When genealogist Shamele Jordon decided to find a way to bring history alive for students at the Lawnside Elementary School in New Jersey, she found the answer in their backyards in the African American community.
Students are discovering sites and burial grounds in the South Jersey borough, a stop on the Underground Railroad that sheltered runaway slaves. They are also learning about ancestors and historical figures who developed Lawnside.
Jordon, a researcher, teamed with Muneerah Higgs, a retired Lawnside third-grade social studies teacher, to create a Black History Month project for third to eighth graders called âVisualizing Your Past.â They hope to instill pride by giving students a birds-eye view of their history.
Important Central Florida sites in women’s history
Sites to visit on a tank of gas important to women’s history in Central Florida
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This Women’s History Month, there are a number of stops on the Florida Women’s Heritage Trail right here in Central Florida you can visit to learn more about the contributions ladies have made to history right here in the Sunshine State.
All you need is some time and a tank of gas to do it.
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, Tebeau-Field Library, 435 Brevard Avenue, Cocoa, FL 32922 (321) 690-1971
In 1927, Jeanette Thurber Conner of New Smyrna Beach organized the Florida State Historical Society with Colonel John B. Stetson, Jr. It later merged with the Florida Historical Society which acquired the current building in 1997 to house its growing collection of maps and historical documents.
Margaret Lena Costello of Stamford, CT passed away surrounded by her family on the morning of Monday, February 22, 2021 after a short but very difficult battle with cancer. She was 78 years old.
Lena was born on May 16, 1942 in Philadelphia, PA to the late Theodore Ellerkamp and Dorothea Gussmann. She attended Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls in Philadelphia and received her nursing certificate from St. Agnes School of Nursing. She then received her B.S. in Nursing from Pennsylvania State University. She was part of the first graduating class of nursing students from Penn State.
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In 1963, she met her husband, Charles F. Costello, in Philadelphia while he was on leave from the U.S. Navy. They married on June 15, 1968. The couple moved to Boston where she took a job as the Pediatrics instructor at Children s Hospital Boston.
When genealogist Shamele Jordon decided to find a way to bring history alive for students at the Lawnside Elementary School in New Jersey, she found the answer in their backyards
Feb 26, 2021
Raymond Stanley, 81, of Fort Dodge, passed away on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at UnityPoint Health Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge.
Services will be 10:00 AM Saturday, February 27, 2021 at the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Dodge. The funeral will be live-streamed from the First Presbyterian Church Facebook page or on YouTube by clicking the following link: youtube.com/c/FPCFortDodge
Entombment will be at the Chapel of Peace Mausoleum at North Lawn Cemetery in Fort Dodge. Visitation will be from 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM on Friday at Gunderson Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Fort Dodge. Face coverings will be mandatory at both the funeral service and visitation.