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t seems like it’s been months of closures and cancellations, but this week some signs of normalcy returned as outdoor dining was permitted beginning June 15.

Restaurants have arranged their outdoor seating areas to allow for adequate distancing of six feet between tables, and parties are limited to a maximum of eight, with some restaurants enforcing smaller limits. Tables, chairs, and menus are wiped down between uses. Restaurants with liquor licenses can serve outdoors, but smoking is prohibited.

U.S. 1 is marking the return of the restaurant scene with a profile of a restaurant that had reinvented itself prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Americana Kitchen and Bar, formerly the Americana Diner, on Route 130 in East Windsor, has undergone extensive renovations to both its appearance and to its menu offerings.

Its patio, which seats around 100 under normal circumstances, opened to customers on June 16.

George Point has the full story on page 12 of this issue.

Our sister publications at Community News Service are also keeping close tabs on the everevolving dining scene in the Mercer County region. A list of restaurants offering takeout, delivery, and in-person dining, sorted by town, is frequently updated on www.communitynews.org.

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The deadline to apply by mail to week’s paper also reflect a very different theme of our current, chal- receive a mail-in ballot is Tuesday, lenging times: the racism and sys- June 30. Your county clerk must retemic injustice against blacks. On ceive mailed applications by that page 5, a work of memoir by Jock date.

McFarlane tells a story of a black How to vote using your mail-in classmate in the 1950s on what was ballot: You can return your mail-in an essentially all-white college ballot by placing it in your mailbox campus. The accompanying poem, using the U.S. Postal Service. The

by Scott McVay, addresses misun- ballot must be postmarked on or derstandings that can occur when before July 7 and received by the cultures collide. On page 15, Pia de Board of Elections by 8 p.m. on Jong gives an outsider’s perspec- July 14, 2020, to be considered tive on the recent protests that took There will also be some secure place in the streets of Princeton. ballot drop box locations in each county. Specific locations of these boxes will be announced by the county clerks in the next few weeks. If you submit your mail-in ballot using a drop box, you must return the ballot on or before July 7, 2020, prior to 8 p.m.

You can also return your mail-in ballot in person to your county he League of Women Voters Board of Elections by 8 p.m. on of the Princeton Area reminds the Tuesday, July 7. public of changes to the Can I vote at a pollupcoming July 7 Primaing place? Each municiry Election. As a result Between pality will have some of the COVID-19 panThe polling places, but there demic, this election will will be fewer than the be conducted primarily Lines normal amount, as votwith mail-in ballots with ing by mail is strongly limited in-person voting recommended for public health options available. Here is a summary of the changes in place for reasons.

Polling place locations will this election: scheduled to be announced June How to get a ballot: You should 15, and voters will receive mailed be receiving your mail-in ballots notification of polling locations. very soon. The ballots will auto- Voters will not receive sample balmatically be sent by county elec- lots. tion offices to all active registered CDC guidelines for polling Republican and Democratic voters place safety and sanitation will be and have prepaid postage. followed. Those who vote at poll-

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he reopening is on! The stay-at-home order has been lifted in New Jersey, inspiring true hope that downtown Trenton is beginning its return to vibrancy.

If there is one thing we have learned the past few months, it’s how much we need each other to keep our businesses open and our community safe, healthy and strong. TDA’s own LoveLocal campaign was launched to support downtown businesses in every way we can throughout the shutdown — and beyond.

We’ve expanded that initiative in a significant way this week, by introducing the TDA Community Business Grant, which will provide immediate financial support (up to $3,000) for eligible businesses in our district. We encourage all businesses in the TDA SID district to reach out to find out what we can do to help you reopen and stay open.

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lmost since the day the state began shutting down businesses and encouraging as many people as possible to work from home, companies and their employees have been chomping at the bit to get back to business as usual.

But reality is a little bit more complicated than having people simply pick up where they left off back in March. There are a whole host of new safety concerns including new office cleaning procedures and protocol for maintaining social distance among employees; legal and financial considerations for companies who had to borrow money or institute furloughs or layoffs; and even the not-so-simple

Chamber panelists David Dafilou, above, Adam Siegelheim, and Sharon Marnien. matter of how to go about marketing your business in the current environment.

The Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce hopes to help companies navigate the intricacies of reopening with a free virtual session titled “Re-Opening: Best Practices for Getting Back to Business” on Friday, June 19, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. For more information or to register visit www. princetonmercerchamber.org.

The session will be moderated by former Chamber chairman John Goedecke of U.S. Bank and will include comments from David Dafilou of Capital Health, Adam Siegelheim of Stark & Stark, and

Eileen Sinett discusses public speaking for sales on June 23.

Sharon Marnien of Sparta Systems.

Dafilou has been with Capital Health since 2014 and is the chief administrative officer for its clinically integrated network (CIN), which is a partnership between physicians and the health network focused on the quality and efficiency of care. He previously worked at Premier Performance Partners on population health management and for several health insurance companies. He holds a bachelor’s in commerce and engineering and a master’s in finance, both from Drexel University.

Siegelheim is a shareholder in Lenox Drive-based law firm Stark

& Stark’s business & corporate and franchise groups. He represents companies and nonprofits on issues including real estate, financing, insurance, intellectual property, merger and acquisitions, and more. He holds a bachelor’s in political science and a law degree, both from the University of Pittsburgh.

Marnien supervises human resources activities worldwide for Sparta Systems, a Hamilton-based provider of quality management software systems. Marnien has previously served in a range of human resources roles at Hartford Financial Services Group and Lincoln Financial Distributors.

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Hiring Event, Enable, 13 Roszel Road, Suite B110, West Windsor. www.enablenj.org. Hiring for direct support professionals, team leads, LPNs, and residential managers. Experience preferred but training available. No appointment needed. Face covering required. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Moving Forward From a Denied SBA Disaster Loan Application, NJ Small Business Development Center, The College of New Jersey. www.sbdcnj.com. John M. Blackstock, SBA Deputy Director of the New Jersey District Office leads a webinar to help understand why you might have been denied to learn strategies to appeal your application’s decision.

Register. Free. 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Women of Achievement Awards, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www. princetonmercerchamber.org. Virtual ceremony honors Dr. Kemi Alli, Henry J. Austin Health Center; Caryn Barnes, Langan Engineering & Environmental Services; Judy Hutton, YWCA Princeton; and Ana Montero, American Red Cross. Register. $40; $30 members. 10 to 11 a.m.

Turning Adversity Into Purpose Through Hope Loves Company, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. Jodi O’DonnellAmes gives a webinar on her journey and insight into the kinds of services the nonprofit gives, how it’s growing, and how to get involved. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.

Friday June 19

JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County. www.psgofmercercounty.org.

John Hadley discusses the new landscape of virtual interviewing.

9:45 a.m. to noon.

Re-Opening: Best Practices for Getting Back to Business, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www. princetonmercerchamber.org.

Business leaders comment on what employers and employees need to know before going back to work. Speakers include John Goedecke, US Bank, moderator; David Dafilou, Capital Health; Adam Siegelheim, Stark & Stark; and Sharon Marnien, Sparta Systems. Register. Free. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday June 23

Virtual HR Conference Series, BioNJ. www.bionj.org. Connect with other life sciences professionals, learn from industry experts on issues affecting your organization, and leave with best practices for success in the Age of COVID-19 and beyond. First of three sessions. Register. $250, $195 members for all three sessions. 9 a.m. to noon.

Public Speaking for Sales, Princeton SCORE. princeton. score.org. Eileen N. Sinett highlights key elements of sales: authenticity, listening, connection, questioning, persuasive presentation, and the close and learn a tool for designing a persuasive pitch.

Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.

JobSeekers. sites.google.com/ site/njjobseekers. Virtual meeting for those seeking employment.

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Marie and the Apple on the mainland

the people in charge od doesn’t want black people and white people do not “see” the to live together.” Pauspoorer folk from the South ing to take a breath, the preacher who work for them, continued, but with less convica profound difference tion, “The colors on Joseph’s cloak are separate, just as white and colof class. ored people should be separate.” a woman comes here He began to lose the thread of his biblical justification for segregaworks at the bank tion. He appeared disoriented, and sends her daughter Marie when he tried to speak again his to school with an apple. words were jumbled. Finally, in Marie pulls it out his mental anguish he saw the small cross behind the altar appear and eats it. as a large cross with a black man the next day hanging on it.

