All programs take
place at the monthly meetings of the Society, held at the Medford 14 Union Street ,
Medford ,
NJ
08055
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 7:30 pm
Goodwill: The Flight of Emilio
Carranza
Video by Robert A. Emmons, Jr. (Rutgers University)
The dramatic story of pioneering pilot Emilio Carranza is retold in this award-winning video by Robert A. Emmons, Jr. Carranza was the great nephew of Mexican President Venustaino Carranza and an aviator who was a national hero in his country just as Charles Lindbergh was in the United States. In 1928 he undertook a goodwill flight to New York in response to one Lindbergh had made from New York to Mexico City. The outcome made Pine Barrens history.
Robert A. Emmons Jr. is a digital documentary filmmaker focusing on American popular culture of the area. “Goodwill,” his latest film, has had the privilege to be screened as part of the Smithsonian
exhibition Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement at the New Jersey Historical Society. It won “Best Homegrown Documentary Feature” at the 2008 Garden State Film Festival. In 2009 he received Mexico’s Lindbergh-Carranza International Goodwill Award as a “Messenger
of Peace” for his work on “Goodwill.” Emmons teaches film, new media, and comics history at Rutgers University-Camden where he is also the Associate Director of the Honors College.
Thursday, June 10, 2010, 7:30 pm
HISTORIC BURLINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS
Slide show by Joe Laufer
Renowned
speaker and historian Joe Laufer uses old pictures and memorable tales
to introduce fourteen historic Burlington County school houses. Many of
these schools, including Medford’s Cross Keys School, are quintessential
one-room buildings from the early days of formal education.
Joe Laufer was appointed Burlington County’s official historian in 2003.
Over the past thirty years he has delivered hundreds of lectures on a
variety of historical topics to local, regional and even national
groups. He is a member of the National Speakers and Liberty Speakers
Associations and is listed in Who’s Who in Professional Speaking. Joe is
also the president of the H. B. Smith Industrial Village Conservancy and
a member of the Board of the Jack Allen Memorial Country Living Museum.
A resident of Vincentown, he is past president of the Southampton
Historical Society and has served on the Board of Trustees of the
Burlington County Historical Society.