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Sara Hastings ARTS EDITOR
Dan Aubrey
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If something just doesn’t seem right lately with the The Times of Trenton, that’s because longtime photojournalist Michael (Mike) Mancuso has retired after nearly 40 years of capturing the life of a city, region, and state.
For numerous years he was one of the Times’ eyes on the scene — and a respected one at that.
But after decades of industry upheavals, office moves, management changes, and diminished staff, he stayed with the Times and became its beating heart — one pulsing with an understanding of what the newspaper once had been and what a community needed.
It is no secret why. He was born and raised in the community and reborn in the newspaper’s photo labs — back when the paper was called The Trenton Times (the name change came in the 1980s) and digital was just a strange word.
It is also no secret for anyone with eyes that Mancuso was a master photojournalist whose technical skill enabled him to capture an image but whose artistic sensibility also captured the moment’s soul.
says, was a computer programmer, “kind of before computers were computers,” for the state; his mother was a homemaker.
The elder Mancuso was a serious hobbyist, owned several Leica cameras, and had a darkroom in their house. By the time his son was eight years old, he had his own camera.
His early pictures, he says, were pretty much of whatever was around: family, friends, and the streets and neighborhood of his South Cook Avenue home. This laid the foundation for his life as a photographer, a connection indicated by the image on Mancuso’s press pass: a picture of him at age eight.
It was shortly after his first child was born that Michael remembered his father saying, “Mike, now that you have a kid, why don’t you get a real camera?”
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It was a recognition of his sense of creating more than a photo that led to then-Chapin School curator, regional artist Dallas Piotrowski, to invite Mancuso to have an exhibition there in 2013.
That’s when U.S. 1 contributor, former New Jersey Network video journalist, and state recognized fine arts photographer Aubrey Kauffman talked to Mancuso about his training and approach.
With Mancuso leaving our regional journalism scene, it seems a good time to revisit that interview and think about how to help develop the next generation of photojournalists who will hold our stories:
Born and raised in Trenton, Mancuso learned photography from his father, who, Mancuso
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He took his dad’s advice and kept a “real” camera with him on his job driving a mail truck for a contractor around Allentown. He then began taking and bringing pictures to the local Allentown newspaper, the Messenger Press. After some success there, he approached the Trenton Times, which began to use him as a part-time weekend photographer. After several years he was offered a full-time position.
Though intimidated by the professionalism of the other photographers, he decided to trust his boss’ obvious belief that he was up to the task, already proving himself during his years as a part-timer.
Working full-time for the paper with longtime staff photographers placed Mancuso in a great environment for learning his craft.
He remembers how the veteran photographers — Herman Laesker (who hired him), John Pietras, Tom Herde, and Steve Zerby — were very helpful in mentoring him in his early days.
Mancuso maintained the legacy of the professionals who became his teachers and says, “a good newspaper photo communicates information to the viewer in a clean, concise way. It has depth. It’s nice if it has something visually compelling, or at least visually interesting about it, too, but if not, if it communicates, it’s effective.”
Mancuso says being a professional news photographer is not without its challenges, especially getting a picture when people are experiencing personal tragedies. “When I’m there, I
have to be there. I try to project being unobtrusive. I don’t get in the way. I don’t have the attitude like I’m here to get a picture. I think everything about me projects that,” he says.
Mancuso has been a witness to change and remembers how the advent of digital photography has changed the industry. What once took hours is now almost instantaneous.
Twenty-four-hour cable news, movies-ondemand, and the Internet have not only changed the way people receive information and created competition for its delivery, it has also changed the way that people perceive the creation of images. “Photography has gotten devalued because everybody can get a decent or pretty good or excellent camera, but you know that just because everyone has a computer doesn’t mean that everyone is a writer either. But right now it seems like such a proliferation, people aren’t looking so much for quality stuff; they just want a lot of pictures, just like if you write and you just wrote down everything you said.”
While Mancuso has left photojournalism, he remains active as a wedding photographer for his own company, Life-Affirming Photography, and as a guitarist with the classic rock band Big Chill.
But for those reading area newspapers, The Times has changed.
Bid a cold goodbye to the winter frost and start preparing for a modern garden that grows with sustainability in mind, and whether homeowners choose to plant now or plan ahead, they can harvest an environmentally conscious future celebrating the value of nature.
The most successful landscapes achieve a balance between aesthetic appeal and practicality. But in time, homeowners can restore the ecosystem of a property by building its environmental resilience and making considerations about the climate.
People of all regions, skill levels, and economic statuses can improve their outdoor spaces, no matter how large or small, by transforming them into an eco-friendly garden with a diverse plant palette.
Wild Ones, a nonprofit organization dedicated to using natural landscape techniques that preserve biodiversity and native plant populations, has published two free, downloadable garden plans for the Princeton mid-Atlantic ecoregion.
Created as part of Wild Ones’ Native Garden Designs program, these printable templates include steps for replication, a planting schedule that optimizes the best steps to take in each season, and at least 15 native species in placements and concentrations that add value to the homeowner’s quality of life. People are encouraged to take inspiration from them, whether in full or as ideas, for houses even beyond the styles found in Central New Jersey.
Following a thorough analysis, landscaping professionals Julie Snell and Lisa McDonald Hanes developed these layouts to reintroduce indigenous plants on two contrasting properties: a single-family, one-acre parcel on the outskirts of town with a sloped suburban hill and a multi-family townhouse on a one-fifth-acre parcel within Princeton.
Once grown, native plants can flourish with little to no watering, fertilizer, pesticides, or mowing, making them a viable, low-maintenance replacement for traditional lawns. These species have become accustomed to the area as a result of
by Rebekah Schroederevolution and adaptation, with deeper root systems that control the level of water runoff. This prevents overflow and, by extension, mitigates flooding — a rising concern in New Jersey because of the effects of climate change.
Communities of native plants support wildlife and pollinators, and while deer may still browse from them, as Wild Ones explained, mature plants can be “resilient” in the face of those pressures. Yet, if any invasive species present are not controlled, native plants risk being overtaken.
The Princeton designs primarily use perennials, or plants that return each year but may take longer to “get established,” as opposed to annuals, which only complete one growing season.
Snell is a certified arborist and founding partner of the Philadelphia-based TEND landscape architects, where her fellow designer, registered landscape architect Hanes, is also a founding principal. Hanes received her bachelor’s in landscape architecture from Purdue University, while Snell, who has a fine arts background, earned her master’s in landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Together, the women are the co-owners and operators of Redbud Native Plant Nursery in Media, Pennsylvania.
The designer statements for the single-family and multi-family properties share some of the same passages, but with details specific to each plan, as well as video interviews where Snell and Hanes spoke, respectively, about them with Wild Ones member Michele Hensey.
To see the recommended phasing, priorities, practices, or download copies of the Princeton plan(s), visit Wild Ones’ website at nativegardendesigns.wildones. org. Ecoregions with designs ready for implementation include Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and others.
Because the mid-Atlantic region has been inhabited since before the American Revolutionary War,
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these plans differ from previous Wild Ones designs in several ways. According to the Wild Ones Princeton template page, “land development patterns and housing types show this age, coupled with modern demands for density and ways of living that meet a wide range of population needs from university students to young families to the elderly.”
Wild Ones, which started in the Midwest, has three chapters in New Jersey: Gateway, Southern, and Skylands, the latter two of which are seedling groups still in the early stages of expanding membership and programming.
Skylands serves the northwest counties of Mercer, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Warren. Its president, Daina Gulbis, is a chemical engineer by trade and a certified master gardener for Somerset County, where she has resided since 2005. Gulbis currently works as the K-8 Garden Coordinator for the Somerset Hills School District and an environmental educator for the Raritan Headwaters Association.
After speaking with the president of the state’s Southern New Jersey group, Josh Loew, both Gulbis and Gisela Ferrer volunteered to start their own chapters in March of last year, with Ferrer now leading the state’s Northeastern Gateway chapter.
