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At Lake Carnegie The dry, weathered dock stretches out into the lake, gray like an old chalkboard left out in the winter cold.

Far off, a thin white sail cuts across the lagoon, the mast tipping as it dips to one side and swerves, gliding up the long lagoon on a thin, bark shell like a canoe with two brown heads bobbing like turtles inside.

The wind ruffles the water

Roosting Triggered by Robert Macfarlane’s opening sentence to The Wild Places: “The wind was rising, so I went to the Wood.”

if I climbed a beech would it be “...a place to think, a roost...”? might I be able to utilize that iron-hard, mercury-hued paper-birch-exquisite severe slick trunk — shinny up? would there be nooks up there groves, even, — among those lightfilled sharp-pointed, thin, ovoid leaves? where I could listen

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as the sail rides the current, blowing like an Aeolian god, responding to every breath, fluttering like a bird’s wings or a white butterfly dancing under the green, aery trees shimmering in the dark water, the slim white sail tacking to catch the effervescent wind, releasing me like a free spirit from time’s mundane days.

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Will I be high enough and still enough that no one ever could find me? if I could climb the imperious beech would I? would I come down?

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Wednesday June 23 Classical Music Ulysses Quartet, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts, 609-570-8404. www.princetonsummerchamberconcerts. org. Live streamed from the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville.

Works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and others. Register.

Free. 7:30 p.m.

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Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 2 and 7:30 p.m.

Literati

Crime Against Nature: An Art Talk for Pride Month, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. Gwenn Seemel discusses her “Crime Against Nature” queer science book, a project she created as a series of paintings with corresponding text to expose the true diversity of natural behaviors. Virtual event. Register for Zoom access. 7 to 8 p.m.

Wellness

Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans connect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can, $8 and up.

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LGBTQ + in NJ: A History of Community & GAAMC, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org.

Members of Gay Activist Alliance in Morris County, the second oldest continually operating LGBTQ+ organization in the United States, provide a virtual rogram about New Jersey’s LGBTQ+ history, as well as how the organization has evolved during its nearly 50 years of existence. Email hopeprogs@ mcl.org to register for a link to the presentation. 7 p.m.

EllaRslie Is Open An opening reception for the annual Ellarslie Open juried exhibit takes place Sunday, June 27, in Trenton’s Cadwalader Park.

Among the exhibited works are ‘Seamstress II’ by Anne Bascove, top, and ‘I Got My Eyes on You’ by Morris Docktor.

Outdoor Action Watson Woods Walking Club, Mercer County Nature Programs, Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Avenue, Hamilton. www.mercercountyparks.org.

Easy mile-long walk with to explore Spring Lake and other trails of Roebling Park. Free. Register via CommunityPass. 10 a.m.

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Thursday June 24 Live Music Music in the Park, Lawrenceville Main Street, Weeden Park, Lawrenceville. www.lawrencevillemainstreet.com. Concert, food

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Virtual Watercolor Session: Embracing Dark Tones, Princeton University Art Museum & Arts Council of Princeton. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Taught by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo over Zoom. Register. Free. 8 p.m.

On Stage Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. World premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 7:30 p.m.

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June 24 Continued from preceding page

Farm Markets Princeton Farmers Market, Franklin Avenue Lot, Princeton. www.princetonfarmersmarket. com. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and artisanal products. Face coverings and social distancing required. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wellness

Tai Chi, Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton. www.groundsforsculpture.org.

Staff from veteran-owned Dao Concepts promotes overall wellness through the practice of Tai Chi, an ancient Chinese art that blends exercise with stress reduction. Register. $20. 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Lectures

Artist Talk, Arts Council of Princeton, Dohm Alley, Nassau Street, Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Princetonbased photographer Robin Resch discusses her installation Taking Pause, a collaborative portrait project that asks people to reflect on what in their lives feels most essential. Bring a bag lunch. Free.

Noon to 1 p.m.

Recent Archeological Finds from the Isaac Pearson Mansion House, Historical Society of Hamilton Township. archeologicalfindspearsonhouse.eventbrite.com. Sean McHugh, senior archaeologist at Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc., discusses the archeological finds at the site of the former Kitchen Wing at the Pearson Mansion House. Via Zoom. Register via EventBrite.

Pay what you wish. 6:30 p.m.

Friday June 25 Live Music Summer Wine & Music Series, Old York Cellars, 80 Old York Road, Ringoes. www.oldyorkcellars.com. Live music with George Becker. Reservations required.

Food available for purchase.

Noon to 5 p.m.

Sips & Sounds, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music

by Catmoondaddy, wines by the glass, and light fare. 5 to 8 p.m.

The Jackalops, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Americana/folk music. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Friday Night Wine & Music Series, Old York Cellars, 80 Old York Road, Ringoes. www.oldyorkcellars.com. Live music with Chris from Rave On. Reservations required. Food available for purchase. 6 to 9 p.m.

Pop Music

TJB: A Tribute Concert, Washington Crossing State Park Open Air Ampitheater, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road Titusville. tjbconcert.square. site. New Jersey youth perform a tribute concert to the Four Seasons following the soundtrack of

the musical “Jersey Boys.” Proceeds benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Register. $10 and up. 6 p.m.

On Stage

Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 8 p.m.

Murder at Cheltenham Manor, the Play, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Newly adapted for the stage, based on an original YouTube series, Murder at Cheltenham Manoris a twisting, turning, whodunnit, where the audience gets to have input which will steer the story as we progress. Seating at 50 percent capacity as well as stream-at-home options. $25. 8 p.m.

Literati

Story & Verse: Riding the Wave, Arts Council of Princeton, Pettoranello Gardens, Mountain Avenue, Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Story telling and poetic open mic event welcomes anyone to tell a well-prepared story or perform their poetry inspired by this month’s theme: “Riding the Wave.” Performers must present their own work and are invited to interpret the theme as broadly as they wish. Masks are required.

Register. Seating is limited. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Just a Hike, Mercer County Park Commission, Roebling Park at Spring Lake, Hamilton. www.mercercountyparks.org. Join a naturalist on a walk through the park with pauses to admire various elements of nature. For teens and adults. Register via CommunityPass. Free. Wear sturdy shoes and bring a water bottle. 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Full Moon Bike Hike, Washington Crossing State Park, 335 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville, 609-737-0609.

Take a guided night time bicycle ride, by the light of the Strawberry Moon, up the Delaware & Raritan Canal Towpath toward the Lambertville wing dam (13 miles round trip). Meet at the Nelson House parking lot. Bring your own bike, bike light and helmet. Register.

Free. 8:45 p.m.

Saturday June 26 Classical Music The Next Generation of Tenors, Boheme Opera. www.bohemeopera.org. YouTube concert featuring three rising star tenors: John Easterlin, Errin Duane Brooks, and Jeremy Brauner. Accompanied by pianist Sandra Milstein Pucciatti. 7 p.m.

Jazz & Blues

Monette Sudler, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, Trenton. www.jazztrenton.com. Guitarist. $15 cover, free buffet. 3:30 to 7 p.m.

Live Music Summer Wine & Music Series, Old York Cellars, 80 Old York Road, Ringoes. www.oldyorkcellars.com. Live music with Tom DeStefano From Modern Rewind.

Reservations required. Food available for purchase. Noon to 6:30 p.m.

Summer Music Series, Palmer Square Green, Princeton. www. palmersquare.com. Mulit-rock group Black Brant performs.

Noon to 2 p.m.

Ess Gees Duo, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Classic and alternative rock. 1 to 4 p.m.

Weekend Music Series, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music

by Mike & Laura, wines by the glass, and light fare. 1 to 4 p.m.

Living the Dream, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Pop/rock. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Dan Kassel, Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.smallworldcoffee.com. Solo cello music that bridges the gaps between Klezmer and Irish folk, Indian classical and down-tempo electronic music. 6 to 7:30 p.m.

TJB: A Tribute Concert, Washington Crossing State Park Open Air Ampitheater, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road Titusville. tjbconcert.square. site. New Jersey youth perform a tribute concert to the Four Seasons following the soundtrack of the musical “Jersey Boys.” Proceeds benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Register. $10 and up. 6 p.m.

On Stage

Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 2 p.m.

Murder at Cheltenham Manor, the Play, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Newly adapted for the stage, based on an original YouTube series, Murder at Cheltenham Manoris a twisting, turning, whodunnit, where the audience gets to have input which will steer the story as we progress. Seating at 50 percent capacity and streamat-home options. $25. 3 p.m.

Literati

New Jersey Historical Storytelling Festival, New Jersey Storytelling Network, East Jersey Old Town Village, 1050 River Road, Piscataway. www.njstorynet.org.

Storytellers from the New Jersey Storytelling Network share “stately” themed tales. In case of rain event will be held on Zoom. 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Above left, tenors Errin Duane Brooks, left, and Jeremy Brauner perform as part of Boheme Op­ era’s ‘Next Generation of Tenors’ event on Satur­ day, June 26. Dan Kassel, above, performs solo cello music at Small World Coffee on June 26.

Comedy

Kids Stuff

Carpool Comedy Fundraiser, Acme Screening Room, 204 North Union Street, Lambertville. www.acmescreeningroom.org.

