Tag: Sourland Mountain

  • Local museum creates educational Black history resources for New Jersey schools

    Local museum creates educational Black history resources for New Jersey schools

    Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) board member Kevin Burkman delivered a detailed, poster-sized map of Black history sites in the Sourland Mountain region to Village Elementary School in Skillman as part of the museum’s educational outreach program. Montgomery, Hopewell Valley, Princeton and Hillsborough school districts, as well as the Princeton Day School, also received…

  • Opinion: Save the Sourlands

    Opinion: Save the Sourlands

    I was having coffee with a friend once, and she said, “I’m not a birder. Why should I care about birds?” I said, “You love coffee, so you must love birds!”  The brilliant scarlet tanager spends winter in Central and South America. Like lots of colorful songbirds, she spends her winter vacation in the dense…