Celebrate the Ripe Corn Moon and the fullness of summer by experiencing History in one of the storied places where it was made! Historian Kevin Wright will lead guided tours of the Demarest House and Zabriskie Steuben House at Historic New Bridge Landing at
11 AM and 1 PM on Sunday, August 28, 2011. Tours will start from the Campbell-Christie House, 1201 Main Street River Edge, NJ 07661. Either before or afterwards, you are invited to the restored eighteenth-century tavern in the Campbell-Christie House, where light summer refreshments, including peach crisp, apple-gingerbread upside-down cake, Prairie beer cake and lemonade will be served. Mary Karr will prepare cornbread in the Jersey Dutch Out-Kitchen and share her extensive knowledge of open-hearth cookery. Our Gift Shop features many items of historical interest, including books on local heritage, handmade mugs, tiles and pendants emblazed with the Turtle logo that wildlife artist Charles Livingston Bull (1874-1932) designed for the Bergen County Historical Society in 1928, and reproduction colonial games and toys. Suggested donation: $7 adult, $5 children, BCHS members free. For further info, visit
www.bergencountyhistory.org or call 201-343-9492.
The Bergen County Historical Society will display a selection of interesting artifacts, including Rachel Bourdette’s frying pan, used to prepare corncakes for General Washington when he stayed at her home near Fort Lee in 1776. Another object of curiosity is a Revolutionary War musket, of a type used by American soldiers, which a nine-year-old boy retrieved from the Hackensack River in 1903 while fishing at New Bridge. Visitors may also see a Hackensack pie plate, imprinted with a likeness of Lafayette, made at Henry Van Saun’s River Edge pottery in 1825 to celebrate the French hero’s return visit to Bergen County as part of his national tour. Artifacts displayed in the Demarest House include a rare oak Bacon Settle, imported from England as a wedding gift for Cornelius Livingston Hyatt in 1767, an early Hackensack corner cupboard, dating to about 1800, and rush-seated Bergen Dutch ladder-back chairs made by Cornelius A. Demarest of Sluckup (Spring Valley, Paramus).
