• Music to My Ears: Curating the Perfect Road Trip Playlist

    Music to My Ears: Curating the Perfect Road Trip Playlist

    While I love to spend my summers at the Jersey Shore, I don’t love the hour or so car rides spent driving back and forth. Whether doing these drives solo or in the company of my friends and family, music definitely helps me get through the shore traffic. Over the…

  • NJ State Museum: Exhibitions about the Delaware Native Americans

    NJ State Museum: Exhibitions about the Delaware Native Americans

    Since the best part of elementary school was the yearly field trips, it is no surprise that when I was assigned to write about a physical cultural heritage experience, my mind automatically thought of revisiting one of the many museum trips previously taken. Growing up in central New Jersey right…

  • Puerto Rican Coquito

    Puerto Rican Coquito

    What is Intangible Heritage?  According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), intangible heritage “includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the…