Gulbis is thrilled to be able to share these Princeton templates as something tangible that can still be applied to many ecoregions and prove that raising native plants does not have to be “overwhelming.”
“I think that is the hardest part to figure out when you move to an area or when you decide you want to plant: what is it that’s going to be native, that can grow, that’s going to be flowering at this time, so that I can have a continuous flow in my garden? We have a lot of resources out there for Jersey, but it takes a lot of time,” she explained.
“Not everybody can afford to have a landscape architect come and take a look at their space,” Gulbis said, with the designs making that easier. She also expressed her love for “the tables at the end, because you can also pick and choose” from substitute plants that “all grow in this area and climate.”
Snell and McDonald both recommend planning and preparing the site in the summer, which may include cleaning up the property and removing invasive species, before planting native species in the early fall. This way, rather than forcing the gardener to be hypervigilant about watering in the summer to ensure the survival of the seedlings, they can do so in September, October, and/or November to give the roots a longer time to settle. This puts them ahead of schedule by spring and will result in heartier plants come summer.
Gulbis personally plants for different reasons in the fall and spring. She shared that because the beginning of autumn is the end of the traditional growing season, nurseries tend to sell plants at reduced prices.
The “plugs” for native species, a term for seedlings grown in trays with potting soil, are sold in spring and present gardeners with visible blooms. But as opposed to their previously planted counterparts, which will likely spend their first years as stems, these spring plants will require more attention and water, especially in hotter weather.
Gulbis says she does both — some for those visuals that signal the warmth of spring has arrived, and others for long-term planting that profits from patience.
Snell and Hanes advise that the process is best done in phases, proposing that people first define their goals for the landscape, such as what they want in the finished product — spots for growing produce, sitting, or playing — and evaluate their abilities to do the work required, such as coordinating with landscape professionals or budgeting.
By establishing funding expectations and a timeline for incremental improvements or additions, the homeowner can devote the scheduling and monetary resources required to complete their vision, as well as all the maintenance that entails.
To help map out a balanced garden, the designers say it is important to document the following factors: sunlight, shade, and water flow patterns; conditions and/or types of soil, drainage, and moisture; as well as what plants are al-
The single-family, left, and multi-family Wild Ones templates have landscape-conscious layouts with sections — and interchangeable substitutions — for greener gardening.
ready growing in the space, both invasive and native. For more information on invasive species in the mid-Atlantic region, visit invasive.org/eastern/midatlantic.
In the designer statements, Snell and Hanes encourage homeowners to work closely with an arborist certified by the International Society of Arboriculture, or ISA, to identify keystone species, such as oak trees, which are organisms that the ecosystem cannot exist without.
But removing the hazards — large trees that are dead or damaged, areas negatively impacted by erosion and flooding, or the advancing encroachment of invasive species — is just as essential as thoroughly studying the site.
Hanes advised conducting at least one “soil test” to detect its nutrition and acidity before starting the garden, and since Princeton spans the transition from the inner Atlantic coastal plain to the ridge and valley ecoregion, several spots in the same yard can have differing compositions (clay, sandy, compacted, etc.).
For more information on how and where to properly submit soil for testing, Hanes suggested checking out the website for both the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station’s Soil Testing Laboratory or Cornell University’s Soil Health Laboratory.
Climate change is also an undeniably big factor. According to Hanes and Hensey’s February YouTube discussion, the area averages around 47 inches of rainfall and 24 inches of snow annually, with increased but alarmingly unpredictable levels of precipitation and warmer temperatures expected throughout the year.
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First night of Passover.
On Stage
Cabaret, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA. www.brtstage.org. When American writer Cliff Bradshaw arrives at the Kit Kat Klub in 1931 Berlin looking for inspiration, he falls for its star performer, Sally Bowles. However, their decadent lifestyle is soon threatened by the Nazis’ impending rise to power. $50 to $63. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Swing Dance Club: Monthly Social Dance Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.edu. Intermediate Lindy Hop lesson, beginner East Coast swing lesson, then social dance with the Princeton University Swing Dance Club. Masks and proof of vaccination required.
$5. 6:15 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Lesson followed by dance. $15. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Find Your Park, Kiwanis Club of Trenton, Leonardo’s II, 2021 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville, 609-647-8305. Wanda E. Lacy McNeill talks about all of the great things going on in Mercer County Parks. Register to mccormicknj@ aol.com. $20 covers dinner off the menu. 6 p.m.
Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans connect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can, $8 and up. 8 to 9 a.m.
Backyard Birding and Feeding Birds, Mercer County Library www.mcl.org. An introduction to bird watching and your backyard birds, covering binoculars, field
Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien perform works by Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Webern in a Princeton University Concerts presentation in Richardson Auditorium on Thursday, April 6.
guides, identifying backyard birds and what to feed them. Presented by Heidi Mass, board member for the Washington Crossing Audubon Society (Pennington). Email hopeprogs@mcl.org to receive link to program. 3 p.m.
Alina Ibragimova, Violin & Cédric Tiberghien, Piano Princeton University Concerts, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. concerts.princeton.edu.
Schumann’s Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 105 & Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 121; Mendelssohn’s Violin Sonata in F Minor, Op. 4; and Webern’s Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7. $25 to $40. 7:30 p.m.
Fresh Art II, Trenton Artists Workshop Association, Trenton Free Public Library, 120 Academy Street, Trenton, 609-392-7188. Opening reception for exhibit that is a continuation of a series featuring talented area artists including Howard Michaels, Heather Palececk, and Andrew Wilkinson. On view through May 27. 5 p.m.
On Stage
Cabaret, Bristol Riverside The-
ater, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA. www.brtstage.org. When American writer Cliff Bradshaw arrives at the Kit Kat Klub in 1931 Berlin looking for inspiration, he falls for its star performer, Sally Bowles. However, their decadent lifestyle is soon threatened by the Nazis’ impending rise to power. $50 to $63. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Princeton Winter Farmers Market, Dinky Station Parking Lot, Alexander Street, Princeton. www.princetonfarmersmarket. com. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and artisanal products. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Women of New York, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org. Marty Schneit details the history of women who made significant contributions to New York and the world at large at a time in United States history when full equality for women was not yet recognized. Marty discusses Rose Schneiderman, Emma Lazarus, Jane Jacobs, Gertrude Vanderbilt, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Bess Myerson, Alva Smith Vanderbilt, Maya Angelou, Rosalie Ida Strauss, Mae West, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Henrietta Szold, Lina Himmelstein, Bella Abzug, and Lillian Wald. Register to hopeprogs@mcl.org for link to program. 7 p.m.
Bad Hombres Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. R&B/contemporary/alternative. 5 to 8 p.m.
‘Trenton Makes’ Gallery Show Reception Old Barracks Museum, 101 Barrack Street, Trenton. www.barracks.org. Opening night of a month-long exhibit featuring Trenton artists and Trenton art. This exhibit consists of fifteen works from talented local artists Chee Bravo, Marge Miccio, and Jim Doherty. Meet the artists and enjoy light refreshments. Free. On view through May 14. 6 to 9 p.m.
Cabaret, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA. www.brtstage.org. When American writer Cliff Bradshaw arrives at the Kit Kat Klub in 1931 Berlin looking for inspiration, he falls for its star performer, Sally Bowles. However, their decadent lifestyle is soon threatened by the Nazis’ impending rise to power.
$50 to $63. 8 p.m.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, George Street
Playhouse, Arthur Laurents Theater, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www. georgestreetplayhouse.org. Musical comedy tells the tale of six middle school “misfits” in Putnam County, NY finding themselves through one of the most competitive and brave journeys adolescents can embark on – a Spelling Bee. 8 p.m.
King of the Yees, Lewis Center for the Arts, Berlind Theater at McCarter, 91 University Place, Princeton. arts.princeton.edu. Semi-autobiographical play by 2018-19 Princeton Hodder Fellow Lauren Yee is a joyride across cultural, national, and familial borders that explores what it means to truly be a Yee. $12 to $17. 8 p.m.
