Upcoming & Ongoing Events

Upcoming Events

Joseph Bonaparte Exhibit

Location: Meeting House, 302 Farnsworth Ave
Dates:

Saturday, March 16th | 2pm – 4pm
Saturday, March 23rd | 11am – 4pm
Saturday, April 6th | 11am – 4pm
Saturday, April 13th | 11am – 4pm
Saturday, April 20th | 11am – 4pm
Saturday, April 27th | 11am – 4pm
Saturday, May 4th | 11am – 4pm
Saturday, May 11th | 11am – 2:30pm
Saturday, May 18th | 11am – 4pm
Saturday, June 15th | 11am – 4pm
Saturday, June 22nd | 11am – 4pm
Saturday, June 29th | 11am – 4pm

Post Office Dedicaion – to be renamed for Clara Barton

  • Mayor Jen Sciortino, our own Clara Barton, 6 grade school students and a representative from the American Red Cross will be speaking. The Red Cross will provide hot chocolate and other snacks.
  • Location: in front of the Bordentown City post office
  • Saturday, March 23rd | 1pm – 2pm

Lecture by Ulysses Dietz (descendant of Ulysses S Grant) on US Grant

  • Saturday, May 11th | 3pm – 5pm

Ever popular BHS Garden Tour

  • Details to follow.
  • Saturday, June 1st

Past Events

February 2023

  • The Wreck of the Nellie Bly – A Storyteller Performance of the 1901 Nellie Bly Train Wreck

December 2023

  • Bordentown City’s Chocolate Walk

November 2023

  • A lecture by Linda Gilder Palmer entitled, “Bordentown: Where Cultural Changes in American Society Began.”
  • Lecture by John and Gail Hartman, son and daughter of Bordentown artist, Henry Hartman

October 2023

  • Lecture by John Vick, Director of Collections: Andalusia Historic House, Gardens and Arboretum: Two Centuries on the Delaware
  • Bordentown City Cranberry Festival

September 2023

  • Lecture by Linda Gilder-Palmer on Richard Watson Gilder and his family
  • Lecture by Paul Larson on the Marquis de Lafayette

July 2023

  • Blueberry Social
  • Bastille Day Celebration co-sponsored by the City of Bordentown and the BHS

June 2023

  • The BHS’s Fantastic Annual Garden Tour
  • Ned Gilmore of the Academy of Natural Science in Phila. Charles Lucien Bonaparte and the Academy’s Collection of Specimens Collected by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
  • Bordentown City Environmental Commisson’s Annual Green Fair
  • Celebration of Flag Day with a Lecture by Earl Williams

May 2023

  • Bordentown City’s annual Street Fair (1 day only)

April 2023

  • Lecture & book signing by Jeff Finegan, author of “I Knew George Washington”
  • Spring Meeting of the League of Historical Societies of New Jersey
  • Expert textile conservator, Andrea Goldstein, entitled: “Textile Preservation and Display of Historic Textiles”
  • Expert Horologist, Gregg Perry, on “John Harrison and The Chronometer that Changed the World”

March 2023

  • Clara Barton: An American Icon, by BHS Co-President, Bonnie Goldman, Esq.
  • Jim Parker: Chair Caning Demonstration (Part 2)

February 2023

  • History Revisited – One Person’s Telling of the Voting Rights Act
  • Jim Parker: Chair Caning Demonstration (Part 1)
  • DBA’s Chocolate Walk

January 2023

  • The Nuts and Bolts of Tall Clocks

November 2022

  • DBA’s Holiday Market: Friday Dec. 2, Friday, Dec 9th, and Friday, Dec 16th. The BHS will has lots of items to sell.
  • Visions of Bordentown Virtual Art
  • DBA’s Chocolate Walk Friday Dec 2nd. The BHS will be participating and once again will be serving delicious home made chocolate treats.
  • Lecture by Tom Frascella entitled “Joseph Bonaparte, Giovanni Sartori and the Mystery of the Bonaparte Jewels”
  • Bordentown Architectural Tour with Margaret Westfield
  • Slide show on sister city signing ceremony that was held on October 15th in France
  • Gilder House Cleanup

October 2022

  • Charlotte Bonaparte (portrayed by Stacy La Mel) visited our Joseph Bonaparte Exhibit.
  • Live streaming of Sister City Signing Ceremony with Mortefontaine at the Chateau de Mortefontaine, France
  • Lecture by Professor Thomas Ombrello on “Napoleon’s Weeping Willow and the Historic Tree Project”
  • Meet Louisa Adams portrayed by Leann Testerman and Charlotte Bonaparte portrayed by Stacy Lamell.
    Learn some “1st person” history from our talented performers!

September 2022

  • Lecture by Gregg Perry, Conservator, on American Empire Furniture

August 2022

  • Peter Tucci Lecture

July 2022

  • BHS Blueberry Social 

June 2022

  • The BHS’s Annual Garden Tour 

May 2022

  • Grand Opening of the BHS Joseph Bonaparte Exhibit and Book Signing by Patricia Stroud 

April 2022

  • Book Debut and Signing by Mystery Novelist Arthur Cola 
  • Joseph Bonaparte Exhibit 

March 2022

  • Suffrage Talk by Nancy Kennedy 

February 2022

  • Bordentown City Chocolate Walk 

December 2021

  • Clara Barton – An American Life by Kevin Patti 
  • Clara Barton 200th Birthday Celebration 
  • Bordentown City’s Downtown Bordentown Association’s Chocolate Walk 

November 2021

  • Angel of the Battlefield – Clara Barton’s Humanitarian Efforts During and After the Civil War 
  • BHS 2nd ANNUAL VIRTUAL ART SHOW AND SALE: “VISIONS OF BORDENTOWN” 

September 2021

  • Harrowing History 

June 2021

  • ANNUAL GARDEN TOUR 

May 2021

  • CLARA BARTON: IN HER OWN WORDS 

October 2020

  • General Membership Meeting 

September 2020

  • Visions of Bordentown Online Art Show 
  • Monthly Business Meeting 
  • Harrowing History 

July 2020

  • Annual General Meeting 
  • Blueberry Social 

June 2020

  • Annual Garden Tour 

April 2020

  • House of Worship Walk 

March 2020

  • Military Chaplains – Yesterday and Today