To the Editor:

The Friends of the Princeton Public Library want to thank their sponsors for Beyond Words 2020, the Friends’ annual benefit for Princeton Public Library. We are excited to be partnering with our speaker presenter, HarperCollins, to bring Beyond Words 2020 to a national stage.

This year Beyond Words will be a series of three virtual events with nationally renowned and thought-provoking speakers. Author David Remnick will be in conversation on November 7 with colleagues Henry Finder and Elizabeth Kolbert discussing his book The Fragile Earth. On December 5, Bakari Sellers will be joined by Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman discussing his book My Vanishing Country: A Memoir. The series will conclude on January 9 with Kate Andersen Brower discussing her book Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump, with Princeton Professor Kevin Kruse.

The loyalty of our sponsors helped make the needed expansion of the digital collections and virtual programming possible, enabling the library staff to do a tremendous job keeping us connected, informed, and entertained during these unusual times.

The Friends of the Princeton Public Library thank you for your generosity in supporting the library’s efforts to “cultivate curiosity.”

Lead Sponsor – The Gould Group of Wells Fargo Advisors; Silver Sponsors – Labyrinth Books, PNC Wealth Management, Howe Insurance Group, and Amanda Maher and Amar Gautam, owners of The Meeting House; Evening Sponsors – McCaffrey’s Food Markets, Turner Construction, The Bank of Princeton, Stark & Stark, Andrea and Patrick Bradley, Audrey and David Egger, Melissa and Tom Grzymala, and Kiki Jamieson and Will Dove; Additional Support – NJM Insurance Group; Library Corporate Partners – Elements, Jazams, and MOTA9 Creative Group; and additional Corporate Partners – Asteroid Companies, Bryn Mawr Trust, Church & Dwight, NRG, Princeton University Press, Roundview Capital,
Princeton Volvo, and Whole Earth Center.

Andrea Bradley
President, Friends of Princeton Public Library

Dina Shaw and Melissa Grzymala
Co-Chairs, 2020 Beyond Words