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in a virtual world and write a resume, enhance communication and teamwork skills, land a government position or a job in the gig economy, among others. There will also be opportunities to take advantage of free services such as job search assistance and training for in-demand industries. Access to complimentary vouchers for professional attire for both men and women will also be provided. The employment services fair is the first of a two-part series. The July 1 event will prep potential employees. The second event will bring attendees of the training fair together with employers. “It’s important for those interested in attending to register now so that they will have an opportunity to meet face-to-face with potential employers during the next session,” Perry-Conley said. Participating sponsors include Eckerd Connects Professional Development, ResCare Workforce Services, Dress for Success Central New Jersey, The Father Center, Mercer County One-Stop Career Center, Greater Mercer TMA, and Princeton Air.
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ing her bachelor’s in accounting at Rutgers in 2002. She spent 16 years with companies including Deloitte & Touche, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmasset Inc., Daiichi Sankyo, and Teligent, and along the way realized that her long work weeks in combination with a young family was not a sustainable way to have it all. Instead, she sought to create her own definition of success and in 2018 founded All Inclusive You. She explained her philosophy in a 2019 interview with U.S. 1: “I believe in work-life success,” she said. “You aren’t taking anything away from your life and career that you want, but letting go of things that don’t lead to success.”
Sharon List, left, and Suzannah Sabin are leading a three-part ‘Inspired Action’ virtual workshop in conjunction with the Ellevate Network Central New Jersey chapter beginning Thursday, July 2.
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uzannah Sabin is the owner of Princeton Integrated Coaching, and as a registered nurse she is suited to understand the stressors facing not only working women but also healthcare professionals in particular. She earned her bachelor’s in sociology and theology from Loyola College of Maryland and trained in nursing at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. At Princeton Integrative Coaching she offers coaching services to nurses to help them find satisfaction in their jobs without suffering burn-
out. She also consults with healthcare businesses on the development of nurse coaching programs. Sabin also offers one-on-one health and wellness coaching aimed at developing healthy behavior change. On her blog at www.suzannahsabin.com she writes, “I became a health coach because I care deeply about helping others navigate the process of personal growth and change. Many times, we know we need a change, or we know we
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want to change, but the process is hard, so we let it go and fall back into familiar habits and patterns. “What I have learned over many years of working to create change is that oftentimes the answer to the question, ‘What is my next step?’ lies within us. A key part of growth is learning to ask the questions and to listen deeply to the intuition and guidance from our deepest wisest center. We can learn how to do this. We can practice asking questions and finding answers.”
Business Meetings Thursday, July 2
Inspired Action Workshop Series, Ellevate Network. www.ellevatenetwork.com. First in a three-part series featuring Sharon List, a work/life success coach and creator of “All Inclusive You,” and Suzannah Sabin, director of Princeton Integrative Coaching, who have created a framework on how to identify your goals, explore obstacles, and plan for success. Register. Free. Continues July 9 and 16. 1 to 2 p.m.
Friday, July 3
JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County. www.psgofmercercounty.org. David Schuchman offers guidance on preparing for in-person and video interviews and discusses what to expect from your interviewer. 9:45 a.m. to noon.
Tuesday, July 7
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Small businesses make up the backbone of our local economy, so as restrictions are lifted this summer, please enjoy the many fine retail destinations and restaurants throughout our 12 municipalities. Mercer County offers customers a variety of quality products and services and is home to approximately 4,000 independently owned and operated businesses.
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Virtual HR Conference Series, BioNJ. www.bionj.org. Connect with other life sciences HR and other professionals, learn from industry experts on issues affecting your organization, and leave with best practices that will enable you to position your company and your employees for success in the Age of COVID-19 and beyond. Third of three sessions. Register. $250, $195 members for all three sessions. 9 a.m. to noon. Meet the Entrepreneur, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. Karen Ambrose of Sweet Gourmet shares her journey of turning her dream into her bakery business in a live webinar. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m. JobSeekers. sites.google.com/ site/njjobseekers. Virtual meeting for those seeking employment. Visit website for GoTo Meeting link. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 8
Networking Through LinkedIn, Princeton SCORE. princeton. score.org. Cecilia Jackson, owner of Forte Consulting and founder of the Youth Leadership Development Program, presents a webinar on creating a LinkedIn profile, branding yourself, creating a company page, commenting, and more. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.
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Wednesday July 1 In Person Mosaic Exhibit, Bucks on Bridge, 25 Bridge Street, Lambertville. www.leylaspencer.com. Lambertville artist Leyla Spencer exhibits mosaics created since the start of the pandemic that express her desire to be out in the world. On view through July 30. 7 a.m. First Party Back, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149. www. americanballroomco.com. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
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Diderot String Quartet, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts, 609-570-8404. www.princetonsummerchamberconcerts.org. Members of the quartet will demonstrate and perform sing their historically sensitive approach to 18th and 19th century music for strings. Jarek Powichrowski, luthier from Princeton Violins, will demonstrate different instruments and discuss his study in Cremona, Italy. Free. Concert available by video. 7:30 p.m.
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On Thursday, July 2, the BSB Gallery in Trenton launches an online exhibit featuring works by 18 different artists examining capitalism and the American Dream. The show is on view online through August 1. Above left is ‘My Side, Your Side’ by Princeton Junction-based artist Chanika Svetvillas. At right, Trenton artist Barbara Moore’s ‘Fashion Dreams.’
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From Phantom to Mame, Summer Music Series, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage.org. Keith Spencer, Demetria Joyce Bailey, and others perform works by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Jerry Herman via YouTube. $35. 7 p.m.
Hollywood Streaming Nights, Princeton Garden Theater. www.princetongardentheatre.org. Hollywood Summer Nights are now Hollywood Streaming Nights. Join the YouTube live stream to chat with others during “Christmas Eve.” Available for free streaming through July 8. 7:30 p.m.
Once Upon a Magic Show, Mercer County Library. www.youtube.com/c/MercerCountyLibrarySystem. Magician Mike Rose presents a magic show designed specifically for libraries to complement the 2020 summer reading theme “Imagine Your Story.” Performances include magic tricks and comedy themed around fairy tales. Available via YouTube. 1:30 p.m.
Thursday July 2 In Person Garden Tours, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven.org. Docent-led what’s in bloom tours. Face masks and registration required. Tours available Wednesdays through Saturdays. $10. 11 a.m. Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Victor Tarossov plays flamenco guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
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Free Enterprise, BSB Gallery. www.bsbgallery.com. First day for an online exhibit featuring works by 18 artists that examine capitalism and the growing controversy of the American Dream.
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Thursday Night Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, Pennsylvania. www. bhwp.org. Series of guest lectures via Zoom continues with Gardening is for the Birds! by Mary Anne Borge. Register. $12. 7 to 8 p.m.
Friday July 3 In Person Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Rick Winow with acoustic pop/ rock. 6 to 9 p.m. Park-In Movie, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Parking lot film screening of “Avengers: End Game” to be viewed from your car via FM radio frequency. Register. $25 per vehicle. 8 p.m.
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Thinking Outside the Box to Reduce Our Water Footprint, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Erin Landis, coordinator of the Watershed’s RiverFriendly program, talks about things you can do in and outside your home, and lifestyle choices that can better protect water. Register for Zoom link. 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Saturday July 4 Independence Day.
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Declaration of Independence Reading, Heritage Park, Allentown. www.facebook.com/AllentownBoroughNJ. Public reading in honor of Independence Day. Wear a face covering and keep social distance. Live stream also
available via Facebook. 9 a.m. Farmers Market, Montgomery Friends of Open Space, Village Shopping Center, 1340 Route 206 South, Skillman, 609-915-0817. www.montgomeryfriends.org. Jersey Fresh produce and farm products, baked goods, chicken, eggs, sausage, and more. One person per family. Face covering and social distancing required. 9 a.m. to noon. Pennington Farmers Market, Rosedale Mills, 101 Route 31, Pennington. www.penningtonfarmersmarket.org. Face masks required for everyone over age 2. Social distancing measures in place. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, Princeton Junction Train Station. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket. org. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and more. Yes We Can! food drive ongoing. Face masks required. Bring your own bags. Limit of two shoppers per family. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Weekend Music Series, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music by Jerrry Monk. Wines by the glass with outdoor seating in the apple orchards. Limit of two hours and six guests per table. Face masks required on premises. 1 to 4 p.m. Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Winery Catz performs. 6 to 9 p.m. Park-In Movie, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Parking lot film screening of “Avengers: End Game” to be viewed from your car via FM radio frequency. Register. $25 per vehicle. 8 p.m.