Night of live music, comedy, a 50/50 raffle, and prizes for best tailgate setup. Celebrate in preparation for the screening room’s September reopening. Joey Novick hosts. Register. $40 per person. 7 p.m.

Story Time in the Gazebo, Mercer County Nature Programs, Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Avenue, Hamilton. www. mercercountyparks.org. Educators share a storybook tale worthy of the Abbott Marshlands, followed by a related craft or activity.

Free. Register via CommunityPass. 10:30 a.m.

Farm Markets

West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, 877 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction. www.wwcfm.org. Seventeen farms, 20 artisan food makers, and a knife sharpener.

Learn to Bike with the West Windsor Bicycle & Pedestrian Alliance.

Face masks required. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Gardens

History in Bloom Annual Garden Tour, Bordentown Historical Society, 609-410-6057. www. bordentownhistory.org. Self-guided tour of gardens, parks, and sites throughout Bordentown City.

Register. $20. Rain date June 27.

Noon to 5 p.m.

Wellness

Intro to Herbalism: Floral Facial Sprays, Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton. www.groundsforsculpture.org.

Explore flower essences, hydrosols, and essential oils with Amanda Midkiff, the herbalist and plant witch of Locust Light Farm, in GFS’ meadows. Create your own fragrant, soothing herbal facial spray to take home. Register. $35. 10 to 11:30 a.m.

History

Archaeology and Ancient Technology - Celebrating New Jersey’s Indigenous People, Trent House Museum, 15 Market Street, Trenton, 609-989-3027. www.williamtrenthouse.org. Meet the archaeologists who have been working on the museum’s grounds, view this year’s excavations, and see some of the artifacts left by native people thousands of years ago. Demonstrators show how stone tools, pottery, and wampum were made and used by New Jersey’s first residents. Activities for children give them hands-on experience in finding and identifying artifacts and they can see how native people grew food as well as some plants they would have gathered from the wild. Free. Noon.

For Families

Wheat Harvest & Wheat Weaving, Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell, 609-737-3299. www.howellfarm.org. Last fall’s wheat crop is ready to harvest.

Follow behind the horses and gather up sheaves of wheat bundled by the McCormick ReaperBinder and assemble the sheaves into shocks for drying outside.

Wheat weaving demonstration in the barnyard. Children’s craft program available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Register. 10 a.m.

Outdoor Action

Family Nature Walk, Washington Crossing State Park, 335 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville, 609-737-0609.

Informal naturalist-guided trail walk for all ages. Free; $5 park vehicle entrance fee applies. 1 p.m.

Shopping News

Antique Model Train Show, Golden Nugget Antique Market, 1850 River Road, Lambertville. www.gnflea.com. View trains in the indoor/outdoor market specializing in antiques, collectibles, art, and more. 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Shopping News

Sprouts Flowers Pop-Up Market, MarketFair, 3535 Route 1, West Windsor. www.marketfairshoppes.com. Sprouts Flowers truck offers a pop-up market and Make & Take class to create bouquets using a variety of floral elements.

Register. $12. 10:30 a.m. and noon.

Socials

Shameless Name Dropping Tour, Princeton Tour Company, 116 Nassau Street. www.princetontourcompany.com. Scenic three-mile stroll to learn the chronological history of Princeton University while seeing all the essential sites on Princeton campus. Outside the gates, see the homes and hangouts of Albert Einstein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, TS Eliot, Woodrow Wilson, Grover Cleveland, Robert Wood Johnson, and more. Register. For all ages. $35. 1 to 3 p.m.

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Sports Vintage Baseball Game, Historical Society of Princeton, Greenway Meadows Park, 275 Rosedale Road, Princeton. www.princetonhistory.org. The Flemington Neshanock and the Monmouth Furnace play a competitive match of bare-handed baseball, wearing period uniforms and using 1864 rules. Free. Bring a blanket or lawn chair. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sunday June 27 Live Music Summer Wine & Music Series, Old York Cellars, 80 Old York Road, Ringoes. www.oldyorkcellars.com. Live music with Chris Giakas. Reservations required.

Food available for purchase.

Noon to 6:30 p.m.

Esteem All Stars & Jeris Cook Trio, McCarter Theatre, Palmer Square, Princeton. www.mccarter.org/palmersquare. Esteem All Stars perform favorites from the 50s to today including the best pop, rock, oldies, R&B, and swing music, from 1 to 2:30. Jeiris Cook is an original singer/songwriter, producer, and R&B artist, performing from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Free.

1 and 4 p.m.

Weekend Music Series, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music

by Acoustic DuoVer, wines by the glass, and light fare. 1 to 4 p.m.

Blue Jersey Band, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Jazz/blues. 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

TJB: A Tribute Concert, Washington Crossing State Park Open Air Ampitheater, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road Titusville. tjbconcert.square. site. New Jersey youth perform a tribute concert to the Four Seasons following the soundtrack of the musical “Jersey Boys.” Proceeds benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Register. $10 and up. 3 p.m.

Art

Artists Reception, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park, Trenton. www.ellarslie. org. Outdoor reception for the opening of the Ellarslie Opening, featuring 137 works from paintings and sculpture to digital and fiber arts in five galleries. On view in person and online through October 3. 1 to 4 p.m.

On Stage

Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 2 p.m.

Murder at Cheltenham Manor, the Play, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Newly adapted for the stage, based on an original YouTube series, Murder at Cheltenham Manoris a twisting, turning, whodunnit, where the audience gets to have input which will steer the story as we progress. Seating at 50 percent capacity as well as stream-at-home options. $25. 3 p.m.

Food & Dining

Free Vegetarian Meals, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute, Princeton Family YMCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton. www. bviscs.org. Distribution of free meals from the playground picnic tables. 1 to 3 p.m.

Farm Markets

Hopewell Farmers Market, Fairgrown Farm, 62 East Broad Street, Hopewell. www.facebook. com/hopewellfarmersmarket.

Fresh produce and vendors selling grass-fed beef, flowers, and more. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Gardens

Tuesday June 29

Gardening with Native Plants, Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve, 57 Mountain Avenue, Princeton. gardening_ with_native_plants_princeton. eventbrite.com. Learn how to Select and care for Native Plants in Your Garden and Yard. Along with beautifying your property, native plants provide food and other crucial support services for native birds, butterflies, and bees — and they require less maintenance than many common garden plants. This outdoor workshop includes a presentation by Judith K. Robinson, along with a short walk to the Louise Sayen Meadow of Native Plants. Native plants will be available for sale, with a percentage of proceeds benefiting the Friends of Princeton Open Space. Register via EventBrite. $5. 2 to 3:30 p.m.

On Stage

History on the Green, Wicoff House Museum, 641 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro. www.tiny.cc/ historygreen. Kids act out historical plays on the museum lawn, make crafts, and do a museum scavenger hunt. Picnic lunch provided; bring your own blanket.

Register. Free. 1 to 3 p.m.

Firefly Festival, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Children can dress up as fireflies after decorating wings and making antennas in the craft area ($7 fee). Explore the farm and enjoy favorites from the grill and baked treats while waiting for these bioluminescent beetles to put on a show.

Free admission. 4 to 9 p.m.

For Families

For Families

Monday June 28 History Morven Moments: The 4th of July, Morven Museum & Garden. www.morven.org. Lunchtime private Zoom tour inside Morven with Docent Kim Gallagher discusses the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, in and around Morven. Live Q&A follows tour.

Register. Free. Noon.

For Parents

Student Transition Webinar, Mercer County Library. www. mcl.org. Webinar facilitated by Trisha Bailey, a support coordinator/ trainer at Caregivers of New Jersey, provides information to prepare individuals with disabilities and their families for the transition into adult life services. Topics include the step-by-step transition process Medicaid eligibility, support coordination, choosing the right support coordination agency, and more. Email hopeprogs@ mcl.org to register to receive a link to program. 6:30 p.m.

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Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 7:30 p.m.

Kids Stuff

Read and Pick: Monarchs, Swallowtails & Honeybees, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Lawrence, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Hands-on educational program on the farm followed by a story. One adult chaperone per family group. Register. $10. Masks required for ages three and up. 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Family Night, Lawrence Nature Center, 481 Drexel Avenue, Lawrence. www.lawrencenaturecenter.com. Presentation on “Cicadas, Pollinators, and other Bugs of Early Summer.” For all ages.

Rain or shine. 7 p.m.

Singles

Terrific Tuesday Social, Professional and Business Social Network. www.pbsninfo.com.

Happy hour. Via Zoom. Register on EventBrite. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.

Left, the Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute dis­ tributes free vegetarian meals at the Princeton YMCA on Sunday, June 27. That evening the an­ nual firefly festival takes place at Terhune Or­ chards, above.

Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Lawrence, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Hands-on educational program on the farm followed by a story. One adult chaperone per family group. Register. $10. Masks required for ages three and up. 9:30 and 11 a.m.

Lectures

Ruth Asawa: Sculptor, Educator, Art Activist, Pennington Public Library, 609-737-0404. www. penningtonlibrary.org. Presentation by Janet Mandel on American sculptor, educator, and arts activist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013), who is known for her extensive body of work including paintings, printmaking, public commissions, and especially her wire sculptures that challenge conventional notions of material and form. Held via Zoom.

