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When Zyon Howell was growing up, she performed in plays, sang in her church choir and did some dancing. A career in athletics didn’t quite seem to be on the radar.

“I’m pretty skinny,” the Ewing High senior said with a laugh. “I was known as the scrawny sibling out of all my siblings.”

That didn’t stop her from trying soccer, which led to track & field, which led to Howell’s appearance in the NJSIAA Meet of Champions in both the triple jump and long jump on June 20.

It was her second MOC appearance, as she qualified for the triple jump during the 2020 indoor season. Things were looking good that year until COVID-19 hit.

Howell refused to slow down during the shutdown. She worked on sprints—which she also does— and jumps; doing home workouts when everything was closed and heading to The College of New Jersey for workouts.

“It’s a little harder doing training by myself, but I did get through it,” she said. “It actually helped out my motivation a lot. I felt if I did take that break throughout COVID without training, I probably would have lost motivation. But I kept See HOWELL, Page 8

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Christopher Beyer operates the American Highlander kilt shop in the Glen Roc Shopping Center in Ewing. (Staff photo by Dan Aubrey.)

Not just for Scotsmen Glen Roc shop American Highlander specializes in kilts

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“Three years and expanding,” says Christopher Beyer, pointing to a freshly opened hole in the wall of his Ewingbased American Highlander shop.

The additional space is for custom fittings and additional

inventory.

“The main focus is the kilt,” he says about his unusual product and business that managed to survive the pandemic — just as kilts have survived through time.

“Scottish highland kilts,” Beyer continues about his offerings in one of the few kilt shops in the state and the only one easily accessible from both New York City and Philadelphia, “When you buy a kilt in Scotland, it’s pure wool and handmade. But not everyone wants a $350 kilt. So we have

blended wool.”

To illustrate the difference, he compares the kilts to single malt and blended Scotch whisky and says, “Some people want to wear their kilt to a pub or a rugby match, and that when we came in with the kilts for $150. Because of the highland games’ tests of strength and fitness, you don’t want to have an expensive kilt to throw things around.”

Pointing to the kilt he’s wearing, he says, over the sounds of the expansionSee KILTS, Page 3

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Founded over 50 years ago, AAAP looks to share the fascination of the night sky with members and the public through their events and informational meetings.

The club owns the Simpson Observatory in Titusville, within the New Jersey half of Washington Crossing State Park, and they were recently allowed to operate the facility under near normal conditions.

There is no occupancy limit on the observatory grounds, and up to 12 people are allowed inside the building for visual observing.

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KILTS continued from Page 1 related sawing and hammering, “The one I’m wearing is a polyester blend because it’s summer.”

Fittingly located on Scotch Road — something he calls a “happy accident” — in the Glen Roc Shopping Center, Beyer says he supplies “kilts for men, women, and children, but mostly men.

Most of the time, it is purchased for a family event or people getting in touch with their family roots.”

Taking its name from an old Nordic term for “bundling,” the kilt is based on ancient Celtic and Scottish garb that eventually emerged into a formulaic and identifiable type of clothing that was functional, fashionable, and expressive of a cultural identity — especially in opposition of British domination.

Noting that people are more open to different dressing options today than they were in the past, he reflects on his first experience wearing a kilt. That was 20 years ago when a friend introduced him to the garment at a Celtic-themed festival. “We were the only two people wearing kilts. Things are different in 2021.”

That includes dressing for weddings.

“We probably do 60 or so weddings from January to June, from September to December, 30. We supply every-

thing,” meaning kilts, footwear, vests, jackets, and so on.

He says costs range from about $500 to $2,000 and breaks it down.

“The $2,000 cost is on the high end.

That is a wedding outfit of a pure wool handmade clan tartan kilt with matching flashes, a custom-tailored jacket and vest with white shirt and black tie, and our premium shoes, socks, sporran (man purse), kilt pin, and sgian dubh (knife). The price for that outfit is between $1,500 and $2,000.

“Our kilt packages for weddings, for purchase not for rent, start at $499 for the same full outfit as above but the kilt is wool blend instead of pure wool and the jacket is offthe-rack, and the other items are of a good quality but not the most premium.

“We also offer bagpipers for weddings as we have contracted with a local pipe band. The bagpiper packages start at $500 for two pipers and a drummer in full piper regalia at the ceremony and during the arrival and departure of the guests at the church. The packages go up to $1,500 if they are looking for pipers to play during the reception and at the end of the reception as well.”

Beyer says in addition to customers heading down the aisle, he attracts “people attending renaissance fairs and

The kilt is based on ancient Celtic and Scottish garb.

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“You don’t have to be Scottish or Irish to wear a kilt,” he continues, listing customers inspired by celebrities such as Kanye West and Asap Rocky, people from India, and Eastern Europeans, who, he says, are interested in Celtic cultures.

Regarding the idea that certain designs or tartans — a word denoting plaid on a special fabric — have a specific or exclusive meaning, Beyer says, “There are a lot of open tartans that anyone can wear. You can’t do it wrong.”

