Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • SPOTLIGHT: A proud heritage: Korean Americans to celebrate Chuseok

    By EMILY LAERMER Staff Writer     Chuseok, which directly translates to “autumn harvest,” is a holiday where Koreans celebrate and thank their ancestors for their contributions to society.     “It’s very traditional for Asians to honor their elders,” said Wan- Mo Kang, the chair of the Korean Community Center of Princeton.     The KCCP is…

  • WELLNESS: Cultivating mindfulness

    By Deborah Metzger Princeton Center for Yoga & Health     Daunted by meditation?     You can learn a great deal about it simply by eating a raisin. Read on.     If the thought of meditation conjures up sitting in a lotus position for hours or chanting something unintelligible with our knees aching and our legs…

  • Guarding against underage drinking

    Chip Meara of Mercer Council of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction     We all want the new school year to be a positive experience for our children, and one way to make surethat school is a positive experience is to talk to our young people about staying away from alcohol and drugs. Illegal drugs are certainly…

  • Robeson Center says thanks

    Arts Council of Princeton     If you were driving down Witherspoon Street last Wednesday afternoon, you may have noticed some unusual activity on the sculpture terrace of the Arts Council building – red-skirted flamenco dancers and children juggling rings and walking on stilts. That was our Free Fall Open House and we hope you parked…

  • Aesop’s Fables and energy

    Thomas Paine Caslander of Jefferson Aesop’s Fables and energy To the editor:     The energy crisis reminds me of Aesop’s fable about the boys and the frogs — some mischievous boys were playing on the edge of a pond, and, catching sight of some frogs swimming about in the shallow water, they began to amuse…

  • Bad decision on Clean Elections

    NJ Citizen Action    NJ Citizen Action is deeply disappointed with the decision by Speaker Roberts to put New Jersey’s 2009 Clean Elections program on hold. This action will temporarily stall efforts to change New Jersey’s current election financing system, which has left us with candidates who are mostly self-financing millionaires or dependent on contributions…

  • SPOTLIGHT: The greening of Mercer

    By Adam Grybowski, Staff Writer    This spring the Master Gardeners of Mercer County planted nearly 3,500 plugs of native grasses and wildflowers near their educational gardens in Pennington, transforming a near acre of ground into a meadow bristling with beneficial insects. Reed canary grass, an invasive species, had plagued the spot.    The meadow was Nancy…

  • Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church

    Bob Duncan of West Windsor     In identifying the Presbyterian churches that initiated the interracial housing efforts in Princeton in the 1950s, your otherwise fine article (“GlenAcres marks 50-year-old stand . . . “) failed to include Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church. As a racially integrated — though largely African-American — congregation, Witherspoon Street Presbyterian’s role…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Epicurean Palette is sure to lure foodies

    By Pat Tanner, Special Writer    On Sunday, Sept. 21, the 35 sprawling, stunningly beautiful acres of Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton will be the setting for the eighth annual culinary extravaganza called Epicurean Palette. What keeps me and hundreds like me returning each year — beyond reveling in the beautiful setting and sampling a wide…