PRINCETON, NJ Restaurant Dining Guide Announcement

Morven Museum & Garden Announces Gallery Tour and Lecture “The View from the White House: the First Lady, 1920-2010” Tuesday, September 28, at 7:00 pm

Morven Museum & Garden is holding a gallery tour and lecture called “The View from the White House: the First Lady, 1920-2010” Tuesday, September 28, at 7:00 pm by Dr. Myra Gutin, professor of Communications and Journalism at Rider University, who has written extensively about America's first ladies, and teaches a course titled “The American First Lady in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.”  The lecture looks at the first ladies from 1920 up to Michelle Obama and divides them into three classifications: Ceremonial Presences, the Emerging Spokeswomen and the Activist. The lecture is a part of the museum’s major exhibition, The Kennedys | Portrait of a Family: Photographs by Richard Avedon, which runs now to October 31, 2010.

Dr. Gutin is the author of The President’s Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century, and Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch, and she is widely quoted in national and international news media on the topic of first ladies. She contributed two articles to Report to the First Lady, 2009, a study of the history and Office of the First Lady, which was presented to Michelle Obama.  She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in communications from Emerson College, Boston, MA, where she was the recipient of Emerson College’s Distinguished Alumni Award, and a Ph.D degree in communications from the University of Michigan.

Morven Museum & Garden is located at 55 Stockton Street in Princeton. Advance reservations are required. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for non-members, and can be purchased by calling Morven at (609) 924-8144, ext. 106. The museum offers free, on-site parking.