PRISCILLA HAYES inherited her lifelong love of this area from her grandfather, historian and genealogist Edwin Baldwin of Summit, who took her and her siblings there as children. She has been using her skills as a freelance writer and retired attorney to author this website (and an eventual book) which will show how this one tiny village illuminates nearly all of New Jersey history.
CARISSA SCARPA started her archaeological work at
Feltville in 2000 as part of an undergraduate field school with Montclair State University. She completed her Masters thesis on the subject of Feltville’s Raddin-Badgley House Site in 2017. She has been working in Cultural Resource Management for over 20 years and today she oversees National Historic Preservation Act compliance for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District.
MATTHEW S. TOMASO directs PS&S’ Cultural Resources and Historic Preservation Practice. He has degrees in geography and anthropology from the University of Southern Maine and the University of Texas at Austin and has participated in pre-contact and historic period archaeological as well as geomorphological studies spanning from the Caribbean to California to Maine since 1987. Matt first became interested in Feltville when he inherited the task of completing another archaeologist’s unfinished report work related to a field project undertaken in 1995. He founded the Feltville Archaeology Project, which, from 1998 to 2005, educated hundreds of students about field and lab archaeology as well as American history through his teaching position at Montclair State University and with the support of Union County and the New Jersey Historic Trust. This project, which is co-lead by Carissa Scarpa today, has resulted in the only peer-reviewed publications and scholarly presentations that Feltville has ever produced.