you saw the brains twisting and turning their work as a team and stuff and they were in there making the lego it was fascinating absolutely and tender community we did we did we did and you said there was going to be what like fifty thousand people what that's the number they say i don't even know they're sure what's happening but it's packed packed and the weather was great it was a good time to celebrate town gown good food things to buy some discounts and of course you see friends you had seen a long time it's become a princeton event your title i'm the executive director of the historical society of princeton what is your big picture for historical society what are you trying to do on two or three fronts will this this today is a great example of what we're trying to do is we're trying to reach new audiences so maybe people who haven't really seen themselves as the standard historical society audience in the past but really trying to introduce people to the fact that history is all around us and history can be fun and engaging and that it's important that we all have an understanding of that part of our community  and our heritage and trying to reach reach new people in new ways i suppose is the the biggest picture of them all adam berman princetonian now we're building princeton at the printed historical society this is i'm talking to should i say the genesis the man behind this steven schwartz what are you trying to accomplish here today the main thing that we try to accomplish is when i work with the historical society and they are trying to get their message out to the public i can supplement that in a beautiful way by bringing families together so that they'll start to think about the architectural heritage of their community that's all we're trying to do is get them to look and see and notice things they probably have driven by a hundred times but they never noticed the roofline they never noticed the brick they never noticed the window arrangement or the geometry of the building and all of a sudden as they look at this photograph to try and duplicate it in lego all of a sudden they say oh i never noticed that before it's a great feeling i love saying that so our mission today is for each family to build a building that we have selected with the total help of the historical society after they finish the model we're going to roll out a thirty two foot map of princeton and put the buildings down on their actual location holistically it makes more sense to everyone visually this is a visual exercise something they would never have been able to do on their own but you know all of a sudden you've got fifty buildings and they're all over the place that downtown is and to be a little condensed we had a problem here and the map turned out to be a little smaller than i expected but but they'll get the picture it's a lot of fun and you painted a great picture great this store called society great for kids and education and great for awareness of architecture is a family program you can't your kids don't always want to do things with you but this is one thing that they will love doing together as a family and it's obvious take a panorama it's obvious they love it t very much with the short you're welcome thank you princetonian now we're at the updike farm now home with the princeton historical society i'm talking to lori and rinehart where do you live in hamilton new jersey oh what led you how did you hear about this event i saw a flyer educational time for the kids or could cause family just harmony not harmony what's going to happen with you i think it's going to be very educational plus a little bit of him being the boss what's the name of your team it could be edited so anyway how you all working together what's the modus operandi studious so you're really ready to build this who's in charge here or this all started in montclair new jersey so we have now been at the montclair art museum this was our thirtieth year of we were there two weeks ago not only do we sell out the entire fifty slots they had to add another program so we do one hundred families in one day and there's a waiting list for a third so it it's what's nice is every year we repeat it and it's just a great benefit for the historical society but we do in montclair new jersey summit morristown we had westport connecticut we do stony brook new york so what hershey pennsylvania last year the historical societies call us could you develop one for our town this took about six months to develop this whole program today and i work you know with the historical society here so do a web site or how can people reach you a terrific website it's called building blocks workshops dot com building blocks workshop you i like that you know all the modalities there they saw the picture they do work together the team it was very hands on they didn't you know take that rendered and make it into a lego and then they're going to get interested in architecture also just to see the finished product they actually made a picture with lego and they remember we're really interest me is that these young kids like four to maybe like ten eleven twelve they saw a picture and then they just started building lego's and they made an actual building out of that like when i area city metro area happening texas louisiana california you name it they all came here just to the kid to person for the reason to go to commute versity which i think is amazing it's like so almost fifty years ago someone had a great idea don't exactly know who about having something called commune averse city connecting town and gown now in twenty eighteen we're back again but a community is on a success over fifty thousand people might be here andrew is there any website you can go to how can people learn more give back we definitely can't go and mark were parked com or quad park dot com looking forward to it thanks all right to curate hi princetonian now i'm talking to alexandra i've seen and for the master gardeners and pat probably has their shadetree and master gardeners and the master gardeners are here to provide information about the upcoming insect festival about the plant expo which is coming up next weekend and to give any information