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Squad5 at Mannions
NJ, United StatesSquad5 returns to our favorite home town spot....Mannions! Get there early to get your spot because at Mannions, it always gets packed.
Tour de Franklin Charity Bike Ride
NJ, United StatesThe Tour de Franklin Charity Bike Ride is a spring tradition in Somerset, NJ, as avid cyclists and the community join together in late April to fight local hunger. All funds raised support the Franklin Food Bank. The Tour de Franklin is the Food Bank’s largest annual fundraiser! This year's event is on Sunday, April 30, 2023. There are events for people of all ages and we will hope you will grab your friends and join us! The price will go up on April 1 so register early and get the discount!! There are 5 on-road events (62-mile, 40-mile, 25-mile, 10-mile, and 5-mile) that tour scenic Franklin and Hillsborough townships, and two "Canal" events that utilize the towpath along the D&R Canal.
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage Historic Houses Tours
NJ, United StatesPass through the checkered Flemish bond brickwork at Old Dutch Parsonage into the historic home of the founder and first president of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Continue through the historic kitchen for Hope Farm and enter the largest home built during the Revolutionary War in New Jersey. Learn about the women and men in slavery and freedom who comprised the "military family" at George Washington's winter headquarters and the challenges and accomplishments of the Commander-in-Chief during the Continental Army's Middlebrook Cantonment from December 1778 to June 1779.
Rockin’ Raccoons
NJ, United StatesCome learn about the North American Raccoon! The raccoon is a common animal we often see evidence of in the Great Swamp. Join a Naturalist on this adventure and see what you can discover about raccoons! Please dress for the weather. Waterproof boots are a must.
Reefer Madness
NJ, United StatesReefer Madness is a musical satire of the 1936 propaganda film and cult classic Reefer Madness that opened in Los Angeles in 1998. The book and lyrics were written by Kevin Murphy and the book and music by Dan Studney. This raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. **THURSDAY, April 20th ONLY - Special Talkback after the show with Writer/Composer, Dan Studney, and the Original Jimmy Harper from LA/Off Broadway/Movie, Christian Campbell**
Three Early Black American Women in Words: A Literary Historic Houses Tour
NJ, United States250 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.