PATERSON — As a teenager, Giacomo DeStefano worked at Paterson’s public library stocking shelves. There he first became acquainted with the small museum located in the rear carriage house — so small ...

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 ...