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Cranbury Public Library will now host its newest iteration of the Chess Club on alternating Friday afternoons!
Beginning January 12th, we're hosting lessons facilitated by local nonprofit, Pawns Pathways!
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Learn about some of the favorite foods and beverages of past presidential families. Learn how the Presidents entertained at State dinners and how they entertained family and friends. Did you know that George Washington loved honey, and Martha had a great fondness for cake? A favorite beverage of President Garfield was tea; he even had his own recipe for a herb tea that included catnip. Thomas Jefferson never invited more than 12 guests for dinner. Come learn about other past presidential families and their favorite fare.
Presented by Food Historian, Judith Krall-Russo.
The days of just putting a “Garage Sale” sign on your front lawn are long past in today’s Internet and Social Media world. In this session Mike Inankovich will share tips and strategies designed to help you make more money whether Buying … or Selling … at Garage Sales. Mike will cover such topics as:
● What Sells Best at Garage Sales
● Gathering and Pricing Your Items
● Writing Garage Sales Ads that Work
● Using Social Media and the Internet to Promote Your Sale
● Basic and Advanced Garage Sale Do’s & Don’ts
● Many More Tips & Strategies for Running Highly Successful Garage Sales
Defective vision can have a profound effect on our lives: our personalities, our interests, our careers, and the means by which we express ourselves in art and literature. Phyllis Rakow, a member of the Princeton Manor community, has combined her career as an ophthalmic medical technologist with her interest in Impressionist art and her love of travel. She has searched the venues depicted in the art work of many Impressionist and post-Impressionist greats before and after their sight was blunted by visual impairments including cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetes, and substance abuse.
Her travels have taken her to Monet’s house and gardens in Giverny, Renoir’s home in the South of France, the mental institution to which van Gogh committed himself after cutting off part of his ear, the wheat field where he died by suicide, the landscape in Provence painted by Cezanne, and the museums in Paris where many of the works of these artists can be seen. With her background in ophthalmic technology, she will guide us, with a slide presentation, through the vision defects of famous artists, spanning the centuries from el Greco to Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
Join us to learn how the color, the clarity, and the media used by these artists were affected, through the passage of time, by ocular pathology for which, 100 or more years ago, there was no cure.
Phyllis would like to leave you with some thoughts to ponder