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us in Hiltonia, believed that Councilwoman Robin Vaughn would represent us professionally in addressing Trenton and West Ward issues. Councilwoman Vaughn, however, has chosen to alienate herself by using homophobic, hate, and vulgarity-filled speech against our mayor. And she directed other insults to elected officials and their family members. Although her public apologies are a small step in the right direction, Councilwoman Vaughn continues to fail to exhibit true leadership. Our young people organized a peaceful protest following the death of George Floyd, and when Councilwoman Vaughn was asked to speak, rather than using the opportunity to lead and guide through the crisis, she decided to attack ear Trenton City Council elected and non-elected officials here in Trenton and in the county and Office of the Mayor: The year 2020 has been chal- with unsubstantiated accusations lenging for our city and country. and innuendo. This was a missed We’ve seen unprecedented vio- opportunity to impart wisdom and unity, rather than to sow discontent. lence in our streets folIt appears to residents lowing the death of Between that Trenton is in the grip George Floyd. Due to of a local gang war; peothe state of emergency The ple of our city — even and current public children — are being Lines health emergency, killed and injured on our we’ve lived under quarstreets. Rather than lookantine conditions since March. ing at ways to help find a solution In the midst of these challenges, and communicating those ideas we have watched our elected public officials engage in negative politi- with constituents, Councilwoman cal gamesmanship when we need Vaughn continues to fight against those officials to work together for and disrespect Trenton’s residents. Our mayor, including some of the public good. Many residents of his staff, and other City Council the West Ward, including those of members must also show greater discretion regarding their language and tone. In this time of division, U.S. 1 WELCOMES letviolence, and a worldwide panters to the editor, corrections, demic, we need leadership from all and criticisms of our stories members of our local government. and columns. E-mail your It is time for them to heal their pothoughts directly to our edilitical wounds and serve the people. tor: hastings@princetoninfo. We hoped that the various calls com. for Councilwoman Vaughn’s resig-

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nation would have encouraged her to step down from City Council. It has become clear that she has no interest in doing so, and her fellow council members will not sanction her for her language and hatred. We hope that for the remainder of her term she will reflect meaningfully upon past missteps and look to her heart to help lead Trenton and its residents through these dark days. We expect the following from Councilwoman Vaughn and the rest of our elected officials in Trenton: • Cooperation and respect for the offices that you hold and for one another. The office you hold is a privilege, not a right. • A long-lasting crackdown on the gang violence in our city, and help from the State to enforce it. • Ensuring effective communication regarding COVID-19 testing to groups gathering in Trenton to protest. • Working with the community, particularly African American males, to address gun violence, gang violence, and police brutality. • Praising those police officers in our community who are protecting and serving our residents effectively. • An increased show of compassion for those who are suffering from Covid-19. • A renewed focus on entrepreneurship and bringing jobs to Trenton. • Ensuring that our water supply is clean and safe. A positive aspect of this challenging year is that we are at the precipice of a new birth of freedom. It will require leadership from all of us and particularly from our elected officials. As former President Barack Obama recently articulat-

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A Vibrant Community with an Entrepreneurial Spirit Base Camp Trenton exemplifies the spirit of New Jersey’s Capital City. Even though the coworking space is temporarily closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the organization is doing everything it can to support the businesses in downtown Trenton. “We need to keep the restaurants and other businesses in downtown Trenton alive and successful. They are the lifeline of our community and an inspiration as we move forward toward

reopening,” says Erin Friar, Community Manager, Base Camp Trenton. Erin and her team at Base Camp Trenton maintain an extremely helpful COVID-19 resource page on their website and frequently share information from other organizations on their social media pages. They encourage everyone to join TDA’s “Love Local” movement. “Our mission is to bring people together by providing affordable shared office space to the small businesses, podcasters, nonprofits, artists and entrepreneurs. We look forward to welcoming them back,” says Erin.

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ed: “We’re going to get through these difficult times … then we’re going to have to do it together.” Abraham Lincoln put it this way when he spoke about the role of the government following the great battle at Gettysburg: “. . . that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” As our Councilwoman, Ms. Vaughn represents us, the people of the West Ward of Trenton. The Hiltonia Association believes that all residents of Trenton deserve peace, safety, and responsible government. If Councilwoman Vaughn is unable to fulfill her duties without tearing people down with her words and conduct and sowing division and hatred, we urge her to please step down immediately. If she remains, we implore her to lead, keep her hatred to herself, and govern professionally. The Association will share this statement with allied civic associations as well as with local media as it deems appropriate. The Hiltonia Association

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Barnhart, CMA’s CEO and founder, in a statement. “Our new digital solutions — ranging from virtual conferences, virtual town halls to virtual training — create a memorable experience amid a ‘new normal’ in business.” Features that CMA is introducing include virtual trade shows, in which exhibitors have branded booths and can meet with virtual booth visitors. Just as with an inperson conference, a virtual conference can have opportunities for breakout groups, one-on-one meetings, or Q&A sessions following keynote presentations.

Business Meetings Wednesday July 22

Use Google Tools to Help You Land Your Next Job, Trenton Public Library. www.trentonlib. org. Webinar on how to discover new job opportunities using Google Search and organize your job search using G Suite tools. Also strategies to improve your resume, tips to help you communicate effectively online, and virtual interview best practices. Register. Noon to 1 p.m. Business After Business Virtual Networking, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Virtual networking, cocktails, 30-second introductions, and breakout sessions. Register. $25; $15 members. 5 to 7 p.m.

Thursday July 23

Virtual Meeting, SCORE NJ Circle of Women Mentors. princeton.score.org. Bonnie Kantor, owner of digital marketing agency Pressing Issues in Metuchen, presents “How to Write Effective Marketing Emails for Any Situation.” Register. Free. 10 a.m. Real Estate: The New Normal, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.

princetonmercerchamber.org. Panel of experts discusses how their business models are adapting. Webinar panelists include Susan Hughes of Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s; Jack Morrison of JM Group; Arlene Pedovitch of First Bank; Vincent J. Scozzari of V.J. Scozzari & Sons; Jeffrey Siegel of ML7; and moderator Rebecca Machinga of Withum Smith+ Brown. Register. $25; $15 members. 1 to 2 p.m. Virtual Meeting, Mercer’s Best Toastmasters. mercersbest. toastmastersclubs.org. Communications and leadership development. Guests welcome. Email contact-3375@toastmastersclubs.org for an invitation. 6:45 to 7:45 p.m.

Friday July 24

JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County. www.psgofmercercounty.org. Ed Han presents “LinkedIn: Beyond the Basics.” 9:45 a.m. to noon.

Tuesday July 28

Chamber Live on Facebook Live, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www. princetonmercerchamber.org. Suzannah Sabin, founder of Princeton Integrative Coaching, and Jeanette Iglesias, president of JI Coaching & Consulting, address resiliency and introduce several practical strategies to use during times of high stress. 12:30 p.m. Operationalize Your Sales in Two Hours, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. Webinar presented by Paul Kandle, president of BOAST Groupware, an innovative technology company focused on helping small and medium sized businesses operate more efficiently and reducing costs associated with the business software they need to operate. 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.

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All of the events listed below are taking place virtually unless noted otherwise. Visit venue websites for information about how to access the events. To include your event in this section email events@princetoninfo.com.

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 “Beat the Devil.” Available for free streaming through July 29. 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday July 22

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COVID-19 and Systemic Racism: A Collision of Two Pandemics. www.mercercounty.org. Kimme Carlos, founder of the Urban Mental Health Alliance, gives a presentation via Zoom about the impact of COVID-19 on individuals, families, and communities of color with an emphasis on systemic racism, poverty, and the health disparities born out of inequality. Q&A follows. Register. Free. 1:30 p.m.