DC League of Super-Pets, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www. princetonlibrary.org. Screening of the animated tale focused on Krypto the Super-Dog, otherwise known as Superman’s pet. 2 p.m.
Friday Night Folk Dance, Princeton Folk Dance, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.princetonfolkdance.org. Lesson followed by open dancing. No partner necessary. $5. 8 p.m.
Dylan Band, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, Trenton. www.candlelighteventsjazz. com. Philadelphia saxophonist. $20 cover and $10 minimum drink order, free buffet. 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Jersey Sure Cats, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-3716000. www.workingdogwinerynj. com. Free live music. Food truck from Legends Grille. Wine available for purchase by the bottle. 21+ only. 1 to 5 p.m. Catmoondaddy, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Rock/pop. 5 to 8 p.m.
The Rick Fiori Jazz Trio Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.smallworldcoffee.com. Free. 7 p.m.
Sweet Baby James: The #1 James Taylor Tribute, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA. www. bcptheater.org. James Taylor tribute artist Bill Griese visits from Nashville with his acclaimed “Sweet Baby James” show. $45. 2 and 8 p.m.
The Rascals, State Theater, 15
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Shows Fresh Art
The Trenton Artists Workshop Association exhibition “Fresh Art II” opens at the Trenton Free Public Library with a free reception on Thursday, April 6, from 5 to 7 p.m., and remain on view through May 27.
Part of continuing series spotlighting the region’s strong artistry, “Fresh Art II” features the works of painter Howard Michaels, a partic-
ipant in Trenton’s downtown art scene and a retired Lawrence Township art teacher; photographer Heather Palececk, a Trenton resident and curator of the Third Thursday photography sessions at Trenton’s JKC Gallery; and photographer and media artist Andrew Wilkinson, owner of a Trenton based media company and studio.
The Trenton Free Public Library is located at 120 Academy Street. Free. For more information on the library, call 609-392-7188.
Clockwise from above left, Heather Palecek’s ‘Sticky and Stained,’ Howard Michaels’ ‘Walrus,’ and Andrew Wilkinson’s ‘Bonsai Geometry.’
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Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-246-7469. www.statetheatrenj.org. Hall of Fame 1960s soul group features founding members Felix Cavaliere and Gene Cornish. $39 to $89. 8 p.m.
Campus Collections Outdoor Walking Tour: Residential Colleges Neighborhood Princeton University Art Museum, Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, University Place. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Join a guided walking tour of the campus collections with an Art Museum guide and discover a variety of artworks by modern and contemporary sculptors, from Sol LeWitt to Maya Lin. 2 p.m.
Inspired by Optimism Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www. artscouncilofprinceton.edu. Opening reception for the exhibit featuring the work of C.a. Shofed and James Zamost. On view through May 6. 3 to 5 p.m.
Cabaret, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA. www.brtstage.org. When American writer Cliff Bradshaw arrives at the Kit Kat Klub in 1931 Berlin looking for inspiration, he falls for its star performer, Sally Bowles. However, their decadent lifestyle is soon threatened by the Nazis’ impending rise to power. $50 to $63. 2 and 8 p.m.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, George Street Playhouse, Arthur Laurents Theater, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www. georgestreetplayhouse.org. Musical comedy tells the tale of six middle school “misfits” in Putnam County, NY finding themselves through one of the most competitive and brave journeys adoles-
cents can embark on – a Spelling Bee. 2 and 8 p.m.
King of the Yees, Lewis Center for the Arts, Berlind Theater at McCarter, 91 University Place, Princeton. arts.princeton.edu.
Semi-autobiographical play by 2018-19 Princeton Hodder Fellow Lauren Yee is a joyride across cultural, national, and familial borders that explores what it means to truly be a Yee. $12 to $17. 8 p.m.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete History of Comedy (Abridged), McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Show covers comedy through the ages, from Aristophanes and Shakespeare and Moliere to Vaudeville and Charlie Chaplin to The Daily Show and Anthony Weiner. 8 p.m.
Poetry Reading Group West Windsor Public library, 333 North Post Road, West WiIndsor. www.poetryreadinggroup.wordpress.com. Read, share, and discuss the best in classic and contemporary poetry. Free. 2 p.m.
Guided Tour Kuser Farm Mansion, 390 Newkirk Avenue, Hamilton, 609-890-3630. www.hamiltonnj.com/kusermansion. Free. Last tour starts at 2:15. p.m. Easter bunny available for photos from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bring your own camera. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Great Egg Hunt, Kiwanis Club of Trenton. The Easter Bunny rides through Trenton on a fire truck beginning at 9:30 a.m., passing through each of the city’s wards before ending in Cadwalader Park at 11:30 a.m. City residents are invited to greet the Bunny as he drives by. The Bunny then kicks off the 102nd annual “Great Egg Hunt,” featuring 3,000 eggs hidden throughout the park. Free to Trenton children up to age 12 accompanied by an adult. Face painting, a petting zoo, games and music are also be part of the festivities. All children at the Park receive a treat from the “Bunny Patrol” free of charge. 9:30 a.m. Storytime with Jeff Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. A morning of story and song with Jeff Trainor of JaZams welcomes families to sing, dance, read, and enjoy some free fun. For ages infant to age 8 with an adult. 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Bunny Trail Spring Festival Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Treasure hunt for children ages 2 to 10, bunny craft, meet the real Terhune bunnies, and other activities. Food available for purchase. Live music by Brian and Sam Bortnick. $10 to $12 admission for ages 3 and up; $5 craft fee. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Becoming Gatekeepers of Our Truth Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.princetonlibrary.org. Dr. Jessica Jamese Williams gives a talk about “radical self love” followed by a panel discussion. Part of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s birth. In person and virtual. Register. 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Princeton Canal Walkers, Turning Basin Park, Alexander Road, Princeton. 3 mile walk on the towpath, weather permitting. Free. 10 a.m.
Trenton Terror vs. Charlotte Bootleggers Professional Box Lacrosse Association, CURE Insurance Arena, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton. www.pbla.com. $15. 7 p.m.
Easter.
Jillian Ashcraft Trio, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Jazz with vocals. 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, George Street Playhouse, Arthur Laurents Theater, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www. georgestreetplayhouse.org. Musical comedy tells the tale of six middle school “misfits” in Putnam County, NY finding themselves through one of the most competitive and brave journeys adolescents can embark on – a Spelling Bee. 2 p.m.
Cabaret, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA. www.brtstage.org. When American writer Cliff Bradshaw arrives at the Kit Kat Klub in 1931 Berlin looking for inspiration, he falls for its star performer, Sally Bowles. However, their decadent lifestyle is soon threatened by the Nazis’ impending rise to power. $50 to $63. 3 p.m.
Easter Egg Hunt, Lutheran Church of the Messiah, 407 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-3642. www.princetonlutheranchurch.org. Breakfast treats, fun crafts, gift baskets, Easter eggs. All are welcome. Free. 9:15 a.m.
Bunny Trail Spring Festival, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Treasure hunt for children ages 2 to 10, bunny craft, meet the real Terhune bunnies, and other activities. Food available for purchase. Live music by the Barbara Lin Band. $10 to $12 admission for ages 3 and up; $5 craft fee. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Benefits of Acupressure for Pain Management in Physical Therapy, Mercer County Library www.mcl.org. Seminar introduces community members to Acupressure as an evidence-based practice in physical therapy including demonstrating and teaching self-
acupressure and discussing specific potent Acupressure points for improving pain, anxiety, nausea, and chronic fatigue to decrease muscle tension and promote deep states of relaxation. Presented by Rachna Mehta from Hamilton Physical Therapy Services. Register to hopeprogs@mcl. org for link to program. 6:30 p.m.
Public Meeting, Washington Crossing Card Collectors Club, Union Fire Company, 1396 River Road, Titusville. www.WC4Postcards.org. “Vintage Valentine’s Day Postcards” presented by David Burchell. Contest to bring the funniest Easter-themed postcard.
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Writer’s note: The following article is the subject of talk I prepared for the April 5 meeting of the Present Day Club in Princeton.