This was a dramatic scene in Rapa Nui kids “Backwater,” a play written by two grab the next apple DePauw University seniors in the pass it around mid-1950s, when I was a freshand eat it man. The play took place in the fictional small northern town of as is their custom Backwater. It addressed the dilemamong brothers and sisters ma of the citizens who welcomed cousins and cousins. an African American visitor before learning he was planning to move Marie’s mother is furious there. Then public attitudes it’s back and forth changed, and he was denied emrecrimination after ployment. The minister in the play was torn between his Christian beinsult liefs and the pressure exerted by verbal insult the political leaders of the town. to physical threat The sermon was based on a real to…. one, delivered by a segregationist pastor. eventually I was a friend of the playthey toss Marie’s wrights, and they asked me to work backstage. Among other things, I unforgiving mother made the large cross and raised the off the island. curtain that had a small cross on it According to Lily Gonzalez, social anthropologist, mother of six to reveal the “crucifixion.” boys The time was only a year after Brown v. Board of Education, and — Scott McVay the ripples that grew into the wave Scott McVay was founding executive director of the Robert Sterof civil rights awareness and proling Clark Foundation and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He tests were beginning to appear. was the 16th president of the Chautauqua Institution. He is fascinatThe play was a reflection of the ated by the songs of nature and the songs of humanity. His collection titudes in the country and on the of poetry, Whales Sing and Other Exuberances, is in its second ediDePauw campus in particular. tion. He has published in Scientific American, American Scientist, And, sad to say, still persist Natural History, and Science, and written a memoir, Surprise En60-plus years later. counters with Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Living In his September 17, 2018, esThings. He notes that though “Marie and the Apple” is a world say in TIME, Princeton Professor away in Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island), it suggests that different culEddie S. Glaude, Jr. mentions “the tures misread each other. soft bigotry that has, from beneath the surface, enabled American anecdotes was about the time he VeeJay helped with our obtainpublic policy and individual bewas returning from winning the ing access to the black community. havior for decades.”

Indiana Interstate Oratorical ConWe witnessed a discussion among The student body at DePauw test with DePauw’s woman orator black leaders on whether they was essentially 100 percent white should urge supporting a bond iswith only a handful of blacks. (The and their faculty coach. They stopped at a roadside restaurant, sue to build a library they wouldn’t term “Negro” was the word used and the coach said he’d park the be allowed to use. I recall one man then.) Probably most white stucar while the students went in. saying, “We’ll vote for it. We’ll dents had matriculated from preAs VeeJay told the story (and he build it.” (pause) “And then we’ll dominantly white high schools. had the gift to tell a good story): use it.”

The black actor in the play was As for VeeJay — after graduatVeeJay. A native of Atlanta, he was “So we stepped inside — black ing from DePauw he earned a law the only black in his DePauw class man and white woman — and all conversation stopped like a switch degree at Howard Law School and of 400 students. DePauw Univerhad been turned; the cook stopped joined a civil rights law firm in Atsity is in the rural town of Greenlanta. The firm won a discriminacastle, Indiana, about 40 miles due cooking; the clock stopped ticking; the bacon tion suit against the University of west of Indiastopped fryGeorgia, and it was national news napolis. The best The best barber in town ing…. when Vernon Jordan escorted barber in town was black and even he “Then our Charlayne Hunter to the university was black and coach appeared admissions office in the midst of wouldn’t cut VeeJay’s even he and with the adangry white protesters. He providwouldn’t cut hair for fear of losing dition of a chap- ed leadership to the United Negro VeeJay’s hair for white customers. Veeerone the situaCollege Fund and was president of fear of losing Jay went to Indianapolis tion was rethe National Urban League for 10 white customevaluated. The years. Vernon was an advisor to for his haircuts. ers. VeeJay went people resumed Bill Clinton’s transition team and to Indianapolis talking; the continues to work as a managing for his haircuts. director for multiple companies.

Eventually there was a barber shop cook continued cooking; the second hand started moving; the baThe Class of 2018 heard his in the Student Union. con was sizzling again.” third DePauw commencement adApproximately 90 percent of My sophomore year I was part dress. (PS: He was never called DePauw students lived in all-white of a group of students who traveled “VeeJay.”) fraternity or sorority houses. VeeJay had been advised when he was to Atlanta during our spring vacaAn alumnus of DePauw (Class tion to learn more about the racial a freshman not to go through of 1959) with Ph.D. in physics “rush.” Now, as a junior, confident problems in the South. We went to from Brown, Jock McFarlane understand, not to judge or foment and very self-aware, he said, “If moved to Princeton in 1966 to change. The “Freedom Riders” I’d known then what I know now, work at RCA Laboratories. This were only a few years later. We I’d have gone through ‘rush’ and article was for a memoir class at stayed in the dorms at Morehouse watched ‘em sweat.” the Stonebridge at Montgomery College, one of the historically My favorite among his many senior living community. black colleges in Atlanta.

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agged Sky Press, based in Princeton, recently released “In Sun’s Shadow,” a collection of poems by Paul Sohar. A Hungarian refugee and writer who arrived in the United States in 1956, the 83-year-old Warren County poet’s book reflects his personal journey and its twists.

The following poem was selected for its timeliness: Father’s Day is on Sunday, June 21.

Father’s Day Parade Okay, if I am to play the father again, and the day’s program is mine, then let it be adventurous. I used to say, let’s go swimming in Crater Lake if weather allow, but if not, let it be educational, lets visit a historic building or a museum, or a natural wonder, like I planned for today: let’s visit Crystal Caves in Hellertown!

I know you’ve been there before a couple of times with the group, but you never got past the gift shop, and now we have a chance to see the whole place and learn all about its wonders.

Life is a learning process, as we say, we keep accumulating loaves of wisdom for old age, and I’m in it now but without a crumb for my mind to nibble on, with you gone without a reason, and I am still foolish enough to keep on asking why on my first Father’s Day alone; an abandoned natural wonder, overgrown with memories.

For more information on “In Sun’s Shadow,” visit Ragged Sky Press at www.raggedsky.com.

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Wednesday June 17 On Stage An Ideal Wife, Actors’ NET of Bucks County. www.actorsnetbucks.org. YouTube release of a past production of Oscar Wilde’s comedic masterpiece of blackmail and political corruption as reimagined and adapted by Maryalice Rubins-Topoleski and Charlotte Kirkby.

Literati Library Live at Labyrinth, Princeton Public Library & Labyrinth Books. www.labyrinthbooks.com.

Livestream featuring Rebecca Jordan-Young, author of “Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography” and a professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard College, and Katrina Karzakis, an anthropologist and bioethicist. 6 p.m.

Kids Stuff

Meet the Animals, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Join Watershed Educator Samantha Bernstein as she feeds some of the resident animals in the Discovery Hall in the Watershed Center. Free on www. facebook.com/theH2Oshed. 11 a.m.

William Hammerstein chats about his grandfather, lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, on Saturday, June 20, via Zoom.

Socials Fatherhood: The Renewal of Hope, UIH Family Partners. www.uihfamilypartners.org. A conversation surrounding UIH Family Partners’ recommitment to supporting fathers and father figures in our community. Register via EventBrite. Free. 9:45 a.m.

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

Thursday June 18 In Person South Brunswick Community Blood Drive, St. Augustine Church Gym, 45 Henderson Road, South Brunswick, 800-9332566.. tinyurl.com/GiveBloodNJBS. By appointment only. Face coverings required. 1:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Art

ArtSpires Info Session, Hopewell Valley Arts Council. www.hvartscouncil.org. Information on a new project, “Out of the Ashes - Art Emerging from Fallen Trees,” which seeks individuals and groups to decorate wood spires in honor of the ash trees that have been killed by the emerald ash borer beetle. Register via EventBrite for Zoom link. 7 p.m.

Film Hollywood Streaming Nights, Princeton Garden Theater. www.princetongardentheatre.org.

Hollywood Summer Nights are now Hollywood Streaming Nights.

Join the YouTube live stream to chat with others during “D.O.A.,” a film noir about a man who has ingested a slow-acting poison and races to solve his own murder.

Available for free streaming through June 24. 7:30 p.m.

Literati

Library Live at Labyrinth, Princeton Public Library & Labyrinth Books. www.labyrinthbooks.com.

David Daley, senior fellow at FairVote and the author of “Ratf**ked,” discusses his new book, “Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling back to Save Democracy,” with Sam Wang, Princeton neuroscience professor and cofounder of the Princeton Election Consortium blog and Princeton Gerrymandering Project. Register. 6 p.m.