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. 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.

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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 Moths by Elena Tartaglia. Register. $12. 7 to 8 p.m.

Colleges

Classical Music

Manhattan Chamber Players, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts, 609-5708404. www.princetonsummerchamberconcerts.org. Performance via video of Beethoven’s Trio in G, opus 9, no. 1 with commentary from MCP Artistic Director Luke Fleming. Free. 7:30 p.m.

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Summer Film Series, Princeton University Art Museum & Princeton Garden Theater. artmuseum.princeton.edu. “Moonlight.” Watch along on Netflix and chat with Art Museum and Princeton Garden Theatre staff on Discord. Free with a Netflix account. Also available via iTunes and Amazon Prime Video. 7:30 p.m.

Dancing

Israeli Line Dancing, Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor, 609-443-4454. www.bethel.net. Learn Israeli Line Dancing with Stephanie Blitzer via Zoom. 7 p.m.

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Gentle Yoga, New Jersey State Library. www.njstatelib.org. Marsha Rudolph, community health educator at Capital Health, leads a virutal yoga program including breath awareness exercises, a short meditation, and some gentle yoga postures. Register. Noon to 1 p.m.

Open for Art The Michener Museum in Doylestown reopens with ‘Rising Tides: Contemporary Art and the Ecology of Water,’ an exhibit featuring the works of seven artists exploring the effects of global warming, pollution, and other environmental concerns on water. The exhibit is on view through January 10, 2021. Pictured: New Hope-based artist Janet Filomeno’s ‘Blue Crystals Revisited.’

Lectures Summer Scholar Spotlight Series, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Eight-part series featuring academics from across the country via Zoom. Shaun Casey of the Walsh School of Foreign Service a Georgetown University presents “Religion & Presidential Politics, Past & Present,” an exploration of past presidential elections as well as the role of religion in the 2020 presidential election. Register. $75 for the whole series or $10 per lecture. 10 a.m.

Schools

Virtual Discovery Day, Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. www.stuartschool. org/openhouse. Learn about the private pre-K through 12 school for girls. Register. 6 p.m.

Thursday July 23 In Person Rising Tides: Contemporary Art and the Ecology of Water, Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, 215340-9800. www.michenerartmuseum.org. Exhibition features the work of seven local contemporary artists that investigate the effects of global warming, climate change, pollution, and related environmental concerns on bodies of water. Including large-scale painting, works on paper, sculpture and installation, this exhibition will celebrate the power of art to visualize ecological crisis and global change. Timed entry tickets and face coverings required. On view through January 10, 2021.

10 a.m. Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. James Popik & Friends with folk/ rock. 6 to 9 p.m. #iclapfor: Art Illumination on Hinds Plaza, Princeton Public Library, Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.princetonlibrary. org. Twenty artists who contributed pieces for the global project that thanks front line workers will have their works illuminated on the side of the library. Visit www. iclapfor.com to learn more about the artists and the project. 8:30 to 10 p.m.

Pop Music

So Percussion Summer Institute, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. The library and So Percussion present performances from SoSI 2020

Information Session, Mercer County Community College. www.mccc.edu. Information about in-person, online, and hybrid course offerings for the fall semester. Register. 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Socials

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

Friday July 24 In Person Kayak Nature Tours, Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer County Marina, 334 South Post Road, West Windsor. www. mercercountyparks.org. Participants will kayak along the lake shore and in the coves to encounter basking turtles, feeding songbirds, and even carnivorous plants. Boats, binoculars, and life vests provided. Basic kayak instruction is provided before the tour. For ages 16 and up. Register. $30; $25 for Mercer County residents. 9 a.m. to noon. Daniel’s Fight Blood Drive, Bordentown Township Senior Community Center, 3 Municipal Drive, Bordentown, 800-9332566. tinyurl.com/bordentown-juContinued on following page

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ly24. Donors must wear a mask and will have their temperature taken. Appointments recommended. 1:30 to 7:30 p.m. Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Just Us with rock. 6 to 9 p.m. Wine and Music Series, Crossing Vineyard & Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road, Newtown, PA. www.crossingvineyards.com. Renegade performs classic rock. Wine by the bottle, cocktails, bottled beer, and lite bites menu available. Bring your own glasses, tables, and chairs. $20. 7 p.m. Park-In Movie, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Parking lot film screening of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” to be viewed from your car via FM radio frequency. Register. $25 per vehicle. 8 p.m.

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rtists responded to U.S. 1’s invitation to share visual thoughts, feelings, and discoveries during our current health crisis. This week Robbinsville-based artist and Lawrence High School instructor Sean Carney, whose “Evening Stroll” is pictured above, notes the following: Since the onset of the COVID-19 quarantine I’ve been focusing primarily on small works. Like most artists my interests change from time to time. With the small works, I wanted to challenge myself by seeing how much depth, atmosphere and detail I could put into my tiniest pieces.

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new pieces, I reached out to Lisa Kovacs the owner of Gallery On Fourth in Easton, Pennsylvania, and asked if she would exhibit my small works. She agreed and since then the exhibit “All Things Great and Small” has grown to include my larger works as well, up to 40x40 inches. It is great seeing the miniature paintings paired with their much larger siblings. The show has been up since June and with the way things are going right now; we are not sure when it will come down. Submit artwork to dan@princetoninfo.com.

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For Families

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.

Saturday July 25 In Person Outdoor Flea Market, Princeton Elks, 354 Route 518, Blawenburg, 609-466-9813. Weather permitting. Vendor spots are $10 each. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Slow-Looking Walk, Lawrence Hopewell Trail, Carson Road Woods, Mya Drive, Lawrence. www.lhtrail.org. Doylestownbased artist Jeffrey Charlesworth leads a “slow walk” as he demonstrates sketching techniques and talks about developing an eye for careful looking. Event includes two to three sketching sessions. Participants should bring a sketchbook, drawing tools, and optionally a stool, water, and bug spray. Social distancing enforced. Registration required. 9 a.m. to noon. 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

So Percussion presents performances from its virtual summer institute on Thursday, July 23, in conjunction with Princeton Public Library. 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. Summer Music Series, Palmer Square Green, Princeton. www. palmersquare.com. Strictly 60’s cover band with Joel Bridgewater on vocals, Frank A. on guitar, Mark E. on keyboards, Roger T. on bass, and Bob K. on drums. Free. Noon to 2 p.m. Courtyard Cabaret, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA. www. buckscountyplayhouse.org. Free 30-minute show featuring a mix of traditional and contemporary musical theatre and popular classics. Take-out food available from the Deck Restaurant and Gazebo Bar. 1 and 4 p.m. Weekend Music Series, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music by Brian Bortnick. Wines by the glass with outdoor seating in the apple orchards. Limit of two hours and six guests per table. Face masks required. 1 to 4 p.m. Culture Kaleidoscope, West Windsor Arts Council, Nassau Park Pavilion, West Windsor. www.westwindsorarts.org. Family friendly afternoon of live music featuring Gypsy-folk band Astraea, Philadelphia-based Trinidadian-fusion group Trinidelphia, and jazz-blues band B.D. Lenz Trio. Rain date July 26. 1 to 5 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. 1 to 5 p.m. Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Craig Leach Group with classic rock. 6 to 9 p.m. Carpool Cinema, Acme Screening Room, 204 North Union Street, Lambertville. www.acmescreeningroom.org. Parking lot screening of “Do the Right Thing.” Opening act Sam Ryan with live music. Register. $40 per car. 8 p.m. Park-In Movie, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Parking lot film screening of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” to be viewed from your car via FM radio frequency. Register. $25 per vehicle. 8 p.m.

