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International Steampunk City

Steampunk at Historic Speedwell

333 Speedwell Avenue,

Morristown, NJ

With some assistance by Jeff Mach of New Jersey’s own Steampunk World’s Fair and Time Traveler’s Resort 

DATE: Saturday and Sunday, October 12th and 13th, 2013.

WE ARE OPEN RAIN OR SHINE!  IF IT’S RAINING, THAT’S JUST FINE!   BRING AN UMBRELLA AND COME ON DOWN!

Steampunk is a whimsical genre based around the Age of Steam.  Steam City is a little like a Renaissance Faire, only focused on a 19th-century world of mad science and madcap advanture.   All are welcome!!   Come dressed any way you’d like – and you don’t need to know anything special or be part of any group or organization.  Come out, bring your family, have some fun, meet nice people, and support a fantastic cause!

 

A picture from another of our events, The Steampunk World’s Fair, by Marisa Taylor Photography

Please visit our Host’s site: www.speedwell.org, and find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/414313441970364/!

Press Release

(Download the full press release here)

PRESS RELEASE

FROM: International Steampunk City, Morristown, NJ, (http://internationalsteampunkcity.com/)

CONTACT: Jeff Mach – 201.724.7687, jeffmach@jeffmachevents.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
International Steampunk City To Use Retrofuturistic Whimsy To Benefit Historic Speedwell!

Historic Speedwell, birthplace of the telegraph, has suffered from budget cuts in these tough economic times. They’ve teamed up with NJ event developers Jeff Mach Events to create a benefit, scheduled for the weekend of October 6th and 7th, 2012

Historic Speedwell, one of the jewels of the Morris Park system, has delighted thousands of visitors with its accurately restored buildings, interesting museum exhibits, and the huge, functional waterwheel in the heart of the park. But now it faces budget cuts which leave it with many challenges.

It just so happens that an unusual art movement, Steampunk, a Neo-Victorian futuristic genre, has one of its bastions in New Jersey – the Garden State is the home of both the world’s largest ticketed Steampunk event, “The Steampunk World’s Fair” – and the company which puts it on, Jeff Mach Events. Speedwell and Jeff Mach are working together to create a weekend of great family fun and entertainment for everyone.

Speedwell, a 7.5-acre National Historic Landmark site, preserves the restored estate of Stephen Vail, proprietor of the Speedwell Iron Works from the early to mid-1800′s. One parks official called it “a priceless landmark – part of New Jersey’s proud heritage of progress and innovation.”

The family friendly event will provide an assortment of entertainment and good times, including musicians, artists, games, and entertainers, who promise to prove an fun and excitement for everyone.

“Stop by and have some fun!” says Mach. Mach is the creator of the International Steampunk City concept, an idea developed and created as a blueprint for using Steampunk to help museums and historic buildings gain visibility, funding, and enthusiastic visitors, as well as bringing tourism and good times to a historic town .

Steampunk is a whimsical genre based on an alternative-history view of what the Steam Age might have become. Adherents often point to films like “Wild Wild West”, or the recent Sherlock Holmes movies, as examples of the Steampunk aesthetic.

For further information, please visit their website:

http://internationalsteampunkcity.com/

The Steampunk World’s Fair happens the third weekend in May; their website is www.SteampunkWorldsFair.com. Jeff Mach Events is also doing a unique Steampunk night in New York City on October 14th, “The Anachronism Meets The Goblin Market” – www.TheAnachronismNYC.com.

(Download the full press release here)