Often a bit of serendipity lands in my lap. In this case it is Mark Rothko, or rather a bit of his biography. Rothko is a modern painter ( 1903-1970) whose work I like a great deal. (I love him, actually.) I have seen his paintings at the National Gallery in Washington, C. I’ve also [...]
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William Livingston
Welcome to the 4th installment of Place Names. For this episode, I’ll explore William Livingston, who was the first governor of New Jersey and on whose eponymous campus, Livingston College at Rutgers, I spend most of my time. I hadn’t even bothered to think about the historical relevance of the name of the college until [...]
Penobscot Bay
Stoney Moss is pleased to bring you another installment of Place Names, coming to you this time from the great northern bay in Maine, Penobscot Bay. Penobscot Bay is situated in mid-coastal Maine (on the eastern bank), and it’s coastline is dotted with small habitable islands. The bay is named after the Penobscot (originally known [...]
Lucy Stone
In the second installment of Place Names, today I learned about Lucy Stone, in whose building I spend most of my time. Lucy Stone Hall is a huge building on the Livingston campus at Rutgers, and is where the Sociology department, history and geography departments, and several other social science and humanities departments are housed. [...]
Place Names: Kilmer
Here in my new town, and at Rutgers, I am surrounded by street and building names named after people I’ve never heard of. Joyce Kilmer Avenue was the first road I had to find on the map when we visited Rutgers in March, and beyond assuming Joyce was a woman, I had no idea who [...]
