A collection of small-town recipe cards has something to say about enjoying life. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Shirley Collier worked as a hairdresser in two small south Texas towns. Over the years, she collected scores of recipes from patrons who brought in goodies to share. These recipes were written on scraps of paper […]
We’ll have a conversation on the origins of the waste crisis, and how we can each do our part to collectively shrink the garbage heap. Our speakers are Eric Ascalon, global director of community development at TerraCycle, and Jennifer Shukaitis, assistant professor on the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension Food Waste Team, who developed a curriculum […]
The Bergen County LGBTQ+ Alliance (BCLA) was created to help serve a diverse community. However, as the Alliance states in their mission, LGBTQ+ folx are "often difficult to reach and therefore have often been unseen and chronically underserved." BCLA's executive director and chief community advocate, Anthony Torres, will give a "state of the county" address […]
This Gathering features a panel discussion on multiple aspects of public transportation: Aging, environmental impact, general accessibility. Panelists are Sally Gellert, public transportation advocate and host of WBAI's Eco-Logic; David Peter Alan, longtime advocate of rail transportation; Daniel Chazin, advocate, attorney, and volunteer with NY-NJ Trail Conference. This Gathering is at the meetinghouse and on […]
Ethical Culture founder Felix Adler established America’s first free kindergarten for working families in the late 19th century. In the early 20th century, he led the first successful national campaign against child labor and came very close to achieving his egalitarian vision. Recently, we have moved in the completely opposite direction with the widening of […]