Some may reference a family, but others may reference a region, like the counties in Ireland, where the Britishsquelched kilt was resurrected during the Irish Renaissance — its saffron color harkens back to antiquity.

Others plaids or designs designate social groups, such as military division members and fire and law enforcement personnel.

Then there are those who gravitate toward an American innovation, the plain solid-color utility kilt.

Designing some kilts himself yet having them built in the British Isles, Beyer says, “I’ve sent (products) to Scotland and Scandinavia. Most of our business is the U.S. But people find us all over the world. People contact us from Australia, where I thought they would have their own.”

Continuing on his clientele, he says, See KILTS, Page 4

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KILTS continued from Page 3 “People drive here from Washington, D.C. and Boston. They’ll drive three hours because it is difficult to get a place that does custom made.

“It’s tough to buy a kilt off the rack without trying it on. That’s why it is good to have a retail store. We sell online, but I prefer to have people try them on. If someone is within a few hours, I talk them into coming here.”

Beyer says he got interested in the potential of a kilt-related business after that one day 20 years ago.

“When I wore that quilt 20 years ago, I was working in IT at the time, and I started dabbling in (selling kilts) and thinking it might be a business opportunity.

“I kept thinking I could do this. I am of Irish and Scottish decent; I like the kilts; I like my history. I figured I could give it a try. Why not? This is America.

(In 2018) I rented a place and started going out to renaissance fairs, highland games, and Irish and music festival and handing out my cards.”

Admitting that it was a risky business move, Beyer says his wife was concerned and “thought I should have stayed doing IT. But this has been nagging at me when I wore my first kilt.”

He adds that since there is a large Scottish and Irish contingent in the Pennsylvania/Philadelphia region, New Jersey, and New York City, it was “time to give it whirl.”

Although born in Georgia and having lived in other regions when his chemical engineer father was transferred, Beyer knows his audience from living in New Jersey for the past for 40 years and graduating from Rutgers University in 1987 with a degree in journalism.

Living in Pennington with his wife and two children, the once staff member for McCarter Theater’s marketing department credits his mother and his Irish-born grandparents for the Celtic connection.

“My father was German, my mother was Irish,” he says. “(She) was a stayat-home mom who then went to college and received a PhD in Irish studies from Columbia. She sang Irish songs,

played Irish music, put Jameson on our teeth when we teething, and taught us about Yeats and Irish Poetry.”

With a linage with names such as Lee, Kelleher, and Leahy, Beyer literally wears his Celtic heritage and says, “I wear a kilt every day. I try not to wear pants. They’re more practical than pants. There are a lot of advantages.

Whoever put seams at the crotch of the pants wasn’t thinking about men. It makes you have to decide which side to favor.”

After providing a few historical facts — pants didn’t exist for thousands of years and World War I Scottish soldiers in kilts had easier times relieving themselves in battle and not getting weighed down with muddy pant legs — he brings it down to essentials. “It’s more comfortable. You don’t have fabric rubbing against you. It’s cooler.”

But what about “the” controversy?

One best summed up in Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper line, “The timehonored practice of wearing nothing beneath the kilt has been condemned.”

There the director of the Scottish Tartans Authority declared that the practice of “going commando” was “childish and unhygienic,” “flies in the face of decency,” and that ‘you only have to ask for hire specialists about the problems they have cleaning their kilts. We have heard quite a few hygiene horror stories.”

That salvo prompted another from a representative from the Scottish Kilt Makers’ Association: “The tradition of no underwear being worn was a stipulation of Scottish military regulation.

To say it is unhygienic is wrong. The freedom of movement is healthy. We always tell customers to wear nothing under the kilt if everything is in good working order.”

As for Beyer, “There is no controversy. Ninety percent of the people coming into my shop wear kilts regimentally,” a reference to the military habit of no undies — and linked to historic addition of a kilt pin during the Victorian era to, in the words of one kilt scholar, “stop the kilt apron flapping about too much and showing more of the wearer’s anatomy than the Queen

liked.” Another euphemism is to go “the full Scotsman.”

Yet, Beyer concedes, “If you’re renting a kilt, put on underwear. If you own a kilt, own it the way you want. It’s the way god wanted you to wear it. The comfort level is infinitely better. And if you feel good, you look a lot better.

“One of things we say here is that we are really selling freedom. In the 60s, women resisted the patriarchal system by burning their bras. So . . . I’m on the side of regimental or commando.”

But there is a downside, “If you’re wearing a kilt sometimes people are either intimidated or scared of you and don’t know how to deal with you. If I go to the store with my kilt on, I feel eyes on me.

Then, neutralizing any thoughts of problems he says, “When it is cold, it’s not a disadvantage, heat rises. Women wear dresses in the winter and walk around. They’re not cold.

“And when I go to the beach I bring one of my cotton kilts with me. It becomes a changing area. When others are in their wet bathing suits I’m comfortable. Rugby players also use kilts for a changing area.”

