2010 Pictorial Calendar

Click the link below to order the 2010 Pictorial Calendar from the Lawnside Historical Society:

2010 calendar

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

To observe Black History Month, the Lawnside Historical Society, Inc., will screen “A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School” on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Lawnside Borough Hall, 4 Douglas Ave., Lawnside.  The event is free and open to the public.

This one-hour documentary by HudsonWest Productions, tells the story of this northern state-run boarding school modeled on Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute.  The school, which offered academic, vocational and military training, closed in the 1950s in response to school desegregation. Legendary actress Ruby Dee narrates.

The screening will feature a chat with spouses Lionel and Betty Hunter, president and founder of the Bordentown School Social Club, an alumni association. The Hunters of Lakewood, N.J., appear in the film as they help organize annual reunions of alumni and their descendants.

“We hope people from the area who graduated from or attended the Bordentown School and their families will come out and eventually support the alumni group,” Raymond L. Fussell said. He is a Society member and former student at Bordentown. “I went to the school and there are things I learned from the film that I never knew.”

Linda Shockley said the values the staff taught and the philosophy students learned shaped their lives and their sense of community.  “I think the school has a message for this generation and those to come.”

The spacious campus is now the site of a juvenile detention center.

For information, call the Lawnside Historical Society at 856-546-8850 or visit our Web site at www.petermotthouse.org.

Click the link below to download the informational flyer:

bordentownschool release

Pursuing the Dream/Then and Now!

Lawnside Town Watch presents “Pursuing the Dream/Then and Now on February 13, 2010 at the Lawnside Municipal Building. Click the link for additional information:

Pursuing the Dream

Kwanzaa Celebration

Click the link below for information about the annual Kwanzaa Celebration:

kwanzaa celebration 2009

Heritage Day

Heritage Day in Lawnsided is the last Saturday in June. 

http://www.nathanielturner.com/historiclawnside.htm

Bring your family this year and celebrate with us.

 

Winter Concert

The Lawnside Music Studio presents a Winter Concert on Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 4:00pm.

Click the link for additional information:

winter concert 2009

A True History of Lawnside by Charles C. Smiley

The spirit of Lawnside is to “play hard but fair”.  Sometimes folks like to play hard, but ignore fair play; sometimes folks like fair play, but not try hard to succeed, neither of which is inherited Lawnside spirit. We have come from obscure darkness into this present light on this plafform. Can we proceed or must we discontinue and indorse another?

Click the link below for the entire story and vision of Charles C. Smiley

history of lawnside

Four Week Summer Program

Four Week Summer Program
Group sessions in keyboard, voice, guitar, winds and recorder. Guest musicians. Music appreciation.

July 6, 2009 to July 31, 2009
Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm
Please have children bring light lunch (no hot lunch or glass bottles)
Lunch at McDonalds (Wednesdays and Fridays only, send $3.00 per child)

120 LaPierre Avenue (between White Horse Pike and Warwick Road)

Ages 3 years to 15 years

Ms. Michael Mae Irons
Lawnside Music Studio
PO Box 154
Lawnside, NJ 08045
856-784-2931

Lawnside Music Studio does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national and/or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions, scholarship and grant programs.

The Seven Last Words of Christ

The Lawnside Music Studio cordially invites you, your friends and family to their Easter Musical: The Seven Last Words of Christ on April 9, 2009 at 6pm.

Soloist: Chester A. Ridley (tenor), Kenneth Scriber (bass, baritone), Michael Mae Irons (soprano) and Cheryl M. Hazard (soprano).

Excerpts from “Jesus Christ Superstar”–Lawnside Students
Selected Easter Spirituals
Praise Dancer
Free Will Offering
Light Refreshments Served

Location:
Democratic Club
326 Charleston Avenue
Lawnside, NJ 08045
(across from the Lawnside Public School)
lawnsidemusicstudio@yahoo.com

Discussion About What The Bible Says About Marriage

Grace Temple Baptist Church presents, “What The Bible Says About, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage.

The Department of Christian Education presents a seminar on what the Bible says about marriage, divorce and remarriage on Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 9:00am to 12:00pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Sign up in the Church Narthex or call 856-546-6130.