Meetup: Pre-BCC Meeting Dinner
2026-05-27 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Prime Eats, 190 Westwood Avenue, Westwood, NJ, 190 Westwood Avenue, Westwood, NJ, 07675, United States
Since our next meeting on Wednesday May 27th is at Bergen County Camera in Westwood at 7:30 p.m., it’s a great opportunity to meet for dinner ahead of time!
Westwood Prime Eats is just a block away at 190 Westwood Avenue and has terrific hamburgers, sandwiches and salads. We can meet there at 6 p.m. (they do close at 7, but can accommodate us) and then saunter over to BCC. This is a bring-your-own place by the way.
Please RSVP by noon on Monday, May 25th and I wuill make a reservation. Thanks!
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Executive Committee Meeting - June
2026-06-03 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | RCC Zoom
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End of Year Picnic - Bergen County Duck Pond Pavilion - Ridgewood
2026-06-06 12:00 - 16:00 UTC | Ridgewood Duck Pond, 1133 East Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, NJ, 07450, United States
the next few weeks we will be drawing our club year to a close (my how time flies!). As is our tradition, we will be having our annual Club Picnic on Saturday, June 6th, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Ridgewood Duck Pond (1133 East Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood). This event will be held rain or shine as we have a pavilion that we can huddle under if need be!

I need to get a count for the food (which we will be providing) so please RSVP at by Friday, May 29th (and you certainly don’t need to wait till then!).

We will be setting up tables for photography related items that you would like to sell and others you would prefer to give away so start scouting out what you might like to bring.

Please contact me should you have any questions. Thanks!

Ruth Plucinski
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June Brunch Bunch
2026-06-14 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Suburban Diner, 172 Rt. 17, Paramus, United States
Social Brunch with other club members
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Mahan Collection - Basking Ridge
2026-06-27 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Mahan Collection, 53 Cross Road, Basking Ridge, NJ, 07920, United States
The Mahon Collection was created to preserve American Trucking History. they acquire, preserve, and maintain a collection of Antique trucks and equipment. Its only open one Saturday a month. I plan to check it out Saturday June 27 as long as it doesn’t rain. Its open 12-3, the address is 53 Cross Road, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920. Their website is https://www.themahancollection.org/
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July Brunch Bunch
2026-07-12 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Suburban Diner, 172 Rt. 17, Paramus, United States

August Brunch Bunch
2026-08-09 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Suburban Diner, 172 Rt. 17, Paramus, United States

RCC Book Club - "Things Become Other Things" by Craig Mod
2026-09-10 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Rob’s Place, 2701 Hemingway Lane, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
The next Book Club selection is: “Things Become Other Things” by Craig Mod

Date: September 10, 2026 7:30PM

From the Publisher:
A transformative 300-mile walk along Japan’s ancient pilgrimage routes and through depopulating villages inspires a heartrending remembrance of a long-lost friend, documented in poignant, imaginative prose and remarkable photography.
“An epic, exquisitely detailed journey, on foot, through a rural Japan few of us are likely to experience. Uniquely unforgettable.”—William Gibson, New York Timesbestselling author of Neuromancer
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Shelf Awareness

Photographer and essayist Craig Mod is a veteran of long solo walks. But in 2021, during the pandemic shutdown of Japan’s borders, one particular walk around the Kumano Kodō routes—the ancient pilgrimage paths of Japan’s southern Kii Peninsula—took on an unexpectedly personal new significance. Mod found himself reflecting on his own childhood in a post-industrial American town, his experiences as an adoptee, his unlikely relocation to Japan at nineteen, and his relationship with one lost friend, whose life was tragically cut short after their paths diverged. For Mod, the walk became a tool to bear witness to a quiet grace visible only when “you’re bored out of your skull and the miles left are long.”
Tracing a 300-mile-long journey, Things Become Other Things folds together history, literature, poetry, Shinto and Buddhist spirituality, and contemporary rural life in Japan via dozens of conversations with aging fishermen, multi-generational inn owners, farmers, and kissaten cafe “mamas.” Along the way, Mod communes with mountain fauna, marvels over evidence of bears and boars, and hopscotches around leeches. He encounters whispering priests and foul-mouthed little kids who ask him, “Just what the heck are you, anyway?” Through sharp prose and his curious archive of photographs, he records evidence of floods and tsunamis, the disappearance of village life on the peninsula, and the capricious fecundity of nature.
Things Become Other Things blends memoir and travel writing at their best, transporting readers to an otherwise inaccessible Japan, one made visible only through Mod’s unique bicultural lens.
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