Then coming in for the sale, he adds, “What I noticed is that women like a man in a kilt. If a guy is single and wears a kilt, it’s like an icebreaker. It is easy to start a conversation. Women want to know about a kilt. If I were single, I’d be wearing kilts. That’s probably the number one reason for men to wear the kilt.

They work on that base level.”

Beyer has a point fleshed out in an essay by Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion curator Andrew Bolton who says “the kilt has come to represent a ready access to Highland male sexuality. For non-Scotsmen, it provides the means of asserting a self-consciously yet unambiguously masculine persona.

“Contemporary designers have drawn heavily on the kilt’s hyper-masculine connotations in their attempts to appeal to the young fashion-conscious male.”

Bolton says the growing popularity of kilt-wearing can be attributed to films such as “Rob Roy” and “Braveheart” and the popular Highlander series featuring a “Warrior hero embodying timeless, masculine values. This image has been reinforced in the arena of sport, most obviously through the Highland Games, now broadcast around the world.”

He also adds that “the kilt has now become a standard item in the masculinized gay wardrobe.”

Assessing his current business climate, Beyer says, “Retail clothing is always strange. You have to have a large inventory. If you want to try a new tartan, you have to have all the sizes.

You need a big inventory. It’s one of the reasons we’re expanding.

“With COVID, there’s been lockdowns all over Ireland and Scotland. So shipping has been delayed. So we have to scramble.”

Sharing a strategy, he says, standing near the shop’s bar and sign from Tir na nOg Irish Pub in Trenton, “We know (brick and mortar) retail is a dying thing, so we have to create a des-

Christopher Beyer with a mannequin showing a full formal wedding outfit.

(Staff photo by Dan Aubrey.) tination. Men don’t like to shop — and that’s our biggest customer, so we have Irish coffee on a Saturday mornings and let people try on some kilts.”

He says as soon as COVID restrictions are eased, he plans to return to Celtic music performances inside and outside the store and the October Highland Games he ran in 2018 and 2019 at Liberty Lakes in Bordentown.

He also is talking about a fall Kilt Run. But again he’s focusing on his inshop sales — including the Kilt Package. The $150 package includes a kilt, sporran, and kilt pin and is an item that women have ordered for their husbands or partners. “That’s our No. 1 seller. All we need from a woman is a man’s pants size and height and weight and we’ll be able to fit him.”

“Most of our customers are men, but they come in with wives, girlfriends, and boyfriends,” he says. “Women do drive the sales. If your significant other doesn’t like it, I’ll have a tougher time selling you one. If they do, my job is pretty much done.”

Then, offering a recipe for a satisfied kilt seller, he says, “Nothing makes us happier than to see someone in a kilt in the wild — like in a supermarket.”

American Highlander Kilts, Glen Roc Shopping Center, 186 Scotch Road, Ewing. Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. Closed Sundays. 732-279-6530 or www.americanhighlander.com.

Under the Kilt

In order to learn more about the origins of the kilt, its use, and how the Scottish see other cultures using their traditions, I contacted the National Museum in Scotland with several questions.

The following responses are from Dr. Rosie Waine, William Grant Foun-

dation Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland: What is the earliest record of kilts being worn?

There is some debate about this, but most Highland dress historians would agree that the kilt was well established in Scotland by the 17th century.

How were they originally used?

The kilt has been through numerous iterations. Its adoption by the military as part of Scottish regimental uniform in the mid-18th century brought a level of standardization to the garb that had not previously existed. However, it retained a presence in civilian culture, even after the Act of Proscription banned the wearing of Highland dress in Scotland in 1747 in the wake of the Jacobite Risings.

The early “great kilt” was an unstructured, loose, and highly adaptable garment. Most often referred to as the ‘belted plaid’, it usually consisted of two rectangular pieces of tartan cloth sewn together selvedge to selvedge, which was then folded and belted about the body to create a kilted skirt. One might go bare legged beneath the kilt or combine it with trews (tartan pants). The pleats would be hand-folded by the wearer and held in place by the cinching of a belt. The excess fabric might be thrown across the shoulder and secured with a brooch, or else left to hang.

During the 18th century, the tailored “little kilt” or “philibeg” gradually came into popular use and began to supplant the belted plaid. This much skimpier

garment was similar to the modern kilt, in that there was little excess fabric to contend with and that the pleats were sewn down at the rear to create a streamlined appearance.

What is the current social significance of men wearing kilts in Scotland?

The kilt is worn by many people in Scotland for a whole host of reasons.

It continues to be used in the arenas of military dress and professional piping, but is also worn in ceremonial life events, like weddings. While some think the kilt is entirely formal — especially when worn as part of a full Highland dress costume — it is also worn as part of everyday fashion.

What thoughts do you have on kilts growing in popularity outside of the British Isles?

