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pointing, and rumor mongering will not. There is no magic bullet, and the Bad Thing is not going anywhere soon.
The Dangers of Denial
In these circumstances, it is easy to understand why many business, religious, and government officials at first sought to downplay the threat and in some cases, to proclaim it a hoax. Much of this denial and disinformation comes from the president himself. While other countries have, for the most part, obeyed the quarantine regulations, the U.S. is faced with religious and political extremists who insist on holding services, picketing goverby Anne Sweeney nors, and marching into the KenI saved the world today. Every- tucky State House unmasked and body’s happy now, the bad thing’s carrying automatic weapons. This inability to process information, regone away. — The Eurythmics spect proven science, consider the lives of others, or to obey the law t’s called crisis management has resulted in the spread of the viand damage control — not make rus. the bad thing go away. From major While most would deplore these corporations with high-powered actions, they show how fear and communications staffs to the bou- frustration can lead to denial, antique or restauger, and bad perrant on the corsonal and businer, businesses We all can benefit ness decisions are struggling to that have farfrom taking a hard deal with the catreaching and look at the situation aclysmic effects even fatal conof COVID-19. and making plans for sequences. GivThis global dien that the panmoving forward with saster, made prodemic and its efan effective crisis foundly more fects will condangerous by a management plan. tinue for the lack of preparedforeseeable funess, misinforture, we all can mation, coverups, lies and politici- benefit from taking a hard look at zation, has transformed our lives, the situation and making plans for personally and professionally. Its moving forward with an effective threat will continue for months to crisis management plan. come. In New Jersey businesses of evThe businesses and organiza- ery type and size have responded to tions who can face the realities of the crisis admirably, communicatthis crisis and deal with it effective- ing effectively with their employly are the ones that will survive. ees and customers and making herThose that fall into denial, finger-
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culean efforts to support the community and front line workers. Restaurants, grocery stores, medical and dental offices, teachers, and many more have all stepped up to the plate. Companies and organizations forced to shut down or work remotely have come up with innovative ways of providing information on subjects from filing taxes and growing vegetables to teaching kids how to cook. Gyms and yoga studios offer videos, meditation guides, and wellness tips. Churches have streamed services and shared spiritual advice. However, a review of various websites and social media pages in the Princeton area showed that some smaller businesses showed no mention of the crisis much less any suggestions as to how their clients and customers might be affected. These included smaller law firms, financial services companies, retail stores, foundations, and charities.
Making a Crisis Plan
Whether your business has kept up a high level of communication, managed some outreach, or has done nothing at all, there is still time to create a basic crisis plan that will serve your business and stakeholders well in the coming days. A strategic plan can maximize the good will your company’s communications and community support have generated. It’s also wise to be prepared for what’s to come as recovery moves forward. The unusual thing about COVID-19 is that it is an ongoing crisis that impacts virtually every business in similar and different ways. A highly complex situation, the virus has raised more questions than solutions, and there are many variables impacting when and how it ends. Most crises and their aftermath,
such as a fire, plane crash, damaging weather, or school or workplace shooting, have a limited lifespan before media and public attention look elsewhere. Given how little is known about the virus, the tsunami of false information surrounding it, and the politicization of the issue, the need for crisis management will be long-term. We are fortunate to have an array of communications tools at our disposal — social media, e-mail, text messages, smart phones, websites, virtual conferencing, and quick access to the most credible sources on the pandemic in our area — thank you Governors Cuomo and Murphy! These can help business owners to quickly and correctly respond to problems and send a clear message. How we have managed so far and how we continue to manage this unprecedented situation will profoundly affect not only recovery but how we do business in the future. When restrictions are finally lifted, there will be a huge pentup demand to be filled — for dining out, entertainment, sports, travel, and social gatherings. Businesses that have maintained a brand presence with their customers and communities will be in a better position to take advantage of this recovery.
Crisis Management for Today and Beyond
These steps can help you create or refine an effective crisis plan that can be used now and as the COVID-19 virus continues to unfold. Develop a flexible plan, tailored to your business and designed to protect your brand. Define your audience and make sure you are reaching all important stakeholders. • Customers and Clients. You spent years developing your customer base. To retain those clients
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appropriate social media posts online and off, will increasingly be have given life to countless crises. a problem. Remember that even the Meet with whomever handles your most stable citizens can crack un• Public Officials. This includes social media page and set up some der quarantine. If you witness any local, state, and congressional repguidelines for the pandemic. Con- of this behavior or if you or your resentative and area police departsider what kinds of posts will ac- employees are targeted, contact the ments. Keep them apprised of your authorities and refer all press quecomplish the following: efforts and any need for assistance. ries to them. • Provide useful, current inforThis is also a good time to ask what A Learning Experience, a mation you and your staff can do to help Moral Responsibility. COVID-19 the community. And be sure you • Build and protect your brand has impacted the lives of virtually are on their e-mail lists for updates. • Maintain a positive attitude every person on the planet, leaving • Community Organizations. • Show empathy and concern for thousands dead or seriously ill. We This could include groups such as customers, employees, community cannot afford to wallow in denial, area chambers of commerce, merMonitor your social media pag- cling to outdated religious or politichants’ associations, professional es daily and respond quickly to cal doctrines, or embrace crackpot groups you belong to, and charities questions and complaints. If you theories and cures. We have a moryour company supports. have not established a social media al responsibility to manage this criChris Kuenne’s high Tell It True, Tell It Fast, Tell It presence, or have not updated your sis now and for the future. Because tech entrepreneurAll. This is the mantra of crisis social media pages, make amends the Bad Thing will not be banished management, and it applies to evship class can be completely for some time. by creating a page on one or more ery kind of situation from a natural This can be a learning experiviewed via Zoom on In times of crisis, of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, disaster to a response to a plane ence, a disrupter, a game changer in and LinkedIn. Post promptly and Monday, May 11. there is an undercrash or school shooting. If a situaconsistently. Nothing says “I don’t which we learn to manage disasters standable urge to do tion arises from the crisis such