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Visit to Princeton
Jun. 15th, 2022 12:51 amOn Friday the tenth, I walked a mile or so to the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation’s current headquarters, where I did some reading in the Francoise Rosen Reading Room while the Schalkenbach staff were mostly busy getting ready for the Board of Directors meeting. Then Joshua Vincent, the executive director of the Center for the Study of Economics, came by, and we talked about CSE’s business and plans, and ate lunch in the kitchen (he ordered delivery from Mamoun’s, a Middle Eastern restaurant which I remembered seeing near the Nassau Inn).
Then he drove home, and I paid a visit to the Princeton University library, together with several other Georgists. I had thought that we were to see Henry George’s death mask, but that was not quite the case; a couple of Princeton University Library people, Daniel Linke and Adrienne Ruzynski (unsure of spelling), had prepared a display of several death masks and life masks, including a life mask of Abraham Lincoln, and death masks of Walt Whitman, Thomas Paine, and (supposedly) Dante Alighieri. What they had of Henry George was a bust made from his death mask by his younger son, the sculptor Richard Fox George. After viewing those, we went back upstairs to the Library’s ground floor, and toured a display on alchemy.
After that, I took a nap in my room at the Nassau Inn, and then went to Schalkenbach reception at a local restaurant, Mediterra, where I ate some tapas, indulged in a glass of beer, and talked with various Georgist friends, including new people who weren’t on the Schalkenbach Board back when I served there.
Then he drove home, and I paid a visit to the Princeton University library, together with several other Georgists. I had thought that we were to see Henry George’s death mask, but that was not quite the case; a couple of Princeton University Library people, Daniel Linke and Adrienne Ruzynski (unsure of spelling), had prepared a display of several death masks and life masks, including a life mask of Abraham Lincoln, and death masks of Walt Whitman, Thomas Paine, and (supposedly) Dante Alighieri. What they had of Henry George was a bust made from his death mask by his younger son, the sculptor Richard Fox George. After viewing those, we went back upstairs to the Library’s ground floor, and toured a display on alchemy.
After that, I took a nap in my room at the Nassau Inn, and then went to Schalkenbach reception at a local restaurant, Mediterra, where I ate some tapas, indulged in a glass of beer, and talked with various Georgist friends, including new people who weren’t on the Schalkenbach Board back when I served there.
