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The Historical Society of Haddonfield invites you to join us on February 10 for a virtual lecture co-sponsored by the Lawnside Historical Society. Genealogist Shamele Jordan will be presenting “Visualizing the Past in Lawnside” on Wednesday February 10 at 7 pm.

Shamele will be talking about her work with Lawnside Middle School students, and how they used genealogy and technology to bring new awareness to more than 150 Civil War veterans buried in Lawnside. Shamele is the creator and host of “Genealogy Quick Start TV,” and is a former president of the African American Genealogy Group of Philadelphia.

We hope you’ll join us on February 10 at 7 pm. The program will be shared via Zoom.

The event is free, though donations are always welcome. You can register for the free Zoom event by clicking here, and we will send out the link and brief instructions by the day of the event.

The Historical Society of Haddonfield is launching a new, more frequent virtual lecture series for 2021. Our first event in this new series is “Haddonfield and the Bone Wars,” presented by Kathy Mansfield Tassini on Wednesday January 20 at 7 pm.

Kathy is Haddonfield’s Borough Co-Historian and a long-time board member and volunteer for the Historical Society of Haddonfield. She’ll be reviewing the intense feud between nineteenth-century paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. After the Hadrosaurus was found in Haddonfield, Cope and Marsh became especially heated rivals. Each paleontologist battled to undermine the other over the years, including resorting to bribery, theft and more.

We hope you’ll join us on January 20 at 7 pm to learn more about the Bone Wars. The program will be shared via Zoom.

The event is free, though donations are always welcome. You can register for the free Zoom event by clicking here, and we will send out the link and brief instructions by the day of the event.

Stay tuned for more lectures to be announced soon!

11/14/20 UPDATE: The registration links to Eventbrite are now fixed!

Our next virtual general membership meeting will feature a presentation on Alice Paul and her work for women’s equality.

We hope you can join us on Wednesday November 18 at 7 pm for this presentation via Zoom. (Please notice the earlier than usual time!) The event is free, though online donations are always welcome. You can register for the free Zoom event here, and we will send out the link and brief instructions by the day of the event.

“Alice Paul: Crusader for Equality” will be presented by Theresa Harris on behalf of the Alice Paul Institute. Theresa will be sharing more about Paul’s life, her roots in the local Quaker community, and her fight for women’s full participation in the political and civic life of the nation.

Please join us on Nov. 18 to learn more about this equal rights crusader. Register here, and we will send out the Zoom information by the day of the event. Questions? Email us at [email protected] or call us at 856-429-7375.