Post by Michael on Mar 1, 2012 20:11:36 GMT -5
Sunday, March 4 - Middlesex County
THE FERRY SLIP MUSEUM
300 Front Street
Perth Amboy, New Jersey
The Perth Amboy Ferry Slip Museum is pleased to announce that Lloyd C. Gardner, Ph.D., Professor of History at Rutgers University, distinguished lecturer, American historian and author and editor of 16 books, will be guest speaker the March 4, 2012 at 2 PM. To comfortably accommodate attendees, this event will be held in the theater of the new Perth Amboy YMCA located at 357 New Brunswick Avenue, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861.
Following the presentation complimentary light refreshments will be served.
A $5.00 donation is requested.
The YMCA is located on the municipal building at the corner of Amboy Avenue (leading from Woodbridge) and New Brunswick Avenue (leading from Edison and Fords). It is easily accessible from the NJ Turnpike (Exit 11) and the GS parkway S. (exit 129) as well as Route 287-440 and Rt. 9 north and south.
Professor Gardner will speak on the topic "The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping," also the title of his book published by Rutgers University Press. Often called "Crime of the Century," it has also been called "The Biggest Story Since the Resurrection!"
Gardner will describe the case, built mostly with circumstantial evidence, and the important role Perth Amboy resident David T. Wilentz, then Attorney General of New Jersey and chief prosecutor at the 1935 Lindbergh kidnapping trial, played in the often-disputed execution of Bruno Hauptmann in the electric chair, April 3, 1936. For many years David T. Wilentz and his
distinguished family resided in the grand and impeccably restored 1908 Colonial Revival house at the corner of High Street and Harrison Place.
Perth Amboy Ferry Slip Museum "Sunday Series" lectures are designed to raise public awareness of the importance of Perth Amboy's history, its structures and its residents. The public is invited to attend.
For further information contact Don Peck at 732-738-5522 or clausenco@aol.com.