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indows of Hope 2021 (June 12 through July 10) is a creative art exhibit being featured in the historic district windows of Lawrenceville Main Street and Gordon Avenue. This event combines the elements of a traditional exhibit, public art installation, and “phantom galleries.” It will feature 52 talented artists and 70 2D and 3D artwork contributions from all sectors of our community, including HomeFront’s ArtSpace, whose artists will display work at the Purple Cow Ice Cream Parlor with artists from the Lawrence Township Senior Center.

Eight Main Street businesses will host the upcoming art exhibit: Lawrenceville Vintage Treasures, The Village Barber Shop, The Gingered Peach, DiMatteo Chiropractic and Pilates, The Purple Cow, 2681 Main Street, Starbucks Lawrenceville, and Chambers Walk Café. Two-dimensional and threedimensional artwork will be displayed in the interior windowpanes of these historic buildings facing outward for all passersby to enjoy.

For select businesses whose interior spaces remain closed, there will be “phantom galleries” with artwork illuminated and displayed on ledges with easels, also visible through the windows.

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Art that is part of the Windows of Hope display includes ‘Sisters at Heart,’ above, by Irene Granderson; and ‘Trojan Chicken,’ right, by Ruthann Perry.

Windows of Hope will also host artists who have struggled during an event Flickr page where all sub- the Covid-19 shutdown. In addimissions will be featured online. tion, the art show will draw visitors who can also support Artists can sell and retain Street’s local 100 percent of the reveBetween Main merchants by dining nue from the sale of their The and shopping. work. Window exhibition For more informamaps where artwork is Lines tion on the volunteerfeatured will also be availled nonprofit organizaable at each participating business with a QR code to “swipe” tion Lawrenceville Main Street, for artwork description, pricing, dedicated to fostering a sense of and artist’s contact information. community and revitalizing historPrizes will be awarded including ic downtown Lawrenceville, visit the public being able to vote for an interactive People’s Choice Award.

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n a year of extraordinary challenges, four women business leaders in the Princeton region have distinguished themselves with their accomplishments. They will be honored at the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Women of Achievement Awards on Thursday, June 10.

The virtual ceremony, led by the Chamber’s Women in Business Alliance, begins at 10 a.m. Register online at www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Cost: $40; $30 members.

While those in healthcare professions were often in the spotlight this past year, women from the corporate and nonprofit worlds also made noteworthy contributions to the region. This year’s award recipients are Nicole McGrath Barnes of the KinderSmile Foundation; Erin Klebaur of Imbue Creative; Amita Mehta of Amita Mehta Possible; and Deborah Mican of Capital Health.

Barnes, a dentist trained at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, founded the KinderSmile Foundation in 2007 in Montclair, where she had a dental practice, to address disparities in access to dental care for at-risk children.

In October, 2020, the foundation opened the Kindersmile Community Oral Health Center in Trenton.

The center serves underserved and uninsured children and adults, many of whom are Hispanic or African-American and are statistically less likely to see a dentist and more likely to develop tooth decay at a young age.

Klebaur is the president of Lambertville-based marketing agency Imbue Creative. She has been named to multiple lists of top business leaders under the age of 40 and holds a bachelor’s degree in communications, with a concentration in business and professional speech and a minor in marketing and advertising, from Rider University.

Mehta left a 25-year career as a business strategist for large corporations including JPMorgan Chase and Prudential Financial to become CEO of her own firm, Amita Mehta Possible (AMP). Through AMP she consults with businesses to creative inclusive cultures and with individuals to help them develop their passions and leadership skills.

Honorees at the Princeton Chamber’s Women of Achievement Awards on June 10 include, clockwise from top left, Nicole McGrath Barnes, Erin Klebaur, Deborah Mican, and Amita Mehta.

An advocate for LGBTQ+ causes, she also serves on the national board of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the Stonewall Community Foundation.

Mican is the vice president of patient care services and the chief nursing officer at Capital Health – Hopewell Medical Center and Capital Health Regional Medical Center. Mican began her career as an intensive care unit nurse and has 34 years of experience in various areas of nursing leadership.

She earned a bachelor’s in nursing and psychology from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania, a master of public health from the University of Scranton, and in 2020 completed her PhD from Walden University with a dissertation on “The healthcare providers’ perception of their ability to recognize boys as victims of human sex trafficking.”

The Women of Achievement Awards will be among the last summer Chamber events hosted in a virtual format. The return to in-person events begins with the Business After Business networking gathering on Thursday, June 24.

Business Meetings Thursday, June 10

Women of Achievement Awards, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, 609924-1776. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Virtual ceremony honoring women from the Princeton Mercer region. Honorees are Nicole McGrath Barnes of the KinderSmile Foundation; Erin

Klebaur of Imbue Creative; Amita Mehta of Amita Mehta Possible; and Deborah Mican of Capital Health. Register. $40; $30 members. 10 a.m.

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

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Wednesday, June 16

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

How to Make Your Business More Bankable, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org.

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Event descriptions specify if an event is being held virtually or in a hybrid format. To include your virtual or in-person event in this section email events@princetoninfo.com.

Wednesday June 9 Health Pop-Up COVID Vaccine Clinic, Mercer County, Millyard Park, 635 South Clinton Avenue, Trenton. Receive the single dose J&J vaccine. Ages 18 and up. No appointment necessary. 9 a.m. to 5 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. Regis-

Celebrating Open Space Former Small World Coffee barista Sarah Stryker exhibits her photography at the cafe’s Nassau Street location through July 5. A portion of proceeds from the show will go to the D&R Greenway Land Trust and to the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, the original inhabitants of this land. ter. Pay what you can, $8 and up.

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Kids Stuff

Read and Pick: Strawberries, 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 and 11 a.m.

Lectures

Lunchtime Gallery Series, West Windsor Arts Council & Princeton University Art Museum, 609-716-1931. www.westwindsorarts.org. A PUAM docent presents “Women in Art.” Register. $10; free for WWAC members. 1 p.m.

Muriel Buttinger Lecture, The Watershed Institute, Pennington. www.thewatershed.org. Storyteller, author, and cultural geographer Carolyn Finney, scholar-inresidence for environmental affairs at Middlebury College, leads a virtual discussion. Register. 6 to 7:15 p.m.

Artists’ Roundtable: Baroque Chamber Ensemble, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival. org. Performers from the 2021 Baroque Chamber Series discuss their instruments, training, score study, and rehearsal processes through a Zoom panel discussion moderated by Princeton musicologist Kyle Masson. Register.

Free. 7 p.m.

Socials

Princeton Pecha, Arts Council of Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Area artists gather virtually to share their work in a format inspired by the Japanese PechaKucha. Featured artists include Alan Chimacoff, Habiyb, Mary Leck, Craig Shofed, Brass Rabbit, and Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick. Each artist will show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, exhibiting for the audience an array of visual expression. Register. Free.

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Sports

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder.com. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders. $12. 7 p.m.

Thursday June 10 Classical Music Baroque Chamber Series: Sacred and Profane, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival. org. Livestreamed concert from Morven’s education center. 7 p.m.

Live Music

Beagles Do Beatles, , Palmer Square, Princeton. www.palmersquare.com. Classic tunes from The Beatles performed by The Beagles, augmented for this show by horns, keyboards, and special guests. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.

Pop Music

Broadway Spotlight Concert Series, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. Bucks County native and Broadway star Christy Altomare performs. Register. $40. 7:30 p.m.

Art Apples and Oranges, Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville. www.lambertvillearts. com. First day for exhibit of works

by Alan Klawans and Claudia Fouse Fountaine on view through July 4. Gallery is open Thursdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Film

Films on the Farm, Princeton Garden Theater, Cherry Grove Farm, 3200 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrence. www.cherrygrovefarm. com. Screening of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Register. $12.

Cracker and cheese platters available for pre-purchase. Bring your own seating. 7 p.m.

Farm Markets

Princeton Farmers Market, Franklin Avenue Lot, Princeton. www.princetonfarmersmarket. com. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and artisanal products. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Health

Pop-Up Vaccine Clinic, Mercer County, Mercer County Park Skating Center, West Windsor.

Receive the single dose J&J vaccine or the first dose of the twopart Moderna or Pfizer vaccine.

All vaccines are available for ages 18 and up. The Pfizer vaccine is also available to ages 12 and up with a parent. No appointment necessary. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Spooky Summer Reads with a New Jersey Twist

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pack of five New Jersey ghost books sent by Haunted America, a division of The History Press, may be just the way to engage in some light — yet imaginative and informative — summer reading.

The words “haunted” and “history” are an apt combination. After all, ghost tales, as fantastic as they can be, are often attached to real history.

Additionally, since the book’s tales all take place in New Jersey, they provide a sense of place — or better perhaps a double sense: one is in a Garden State reader’s imagination and the other right under the feet — something that can easily lead to some summer outings to local designations No matter what, even as implausible they seem, the stories are diverting and fun and connect us to the landscape.

Loyd Auerbach — a California parapsychologist, paranormal researcher, and mentalist who goes by the name Professor Paranormal — gets things rolling with his forward to “Ghosts of Central Jersey” where he opens rhetorically with “Ghosts? In New Jersey? Who doesn’t love a good ghost story?”

He answers by setting out an argument on the nature of such tales. “The human tradition of telling tales of unusual, heroic, adventurous, romantic, humorous, and horrific experiences is likely as old as language itself — and maybe older. Human beings have always conjured up stories to explain the inexplicable, to tantalize curiosity, to make us react emotionally or to get our adrenaline going. Tales of ghosts and hauntings, of things that go bump in the night (and day), are a special class all to themselves.

“Ghost stories are fundamentally about us — the living and the dead. They are tales of human exploits and foibles, of motivations and unfinished business, of drama and comedy, and, most of all, of emotion and history — sometimes recent, sometimes ancient.

