Kevin W. Wright

For 36 years and counting, Kevin Wright has worked to provide visitors with meaningful and memorable experiences of some of New Jersey’s most storied places.

Graduating Rutgers College, he began his career in the water-powered gristmill at Waterloo, New Jersey, and was soon promoted to tour director of the restored village. In 1981, he and his young family moved into the Steuben House on the Revolutionary War battleground at Historic New Bridge Landing in River Edge, where he was state curator and historical interpreter for twenty years.

He worked eight years as Northern Regional Resource Interpretive Specialist. He was integral to the visioning process for Historic New Bridge Landing, the Newton Town Plot Historic District, Lusscroft Farms, and the Spirit of the Jerseys State History Fair. Long devoted to research and writing, he has become a noted author and speaker on a variety of historical topics. 

The tenth generation in his father’s lineage to be born in Sussex County, New Jersey, and the fourth generation on his mother’s side to live in Bergen County, he has served in many capacities as a volunteer and historic preservation advocate, including as President of both the Sussex County and Bergen County Historical Societies.