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A speaker from the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts will speak on emergency planning for dramatic weather patterns that threaten your collection or even your museum itself. Have you planned for storm driven higher tides and/or flooding? How about damage from tornadoes? Hurricanes? This session will help you identify and plan for perils to your organization’s assets. Showing of Changing Tides followed by a tour of the A.J. Meerwald, New Jersey’s official tall ship. Discussion of the new oyster industry followed by a tour of the 1904 Oyster Shipping Sheds and the Delaware Bay Museum. For a complete schedule and a registration form, visit the League website www.lhsnj.org and click on the News & Events tab, Spring Meeting. | Date & Time: April 5, 2025- event STARTS at 9am. | More information and registration.

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MOORESTOWN, NJ — The award-winning, non-profit Moorestown Theater Company (MTC) will continue its 23rd Season with its annual all-ages 'Main Stage' musical, "Bye Bye Birdie", eight times at First Methodist Church (FMC), 446 E. Camden Avenue, on these dates and times: Wednesday, July 23 @ 7 PM / ‘Gold’ Cast with Burlington County Commissioner Tyler Burrell playing ‘The Mayor of Sweet Apple, OH’ Thursday, July 24 @ 7 PM / ‘Black’ Cast with MTC Producing Artistic Director Mark Morgan playing ‘The Mayor of Sweet Apple, OH’ Friday, July 25 @ 7 PM / ‘Gold’ Cast with MTC Producing Artistic Director Mark Morgan playing ‘The Mayor of Sweet Apple, OH’ Saturday, July 26 @ 2 PM / ‘Black’ Cast with Moorestown Councilperson Christopher Keating playing ‘The Mayor of Sweet Apple, OH’ Sunday, July 27 @ 2 PM / ‘Gold’ Cast with Moorestown Councilperson Christopher Keating playing ‘The Mayor of Sweet Apple, OH’ Tuesday, July 29 @ 7 PM / ‘Black’ Cast with Burlington County Commissioner Tyler Burrell playing ‘The Mayor of Sweet Apple, OH’ Wednesday, July 30 @ 7 PM / ‘Gold’ Cast with Moorestown Mayor Quinton Law playing ‘The Mayor of Sweet Apple, OH’ Thursday, July 31 @ 7 PM / ‘Black’ Cast with Moorestown Mayor Quinton Law playing ‘The Mayor of Sweet Apple, OH’ Reserved-Seat Tickets (in our newly-purchased black-padded chairs) are available online at www.MoorestownTheaterCompany.org for $13 per ticket ($18 for the first three rows) until three hours before 'Curtain Time' (when we have to close down to print seating lists for that performance) or at the door one hour before each curtain time (where they are $15 and $20, so buy ahead of time!). The musical will run approximately two and a half hours, including intermission, and it is appropriate for audience members of all ages. The Tony Award Winning and Oscar nominated "Bye Bye Birdie" has a 69-member all-ages Cast of 6- to 76-year-olds, plus a 13-piece live Orchestra. In "Bye Bye Birdie", the Cast will bring to life the well-known characters from Mike Stewarts’s book of the 1960 Broadway musical, including the title character of ‘Conrad Birdie’, ‘Albert Peterson’, ‘Rose Alvarez’, ‘Mae Peterson’, ‘Kim MacAfee’, ‘Harry MacAfee’, ‘Doris MacAfee’, ‘Randolph MacAfee’, ‘Hugo Peabody’, ‘Ursula Merkle’, and all of the adults, teens, and children of Sweet Apple, Ohio. The lyrics for this classic musical from Broadway’s ‘Golden Age’ are by Lee Adams, and the music is by Charles Strouse, who just passed away earlier this year at 99-years-old. The score includes great songs like "The Telephone Hour”, “Put On A Happy Face”, “One Boy”, “Honestly Sincere”, “Hymn For A Sunday Evening (Ed Sullivan)”, “One Last Kiss”, “A Lot Of Livin’ To Do”, and “Kids”, among others. "Bye Bye Birdie" will be presented for the first time in Moorestown and is the 31st production, and 20th musical, that MTC is performing in its new theater home in FMC’s Fellowship Hall since November 2022. FMC has now hosted the second-most MTC productions in its 23-year history (trailing only the 78 performed at Hope Community Church). MTC has these ‘stats’ in its 23-year history: 2024: 66 performances of 13 productions by 526 performers 2025: 33 performances of 08 productions by 244 performers 23 Years: 1,101 performances of 244 productions by 10,231 performers The Production Staff for "Bye Bye Birdie" includes Producers Mark Morgan and Carol Ann Murray, Director Mark Morgan, Vocal Director Mark Pinzur Duffy, Choreographer Lizi Baldwin, Costume Director Thom Sirkot, Technical Director Scotty Minieri, and Stage Manager Joe Barcia. MTC, which still has seven more productions in its 23rd Season this year, which are all listed on its website, has received these recent awards: - January ’25: ‘Excellence In Dance’ Award presented to the Cast of “Alice In Wonderland JR.” at the iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, GA (our first ‘Dance’ Award, and 10th overall, after seven ‘Acting’ and two ‘Music’ Awards) - January ’25: ‘Freddie G Fellowship’ Award presented to MTC’s Founding Producing Director Mark Morgan at the iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, GA - March ’25: ‘40 Fabulous Females’ Award presented to MTC’s Founding Managing Director Carol Ann Murray by Donnelly Media at the Camden County Boat House - June '25: 'Twink Lynch Organizational Achievement Award' presented by the American Association of Community Theater at its national Theater Festival (AACT Fest) in Des Moines, IA - July ’25: ‘Freddie G Fellowship Award’ presented to Mark Morgan by Music Theatre International and iTheatrics in New York City, NY Questions about Disney’s "Bye Bye Birdie", or about MTC in general, can be answered by calling 856 / 778-8357, or by visiting www.MoorestownTheaterCompany.org.