People love ghost stories because, while they often don’t reflect the actual experiences of living people (the ones who see/experience the shots), they sure seem to be real.”

As befitting someone who advances the idea of a spirit world, Auerbach adds, “While generally scary (or at least suspenseful), ghost stories have one underlying point that says something very important: We continue on in some kind of existence after the death of our bodies. While most ghost stories don’t address the issue of the afterlife as a place/ dimension that we go to (the ghosts in the stories are still here with us), in that respect they do reflect the real reported experiences, encounters, and paranormal/psychic investigations of apparitions, hauntings, and poltergeists.”

The writer continues by saying we are “fascinated with the unknown, even if it brings up their fears — or perhaps precisely because it does this. It is also clear that people seem to be drawn to that which brings up strong emotions, even if those emotions are negative.”

Moving then to created ghost stories and those that have a history of documented reportings, he asks rhetorically, “What’s the difference between a fictional ghost story and one that’s true (based on actual human experience)?

“Content-wise, while the fictional ghost story may follow similar parameters as most ghost experiences, there is usually at least some exaggeration, dramatization, and such for the sake of the telling of the tale. But more often, the behaviors and motivations of the ghost are completely made up to make the story more dramatic, scarier, funnier, and so on — more emotionally evocative. Even the history of the haunted location in the story is exaggerated, misrepresented, or completely fictional. Which brings me to this book — and the tales in it.”

Here Auerbach provides the parapsychologist approach, but it could also be a writer’s approach, such as with American-born novelist Henry James and his monumental 1898 ghost novella “A Turn of the Screw,” based on information he found attending sessions of the London-based Society for Psychical Research.

It is also fodder for a story in itself, “For an investigator of the paranormal, especially parapsychologists conducting field investigations, verifiable information about the lo-

Compilations of New Jersey ghost stories published by Haunted America include volumes focused on Central Jersey, the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers, Burlington County and its county seat, Mount Holly, and Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland counties. cation and/or the person(s) the ghost(s) represent(s) is extremely important to both support the experience as essentially real and to help solve the case — to help us determine what (or who) is the source of the experiences.

“Most of the cases that parapsychologists investigate tend to involve families experiencing something that may have only a small verifiable component — usually information gleaned from communication with the ostensible apparition or perceptions about that bit o does the publisher’s latest New Jerof place/memory/residual haunting that is repeating itself. Since most people don’t live sey spook book, “Ghosts Along the Navesink in the homes of great history, we usually try and Shrewsberry Rivers.”

Here historian and author of “Shark Atto track down whatever is available from previous owners, public records, local newspa- tacks of the Jersey Shore” Patricia Martz Heyer mixes documented fact with familiar pers, and neighbors.

“In the case of public places such as muse- story formulas or tropes, such as a woman in ums, historical sites, restaurants, bars, and so white haunting a cemetery as well as a stylon, there can be both a well-established his- ishly dressed woman in black appearing tory of the location and long-term ghost weekly on a Red Bank street — the latter prosightings. For the history, one must often viding Martz with her opportunity to use check the reality of what’s known, since the strange goings on to liven up a history lesson. history that is sometimes passed around is more of an oral history that doesn’t hold up he remaining completely against three books continue the actual historical the trend but move record.” into southern New ‘Ghost stories are fundaGiven that New Jersey. Mount HollyJersey has a long hismentally about us — the livbased freelance writtory that involves naing and the dead. They are er and past ghost tour tive populations and coordinator Jan Lynn tales of human exploits and colonial settings, the Bastien penned two oral tales may run foibles, of motivations and of them. The broader counter to recorded unfinished business, of dra- one is “Ghosts of information, creating Burlington County.” ma and comedy, and, most an interesting dichotAlthough the omy between story of all, of emotion and histocounty extends from and fact that can enry — sometimes recent, the Delaware River gage the imagination to the Great Bay, sometimes ancient.’ and open the door to Bastien focuses potentials – as does mainly on places in the story in “Ghosts of what was once ColoCentral New Jersey” on Prallsville Mills on nial-era West Jersey. That includes hauntings Route 29.

Here writer and musician Gordon Thomas at the Library Company of Burlington, charWard — the subject of an October 17, 2017, tered by King George II in 1757; Smithville U.S. 1 article — begins by noting that “to de- Mansion in Eastampton, the Victorian-era termine the sources and causes of a haunting home of inventor, entrepreneur, and politiis somewhat akin to putting a jigsaw puzzle cian Hezekiah Smith; and the nearby historic together when most of the pieces are miss- and now defunct factory town of Roebling — all visits generally using a formula that ing.”

In this case, Ward’s investigation of al- mixes a dash of ghostly presence, a heaping leged hauntings provides an account of doc- of historic fact, and blend of investigation umented histories of individuals connected and speculation.

While the Burlington County book also with the centuries-old property as well as reincludes a few stops to the county seat, porting on an inconclusive investigation — providing historic information while stimu- Mount Holly, the historic town gets its own volume, “Ghosts of Mount Holly,” with lating the imagination. stops including the “mount” itself — situated next to a cemetery and home to an altar where

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he final book is “Haunted Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland Counties” by Kelly Lin Gallagher-Roncace, who describes herself “an entertainment and features writer for NJ Advance Media” and author of the weekly column “Paranormal Corner” for the South Jersey Times. Her short and fast reads cover a lot territory and make the usual stops: prisons, restaurants, graveyards, mansions, and mental hospitals. Yet her “you never know”-spirited chapters also take readers into New Jersey areas not normally on one’s tour lists.

One destination is the town of Greenwich, where the writer shares information about New Jersey’s own — and generally unknown — Revolutionary War-era Tea Party. (Incidentally, although it’s not in the book, the town is also home to one of the nation’s only Futuro homes — flying saucer-like homes created by a Finish designer in the 1960s — connecting this book’s set of beliefs with another that also stirs the imagination.)

Filled with local color, characters, history, and lore, Haunted America’s New Jersey spook books provide light reading over the summer and just may provide a welcome chill in the hot months ahead.

“Ghosts of Central New Jersey,” 128 pages, $17.99.

“Ghosts Along the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers,” 140 pages, $21.99.

“Ghosts of Burlington County,” 126 pages, $19.99.

“Ghosts of Mount Holly,” 128 pages, $19.99.

“Haunted Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland Counties,” 144 pages, $19.99.

For more information visit www.arcadiapublishing.com/series/haunted-americabooks.

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he following section from the story “A Bridge to the Other Side: Hauntings in Roebling” from the book “Ghosts of Burlington County” provides a sample of the series of New Jersey Ghost books published by Haunted America.

Here Mount Holly writer Jan Lynn Bastien visits the historic of Roebling — the mill town founded by the Roebling Company below Trenton on the Delaware River.

After recounting the story of Elex Passternak, a Hungarian worker who hanged himself in 1939 after being arrested for harassing some young women, the writer visits the Roebling Museum, in the refurbished steel mill where Passternak worked and was held in the factorytown jail.

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‘The site had lain fallow for 34 years,” related Roebling resi-

dent George Lengel, a retired history teacher, whose father and grandfather worked in the Roebling mills, as he did himself for many summers while working through college. Then, in 1982, the 200-hundred-acre plant became the focus of a Superfund project, and the Environmental Protection Agency declared it off-limits. A past member of the Roebling Museum board of directors, Lengel was one of the many activists in Roebling working to preserve the Roebling legacy through the creation of the museum at the main gate.

Before the clean-up began, the location was deemed worthy of national preservation as a historic site. In an August 1997 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, one industrial archaeologist examining the site declared, “It’s like an industrial Pompeii.” The team that came through prior to the Superfund clean-up to document its historical significance sifted through old drawings and blueprints and studied the plant’s many buildings and machines, “looking for ghosts,” as one of those analyzing the site described the process. “You can really feel the presence of the place,” a worker from the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office stated in the article.

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Whether or not “looking for ghosts” and “feeling a presence” is alluding to actual paranormal activity, I am not sure. But George Lengel has heard many reports of ghosts in the museum and the area of the old mills. George remembers that one of the EPA workers said he always saw a face looking out of the second-floor window of one of the old buildings. He told George that three or four of the men “would always see this man looking at us.”

One day when a crew came to demolish one of the old wire mills, they saw a man walking ahead of them enter the building. The foreman yelled at him to leave as they would soon be bringing it down.

But he didn’t respond. The foreman instructed a couple of his workers to go in and get him out of there.

They went in and searched the building, but nobody was there.

And as the remainder of the crew had stood outside watching the building, they knew nobody came out, either.

Paul Varga worked in the mills from 1956 to 1974, when they closed, and like Lengel, still lives in Roebling. Also like Lengel, he was a key player in working to establish the Roebling Museum to preserve the memory of this impor-

‘It sounds like the overly flirtatious Elex Passternak has certainly not changed much, and that this lecherous ghost is still grabbing what he can, without fear of persecution now.’ tant community, and he still serves on the board of directors. Paul and George were serving together as museum docents one afternoon in 2011 when a woman came in to tour the museum. She paid her admission and then went into the Roebling Room gallery, which stands where the three jail cells were housed in the days of the steel mills and where Elex Passternak spent his last night on earth.

A few minutes later, “she came flying out of there, screaming that

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she saw a male ghost who was pressuring her,” remembered George.

Then she turned and ran out of the building. George and Paul watched as she jumped into her car and sped away. They never saw her again.

Lengel and Varga said that there have been other female visitors to the museum who have reported being touched by something while seeing nothing in this same room.

Ghost researchers will tell you that spirits tend to maintain the same traits and personality they had in life. It sounds like the overly flirtatious Elex Passternak has certainly not changed much, and that this lecherous ghost is still grabbing what he can, without fear of persecution now.

