By Linda Tancs
Historic Walnford is a 36-acre historic district at the heart of Crosswick Creek Park in Upper Freehold, New Jersey. Part of the Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Scenic Byway, the site is named for Richard Waln, a prosperous Quaker merchant who, as a pacifist, refused to take sides in the Revolutionary War. The picturesque setting features the large home built for the family in the 1770s, a working gristmill and several outbuildings, all showcasing over 200 years of social, technological and environmental history through the Waln family. You can go behind the scenes in the gristmill with a hands-on crack at mill maintenance on the first Saturday of the month from May through November.
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Billed as the Great North American Eclipse, a total solar eclipse will cross North America on April 8, 2024, passing over Mexico, the United States and Canada. The path of the eclipse begins in Mexico, entering the United States in Texas, and traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The eclipse will enter Canada in Southern Ontario, and continue through Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. This will be the last time any solar eclipse will be visible within the United States until 2045.
Be prepared! So long as supplies last, you can purchase eclipse glasses and other accessories, like a phone app and photo filter, from American Paper Optics, a NASA-approved manufacturer. The link in the preceding sentence is an affiliate link, which means that if you click on the link and purchase merchandise from the page, then I may receive a small commission.
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