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connects to nature and history through art
from 4-23 BC
BY SUSAN VAN DONGEN
The more natural beauty photographer Ann Darlington discovers, the more she wants to share what she sees with others.
That search for splendor has taken her around the United States and the world — from the Adirondack and Great Smoky mountains to Yosemite National Park, to Turkey, Italy, Greece, and Iceland.
Some of her most sublime photos, however, were taken in the Abbott Marshlands between Trenton and Bordentown, adjacent to the Delaware River, and not too far from Darlington’s home, also in Bordentown.
In addition, she has photographed various aspects of the former Point Breeze property, the home from 1816-1839 of Joseph Bonaparte, the exiled King of Spain and oldest brother of Napoleon.
“While I love travel and photographing nature and landscape all over, I gravitated to the natural beauty of Point Breeze and the Abbott Marshlands,” Darlington says. “Both locations are nearby and provided me mini respites from the day to day.”
In late 2020, the former Point Breeze property was acquired from Divine Word Missionaries
See DARLINGTON, Page 6
“How the heck did I do this, go from teenager shooting meth [and in pure agony over trauma] to a federal judge?” said Mary Beth O’Connor when asked to reflect on her inspirational journey leading up to the Saturday, April 8 promotion of her memoir, From Junkie to Judge: One Woman’s Triumph over Trauma and Addiction, at the Bordentown library.
Sober for 29 years and counting, O’Connor spent a considerable portion of her early adulthood battling methamphetamine addiction.
“There was a flood of meth in the [Philadelphia] area, and it happened when I was in high school,” O’Connor said in a recent interview.
However, the author stressed how her childhood trauma and unstable family life contributed to her battle against the intravenous drug. Living with an abusive stepfather, both O’Connor and her sister suffered emotional, verbal,
See JUDGE, Page 8
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