New exhibit highlights the Township\u2019s most signficant history

Top: A new exhibit “Deal Test Site: 100 Years of History” opened in the Our Town Gallery on Holiday Weekend, December 1 and 2. Bottom: Cousins Thomas and Sarah Taylor (left) and Julianna Slick (right) played Woolley family members and entertained guests with stories and song.

The Museum’s Holiday Open House, December 1 and 2, once again featured the premiere of a new mini-exhibit in the Our Town Gallery. “Deal Test Site: 100 Years of History” introduced more than 200 visitors to the wireless research and satellite tracking breakthroughs achieved on the land most know today as Joe Palaia Park.

“I visit the park all the time,” said sevenyear-old Pippa Hlatky, “and I didn’t know all these important things happened there!”

The Museum, fully decked out for the holidays, offered a model train layout complete with a display of vintage radios. (Early experiments at Deal Test Site advanced the development of commercial broadcast radio.) The Hearth and Home Gallery was transformed into a hand-crafted gift boutique

and homemade goodies bakery. Talented young docents brought the Woolley family to life for visitors young and old.

The Deal Test Site exhibit is up through November.

Millie Susman’s winning raffle ticket was drawn the Sunday of the Holiday Open House. Here Millie, longtime Ocean resident and docent in the Museum’s third-grade program, picks up her hand-made quilt.