at 343 Kings Highway East, just steps from Greenfield Hall and the Mickle House. The new two-story building was designed by Haddonfield resident Eduardo Guzman of DCM …
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The Historical Society has decided to extend its temporary closure, in keeping with COVID-19 safety guidelines issued by local, state, and federal officials. We will be suspending all in-person programming and continuing our temporary public closure until further notice. We look forward to getting back to our programming as soon as possible!
The Historical Society of Haddonfield will be hosting a virtual program on Wed. Aug. 26 starting at 11:40 am to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. The 19th Amendment was adopted on August 26, 1920.
Our brief program is timed to coordinate with the national “Toast to Tenacity” virtual celebration. Starting at 11:40 am, we will welcome independent historian Lisa Hendrickson to learn more about the roles that South Jersey women played in the suffrage movement. Lisa is a board member at the Alice Paul Institute, and has performed extensive research in our archives and elsewhere to help tell the story of South Jersey suffragists.
Then, starting at 12 noon, our group will join the national “Toast to Tenacity” virtual celebration, which will include speakers, music from the Philadelphia Orchestra and others, and a nationwide toast at 1 pm to celebrate the suffragists who won voting rights for American women.
We hope you’ll join us for this mid-day celebration! Please RSVP to info@haddonfieldhistory.org and we’ll send you the Zoom link (and some basic instructions) the day of the chat.
The Historical Society’s next virtual Book Club discussion will examine the important role that African American women played in the suffrage and civil rights movements and beyond.
We hope you’ll join us for a Zoom discussion on Tuesday September 15 at 7 pm. Since our multiple-book discussion worked so well in July, we’re planning another for September. We invite you to read any of the following:
Option 1: Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, by Martha S. Jones (2018)
Option 2: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
Option 3: Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America, by Faye E. Dudden (2011)
Option 4: To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells, by Mia Bay (2010)
Option 5: All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900, by Martha S. Jones (2007) *Available on Hoopla as an ebook
Option 6: This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Civil Rights and Struggle), by Kay Mills (2007)
As always, all are welcome to join us for the discussion, even if you haven’t finished one of the suggested books.
The Book Club discussion will be held as a Zoom.us video chat. If you’re interested in joining us, please RSVP to info@haddonfieldhistory.org and we’ll send you the Zoom link (and some basic instructions) the day of the chat.
The Historical Society has been awarded a $5,000 general operating support grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the federal CARES Act. The Historical Society was one of six recipients in Camden County.
“We are so grateful for this show of support,” said Historical Society President Charlene Creed. “This grant award will make an immediate difference in our work to engage and educate the public about our community’s rich history.”
The grant is part of the Council’s COVID-19 Response program. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed by the Historical Society of Haddonfield do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
6/19/20 UPDATE: The virtual art exhibition is now available on Facebook!
(Anyone should be able to view the exhibition on Facebook, even if you are not a member of the social media platform.)
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As part of the Historical Society’s ongoing Haddonfield Virus Year project, we have partnered with the Markeim Arts Center on an upcoming virtual art exhibition: “Scenes from 2020.”
Digital submissions are due to Markeim by 12 noon on Friday June 12, and the exhibition will “open” on Markeim’s Facebook page on Friday June 19. The gallery will also be shared to the Historical Society’s Facebook page. The full call for submissions is available here.
All submitting artists are also encouraged to donate their entries to the Historical Society’s archives center by emailing a copy of their digital submission(s) to library@haddonfieldhistory.org. Artists don’t have to be a resident of Haddonfield to participate; anyone submitting an entry to this Haddonfield-based arts center is encouraged to contribute to the archives too.
The Historical Society of Haddonfield’s Book Club has added an extra virtual get-together this summer to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage.
We hope you’ll join us for a Zoom discussion on Tuesday July 14 at 7 pm. For this meeting, we will be discussing the struggle for suffrage. We invite you to read any of the following:
Option 1: Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote, by Ellen Carol DuBois (2020)
Option 2: Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box, by Angela P. Dodson (2017)
Option 3: Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists, by Jean Baker (2006)
Option 4: The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman’s Rights Convention, by Judith Wellman (2004)
As always, all are welcome to join us for the discussion, even if you haven’t finished one of the suggested books.
The Book Club discussion will be held as a Zoom.us video chat. If you’re interested in joining us, please RSVP to info@haddonfieldhistory.org and we’ll send you the Zoom link (and some basic instructions) the day of the chat.
GREENFIELD HALL
Public hours are temporarily suspended through March 31, 2020
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Greenfield Hall and the Archives Center are both CLOSED Saturdays & Sundays except as noted above for the first Sunday of the month.
We are closed in August, on major holidays, and for the week between Christmas and New Year’s.