Tag: Loose Ends
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Loose Ends 1/15: Crystal Pruitt
By Pam Hersh Twelve months ago, I attended the municipal reorganization meeting of the Franklin Township Council that featured, among other agenda items, the swearing in of a co-worker – Ms. Crystal Pruitt – as a Franklin Township Council member. Having just turned 34 years old and holding down a full-time job as chief of…
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LOOSE ENDS 1/8: Michael La Place and Liz Lempert
By Pam Hersh The virtual farewell party for Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, the first mayor of consolidated Princeton, featured 90 minutes of teary-eyed speeches about her extraordinary talents, character, brains, empathy, social intelligence, work ethic, and socially and environmentally progressive policy commitments. A non-Princetonian might have thought he/she/they had clicked into a Zoom episode of…
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LOOSE ENDS 1/1/2021: Dohm Alley comes alive
By Pam Hersh In this year of big tragedies and anxieties, I preferred complaining about small irritations in life. These proved to be perfect conversation topics for the pandemic era, neither annoyingly Pollyanna nor overly depressing. My favorite small irritant topic about which I loved to rant was Dohm Alley, a Princeton Future project for…
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LOOSE ENDS 12/25: Princeton Trivia is not trivial
By Pam Hersh I am trying to get a date with Josh Ellis for New Year’s Eve. Totally irrelevant are the facts that he is happily married to Katy Glickman, the daughter of a longtime Princeton friend of mine, Elyse Pivnick; is 40 years younger than I am; and will be nowhere near me on…
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LOOSE ENDS 12/18: Steve Kornacki and Ingrid Reed
By Pam Hersh In New Jersey, Steve Kornacki has achieved Bruce Springsteen rock-star status among the politically passionate and electoral nerdy set. His chinos are now as iconic as Springsteen’s denims. And Ingrid Reed, the producer of Steve’s Princeton speaking events, has the appeal among New Jersey political aficionados of a Dolly Parton at a…
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LOOSE ENDS 12/11: Laura Fuchs
By Pam Hersh Since masks became part of my daily COVID makeup, I have joked how they made me look much better than any pre-COVID make up. Masks cover up multiple signs of aging and imperfect features and are much cheaper than the countless creams and cosmetics I have purchased during my life. They also…
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LOOSE ENDS 12/4: Sustainable signs
By Pam Hersh As I emerged on Black Friday from the Princeton CVS on Nassau Street to a horde of unmasked kids who refused to move out of the way to let me pass, I turned red with anger, assumed the status of a crazy little lady, and hollered: “Wear a friggin’ mask.” Thank you…
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LOOSE ENDS 11/27: Outdoor Dance Performance
By Pam Hersh The Nutcracker, the thrilling ballet set to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score, has been a joyful element of my Christmas season for nearly every Christmas since 1964, when the American Repertory Ballet (ARB), formerly Princeton Ballet, made the ballet an annual holiday tradition. I have seen the production an estimated 150 times at McCarter…
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LOOSE ENDS 11/20: Landau’s and the history of Lindy
By Pam Hersh For kids growing up in Princeton in the 1980s and 1990s, a highlight of Princeton’s Nassau Street scene was Lindy. Everyone loved Lindy, the 200-pound stuffed ram, who often served as a designated gathering spot for middle school and high school students heading in town, uptown, downtown. Lindy’s adoptive parents, Robert and…