It follows several other newspaper columns on regional stainedglass that began with one in 2018 — also just before the Passover and Easter holidays. That story examined how a stained-glass movement began in the region in the early 20th century.
It and subsequent articles were followed by invitations to share my findings with various community organization and clubs.
And while it is difficult to research stained glass windows while writing and editing a weekly newspaper, I did and frequently added new information in to the presentations.
When the Present Day Club invited me to talk about regional stained glass, I had already begun to explore a topic I thought would interest a women’s group: women in stained glass.
I also wanted to share some onthe-scene reporting about a New Jersey phenomenon: Three nationally known stained-glass companies operate in New Jersey — including one that is recognized as the oldest continuous stained-glass company in the nation.
That they all involved women and contributed to creating glass for regional churches added to the relevancy of the presentation and this story. And here we are with another chapter of regional stainedglass history. Happy reading
‘There were a lot of women involved,” says stained glass artist Judith Hiemer, director of one of the three longtime New Jersey stained-glass companies.
“There were always female designers,” she adds while sitting in the council room of Hiemer & Company Stained Glass Studio in Clifton.
Formally established in 1931 by her fraternal grandfather, Germantrained glass artist Edward Hiemer, the company has been a family business that has also included her father and great-grandfather, George Hiemer. He began his training in the late 19th century.
George and Edward Hiemer were also connected with the Von Gerichten Art Glass studios operating in Munich and Columbus, Ohio, in the early 20th century.
While George worked with the company in Munich, Edward began a career as a company journeyman before coming to the Ohio division in 1925 and serving as its head designer.
When Von Gerichten folded during the Great Depression, Edward completed the company’s existing commissions by forming his own company. He also asked his father to come to the United States to work.
Edward soon moved the studios to New Jersey to take advantage of its central location between major urban areas and transportation hubs.
Following Edward was his son, Gerhard, now 90, and then his daughter Judith, who, after helping in the studio and the shop her mother ran, took over the company in 1992.
Since its incorporation, Hiemer has produced glass for more than 1,100 churches across the United States — including roughly 70 in New Jersey and 22 in the Greater Mercer region.
Speaking about her choice to take over the business, Hiemer says she originally thought of becoming
an archaeologist.
Then she realized she would end up doing the same things that she saw the studio artists doing: historical research, art study, and travel.
When she learned that her father was interested in retiring and that none of her three sisters were interested, she made the move.
“It gave me challenges to express a lot of different aspects of my personality, and it gave me a paycheck. And it offered the potential of being my own boss,” she says.
“I saw a real opportunity for a woman to be involved. There were a lot more blockages then than there are today. That was what I saw when I grew up.
“I was also qualified for the job. I trained here with my dad. He sent me to business school because my dad was tired of artists who don’t know how much things cost. And I took applicable (art) courses at Parsons (School of Design) and learned from artists about symbolism.”
But most of all, she understands the art form. “It is a fabulous medium. There are so many facets. It has so many different requirements. And some of those challenges required make it interesting and attractive.”
The family business looms large in the small showcase areas where designs and religious objects fill the walls and cabinets.
Then there are the rows of tall files brimming with thousands of documents that are some of the only records tracing the company’s artistry with the art works in hundreds of churches around the nation.
The reason is that churches often don’t allow the company to mark their work with a logo because they say it’s too commercial.
However, those same churches have discarded or misplaced their records and have trouble figuring out whom to call to assess or repair the glass.
Hiemer says it is unusual for her company to be called into a church and asked to identify the work.
Sometimes it is easy; she simply knows before she gets there that Hiemer did it.
But sometimes it isn’t and is perhaps impossible: There were a number of East Coast glass companies no longer in business that used the same “holy card” images, glass companies, and bordering designs.
To test her record keeping, I mention the stained glass at St. Paul’s Church in Princeton.
Hiemer gives a knowing smile. Then, as she removes a file and
by Dan Aubreyplaces its open contents on the conference room table, says, “The architect got involved with St. Paul. He had a red carpet down the center of the church. He didn’t want competing colors of glass. That’s why we have the blue and gray glass. That’s how we got known as the blue glass company.”
Currently, Hiemer’s projects include a mixture of fitting new glass into new construction and repairs and replacements.
“I am seeing a shift back to tradition,” she says about churches moving from modernistic abstraction to figures. “With this one project we’re doing in Florida, we’re removing glass made in the ’80s. We’re replacing it with ‘Renner’” — referring to the company’s late Munch-trained designer, Jacob Renner, who was also a designer for Von Gerichten in Ohio. Renner’s works can be found in numerous churches around the nation (including the church my family attended).
While her five-member team needs to find ways to adjust the modern the ebb and flow of the economy and state and federal regulations, such as the EPA regulations that have caused some glass companies to close or to move, they basically adhere to a practice that began in the Middle Ages.
One concern is new stainedglass artists. Hiemer says that many art schools see stained glass making as a craft and won’t incorporate it into their curriculum.
However, when you ask Hiemer how she knows one of her designer’s work, she says, “A lot of it is in the general principles of art: balance and color.
“With us there also are some things that you have to be aware of in construction. And how colors work together. There are certain things that just don’t work. There are little nuances in the materials we use. You have to understand the medium.”
After all, she says she’s “painting with light.”
The long workshop studio with a store front situated in a row of similar buildings does little to announce to any passersby that it is a place of both beauty and history.
The beauty is that of the glass that imbues colors in buildings around the nation.
As for history, owner David Bleckman says that it is the oldest continuously operating stained
glass company in the United States, owned by two multi-generational families.
It is so historic that its archives are in the Library of Congress.
It’s a quiet late afternoon and Bleckman gives a tour of his facilities — basically a few long, thin rooms with workspaces and storage areas.
His small staff are busy at tables cleaning or renovating period glass found in some of the wealthier areas of New Jersey.
Bleckman provides a brief overview of the enterprise. English brothers Joseph and Richard Lamb found the company in 1857.
It remained a family operation until 1970, when no family heir wanted to continue the company, and one of the company artists/ craftsmen, Donald Samick, purchased the company.
He led it until 2021, when his wife, Donna Bleckman Samick, died. Her son, and Samick’s stepson, David Bleckman, already in a successful finance-related career, decided to purchase the company with his wife, Kathryn.
The company operated out of New York City until it moved to Tenafly, New Jersey, in 1934, and had moved several more times between New Jersey and New York until it returned to New Jersey in the late 1990s. It has been at its current Midland Park location since 2012.
While its archives have been in the Congressional Library since 2003, Bleckman has an old file that has some information.
Since my previous research communication with the Lamb Studios had noted that the company had created some of the glass for St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Trenton, I was interested in finding out if Bleckman could provide the name of the artist.
When I gave him a general idea of when the glass had been made, he didn’t hesitate and mentioned
artist Ella Condie Lamb.
An accomplished artist who had gained a reputation on her own, Condie Lamb had become the studio’s art director sometime after her marriage to company’s heir, Charles Rollinson Lamb, in 1888. She remained was active with the studio until her death in 1936.
Condie Lamb was born in New York in 1862. Her already demonstrated ability in art was strengthened through her studies at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York, and Europe. Important New York artist and teacher William Merritt Chase was one of her champions.
In the early 20th century book, “Women of Art,” writer Geneva Armstrong assesses Condie Lamb as “a rapid thinker and producer in her art, which has been along the line of mural decoration and designs for church windows, et cetera, in which she has been very successful. The secret of such work is not different from other successful work — it is preparation, a thorough training. It was the method of the early masters. Nearly all the youths who were art-struck in the Renaissance period began as apprentices ‘bound out,’ as they expressed it, for a term of years, till the actual workmanship and knowledge of the scriptures had been acquired. We were reminded of the power and plentitude of such preparation when Mrs. Lamb said that she had eight years of constant study, for she feels that the vital point for a woman, no less than for a man, is a thorough training for her trade.”
