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Wednesday, April 14

Entrepreneur Resources in NJ, Trenton Public Library, 120 Academy Street, Trenton. www. trentonlib.org. Session in partnership with the Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship to introduce its programs for start-ups and established businesses, business plans, funding, legal entities, and

Panelists in Prineton BioLabs’ ‘Trends in Digital Health’ event on Wednesday, April 14, include Kimberly Newell Green, left, of the University of California, San Francisco; life sciences entrepreneur Shahram Hejazi; and Jean Drouin, CEO of Clarify Health Solutions. additional resources. Register. Via Zoom. 3 to 4 p.m. Trends in Digital Health, Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs. www.princetonbiolabs.com. Panel discussion on the trends that are disrupting healthcare as we know it and shaping the future of global health. Panelists include Jean Drouin, CEO of Clarify Health Solutions; Shahram Hejazi, a life science investor and entrepreneur; and Kimberly Newell Green, a pediatrician and associate clinical professor at the University of California San Francisco. Register. Free. 4 to 5 p.m.

Shopify Is For Everyone, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. In this webinar, the speaker will walk through the ins and outs of e-commerce including setting up a virtual storefront using Shopify; Shopify app plug-ins; and website sales. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 15

Nonprofit Tech Hacks to Increase Fundraising, Women in Development. www.widmercer. org/events. Roundtable with a panel discussion including favorite go-to event apps; photo apps; and general tips, tricks, and tech hacks for nonprofit professionals. Webinar via Zoom. Register. Free to WID members. Noon. Marketing Strategies to Grow Your Small Business, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. In this webinar, Biren Shah presents how to develop your value proposition; how to see how it influences pricing and marketing; and how to assess the market the steps for creating a marketing strategy, marketing plan and designing marketing campaigns. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.

Friday, April 16

JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County. www.psgofmercercounty.org. David Schuchman discusses what you need to do to prepare for your next interview, including video interviews, what to expect from your interviewer and what to do after the interview. 9:45 a.m. to noon.

Saturday, April 17

Creating and Executing Your Marketing Plan, Career Support Group at St. Gregory the Great, 609-587-4877. www.careersupportgroup.org. Featuring Benny Racine. Free. 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

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Email Marketing Tips for Success, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. Webinar led by Diane Barr and co-sponsored by Constant Contact on why email marketing must be a part of your marketing strategy, The seven elements to successful design, how to grow your email list, how to write your email, and how to design your call to action. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.

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Healthcare inspired by women. There is no such thing as an unnecessary question. At Penn Medicine Princeton Health, we’ve built an entire women’s health program around this idea. Because we believe that honest, open dialogue leads to healthier outcomes for the body and mind. No question about it. Discover more at Princetonhcs.org/WomensHealth.

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JobSeekers. sites.google.com/ site/njjobseekers. Virtual meeting for those seeking employment. Visit website for GoTo Meeting link. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 21

Business Before Business Virtual Networking, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Networking over your morning coffee, followed by a presentation. Register. $25; $15 members. 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.

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Wednesday April 14 In Person: Outdoor Action Just a Hike, Mercer County Park Commission, Baldpate Mountain, Fiddler’s Creek Road lot. www.mercercountyparks.org. Join a naturalist on a walk through the park with pauses to admire various elements of nature. For teens and adults. Register. Free. Wear sturdy shoes and bring a water bottle. 1 to 3 p.m.

In Person: Health

Blood Drive, Pennington Road Fire Company, 1666 Pennington Road, Ewing. www.nybloodcenter.org. 1 to 7 p.m.

Food & Dining

What’s In Your Grocery Cart?, The Suppers Programs. www. thesuppersprograms.org. Webinar led by Marion Reinson to answer questions including: What are the good fats? What is a slow carb? Why is it important to “eat the rainbow” and have fewer ingredients listed on a nutrition label? Register. Donation requested. 10 a.m.

Gardens

Community Conversations with Isles: Gardening, Trenton Public Library, 120 Academy Street, Trenton. www.trentonlib.org. Facebook-based conversation with respresentatives of Isles to learn about the community gardens in Trenton and gardening tips. “Grow kits” will be available at the library circulation desk. 3 to 4 p.m.

Wellness

Energy Up~Energy Down: What Do You Need or Want More of -Time or Energy?, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org. Romy Toussaint leads an interactive workshop to explore the idea of “time vs. energy.” What are the different types of energies? What do they give you? How do they empower you to do your work in this world? Register for GoToMeeting link. 1 p.m. Oral Health Webinar, The Suppers Programs. www.thesuppersprograms.org. Join dental hygienist and health coach Lori Saporito for a discussion about the connection between oral health and your overall physical

Imagining Spaces Princeton artist Heather Barros, whose ‘Rolling In’ is pictured above, is featured with Larry Mitnick in an exhibit on view at Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville through Sunday, May 2. health. Learn about how eating a nutrient dense diet provides the building blocks necessary to support healthy gums and decrease your risk of health issues associated with inflammation. Register. Donation requested. 5 p.m.

Lectures

A New Era for Transatlantic Relations? The EU Agenda and the Biden Administration, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. spia.princeton.edu. Talk by Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, moderated by Andrew Moravcsik, director, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and professor, politics and international affairs. Register for Zoom link. Free. Noon. Lecture Performance Series, Boheme Opera NJ, Monroe Township Library. www.monroetwplibrary.org. “I Could Have Danced 2,000 Years,” a program relating how the Pygmalion/ Galatea legend evolved from Ovid’s Metamorphosis to early operatic treatment through George Bernard Shaw’s play to Broadway in My Fair Lady. Streamed online. Free. 1 p.m. Lunchtime Gallery Series, West Windsor Arts Council & Princeton University Art Museum, 609-716-1931. www.westwindsorarts.org. PUAM Docent Sandy Kurinsky presents “What do objects tell us about the Culture of Mesoamerica?” Register. $10; free for WWAC members. 1 p.m.

Socials

Library Drawing Party, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Follow along for a librarian-led drawing lesson, then share your finished work. 7 p.m.

Thursday April 15 In Person: Farm Markets Princeton Farmers Market Winter Series, Franklin Avenue Lot, Princeton. www.princetonfarmersmarket.com. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and artisanal products. Face coverings and social distancing required. Pre-ordering available. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Classical Music

Recital, Westminster Conservatory at Nassau, Nassau Presbyterian Church. www.nassauchurch.org/westminster-conservatory-recitals. Inessa Gleyzerova Shindel performs works by Beethoven and Chopin. Watch via the church’s website. 12:15 p.m.

Literati

Reading by Richard Blanco, Program in American Studies, Princeton University. ams.princeton.edu. Blanco was the fifth presidential inaugural poet in United States history and the first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. Free via Zoom. Register. 6 p.m.

Gardens

Thursday Night Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, Pennsylvania. www. bhwp.org. Series of guest lectures via Zoom. “The Forgotten Forest” with Jason Ksepka. Register. $15. 7 to 8 p.m.

Wellness Get to Know Suppers, The Suppers Programs. www.thesuppersprograms.org. Learn about The Suppers Programs and why it’s important to consider eating a diet of whole, unprocessed foods. Programs range from nutritional strategies to manage your health to how to get the most out of your garden. Webinar. Register. Free; donation requested. 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

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Artist Talk: Renee Cox, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Talk by the photographer, a selection of whose works was recently added to the museum’s collection. Conversation with photography curator Katherine Bussard follows. 5:30 p.m. Rodin Discovery and the Geraldine R. Dodge Legacy, South Brunswick Public Library. www. sbpl.info. Mallory Mortillaro, curator of collections for the Hartley Dodge Foundation in Madison, NJ, tells the story of how she discovered a lost piece of art after it sat in the town hall for 80 years without anyone knowing its significance. Register for Zoom link. Free. 7 p.m. Silent Voices: Art of the Children of the Mines, Artsbridge Distinguished Artist Series. www.artsbridgeonline.com. Presentation by mixed media artist Mary Ann McKay. Using images taken around 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, she combines her painting and digital skills with glass, metal, cold wax, oil, and film to create works that bring color and life back to children’s lives lost to child labor dur-

ing the industrial age. Via Zoom. Register. Free. 7 p.m. Criminal Minds: Killer Handwriting, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org. Presented by handwriting specialist Terry Antoniewicz, covering some of the most high-profile cases using handwriting specimens of killers to show their behaviors. Register for GoToMeeting link. 7 p.m. Who Lies Where? Documenting and Mapping Historic Cemeteries, Pennington Public Library. www.penningtonlibrary.org/wholieswhere. Jim Lee and Alexis Alemy of Hunter Research demonstrate cutting edge methods currently being used to document and map historic burial grounds drawing on studies of a series of abandoned Methodist cemeteries across New Jersey. Register. Free. 7 p.m. Virtual Walk in the Sourlands, Sourland Conservancy Train Station Series. www.psgofmercercounty.org. Jim Amon shares photos and stories from his book, “Seeing the Sourlands.” Register. Donation requested. 7 p.m.

Socials

Social Coffee, YWCA Princeton Area Newcomers. www.ywcaprinceton.org/newcomers. Learn about the organization, meet members, and find opportunities to explore your interests and community. Held over Zoom. Contact newcomersmembership@ywcaprinceton.org for more information. 9:30 to 11 a.m. Princess Grace’s 65th Wedding Anniversary: Celebrating her Bridal Dress & Pressed Flower Virtual Workshop, Morven Museum and Garden. www.morven. org. Presentation about Grace Kelly’s iconic wedding gown by Kristina Haugland, the Le Vine Associate Curator of Costume and Textiles and Supervising Curator for the Study Room at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and author of two books on Grace Kelly’s style, followed by a workshop to recreate one of Princess Grace’s favorite designs: a pressed flower crown. Register. $65 includes materials. 4:30 p.m.

Friday April 16 In Person: Live Music Bad Hombres, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. R&B/contemporary/alternative music. 4 to 7 p.m.

