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HISTORICAL SOCIETY FALL FESTIVAL 2001
Photography by Hoag Levins
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CAMDEN, N.J. (Oct. 29, 2001) -- The Camden County Historical Society Fall Festival included a variety of activities for children. In an educational crafts room, youngsters were provided glue and all the parts needed to make a clothes pin bat (above, left), and they could also decorate their own pumpkin (above, right).
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In the open-hearth kitchen of the Historical Society's 18th-century mansion, Pomona Hall, children punched out the holes in donut dough (above, left), then watched as the cook's assistant fried the donut in a skillet of hot oil over glowing embers (above, right). Then the donut was shaken in a paper bag filled with cinammon and sugar before being eaten.
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Two busloads of Fall Festival visitors took the tour of historic Harleigh Cemetery. Here, some inspect the ornate mausoleum of the Sumner family (above, left) and a bronze grave cover of Camden Civil War General William J. Sewell (above, right), who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and organized the New Jersey National Guard.
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In the Historical Society's Boyer auditorium, South Jersey Ghost Research co-director Dave Juliano (above, left) displayed photos (above, right) showing smoke-like "ectoplasm." The group believes ectoplasm is a residue left by spirits as they move around the spaces they haunt.
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