It’s good to see the kilt growing in popularly outside of Scotland — it’s a versatile, attractive garment with a great history. The only way for living traditions like kilt-wearing to continue is for new generations and communities to take up the mantle and make it their own.

And what would you want American readers to know about kilts that often gets missed?

The history of the kilt extends further back than Queen Victoria’s romanticisation of the Scottish Highlands and the explosion of Balmoral kitsch in the 1850s. Also, while there may be a strong tradition of clan tartans in Scotland dating back to the early 19th century, there are no hard and fast rules about the “correct” pattern to wear.

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The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton welcomes members from a number of towns in the area. Pictured in back are Alix Bennett (left), Tom Swords, Bill Murray, Victor Davis, Michael Mitrano, John Masters, Gene Ramsey and John Church. Front: Rex Parker, Jen Skitt and David Skitt. Ramsey passed away after the above photo was taken.

AAAP continued from Page 1 aged to join members and other attendees after sunset at the observatory, where they can attend night sky tours led by AAAP members.

Public nights are only held when the twilight sky is clear. To verify that the observatory will be open, call the observatory at (609) 737-2575 on Friday evenings or check the club’s Twitter (@ princetonastro) for the current status.

Members bring along their personal telescopes to share the night sky through different lenses. Set up around the observatory, these members have varying levels of interest and different backgrounds that have led them to join the club.

Contrary to what some may assume, not all members have science or technical backgrounds. While all have a curiosity and passion for astronomy, some come from completely unrelated professional fields. Others that have been part of the club for just a short time have increased their knowledge and enthusiasm for astronomy.

David Reis, a Hamilton resident of seven years and two-year member of the AAAP, said that he didn’t have an interest in astronomy before 2017. Taking up the hobby in the summer of that year, Reis recognized that he would need to immerse himself in the subject matter to take to it.

“That’s when I realized if I’m going to learn this at all I really have to be around those who know what they’re talking about,” Reis said. “Just not rely on myself as an expert.”

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Reis now owns his own telescope, which he brings to the public nights, and looks forward to spotting more planets.

Reis explained that his work as a custodian at Monmouth Junction in South Brunswick has no relation to this hobby, although the sciences had always been intriguing to him. It was important to him that potential attendees to the public nights not shy away because of their knowledge on the subject.

“Don’t let your lack of expertise or knowledge in the area stop you from joining…They’re not looking for other astronomers, just anybody who would like to learn about the night sky and the cosmos,” Reis said.

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In his role, Parker oversees the club’s organization and development overall and has pushed for modernization of electronics and video used at the observatory.

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He explained that the issue of light pollution, especially in densely populated areas such as Trenton and Philadelphia, has made it difficult for younger people from those areas to get interested in the night sky. This makes it all the more important to use astronomy dedicated cameras and forms of video astronomy to show real or near real-time imagery through a telescope.

Their ability to cut through some of the light pollution allows for a greater experience for the viewer.

“What we’ve realized is that you can’t just bring a person out and show them a view through a telescope and expect them to get it because light pollution makes it very difficult to see objects that are being presented in the scope,” Parker said. “In other words, you have to be almost trained to understand these relatively faint sites that you see in the eyepiece of the telescope.”

The tours of the night sky that goers can take for free on the public nights are just one of the ways the AAAP is attempting to share their love of deep space.

Along with his push for modernizing the observatory’s equipment, Parker was responsible for creating the board position for keyholders, the observatory co-chairs.

Jennifer and David Skitt, the current observatory co-chairs and residents of Ewing since 1996, both have backgrounds that lend themselves to their interest in astronomy.

David Skitt has studied geology and environmental consulting, while Jennifer Skitt has a degree in biology and secondary education.

After being married for a few years, the Skitts discovered their shared intrigue in astronomy. It was in 2010 though, when Jennifer Skitt was going through treatment for breast cancer that she began visiting the observatory in Washington Crossing State Park.

“I would go out to the observatory and just sit and that way I could look up and enjoy the sky, I could get up when I wanted to to go look through the telescope,” she said.

Using a children’s astronomy book, she began to identify constellations, then dove further into research to see when she could find satellites and the international space station overhead.

The couple of 25 years found the AAAP online and once involved started to learn about how the observatory ran. What started out as a distraction from her diagnosis turned into a long-standing passion.

Both holding their chair positions for over three years, gaining the titles not long after the position was created, the two are in charge of running the observatory, training new keyholders and organizing the teams of keyholders that are on a six-week rotation.

It is up to the team that’s on duty and the Skitts whether or not the Friday public night will be open depending on weather and other circumstances. The couple is almost always in attendance and pushes young people to check out what the observatory has to offer.

“A lot of people…if they’re in more of an urban area, they don’t have the experience of a dark sky and then a truly dark sky and that’s what we try to offer there at the park,” David Skitt said. “Get away from whatever light pollution that you’re in and experience the sky.”

Most people have a natural curiosity to inquire about what they see in the night sky. Skitt explained that these public nights are an opportunity to explore astronomy without worrying about the level of knowledge and using the sky as an “ice breaker.”