Live Music

Louis & Katie & Pat Cabaret, Music Mountain Theater. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Louis Palena and Katie Rochon sing cabaret-style pieces accompanied by Patrick Tice-Carroll. Singers perform live from the theater for a virtual audience. Register.

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$25 per household. 3 p.m. Summer Replays, Blue Curtain. www.bluecurtain.org. Live streaming of past performance by Freckle Legend via Facebook and YouTube in place of the traditional concert series in Pettoranello Gardens. 8 p.m.

Film

Saturday Night at the Movies: Ladies in Lavender, 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.

Lectures

In Conversation: Plauges and Pandemics: A Musical Tradition, Arts Council of Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. John Weingart and professor Sean Wilentz will play and discuss some of their favorite songs of despair and perseverance, take questions from the audience, and open up a conversation. Register. $20. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Sunday July 26 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 distancing required. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Yoga and Mimosas, Crossing Vineyards & Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road, Washington Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500. Class followed by a continental breakfast and mimosa. Register. $50 per person. 9:30 a.m. to noon. Continued on page 10

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Cezanne by the Book T

The exhibition it accompanies he Princeton University Art Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhibition designed to presents as full a selection as was highlight the work of one of the possible of these canvases, along great innovators of the Western art with a group of related watercolors. tradition, Paul Cezanne, has not Together, they span the developbeen able to receive audiences be- ment of Cezanneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preoccupation cause of the COVID-19-related with this subject matter from the mid-1860s, when he was in his late museum closure. But â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cezanne: The Rock and twenties, into the early years of the Quarry Paintingsâ&#x20AC;? can still be ex- twentieth century, when his inestiplored in the accompanying cata- mably important influence on new log created for the exhibition and modern art was becoming firmly established. available In following through the muthis motif seum. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cezanne: The Rock through the artPUAM Direcand Quarry Paintingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; istâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career, our tor James Stewreveals â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project links the ard puts the effort early, already into perspective fascination with geolambitious Cein the following ogy, which began zanne before he excerpt from his when he was a discovered Imintroduction: pressionism to schoolboy in Aix-enAt cRitical the figure who, moments oVeR Provence and culmimore than anyhis 40-year canated in influencing one else, transreer, the revoluformed the enthe radical changes tionary French tire Western painter Paul Cehe made in his art landscape tradizanne (1839â&#x20AC;&#x201C; during the final detion. 1906) made exCezanne was cade of his life.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; traordinary cancertainly convases that took scious of the rock formations long history of European artists as their principal subjects. The Princeton University Art painting rocks and forests in comMuseum is proud to present the positions produced in the studio, first publication and exhibition ex- but he avoided the often fantastic or clusively dedicated to this subject. picturesque aspects of such works, The present volume, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cezanne: always painting his canvases out of The Rock and Quarry Paintings,â&#x20AC;? doors. As such, he learned from the examines the entire range of such plein air practices of eighteenthworks, revealing the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fasci- and nineteenth-century artists, nation with geology, which began while transforming them by the when he was a schoolboy in Aix- methods in which he painted. As a young artist in the miden-Provence and culminated in influencing the radical changes he 1860s, he found that rock formamade in his art during the final de- tions were ideal subjects for his innovative use of thick paint applied cade of his life. with a palette knife. Then, in the

late 1870s and early 1880s, as he painted in the Mediterranean coastal village of Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Estaque, they aided his return to sculptural subjects after he had absorbed the lessons of the Impressionistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; personal responses to the shifting patterns of light on outdoor scenes. His unpopulated paintings reflect a more distanced, formalized view of nature as of its own, ancient order, re-created in conspicuously assembled, flat patches of colored paint. As John Elderfield so brilliantly establishes in this catalogue and exhibition, Cezanne carried this revolutionary approach to painting in canvases that he made from the mid-1890s to almost the

end of his life, when he sought secluded places in which to find his favored subjects: amid the rocky terrain deep in the Forest of Fontainebleau, and mainly at two sites close to his home in Aix-enProvence â&#x20AC;&#x201D; within the abandoned Roman, Bibemus Quarry and high up in the estate of a local manor house known as the ChĂ˘teau Noir. His work at these four sites is the principal focus of this project. Cezanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings, 192 pages, $45, 2020, published by Princeton University Art Museum, distributed by Yale University Press. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

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Politics & Poetry

Searching for the City on a Hill

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or we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill; the eyes of all people are upon us.” Those ringing words have been in the toolbox of presidential rhetoric for more than a century. Virtually every candidate since Ronald Reagan has cited them. But today the “shining city on a hill” has all but disappeared from view. Donald Trump never uses it. That tells us something. Today the ups and downs of this resonant phrase give us a revealing insight into our present political moment. Consider the mixed pedigree of the phrase itself. The metaphor of America as “a city on a hill” was originally stripped from the concluding paragraphs of a lay sermon written in 1630 by the Puritan governor John Winthrop as his ship, the Arabella, bobbed across the Atlantic Ocean on its way to found what would be known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The phrase then lay unread and forgotten for more than two hundred years. It reappeared when Winthrop’s full sermon, titled “A Model of Christian Charity,” was found among a bundle of old sermons and was finally printed in England in 1838. As Princeton historian Daniel T. Rodgers compellingly demonstrates in his 2018 book, “As a City on a Hill” (Princeton University Press), our understanding of the sermon’s role in our national narrative is flawed and “at least half wrong.” For starters, Winthrop probably did not deliver the sermon at all. No one who was on the ship mentioned a word about it afterwards. Moreover, history has missed Winthrop’s main point in the sermon itself. Winthrop’s goal was not to inspire his Massachusetts Bay Company to found a nation that would be the envy of the world for its power and glory. He was pointing out that the eyes of a critical world would be watching and passing a moral judgment on their success or failure in raising the poor and loving one another. The standard would be if they achieved “charity” — the rule of love and shared obligation. As Winthrop wrote, “We must love one another with a pure heart fervently.”

by Landon Y. Jones

Daniel T. Rodgers. The sermon was first published for general readers in 1916, on the verge of the First World War. Historian Daniel Boorstin mentioned it in 1958 in his epochal study, The Americans: The Colonial Experience. Then in 1961 John F. Kennedy’s speechwriter Theodore Sorenson had the newly elected presidential candidate say in his fare-

Today the ups and downs of this resonant phrase give us a revealing insight into our present political moment. well speech to the State of Massachusetts : “We must always consider that we shall be as a city on a hill — the eyes of all people are upon us.” In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson picked up the theme. He saw America as “a city on a hill” to which the world looks “uncertainly and hopefully” to see “the brightness and nobility which is in man.” The most profligate visitor to the city on the hill was Ronald Reagan, who used it first as California governor in 1960-’70 and more than 30 times as president. His speechwriter Peggy Noonan had him use it in his farewell address in 1989. Then the floodgates opened. According to Rodgers, the metaphor was picked up by Mario Cuomo (1984), Michael Dukakis (1988),

Bill Clinton (1997), Al Gore (2000), Barack Obama (2008), and Hillary Clinton (2016). The phrase was bipartisan, likewise used by John McCain, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Mario Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, and Rudy Giuliani. Why then has the city on the hill faded from view now? Donald Trump never uses it or, for that matter, refers to the Founding Fathers in his speeches and rallies. His framework is not the community. Instead of praising our “exceptionalism” among all nations in virtue, he has seen “American carnage” and repeatedly described America as “a disaster.” Where Winthrop laid out a goal of a community rooted in love, Trump sees a community where the moral question no longer matters. Celebrity, not community, is his governing value. Where does this leave us? The sermon has not lost its relevance. In Rodgers’ words, our responsibility is “To live not in a permanently shining city, its floodlights guaranteed by God and exceptionalist history, nor in a fortress of unshakable greatness, but to live as if one’s society was under the moral scrutiny of the world, as if the eyes of all people were trained on it.” As Rodgers rightly concludes, “What responsibility could be heavier?” Landon Y. Jones is the author of “Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation.” He lives in Princeton.

