Lawrence History Month Speakers Win Book Awards

Last Updated on Thursday, 14 October 2010 08:23 Written by Dennis Waters Thursday, 14 October 2010 08:23

A quick note of congratulations to Maxine Lurie, Michael Siegel, Richard Veit, and Mark Nonestied. All four spoke at Lawrence History Month events sponsored by the Lawrence Historical Society, and all four have just received book awards from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance:

• Lurie and Siegel presented the annual Mary Tanner Lecture, “400 Years of Mapping New Jersey,” at Rider University on October 10th. Their book Mapping New Jersey: An Evolving Landscape won the 2010 NJSAA Author’s Award in the Reference Category.
• Veit and Nonestied gave the talk “New Jersey Tombstone Carvings” at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System on October 13th. Their book New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape won a 2010 NJSAA Author’s Award in the Non-fiction Scholarly Category.

Congratulations again to our speakers. Thank you for joining us for Lawrence History Month.