BrassWorks - Patriotic Concert Sunday, July 2 @ 3pm outside on the patio (if weather is unfavorable, the concert will take place inside the English barn) Free Registration Suggested donation $20 at the door A patio concert featuring BrassWorks Quintet in an entertaining program of patriotic favorites suitable for the whole family.  Concert includes traditional American tunes and a variety of pop favorites. There will be a reception with light refreshments following the concert and the opportunity to meet and speak with the artists. A Farmstead favorite, BrassWorks is a professional brass quintet performing at public venues, retirement communities, schools, houses of worship, corporate functions, weddings, reunions, and private parties. The group has played to audiences in the New York City, North Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania area since 2002. The BrassWorks music library contains almost six hundred arrangements of popular, Broadway, jazz, ragtime, folk, classical, international, holiday, patriotic, and traditional American music.

Phillis Wheatley in London, Summer 1773 This mini-lecture introduces the itinerary of early Black American woman poet Phillis Wheatley's six weeks in London 250 years ago in the summer of 1773, sharing the sights and scenes she toured and considering her perspectives in prose and poetry on Great Britain and America unknowingly on the verge of the American Revolution. The State Park Service offers this program as part of a series "Early Black American Women in Words" supported by New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, for the 250th anniversary of Phillis Wheatley's journey to England in 1773 and publication of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

Franklin Fireworks This free family friendly celebration will include food trucks, exhibitors from local township businesses, organizations, and children’s activities. Musical performances will be at the gazebo by the newly formed Township Jazz band (comprised of Franklin musicians), the Villagers Theatre and the featured band, Total Soul.

Watchung Fourth of July Parade Fourth of July Parade! July 4th from 10:00am - 12:00pm in Mobus Field/Walking Path.

New Jersey’s Gift to America – July 4 Celebration RAIN or SHINE – EVERY July 4th at 10:30am – Join friends and family on Independence Day as the Washington Camp Ground Association honors the American flag, the playing of the Star Spangled Banner and the reading of the Declaration of Independence. It’s a pure American celebration. We call it “Jersey’s Gift to America!” Middlebrook is a tiny section of land recognized as part of Bridgewater, New Jersey just south of Martinsville in Somerset County, New Jersey. It’s just north of Bound Brook. It was on a warm “almost summer day” on June 14, 1777 that the Continental Army hoisted America’s first official flag after the Continental Congress approved the flag on June 14, 1777, know to America as Flag Day. Please consider carpooling, walking or biking if able. (Parking is limited and we’d like to save it for those who most need it.) Ceremonies begin at 10am.