WHAT’S ON • HADDONFIELD
#489 • December 3 to 17, 2010
Around the Town What’s Your Take?
Step back in time with a visit to the Indian King Tavern Museum in December. If you could live during any period in history, which would you choose?
• EVAN MARCUS, a resident of Cherry Hill, considers Jersey Java & Tea his “office away from home” and was found doing business over coffee and treats. Given the chance, Evan would live in Israel at around 1500 BC. “It was a thriving time in history ... the land was lush and the civilization and the philosophy were pretty modern.”
• NANCY and DOUG RAUSCHENBERGER concurred that living right now is probably best for them. Doug, the co-author of “Images of America: Haddonfield” replied, “As much as I love history, I’m not nostalgic.” Nancy added, “I agree, although sometimes I think I could do without computers!”
• A barista at Haddon Avenue’s Jersey Java & Tea, KRISTINA BICKING of Pennsauken replied, “The 1930’s ... It was a very glamorous period despite the hardships of the Depression.”
• President of the Historical Society of Haddonfield, LEE ALBRIGHT, would turn back the clock, but remain right here in Haddonfield. “Things were exploding between about 1906 and 1908. Also my favorite architect, Clement Remington, built his best and greatest houses in West Haddonfield at the turn of the century,” she said. President of the Friends of the Indian King Tavern Museum, JOE MURPHY, is happy here and now. “I guess I have too good a memory to think that things in the past were any better than they are today.”
• The owner of Jersey Java & Tea, MARY BURKE, would choose to live in the 1930’s. “Life was simpler, slower, and very family oriented,” she said
• Haddonfield resident TOM SKOUFALOS laughed, “I’d like to relive the 1960’s ... that was back when I still had hair!”
What’s On the Cover: Included on the calendar are photos of members of the High School Madrigal singers and Katy Gentry, Pat DeFusco, and Craig Hutchings, stars of Plays & Players’ A Wonderful Life.