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Songs for a New World, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www. musicmountaintheatre.org. Score that blends elements of pop, gospel and jazz transports its audience from the deck of a Spanish sailing ship bound for a new land, to the ledge of a New York penthouse. Characters range from a young man in the Bronx who dreams of becoming a famous Continued on following page

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basketball player, to a forlorn and neglected Mrs. Claus lamenting as Christmas approaches. Seating at 50 percent capacity as well as stream-at-home options. $25. 8 p.m.

Live Music

Cabernet Cabaret - Emerge from the Dark: Songs to Spring Forth!, Arts Council of Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton. org. Join Sarah Donner and her cast of friends for a virtual evening of showtunes celebrating new beginnings and the light at the end of these dark days. Register. $25. 7:30 p.m.

On Stage

The Importance of Being Earnest, Somerset Valley Players. www.svptheatre.org. Virtual production of Oscar Wilde’s comedy. Register. $12 per device. 8 p.m.

Health

The Five Wishes: A Discussion of End-of-Life, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org. Liz Cohen, hospice social worker at Penn Medicine Princeton Health, discusses how hospice and palliative care programs provide help and support, their similarities and differences, and how they can make a positive difference. Register for GoToMeeting link. 10:30 a.m.

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Environmental Security Challenges and the Arctic, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. spia. princeton.edu. Talk by Lawson W. Brigham, global fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, and research faculty member, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Tomas Ries, senior lecturer, Security and Strategy, National Defence College, Stockholm, Sweden. Register for Zoom link. Free. Noon. COVID-19 Webinar, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. spia.princeton.edu. Panel discussion on “Fiscal, Monetary, and Health Policy

Responses and Implications for the Economic Outlook” featuring Alan Blinder, professor of economics and public affairs; William Dudley, senior research scholar, Griswold Center and former president, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Jessica Metcalf, associate professor of ecology, evolutionary biology & public affairs and demographer; and moderated by Senator William Frist, M.D., Griswold Center advisory board member and former U.S. Senate majority leader. Register for Zoom link. Free. 1:30 p.m.

For Seniors

Women in Retirement, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www. princetonsenior.org. Reference librarian and prize-winning competition cook, Donna Wolfe, shows some new additions to her kitchen arsenal as she speaks about her fun avocation as a competition cook. Register. Free. 10 a.m. FYI Seminar, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Barbara Sprechman, assistant director for Mercer Council on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, presents “Advances in Chronic Pain Management.” Register. Free. 11:45 a.m. Transition to Retirement, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Group facilitated by social worker Dave Roussell addresses the many kinds of issues that can arise during the transition to retirement. Register. Free. 3 p.m.

Saturday April 17 Spring Concert Series, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Septet perform. Register. $40. 3 and 7:30 p.m.

Kevin McGowan, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-3716000. www.workingdogwinerynj. com. Free live music. Wine avail-

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In Person: Food & Dining Chardonnay Release Weekend, Unionville Vineyards, 9 Rocktown Road, Ringoes, 908-7880400. www.unionvillevineyards. com. Sample single vineyard Chardonnays from the 2019 vintage. $16 per person. Lunch from Blawenberg Bistro available. Music by Dean Grogg. Register. Noon. 2 or 4 p.m.

In Person: Farm Markets

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In Person: Live Music

able for purchase. Food from Twisted Steaks Food Truck. 1 to 5 p.m. Weekend Music Series, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music by Jerry Monk, wines by the glass, and light fare. 1 to 4 p.m. Acoustic DuOver, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Pop/rock. 4 to 7 p.m.

West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, MarketFair Parking Lot, 3535 Route 1 at Meadow Road, West Windsor. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Vendors sell fresh produce, seafood, meat, eggs, mushrooms, fibers, cheese, pasta, honey, soups, chocolates, and more. Masks required. Pre-ordering available. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Mixed media artist Mary Ann McKay speaks as part of the Artsbridge Distinguished Artist Series on Thursday, April 15, on her ‘Children of the Mines’ series, in which she brings to life photographs taken by Lewis Wickes Hine of the National Child Labor Committee in 1911. Pictured: ‘Three Boys. Three Stories.’ ows. www.mercercountyparks. org. Morning of fishing designed for beginners. Instructions and equipment provided. Participants over age 16 must have a state fishing license. Register. 9 to 11 a.m. Plowing, Harrowing & Wash Day, Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell, 609-737-3299. www.howellfarm.org. Farmers in the field will be using horses to plow and harrow the ground to prepare it for planting corn. There will be opportunities for visitors to step into the furrow and try out the plow. Register. 10 a.m. Tomahawk Throwing, Washington Crossing State Park, 335 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville, 609-737-0609. Try your hand at throwing a small hatchet into a wooden target. Free. Adults only. 1 to 3:30 p.m.

Film

Saturday Night at the Movies: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Mercer County Library. www. mcl.org. Borrow the featured title from the Hoopla catalog with a Mercer County Library card and watch it in the virtual company of your community. 8 p.m.

Gardens

Knowing Native Plants: Spring Ephemerals and other Fleeting Flora, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, Pennsylvania. www.bhwp.org. Spring wildflowers such as Dutchman’s breeches, bloodroot, Virginia bluebells, spring beauty, twinleaf and several species of trillium color the forest floor for a fleeting moment this time of year. Join Naturalist Mary Anne Borge to discover why these wildflowers

are called spring ephemerals and learn more about their life cycles and the animals that disperse their seeds and help with pollination. Register. Via Zoom. $25. 10 a.m. to noon.

Wellness

A College Student Faces Depression in the Age of Social Distancing, American College of Orgonomy, 732-821-1146. www.adifferentkindofpsychiatry. com. Free webinar presented by Salvatore Iacobello, MD, hosted by Chris Burritt, DO. Register. 4 p.m.

History

“We Are Still Here”: The History and Continuing Culture of New Jersey’s Indigenous Tribal Communities, William Trent House. www.williamtrenthouse. org. Presentation by Rev. Dr. J. R. Norwood, Jr., on the history and culture of the Lenni-Lenape people and their descendants in New Jersey today. Via Zoom. Register. $10 suggested donation. 1 p.m.

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Wacky Science Live Event, New Jersey State Museum. www. statemuseum.nj.gov. For ages 3 to 10 and their families to explore static electricity, dry ice, and more. Free via Zoom. Each registered child will receive an activity bag to use before or after the event, distributed curbside at the Museum the Friday before the session. 10 to 11 a.m.

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he 15th annual Princeton Environmental Film Festival, organized by Princeton Public Library, runs in a virtual format through Sunday, April 18. Films available for free on-demand viewing include nine short and nine feature-length documentaries as well as discussion sessions with filmmakers and other speakers. “We have initiated a new platform to provide easy access to the films that allows streaming on demand,” said Susan Conlon, who directs the festival alongside Kim Dorman. “It allows us to share these dynamic, beautifully rendered films that take us far and wide around the world. We think this will especially impact and inspire people in a year that has kept us so close to home.” Selections include: “Stray,” directed by Hong Kong-born filmmaker Elizabeth Lo, explores what it means to live as a being without status or security. It follows three stray dogs as they embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society. “Playing with Sharks,” directed by Sally Atkin, profiles diver Valerie Taylor, a fearless marine maverick with a passion for sharks. Taylor swam against the perception that sharks are ruthless predators, and for more than 70 years put herself on the front line. The film reveals Taylor’s role in the making

of “Jaws” and follows her to the age of 83 as she continues her life’s work of protecting sharks. In a series of lyrical portraits, “The Long Coast,” directed by Ian Cheney, illuminates the stories of Maine’s seafolk, those whose lives and livelihoods are inextricably connected to the ocean. This atmospheric film shows the beauty, intimacy and uncertainty that coastal dwellers face in rooting their lives in the ocean, particularly as human actions — from overfishing, to aquaculture, to warming seas — confront Maine and its people with profound change. “Inhabitants,” directed by Costa Boutsikaris, follows five Native American tribes across deserts, coastlines, forests and prairies as they restore their traditional land management practices. As the climate crisis escalates, these timetested practices of North America’s original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential to a rapidly changing world. The recently completed short film “Observatory,” directed by Jared Flesher, captures Hungarianborn astrophysicist Gaspar Bakos, who helped discover more than 140 planets outside our solar system. When the global pandemic locked down his community, Bakos, who now lives with his family next to a small patch of forest and a small lake in Princeton, bought a

$40 motion-sensor camera to occupy himself and his three energetic boys. With creativity and persistence, they moved the camera around the forest and soon discovered a delightful secret world. World premiere screening. Appreciation for Chinese ink painting is growing, but much of the art form remains unexplored. In “Unsung Heroes of Ink,” directed by Olivia Wang, artists Liu Dan and Shao Fan explain how paper shapes their work. Their collaborators are craftspeople in the remote Jing County, Anhui Province, who observe ancient methods to handproduce xuan paper. These craftspeople, who have spent a lifetime honing their skills, are the “unsung heroes of ink.”

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Sunday April 18 In Person: Jazz & Blues Spring Concert Series, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Septet perform. Register. $40. 8 p.m.

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Mark Feingold Group, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Jazz. 1 to 4 p.m. Weekend Music Series, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music by Jerry Steele, wines by the glass, and light fare. 1 to 4 p.m. Frank Cervantes, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-3716000. www.workingdogwinerynj. com. Free live music. Wine available for purchase. 2 to 5 p.m.

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The Art of Deception Duck Decoy Workshop, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven. org. Spend a day outdoors learning to carve traditional hunting decoys with Master Carver Jode Hillman, then view exhibition decoys inside the museum. Lunch from Brick Farm Market included. Register. $250. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In Person: On Stage Songs for a New World, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www. musicmountaintheatre.org. Score that blends elements of pop, gospel and jazz transports its audience from the deck of a Spanish sailing ship bound for a new land, to the ledge of a New York penthouse. Characters range from a young man in the Bronx who dreams of becoming a famous basketball player, to a forlorn and neglected Mrs. Claus lamenting as Christmas approaches. Seating at 50 percent capacity as well as stream-at-home options. $25. 3 p.m.

