HERMITAGE MUSEUM STITCHES TOGETHER PAST AND PRESENT WITH UNIQUE “CLOSET ARCHEOLOGY” EXHIBIT BY ARTIST DIANE SAVONA
Work of Noted Textile Artist Will be Displayed Through September With Historic Artifacts from Hermitage Collection
HO-HO-KUS, N.J., December 17, 2009 – The Hermitage Museum, a historic house and education center at 335 North Franklin Turnpike in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, will [...]
Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
Cadel Piggott is a genius. Really. At age seven he was brought to see a psychologist because he kept getting in trouble as a result of his manipulation of computer and security equipment. By his thirteenth birthday, he was in his 11th year of school and was causing traffic jams, demolishing [...]
Kooky Cookies
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
The Holidays have passed but there is still one food that keeps on hanging around if you’re lucky – cookies. Or maybe the cookies are now hanging on your hips (admit it – isn’t that your new year’s resolution!?). Either way, they’ve made their annual appearance.
I’m guessing here, but [...]
Psychology popular field of study at Mount
NEWBURGH, NY – “I hope I will be able to touch the lives of people when they most need help and to offer them advice and guidance.” So said Kyle Meditz of Sound Beach.
Meditz, a sophomore at Mount Saint Mary College, is one of the many students who have [...]
The spirit of Christmas stretches beyond religious borders, and at the end of the day drapes itself in hopes of peace and goodwill. It is certainly a season designed for children, the celebration of a man when he was a child’s contemporary, a small babe reliant on the kindness of strangers.
And it is often through [...]
Ted Odenwald reviews All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion, By Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler.
This month the New Jersey Commission on Bullying in Schools released a 66-page report on how to further reduce bullying in schools. The report estimates that implementation of their 22 recommendations would cost $1,500,000. Approximately $900,000 would go to the establishment, staffing and supplying of three TAC (Technical Assistance Centers) sites. These sites would be [...]
Back in the 1900s, the group was known as The Wyckoff Male Chorus. They formed in 1948 and kept the original name until their popularity required they rename themselves The North Jersey Male Chorus to reflect their widening demographics. It was not until 1994 that women were invited to join, and now in the 21st [...]
Man Sees the World in Miniature
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
When Franklin Lakes resident Tony Armenante looks back on his 85 years of life, he wishes he had been a builder. Trained as a chemical engineer, Armenante is finally making his wish come true through building models, which he designs from scratch.
“I’m a frustrated engineer who always [...]
Do You Really “Need” the Thing? By: Ryan Robinson
It’s that time of the year again that people open presents, put ornaments on the tree, light up the menorah, etc.; and people get into the holiday mood. However, what really is the focus on the special day you celebrate? Is it Jesus being born? Is it [...]
