Sunday is "Be Our Guest Day" at Area Attractions

The Morris County Park Commission's has nine sites that will be taking part in "Be Our Guest Day," Sunday, May 15, from noon until 5 p.m. Enjoy free admission to the sites on this list, provided by the Park Commission:

1. Acorn Hall, 68 Morris Avenue, Morristown, www.acornhall.org. Headquarters of the Morris County Historical Society and a Victorian Italianate mansion decorated largely with furnishings from the two families who lived there between 1853 and 1971; it also has changing exhibits and a garden with period features.
2. Community Children's Museum, 77 East Blackwell Street in Dover, www.communitychildrensmuseum.org. A hands-on children's museum for children 10 and younger focusing on art, science, and world cultures.
3. Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, 73 Kahdena Road, Morristown,www.morrisparks.net. A restored working dairy cattle farm portraying life in the early 20th century through costumed living history, farming, and domestic skills demonstrations, and tours of the Foster family’s circa 1852 Gothic Revival house.
4. Historic Speedwell, 333 Speedwell Avenue, Morristown, www.morrisparks.net The “Birthplace of the Telegraph,” telling the story of the Vail family and their role in the early days of the Industrial Revolution and in the development of the telegraph, through hands-on exhibits, guided tours, and special event weekends.
5. Macculloch Hall Historical Museum and Gardens, 45 Macculloch Avenue, Morristown, www.maccullochhall.org. An elegant historic house and decorative arts museum comprising ten period rooms and four exhibit galleries, two of which are devoted to the largest collection of cartoonist Thomas Nast’s works in the country.
6. Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, www.morrismuseum.org. A museum dedicated to art, science, theater, and history, and home to the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.
7. Morristown National Historical Park/Washington’s Headquarters, 30 Washington Place, Morristown, www.nps.gov/morr A national park preserving sites of the Continental Army's encampment and the headquarters of General George Washington during the winters of 1777 and 1779–80.
8. Museum of Early Trades & Crafts, 9 Main Street, Madison, www.metc.org. A museum exploring 18th- and 19th-century American history, with a focus on New Jersey, drawing on its collection of over 8,000 hand tools and their products to interpret the lives and technologies of men and women who lived and worked before the rise of large-scale industrialization in this country.
9. The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, 2352 Route 10-West, Morris Plains, www.stickleymuseum.org. A National Historic Landmark, this 1911 log house is the former home of noted turn-of-the-century designer Gustav Stickley, a major proponent of the American Arts and Crafts movement in home building and furnishing.

A free shuttle will be available between some of the locations.