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T.S. Eliot & Emily Hale Letters: Re-examined

pril will be a revealing month regarding the Americanborn English poet and Nobel Laureate T. S. Eliot and his relationship with his lifelong friend and muse, Emily Hale. The occasion will be the Sunday, April 18, convening of a virtual panel of scholars and writers with expertise in both the writer of “The Waste Land,” considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, and the college speech and drama teacher Eliot met performing an amateur play in 1913. Despite Eliot’s declaration of love for Hale, the two parted, and he became involved with a tragic marriage. Eventually Eliot’s passion for Hale was rekindled and found its expression in the hundreds of letters the two sent to each other between 1930, when they became reacquainted, until 1956, after Eliot remarried. The event follows last year’s unsealing of Hale’s collection of the 1,131 letters she received from Eliot and donated to Princeton University in order to provide future scholars with insights into Eliot’s life and thoughts. Hale, who died in 1969, also made the stipulation the letters remained sealed until 50 years after her death. The participating panelists are Frances Dickey, associate professor of English, University of Missouri, and author of “May the Record Speak: The Correspondence of T. S. Eliot”; Sara Fitzgerald, author of “The Poet’s Girl: A novel of T.S. Eliot and Emily Hale”; J. Elyse Graham, a 2007 Princeton alumna, associate professor of English, Stony Brook University, and author of Princeton Alumni Weekly article, “Letters to Emily”; and Michelle Taylor, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Harvard University, and author of The New Yorker article, “The Secret History of T. S. Eliot’s Muse.” The moderator is Daniel Linke, university archivist and deputy head of special collections at Princeton University Library. To provide some context for the discussion, here are excerpts from Emily Hale’s letter to Princeton University regarding her gift and a letter by Eliot to Princeton regarding her gift.

From Emily Hale:

t the urgent request of Mr. William S. Dix, currently Librarian of Princeton University Library, and my long-time friends, Professor and Mrs. Willard Thorp of Princeton (Professor Thorp is a prominent member of the English Department of the University), I am writing this brief review of my years of friendship with T. S. Eliot. We knew each other first in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was working on his graduate course preparatory to completing his doctorate in philosophy. He left in 1913 for such preparation in Germany. Before leaving, to my great surprise, he told me how very much he cared for me; at the time I could return no such feeling. His subsequent life in Oxford and later citizenship in England are known by many and everyone who studies his work. At the close of the war he married an English girl whom he had met at Oxford. This marriage was a complete surprise to his family and friends and for me particularly, as he had corresponded quite regularly with me, sent flowers for special occasions, etc.; I mean-

Emily Hale and T.S. Eliot photographed together in Vermont. while trying to decide whether I could learn to care for him had he returned to the “States.” We did not meet until the summer of 1922, when I was in London with my aunt and uncle. His marriage was already known to be a very unhappy affair which was affecting both his creative work and his health. Only his closest friends at this time knew fully of the miserable relationship between his wife and him. Knowing this, I was dismayed when he confessed, after seeing me again, that his affection for me was stronger than ever, though he had assumed years of separation from his home in Amer-

‘Looking back on the story, perhaps I could not have been the companion in marriage I hoped to be, perhaps the decision saved us both from great unhappiness I cannot ever know.’ ica and old friends would have changed his attitude toward me. From this meeting in London until the early 30’s I was the confidante by letters of all which was pent up in this gifted, emotional, groping personality. He was finally legally separated from his mentally ill wife. That they were never divorced was due to his very strong adherence to his conversion to the Anglo-Catholic Church. Up to 1935, between trips to America and correspondence, we saw each other and knew about each other’s life — though I had no feeling except of difficult but loyal friendship. I taught during these years at private schools or girls’ colleges; he was becoming more and more acclaimed in the world of letters, everywhere. His wife was finally committed to an institution, leaving him emotionally freer, at least, than in many years. From 1935 – 1939, under this change in his life, he came each summer to stay in Compden, Gloucestershire, for a week or so, with my aunt and uncle who rented a charming 18th century house in the town — and to which I came for the whole summer to help my aunt in her entertaining and greatly enjoy the days in the lovely Cotswold village. On one of his visits, we walked to nearby “Burnt Norton” — the ruins of an 18th century house and garden. “Burnt Norton,” as Tom always said, was his “love poem” for me. Vivian Eliot died in the mid 40’s, at the close of the war, but instead of the anticipated life together which could now be rightfully ours, something too personal, too obscurely emotional for me to understand, decided T.S.E. against his marrying again. This was both a shock and a sorrow, though, looking back on the story, perhaps I could not have been the companion in marriage I hoped to be, perhaps the decision saved us both from great unhappiness I cannot ever know. We met under these new difficult circumstances on each of the visits he continued to make to this country for personal or professional reasons. The question of his changed attitude was discussed, but nothing was gained by any further conversation. However, in

these years before his second marriage, he always came to see me, was gentle, and still shared with me what was happening to him, or took generous interest in speaking at the school where I then taught. The second marriage in 1947 I believe took everyone by surprise. He wrote of it to two persons in this country, his sister Marian, and me. I replied to this letter, also writing to Valerie. I never saw T.S.E. nor ever met her after this marriage, although they came to Cambridge two or three times to be with his family and friends, as well as to deliver lectures or give readings. I can truthfully say that I am both glad and thankful his second marriage brought him the great comfort and remarkable devotion of Valerie; everyone who knew her testified to her tireless care of him, as his health grew worse; his family were delighted with her. The memory of the years when we were most together and so happy are mine always and I am grateful that this period brought some of his best writing, and an assured charming personality which perhaps I helped to stabilize. A strange story in many ways but found in many another life, public and less public than his. If this account will keep the prying and curiosity of future students from drawing false or sensational conclusions I am glad. After all, I accepted conditions as they were offered under the unnatural code which surrounded us, so that perhaps more sophisticated persons than I will not be surprised to learn the truth about us. At least, the biographers of the future will not see “through a glass darkly,” but like all of life, “face to face.”

From T. S. Eliot:

wish the statement by myself to be made public as soon as the letters to Miss Hale are made public ... I fell in love with Emily Hale in 1912, when I was in the Harvard Graduate School. Before I left for Germany and England in 1914 I told her that I was in love with her. I have no reason to believe, from the way in which this declaration was received, that my feelings were returned, in any degree whatever. We exchanged a few letters, on a purely friendly basis, while I was up at Oxford during 1914-15. To explain my sudden marriage to Vivienne Haigh-Wood would require a good many words, and yet the explanation would probably remain unintelligible. I was still, as I came to believe a year later, in love with Miss Hale. I cannot however make even that assertion with any confidence: it may have been merely my reaction against my misery with Vivienne and desire to revert to an earlier situation. I was very immature for my age, very timid, very inexperienced. And I had a gnawing doubt, which I could not altogether conceal from myself, about my choice of a profession – that of a university teacher of philosophy. I had had three years in the Harvard Graduate School, at my father’s expense, preparing to take my Doctorate in Philosophy: after which I should have found a post somewhere in a college or university. Yet my heart was not in this study, nor had I any confidence in my ability to distinguish myself in this profession. I must still have yearned to write poetry. For three years I had written on-

ly one fragment, which was bad. Then in 1914 Conrad Aiken showed Prufrock to Ezra Pound. My meeting with Pound changed my life. He was enthusiastic about my poems, and gave me such praise and encouragement as I had long since ceased to hope for. I was happier in England, even in wartime, than I had been in America: Pound urged me to stay in England and encouraged me to write verse again. I think that all I wanted of Vivienne was a flirtation or a mild affair: I was too shy and unpractised to achieve either with anybody. I believe that I came to persuade myself that I was in love with her simply because I wanted to burn my boats and commit myself to staying in England. And she persuaded herself (also under the influence of Pound) that she would save the poet by keeping him in England. To her, the marriage brought no happiness: the last seven years of her life were spent in a mental home. To me, it brought the

‘Emily Hale would have killed the poet in me; Vivienne nearly was the death of me, but she kept the poet alive.’ state of mind out of which came The Waste Land. And it saved me from marrying Emily Hale. Emily Hale would have killed the poet in me; Vivienne nearly was the death of me, but she kept the poet alive. In retrospect, the nightmare agony of my seventeen years with Vivienne seems to me preferable to the dull misery of the mediocre teacher of philosophy which would have been the alternative. For years I was a divided man (just as, in a different way, I had been a divided man in the years 1911-1915). In 1932 I was appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard for one year; and even Vivienne’s mother agreed that it was out of the question for Vivienne to go to America with me. I saw Emily Hale in California (where she was teaching in a girls’ college) early in 1933, and I saw her from time to time every summer. Upon the death of Vivienne in

the winter of 1947, I suddenly realized that I was not in love with Emily Hale. Gradually I came to see that I had been in love only with a memory, with the memory of the experience of having been in love with her in my youth. Had I met any woman I could have fallen in love with, during the years when Vivienne and I were together, this would no doubt have become evident to me. From 1947 on, I realized more and more how little Emily Hale and I had in common. I had already observed that she was not a lover of poetry, certainly that she was not much interested in my poetry; I had already been worried by what seemed to me evidence of insensitiveness and bad taste. It may be too harsh, to think that what she liked was my reputation rather than my work. I could never make her understand that it was improper for her, a Unitarian, to communicate in an Anglican church: the fact that it shocked me that she should do so made no impression upon her. I cannot help thinking that if she had truly loved me she would have respected my feelings if not my theology. She adopted a similar attitude with regard to the Christian and Catholic view of divorce. I might mention at this point that I never at any time had any sexual relations with Emily Hale. So long as Vivienne was alive I was able to deceive myself. To face the truth fully, about my feelings towards Emily Hale, after Vivienne’s death, was a shock from which I recovered only slowly. But I came to see that my love for Emily was the love of a ghost for a ghost, and that the letters I had been writing to her were the letters of an hallucinated man, a man vainly trying to pretend to himself that he was the same man that he had been in 1914. It is only within the last few years that I have known what it was to love a woman who truly, selflessly and whole-heartedly loves me. May we all rest in peace. T.S. Eliot & Emily Hale Letters: Re-examined, Sunday, April 18, 3 to 5 p.m. Sponsored by Princeton University Library and the Friends of Princeton University Library. To register, go to libcal. princeton.edu/event/7347860.