as care, do you?” more than an out- while coming together to fight this the death of an employee, crime, sinister pandemic. In the United or say something, dated social media page. fire, or accident, you must respond States the crisis has shaken our anything to solve the Loose Lips Sink Ships. In times quickly and candidly with all inforof crisis, there is an understandable faith in our institutions and leaderproblem. This can Wednesday, May 6, 9 to 10 mation available. Stonewalling urge to do or say something, any- ship and taken a lasting physical a.m. The New Jersey State Chammedia, law enforcement, and the and emotional toll. It has brought lead to statements thing to solve the problem. This ber of Commerce and the New Jerpublic will make the crisis infiniteand business decican lead to statements and business us together on many levels, but the sey Business and Industry Associaly worse. pandemic has also increased the decisions that are at best premature sions that are at best tion host a virtual town hall featurCreate Useful, Interesting and and at worst, create a crisis within polarization that has informed our ing State Assembly Speaker Craig premature and at Current Content. Americans the crisis. Do not speculate, pass on public debate for several years. That polarization has severely Coughlin. The attorney and Rahhave shown care and creativity in worst, create a crisis rumors, or make any political statedamaged the efforts to control the way Democrat will discuss issues their posts on the web and social ment as a company. Share statewithin the crisis. pandemic. Selfish, ill-informed facing New Jersey business, prime media. Our e-mail boxes are full of ments from the governor’s office people, often with a strong political among which is COVID-19. A advice on working, cooking, playand from your legislative represening, keeping fit, and staying sane at ployees without masks, even tatives. Steer clear of any com- or religious agenda, have put their Q&A session follows the meeting. home. Content can cover what your though a sign requiring them has ments on the nature or status of the fellow citizens in harm’s way. Ef- For more information and to register, visit www.njbia.org. company is doing to help in the been posted on the door. virus unless you are a scientist or fective crisis management will strive to mitigate the impact of Thursday, May 7, 10 a.m. At a community and can also put the Check Your Tech. The last medical professional. spotlight on what local charities thing you need in the midst of a criYou may agree or disagree with these actions and, one hopes, even- time when many nonprofits are struggling for support and are unneed, particularly food banks. If sis is a technical breakdown. Bring the state or federal governments’ tually change perceptions. How we respond to this unprec- able to hold their typical array of you don’t have time to add new in an expert to review your technol- policies, but this is not the time to content, post links to news articles ogy and ensure that all is operating take an extremist position on either edented crisis will determine the fundraising events, getting their from reputable media outlets that effectively and that your data is se- side of the many debates that have future of our enterprises, our gov- message out is more important than provide useful and/or entertaining cure. The pandemic has given rise arisen — even on your personal ernment, and our country. We can ever. To help, the United Way of information. Trade publications to a host of new scams, thefts, and page. If you suggest that people take responsibility for our personal Greater Mercer County is offering serving your particular industry are hacks, generating new crises. 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ing in the White House response to the pandemic. We tend to be so enmeshed in our own efforts to cope, it’s easy to forget how seriously others may be impacted. Show concern for your employees, clients, and the wider community. And show your appreciation every day to the people who are risking so much to help us through. Say thanks to our front line healthcare workers, supermarket clerks, mail carriers, and delivery persons. Obey the Law. If your store or service can remain open, be fair to your customers and strictly enforce the wearing of masks and social distancing. Shopping today is very stressful, and it is alarming to enter a store and see customers and em-
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VIRTUAL EVENTS, MAY 6 TO 13 EVent ListinGs: E-maiL events@princetoninfo.com All of the events listed below are taking place virtually. Visit venue websites for information about how to access the events. To include your virtual event in this section email events@princetoninfo. com.
Wednesday May 6 Author Talk, Labyrinth Books and Princeton Public Library. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Livestream with poet Mark Doty, who discusses his new book, “What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life.” Register. 6 p.m. Library Drawing Party, Mercer County Library System. www. facebook.com/mclsnj. Follow along for a librarian-led drawing lesson, then share your finished work. For all ages. Also Wednesday, May 13. 7 p.m. Voices of Princeton, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. Emily Mann, McCarter Theatre Center artistic director, and Mara Isaacs, a Tony Award-
winning producer, participate in a conversation to be recorded for the Voices of Princeton project. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Short Story Discussion, Mercer County Library System. www. facebook.com/mclsnj. Discuss O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.” 8 p.m.
discussion topic will be posted in advance on Facebook. 8 p.m. Virtual Drawing Class, Arts Council of Princeton. www. artscouncilofprinceton.org. Barbara DiLorenzo gives instruction on “Drawing Contemplation and Reflection” over Zoom. Join via artmuseum.princeton.edu. 8 to 9 p.m.
Thursday May 7 he Museum, Citizenship, and the Post-Coronavirus Age, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Museum director James Steward gives a talk and answers audience questions via Zoom. 5:30 p.m. Aircraft Maintenance, Princeton Airport. www.princetonairport. com. Airport manager Ken Nierenberg presents “Powerplant & Airframe Under the Hood.” Email 39n@princetonairport.com for a link to the presentation. 7 p.m. Online Information Session, Princeton Learning Cooperative. www.princetonlearningcooperative.org. Information about the hybrid homeschooling and traditional program for teenagers. Register via Eventbrite for Zoom link. 7 p.m. Jane Austen Discussion, Mercer County Library System. www. facebook.com/mclsnj. Weekly
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Friday May 8 McCarter LIVE: In Conversation with Oskar Eustis, McCarter Theater. www.mccarter.org. The artistic director of New York’s Public Theater joins McCarter Artistic Director Emily Mann for a moderated conversation about their history as friends and artistic collaborators, the joys and challenges of artistic leadership, and the state of the art in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Register. 4:30 p.m. D&R Greenway Virtual Gala. www.drgreenway.org. Honorees include former Princeton mayor Phyllis Marchand, longtime Greenway supporter John Rassweiler, and the late Michael Snyder, all of whom will have new wildlife habitats planted in their honor. The celebration will be broadcast online and on Princeton Community TV with discussion to follow with the honorees. Register. $50
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and up. 5:30 p.m. Tabletop Role Playing Games Discussion, Mercer County Library System. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Discussion of RPGs from the basics to more in-depth topics. 8 p.m. 2020 WWAC Member Show: Built Environment, West Windsor Arts Council. www.westwindsorartsorg. Virtual exhibit features 22 artists showing how they incorporate structures into their work. Virtual tour includes a discussion with the juror and the artists. 7:15 p.m.
