Category: time_off

George Washington’s three-month stay at Rockingham is recounted by local historian Jeanette Muser By Christian Kirkpatrick A self-proclaimed “sponge for history,” Rocky Hill resident Jeanette Muser began to really soak it up 12 years ago.    She had just retired from working as a high school librarian, first at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South and then…

The Golandsky Institute International Piano Festival will premiere a restored Prokofiev composition By Megan Sullivan    DURING Joseph Stalin’s reign of the Soviet Union, cultural policy stifled the creativity and experimentation of artists, from painters to poets. The government-imposed style of socialist realism became the official standard in all fields of the arts. For musicians, this…

A program at the Princeton Public Library asks participants to reflect, explore and share their convictions By Adam Grybowski A prisoner gave the best interpretation of a James Joyce story Keith Wheelock ever heard.    Then chairman of the People & Stories/ Gente y Cuentes program, Mr. Wheelock discussed short stories with the prisoners of Somerset…

Princeton Univesity students at graduation, June 1970 (Courtesy Princeton University Archives).

Citizens stand up and speak out for the right to vote in a new exhibit. By Adam Grybowski Inspired by a historic election in which the first African-American has been nominated for president of the United States, the Historical Society of Princeton has organized an exhibit, Stand Up, Speak Out: Princeton Citizens Find Their Voice,…

A new museum will commemorate John Roebling and sons in the town named for them. By Ilene Dube    IT’S party time at the Brooklyn Bridge.    In May, thousands gathered to celebrate the 125th birthday of this marvel of engineering. And art lovers and tourists by the boatload have been flocking to the $15.5 million public…

An exhibit at the D&R Greenway looks at preserving the spaces in between the historic sites. By Adam Grybowski PEOPLE love the now and the then, juxtaposed together,” says Jack Koeppel, curator of the D&R Greenway Land Trust exhibit Our Historic Landscape: Past, Present and…Future?, a series of turn-of-the-century photographs set against contemporary views of…

The Zimmerli celebrates its gift of the largest collection of Hungarian art in the U.S. By Susan Van Dongen Outside of central Europe, New Brunswick may be the most Hungarian place on the plan et. From November 1956 to June 1957, Camp Kilmer, just a couple of miles away, served as an initial place for…

A recording of holiday music by Princeton choral groups is helping to reduce starvation in Africa. By Susan Van Dongen Just when it seemed we were never going to need our sweaters and boots again, cold nights and brisk days are here. Wreaths, lights and decorations are everywhere, cheering the darkness. Fires are crackling in the…