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Opportunities Call for Volunteers Locust Hill Cemetery, dating from 1850, is Trenton’s largest surviving African American burial ground, and is the final resting place of several Civil War veterans. It is the focus of an effort to rehabilitate both the Cemetery and surrounding area leading to the Assunpink Creek and adjoining the old Trenton Railyards. Garbage and brush removal, pruning, and mowing is all needed to begin to recreate a clean, safe natural area within this inner-city neighborhood. Volunteers are needed for the first of several work days to accomplish these tasks on Saturday, April 17, beginning at 9 a.m. Meet at the house next to the Cemetery, 73 Hart Street, Trenton. All supplies are provided by the city. For more information, call Mike McCormick at 609-208-9991. Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve rely on volunteers as an integral part of its dayto-day operations all year long, but supporters can help fill extra needs in the spring. The preserve provides guidance and training. Volunteer roles are listed below. Contact volunteer@bhwp.org if you have any questions, or if you’re a new volunteer and would like to discuss roles and training. Everyone is welcome and appreciated. Roles within guest services help visitors get to know, appreciate, and utilize everything the preserve has to offer. Jobs include: Greeter: Welcome arriving guests before they get to the admissions gate house and assess whether they need to proceed to admissions or they can go through the entrance gate without stopping at admissions. This position will be in place for weekends and holidays. Admissions Attendant: Greet arriving guests, when a greeter is not in place, and then processes the sale of admissions, provide a map, give information about parking or help those who purchased tickets online proceed into the preserve. Training on our very user-friendly point-of-sale system is provided. Twinleaf Book & Gift Shop Attendant: Process sales in the shop, answer phone calls

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Lectures Morven Moments, Morven Museum & Garden. www.morven. org. Series of lunchtime virtual private tours inside Morven with Docent Kim Gallagher as he shares stories that ring with relevancy for today’s world. This week’s topic: Glamorous celebrity visitors during the Governors’ Era at Morven. Register. Free. Noon. Great Minds Salon: A Theatermaker’s perspective: Creative Pivoting During a Pandemic, Jewish Center of Princeton. www.thejewishcenter.org. Interactive Zoom class with Cheryl Mintz, resident production stage manager at McCarter Theater and founder and partner of princetonVIRTUAL, which brings the community together through creative virtual events. Register. Free. 8 p.m.

For Seniors

PSRC Commemorates Earth Day, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org/earth-day. “Sea Level Rise: The Science, the Impacts, and Your Role” presented by Kelly van Baalen, High Meadows fellow on the sea level rise team at Climate Central. Register. 10 a.m.

Tuesday April 20 In Person: Outdoor Action Just a Hike, Mercer County Park

and help customers when they need it. The same point-of-sale system is used here as at the gate and training is provided. Native Plant Nursery Sales Attendant: Process the sale of plants by using a small scanner and our point-of-sale system. Native Plant Nursery Guide and Helper: Help customers find the plants they want or locate the type of plant that will work for their situation. Assist in getting plants to the checkout area. Way Finder & Guidance: Help get guests started on the trails and guide them toward what is currently in bloom or of interest. Give guests directions to restrooms, the Twinleaf Book & Gift Shop, nursery sales, etc. General Help and Traffic Flow: Direct arriving visitors where to park. Help with basic needs like printing maps, membership forms and bloom guides. Help support the sales area by stocking boxes, receipt paper, etc., and help monitor the movement of people through the various selling areas to be sure that COVID-19 restrictions are being followed. Strikeforce volunteer roles are aimed at helping the preserve contend with the dozens of invasive plant species that are not supposed to be growing on site. The work varies, and volunteers can expect to build expertise in identification and removal techniques. Volunteer options are: The Tuesday Tackle, first and third Tuesdays, 1 to 3 p.m. Join volunteer Sally Mirick in tackling seasonal invasive annual weeds such as garlic mustard, field mustard, hairy bittercress, mile-a-minute vine and Japanese stiltgrass. Weeding Wednesdays, first and third Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to noon. Join volunteer Joyce Koch, who loves to work in the woods on woody invasive shrubs and vines such as multiflora rose, oriental bittersweet and Japanese honeysuckle. Weed Patrol Saturdays, fourth Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon. Rick Fonda, BHWP grounds manager, will show you some of the most problematic weedy areas on the preserve and how to deal with them.

Commission, Tennis Center at Mercer County Park. www.mercercountyparks.org. Join a naturalist on a walk through the park with pauses to admire various elements of nature. For teens and adults. Register. Free. Wear sturdy shoes and bring a water bottle. 1 to 3 p.m.

The Arts

ArtConnect Forum, Hopewell Valley Arts Council. www.hvartscouncil.org/artconnect-forum. Catherine Fulmer-Hogan, a community and social justice advocate, presents “High Notes: Gospel Music as a Catalyst for Social Change” about the significance of gospel music in the church, how spiritual music tells the story of being Black in America, and shares her experiences living in a large family chock-full of singers, musicians, and artists. Barry Hantman, an eclectic and versatile artist formally trained in ceramics and jewelry-making, talks about his passion for collecting outsider art, what inspires his work, and his most recent favorite mediums: fused glass and multimedia assemblages. Register. Donation requested. 7 to 8 p.m.

Lectures

Poetry Palooza, Morven Museum & Garden. www.morven.org. Virtual celebration of National Poetry Month featuring the poems of Morven’s resident poet Annis Boudinot Stockton, ornithology, conservation, morality, and more. Writing prompts and beverage recipes provided to ticketholders. “Coloring the Conservation Conversation” features professor, ornithologist, conservationist and poet Drew Lanham, who discusses what it means to embrace the full breadth of his African-American heritage and his deep kinship to nature and adoration of birds. Register. $15. 2 p.m.

Independent Work and Weed Buddies, anytime. We are always looking for volunteers who want to work independently. We’ll show you what invasive plant(s) to target and you decide how long you want to keep at it. Same with Weed Buddies — grab a friend and spend time doing something together that will make a difference.

Call for Poetry The annual NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Expressive Arts Mental Health Poetry Contest is in full swing. This year, we are asking you to think of a food you love and the memories surrounding it. Weave those thoughts into a poem. Let your creative juices guide you. The contest submission deadline has been extended to Friday, April 30. The poem must be typewritten. If sent electronically, please do not send PDF files. The poem should be no longer than 40 lines. Fill out a media release form to accompany your entry. Provide a cover letter that includes your name, e-mail, mailing address, and phone number. Email your entry to poetry@naminj.org. Or, mail your typed entries to: NAMI NJ Poetry Contest, 1562 Route 130, North Brunswick, NJ 08902. You do not need to submit your poem again if you have already done so. The top 10 poems will be announced in early May, and open to public voting. The top three will win a cash prize, and the top poems will also be published on the NAMI NJ website for others to read. Visit www.naminj.org.

Call for Teaching Artists The Arts Council of Princeton is looking to add artist-instructors to its family. Arts education is at the heart of the Art Council of Princeton’s mission, and we’re seeking new instructors for in-person sessions. Learn more and submit your interest at www. artscouncilofprinceton.org/artists/teachingartists.

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Camp Offerings The Farm Cooking School in Titusville is offering virtual and in-person kids’ summer camps for 2021. In-person sessions cost $875 for one week or $1,6000 for both weeks. Beginner camp, for ages 8 to 15, runs Monday through Friday, July 12 to 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Advanced camp, for ages 10 to 15, takes place Monday through Friday, August 9 through 13, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Virtual camp costs $375 for one week or $675 for both weeks. Beginners camp runs Monday through Friday, July 19 to 23, from 4 to 6 p.m. for ages 8 to 15. Advanced camp runs Monday through Friday, August 16 to 20, from 4 to 6 p.m. for ages 10 to 15. The Farm Cooking School, run by cookbook authors and former Gourmet Magazine Food Editors Ian Knauer and Shelley Wiseman, has been successfully teaching adults and children how to cook since 2014. Visit www.thefarmcookingschool.com or contact Shelley Wiseman at 646-236-0605 or thefarmcookingschool@gmail.com.

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In Person: Outdoor Action Just a Hike, Mercer County Park Commission, Tennis Center at Mercer County Park. www.mercercountyparks.org. Join a naturalist on a walk through the park with pauses to admire various elements of nature. For teens and adults. Register. Free. Wear sturdy shoes and bring a water bottle. 1 to 3 p.m.

Classical Music

Downtown Lunchtime Recital Series, First Reformed Church of New Brunswick. www.facebook.com/FRCNewBrunswick. Carlos Vasquez and Mark Monaghan play the music of Joseph Tompkins, Bob Becker, a traditional Afro-Caribbean improvisation, and an original solo for snare drum and bass drum. Livestream via YouTube. 12:15 p.m.