Saturday May 9 Raritan River Music Festival. www.raritanrivermusic.org. Rene Izquierdo, the Newman & Oltman Guitar Duoa, and Elina Chekan present “A la Cubana: A Century of Music from the Pearl of the Antilles.” 7:30 p.m.
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Lucretia E. McGuffSilverman’s ‘The Tiled Hallway’ is among the works in West Windsor Arts Council’s online ‘Built Environment’ show with a virtual tour on Friday, May 8.
Sunday May 10 Mothers Day. Conservative Judaism Today & Tomorrow, Beth El Synagogue. www.bethel.net. Presented by chancellor Arnold M. Eisen of the Jewish Theological Seminary. 9:45 a.m. Highland Park Recorder Society Concert. www.hprecorder.org. Amy Herbitter and Donna Messer perform music of Telemann and Purcell. 1:30 p.m. Eyes on Eagles, Mercer County Park Commission. www.mercerContinued on following page
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countyparks.org. Webinar features footage of bald eagle nesting behavior in Mercer County and commentary from naturalists. Submit questions in advanced to krypkema@mercercounty.org. 2 p.m. The Economy, the Pandemic, and the Future, Astrological Society of Princeton. www. aspnj.org. Mitchell Scott Lewis will discuss coronavirus’ impact on the economy and what the future may hold. Email aspinfo@aspnj. org for more information. Register. $10. 2 p.m.
Monday May 11 Science Fiction Book Club, Mercer County Library System. www.facebook.com/mclsnj. Discuss “The Very Pulse of the Machine” by Michael Swanwick. 6:30 p.m. Mystery Mondays, Mercer County Library System. www.facebook.com/mclsnj. Discussion of mystery novels led by a librarian from the West Windsor branch. 8 p.m.
Tuesday May 12 Israeli Line Dancing, Beth El Synagogue. www.bethel.net. Stephanie Blitzer leads virtual instruction over Zoom. 7 p.m. In Conversation, Arts Council of Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Contemporary landscape painter Leni Paquet Morante joins Timothy M. Andrews for virtual conversation. Morante will discuss her influences and artistic journey, her process, what life is like for a working artist during the pandemic, and her plans for the future. She will also give viewers a virtual tour of her studio. Q&A follows. Register. 8 to 9 p.m.
Wednesday May 13 Short Story Discussion, Mercer County Library System. www. facebook.com/mclsnj. Discuss John Cheever’s “The Swimmer.” 8 p.m.
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The Princeton Community Auction invites everyone to donate items to be auctioned or to bid on already donated items and experiences. Proceeds from the auction will benefit local businesses and their employees, including those who have been laid off. Visit cbo. io/bidapp/index.php?slug=prince# for more information.
HomeFront is accepting submissions for its Small Works from Big Hearts online exhibit through May 30. Artists are invited to create a new two-dimensional work no larger than 8 inches by 10 inches and email a high-resolution image to submissions@artjamnj.org. Include your name; the title, dimensions, and medium of your work; and your contact information. Works will be exhibited online at www.artjamnj.org. All works will be for sale for a donation of $50 to benefit HomeFront. The New Jersey Emerging Artists Series consists of annual monthly solo exhibitions at the Nilson Gallery in the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, New Jersey. The project showcases new work of NJ artists emerging into their next phase as artists. Its current focus is to present work by underrepresented artists, including gender, age, background, socioeconomic level, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and the special needs community. Artists will be selected by a panel of curators and
Call for Cats The Acme Screening Room in Lambertville is accepting entries to the Quarantine Cat Film Festival through Friday, May 15. Each household can submit a maximum of three videos of their cat up to 30 seconds long and 2 gigabytes in size. The videos will be judged in four categories: Cutest, Funniest, Bravest, and Most Loving, as well as Best in Show. Selected entries will be made available in virtual theaters on June 19, with 50 percent of proceeds to benefit the theater through which you purchase tickets. For more information visit rowhouse.online/cats.
‘Wonder Woman Selfie’ by Theda Sandiford is among the works available in BSB Gallery’s online silent auction, continuing through May 15 at www.bsbgallery. com. visual arts professionals. Selected artists are guided through the exhibition process, provided promotional materials and give an Artist’s Talk during their exhibition, offering the public insight into their artistic process. All opening receptions and talks are free and open to the public. There is also a virtual component Submissions are accepted now through June 15 at www.monmouthmuseum.org/artists/submit/ call/ ($20 submission fee for a portfolio of up to 10 pieces). The New Jersey Watercolor Society is accepting entries for its third annual online show. Participating artists must pay a $10 entry fee plus $35 for NJWS dues and can submit one JPG image. The entry deadline is June 1. Monetary awards will be presented to the show winners, and all works will be exhibited on the NJWS website for one year. For more information visit www.njwcs.org.
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“The Ellarslie “Not-QuiteOpen”: The Art of Sheltering in Place” is the Trenton City Museum’s online exhibition that continues the museum’s work to engage regional artists and present new work. The virtual exhibition features works more than 125 works created or completed during the region’s mandatory pandemic-related social distancing measures, specifically between March 30 and April 30. The digitally submitted or shared works by artists from Central New Jersey and Bucks County range from depictions of the virus and its impact to landscapes, portraits, sculptures, fiber art, photography, and more. “Not-QuiteOpen” will remain on view indefinitely. Viewing is free but goodwill donations are appreciated. Visit www.ellarslie.org Artworks Trenton is presenting “Quarantine: Art in Isolation,” a virtual exhibition curated by Artworks’ exhibition director, Addison Vincent. The first of its kind for the noted arts center and creator of Art All Night, the exhibition is designed to showcase works created by artists who have suddenly found themselves isolated from artistic support circles and normal exhibition venues. On view through May 31, “Quarantine” features approximately 150 works, including those by Kathleen Hurley Liao, Howard Michaels, Addison Vincent, April Cooper, and Philip McConnell. Visit www.artworkstrenton.org/ quarantine-art-in-isolation.
