By:Lorraine Sedor
Some Cranbury Day updates: The Cranbury Museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 8 and guides will be available to show visitors the wonders of Cranbury’s past.
If you’ve never been to the museum or haven’t been in a while then try to stop in. The variety and quality of the objects on display are remarkable for a small museum and cover everything from Cranbury’s farming heritage to 19th century business and home life. Admission is free.
Also, through the generosity of historic postcard collectors Bill and Jennifer Kanawyer, several groups in town will have prints of early 20th century Cranbury postcards on sale or auction on Cranbury Day.
The Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society will have several unframed 8-inch-by-10-inch views for sale, including the original water tower, with proceeds going to the society’s programs and projects. In addition, unframed prints of a postcard of the old school will be on sale. Proceeds from this sale will benefit restoration of the Old School clocktower.
The Friends of the Cranbury Public Library will have one framed, 8-inch-by-10-inch postcard view of Main Street on silent auction. This one-of-a-kind print, copied from a hand-tinted original, will be on display at the Friends’ book sale booth.
The Friends also will raffle several kid-friendly book baskets on Cranbury Day. The baskets, one for a boy, one for a girl and one for a preschooler, are filled with new books, journals, craft items and school supplies. The Friends would like to thank Patty Kraws, who did a beautiful job putting the baskets together.
The high bidder of the silent auction and the winners of the book baskets do not need to be present to win. Proceeds from these drawings benefit Friends’ programs and book acquisitions.
The Cranbury Arts Council has a special end to Cranbury Day planned, a candlelight concert featuring Venezuelan artist Irene Ferrera and her band Venezuela Viva. The concert will be held at Longfields, the home of Matt and Patti Long at 39 Cranbury Neck Road.
Gates open at 5:30 p.m. for picnickers. The concert will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Ms. Ferrera’s band has just completed a tour of their native Venezuela and will be performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. after their stop in Cranbury. The concert is part of the Arts Council’s Music of the Americas series.
Admission to the concert is $15 per person. However, if you join the Arts Council or renew your membership that evening, admission is free.
Carol Coumbis, membership chairman of the Arts Council, would like to remind Arts Council supporters that membership renewals are due this month. Family memberships are $35 and individual memberships are $25. Both include free admission to the concert, discounts on Arts Council children’s programs and camps, discounts at Triangle Arts Center and Cranbury Station Gallery, as well as discounts at the Cranbury Inn on the evenings of Arts Council programs. For more information about Arts Council membership, please contact Carol Coumbis at (609) 409-9515.
The 8th grade students at Cranbury School are compiling a recipe book and they would love to include your favorite recipes in this very special collection.
Please send as many recipes as you would like and feel free to include a word, phrase or sentence about why the recipe is a favorite and worth sharing.
In addition, if your child would like to include a drawing or doodle, or a frame or background that is food or dining related, feel free to send along the artwork with your recipe(s). Artwork should be in black ink or number 2 pencil on white paper only.
If you have any questions call: Lynn Nicholas, (609) 395-7576; Chris Moll, (609) 655-8247 or Alicia Vincelette, (609) 395-0914. Please e-mail all recipes to Chris at [email protected] or place them in one of the baskets that is located in the main office at the school or in the library.
Residents can contact Ms. Sedor by phone at (609) 655-3386, by fax at (609) 655-1613, by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail at 32 Evans Drive, Cranbury, N.J. 08512.