Elex is also a prankster, it seems, or maybe he just gets bored when there are no women around. The museum hosts meetings for many groups in the Roma Bank Media Room, and George would sometimes stay until the meeting was over to lock up. One such time, the building’s alarm system wouldn’t set. The control panel kept indicating that there was activity in the gallery, again, where the old jail cells used to be. George went over to the gallery and cleaned off the motion sensor, but it still wouldn’t reset. He could leave the building unarmed, and he suspected it was Elex. So he tried to reason with him.

“Yo, Elex, knock it off. I’ve been here all day. I’m a volunteer. Remember when this place had no roof? No heat? Please let me go home,” he urged Passternak’s spirit. Elex is not such a bad guy: Listening to reason he stopped setting off the motion sensor, and George was then able to set the alarm and go home.

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A Jersey Devil Family Affair: ‘Brigid’s Charge’

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by Dan Aubrey

he Jersey Devil made me do it — that is, write last year’s lengthy article on the books, films, music, and art inspired by one of the state’s most popular legends.

And while I covered a lot of territory, I missed something significant.

But thanks to U.S. 1 writer Susan Van Dongen I was set straight and learned about an unusual work connected to the legend.

It is Cynthia Lamb’s book “Brigid’s Charge,” a name and title that provided no obvious clue related to New Jersey’s favorite mythic monster. In fact, Brigid figures large in ancient Celtic and Irish Catholic legends.

However, Van Dongen, previously of the Philadelphia Inquirer, had interviewed Lamb when the book originally appeared in 1997 and filled me in on an important piece of information: Lamb was a descendant of the woman who literally and figuratively birthed the legend.

As the story famously goes, in 1737 a worn and distraught “Mother” Leeds cursed her 13th pregnancy and bore a child that transformed into a winged monster that is said to still haunt its New Jersey Pinelands birthplace.

As with most legends, there were actual people and names connected to the story.

Following up my colleague’s advice, I found a copy of the book and, having already read several Jersey Devil books involving killings and gore, prepared myself for more of the same.

Instead I found something unexpected.

“Brigid’s Charge” is a novel where a writer shows serious attention to style and historic detail to tell the story of a young woman’s 18th-century passage from England to an unsettled New Jersey colony where she starts a challenging new life with a husband she has never met in an atmosphere haunted by religious ideology and superstition.

It is the latter that encircles the main character and provides the writer to mix her story with fact and fancy, mundanity and mystery.

Here’s an example where Lamb writes about the ship carrying Deborah — aka the eventual “Mother” Leeds — to Burlington, New Jersey, and its stop at its first destina-

tion, the “thriving seaport” of Philadelphia: “The ship approached the wet wooden posts of the wharf.

Deborah noticed a girl of about 14 standing just outside the flurry of dock workers. She wore a dark blue gown and white apron. She held a basket and was staring at Deborah.

The Willow docked with a dull thud and a long deep scraping sound which scattered gulls form the post.

“The girl reached into her basket and took out a foot-long fish that flashed rainbows as it flapped slowly in her hands. She held the almost-dead fish overhead for a few moments, then threw it into the water. After wiping her hands on her apron, she saluted Deborah and ran quickly away.”

Such dream-like flourishes appear throughout the book and help the reader connect to the ancient goddess.

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n Lamb’s story, Deborah’s grandmother was a practitioner of the ancient women-charged health and spiritual traditions and secretly shared them with her granddaughter, despite Christian England’s attempt to squelch such practices.

In turn, the granddaughter secretly nurtures her female-centered spirituality and sensuality while living among Quakers and puritanical Protestants.

The above magical moment also helps connect Deborah to the devil legend that lingers over the story and ambiguously appears at the book’s conclusion — a satisfying moment that never veers from a carefully orchestrated mood and shows the legend being born in the minds of those looking for such demons.

As I read the novel, I kept connecting it to my past studies in American literature, especially the spell-like narratives found in classic American stories that used allegory and ambiguity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, however, is most apt. The writer used the fact that his great-great grandfather was a judge in the Salem Witch Trials to create his famous novel “House of the Seven Gables,” dealing with the curse of a Salem family involved with trying a warlock.

In the afterword of “Brigid’s Charge,” the Atlantic City-born Lamb notes that she was 10 when

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Cynthia Lamb, above, wrote ‘Brigid’s Charge’ after her curiosity was piqued by learning of her family’s connections to the Leeds family. she first heard about the family connection and “was struck not only by the humor with which family regarded the Leeds Devil, but the pride. My aunt affirms that the creature was universally known by our family name until declared the state’s demon in 1939 and its moniker changed to the Jersey Devil.

“I was always proud, too, of the family connection, as well as curious. Most stories about the legend have focused primarily on the child — which makes sense — but the salient question for me has always been why Mother Leeds was accused (of being a witch).”

That curiosity led her to study literature, the Salem Witch Trials, and goddess-centered religions.

My curiosity about a member of the Leeds family adding such a chapter to the Jersey Devil legend prompted to call her at her California home.

When asked about hearing the stories, Lamb says, “My dad was in the navy so I moved around a lot.

When my dad was in Vietnam I lived with my grand mom and mom in Absecon. That’s where I heard all the stories.”

The tales she heard seven miles from the alleged birthplace of the Jersey or Leeds Devil, Leeds Point, eventually grew in the back of her mind, and she began to wonder about the family and while researching discovered another legendary link that found its way into the title.

“When I did the research on the Leeds line, I found they’re descended from the Brigintine — an ancient tribe where Brigid was worshipped. So, it is the ancestral line,” she tells me.

About the creating and stylizing the book with an 18th-century sound, picked up from literature and writing classes at Mills College, Lamb, who runs a ghostwriting business, says the book “went through a hundred drafts. There are two different levels. One was on the historical side. I knew what I was doing was going to be out there for people, and I wanted it to be taken seriously. I trained as a journalist and wanted it to be historical.

“I could use secondary sources, but it was pre-internet and needed to go back to a source document. If I couldn’t find the source I checked facts three times. Wherever I could I took it back to the source document. I wanted the research to be impeccable. I wanted it to be taken seriously. If the research was impeccable, there would be credence to the fiction. My intention was to write about what happened. But there is no truth that anything happened. So that was on the nonfiction end. If there was a fact I used it.

There were facts I changed, but if I could find a fact I used it. What that created was jigsaw puzzle with a lot of pieces — that’s where I created the fiction.

“On a craft level, I learned how to write a novel through this book. I went over it over and over. I read it aloud. That’s where you can hear when it’s wrong.”

Another element in the book were her own literary influences. “I was reading Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ at the time,” she says. That book had a big impact on me and the book. I don’t know where and

The tales she heard seven miles from the alleged birthplace of the Jersey or Leeds Devil, Leeds Point, eventually grew in the back of Cynthia Lamb’s mind, and she began to wonder about the family. how. But I know that it had a big impact on me when I was writing this book. I also read a lot of 18thcentury literature and that’s how I internalized the voice.”

Additionally, she says, “The magical realism of [Gabriel Garcia] Marquez was an influence” and “I loved Hawthorne and devoured him at Mills. I have no doubt that he was an influence” — just as he was an influence on Morrison’s “Beloved.”

Lamb says her approach to writing the book was to not use an outline and “be in the position of the reader. I liked to be surprised.”

That includes allowing moments to present themselves, such as the girl with the fish. “I think it was just one of those things that came to me, and it felt right. A lot of times I didn’t know what some things meant and then later find out.”

In this fish’s case, she says it suggested sacrifice, “a kind of

woundedness. The symbology is special to numerous religious.”

Other moments offer historically accurate depictions of daily life, such as when Deborah and her indentured Irish servant — a sister in spirit and a physical lover — clean a chimney by dropping a goose through it, or when the family clears the brush and trees as their wagons move from the town of Burlington and pass through the Pinelands and across the state to the place now known as Leeds Point.

Lamb says her writing process usually started with a question regarding history — such as how people ate meals — and researched until “something would click. So, I would write a fictional scene. And then I would write beyond that.

Then I would research until something clicked and then I would write the fiction. It was a circular process going back and forth. It was interesting to me, and I enjoyed it. I did not know the ending of the book when I started.

“It took me about five years to have a full draft. I would write the first part over and over again. It took another five years to revise and polish it. And then it finally came out. All told, it was 10 years.”

She says she chose the title because it “was best for the novel — and not making a marketing decision. It created a small and more enthusiastic pool of readers. If I had devil in the title, I wouldn’t be able to do that.”

About her writing career, Lamb says, “I made peace with the fact that I am one of those writers who only did four novels and has a day job to write my novel habit. I am more interested in creating something that lives on its own. That still speaks to people — that people like it. That’s the most important thing.

That it moves people still. It doesn’t get any better than that.”

Obviously, the devil made her write the book and is there for all to see in the details.

Brigid’s Charge is published by Bay Island Books and available on Amazon, eBay, and other sites.

For more on Lamb, visit www. cynthialamb.com.

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n addition to Cynthia Lamb’s fictionalized account of her reallife family member and the alleged mother of the Jersey Devil, Deborah Leeds, another Leeds family member explored the family legend in a book that wasn’t included in my previous Jersey Devil article.

The reason was that it wasn’t fiction and its title — “The Domestic Life of the Jersey Devil or, BeBop’s Miscellany” — suggested something too hip or folksy.

When it was mentioned last fall by an historian leading a ghost tour, however, I decided to give Bill Sprouse’s 244-page work a try and found an engaging, witty, off-beat, and highly researched work.

