HISTORIAN/LECTURER - Dick Stothoff SKIRMISH OF GEARY'S RIDGE Loyalist Geary massacred by militiamen?  Dragoons racing over hills?  Did this little event really scare the Big Bad British from invading Hunterdon?  Lecture and tour of the Raritan Township site lead by Raritan Township Historian Dick Stothoff. Main Branch of the County Library, County Complex, 314 Route 12, Flemington. November 15, 2014 Dick Stothoff has been a member and past President of the Hunterdon County Hisotrical Society since 1965 and the Raritan Township Historical Commission since 1975, where he held the position of VP for many years.  Some of the many projects he has been involved in include the 1965 restoration of the Deats Building on Main Street in Flemington Borough, the updating of the Governor Reading House on River Road in Raritan Township which was restored by the William Walker family in the 1950's. the Civil War Veterans Headquarters building on the corner of Maple Avenue and Spring Street in Flemington Borough which was restored in 1990's, the Great Freight Station building located on Stangl Road near Liberty Village, restored in the 1990's, and the former Barber/Camison Farm on River Road in Raritan Township which was recently restored in the 2000's. For Dick's Eagle Scout project in 1951 he restored the Geary's Ridge Monument in Raritan Township.   When he  was a high school senior, the bandstand behind the Historic Courthouse was vandalized and destroyed.  The Flemington Borough Council provided $1,000 seed money towards restoration of the band stand and Dick led the fundraising to rebuild it.   Dick held the rank of captain in the United States Air Force for which he served eight years -- three years of those years on an epidemiological team in Turkey. Dick is a member of the Flemington Rotary club and had served as a past president, has been a supervisor for past 30 years with the Hunterdon County Soil Conservation and served as both a Planning Board Member and Councilman for Flemington Borough.