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An Anthropologist Takes on Miss and Miss’d America

aurie A. Greene nicely sets up her newly published Rutgers University Press book, “Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World’s Playground,” with the following: “This book describes a process of evolving community identity in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by examining the dynamic relationship between a pair of spectacles, the iconic Miss America Pageant, and its drag counterpart, the Miss’d America Pageant, both important to gay life in the once vibrant and now abandoned New York Avenue gayborhood.” Greene, an anthropology professor at Stockton University, located just outside Atlantic City — hyperbolically dubbed the “playground” in the early 20th century — intriguingly continues with, “The Miss America Pageant has been described locally as the ‘gay holy grail’ despite its reputation as antiquated and irrelevant in most urban environments. The Miss America Pageant’s connection to Atlantic City and the gay community there run deep along both economic and social lines. The Miss America Pageant is admired by the gay community in Atlantic City, and the gay male and drag community in particular, because of its long social and economic impact on the area, and because the pageant is understood by gays as essentially a camp performance.” The anthropologist then quickly explains the idea of “camp” as “a complex and much debated phenomenon that includes parody, irony, humor, contradiction, and theatricality. In addition, camp is a decidedly gay sensibility, but more particularly, a gay male sensibility with strong influences on gay male identity in Atlantic City.” And while one may take up that debate with Green on that final point, that is part of the spirit of her 232-page book — one that offers some fresh ideas in the current discussions regarding gender while focusing in on an overlooked side of Atlantic City — the history of the city’s former gay epicenter, New York Avenue. As one chapter title says, it’s the place where “the party began.” My interest in the subject is simple. I’m a former Atlantic City resident who lived in a hotel a block away from New York Avenue during the district’s heyday. So, I would often get an eyeful from both the flamboyant life on the avenue and the Miss America Festivities on the boardwalk. And since the book focuses on a quintessential New Jersey icon, I wanted to learn more. My only concern was the book was going to be a polemic and top weighted with theory. However, that wasn’t the case. Greene is an interesting and unpedantic guide — one willing to spend the time to explore concepts of a sense of place and to provide the history to make it come alive. As our guide to the city’s history, Greene sets up the scene nicely: “New York Avenue, and the gay scene in Atlantic City, existed well before the historical period relevant to this study (figure early 1970s to late 1980s). In the first half of the 20th century, as Atlantic City sought to market itself as a premier resort destination, gay life occurred by and large in the shadows, and gays experienced harassment, incarceration, and violence. Gay bars and clubs were raided; liquor licenses were revoked by the ABC (the New Jersey liquor control board); and bar owners were fined or occasionally jailed.” Greene notes that in 1967 the owner of Val’s Bar on New York Avenue challenged the liquor board’s closing of the bar because of the “presumed presence of gay men and women on licensed premises,” and support from the Homosexual Law Reform Society

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sued the state and won — two years before Avenue’s nightlife. As Greene writes, “The the more famous Stonewall suit in New York first casinos in Atlantic City opened in 1978, City. and New York Avenue was tagged as a casino The result, reports Greene, is that New development zone. Business owners on New York Avenue “turned gay” and “exploded.” York Avenue cashed in on development Then she focuses on one of the street’s schemes, but developers and investors failed main epochs, around the time I would see to follow through with plans, leaving tornbroad-shouldered men in gowns and stoles down buildings and empty, trash-filled lots sashaying down the boardwalk and onto the in the placer of popular clubs and board avenue: “In the 1970s, houses. After tearing New York Avenue was down all the properties becoming an epicenter on New York and St. Laurie A. Greene’s book of a vibrant gay scene. James Avenue, the In its heyday, it boasted Mint Group reneged on examines ‘the dynamic 11 packed clubs on one the development deal, relationship between a block and a cabaret and to this day the lots pair of spectacles, the presenting drag shows remain vacant.” and other entertainWhat remains is the iconic Miss America Pagment. New York Aveimpact of the Miss eant, and its drag counternue was the place to be America on Atlantic part, the Miss’d America seen, the promised land City’s gay community for many gay people.” and the annual Miss’d Pageant.’ Meanwhile, as she America Festival — puts it, New York Avewhich contributes nue “shook, boogied, funds to LGBT chariand rocked” while “the rest of the city rotted ties and causes. away from neglect” during a limbo-like peIt’s here Greene delves deeper into the soriod of time when the city was no longer a cial uses of beauty pageants and the psycholdesired vacation destination and the casinos ogy of men who perform as women and ofwere a dream. (To get a feeling for the era fers some interesting and unexpected intake a look at the film “King of Marvin Gar- sights. dens” filmed in Atlantic City in 1972). Noting that traditional beauty pageants reInterestingly, casinos, which failed to related to the performance of gender are not build Atlantic City’s minority neighbor- about femininity or beauty but an “enacthoods, also played a role in ending New York ment of cultural values,” Greene argues that

drag pageants, “through the use of parody, bring into harsh focus the heteronormative values by which conventional notions of gender are upheld and alternatives to these conventions are expressed.” She adds that the ritual character of beauty pageants allow the questioning of conventional beliefs and behavior in an accessible and nonthreatening context. And that “it is through the evolution of these rituals of pageantry and the acceptable enactment of alternative roles and identities that we can witness culture change and observe mechanisms of power, and strive to create and maintain values, beliefs, and practices.” Using research, including references to noted gender theorists Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, and the contest as a lightning rod for feminist activism, Greene notes some interesting aspects of the Miss America contests. One is that the contest used the popular stage to promote tolerance by opening the contest to religious and racial minorities, open lesbians, and women with disabilities — all of whom had been crowned. Another examines the idea of the pageant as a process that promotes social manipulation, allowing the contestants themselves to weigh in — as one says, “We’re up there because we want to be up there.” Contestants, continues Greene, “claim elements of liberal feminist discourse as part of their self-presentation, with statements about self-confidence, assertiveness, the importance of careers, and perhaps most importantly, the agency contestants possess.” Likewise, despite the camp and theatricality of drag performances and pageants, Greene connects pageantry to a venue for accessing power. And that through the competitions process “queens vie for power and status (symbolic capital).” The result is that the winner acquires “great status and prestige through the meaning expressed in ritual performance and competition as champions of homosexuality. Rather than losing power, as one might presume, by identifying as female, drag queens gain power through successful performance, and in this sense construct their symbolic masculinity.” Additionally she allows the drag performers to share attitudes and views of the practice that go against some common perceptions. For example, one performer refutes the idea that drag queens mock women. Another sees it a starting point for discussing gender. Another refutes the idea that they went to be women — or that all drag performers are gay. And finally one goes against the idea of adopting social constructs: “The way that I act on state of present myself on stage, when I get dressed, put on things, it just takes over instinctively. The costume draws something out of me, which is already there. It is natural. My male persona is more of a performance.” Tying the history of Atlantic City, and its gay community, to the history of Miss America, Greene concludes the book with looking at the city’s current cultural life and the impact that the contest’s move from the “World’s Playground” has affected its cultural life — best summed up in a quote by an Atlantic City Press writer, “Taking the pageant out of Atlantic city was like taking the Packers out of Green Bay or taking the Mummers out of Philadelphia. It means more to us. It’s part of our local identity.” Yet as Greene demonstrates, part of that identity is more than skin deep. “Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World’s Playground,” 232 pages, $24.95 paperback, Rutgers University Press.

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Life in the Fast Lane Fraud Charges for Ford Graham

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Pia de Jong

Edited by Sara Hastings

Rider Launches Program Promising Job Placement

ider University has launched a program that guarantees qualified students an entrylevel job related to their field or placement in a graduate or professional school program within six months of graduation. The program, called the Cranberry Investment, will assist undergraduates with finding internships and other professional opportunities while they are students. Students who have not found work or a graduate program within six months of graduation will be provided specialized career coaching, up to nine credits of additional undergraduate coursework at no cost, or a paid internship. Eligibility requirements for the Class of 2022 and beyond include maintaining a certain GPA and participation in programs offered by Rider’s Office of Career Development and Success. “Students who invest in a Rider education should feel confident that we are going to do everything within our power to make sure they reach their full potential,” Rider president Gregory Dell’Omo said. “The Cranberry Investment symbolizes our deeply held belief that a Rider University education allows students to achieve their professional dreams.” For more information visit www.rider.edu/cranberry-investment.

Expansion

itchen goods retailer Williams-Sonoma has signed a longterm lease for a warehouse under construction in South Brunswick. The 1,166,030-square-foot space in Heller North Park will be Williams-Sonoma’s third warehouse in the Exit 8A submarket as growing online sales drive an in-

Illustration by Charlotte Dijkgraaf

ord Graham — the former Princeton resident who was jailed in 2019 over his refusal to cooperate with judges’ orders in a lawsuit concerning his involvement an alleged $5 million Ponzi scheme — was arrested last week in Virginia on a range of fraud related charges. New charges include two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of securities fraud, three counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of engaging in unlawful money transactions. Graham is alleged to have defrauded investors in a number of business entities operating under an umbrella organization known as Vulcan Capital Corporation. The complaint states that invested funds were used to cover a range of personal expenses including luxury travel, private school tuition for his son, and in one case “$406 for the purchase of a lazy susan decorated with images for pigs from a local jewelry store in Princeton, New Jersey.” Graham was due to appear Wednesday, April 14, in federal district court in Trenton. The charges each carry penalties ranging up to 20 years in prison and with fines from $250,000 to $5 million.

creased need for warehouse space. The Williams-Sonoma warehouse is one of three being built on spec at the site. Williams-Sonoma’s space features 196 doors and parking for 395 trailers and is scheduled to be completed by October 1. No construction timelines have been announced for the other two warehouses, which will be 674,209 and 387,744 square feet. “As internet fulfillment and logistics businesses continue to grow, we have seen robust leasing activity in our submarkets like Exit 8A,” said Jason Grebin, president of Edison-based Heller. “We are thrilled to have secured a tenant of Williams-Sonoma’s caliber for the whole building six months prior to completion.”

Funding Awarded

he I Am Trenton Community Foundation recently announced grant awards totaling $50,000 to grassroots community programs bringing together youth and local artists, telling important community stories, and acknowledging shared struggles through its citywide grant program. The all-volunteer nonprofit raises funds for its citywide grants from individual donors and private funders, and has partnered with Isles since 2014 to administer grants in three Trenton neighborhoods as part of their respective revitalization plans, funded by the state’s Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit (NRTC) Program. “The past year was a time of turmoil leading to change in our country, our city and our community,” said IAT board president Raj Manimaran. “We are proud to support Trenton residents working together to address inequity by engaging with our past to improve our future. These projects will make a lasting difference in our community.” The 2021 awards support efforts to celebrate and improve the city and advance social justice, particularly in the context of the ongoing pandemic. Projects and programs that received grants include: Adam Nawrot’s “Trenton Makes” video series; Caitlin Fair’s Council Cliff Notes; Chosen Inspiration Association’s Chosen to Inspire, a self-esteem enrichment, suicide prevention program; GMOMS-MCSAP’s “Living Our Best Life,” a picture book about ladies over 60; Garden State Agrihood Project’s Capital City Farm Urban Youth Environmental Stewards; Habiyb Ali Shu’Aib’s Time Is Still photography project; Jeffrey Stewart’s “American Summer,” a documentary about the BLM/police brutality protests in

Jeffrey Stewart’s ‘American Summer’ documentary about the BLM protests in Trenton received an IAT grant. Trenton; KinderSmile Foundation’s new Community Oral Health Center; Mighty Writers together with Urban Promise Trenton’s online programming for bilingual youth; Passage Theatre’s new play about the history of HedgepethWilliams Middle School of the Arts; Play Soccer Nonprofit International free Trenton Youth Soccer League afterschool and summer program; Todd Evans’ poetry through windows; the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Trenton Animals Rock’s Trenton Animals Rock Mural; Trenton Cycling Revolution’s D&R Canal Trail Bike Fixing Station; Trenton Music Makers’ Juneteenth Collaboration; and United Front youth-led youth empowerment initiatives. To learn more about the I Am Trenton Community Foundation visit www.iamtrenton.org.

