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Major exhibit opens to the public in the Richmond Gallery, Sunday, June 25
Bringing World War One home
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hough overshadowed by its sequel, World War One had profound and lasting effects on politics, social order, and individual lives. “New Jersey and the Great War: Local Stories of World War One,� the exhibit opening to the public at the Eden Woolley House, Sunday, June 25, sets out to make that case—with particular emphasis on the people and happenings of our state.
here in Monmouth County. His nemesis during the war years, Alice Paul, was a militant suffragist from Burlington County who labelled the president “Kaiser Wilson.� Her White House picketing and arrest drew national attention and in large part led Wilson to reverse his opposition to the 19th Amendment.
One man’s story
The big picture
Behind the headlines are the stories of people. The exhibit tells, among others, of Joe Marino (born Giuseppe Maranaccio). Joe ended up in Asbury Park, U.S. citizen, father of four, and owner of Marino’s Bar on Main St. But he started life in Accadia, Italy. Italy, originally allied with Germany, remained neutral at the onset of war, then sided with the Allies. Nearly 6 million Italians New Jersey’s role New Jersey’s Alice Paul served—including a teenNew Jersey was an industrial powerhouse that sup- led the successful war-era aged Joe Marino. He was Giuseppe Maranaccio plied the Allies even before we entered the war—and fight for women’s suffrage captured and imprisoned for for that drew the attention of saboteurs. Once in the years in Austria. Near the end of the war, he escaped war, we boosted our manufacturing output. The army built facilities and walked under cover of darkness the hundreds of miles back here that played major roles in the war effort, including Camps Dix, to his village. His sweetheart, assuming him dead, had married. Merritt (a major embarkation base), and Vail (later Fort Monmouth). Heartbroken, Joe moved to Rome where he worked three years to New Jersey supplied two high-profile figures of the war era, save the money to immigrate to the states. most notably, the President himself. Wilson was a former New Join us June 25 to learn more. The new exhibit runs through June 2018. Jersey governor who ran his presidential campaigns from right The Great War reshaped the world. The U.S. emerged a world power. The seeds were sown for the rise of fascism and the spread of communism. Middle Eastern national boundaries were redrawn, fueling ethnic conflicts that continue to threaten. At home, the scope and power of the U.S. government transformed. A national army took over state militias. National security clashed with civil rights. Ethnic tensions grew--as did opposing organizations that either fed or defended against them. Women entered the work force in unprecedented numbers— and developed a irreversible taste for independence.
Opening
New Jersey and the Great War 1 to 4, Sunday, June 25, 2017 The RIchmond Gallery of the Eden Woolley House