Join the Bergen County Historical Society as we celebrate Chwame Gischuch: Under the Shad Moon, The Lenape New Year on Sunday April 16th, 2023, 1 pm-4:30 pm at Historic New Bridge Landing, 1201 Main St, River Edge NJ.

Imagine a distant time when highways were footpaths, the only flights in the sky were flown by animals, and rivers were crystal clear, as we ponder the Prehistoric lifeways of our ancestors and particularly of the place we now call New Bridge Landing.

Observe the methods by which everyday tasks were anchored in Nature, when a good living came directly from animal, vegetable and mineral resources.  Watch wild plants being processed into twine and hear the crack of rocks being fractured and shaped into tools with antler, wood, and other stones.

Primitive technologist Steve Adams offers a discussion and demonstration of the hardware which provided for food, clothing and shelter with comfort in…