Monday, December 31, 2012
Attendees of the Lawrence Historical Society’s 15th annual Hogmanay bonfire tonight, Dec. 31, will park at the Princeton Pike Corporate Center and walk along the Lawrence Hopewell Trail to the bonfire site at the 1761 Brearley House.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by the Lawrence Historical Society. The Lawrence Historical Society has announced a new parking plan for its 15th annual Hogmanay bonfire to be held on New Year’s Eve (Monday, Dec. 31). For the first time this year, guests will park in the Princeton Pike Corporate Center parking lot, which they will enter at the traffic light at Lenox Drive, 100 yards south of Meadow Road. From the parking lot, they may walk a lighted portion of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail a quarter-mile to the bonfire site or ride in a free shuttle-bus. Firemasters Joe Logan and Tom Ledwith will light the fire at 6 p.m. in the Great Meadow next to the 1761 Brearley House. This hugely popular free event features free …
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Attendees of the Lawrence Historical Society’s 15th annual Hogmanay bonfire on Dec. 31 will park at the Princeton Pike Corporate Center and walk along the Lawrence Hopewell Trail to the bonfire site at the 1761 Brearley House.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by the Lawrence Historical Society. The Lawrence Historical Society has announced a new parking plan for its 15th annual Hogmanay bonfire to be held on New Year’s Eve (Monday, Dec. 31). For the first time this year, guests will park in the Princeton Pike Corporate Center parking lot, which they will enter at the traffic light at Lenox Drive, 100 yards south of Meadow Road. From the parking lot, they may walk a lighted portion of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail a quarter-mile to the bonfire site or ride in a free shuttle-bus. Firemasters Joe Logan and Tom Ledwith will light the fire at 6 p.m. in the Great Meadow next to the 1761 Brearley House. This hugely popular free event features free …
Friday, January 6, 2012
Annual event by the Lawrence Historical Society bids farewell to the old year and welcomes the new year.
Thanks, in part, to the decent weather and the absence of snow of the ground, hundreds of people turned out Saturday, Dec. 31, to the Lawrence Historical Society's Hogmanay Bonfire in the meadow next to the historic Brearley House to bid farewell to 2011 and welcome 2012. The bonfire has been a tradition for the Lawrence Historical Society since 1997. Hogmanay is a Scottish New Year's Eve tradition at which participants celebrate the arrival of the new year and cleanse themselves of all the bad experiences of the previous year. One of the ways Hogmanay participants do this is by writing a list of the bad things from the past year that they want to forget. On Saturday, bonfire attendees were invited to toss their lists into the flames so …
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