The Garden State: Where Ideas Grow

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History & Genealogy

Age Group:

Adults
Registration for this event will be open from March 8, 2025 @ 10:00am to April 5, 2025 @ 2:00pm.

Program Description

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Thomas Edison wasn't New Jersey's only great inventor—in fact, the Garden State seems to have grown more great ideas than red tomatoes. Did you know Band-Aids, movies, color television, bubble wrap, barcodes and the modern submarine all sprang from fertile minds working in New Jersey? Join author Linda Barth as she explores groundbreaking, useful, fun, and even silly inventions and their New Jersey roots.
 

Short bio
Linda Barth has been a fan of New Jersey for a long time. A lifelong resident of the Garden State, Linda has written two books on the D&R Canal and three children’s picture books, Bridgetender’s Boy, Hidden New Jersey, and Alice Paul: Champion of Women’s Rights. She has also authored A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to
the Ice Cream Cone and New Jersey Originals. With her husband she has published The Millstone Valley Through Time and Somerville Through Time. She has also contributed to the Encyclopedia of New Jersey. Linda Barth spent 45 years in the Bridgewater-Raritan School District, teaching fourth grade and then substituting after retirement. She is the executive director of the League of Historical Societies of New Jersey and president of the D&R Canal Watch, a friends organization of the D&R Canal State Park.

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