Seabrook Film Newsletters

Recent Seabrook Film Newsletters:
Spring 2026 Newsletter
Autumn 2025 Newsletter

Past Issues of the Seabrook Film Newsletter
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Archive: Seabrook Film Newsletters

Monument To Migrant Labor

The Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center is a principal organizer and project lead for a grant from the Mellon Foundation, called the NJ Monuments To Migration And Labor. This project is a three-year initiative honoring immigrants’ contributions to the state.

Through public events, and monument installations, it celebrates their resilience, hard work, and cultural impact, blending art, history, and storytelling to inspire reflection and appreciation.
See https://njmml.com/#content-home

The artist, Immanuel Oni, is creating a flag ship which will turn a re-purposed school bus into a mobile museum that will travel throughout South Jersey , sharing oral history’s images and other archival materials from the community.
See https://njmml.com/flagship/#installation

Through partnerships with cultural and arts organizations in Atlantic City, Seabrook, Bivalve, and Millville, the project in South Jersey seeks to help strengthen connections and relationships across different communities in the region.
See https://njmml.com/zones/south-new-jersey/

A collection of creative works by community artists, developed in response to prompts from regional dialogues and reflecting their engagement with local conversations, communities, and constituents.
See https://njmml.com/projects/

Newsletters of the SECC

A recent SECC Newsletter:
Newsletter Fall 2025

Previous SECC Newsletters
Available within the Archives on the Right

History of UF&CWU – Local 56

 

UDT Anniversary Tour: Schools, Churches, Sites

Newsletter (TOUR) Spring 2022

Interactive Tour Map for 100th Anniversary UDT

View Map

The Prince and The Reporter

 

Visitations and museum tours

VISITATION: The SECC museum has normal hours, M-Th, 9-12. Group visits are scheduled in advance.

SPECIAL OPENING/Saturday in Seabrook on April 25, 2026. The SECC museum will be open from 10AM – 4PM at 1325 Highway 77 (UDT Municipal Building, lower level) during the UDT Community Day. An art exhibit will be held in the UDT courtroom.

SPECIAL OPENING/Saturday in Seabrook on July 18, 2026. The SECC museum will be open from 12PM – 4PM at 1325 Highway 77 and the OBON FESTIVAL will take place from 5PM -8PM at the Seabrook Buddhist Temple (SBT) on Northville Road.

CLOSINGS: SECC is closed beginning December 21, 2026 and will reopen on January 4, 2027, the month of August, all holidays recognized by Upper Deerfield Township and bad weather days when Upper Deerfield Township Schools are closed or opening late. Email

LOCATION: We are located in the Upper Deerfield Township Municipal Building, located on Route 77 between 540 on the north and Carll’s Corner on the south. We are directly across from Franco’s Deli. GPS may direct you further south.

PARKING: Please park behind the UDT Municipal building near the UDT Senior Center. Walk down the handicap ramp on your left and use the buzzer.  (The interior staircase is closed to visitors.) You will be buzzed into the lower level by the UDT Construction Office, and directed to the Ellen Nakamura Art Gallery where you will sign in as a museum visitor. 

ACCESS TO OUR COLLECTION IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN:

SECC PHOTOGRAPHS/PUBLICATIONS: To view and use our photo collection and publications visit the New Jersey Digital Highway  at https://njdigitalhighway.org/

SECC VIDEO AND INTERVIEWS: Certain interviews and videos have been uploaded onto YouTube so that they are most widely available to the public. Visit the Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center station at YouTube   

 

Internship Available

PAID INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE TO COLLEGE STUDENT

SECC has been awarded grant funds for an intern to assist with website maintenance, data entry, content development for on-going research projects. Send letter of interest to Larry Ericksen, Executive Director at

 
The SECC is devoted to telling the history of Seabrook Farms, an agribusiness and company town based in southern New Jersey. At peak production during the Second World War, the company employed 6,000 laborers in its fields, factories, and trucking fleet, and was a major supplier to the U.S. military. Faced with recurring labor shortages, Seabrook Farms partnered with the federal government to recruit stateless workers. Most prominently, this included 2,500 Japanese Americans who, after their forced removal from the West Coast to concentration camps, were paroled to government-approved employers. Following the war’s end, Seabrook Farms added Eastern European Displaced Persons from occupied Germany to its workforce, as well as Japanese Peruvians interned by the U.S. as enemy aliens and facing deportation to Japan. Seabrook Farms was also a destination for guestworkers from Barbados and Jamaica, and migrant farm laborers from the U.S. South and Appalachia. Founded in 1913 by C.F. Seabrook, a man described as the “Henry Ford of Agriculture,” Seabrook Farms was also famous for its technical and scientific contributions to the growth of industrialized agriculture, and for its political and social prominence as a company town in southern New Jersey.

John Seabrook’s Research

Winter 2018 2019 Newsletter
Summer 2019 Newsletter