Cascading Disasters His insults flew across the land and no one seemed to care. His hatred of the vigilant press the public did not scare. The good advisors Trump first hired could have calmed him down But quickly he disposed of them and no one seemed to frown. He called on Russia, met with Kim, and jettisoned our friends But most folk shrugged their shoulders as each old alliance ends. He closed the border, took the young, and put them in a cage But this atrocious conduct stirred up not a whit of rage. He watched the virus sweep the land but threw the doctors out; When several millions lost their jobs we scarcely tried to shout. And when our heart-felt people cried that racism must stop, He brutally dispersed them for a sordid photo-op. If such disasters ruin our world and tear apart our land It is the time for decency to take an electoral stand: And since each good American can see these crimes unfold, Then each and every citizen should cry out loud and bold And so denounce this wretched man and say his day is done — But if we fail to throw him out, true Evil will have won. — Marvin Harold Cheiten A longtime Princeton resident, Cheiten is the author of numerous short stories and poems, several plays, and the Princeton-based novella “The Hidden Ally.”

Confessions of a Skeptic I confess I need to sleep with blinders on Until hypocrisy vanishes Like folks celebrating Covid19 front-line workers With pots and pans and spectacular military flyovers Meanwhile those heroes go to war Poorly armed Against an invisible, overpowering enemy Effusive gestures used like protective shields Then, those same flag-flying individuals Spit on and harassed our champions Blacks, Asians, Latinos When they are out of uniform Still everyone swears after Covid19 “The world will be a better place!” While whining about social distancing and wearing masks And shouting, “when can I get a haircut?” I confess (In the middle of this pandemic with over a hundred thousand already dead) To being perplexed at Why we mobilized against racial injustice Finally, and yet again Over another senseless death At the hands of the police Why this death and why now? Did we need names, faces and videos? And what about all the others Tucked into insignificant articles In the Washington Post or The New York Times? And, when Derek Chauvin is found guilty will George Floyd’s death have mattered? And like we’ve done before In Watts, Newark, and Detroit… (The list goes on and on) Can we go home And pat ourselves on the back Because this time the protests Made a difference? I confess To seeing our outrage orchestrated By the left and the right In this age of sound bites With a reality star as president As one side rants “Make America Great Again!” And the other side screams, “Fascists!” Like alternate realities in another galaxy As we take sides on Facebook and Twitter Smug at being righteous. I confess I have no answers What has happened to us? — Joanne Sutera Sutera writes short stories, and fiction reflecting today’s crazy world, plays that explore relationships, and dark and acerbic poetry. She nourishes her passion by taking classes, attending seminars, and learning from writers she admires. She is published in Zest Magazine, The Kelsey Review, U.S. 1, and At Death’s Door, an anthology. She belongs to Room at the Table and the Princeton Writers’ Group. She lives in Lawrence.

The Withering Peach Georgia primary election, June 9, 2020 This Georgia peach has a rotten past in laws that set up literacy tests and poll taxes and leaders that planted fear to stop blacks from voting.

In the shade and steps of Lincoln, a young MLK called out “give us the ballot.” yet it would take years and the scourge of Selma to move a President to enact more security for voting. And then after decades in restraint, the wolves again on the prowl, the Supreme Court lamely claimed “our country has changed.” For the primary, we saw brown and white people roasted for hours on the grill lines resolved to have their say in voting. The new poll taxes — losing a day’s pay to join the fray in line. The new literacy test — how to not screw up a confusing mail-in ballot. A harvest of rotten peaches left behind by wolves. — Elane Gutterman Gutterman says she “reveres poetry for the way it lifts up the everyday with its chants and slants, especially during the constraints of the pandemic.” She is a founding board member of the West Windsor Arts Council and is working on her first poetry book.

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New Books Share Words on Creating Communities

by Dan Aubrey

wo books arriving at the office touch on the role of arts and culture as a means to transform a city — with special attention in one to the idea of the creation of an arts district.

‘Becoming Philadelphia’

In “Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again”(Rutgers University Press), Philadelphia Inquirer architectural critic Inga Saffron uses 20 years of her Pulitzer Prizewinning “Changing Skyline” columns to chronicle changes to a city that had once been called “the next Detroit” but has since vigorously renewed itself. And part of it, obviously, was culture. As Saffron notes, in 1993 “Philadelphia’s downtown was hitting bottom” and mayor Ed Rendell “launched a visionary revival strategy disguised as an arts initiative.” It was one designed to create a major arts district along one of the city’s major downtown thoroughfares, South Broad Street. In a column written 20 years later, Saffron’s “What Really Happened after the Avenue of the Arts Came to South Broad Street” looks at what she says had become an outdated premise: out-of-town visitors being the salvation of a city. Instead, she argues the following:

Becoming Philadelphia: Inga Saffron, left, and her new book from Rutgers University Press on the city of Philadelphia. Above, the city’s Avenue of the Arts.

dreamed of having their own arts district. But concentrating culture is an old strategy that has run its he challenge today isn’t to course, says John D. Landis, chaircajole suburbanites to come down- man of Penn’s regional planning town for an evening; it’s making department (at the University of the city more livable for the thou- Pennsylvania). What drives cities now are ensands of new residents who are puttrepreneurs and what he calls “the ting down roots in Philadelphia’s Brooklyn phenomenon.” The city, reviving neighborhoods. No one anticipated that popula- he explains, is where people go to tion surge when the avenue was “consume urbanism.” Jeremy Nowak, the former head created. of the William Penn Foundation, Without a doubt, South Broad has come a long way from its pre- agrees: “We’ve moved on to other Avenue of the Arts days when of- strategies.” Some argue the Avenue of the fice buildings stood empty, prostitutes strutted near the corner of Arts created the conditions that Lombard Street, and the gloomy made the millennial boom possible. “Maybe the avenue isn’t 100 husk of the Ridgeway Library served as the face of the city’s de- percent responsible, but it was the catalyst,” Rendell told me. “It got cline. The Avenue of the Arts was first suburbanites to come in the city and eat.” It is certainly true that the proposed by fear of the gritty (city and regioncity has lessened al planner) Paul Levy’s Center Cities once aspired to in the last two decades. City District in have their own art But that 1990 as a way to seems more districts, but that idea clean up that likely the result mess, but it was has been supplanted of a bundle of Rendell who ran by the phenomenon policies that with the idea. helped the of cities as places to Rendell’s lawhole city to reser focus, Levy ‘consume urbanism.’ set its image. says, enabled Attention to him to attract the the so-called public and private cash necessary to bankroll a broken-windows crimes by Rendozen arts-related projects and dell and Levy was at least as imporfund a major streetscape overhaul. tant in making people feel comfortGlamorous new destinations able downtown. Without the 10-year propertysuch as the Kimmel Center, which tax abatement as an incentive, it is opened in 2001, helped rebrand the avenue as an entertainment district. hard to imagine that Philadelphia Historic buildings were saved; that would have seen its entire stock of white-columned Ridgeway is now vacant, early 20th-century office home to the Creative and Perform- buildings transformed into aparting Arts High School. Developers ments, or the subsequent boom in responded by renovating their infill housing. And let’s not discount the promothballed Class B offices and, ulfound changes in American life timately, dotting the blocks south of Spruce with new, high-end over the last twenty years. At the exact moment that the millennials apartments and restaurants. But while the Avenue of the Arts — a generation, incidentally, with has enjoyed a respectable run as the no memory of the urban upheavals star of the city’s revival efforts, of the ’60s and ’70s — were comother, more sustainable trends have ing of age, the Internet gave them the flexibility to live wherever they pushed it off the marquee . . . Ever since New York carved like and to work from home. “Becoming Philadelphia” by Lincoln Center out of the decaying Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in the Inga Saffron, 272 pages, $29.95 ’60s, cities around the country have Rutgers University Press.