Deaths Arthur M. Keefe Jr., 93, on April 7. He was retired from the state Department of Insurance. John Vaccaro, 93, on April 4. With his brothers he owned and operated Clarskville Sod Farms and Indian Camp Poultry Farms. He also served on the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture as an advocate for farmers. Elsie DelCarpio, 100, on April 3. She worked for McGraw Hill in Hightstown for 20 years and retired as a supervisor in the Export Subscription Agency Department. Ann K. Beneduce, 102, on March 18. The longtime Princeton resident and editor of children’s picture books was best known for her work on Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” She also worked with area artist Gennady Spirin to adapt folk tales and plays for him to illustrate. Gedddes W. Hanson, 86, on March 27. After earning his PhD at Princeton Theological Seminary he came the first African-American teacher there. In 1968 he helped organize the first “Conference of Black Seminarians,” and he held various teaching and administrative roles at the seminary until his retirement in 2009. James Michael Foley, 71, on April 9. He worked for the Montgomery Board of Education for 22 years.

The Son Also Rises

uring the pandemic, our would not be permanently around younger son graduated from col- me anymore. They would live in lege and started his first job. But their own houses, maybe even in instead of moving to the city and another city, or, intolerable thought, taking a daily elevator ride to his another continent. We would deworkplace, he stayed home and pend on a telephone call, hoping climbed the stairs to his teenage they would have time for us. bedroom where he had set up his office. There, among the souvenirs of ow I realize children need to his high school soccer team, the leave the nest when they are ready. framed picture of his prom — Adolescents are grown-ups, just standing in a rented tux next to an not set in their ways yet. They need equally awkward-looking girl — to carve out their own groove. They and the one surviving toy dinosaur need space to figure things out. of his childhood collection, he sat And they need private space to hide behind a computer screen with things, including their emotions. views of his boyhood bed and copLast week, our son moved out. ies of “Charlotte’s Web” and AP We helped him pack up his belongHistory on his nightstand. ings and stack Every mornthem in the Uing, I tried to Haul he had seize the opporrented. The pretWe have done our tunity in front of girl stood at task. We don’t have to ty me. “Did you his side. They walk in front of him sleep well, dear? looked intensely You had breakhappy. anymore to clear the fast already? I Later, I sat in path. We stand just toasted a bahis room and proudly behind him. It picked up the Tgel. Want some coffee? I made a Rex toy. Memois up to him now. whole pot.” ries came floodThere were ing back of the other questions 22 years we had on the tip of my tongue. “Nice hair- shared. I felt privileged to be his cut! Sharp sweatpants! By the way, mother. I saw a pretty girl in the driveway But instead of feeling sad, as I last night.” had feared I would, I felt a deep Of course, I would not say such sense of pride. Our son is in charge things, but he knew I could have of his own life and accepts it easaid them, and I admit, I sometimes gerly. He has figured out his own accidently forgot to shut up. Awww way. And I do not need to know ev… Kids at his age are entitled to erything. their own life, their privacy, and We have done our task. We don’t their secrets. have to walk in front of him anySo, for almost a year, we were more to clear the path. We stand living together apart. I tried not to proudly behind him. It is up to him ask too many questions. I did not now. assume he would have dinner with This is the moment we strived us. I gave him the space he craved for when we raised him. Letting go and needed. is our reward. When my children were much Pia de Jong is a Dutch writer younger, I sometimes burst into who lives in Princeton. She can be tears realizing that one day they contacted at pdejong@ias.edu.

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O’Neill’s Princeton Liftoff to Life on the High Frontier

by Dan Aubrey

he new documentary film “The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill” digitally premiering on Saturday, April 17, tells the story of a prominent Princeton-area visionary, the opening a new era of human exploration, and a legacy with roots in the region. The frontier is space and the story is how O’Neill’s ideas, expressed in his 1977 book “The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space” showed the world that humans could create space colonies with existing technology and materials. Through the use of slowly turning cylinders in low-Earth orbits, O’Neill proposed constructed habitats that would reproduce Earth’s gravity and create an atmosphere where thousands of people would be able to live, work, and play. The colonies would also be the solution to such earthly problems as hunger, overpopulation, dwindling resources, and war. The reaction was positive. As the National Space Society said, “One of the most striking things about (O’Neill’s) High Frontier concept is that it excited many people who had not been space enthusiasts and who had no connection with NASA, the aerospace industry, or space science. Many saw it as a breakout from the limits to growth and accepted the idea that space was an essential part of an optimistic scenario for the future.” Foreign Affairs Magazine reported that O’Neill’s synthesis suggested that the imaginative use of technology could provide solutions

“to a host of interlocking problems, including energy shortages and the protection of the environment.” And the famous late astronomer, astrophysicist, and creator of the popular “Cosmos” television series, Carl Sagan, told a 1975 House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications, “Our technology is capable of extraordinary new ventures in space, one of which is the space city idea, which Gerard O’Neill has described to you. That is an extremely expensive undertaking, but it seems to me historically to be of the greatest significance. The engineering aspects of it as far as I

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In His Own Words: Gerard O’Neill

he following are excerpts from Gerard O’Neill’s 1974 Physics Today article, “The Colonization of Space.” Supported by with graphs and calculations, it was the first appearance of his ideas to be shared with the general public:

t is orthodox to believe that Earth is the only practical habitat for Man, and that the human race is close to its ultimate size limits. But I believe we have now reached the point where we can, if we so choose, build new habitats far more comfortable, productive and attractive than is most of Earth. We can colonize space, and do so without robbing or harming anyone and without polluting anything. If work is begun soon, nearly all our industrial activity could be moved away from Earth’s fragile biosphere within less than a century from now. The technical imperatives of this kind of migration of people and industry into space are likely to encourage self-sufficiency, smallscale governmental units, cultural diversity, and a high degree of independence. The ultimate size limit for the human race on the newly available frontier is at least 20,000 times its present value. How can colonization take place? It is possible even with existing technology, if done in the most efficient ways. New methods are needed, but none goes beyond the range of present-day knowledge. The challenge is to bring the goal of space colonization into economic feasibility now, and the key is to treat the region beyond Earth not as a void but as a culture medium, rich in matter and energy. To live normally, people need energy, air, water, land and gravity. In space, solar energy is dependable and convenient to use; the Moon and asteroid belt can supply the needed materials, and rotational acceleration can substitute for Earth’s gravity. A Cylindrical Habitat. The geometry of each space community is fairly closely defined if all of the following conditions are required: normal gravity, normal day and night cycle, natural sunlight, an earthlike appearance, efficient use of solar power and of materials. The most effective geometry satisfying all of these conditions appears to be a pair of cylinders. The economics of efficient use

of materials tends to limit their size to about four miles in diameter, and perhaps about 16 miles in length. In these cylinder pairs, the entire land area is devoted to living space, parkland and forest, with lakes, rivers, grass, trees, animals and birds, an environment like most attractive parts of Earth; agriculture is carried on elsewhere. Environmental Control. The agricultural areas are separate from the living areas, and each one has the best climate for the particular crop it is to grow. Gravity, atmosphere, and insolation are earthlike in most agricultural cylinders, but there is no attempt there to simulate an earthlike appearance. Selected seeds in a sterile, isolated environment initiate growth, so that no insecticides or pesticides are needed. (The evolution time for infectious organism is long, and resterilization of a contaminated agricultural cylinder by heating would not be difficult.) All food can be fresh, because it is grown only 20 miles from the

How can colonization take place? It is possible even with existing technology, if done in the most efficient ways. New methods are needed, but none goes beyond the range of present-day knowledge. point of use. The agricultural cylinders can be evenly distributed in seasonal phase, so that at any given time several of them are at the right month for harvesting any desired crop. Axial Rotation and Transport. A key element in the design of the space colony is the coupling of two cylinders by a tension cable and a compression tower to form a system that is able to maintain its axis pointed toward the Sun without the use of thrusters. Life in the Colonies. With an abundance of food and clean electrical energy, controlled climates and temperate weather, living conditions in the colonies should be much more pleasant than in most places on Earth. For the 20-mile distances of the cylinder interiors, bicycles and

Bezos along with fellow businessman and proponent of private — aka non-governmental led — space exploration Elon Musk appear in the film, along with the late theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, science fiction writers Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, entrepreneur and author Peter Diamandes, co-founder of Elestis Memorial Spaceflights Charles Chafer, and Rick Tumlinson, founder of SpaceFund, Earthlight Foundation, and Space Frontier. Also prominent is Tasha O’Neill. The Princeton-based photographer was married to Gerard O’Neill from 1973 until his death in 1992, and in 1978 co-founded the nonprofit Space Studies Institute – designed to “open the energy and material resources of space for human benefit within our lifetime.” “It is the culmination of many years of work,” says Tasha during a recent telephone conversation about the release of the film, “The recognition that Gerry finally gets from his peers and young people who were following him and are inspired by him, makes me very proud. I was part of all of this.” Tasha credits Tumlinson as the individual who got Multiverse Media producer Dylan

low-speed electric vehicles are adequate. Fuel-burning cars, powered aircraft, and combustion heating are not needed; therefore, no smog. For external travel, the simplicity of engineless, pilotless vehicles probably means that individuals and families will be easily able to afford private space vehicles for low-cost travel to far distant communities with diverse cultures and languages. The “recreational vehicles” of the colonial age are therefore likely to be simple spacecraft, consisting of well-furnished pressure shells with little complexity beyond an oxygen supply and with much the same arrangement of kitchen facilities and living space as are found today in our travelling homes. All Earth sports, as well as new ones, are possible in the communities. Skiing, sailing, mountain climbing (with the gravity decreasing linearly as the altitude increases) and soaring are examples. As an enthusiastic glider pilot, I have checked the question of thermal scales: The soaring pilots of the colonial age should find sufficient atmospheric instability to provide them with lift. At high altitudes, man-powered flight — a nearly impossible dream on Earth — becomes easy. A special, slowly rotating agricultural cylinder with water and fish can have gravity 10-2 or 10-3 times that on Earth for skin diving free of pressure-equalization problems. Noisy or polluting sports, such as auto racing, can easily be carried out in one of the cylinders of the external ring. The self-sufficiency of space communities probably has a strong effect on government. A community of 200,000 people, eager to preserve its own culture and language, can even choose to remain largely isolated. Free, diverse social experimentation could thrive in such a protected, self-sufficient environment. Our New Options. If we drop our limitation to present technology, the size of a community could be larger. One foreseeable development is the use of near-frictionless (for example, magnetic) bearings between a rotating cylinder and its supporting structure, which need not be spun. I hesitate somewhat to claim for space-colonization the ability to solve one other problem, one of the most agonizing of all: the pain and destruction caused by territorial wars.