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olly crouched low by the bushes near the porch clutching the jar she’d taken from her mother’s cupboard. Even from this distance, she could hear her mom washing supper’s dishes through the kitchen’s open back door. Darkness had just taken hold of the summer evening with just a hint of quickly fading daylight. Holly shivered slightly but whether from the slight chill brought on by the deepening night or anticipation of her adventure — and that is how she thought of this, an adventure! — she couldn’t say. At eight and a half Holly didn’t care overly much for the everyday. Summer was a glorious freedom from the drudgery of going to school, piano lessons, homework and chores. Well, she still had chores but even those she could turn into something fun when she had nothing else to do. And there were so many adventures to be had. Like tonight. If her brother possessed half the spirit that Holly did, he’d be out here with her. But no, he’d rather stay inside on this warm July evening playing video games, going on pretend adventures. Although she couldn’t put voice to the way that made her feel, she just knew
that her heart wanted something else. Something real. Sucking in a deep breath, Holly realized that night had now fallen, and darkness surrounded her like a blanket fort. A sudden sting on her bare arm made her jerk despite knowing she wasn’t the only creature in these bushes. She tried not to make any noise as she swatted
That was when she saw the first glint. Its existence so brief that she wondered if it had been there at all. But then another glow winked on and off and Holly knew it was no imagining on her part. at the mosquitos. If Mom heard, she’d turn on the backyard lights and ruin everything. Holly switched hands holding the jar because it was sweaty and warm making her scared she’d drop the glass container. Nervously, she unscrewed the lid which promptly fell into the surrounding foliage, buried among the pachysandra and azalea bushes. Holly held her breath while she felt around for the lid and almost lost her balance in the doing. Finally, her hand landed on the metal, still
The Kurse of the Kat Lady Killer! An original radio drama in one act by George Point Spooky organ music opens to set the stage for what’s to come, as an overly dramatic voice-over intones: “And now, Radio Theatre of the Mind presents… The Kurse of the Kat Lady Killer!!!... Organ music swells, them fades to the background as the principal character begins to tell their tale. SON/DAUGHTER The story you are about to hear is true … I know … because it happened to me … There I was, backpack and sleeping bag weighing me down, in front of the last place I ever expected to see again. And on the first night of a waning gibbous moon, no less. My mother’s house looked pretty much the same as it did when I left all those years ago, at least to the casual observer. Typical suburban ranch set away from the others at the end of a dead end street, in one of those cookie-cutter neighborhoods that developers cranked out in the 60’s, on land that had been farmed for generations before we started trucking our produce in from California. Or Mexico. Or even Peru. But a closer look revealed the peeling paint, the torn screens, the gutter half hanging off, the trash cans filled to overflowing with now-rusted empty cat food cans. I knew about the cats from checking in on my hometown paper online at the public library of whatever town I happened to be in. It wasn’t long after I left that Mom had become known as the local Kat Lady, taking in dozens and dozens of strays and caring for them so lovingly that the neighbors never complained. No, it wasn’t the cats that scandalized the town. It was the crime. The axe that was taken to my mother on a moonlit night, by what a jogger, alerted by her screams, described as “…a hulking figure staggering off into the woods behind the house.” And the fate of the cats she left behind.
warm from her hand, and she let out the breath she’d been holding in a puff. She grasped it to her chest and made herself calm down. That was when she saw the first glint. Its existence so brief that she wondered if it had been there at all. But then another glow winked on and off and Holly knew it was no imagining on her part. She stared in wonder as the darkness started to light up with the ephemeral beauty of fireflies’ soft flares. Their mating calls transforming her backyard into an alien landscape full of strange patterns of light. Holly slowly rose from her crouch feeling less like a predator and more like Alice in Wonderland — now there was a girl who had adventures! Moving cautiously into the open yard, she looked around noting how many more fireflies surrounded her. She stole a quick glance toward the porch. Mom had apparently finished the dishes and Holly couldn’t hear her anymore. She hoped Mom wouldn’t figure out where she’d gone and call her in just yet. Holding the jar out with an extended hand, Holly tried to scoop up one of the glowing insects. Darkness had dulled her senses and she just couldn’t seem to react fast enough to catch one. She danced around the yard, following one flash of light after another yet still her jar remained empty. Frustrated and disappointed with her-
self, Holly stomped her foot and grumbled only to realize how loud it sounded in the quiet of the night. As if by magic she felt the teasing brush of an insect crawling along her arm. Peering down without really being able to see, suddenly her skin glowed with the light of the firefly resting on it. Carefully, she covered the bug with her jar and shook her arm downward. Once it dropped into the bottom of the jar with a brief blink of phosphorescence, Holly quickly screwed the lid on top and held it up to her face. She stared in
The little thing was crawling up the side of the jar trying to find a way out. She imagined his frustration and maybe even fear. Staring into the jar she suddenly felt sad. Poor firefly! wonder as the firefly continued to flare in the darkness likely unaware of its trap. The sound of her mother’s footsteps in the kitchen reminded Holly that she should be helping with the cleaning up. She turned and ran up the porch steps, flung open the backdoor with a bang and burst into the kitchen to her mother’s surprised face. “Was that a herd of elephants
bonded security agency that the law firm A fate that was never reported in the mehad hired for the occasion. dia, and never discussed in polite company. There was no panic button, no rescue What brought me back was a letter, a letter that I was expecting I’d receive eventual- team standing by. I was on my own. Things went fine, at first. I creaked open ly. A letter that had been trailing me as I the front door, the beam from my flashlight wandered across the country, picking up an illuminating a surprisingly neat and tidy inodd job here, panhandling for spare change terior, absent any indication of the mayhem there. that marked my mother’s tortured final minEvery morning I checked General Delivutes on earth. ery at the Post Office where I happened to Even more astonishing was the smell — be, and every morning my query was met there was none. Mom obviously cared faswith the same negative shake of the head. But old habits die hard… they die hard… tidiously and affectionately for the endless parade of stray cats that had been in her care Then one day, in the next stop on my one over the years. way trip to Nowheresville, a postal clerk As I lay on the living room floor, a warm made me show ID and sign a piece of paper in exchange for a thick envelope with the re- feeling of nostalgia began to replace my fear, and I began to drift off to thoughts of turn address in fancy script and multiple names that practically screamed “white shoe happier times. First a catnap, then law firm.” deeper and deeper As her sole heir, slumber took over… my mother had left Just then, the kitchen door ex...until I awoke to me all her worldly ploded into a hail of splinters, what sounded like possessions. As I exthe grinding of steel pected, they consistas the massive, ethereal figure on a sharpening ed my mother’s runof an axe-wielding maniac stone! down, crime tainted lurched toward me, eyes burnI sat bolt upright house, and, to my uting bright like the fires of hell! and turned in the diter astonishment … rection of the sound, an investment aca piercing sound that count containing just There was no time to do anycut through me like shy of $4.4 million! thing but shiver in my sleeping the scraping of a Apparently Mom bag and prepare to meet my thousand fingernails had been a savant across a thousand when it came to pickfate, as the … the thing before chalk boards! ing stocks, particume slowly raised the axe. A sound that forelarly tech stocks that shadowed unspeakshe bought and sold able terror yet to with an expertise that come… would make Warren Buffett jealous. Just then, the kitchen door exploded into There was a catch, of course. Mom had a hail of splinters, as the massive, ethereal always had a diabolical sense of humor. To inherit this windfall, I had to stay in her figure of an axe-wielding maniac lurched house on the first night of a waning gibbous toward me, eyes burning bright like the fires moon, the moon that shone on the night of of hell! There was no time to do anything but her demise, from nightfall to one minute shiver in my sleeping bag and prepare to past midnight. meet my fate, as the … the thing before me Piece of cake, no? Then why did I have a slowly raised the axe. feeling of dread that was making my skin Time slowed to a crawl, as what I was crawl? sure were my last seconds of life tick, tick, So that’s why, as darkness began to emticked away in the dead silence … brace me, I found myself standing at the But wait! What was that sound? A low, front door of my ancestral home. soft, vibrating sound, like the idling of a tiny I looked up, at the dimming of the day. engine. The purring … of a cat! I looked down, at the GPS transmitter The creature heard it too, and the inexothat was locked to my ankle like a prisoner under house arrest, monitored from afar by a rable, death-dealing arc of the axe towards
running onto our porch?” her mother admonished. “Mom! Look, I caught a firefly!” Holly blurted out breathlessly. She held the jar up to her mother’s wide eyes. Mom peered at the caged insect. “Is this one of my canning jars?” “Yeah,” Holly cringed, “but I needed something I could see through.” Her mother’s face was unmoved, “The poor thing is going to suffocate if you keep it in there and I won’t appreciate you poking holes in my good equipment.” Holly wandered outside and sat down on the porch steps feeling the unforgiving boards beneath her. The porchlight’s feeble glow was just enough to see her captive. The little thing was crawling up the side of the jar trying to find a way out. She imagined his frustration and maybe even fear. Staring into the jar she suddenly felt sad. Poor firefly! So carefully she unscrewed the lid, place the jar on the ground in front of her and watched the bug quietly crawl out of the container, hesitate at the rim and then take flight. And just before it passed into the darkness, out of Holly’s sight, it emitted one last flare of light and was gone. Elizabeth Seip is a longtime employee of a Route 1-based business and says the piece above reminds her of her own childhood summers.
