(Haledon, NJ—November 3, 2014) The American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark has selected the writings of two High Tech students, Jersey City resident Mously Lo and Eleanore Woodruff of Weehawken, to be featured in the book, New Jersey Workers Then & Now: Celebrating New Jersey’s 350th Anniversary, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School.
Targeting students third through twelfth grade, the American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark’s Writing Contest invited students to share their creative talents and unique ideas to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Garden State. Students like Lo and Woodruff had to choose a contemporary New Jersey worker and compare his or her workplace experience to the same type of worker from days past. Projects appeared as original essays or poems for consideration in New Jersey Workers Then & Now: Celebrating New Jersey’s 350th Anniversary.The American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark invited Lo and Woodruff, as well as their teachers, families, and friends, to the unveiling ceremony for the book at the Museum on October 17th, sponsored in part by the Passaic County Educational Association (PCEA).