Cynics are sure that humanity will always choose savagery even when territorial pressures are much reduced. Certainly the maniacal wars of conquest have not been basically territorial. Yet I am more hopeful; I believe we have begun to learn a little bit in the past few decades. The history of the past 30 years suggests that warfare in the nuclear age is strongly, although not wholly, motivated by territorial conflicts; battles over limited, non-extendable pieces of land. From the viewpoint of international arms control, two reasons for hope come to mind. We already have an international treaty banning nuclear weapons from space, and the colonies can obtain all the energy they could ever need from clean solar power, so the temptations presented by nuclear-reactor byproducts need not exist in the space communities. To illustrate the power of spacecolonization in a specific, calculable situation, we trace the evolution of a worst-case example: Suppose the present population-increase rate were to continue on Earth and in the space colonies. In that case the total human population would increase 20,000-fold in a little over 500

Taylor interested in financing and producing diately attracted to him. My eye was drawn the feature-length documentary, whose pre- to him. I saw him making his way and came miere coincides with the re-release of to me and said he was having a party and O’Neill’s second book, “2081: A Hopeful asked for my phone number. Year for the future,” written in 1981. “I figured he was a graduate student. Little Tasha says the production has been in the did I know that he was 42, I was 21, and he works for the past three years, and its original was full professor at the university.” release was delayed by the COVID-19 panAsked about her background in science demic. and physics, Tasha says, “That’s the bizarre Originally from Schweinfurt, Germany, part. I had flunked physics and math, so I where her father ended up with a physiworked as a wholesale cist. It was one of those grocery distributor and ironic things. But GerIn a matter of time her mother was homery had the incredible maker, Tasha (nee ReO’Neill’s ideas, proposals, knack for getting comnate Steffen) says she plex ideas across in a and work caught the puband the astrophysicists way a layperson could lic’s imagination. “met in Princeton at the understand.” YMCA mid-1969. I She adds that she had just arrived to be an met him just as he was au pair for the George beginning his exploraGallup family, and I had been taken by an- tion of space technology and colonization. “I other girl to the Y’s covered dish supper. was in the whole idea from the start. Three People would meet every Thursday at the in- weeks before he met me, he asked students ternational club. who wanted to challenge the seminal ques“I was talking to people and I noticed a tion: is a planetary surface the right place for guy coming through the door and was imme- an expanding technological civilization?

Images of a space colony as envisioned by Gerry O’Neill in a 1974 article published in Physics Today. years. Space-colonization would absorb even so huge a growth. Building the First Colony. A responsible proposal to begin the construction of the first colony must be based on a demonstration, in some detail, of one workable plan with realistic cost estimates. I emphasize two points about any such plan: The details presented should be thought of simply as an existence proof of feasibility; and many variations are possible. The optimum design and course of action can only be decided on after study and consultation among experts in a number of fields. I hope I have conveyed at least a little of the sense of excitement that I have enjoyed over the past few years as each serious problem has appeared to yield to a solution, as well as how much more remains to be done and how much need there is for good ideas and hard work.

And the answer was no.” In a matter of time O’Neill’s ideas, proposals, and work caught the public’s imagination. “He was on all the popular (TV) talk shows, Carson, and various shows and written about extensively in magazine articles and so on,” says Tasha. That includes People Magazine, where in 1977 the Princeton-based future founder and publisher of U.S. 1, Richard K. Rein, wrote, “Born in New York City, the only child of a lawyer, Gerry O’Neill grew up in an isolated upstate hamlet with the curious name of Speculator. “From his father Gerry acquired the outlook of a ‘Jeffersonian democrat.’ As a teenage Navy seaman in the waning days of World War II, he ‘bumped around on a little ship in the western Pacific with guys who had never gotten as far as high school,” he recalls. “I heard as much good talk from them as I’ve ever heard at faculty meetings in universities. Sometimes more.’ “Navy training in radar pointed him toContinued on following page

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Freeman Dyson on the ‘Life of Gerard K. O’Neill’

he late noted theoretical physicist and Institute for Advanced Study professor Freeman Dyson was also a longtime board member of the Space Studies Institute, founded by Gerard and Tasha O’Neill. The excerpts below are from a piece he wrote in 1993 for Physics Today and that was later republished on the SSI’s website:

erard O’Neill had three careers. As an experimental physicist, he invented and developed the technology of storage rings that is now the basis of all high energy particle accelerators. As a teacher and writer, he explored the possibilities of human settlement and industrial development on the Moon and in orbiting space colonies. As an entrepreneur, he founded several companies to develop new commercial technologies, ranging from a cheap satellite navigation system (Geostar) and a secure short-range office communication system (Lawn) to a highspeed train system (“VSE”). O’Neill began his scientific education as a radar technician in the US Navy. He then went to Swarthmore College as an undergraduate and to Cornell University as a graduate student in physics. After earning his PhD in 1954, he came to the Princeton University physics department as an instructor. Two years later he published a letter in Physical Review entitled “Storage-Ring Synchrotron: Device for High-Energy Physics Research.” In two pages it laid down the path that high-energy physics has followed for the subsequent 36 years. If you read the letter now, you can see that almost everything in it is right. But it took a long time before most of us understood how right it was. O’Neill built a storage ring himself at Stanford to convince people that it was feasible. By 1965, using the Stanford linear accelerator as the injector, he had storage rings running with large enough circulating currents to do the first colliding-beam physics experiment. The experiment was a measurement of electron-electron scattering at a center-of-mass energy, far higher than any fixed target experiment could achieve. After this demonstration that storage rings actually worked, high-energy physicists all over the world hastened to build their own. With the benefit of hindsight we can find one serious mistake in O’Neill’s 1956 letter. He grossly underestimated the possible improvement of high-vacuum techniques: He

claimed that a storage ring could hold a beam with a lifetime of a few seconds. If he had said hours instead of seconds, nobody would have believed him. It took 20 years before storage rings with lifetimes measured in hours became routine. By that time, having taught the world how to do high-energy physics, O’Neill had moved on to other things. In 1965 O’Neill became a full professor at Princeton, where he remained until his retirement in 1985. He enjoyed teaching and devoted much of his time and energy to doing the job well. In 1969 he was responsible for teaching Physics 103-104, the basic introductory physics courses. He decided to reform the courses radically, replacing the traditional problem exercises with “learning guides,”

‘When, as usually happened, experts in the fields that O’Neill invaded raised objections to his ideas, he had always thought of the objections first and found ways to answer them.’ which led the students step by-step to a deeper understanding of what they were doing. The reform was an immediate success. When O’Neill was concocting problems to put into his first learning guides, the students had recently been watching the Apollo missions on television, and so he emphasized applications of elementary physics to people and things in orbit and on the Moon. These orbital problems were popular with the students. At the end of the term, O’Neill asked the class to write a term paper about a human habitat in space, calculating the requirements of mass and energy and propulsion for a viable settlement. The students responded enthusiastically to this too. After reading the term papers, O’Neill was infected with their enthusiasm and wrote a paper of his own, “The Colonization of Space,” which was published in 1974 in Physics Today. Thereafter, space colonies remained one of his main interests. In 1978 he and his wife, Tasha, founded the Space Studies Institute, a privately funded organization that supports technical research on the science and engineering of space activities. The institute successfully built a working model of a mass driver, a device invented by O’Neill

for cheap and efficient movement of materials from the Moon or an asteroid into orbit. It was characteristic of O’Neill to combine far-reaching visions with practical work in the machine shop. All his inventions, whether in high-energy physics, space technology or high-speed trains, were worked out in real hardware models with meticulous attention to detail. When, as usually happened, experts in the fields that O’Neill invaded raised objections to his ideas, he had always thought of the objections first and found ways to answer them. Some of his commercial ventures failed for financial and political reasons. Not one of his inventions failed for technical reasons. O’Neill founded the Space Studies Institute with the intention of introducing a new style into the world of space technology. His purpose was to organize small groups of people to develop the tools of space exploration independently of governments and to prove that private groups could get things done enormously cheaper and quicker than government bureaucracies. And to bring his vision of the free expansion of mankind into space to a wider public, O’Neill wrote books. His first book, “The High Frontier” (William Morrow, 1977) has been translated into many languages. It established O’Neill as spokesman for the people in many countries who believe that the settlement of space can bring tremendous benefits to humanity and that this is too important a business to be left in the hands of national governments. In 1985 the US government recognized his status as an advocate of the private sector by inviting him to serve on the National Commission on Space. O’Neill’s third career, as an entrepreneur, began with the Geostar project in 1983 and was in full swing up to the day of his death. His final venture, the high-speed train system, which he called VSE (for velocity, silence, efficiency), was started during his last six months. The basic idea of VSE is to build a train network like a telephone network, with all trips non-stop, the stations widely distributed, and the switching system transparent to the users. Unlike other high-speed train systems, VSE is designed to outperform commercial airlines-in velocity by a factor of 5, in silence by a factor of 100, in efficiency by a factor of 10. Like other O’Neill inventions, it will have to wait a long time before the world discovers how sensible it is. I was privileged to be a close friend of two great men, Richard Feynman and Gerard O’Neill. I was often struck by the deep simi-

‘The High Frontier,’ Dyson wrote, ‘established O’Neill as spokesman for the people in many countries who believe that the settlement of space can bring tremendous benefits to humanity.’ larity of their characters, in spite of many superficial differences. Both were indefatigable workers, taking infinite trouble to get the details right. Both were effective and enthusiastic teachers. Both were accomplished showmen, good at handling a crowd. Both had good rapport with ordinary people and abhorred pedants and snobs. Both were uncompromisingly honest. Both were outsiders in their own profession, unwilling to swim with the stream. Both stood up against the established wisdom and were proved right. Both fought a fatal illness for the last seven years of their lives. Both had spirits that grew stronger as their physical strength decayed. Gerard O’Neill died on 27 April 1992, after losing a seven-year battle with leukemia. Like Richard Feynman in similar circumstances, he worked and pursued new adventures until a few days before his death. He accomplished more in the years after he became sick than most of us accomplish in a lifetime.

