Field Trip: Frelinghuysen Arboritium, Morristown, NJ

The Frelinghuysen Arboritium is a 127 acre botanical garden located in Morristown, NJ. Surrounding a Colonial Revival mansion are woodlands, meadows, and gardens. http://www.arboretumfriends.org/ http://www.morrisparks.net/aspparks/frelarbmain.asp  

Field Trip: Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, Morristown, NJ

Wishing to preserve her beloved home and give future generations the chance to experience the sights, smells, and sounds of rural life, Caroline Foster in 1979 bequeathed Fosterfields to the Morris County Park Commission, to be preserved as a “living historical farm”. Not a replica, Fosterfields is a working farm, using the tools, techniques, and

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Field Trip: Raymondskill Falls, Near Dingmans Ferry, PA

Raymondskill Falls is in the Pocono Mountains in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area. As the tallest waterfall in the state of Pennsylvania, Raymondskill Falls is only four feet shorter than Niagara Falls. A viewing platform offers a view of the falls as the water cascades down from the upper portion of the falls

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Field Trip: The Fleetwood Camera Museum, North Plainfield, NJ

The Fleetwood Camera Museum is housed in the Vermeule Mansion in North Plainfield. The museum exhibits an extensive collection of cameras and photographic images. Examples of the earliest commercially successful cameras from the daguerreotype to the hologram are displayed. The collection numbers more than a thousand cameras, three to four hundred of which are on

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Field Trip: The American Museum of Natural History, NYC

The Sunday, 2/10 field trip to the Intrepid is cancelled, due to repairs on the exhibit not as yet being finished. We will reschedule as soon as we know the museum is reopened. In its place we will be going to The American Museum of Natural History in  NYC. We will meet at the Rodda Center on

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