Tickets and Sponsorships Still Available for Candlelight Dinner

Do you have your tickets yet for our annual Candlelight Dinner and General Membership Meeting on Wednesday March 27? Tickets will be on sale only through Sunday March 24 — don’t miss out!

The event will be held at Tavistock Country Club. The cocktail hour begins at 6 pm, and dinner and the program will begin at 7 pm. This year’s event will feature a presentation by author Irene Levy Baker on “Unique Eats and Eateries of Philadelphia.”

We also have a few sponsorship opportunities still available: Gold Sponsors ($500) receive two dinner tickets, a Lost Haddonfield book, a name in the event program, and a feature on our web site before and after the event. Silver Sponsors ($250) receive one dinner ticket, a name in the event program, and a feature on our web site before and after the event.

You can order your tickets online, call the office at 856-429-7375, or stop by during our open hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 1-4 pm.

We look forward to seeing you at the dinner!

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Four Historical Society Events On Tap This Week

This will be a busy week for the Historical Society of Haddonfield! We hope you can join us for one or more of our events:

Monday February 25: Our Book Club will be holding a joint meeting with the Haddonfield Public Library Book Club to discuss The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson. We’ll meet at the Public Library at 7 pm. All are welcome, even if you didn’t read the book.

Tuesday February 26: We’ll be hosting a celebration of the work done by HMHS U.S. Advanced Placement history students this winter as they researched World War II in the Historical Society’s archives. “HMHS Students Reflect on World War II Research Projects” will be held at 7 pm in the HMHS library, located at 401 Kings Highway East, Haddonfield. Free, and all are welcome.

Wednesday February 27: The Historical Society will be holding a “Dine and Donate” fundraiser from 5-10 pm at P. J. Whelihan’s Pub & Restaurant at 700 Haddon Avenue, Haddon Township. Just let your server know that you’d like to help the Historical Society that night, and drop your final receipt in the designated bucket when you leave to have 15 percent of your meal charge donated to the Historical Society!

Sunday March 3: The Historical Society will be open for its usual “First Sunday” hours, 1-3 pm. Due to popular demand, we’ll be continuing our pop-up display from February, “Weddings in Haddonfield,” for another month. We will also offer our usual tours of Greenfield Hall, and the Archives Center and Research Library will be open for researchers next door in the Samuel Mickle House. Free, but donations welcome.

Tickets on Sale Now for Candlelight Dinner

We hope you’ll join us on Wednesday March 27 at 6 pm for our annual Candlelight Dinner and General Membership Meeting at Tavistock Country Club.

This year’s program will feature a presentation by author Irene Levy Baker on “Unique Eats and Eateries of Philadelphia.”

Baker will be sharing tales of the Philly region’s most fascinating restaurants and chefs, one-of-a-kind dining experiences, and much more from her book of the same name, Unique Eats and Eateries of Philadelphia. Baker has worked for more than 25 years in the hospitality and restaurant industries, and is also the author of two books. Both Unique Eats and Eateries and her previous book, 100 Things to Do in Philadelphia Before You Die, will be available for sale and for signing at the dinner.

You can order your tickets online or send us the order form in the March 2019 Bulletin newsletter, which will be arriving in mailboxes later this month. You can also call the office at 856-429-7375 or stop by during our open hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 1-4 pm.

We look forward to seeing you at the dinner!

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February 3 “First Sunday” to Highlight Weddings in Haddonfield

For our next “First Sunday” open hours on February 3, the Historical Society will be creating a new pop-up display about weddings in Haddonfield.

We hope you’ll join us at Greenfield Hall, 343 Kings Highway East, Haddonfield, on Sunday February 3 from 1-3 pm. Free, but donations welcome.

We will be pulling out a sampling of 18^th, 19^th and 20^th century museum objects and archival materials that relate to weddings in the Haddonfield area, including textiles, photographs, marriage certificates, and other items.

As with other “First Sundays,” the Society will be offering our usual tours of Greenfield Hall, and the Archives Center and Research Library will be open for researchers next door in the Samuel Mickle House.

The pop-up display will continue through most of February and be available for viewing during Greenfield Hall’s public hours (Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1-4 pm) or by special appointment at another time. Questions? Contact the office at 856-429-7375 or info@haddonfieldhistory.org.

February 26 Event to Celebrate HMHS Student Research about Haddonfield and World War II

The Historical Society of Haddonfield invites you to join us on Tuesday February 26 at 7 pm as we celebrate the work done by Haddonfield Memorial High School U.S. history students this winter as they researched World War II. The event will be held in the HMHS library, located at 401 Kings Highway East, Haddonfield.

This is the fifth year in a row that HMHS Social Studies teacher David Reader has brought his Advanced Placement U.S. history classes to the Historical Society to work with primary sources about World War II.

The students visit the Historical Society several times between November and February, and develop research projects centered on a collection of World War II letters sent and received by then-principal William “Bull” Reynolds. This year’s AP classes are also reviewing issues of the school newspaper, The Haddon Higher, as well as other records in the Society’s archives.

At this free culminating event on February 26, the students will be sharing their research and discussing their experiences. A small exhibit of primary source documents from the Historical Society will also be on display.

We hope you’ll join us at HMHS!