In a disclaimer to his 2013 book, Sprouse — an Atlantic City-based historian, business, and freelance writer (whose works appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer), and copublisher of the nascent Route 40 Newspaper — writes, “The following is a work of nonfiction on the subject of the Jersey Devil — a kind of winged, fire-breathing mous legend, engaging with selfmonster indigenous to the central promoting Jersey Devil experts, and southern parts of the state of and discussing the infamous relaNew Jersey. It’s a distant relative of tive with his grandmother, the titumine. lar BeBop, on their way to get In“Although the Jersey Devil is an dian food or visit a relative in Merimportant subject, one sadly over- cer County, it’s winning stuff. looked by historians and social Same with the un-vetted history commentators, I feel I should alert that has been written elsewhere and you up front that this is really an ex- showing an early Leeds family cuse for me to write about myself, publisher stirring up controversy my family, and the place where I with New Jersey Quakers and begrew up.” ing labeled “Satan’s Harbinger” — Additionally, he says that the and staining the book pubfamily name. lished by OysFor readers ter Eye Publooking for a reFor readers looking lishing in Great gionally connectfor a regionally conEgg Harbor, is ed book with a nected book with a “a self-pubJersey subject, lished work of sound, and attiJersey subject, nonfiction. tude, this delivers. sound, and attitude, Though my atDuring a recent Bill Sprouse’s work torney will telephone converhave examined sation, Sprouse delivers. the document says, “I studied for breaches of history in college privacy and/or (Yale University), local libel statues, none of the his- and you have to do a senior essay. I torical claims have been vetted by had a couple ideas and the advisor the standard committees or author- said, ‘You’re related to the Jersey ities. All nonsense expressed here- Devil. You have to do that.” in is purely that of the author.”

Born in Atlantic City and raised If by nonsense, he means sta- in Egg Harbor Township, Sprouse tioning himself in South Jersey says he enjoyed his grandmother’s WaWas to ask people about their company and her stories about knowledge of the state’s most fa- growing up in Leeds Point, about

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The Tri-Tones, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards. com. Classic and contemporary rock. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Artist on the Avenue, Bruno’s One Sweet Ride, Allentown, 609-208-0554. Sideways Willy performs. Food available for purchase. 7 p.m.

Pop Music

Summer Music Fest, Bristol Riverside Theater, Outdoor Amphitheater, 2501 Bath Road, Bristol, PA. www.brtstage.org. Take 6 a cappella group blends gospel, jazz, R&B, and pop. Register. $55 general admission.

Bring a blanket or chair. Masks required. 8 p.m.

Broadway Spotlight Concert Series, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. Bucks County native and Broadway star Christy Altomare performs. Register. $40. 8 p.m.

On Stage

Murder at Cheltenham Manor, the Play, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State

Bill Sprouse, above, and his self-published, non-fiction account of his distant relative, the Jersey Devil.

15 miles from Atlantic City, and began doing research on the family and legend. That included the tense relationship with West Jersey Quakers — an interesting and generally overlooked piece of history described in the book.

So too is the history regarding the first appearance of the “Leeds Devil” in print, its emergence as the Jersey Devil, and now something larger than fact.

Sprouse says the professor with an expertise on U.S. suburbia encouraged him to write and publish the essay.

He says along the way, he “became a reporter because I wasn’t naturally comfortable going up talking to strangers.”

About the writing process, he says, “It took a while to go through it, and I kept expanding it. It turned into a book proposal. So I got tired of people asking to give me permission. At one point I realized I had a book and I published it.”

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.

Film

Carpool Cinema, Acme Screening Room, 204 North Union Street, Lambertville. www. acmescreeningroom.org. Family night.

Parking lot screening of “Raya and the Last Dragon.” Register. $25 to $40 per car. 8 p.m.

Benefit Galas

Celebrate McCarter Gala, McCarter Theater. www.mccarter.org. Livestreamed celebration featuring appearances by Emmanuel Ax, J’Nai Bridges, Shawn Colvin, Lang Lang, Wynton Marsalis, Audra McDonald, Nella, Kelli O’Hara, David Sedaris, Somi, Mitsuko Uchida, Paula Vogel, and more.

Register. $100 and up. 7 p.m.

Health

Pop-Up Vaccine Clinic, Mercer County, Mercer County Park Skating Center, West Windsor. Receive the single dose J&J vaccine against COVID-19. Ages 18+. No appointment necessary. 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Talking about his cousin Cynthia Lamb’s take on their common ancestor, Sprouse says, “I was really inspired by her book. When it came out, my grandmother read it.

I didn’t really appreciate the simple fact in Cynthia book that the Jersey Devil is not an unwanted child. The simple fact is she is not unhappy that she is going to have another child. It makes you think it was difficult then. Deborah Leeds was 50 years old, post-partum for half of her life. We just had our first child and you can sympathize. Cynthia’s book is important. I hope she gets credit for that innovation.”

Sprouse says he began to see the story sharpen after he left South Jersey to work in Manhattan and moved to Mexico City with his Reuters News reporter wife, and that the tale became a source of inspiration and personal satisfaction.

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No appointment necessary. 5 to 8 p.m.

Lectures

What the Opera Meant to Paris in the 19th Century, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival.org. Princeton University Art Museum docent Marianne Grey, assisted by Impressionist painters Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Monet, Tissot and co., leads the audience through the daytime pleasures of the city to evenings at the opera where the drama in the audience rivals that on the stage.

Via Zoom. Register. Free. 7 p.m.

Socials

Friday with Friends, YWCA Princeton Area Newcomers, Pavilion, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton. www.ywcaprinceton.org/ newcomers. Year-end picnic. Each person is required to bring her own food and drink, to wear a mask, and practice social distancing. Registration required to newcomersmembership@ywcaprinceton.org. Noon to 2 p.m.

Sports

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www. trentonthunder.com. Scranton/WilkesBarre Railriders. $12. 7 p.m.

“I might have gone through life thinking that the Jersey Devil was not that unusual, thinking lots of people had grandmothers who told them they were related to firebreathing monsters,” he writes.

“But I left South Jersey. I told my Jersey Devil story. People seemed to like hearing it. I’d never really had a story that people liked before.”

While he may have one regret — “My grandmother died in 2008, so she didn’t get to read it. She read the essay” — the overall experience of writing the book has been positive. “You put your heart into the story, so it feels good getting it out there.”

“The Domestic Life of the Jersey Devil or, BeBop’s Miscellany” by Bill Sprouse, 244 pages, Oyster Eye Publishing, $15. Available on Amazon.

Saturday June 12 Classical Music Redivivus Opera Community Concert, Princeton Mutual Aid, Pettoranello Gardens Amphitheatre, Community Park North, Mountain Avenue, Princeton. www.tinyurl. com/PMAConcert. Kathryn Elliott, mezzo soprano, Rachel E. Sigman, soprano, and Laura Isabella, soprano, perform operatic and musical theater selections. Attend in person or watch the livestream from home.

Register. $25 suggested donation benefits Princeton Mutual Aid’s effort to send children to summer camp, provide emergency medical bill assist, and provide biweekly grocery deliveries. 7 p.m.

Jazz & Blues

Andre Mucherson, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, Trenton. www.jazztrenton.com. Horn player. $15 cover, free buffet. 3:30 to 7 p.m.

Live Music

Spring Music Series, Palmer Square Green, Princeton. www.palmersquare.com.

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Literati

Electric violinist Deni Bonet performs. Noon to 2 p.m.

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

R&B/contemporary/alternative. 1 to 4 p.m.

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

by Brian Bortnick & Sam Bortnick, wines by the glass, and light fare.

1 to 4 p.m.

Jersey Sure Cats, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-3716000. www.workingdogwinerynj. com. Free live music. Wine available for purchase by the bottle.

21+ only. 1 to 5 p.m.

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

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

Come And Whine, West Windsor Arts Center. www.westwindsorarts.org/event/artwalk-2021.

Outdor wine tasting with snacks followed by a story slam with prizes. Seven stories that relate to the theme of wine or whine will be told, and the audience will help select the winner based on the story itself and how well it was told. For ages 21 and up. Register. $25. 5 to 7 p.m.

Pop Music

Summer Music Fest, Bristol Riverside Theater, Outdoor Amphitheater, 2501 Bath Road, Bristol, PA. www.brtstage.org. Take 6 a cappella group blends gospel, jazz, R&B, and pop. Register. $55 general admission. Bring a blanket or chair. Masks required. 8 p.m.

Broadway Spotlight Concert Series, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. Billy Stritch performs “Billy’s Place.” Register. $40. 8 p.m.

Art

Princeton Artist Directory Presents Art on the Plaza, Princeton Public Library, Hinds Plaza, Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.princetonartistdirectory.com.

Outdoor exhibit by the collective of visual artists, musicians, writers, and performance artists from the Princeton community. Information and sign-up for summer reading programs with the theme “Reading Colors Your World” available. Rain date June 13.

11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Majolica Pottery Curators Talk, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park, Trenton. www.ellarslie.org. Free talk on the story of Majolica pottery and its place in Trenton’s pottery and ceramics industry. Pottery is on view on the museum’s upper level. 2 and 3 p.m.

On Stage

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.

The OK Trenton Project, Passage Theater, Mill Hill Park Amphitheater, Trenton. www.passagetheatre.org. Public reading of a documentary-style play about the reaction to a sculpture titled “Helping Hands,” which was designed and built by local students and installed on a vacant cityowned lot in Trenton. $10 suggested donation. 5 p.m.

Four Weddings and an Elvis, Somerset Valley Players. www. svptheatre.org. Virtual production of Nancy Frick’s comedy. Register. $12 per device. 8 p.m.

Film

Carpool Cinema, Acme Screening Room, 204 North Union Street, Lambertville. www.acmescreeningroom.org. Hunterdon Teen Arts Festival. Music by School of Rock Princeton. Parking lot screening of “Making

Good Causes

Battle Monument Clean-Up, Kiwanis Club of Trenton, Warren & Pennington avenues, Trenton, 609-208-9991. Help clean and preserve the monument memorializing George Washington’s December 26, 1776, victory that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. Bring work gloves. Refreshments and other supplies provided. 9 to 11 a.m.

