There’s no better site to reconstruct the last Ice Age’s epic retreat 14,000 years ago. And here, in 1857, was discovered America’s most famous freshwater pearl – a 93-grain prize that would shape the fate of Charles Tiffany and the wife of Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie, not to mention a carpenter named Jacob Quakenbush. And then there’s its dramatic origin story followed by its recent rescue, thanks to avid activism and a five-million-dollar technological feat. The Bonsal Wildlife Preserve Conservancy presents the best kept secret that the Montclair community loves to brag about!

Jonathan Grupper is a non-fiction television producer, director, and writer who has lived in Montclair for almost 30 years and is the President of the Bonsal Wildlife Preserve Conservancy.

This is a free program held on zoom, register for the zoom link here.