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ooking back from an era when individuals — including him — could affirm their own erotic attractions, Doty says, “What scandalized readers in Whitman’s time was his frankness about heterosexual bodies, and his portrayal of women as sexual beings. Only those alert to same-sex desire seemed capable of reading a deeper level of scandal in the poems, a ‘secret’ — shared in broad daylight but largely unreadable — that was for them more nourishing than any other text of their time.” The author of 10 books of poetry and three other memoirs later focuses on Whitman’s “astonishing 65-page sprawl” he’d later call “Song of Myself” and say “Whitman swept aside anything he’d written before, as if with one powerful gesture he pushed off his desk everything no longer useful to him. What went crashing to the floor? His own tentative early poems and the expected forms and decorum of American poetry. Where does a
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collaborative live streamings of author events on Wednesday, May 6, when National Book Award-winning poet and Rutgers University creative writing professor Mark Doty discusses his new book, “What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life.” “Of the many poets I love, none has haunted me as Walt Whitman has,” notes Doty early in the book that merges an exploration of Whitman’s work and impact with personal memoir — including the New York City-based Doty’s visit to the Walt Whitman house and museum in Camden. “I want to keep company with him, in this book, want to account for his persistent presence in my life,” adds Doty. “And I want to try, at the same time, to seek out the wellsprings of the extraordinary flowering that seemed to appear out of nowhere in the middle of his life, in the poems that look, sound, and think like nothing else before them. They have already reshaped American poetry, and the poetry of other countries and continents as well, but they have not yet finished their work of recasting our sense of what it means to be oneself, to be anyone at all.” Reflecting on Whitman’s bold approach, Doty says, “How could this strange book not offer to its author a hundred separate possibilities for uncertainty, even for doubt of a particularly corrosive, selflacerating kind? A book with no author’s name on the cover or title page, with a densely printed rather florid preface followed by twelve poems. Were they poems? No consistent meter, no comfortable and familiar pattern of rhyme. Not to mention the fact the book’s opening salvo is a dizzying sixty-fivepage text, the sheer rock-wall of it divided only by stanza breaks. The sweeping lines, colloquial and Biblical at once, seem meant to carry us from earth to — well, not heaven exactly, but the earth seen in radical illumination. ‘I believe a leaf of grass,’ he writes, ‘is no less than the journey-work of the starts.’ He mocks religion while proclaiming the world holy. He loves being incarnate, relishing sheer physicality — to walk, to feel the movement of atmosphere on one’s skin — and the thrilling energies of eros, the firefighter’s fine muscles moving under their clothes. His feints and silences are so transparent they reveal at least as much as they conceal.”
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Poet and Rutgers professor Mark Doty participates in a livestream discussion about his new book on Walt Whitman on Wednesday, May 6. poet find such courage, the will and stamina to make a radical beginning? It must lie in an internal imperative to give form to the inchoate: something that hasn’t been spoken, not yet articulated in a way that resonates with the felt texture of experience. The unsaid can be the source of an enormous pressure, a nearly physical need to say what living is like. If the poetic vocabulary of one’s day, the stances and forms of the hour, don’t seem capable of incorporating the way the world feels — well then, the pressure is intensified. Perhaps that’s why the three opening lines of Whitman’s poem, and of his book, seem to geyser out of the depths; he has waited so long to find them, for the words to emerge as if from nowhere: I celebrate myself, And what I shall assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Doty argues that Whitman’s aim was and continues to be “the restructuring of reality. He intends to rewrite our sense of what subjectivity is — or at least wants us to acknowledge that the reality we already experience doesn’t conform to the traditional separation of subject and object, but to something more like the flux of being his poems portray. He is out to rewrite ontology; his assault is a friendly one, but frontal nonetheless.”
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ne of his weapons is the use of questions, such as “To be in any form, what is that?” “Whitman’s questions are one of the continuingly startling things about him,” says Doty as he recalls presenting Whitman’s poems in his classes. “Some of my students resist this aspect of his work, and suspect him of posing as wonderer, asking questions to which he already has firm answers in mind. True, sometimes he uses a question, as opposed to a statement, in order to disarm us and draw us further into the argument of his poem.” Then circling back to the book’s title, Doty states, “But Whitman’s greatest questions are provocations of another order. Take ‘What is the grass?’ What sort of question is that? It’s aflame with implication: that the common word doesn’t help to settle the matter, that there is something fundamentally peculiar or difficult about the phenomenon at hand that requires our attention.” — Dan Aubrey Mark Doty, Labyrinth Books and Princeton Public Library. Livestream Wednesday, May 6, 6 p.m. Participation is free. To register, visit www.labyrinthbooks. com.
losed restaurants and postponed family gatherings are making this Mother’s Day unlike any we have experienced before. But it got me thinking about my late mother. In fact, I’ve been reminded of many of her lessons as we have been dealing with the unprecedented events affecting our state, nation, and world over the past several months. A witness to the Great Depression and World War II, Catherine “Kitty” Logan had learned to live with uncertainty during her early years in Philadelphia. That’s where her immigrant Irish Catholic parents found each other, settled, and tried various enterprises in order to survive. And despite their own numerous uncertainties of how things would turn out, they somehow endured. Like numerous other young women at the end of World War II, my mother married a service man from the neighborhood, settled down, had me and my brother, and then moved to the suburbs where she had my sister. There was also a baby brother who died soon after birth. That death pained my mother, but she accepted it — perhaps as another casualty in the uncertainty of life — and she continued to smile and embrace the world. I did not realize it at the time, but she was giving me lessons in actions. And while some were subtle, others were more direct — such as handing a 12-year-old me an ash tray when my brother and I were trying cigarettes in secret. Although she said she didn’t approve of us smoking, she told us to just do it in the open and not to hide — and don’t burn the house down. That “be up front” attitude suddenly gave me the freedom to choose what I could do and negated the need
to sneakily do things normally associated with adolescents. And with nothing to prove, I was free enough to take something or leave it. The attitude also became part of my personal and professional behavior, where I generally have no hidden agendas and try to work in clear partnerships. Since my mother grew up in the city and navigated it without fear, she encouraged me to do the same when we visited our city relatives. That license to explore gave me the confidence to go anywhere. In turn that led to being self-reliant, open to opportunities, understanding that uncertainties existed, and taking an occasional risk.
