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Event Series One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

NJ, United States

When Randle Patrick McMurphy gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment. But the martinet Nurse Ratched runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist, keeping her patients cowed through abuse, medication and sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. The battle of wills between the rebellious McMurphy and the inflexible Ratched soon affects all the ward's patients. Directed by: Dan Vissers

Female Pirates of the 18th Century

NJ, United States

Avast me Hearties!!! Come aboard, and join me as we sail the seven seas – living free and taking what we want! I’m your Captain, and our ship here is called the – what’s that, Matey? You noticed I’m a woman? Well, shiver me timbers, you are correct! And if you don’t like it, perhaps you’d prefer to walk the plank! Please join us for an afternoon with Alisa Dupuy of The Ladies of History as she portrays a female pirate from the 1700s. She will regale you with tales of life aboard a pirate ship, antics at ports of call, stolen treasure and pirate treachery. Learn about how many female pirates there actually were, and what life was like for them. This event will be held on Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 2 pm at the historic Van Liew-Suydam House, 280 South Middlebush Road, Franklin Township, NJ. The fee for attending is $12 for members and $15 for non-members. If you are a member, you will be refunded the ticket price difference when you arrive. You may apply for membership at the event or on our website - TheMeadowsFoundation.org. Please email us to reserve spaces with cash payment at

Three Early Black American Women in Words: A Literary Historic Houses Tour

NJ, United States

250 years ago in the spring of 1773 Phillis Wheatley traveled from America to England to publish Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, making her the first published African-American poet and the first African-American female published writer. This historic houses tour of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage introduces the works of three early Black American women in words, considering Phillis Wheatley’s poetic perspective on the American Revolution, Hetty Saunders’ solace and stewardship of nature in New Jersey in the early American republic, and Sojourner Truth’s African Dutch social and spiritual heritage as background to her activism through the nation’s Civil War.

The Coney Island Silent Film

NJ, United States

Join us for silent films: At Coney Island (1912), Coney Island (1917), and Number please (1920) accompanied by organist Ian Fraser on a Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. It's Foolish but it's Fun!

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