Drake House Museum
602 West Front Street
Plainfield, N.J. 07060
(908) 755-5831
The Historical Society of Plainfield is once again open to the public.
FOURTEENTH
ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING Ceremony
Friday, December 4, 2009
8:30 p.m.
(Immediately following the City of Plainfield’s Tree Lighting)
The Fourteenth Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony will feature stories and favorite holiday carols. Special raffle prizes will be awarded during the festive evening and refreshments
will be served. This
year's Gingerbread House will once again be generously sponsored
by The Burney Group, one of our local community-minded real estate offices. The program is free to the public.
Children are welcome to participate and Santa Claus will make a surprise visit. In addition to the big tree in the ballroom, there are three theme trees in the period rooms.
Currently on exhibit
Plainfield:
Then and Now
A Photography
Exhibit
This exhibit, on
loan from the Plainfield Public Library, represents 5 of the 24 groupings originally exhibited in the Plainfield Public Library's
Anne Louise Davis Gallery March 7 - April 30,2009.
I t was created by Plainfield resident
Joseph Stuczynski through a HEART grant administered by the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders
We are having our annual
Tree Lighting Ceremony on December 4th. Bring the children, Santa Claus will be at the Drake House Museum.
Call (908) 755-5831 for details
thedrakehousemuseum@verizon.net
The Historical Society of Plainfield received funding from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of
Cultural Affairs in the Department of State through a grant administered by the Union County Division of Cultural and Heritage
Affairs, the City of Plainfield, the Plainfield Cultural and Heritage Commission, McCutchen Foundation, the Plainfield Foundation,
the Union Foundation, EJ Grassmann Trust, the Pond Foundation and the New Jersey Cultural Trust Fund.
"THE
TRAVELING TRUNK" exhibition can be brought to your class or community group.