Good Causes

Virtual Auction Fundraiser, LifeTies. one.bidpal.net/lifeties. Benefit auction for the Ewing-based organization that nurtures wellness and self-sufficiency in vul-

Opportunities

Call for Photos

Mercer County Library is holding a Virtual Amateur Photo Contest. Anyone with a valid Mercer County Library card — excluding professional photographers — is invited to submit unedited, amateur photos between now and Saturday, August 15. Photos will be judged on quality, creativity, and their ability to relate to the theme of people and places. Winners will receive Barnes and Noble gift cards: $50 for first place, $35 for second place, $25 for third place, and $20 for honorable mentions.

Select photos and prize winning entries will be displayed in a virtual exhibition in the month of September. The name of the photographer and the title of each photo will be displayed with the photo. Submissions must be in JPG format, no larger than 1 MB in size, and sent as an email attachment to nmathur@ mcl.org. There is a limit of one entry per person, and each entry nerable youth and young adults.

Bid on items and hear stories from clients. Register. Free. Email info@lifeties.org for more information. 7 p.m.

Gardens

Thursday Night Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, Pennsylvania. www. bhwp.org. Series of guest lectures via Zoom continues with Neotropical Migrants: The Habitat Connection by Mark S. Garland. Register. $12. 7 to 8 p.m.

Lectures

New Jersey’s Changing Climate, 55-Plus Club of Princeton. www. princeton.com/groups/55plus.

Meeting and presentation via Zoom by David Robinson, professor of geography at Rutgers University and, for the past 28 years, New Jersey’s state climatologist.

Free. 10 a.m.

For the Birds: Representing Nature from Saint Francis to Pope Francis, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Karl Kusserow, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art, uses Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on the environment as a starting point to explore the changing representation of his

must include the name, address, phone number, and email address of the contestant as well as the title of the photo.

For more information visit www.mcl.org/virtual-amateurphoto-contest.

Call for Donations The United Way of Greater Mercer County is holding a virtual version of its annual Strike Out Hunger event and is encouraging individuals to join the #bagchallenge. Participants are encouraged to create environmentally friendly bags at home using a clean t-shirt and to then fill the bag with nonperishable food items including canned meats, vegetables, healthy cereals, etc. Curbside food donation drop-offs will take place from June 23 through 30 at various locations in Mercer County including select Starbucks and Investors Bank branches as well as the WPST radio parking lot. For more information, visit www. uwgmc.org/soh. namesake, St. Francis, from the 13th to the 21st century. Zoom link available online. 5:30 p.m.

Socials

Lawrenceville Toastmasters Club, WSP Inc.. lawrenceville. toastmastersclubs.org. Register online for virtual meeting. Noon to 1 p.m.

Art Making, Arts Council of Princeton & Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum. princeton.edu. Artist Barbara DiLorenzo teaches “Drawing: Mark-Making Variations” via Zoom. Free. 8 p.m.

Friday June 19 In Person Park-In Movie, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Parking lot film screening of “Harriet” to be viewed from your car via FM radio frequency. Register. $25 per vehicle. Portion of proceeds benefits the ACLU. 8 p.m.

Gallery Going: Rex Goreleigh in Trenton

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ith regional museums closed and waiting to reopen, we are continuing to remind readers of their important collections by highlighting visual art works you can visit as soon as social distancing practices change and museum doors open.

This week’s pick is Rex Goreleigh’s 1953 “Twins” at the New Jersey State Museum.

Born in Penllyn, Pennsylvania, in 1902, Goreleigh studied art in New York City and was one of the several black-American artists to study in Europe during the Jazz Age era.

As artist and art historian Margaret Rose Vendryes writes, while Goreleigh was acquainted with modern art and artists, he found his voice in traditional representation painting.

Vendryes reports that in 1947 “Goreleigh was invited to Prince-

ton to run the Princeton Group Arts program, an organization established to unify Princeton’s segregated communities by bringing children of all races together and teaching them how to make art.

“His mission was to oversee this modest program, which under his guidance eventually grew to include a chorus, little theater, and creative writing workshops, as well as classes in painting and sculpture.

When the program ended five years later, community members begged him to remain and continue teaching in Princeton.”

Vendryes says “Twins” is “emblematic of Goreleigh’s devotion to children. As a teacher he stressed how ‘good art instruction can fire the child’s mind with an awareness of color and pattern and light and beauty that may enrich his entire life.’”

The artist died in 1986.

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Virtual Stage Set for Scenic Artist’s Princeton Talk

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hile regional artist Susan DeConcini says she is not someone who does a good job about talking about her art, she thinks it is “really cool” that she was invited by the Arts Council of Princeton to participate in its monthly virtual conversation series between artists and curators.

DeConcini’s talk with art collector and ACP past president Timothy M. Andrews is set for Tuesday, June 23, at 7 p.m.

She said she was selected in part because it helps preview her exhibition set for late March, 2021, at the council’s Paul Robeson Center for the Arts on Witherspoon Street — one that complements her smaller, recent 2019 winter exhibition at the Princeton Public Library.

She says the invitation was basically a call with the questions, “Do you want to talk about your watercolors?

Yet the caller could have also asked if the artist wanted to talk about her painted works using piano and latex, her work using plastered wood and resin, or her 14-year career as a scenic designer painter at McCarter Theater, which began when she showed up with a portfolio a year after she graduated from college.

But watercolor painting is a good place to start.

“A lot of my watercolors are about understanding how to paint things,” she says during a recent interview.

“As a scenic artist I need to be a jack of all trades. So if someone comes to me and says I need clouds, I have to know how to paint clouds.

A lot of my watercolors are about learning how to paint things.”

Another watercolor-scenery connection is her approach to painting the surface material.

“Painting on muslin (the fabric used for scenery) is like painting watercolors. You can’t make mistakes. You can’t mess it up. It has to be right.”

Then again, she is ready to talk about that “other stuff.”

In contrast to her bright and lively water and sky images, she produces moody charcoal drawings and works on wood inspired by the faces that seem to emerge from the pieces of wood used at McCarter and found in the discard pile.

There is also her “Piano Series,” works created on the remains of old pianos that had been dismantled for use in a McCarter production.

“I loved the age and history of the pieces,” she says in a statement about them. “They were remnants from several different pianos. I imagined the piano lessons, performances, composing, and general goofing around that likely occurred on them. Instead of just painting

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anything on the wood, I felt led to pull out some of the essences of the piano, how it makes us feel, the people it makes us think of.”

She adds, “This series explores the faces of some of the great pianists and composers, but also pieces of music themselves, and the keyboard as our connection to the music made.”

Accordingly the viewer will find images of Mozart, Debussy, Chopin, and others as well as musical passages.

Here the artist also bypasses the subtlety of watercolor and uses the high-quality latex scenery paint McCarter uses to render the images.

The resin and piano works “are

While the majority of DeConcini’s work is connected to nature, like her leaf series, she says she also gets inspiration from looking at online images. ‘I’m inspired by hundreds of people working today,’ she says. more about experimentation, while my watercolors are about understanding,” she says.

Living in Lambertville with her husband, Grant Larouere, a prop builder at McCarter, DeConcini originally comes from outside the Camden region and studied theater and art in the Midwest.

She credits her career choice to become a set painter to her mechanic father, Frank DeConcini.

“My dad is part of the reason I love theater. He loves live theater. The first show he ever saw was ‘West

Susan DeConcini, above, appears in conversation with the Arts Council on June 23. Her work includes painted pasta, above right, and watercolors such as ‘Translucent Blue,’ below right.

Side Story’ and he loved it. So it was something we did together. We would go to school plays. We would go to New York to doubleheader Broadway shows.”

She also credits her father for the way she approaches her work.

“Since he owns his machine shop, he has to plan how something will work. I paint the same way.”

To illustrate that point, DeConcini says she researches the subject of a painting so she has “a general idea where it is going to go.”

The research involves sketching — she travels with a notebook — and sometimes photographs, taken by her or public domain images.

For the watercolor paintings of water, she says she applies a base of color, maps the design, and uses a combination of masking and color wash to get the desired effect.

Despite a bachelor’s in theater and scenic design and minor in fine arts, she says she has never had watercolor lessons and calls herself self-taught.

While the majority of her work is connected to nature, like her leaf series, she says she also gets inspiration from looking at online images.

“I’m inspired by hundreds of people working today,” she says.

However, two contemporaries readily come to mind.