Register. Free. 7 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Bike Nature Tours, Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer

Thompson Management

Meadows, Pole Farm parking lot. www.mercercountyparks.org. Experience the rolling hills and forested areas of Mercer Meadows while gliding along on two wheels during this naturalist-guided tour.

Bring your own bike or rent one for an additional fee. Register via CommunityPass. $15; $10 for Mercer County residents. 9 to 11 a.m.

Watson Woods Walking Club, Mercer County Nature Programs, Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Avenue, Hamilton. www.mercercountyparks.org.

Easy mile-long walk with to explore Spring Lake and other trails of Roebling Park. Free. Register via CommunityPass. 10 a.m.

Sports

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder.com. Lehigh Valley Ironpigs. $12. 7 p.m.

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Sports

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder.com. Lehigh Valley Ironpigs. $12. 7 p.m.

Wednesday June 30

Whitehorse Commercial Park, 127 Route 206, Hamilton Township, NJ 779-2,369 SF • For Lease • Office/Flex • Ample Parking • Conv. Access to I-195/295

On Stage Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 2 p.m.

Wellness

50 Princeton-Hightstown Road, Princeton Jct.

346-1,872 SF office for lease • Walking distance to the train station Close proximity to Route 1

Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans connect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can, $8 and up.

8 to 9 a.m.

Kids Stuff

Read and Pick: Monarchs, Swallowtails & Honeybees, Terhune

Mercer Corporate Park, Robbinsville

5128 SF office/research for lease • Easy access to 130/TPK/195/295

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Bruce Beasley: Evolution and Innovation in Sculpture

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merican sculptor Bruce Beasley is the both the subject of the current Grounds For Sculpture retrospective and the organization’s next publication — a series of works highlighting contemporary sculptors exhibiting at the nationally known sculpture park based in Hamilton.

The book’s opening essay, “Bruce Beasley: Innovation and the Primacy of Form,” is an insightful reflection on the artist by GFS’ former chief curator Tom Moran, also nationally known as the New Jersey State Council on the Arts longtime director of public art programming — with whom I worked for several years.

While the book is still in production, a preprinting copy of Moran’s essay puts the artist and the exhibition in context, as do his following excepted comments:

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t has indeed been an honor for me to work with Bruce Beasley on his sixty-year retrospective exhibition. Over the course of the three years, we met in Oakland often so I could study his amazing sculptures, which allowed me to select a distinct and comprehensive presentation of this six-decade period. I am also thankful that Bruce was so willing to fabricate several new pieces for the locations I had in mind at Grounds For Sculpture. Spending long hours over days talking about the works allowed me to gain a comprehensive understanding of his work and the processes he developed to make it.

When we met for the first time in the 1980s, I had no idea that the future would set the stage for such a rewarding endeavor and friendship between us.

Bruce Beasley occupies a highly relevant place in the field of abstract modern sculpture and is linked to the principles of Modernist abstraction. He traces his legacy to the works of historical predecessors, among them David Smith, but particularly Eduardo Chillida, the renown Spanish sculptor who became not just an artistic colleague to Beasley, but also a very dear friend.

Beasley rejects the notion of a signature style, but strives to make sculptures that possess only the essential elements that to the artist comprise the totality of the form. This of course includes material, color, texture, light and surely the most essential to his expectations is the emotional language of shape.

(His) works have been included in over 200 exhibitions, and he has had works commissioned for the City of Oakland, the State of California, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and other locations nationally and internationally. His many large-scale projects for public commissions and private collections have resulted in rich collaborations with fabrication experts in the United States, Britain, and Asia.

Sculpture Calls. The choice of sculpture as Beasley’s calling in life had not been in his sights at Dartmouth College in 1957. He had been pointed in the direction of rocket engineering by college counselors because of his intellectual curiosity and a background in building hot rods. Understanding that his fascination was for shape, not necessarily science, he took an art class. He discovered his dislike for drawing in two dimensions, so he convinced his professor to allow him to submit five sculptures instead fifty drawings for the final exam. Of note is that he completed the sculptures without ever taking an art course prior to Dartmouth.

(In) the fall of 1959, Beasley transferred to UC Berkeley as an undergraduate sculpture major. On arrival, he was required to take an entry level class in clay modeling. While he was quite disdainful of this requirement, he finished his final project in clay, but outside of class, cast it in lead (a far more challenging medium) just to prove to himself he could, and this he submitted as his final project.

The First Cast Iron Sculptures — 1960.

While Beasley was still a student, he rented a small space off campus where he could engage in uninstructed, freer experimentation, and as he was out one day searching a local scrapyard, he noticed a huge pile of interesting shards and shapes made from old, discarded plumbing. He purchased a load of the shards and brought them back to his studio where he dumped them on the floor, en-

Clockwise from above, Beas­ ley’s works ‘Tree House,’ ‘Quest III’ and ‘Intersections II, and ‘Dorion.’ thralled the intricate drama of formal relationships. This early working method helped define Beasley’s career approach to making sculpture: he finds rather than pre-conceives work. In the process of making the cast iron works, Beasley felt a true sense of discovery and joy combined with his goal of activating a viewer’s emotional recognition of shape.

Beasley submitted several powerful cast iron works to an open juried show for an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). They were seen and greatly admired by the guest juror and the very influential Dorothy Miller, then Chief Curator at MOMA in New York City.

The works made it into the SFMOMA exhibition and Miller contacted MOMA’s co-curator, William Seitz about Beasley’s sculptures. Seitz selected one of the welded cast iron works, “Tree House” (1960) for the upcoming “Art of Assemblage” show. Sudden-

‘I have always felt that the hoopla over my having discovered a process that industry considered impossible was less important than what I felt was my real discovery — namely, giving a new voice to sculpture by capturing light.’ ly, Beasley was exhibiting with Picasso and other legendary artists. His work “Chorus” was subsequently acquired by MOMA and Beasley became the youngest artist in the museum’s internationally renowned collection.

The Studio and A New Foundry. In the early 60s, Beasley worked out a system to make molds in which he could cast large pieces within a ceramic shell, maneuvering the process alone. He was the first sculptor to accomplish this method of casting. At the time, it was unheard of for a sculptor to have built his own foundry and cast his own work.

Icarus, one of Beasley’s’ iconic cast aluminum sculptures was exhibited at the Paris Biennale in 1963 and received the purchase prize.

The Aluminum Pieces - 1963. Beasley had accumulated a vast amount of Styrofoam packing; Beasley was attracted to the peculiar shapes, voids, and appendage-like forms intended for safe transport, but certainly not for art. He began cutting fragments, completely altering each and then scattering these hundreds of pieces across the studio floor (and) built out the compositions farther, segment by segment, in gesture-like extensions that appeared at times to be limbs or skeletal fragments. With these constructions,

Beasley began the theme of the extended and vsegmented gesture, producing works that surged wing-like out into space. Eventually, Beasley cast the finished constructions in aluminum at his foundry.

The 1970s: Light and Transparency.

Beasley recounts several dreams where he envisioned sculptures which were completely transparent. He wondered how he could create a sculpture which would capture and hold light without using an internal light source built into the piece.

Beasley set out to find the right material and his research concluded that acrylic was the only material that is truly transparent. He contacted DuPont, the manufacturer of acrylic under the trade name Lucite, and was told during a meeting with the engineers that what he wanted to do was impossible. The material cast in sizes beyond 4 inches thick had been known to unpredictably crack and bubble. Undaunted the artist began investigating how to overcome the size limitations of acrylic.

Then, out of the blue, Beasley was selected by a distinguished jury of museum directors to be one of four finalists who were invited to submit a proposal for a monumental sculpture intended for two new state buildings in Sacramento, the first state government public art project in California. Beasley used his fascination with light and cast acrylic to produce the two-inch-thick, pedestalscaled sculpture for the jury, now titled Stamper’s Lighthouse, and included in this show.

Impressed by the complexity and beauty of Beasley’s proposed project, jurors asked if he was sure he could actually make such a piece in acrylic at the public scale he was proposing. The artist assured them that he could, but as he left the room that day, he did not actually know . . . So, he flew to Wilmington to meet directly with the DuPont engineers. Again, they told Beasley that it was impossible. Intrigued by his convincing small scale achievement, DuPont agreed to help him by providing all the materials he might need, but they could do no more because they really did not know how to achieve his goal themselves. Soon enough, truckloads of raw materials began to arrive at Beasley’s studio. Beasley knew that solving

the issue of trapped air pockets and random shattering required finding a way to control the pressure of the material while it was curing.

Over the course of a few months (he) was able to carefully witness and then correct the specific event — a chemical reaction occurring at a precise temperature, pressure, and time — that accounted for the anomalies and which all the chemists had missed. That observation allowed Beasley to make the proper adjustments and solve the curing problem with the acrylic.

The resulting large scale and groundbreaking clear acrylic work, titled Apolymon was installed in the state capitol in 1970.