“People have an affinity to look up…You don’t have to become an expert just come out a couple of times and experience it,” David Skitt said.

Sharing their passion for the night sky is a common thread among members, including Ewing resident Jeffrey Pinyan who is involved in the AAAP’s education and outreach arm. He has taken his teaching to the people, from setting up his personal telescope in Campus Town at The College of New Jersey and showing onlookers the stars to lecturing to children at Mercer

County libraries over the summer about constellations and identifying planets.

Pinyan shared how the hobby doesn’t have to be an overly expensive and time consuming one. He gives constellation walks on the free public nights, pointing out the well-known constellations, showing how to find more and even diving into some of their mythology.

“I’m not a teacher by profession but I’ve always enjoyed being able to pass on knowledge that I’ve learned, so because I’m particularly passionate about astronomy and I have decent equipment, I’m more than happy to go somewhere and provide free of charge the access for people to look at the night sky through a telescope who maybe never have before,” he said.

With his first child born this past September, Pinyan eagerly awaits the day that he will be able to show his new son the stars through his telescope.

His professional background is in software development and it wasn’t until a few years ago that Pinyan picked up his interest in astronomy. He decided to drive down to South Carolina in 2017 to witness a total solar eclipse and has been hooked ever since.

Not long after, he discovered the AAAP and joined in 2018. He sees the public nights as an opportunity for people of all ages to come and discover how great the area of study is.

“For the new members and prospective members, it’s really a chance to learn about something that’s really out of this world,” Pinyan said. “The stuff that you see in the sky is unlike anything you see on earth.”

The club has a long history of loyal, enthusiastic participants, some of whom have been with the AAAP for many years and some newcomers with their own stories of how they found the local group. One member who used to belong to the club over 20 years ago has recently rejoined to share his continued enthusiasm for science and astrophysics.

Lifelong Lawrence resident Nick Mellis has had a passion for the science of astronomy for years, even outside of the AAAP.

“Kiddingly, I feel like I’ve gotten a PhD of astrophysics from YouTube,” he said.

He said he enjoys bringing his gained knowledge to the club’s monthly meetings and being able to participate in the guest lecturers’ topic of discussion. Mellis frequented the AAAP’s observatory back when he was involved 20-some years ago and recently rejoined.

The professional driver, who currently does transportation for an adult medical daycare center, originally left the AAAP due to scheduling conflicts. Not being involved with the club didn’t stop him from sharing his hobby in astrophysics though. He would put on star parties at his local church, where people would get together to stargaze through a telescope.

“I just simply enjoy space, stars, planets,” Mellis said. “It’s just totally fascinating to me.”

Mellis said he looks forward to sharing members’ equipment at the public nights and the observatory’s equipment once he is trained to use it. Without a telescope of his own the Friday free nights are a great opportunity for him to view the sky along with other enthusiasts.

“I would bring the family out to a nice clear night and look up and enjoy the universe,” Mellis said. “Just look straight up on a clear night and you can see infinity, it’s a beautiful thing.”

The AAAP is well known in the astronomy community due to their connection with Princeton University, although the relation is informal. The club’s monthly meetings, held in Peyton Hall, home to the Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences, regularly feature a professional lecturer in astronomy, which often is a faculty member or professional related to the school.

For more information, go online to princetonastronomy.org/public_nights.html. The observatory can also be reached for inquiry at (609) 737-2575. The AAAP Simpson Observatory is located in Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville and opens when the twilight sky is clear and closes around 11 p.m.

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HOWELL continued from Page 1 myself up and I just kept going.”

Howell was initially a reluctant track performer. From fifth through seventh grade, her friend pleaded that she go out for the sport, and her reply was always “Everybody’s bigger than me, I don’t want to do it.”

But she began playing soccer in fourth grade and with each passing year, her speed on the pitch became more noticeable.

“I knew I always had the gift and the talent to do track because the speed in soccer made me stick out,” she said.

“That’s when I took it to the track. Once I finally put my foot on the track I’ve been in love with it ever since.”

Howell planned on being solely a sprinter until her 8th-grade coach noticed that most of her body seemed to be her long legs.

“My coach looked at me and said ‘We need somebody to do long jump,’”Howell said. “She looked at my legs and said ‘You’re doing long jumps.’

“It was interesting to me because it was a new event. I was only used to doing short sprints. So when I was introduced to the sand and running on the runway it felt like a new experience and new atmosphere.”

After only doing sprints and relays during her freshman winter season, she got back to long jumping during the spring season and was also given another event.

“Coach Monty (jumps coach Dan Montferrat ) introduced me to the triple jump,” she said. “I remember we were going through the phases and I was a little intimidated because the phases looked confusing when you’re watching it. But I hung out with the other teammates who did the triple jump. They helped me out, I got the hang of it, and I started building up to where I am now.”

