Summer Fridays begin after Independence Day weekend in July and run straight through to the weekend before Labor Day in August.  The Little Red Schoolhouse Museum will be open from 1-3pm each Summer Friday for tours, and we will enjoy an informative new speaker or program every week.

Hot off the press, here’s the COMPLETE schedule of Waretown Historical Society’s Summer Fridays!

Friday:                        Speaker:                                             Topic:

July 12,2024             Sandy Gray, emergency                 How to safely evacuate your family and pets in the event of a hurricane,
                                                evacuation center volunteer                               flood or forest fire.
July 19, 2024                  Lynn Brotherston                                       How local waterways and the bay front are cleaned and maintained by
                                               waterway clean-up volunteer                            volunteers with canoes and kayaks.
July 26, 2024              Allan Cronheim                                How to improve personal safety from scams that target seniors.                                                                licensed Private Investigator      
August 2, 2024           German Georgiff                                         Ocean County Ghost Towns  
                                            naturalist from Wells Mills Park
August 9, 2024           Grove Conrad, Barnegat Historian            Stories from Local area history         

August 16, 2024           AJ Meerwald video                                   The Schooner AJ Meerwald is NJ's official Tall Ship.   She is a restored oyster
                                                                                                                               dredging schooner, launched in 1928.    AJ Meerwald was one of hundreds of
                                                                                                                               schooners built along South Jersey's Bayshore, before the decline of the ship
                                                                                                                              building industry. 
August 23, 2024          A Naturalist from Wells Mills County Park      "Roadside Ocean County"  A history of items we pass by when driving 

August 30, 2024          Carl Jablonsky -  researcher  of                        Little known information about  the history of the Hindenburg and its 
                                              "Lighter than Air" ships                                      famous crash at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.