“Dinotopia” series illustrator James Gurney is the first. And

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Kids Stuff

Virtually Yours: Rachel Cheung Piano Recital, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival.org. WWFM 89.1 broadcasts a performance from the 2019 Princeton Festival.

Visit website for full Virtually Yours calendar of events. 8 p.m.

Dragons: Return of the Ice Sorceress, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. ScienceTellers, a team of teaching artists, presents a video adaptation of their show that combines science and storytelling. Kick-off for the library’s summer reading program. Register. 4 to 5 p.m.

Food & Dining

From Sicily to Your Living Room, Eno Terra Restaurant & Enoteca. www.terramomo.com. Eno Terra and Soilair Selections co-host an online wine tasting with Firriato Winery from the foot of Mt. Etna. Purchase a three-pack of Firriato wines for access to the tasting event. 4 p.m.

Kitchen Remedies: Aromatics, The Suppers Programs. www.thesuppersprograms.org. Join herbalist Tish Streeten for a webinar focused on oregano, basil, cilantro, garlic, cayenne, dill, and parsley. Register. Free. Donation requested. 4 to 5 p.m.

Lectures

In Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates, McCarter Theater. www.mccarter.org.

Joyce Carol Oates, author of novel, short stories, essays, and plays, joins McCarter Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann to share stories on their on their lives as writers and friends. Register.

4:30 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Friday Morning Nature Hike, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org.

Take a weekly hike via Facebook Live.

while she says the “geek” in her likes Gurney’s boldly colored dinosaurs, her real connection comes from observing his technique of using ink drawings with gouache — as shown on his online videos.

The other, Montana sculptor Beth Cavener, attracts her with “sketchy” wild animal works that convey a sense of energy.

Since COVID-19 closed McCarter, DeConcini says she has been spending the time “basically making stuff all day long. I felt for my mental health I had to make something every day.”

Some of her self-generated projects are whimsical. That includes designing a fantasy motif to an indoor aquarium. And there is also making “painted” pasta from scratch. She says she makes the dough, rolls and slices it, and puts a portion in beet juice to color it.

Hikes will highlight seasonal wonders and encourage the viewer to find nature near their homes and in their heart. Free at www. facebook.com/theH2Oshed. 10 a.m.

Saturday June 20 In Person Farmers Market, Montgomery Friends of Open Space, Village Shopping Center, 1340 Route 206 South, Skillman, 609-9150817. www.montgomeryfriends.org. Jersey Fresh produce and farm products, baked goods, chicken, eggs, sausage, and more.

One person per family. Face covering and social distancing required. 9 a.m. to noon.

Pennington Farmers Market, Rosedale Mills, 101 Route 31, Pennington. www. penningtonfarmersmarket.org. Face masks

Then she arranges the dish with layers of color and herbs and cooks it.

A more serious activity is using her website, where existing and new work can be viewed and purchased (prices range from $35 to $650) with a percentage going to timely causes: the Equal Justice Initiative and the NAACP legal Defense and Educational Fund.

And then there is the steady work of being an artist and her preparation for next year’s exhibition. “A lot of stuff happens between the summer and March,” she says. “So it’s about inspiration.

And right now, it’s painting water.”

In Conversation with Susan DeConcini, Arts Council of Princeton. Tuesday, June 23, 7 to 8 p.m. Free. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.

required for everyone over age 2. Social distancing measures in place. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, Princeton Junction Train Station. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and more. Yes We Can! food drive ongoing. Face masks required. Bring your own bags. Limit of two shoppers per family. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Carpool Cinema, Acme Screening Room, 204 North Union Street, Lambertville. www. acmescreeningroom.org. Parking lot screening of Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs.” Opening act J.B. Kline with live music. Register. $40 per car. 8 p.m.

Park-In Movie, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www. musicmountaintheatre.org. Parking lot film screening of “Harriet” to be viewed from your car via FM radio frequency. Register.

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Artists Take the Wheel and More to Deliver Culture

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he curtain of the region’s 2020 summer cultural season rose to reveal a setting unlike any seen before.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the State of New Jersey’s productive but painful response to it by closing performing art venues and galleries of all stripes has wreaked havoc on the arts.

Self-employed individuals regularly hired for short engagements or commissions and staff members of cultural organizations both great and small are looking at blank calendars, closed until further notice signs, and hemorrhaging bank accounts.

While government and philanthropic entities have been swift to develop programs to provide relief to relief for artists and groups and the state has cautiously reopened some cultural venues, the very real threat of a deadly virus with no vaccine is casting a shadow over future engagements, presentations, gallery gatherings, and income.

And although virtual or digital presentations have become a lifeline for the arts community to show its presence, the presentation of most art is in the here and now. So the virtual versions for many are a temporary fix.

Despite the potential that this fix may also contribute to developing an audience that prefers easy, comfortable viewing from home rather than going to a venue, there is a hope that things will return to normal.

But without a vaccine the idea of getting back to normal is more than remote, it’s dangerous — as a look of the history of pandemics will tell anyone who wants to know.

And if that idea isn’t scary enough, there are growing legal considerations — just as realtors are having people sign COVID-19 related forms safeguarding against lawsuits for placing individuals in unsafe situations.

So it isn’t a surprise that artists and arts presenters are starting to reimagine the presentation of art.

One such innovation is the appearance of drive-in performances.

Using the model of drive-in movie theaters — incidentally a New Jersey innovation — socially distanced concerts and performances occur in front of an audience of car drivers and passengers who hear the concert by setting

their car radios to the concert’s dial number.

Such concerts have already been produced in Europe as well as in several American states where active drive-in movie theaters still exit. There is only one such theater left in the New Jersey, and that is in Vineland.

While a Toms River tavern with music recently began presenting these concerts in a parking area that could host 40-cars, the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey, is presenting two drive-in events at Monmouth Park in Oceanport.

The Asbury Park/Bruce Springsteen-connected Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes band appears on Saturday, July 11, to an already sold-out concert. Comedian Jim Gaffigan gives a live onstage presentation on Sunday, July 12.

According to the Count Basie info, there is a basic ticket price per vehicle ($150 and $165 respectively) and the show is available only in digital format.

‘Plagues have closed theaters before. And they reopen, often stronger than before,’ McCarter’s Emily Mann said. ‘Shakespeare wrote ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Lear,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ during his quarantine, his finest work. I am excited to see what the future brings to our beloved and besieged art form after this period of enforced meditation.’

Other information shows how this is different from the old-time drive-in movie experience. The maximum occupancy per car is four, and ticket buyers are warned that violators will be turned away without compensation. Cars must be parked nine feet apart and staggered for viewing. Patrons can only leave their vehicles to use the

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And portable, single-stall restrooms will be cleaned between patrons.

A reviewer for a recent European concert gave the radio sound and social feel of the concert a thumbs down. But thumbs went up on the performer/audience connection. Instead of applauding, audience members honked car horns.

Recently Advanced Media News shared veteran New Jersey concert promoter John Scherhe’s thoughts on the subject: “On a certain level, I think it’s a brilliant idea. People will not have the same experience you’d have at a regular show with the comradeship you have with an audience, when you’re standing or sitting next to each other. But I think it’s a better experience than streaming concerts online. It gives you some sense of an audience. The band would actually be live. I think it’s worth an experiment.”

Elsewhere in New Jersey, The Lighthouse International Film Festival is using the Jersey drive-in model to launch its 12th festival.

As promotion materials say, “This year’s unprecedented event will run from Tuesday, June 16, through Saturday, June 20, at a variety of locations around Long Beach Island, ensuring a secure environment for watching new, exciting cinema on a big screen from the safety of one’s own car.”

A pass for the 80-film festival is $49. Films ranging from shorts to features will be held in a drive-in format.

And OperaDelaware in Wilmington recently presented “DriveThrough Arias,” three sets of parking lot performances. The 15 to 20-minute presentations featured four professionals performing for an audience of up to 10 cars. Admission was $25 per car. One reviewer said it wasn’t the optimal way to present the music but added that until audiences could gather in the theater, “let’s hope for more programs like this.”

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n addition to concerts and film festivals, visual artists are seeing that cars, bicycles, and even walking can connect audiences and art.

In Princeton artists Mic Boekelmann, Robin Resch, Vince Bush, and Mary Waltham — all members of the recently formed Princeton Artist Directory — are participating in the international art initiative Art-in-Place.

