VIDEOS
Below are videos we have recently added to our YouTube channel. Check the channel often to see more videos that will be added.
"Big League Baseball in a Small Town: The Negro Leagues & St. Louis Cardinals Visit Metuchen" on July 19, 2026.
Metuchen-Edison Historical Society 's "Big League Baseball in a Small Town: The Negro Leagues & St. Louis Cardinals Visit Metuchen" presented by Baseball Historian Dr. Richard Puerzer on July 19, 2026 at 1:00pm at the Metuchen YMCA, 65 High Street, Metuchen, NJ. Dr. Richard Puerzer is an associate professor and chairperson of the Department of Engineering at Hofstra University. He received a 2025 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award and his writing on baseball has appeared in numerous SABR books, including Bittersweet Goodbye: The Black Barons, The Grays, and the 1948 Negro League World Series (2017) and Pride of Smoketown: The 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords (2020), as well as in Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture; Black Ball; The National Pastime; The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture proceedings; Zisk; and Spitball. Many thanks to Alex Reisig of the Metuchen YMCA and Jennifer Warren (Metuchen-Edison Historical Society Archivist) for their assistance with this program, and to the Borough Improvement League for the refreshments.This short movie was produced in 1929 by Supreme Productions Company out of Red Bank, New Jersey, under the direction of D.B. Dorn, as a promotional film to show the advantages of living and doing business in Metuchen. It shows schools, businesses, homes, and organizations all within a plot line involving "Charlie," who comes to Metuchen and meets "Jean," falls in love and rescues her from a fire. They soon wed and move into a home, but will the romance last?!?
The Metuchen Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, and Borough were all involved in its making, with filming taking place in early January 1929. It was shown at The Forum Theatre, which had been constructed a few months earlier. Much of the original movie is sadly lost, but these 30 minutes give a good idea of what was included.
Music and additional subtitles have been added by the Borough Improvement League with assistance from the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society.
The film, "Metuchen 1976," was commissioned by the Metuchen Bicentennial Commission, with filming under the direction of Andy Jacobs and Bruce Bergelson, and funding provided by the Metuchen Bicentennial Commission and other Metuchen organizations. The original film is preserved in the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society's Grimstead archives, and this recently digitized version was likewise funded by the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society. The film, all of its content, and in all formats, is the property of the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society (http://www.metuchen-edisonhistsoc.org/).
Metuchen 1992
The video is titled Metuchen, New Jersey and it is presented by the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society. Pictures and slides are from the collections in the Grimstead Room of the Metuchen Public Library that were compiled by Phyllis Boeddinghaus, Ellen Miller, and Marie Vajo. The video is narrated by Rosemary Crowley and filmed by Henry Charles Studios, 523 Plainfield Avenue, Edison, NJ in May 1992. The film, all of its content, and in all formats, is the property of the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society (http://www.metuchen-edisonhistsoc.org/).
2021 Annual Meeting and Program
Metuchen-Edison Historical Society Annual Meeting and Presentation on April 15, 2021, featuring Todd DeFeo's presentation about the Northeast Corridor line.
2025 Annual Meeting and Program
Metuchen-Edison
Historical Society Annual Meeting and Presentation on January 11, 2025,
featuring World War II Film Reels.