All through the 1990s, the Mad Hatters Tea Society -- an informal group of WCD's Rutgers students who gathered occasionally for weekend conversation -- met at Sally Lunn's Tea Room in Princeton.
Then, alas, tourists discovered Sally Lunn's, which is now too
crowded,
noisy, and expensive for Hatters meetings, at which were wont to be discussed,
over many a leisurely pot of Prince of Wales tea, literature and philosophy
and history and cabbages and kings.
With great regret, the group was dissolved in fall semester 1999.
Today, when WCD has occasion to meet students on
weekends,
the venue is either the Small World Coffeehouse on Witherspoon Street or
the Bucks County Coffeehouse in Palmer Square.
Directions to Small World, together with a map, may be found below. Bucks County is farther down on the same side of the street: walk down until you see the Palmer Square kiosk (magazines and newspapers), then look directly across Tiger Park for the Bucks County sign.
Directions to Small World Coffeehouse
If you are driving in on Rt. 27 from New Brunswick, go straight
to the center of Princeton. (Rt. 27 changes to Nassau St. It is the same
road. Just the name changes.)
If you are coming by train, make sure you buy tickets BOTH to Princeton Junction -- which is actually miles away from Princeton -- and a ticket for the "Dinky," the little shuttle that takes passengers up to the center of Princeton. (You should have four (4) tickets: two from your point of origin to Princeton Jct. and back, and two for the Dinky.)
When
you get to the Dinky station, walk across the Princeton campus (see map)
to Nassau Street, then cross Nassau and walk down Witherspoon to Small
World.
A Mad Hatters gathering, autumn
1996.
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