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ut my mother’s most important lessons came later — and was accompanied by a good deal of pain. One was when my father walked out and left my mother and my high school-aged sister to fend for themselves. I curtailed my plans to move and attend graduate school and got work to help pay the family bills. Although hurt and uncertain about what would happen, my mother made up her mind that she would not allow her fear and anger to overcome her and encouraged all of us to get a good rest and to stay healthy as a means to get through the situation. A faithful housewife with no high school diploma, my mother now spent months searching for work and was eventually hired as a public school cafeteria worker. When we got the household finances under control, the three of us were then able to move forward. My mother sold the house and remarried. My sister finished school, studied to be a medical secretary, married, and started her own family. And I moved to Trenton and began a new phase of my life. The bond that exists between a mother and daughter had been strengthened by their experience and was an obvious source of joy for my
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Catherine Logan mother. But it was shattered when my sister unexpectedly died as a result of a botched medical procedure. The death was a staggering blow to my mother, yet she again resolved not to succumb to the pain and anger and be strong for her grandchildren. Joy slowly returned again when my sister’s oldest daughter married and was about to present my mother with her first great-grandchild. But it was not to be. My niece had an embolism that killed both her and the child. Again my mother was struck with an emotional trial worthy of the Book of Job. And again she reached inward and managed somehow to find something to console her to continue — perhaps again accepting the uncertainty she knew as a young girl. But she was wounded with a pain that lasted for the rest of her life. A few months before she died at the age of 87 in 2013, my mother and I were remembering the past and laughing. She then thought of some of those painful moments she experienced, shook her head, and said, “I refuse to become bitter.” Now in another era of dark uncertainty — which for me includes the March loss of my step father, who died during the current lockdown without me saying goodbye or attending a memorial, and a sudden work furlough without guarantee of continuing work — I’ve been thinking of my mother’s lessons about dealing with pain and uncertainty. I wish she were here so I could tell her, Thank you, but I’ll just smile.
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eat of the muses” — that’s the general translation of the word “museum.” But as new technology has been changing the way objects related to the arts can be viewed, it is also challenging the idea of where that seat used to be: museum buildings. That challenge is being led by museum directors and curators looking to reach new audiences and to share their collections with the widest audience possible. They are building new institutions — and seats — with the World Wide Web. And with the current emphasis on staying home and away from crowds, it seems a good time to take a look at the brave new world of online museums. The leader in New Jersey is the Princeton University Art Museum. It has made several marks over the last decade. But one especially interesting development was the institution’s decision to provide online access to its Minor White Photographic Archive. As the museum notes, “Minor White (1908–1976) was one of the most important photographic artists and teachers active during the 30 years after World War II and a key figure in shaping a distinctly modern American photographic style. The most important collection of primary source material in existence by and about the artist, the archive contains White’s negatives, proofs, contact sheets, journals, library, correspondence, ephemera, and nearly 20,000 prints by White and other artists.” And since the museum holds the copyright to all of this work it was free to share the images and provide a one-stop link to a major collection at artmuseum.princeton. edu/MWA. Overseen by Katherine Bussard, curator of photography, and a committee comprising museum and university experts, the site is a work of art in itself — one that both exhibits and informs. An introduction and biographical chart help put the artist in context. But it is the organization of the images that provides the viewer easy and focused access. Another site helps the viewer sort through the massive collection White bequeathed to the university in 1976. It offers two approaches: a global map of where the photographs were taken and a list of themes. The latter is more direct and thematically gathers the artist’s interests. For example there are natural and organic forms: clouds, deserts, coastlines; human-made shapes: architecture, streetscapes, cemeteries, and automobiles; abstract and geometric forms; and the human body: male nudes and male dancers. Yet together both approaches provide the viewer an opportunity to explore the vast body of work by a major American artist from virtually anywhere.
by Dan Aubrey In addition to online access to many of its collections, Princeton University Art Museum has held virtual lectures, classes, and discussions while its physical spaces are closed. The next online event takes place Thursday, May 7, at 5:30 p.m. and features museum director James Steward. He will give a talk on “The Museum, Citizenship, and the PostCoronavirus Age” and answer audience questions. The talk will be held over Zoom. Visit artmuseum. princeton.edu for access.
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hat’s also true of some of PUAM’s past exhibitions. Called simply the online exhibition page, the site contains 18 exhibitions mounted at the museum since 2003. One of the most important is “The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection.” That is the collection of mainly impressionist and postimpressionist works on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum since the mid-1970s. Often on view, they were also the subject of an international traveling exhibition from 2014 through 2016. Simply clicking the link gives the digital visitor access to the multi-media presentation. Here one reads the book-like copy regarding the collectors and their interests. The page also has thumbnail images of all the works arranged alphabetically by the last name of the artist. While hitting each thumbnail provides a slightly larger image of the art work and information regarding past exhibitions and scholarly references, other links on the site bring the exhibition to digital life. Here members of the Pearlman family talk about the collector (with a transcript handy to follow along or to review afterwards), making a person-to-person connection. Another link lets visitors explore the Pearlman Foundation, see images of the collector, and offers a make-your-own exhibition activity that can be published on social media. And the Highlights section focuses in on several curatorial picks with the visitor having the option of hearing a museum-like tour guide commentary, reading the text, or reading along with the voice. Those who had seen the exhibition (as I had) will find all this akin to seeing publications in a book or poster. It is, after all, the direct experience with the paint and line that engages the eyes and mind. Since the exhibition “New Jersey As a Non-Site” examined an arts movement inspired by both New Jersey’s rampant urbanization and industrialization and embraced non-traditional materials and new approaches for expression, it had
the promise of using technology to help propel and shade the content. However, the approach also uses a mainly book-like text and photo format to convey information — without the tone or mood of the time when these innovators created happenings and used electronic media and the world as artistic tools. However, the online version of another New Jersey-connected exhibition hits the mark: “Princeton and the Gothic Revival.” The museum accurately calls it “a multimedia exploration of Princeton’s Gothic Revival architecture — the campus’s defining visual language — through text, audio, and images.” Accessible via smartphone and computer, the viewer-visitor uses a campus map to go to specific locations, such as Princeton University Chapel, and can hear comments about the building from the exhibition curator and others with expertise on the buildings. Yet the most developed and satisfying digital exhibition — one similar to Princeton and the Gothic Revival — is not listed as an online exhibition but as a mobile tour titled “Campus Art at Princeton.” Here the images, text, and voices tell the tale of how the exhibition began and share information on the artists, their intent, and the employed aesthetic approach. It is also where the museum shows its mastery of online exhibitions and provides a powerful service to anyone in the region interested in art and the public art in the community. It is something to celebrate.