its target — Me! — slowed, then stopped. Then the purring sound was joined by another, and another, and another. Ten cats! A hundred cats! A thousand cats! Purring away to form a hypnotic feline drone that soon had the creature mesmerized! I watched, paralyzed by awe and fear, as the axe dropped from the creature’s grip and it was enveloped in a swirling cloud of smoke… But instead of vanishing, another figure appeared as the smoke cleared… the figure… of my mother! MOTHER’S DISEMBODIED VOICE Welcome home. You’ve come back, as I knew you would one day. My heart was broken when you left. The only thing that gave my life meaning was giving the stray cats that appeared at my door a good home, in hopes that you, my own stray cat, would come back. Sadly, one day I opened my door to an evil stray, an unspeakably evil stray that ended my life and has haunted this house ever since. It’s gone now, and you’re alive and well, thanks to the ghosts of the strays who’ve been patiently waiting for your return. SON/DAUGHTER With that, the spirit of my mother vanished, and the house fell silent once more. Shaking uncontrollably, I managed to look at my watch. One minute past midnight! My cell phone rang… SECURITY SERVICE AGENT’S VOICE ON PHONE “Congratulations! You’ve met the conditions of your mother’s will. I’d say you’re quite well-fixed for the rest of your life. You can leave any time you like.” SON/DAUGHTER But I knew I would never leave that house, and I knew exactly what I would do with my inheritance…. [Music swells, then fades – END] Lawrenceville resident George Point’s freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, U.S. 1, and other local and regional publications. He currently produces and presents Book Talk! for radio station WDVR FM in Hunterdon County. In past years he has served as a reader of submissions for the Summer Fiction issue.
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feelings, and discoveries during our current health crisis. This week Hamilton artist Joseph Gyurcsak responds with the accompanying image of “Still Waters in a Time of Crisis” and statement. WHEN COVID19 HIT NEW JERSEY so hard, the normal pressure to get things done completely changed. As resident artist for Blick Art Materials (a national art supply company with divisions in New Jersey), all my events and travel plans were suddenly cancelled. Along with these work-related changes, gyms, restaurants, and all leisure activities came to a halt, leaving a pocket of complete isolation and stillness in our lives, as well as in my studio. I invited the opportunity to subtract much of myself from the news after I understood what was happening. It was then that I welcomed a new, more protracted painting project. One which would require many hours and would not be under a strict deadline date. My original study was done at Bridge Groom Run in West Windsor, a wonderful wooded area that spoke to me at first glance. The finished painting titled “Still Waters” aimed to capture the thick, humid summer air. It evoked a sense of quiet stillness in the atmosphere along the stream. I was able to work on this painting for 10 sessions. It is very unusual for me to have such a bank of time to focus on a multiple layer oil painting. I began to slowly build the history of my visual story.
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I contemplated each visual layer as writing a chapter to a book, watching the birth of this painting come to life. In this painting I tried to combine two different painting approaches: a tonalism and an impressionistic style into the same work of art. During these times of such uncertainty, this painting was a welcomed project. It brought me such peace and helped me to refocus on
something that I could have control over. The final painting has a serene and subdued palette of color, maybe a sub-conscious decision about the state of current matters in the world? Or maybe a cathartic passage of time that helped this artist shelter the storm. It is my hope that when I do exhibit the painting that it will visually move others in a calming and peaceful manner. Submit artwork to Dan Aubrey at dan@princetoninfo.com.
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NJ’s Black Baseball Still Playing in History
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by Dan Aubrey
t was July 21, 1886, and the Cincinnati Red Stockings had brought big league talent to Trenton. Waiting for them at the now long-gone Chambersburg Field were the Cuban Giants. Formed just the year before, the independent Giants were eager to face America’s first professional baseball team and show they belonged. They harbored memories of the 11-3 tromping they received the year before when they met their first major league opponent, the Metropolitans from New York. But a lesson had been learned. In place of the misguided confidence that brought them down, the Cuban Giants now had skill and experience — hard-earned during the past year by engaging any minor, town, or college team ready to play ball. The result was a strong squad with a strong reputation and a strong following. It was also just the right bait to make the Red Stockings want to see for themselves what this team was all about. And that was fine with the Giants. Because there in front of a soldout audience, this team of black players wanted to show the world this team could play as well as any white major league team. On that July day, they did just that, beating the Red Stockings, 9-4. The Cuban Giants had become the first Black team to defeat a white major league one. Five days later, the Cuban Giants proved their win wasn’t a fluke, defeating another major league team, the Kansas City Cowboys. It was just another notch for New Jersey in baseball history and one of the pavers that led to the creation of the Negro Leagues — now celebrating their 100th anniversary.
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he Cuban Giants were born in Babylon, Long Island in 1885, the brainchild of a head waiter at the Argyle Hotel who supposedly tion, the Cuban Giants became “the best colored baseball team the wanted to entertain hotel guests. While the legend says that the world could produce.” The team soon attracted large head waiter, Frank Thompson, formed the club as a diversion, he crowds and box office success. It did so well that a quick succesalso created something with some sion of businessmen purchased the money-making potential. Thompson, a seasoned baseball team and began promoting it. First player in his own right, used a win- was Philadelphia entrepreneur ning formula to concoct his team. John F. Lang, whose show biz proHe searched out hotel staffs for tal- motion brought additional buzz. ented players — who also played Then in 1886 businessman Walter ball when not working seasonal E. Simpson bought the team and brought it to hotel jobs — and Trenton. he’d bring in While not ringers to fill out leaving much the team when After an 1887 game record of his needed. between the Chicago other dealings, And while all White Stockings and Simpson quickthe players on ly resold the the Cuban GiNewark Bears, team team to enterants were Black owners met and made tainment entreAmericans, the a ‘gentlemen’s agreepreneur Walter Caribbean island Cook, son of the name helped ment’ to exclude director of the them capitalize Blacks from the offiTrenton Savon the popularity cial leagues. An invis- ings Fund, of Cuban baseTrenton Bankball teams tourible color barrier was ing Company, ing the U.S. created that lasted in- and the New Being taken to the 1940s. York Division for Cuban also of the Pennsylhelped the team vania Railroad. get better treatWith a home, ment at hotels financial backing, and the autonoand restaurants. Accordingly, as Black player- my to manage itself, the Trenton turned-sports writer Sol White team that started in a hotel was now notes in his book, “The History of America’s first professional Black Colored Base Ball,” team members baseball team. pretended to speak only Spanish or with accents while traveling for aseball itself traces its roots games. But there was no pretending on back to New Jersey — the first docthe field. And through determina- umented “official” game was
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played in Hoboken in 1846. Soon, the game’s popularity would soar, and by the mid-1850s newspapers began calling it “the national pastime.” Some 40 years after that first game, another milestone — both in baseball’s and our country’s history — took place just miles away, in Newark. It was there that segregation took hold in baseball and created the need for the Negro Leagues. Before then, there was no rule that Black players could not join traditionally white teams. By the mid-1880s, more than a few Black men were playing in the major and minor leagues. But the conditions weren’t always easy, and those who did play on minor league teams were subjected to verbal and physical abuse on the field and from the stands. In 1887, before a game between the Chicago White Stockings and Newark Bears, White Stockings manager Cap Anson — a former star and well-known racist — refused to allow his team to play after discovering that the Newark team had two Black players: Fleet Walker and George Stovey. Newark agreed to sit Walker and Stovey in order to placate Anson. Then, after the game, team owners