Based on the model of a since deceased Chicago-area art promoter who hosted art exhibitions on her property, the concept has been carried on by another city group, CNL, which currently lists nearly 300 artists displaying original work outside or from a window in their homes.

Waltham says she learned about the initiative from a New Jersey State Council on the Arts opportunity posting and sent it out the other artists who signed up for the registry.

“I love the idea,” she says about her involvement. “At the moment I have an exhibit at the Princeton Public Library, and no one can see it. This is outside (on Springdale Road) and people are walking and driving by, so it was something to see. I had a mural up since the fall, so I refurbished it and added a fox and flowers.”

It is also a work in progress.

“When the news has been unusually grim I put flowers out, and people stop and take photos. They say, ‘I love that,’ and I smile. Peo-

ple can connect to (the work’s figures) emotionally. That’s what we’re all after.”

The current exhibition continues through June 20. Go to www. cnlprojects.org/artinplace for more information.

“Drive-By-Art (Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing)” is another project that has viewers visiting the artists.

Conceived by post-conceptual artist and writer Warren Neidich, Drive-By-Art exhibitions have been organized in Long Island, New York, where approximately 50 professional artists participated, and Los Angeles, California, with more than 120.

The project works similarly to coordinated open studio weekends with online maps with stops and artists information (but no images of the work). Learn more at www. drive-by-art.org.

But not everything is happening in the car. In May the nation saw its first socially distanced live rock concert with an actual audience performed an Arkansas theater.

Bishop Gun rock-n-roll band musician Travis McCready reduced the Temple Live performing venue’s 1,100 capacity theater by 80 percent to sell 229 distancecomplying seats.

Concert attendees arriving at the old Masonic temple were required to wear masks and have their temperature taken, and they were directed to walk in one-way directions through the venue.

Other precautions called for limiting the number of people using the bathrooms, where all soap and towel dispensers were automatic.

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hen there are groups experimenting with the digital and making new art from it.

The New Jersey Symphony, for example, has recently commissioned a new work designed to be performed by musicians playing remotely.

What makes the work even more significant is that composer and conductor Jose Luis Dominguez’s “Gratias Tibi” (Thank You) is rooted in the present. The work is dedicated to the pandemic frontline workers who have kept the nation alive during the current crisis.

Accompanied by the Montclair

While galleries are closed, a mural by Princeton artist Mary Waltham is on view for anyone who drives or walks along Springdale Road.

State University Singers, the NJSO will premiere the work on Monday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. It will then be available on the NJSO website at www.njsymphony.org. (See related story, page 11.)

All of the above new approaches and even potentially new forms of art are something akin to what Princeton-based playwright and past McCarter Theater artistic director Emily Mann recently mentioned to a Los Angeles Times reporter about the future of theater — and art in general.

“I do not believe we are ever ‘going back to normal,’ if that means returning to making theater the way we did before the pandemic.”

Instead, she suggested that the current situation “demands asking the essential question — is theater necessary? Just as we did in the ’60s and ’70s, inspired by Peter Brook’s ‘The Empty Space’ and Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘Towards a Poor Theatre,’ we will have to strip down to what is fundamental to making great theater. Some of the most important work of the 20th century came out of this movement.”

Additional, she noted, “Plagues have closed theaters before. And they reopen, often stronger than before. Shakespeare wrote ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Lear,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ during his quarantine, his finest work. I am excited to see what the future brings to our beloved and besieged art form after this period of enforced meditation.

We will have to demonstrate why we are necessary.”

Yet in order for that to happen, artists and audiences will have to accept the new landscape and embrace the new way of doing old things.

And most importantly remember that art making happens through human beings — who also need to make a living.

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rtist Megan Uhaze submited “Isolation Contemplation 2020,” a mixed media composition on paper, that has been featured in the Trenton City Museum’s online exhibition “The Art of Sheltering in Place.” The following statement accompanied her work.

As an artist, this quarantine experience has been interesting for me. As a professional artist and painter my main medium is paint from the automotive and industrial industry on hard board. I spray, airbrush, and hand paint my pieces in layers to create a detailed yet graphic and sharp image. These paints can be toxic and not the best to inhale so I take precautions regularly.

I was excited to find out this past November that I was pregnant and my husband and I are expecting our first child this July. This news had already sent me into a different mode as I can no longer do my regular work as the materials are to toxic while pregnant, then my life was changed again as an artist when me and my husband quarantined ourselves in our home like so many others.

This experience has made me experiment, work outside the box, try new materials, explore new paths and it has been one I have truly enjoyed. Not only am I working primarily at home and not in my studio, but I am having to be inventive, and work with materials that are safer for me and baby.

I’ve been creating and exploring works on paper, with pen and ink, acrylic, watercolor and other mediums. I’ve been pushing myself to explore new subject matter particularly the human form which is

$25 per vehicle. Portion of proceeds benefits the ACLU. 8 p.m.

Pop Music

Virtually Yours: Live Musical Theater Revue, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival.org.

Singers perform their favorite tunes from musicals such as “Beauty and the Beast,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “My Fair Lady,” and more.Visit website for full Virtually Yours calendar of events. 8 p.m.

Film

Saturday Night at the Movies: Chicago, Mercer County Library. www.facebook.com/ mclsnj. Borrow the featured title from the Hoopla catalog with a Mercer County Library card and watch it in the virtual company of your community. 8 p.m.

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something I don’t portray often.

I’m still able to use vibrant color and a graphic style which is a common theme in my paintings. I think this time of isolation has given me the opportunity to just create and to not worry about the outcome, its liberating.

Besides working for myself as a painter, I am also a fulltime artist for the Seward Johnson Atelier in Hamilton. Working from home for my company at the moment has of-

fered its share of fun opportunities as well. I gave a process lecture on the creation of sculpture over Zoom to 88 docents and volunteers from the Grounds For Sculpture. This quarantine has forced art companies as well as artists to push boundaries and be creative in new ways, I’m excited to see what new methods from this time we carry into the future.

Submit artwork to dan@princetoninfo.com.

Demystifying Oscar, Music Mountain Theater, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org.

William Hammerstein, grandson of Oscar Hammerstein, the composer of musicals including “Oklahoma!,” “Carousel,” and “South Pacific,” leads a fireside chat about his grandfather’s early years, including family stories and photos. Audience Q&A follows.

First in a two-part series continuing June 27. Register for Zoom link. $50 per household. 3 p.m.

Schools

Virtual Open House, The Coder School, 21 Belle Mead Griggstown Road, Montgomery. montgomery.thecoderschool. com. Learn about after school and summer coding programs for kids.

Register via EventBrite.

Novelist Joyce Carol Oates appears in conversation with Emily Mann of McCarter Theater on Friday, June 19. Her latest novel, ‘Night.

Sleep. Death. The Stars’ was released

by Ecco/Harper Collins this month and is an examination of cultural identity that explores the aftermath of the death of a white man who had intervened in a police assault on a ‘darkskinned’ man.

Sports for Causes Virtual Solstice Run, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Choose from a virtual 15k, 10k, or 5k or a family oriented 1-mile fun run/dog walk with your favorite family members or companions. Participants may also choose the Ultra by signing up for the 15k plus the 10k or 5k.

Register. $20 to $50 includes a bib, t-shirt, and digital certificate of completion.

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

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

This is an opportunity to have your work published in hard-copy form and to be recognized in public for your effort.

To participate, submit your previously unpublished short story, play, or poem as soon as possible. Please: No more than two stories or five poems per writer.

Work will be considered for publication on a rolling basis.

Please submit work by e-mail to fiction@princetoninfo.com.

Authors retain all rights.

Preference will be given to central New Jersey writers whose work addresses a theme or place relevant to the greater Princeton business community. Submissions from children are not encouraged.

Questions?

E-mail fiction@princetoninfo.com or call 609-452-7000.

Important: Be sure to include a brief biographical summary with your submission, along with your name, address, and daytime phone number.

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he New Jersey Sympho- were recorded on a variety of inny Orchestra’s premiere of a new struments and devices, digitally work on Monday, June 22, will homogenized them for quality. touch our current times in more Then the composer/conductor ways than one. and engineer arranged the work The work, “Gratias Tibi” (thank based on the timing supplied by the you), is dedicated to those who metronome. have been on the front lines of “I had to do the math,” says keeping our culture and ourselves Dominguez about assembling he alive during the current pandemic. work.

