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Award-winning journalist, Dr. Donna Clovis, recounts the stories of Princeton, New Jersey, in the early 1900s through the late 1950s through the eyes of two of the oldest citizens by means of interviews, diaries, and articles. The synchronicity of being at the right place at the right time for the interviews, locations, and journals plays a major role in the construction of the book.

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Being at the right place at the right time, helped me to write a novel. As a journalist, I wanted to document the lives of some of the most elderly people living in Princeton, New Jersey during the time my children attended Princeton Schools there. I felt that there must be such a wealth of knowledge in the community and University. I wanted to find out how much knowledge existed among the elderly. I looked up the oldest living man and woman in Princeton at the time. I got in touch with them and asked them for an interview. The woman was 100-years old. The man was 103. I started to document their lives. Their interviews took several months. What was it like to live 100 years ago in Princeton? There were so many famous people here: Albert Einstein and

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