Paterson Community Calendar
Exhibition: Paterson’s Poets: Voices from the Silk City Since its founding in 1792, Paterson has been home to many poets. Still more have visited Paterson and been enthused by the beauty of the Great Falls or the ingenuity of the city’s residents. This exhibit celebrates and honors the poets who were not only inspired by […]
Lecture: Recovering Paterson in Paterson. William Carlos Williams’s epic poem Paterson announces itself as a poem of place. Its title points us to the subject of the poem: Paterson, New Jersey. And yet, scholarship on Williams’s epic poem has often overlooked the history, geography, and people of Paterson. This talk seeks to recover the importance […]
Lecture: Made in Paterson: The Life and Legacy of U.S. Senator William Hughes. Join local historian Daniel J. Willever as he discusses his new book, Made in Paterson, exploring the life and legacy of U.S. Senator William Hughes, a frequently overlooked yet influential figure of Paterson's history. Willever's research interweaves Hughes's life with aspects of […]
The Paterson Museum Foundation invites you to join us on Zoom on Tuesday, September 12th at 7pm as public historian and author of Hamilton Versus Wall Street, Nancy Spannaus, presents Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures: The Ideas That Shaped Our World. In December of 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton issued one of the most important state […]
The Paterson Museum Foundation invites you to join us on Zoom on Tuesday, October 10th at 7pm as historian and author Daniel J. Willever presents, Made in Paterson: The Life and Legacy of U.S. Senator William Hughes. Willever will discuss his new book, Made in Paterson, exploring the life career of U.S. Senator William Hughes, […]