met and made a “gentlemen’s Montclair has mounted an exhibiagreement” to exclude Blacks from tion coordinated by the Negro the official leagues. An invisible Leagues Baseball Museum that color barrier was created that lasted honors that impact, as well as the 100th anniversary of the Negro into the 1940s. Black players formed their own Leagues formation. “Discover teams, and the first of the major Greatness: An Illustrated History Negro Leagues was born in 1920 of Negro Leagues Baseball” will when Chicago American Giants show through the end of 2020. owner Andrew “Rube” Foster set up a Kansas City meeting with repost baseball teams in the resentatives of other Black teams to establish the league of their own. late 19th and early 20th century In all, there were seven all-Black played schedules far different from the regimented leagues that ones given to c o m p e t e d Major League against each othWhile the Negro and Minor er with one aim: Leagues’ Golden Era League teams producing baselasted about 30 years now. Teams ball equal or would face greater in quality — and generally endnearly any chalto the leagues ed when Jackie Roblenger, regardthat barred their inson put on a Brookless of league players. affiliation. And while the lyn Dodgers jersey in This brought Negro Leagues’ 1947 — its impact can many Negro Golden Era laststill be felt in New Jer- Leagues teams ed about 30 years to New Jersey. — and generally sey. New Jersey faended when ther and son Jackie Robinson writers Alfred put on a Brooklyn Dodgers jersey in 1947 — its M. and Alfred T. Martin noted in impact can still be felt in New Jer- their book, “The Negro Leagues in New Jersey,” that southern teams sey. The Yogi Berra Museum in on their way north, or northern
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Above, an exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues awaits the reopening of the Yogi Berra Museum in Montclair. At right, a stamp honoring Negro Leagues founder Rube Foster. teams heading south, could find strong audiences in the state. The Garden State had a growing Black population, with the number tripling from 70,000 to about 209,000 between 1910 and 1930. Negro Leagues teams played in such towns as Camden, Hightstown, New Brunswick, Pleasantville, and Princeton, and several New Jersey cities have important ties to black baseball. Atlantic City’s entertainment destination status and sizable Black population made it a natural home for a team. Though Black baseball teams had been introduced in the resort city around 1910, it was not for sport. Its purpose was designed to attract blacks away from white tourist sites. In 1915, two Black Atlantic City businessmen decided to establish a Black team and got Mayor Harry Bacharach on board, with the condition the team would help him keep his name in front of Black voters. When the businessmen failed to persuade the Duval Giants of Jacksonville, Florida, to move north, they contracted its core members and created their own team — the Bacharach Giants — that was soon one member of Foster’s original 1920 league. Three years later the Bacharach Giants participated in launching the Eastern Colored League and won first-place pennants in 1926 and 1927. They left the ECL in 1929 to help establish the American Negro League. But neither the team nor league survived. With the team on shaky financial grounds for years, no businessman stepped up to the plate to launch a new one. The team’s legacy includes Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Pop Lloyd, who played for and later managed the Bacharach Giants. Trenton, on the other hand, continued to be the home of the Cuban Giants until 1889 when tensions with new owner J.M. Bright fractured the original team. Subsequent owners created the Cuban X Giants (one of Sol White’s teams) and the Original Cuban Giants. They were all history by 1915. While Trenton periodically hosted Negro Leagues games, the city had no Black team of its own.
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However, Trenton features again in baseball history when, in 1950, the New York Giants assigned to their farm club in Trenton a promising center fielder: future Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Newark had four Negro Leagues teams. Two lasted only a year, the Newark Stars (1926) and Newark Browns (1932), and one lasted two years, the Newark Dodgers, 193335. Newark Eagles, however, had a good run from 1936 through 1948. In addition to the team winning the Negro League World Series, the
Though Black baseball teams had been introduced in Atlantic City around 1910, it was not for sport. Its purpose was designed to attract blacks away from white tourist sites. Eagles also made history with coowner and business manager Effa L. Manley. She was the first woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
While Paterson was a mainly a host city for Negro League games,
the city is home of New Jersey’s most tangible artifact of that era, Hinchliffe Stadium. The deteriorating art decostyled stadium currently owned by the Paterson Board of Education opened in 1932, seats 10,000, and takes its name from a former Paterson mayor. Now an official National Historic Landmark and part of the Great Falls National Landmark District, the stadium that hosted the Negro League World Series seemed to win another victory with the announcement this year of a revised plan to save the endangered structure.
The $76.7 million mixed-use project will refurbish the structure, use a portion of the site for senior housing, and include a parking lot and a restaurant featuring exhibits on the stadium and the Negro Leagues. With state funding, tax credits, and administration support, the pre-COVID-19 plan was scheduled to start this summer and be completed by 2022. And Jersey City was home not only to the infamous “gentlemen’s agreement,” but also its undoing, when on April 18, 1946, the minor league Montreal Royals’ Jackie Robinson walked onto the Roosevelt Stadium field to play against the Jersey City Giants and broke the professional league color barrier. He would do the same at the major league level a year later, in 1947. While the Robinson event was a key moment in baseball and civil rights history by integrating professional baseball, it also marked the beginning of the end of the Negro Leagues. The Negro National League disbanded just a year after Robinson first played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, while the diminished Negro American League attempted to adapt and change but folded in 1960. The last league remnant, the Harlem Globetrotters-styled Indianapolis Clowns, left the field for good in 1989. Major League Baseball had planned to commemorate the Negro League’s 100th anniversary this season, but despite an agreement between players and owners to restart training camps July 1, it remains to be seen if a MLB game will be played this year. The Yogi Berra Museum’s exhibit waits in the dugout, but may be viewable this month should the state’s plan to reopen museums July 2 go forward. The good news is, the Paterson stadium is getting attention and being transformed into a memorial to recognize the hundreds of Black men who found opportunity and equality on a baseball diamond.
Saturday Night at the Movies: Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway, Mercer County Library. www.facebook.com/mclsnj. Borrow the featured title from the Hoopla catalog with a Mercer County Library card and watch it in the virtual company of your community. 8 p.m.
Sunday July 5 In Person Hopewell Farmers Market, , 62 East Broad Street, Hopewell. www.fairgrownfarm.com/ hopewell-farmers-market. Locally produced foods, plants, wines, and more. Masks and social disancing required. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Summer Carillon Concerts, Princeton University Carillon, 88 College Road West, Princeton, 609-258-7989. Tiffany Lin, Philadelphia. Free. 1 p.m.
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In Person Weekend Music Series, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music by Brooke DiCaro. Wines by the glass with outdoor seating in the apple orchards. Limit of two hours and six guests per table. Face masks required on premises. 1 to 4 p.m.
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Art Making, Arts Council of Princeton & Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum. princeton.edu. Artist Barbara DiLorenzo teaches “Watercolors: How Can I Control My Watercolors?” via Zoom. Free. 3 p.m.
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Opportunities Public Speaking Dana Lichtstrahl offers two virtual sessions of Speakology public speaking and identity exploration training for kids ages 10 to 15. Sessions run for four consecutive weeks beginning Tuesday, July 21, or Wednesday, July 22, from 3 to 5 p.m. To register visit www.speakology.us/registration or email: info@danalichtstrahl.com. Contact Dana Lichtstrahl at 609-915-1999 or info@danalichtstrahl.com with questions.
Donations Sought The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey, a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk infants, children, youth, and families achieve their potential, has launched an online drive collecting school supplies. Help provide most-needed supplies to 2,000 kids in need by shopping online to support the drive. When you shop online, YouGiveGoods will email you a tax deductible receipt, and all donations will be shipped at the close of the drive directly to the charity. The drive continues through Friday, August 7. For more information or to donate visit www.yougivegoods.com/chsofnj-2020.
Continuing Education Bristol Riverside Theater in Bristol, Pennsylvania, is offering a new series of Zoom-based classes for adults during the month of July
as part of its “Intermission Series.” Each course consists of three-one hour sessions via Zoom and costs $45. The eight courses being offered are “Great story, Tell Me Another,” “The Art of Storytelling,” “History of American Theatre from Oscar Hammerstein II to Tony Kushner,” “American Theatre from Ben Franklin to Oscar Hammerstein II,” “BRT Book Club: Great American Plays,” “Theatre Artists: What Do They Do, Really?” “Playwriting for Beginners,” and “Faux Real: How It’s Painted.” The theater also offers Intro to Acting classes for ages 12 to 18. For information or to register visit www.brtstage.org.