Since concerts are banned durHe also had to anticipate things ing this time, the work will be that were missing from a traditionstreamed. al rehearsal. “Sometimes in music And the work composed by you use verbal requirements. I had Chilean-born composer and NJSO to put that down in the paper where conductor Jose Luis Dominguez they wouldn’t need input. was created to conform to social “Doing this (type of perfordistancing pracmance) is very tices through challenging, current technoleven for the best Jose Luis Dominogy. of musicians. guez’s ‘Gratias Tibi’ is “Every single It’s not demanddedicated to those musician and ing technically, singer had to replaying who have been on the but cord apart and without anyone front lines of keeping alone in their else is out of the our culture and ourhomes,” says comfort zone.

Dominguez durMusicians tuneselves alive during ing a recent inin better when the current pandemic. terview. “They they are playing followed a metwith others.” ronome without Dominguez hearing anyone else.” says the “not demanding” approach Dominguez says he sent each was to keep the work from not bemusician an email with scores con- ing a showcase for him or the musitaining their specific part as well as cians but to be focused on a simple the full seven-minute work, com- thank you. posed for a full orchestra and choir.

He says it also allowed him to Musicians from the NJSO were work in a traditional manner to joined by the Montclair State Uni- evoke emotion through phrasing. versity Singers for the recording.

The piece uses three Latin The musicians then visually and phrases expressing thanks: Gratias audibly recorded themselves play- tibi, Gratias agimus tibi (We give ing their parts and digitally re- you thanks), and Et nos sumus in turned them NJSO engineer Daniel perpetuum gratus (And we are forGraziano. ever grateful). Latin was chosen He, in turn, created a data bank because it is considered a universal of parts and voices and, since they language.

Sunday June 21 Father’s Day.

Classical Music Virtually Yours: John Adams’ Nixon in China, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival.org.

Live stream of the opera production from the 2019 Princeton Festival. Visit website for full Virtually Yours calendar of events. 1 p.m.

For Teens

Teen Talk: No Day But Today, Jewish Center of Princeton. www.thejewishcenter.org. Scott Fried, HIV/AIDS educator, talks about the lessons he learned from his support group, the one on which the musical “RENT” is based, to answer the question of how experiencing a past pandemic can help inform us today. Register via email to sdiamondstein@ thejewishcenter.org. 6 p.m.

Daily updates on TWitter @princetoninfo

Monday June 22 Classical Music Gratias Tibi Premiere, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. www. njso.org. World premiere of a new commission by Chilean-born composer Jose Luis Dominguez created for a physically distanced orchestra and choir. 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday June 23 Food & Dining Nutritional Strategies to Reduce the Impact of Stress, The Suppers Programs. www.thesuppersprograms.org. Presentation by Adi Benito, board certified endocrinologist. Register. Free. Donation requested. 4 to 5 p.m.

Lectures

In Conversation, Arts Council of Princeton. www.artscouncilof-

“Those phrases allowed me to develop the piece. Different vowels can be extended by the choir for emotion. The orchestra and voices blend in a religious way,” he says.

The composer says the idea for the piece began to grow when the orchestra began cancelling performances and programs.

As a conductor in the NJSO Academy Youth Orchestra, Dominguez says, “the first thing we did was to keep the academy orchestra running. The reason was to keep students working and to put content out there with hope and beauty.”

Meanwhile, the NJSO was streaming concerts from their sites, and Dominguez told the organization’s director of artistic planning, Patrick Chamberlain, he was avail-

able to help. “And suddenly this idea came up,” says Dominguez.

“Never in my life had I ever thought of anything like this,” he says about the work he wrote in five days in mid-April.

And while other orchestras can be seen online playing existing scores, Dominguez says, “We wanted to do something from scratch.”

“Having the technology today to create a piece where we couldn’t get together — our responsibility as artists is to do it and get it out there,” even though it is nothing like a live concert experience.

Under the circumstances, he says, “It helps us keep going and reach the community.”

But more importantly, it is also “a huge attempt to thank our heal-

princeton.org. Lambertville-based scenic artist Susan DeConcini appears in conversation over Zoom with Timothy Andrews, an art collector and Arts Council supporter.

Free. Register. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

composer David Seamon, and actor and producer Christopher Pasi. Register. Pay what you can. $5 per person suggested. Proceeds benefit participating artists.

7 p.m.

Wednesday June 24 Art Online Artist Meetups, BSB Gallery. www.bsbgallery.com. Join curators Aine Mickey and Christy E. O’Connor to discuss your current work in progress and provide feedback via Zoom. 6 to 7 p.m.

On Stage

Uncle Vanya, Actors’ NET of Bucks County. www.actorsnetbucks.org. YouTube release of a past production of Anton Chekhov’s bittersweet comedy about dysfunction and longings.

Beta Fest, coLAB Arts, New Brunswick. www.colab-arts.org.

Five creative teams present new live works of digital storytelling using different online platforms.

Team leaders include playwright Karuna Lynne Elson, writer and

Kids Stuff

Meet the Animals, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Join Watershed Educator Samantha Bernstein as she feeds some of the resident animals. Free on www.facebook. com/theH2Oshed. 11 a.m.

The world premiere of ‘Gratias Tibi’ by composer and conductor Jose Luis Dominguez, pictured above, takes place Monday, June 22. Photo by Fred Stucker. ers.”

The world premiere of “Gratias Tibi” takes place Monday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. at www.njsymphony. org/gratiastibi and on the NJSO’s social media channels. Videos of the performance will be posted after the performance. For more on information: www.njsymphony. org/gratiastibi.

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

For Seniors

Elder Justice Forum: Lifting Up Voices, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Presentations by Bayard Rustin Center, WomanSpace, and Certified Wealth Management and Investment. 10:30 a.m.

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A Jersey Diner Moves On

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iners are part of our mythology; everyone from New Jersey grows up with the culture of diners ingrained as part of life.” — Michael C. Gabriele, author of “The History of Diners in New Jersey.”

Yes, it’s true that New Jersey is still the diner capital of the world.

But that reputation has been slowly fading over the years. Those in the know credit Jerry O’Mahony of Bayonne, New Jersey, as the inventor of the 20th-century diner, and his company alone built more than 2,000 of the prefabricated beauties between 1917 and 1956. Today, according to author and diner historian Gabriele, more than 500 diners still dot the highways and byways of the Garden State.

One iconic stainless steel, chrome, and Formica beauty that’s no longer with us is the Americana Diner, a beacon of piping hot coffee and good eats that beckoned hungry travelers with its “Time to Dine” sign along Route 130 in East Windsor for years.

And owner Constantine Katsifis couldn’t be more pleased.

Katsifis, 49, grew up in East Brunswick and currently lives in Cranbury with his family of four children, three boys and a girl, who range in age from nineteen to six.

His wife, Helen, is a medical professional. Helen’s mom is part of the family as well.

For the past few years he has been overseeing a total makeover of the property that has been in his family since his father purchased the Americana in 1988, formerly known as the Copper Bell Diner and Restaurant when it was built 10 years earlier. Following a stint at Rutgers studying engineering, young Constantine went to work for his father and purchased the diner from his father soon after, determined to turn the then-flagging business around.

What’s emerged after several iterations over the years is the Americana Bar & Kitchen (ABK), a 15,000-square-foot architecturally stunning edifice that eschews the ersatz space age materials and garish Jetsons color palate of the 20th century (not to mention that “Time to Dine” sign) and replaced them with an understated, aesthetically pleasing mix of brick, natural wood, leather, cloth, and polished concrete in soothing earth tones.

Keeping “Americana” in the name was a priority for Katsifis in the re-branding of his restaurant and was the source of the inspiration for the new design. “It’s been part of the name for many years,” he says, “and the quintessential American architect is Frank Lloyd Wright, so we were inspired by his work, specifically the Robie House, a favorite of mine. It’s a perfect building; the overhang of the roof, the horizontal brickwork, the use of natural materials. So that became ‘Americana’ to us.”

(Note: Built between 1909 and

With Constantine Katsifis, left, as owner, the Americana Diner, above, has been transformed into the Americana Kitchen and Bar, top left. It re-opened for outdoor dining on June 16.

by George Point

Time to Dine — Outside

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he Americana has offered takeout and delivery of regular menu items during the state-enforced shutdown of restaurants due to COVID-19. It has also offered a drive-in real food market in its lot. This week it joined the party of New Jersey restaurants reopening for outdoor dining at limited capacity. Tuesdays through Saturdays the restaurant will pub/cafe service beginning 1910, the Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S. National Historic Landmark now on the campus of the University of Chicago in the South Side neighborhood of Hyde Park in Chicago, Illinois.)

