now december twenty eight hundred three getting princetonian now it's about princeton by princeton for princetonian produced by the great patrick mcdonald and hosted by myself we start off with the christmas tree lighting in palmer square what a great tradition we interviewed jamie volker we listen to we see santa claus we hear the music and then we see thirty two thousand lights light up a sixty five foot norwegian spruce it can't beat it i look forward to it every year with anticipation let's check it out decorations family fun food and they would go shopping five i'll get guests are gathering five o'clock will kick off the ceremony it's going to be a traditional one this year filled with lots of choir music sing along and we're going to have some of our community partners do some storytelling and festive festive traditions again and they want to check out more what's coming up in the new year twenty nine thousand what's the website palmer square dot com check it out let's go whoa no the year on the tree lighting i'm cold i could use some long eggnog without shot i'm just joking how to great time we talked to on jamie volker we saw the tree get lit up heard some great music mean it's it is priceless then we go on to another religion a multicultural community we had the lighting of the menorah in palmer square we talked to rabbi adam felber in some other interesting people and saw the menorah get lit up let's take a look as we food fun mirth and learn a little bit about hanukkah let's check it  out here with jeffrey from east windsor and i can't pass up a goodie this is a very nice town to come to and i was surfing around the internet which was one of the new miracles that we have in these days in these times when they said that there was a chronic alighting in france and so i figured i would come and check it out but i'm really confused because if you you know essentially it's short answer that they told us stories in hebrew school is that the salusa greeks which were syrian greeks tried to push their ways upon the jewish people and they tried to make things like being circumcised to be illegal and once you can with jewish god you call the jewish people and there was a group called the maccabees back in those days in those times and had enough of it and they put their foot down and it was a big war and in a place like princeton where a little bit more sophisticated you have a real college as it was even a civil war but that doesn't really someone only is that is and it's not really nice and we try to remember the good things about it one of the things that kids do is they play with the trails which is to remember what the greeks used to do when they used to see people studying torah it was kind of illegal in those days and all of a sudden they put the books away and it's not spinning these times because they didn't have they didn't have these things they couldn't do fan and america is built on freedom and even though the jewish people are a very small popular part of the population the idea of religious freedom is something that was critical to be can that's that's a jewish contribution to seven hundred seventy six and all that type of stuff and you know you have this type of this time of the year you have a you have the season you have the christmas season the christmas spirit it's kind of hard to even though i grew up in brooklyn which you can tell from my accent i still haven't lost after thirty something years in new jersey but if you grow up in the rest of the country you're surrounded by you know you're surrounded by a lot of christian paraphernalia and to the extent that there's peace on earth and goodwill toward men you know you can't that's that's a that's a good that's a good thing to have b since it happens around the same time it is something that if children aren't included then they feel that there's something something wrong with them so you try to get along everybody tries to get along and everyone kind of has the holiday hopefully some  has a good thing to have gulped down literally means gold but it means money but kids like to eat those like you know also chocolate covered gold which is you know which is the same thing so i'm not sure that maybe you guys know about this i don't but one of the one of the problems when you have a public situation where you have trying to mix religion and the public square in the united states is something called the constitution and there's these amendments and these clauses and i didn't i was not i'm not a lawyer and i don't try to play one we live in somerset why did you come to princeton for hanukkah i go anywhere for food fun holiday and basically for the kids because the kids get galton which is money where you give the chocolate stuff and the kids also you supposed to exchange inexpensive gifts and he is fine and if he a match today in twenty eight hanukkah has been important for thousands of years i think as a festival of lights on a miracles and i think even more so today we need to believe in miracles but we don't believe that we just depend on miracles sometimes we have to work with god to help create comic is also time to bring light in the midst of darkness and when people are feeling down and depressed we just like candles we try to give hope try to give light and warmth and we know we're not the only tradition that has this custom of lights in the season well that was a lot of fun thank you rabbi adam feldman they cleanse their band and here's my jewish joke was hey we have to have a little fun how many jewish grandmothers are the take to change a light bulb museum with short term exhibits long term exhibits recycling exhibits the sony in type stuff with bruce springsteen very new jerseyites even had something about diners and everything this year we looked at all the history of christmas tree the different types of christmas tree from different cultural backgrounds that represent our country with a lot of fun deborah rudman took us around with a great interview and i learned about trees that came from california trees that came from ohio she's it came from this religious sect trees it came from people just like to party and it was it was glowing it was festival and i even got to present a couple books but i liked it let's check it out we're going to be in more  and we're going to check out everything it has to offer and again the festival of trees hi adam