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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Allaire Village Receives Grant From Area Bank
OceanFirst Foundation gives $4,000 to the living history village
Allaire Village recently received a grant from OceanFirst Foundation aimed at forwarding the historic village’s music and cultural programs throughout the year. The foundation, the charitable arm of OceanFirst Bank of Toms River, awarded the nonprofit Historic Village at Allaire $4,000 to continue its programs at the popular living history museum, according to a joint release. The foundation provides grants to organizations that meet community needs within the OceanFirst marketable area. It has contributed more than $23 million more than 600 local charities in Ocean, Monmouth, and Middlesex counties, the release says. Allaire has received a total of $8,000 from the foundation in 2011 and 2012 – enough to nearly cover the cost of this year’…
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Allaire Kicks Off Holiday Season This Weekend
Traditional activities of the 19th Century on display at the living history museum
Carolers will wander the streets of the historic Village at Allaire this weekend as Saint Nick hands out hands out candy canes to good little boys and girls Allaire Village kicks off its Christmas season. It's Christmas in the 1800s as re-enacted at Allaire this weekend when the living history museum on Atlantic Avenue re-creates Christmastime in the Old World tradation. From noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, the historic village will be putting on its annual Christmas event, with Mummer plays, hearth cooking and horse-drawn wagon rides throught the woods. Bring your holiday cards and have them stamped with the United States Postal Service's Allaire Christmas Cache Cancellation Stamp. The annual Christmas event is tailored to show how a …
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Tickets Available For Allaire Village Lantern Tours
Annual tradition takes visitors through a candlelight stroll through time
The Historic Village at Allaire is scheduled to kick off its annual Holiday Latern Tours Dec. 8 at the Atlantic Avenue living history museum. The candlelight tours offer a glimpse of the historic village at night, with period actors and interpretors lead groups through the lantern-lit streets, explaining the holiday customs of the 1800s. All the buildings of the historic village will be open, including the Blacksmith Shop and the Howell Works Company Manager James Parshal Smith’s home, where interpreters will demonstrate hearth cooking. The 90-minute Holiday Lantern Tours begin at the Row House Visitors Center where participants will be given an introduction to the Howell Works Company. Tours, which run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 8 and …
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Haunted Trip Through Time At Allaire Begins This Weekend
Haunted hayrides part of Halloween celebration at Allaire
Ghosts, goblins and assorted spookiness is in store when the Historic Village at Allaire gears up for Halloween this weekend with its popular Haunted Hayride. Tickets, priced at $15 for adults and $10 for children, are limited to 1,000 each night and it is recommended that you purchase tickets in advance because of the popularity of the attraction. The hayride includes a trip through the Lost Cemetary and a darkened tour through the village where carpenters are known to measure visitors for coffins and the blacksmith is busy making coffin nails. The ghost of Frances Allaire is said to wander during these nights. Hayrides, which begin tonight and run again Saturday, depart every 15 minutes beginning at 6:00 p.m. with the last wagon leaving …
Friday, September 21, 2012
Fall Crafters' Market At Allaire Saturday
Benefit for historic village brings crafters and artisans from all over
The Historic Village at Allaire is scheduled to hold its annual Fall Crafters' Market on Saturday at Allaire State Park. The free event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature exhibits by more than 100 area craftspeople and artisans featuring everything from museum-quality pieces to "country crafts" handicrafts and home-made bric-a-brac, according to Alliare officials. Food and beverage services will be available. There is a $5 parking fee. The event is a fundraiser to benefit the historic and educational programs presented at the nonprofit Historic Village at Allaire.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Allaire Village Receives Grant From State Historical Commission
Living history museum among 75 recipients of more than $2 million in grants
The Historic Village at Allaire will receive more than $10,000 from the state Historical Commission to fund the living history museum’s programs. Allaire Village will receive $10,399 from the commission. That money will go to offset the cost of the village’s historical programs, said Allaire Executive Director Sharon Avale. “It goes into our operating budget,’’ Avale said. “We’ll use it for costuming or for our school tours or for any of the programs. Every little bit helps.’’ Allaire was among 75 historical organizations around the state to receive grants totaling $2,332,659 — the most money ever awarded by the state Historical Commission. The commission announced the awards Tuesday. Organizations that received general operating support …
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Flea Market, School Days At Allaire This Weekend
Historic Village holding big flea market fundraiser Saturday to support programs like Sunday's School Days
More than 125 venders are set to display their wares at Allaire Village's annual Summer Flea market on Saturday. The free event is a fund-raiser for the living history museum, promoting its educational and historical programs. There is a $5 parking fee. The Village on Sunday will present its School Days in the 1830s program where visitors aged 6 to 12 can get an idea of what it was like to attend school in the 19th century, if only for a half hour. Students will be instructed by a volunteer in period dress, using the Lancastrian method. Led by an older student, a group of younger children would repeat the lessons for a chosen subject, and by using their slates, pencils and lesson books, would make notations to help them remember that which…
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Allaire Village To Host Civil War Encampment
Living history museum presents free historical event Saturday and Sunday
Allaire Village this weekend is scheduled to hold a Civil War encampment at the living history museum. The free event, presented in conjunction with the New Jersey Civil War Heritage Association, will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is a $5 parking fee. Artillery demonstrations, battalion drills, musket cleaning, dress parades and a farewell at the train station as troops leave for the front are part of the scheduled festivities.
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Friday, May 18, 2012
A Day In The Life In 1836
Historic Allaire Village presents a view of daily life in the 19th century
Gardens had to be tended, fences mended, water fetched. Life in the early 19th century was, generally, not exactly the lap of luxury. On Sunday, the Historic Village at Allaire will present an historically accurate portrait of daily 19th Century life during the "Village Life Event." Visitors will see and can participate in daily chores, trades, crafts and leisure activities at the family-oriented event, designed to transport visitors to any day in 1836 at the Howell Works. The free event runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Allaire.
Denise Di Stephan
9:12 am on Friday, October 12, 2012
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