Benefit Galas

Spring for the Hopewell Valley YMCA, Hopewell Valley YMCA. www.hvymca.org. Virtual fundraising program features brain hacker, mentalist and hypnotist, Keith Barry. Former Hopewell Township mayor Michael Markulec receives the Larry Rothwell Social Responsibility Award. Kevin Ryan receives the Community Leadership Award. Register. $200 and up. 7 p.m.

Fairs & Festivals

Summer Arts Fest 2021, Lawrenceville Main STreet, Downtown Lawrenceville. www.lawrencevillemainstreet.com. More than 120 artists, crafters, and vendors as well as food from local restaurants, food trucks, musical acts, tricky tray, and police and fire vehicles for kids to explore.

Rain date June 13. Noon to 4 p.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.

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

Gardens

30th Annual Mill Hill Garden Tour, Old Mill Hill Society, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton. www.trentonmillhill.org. 15 gardens and public spaces in the neighborhood open their garden gates and invite people to come look behind the house facades and see the unique gardens and private outdoor spaces of the neighborhood.

Tour starts at Artworks. Register. $20. Noon to 5 p.m.

Health

Pop-Up Vaccine Clinic, Mercer County, Grace Cathedral, 1217 Rev. S. Howard Woodson Jr. Way, Trenton. Receive the single dose J&J vaccine against COVID-19. Ages 18 and up. No appointment necessary. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Pop-Up Vaccine Clinic, Mercer County, Mercer County Park Skating Center, West Windsor.

Receive the single dose J&J vaccine against COVID-19. Ages 18 and up. No appointment necessary. 10 a.m. to noon.

For Families

Dairying, Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell, 609-7373299. www.howellfarm.org. Join a local farmer as he demonstrates handling and milking a farm cow.

Learn about cow breeds, milk and cream production, history, and more. Help make cheese and butter, before churning and tasting a batch of old-fashioned ice cream.

Children’s craft program available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Register.

10 a.m.

Outdoor Action Spring/Summer Birds of the Park, Washington Crossing State Park, 335 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville, 609-737-0609. Join Franta Broulik and other members of Washington Crossing Audubon to peruse the park for spring and summer resident bird species.

Meet at the Nature Center. Face coverings required. $5 park vehicle entrance fee applies. 8:30 a.m.

Introduction to Composting, Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton. www. groundsforsculpture.org. Learn how to be a part of nature’s way of recycling and a partner to natural systems of decomposition. Led by Natalie Nowlen, a composting industry professional and environmental educator. Register. $45. 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Socials

Worldwide Knit in Public Day 2021, Princeton Public Library, Princeton Shopping Center, 301 North Harrison Street, Princeton. www.princetonlibrary.org. Bring your knitting and crochet projects (and a chair) and work on your craft on the green at Princeton Shopping Center. Rain cancels.

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sports

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder.com. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders. $12. 6:30 p.m.

Sunday June 13 Classical Music Human Journey: Outdoor Performance, Arts Council of Princeton, Parking Lot, 300 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www. artscouncilofprinceton.org. Performance by the Stretto Youth Chamber Orchestra including three short works by members of the ensemble and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Free. Bring a chair. 3 to 4 p.m.

New Works Recital, Westminster Conservatory. www.rider.edu. A virtual recital of new works by faculty and student composers. View on Facebook Live. 3 p.m.

Opera by Twilight, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival. org. Concert of arias, duets, and trios from popular operas by Mozart, Verdi, Richard Strauss, and more livestreamed from Morven’s education center. Register. 7 p.m.

The story of Majolica pottery and its place in Trenton’s pottery and ceramics industry is the subject of a free talk at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park on Saturday, June 12. Pottery is on view on the museum’s upper level.

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

by Jerry Steele, wines by the glass, and light fare. 1 to 4 p.m.

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

Rock/blues/soul/funk. 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Fabulous Benson Boys, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-371-6000. www.workingdogwinerynj.com. Free live music.

Wine available for purchase by the bottle. 21+ only. 2 to 5 p.m.

Random Test Reggae, McCarter Theatre, Palmer Square, Princeton. www.mccarter.org/palmersquare. Random Test Reggae takes you on a musical journey that pays tribute to pioneers in reggae and soca music, staying true to the real roots and culture.

Free. 4 to 6 p.m.

Pop Music

Broadway Spotlight Concert Series, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. Billy Stritch performs “Billy’s Place.” Register. $40. 2 p.m.

On Stage

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.

Four Weddings and an Elvis, Somerset Valley Players. www. svptheatre.org. Virtual production of Nancy Frick’s comedy. Register. $12 per device. 7 p.m.

Film

Plant Swap, South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732329-400 x 7290. Bring your plants, cuttings, or seeds to ex-

change and learn from others.

Plants must be healthy, pest-free, and labeled with species and care instructions. Event held outdoors on the library lawn. 1 to 4 p.m.

Good Causes

Virtual Picnic with a Purpose, HomeFront. www.homefrontnj. org. Enjoy a gourmet picnic meal, created by the award-winning Max Hansen Catering Group, in the comfort of your backyard. Participate in a silent auction, HomeFront trivia, Wall of Love painting, and “fund a need.” Register. Donations welcome. Picnic basket for two including wine and other surprises $200. 5 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.

History

Pre-Owned History Book Sale and Battlefield Tours, Princeton Battlefield Society, Princeton Battlefield State Park, 500 Mercer Road, Princeton. www.pbs1777. org. Make-up for Memorial Day events postponed due to weather.

Tours at 12:30 and 2 p.m. led by Larry Kidder, author of “Revolutionary Princeton.” David Price, author of several notable works on the Ten Crucial Days campaign, signs copies of his books.

Battlefield Historical Educator, Will Krakower, presents a musket firing demonstration. Benefit sale of items at the “PBS General Store.” Noon to 3 p.m.

Lectures

The Lost Art of Primary Directions, Astrological Society of Princeton, 732-970-3709. www. aspnj.org. Presented by Anthony Louis. Register for Zoom access. $20. 2 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Tomahawk Throwing, Washington Crossing State Park, 335 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville, 609-737-0609.

Ty your hand at throwing a small hatchet into a wooden target.

Adults only. $5 park vehicle entrance fee applies. 1:30 to 4 p.m.

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The Church of the Revolving Doors

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by Ron Kostar

ractically every Sunday morning when I was a kid and it wasn’t raining or snowing, my Pop would crawl under our latest second-hand Chevy Impala (we were a Chevy family), and as Mom led me and my sister Nancy to her green and brown woody station wagon, Mom would tap Pop’s protruding feet and ask him if he was going to church “What? Who’s that?” Pop would shout in mock-alarm, playing along.

“Who do you think it is?” Mom said. “You look like the Wicked Witch of the West after the house fell on her!”

“I may be cursed but I’m not dead.” Pop said, then: “This damn flywheel came loose again. Maybe next week.”

“Sure,” Mom said resignedly.

“That would be great. Next week Lewis is singing in the church choir and he’d be proud if you came. And remember, Wednesday is his birthday.”

Pop cursed as a wrench slipped and ripped his right knuckle.

“Damn!” A small ripple of bright red blood streamed from under the car until it puddle alongside one of Pop’s shoes.

“We’ll do something, Lee; I’ll take him to a ballgame, a Phillies game.”

“OK,” Mom said. “We’ll be back in a couple hours.”

Then another wrench clanged on the asphalt.

“Bring back a chocolate éclair and some glazed donuts, will you?” Pop called to us as we piled into the Mom’s station wagon and rode off.

I remember Pop going to church exactly twice, and both times it was to Mom’s Protestant church.

One time it was for Grandpop O’Neal’s funeral and the other it was for Pop’s brother’s and my favorite Uncle’s second marriage.

Otherwise, on Sunday morning Pop was usually lying under his car with only his shins and feet protruding.

Later, when I was in my twenties and the Pop had received his due compensation, I imagined Pop carrying around a faded photo of him in his wallet; and every so of-

ten Pop would take out the photo and stare at it and then slide it back into his wallet and his wallet back into his back pocket. I think I remember Pop doing that, though now I’m not positive, not sure...

But I think he did.

I do remember clearly how on those Sunday afternoons when we came back from church, Pop would look different. He’d look strange, funny, not the same as usual. His head would be kind of dangling above his shoulders, like a pale balloon suspended on a white string, and his face would glow like some cartoon character’s, his eyes burning, like he had just seen Satan. And if one of us

I remember Pop going to church exactly twice, and both times it was to Mom’s Protestant church. said anything to him, regardless of what it was, you could tell it flew right over his head and Pop didn’t hear a word. Not one word.

And on those Sunday afternoons after we came back from church, Pop would wolf down a chocolate éclair and a coffee and maybe a glazed donut, and then he’d disappear into the basement.

Our cellar was a musky uninhabitable low-ceilinged little space dimly lit by a single light bulb that dangled from an exposed wire at the bottom of the stairs. And it was Pop’s room, his refuge. Some tools were scattered around on the floor, but that wasn’t the basement’s purpose. And nobody else dared go down there, or wanted to, but Pop. And on Sundays when Pop went down in his basement, he would growl like some sort of wounded animal.

First he would moan in deep low tones that percolated like black coffee in the back of his throat. And then gradually his voice would rise in intensity and in pitch and volume and in feeling, until it reverberated into fullthroated bellowing, like the bellowing you might hear resonate from a pipe organ in church , or like a wounded animal. No, Pop wouldn’t whistle or sing down in his basement, sing, he would howl.