‘Creative Placemaking For Whom, By Whom’

The second book, a small one published digitally by the Philadelphia-based online magazine Next City, is “Creative Placemaking For Whom, By Whom.” Also a compilation of articles, the connecting thread is an approach that, according to editorial director Kelly Regan, asks, “Even with deep community engagement, how do you place-make responsibly and equitably for the people who should benefit, in a manner that prevents displacement and gentrification?” One answer is in the 2018 story “What If All Community Development Started With Local Arts and Culture?” It is an answer that connects to Saffron’s idea of first building the community — and creating a sense of place. As Philadelphia writer Jared Brey reports:

ee Briggs was expecting to do a routine demolition when she bought the vacant house next to her art studio in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. But when Briggs walked inside for the first time, she found a bunch of personal effects left behind by the families that had lived there before it was abandoned. It got her thinking about the long series of lives that had moved through and past the house since it was built in the 1870s, she says, and a normal, quick demolition soon seemed inappropriate. “It really put me in a position to think about the people who had lived there, their relationships with the people in the neighborhood and my relationships with the people in the neighborhood, and what makes up a community,” Briggs says. So instead of simply tearing the house down, Briggs enlisted a group of neighbors to paint it solid gold and later launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a “gentle demolition,” taking the building apart as carefully as it had been constructed. Now, years later, she’s using some of the former materials from

Creative Placemaking: Jared Brey, left, a contributor to Next City’s ‘Creative Placemaking for Whom, by Whom’ compilation of articles, and Dee Briggs’ House of Gold, top, transformed from a vacant house. the house to build a new coffee Wilkinsburg Community Developshop across the street. She hopes it ment Corporation helped coordiwill be a place that will bring peo- nate a Vacant Home Tour, partly ple together and provide jobs for inspired by the story of Briggs’ young people, something that will House of Gold project. The tour “add to the economic and social highlighted information about agency of my existing neighbors,” property histories and included a workshop where people could Briggs says. At the time Briggs created the learn about acquiring vacant propHouse of Gold, the term “creative erty through city programs. There’s a lot about the Wilkinsplacemaking” wasn’t in her lexicon, and she wasn’t trying to ac- burg community that people want complish anything specific, says to preserve, Evans says, like the diBriggs, a sculptor and trained ar- versity of people and of architecture. But there’s a lot of vacancy, chitect. “It was more of a feeling, a sense too, she says, “and we don’t want to of responsibility to the neighbor- keep that.” Wilkinsburg needs outside inhood, to the property, and to the history of the neighborhood [rath- vestment if it’s going to be imer] than having a particular goal or proved, Briggs says, and if the creative placemakintention,” ing work in Briggs says. Wi l k i n s b u rg But creative ‘The broader aims of can generate placemaking is each community — more interest the label the projfrom outside inect earned, aceconomic revitalizavestors, she cording to a retion, affordable houshopes it comes port from the ing, or increased pub- from investors Center for Comwho reflect its munity Progress lic safety — influence population. and Metris Arts the kinds of creative “I’d love to Consulting . . . placemaking activisee more real “All the comestate developmunities we visties communities eners of color, ited want to regage in,’ Jared Brey people nationduce the negative writes. ally who are Afimpacts of varican American, cant property, to invest in and a variety of community members, such as art- Wilkinsburg,” Briggs says. “I feel ists, community-based organiza- that, statistically, we know that tions, and city staff, see creative black-owned businesses and blackplacemaking as one tool to help owned real estate companies are make that happen,” the report says. more invested in supporting black “The broader aims of each commu- employees and black renters than nity — economic revitalization, af- white business owners and white fordable housing, or increased pub- landowners and white property lic safety — influence the kinds of owners.” While the Philadelphia district creative placemaking activities communities engage in, but com- project initiated success and the munities ultimately want to elimi- Wilkinsburg project is a work in nate entrenched, systemic vacan- progress, the two articles may be offering a key to arts and culture cy.” “The central core of Wilkins- driven community development burg has so many vacant properties projects in a COVID-19 affected it doesn’t look like any place where world: Strengthen the existing people would want to live,” says community culture and then open Tracey Evans, executive director the door for others. of the Wilkinsburg Community “Creative Placemaking For Development Corporation. Whom, By Whom,” available by Partnering with students from donation or for free at nextcity.org/ Carnegie Mellon University and ebooks/vizw/for-whom-by-whom. the Wilkinsburg Historical Society,

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College of New Jersey. davidsarnoff.tcnj.edu. Zoom discussion about the history of broadcasting the presidential conventions, and the cool technologies that were invented to cover those technologically challenging events. Register. Free. 1:30 to 2:15 p.m.

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Courtyard Cabaret, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA. www. buckscountyplayhouse.org. Free 30-minute show featuring a mix of traditional and contemporary musical theatre and popular classics. Take-out food available. 1 and 4 p.m. Summer Carillon Concerts, Princeton University Carillon, 88 College Road West, Princeton, 609-258-7989. Andy Zhang of the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs. Free. 1 p.m. 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 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. Chris Grakas, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-3716000. www.workingdogwinerynj. com. Free live music. Wine available for purchase. 1 to 5 p.m. Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. HVV Jazz performs. 3 to 6 p.m. Summer History Faire, Wicoff House Museum, 641 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro. www.wicoffhouseplainsboro.com. Snow cones, games, crafts, museum tours, and a chance to experience life as it was when the Wicoff House was built in 1880. Free. Registration required. Attendees must wear masks. 3 to 6 p.m.

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Look Before You Vote: Televising the Presidential Conventions, David Sarnoff Collection,

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Art Making, Arts Council of Princeton & Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum. princeton.edu. Artist Barbara DiLorenzo teaches “Watercolors: How to Bring Back Highlights” via Zoom. Free. 3 p.m.

Monday July 27 In Person Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market, Corner of Hudson and Greenwood Avenue, 609-2789677. www.greenwoodavefm.org. Reserved for seniors and people with disabilities, noon to 1 p.m. Free youth meals served 1 to 3 p.m. Noon to 4 p.m.

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Sciencetellers: “Dragons, Return of the Ice Sorceress”, Hamilton Free Public Library. www.hamiltonnjpl.org. A combination of science and storytelling, this interactive Zoom show tells the tale of two kids daring adventure to find a dragon and save the kingdom. Register. 7 p.m.

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Genealogy Resources and Programs, New Jersey State Library. www.njstatelib.org. Regina Fitzpatrick, NJSL genealogy librarian, gives a webinar explaining what the State Library has to offer to help you research your family history. Register. 7 to 8:45 p.m.

Wednesday July 29 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. 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.

‘Music You Can’t Hear on the Radio’ host John Weingart, left, and Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz, right, discuss and play the music of plagues and pandemics on Friday, July 25, with the Arts Council of Princeton.

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

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Black Voices in Theater Book Club, Princeton Summer Theater. www.princetonsummertheater.org. Themed meetings with two paired plays. This week’s theme is Drama Behind the Drama featuring “Trouble in Mind” by Alice Childress (1955) and “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” by Lynn Nottage (2013). Register. 7 p.m.

