Celebrating the Heritage of Princeton, New Jersey
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Dear Loyal Readers, It is a pleasure to send you this Summer issue of Princeton Magazine. Summer may finally be here, after a spring that seemed to have no end of wintry nights. It seemed appropriate to have on our cover Carolyn Jones’ story of the father of modern climate prediction, Syukuro Manabe. Princeton, the […]
By Carolyn Jones. When young Syukuro “Suki” Manabe gazed at the sky above Japan, with World War II raging, there were few indications he would change the scientific world. A contemplative child from the mountains of Shikoku, Manabe was more interested in clouds than in schoolwork.
It is fashionable to be responsible about textile waste By Ilene Dube | Photos by Shutterstock unless otherwise attributed The models on the runway at Morven Museum & Garden wore garments made from recycled food packaging, plastic bags, spools, and broken umbrellas. It was a creative way to turn detritus into wearable art at Sustainable […]
New Jersey is an Angler’s Paradise By Anne Levin | Image from Shutterstock There are those who view New Jersey as 7,354 square miles of traffic-clogged roadways, offering little opportunity to commune with nature. Fishing enthusiasts are not among them. To “fishies,” as anglers sometimes refer to themselves, the Garden State is a little piece […]
By Stuart Mitchner My first Princeton job was helping the University’s secretary emeritus Alexander Leitch complete his encyclopedic work A Princeton Companion. It was the Bicentennial spring of 1976, and my limited knowledge of Princeton history was about to expand beyond F. Scott Fitzgerald and Albert Einstein to Aaron Burr Jr. (Class of 1772) and […]
