Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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How to increase the community’s ‘social capital’
Princeton Area Community Foundation The “better together” campaign, being launched in central New Jersey by the Princeton Area Community Foundation and the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation, is designed to encourage people, organizations and businesses to become more engaged in their respective communities. In addition to releasing the results of a 19-community survey of…
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Why ‘just plain folks’ can’t run for president
Elaine Jancourtz of Plainsboro Regarding your editorial, (‘Condescending to condescend’), strangely enough I still hope to have major party candidates for the presidency of the United States who will be ’just plain folks’. In historical terms Harry Truman’s presidency was not that long ago. Here was a plain, hometown man with a modest education and…
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IN THE KITCHEN: A triumph for Bobby Trigg at the Beard House
‘Less than 30 minutes after he and his crew departed from the Beard House, he received an e-mail … inviting him to return in 2009 to cook dinner.’ By Pat Tanner Special Writer It was Princeton in New York earlier this month when Bobby Trigg of the popular Ferry House restaurant cooked up a…
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A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA: Cate Litvack rolls up her sleeves to help make New Jersey’s history thrive
The Old Barracks Museum in Trenton. On Christmas Day 1776 George Washington and the Continental Army crossed the Delaware to attack this site. Their success proved to be a turning point in the struggle for American independence. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
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SNAPSHOTS: At Passover, remembering ‘a New American’
The ‘New Americans’ became family to one another, each one having lost so many loved ones during the Shoah. By Nancy Z. Paul Special Writer My mother-in-law, Sara Paul, was one of the “New American” redheads, along with her best friends Lili Herskovitz, Muncie Paul, Frieda Davidovitch and Rachel Ickovics. I always thought…
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A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA: Cate Litvack rolls up her sleeves to help make New Jersey’s history thrive
On the table in the Officers’ Quarters at the Old Barracks Museum. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
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A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA: Cate Litvack rolls up her sleeves to help make New Jersey’s history thrive
The task before the Crossroads of the American Revolution Association, says the former Princeton Township mayor, is to create public and private partnership By Pat Summers Special Writer Some things just seem meant to be. One example: Cate Litvack as executive director of the Crossroads of the American Revolution Association. After a visit…
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A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA: Cate Litvack rolls up her sleeves to help make New Jersey’s history thrive
Mikki Bell, chief historical interpreter at the Old Barracks Museum, crafts a period-style robe. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
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BOOK NOTES: To encourage kids to read, read with them
By Joan Ruddiman Special Writer “Reading is the best indicator of academic success.” So says Rebecca Eckert, Ph.D., citing reams of research over years of study with children of all ages. So how can parents and educators help kids learn to love reading? Becky Eckert has some answers. In an address…
