Tag: Pam Hersh
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LOOSE ENDS 3/12: Spencer Reynolds
By Pam Hersh I am in a daze over all the celebratory days that exist among the 59 days that make up February and March. Every day marks a different celebration – ranging from the big name holidays – Valentine’s, Ground Hog, Presidents, St. Patrick’s, and sometimes Easter and Passover, to a slew of “raising-awareness…
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LOOSE ENDS 3/5: Princeton Community Housing Eddie Glaude
By Pam Hersh Yes, Eddie Glaude Jr. is an internationally renowned scholar, who speaks to the complex social, racial and economic dynamics of the American experience. Yes, Dr. Glaude is a professor and chair of the African American Studies Department at Princeton University. Yes, he is the author of several critically acclaimed books, the most…
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LOOSE ENDS 2/26: Lilienthal and Barros
By Pam Hersh The last remaining artifact in the window of the now defunct Landau’s Woolens store on Nassau Street in Princeton is an Albert Einstein poster with the message: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” As a self-described techno-moron when it comes to my knowledge of how things work, I am a genius at…
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LOOSE ENDS 2/19: Valentine’s Day: Eleni and Ryan
By Pam Hersh In honor of Valentine’s Day, I declare my love for something that has sustained and inspired me during the darkest days of the pandemic: my morning cup of coffee. I value not only the caffeine and flavor of the coffee that keeps me awake through countless Zoom meetings, but also the ritual…
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LOOSE ENDS 2/12: Arts Council of Princeton artists Ken Lewis and Kal ‘El Dream Livingston
By Pam Hersh This past year of virtual reality has been filled with bizarre reality. For example: 1. I am a COVID-shot seeking psycho, who as a kid was so terrified of getting a “shot” that I had a recurring paranoid anti-vax nightmare that Nikita Khrushchev was inoculating Americans with poison from his headquarters in…
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LOOSE ENDS 2/5: Princeton Councilwoman Michelle Pirone Lambros
By Pam Hersh The week of Jan. 18 was jam-packed with two emotionally intense celebrations: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 18 and the inauguration of the nation’s president and vice president on Jan. 20. There was a third celebration, however, that may have lacked the goosebump drama of the inauguration and MLK…
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LOOSE ENDS 1/22: Jack Morrison
By Pam Hersh The last time I saw Princeton businessman and entrepreneur Jack Morrison was at the gym – one year ago. A few weeks prior to the gym encounter, I had interviewed Jack, along with Chef Nicolas Demurge, at Jack’s most recent Princeton restaurant endeavor, the French bistro Kristine’s. Located in the heart of…
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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…