Poulenc Trio, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts, 609-570-8404. www.princetonsummerchamberconcerts. org. An encore performance of the animated “Trains of Thought” by Princeton University composer, Viet Cuong, via video. Free. 7:30 p.m.

Mercer’s Got Magic, Robbinsville Hamilton Rotary Club. www.mercersgotmagic.com. Fundraiser for the Hamilton Area YMCA streamed live online. Interactive virtual show with magicians, illusionists, and mindread-

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Summer Scholar Spotlight Series, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Eight-part series featuring academics from across the country via Zoom. Pat Sharkey of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University presents “What comes after the Great American Crime Decline?” Register. $75 for the whole series or $10 per lecture. 10 a.m.

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Learning Without School: A Parent Panel, Princeton Learning Cooperative. www.princetonlearningcooperative.org. Zoom panel of current and alumni parents share stories of parenting self-directed learners. They will talk about the challenges and the successes and share what it took to make the transition. Discussion to follow. Register via EventBrite. 7 p.m.

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he annual Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts — this year in virtual format — is winding down its 53rd season of live free concerts over the next week with two 7:30 p.m. Wednesday night concerts — including one with a regional connection. The July 22 presentation features a performance by the Manhattan Chamber Players, a New York City-based musicians’ collective made up of artists who have participated in international music festivals and trained at the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Colburn School, New England Conservatory, and Yale School of Music. Their program features Beethoven’s String Trio in G major, Op. 9. The concluding July 29 concert is by the Poulenc Trio and includes a presentation of Princeton-connected composer Viet Cuong’s “Trains of Thought.” As Cuong, 30, says in a statement about the work, “My goal in writing ‘Trains of Thought’ was to aurally bring life to the mind’s stream of consciousness.” Elaborating more, he says, “Ideas are usually interconnected in the mind through a cohesive sequence of events, but their journeys and destinations can be unpredictable. In this way, the piece deals with the listener’s expectations and attempts to convincingly manipulate them. As the mind deviates from and returns to an original idea, the idea’s return is often informed by its travels. References to the exciting kinetic energy of an actual locomotive can be heard.” Cuong says the composition written for the trio’s oboe, bassoon, and piano blends traditionally approached notes with slightly higher, less exact, brightly colored, and quite distinguishable “timbral” ones. He also indicates that the pianist “momentarily dampens the string inside the piano with the idle hand. The resulting attack and tone should be softened and dull. The string should not be dampened so much as to obscure the pitch.”

he Poulenc Trio-commissioned work saw its premiere in 2017 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. When the group released its 2018 recording of “Trains of Thought,” MusicWeb International reviewer Michael Cookson responded by saying “Cuong conceived the score as part of a multimedia work combining music and an animated film, which accompanied its premiere. An undemanding and enjoyable work with much energy and a sense of forward momentum, it’s easy to imagine railway journeys on a steam train through changing landscapes” and that “the qualities and challenges of their double-reed instruments are expertly surmounted by Poulenc Trio. Eminently stylish and alert performances combine with a convincing communication of the

by Dan Aubrey character of the works.” Fellow reviewer Marc Rochester singled out the “impulsive, driving momentum which at times has you on the edge of the seat. Here is a tremendously invigorating performance, beautifully shaped and balanced, drawing every last ounce of interest from the music.” However, he added, “My only reservation comes with the somewhat damp squib of an ending.” Other critics also have noticed Cuong’s works and provided some winning reviews. A San Francisco Chronicle reviewer called one of his works “irresistible” and the New York Times referred to another as “alluring” and “wildly inventive.” New Amsterdam Records, which has released recordings of Cuong’s compositions, notes that the composer’s work has been performed on six continents by musicians and ensembles that include the Princeton resident company So Percussion as well as the innovative groups Eighth Blackbird, Alarm Will Sound, Sandbox Percussion, the PRISM Quartet, JACK Quartet, and Kaleidoscope, and numerous others. In addition to receiving a Princeton University MFA degree, Cuong continues in the university’s graduate school of music and has studied with Princeton composers Steve Mackey, Donnacha Dennehy, Dan Trueman, Dmitri Tymoczko, Paul Lansky, and Louis Andriessen. The son of Vietnamese immigrant parents who worked in the sciences, Cuong was born in 1990 in California but grew up in Marietta, Georgia. As he confessed in another interview, “I grew up as one of the biggest band geeks your school would have. I loved being in band and marching band, and I was in percussion ensemble. I loved it all. And I really feel like my high school band room was where I found my place as a person. It’s where I felt that I could fit in and belong somewhere. “Even now as a professional composer, I feel this kind of obligation to write for band and to write the best music that I can for all the different grade levels just because I know how much of an impact it has on kids. And how much of an impact it had on me. So it just feels right.” About his writing process, he says, “The beginning of the piece is always the hardest part for me, because every piece I write I want to be my best work, and I want to be proud of it. So when I’m starting it,

The Manhattan Chamber Players, above, perform July 22 as part of Princeton University’s virtual summer concerts. The Poulenc Trio, right, performs a work by Princeton-based composer Viet Cuong, below right, on July 29. it’s hard because you come up with stuff in the beginning that isn’t good or you don’t think is good enough, and you just immediately want to throw it away, because it’s not good enough for this piece. Or it’s not right. It doesn’t feel right. But we have to get over the hump to think ‘Okay, it’s not good enough right now, but maybe in a week it will be.’ After working on it for a week and you still don’t like it, then you can move on to something else. But for me, I’m impatient with myself, and I want it to be good right away. “Getting past that stage is hard. But the other thing is, I think the way a lot of my pieces work is I like to be really economical with musical ideas, so when I do find something that works, I will use it until it doesn’t work anymore. I like to have that cohesion in a piece. I think part of that is just because it’s so hard to find something that works, and when I do find it, I don’t want to have to find something else. It’s almost like my musical voice is a product of my impatience or something. Impatience with myself.”

For the actual writing, he says, “I use my iPad as staff paper, which I’ve been doing for maybe four years now, and I really like it because then it’s all in my iPad and I don’t need to find things. I’m not looking for a stray piece of paper that may or may not exist anymore. “From when I first started writing music when I was like 11 or something, I had Finale notepad and I was writing straight into the computer, so it’s just been what I’ve always done. It feels natural to me that way because it’s what I’ve always done. If I had to write a piece completely by hand, it would be almost like re-learning how to write music.” Cuong’s music is a natural fit for the Poulenc Trio. The group founded in 2003 is committed to commissioning, performing, and recording works by new composers. It also looks for works that promote the African, Asian, Eastern Euro-

Of his composition ‘Trains of Thought,’ composer Viet Cuong says: ‘The piece deals with the listener’s expectations and attempts to convincingly manipulate them. As the mind deviates from and returns to an original idea, the idea’s return is often informed by its travels. References to the exciting kinetic energy of an actual locomotive can be heard.’

pean, and Jewish roots of members: St. Petersburg Conservatory trained pianist and Poulenc artistic director Irina Kaplan Lande, Louisville Orchestra principal oboist and Curtis Institute trained Alexander Vvedenskiy, and Baltimore Chamber Orchestra principal bassoonist and Chamber Music America board member Bryan Young. Manhattan Chamber Players & Poulenc Trio, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts. Wednesdays, July 22 and 29, 7:30 p.m. Free and performed live and available for video viewing after the presentations. For more information: www.princetonsummerchamberconcerts.org.

