The greater Princeton community is invited to a town-wide celebration of Paul Robeson’s birthday on October 15 at 3 p.m. at Nassau Presbyterian Church. The concert will mark the 125th anniversary of Robeson’s birth. Attendees will be delighted by a performance by baritone soloist Kevin Maynor. The program will also include The Verse Speaking Choir of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church and the Jubilee Choir from Rider University. Susan Robeson, Robeson’s granddaughter, will be the honored guest. more
I’m looking at two photographs. In one my father is sitting with our first cat on his lap, a Siamese male named Kiloo, pronounced “kee-oo.” The small, framed photo occupies a shelf on this desk with an unframed one of me half a century later slouched on the living room sofa with our tuxedo cat, Dizzy, on my lap. Kiloo is poised, as if planning another attack on the clawed-to-rags arms of the living room sofa. Not Dizzy. He’s the picture of contentment, one big white “this-is-mine” paw on my leg. I thought of Kiloo as soon as I opened The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (Random House 2013), where the first thing you see is a full-page color photograph of the cat-clawed arm of a sofa — minor damage compared to the havoc wreaked by Kiloo. 