people might want to get about what to do with their plants and a shady tree commission is giving out tree we've got five different varieties of trees and these are come from funding from the state to help reforest new jersey after the trees we lost in sandy and other storms so we're hoping people come along pick up a tree and plan it in their garden take pictures as it grows and come back next year and the year after to commune of or city and show us the pictures so we can see how the trees grow library i forgot what the third one was and then we have princeton t v it's a kind of right i think that's terrific and that's something that i'd really like to see promoted and get more you know awareness of because i think the third one you were probably  trying to get out it was mccarter theatre which has earned a tony the library is world class and of course this is the largest gathering in mercer county that's sponsored by the arts council and princeton community television is not people are not as aware of that yet ok but well what is the plan the general macro plan how are you going to try to raise awareness and funding well we're going to basically be doing a lot more outreach we're going to be doing lots of programs and events we've got a possible program that would involve like friends of princeton t v and we're also engaged in a program to do some public service announcements  for municipal boards and organizations just in hansing the awareness is the first attack angle so after that you think you can get into some what i call win win partnerships with other non profits are even for profit businesses like they get  to promote a show interest in t v they also help with financing absolutely absolutely we're already partnered with national film festival and that's going to be coming up in may so make sure you come see that that's always a real blast i was fortunate enough to be able to put a documentary together last year that aired and that was premiered at the national film festival and it's a lot of fun and it's free so make sure you come out to that and we've got a lot more you know cross promotions and partnerships that i think are going to be very a little bit about what goes on at princeton plasma physics lab interactive that's right people get to play with all of our our science gadgets they can see how magnets work they can see how vacuum pumps work they can  of this talent some people still don't realize we have the princeton university art museum excellent paintings ever changing expositions and even more important to me it's free amazing resource and we're talking what do you want people to know when they come to this table besides seeing what you have about the princeton art museum that we have an amazing perming collection which is free to the public and there's a lot to see there there's art programs that happen every saturday which are also free for families so i recommend checking out our website to see if we have our and then calendar up there everything's free to the public a lot including a lot of artists like yours thank you very much princetonian now we're with a living legend in my mind one of the few family run stores left uptown i call it uptown mr landau thanks for talking to us no problem cuban of her city what does it mean to you in terms of meeting people who pla profit is just a fun you really get more sales does it help business wise whether it helps doesn't it you know gives people the opportunity of walking by seeing what we're doing and if they like what they see that come back later quickly you know your time's valuable you have survived and you're still here why you opposed to other family run businesses already any other business of any sort surviving here well you know my cousin used to own the army navy store you know he always went out this past year both of those stores had you know items that if you went in you could try it on you could look at the end of the box or you could look at the label go on law and order and save money here we go out of our way to find products no one else house or prices no one else has niche attractive store front and you're still here thank you very much  like a marvel comic in my in my superpower he's all my conversation got more cogent i actually spoke clearer yeah everything and i don't have any alcohol yet and what about you though how did you like it i mean i really liked it just because really  like you're seeing people you know that you're seeing around town and it's just like we're all coming together for a family fun event and trying to you know it's really true it's like a warm blanket your smile and it's great and it's still something kind of neat an anomaly when you can walk in the happenings of a pretty unique town with a population of only thirty one thousand so what's coming up next year many right now we're transition we're well personal you know it's not a typical show because it doesn't go month by whether each week or two weeks we go when there's a good event going and it varies or could be the other month or could be the next month that's really like that we just don't chase anything we can go to the trade commission it's important we want to discuss but we don't want to show life for a better term boring events we want to go to the fun events where people will be there where we can see you know see great things that person has to offer because if you know if we're just  if if if we could all get a little bit scuba gear and go to the bottom of carnegie like could you imagine what you might find down there ha these are things see how we think of the box now this is princetonian now and this is pat mcdonald because pat had the vision pat was a producer director editor and hopefully this will grow into something even bigger its biggest community yeah i'm hoping right now it's still a little small but that's ok because i just have you know when people more people know about i just think the numbers will go up and people will want to see what they missed if they're out of town or if their life sick in bed and kind of go out there we'll see what great events person has to offer the one with this too and you can see it anytime you want to print a t v down or go to the