When: 24 Oct 2026 9:15 AM, EDT
Where: Babbio Center, Room 122 Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey

Will you be attending?

EVENT DETAILS:

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

Best regards,
Roebling Chapter SIA__