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o too are the efforts of other institutions using digital technology to engage anyone with an interest in art, science, and history. And like the PUAM, they also have a specific focus that makes the sites something more than browsing online. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, for example, allows digital visitors to view the history of its exhibitions from its opening to today.
American photographer Minor White’s ‘Tom Murphy, San Francisco, 1948. No. 30,’ left, Russian painter Chaim Soutine’s 1929 ‘Portrait of a Woman,’ part of the Pearlman Collection, and an exploration of the Princeton campus are just clicks away. To do so, visit MOMA’s homepage, click the “What’s On” link, scroll down to “Exhibition History,” and there you are. Leading the list is the 1929 inaugural exhibition “Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, and Van Gogh,” touted by the museum as “four of the most celebrated European PostImpressionist painters.” The site includes 23 photos of the paintings installed in the small rooms of the museum’s original building and the catalog introduced by the museum’s first — and longtime — director, Alfred H. Barr Jr., who received a bachelor’s and master of arts at Princeton University. Rounding out the site is a link for each artist that connects viewers to artists’ work in other MoMA exhibitions and in the collection. Other exhibitions represented by installation photographs or catalog images include the 1933 “Edward Hopper: Retrospective,” 1936 “African Negro Art,” 1940 “Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art,” 1944 “Chinese Children’s War Pictures,” the 1946 “Georgia O’Keefe,” the first retrospective of a woman, and thousands more. All told the online exhibition is both a survey of art and art movements as well as the memory of a specific museum. But one doesn’t have to stay in the tri-state region to get an online museum experience. Go global and make a virtual visit to those museums on your dream list. Interested in viewing Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescos as if walking into the space? Simply link onto the Vatican Museums site (www.museivaticani.va), hit collections, and then museums. There’s the Sistine Chapel as just one of the numerous options that
allow viewers to see world-famous works in context or up close. What about the famed Chinese Terracotta Warriors? Go to the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Museum site, where the staff partnered with the Chinese online encyclopedia Baidu Baike to provide virtual tours for viewer. It is at baike.baidu.com/museum/qinshihuang. For American history enthusiasts, the Smithsonian Museum of American History (americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/online) has online exhibitions ranging from Three Mile Island to Abraham Lincoln to the life of Cecelia Cruz. And scientists of all stripes can visit take a foreign trip to the Museo Galileo (catalogue.museogalileo. it), the virtual museum from the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy. One of the most interesting virtual museums to be found is that of a museum that was lost to a fire in 2018, Brazil’s National Museum. It lost an estimated 20 million pieces ranging from dinosaur artifacts to ancient human skulls. Yet thanks to Google the ghost of the museum remains at www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/inside-brazils-national-museumgoogle-arts-culture. Obviously, online museums are in their infancy. As someone who was on the administration of the New Jersey State Museum and an exhibitions writer for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, I keep thinking that the online engagement will help get people away from their computer screens and out into the world. But during our current virusavoiding era, the muse will be happy to join you on any seat that provides access to a new phenomenon that is just starting to take off.
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ormer Princeton University president Shirley Tilghman, a molecular biologist, has been named a co-chair of Gov. Phil Murphy’s Restart and Recovery Commission along with Merck CEO Ken Frazier. “Reinvigorating the economy of New Jersey while protecting the safety and health of its residents is the most important challenge we now face,” Tilghman said in a statement when the commission was announced. Several other members of the 16-member group tasked with charting a path to reopen the state and restart its economy have connections to the Princeton region. They include Richard Besser, a Princeton native and former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control who is now CEO of the College Road East-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (U.S. 1, January 31, 2018), and Ben Bernanke, a former professor and chair of the economics department at Princeton University and former chair of the Federal Reserve.
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Edited by Sara Hastings West Trenton-based NJM Insurance Group announced that it was committing $400,000 to COVID-19 relief efforts. The funds will go to nonprofits, healthcare providers and emergency responders, and statewide efforts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The group has also donated 15,000 pieces of personal protective equipment and provided warehouse space to the Mercer Street Friends food bank. “Community support and corporate giving are essential in times of challenge and uncertainty,” NJM president and CEO Mitch Livingston said in a press release. “Our commitment to these relief efforts is rooted in NJM’s core principles. During this very difficult time we will remain true to our pledge to support the communities we are privileged to serve.” Princeton University, 1 Nassau Hall, Princeton 08544. Christopher Eisgruber, president. www.princeton.edu. Princeton University also announced the establishment of a $1 million relief fund to be disbursed to entities that provide grants and other direct support to organizations, businesses, and families. “Many local families, service organizations, and businesses are struggling as a result of the pandemic. Princeton has been actively engaged in early efforts to alleviate pressing needs, and we believe there will be an opportunity to continue to do so over the long term as the response continues,” said President Christopher L. Eisgruber. “The iniversity is proud to be a
member of the local community. At this critical time, we want to find ways to support those who serve our closest neighbors.” Part of the fund has already been allocated to ongoing relief efforts. The university gave $400,000 to the Princeton Area Community Foundation’s COVID Relief Fund, which supports community organizations, and $100,000 to the Princeton Children’s Fund, which provides financial support for economically disadvantaged families and individuals. More information on the university’s response to COVID-19 can be found at www.princeton.edu/ content/covid-19-coronavirus-information.