Armstrong says Condie Lamb “is a member of the Society of Mural Painters; of the Washington Art Club; of the National Arts Club; she was awarded the Dodge Prize, 1889, at the National Academy of Design, New York; honorable mention at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; at the Atlanta Exposition, 1895; and at the Pan-Ameri-
can Exposition in 1901. To the above citations should be added numerous portraits from her studio, and a large number of murals and interesting windows here and there throughout the states.”
Her influence is such that important 20th century stained glass designer Charles J. Connick has a note in his book, “Adventures in Color and Light,” that he had admired Condie Lamb’s work and applied to work for the company (but was not accepted for some unclear reason).
Interestingly, after Condie Lamb died, another woman became one of the company’s main designers, her daughter, Katherine Lamb Tait.
As noted in a report prepared by the Corning Museum of Glass, Tait, born 1895, had “commented that ‘being brought up in that atmosphere, I wanted to be an artist, of course, because my mother was a painter.’ She would also realize that her father’s knowledge and designs had a strong influence on her as an artist, making him the ‘best teacher.’ After graduating from the Friends Seminary in New York City, Tait continued her education at the Art Students League of New York. She also studied design at Columbia University, the National Academy of Design, Cooper Union, and abroad in France and England, and taught design for multiple years.
“Tait’s first commercial work as an artist was in the advertising department of the Fleishman (Bread) Company in New York. After a few years, Tait grew tired of drawing ‘children eating bread.’ Katharine left the company and traveled to France, where she fell in love with the stained-glass windows she saw. In 1921, Tait joined her family’s company as a designer for glass windows and mosaics. Her early work for the Studio reflected the influence of the Gothic architecture she saw in France, as well as the work of William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and the art nouveau movement.”
Although Katharine Lamb married businessman Trevor S. Tait in 1925 and started a family that included four children, she continued to design at home for the Lamb Studio and returned to more regular work in 1937.
Recognizing Tait’s accomplishments as Lamb’s head designer for more than two decades, writers for the Corning Museum say her “windows are located all around the United States, from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City to 24 windows at The All Saints Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In her lifetime, Katharine completed over 1,000 commissions.”
The Corning report also spotlights a difficult time for American women when it focuses on “a moment that stands out in the company’s history, when Tait’s work won them a prestigious commission from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
“However, the studio felt the need to hide the fact that a woman designed their windows. Katharine’s brother Karl said, ‘You’re the only one that can do it, and I won’t tell them that you’re a girl or a woman.’ She was proud that her sketches won them the commission, and even commented that the pieces had to ‘have two signatures on it by some high mucky-muck in the Marine Corps.’ The muckymuck, General R. H. Barrow, praised her work in multiple letters
found in the Library’s collection, calling the work ‘beautiful,’ ‘meaningful,’ and an ‘inspiration for generations.’ The work took her two years to complete, including the initial designs and the full-scale cartoons.”
She was the last member of the Lamb family to work at the company and remained head designer until 1979. She died in Cresskill, New Jersey, in 1981.
Situated in an industrial strip in Jersey City, Rambusch Studio calls itself “the sole survivor of the many Manhattan arts and crafts firms producing stained glass in the early 1900s.”
Also continuously operated by a family, it was incorporated in 1898 by Danish painter/decorator Frode Christian Valdimar Rambusch.
Born 1859, he was the son of a Lutheran minister in Jutland. He trained at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, apprenticed with a master designer, drafted for noted Danish architect C.V. Nielsen, and then worked as a journeyman.
When he got engaged to a friend’s sister in 1888, he allegedly flipped a coin to see where he would go to build a career: Imperial Russia or the U.S.A.
He came to New York City, found work with the Arnold and Locke Company in Brooklyn, and then worked for other companies creating interiors for such projects as the Cincinnati German Opera Company and St. Michael’s Monastery in Jersey City.
He began his own company and won a commission for St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn where Frode met — and began a working relationship with — Monsignor John Farley, later Cardinal Farley.
Soon, the elder Rambusch was working on projects in New York City, Rochester, Buffalo, Erie, Philadelphia, Washington, as well as Florida and the Midwest.
Traditional building Magazine says that the elder Rambusch’s “style of decorating was drawn from his adaptation of the Book of Kells scrolls adding later Viking elements and employing devices developed during the ‘Art Nouveau’ period. He was influenced by Byzantine Church Art (and) each project was uniquely designed according to the architecture of that particular church.”
Company documents report that between 1908 and 1918, Ram-
busch broadened its spectrum of services to include art metal and lighting fixtures, the latter in direct response to the introduction of electric illumination. And by the 1930s, the company had established its own stained glass studio.
Frode’s two sons followed him into the firm, both working as apprentice painter-decorators in the summer. One, Viggo, received a master’s in art and architecture after his military service in Europe and worked as a painter-decorator in Copenhagen and London. Viggo’s twin sons — Edwin and Martin — fourth generation, received their masters respectively from Parsons School of Design in Illumination and from Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. They now own and run the 124-year-old firm.
Major clients include film and vaudeville houses, Waldorf Astoria, lighting for the Empire State Building, and numerous churches in the New York City region.
The company had moved from downtown, to the Bronx, and then to Jersey City.
A Bloomberg company profile says Rambusch offers “LED lighting, engineered and custom lighting, liturgical design, stained glass, furnishings, and art work.”
During my recent visit, co-owner Martin Rambusch leads a tour of the company’s storage, work, and studio areas partitioned in a large, industrial space where warehouse vehicles are used to move materials from the various divisions.
Since my focus is on stained glass, we linger in the studio area where design spaces are located near the center of the room and glass storage frames surround them.
Martin lingers over a design they’re repairing for a church in North Arlington, New Jersey, and explains the images that include one of George Washington.
As we chat, he touches on the same points shared by the previously mentioned Traditional Building: “The painter-decorator skills and traditions died out under the pressure of the ‘modernist’ style in the 1960s and ’70s when ‘decoration’ was painted out-white. The skills of marbleizing, graining, gilding, glazing, stenciling, etc., were not appreciated. Today they again are practiced by scenic artists who work in the theatre and by restoration specialists.”
Rambusch also finds new stained-glass artists via a network, as in the case of Nikki Vogt, the fe-
male artist who created the glass for St. Gregory the Great in Hamilton.
As reported in the March, 2022, U.S. 1 article “Creating ‘The Creation’: Stained-glass art at St. Gregory the Great,” Vogt was a Virginia-based graphic art major whose aptitude for drawing was recognized by a representative of a nearby stained-glass company.
After she was hired, she was began fine turning her skills with expert training, including enrolling in the Atrium School of Stained Glass in New Hampshire. The program was founded and run by the late respected stained-glass artist and instructor Dick Mallard.
Martin Rambusch knew Mallard and called to ask if he could recommend someone to replace an artist. Mallard had become impressed by Vogt’s talents and mentioned her. Rambusch hired her and moved her and her husband to New York City, where she took on several jobs. That includes the walllength abstract depiction of “The Creation” at St. Gregory the Great.
Vogt became anxious after September 11 and moved back to Maryland, where she had to give up her work because of a neurological problem.
While women come and go at Rambusch, including an Irish stained-glass artist who declined to be interviewed, two other women have an interesting Rambusch connection.
The first is the current owner’s mother, Catha Grace Rambusch, an architectural historian who maintains the company’s collections, was the director of the Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States, and whose collection of papers on architecture is part of the Smithsonian Institute’s collection.
The other was an independent artist who used the company’s artistry to help her own, noted Art Deco artist Hildreth Meière (18921961). Born and based in New York City — with extensive training there and in Europe — Meière designed approximately 100 secular and religious commissions, including designs for Radio City Music Hall, One Wall Street, Emanu-El, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
According to the Hildreth Meière Association, the artist had a long-standing relationship with Rambusch. That was especially true with company designer William “Bud” Haley, who helped her select the glass for one of her most significant stained-glass works, the set of three windows at St. Bartholomew’s Church.
And finally, while no longer in existence, there is one 20th century stained-glass company that was co-founded by a female artist in New Jersey.
Irene LeCompte — nee Veronica Irene Matz — was born in New Jersey in 1926 and raised in Matawan.
