Virtual Event. Learn the methods of preserving your family’s heirlooms for generations to come! Topics such as photographs, letters, clothing, and other antiques will be covered in this program. All methods will involve material and tools available to non-museum collectors and preservers, allowing anybody to save their family’s treasures! $20; $15 for Montclair History Center members.

On Sunday, July 12 at 2 pm, join the Scotch Plains Public Library staff as garden historian Lesley Parness takes us back to the Colonial Era to introduce the original ‘Real Housewives!’

Kitchen gardens in the 1700s fed, healed, and clothed Early American families. The 18th century “huswife” skill set included “physicke, cookery, distillation, perfumery, the ...