WHERE YOUR SPECIAL OCCASION BECOMES AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT Our Highlander Pavilion offers an air of refreshing elegance in its garden-like setting while providing the highest standard of food and beverages! Royce Brook schedules only one wedding at a time, allowing our staff to focus all of its attention on your very special wedding celebration. At Royce Brook, our guests never have to ask. Our highly trained staff anticipates every need before a request is made. Join us for this wedding show and bridal expo!

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 published African-American female writer. This St. George's Day, patronal feast and national day of England, visit Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage for a living history audience with Phillis Wheatley by Dr. Daisy Nelson Century. Phillis Wheatley’s life began in West Africa. Taken from her home on a slave ship when she was only 7, she was bought by the affluent and well-connected Wheatley family of Boston. The young girl looked so pitiful and so sickly and was “uncommonly intelligent,” so Mrs. Wheatley educated Phillis and had her work inside the house. She was further separated from other slaves because the Wheatleys didn’t let her associate with them. Phillis Wheatley was between two worlds, belonging to neither. This was made even more apparent when Phillis was not named in Mr. Wheatley’s will. Yet, through the Wheatleys she had met Benjamin Franklin, attended balls, written and published poetry. One poem, dedicated to George Washington, elicited a note from Washington who said he’d visit if he came to

Come and join us for an afternoon filled with: Variety of Turkish Food - served 3:30-4:30 pm (included w/ticket) Children's games, face painting, and more (included w/ticket) Fun Music (included w/ticket) Local vendors selling handmade items and Turkish souvenirs Additional snacks (popcorn, ice pop, and more) & drinks available to purchase Tickets are $20/per person, and kids under 12 are free.

Spring Plant Sale Enhance your garden with some spectacular new plant treasures and help us celebrate the arrival of spring. The plant sale will feature many choice selections of perennials, ferns, woody plants, and hypertufa planting troughs. There will also be guided tours of this magnificent naturalistic rock garden each day at 1pm. This event is co-sponsored with the Watnong Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society.