And he would stay down in his dank musky-smelling cellar for hours, moaning and wailing with

Sports Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www. trentonthunder.com. Scranton/WilkesBarre Railriders. $12. 1 p.m.

Monday June 14 Art Gallery Talk, Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, Princeton. www.charlesdavidviera. com. Charles David Viera discusses his exhibit, “Reality Revisited: Paintings by Charles David Viera,” on view through September 26. Exhibit can also be viewed online or by appointment. Free. 11 a.m. to noon.

such candor and conviction and emotion that his family upstairs would scatter: Nancy would go outside to get away from it because it scared her, Mom would go out in the backyard and work in her garden until it was over, while I would stay upstairs and put my ear to the floor and soak it all in.

Then one Saturday morning when I was 9 or 10, Pop put all his ducks in a row, so to speak.

He put on his Sunday best, which he rarely did, shined his black dress shoes and dusted off his hat, and he told us he was going out. Nor did he conceal where he was going. He was going downtown he said, to the Church of the Revolving Doors, and later when he came back home, he told us it had been easy to find. That it was still in the same place it had always been - at the end of a grey street of dilapidated row houses that were built decades ago for the families who worked in the steel and rubber factories in South Trenton – workers like my grandfather and two of Pop’s brothers and most of their neighbors. That’s where Pop found the Church of the Revolving Doors, and that’s where he found him.

He was standing, Pop said, in a disorderly room in another dark dank basement that was empty but for a few sad sticks of furniture and some forgettable archaic objects that were once used for ritual and sacrament but had been neglected for years. And he was alone. He was an old man by then, Pop told me later, and he had rheumy red eyes and faded leathery gray skin that sagged on his arms, and his shapeless testosterone-depleted body was hidden underneath a black dress that was now way too big for him. When I asked Pop how old he was, Pop said that he was older than dead.

He was hunched over a sacramental basin, Pop said, scrubbing a filthy rag, trying to rid it of maroon stains with trembling ineffectual hands that had sharp, protruding knuckles.

Pop said he approached him cautiously, and that when he got close he cleared his throat and the old man turned around.

“Do you know who I am, Father Pawel? Do you recognize me?”

Pop said he said. The hooded man looked up but by this time his eyes were two phlegmatic blurry pink platters that no longer refracted or reflected light or absorbed the light projected by the objects of

from their families due to abuse and/or neglect and placed in the foster care system.

Register by email to jduffy@casamercer. org. 5:30 p.m.

Health

Managing Hip and Knee Arthritis, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org. Brian M. Culp, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon with Penn Medicine Princeton Health, discusses some of the novel aspects of hip and knee replacement that can let a patient avoid an overnight stay. Register by email to hopeprogs@mcl.org to receive a link for access to the virtual program. 7 p.m.

Lectures

Then the old man in the black cassock cupped the back of his head and lowered it into his sunken chest and braced for the blows he knew were coming. As taunts and strikes and blows and shouts and bawls and shrieks had rained down on him before. mildewed grey-green wall of his basement prison and slid harmlessly to the dirty tile floor.

Then the old man in the black cassock cupped the back of his head and lowered it into his sunken chest and braced for the blows he knew were coming. As taunts and strikes and blows and shouts and bawls and shrieks had rained down on him before, several times

Tuesday June 15 Literati Book Talk, Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor, 609-443-4454. www.bethel.net.

Stuart Goldstein discusses his book “Moe Fields,” a narrative about a father’s fighting spirit and determination to save his family and inspire his sons to succeed. Via Zoom.

Register. Free. 7 p.m.

Health

Wine, Women, and Song in Opera, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival.org.

Presented by Timothy Urban, adjunct associate professor, Rutgers University, via Zoom. Register. Free. 7 p.m.

Good Causes

Virtual Information Session, CASA for Children of Mercer & Burlington Counties. www.casamb.org. Information on the non-profit organization that recruits, trains, and supervises community volunteers who speak up in Family Court for the best interests of children that have been removed

the world. That’s what Pop said.

He looked, as the good Book says, but he didn’t have eyes to see.

“What do you mean, he didn’t have eyes to see?” I asked. “Listen to your Mom and read your Bible, Lewis,” Pop said. “His eyes were hollow.”

“It’s Bill Kostrwzski, one of your little altar boys,” Pop said he said, “but I’m grown up now.” Pop paused. “I believed in you back then, Father,” Pop said. “I believed in you, and I believed in Him.” “Kostrzweski?” I asked Pop. “Yes, that was our name until Grandpop changed it a few years later.”

“Why did he change it?”

“Because nobody could pronounce it,” Pop said, chuckling.

“In who, Pop?” I asked “Believe in Who?” “In Him,” Pop said.

When Pop surprised him the old man’s head had twitched involuntarily and what remained of his shoulders trembled under the baggy black cassock. Then the old man mumbled, and started to dissemble, Pop said, but abruptly stopped himself; and sounds began to form deep in his throat, gurgling sounds directed inwardly at himself —that became unintelligible grunts and groans that had no meaning to anyone but him, had no social meaning, Pop said: inarticulate sounds that dribbled from his mouth and meekly struck the

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

Kids Stuff

Read and Pick: Cherries, 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 and 11 a.m.

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before over the years — invectives of rage and fury directed at him by the avenging angels of tormented souls and twisted indentured spirits who for decades had remained tortured boys suffering silently inside grown men’s bodies. Father Kaminsky waited, but the blows never came.

Instead Pop said “Dziekuje.

“What?” I asked, puzzled.

“Thank you?”

Again the old man looked up, expecting the blows. But they never came.

“Dziekuje, Karma,” Pop said.

(Thank you, Karma).

And with that the old man lowered his head and began to whimper. His frail shoulders shook, his whimpers turned into cries and then sobs and then into weeping, into full-throated lamentation: his withered body shook under this thin black cloak as he wept with the same ferocity with which Pop sang and bellowed and wept on Sunday mornings in our basement.

And after Pop had seen enough, he said, he left.

He left the room and climbed the stairs to the Sanctuary; walked under the tortured crucified replica of Christ past the church’s grand altar, and then ducked under a railing that brought him to the aisle of the nave that led out the front door of the Church of the Revolving Doors into a muted sun that was struggling to shed light on the dilapidated colorless tenement streets of South Trenton.

“And that was it?” I asked Pop. “Yeah, that was it,” Pop said.

“A few months later I saw his obituary in the paper but it was already over by then. Karma is real, Lewis.

Respect Karma and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That, Lewis, about covers it.”

And after that Saturday Pop never disappeared into his dingy basement to moan and howl again, and I never remember him looking as if his head was dangling above his shoulders on a string when we came back from church.

Though weather permitting, on Sunday mornings he did continue to crawl under his new Oldsmobile in order to tighten the flywheel or, more often than now, pull the plug and drain and replenish the oil Ron Kostar has published poems and short stories in US 1 and numerous other publications and he lives in Roosevelt, where he participates in the Roosevelt Arts Project (RAP) and the Roosevelt Writers’ Workshop.

Lectures Expressions of Love in Opera, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival.org. Presented by Harold Kuskin, former Metropolitan Opera backstage tour guide, via Zoom.

Register. Free. 7 p.m.

Sports for Causes

20th Annual Joshua Classic, Joshua Harr Shane Foundation, Mercer Oaks Golf Course, West Windsor. www.joshuaharrshane.org. 18-hole scramble followed by cocktail party and dinner including raffles, silent auction, and more. Register. $175; $65 dinner only. Benefits the foundation that offers support to individuals and charities. 11 a.m.

Wednesday June 16 Literati Bloomsday | Zoomsday, Arts Council of Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.

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Opportunities Summer Reading Summer reading programs designed to motivate and challenge readers of all ages are getting under way at Princeton Public Library.

Registration begins Tuesday, June 15, and the program concludes August 15. Programs are divided by age and include infants and children through preschool, children entering kindergarten through 5th grade, teens in grades 6 through 12, and adults.

The theme of summer reading this year is “Reading Colors Your World.” Participants can register and track their progress through the Beanstack platform using a web page or app, or keep track of their progress offline using logs that will be available for printing. Those who complete reading challenges and other activities will become eligible for prizes.

Summer Reading for adults is open to anyone over 18. Participants who complete a series of six challenges by Aug. 15 will be entered into a grand prize drawing.

Two winners will receive Individual Plus passes to Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton.

Details about the programs, including registration requirements and book lists can be found at www. princetonlibrary.org/summer reading. A library card is not required to participate.

Call for Presenters The New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies, Inc. (NJAMHAA) 2021 Fall Conference will feature national and state leaders in behavioral health, clinicians, and policy and practice experts presenting innovative strategies, particularly in regard to the pandemic and postCOVID world, health equity, telebehavioral health, social determinants of health, integrated care, creative partnerships and care management. Presentations will include approaches to financial stability and sustainability through new business models, including value based payments and new service delivery models.

NJAMHAA is a statewide trade association representing hospitalbased and freestanding organizations that provide a broad range of treatment and support services to more than 500,000 children and adults with mental health, emotional and substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and co-occurring disorders.

While we will be accepting pro-

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org. Celebration of James Joyce’s celebrated and controversial work “Ulysses” named for the book’s narrator, Leopold Bloom, on the date the book takes place. Paul Muldoon, Joyce Carol Oates, Colum McCann, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sean Wilentz, and friends share their favorite passages with virtual attendees. Register.

Free. 5 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

posals on a broad array of topics, we wish to focus on innovative strategies and programs featuring: the pandemic and post-COVID world, health equity, tele-behavioral health, social determinants of health, integrated care, creative partnerships, care management and the workforce.

Presenters must have professional qualifications and be in good standing with their professional boards, if applicable, and meet one or more of the following criteria: • Be a faculty member of an undergraduate or graduate School of Social Work.

