Saturday, Oct. 9 – Sunday, Oct. 10

By: centraljersey.com
Big doings at Princeton library
Princeton Public Library will be closed Saturday in preparation for a celebratory weekend marking its 100th birthday.
The festivities begin that evening with the annual Centennial Gala and continue the following day with the 10.10.10 birthday party, a free community event from 1 to 5 p.m. in the library and Hinds plaza that includes music, entertainment, costumed characters from children’s literature, and a giant birthday cake and cupcakes with samples for everyone.
The Centennial Gala will follow a talk at Nassau Presbyterian Church by National Public Radio personality Terry Gross. Guests at the fundraiser will enjoy cocktails, dinner, dancing and a silent auction, with activities held inside the library and in a giant tent outside on Hinds Plaza. The Gala is sold out.
On the Web: www.princetonlibrary.org
Sunday, Oct. 10
Pipesounds: "10/10/10"
A free concert by Princeton University organist Eric Plutz – "Ten Pieces for Ten Fingers and Ten Toes on 10/10/10" – will be presented in St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, 214 Nassau St., Princeton, by the American Guild of Organists, Central New Jersey Chapter.
The festive program has been selected by Mr. Plutz to showcase "the many moods and soundscapes" of St. Paul’s historic, four-manual, 65-rank instrument, built by Ernest Skinner in 1925 for the Recital Hall of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore.
A reception will follow in St. Paul’s Spiritual Center.
Slow food, busy lives
Carlo Petrini, founder and president of the international Slow Food movement, will give a lecture on his new book, "Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities," at 5 p.m. in McCosh Hall, Room 50, on the Princeton University campus. The talk is free and open to the public.
Following his 2005 book, "Slow Food Nation," Mr. Petrini’s newest book provides an update on his analysis of the world food crisis and on the current ideology and development model that he attributes as the root of these problems. The event is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and the Dorothea van Dyke McLane Association of Princeton.
– Michael Redmond