Historians John C. Smith and W. Barry Thomson present lectures on two of the area's most notable estates - Blairsden & Natirar

Please join us for a special event

Sponsored by the Peapack-Gladstone Library

on

Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.

at

Greene Hall, St. Luke's Church

182 Main Street, Gladstone, New Jersey, 07934

Smith and Thomson will speak at 2:00pm on May 12th at St. Luke's Church in Peapack. Their lectures will cover the history and current states of Blairsden, the private estate built by investment banker and entrepreneur C. Ledyard Blair, and Natirar, an estate built by Walter Graeme Ladd and his wife, Catherine Everit Macy Ladd.

This lecture is the third in a series, part of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Peapack & Gladstone. The town is celebrating its first 100 years since it separated from the township of Bedminster and was incorporated into its own township on April 23rd, 1912.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP if you are able to join us! Click here to register online or call the library at 908-234-0598.

Patrons with further questions can call SCLS at 908-234-0598 or enter the website at http://www.sclsnj.org.  The Somerset County Library System has branches in Bridgewater, Bound Brook, Hillsborough, at the Mary Jacobs Library in Rocky Hill, North Plainfield, Peapack & Gladstone, Somerville, Warren Township and Watchung.