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rinceton University has appointed Andrea Goldsmith as dean of its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She replaces Emily Carter, who left the university in September, 2019, for a position at UCLA. Goldsmith is currently a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, where she is an expert on information theory and communications. She was also the co-founder and chief technology officer of Quantenna Communications, which produces chips for highspeed WiFi. She also co-founded Plume WiFi, which sells WiFi mesh networks. She earned her undergraduate
Andrea Goldsmith, left, is the new dean of engineering at Princeton. Emily Manz is the new executive director of Preservation New Jersey. and graduate degrees in electrical engineering at the University of California-Berkeley. “Andrea Goldsmith brings tremendous expertise and leadership to Princeton,” said Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber. “She is a brilliant and creative scholar, a successful entrepreneur, and a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in the academy and industry.” Goldsmith will start at Princeton on September 1.
Management Moves Preservation New Jersey Inc., 310 West State Street, Trenton 08618. 609-392-6409. Emily Manz, executive director. www.preservationnj. org. Emily Manz has been named executive director of Trenton-based Preservation New Jersey, a statewide member-supported nonprofit that promotes the economic vitality, sustainability, and heritage of
New Jersey’s diverse communities through advocacy and education on historic preservation. Manz, an economic development and tourism professional with a master’s in city and regional planning from the Edward J. Bloustein School at Rutgers, succeeds Courtenay Mercer, who had served in the role since 2017. “It’s been a rewarding experience working with a group of dedicated volunteers working to preserve NJ’s historic resources for generations to come,” Mercer said in a statement. “I know I am leaving the organization in good hands with Emily, whom I have admired for a number of years for her energy in marketing and promoting NJ’s downtowns.” Barton Ross, president of the Preservation New Jersey board of trustees, stated, “We are very excited to welcome Emily, who is already familiar with PNJ’s work and brings a wealth of nonprofit leadership, place branding, and event Continued on page 11
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In Memoriam
Remembering Seward Johnson
Editor’s Note: Notices of the March 10 death of renowned area sculptor and Grounds For Sculpture Founder J. Seward Johnson Jr, 89, focused on his very public achievements and activities. Articles and stories also told how his Johnson Atelier attracted young artists who came to the PrincetonTrenton region to start their careers and find their lives. However, such reports only touch the surface, unlike the following personal testimony of a young woman who — thanks to Johnson’s own love of art and interest in artists — found her artistic path and a rich personal life:
by Leni Paquet-Morante
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came to New Jersey from Baltimore in 1983 to visit the Johnson Atelier for the first time and was met at the Trenton train station by the late Brooke Barrie, who was academic director at the time. The atelier was halfway through its move from Princeton to its current location in Hamilton. Just five months later I arrived to stay for a 16-month apprenticeship to investigate what I could do with sculpture. Like many other apprentices, I received a full tuition grant from the Johnson Foundation. I was 21 years old, possibly the youngest artist there. The Johnson Atelier consisted of an international group of artists from various stages in their careers. I set up an apartment at the nearby Hamilton Arms and threw myself into the program learning various foundry techniques. Among the over 100 staff and apprentices there at the time was G. Frederick Morante. He’d been recruited to the atelier in 1977 by one of his San Diego State University college professors, Herk van Tongeren, who had become the John-
son Atelier director. Like most staff and apprentices, we worked an eight-hour shift making atelier clients’ sculptures, and then continued until 11 p.m. on our own work. It was an intense, creative atmosphere. And over my apprenticeship I made a series of about eight bronzes that I now understand to be three-dimensional landscape paintings. Although we’d become familiar socially, Fred and I got to know each other mostly during a kilnbuilding workshop he taught nearly a year after my arrival. We were married in 1989 in Hamilton’s town hall by Mayor Rafferty, with atelier friends Larry Steele and Gyuri Hollosy as witnesses. Eventually we raised three children in Hamilton, with the Johnson Atelier and Grounds For Sculpture’s developments a consistent backdrop through family, school, and community activities. One of our sons is now a secondgeneration atelier staff member. Two ex-atelier artists — local sculptor Rory Mahon and Canadian sculptor Lydia Hill Fife — are our children’s godparents. Fred’s work over 20 years with the Johnson Atelier transferred in the early 2000s into a position at the Digital Atelier, where he still works. The atelier went through its own metamorphosis over the years, and it seems to have managed its economic challenges, redefining its work to match Mr. Johnson’s evolving artistic vision. I’ve come to see the two enterprises as sister companies, independent of yet sustaining each other. In all, Fred’s seen the two develop together for more than 40 years, with many artists coming and going. With Seward Johnson’s passing, Fred and I are reminded of how fortunate we have been through our long association with his enterprises as they developed over the years.
The late Seward Johnson, left, and artist Leni Paquet Morante. Our experience is not unique among the many artists we’ve come to know through the Johnson Atelier. We met and worked with famous artists, befriending some. We made art that we we’re proud of. We saw our friends take on challenging administrative roles. Many
Fred and I grew up as the Johnson Atelier grew up — both built on the foundation that Seward Johnson so generously provided. ex-atelierites started their own businesses with the skills they developed, some became educators. Fred became an excellent modeler and teacher, sharing knowledge and skill. I went back to school, worked, raised a family, volunteered in the schools, and started to paint again several years ago. Mr. Johnson purchased sculpture from both of us over the years, and his Johnson Foundation provides us affordable studios in the Motor Exhibit Building at the
Grounds For Sculpture. Fred’s “Relative” and “Nude Descending the Stare Case” sculptures are in the GFS permanent collection. As he did with so many other “unknown” artists, Mr. Johnson’s often unanticipated support through jobs, grants, and purchases sustained our careers and artistic morale, pushing our artmaking and even family activities forward for years. Once, Seward had purchased a small ceramic piece from me in the early ’90s. So I always invited him to see my new work. For one show, he responded that he was unable to attend, so I offered to bring the work to him, which he agreed to. I put my newborn first child in the care of a friend and took a van load full of the larger work to his home, setting it all up on his huge conference table. With about seven of his associates there too, Seward quickly pointed out his favorite and said that he loved it and wanted it both bigger and in bronze for placement in his Key West home. I created a new piece in plaster, and it was cast at the atelier. This experience illustrated how personally involved and invested Seward was in “his” artists. If I put my mind to it — it has been many years after all — I can also recall Fred and me hiring apprentices as our babysitters from time to time; attending the weddings of friends who’d met at the atelier; witnessing wonderful shenanigans on and off atelier grounds; and going to parties at the groups’ homes. Although raising our family refocused our energies for many years, the atelier experience has been the consistent background for our adult lives together. Fred and I grew up as the Johnson Atelier grew up — both built on the foundation that Seward Johnson so generously provided. Putting his mouth where his vision was, so to speak, Seward Johnson directly supported our careers through those unanticipated commissions and purchases, pushing our artmaking and even family activities forward for years. A memorial for Seward Johnson will be planned in the future and will be announced on www. groundsforsculpture.org.
