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Be your own tour guide and weave yourself through Einstein’s storybook town! Our self guided map of 14 essential stops will lead you to Albert Einstein’s homes, monument, favorite hang outs and even his hairdresser’s home! We created a themed Pi(e) picnic with your stroll because Einstein was born on March 14th …. the numeric…

 Today is the birthday of Henry Ford, American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company.    Ford did not invent the automobile, but he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford to buy.  As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people…

Rumor has it, Hamilton really did throw away his shot, and he threw it straight into Nassau Hall!! Ever since Sir George Otto Trevelyan published “The American Revolution” in 1905, word on the street has been that Alexander Hamilton shot a famous cannonball into Nassau Hall.  In the story, Sir George Otto Trevelyan tells of…

ON BLOOMSDAY, june 16, 2021, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY’S UBER COOL PROFESSOR, Paul Muldoon WILL BE ZOOMING A 1 HOUR READING OF favorite passages and FORBIDDEN TEXTS FROM BLOOMSDAY BY James Joyce!!

Today in 1920, sparks literally flew destroying Marquand Chapel and Dickinson Hall.     The destruction prompted the construction of the internationally famous Princeton Chapel. Did you know ….. The University Chapel the second-largest university chapel in the world? The organ inside has 109 stops and 8,000 pipes? The oak pews in the nave are made…

Go to Grounds for Sculpture – You may have heard about the 35 acre cultural park with amazing views: …. Did you know there’s an open air outdoor employee shower at Grounds for Sculpture?  TRUE!         (Here’s a shot of one of the employees taking a quick rinse! I KNOW!) Did you know J….

On April 8, 1960, The Board of Trustees of Princeton University selected the color that would hereby be the official “Princeton orange.”  (Insiders know in 1866, George Ward, a member of the Class of 1869, proposed the color orange in reference to the Prince of Orange, William III of the House of Nassau. The first…