Generations of architects and artists have benefited over the decades from Beasley’s refinement of acrylic. Beasley observed, “I have always felt that the hoopla over my having discovered a process that industry considered impossible was less important than what I felt was my real discovery — namely, giving a new voice to sculpture by capturing light.”

Stainless Steel and Aluminum in the 1980s. In the 1980s, the artist began working with a new material and a new series of large scale sculptures where the ideas of spatial extension and light could be studied through faceted compilations of flat multi-sided stainless steel planes. The sculptures from this series are like complex geometric puzzles that suggest molecules, or the junctures of joints. Surely, Beasley’s scientific background and love of nature was one guiding inspiration here. This series demonstrates Beasley’s refined buff grinding, which captures and controls surface texture and reflected light with such precision that both properties do not confuse and compete, but rather unify each works’ cohesive vision.

“Dorion,” one of the most successful large works from the series, was exhibited and acquired by Grounds For Sculpture; as part of the museum’s permanent collection, the piece seems to hover in a perfectly proportioned reflecting pool that optimizes the work’s reflective beauty. Dorion is one of the centerpieces of Beasley’s retrospective and the artist himself considers its installation one of his finest.

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In His Own Words: In Retrospect: Bruce Beasley at Grounds For Sculpture

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or me, the real magic is finding human feeling in the arrangements and intersections of shapes that when taken alone have none. It is like a composer who is searching for a new melody on the piano. The composer doesn’t invent any of the musical notes — they are all available on the keyboard. No single note carries human emotions, but combinations of notes — chords, arpeggios, etc. — do. The composer tries to find new combinations of the musical notes that sing to him and that then might sing to us as well. And the composer uses tools and technologies as well. The development of musical notation was transformative for composition, and the piano is a tool that organizes and places the musical notes at the composers’ fingertips.

It is the same for sculpture.

There are tools and technologies that we use for the genesis of our work, and tools and technologies that we use for the final realization of our work. I have come to think of them separately, but that separation was a new realization for me. David Smith was the most influential sculptor when I was starting out, and for him the welder was the tool for both the genesis and the realization of his work. But I have my tools for exploration, and I have my tools for realization. Since my sculptures come from exploring combinations of shapes rather than previsualizing, any tools or technologies that make my exploration more spontaneous or give it more depth, well, these are cherished and worth any added work to get a sculpture into its final, permanent state.

I think that if I did not have such a strong sense of knowing when it is right, then having almost endlessly increasing possibilities might be confusing rather than liberating. But I love having more possibilities. For me that means there are more sculptures and a wider range of voices to find, and I know they will let me know when I find them.

The genesis of the cast-acrylic sculptures was my desire to explore the containment of light as a sculptural medium. The only tool I could imagine to contain light would be a transparent medium. There were reasons that neither glass or plastic resins could do what I imagined I needed, so I had to invent a new process for casting transparent

acrylic at a scale and thickness not previously possible — not for the sake of invention, but to achieve the aesthetic goal I was seeking.

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he impetus for the cast bronze sculptures I began in 1987 was my desire to explore the vocabulary of the new shapes that were created when cubic or rhomboid solids penetrated each other. I saw that cubes had a quiet solemnity when viewed alone but spoke with a new and emotionally more complex voice when they penetrated each other. I tried to explore these new voices through cardboard models, but they were awkward and time-consuming and I needed to explore hundreds of possibilities. But my clumsy attempts told me there was something there worth pursu-

Since my sculptures come from exploring combinations of shapes rather than previsualizing, any tools or technologies that make my exploration more spontaneous or give it more depth, well, these are cherished and worth any added work to get a sculpture into its final, permanent state. ing. I realized I needed a completely new tool, which led me to become involved with the earliest computer 3D modeling programs. I do not naturally take to working at a desk and on a computer, but it was the only way I could explore this new language. And this new language spoke to me so strongly that I kept at a computer process that I really did not take to at all.

Eventually, I wanted to expand the exploration of penetrating solids with curved as well as planar surfaces. The computer software to do that existed, but the problem was that the way I had been able to get the intersecting planer solids out of the computer and into the actual haptic world did not work with curved shapes. This led to my being an early adopter of 3D printing — I could print models of my ideas —

Computer Modeling in the 1980s and Onward. Beasley has been widely recognized in the field as the first sculptor to use computer design (CAD) capabilities to investigate aesthetic solutions. He began his research in 1988 by working with the earliest 3D computer solid modeling software which he saw potentially as a game changer in the way he could explore his sculptures. But the early versions of the computer software were very laborious and difficult to learn because they were command based. Making a simple cube in the early programs took hours. In 1990, Hewlett Packard (HP) came out with a new version of its computer and new highend 3D modeling software relevant to Beasley’s goals. The earliest HP software and the hardware it ran on were very expensive; HP became aware of what the artist was doing and free of charge provided Beasley with their newest tech, affording the artist more spontaneity and freedom to explore (and) eventually developed the means to create the patterns required to fabricate sculptures in bronze.

Beasley’s distinctive series of bronze works in small and large scales based on infinite iterations of cubic shapes were enhanced

and helping to develop the first large-scale 3D printers.

Gravity is both the sculptor’s friend and enemy. It is our friend because mass and gravity are inextricably connected, and mass is what gives sculpture its sense of presence as it exists in the same real three-dimensional world of humans. It is our enemy because gravity makes building things very complicated. We need clamps to hold pieces in place for welding, and we need cranes, hoists, and forklifts to move things around. I always joked that I dreamed of having a gravity-free studio to make the sculptures, and then I would take them out into the gravity world for them to live in.

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nother impossible dream had been to have a tool or process wherein material would flow out of the end of my hand so that I could create shapes in space from its movement — to be able to treat a solid material gesturally, so to speak.

Well, sometimes dreams come true. I had vaguely followed the development of virtual reality (VR), but it was presented as a possible way to view sculpture, and that did not interest me at all. Rungwe Kingdon, founder of the Pangolin Foundry in the United Kingdom, knew of my career-long pursuit of tools to enhance exploration of shape, so he invited me to his foundry to try VR as a shape-making tool. His instinct was spot on, and VR became the genesis of the Aeolis series.

In VR I have a gravity-free studio. The visual sense of being in a real three-dimensional space is very good. I can create shapes by the movement of my hands and arms. I can conduct shapes that come out my hands like a conductor does for music. The shapes wait in space, where I leave them; I can move them, stretch them, penetrate them through each other without any interference from gravity. It is almost deliriously spontaneous and direct.

However, getting a sculpture from VR into metal is not easy or spontaneous at all. But it is possible, and the results are worth all the extra time, effort, and expense of getting the sculptures out of the gravity-free studio and into the real world.

The origin of the Aurai collages

arose from the computer process that gets sculptures originated in VR into the real world. Throughout my career I had never liked working on paper or canvas, because by their very nature I had to start with their limitations. That beginning limitation inhibited the very exploration that was my way of working.

In the complicated computer process of getting the VR sculptures out of VR, I saw shapes that I thought could be interesting as two-dimensional elements.

And I realized that if I printed a large number of those various shapes and cut them out, then I could explore their arrangement, letting the final one be what determined the final proportion and size of the paper or canvas to which they were glued. This was basically a two-dimensional version of how I was working in three dimensions, where the artwork determined its own size and proportion.

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o here I am at 80 plus, having spent a very rewarding 60 years exploring the visual vocabularies of geometry in order to find combinations of shapes that talked to me.

Sometimes they have been easy to find, and other times they have been elusive. I don’t know why the ones that talk to me do so. I have never wanted to question why some do and most don’t. I am just very grateful that there are ones that do.

And now I can go into my new, gravity-free studio and continue to explore combinations of shapes that I have made with the movement of my own body. Some of them end up as sculptures and some of them even end up as collages that can go on a wall.

by his growing facility with CAD. But fin- ning grouping of four Duende sculptures ished pieces are anything but mechanical and featured in this retrospective. Using CAD instead invoke Beasley’s love of nature, ge- programming to “find” the most resonant ology, and landscape. The delicate handling compositions, Beasley then carved all granremoves the works ite works first by hand from any industrial using no computer asFinished pieces are anyreading; these seem sistance at all. Once thing but mechanical and more like natural careful, artistic hand forms, collected after tooling rendered the instead invoke Beasley’s some mythical expework he was aflove of nature, geology, and exact dition. Horizon II, ter, then 3D modeling landscape. The delicate 2010, a remarkable technology permitted piece from this series the artist to produce handling removes the was already planned fully accurate models works from any industrial for inclusion in the which were sent to the reading; these seem more retrospective exhibibest international tion, when it was purlike natural forms, collected stone carving studios chased by a generous places such as Porafter some mythical expedi- in donor for Grounds tugal, Italy, and China tion.

For Sculpture’s perfor the execution of manent collection and larger-scaled one-ofinstalled on a lush a-kind finished piecearthen mound alongside a beautiful pond. es.

What is truly evident is that no matter The Granite Sculptures. Beasley discovered master stone carvers during his trav- what technology Beasley is engaging in, his els to China, and by the mid 2000s his facility focus is not linked to the seduction of techwith CAD and 3D printing produced power- nology for its own sake. His effort remains ful work in granite, such as the quiet, stun- squarely purposed on developing shape and

American sculptor Bruce Beasley.

