{"id":1744,"date":"2021-05-27T04:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T04:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2021-05-27T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T04:15:11","slug":"war-of-the-worlds-monument-in-grovers-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/war-of-the-worlds-monument-in-grovers-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"War of the Worlds Monument in Grover’s Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, I was looking for Brood X cicadas<\/a> in West Windsor Township, New Jersey. I visited Van Nest Park and Ronald Roger’s Arboretum in West Windsor, as well as the Lenape Trail & Waters Edge Park in nearby Plainsboro.<\/p>\n

Of all the local parks, Van Nest Park had the best abundance of cicadas. Van Nest Park, located in the unincorporated community Grover’s Mills ( located within West Windsor Township), is home to a metallic monument to the 1938 War of the World’s radio broadcast by Orson Welles. Welles’ radio play told the story of a Martian invasion of Earth — and people thought it was real! In the story, the Martians invaded Grover’s Mill. Orson’s story was remade into at least two movies and Orson went on to be a famous and successful film actor and director.<\/p>\n

The War of the Worlds monument:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Van<\/p>\n

A cicada sharing Orson’s microphone:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cicada<\/p>\n

Look for Park Martians around West Windsor Township:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Park<\/p>\n

The Ronald Rogers Arboretum Monument:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ronald<\/p>\n

According to the plaque, Ronald was adored for planting trees throughout the community.<\/p>\n

\"Roger's<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, I was looking for Brood X cicadas in West Windsor Township, New Jersey. I visited Van Nest Park and Ronald Roger’s Arboretum in West Windsor, as well as the Lenape Trail & Waters Edge Park in nearby Plainsboro. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[85,64],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roadside-attractions","tag-85","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}