April 2017 Park Events

Date: March 31, 2017  America’s Stories 101: Art, Literature, Music, and Muskets
at Morristown National Historical Park’s National Park Week
April 15^th-23^rd; Weekends Free!
 
Morristown, NJ – “Find Your Park” at Morristown National Historical Park (NHP) during National Park Week, April 15^th through 23^rd. In this 101st year of the National Park Service’s history, Morristown NHP invites you to discover some of the “America’s Stories 101” learning and adventure opportunities that are right here at your neighborhood national park.
 
In addition to a variety of scheduled activities, all entrance fees at the Washington’s Headquarters Museum will be waived on the weekend days, Saturday and Sunday, April 15th and 16th; and Saturday and Sunday, April 22nd and 23^rd. Details of the planned special programs are listed below.
 
 
9:30 am – 5 pm, April 15^th – April 23^rd: Treasured Landscapes Exhibit in the Washington’s Headquarters Museum; 30 Washington Place, Morristown, New Jersey
The five paintings and prints exhibited are included in a new book published by the National Park Service’s Museum Management Program, Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America’s Stories. It highlights art collections from the nation’s over 400 national parks; the artwork presented in the book is a testament to the pervasive power of the natural and built environment we all can claim as our collective legacy. The Treasured Landscapes publication is available in our museum store
 
For more information on the Treasured Landscapes Exhibit, contact Chief of Cultural Resources, Dr. Jude Pfister at: [e-mail].
 
9:30 am – 5 pm, Saturday, April 15^th: Junior Ranger Day
Take advantage of the free admission on Saturday, April 15^th, and visit the Washington’s Headquarters Museum to earn your Junior Ranger Badge!
 
10 am – 4 pm, Saturday, April 22^nd and Sunday, April 23^rd: Jockey Hollow Encampment Weekend
Costumed re-enactors return to Jockey Hollow for the park’s annual Encampment Weekend. Events during the weekend help you experience the life of a Jockey Hollow soldier during the spring of 1780. Throughout the encampment site you will encounter many parts of camp life including cooking demonstrations, children’s musket drills, and 18^th-century games. Additionally, re-enactor soldier regiments will demonstrate various Revolutionary War tactics and maneuvers, including musket and artillery firing. Detailed schedules of each day’s encampment activities will be available at the event.
 
At 3:30 pm on Saturday, April 22^nd, author Jeff E. Finegan Sr. will discuss his two books, Colonel Washington and Me and ‘Tis Well … The Life and Death of George Washington. The books focus, respectively, on the life of George Washington as seen through the eyes of his enslaved assistant, William Lee, and as witnessed by physician James Craik. Meet in the Jockey Hollow Visitor Center. Both books will be available for purchase.
 
Jockey Hollow GPS Address: 580- 600 Tempe Wick Road, Morristown, NJ 07980.
 
2 pm, Sunday, April 23^rd: Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey Concert in the Washington’s Headquarters Museum; 30 Washington Place, Morristown, New Jersey.
Cap off your National Park Week celebration by discovering a unique New Jersey treasure. The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey (BONJ) will perform Mark Twain and the General, an original composition by BONJ Maestro Robert W. Butts. On exhibit during the program will be a number of Morristown NHP’s Twain manuscripts from the park’s rich cultural resources collection. Admission to the program is free, included as a National Park Week fee-free day.
 
For more information on the BONJ concert, contact Chief of Cultural Resources, Dr. Jude Pfister at: [e-mail].
 
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Morristown National Historical Park preserves, protects, and commemorates the landscapes, structures, features, and museum collections of the Continental Army winter encampments, the headquarters of General George Washington, and related Revolutionary War sites at Morristown, New Jersey for the benefit and inspiration of the public. Morristown NHP also represents a continuum of our nation’s efforts to protect our common heritage: as the very first “national historical park”, the park was also established to commemorate, preserve, and memorialize American history and heritage. Morristown NHP is the primary NPS site in the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area. Established by the U.S. Congress in 2006, the Crossroads promotes a greater understanding of Revolutionary-era historical sites and landscapes in New Jersey.
 
For more information about Morristown NHP, please call 973-539-2016 ext. 210 or visit our website at www.nps.gov/morr.
 
You can also check out our Museum Blog at http://morristownnhpmuseum.blogspot.com/.
 
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