(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Morven Museum & Garden has four events in January starting with Girl Scout Badge Workshops: 18th & 19th Century Dancer, Scribe & Social Butterfly on January 4th.  On January 22nd, they present The Prophetic Quest: Stained Glass Art Of Jacob Landau With David Herrstrom; on January 25, they present the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra Salon: Extended Techniques; and on January 29th, they present John Baxter On Richard Stockton: Revolutionary Unsung Hero.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 4 FROM 11:00am - 4:00pm - GIRL SCOUT BADGE WORKSHOPS: 18TH & 19TH C. DANCER, SCRIBE, & SOCIAL BUTTERFLY. Three different workshops in one day for Brownies and Juniors! $18 including all supplies, snack, and badge; $10 per parent. Includes admission into museum and grounds following or before workshop.

Brownies earn the Dancer badge with Morven's talented Horticulturist/Historic Dancer Louise Senior where many fancy steps were taken throughout history. Girls will learn fun warm-ups, perform steps from new dances, and make a dance of their very own. 

Juniors earn the Social Butterfly badge practicing social style and good manners and may also join the Curator of Education Debra Lampert-Rudman, M.Ed. for a writing workshop to earn the Scribe badge.  

Reservations may be made on Eventbrite however paid registration is through www.gscsnj.org or email dlampertrudman@morven.org for details. Click here to register.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 6:30pm, doors open at 6:00pm - THE PROPHETIC QUEST: STAINED GLASS ART OF JACOB LANDAU WITH DAVID HERRSTROM. $10; Free for Friends of Morven. Jacob Landau’s powerful ten-window stained glass art The Prophetic Quest will be discussed by David Herrstrom, President of the Jacob Landau Institute, in an illustrated lecture. Landau, an artist who lived most of his adult life in Roosevelt, NJ, is best known for his portrayal of the challenges of the 20th century including the Great Depression, WWII, Hiroshima and the Holocaust. Herrstrom’s illustrated lecture features Landau’s stained glass creations for Keneseth Israel synagogue, Elkins Park, PA, said to explore God’s demand that human beings live justly, and the human struggle to comprehend the roots of evil and suffering. Click here to register.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2020 at 3:00pm - NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SALON: EXTENDED TECHNIQUES. $10; Free for Friends of Morven Series $25; Free for Friends of Morven (Additional Series Date: Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 3:00pm). Members of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra musicians present NBCO@Morven, a three-part series of uncommon chamber music pieces connected by a common theme. All events will take place in Morven’s Stockton Education Center. Short works are mixed with lively and informative discussions with the orchestra's conductor Mark Hyczko. The salon on January 25 is called “Extended Techniques”, which features works that explore unusual approaches to writing for instruments. The concluding salon on May 9, 2020 is “Life/Death”, which explores music written at momentous occasions in the composers' lives. Light refreshments will be served throughout. 

Tickets for individual, as well as the entire concert series, are available. Click here to register.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 at 2:00pm - JOHN BAXTER ON RICHARD STOCKTON: REVOLUTIONARY UNSUNG HERO. Tickets for afternoon talk only: $10; Free for Friends of Morven. Tea/Tour/Talk: $32; $18 for Friends of Morven. Museum Tour available at 11:00am or Noon, Tea at 1:00pm, Additional fee and pre-registration required for Tea (Reservations required for tea and may be made by calling 609.924.8144 ext. 103) Local historian and author John Baxter joins us to examine the life of Richard Stockton in the months immediately following the signing of the Declaration of Independence, some of the darkest days of the American Revolution. 

Mr. Baxter will present his research on Stockton’s work as a member of the Continental Congress; his courageous journey to upstate New York, the northern theater of the war, during the fall of 1776; and the extent to which he laid the groundwork for the victory at Saratoga a year later. 

The question on whether Richard Stockton deserves to be remembered as an unsung hero of the Revolution will be entertained.  Click here to register.

Morven Museum & Garden is located at 55 Stockton Street in Princeton, New Jersey.