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ward science. After graduating from Swarthmore College with high honors in physics and earning his Ph.D. from Cornell University, O’Neill joined the Princeton faculty in 1954. Married by then to a psychology professor, he fathered three children before the marriage ended in divorce in 1966. He also began developing his particle storage ring device and — not for the last time — ran up against heavy academic skepticism. ‘Most distinguished physicists could give all sorts of reasons why storage rings would never be practical,’ O’Neill recalls. ‘Now they are almost universally used.’ His invention plays a major role in helping scientists understand the nature of subatomic particles.” However, the momentum was slowed by new practices and ideas and funding becoming more difficult. “It always about the money,” says Tasha. There were also personal changes. Tasha says O’Neill stopped being interested in space. “He was a sprinter, not a runner. So he felt when his leadership wasn’t needed anymore, he left it in other hands and he started Geostar,” says Tasha about one of O’Neill’s final ventures, a satellite navigation system. Then in 1985 O’Neill was diagnosed with leukemia and given 18 months. He lived seven years,

thanks to an experimental trial. “It wasn’t easy,” Tasha says. “With a small child it was really difficult. He was five when it was started. We lived our lives, still traveled, and did all kinds of things. He wanted to leave a legacy for the family. He worked really hard. New projects made him forget that he was sick. He wanted to be positive and not wallow. His mind was such that he had to create. “

asha says his death also spurred her to create. “Gerry died in ’92 and I was 44 with an 11-yearold son. I decided I needed to find something my own, and I wanted to be out and about with people. I joined a walking club at the Y. We

walked four miles. One morning I put a point and shoot camera in my pocket. And there were some ice formations. I thought I got something.” She says she then took a correspondence course and “it grew from there.” Still involved with the Space Studies Institute, she says she has stepped back but hopes the organization will get more visibility with the release of the film and generate more individual and organization funding to do research. While her general interest in science may have waned, she still is interested in how O’Neill’s ideas are revisited with more than just curiosity. “One of the biggest proponents

of (O’Neill’s colonies) is Jeff Bezos,” she says. “He read the ‘High Frontier’ as a teenager and was very impressed. And when he went to Princeton he heard Gerry speak and it has always been his dream to make things happen.” She also presented him with the National Science Foundation’s G.K. O’Neill Memorial Award in 2018. Reflecting on a renewed interest in space travel and the reemergence of O’Neill’s ideas, Tasha says, “The students who had worked with Gerry are adults. A lot of them founded companies or are in prominent positions. It took Jeff to get things started in a big way. A lot of small companies have been doing things and our institute has been

O’Neill, left, with the Bernal Sphere he envisioned for life in space, and above teaching in 1977. doing studies. The time is right.” “The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill,’’ premieres Saturday, April 17, at 8 p.m., on www.spacechannel.com, on Space Channel platforms, or available in “theater mode” on the RADtv Playstation app. The film will be released for online viewing on demand on Sunday, April 18. For more information, visit www.thehighfrontiermovie.com.

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I’m an Italian-American widower originally from N.Y. (Bx) now living PA Newtown/Yardley area. I’m 75, fit, healthy, gym goer, college educated. Seeking a fit, healthy woman 70-77. I’m active, creative, a stained glass artist. Love to laugh and do new things. Are you up for a new adventure? When Covid 19 passes, we could travel, go to good movies, and visit museums in NYC and Philly. I love jazz, live theater, and the Jersey Shore, or we could stay home and have a quiet evening cooking together; I’m an excellent cook. We just may find true love and passion. No games, looking for a companion so we may have fun together. Send a note, your photo, and phone number so we may talk and maybe meet for coffee and see what happens. (I’m an occasional smoker and I’ve received 2 shots of the Moderna vaccine.) Trumpers need not reply. Box #240831

women seeking men Do you want a companion? Are you looking for someone to be compatible with? I may be the one. Be between the ages of 80 to 86. I’m 5’2”, light brown hair, slim, non-smoker, social drinker, must love animals. Box #240826 I am a “young” 73 yr. old caucasian woman, widow since Oct 2019, looking for my forever soulmate. 65-76 yrs. He must be white, fit, non-smoker, only drinks socially. I am very passionate, loving, caring about life and everyone. Have 2 adult daughters and 2 loving adorable grandsons going on 8 and 3 this summer. I love hanging with friends and family as well as walking, the gym, beach, dining out, baseball games, mini golf, and so much more. I want to start with friendship and see where it goes. If interested, please respond so we can email, text, or call! Box # 240828

help wanted

Employment Exchange A medical billing company is looking for a candidate to join our team. You will be working with documents and insurances, making and accepting calls, and possibly generating claims and working through the medical billing cycle. This is a part time (afternoons 1-5 pm) position offering $15/hr. Interested candidates, please send your resume to svitlana@genwellmedical.com. Transcriptionist - work from home and learn digital court transcription. Income to $30/hr. Paid 3 month training program. Work 5 hrs./day and 25 hrs./ week, during business hours. Some overnight and weekend assignments. This isn’t for part-timers. Must have 4 year college degree, be a quick study, have digital audio (unzipping) experience, and have great grammar and proofreading skills. No exceptions. Send resume to wtrscramp@aol.com.

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JOBS WANTED

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Summer Fiction All Year Long Short Stories & Poems from the readers of U.S. 1

U .S. 1 Newspaper extends its annual invitation to all writers and poets to present original short fiction, short plays, or poetry.

This is an opportunity to have your work published in hard-copy form and to be recognized in public for your effort. To participate, submit your previously unpublished short story, play, or poem as soon as possible. Please: No more than two stories or five poems per writer. Work will be considered for publication on a rolling basis. Please submit work by e-mail to fiction@princetoninfo.com. Authors retain all rights. Preference will be given to central New Jersey writers whose work addresses a theme or place relevant to the greater Princeton business community. Submissions from children are not encouraged.

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APRIL 14, 2021

introducing

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HAMILTON TOWNSHIP $410,000 Anne Setzer 609.516.9203 MLS# NJME309768

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP $570,000 Amy Granato 917.848.8345 MLS# NJME310420

PRINCETON $849,000 (1.62 acres) Owen ‘Jones’ Toland 609.731.5953 MLS# NJME310022

PRINCETON $1,325,000 Linda Twining 609.439.2282 MLS# NJME309920

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PENNINGTON BORO $598,500 Catherine C Nemeth 609.462.1237 MLS# NJME310302

HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP $899,000 Joel Winer 908.500.8815 MLS# NJSO114482

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP $2,250,000 Grant Wagner 609.331.0573 MLS# NJBL380830

PRINCETON $949,000 Susan L ‘Suzy’ DiMeglio 609.915.5645 MLS# NJME308412

PRINCETON $2,595,000 Rachel Lee 917.828.0331 MLS# NJME308796

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP $225,000 (1.38 acres) Ruth P Sayer 609.731.1204 MLS# 1000372041

Age Restricted PLAINSBORO TOWNSHIP $446,000 Catherine ‘Kate’ Stinson 609.439.9343 MLS# NJMX124558

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LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP $350,000 Susan A Cook 609.577.9959 MLS# NJME310568

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HOPEWELL BOROUGH $475,000 Jennifer E Curtis 609.610.0809 MLS# NJME307096

WEST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP $665,000 Jean Grecsek 609.751.2958 MLS# NJME310250

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MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP $369,900 Amy Schaefer 609.651.5332 MLS# NJSO114 476

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Age Restricted

PLAINSBORO TOWNSHIP $545,000 Merlene K Tucker 609.937.7693 MLS# NJMX125276

PRINCETON $699,000 Janet Stefandl 201.805.7402 MLS# NJME302368

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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP $369,900 (1.38 acres) Margaret Foley ‘Peggy’ Baldwin 609.306.2052 MLS# NJME309380

PENNINGTON BOROUGH $549,000 Beth Kearns 609.847.5173 MLS# NJME310054

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP $949,000 Valerie Smith 609.658.0394 MLS# NJSO114388

PRINCETON $2,795,000 Martha ‘Jane’ Weber 609.462.1563 MLS# NJME301188

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MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP $725,000 Cynthia Weshnak 609.651.1795 MLS# NJSO114272

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP $1,199,000 Cynthia Weshnak 609.651.1795 MLS# NJSO114456

MONROE TOWNSHIP $2,950,000 Lauren Adams 908.812.9557 MLS# NJMX125988

PRINCETON $1,200,000 David M Schure 609.577.7029 MLS# NJME308860

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP $9,750,000 Norman T Callaway, Jr 609.647.2001 MLS# NJME307786

newly priced

Age Restricted PLAINSBORO TOWNSHIP $399,000 Merlene K Tucker 609.937.7693 MLS# NJMX123180

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP $565,000 Jennifer E Curtis 609.610.0809 MLS# NJSO114110

CRANBURY TOWNSHIP $749,000 Anita F O’Meara 609.235.6889 MLS# NJMX126236

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