IN-TOWN PHOTOS of MORRISTOWN, NJ

IN TOWN :

Cinema-10 - Hotels - Offices - Shops - Art Gallery      and   Mall with Brick-Park and Fountain Waters


"1776 on the Green" offices - Presbyterian and Methodist Churches - the Green      ANTIQUE CENTERS


SOUTH STREET runs SE with - The Gap - Epstein's Dept Store - Churches - Theater - Library - Town Hall - Symphony - Banks - Ice Creameries - King's Super Market - Fine Apartments - &etc.

In the heart of the town (s)  is -"T H E   G R E E N" :

with a sculpture dedicated to revolutionary war family "PATRIOT'S FAREWELL"

Another spelling for plural . . . "PATRIOTS' FAREWELL"

PATRIOTS ' FAREWELL in days that tried one's soul ! On the Morristown Green in sight of Washington's 1777 Headquarters - a family in crisis! The son must take on full responsibility of the farm and the household in helping his mother, who is holding the new baby. Their beloved patriot may not return or the family may fail without him.

The sculpture, "PATRIOT'S FAREWELL," is by artist Robert St. Croix - dedicated May 30, 2001. This and the beautiful fountain below the sculpture was a generous gift from Richard and Jackie Deskovick and their daughter Kim.

AROUND THE GREEN

"PATRIOT'S' FAREWELL"

TJC
"We could hear the fountain stream bubbling and see it glowing."
A BABY, A BOY, A DOG, A HORSE, A MOM, A DAD - "PATRIOTS"

CLICK TO SEE MORE PHOTOS OF THIS SCULPTURE !

=== Walk to the West ===

MORRIS COUNTY COURT HOUSE          TJC
NEAR THE "VISITOR'S CENTER" -   near "the Green"
AND THE "HALL OF RECORDS" at Court Street and Washington Street
IT IS ALSO NEAR WESTERN AVENUE, which leads to JOCKEY HOLLOW ROAD.

This school seldom sleeps! Morristown HIGH SCHOOL
has served many nearby towns.=== Down the hill and around the bend ===





BURNHAM PARK for ARTILLERY PRACTICE and PEACE
==> Thomas Paine,
                                 WE REMEMBER HIS GENIUS AND BRAVERY - Burnham Park - Washington Street.
                                 "These are the times that try men's souls . . . "

Take this WALKING TOUR in Morristown, NJ
- see Historic Houses and Sites.

The owner ,Tom Nast, was a famous political cartoonist.
    A donkey or a goat lived on this land in the 1970's - ask the neighbors if they heard any "he-haws"!
Or was it Thomas Nast's famous elephant?

Also, read about Morristown's THOMAS NAST, <==
political cartoonist who first drew: Rolly-Polly SANTA CLAUS;
Thin UNCLE SAM; Tammany Tiger; DEM-Donkey and GOP-Elephant.

READING PRACTICE ! - Read to your children several times per year (smile)!

Click to A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS by Clement Clarke Moore ?

'Twas the night before Christmas',
      when all through the house
      Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
    The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
    In hopes that ST. NICHOLAS soon would be there; . . .
    "HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL,
      AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!"

The above poem was first published anonymously on December 23, 1823 in the Troy-NY Sentinel.  [Some believe that surveyor-poet, Henry Livingston may have written the poem]. About 21 years later, in 1844, Clement Clarke Moore included it in his collection of Poems.  He was the son of an Anglican clergyman. Clement was born in New York City on July 15, 1779. He graduated from Columbia College in 1798. A scholar of the Hebrew Language, he taught Oriental Languages at the Episcopal General Theological Seminary in New York City from 1819 to 1850. His family had given the land in the Chelsea section of New York (West   23rd Street, etc.) to the Seminary in 1819.  Moore died in Newport, RI on July 10, 1863.

THOMAS NAST OF MORRISTOWN   chose to draw SANTA CLAUS as chubby and plump as is described in the above poem! And  the world still shows him as jolly and friendly!   "Santa" means "saint"?

Thomas Nast House - A Wedding Cake!

THOMAS NAST
lived across from a Morristown Museum named
                                                                             Macculloch Hall & GARDENS

The Kedge

      PHOTOS OF Macculloch's MORRIS CANAL <== click

These historical places existed in the days when FRANCE gifted CLICK => the Statue of Liberty
                                                    to all of America.


A small house & school - started by George Macculloch             Janis      and      Priscilla

Staff: David Breslauer      Director
                 Jane Bedula             Curator of Exhibits
                  Ryan Hyman            F. M. Kirby Curator of Collections
                 Janice Sanguinetti   Public Programs & Visitor Services

Sansay's dance school failed after a major religion in town preached against dancing.
Whatever happened to Monsieur Sansay ???

SANSAY HOUSE

The Marquis de La Fayette danced here on Dehart Street in 1825 !
His father had died in battle with Britain when he was just a baby. He became a close friend of George Washington, who lost his father when he was age 11.

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THE MORRISTOWN TRAIN STATION TO NEW YORK CITY ! "45 Minutes from Broadway !"

THE RAILROAD STATION, A USUALLY VERY BUSY PLACE ON MORRIS STREET !

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    CLICK TO SEE
Some Morristown Monuments Are Shown Here   Many Photos - "Thanks" to Lois Trudel
Clicks: MONUMENT RESTORATION PHOTOS - Rev War+ Related
          MONUMENT RESTORATION PHOTOS - Civil War+ Related
         MONUMENT RESTORATION PHOTOS - Other War+ Related

Many statues and monuments were preserved recently - thanks to contributors and
the Restoration Committee : J. Robert Tracey, chairman; Glenn Coutts, co-chairman; John Dangler, ESQ co-chairman; Herman Baldinger, PDC treasurer;   Hon. Peter Mancuso finance chairman; Jack McKean and John Cortese technical advisors.

ZIBIGNEW PIETRUSZEWSKI, Master of Science in Conservation of Sculpture, Monuments, Artistic and Historic Objects and his wife, JOANNA, did much of the restoration work. - of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works   733 Stanford Street   Teaneck, NJ   07666.

This is A PLACE THAT REMEMBERS NEW JERSEY'S
FORGOTTEN HEROES F'GOT'N NOT BY YOU !
Zebulon Pike of PIKE'S PEAK fame and war hero - was born near Trenton <==,

Gutzon Borglum, graced Newark, NJ with a statue of Lincoln at the Courthouse on Central Avenue and at Newark's Military Park with one of the nation's largest war memorials for USA early wars (he and his son, Lincoln Borglum are depicted in the grand sculpture as a father saying farewell to his soldier son).





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