Deaths John Conway, 82, on April 11. The Princeton University mathematician was best known for inventing the “Game of Life” but was considered a true genius by those familiar with his work in mathematical fields including group theory, number theory, algebra, geometric topology, theoretical physics, combinatorial game theory, and geometry. His life was chronicled in “Genius at Play,” a 2015 biography by Siobhan Roberts that was featured
in the September 16, 2015, issue of U.S. 1. In her prologue, she wrote of Conway: “Conway’s is a jocund and playful egomania, sweetened by selfdeprecating charm. Based at Princeton University, though having made his name and found fame at Cambridge, he claims never to have worked a day in his life. He purports instead to have piddled away reams and reams of time playing games. Yet he is the John von Neumann Distinguished Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, a particularly august club, the oldest scientific society in the world — and Conway likes to mention that when he was elected in 1981, he signed the big book of fellows at the induction ceremony and was pleased to see on previous pages the names Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, and Bertrand Russell.” Ruth Mandel, 81, on April 11. The Princeton resident, whose family had escaped from Germany when she was an infant at the start of World War II, was involved with the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers for more than 40 years. She served as director of its Center for American Women and Politics from 1973 to 1994. She then served as director of the Eagleton Institute until her retirement in 2019. She was also the author of “In the Running: The New Woman Candidate,” published in 1993. A virtual celebration of life in Mandel’s honor will take place Wednesday, May 20, at 3 p.m. Register at eagleton.rutgers.edu. Robert Jefferson Wolfe, 72, on March 31. A 1969 alumnus of Princeton University, he returned in 1974 to serve as the school’s assistant treasurer. Beginning in 1976 he served as a consultant to Prince ton’s development of the mixeduse Forrestal Center. In 1993 he founded Picus Associates, which manages the 2,000-acre development on behalf of the university. Norman Peter Herzberg, 82, on March 29. A mathematician, he worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton for more than 30 years. Claudio Spies, 95, on April 2. The former Princeton University music professor was a composer, theorist, and leading expert on Igor Stravinsky. Louise French Blodget, 99, on March 31. She helped open New Jersey’s first Planned Parenthood office, in Trenton, and was a longtime volunteer at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Princeton University Art Museum, and Princeton Hospital. Anne L. Freedman, 92, on April 2. Along with her late husband, Gerald, she purchased and operated Hopewell-based Kooltronic, an enclosure cooling manufacturer, in 1970. Vincent Iorio, 90, on April 25. He worked for 42 years as a tool and dye maker for General Motors Corporation in Ewing. John Murrin on May 2. He was a history professor at Princeton who focused on the American colonial period and American Revolution. Richie Cole, 72, on May 2. An internationally known Trentonborn jazz alto saxophonist and composer, he mentored numerous regional musicians. He released more than 50 LPs and CDs, including two salutes to his home town: “Trenton Makes” and “Trenton Style.”
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HOW TO ORDER Singles By Mail: To place your free ad in this section mail it to U.S. 1, 15 Princess Road, Suite K, Lawrenceville 08648, fax it to 609-844-0180, or E-mail it to class@princetoninfo.com. Be sure to include a physical address to which we can send responses.
Billtrust, 1009 Lenox Drive, Lawrenceville 08648. 609235-1010. Flint Lane, founder and CEO. www.billtrust. com Billtrust, the Lenox Drive-based provider of automated invoicing systems, has named Jay Johnson as senior vice president of sales. Johnson was most recently senior vice president of sales for data management software company Syncsort. “Jay has been successful in several roles within diverse enterprise software companies, and his go-tomarket expertise and demonstrated success scaling sales organizations will be a great addition to our strong team,” Billtrust founder and CEO Flint Lane said in a statement.
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ew Jersey has pulled together during this pandemic in ways that should make us all proud. Here in the heart of our state capital, local business owners are demonstrating resiliency and strength like we’ve never seen before. Please support them in any way you can—buy gift cards, order takeout, donate to their fundraisers, and share their posts on social media. Their survival depends on it. Trenton Downtown Association is also working with residents and local business owners to help them secure funding and to connect them with financial institutions and other valuable resources.
What’s Open in Downtown Trenton? Some of your favorite restaurants, shops and services.* And they need your help to stay open.
RESTAURANTS
Columbus International Pizza Crown Fried Chicken Fabio’s Pizza Hummingbird Restaurant NJ Weedman’s Joint
Po-Po’s Chinese 1911 Smokehouse BBQ Sunrise Luncheonette The Big Easy Tracey’s Kitchen
SHOPS & SERVICES
Capitol Copy Service Classics Used Books
Hi-Grade Wine & Liquor Weidel Insurance
If your business is open and not on the list, we want to hear from you. Contact us at info@trenton-downtown.com and we’ll get the word out ASAP! *Business openings are changing frequently. Visit www.trenton-downtown.com/ support-local every day for up-to-date information.
Business Spotlight
Classics Used Books,
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a community favorite in the heart of downtown Trenton, is currently closed, but you can order gift cards now. Classics will ship orders placed through its Facebook page to anywhere in the U.S. In-person browsing at facebook.com/eric.maywar.
Classics Gift Card Fundraiser
Please support this local gem that does so much for our community, including the Trenton Books at Home Program (which provides free books for Trenton kids). Buy gift cards at https://bit.ly/2WgzG7Z.
4 Lafayette Street, Trenton, NJ • (609) 394-8400 • classicsusedbooks.com
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