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks?

Creating Forward

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hen the COVID-19 pandemic prevented my exhibition at Grounds For Sculpture from opening, my first reaction was disappointment, but hey, I’m a big boy, and good things in life often go awry. But then it seemed like the virus was some sort of evil miasma that was crushing everyone, and what I was experiencing was quite small compared to many others.

It seemed like the virus had its hands around the neck of the very body of joyful creative expression.

Museums, galleries, concerts, and theaters closed; art students faced temporarily shuttered studios, and on and on. It seemed like all the arts, which I feel such an honor to be a part of and which I have always viewed as the best part of our all-too-flawed humanity, were under attack by this damned, spiked, tiny ball of evil.

I said to myself, “OK virus, you may keep me from exhibiting but you’re not going to keep me from making sculpture.” So, for this past year, while my exhibition has been closed, I have been making new sculptures that shake their fist at the coronavirus and celebrate the human condition.

Excerpted from the forthcoming Grounds For Sculpture Bruce Beas­ley exhibition catalog.

extending the form in three-dimensional space and in materials that are uniquely attributable to the experience of sculpture.

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hen the Beasley book appears, it will be the latest in a handsomely produced hardcover series that includes the 2020 publication “Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: SITE and (PARA)SITE).”

The Trenton-based Moran also curated the exhibition and wrote the opening essay for the book on Rees, a William Paterson University, New Jersey, sculpture professor who uses both physical materials and digital mediums, as well as “Masayuki Koorida: Sculpture,” the 2018 book that accompanied the exhibition of the Japanese-born artist.

But for now, think of the above and read Moran’s exhibition text to explore the life of an artist who helped forge the advance of American sculpture.

Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020, Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton. Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Timed entry reservations required, $18. www.groundsforsculpture.org.

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Go with the Flow in ‘George Nakashima: Woodworker’

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by Dan Aubrey

eorge Nakashima, the late internationally known New Hope-based architectural designer who preferred the title woodworker, is the subject of a new documentary, “George Nakashima, Woodworker.”

Written and by the artist/artisan’s nephew John Nakashima, the two-hour independent film examines a series of journeys. One is the filmmaker’s own and starts with a youthful recollection of his Midwest family’s 1965 visit to the New York World’s Fair where, as he tells viewers in his narration, corporations presented their visions of the future — one in which nature is subservient to society.

A seemingly secondary trip included a visit to his uncle’s studios in nearby Pennsylvania and meeting a man who spoke about the souls of trees and desire to work in partnership with nature to create art and beauty.

Fifty years later, the filmmaker says he needed to revisit that moment and a uncle whose life influenced not only his entire family but the paths that the filmmaker and his artist brother decided to take.

The film then focuses on the physical journey of George Nakashima through vintage photos, radio and television interviews with the woodworker, and more recent interviews with associates, colleagues, studio workers, and family members. The latter includes his wife and especially daughter, Mira, who apprenticed with the woodworker and continues the woodworking practice.

In addition to telling the story of one man, the film also focuses on how quickly the world changed in the early 20th century and picks up threads starting in Japan, where Nakashima’s grandfather had been a samurai, and continues with the woodworker’s father and mother moving to Seattle, Washington.

There they decided to live in an ethnically diverse “American” community — despite the fact that the senior Nakashima worked for a Japanese/English newspaper and taught classes in a district populated by Japanese citizens.

Other epochs include the rise of modernism, the Great Depression, World War II and the Japanese internment camps, and post-war America.

However, it is the personal jour-

John Nakashima, left, the nephew of the famous woodworker George Nakashima, has created a documentary about his late uncle. At right, Na­ kashima, far right, with artist Ben Shahn. ney that is the focus, and viewers join the future woodworker’s engagement with sports and more importantly the Boy Scouts hiking and the camping trips that fostered his physical and aesthetic connections to nature.

The narrative follows Nakashima’s study of forestry and then architecture at MIT, where the future designer is exposed to the leading proponents of modern architecture.

A scholarship to France follows and allows Nakashima to be impressed by the communal spiritual expressions found in its ancient cathedrals.

Indeed spirituality becomes another journey as the young designer travels to his ancestral homeland and contemplates its temples and celebratory centers.

He also finds employment working on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Impe-

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rial Hotel and develops an important relationship with the hotel’s design assistant, Antonin Raymond, an architect who had also worked with Cass Gilbert on the Woolworth building.

As the viewer learns, the relationship with Raymond was providential. He connected the woodworker to a building of an astrum in India that freed him by satisfying his spiritual yearning and connecting spirituality with meaningful creation and design. It also connected him to one of the first modern designs in India.

Raymond and his wife, artist and designer Noemi Pernessin, also literally freed Nakashima and his wife and daughter after they were placed in a Japanese internment center during World War II. The Raymonds sponsored them and brought the family to New Hope.

Since after observing a shoddy construction of a Frank Lloyd Wright building and need to feel more control of his own spiritcharged works, Nakashima had turned away from buildings and focused on wood working, and ironically finding a mentor while in the detention center.

New Hope’s natural beauty and its proximity to sophisticated East Coast cities proved to be the ideal location for him to establish his life’s work. And the film then follows Nakashima’s career — including his brash but successful move to send designs of his Japanese and early American influenced furniture designs to the curator of design at the Museum of Modern Art — effectively putting the woodworker in the thick of post-war American culture and connecting him with prominent furniture design companies.

With attention given to the woodworker’s aesthetics of creating personal, well-crafted, and spiritually infused works, it is natural that the film reflects the same.

Visually, the varied types of images have been arranged and toned to flow and quietly engage — such as when the woodworker’s written statements appear and words

change color as the narrator reads them.

Aurally, John Nakashima’s mellow voice flows and is supported by a consistent soundtrack that combines original music by Jacob Yoffee and recordings of Hindustani classical music to evoke both a sense of the ancient Japanese and the contemporary ambient works.

Celebrating a man who stuck with his principles and who embodied the samurai ethos of meeting any expected challenge with an ethical and productive end in mind, the film ‘George Nakashima: Woodworker’ tells the tale of gentle triumph.

The various threads of the film generally hold. As noted, the film has two personal journeys. The filmmaker’s overlaps with the woodworker family’s perspectives offering degrees of pertinent observations.

The comments by colleagues and design professionals are also interesting. And while artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn appears early in the film to offer a comment, she never reappears to continue the

conversation, though she and her husband, American artist Ben Shahn, had a artistic and personal relationship with Nakashima — he designed facets of their Roosevelt home, and Shahn created a wallsized outdoor mural for Nakashima’s hand built artist “compound” where Nakashima designed an innovative modern building that inspired him to create his most advance furniture.

Additional comments from Shahn and other artists Nakashima interacted with in the New Hope and Roosevelt region would have added another layer in an already heavily layered and ambitious and successful undertaking that ends on Nakashima’s final physical statement — the immense peace tables design to be located around the globe and presented at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City in 1986. Nakashima died in 1990 at age 85.

Celebrating a man who stuck with his principles and who embodied the samurai ethos of meeting any expected challenge with an ethical and productive end in mind, the film tells the tale of gentle triumph — an individual whose physical and spiritual travels led him into a career that embraced irregularity, simplicity, devotion, and a creativity akin to a life of prayer and meditation.

“George Nakashima, Woodworker,” available for streaming, $15, or on DVD, $30, or Blue-Ray, $35, at www.nakashimadocumentary.com.

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Inside the Shahn House: A Tale of Artists & Architects

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reservation New Jersey’s recently released 2021 list of important state structures that need to be watched for damage or destruction included one important to the New Jersey arts community, the Shahn House & Studio in Roosevelt.

The house on 20 Tamara Drive was constructed in 1936 as part of Jersey Homesteads — the original name of a New Deal project to move Depression Era-effected Jewish garment workers from New York City and establish an agricultural-industrial cooperative community for Jewish garment workers and farmers.

The town was built on a model that placed modernist Bauhaus-influenced homes in a Garden Citylike setting.

The Shahn house takes its name form Roosevelt’s most prominent residents, American painters and illustrators Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn. Ben Shahn was the artist for Roosevelt’s now iconic mural created during the WPA. When Ben Shahn died in 1969, Bryson remained in the house until her death in 2004. In 2010 the family decided to sell the home and placed a preservation easement on the property through the New Jersey Historic Trust to protect its significant architectural heritage.

The building was one designed by architects Alfred Kastner and Louis Kahn. Additions, modifications, and interior work were developed by 20th century woodworker, furniture designer, and architect George Nakashima, whose studios and workshops outside New Hope still produce furniture.

While the current owners of the Shahn house have recently addressed some interior repairs and installed a new roof, PNJ urges the owners to provide the attention it needs and deserves, and a fresh look at the designers may help demonstrate why.

The more noted of the two original designers is Kahn. Recognized as one of the most influential architects of the second half of the 20th century throughout the world, the Philadelphia-based architect was recognized for combining modernism with ancient grandeur. His ground breaking design is the Trenton Bathhouse created for the Trenton Jewish Community Center, now part of Ewing Senior and Community Center on Lower Ferry Road.

Yet Kastner deserves a fresh look.