• Have received specialized graduate or post graduate level training in the subject taught in the program.

• Have extensive experience to include no less than five years of practical application or research involving the subject taught in the course.

• Have completed social work ethics courses must be presented/ developed or co-presented/co-developed by a licensed social worker in good standing.

Workshops will take place in the morning and afternoon. Each session is limited to 60 minutes in length offering one continuing education unit per session. Presentations may include up to three speakers, but one or two are preferred.

E-mail your completed Presentation Application as a Word document with your resume/CV and professional photograph/head shot to cleonardo@njamhaa.org. Please note, your resume/CV must contain your mailing address.

Call for Art The Hopewell Valley Arts Council seeks artists, artisans, and all creatives to rise to the challenge of its newest community event — The Junkyard — an upcycle art exhibition.

The Junkyard will be open to the public from Friday to Sunday, July 23 to 25, at Woolsey Park in Titusville and will feature artwork created by Team Challenge participants and established professional and eco-artists who will create art, musical instruments, sculptures and more from mostly junk.

Additional features include environment-related educational displays, and art created by children and teenagers, and for those in the market for a little something, there will be vendors selling artisan and environmentally-related items.

The exhibition grounds will be setup in “ZONES”.

For more information visit www.hvartscouncil.org.

The 2021 Mercer County Senior Art Show will be held online July 22 through August 6. The deadline for registering is Tuesday, July 15.

Any Mercer County resident age 60 or older may submit artwork to the Mercer County Senior Art Show. All submissions must be the original work of the applicant, created within the last three years, and not previously entered in a Mercer County Senior Art Show or the State Senior Art Show. Applicants may submit one piece of art in any of the following categories: acrylic, craft, digital imagery, drawing, mixed media, oil, pastel, photography, print, sculpture, and watercolor.

A professional juror selects the winners in this show. Up to 22 artists (one “professional” winner and one “non-pro” winner in each of the 11 categories) may move on to the State Show. There is no fee to enter. For more information visit www.mercercounty.org or email Cheryl Reed at chreed@mercercounty.org.

Call for Films Film submissions for the fall session of the 2021 Princeton Environmental Film Festival (PEFF) are being accepted through July 30. The session will be held October 12 to 17.

PEFF is a signature Princeton Public Library event featuring films and filmmaker presentations which explore our relationship with the natural world, environmental justice, climate change, sustainability practices and other environmental concerns.

An entry form is available at www.princetonlibrary.org/peff along with additional information about the festival. There is no fee to submit a film for consideration.

The Princeton Environmental Film Festival is under the direction of Susan Conlon and Kim Dorman whose focus is to present films with local, regional and international relevance, and engage the community in exploring environmental sustainability from a variety of angles and perspectives.

Call for Books The Bryn Mawr-Wellesley Book Sale is collecting donations for its next in-person sale, set to be held in March, 2022. Gently used books may be dropped off on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon at 281 Witherspoon Street, G-200,

Hayes. Register. Pay what you can, $8 and up. 8 to 9 a.m.

History

Twilight Walking Tour, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven.org.

Join Morven’s docents for combination architectural, historical, and garden tour. Tour focuses on “American Revolution and the Stocktons of the 18th and 19th century.” Register. $10. Canceled in case of rain. 6 p.m.

Kids Stuff

Read and Pick: Cherries, 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 and 11 a.m.

Princeton.

Visit the website for a list of what is accepted before you come.

To make donations, enter the dropoff site parking lot from Henry Avenue and take the elevator to the lower floor. See www.bmandwbooks.com for details.

Call for Volunteers D&R Greenway maintains 44 miles of trails across more than 21,000 acres of preserved land, mostly in central New Jersey. Its professional stewardship team is supplemented with volunteers to monitor trails for fallen trees, cut back invasive shrubs, and help keep trailheads tidy. Individuals, families, and groups are asked to consider adopting a trail this year.

Help is needed at the following preserves: •All Saints Preserve in Princeton • Cedar Ridge Preserve (East Meadows) in Hopewell Township • Children’s Discovery Trail in Princeton • Kate’s Trail in Hopewell Township • Pennington Loop Nature Trail adjacent to Pennington • Sourlands Ecosystem Preserve in Hopewell & East Amwell • St. Michaels Farm Preserve (wooded trail) in Hopewell • Woosamonsa Ridge Preserve (North Loop) in Hopewell Typically, trail stewards are assigned about 1 mile and expected to visit trail about once per month.

Trail Stewards have the option to sign-out loppers from D&R Green-

Charles David Viera gives a free talk on Monday, June 14, in conjunction with his ‘Reality Revisited’ exhibit on view at the Nassau Club in Princeton through September 26.

Pictured: ‘Decision Time for Red #2.’

Lectures Opera or Musical? – The Fine Line that Divides Them, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival.org.

Presented by Stuart Holt, director of school programs and community engagement, Metropolitan Opera Guild, via Zoom. Register. Free. 7 p.m.

A volunteer uses loppers to clear the D&R Greenway’s Iron Mike trail. way for cutting brush.

For more information email trailsteward@drgreenway.org.

Programs for Teens Gesher LeKesher is currently accepting applications from 11th and 12th grade teens (as of the 2021-2022 school year) to participate in this Jewish peer leadership program. As Gesher “Madrichim” (Peer Leaders), teens lead a group of 7th to 9th grade “Talmidim” (Learners) in outreaches addressing trending topics from a Jewish perspective including friendships, the impact of social media, peer pressure, prejudice, and anti-Semitism on campus.

This is a great opportunity to develop leadership skills which can be used in college and beyond while meeting and working with other Jewish 11th and 12th grade teens in the Greater Princeton Mercer Bucks area. Last year’s Peer Leaders represented 13 area high schools.

Gesher LeKesher meets six hours each month: two Monday night trainings from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and an additional outreach time either Monday/Wednesday night or Sunday morning. For more information, visit www.jfcsonline. org/gesher-lekesher.

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A Composer Who Finds Music in Her Surroundings

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ife for composer Frances White didn’t change much during the pandemic shut down, since she is somewhat of a happy hermit, living in Griggstown with her husband, writer James Pritchett, and their cats.

In fact, the new quietude energized her.

“I have always tried to be sure my life has plenty of quiet and solitude in order to work well, so in that sense, it wasn’t that big of a change,” White says. “Griggstown is a little rural community near the D&R Canal, so it’s always pretty quiet here. But since I’ve been spending more time at home, I’ve been hyper aware of the sonic landscape around us. This spring, in particular, has been amazing.”

A prolific composer, White is known for instrumental, vocal, and electronic music, and her works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Crossing Chamber Choir, Momenta Quartet, Parthenia viol consort, and many others.

A perusal of her website, www.rosewhitemusic.com, reveals the breadth of her compositions, and interest in writing for and collaborating with different media and art forms. In addition, White’s works appear in a variety of recordings on the Wergo, Centaur, Nonsequitur, Harmonia Mundi, and Bridge labels. Her music has been used in soundtracks for two films by director Gus Van Sant.

Known for her sensuous, atmospheric compositions, which blend her writing with natural and ambient sounds, White didn’t put her creativity on hold during the pandemic, but continued composing, collaborating, and sharing ideas online, as well as seeking out grants.

“I did continue composing, in fact, I’m working on ‘Upon Reflection,’ a chamber opera for the viol consort Parthenia and soprano Sherezade Panthaki, with text and images by Wendy Steiner,” she says. “It’s a work that explores an artist’s relationship to her own work, which in this time seemed particularly apt. I think a lot of us are questioning why we create: in a world that’s so filled with injustice and violence and evil, what meaning does our work have?”

One of the more interesting grants she received recently is from the Puffin Foundation, “which generously has provided funds to support my upcoming residency in Denali (Alaska) National Park as part of the Composing in the Wilderness program.”

White says she’s already daydreaming about what kind of sounds she might find in the 49th state.

White will be there for two weeks in July, when she and eight other composers will spend time in the backcountry of Alaska, then return to Fairbanks, where their newly composed pieces will be rehearsed and performed by the faculty musicians of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.

She has no idea what kind of sounds Mother Nature will offer, but says she’s completely open to whatever Denali might give to her.

“I know from experience that whatever I might imagine, nature will present me with a sonic landscape that is completely not what I expected and will lead me to places I can’t even guess at yet,” White says.

The evocative sounds of the Far East also fascinate her, and she has enjoyed writing for and playing the traditional Japanese bamboo shakuhachi flute.

Before the pandemic, White had completed “The book of evening,” which she wrote for the Momenta Quartet. Inspired by Mark Strand’s poem “Moon,” the piece features the shakuhachi.

by Susan Van Dongen “I had wanted to write for shakuhachi and string quartet for a long time, and when the opportunity to write for Momenta came up, this poem wouldn’t leave me,” White says.

“The shakuhachi was performed by my good friend, composer and performer Elizabeth Brown.”

Piano is her main instrument, but she became entranced with the sound of the shakuhachi flute and wanted to learn it as well as write for it.

White, who had never played a wind instrument before, says, “I had a very powerful experience when I first heard the traditional meditative music of the shakuhachi, and I remember having this weird feeling of recognition. It was as if this was music I had always been searching for but never found until now. The other thing that made me love it was that somehow the shakuhachi’s voice is like an animal voice, like sounds of nature.”

“Further, there’s a strong spiritual element to the traditional music that speaks to me very powerfully,” says White, who was raised as a Catholic. “It’s like Gregorian chant in that it’s not ‘just’ music, it’s a spiritual practice.”

Throughout history, composers have written for instruments they didn’t play, but White viewed the shakuhachi as something that needed to be studied in depth before the writing process could begin.

