Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PATERSON — As a teenager, Giacomo DeStefano worked at Paterson’s public library stocking shelves. There he first became acquainted ...

Some of the exhibits, such as the local pearls fished out of the Passaic River in the 19th-century “pearl rush,” have never been displayed before. The museum’s leaders spent much of their time at the ...