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he coronavirus pandem- company left the 234,000-squareic has wreaked havoc on all aspects foot, five-story office building in of the economy, and the commer- favor of a more decentralized and cial real estate market was no ex- work-from-home-oriented model, ception. Jerry Fennelly, president a move Fennelly anticipates other of Hamilton-based commercial re- businesses may emulate. “Working al estate firm NAI Fennelly, notes from home and decentralization in his June, 2020, market report will be implemented as COVID-19 that what was on track to be a spec- strategies by multiple companies in tacular year for the economy has Princeton and throughout the Northeast where the COVID-19 been derailed by COVID-19. “With demand shifting over- and social unrest were the greatnight due to the pandemic,” Fen- est.” But, Fennelly adds, the news nelly writes, “Princeton saw an increase in work-from-home (WFH), isn’t all bad for the Princeton mara surge of temporary and even per- ket, which still benefits from its location midway manent job loss, between New and the demise York City and of certain comFennelly says the Philadelphia: panies that could “Princeton may not withstand Princeton office marsee the benefit as this sudden ket is ‘positioned to a safe, accessichange; in esstay strong’ due to its ble location in sence, compathe middle of the nies that were safe, accessible locamegalopolis already on the tion between New with over 1 miledge due to York City and Philalion workforce nearly 100 perpopulation cent consumer delphia. available in a internet disrup45-minute drive. tion.” Princeton’s ofHe notes that while demand for office space in fice economy is positioned to stay the Princeton region slightly out- strong due to its central location paced demand in 2019, 22 percent between New York and Philadelof new leases were rethought or put phia and robust transportation in on hold as the pandemic bore down roads and trains connecting these on the state. Additionally, he writes, two major metropolitan urban cen“over 550,000 square feet of direct ters with the ability to attract the or sublet space was placed on the highly educated and talented divermarket between March and July, sified workforce (49 percent of the working population in Mercer mostly on Route 1.” One notable departure was the County have a masters or PhDs). “This migration of talented, edLos Angeles-headquartered, multinational engineering firm AE- ucated workforce may bring some COM, which had been the sole ten- portion of businesses to Princeton ant at 510 Carnegie Center. The from urban areas, and comple-

mented by consistent international migration of pharmaceutical companies and existing corporate headquarters, will continue to solidify Princeton’s economic strength.” Current circumstances notwithstanding, Princeton remains a “Research Knowledge Center,” Fennelly says, competing with the likes of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Silicon Valley and San Diego, California, and Shenzhen, China, for research talent. In the first half of 2020 the average office lease was 16 percent larger than the year prior, and 62 percent of growth came from the bio sector, followed by the medical sector at 21 percent, business and government at 6 percent each, and IT and sports at 5 percent, according to Fennelly’s report. Reflected in these figures are several notable transactions. Biopharma/Pharmaceutical/ Chemical: Bristol-Myers Squibb, whose $72 billion acquisition of Celgene was finalized late last year, leased a total of 155,000 square feet of Class A space at 7 and 9 Roszel Road in West Windsor. Additionally, two Chinese companies added space in central New

Jerry Fennelly of NAI Fennelly, left, reports that bio-pharma firms continue to dominate the area. But it wasn’t all good news: Sandoz’ 75,000 square feet on College Road West are on the market. Jersey. CSPC Pharmaceuticals leased 29,406 square feet of space formerly occupied by FMC Corporation at Princeton South Corporate Center in Ewing, and WuXi Biologics leased 65,758 square feet on Clarke Drive in Cranbury (U.S. 1, July 8). Otsuka, a Japanese pharmaceutical company, added nearly 19,000 square feet to its existing space at 506 Carnegie Center. Geistlich, a pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland, also chose the Princeton area for its expansion to North America, leasing 11,000 SF at 902 Carnegie Center. The company, founded in 1851 as a glue manufacturer, is now a leader in regenerative dentistry. Agile Therapeutics nearly doubled its space, moving from 7,000

square feet on Poor Farm Road in Princeton to 13,000 square feet at 2000 Lenox Drive in Lawrence. The women’s healthcare company, whose stock was recently added to the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes, is working on a form of hormonal birth control delivered via weekly patch. The product, known as Twirla, was approved by the FDA in February, at which point the company announced plans to hire a sales team to begin marketing the drug. But the news was not all positive for pharmaceutical companies. Sandoz, based at 100 College Road West, put its 75,000 square feet of Class A space there on the market in June. The firm has been engaged in a protracted legal battle with

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pharmaceutical manufacturing company Amgen, who sued Sandoz for patent infringement over Sandoz’s drug Erelzi. Erelzi, approved by the FDA in 2016 for use in certain types of arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and psoriasis, is a biosimilar version of Amgen’s product Embrel. On July 1, a federal appeals court upheld a district court ruling against Sandoz, which had argued that the patents in question were invalid. Medical: Fennelly notes that despite a new emphasis on telemedicine due to the pandemic, the medical industry still showed strong growth in the first half of 2020. “Growth in the medical industry showed good results despite shelter in place orders,” the report says. “There is an accelerating telemedicine strategy in most medical and psychiatry practices. For the medical practices, it was required for a doctor to stay connected for 15 minutes by video to collect insurance payment. Innovations in medicine are no longer just pharmaceutical but are now technological with remote medical apps for online medical care with the ability to monitor diabetic and coronary tracking (telemedicine).” But medical practices are still adding to their physical spaces. “Medical continues to go into new high identity locations with Capital Health leading the expansion charge by opening two locations, one in downtown Princeton and one in Lawrenceville, each for 7,000 square feet,” Fennelly writes. “This complements a total dominance strategy of Capital Health completing its new 70,000 square foot medical arts building in Bordentown and its recent purchase of a 55,000-square-foot hospital at 280 Middletown Boulevard in Langhorne, PA. Capital Health’s acquisition strategy continues with the purchase of Medical Associates

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of Hamilton and subsequent 5,000-square-foot relocation to shadow the new Walmart on Nottingham Way in Hamilton.” “In order to stay relevant to patients, medical practices are seeking new and easily accessible locations with new state-of-the-art patient experiences,” Fennelly notes. This is reflected in Capital Health’s new office in Princeton, which will be at 300 Witherspoon Street, the former home of the Princeton Packet that has been vacant for

Despite the growth of telemedicine, Fennelly notes, ‘medical continues to go into new high identity locations.’ Capital Health, for example, will add a Princeton location next year.

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some years. The building was acquired by Helena May in 2016 for $2.26 million, and Capital Health will occupy 7,000 square feet there beginning in January, 2021. Internet/Software/Electronic & Fiber: “This category experienced 19,531 square feet of growth in the first half of 2020,” Fennelly writes, but “software development and AI companies’ demand for office space may be slower due to the accelerated work-from-home and the lack of the need to have office space except to build company culture.” Frauscher Sensor Technology, an Austrian-based laser technology company with its North American headquarters at 300 Carnegie Center, leased 3,969 square feet at 21 Roszel Road in West Windsor.

