Advance registration is required. Deadline for registration is October 16, 2026.
9:15 Registration and Coffee
9:45 Welcoming Remarks. Mary Habstritt, RCSIA President.
10:00 The Past and Future of New Jersey's Own Nuclear Ship Savannah. Anne Jennings & Erhard Koehler, U.S. Maritime Administration.
10:30 "Impelled by Steam" - Col. John Stevens and the Rise of the American Steamboat. Ted Houghtaling, Archivist & Digital Projects Librarian, Samuel C. Williams Library, Stevens Institute of Technology.
11:00 Battleship New Jersey's First Drydocking as a Museum. Ryan Szimanski, Deputy Executive Director–Curatorial & Education, Battleship New Jersey.
11:30 Regenerating Industry Buildings for New Workspace in Trenton. Nina Rappaport, Kean University School of Public Architecture.
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Screening: Made in Brooklyn. 1994 documentary on manufacturing in Brooklyn and the tension between the need for jobs and the need for residential development.
2:00 Making of Made in Brooklyn. Isabel Hill, Founder of Building History Productions
2:30 What Happened to the Morris Canal? John Prieto, Canal Society of New Jersey archivist.
3:00 The Industrial History of Jamaica Bay. Lia De Feo, licensed NYC tour guide, amateur historian, and writer of Fly Bravely, a Substack newsletter about New York City.
3:30 History of Transportation in the Phillipsburg to Washington and Port Murray Corridor. Captain Bill McKelvey, Treasurer, Chairman Emeritus, Liberty Historic Railway, Inc.
4:00 14 Styles of Railroad Tracks Built by the Camden & Amboy Railroad During 1831-1838. Pierre Lacombe, Hydrogeologist, U.S. Geological Survey (retired).
4:30 Wrap-up & announcements
