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John Neilson, Middlesex County resident in the 18th century, Revolutionary War officer |
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Hear about the hardship of the Revolution through the eyes of Elizabeth Franklin the wife of the last Royal Governor of the Colony of New Jersey. |
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Join us in late 1700s to uncover the life of Oliver Cromwell a free African American, who fought with the Continental Army during the American Revolution. |
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Teenager Rachel Van Dyke lived a few doors down from the Indian Queen Tavern in New Brunswick. A recent excavation of the area revealed her diary. This podcast, in her own words, will bring the past to life through her vivid tale of the Brunswick flood of 1810. |
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Discover what made Captain Nathaniel Fitzrandolph one of the most heroic Revolutionary War officers in Woodbridge Township. |
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Ever wonder how the beautiful Village of East Jersey Olde Towne in Piscataway came into being? Hear the story of its founding through the efforts of Dr. Joseph Kler and a group of community leaders and volunteers. |
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What if you wanted to be a tavern owner in New Brunswick? Learn about the process and the multiple functions of a tavern in the 1700s and 1800s. |
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Uncover the difference between the pharmacist of present day and the apothecary of the early 1800s while learning how an apothecary treated a patient during a cholera epidemic in New Brunswick. |
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Listen to the rise and fall of the patent medicine history through the example of highly successful New Jersey proprietor George G. Green. |
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How did young boys learn the ancient folk art of blacksmithing, which was essential to society in the 1700s and 1800s? |
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Learn what school life was like for students at the Smalleytown Schoolhouse in the 1800s. |
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Was the congregation of the Three Mile Run Church for or against the Revolution? |
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Founding Father, Dr. Benjamin Rush was a pioneer in the field of mental health and the author of a handful of self-help guides. Listen to some of his suggestions and decide if they would apply in today’s world. |
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Uncover what it was like to attend Rutgers Medical College in the early 1800s. Would today’s professionals pass the courses and qualify for graduation? |
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Have
you ever seen the movie Rocky? Learn about Chuck Wepner, the New Jersey boxer who
was the inspiration for the character. |
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Found in Haddonfield, New Jersey, the skeleton of the hadrosaurus was both the first dinosaur skeleton excavated and the first on display in the entire world. But who found it? Was it a farmer, a lawyer, or a scientist? |
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Imagine a job interview with the wizard of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison. New Brunswick native Wilson Stout Howell quit his steady job to work for this 20th century pioneer. |
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Was the interior of the 1790s Middlesex County Courthouse any different from today’s courthouse? |
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Why did James Drake put a living elephant across the street from the Indian Queen Tavern in 1818? |
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What happened to the children of the New Jersey Civil War soldiers? |
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Ride along with the former Hackensack native and learn why she was named "Woman Motorist of the Century." |
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Who was the most powerful woman in seventeenth century East Jersey? Learn about Elizabeth Carteret one of the first “Jersey Girls.” |
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Central New Jersey physician Henry Vanderveer enlisted as a surgeon in a New Jersey regiment during the Civil War. Hear some excerpts from some of his letters to his wife. |
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Imagine how Madame Washington transformed an Atlantic City beauty salon into a beauty and hair care empire. |
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Where did this prehistoric beast come from? Learn about the mastodon on display at Geology Hall, at Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campus. |
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Imagine it is 1897 in New Brunswick and you are told you can make a lot of money selling patent medicines door to door or from your home. How do you start? What product are you selling? |
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How much damage was caused by a tornado that tore through New Brunswick in the mid-1800s? |
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Do you think you could pass the entrance exam for Rutgers College in 1825? What classes were offered? Learn about early 1800s college life in this month’s podcast. |
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Learn about Carteret’s own Joe Medwick, a major leaguer who played baseball during the 1930s and 1940s. |
