Watch Video: Newark’s Mount Carmel Church After 135 Years
This four-day feast happens each year on July 16, the date when an English Carmelite purportedly had a vision of the Blessed Mother.
Covering the arts and historic preservation in Essex County
OUR HISTORY — THE TURRELL AVENUE BUILDING
Bryn Douds, president of the South Orange Historical Society, takes a look at 525 South Orange Avenue, built in 1924, and some of the building’s former tenants including the Crinklewood Sweet Shop and Kroll’s Market.
Booker T. Washington Gave a Speech at This Main Street Church
In 1914, Dr. Booker T. Washington visited Orange’s oldest church. At the First Presbyterian Church at 424 Main Street, he gave a speech called “The Care of Dependent Children.” Afterward, Washington appeared at Ashland School in East Orange and the Oakwood…
Segregation in Orange Movie Theaters Banned in 1913
The historic Lyceum Theater that once stood at 506 Main Street in East Orange, since demolished for a Walgreens, was the scene of racial conflict in 1913. Two black men, Robert and Travis Hamilton, both sons of a local minister, reported to the…