Volunteer New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), which provides blood for local patients, is looking for a few good volunteers. The blood drive volunteer is an integral team member whose tasks include assisting donors with registration and/or at the refreshment area. No medical background necessary. Volunteers should be outgoing to provide friendly customer service and be able to perform tasks as needed. Must have transportation. All training is provided including additional safety precautions. For additional information call or text Volunteer Services manager Sharon Zetts at 732-850-8906, Monday to Thursday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. To apply on line as a blood drive volunteer visit www.nybc.org/support-us/volunteer-nybc/volunteerapplication.
In Conversation: Black Stories in Art
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he Arts Council of Princeton continues its monthly series of virtual conversations between artists on and curators on Tuesday, July 7, with a discussion between Mario Moore and James Steward. Moore is a New York City-based artist who had recently been awarded a Princeton Hodder Fellowship for 2018-’19 and exhibited his portraits of Princeton University’s Black employees. Steward is the director of the Princeton University Art Museum. The talk is being held in collaboration with the museum. A Detroit native, the 33-year-old artist has work in several public and private collections, including the Detroit Institute of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, and has been the subject of solo shows at the David Klein Gallery in Detroit and Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Several of his Princeton portraits have been added to the Princeton University Art Museum’s permanent collection. In a statement, Moore says his “artwork is grounded mostly in painting, and I think about how human stories are described in 17thcentury Baroque European painting. The drama and almost stagelike setting of those paintings created a sense of urgency within those images, but the depiction of the Black body was missing from those narratives. Or if Black people were painted in them they almost appear as shadows and secondary to the central narrative of the work. My artwork expands upon this history of painting by talking about issues and concepts that are connected to my personal experiences and those who are close to me.” His Princeton works were created “in honor of my father and other
Artist Mario Moore, top, appears in a virtual conversation with Princeton University Art Museum director James Steward on Tuesday, July 7. blue-collar workers. For this exhibition, I set out to meet Black men and women who work in and around Princeton University and let the process unfold from our interaction.” He adds that the series walked “a tight line between the expectation of how Black people are seen in
blue-collar jobs versus the true representation of them — making them visible.” Mario Moore and James Steward, Arts Council of Princeton. Tuesday, July 7, 7 to 8 p.m. Free. Register. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
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Garden Tours, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven.org. Docent-led what’s in bloom tours. Face masks and registration required. Tours available Wednesdays through Saturdays. $10. 11 a.m.
Mosaics by Leyla Spencer are on view at the Bucks on Bridge coffee shop in Lambertville beginning Wednesday, July 1. Pictured above is ‘River Life.’ Summer History Stroll, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven. org. Docent-led summertime stroll throughout the grounds surrounding the museum exploring Morven’s architecture, gardens, outbuildings, old and new, to view Morven in a new light. Face masks and registration required. Also Fridays at 4 and Thursdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. $10. 4 p.m.
Classical Music Clipper Erickson, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts, 609-570-8404. www.princetonsummerchamberconcerts. org. The pianist performs and provides commentary on the music of Nathaniel Dett and other American composers of color. Free. Concert available via video. 7:30 p.m.
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Off the Presses: ‘Lincoln on the Verge’
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t was a divided United States, and slavery was at the heart of it. Pro-slavery Southern states were threatening to leave the Union and the nation was on the verge of collapse. Now in 1861 Abraham Lincoln — who had won the presidency with the lowest popular vote in history — was heading to Washington, D.C., to take the oath of office and face unprecedented moral, political, and physical battles. Historian Ted Widmer’s recently released book, “Lincoln on the Verge,” brings the era to life by taking readers on Lincoln’s 13-day, 1,900-mile train multi-city journey from his home in Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital. It also takes us on Lincoln’s own spiritual journey, one inspired by his early reading of John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress.” Among the many appeals of the book, including a thwarted murder attempt detected by Trenton Psychiatric Hospital founder Dorothea Dix, are the sections describing Lincoln’s February 21 visit to central New Jersey. One is Princeton, where the historian and City University of New York distinguished lecturer notes, “The train slowed down just long enough for (Lincoln) to hear a few college songs before resuming his progress south. Despite their harmonies, Princeton students were more deeply divided over the war than any other college in the North. Many students would soon leave for the South, to join the Confederacy; by one account, as many as 200 left their bucolic campus to join the Lost Cause.” Yet it is the next stop in Trenton and Lincoln’s visit to the New Jersey State Capitol where a transformation is described — in both the president-elect and the public. Part of it, notes the historian, is connected to Trenton’s history as the site of George Washington’s victory that turned the tide of the American Revolution and Washington’s impact on the Lincoln’s imagination. Widmer then sets the scene. “New Jersey’s legislature was housed in an attractive structure that, like most of them, did its best to project the grandeur of Greece. That grandeur had been elusive in Trenton’s early years; to save money, the first version of the state capitol used stucco painted to resemble granite. But if Lincoln was looking for George Washington, Trenton was good place to find him. No state saw more revolutionary battles fought than New Jersey, and it was in Trenton that the tide had turned when he crossed the Delaware in December 1776, in the scene captured so dramatically by the famous painting. Washington had secured an unexpected victory with his tactical action, surprising an encampment of Hessians, who surrendered. “ Lincoln understood that it was more than just a battle victory. “It was a moral victory as well as a
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military victory. By taking action, Washington had altered the story of a war that was going badly and given his fellow Americans a new reason to believe in their country.” And since Washington had treated his Hessian prisoners humanely, “Trenton had shown the world that a new kind of country was coming into existence, determined to earn a decent respect form the world for its ideals as well as it determination to defend itself. It was only after the victory that Congress sent out copies of the Declaration to the states.” Widmer then uses the occasion of Washington’s 1789 inaugural journey and visit to Trenton to show a contrast of mood. Using references from early Washington biographies, Widmer notes that the former commander and chief of the Continental Army made his journey from the south and “came through a ‘triumph arch’ made of laurel and evergreen, supported by 13 columns. A large artificial sunflower was placed near him, as if he were the sun. Other flowers were strewn in his path by a small army of ‘little girls, dressed in snow-white robes,’ and ‘low rows of young virgins,’ tilling a song to the new president as he passes through this surreal scene. “Lincoln’s approach from the north was less regal. Another large crowd had gathered, and inside, the legislators were not behaving well. John Hay described the chaos and crowing inside the New Jersey State House, where ‘there was rather more tumult than would generally be considered consistent with the owl-like gravity of a legislative assembly.’ Hay gave the exact words these would-be owls screeched at one another: ‘Down in front!’ and ‘Hats off!’ They were also passing inane resolutions: after Republicans proposed a bill asserting that Abraham Lincoln was ‘a man six foot four inches in height,’ Democrats responded with one declaring the official policy that ‘when this House shall have seen Abraham Lincoln, They will have seen the ugliest man in the country.’” The account continues by noting that while Lincoln usually engaged such humor to offset his own awkwardness and connect with audiences, he now “paid no attention to the sophomoric high jinks of the legislators and the jokes that were flying around the chamber. He had come to Trenton with a higher purpose: to strengthen the sinews of Union. It was a request that carried the implicit demand for young men to fight, and presumably die, in order to make their country whole again. “The president-elect, dressed again in funeral black, seemed to understand the nature of sacrifice better than the others in the room. Something inside him was expanding on this day, as if anticipating Washington’s birthday. He had already given more than 50 speeches on his journey. In a few of them, he had misspoken. In a great many
At right, the Abraham Lincoln maquette at the New Jersey State Museum. Above, Dorothea Dix, who detected a conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln. others, he had said very little. But on this day, Lincoln would soar.” He gave two speeches to overflowing audiences in the senate and assembly chambers, but, as the writer notes, rather than resorting to a few written down platitudes Lincoln “found fresh words about the predicament they faced. Each speech said something genuinely new, as he reached to find meaningful words in a setting that mattered.”