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Live Music by John Keith Davis Salem River Inn 91 Salem Country Club Road Salem NJ 6:30pm-7:45pm sharp  FREE & All are welcome  BRING A FRIEND  Interdenominational  Complimentary cold bottled water  Running Late? Leaving Early? NO PROBLEM at all  Multitaskers welcome – bring knitting, silent phone, book, etc.  NOTHING for sale at this event & no sign-ups  Check out FREE “GOSPEL STUFF” Table & select a gift  Sit or stroll, inside or out, it’s up to you  An offering will be received for Cornerstone Women's Resource Center Event info: (856) 935-6376, www.pantinghart.org Venue info: www.salemriverinn.com

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CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION, CRIMSON & CLOVER, MONY MONY, I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW, HANKY PANKY, SWEET CHERRY WINE, MIRAGE, DRAGGIN' THE LINE, THREE TIMES IN LOVE just a few of the many hits... 23 gold singles, 9 platinum albums and over 100 million records sold worldwide... 32 BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART HITS... BMI lauded Tommy for his success with the presentation of a FIVE MILLION - AIR AWARD for his songs being played more than 21 million times on air. Tommy's songs have been featured in over 108 TV shows, over 95 films and numerous commercials... Numerous artists around the world have and continue to cover his songs... BILLY IDOL, JOAN JETT, PRINCE, SANTANA, BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG, KELLY CLARKSON, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, TOM JONES, CHER and even THE BOSTON POPS... you can check a complete list on tommyjames.com Tommy's autobiography, ME, THE MOB, AND THE MUSIC was listed in the TOP 25 MEMOIRS by Rolling Stone Magazine. The prestigious NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME inducted Tommy with the award presented by his friend Stevie Van Zandt... Tommy's life-like hologram can be viewed at the NJHOF EXHIBIT HALL at AMERICAN DREAM in New Jersey, his images can be seen with other New Jersey celebrities at numerous rest area buildings along the New Jersey Garden State Parkway, and his wardrobe from the 60s is on display at THE ROCK N' ROLL HALL OF FAME... Tommy also received THE PITTSBURGH LEGEND AWARD, THE JUKEBOX ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD and was inducted into THE LAS VEGAS ENTERTAINERS HALL OF FAME. Tommy is now enjoying great success with his own radio show on SIRIUS/XM channel 73 60S GOLD every Sunday night 5-8PM est. - GETTIN' TOGETHER WITH TOMMY JAMES. After 10 years, a new album was released entitled ALIVE with two tracks hitting the BILLBOARD AC CHART and TOM JONES recorded the track I’M ALIVE from that album - a new compilation album entitled ROCK PARTY is also enjoying success with the fans. Now entering his 51st year in the music business, Tommy continues to tour the USA, and now in between tour dates and his radio show, his publishing company SONY asked him to produce and record music for films... at 78, he is stronger and more popular than ever before!! You can get more info on his website tommyjames.com and he can be followed on Facebook, Instagram and X...

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This program explores the connection between bird calls, nature, and the supernatural. Rameau’s Tendres Plaintes evokes sighing, melancholic gestures, while Le Rappel des Oiseaux explores birdsong through elaborate ornamentations, idiosyncratic to the French baroque keyboard style. In Olivier Messiaen’s Petites Esquisses d’Oiseaux, robins, blackbirds, thrushes, and skylarks emerge in vivid, crystalline textures. Schumann’s Waldszenen transports the listener to a forest, where nature is imbued with both beauty and mystery. Among these poetic vignettes, Vogel als Prophet stands out as an enigmatic prophecy delivered through the voice of a bird. The program concludes with Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 2, a work that embodies what the pianist and scholar Boris Berman refers to as polypersonalia —a paradoxical blend of soaring lyricism, aggressive brutality, cabaret-like parody, and mechanical precision. The third movement draws upon the rich tradition of skazki, or Russian mystical fairy tales, reminiscent of the music of Prokofiev’s older Russian contemporaries, such as Rimsky-Korsakov and Medtner. Through these selections of works, the program traverses a vast landscape of nature’s wonders, supernatural whispers, and human imagination. This event is funded by the Ocean County College Foundation.

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