February is Black History Month – an opportunity to examine Kenilworth’s early African-American roots. One of the earliest documented African-Americans living here was slave girl Eva Sayre. Born about 1795, she lived, until about 1870, on the former Sayre farm…

If you are at least about age 70 and are a Kenilworth resident since the very early 1950s, you probably recall old Route 29.  But if younger and more recently settled here you might scratch your head and assert, “Route…

Submitted by Walter E. Boright, Ed. D. Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s, an Italian-American organization known as the Society D’Maria our Lady of Mount Carmel Society was a vibrant part of Kenilworth life. Its roots dated back to the…

The Fourth of July Parade in 1925 was declared the “biggest and most successful” in the then 18-year history of the Borough. It is reportedly the first parade in floats upon trucks were in the parade. Hosted by the Kenilworth…