Tag: Albert Einstein
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New ownership team set to preserve The Cranbury Inn’s historic past, create a bright new future
The Cranbury Inn has been a mainstay of the Cranbury community for over 200 years. Under new ownership, the historic and iconic restaurant, bar and event venue is set to fully reopen by the end of October, announced Bill Arnold, managing member of the new ownership team, in a press release on Oct. 4. “We…
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Historical Society of Princeton digitizes 300 at-risk oral history recordings
The Historical Society of Princeton (HSP) has successfully digitized approximately 300 at-risk audio cassette oral history recordings in HSP’s archival collection, making these resources newly available to researchers. Preservation concerns had previously rendered these cassettes, many of which are almost 50 years old, unplayable and thus inaccessible to HSP patrons, according to information provided by…
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Institute where Einstein spent his career undergoes major renovations
After nearly a century without major renovations, the building housing offices and library stacks for the Institute for Advanced Study — the independent post-doctoral research center in Princeton where Albert Einstein famously spent his late career — has undergone a partial interior redesign led by integrated design firm JZA+D. “Fuld Hall hasn’t been touched in…
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Opinion: Einstein was an activist for African Americans
To the Editor: As we honored Albert Einstein on his birthday recently, let us remember his commitment and work as an activist for the rights of African Americans. He was also a friendly presence in our historically African American Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood at a time when Princeton still segregated its schools, restaurants and other places of…
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Rabbi shares his story as a child of the Holocaust in Monroe
MONROE – When Peter H. Grumbacher was growing up in the 1950s in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, the atrocities of the Holocaust was the cloud, the “elephant in the room” so to speak. It was a topic Grumbacher, as a curious young child, got dismissed time and time again through a…
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Edison Public Library Foundation presents Albert Einstein June 14
The Edison Public Library Foundation will present actor Mark Simmons as Albert Einstein at 6:30 p.m. on June 14, at the main branch, 340 Plainfield Ave., Edison. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at any of the three library branches. Light refreshments will be served and a gift basket will be raffled at the…
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‘Einstein’ will visit Manalapan library on March 11
MANALAPAN – It has been celebrated with pie eating contests, marathon runs, birthday parties for Albert Einstein, numerical memory contests and even children’s get-togethers and violin concerts, but at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters in Manalapan, Pi Day will be celebrated with a presentation of Einstein by professional re-enactor William Agress. Agress will be at…