Born in Germany in 1900, he studied at the State University in Hamburg, and worked in Austria, Germany, and Holland before coming to the United States in 1924 where he worked as a draftsman for several active New York architecture companies, including designer Joseph Urban, a pioneer in Art Deco design.

Kastner established his own reputation with a series of international successes — winning designs for the Ukrainian National Theater in Kharkov, 1929, and the Palace of

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the Soviets, Moscow, 1930, with partner Oscar Stonorov.

In 1934 Kastner and Stonorov designed Philadelphia’s Carl Mackley Houses, called the first limited, divided, self-supporting housing project financed by the Public Works Administration.

Rather than create a tenement building, the architects used the new international style to create buildings with open space and communal areas, including a swimming pool.

After establishing his reputation as a reliable public housing designer and planner, Kastner was hired to oversee America’s first fully integrated communities, New Jersey Homesteads.

In addition to overseeing the now historic site, Kastner made two important decisions. He tapped painter Ben Shahn to paint the now important mural in the town’s public school and hired the then-unknown Louis Kahn as his assistant.

The two Philadelphia-based architects shared a belief that architecture could be socially useful, had been influenced by the Bauhaus, and admired works of the architect Le Corbusier. That modernist architect had addressed housing problems in a Paris slum by creating Immeuble Villas — a modernist structure of blocks of stacked cell-like apartments.

The WPA called New Jersey Homesteads’ sleek and flat roofed buildings designed “for efficient, comfortable and gracious living… equipped with modern conveniences unknown in even the better class tenements.”

While some critics saw it as fit for Soviet Russia or “a mathemati-

The more noted of the two original designers is Kahn, recognized as one of the most influential architects of the second half of the 20th century. Yet Kastner deserves a fresh look. cian’s nightmare,” the Museum of Modern Art included Kastner’s New Jersey Homesteads and Mackley Houses in its 1939 exhibit on modern architecture.

While Kahn went on to create large modernist projects, Kastner served as the city architect for Albany, Georgia, and worked on major post-tornado reconstruction projects.

He then served as director of the bureau of advanced housing at Princeton University from 1965 to 1971, where he explored housing construction techniques.

As one source puts it, Kastner’s work was international in scope, but he concentrated on commercial and residential projects in the MidAtlantic region of the United States.

The third — and later — design-

Inside the Shahn house, above, and architect Alfred Kast­ ner pictured with his back to the viewer in Ben Shahn’s Roose­ velt school mural. er for the Shahn house is George Nakashima, a wood designer whose works “represent the nexus of various craft-based traditions, ranging from American Shaker design to traditional Japanese joinery.

Among his many celebrated forms, Nakashima Tables are cherished for their live-edge, naturalistic surface positioned atop a man-made architectural base, united in harmony,” according to the Smithsonian Institute.

Nakashima was born in Spokane, Washington, in 1905, to Japanese immigrant parents who prepared their son for a college education.

However, he attributes much of his artistry to his Boy Scout hiking and camping experiences where “these trips dramatized for me the joy of living simply, close to nature.”

In school at the University of Washington, Nakashima studied forestry before transferring to the architectural department after two years. After earning a scholarship to Harvard, he followed by attending M.I.T. and working with Antonin Raymond — a disciple of Cass Gilbert and Frank Lloyd Wright.

He then spent several years studying and working in Japan and India where he became interested in Asia’s tradition of fine craftsmanship.

He returned to the United States in 1939 and was disappointed by the architecture movement and the work of Wright and decided to make woodworking his life’s work.

The plan was put on hold after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and Nakashima, along with thousands of other Japanese citizens in

the Northwest, was sent to an internment camp where he collaborated with Japanese woodworkers to create designs made from scrap wood.

Eventually with the support of former employers and colleagues, Nakashima was released from the camp and was given a place to stay at Raymond’s farm/studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

There he established himself as an artistic craftsman, interacting with other designers and artists, such as Bucks County designer Harry Bertoia, and Roosevelt, New Jersey, artists Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, and the influential Knoll design company.

Eschewing mass-production and embracing an artist’s approach to letting the wood be the soul of the project, Nakashima emerged to become in the words of Architectural Digest, “the preeminent name in classic modern and contemporary furnishings.”

Summing up his work, Nakashima says, “Since I am a woodworker, the practical aspects interest me primarily. The materials used, the utility of an object, the forms developed are vital. The necessary skills and the resultant beauty must be there. Arts and crafts should be based on pure truth, taking materials and techniques from the past to synthesize with the present. We

should be content to work on a small scale and integrally with nature and not violate it.”

While Nakashima created interior designs for the Shahn house, the artist in turn created a large mosaic mural on an exterior wall of one of the woodworker’s buildings on the grounds of the New Hope studio and workshop — currently closed for the pandemic.

Summing up the Shahn’s house current situation, PNJ notes despite owners involved with a “preservation easement on the property through the New Jersey Historic Trust to protect its significant architectural heritage, the new owners had an interest in Kahn and Nakashima’s work and expressed their intent to restore the home.

However, due to a work relocation, they were never able to fully occupy the home, and it has suffered from a lack of attention and regular maintenance over the years. Unless the property receives the full attention it needs and deserves, it will continue to deteriorate. Preservation New Jersey encourages the Trust to maintain the intent of its easement and work to ensure the preservation of this important resource.”

For more on Preservation New Jersey and other houses on its 2021 Watch List, visit www.preservationnj.org.

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Life in the Fast Lane Princeton Symphony, Princeton Festival Announce Merger

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wo Princeton-area non-profit music organizations, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and the Princeton Festival, have merged to operate as a single legal entity known as Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Inc., the organizations announced.

The Princeton Festival will retain its name and continue going forward as an artistic program of the PSO alongside the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s classical, pops, chamber music, and PSO BRAVO! education programs. The merger was formalized on June 10 and takes effect this summer.

Both organizations successfully pivoted to online platforms during the pandemic while being mindful of budgets and continued fundraising efforts. PSO Executive Director Marc Uys says, “The merger capitalizes on the strong positions and proven resiliency of both organizations coming out of the pan-

demic. With strong artistic leadership, we will pave the way to a new era of creativity, making high-quality performing arts more available to our community and beyond.”

The Princeton Festival Board Chair Benedikt von Schröder views the merger as a positive move. He says, “The merger will create a formidable combined organization with the creative, artistic, and financial strength providing a foundation for future growth in a challenging and much changed environment for the arts.”

At left, PSO Board chair Yvonne Marcuse and Princeton Festival Board chair Benedikt von Sch­ roder shake on the organizations’ merger. Above, the Mount Zion AME Church, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Multiple Festival board members were nominated to the PSO board this month, and a Festival Advisory Board created. Two fulltime members of the Festival staff will join the orchestra’s veteran administrative team.

PSO Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov says, “We look forward to a cross-pollination of ideas and resources. Together, our creative team will capture the imagination and spark community dialogue with new music, cuttingedge operas, and fresh musical the-

ater productions. We’re wellpoised to earn Princeton a national reputation for live arts innovation.”

For more on the Princeton Symphony Orchestra visit www.princetonsymphony.org.

For more on the Princeton Festival visit www.princetonfestival. org.

LOSE WEIGHT, LIVE LONGER THE BARIATRIC PROGRAM AT ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HAMILTON OFFERS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE WAYS TO SLIM DOWN. About 42 percent of adults in the U.S. are obese, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. People with a body mass index (BMI) over 40, considered obese, live 10 fewer years than those who have a lower BMI, according to Ragui Sadek, MD, Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Hamilton. Obesity can lead to heart disease, diabetes and uterine, esophageal and colorectal cancers. For people with high BMIs, “the cure is surgery,” says Dr. Sadek. “It has proven success based on the literature.”

At RWJUH Hamilton, the Bariatric Program provides advanced treatment for weight loss and focuses on addressing the needs of the whole person. “Patients see a nutritionist, psychologist, cardiologist, pulmonologist and gastroenterologist prior to surgery,” says Dr. Sadek. The psychologist evaluates patients for behavioral health problems like eating disorders, which can interfere with the outcome of surgery. A cardiologist ensures patients can tolerate surgery. A pulmonologist, who specializes in lung conditions, rules out conditions like sleep apnea.

A gastroenterologist checks patients for ulcers, untreated infections, hernias and reflux. Program physicians often perform primary and revision surgeries using robotic technology.

Ragui Sadek, MD, Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Hamilton

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Best for: People who feel hungry all the time; it prevents them from overeating. It helps to resolve serious health conditions like diabetes. Those who have reflux disease should avoid this procedure because it can worsen the problem.

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Best for: People with severe diabetes because it cures the condition. It also prevents overeating. It can benefit those with reflux disease.

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Mount Zion AME Church Added to National Register of Historic Places

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ount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, the home of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) in Skillman, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 7.

The register is the official list of the nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Mt. Zion AME was recommended eligible for listing on the National Register “for its historic association with the ethnic heritage of African Americans in the Sourlands and … as a humble example of rural Black church architecture with a high level of material and design integrity,” wrote Patrick Harshbarger vice president of Trenton-based Hunter Research on Mt. Zion AME’s National Register Nomination Form. The nomination was funded by a Somerset County Historic Preservation Grant.