Katsifis notes that the design work was the brainchild of Josh Nathanson, whom he worked with on the first redesign of the Americana in 1995 and a 2001 addition, and on two other projects, the Skylark in Edison and the Colonial

‘The diner is my first love, but I believe the concept of what a diner is can evolve, just as other culinary concepts evolve over time,’ Katsifis says. ‘It can give you the freedom to be open breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and within that constraint you can do anything.’

Diner on Route 18 in East Brunswick. He says he has since sold both properties.

One other iconic signifier of the location’s past life that was jettisoned in the makeover was the word “Diner” in the name.

“Unfortunately it seemed that while I was trying to move the diner in a different direction, I was virtually alone in doing that, and that’s a pretty dangerous place to be,” Katsifis explains.

“I had not served traditional diner food for 15 years, but I had people coming in with a certain expectation about what a diner is and telling me what a diner is supposed to be, so I had to drop ‘diner’ for a name that enables me to be more flexible in what I offer. There are restaurants called ‘kitchens’ that are Michelin-starred restaurants and others that are community pubs.”

While there are still menu items on offer that would be familiar to

at 9 a.m., with breakfast items available until 4 p.m. The full bar is available.

A “Sunday Brunch Experience” will be offered Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. including house-made pastries, a choice of entrees, and a dessert tasting plate. Reservations are recommended.

Beginning Tuesday, June 23, AKB will offer a “Dinner Experience” starting nightly at 5 p.m. and featuring a three- to fivecourse tasting menu prepared by chef Bobby Varua. Reservations are required. hardcore diner aficionados, such as pancakes, bacon and eggs, and a very decent cup of coffee (sourced from Lacas Coffee Company in South Jersey), the presence of a Grain Bowl containing farro, quinoa, chickpeas, black beans, queso fresco, red onions, and cilantro ($10, gluten-free and vegan) or a serving of Trilogy Organic Kombucha from California ($4.50) might cause a bit of head-scratching on the part of non-foodies.

Katsifis acknowledges that the current menu is part of an evolution in his thinking that has been taking place over a number of years. “In the early days, my interest in business came before my passion for what’s on the plate,” he says. “But over time I’ve developed a strong interest in sustainability; where food comes from, how it’s prepared, sustainable living wages for employees, all those things.

“When I started working with Craig Shelton (Noted James Beard Award winning chef and chef/owner of the critically acclaimed Ryland Inn in the 1990s) at the Skylark in Edison in 2009, it was my first opportunity to have a mentor in this industry. Prior to that I was struggling to figure things out on my own, go to restaurant shows, learn by trial and error. It wasn’t until I started working with Craig that my approach to running a restaurant became a more integrated process.

“I asked him if he’d help me for a little while, to help me rethink what we were trying to accomplish with the diner,” he continues. “We were in the midst of a pretty deep financial crisis at the time, it seemed like demand for fine dining was a bit soft, and we had a nice synergy going, and have had a very successful collaboration.”

Katsifis says he sold the Skylark in 2015 so he could turn his full attention to the next incarnation of the Americana. “I wanted to focus on getting away from the diner,” he explains. “The diner is my first love, but I believe the concept of what a diner is can evolve, just as other culinary concepts evolve over time. It can give you the freedom to be open breakfast, lunch,

and dinner, and within that constraint you can do anything. You can bake your own bread, use organic flour to make pasta, serve grass-fed beef, and evolve your menu as your community changes.

Patrons of classic Jersey diners will especially notice the changes to the dinner menu. ABK’s eclectic “Regular” dinner offerings range from $16 to $27, and include decidedly non-diner preparations such as grilled branzino served with sweet peas, leeks, shiitake mushrooms, and mustard seed vinaigrette ($25).

One splurge, on the “Prime” section of the menu is a 50-day dryaged, bone-in prime strip steak.

The 16-ounce cut, served with fingerling potatoes and garlic butter, is priced at $45.

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BK also sports a cozy bar and offers a well-chosen selection of cocktails and beer. Katsifis is particularly proud of ABK’s wine selection and his approach to pricing a bottle of wine. A wall of wine in a temperature-controlled glass case is a feature of the new interior, and a counter-height wine table/ community table of polished concrete and wood in front of the cooler seats up to 18 guests and is used for tasting dinners, wine tastings, and open seating during Sunday brunch.

“We went from a very humble wine list to trying to have the best wine list in the state,” he says. “The wine list has Craig (Shelton) written all over it.” Shelton is listed as “Wine Director” on AKB’s website.

“His concept, which we adopted completely, is that wine is food, meant to be enjoyed,” Katsifis says. “A bottle of wine is essentially a retail sale, and the traditional markup of three times or so is not appropriate. You’ll find wine on our list that’s priced between 10 and 15 percent of what you’d find in a nice wine shop. We don’t punish our guests for wanting to enjoy wine with their meal.”

A scan of AKB’s “interactive” wine list bears Katsifis out. Among the Malbecs, a 2017 Cepas de Familia ($25) retails for $17 at one online merchant, a 2015 Vinya Cobos ‘Bramaren Lujan de Cuyo’ ($62) was found online at one NJ retailer for $40. And Roderer Estate Brut, a highly regarded sparkling wine from California is listed on AKB’s website for $26, just a few dollars above its typical retail price.

Although the 15,000-squarefoot building is finished, Katsifis notes that additional site work and improvements to the parking lot remain. The construction took more than two years, at a cost he pegs at over $2 million. Seating in the main dining area has actually been reduced from 345 to 250 comfortably spaced seats, plus a covered patio seating an additional 100 or so guests. Two soundproofed private event spaces have been added that are equipped to handle meetings, seminars, lunches, holiday events, community social events and the like.

And he hasn’t completely forsaken guests who still wax nostalgic about the heyday of the old Americana Diner. They can feast on AKB’s Classic Jersey Sandwich of grilled pork-roll, fried egg, cheddar, lettuce, and tomato on a housebaked roll, accompanied by gravy fries ($11). Time to dine!

Americana Kitchen & Bar, 359 Route 130, East Windsor. 609448-4477. www.americanakitchenandbar.com

Three Area Diners That Bit the Dust

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hat do the Glenmoor Diner, Greenline Diner, and Clarksville Diner have in common? Area residents with a long memory may recall all three as long-gone popular roadside eateries. The Glenmoor disappeared when the Penns Neck traffic circle was “improved.”

The Greenline in Princeton (renamed the American) was destroyed by fire in 1990.

The Clarksville met what is perhaps the most interesting, and circuitous, fate. Also starting out at the Penns Neck Circle (the intersection of Washington Road and Brunswick Pike) circa 1940, it was moved three times before finally being sold and moved to Iowa, restored (twice, thanks to an encounter with a car with a drunk driver at the wheel) and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December, 1993.

But the Clarksville’s journey didn’t end there. It was purchased

by French media giant Canal+ in 1998 and shipped across the Atlantic to France. Wedged between two skyscrapers along the Seine, you can view an image of the Clarksville in France at https://tinyurl. com/y3ydowbh. (Source: West Windsor Historical Society).

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Life in the Fast Lane Chamber CEO Crowley to Retire Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, 600 Alexander Road, Suite 3-2, Princeton 08540. 609924-1776. Peter Crowley, president and CEO. www. princetonmercerchamber. org.

Peter Crowley, who has led the Princeton Mercer Chamber as president and CEO since 2008, has announced that he will retire from the role at the end of 2020.

His tenure saw the chamber grow to one of the largest in the state, culminating in the 2018 merger of the Princeton Regional Chamber and the MIDJersey Chamber to become the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber. Prior to joining the chamber he was the founding president and CEO of the Bank of Princeton.

“One of the greatest rewards of my career has been serving as CEO of the chamber,” Crowley said in a statement. “It is such a pleasure to represent our clients, who fuel our economy and create jobs. And despite the unprecedented times in which we find ourselves, the financial strength, quality of programming, and commitment and excellence of our staff, the PMRC is well positioned for continued success.”

The chamber’s board of directors will lead the search for his replacement.

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The four CPAs from William J. Keephart, which focuses on small and medium-sized business and individuals, will join Prager Metis’ Cranbury office.

Management Moves Educational Testing Service, Rosedale Road, Princeton 08541. 609-921-9000. Walt MacDonald, CEO. www.ets. org.