‘The train slowed down just long enough for (Lincoln) to hear a few college songs before resuming his progress south. Despite their harmonies, Princeton students were more deeply divided over the war than any other college in the North.’ Before the senate, Lincoln talked about Washington in Trenton, “but as he vented his feelings, he spoke about himself as well and allowed more light to shine into the dark spaces of childhood than was the norm. He told the suddenly hushed room that in ‘the earliest days of being able to read,’ he had found ‘a small book’: the famous biography of Washington by Mason Weems. At the dawn of his literacy, this book had registered deeply. He remembered all the stories Weems told, but Washington’s heroism ‘here at Trenton’ stood out in particular: ‘The crossing of the river; the contest with the Hessians; the great hardship endured at the time, all fixed themselves on my memory, more than any single revolutionary event, and you all know, for you
have been boys, how these early impressions last longer than any others. I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, that there must have been something more than common that these men struggled for.’” Widmer says the legislators “remained rapt as Lincoln continued his surprisingly personal foray into his memories. An important thought was struggling to come out — it would emerge fully formed at Gettysburg. The cause of the democracy mattered to all people on earth. Something more than common had untied Americans when they threw off the yoke of British rule. This yearning for self-determination had given courage to other peoples. A remarkable catalogue of rights had been woven into the country’s founding document, suggesting that human beings were capable of governing themselves, humanely. Winning the war was important; but it was even more important that they articulated ‘something that held out a great promise to all the people of the world to all time come.’ This ‘great promise’ had made a difference. If the Confederacy succeeded in starting a new country based on slavery, it would destroy the special hope that the world’s millions had vested in America. “Lincoln then made a promise of his own: that the Union would be ‘perpetuated’ in accordance with ‘the original idea’ of the Revolution. In other words, he would not consent to the dismemberment, the way that so many were urging him. He would not become the president of a half country, or even worse, a country with a half-baked understanding of its history. On the contrary, he would insist that the original idea be remembered. He would do all that he could to uphold the principles of republican self-government and the Declaration’s thundering chorus of equality. Lyrically, he added, ‘I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be a humble instrument in the hands of the Al-
mighty; and of this, his almost chosen people.’ Almost chosen — a carefully chosen phrase spoken by a craftsman who did little by accident.”
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ut what about Dix and the assassination? Noted mental health reformer Dix had come to Washington and heard rumors about a Southern plot to assassinate the pro-Union antiSlavery president during his inaugural. With knowledge of Southern militias drilling along the rail lines, she used her analytic mind to examine the tracks and found key points where Lincoln’s train needed to pass into the capital. She then consulted Samuel Felton, the president of the railroad line Lincoln was traveling. Dix had realized a conspiracy that would stop railroad traffic and isolate Lincoln’s car and, according to Widner’s account, the conspirators would disguise themselves as Negroes and “pour combustible material over a bridge near Baltimore as Lincoln’s train was approaching. In the chaos that ensued, they would kill him with whatever weapons were handy.” Felton took Dix’s information seriously and dispatched 200 observers disguised as bridge whitewashers to monitor the militia movements. He also involved the Pinkerton Detective Agency, which had developed a specialty in train-related crimes. Pinkerton involved “the captivating, quite vivacious, and brilliant conversationalist” agent Kate Warne, who was able to infiltrate the conspirators’ circle and provide information. Their collective actions diluted the plans and remained secret until Felton wrote about it 20 years later. Dix never mentioned it. “Lincoln on the Verge: 13 Days to Washington” by Ted Widmer, $35, 607 pages, Simon and Schuster.
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Brewing Hope in Trenton’s Growing Cafe Scene One Up One Down Roastery and Caffe
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he first thing Vince Camiolo does when he steps into his One Up One Down Roastery and Caffe at 750 Cass Street, Trenton, is to check the orders to be filled by the shop he runs with his wife, Natalie Rockwell. Then the long-time coffee drinker and experienced roaster makes his first cup of java and turns on the roaster — and turns on the business. While the shop had a soft opening in early June, it has been a work in progress. “We signed the lease on October 7,” Camiolo says during a recent interview about his venture. “The majority of the time has been remodeling.” Located in the former Polish Falcons Club building now owned by Trenton artists and arts coordinators Lauren Otis and Andrew Wilkinson, the shop site was the former home of Abdul Quadir Wiswall’s Trenton Coffeehouse Roaster — a city coffee destination and a place for artists and musicians to gather. Currently providing only takeout, One Up One Down is open Sundays through Wednesdays. The schedule allows the couple to have a presence on the weekend and on Monday when the nearby Finca Cafe is closed. Finca is a coffee client and is
partnering with One Up to strengthen the coffee shop scene in the South Broad Street neighborhood. Camiolo says the business’s name — printed on a logo based on the couple’s dog’s up and down ears — represents two different ideas. One relates to their main product and their commitment to producing balanced tasting coffee. The other reflects Camiolo’s interest in living a balanced life. “It’s influenced by Greek philosophy,
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haven’t taken any loans or investors. We want to stay lean for now,” he says. To help keep the coffee steaming Rockwell continues to work as a specialty food representative, and Camiolo continues to work for BikeFlights, the bicycle shipping company that he joined several years ago. They also renovated and staff the place, along with the efforts of partner Erik Hischmann, a friend and Langhorne-based drummer. Camiolo says coffee as a business has been on his mind for some time. “I’ve been roasting coffee overall for probably close to 10 years. About six years ago I worked for roaster in Lambertville — Rojo’s Roastery (on Union Street). I was there for about a year and half. I was a roaster apprentice and then production roaster.” Although he left to pursue photography and has had work in various trade publications, including the publication for the company he joined, BikeFlights, he says he continued to roast. “I bought a small roaster and started a subscription. I did that for about five years. It was like a side hustle. I was always keeping my eyes and ears out for the perfect space because I enjoyed it. But it didn’t come up. So I was continuing the cycling business.” He says it was a chance meeting with Wilkinson at a party where he
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Vince Camiolo held a soft opening for One Up One Down Roastery and Cafe in early June.
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inca cafe co-owner Dina Ochoa-Gomez smiles as she stands at the counter and stares at her table free restaurant at 862 South Broad Street in Trenton. While the cafe officially opened in March and generated excitement and patrons, Dina says, “Everything changed.” With the pandemic forcing Dina and her co-owner husband, Guillermo Gomez, to quickly shutter their newly opened business for several weeks, the two refocused to provide take out only and get the permits to create outdoor seating in what is normally the street’s parking strip. And while she says business is not what it had been, they are optimistic. When the couple took over an old delicatessen, they established themselves as part of a new wave of Trenton pioneers who believe in the city while facing ongoing problems related to the pandemic “We have been lovers of the city of Trenton. We are passionate about the city of Trenton. We have our roots in the business, and all our family is here,” says Guillermo. While they live with their two daughters in Willingboro, the couple “wanted to be part of the renaissance of the city of Trenton, particularly in Chambersburg (the former Italian section). Where you see a transformation in the terms of demographics, home ownership, housing, and, most importantly, the economic development,” Guillermo says. Dina adds, “We’ve seen a tremendous rate of immigrants coming into Chambersburg.” That includes both of them. She came from Guatemala when her shoefactory worker father brought the family to New Jersey to find more opportunities and to learn English. Guillermo came from Caicedonia, Colombia, in order to stay alive. “I am the son and grandson of coffee growers. I lived there until I was 15. At that time we had to flee the country and seek political asylum. My father was killed two months before coming here. We could not live there. It took five years for asylum,” he says. He says he was present when a group of guerrillas who extorted farmers and punished them if they resisted took away his father and killed him.