Montferrat could see immediately that Howell had both the intellect and athletic prowess to handle the complicated triple jump. “As daunting an event as it is, it takes a special kind of kid to do it,” the coach said. “I’ve been blessed

Senior Zyon Howell was named EHS Female Athlete of the Year and Female Athlete of the Spring. to have some really good kids come through here to show the young guys and young girls the ropes. We put her in the triple jump her freshman year at Jackson Liberty for the sectionals and she popped like a 35 (35-3¾) and just missed going to the group meet, finishing in seventh place. We saw that and said ‘This is gonna be big, man.’

She was just building momentum as a freshman.”

Highlights of her sophomore indoor season included a second in triple jump and fourth in long jump at the Princeton Invitational Series, while the outdoor campaign featured fourth in triple jump at the Mercer County Relays.

During last year’s indoor season, Howell reached the Meet of Champions in triple jump by earning a wild card berth. She jumped a then-personal best 35-10 to finish 11th in the state. She also took fourth in the triple and sixth in the long jump at the Mercer County Meet, and finished fourth in the 55 meters in the sectional championships.

After the spring shutdown, Howell began working her way back into form this past winter under indoor coach

Meg Soltysik, who is also the girls head outdoor coach.

“She was full steam ahead when she got back,” Montferrat said. “Coach Soltysik got her ready; got her in gear so by the time we were ready to get rolling in the spring, she was ready. You didn’t really have any jumping showcases this spring, you had the CVC showdowns that were all track based. To have limited opportunity to get her jumps in and to get things right is just a credit to her work ethic.

“She’s smart, she’s a hard worker, she does what she needs to get her body warmed up. She’s in here with our trainer 20 minutes before anybody else is here for practice, doing her walkthroughs, her balances. She’s just a phenomenal kid to be around and work with. It makes my job easy to work with a kid like that.”

Just what fuels Howell? The answer is pretty simple—herself.

“I’m very hard on myself and I’m always in my head,” she said. “That’s the negative thing about it but the one good thing about that is I’m able to put it into my performance and know that even though it may be hard to get to a certain spot, I’m going to do it. That ambition comes from me being hard on myself and that determination gets me where I need to be.”

Howell’s efforts earned her both the Ewing High Female Athlete of the Year and Female Athlete of the Spring.

Howell sparkled in the triple jump this spring, taking first in the CVC Valley Division qualifier with a PR of 36-0 (she fouled out in the finals), winning the Central Jersey Group III meet and finishing fourth in the Group III meet.

She was equally impressive in the long jump, winning the Valley qualifier and taking third in the Valley championships, finishing sixth in the CJ III meet and going fifth in the Group III meet with a PR of 16-11.

The jumper surprised herself with her performance.

“It means a lot (to reach MOC),” she said. “It was a little unexpected to

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me because I feel I have a lot more to work on as far as technical stuff. But at the same time I am proud of where I’m at right now and I’m proud of what I’ve done during the season and where it’s gotten me.”

The technical stuff she spoke of is especially prevalent in the triple jump, which requires a sharp mind. With a 3.5 overall grade point average (4.0 this year), Howell has what it takes upstairs.

“She’s a great thinker,” Montferrat said. “Sometimes she’s an overthinker but that’s all of us. With jumping there’s that fine line between it, and she always is right on that line. It’s a good microcosm for her using the board because we want to use all that board for every inch you can get on that jump.”

Entering the MOC, Howell was hoping to reach PRs in both events and hopefully get a medal, but was unfortunately unable to accomplish that, as she finished 20th in the long jump in 15-10¼ and 28th in the triple in 33-6¼.

Although her high school season is ended, she has a Division I college career to look forward to as Monmouth University recruited Howell for both sprints and jumps. The Hawks are gaining more than just an athlete, as she enjoys painting both people and abstracts. Howell plans on majoring in psychology and minoring in health sciences or entrepreneurship.

“I plan on helping other athletes and guiding them in their careers,” she said.

“I believe psychology does play a part in that and studying a young person’s mind; and being a young adult and learning the developmental stages of going from a teenager into a adult. That’s where entrepreneurship also comes into play, creating my own facility.”

If Howell realizes her dream but would still like a side job, Montferrat has just the thing.

“She’s phenomenal in every aspect of the word,” he said. “Someday down the line if she wants to walk back into all this, she can have a job with us for sure.”

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The state of Ewing Township (Part III) Interview by Bill Sanservino

The Ewing Observer recently interviewed Mayor Bert Steinmann about a number of issues facing the township in 2021.

The first part of the Q&A ran in the May issue of the Observer and addressed the impacts of the COVID19 pandemic on the township.

Part two focused on development in the Parkway Avenue redevelopment zone and the economic environment for small businesses in the township.

Both parts can be found online at the Observer’s website at commnunitynews.org. The Q&A concludes in this month’s issue of the paper.

Infrastructure

Ewing Obser ver: In terms of any infrastructure improvements that started over the last year or might be happening in 2021, what do you what do you have going on? How about Sylvia Street? How’s that coming along?