Education/Government/NonProfit: “This category grew by 47,894 SF in the first half of 2020,” Fennelly reports. “The General Services Administration (GSA) was the most active with three transactions: the FAA relocating from Mercer Airport for 10,000 square feet in Ewing, the Marshal Service leasing 8,000 square feet in Robbinsville, and the GSA leasing 5,312 square feet in South Brunswick at 5 Independence Way.” Also of note is Princeton University’s acquisition of 600-619 Alexander Road, of which it will occupy 16,000 square feet. But in general, Fennelly notes, “nonprofits struggled under the pandemic as their fundraising strategies went virtual leading to lowering revenue.” Investment Properties: Though interest rates are low, a pandemic is not the easiest time to invest in real estate, Fennelly reports. “Investors saw the opportunity of low interest rates (2 to 3 percent) if they could get lenders to loan into real estate. Tenants in all categories went into survival mode, deferring rent payments for three to four months, causing financial institutions to stop lending into office and medical real estate in some cases.” Nonetheless, there were six sales of medical office buildings. The 1.2 million square foot former Bristol-Myers Squibb campus in Hopewell sold for $31,250,000, and 23 Orchard Road in Skillman, a 225,000-square-foot office building, sold for $8.6 million. “These two sales were considered distress value sales,” the report notes. Windsor Corporate Center, a 297,000-square-foot multi-tenanted office building 75 percent leased in East Windsor, sold to SFA in Moorestown for $26 million. 4250 Route 1, a 40,000-square-foot multi-tenanted single-story office

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The 7,600-square-foot multi-tenant office building at 145 Witherspoon Street, near downtown Princeton, sold to an investor for $2.3 million.

building sold for $5.35 million, and the new owner-occupant, Advantage Voice & Data, brings the building to 100 percent occupied. 145 Witherspoon Street, a 7,600 SF multi-tenanted leased office building near downtown Princeton, sold to an investor for $2.3 million.

ennelly predicts that demand will remain high “in the medical office field near major medical centers, while traditional offices may see lower demand and potentially lowering rents with increased capital expenses. This lowering effect will happen in secondary or remote locations resulting in a decrease of values as demand goes to newer primary locations or work-fromhome strategies.” What remains to be seen is

whether the trend toward working from home will persist beyond COVID-19. Fennelly notes: “These strategies were implemented over 28 years ago with a small percentage (8-10 percent) of the workforce utilizing this approach prior to COVID-19. Overnight, work-fromhome increased to 100 percent, leading to an immediate downsizing reaction of companies and placing of over 550,000 square feet of office space onto the market between May and June. “What will be the amount of office workforce that continues to work from home after COVID-19? Estimates are that 20 to 30 percent of people will work from home one or two days per week, and compaContinued on following page

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nies will implement staggered shifts of specific teams bringing employees into larger, more socially distant workspaces two to three times a week.

Uncertainties notwithstanding, Fennelly is optimistic that

companies will continue to see Princeton as an appealing location. “This decade, from 2010 to 2019, millennials were the soughtafter employee displacing the Baby Boomers. The millennials sought urban city living, life without a car, 24-hour environments fueled by the increased need to be closely connected to digital, young, educated talent. Well, age does a funny thing. The millennials, who top out at 39 years old, who originally delayed marriage and kids, now may have a spouse and child living in an urban area in a small, expensive 700-square-foot apartment among 8 million people in a crowded city such as New York or even Philadelphia. “There has been a trend over the last 36 months of migration out of urban areas into coastal suburbs. The pandemic has accelerated this trend with New Jersey seeing the benefit. Suburban sprawl, open areas complemented with ease of transportation by car or train, is now more desirable. According to Zillow and Redfin, both are reporting surges in single family home sales in smaller cities or towns in New Jersey. The companies keeping their employees happy and safe will also follow the workforce, al-

beit fragmented, with multiple strategies to minimize risk. “Companies and financing from across the globe are coming to Princeton to invest in and compete in biotechnologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), laser and supercomputing technologies. The continued challenge will be to attract, recruit, and retain a diverse population of highly skilled bio scientists, molecular scientists, gene therapy scientists, photonic engineers, and computational researchers. Why will Princeton benefit? “Low cost compared to cities. The average office rent in New York City is $70 per square foot while centrally located Princeton is $27 per square foot. “Four colleges, four hospitals, numerous dedicated research facilities and think tanks make over 40 percent of the working population with MBAs or PhDs servicing the dominant pharma, medical, and education organizations that make Princeton their home. “The greater Princeton area is a global bio, photonics research region and will have vacancies of 19 percent or greater for the next 12 months. We anticipate demand in the second half of 2020 to be approximately 300,000 square feet of office growth. “The future is strong for the greater Princeton office market due to the 75-year history of being the research power center for laser, photonics, and biology for many of the world’s largest global pharmaceutical brands.” NAI Fennelly, 200A Whitehead Road #222, Hamilton 08619. 609-520-0061. www.fennelly.com.

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onna Gustafson has been appointed interim director of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. She takes over for Thomas Sokolowski, who died in May. Gustafson, whose tenure as interim director began June 26, also continues to serve as the museum’s curator of American art and Mellon director for academic programs. Her most recent exhibition, “Angela Davis — Seize the Time,” cocurated with Gerry Beegan, associate professor of design, at RutgersNew Brunswick’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, will debut at the Zimmerli in September, 2021, with a companion book available this September. Gustafson has held various roles at the Zimmerli since 2009. Previously, she served as chief curator at the American Federation of Arts in New York City and director of exhibitions at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey. A widely published author on photography, and American and contemporary art, she has given lectures at the Whitney Museum of American Art, College Art Association, New York Public Library, and Lafayette College, among other prominent museums and institutions. Gustafson earned her PhD in art history at Rutgers. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Zimmerli Art Museum remains closed to the public and all programs are suspended until further notice. Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick 08901. 848-932-7237. zimmerli.rutgers.edu.

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olunteerConnect, the Stockton Street-based resource for nonprofit organizations, announced July 21 that it had changed its named to NonProfitConnect. NonProfitConnect will continue to focus on building strong boards, while increasing support of nonprofit executive leadership. In addition to training community members to serve on nonprofit boards, NonProfitConnect offers opportunities for nonprofit leaders to connect through peer circles, where they can share best practices, and attend training and other networking events. “This change is the next logical step in the evolution of our organi-

Donna Gustafson is interim director of the Zimmerli Art Museum. zation; where we can leverage our strengths and resources to best address the needs of the community,” said board chair Toni Anne Blake. “We are excited to roll out several new pilot programs to assess what is most effective in building increasingly diverse, skilled, and engaged groups of board and staff leaders,” executive director Allison Howe said. NonProfitConnect, 12 Stockton Street, Princeton 08540. 609-921-8893. Allison Howe, executive director. www. nonprofitconnectnj.org.

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renton Health Team recently launched the Trenton Area Free Food Resource, an online, interactive directory and map to help the community find emergency and free healthy food options. “COVID-19 has caused unemployment, closed schools and disrupted summer programs — which puts families at risk and creates more need for food in our community,” said THT executive director Gregory Paulson. “This online resource makes it easy to find the food assistance you need.” The Trenton Area Free Food Resource lists Summer Meals sites, food pantries, and meal distribution sites serving children, families, seniors, and adults. The directory includes special events, such as pop-up farm markets, and is available as a printable document and as a Google Calendar. Users can look up food programs by name, search for a nearby program using a street address, sort options by day, time, eligibility, and type of food, such as grab-n-go prepared meals or pantry items, and set personal calendar reminders. Launch of the Food Resource coincides with the opening of this year’s Summer Meals program providing free meals to youth under age 18, Monday through Friday. No registration or income certification is required to participate, and parents are not required to give any personal information about their children at the sites in order to receive a free meal. Local programs are sponsored by the City of Trenton Department of Recreation: Natural Resources & Culture, Mercer Street Friends, and the Capital Area YMCA. Meals are provided by the Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the Summer Food Service Program.

Deaths Nancy S. Klath, 79, on July 11. She worked as a librarian at Princeton University for 28 years. Susan (Suzy) Bell Trowbridge, 78, on July 4. She was a broker associate with Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty for the past 35 years. Harriet E. Bogdonoff, 97, on July 5. After moving to Princeton in 1946 she worked at the forerunner to ETS and in the computer lab at Princeton University. She earned a master’s in social work at the age of 60 and began a private practice. She was also among the founders of Princeton’s Jewish Community Center and the Community Without Walls aging in place program. Gregory J. Fischer, 82, on July 9. He worked as a mechanist for the Trentonian for 42 years.

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