“Listing on the National Register is an acknowledgment of the importance of our mission to bring African American history to light and to preserve the structures that were part of that history,” said Caroline Katmann, SSAAM’s executive director.

“Everywhere we go, people are hungry for information about the culture, contributions, and experiences of African Americans in our state. This is a story that has been ignored until recently. Our state and nation will not heal from centuries of racism until this history is told. We hope that our Museum, and the beautifully restored Mt. Zion AME Church, will be a place people will visit to learn about and honor the enslaved and free African Americans who contributed so much to the culture, economy and landscape of this area,” said Elaine Buck, SSAAM founder and advisory board member.

SAAM and the Sourland Conservancy have partnered to restore the Mt. Zion AME Church and the cultural history of the Sourlands for over a decade. The final stage of restoration of the Mt. Zion AME Church will be overseen by Mills + Schnoering Architects of Princeton. “We are looking forward to opening the doors of our beautifully restored building to visitors on a regular basis, in 2022,” Katmann said.

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, 189 Hollow Road, Skillman 08558. www.ssaamuseum.org.

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Jacobs Music Makes a Move at a Key Time for Piano Sales

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loom and doom were the tunes for piano manufacturers and their sales/service outlets.

The piano industry had to face the music, so played the reports.

“Hitting a low note: Pianos becoming extinct in US homes,” declared the seacoastonline.com news service in July, 2018.

And only this past May 12, the research department of the online statistics portal Statista illustrated a report on the number of acoustic pianos sold in the United States with a bar graph looking like a mangled piano keyboard whose black keys had been chopped progressively smaller.

In just five years, from 2005 through 2009, annual sales plunged from 95,518 to 33,060.

After a slight stabilization, sales played a discordant descending scale from 31,073 in 2019 to 20,870 in 2020 — a loss of nearly a third.

And now, in 2021?

“The demand far exceeds the supply,” says Robert Rinaldi, vice president, education, for Jacobs Music and co-principal of the company with his brother Chris, president and CEO. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Jacobs Music is an authorized dealer for the internationally renowned Steinway & Sons brand.

Jacobs has a total of seven stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey — including a showroom at the Windsor Green Shopping Center on Route 1 in West Windsor, just opened last autumn after 20 years in Lawrence and, before that, on North Olden Avenue in Trenton.

Has the piano industry really gone from a funeral dirge to a pastoral symphony in less than a year?

Robert Rinaldi insists it’s so.

“From the industry as well,” the Marlton resident reiterates, “I can tell you demand far exceeds sup-

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ply. We cannot get pianos for all the people who want them.”

“And people want a higher quality instrument,” he adds.

“People are more thoughtful about the expectations they have.”

What happened? In an almost operatic plot twist, COVID-19 temporarily left its villainous role to play a helpful supporting part.

Of course, among the pandemic’s many tragedies was its devastating effect on the performing arts, especially live music. The urgent need to reduce, even suspend, crowds closed businesses

For the multitudes of persons working or studying remotely — many of them already music lovers and even players — the idea of having their own pianos at home to enjoy and share with family became quite attractive. and schools, sending many workers and students to carry on at home. And live venue performing arts —including music concerts, festivals, and club shows — went on life support.

But for the multitudes of persons working or studying remotely — many of them already music lovers and even players — the idea of having their own pianos at home to enjoy and share with family became quite attractive.

And sharing with friends and neighbors, too. “Now with the vaccinations,” Rinaldi says, “people are more comfortable about having other people in their

homes.”

The cumulative result? Sales of pianos for home use not only recovered but became robust.

“This is something unique because of the pandemic,” says Rinaldi. “I’ve never seen it.”

Prices vary: Rinaldi says a new quality grand piano starts in the neighborhood of $10,000, whereas a new nine-foot Steinway concert grand runs about $180,000, though used ones are substantially discounted. Smaller pre-owned Steinways begin at about $25,000.

The Princeton store has, as of this writing, a formidable inventory of some 50 new and preowned pianos, including seven concert grand pianos from venues and programs as prestigious as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts.

Forced to close its factories for four months due to the pandemic, Steinway & Sons urgently needed to boost its income stream. These concert grands were not owned but leased by the venues. Steinway was forced to call them in and alert their dealers’ network to their availability for sale as very special certified pre-owned Steinways.

Jacobs Music seized the opportunity: “While other people reduced their inventory, we doubled ours.”

“There’s never been a time when we had seven concert grands in our showroom,” Rinaldi says, adding that it’s more than in Steinway Hall in Manhattan.

Modern acoustic pianos range from the full 88-key, nine-foot long concert grand pianos and baby grands, to uprights and compact 66-key baby uprights. Modern grand pianos have some 12,000 parts including strings, levers, miscellaneous hardware, and multitudinous wood pieces (from a veritable ecosystem of trees providing specific qualities of reso-

nance, strength, or appearance).

To create richness of aural textures, there may be three strings per key. Hence the total string count far exceeds 88 and is often 230. The combined pulls of these strings, tuned to full concert pitch, can total an astonishing 20 tons of

tension.

“There’s a whole lot more to a piano than many people realize,” says Rinaldi with smiling understatement.

The modern piano evolved from simpler, yet ingenious, ancient instruments whose strings

Robert Rinaldi in Jacobs Music’s Windsor Green showroom. Piano sales have spiked during the pandemic, and the store’s move from Lawrence to West Windsor brought it closer to its core Prince­ ton-area clientele.

Photos by Richard D. Smith

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were raised on thin wooden sup- their support persons.

“We still had bills, rents, and port “bridges” and sounded via striking with small wooden mal- benefits to pay. But we were afraid lets (similar to today’s hammered to close. And we bet on survivdulcimers). Advances in mechani- ing.”

Chris and Robert took inspiracal technology led to systems in which the sounding mallets were tion from family history. “My fahinged and fixed within the instru- ther beat cancer 14 times,” Robert ment’s body, operated by keys de- reflects. “I thought, we can beat pressed and released by the player. this.”

Their faith in the future coinItalian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori is credited with cided with a major move in the inventing the first true piano circa Prince­ton regional piano markets.

1700. Its name came from “piano- When their lease on a Business forte,” meaning “soft-loud,” dis- Route 1 store in Lawrence expired tinguishing it from earlier key- last year, they opted to stay open board instruments such as the but relocate a few miles north. harpsichord in which the volume They moved into the Windsor Green space last fall; also approxiof notes could not be varied.

A major movement in piano mately 5,000 square feet but now history — both metaphorically much closer to their core Princeand literally — came a century and ton-area clientele.

As it turned out, this risky move a half later with the 1853 immigration to New York City of German perfectly positioned Jacobs Music piano builder Heinrich Engelhard for the sudden boom in home piaSteinweg — soon to anglicize his no sales. The Princeton-area store has returned to regular business name as Henry E. Steinway.

Henry was skilled in traditional hours, confirms manager Randy piano construction but also eager Brown (although he urges buyers to combine the latest advances in to make appointments so they will mechanics, wood joining, and iron have personal attention and be and steel casting with innovative able to play and hear the pianos interior and exterior designs to without competing sounds from many additional patrons). further develop the instrument.

But there are still challenges.

“So many of the elements of the [modern] piano itself are by Henry Electronic keyboards had already Steinway,” says Rinaldi, noting cut into the general piano market that the now-familiar shape of the with their versatility (especially in grand piano was itself a Steinway performing various styles of pop music), compactness, mobility, innovation.

Henry’s brother William proved and prices.

Steinway has countered with its to be a wizard at promotion and Roland line of sales. His brildigital pianos. liant stroke was ‘I never thought I’d These use a to build a roster “modeled” tone of the greatest get involved with the generation sysliving pianists business,’ Robert tem instead of and send them Rinaldi says. ‘But mu- recorded “samon concert tours ples” that typiwith, of course, sic is infectious.’ fied the first Steinways, generations of which he electric pianos. dubbed — with declarative forte — “The Instru- The keyboard and pedal responses are designed to reproduce the feel ment of the Immortals.”

Steinway & Sons American of standard acoustic pianos. But headquarters, including a major with Bluetooth and Midi capabilifactory complex, is in Queens, ty the Rolands can interface with with a “Steinway Hall” showroom Apple and Android devices.

And — as proof that “everyin Manhattan. Its European and international headquarters are in thing old is new again” — SteinHamburg, Germany. Flagship way & Sons is reinventing the Steinway-brand pianos are made player piano.

Obviously, its Spirio player piain those two locations. Its Boston line of mid-level market pianos no system isn’t the punched paper are built in Japan, and its Essex roll-operated piano of old cartoon movie sight gags and dimming budget line in China.

Steinway is by no means the first-person memories. But the sole manufacturer pianos for Spirio is a true piano with a digital American and world markets. Ma- interface and memory containing son & Hamlin, Bosendorfer, Fazi- some 4,000 tracks by more than oli, Baldwin, Yamaha, and others 250 Steinway-endorsing virtuohave found their loyal market sos. And it has a real-time capacity niches. But the decline of the pia- — named with true Steinway no as a standard, if specialized and flourish as “Spiriocast” — that acexpensive, piece of American tivates the subscriber’s piano so home furniture has been very real. that it plays in the home exactly And it’s told by the history of what the performer is playing in concert: at the same time and with Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.