Bert Steinmann: Sylvia Street is basically done other than at the crossing itself (over the train tracks). We’re waiting on CSX (the owner of the tracks) to put the crossing in, because they won’t allow a private contractor to do that.

Ironically we have to contract through CSX, but CSX will hire a private contractor to put in the crossing.

We have to pay for it, obviously. So we made all those payments. We got the easement that we need from them. We just finished that up. They are saying that they can definitely have the crossing done by the end of the year.

We’re hoping, and I’ve been pushing them, to have it open sooner than that. I’m hoping for the summer.

You’d be surprised how much time it cuts off to get across town. Plus it helps emergency management, like fire trucks, ambulances, police. You’re not driving all around town to get to a certain part of town.

Trenton-Mercer Airport

EO: How are things going at the the airport expansion? I know there’s some opposition.

BS: Things at the airport are going okay. I mean obviously they’re very slow. Well actually, as far as flights are concerned, that’s increasing every day. So they’re doing much better.

The flights leaving there are full.

So in that sense, they’re doing really well. As far as the airport itself and the growth of the airport and the terminal, I’m really hoping that that is going to happen soon.

I understand there are people that are going to be upset with the airport, and I can understand that, but at the end of the day I have to look at what it brings to Ewing Township as far as a revenue generator.

Hotels for example. They benefits from the airport, and we made a ton of money on the the tax on room rates— just from travelers. So, we need that to continue, obviously.

And there are the side things that are spun off the airport—like food.

They need people to bring food to the airplanes. Somebody’s got to make it, somebody got to deliver it.

There’s fuel. Somebody’s got to produce it, somebody’s got to bring it there. So there’s a lot of residual effects from that particular airport, not just planes taking off and landing.

It’s been it’s a good economic engine not only for Ewing Township, but also regionally.

I understand some individuals that don’t want it, but there’s a lot of things that I don’t want. It’s got to be for the benefit of everyone.

Trenton Water Works

EO: What about the situation with Trenton Waterworks?

It seems like things have, for the most part, calmed down. I know the Trenton Council has made questionable decisions. Where does the town stand now in terms of its level of concern with the TWW’s?

BS: I’m not still not happy with their performance. They have this lead line replacement program that they’re running out.

They’ve done—and I probably would have done the same thing if I was in the city—all the city first. Now they’re coming into Ewing to replace those lead lines, and there’s quite a few people that signed up for that to have their lead line replaced into their house.

So, yeah, that’s coming along. I think it’s been far too long for this not to have happened before, but at least they are starting it. I don’t know exactly the duration and how long it will take to completely finish it.

I never really had any concern about the quality of the water. I think some of it was an overreaction on people’s part. Not that they shouldn’t think about those things. I think the terms of what the DEP wanted them to do (in terms of notifying customers) put the fear of God into individuals.

Not that it was benign, but it certainly wasn’t as bad as the notifications led you to believe.

I always argue with the DEP that they have got to simplify things. You know, a guy like me—I don’t have a chemistry degree. I don’t know what this stuff means, so explain it.

But they say that by federal law they’re allowed to it like that. Well, I never saw a federal law that said that.

Anyway, we kind of go along with the program and the DEP said they were going to sue the state or Trenton Waterworks if they didn’t start to accomplish some of this stuff.

They started the process, but they kind of threw an anchor out in the water, and so here we are.

EO: Would you still like to see more representation from the communities and involvement in running the utility, or in oversight of the utility?

BS: I think there should be some oversight from, say Ewing Township, Hamilton Township and Lawrence Township and probably a little from Hopewell—although, Hopewell’s water isn’t really affected, because they don’t have any lead line-type stuff over there.

But yeah, the towns absolutely should have a say, but not to the point where we should be running it. I do think that we should have representation though, so that at least everybody can hear our concerns as to what’s going on.

The only thing that I really don’t like, and I don’t blame Reed (Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora), but I don’t like them just thinking that the Trenton Water Works is a piggy bank for the city.

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ter, and I have a really good relationship, as I did with Barbara Gitenstein (the previous president).

Kate’s just a little different. She’s more of a hands-on type individual.

We started this particular program where the president of the college and the mayor visit certain college students homes, occasionally to say, “Hey, how you doing? Welcome, and this is what we expect.”

EO: Do you go to homes in the town where the students are renting?

BS: We also worked to let people know that we cooperated with the college, and they stepped up as far as the COVID situation, and that they frowned on parties. Some students were suspended.

They’ve been proactive in that sense. Obviously we still get complaints from the permanent residents with complaints about the kids.

I hear their concerns, but there’s some things that you can’t control, and there’s a certain amount of freedoms that even a college student can enjoy.

Obviously many of the complaints are about street parking at the rental homes, and we try to enforce parking as best as we possibly can. The problem is that, I think, some of the permanent residents have an unrealistic expectations.