heard that Wiswall was moving out. “I had been to (Wiswall’s) shop once,” says Camiolo. “We talked coffee. My wife had been there a few times. It was our kind of place, down to earth. It had an oasis kind of vibe. I didn’t know Andrew was the owner. He and I talked, and it seemed a good fit for both of us.” Talking a broad look at his business, Camiolo says, “There are a lot of specialty coffee roasters that seem to be popping up in the area. I try to take a very down-to-earth approach to specialty coffee. It can be elitist and pretentious. I want to attract anyone who likes coffee — from snobs or someone who gets it at the gas station.” The goal of specialty coffee, he says, is to benefit everyone from farmer to processor to consumer. He says in order to supplement his Lambertville experiences he took classes through the roaster’s guild, talked to other roasters, read books and blogs, and stayed active making small batches. “I’m a roaster first and foremost,” he says. “I want to supply high quality roasted coffee for people to take home. We’ll also have a cafe that has batched brew and filter pour overs. They also serve pastries from Factory Girl in New Hope, provide teas from the Trenton-based Tea For All Company, sell a variety of home coffee making supplies, and have a coffee club. He says his coffee is sourced through different specialty coffee importers with a strong focus on sustainability and fair pricing. It is
Dina Ochoa-Gomez, left, and Guillermo Gomez of Finca Cafe. “The guerrillas threatened our family. We me the story, I was very impressed. As a teencouldn’t be there anymore, even after my fa- ager he was able to overcome this challenge. ther was killed. (Guerrilla members) were And I knew he had great potential. He had a coming to my school because I saw the peo- strong personality and character and knew ple who took him.” It was September 12, what he wanted — to make a positive 2000. change.” “We didn’t know, as That includes the cafe. kids, what was happen“It has been his dream, ‘We have been lovers ing,” he says. “If you recoming from a coffee of the city of Trenton. fused to give money, you country,” she says. “I saw become a target. Or if you We are passionate his passion. I saw his spoke out against their poabout the city of Tren- dream, and I supported it.” litical beliefs, you become Both say they had other ton. We have our a target. Unfortunately we careers and were “workbecame part of that historoots in the business, ing for an opportunity.” ry.” Both are agents for Garcia and all our family is His Trenton connection Real Estate, and Guillerhere.’ was through an aunt who mo worked for 15 years in moved to the city in the sales and as a business mid-1980s. In 1997 his banking specialist for mother visited her and spent the year. Wells Fargo and Santander banks. He says he “We first arrived in Miami, and my mom met his future wife when he made a presentafound no job,” he says about leaving Colum- tion for the Guatemalan Civic Association bia. “We found more opportunity in Trenton. that was co-founded by Dina. We ended up living in the living room in a Guillermo also had some background in one-bedroom apartment of a couple who restaurant work. “My mom has always had were friends who gave us refuge. At 16 I was restaurants. She sold Colombian food. In Coalways working and helping.” lombia we owned the farm, and there were Dina says, “When I met him and he told restaurants we worked with as kids. I had ex-
mostly delivered, though on occasion he will pick it up at a warehouse in South Amboy. A Raven Rock resident, Camiolo grew up in Warminster, Bucks County. His father worked for a telephone company first as an installer and then as a computer programmer. His mother worked in telecommunications for Bell Telephone and then Temple University. When he graduated from high school in 1998 he enrolled at Temple University but dropped out to work with and start a sign company. After a few years he returned to Temple and graduated with a degree in photojournalism and anthropology in 2007. He credits his father’s habit of drinking coffee black for developing his tastes. “I always drink it black and notice different qualities and origins.”
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t also helped him to determine the factors that make a “good” cup of coffee. “Balance is important. I don’t want to taste any elements of smokiness or char. I’m not a dark roast kind of guy and don’t roast anything dark. I want some citrus. But if it is going to be floral or fruity, citrus, and acidic I want it balanced with base notes like chocolate — milk or dark chocolate. I like the idea the idea of coffee tasting sessions and not getting fatigued by an overwhelming flavor.” He adds that another feature of the shop is that “the majority of what we serve is animal-product free. The only thing we have in the
shop that has animal products is half and half. All our other products are oat milk and Macedonian milk for espresso drinks. And our pastries are all vegan.” The reason, he says, is “That’s how I live. I eat a plant-based diet. I was in a coffee shop in Omaha that was vegan and I didn’t notice. So I saw that it could work without being in someone’s face, that it was easy to have a coffee shop without animal products. “Over the past four years I traveled the country for bicycling-related work, so I visited coffee shops. So it was four years of research for this cafe,” he says. However, he could not research what was waiting ahead. “We were making a lot of big mistakes that seemed overwhelming at first, but we have the slogan, so I had to keep applying it in my head. The first roaster was a used one and wasn’t working out. So I had to cut my losses. Other equipment I had purchased wasn’t what it was advertised as. And we did not expect to take six months to get to the place where we wanted it — but that’s what happens.” Then there was the surprise that took the nation. “The pandemic just kind of put the brakes on our progress, for sure. We thought we were ready to start welcoming people into the cafe. But it caused us to pivot a bit and look at different aspects of the business — roasting and products. It was a challenge that helped us focus and be more methodical.” Since signing the lease, Camiolo says one of the biggest and most
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perience since I was a kid. And for a brief time here, I worked for Subway when I was in high school. That was a great learning experience in food service.” Guillermo says they bought the cafe with cash. “We did a lot of brainstorming and sacrifice to get into the building. We did all we could to make the place beautiful,” he says. But it hadn’t been easy. The building closing took longer than anticipated and family members became ill. Then it was the learning about running a business the hard way. “The reality is that when we opened we didn’t know about what we know now. We didn’t know about our suppliers, distributors, everything has been a very fast learning process.” What they had going for them was a support network. “We were so fortunate to have the help of my cousin, Julian Reyos, and his wife, Louisa Quintero. They came from Colombia, and they had a tourism agency in the coffee district,” where they would take tourists to experience the region for three or four days at a time. “They have been critical in with the development of the (restaurant’s) idea, the concept, the color scheme, the message that we put out. Julian helped me with construction.” Meanwhile, Louisa works the counter. Referring to a team effort, Guillermo also mentions Guatalinda Restaurant owner Juan Carlos Diaz who “helped us navigate the bureaucracy. If it weren’t for him, we’d be trying to open this place. We were blessed for having the kind of family and friends that we had. We also have to thank our credit cards. They have been friendly to us.” While it is still not easy, the couple continues to invest in their coffee and community — working with others to turn the district into a cafe destination. That includes One is One Up and One Down Coffee, one block away from Finca. It is providing the couple with a special roast — or taste brand — that will differentiate the two cafes. They are also working with the recently opened Trenton Ice Cream Parlor on South Broad Street. Looking at the uncertainty, Guillermo says growing up on a farm helped him understands that building a business requires effort and sacrifice. And just to keep that in mind, he says, “Finca means farm.” Finca Cafe, 862 South Broad Street, Trenton. Tuesdays through Fridays, 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 609-5719211.
interesting learning curves has been taking in Trenton’s history and “the way the city has evolved and the issues it has been facing over time and what people envision for the future. The community is really impressive.” Currently the community showing up at his shop consists of several segments. “We’re getting a lot of people who were customers of Abdul. He laid the groundwork for people who like specialty coffee, so we appreciate it.” Others include the followers of Camiolo’s roasting blog and those the couple met while participating in Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market events. Looking ahead, he shares some personal information: He and Rockwell are expecting their first child in September, with Hischmann and his wife expecting theirs in October. He then talks about business reopenings. “We’re going to be cautious. If we don’t feel safe, we’re not going to do it, even if the governor says it’s okay. We may have to get creative on how we can sell our cafe products. We’re taking it one step at a time.” But that’s the future, Camiolo says. Lately, at the end of day — after turning off the gas and back
Friend and drummer Erik Hischmann helps Camiolo and his wife operate their cafe. flushing the espresso machine — “I just stop at the door and look and be amazed by all the work we did the last six months. We did it all by hand. It was quite an undertaking,” he says. One Up One Down Roastery and Caffe, 750 Cass Street, Trenton. Sunday through Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. www.oneuponedowncoffee.com.
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he New Jersey Tech Council, a New Brunswick-based nonprofit that supports the state’s technology industry, announced ahead of a virtual town hall meeting on June 15 that it would be known going forward as TechUnited:NJ. In a statement to supporters CEO Aaron Price offered an explanation of the meaning and mission behind the name.
