Turkish Coffee Service

Hackettstown Public Library 110 Church Street, Hackettstown

Turkish coffee is a rich, thick, and delightful drink to be enjoyed slowly with good company. It is brewed in a copper coffee pot called a cezve (jez-VEY), made with powder-like ground coffee, and sweetened to the drinker's taste.  Join us to taste this amazing flavor!

Charcuterie Design with Fromage

Hackettstown Public Library 110 Church Street, Hackettstown

Learn how to wow your guests with an impressive charcuterie board during this lesson with Luce from Fromage. Luce will show you the ins-and-outs of design and provide you with the skills you need to become the host with the most. At the end of the program, the charcuterie board will be raffled off to [...]

Author Talk ~ Phorgotten No More: Glimpses of the African-American Presence in Phillipsburg

Centenary University's Taylor Memorial Library 400 Jefferson St, Hackettstown

After joining the Phillipsburg Historical Society shortly after completing college, author Wayne Sherrer started writing a book about the history of Phillipsburg, New Jersey. One of the chapters discussed the African American history of the town. After discovering how much information he had gathered for this chapter alone, he endeavored to recount the African American [...]