The daughter of an electrician father graduated from Cooper Union in New York City in 1948 with a degree in architecture and worked as an architectural draftsman for the Perth Amboy firm of M. Murray Leibowitz, an Ecole des Beaux Arts trained architect and watercolorist.
Her World War II veteran brother introduced her to his combat friend, Rowan LeCompte, a serious stained glass artist who put his career on hold for wartime service.
The two were attracted to each other, married in 1950, and opened their first studio in 1951 in Matawan.
Between then and Irene’s death in 1971, they jointly created more than 120 windows.
A recent bio on Rowan LeCompte notes that “right from the beginning Rowan and Irene were juggling multiple commissions, including the College of Preachers and St. John’s Episcopal Church in Cohoes, New York.”
Their approach to create fresh images with bright glass and bold colors attracted attention, and the couple and their “modern” work appeared in Life magazine.
In the mid-1960s the couple was commissioned by Princeton University to create the glass for a poets section of the chapel. While their design features major European writers, such as Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton, the couple brings the canon into modern times with two interesting inclusions.
One is the image of the American-born author of the groundbreaking modern poem “The Waste Land,” T.S. Eliot.
Yet it is the other that is perhaps more significant. It is the stained glass portrait of female American poet Emily Dickinson, created by New Jersey born, American stained-glass artist Irena Matz LeCompte.
In its own way, it commemorates New Jersey women making stained glass right before our eyes.
Princeton Makes, a regional artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a regional publisher focused on poetry, will host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, April 9, at 4 p.m.
The free readings will take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center and feature poetry by Rhinold Ponder and Ellen Foos.
Rhinold Ponder, an artist, writer, lawyeractivist, resides in Princeton. His journey as a poet began in 7th grade in the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), a leader in the Black Arts Movement, in Chicago. Under the tutelage of Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson, he won a poetry competition judged by Gwendolyn Brooks. While at Princeton University, he studied under U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz and Caribbean writer John Hearne at the University of West Indies. For his first significant reading of his poetry in three decades, he will share work from his unpublished, recent manuscript “Inheritance of the Dispossessed.”
Ellen Foos is the founder and publisher of Ragged Sky Press and was the recipient of a fellowship to MacDowell and the Vermont Studio Center. Her first collection of poems, “Little Knitted Sister,” was published in 2006 and her poetry has appeared in U.S.1 Worksheets, Contemporary American Voices, Edison Literary Review, and the Curator. Her most recent collection, “The Remaining Ingredients,” won honorable mention in the 2015 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Contest.
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Oge Mora: Illustrations Anne Reid ‘72 Gallery, Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road, Princeton. www.pds.org. Opening reception for an exhibition of collage and mixed media work on paper from books such as “The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read,” “Saturday,” “Thank You, Omu!,” “Everybody in the Red Brick Building,” and “Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World.” On view through April 21. 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Tuesday Night Folk Dance, Princeton Folk Dance, Christ Congregation, 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton. www.princetonfolkdance.org. No partner necessary. $5. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Blood Drive, The College of New Jersey, Brower Student Center, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, 800-933-2566. www.nybloodcenter.org. Register. Photo ID required. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Meeting Princeton Recorder Society, Kingston Presbyterian Church, 4565 Route 27, Kingston. Players of all levels are welcome. Vaccination required. Attendance via Zoom possible. Contact Jere at jtanne1200@gmail.com for more information. 7:15 p.m.
FYI Seminar, Princeton Senior Resource Center, 101 Poor Farm Road, Princeton. www. princetonsenior.org. Auto insurance is more complicated than one would think. Full coverage does not always mean adequate coverage. Join this presentation to learn about the different types of New Jersey auto insurance and
Wish it was easy to laugh you away.
Just close my eyes and laugh so hard As to shake the blue out of the sky
And hope you’ve disappeared Like the end of a bad dream. Laugh like you did
When I saw you with Miss “pushed-out-every-whicha-thingall-which-a-ways.”
Your mouth was open so wide a touch could have moved in and multiplied like your echoes of laughter in the dunce corner of my mind. Wish I could just laugh you away
Like a sour joke turned bad and turning worst, but I’d laugh so hard to keep from crying
I’d probably start to dying From all the hurt
— Rhinold Pondercoverage suggestions that offer the best protection. Hybrid event. Register. 3 p.m.
Cécile McLorin Salvant, Vocals & Sullivan Fortner, Piano, Princeton University Concerts, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. concerts.princeton. edu. Performances Up Close concert featuring a new commission inspired by Toni Morrison archives. $40. $50 includes LGBTQ+ Single Mingle in Maclean House preceding 9 p.m. concert.
6 and 9 p.m.
Discussion & Concert: Dvorák’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton. music.princeton.edu. Program features Joseph Horowitz, concert producer, cultural historian, and author of “Dvorák’s Prophecy”; John McWhorter, associate professor of linguistics, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University; Sidney Outlaw, baritone singer; professor of voice, Manhattan School of Music and voice faculty, Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival; and moderated by Allen C. Guelzo, research scholar and director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship. Free.
7 p.m.
Sound Journey Office of Religious Life, Princeton University
Chapel. chapel.princeton.edu.
Ruth Cunningham, founding member of the vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 and a sound healing practitioner, premieres a virtual performance of music for meditation and introspection. Free. 5 p.m.
Cabaret Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA. www.brtstage.org. When American writer Cliff Bradshaw
I am grieving about your leaving us to cope with artificial intelligence and the easily brainwashed, like those who believe in godlike beings. Nobody is listening to reason, only to memes and posts, emojis with smiles upside down. Dear god it is a lot to put up with.
— Ellen FoosThe Princeton-based Ragged Sky is a small, cooperative press. That has historically focused on mature voices, overlooked poets, and women’s perspectives.
Princeton Makes, a cooperative comprised of 34 multi-disciplined artists, is located in the Princeton Shopping Center, next to Metropolis Hair Salon.
The reading takes place Sunday, April 9, at 4 p.m. An open mic available to up to 10 audience members interested in reading their original poetry will follow.
For more information on Ragged Sky Press, visit raggedsky.com. For more information on Princeton Makes events, go to www.princetonmakes.com.
arrives at the Kit Kat Klub in 1931 Berlin looking for inspiration, he falls for its star performer, Sally Bowles. However, their decadent lifestyle is soon threatened by the Nazis’ impending rise to power. $50 to $63. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Contra Dance Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Lesson followed by dance. $15. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Blood Drive, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 800-933-2566. www.nybloodcenter.org. Register. Photo ID required. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans connect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can, $8 and up. 8 to 9 a.m.
Preparing Students with Disabilities for a Successful Transition to College, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.princetonlibrary. org. Learning disabilities specialist and author Elizabeth Hamblet discusses preparing students for a successful college transition. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
An Evening with Richard K. Rein, Old City Hall Cultural Vision Committee, Old City Hall, 13 Crosswicks Street, Bordentown. www.facebook.com/OldCityHallRestoration. Presentation by Princeton-based journalist Richard K. Rein, author of the critically acclaimed “American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life.” Free. 6 p.m.
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Families are invited to Terhune Orchards on Saturday and Sunday, April 8 and 9, for a bunnythemed treasure hunt and other rabbit-related spring activities.
Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.princetonlibrary.org. Professional organizers Marie Limpert and Annmarie Brogan discuss techniques for managing everyday paperwork with ease and offer organizing solutions to common challenges. A Q&A follows. Via Zoom. Register. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Alternative Paths to College with Blake Boles, Princeton Learning Cooperative, 609-851-2522. www.princetonlearningcooperative.org. Self-directed learners face two interesting questions at the same time: How to prepare for college admissions as a non-traditional applicant, and whether
higher education is even necessary. Blake Boles is the author of “College Without High School,” “Better Than College,” and “Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?” He shares stories, principles, and research related to these tricky questions, followed by an open Q&A. Via Zoom. Register. 7 to 8 p.m.
