Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • SPOTLIGHT: Making sense of nature: State Museum exhibit salutes 300th of the grand master of biology

    SPOTLIGHT: Making sense of nature: State Museum exhibit salutes 300th of the grand master of biology

    Staff photos by Mark Czajkowski By Joan Goldstein Special Writer     I love museums — especially in the summer when the halls are cool and I can stare at a stuffed bear or charging cougar in place, and imagine myself in another world — in another time. So when guest curator Karen Reeds, Ph.D., invited…

  • SPOTLIGHT: Making sense of nature: State Museum exhibit salutes 300th of the grand master of biology
  • SPOTLIGHT: Making sense of nature: State Museum exhibit salutes 300th of the grand master of biology

    SPOTLIGHT: Making sense of nature: State Museum exhibit salutes 300th of the grand master of biology

    Karen Reeds of Princeton at the ‘Linnaeus & America’ exhibition she curated at the New Jersey State Museum: ‘The more we use search engines, the more we think about what Linnaeus was trying to do with pen and ink … If people find life sources on Mars, they’re going to use Linnaeus’ system’ of taxonomic…

  • Share roadwork details with the public

    James S. Beslity of Princeton     As I tried to get home from downtown Princeton on Monday, I found that Rosedale Road was closed at its beginning at Elm Road. I had seen the signs last week notifying drivers of the closure, but I had assumed that police would be allowing local traffic by. Unfortunately,…

  • West Windsor needs a gathering place

    Jennifer Mahan of West Windsor     As a resident of the Penns Neck area of West Windsor for the past six years, I have met many vibrant and interesting people who make this community a special place to live – students, business people, artists, young people, older people, people who grew up here, people who…

  • Do bears rhyme in the woods?

    Mary Farrar Bonotto of Princeton     Garbage cans and running streams, that’s where they like to go, our famous roaming animals whom all of us know.    Brown bears and black bears, New Jersey has them both here — where our multitude of garbage cans and running streams vary in degree.    Brown bears and black bears,…

  • AROUND TOWN

    AROUND TOWN

    News and views from our communities. Michael Redmond, Lifestyle Editor, The Princeton Packet [email protected], (609) 924-3244, ext. 125

  • AROUND TOWN

    AROUND TOWN

    ON BOARD WITH NAMI: The Mercer affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has announced new board members: From left, Harris Adams of Hamilton Square; Karen Marquis of Yardley, Pa., director of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders, Neuroscience Discovery Research, of Wyeth Research, Princeton; C. Elizabeth Leach of Lawrence, director of Network Development with…

  • AROUND TOWN

    AROUND TOWN

    IN STYLE WITH ‘IN THE PINK’: Models Joanne Amantea and Michelle Cash, both breast cancer survivors, share a touching moment onstage during the 2006 ‘In the Pink.’ The fourth annual ‘In the Pink’ Fashion Show and Silent Auction will be held on Friday, Sept.12, at The Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village, from 6 to 9…