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couldn’t be more excited to unveil TechUnited:NJ. With our new name, comes our refreshed positioning: For those who are defining the path ahead in New Jersey and beyond, Tech United is an empowering force for all innovators, instigators, and entrepreneurs, Achieving this by uniting our community to embolden the “what ifs” so that we accelerate opportunity, propel ideas into action, in order to build a better future for all. Why we chose “united.” All of our experiences with the tech community share one common trait: the magic of the unexpected opportunity that occurs when we unite. Whether you are an individual about to take the leap into forming a new startup or you’re an innovator inside a Fortune 100, it’s the power of our community — the power of uniting — that brings this magic to life. Whether at dinners, meetups, conferences, festivals, slack groups, list-serves, zoom — the opportunity that serendipity brings is ultimately what makes our organization so powerful. Sometimes from the most unlikely of places we find friends, cofounders, investors, employees, clients, and more. Why we are leaning into the word “tech.” “Tech” isn’t just about coding languages and transistors. To us, being a “tech” person is a lens through which one sees the world. Where some see headaches — we see
Edited by Sara Hastings opportunity. Where some find frustration — we look for efficiency. Where some think small — we leverage technology to make a dent in the globe. In our brand positioning, you’ll notice the use of the word “all” twice. You should both expect and demand that TechUnited:NJ will be deliberate in making sure that we unite all people of all backgrounds who invent a future for all. Please continue to reach out with ideas on how we can do better to set a global standard for inclusivity. You’ve probably noticed some changes already. I’m so proud of how much our small but mighty team has accomplished in record time. Just since the pandemic hit, we’ve welcomed over 5,000 of you to webinars. We’ve sent over 250 tech and PPE solutions from you to the State of NJ and hospitals systems around the region. We’ve hosted 15 startups on our new show, Startup Showdown, to pitch our very own Tech Council Ventures and other prominent investors. We’ve been heard by the Governor in our participation on the Restart and Recovery Committee to make sure that his plans include our community. We’ve launched our CleanTech Alliance with PSEG with an upcoming $50,000 startup reward. And so much more. And, we’ve got much more planned for the year including forums focused on CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, Entrepreneurs, Women In Tech, our virtual week-long Propelify Innovation Festival starting October 5th, our annual Awards Gala in November, and our new State of the State of Innovation Report at year-end. All of this is focused on one goal: to unite our community and build a better future for all. TechUnited:NJ, 96 Albany Street, New Brunswick 08901. 732-456-5700. Aaron Price, CEO. techunited.co.
Princeton University Drops Woodrow Wilson from School, College
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aced with renewed demands from students and alumni, Princeton University reversed a decision it made four years ago and moved to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and from a campus residential college. Going forward the school will be known as the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and the college will be known as First College, a nod to its role when Princeton started the residential college system in the early 1980s. The university had already planned to close Wilson College when construction is completed on two new residential colleges. In a letter to the university community, president Christopher Eisgruber wrote: “Wilson’s segregationist policies make him an especially inappropriate namesake for a public policy school. When a university names a school of public policy for a political leader, it inevitably suggests that the honoree is a model for students who study at the school. This searing moment in American history has made clear that Wilson’s racism disqualifies him from that role. In a nation that continues to struggle with racism, this University and its school of public and international affairs must stand clearly and firmly for equality and justice.” Wilson, a member of the university’s Class of 1879 and a former president of Princeton, governor of New Jersey, and president of the United States, had been recognized for the role he played in transforming Princeton into a modern university, among other achievements. But in recent years the good he did has been overshadowed by renewed awareness of his racist views that were regressive even for his time. Among other things, he resegregated the federal civil service and presided over a showing of “The Birth of a Nation” as the first film ever screened in the White House. In 2016 Princeton’s board of trustees had voted to keep the name, despite protests on campus highlighted by a 32-hour sit-in in Eisgruber’s office in the fall of 2015. In 2019 the university unveiled an installation by Walter Hood titled “Double Sights” and placed in Scudder Plaza, outside the Wilson School. The 39-foot-tall black-andwhite piece is inscribed with statements by Wilson as well as rebuttals from prominent Black leaders and was intended to show a complete picture of Wilson’s legacy, both good and bad.
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Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School will now be known as the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. any box and a prepaid shipping label provided by TerraCycle to mail empty packaging to be melted and reformed as hard plastic to be used for new recycled products. TerraCycle is also offering Zero Waste Boxes to allow for the safe disposal and repurposing of single-use personal protective equipment that can not be recycled by traditional means. Boxes can be placed in public spaces such as stores and parks to allow people to responsibly dispose of used items. Separate boxes are available for garments, gloves, masks and safety glasses; chemical protection suits, flame resistant suits, and smocks; vinyl, nitrile, and latex gloves; and surgical and industrial face masks. TerraCycle cannot accept biohazardous or medical waste. Boxes are sealed while in transit, which takes at least a week, and additional precautions are taken before the boxes’ contents are cleaned, melted, and formed into new products. “During this time of uncertainty, our Zero Waste Box program provides easy solutions for keeping waste out of landfills and paving the way for a greener future,” says Tom Szaky, CEO and founder of TerraCycle. “Our goal is for all consumers to engage with TerraCycle recycling programs in a safe manner.” To register for recycling programs visit www.terracycle.com.
Deaths Epifanio Nazario, 77, on June 19. The longtime Trenton resident was one of the founders of the city’s Puerto Rican parade and served as its treasurer. Rose Bonini, 94, on June 14. She served as manager of information services at CarterWallace research laboratories in Cranbury. Frances “Judy” D’Amico, 78, on June 27 She retired from the finance department of Church & Dwight. Diane Marie Brett, 61, on June 22. She worked in administrative roles at the law firms of Hartsough, Kenny, Chase, and Sullivan and Kenny, Chase, and Costa in Hamilton. Allan W. Miller, 89, on June 26. He retired as vice president for information technology from the Clark Group in Trenton. Maria A. Brower, 78, on June 25. She was a custodial supervisor for the Hamilton Township Board of Education. Beatrice Marie Sub, 85, on June 26. She was a supervisor for many years in the state Department of Health. Paul R. Kramer, 86, on June 16. A former NJ Assemblyman and author of the “Megan’s Law,” which created the statewide sex offenders registry, he also served as a Mercer County Freeholder and Hamilton Township finance director. Additionally, he was the owner of the popular family bagel bakery, Kramer’s, on Hudson Street in Trenton.
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he virus traveling among us has revived an almost bygone tradition: sending postcards. And not only for birthdays and holidays, but also just like that. “Because I’m thinking of you,” said a friend’s homemade card that fell on the doormat the other day. It was an image of a dried wild forest tulip. A small bulb from which two flowers branch. Glued on the yellowed paper in such a way that it seems as if the wind blows them aside. These so tenderly captured flowers come from the 16th-century Italian book, the En Tibi herbarium, which today is kept in the treasure room of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands. At the front of this book, filled with 477 plants, most likely collected by the botanist Francesco Petrollini, is a Latin inscription: En tibi perpetuis ridentem floribus hortum — “Here a smiling garden of everlasting flowers.” Thinking of Petrollini, who found the tulip in a field in Bologna half a millennium ago, I suddenly
see myself in my native Holland wandering through the floodplains of the River Meuse, just half a century ago. Time then had a different meaning. Not the insistent rhythm that guides me through the days, as it does now, but an open invitation to explore the world.
These days, as time no longer flows forward, but widens like a meandering river overflowing its banks, the past and present miraculously coincide. One day I found a plant press in our attic. My grandfather had lovingly made it from a few thin wooden boards and some screws. My mother gave me her Flora, describing all the native plant species, in which she had penned her maid-
en name in her most beautiful italic in the front. What was more important that day than searching for plants and drying them between the shelves to turn them into an herbarium? In the middle of the meadow I lay on my stomach looking at the buttercups with their golden yellow leaves. Then the proud dandelion, stiffly arching before me. And my favorite flower, the poppy, which appears so delicate but can easily withstand the gusts of wind and rain. I put the flowers in my biscuit tin, which was promoted to be a botanizing drum. At home I spread my treasures on the table and placed them on kitchen paper between the shelves. The days after, I occasionally checked to see if the flowers were already dried, clinging to that bumpy paper. Carefully, because if something shifted you never got it exactly the way it was. Much later, when I was an inch taller and had almost forgotten the flowers, I loosened the screws again. Curious, I pulled the paper
away. The plants were no longer the same as the ones I had picked and pressed. The colors were fainter, the leaves transparent, the stems more fragile. But their essence had been preserved. They went into my scrapbook under which I wrote their names in decorative letters. These days, as time no longer flows forward, but widens like a meandering river overflowing its banks, the past and present miraculously coincide. Francesco Petrollini’s tulip touched the child in me, stopping time and running 500
years ahead. He caught the medieval wind that bent the delicate tulips aside on a meadow in long ago Bologna. Indeed, a smiling garden of everlasting flowers. Pia de Jong is a Dutch writer who lives in Princeton. Her memoir, “Saving Charlotte,” was published by W.W. Norton in 2017. She can be contacted at pdejong@ias. edu.
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609-393-9333
29 South Warren Street, Trenton, NJ
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Known for fast, fabulous food! 7 East State Street, Trenton, NJ
Call 609-393-5555 For takeout and delivery
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Call 609-278-9555 For takeout and delivery
The lunchtime line at Gyro Express moves fast. But what keeps people coming back is the food. Specialties include lamb gyros, mixed chicken and lamb platters, seafood platters, soups and more.
Open Monday–Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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