Rosemary Hilbert, professor of English at Caldwell University, will present “The Battle of Connecticut Farms” at 2 pm on Sunday, April 30, at Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church, 888 Stuyvesant Avenue. The event will be hosted by the Union Township Historical Society, as part of its commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the settlement of Connecticut Farms—aka the Township of UnionMs. Hilbert’s talk will be based on one that she gave last year at Washington’s Headquarters in Morristown for the North Jersey American Revolution Roundtable, of which she is a board member. She will demonstrate—through photos and maps the routes taken by Patriot forces on June 7, 1780, to prevent the British Army and its Hessian allies from reaching Gen. George Washington and his troops encamped in Morristown. Anyone familiar with Union’s geography will recognize the areas around Galloping Hill Road, Colonial Avenue, Morris Avenue, and Vauxhall Road—to name a few.Miss Hilbert, a Union resident, holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. She is the author of a biography of Katharine Gibbs, the founder of the Katharine Gibbs Schools and a partner in the On-Q Court Reporting Agency. Ms. Hilbert is president of historic Woodland Cemetery in Newark, and a member of the Washington Association of New Jersey.
Refreshments will follow the presentation. Admission is free. For more information, call Barbara La Mort at 908-687-0048.
(above) Artist Larry Felder’s depiction of a scene from the Battle of Connecticut Farms. The painting is on display at the Caldwell Parsonage, 909 Caldwell Avenue, Union.
