Events
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Walk + Wander Map Making Workshop
Discover Your Surroundings: A Hands-On Map Making Experience! 90 minute family map making workshop led by artist, Elly Otharsson of Ethos Anew.
A Seeing Eye® Puppy Meet and Greet
A Seeing Eye® Puppy Meet and Greet offered a chance to learn about the training and the phenomenal relationship between these dogs and the people they will go on to guide. The event featured a puppy parade, a talk by a teacher about the role of her companion canine and a demonstration of skills training.
A Native American Heritage Celebration
A Native American Heritage Celebration in collaboration with Montclair Art Museum and Montclair Public library. The afternoon featured Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape performer and playwright Ryan Opalaniet Pierceand visual artist Renelle White Buffalo, Sičáŋǧu Lakota, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Performances, hands on-art projects, story times and the mobile library, filled with Native American themed books, were all part of the afternoon’s offerings.
A Guided Walking Tour of Watchung Park and Plaza with Montclair History Center
In the early days of Montclair’s settlement, Watchung Avenue divided the Dutch farmlands of Speertown in the north end of today’s Montclair from the English farmlands of Cranetown. All that changed when the railroad came through in the late 1800s. Developers bought the farms and created business districts and housing around the new stations. This walk took participants through a turn-of-the-century business district and commuter suburb, developed between 1900 and 1930. The tour included a special stop at the site of the new Judy Weston Garden in Watchung Park, a place for residents and passersby “to reflect and connect.” The garden honors the late philanthropist and devoted friend of Montclair.