Tag: Princeton Battlefield

  • Dozens of volunteers clean up Princeton Battlefield

    Dozens of volunteers clean up Princeton Battlefield

    PHOTOS COURTESY OF PRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY The Princeton Battlefield Society sponsored a Clean Up Day event at the Princeton Battlefield on April 17. There were 65 volunteers in attendance. The event was held in conjunction with American Battlefield Trust’s National Park Day.

  • Mason Gross student’s 360-degree dance video project brings Princeton Battlefield to life

    Mason Gross student’s 360-degree dance video project brings Princeton Battlefield to life

    Before starting on her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in dance at Rutgers University–New Brunswick’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, Merli V. Guerra had spent two decades focused on another passion: bringing history to life. She worked early in her career as a historical interpreter for both Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House and the Paul…

  • Princeton Battlefield Society elects new president to lead the organization

    Princeton Battlefield Society elects new president to lead the organization

    Michael Russell was elected president of the Princeton Battlefield Society at its Feb. 23 Board meeting. Russell has been a teacher in New Jersey for the past 22 years. As a society trustee since 2018, he has served as the site committee chairman and chair of its annual Clean Up Day. Additionally, he was co-director…

  • Learn about invasive species and the pandemic

    Learn about invasive species and the pandemic

    The Sierra Club NJ-Central Group will present a lecture, “Invasive Species and the Pandemic: Thinking of Nature as a Body,” at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 11. Stephen Hiltner will bring his long-term experience as a naturalist whose field work and writings on invasive species stretch across 30 years and three states. Trained in botany and water…