Cathryn J. Prince is the author of several nonfiction books, most recently Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing LIfe of Fanny Bullock Workman. She is also an adjunct professor in journalism at Fordham University.
Cathryn J. Prince
By Cathryn J. Prince
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Culture In Lakewood, New Jersey, a garden blooms — and so does a community
Wearing a broadbrimmed straw garden hat, Tova Herskovitz looked over the raised beds and smiled. The first carrot tops were poking through the chocolate-colored soil, the purple kale was already looking hearty, and so was the mint. “Everybody should take some mint home with them,” she said. As a longtime organizer, Herskovitz loves it when…
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Culture Between a shtetl-born painter and a Dutch expressionist, remarkable parallels
With his canvases depicting remote villages, blood-soaked carcasses and portraits of ordinary people, Chaïm Soutine was Willem de Kooning’s favorite–hands down. “I’ve always been crazy about Soutine — all of his paintings,” the Dutch-born artist once said. Now visitors to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia can see how the shtetl-born Jewish artist inspired de Kooning…
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