“It’s part of a tradition that I knew nothing of, had no real-world connection to, and I wanted to be sure that I could write for it in a way that was respectful, that wasn’t just appropriation,” she says. “So I had to really enter into the shakuhachi world. Fortunately, (ethnomusicologist) Tomie Hahn, the wife of a colleague and good friend, Curtis Bahn, played shakuhachi, and she became my teacher.” (White also studied with shakuhachi master Riley Lee when he was in residence in Princeton.)

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he idea of mixing natural sound in with her compositions didn’t occur to White earlier in her career.

“It was when I started working with computer music at the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music that the whole idea of real-world sound in music entered the scene for me,” she says. “We were working with making sound on computers, and in those days, computer disk space was unbelievably limited, simply no room on the computer to store lots of recorded sound.”

“Synthetic sound could be much more easily stored, so we spent a lot of time thinking about and listening to real world sounds, trying to figure out what it was, acoustically, that made them so beautiful, so that we could replicate this in our synthetic sounds,” White says. “Then, when I went on to Princeton University, computer storage space was getting cheaper, and it opened up the whole possibility of using recorded real-world sound in your computer music pieces.”

The technology was not the only revelation: After years of living in Brooklyn, the relocation to Princeton brought nature to White’s doorstep.

“There was a beautiful woodland less than 10 minutes from my first apartment in

Prince­ton, and only a little farther was the Institute for Advanced Study’s woodland, which is a world famous spot for birding,” she says. “And after all those years in as urban a setting as you can think of, suddenly I was discovering bird song, the intricate sounds of streams, the wind in the trees, and so on.”

“My husband is a bird-watcher, and he helped me learn to identify birds by their songs,” she adds.

“We ultimately collaborated in an interactive installation called ‘Resonant Landscape’ (he wrote the software, and I wrote the music) in which we presented a map on a computer screen, and listeners could explore that map by moving around on it and encountering different sounds and mixes of sounds in various spots.”

White names 20th-century composition pioneers such as John Cage, George Crumb, and Terry Riley as influences, as well as Morton Feldman, Jean-Claude Risset, Luc Ferrari, “and then later my teachers Charles Dodge and Paul Lansky. Once I learned about Annea Lockwood’s work with sound, she was important to me too, as was Pauline Oliveros,” White says. “(Composer/dancer) Eleanor Hovda was a huge influence on me, too,” she says. “Eleanor was a mentor who encouraged me to engage hands-on whenever possible with whatever instruments I might be writing for.

And her music, her incredible sonic imagination, was a great inspiration.”

White’s childhood environs in Bowie, Maryland, were quiet enough that she can vividly recall the buzz of insects from the field behind her house, or lying awake at night listening to mockingbirds sing.

Her father was an electrical engineer, and her mom had been a teacher before staying home to raise the family, but both loved music and wanted White and her sisters to have lessons.

“One of my earliest memories is of my mother hanging out the laundry on a sunny day and listening to Mario Lanza on the kiddie record player,” she says. “Plus we had these records called ‘Tale-Spinners,’ which told stories set to classical music. I think my favorite was ‘The Little Mermaid,’ which was set to the Grieg piano concerto.

“My dad amassed an impressive collection of opera recordings,” she continues. “I remember going on vacation in Maine, swimming out in the lake, and hearing ‘Tosca’ echoing from the cabin we’d rented, accompanied by the cries of loons.”

Piano lessons began at age six for White, but the thought of public performance made her anxious, so music became something much more private.

“I started making up music at maybe about 10 years old, and I’d improvise things on the piano and even write them down,” she says.

“But, I never, ever seriously thought I would be a composer. After all, I was a little girl, and everybody knows composers are old, dead white men, right?”

‘I have always tried to be sure my life has plenty of quiet and solitude in order to work well,’ White says.

‘Since I’ve been spending more time at home, I’ve been hyper aware of the sonic landscape around us.

This spring, in particular, has been amazing.”

Griggstown based composer Frances White is known for her instrumental, vocal, and electronic music.

“I was lucky enough that in high school, I finally had a music theory class, and as part of it we composed little pieces,” White says.

“The teacher encouraged me, and suggested that what I had written was kind of special.

When it became time to pick a major in college, I loved music and making things up so much that I decided to major in composition, and everything just flowed from there.”

She graduated from the University of Maryland in 1981 with a B.M. in music composition, then attended Brooklyn College, CUNY, earning an M.A., also in composition. Around 1988, White came to Princeton University, where she earned another master’s degree (1990) en route to a PhD, for which all the course work has been completed.

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hite’s husband Pritchett is known for his focus on the music of John Cage and is the author of “The Music of John Cage” (Cambridge University Press), the first critical study of the whole of Cage’s work. In addition, Pritchett created the text and video for White’s instrumental theater trilogy, “The old rose reader,” “As night falls,” and “The book of roses and memory.”

“He’s also a poet and writer of stories,” White says. “We’ve collaborated a lot on works where he’s written the text and I the music.”

Even with her enjoyment of solitude, it was the emotional connections and in-person collaboration that White missed the most during the lockdown.

“I never really noticed how often, prepandemic, I was in New York City for rehearsals, meetings, concerts, etc.,” she says.

“Just today, now that we’re all fully vaccinated, I had the supreme joy of getting together with Wendy Stein and Lisa Terry, one of the Parthenians (viol ensemble), in person for a reading of some of the material from the opera,” White says. “(I hadn’t realized how much) I missed the energy that I derived from interacting with wonderful and inspiring colleagues.”

Frances White: www.rosewhitemusic. com.

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Trenton’s Father Center Awards Set

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he Father Center’s (formerly UIH Family Partners) 2021’s Community Service Award recipient for this year’s Platinum Dads event is Grounds For Sculpture.

The award was given for the nonprofit cultural center’s efforts to make the nationally known regional site accessible to local residents.

Karen Andrade-Mims, executive director of The Father Center, said in a statement, “Every year we get the distinct honor of illuminating the positive stories about an organization doing remarkable work in our region, and we love to give them the acknowledgement they deserve. The Father Center has a long history of working with the Grounds For Sculpture and we plan to continue building on our established and cherished partnership.”

In acknowledging the award, GFS Executive Director Gary Garrido Schneider said, “Our ongoing collaboration, through virtual entrepreneurship and design workshops as well as team-building and retreat activities, has been part of Grounds For Sculpture’s commitment to providing innovative programs in the arts, in collaboration with local partners.”

In response to the pandemic, the annual Platinum Dads event will take place virtually as a web broadcast and will stream live from The Father Center’s new headquarters located at 1 West State Street in Trenton on Saturday morning, June 19, from 10 to 11 a.m..

In addition to the Grounds For

Edited by Sara Hastings Sculpture, the following men will be honored at the 2021 Platinum Dads event: Christopher R. Kinkade, Mayor Hemant Marathe, Dr. Jay Edward Purnsley, Kevin Leahy, William (Bill) Davis, Bilal Floyd, and Frank Lucchesi.

Phillip J. Roundtree, CEO and founder of Quadefy LLC, will provide a presentation on fatherhood.

Sponsorships are available for individuals and companies wanting to support and get exposure through one of New Jersey’s “feel good” events of the year.

The Father Center of New Jersey supports men in gaining the skills and meeting the responsibilities of fatherhood. The agency’s career counseling and workforce development programs create opportunities for fathers to gain skills and show up for their families. The Father Center, the oldest child welfare organization in New Jersey, was founded in 1859.

The Father Center, 1 West State Street 5th Floor, Trenton 08608. 609-695-3663.

Karen Andrade-Mims, executive director. www.thefathercenter.org.

PU Athletic Director Departs to Head LPGA

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ollie Marcoux Samaan, the director of athletics at Princeton University since 2014, is leaving to become commissioner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).

Samaan, a 1991 alumna of Princeton, played varsity soccer and ice hockey while in college.

Prior to returning to her alma mater she worked in various administrative capacities for the Lawrenceville School and spent 19 years with Chelsea Piers Management, which operates amateur sports complexes in New York and Connecticut.

“Princeton is and has always been about being a part of a community and a team of people that care deeply about learning and growing,” Marcoux Samaan said in a statement.

“I believe we represent the gold standard of athletics and academic integration with a firm commitment to education through athletics, providing our student-athletes with the tools needed to achieve, serve and lead well beyond their playing days. I am confident that our next leader and our tremendous team of coaches and administrators will continue the legacy of excellence on and off the field for many years to come. I am excited to utilize all that I have learned at Princeton to take on this new challenge and lead the LPGA at such a sig-

Mollie Marcoux Samaan, left, is leaving Princeton University to lead the LPGA. Above, late OffBroadstreet Theater co-founder Bob Thick with his wife, Julie. nificant moment for women’s golf, sports and society.”

The university will undertake a national search for Marcoux Samaan’s replacement.

Startup Selected for Cleantech Accelerator

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Bordentown-based startup is among the 52 early stage companies selected for Cleantech Open Northeast, an accelerator program with a mission to “find, fund, and foster entrepreneurs with ideas to solve our greatest environmental and energy challenges.” The annual business competition covers companies based in Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut,

Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Eastern Canada.

The Bordentown startup, Princeton NuEnergy, is focused on creating a novel recycling process for lithium ion batteries that allows battery components to be restored and reused without being broken down into their material components.

Princeton NuEnergy, 1200 Florence Columbus Road, Bordentown 08505. 973-8183428. Chao Yan and Xiaofang Yang, co-founders. www.pnecycle.com.

Deaths Bob Thick, 71, on May 30. A Hopewell resident since 1984, he was a founder of the Off-Broadstreet Theater alongside his wife,

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Tomato Patch is the longest-running, most successful multi-disciplinary summer arts program in central New Jersey. Since 1973, over 6,500 junior and senior high school students have spent several weeks of their summer exploring the theater, dance, music, video, and visual arts under the guidance of a highly qualified staff of teaching professional artists.

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