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Ocean’s Heritage, Winter 2019
Left: A new exhibit “Deal Test Site: 100 Years of History” opened in the Our Town Gallery on Holiday Weekend, December 1 and 2. Right: Cousins Thomas and Sarah Taylor (left) and Julianna Slick (right) played Woolley family members and entertained guests with stories and song.
New exhibit highlights the Township’s most signficant history
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he Museum’s Holiday Open House, December 1 and 2, once again featured the premiere of a new mini-exhibit in the Our Town Gallery. “Deal Test Site: 100 Years of History” introduced more than 200 visitors to the wireless research and satellite tracking breakthroughs achieved on the land most know today as Joe Palaia Park. “I visit the park all the time,” said sevenyear-old Pippa Hlatky, “and I didn’t know all these important things happened there!” The Museum, fully decked out for the holidays, offered a model train layout com-
plete with a display of vintage radios. (Early experiments at Deal Test Site advanced the development of commercial broadcast radio.) The Hearth and Home Gallery was transformed into a hand-crafted gift bou-
tique and homemade goodies bakery. Talented young docents brought the Woolley family to life for visitors young and old. The Deal Test Site exhibit is up through November.
A full line-up of Hometown Histories interviews
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he complete archive of Hometown Histories, the Museum’s oral/video history program, is available on our website, oceanmuseum.org. (The latest episodes are shown on Ocean TV: Cablevision Channel 77 and FiOS Channel 22). A new Hometown Histories series features the history of communities that once were part of Ocean Township. Shows on Ocean Grove and Interlaken are now available and there are more to come. Check the archives to see Hometown Histories host Dallas Grove interview Eva Wiener, whose story of escaping
Nazi Germany appears on page six of this issue.
Left to right: Ted Bell of Ocean Grove and Bob Waitt of Interlaken await their Hometown Histories interviews.
Call for recipes
Millie Susman’s winning raffle ticket was drawn the Sunday of the Holiday Open House. Here Millie, longtime Ocean resident and docent in the Museum’s third-grade program, picks up her hand-made quilt.
The Museum is publishing a cookbook and we need recipes! Please send us your favorites by May 15. Drop them off at the Museum during regular hours, email them to alicejtimms@live.com, or mail them to the Museum at PO Box 516, Oakhurst, NJ 07755. Looking forward to hearing from all you good cooks out there.
Ocean’s Heritage is published three times a year by the Township of Ocean Historical Museum Museum President, Paul Edelson Newsletter Editor, Peggy Dellinger