Educational Testing Service (ETS), the developer of learning and assessment tools, has appointed Kara McWilliams as general manager of research laboratories within its R&D division.

In her role at ETS McWilliams will advance the use of research conducted there into practical applications and solutions that benefit learners and educators. She will also oversee the introduction of three new research labs: artificial intelligence in workplace and edu-

cational assessment; language learning, teaching and assessment technologies; and learning analytics and personalized learning.

“I am excited to build on the decades of rigorous research at ETS and be part of the continued transformation of this work,” McWilliams said in a statement. “I look forward to leading teams that will integrate learning sciences with user needs to produce learning solutions, allowing the organization to continue to advance education and provide opportunities for all learners worldwide.”

Prior to joining ETS McWilliams was vice president of learning science and impact research at Macmillan Learning. She earned a bachelor’s in political science and history from the College of the Holy Cross. At Boston College she received a master’s in teaching, curriculum and instruction and a PhD in educational research, measurement, and evaluation.

Mathematica Policy Research, 600 Alexander Park, Suite 100, Princeton 08540.

609-799-3535. Paul Decker, president and CEO. www. mathematica.org.

Jaideep Bajaj has been appointed to the board of directors of Mathematica, the nonpartisan public policy research firm. Bajaj is the chairman of ZS Associates Inc., an Illinois-based professional services firm with offices in Carnegie Center. In that role he advises senior leaders in the pharmaceutical and health care industries on sales and marketing issues.

“Jaideep has a long track record of driving customer value and delivering impact,” said Paul Decker, Mathematica president and CEO. “He’s a partner committed to working side by side with you to ask the right questions and uncover insights that lead to better decisions.”

“Mathematica is a partner committed to getting it right using the

Kara McWilliams, left, is the new general manager of research laboratories at ETS. Jaideep Bajaj has joined the board of Mathematica. best technologies and processes to design solutions that work in the real world,” said Bajaj. “I look forward to collaborating with the company’s leaders to help their clients progress and thrive.”

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Windsor Corporate Park Sold

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indsor Corporate Park, a four-building complex of Class A office space in East Windsor, has sold for $26.24 million. CBRE represented the seller, Raith Capital.

The buyer was Strategic Funding Alternatives (SFA), a commercial real estate firm.

The complex at 50 Millstone Road totals 291,550 square feet and is 65 percent occupied. Current tenants include environmental consulting firm Woodard & Curran, French product-tracking software company Adents, receivables management company Altus, and others.

For SFA, which is based in Moorestown, the acquisition is its first in the Mercer County region. It owns 32 properties totalling more than 1.4 million square feet in southern New Jersey.

“We are so excited to be entering the Princeton/Mercer County market with this new acquisition,” said Jeffery Schneider, managing principal of SFA, in a statement. “WCC is a beautiful campus with plenty of space, abundant parking and flexible office configurations — perfect for those companies who may have industrial facilities nearby but want Class A corporate offices.”

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“I also walked here in 1968,” she says heatedly when we start talking. “Damn it, this seems like back to the future. The murder of a black man, the demonstrations, the riots, the police brutality, the calls for law and order. And, yes, even a rocket launched into space.”

America is the country everyone loves to hate. “Hollywood, hamburgers, and hooey,” my Dutch friends say. This country makes a real effort to appear superficial.

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This country was created with two major crimes against humanity: violence against the indigenous people and slavery. Both left indelible scars. The consequences of the latter in particular are still tangible and visible today. It is a systematic flaw in society.

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President Trump took a big step back when, through tear gas clouds, he walked with his White House vassals to a church where he never goes and held up a book he never reads. His dubious values have pre-

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trial engineering and operations research from Columbia, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Greater Trenton, 124 West State Street, Trenton 08608.

609-473-2837. George Sowa, CEO. www.greatertrenton.org Leticia Ferri has joined the board of directors of Greater Trenton, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting economic revitalization and improving lives in Trenton.

Ferri is Bristol-Myers Squibb’s global lead of the Organization for Latino Achievement. She holds master’s and medical degrees from Maringa State University in Brazil; a master’s in clinical epidemiology from the University of Toronto, a PhD from the University of Sao Paulo, and an executive MBA from Cornell University.

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Bai was founded in 2009 and merged with Dr. Pepper in 2017. It became part of Keurig Dr. Pepper when those two companies merged the following year.

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Production will be moved to other facilities, and displaced employees can apply for positions at those locations.

The closure had been scheduled for April but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Deaths Carol M. Sheaffer, 78, on June 5. She was a psychiatrist who served as medical director for the state of New Jersey with the Family Guidance Center until her retirement.

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of George Floyd are also a sign that a large part of this country is well aware of the systematic injustice being done to black Americans. As with any therapy, true healing can begin only when one is aware of and accepts the deep wounds, however painful that may be. This can be a lesson to the world.

Every moment carries both our history and our future. “Don’t think these protests are meaningless,” says the woman with the protest sign. “I was touched to see the many officers kneeling in the street in solidarity with the protesters.” She shows me a photo on her cell phone of one of these agents. “When I look at him,” she says, “I know: every step forward carries the promise of the next step.”

Pia de Jong is a Dutch writer who lives in Princeton. Her memoir, “Saving Charlotte,” was published by W.W. Norton in 2017. She can be contacted at pdejong@ias. edu.

82, on June 2. The architect joined the Hillier Group in 1968 and became a principal before joining the firm of Looney Ricks Kiss, and eventually beginning a solo career.

His work as a planning consultant to Robbinsville Township included facilitating the construction of the BAPS Hindu temple there.

Sylvia Yarost Tumin on June 4.

She retired as director of social work at Greenwood House in Ewing.

David Aaron Friedman, 87, on June 6. He formed the law firm Ridolfi and Friedman with state senator Sido Ridolfi in the early 1960s and was involved in land use and development work throughout New Jersey. His projects included the development of Eggerts Crossing Village in Lawrenceville.

Paul J. Russo, 69, on June 9. He worked at the family business, Lawrenceville Home Improvement Center, for 46 years.

Theresa K. Sawicki, 85, on June 13. She was a former owner of S & M Delicatessen in Hamilton.

Mary Clauss, 64, on May 1. She worked for the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency in Trenton for more than 20 years.

Barbara A. Jones, 67, on June 12. She worked in the treasury department at Princeton University for 40 years.

Benjamin “Roz” Warren, 76, on June 7. He was a member of the Princeton Fire Department for more than 50 years and had served as chief. A motorcade from Princeton Battlefield to Princeton Cemetery will take place Wednesday, July 15, at 10 a.m.

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“In the Heart of the Square” 4453 Nottingham Way, Hamilton

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At George Dye Road

Ewing Twp - 2175 Spruce St. 18,000 SF. Zoned Bus. Hwy. High traffic location.

SALE $750,000

Ewing Twp. - 415 Robbins Ave.

Handicapped Accessible Prof. Office bldg. - 2 story, finished basement, 10-car parking lot. Former use medical office, also suitable for law office, CPA, insurance, real estate, engineering offices, etc.

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Hamilton-1670 WH-Ham. Sq. Rd. Modern office bldg. Lease space 1075-3000 SF suites.

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Trenton - 64 Oakland St.

‘A RARE FIND’

“New Jersey Realtors Building” 10 Hamilton Ave., Trenton 4800 SF Flex/Warehouse Bldg LEASE: $2200/mo.

10,000 SF WH/Office, large parking lot, drive-in door. SALE $469,000

Ewing Twp - 1523 Parkway Ave.

Lawrence – 4130 Quakerbridge

Income Prop.

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“Heritage Village at Lawrence” 1950 Brunswick Pike

Lawrence - 2807 Brunswick Ave.

10,306 SF former day spa near QB Mall LEASE: $8.00/SF

Hamilton - 2619 S. Broad St.

3-story mixed-use building conveniently located between Cherry Tree Lane and Whitehead Road

Medical/Office/Retail Suites available for lease from 1,277 to 2,858 SF

3150 SF dance studio, 2nd floor storage. Excellent cond. SALE

Trenton – 232 Allen Street

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Hamilton - 1252 Cedar Lane

408 Stokes Ave., Ewing Twp. 3400 SF Storefront/Workshop Bldg, 2 bathrooms, rear overhead door, abundant parking LEASE

2616 E. State Street, Hamilton 495 SF Private Office, ideal for contractor, located in Hamilton Supply complex.

Lease includes all utilities.

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750 SF newly renovated. Open floor plan, ½ bath, office, overhead door SALE

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