A Day with the Dutch Princeton Senior Resource Center, 101 Poor Farm Road, Princeton. www. princetonsenior.org. Live tour featuring the tulips in the Keukenhof Gardens just south of Amsterdam followed by a screening of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring.” Register. 12:30 p.m.
The older a person’s ties to the Trenton area, the greater the chance that they know of Allfather’s Candy Company.
Allfather’s is the source of that all-time great Easter treat, the Allfather’s Original Coconut Cream Yolk Center Egg.
For those not fortunate enough to be familiar, picture a Cadbury Creme Egg that weighs one pound, with coconut cream in place of the mere sugary goo that Cadbury offers. And at the center, in one of the confectionery industry’s most closely guarded secrets, that yellow faux yolk center.
Larissa Cooney knows a thing or two about Allfather’s eggs. Her father, Ed DiNatale, has been one of the owners of the company since 1989. Since 2021, it’s been Cooney who has held the reins. And she is ready to lead Allfather’s toward its 150-year anniversary and beyond.
Which is not to say that taking over the family business is something that Cooney had ever really planned on. But now in her second Easter as chief executive, she is becoming more and more comfortable in the role.
Allfather’s is a seasonal business, focused on Easter. The Coconut Cream Yellow Yolk Egg is the flagship product, but Allfather’s makes a variety of candy items, including peanut butter eggs, vanilla cream eggs, chocolate bunnies, chocolate crosses and more.
by Joe Emanski
Originating in Trenton sometime in the 19th century — believed to be the 1880’s — Allfather’s has a history old enough to be shrouded in mist. Not even the owners of the company have a total grasp on how, why or when the company began, or, for that matter, how it came up with its signature product, the Allfather’s Original Coconut Cream Yolk Center Eggs.
What is known is that was founded by William Allfather on North Warren Street in Trenton, and that the business stayed in the family until 1958, when his son Eugene Allfather, Jr., sold the candy business to a John Milutus.
Milutus operated it for 32 years before selling it to Ed DiNatale, Jim Bartolomei (Larissa’s uncle) and Virgil Brillantini (Jim’s father-in-law) in 1989. For many years, they also owned and operated Tracy’s 5 & 10 on Hamilton Avenue in Trenton.
Allfather’s eggs are a truly local phenomenon, distributed almost exclusively in Mercer and Bucks counties. That is changing somewhat now that the company has an online presence and is able to ship orders nationwide and even overseas.
Larissa recalls being young and seeing her father or her uncle in stories about Allfather’s. “I felt a little starstruck seeing my dad in the paper. I would bring it to my teachers in school and say, ‘This is some-
thing my family’s a part of.’ When you’re young, you don’t really know how big it is,” she says.
After Ed retired from full-time work as a sheriff’s officer, he took over some of the work for Allfather’s that was once staffed out. His wife, Dina — Larissa’s mother — also handled a number of responsibilities.
Dina died in 2020 at the age of just 53, and the next year, Ed pitched his partners on the idea of buying them out. Larissa didn’t know it yet, but her father’s plan was to install her as the company’s new CEO.
Larissa, who has a master’s degree in social work and still works full time as a therapist, says her dad had never hinted at his plans before he shared them with her and her fiancé at the time, Andrew Cooney. Both attended Steinert High School, though they did not know one another then.
“My mom was such a large part of the business, and when she passed away, it was a lot to deal with. It was definitely a surprise when he told me and my now husband what he was thinking,” she says. “My business experience wasn’t great. I did a lot when I was growing up — I used to embarrass my dad, I was always selling lemonade or my terrible artwork on the front lawn, I was involved in DECA, took businesses classes and stuff, but nothing that really prepared me for this.”
But with Ed on hand to show her the ropes, she dived in during the 2021 Easter season. The candy is made at an unspecified area factory — many reporters over the years have tried and failed to find out where — using specialized machinery capable of producing the yellow yolk centers of the original eggs. Around October of each year, it is now Larissa’s job to get things started by contacting the factory, setting prices, projecting quantities and sales figures for the coming season and contact retailers about carrying the products for another year.
Larissa, 27, says 2022 was when she, with Andrew’s help, truly took over the role of leader of the company. And despite a busy schedule — they were set to be married in the fall, and Larissa was also in the midst of opening her own therapy practice, Sunflower Soul Healing LLC — they were able to pull it off. They were married in October.
This year, with Larissa settled in her new practice and Andrew, a union carpenter, transitioning to a project management role, they are getting a better and better handle on things. Andrew serves as the chief financial officer, and Ed is content with more of a support role, called
upon when needed.
As Easter approaches (April 9 this year), Larissa and Andrew are stocking shelves in their various area retail locations (a map of locations is available on the website). Though much of the Allfather’s product line has been around for ages, they are looking to add new products here and there, like the new milk chocolate bunnies filled with caramel.
“People have been wanting caramel, people have wanted more dark chocolate, and we are looking at ways to incorporate that,” Larissa says. “We are trying to listen to what they want. People recommend things all the time and we can’t have everything, but we’ll be adding at least something every year even if its just for that year.”
She says they are planning to take a vacation right after Easter, a prospect that has been made easier by the transitions they have made in their full-time roles. “I know I’m going to need a break,” she says.
To follow Allfather’s, make online purchases, or get updates on where eggs can be found in stores, visit the company’s website or Facebook page.
www.allfathers-candy.com
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These seasonal fluctuations, according to Gulbis, are part of why a “random” April snowstorm can occur after a hotter summer and relatively “mild” winter. The Skylands president has witnessed vast changes in both the climate and what can successfully grow here — variables that were not present when she first moved to the state nearly two decades ago.
It is also worth it to be mindful of what the designers’ statements describe as “anthropogenic influences,” or “the age of density of development in an area” due to cycles of disturbance resulting from paving roads or storing building materials, which can increase the temperature in what is known as the “urban heat island effect.”
As explained in the “methodology” section of the single-family home template, following the designer’s site inventory and gathering of data, the objective was to restore ecological function and natural beauty, as well as empower residents to take advantage of the out-
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Visit local nurseries and sustainable suppliers, and keep a list of botanical names on hand when shopping or placing online orders. Wild Ones suggests purchasing native plants from Bountiful Gardens’ brick-and-mortar locations in Ewing, Lawrenceville, and Hillsborough, as well as Rare Find Nursery in Jackson, a mail-order retail plant nursery that operates by appointment only.
The first priority is to manage the invasive plants and restore the woodlands, as the edge of the latter is what Snell deems the most “critical piece from the point of view of the homeowner” of a single-family property. In the designated woodland transition zone of the layout, she recommended planting flowering dogwood, fringetree, and other “large scale shrubs” like bottlebrush buckeye or Virginia sweetspire, which “hold the space really well.”
For the single-family property, Wild Ones advised reducing parts of the lawn to form a wide riparian buffer along the sides of a stream or the edge of a pond, then stabilizing that border by repopulating it with
shrubs and herbaceous plants of differing heights. Snell said that what defines these houses in the “rolling hills” are having two sides of road frontage with a densely wooded upper east area that may be fragmented. The understory here is prone to damage from grazing deer, who gravitate to oak trees and can be kept out via a specialized fence or by adding species that tend to be more “resistant.”
The ideal space for the singlefamily property should have focal points and access to water features, Snell added, with the south side typically flanking what she described as a small stream lacking a definitive edge or vegetation, which has made the excessively mowed area lack stability and be more susceptible to erosion or drainage issues. Reinforcing these
Examples of native plants include the blue flag iris, left, bottlebrush buckeye, and swamp milkweed. Photos by Wikimedia Commons, Magnus Manske, and Ryan Hodnett.
slopes with native plants can slow down the water to abate that.
These can include what Snell calls a pattern of “beautiful blooms” featuring swamp milkweed, fox sedge, different iris (crested and blue flag), soft rush, and ironweed. For a ranking and breakdown of what plants would fare well in this area, visit the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station’s “Landscape Plants Rated by Deer Resistance” at njaes.rutgers.edu/deer-resistantplants.
