Lots of people took advantage of the beautiful weather on Sunday and enjoyed the day outdoors at Terhune Orchards in Princeton. Fresh strawberries are now featured, and guests can pick their own daily in the field at the farm. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Although there was a chill in the air, last weekend’s Morven in May festival at the Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton proved once again to be one of New Jersey’s most popular spring rituals. The art, craft, and garden event featured contemporary, American-made fine art and craft items along with an heirloom plant sale including flowers, new varieties of annuals and perennials, and select plants propagated from Morven’s own garden. All proceeds from the event help fund the Museum’s exhibitions, historic gardens, and educational programs. (Photograph by Emily Reeves)
Saturday’s marchers for science, some 2,400 strong, gathered at the Battlefield Monument, led in spirit by Princeton’s most renowned scientist. Participants talk about what brought them there in this week’s Town Talk. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
The Arts Council of Princeton is gearing up for the annual Communiversity ArtsFest, set for April 30, 2017 in downtown Princeton from 1-6 p.m. Central New Jersey’s largest and longest running cultural event will have more than 200 booths showing original art and contemporary crafts, merchandise, and food from around the globe, plus six stages of continuous live entertainment. The event draws more than 40,000 to the streets of downtown Princeton. (Photo Credit: Emily Reeves, Town Topics Newspaper)
With this week’s warm weather, now’s the perfect time to enjoy a peaceful moment amidst the blooming Yoshino cherry trees at the Princeton Battle Monument. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Mayor Liz Lempert cuts the ribbon Saturday, backed up by (from left) Library trustees Pam Wakefield and Andrew Erlichson; Council members Heather Howard, Bernie Miller, Lance Liverman and Tim Quinn; library trustee Ruth Miller (behind the mayor); Kevin Royer, president of Board of Trustees (out of view behind him, Melanie Stein of the Friends); and library director Brett Bonfield. A variety of responses to the renovated second floor can be found in this week’s Town Talk. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
The word derives from the Greek “ephemeros,” meaning “lasting only one day, short-lived,” which includes papers, curiosities, and collectible odds and ends of the sort found on a table in the Collector’s Corner during this year’s Bryn Mawr-Wellesley Book Sale, which lasted five days and will come back to life again next year. Special finds are mentioned in this week’s Town Talk. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Here sit some contestants in the Einstein look-a-like contest, a ritual part of Princeton’s Pi Day celebration of the town’s most renowned citizen, born March 14, 1879. In this week’s Town Talk, people ponder what he might think of Princeton in March 2017. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
With spring in the air, a young man’s fancy turns to cavorting in the heart of Princeton in a Town Topics t-shirt. People who were there reveal their favorite spring songs and poems in this week’s Town Talk. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
All ages are off and running in Saturday’s Cupid’s Chase 5K Run in support of people with disabilities. Based at the Princeton Shopping Center, the event was sponsored by Community Options. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
The diverse crowd of more than 6,000 women, men, and children who showed up in Trenton on Saturday to march for women’s rights, civil rights, and other causes threatened by the new administration was upbeat and positive. Princeton Council members were among those marching from the War Memorial to the State House. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Reading over the artist’s shoulder, you know who the hero of the occasion is at Monday’s Martin Luther King Day Community Event at the Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center. It was a day of live performances, interactive improv, listening, learning, sharing, and making art. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
A lone figure on Lake Carnegie suggests, at least for some, the time when you could see Albert Einstein out there “sailing through strange seas of thought” in his dinghy. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
SERENADING THE SEASON: Members of the Princeton High School Choir singing on Palmer Square Sunday. Between carols, several singers described their favorite holiday gifts for this week’s Town Talk. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
SIDE BY SIDE: Mayor Liz Lempert and Santa Claus are beaming with the Christmas spirit during Saturday’s holiday celebration at the Princeton Shopping Center. Santa arrived in style on a Princeton Hook & Ladder Fire truck and the mayor led the countdown to the lighting of the courtyard Christmas tree as the Princeton High School Girls Choir performed songs of the season. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Mayor Liz Lempert addresses the crowd at the Spirit of Princeton’s Veterans Day ceremony Friday. Keynote speaker Roger Williams, secretary of the Princeton Battlefield Society, is among those discussing their reactions to the election in this week’s Town Talk. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
A two-story family scene from Saturday’s Friends of the Princeton Public Library Book Sale. In this week’s Town Talk, browsers reveal their most surprising finds. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Local children have another cozy spot to share their favorite books thanks to a new Little Free Library, officially dedicated last Sunday in Marquand Park. Built on the massive stump of what was once a cucumber magnolia tree, the reading nook, being tested here by Aidan and Annelise Sutphin, joins others in town and across the country, as part of a national movement. The Princeton Public Library supplied the initial books to get the project going. Mayor Liz Lempert and other local dignitaries were on hand to celebrate the opening. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Princeton’s 25th Jazz Feast drew a standing-room-only crowd to Palmer Square Sunday. Performers included Alan Dale and the New Legacy Jazz Band, Chuck Redd, Spanglish Fly, the Pete and Will Anderson Quintet, and Professor Cunningham and his Old School. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
It’s that time again on the Princeton University campus and at schools around the area. This week’s Town Talk features students like these. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
The singers are The Youngs from Philadelphia, the brother, sister, and cousins of Princeton natives performing Saturday afternoon at the Joint Effort-Princeton Pete Young Sr. Memorial Safe Streets Weekend organized by former Princeton resident John Bailey. Students attending the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood event also provide the answers to this week’s back to school Town Talk question. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Two pool pals enjoying the place to be during the recent heat wave. Community Night Out will be held at the Community Park Pool on Tuesday, August 2, from 5 to 8 p.m. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
“INVOLVED WITH BEN”: Ben Franklin was there to “meet and greet” the public at Morven Museum & Garden’s July 4 Jubilee Monday. These youngsters are living proof of his words of wisdom about involvement: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Robert Frost says that though fireflies never equal stars in size, they achieve at times “a very star-like start.” These three star-like visitors to Sunday’s Firefly Festival at Terhune Orchards made their own wings. Some firefly fans discuss their plans for the Fourth of July in this week’s Town Talk. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Participants confer on-site during Saturday’s interactive open house on re-thinking the aesthetics of Nassau Street. Hosted by The Garden Theatre, the event was sponsored by the Municipality of Princeton in partnership with the Princeton Merchants Association and Princeton University. Some of the ideas generated are discussed in this week’s Town Talk. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