Chestnut Street once held the the same notes, volumes, pedal city’s “piano row,” boasting 13 workings, flourishes, and nuancsuccessful firms during its heyday. es.

“This brings live performance Jacobs Music — which had been founded in 1900 — arrived in the into your home,” says Rinaldi. neighborhood impressively in “We’re just starting to digest what 1937 with a four-floor, art deco- it all means. I think people can’t styled sales and service building. wait to experience live music again.”

Today, it is the only survivor.

That may apply to the new ownAl C. Rinaldi, Chris and Robert’s father, established his career ers of an upright piano that was with the lease departments of ma- recently being carefully padded jor Philadelphia stores Gimbles up and wheeled out by a moving and John Wanamakers in the late crew from B&N Piano Sales & 1960s. In 1976, Al purchased Ja- Services of Aston Township, cobs Music. It too was a family Pennsylvania. They readily agreed venture, with Chris and Robert’s with Robert Rinaldi — they’ve mother working there. “I never never been busier.

Cue the piano flourish to herald thought I’d get involved with the business,” Robert says. “But mu- the final act of the COVID-19 pandemic? sic is infectious.”

Sadly, the coronavirus is also Jacobs Music, Windsor Green infectious. Steinway had to close Shopping Center, 3495 Route 1 its factory last year for some four South, West Windsor. 609-434months. Jacobs Music has some 0222 or www.jacobsmusic.com/ 50 employees between its seven locations/jacobs-music-pianolocations, including some 15 tun- store-princeton-nj. ing and repair technicians plus

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lowing at the front of the Jacobs Pianos showroom in the Windsor Green Shopping Center is a gilded piano with a golden history.

Philadelphia newspaper publisher George W. Childs Drexel (1868-1944) and wife Mary Irick Drexel (1864-1944) were lovers and patrons of music. Their BeauxArts style mansion, built in 1894 at 18th and Locust streets, eventually became part of Philadelphia’s world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music.

George Drexel was a serious amateur pianist and, also in 1894, commissioned a gilded Steinway grand piano adorned with illustrations inspired by classical themes.

In this era, Jacobs Music’s Bob Rinaldi notes, “piano decorations were not uncommon for the wealthy.” But these particular embellishments have an uncommon pedigree.

They were the work of American painter Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848–1936), whose murals grace state capitols, churches, courthouses, and universities across America, as well as some private residences — including the Drexels’ home. The murals on the dome of the Library of Congress main reading room are, literally, his overarching achievement. Such is his reputation that the instrument has become known among music historians as “The Blashfield Piano.” Like the mansion, it was donated to the Curtis Institute.

“The Curtis Institute wanted to bring it back to a viable state,” Rinaldi says. “It had not been played for years.” Indeed, it had been in careful storage at the school. It was removed to the Steinway factory in

New York for maintenance and restoration.

But in the interim, Curtis undertook a major facility modernization (taking logistical advantage of its temporary closure due to COVID-19). The Institute will reopen to students in the fall, but the renovation project will likely continue to year’s end. For now, the Blashfield Piano enjoys the company of its fellow Steinways in the Jacobs Princeton showroom.

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The Blashfield Piano, top, on display at Ja­ cobs Music, with its inscription to the Drexel family pictured above.

“It could be, but it’s not currently,” Rinaldi smiles. “It’s still the Curtis’s piano.”

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Please join Morven Museum & Garden and our partners for a 10-day-long 4th of July celebration and earn a custom designed commemorative coin!

We invite you to embark on a Revolutionary War scavenger hunt at five local Princeton historic locations: • It’s free to participate and you complete at your own pace • Visit one or all locations during daylight hours from June 28 through July 8 • The first 300 families or groups that bring their completed answer sheet to Morven’s Museum Shop, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ, Wednesday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. by July 8 for review will receive a commemorative coin.

• Questions? Visit www.morven.org or email dlampertrudman@morven.org This 4th of July celebration is in partnership and thanks to Morven Museum & Garden, The Historical Society of Princeton, The Princeton Battlefield Society, and Rockingham State Historic Site Rockingham State Historic Site - 84 Laurel Ave, Kingston This historic mansion was George Washington’s Final Wartime Headquarters. https://www.rockingham.net/ The buildings are not currently open to the public. Check the website for a guided tour schedule.

1. Before leaving the parking lot, walk over to the Information board and find the text of the “Farewell Orders to the Armies,” written at Rockingham by General George Washington in October 1783. Toward the end of the fourth paragraph, Washington describes how, against all expectations, the soldiers became “one patriotic ____________ __________ ___________.

2. Cross the bridge and walk to the stone building (built in 1905 as a welcome center at the house’s 2nd location—the house was moved 3 times!) Who can you see looking out the window to the right of the double door? ____________ 3. Keep following the path to get to the home where the Washingtons stayed for more than 2 ½ months in 1783. How many stars are on the blue flag hanging in the window to the right of the roofed porch? ______.Why do you think there are that many? ________________ 4. Walk to the other side of the house where there’s a two-story porch. Gently, without pressing on the glass, look through the first two windows to the left of the door to see the formal parlor. Can you find a musical instrument, a deck of cards, a turkey and a grandfather clock? Look in the windows to the right of the door to find images of the Washingtons. How many Georges are there? _______ How many Marthas?_____ Morven Museum & Garden - 55 Stockton Street, Princeton This historic mansion and gardens were the home of Richard & Annis Stockton and the Stockton family through the early 20th century. Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. rented the house before it became New Jersey’s first Governors’ mansion. www.morven.org Open to the public Wednesday through Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Grounds open every day until dusk.

1. Richard Stockton was one of five signers of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey. In 1776, it was a great risk to sign a document demanding independence from the King of England, yet he left this house and went to _________________________ to sign. Would you have signed? If yes, sign your name here:_____________________________________ while standing on the back porch or in the courtyard (Did you know? The Declaration of Independence was not actually signed until August 2, 1776) 2. Annis Boudinot Stockton was one of the first female published poets in America and gave Morven its name. At the far end of the Stockton Education Center, find Annis’ Grotto sign. What collection (brought home from England by her husband) lined her inspiration spot?________________ What type of collection of objects would be in your Grotto? _______________ 3. Morven was never a single family home. During the Revolutionary era, the Stockton family, enslaved men, women, children and servants lived and worked here. Near the driveway on the left, when facing the mansion, find the oldest wing of the house, which housed the kitchen and service quarters. What is it called? _________ Take a family photo near one of its doors.

4. Continue walking past the front porch and toward the right side of the house. Find the Horse Chestnut Walk sign near the pathway between Morven and The Princeton Battle Monument. What type of tree lined this walk in Annis and Richard Stockton’s time and what did Annis hang in the trees to mark the way for guests at her Fourth of July party in 1783? _______________ _____________________ (Optional: If you find a horse chestnut seed on the ground take a photo!)

The Princeton Battle Monument - 1 Monument Drive, Princeton 1. Find the cannonball with a skull carved on it. What word is written below it? _________ Find these other Revolutionary War images in the sculpture: eagle, flag, tricorn hat, cannon, powder horn, drummer boy, horse.

2. What was the name of the monument’s sculptor, and what year was it dedicated? (Hint: the answers are carved in the front of the sculpture.) ________________ ________ 3. Find the patriotic inscription on the back of the monument and read it out loud!

Princeton Battlefield State Park - 500 Mercer Rd, Princeton George Washington and his army defeated the British at this site on January 3, 1777. www.pbs1777.org Grounds are open every day until dusk.

1. Find the tree inside a fence. What type of tree is it?________ For whom was it named? _____________________. This is an offspring of the original tree that collapsed of old age. In what year did it fall? _______ 2. March toward the flagpole and find the sign to its left, located on the site of Moulder’s Battery. How many cannons were a part of this artillery that prevented the British from advancing across the field? _____ 3. March to the Thomas Clarke house and look through the lower right window. This room was where General Mercer was nursed after being wounded during the battle. Now look around the other side of the house to find a cannon. In which direction is it pointed? _____. (This was done to indicate that an American general died in the house.)

Updike Farmstead - 354 Quaker Road, Princeton Home to the Historical Society of Princeton, this farm is along the route followed by Continental troops on their way to engage British soldiers at the Thomas Clarke farm. www.princetonhistory.org Museum is currently closed; grounds are open every day until dusk.

1. Near the garden in the backyard, find the Farmstead History Trail sign entitled, “The Road to War.” How many days did the British occupy Princeton in 177677? _________ 2. Look at the spy map, drawn by Colonel John Cadwalader for George Washington in December 1776. It includes details on British cannons and valuable information on the road network around Princeton. How many men are “at the bridge”? ________ What is the name of the tavern located next to the College? _______________ 3. Turn right out of the driveway (walk or drive) and locate the Washington Route Marker on the right side of Quaker Road. Twelve pillars were placed to mark the route of Washington and his troops on January 3, 1777 from Trenton to Princeton. In what year were they erected? ___________ Stand next to it and take a picture!