The Gloucester County Historical Society will be presenting Paddy Has Gone for a Soldier on Thursday, January 23, 2014, at 7:00 pm in the museum. This unique musical program will be performed by Mike Plunkett, a member of the Libby Prison. The program will consist of songs and stories of Civil War Soldiers, with particular emphasis on the Irish Brigade. Mike has performed this same program at Gettysburg National Park and the National Museum of the Civil Was in Harrisburg, among many other venues.

Admission to the program is $5 per person, members free. Please call the museum ahead to reserve a seat: 856-848-8531. Admission includes an optional tour afterward of the museum’s current exhibit: The Civil War: Echoes of New Jersey’s Finest. The museum is located at 58 N. Broad Street, Woodbury, NJ 08096. Free parking is available on site.