By alternating areas of higher
and lower vegetation, as well as creating “access points” to the water via stepping stones, a gardener can help mitigate flooding, restore the streambank and develop “a habitat zone of ground layer herbaceous and woody [plants] where there was none,” Snell explained. Trees, especially ones in the canopy, provide structure, with the last point in the designer’s statement adding that once the spaces for sitting or other activities are placed, homeowners can use an organic site preparation method like solarization to eliminate the unde-
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sirable parts of the lawn that remain.
What the multi-family template loses in the townhouse style’s “postage-stamp front area,” it gains with a considerably bigger backyard, which can also be joined by a side yard and additional parking off the street. This front area would be drier and receive more sunlight juxtaposed against the backyard’s cooler, shadier temperatures, with the latter able to contain personalized zones for activities such as entertaining and growing a vegetable garden.
Both groundcover and mulching should be prioritized, but the easiest first step in this template, according to the phasing guide, is installing rain barrels to capture water and runoff from the roof downspouts.
The designer’s statement advocates for “lasagne gardening,” also known as sheet mulching, or smothering the grass with newspaper or cardboard and 4” to 5” of wood chips at least two months before planting to remove unwanted lawn. Hanes explained that this is an option for a less physical, but more time-oriented process.
When the season starts, any plants with exposed soil that have yet to mature should be covered with green mulch, what Hanes termed “a living plant,” which reduces the need for water and weeding even more than bark mulch or shredded leaves.
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Young 70 looks and feels 10 years younger. I am a professional male in good shape with a good sense of humor. I am seeking a similar female to do things with. I am interested in many activities including playing and watching sports, museums, plays and dancing. Please send phone, email and photo. Box 240933
sible,” since its prevalence cuts into what is already a scarce outdoor space offering little biodiversity outside of turf grass and invasive species. Hanes suggested using wood chips or mulch when laying out pathways or seating areas until another, more permanent solution can be installed. She also emphasized the value of putting doorway trellises in place to offer shade and be an “easily plantable, fast-growing upgrade.”
In Hanes’s Wild Ones presentation, she said to water plants regularly until established, a period of time which will take roughly one to two years for herbaceous perennials and two to three years for woody plants — but to resume, then increase the amount, in drought conditions.
Lacking a green thumb or the gusto to get your hands dirty? No need to worry; Hanes offered her own experience as an option, explaining that she plants native species in containers and shares that there might be local opportunities for verge planting, a style of community gardening for growing more biodiverse greenery in the “verge,” or boulevard, of a street.
Another example from Gulbis is that she does not have a stream on her property, but was inspired to put a hedgerow in because of the plans. She also expressed her appreciation for the table of alternative plants and being able to “stack” plants in layers, noting she was able to complete work in her single-family home in a phased ap-
Man seeking woman- I am an early 60s separated professional male, good shape and looks seeking a similar female to go out with. Good sense of humor, honest, caring, and active. I like to go out and seek someone to do things with. Interested in many activities including sports, music, dining, and dancing. Send phone, email, and photo. Box #240902
Man seeking woman. Hello. So nice to talk to someone who still reads physical print. Yes those words that have continuity like musical notes that can resonate and hang beautifully in the air, reminds me of nice classical and acoustic concerts I’ve enjoyed which have been less plentiful lately, when we really need more of them, yes? Well there are some great people out there thankfully, if you can find them. You see how birds just fly up to each other and play, without all the analysis... Maybe they are wiser than some of us in that they see the value in everything and fully take advantage of it, and are more enlivened from it. Have you ever seen an unhappy bird? Yes, and of course they also sing! And though some places still close at 6pm, perhaps they should do the opposite. It would be nice to walk and go out somewhere and maybe have some fun, right? Oh well, we have to be the adventurers. I saw a poem called “Respect” but too much to get into here. I do hope you have been surviving these beautiful days creatively. How are you? Box #240899.
75, petite, young, white Caucasian woman I am widowed, don’t smoke, only drink socially. Looking for a companion 67 - 77 under 5’ 10”. You must be white, fit and a non-smoker and like to drink socially only. I have two grown daughters and 2 adorable grandsons. My friends can tell you that I am very caring, loving, and honest. I am very passionate about staying healthy and going to the gym more. I have had my “boosters,” flu and shingles shots too. I like dining out with friends, going to the beach, taking a drive to see my grandsons, sports, minigolf, movies and so much more. A healthy relationship is having communication, friendship and honesty. If you’d like to explore this further please respond to my box number. Box #240820
BOYFRIEND POSITION OPEN. YOU WILL BE HAPPY YOU APPLIED FOR THIS POSITION!! Though the only pay is the company of a beautiful, fun, sweet, mature woman. Am ISO attractive clean cut male n/s 45 to 65 years young. 5’9 to 6’1 180 to 200lbs. 4 dating possibly an ltr. I love photography, comedy shows, cooking, walks, swimming pools, movies, much more. Send recent photo, email, and phone information. Box 240905
I am 68 DWF, Christian, European, and live in Monroe. I am a professional, still work part-time, healthy and very active. I like to golf, travel, family life, and good friends. I enjoy intelligent conversations and Fox news. Sense of humor a plus. Send a photo/phone. Looking for a friendship and a man to do things with. Box #240856.
I am 72 wwf, Christian and live in Monroe. I was a social worker, healthy and active. I like to travel, play card games, dance and good friends. Sense of humor a plus. Send a phone number or email. Looking for a man to do things with. Box #240898.
Young attractive, exceptionally cheerful, slim, DACA woman (age 25) seeks responsible, kind, non-smoking, non-drinking, drug free man (25-32) for friendship and possible marriage. I have one year of college remaining and plan to enter social work. I love children and am a Fundamentalist Christian. I prefer non-Hispanic men. Box #240891.
Millionaire in Toms River looking for heirs in his estate! Well to be honest an average social security man looking for new friends to enjoy the golden years before they tarnish. Like myself I hope to find someone with values, sensitive and creative like myself. I lost my partner after twenty years and since i am not a bar person or a computer expert I hope to find someone special by putting this ad in US1. I’m Italian six foot 185lbs and in excellent health. I will answer all written replies - no text. Box #240895
75 is the new 60!, Looking for female friends who feel the same way. I’ve been boosted so many times I should
own stock in the vaccine companies. I am a DWM who loves exercise like riding a spin bike in my apartment, going for long walks, and having fun playing pickleball. I also like to play Quiddler for mental stimulation. I do Transcendental Mediatation twice a day which has positively impacted me in so many ways. I live in Robbinsville, which is not very far from you. If this resonates with you, drop me a line so we can have fun together. Box 240859
Seeking Friends. Man in my 70’s and have lost some good friends past few year. Don’t want to become accustomed to feeling lonely. I’m interested in books, movies, theater, art, science, current events, jaunts, stimulating and supportive conversaton. Either gender is fine. Box 240912
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Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www. psgofmercercounty.org. PSG Executive Chair David Schuchman presents on the legal reasons employers may exclude some job applicants and ways job seekers can overcome them. 9:45 a.m. to noon.
Tuesday April 11
proach.
Even if the Princeton plans do not apply to your property, take away elements rather than the entirety, as anyone who has ever dreamed of relaxing or socializing in the domestic haven of a garden can apply some of this knowledge to their own backyards.
Supporting an ecoregion’s environment benefits the health and happiness of all its inhabitants. Wild Ones’ message is simple: “All gardening is experimentation and a handshake with the natural world where there are no guarantees,” which speaks to the fact that a better tomorrow can bloom for every person, plant, and part of life.
Wednesday April
Networking, BNI Falcons, East Windsor, 877-264-0500. www. bninjpa.org. Meeting takes place online. Call the BNI Office or the chapter president to attend. 7 to
8:30 a.m.
Thursday April 6
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Friday April 7
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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 9 p.m.
Wednesday April 12
Networking, BNI Falcons, East Windsor, 877-264-0500. www. bninjpa.org. Meeting takes place online. Call the BNI Office or the chapter president to attend. 7 to 8:30 a.m.
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