barron princetonian now we're talking to debbie lambert reuben redmond i read and where are we right now we're at morgan festival of trees and we're going to be seeing a lot of trees in this is stork house where we right now we're in the west wing i'm more of a museum in garden and this tree that we're looking at is the is created by the garden called the president and what we're going to see today are a lot of different trees from different garden clubs and different organizations in and around princeton and you jersey well this tree is really really special to us especially because it's the family tree and actually was created by the staff here morgan we decided to come up with something was actually inspired by our registrar jesse gordon and there are silhouettes all on the tree which is something that was popular not in this century but in centuries before and some of the actual silhouettes on here are people who lived  the equestrian homestead tree and the horses played a big role in a lot of the people who live here and more of in this particular gallery is dedicated to robert wood johnson jr who rented morgan for fourteen years and while he was here he built a pool house and a pool and tennis courts committed a little spot for him and his family in the early twentieth century and he loved his horses so you can see on the wall and you can see in this tree that there's a lot of horse related items a commodore robert stockton was a bigger question as well and now debbie what is this tree about well this is disco extravaganza and it's decorated by the stony brook garden club and amazingly some of th that's on here maybe all the tinsel is an old cassette tapes anybody remember cassette tapes so this is a feel for the disco era because we're in the governor's gallery here at morgan and it also is related in the piano take a bite out of christmas another christmas tree in this festive time of the year lots of lights at both hands and deb is going to tell us more but what's interesting is you know before i worked in a museum i didn't realize that you couldn't have lived things in a museum and guess why because they can attract logs so these aren't real apples even though they look great on apparently moravian modern which is by the contemporary garden club is reflective of the holiday season found in bethlehem diary and this is apples candles and him stanzas there are all different him stanzas here which was how holidays were celebrat and the trees keep on coming what do we have here this is woodland wonders and this is created by the west front garden club and this is one of my favorites even on not really suppose that favorites but all the workmanship that went into this they basically started this a year ago because they do the trees every year with us and this is quilt recycled magazines and the group is a great group and if you look at the top or of this and it's just got some amazing quelling and they even give us a little illustration here on how you too can quill if you're interested but just a wonderful and the birds the little foxes i mean there's so many different amazing things that they've done just with recycled magazines bright side and it's all gold ornaments and that's some really interesting gold foliage at the top and this is created in put up by more carter and this is to indicate how scrooge felt at the end of a christmas carol and his new view of gold this is truly a small world as you said and we've taken the small world of decorative christmas trees and we end with a multicultural tree what is this well this is  created by keris tree farm and it's christmas traditions around the world and if you look at this tree it's got readings in all different languages now i don't know can you pronounce some of these  because i you know i got a friend at home a finisher no luck shona that means don't give me a call i'm just joking you know morgan what a gem what are resource it's been the job they've done here renovating it and make it into a real like museum is incredible it's right here in princeton and i'm so happy you took the time to talk to us how we're going to end the fabulous store tell us what's coming up your website everything else you know how you the mike ok thank you so lots coming up we have a lot of holiday programming back today you were kind of here a little bit during our morning with santa last week we had gingerbread house workshops we had a colonial christmas tea with and it's not stocked in the purse resident here mormon up at the end of the month we have pajamas story time with an r v spirit who's a princeton resident of  illustrator of children's books so we're going to have a night before christmas big party for the kids and if you're here visiting and you're coming to see the trees you come and vote for your favorite and the top three winners are named on our website which is more and more dot org and that's also where you find a lot of our programming and come in january and february and february have grand homes garden series we have a lot of neat things coming up me to not only did we see more of in all the great trees got a great tour from debbie i got some presents you know that makes my christmas free things well good bye for more of an this is been adam behrman from princetonian n well again this princetonian now we will go from palmer square to morgan now to the princeton airport for the forty third year they get sounded to fly from the north pole into princeton busy men lot of kids again great anticipation great looks check this out hi adam burman princetonian now it's twenty eighteen christmas eve with the princeton airport about forty three years ago the nierenberg family had this great idea about flying santa in from the north pole forty three years later it's a much anticipated event will hopefully talk to santa maybe a folk singer and of course the kids and see what presents they get i'm looking forward to it merry christmas this like our kids thirty one years ago and probably about fifteen years ago i started the singing so that my children would continue to come and participate in it i love it there was a second  a job switch in the sense that my grandchildren will be here and my own children and a lot of extended family so it's really a wonderful wonderful cause and i really think the princeton airport has done a great job they've been doing i think forty forty see you later