They think, if you’re a college student, you shouldn’t even be parking on my street, you know, and that’s just totally against the law. If you have a properly registered vehicle and a license, then there’s no prohibition on parking in that area.

We can’t say you can’t park on a street because you’re a college student. Obviously we watch, and if they’re parking facing the wrong way, we can address that. If they’re parking too close to a stop sign, we can address those types of things.

There’s been approaches that we’ve taken based on the recommendations of permanent residents. Things like having a limited number of hours that they can park on the street, but then I hear, “Well I’m a permanent resident, so I should be able to park there all the time.”

We talked about parking by permit on the street, and it all sounds like really good idea, until they (the permanent residents) come up with, “We should get an unlimited the number of permits.” Well, we can’t do that either.

The other thing I tell people is that even if we restrict parking by permit or have a time limit, all you’re going to do is push the problem to another street where you don’t have parking limit.

We try to handle it as best as we

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EO: A number of people seem to feel that some of the officials there don’t have a high enough regard or concern for the rate payers in other communities, as opposed to the residents of their own community.

BS: I agree. The problem is that— like any other government—they are individuals there that have been there so long, and it’s so ingrained in them that everything is for the city that they work for, and they have disregard for the municipalities that are also being served by that same product.

The concern should be the same.

Now obviously, if there’s something that’s broken in Ewing Township and something broke in the city of Trenton, I’m not naive enough to think that they’re going to come run the Ewing and fix that first.

I would do the same thing, but at the end of the day, it has to be done. I’ll be honest with you, I am in a battle with them now on Olden Avenue.

We’ve had a water main break on Olden Avenue, I would say at least five times in the last two years, and it’s always in the same spot.

In fact, I had a conversation with Reed and with the new director of TWW. They have to tear out the old line and put a new line in there.

I can’t have the businesses there constantly being affected by this particular situation, and they all agree.

Now I’m waiting to hear back that they’re going to replace that whole line. Hopefully it will happen within the next year. I’m hoping it’s going to be before this year, during this year.

It affects Home Depot and it affects the grocery store, Aldi’s, and the restaurants there. It affects the same people constantly, and occasionally one did break up towards McDonald’s.

EO: I noticed on a couple of occasions over the past that we have received communications from the College of New Jersey where they have been working with the township on different initiatives.

Talk to us a little bit about the relationship of the town with the with the college, what they’ve done over the past year in terms of helping deal with the pandemic, and how they’ve addressed the pandemic with their own students BS: The new president, Kate Fos-

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By Sam Sciarrotta

Gas up the grill and get those sparklers ready—July 4 is just around the corner. Outside of your backyard, though, there are plenty of events throughout the region to help you celebrate. Here are some ways to say hello to summer, down the shore and beyond.

Revolutionary Pub Crawl The area’s connection to the American Revolution is a local favorite—what better way to celebrate that than with a few flagons of ale? Bordentown Walking Tours will host a Revolutionary Pub Crawl July 3, noon to 4 p.m. Tour guide Mark Neurohr-Pierpaoli will lead revelers through Bordentown City’s history of wine, beer and booze via four local bars—learn about famous residents like Thomas Paine and Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, while hearing juicy tales of Bordentown’s love of brew from Colonial times through the Prohibition.

Tickets are $75 and include a drink at

each bar, food at every stop, a guided tour and pub crawl deals like craft cocktails and drink specials. More information: bordentownwalkingtours.com.

Cape May City Independence Day Parade String bands, performers, cars, veterans organizations and local officials will travel down Cape May’s Beach Drive starting at noon on July 3. Keep an eye out for festive golf carts, bicycles and baby carriages, all entered in the Best Decorated contest. Community groups are invited to participate in the parade.

Those interested should contact the Cape May Department of Civic Affairs at (609) 884-9565. More information: capemaycity.com.

WMGK Freedom Festival Around here, nothing quite says summer like that signature Jersey Shore sound. Okay, maybe that’s just the Springsteen obsessive in me talking, but

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the point still stands—that blend of soul, rock and R&B is the perfect company on a hazy summer day. Check out one of the genre’s pioneers, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, at the WMGK Freedom Festival, July 4 starting at 5 p.m. at Wiggins Park in Camden. Food, beer, music and artists will be available all day. The Jukes go on at 8, followed by a fireworks display synchronized to classic rock tunes. More information: wmgk.com.

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We all know what the (609) area code is, but where is it exactly?

It’s a good question, and one posed to us by a reader after we said, in our first edition of Six09, that we’d cover what’s happening across the region.

The image at right answers the question, and as you might see, a good chunk of the state falls in the area code—from Lambertville up north to Cape May at the southern tip of the state. We’re the largest area code in New Jersey, and it includes parts of Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Monmouth, Camden, Ocean, Burlington, Atlantic and Cape May counties. It is home to places like Princeton, Trenton, Hammonton, Long Beach Island and Atlantic City.

There’s a lot of ground to cover in (609), which we hope means plenty of stories that will help you explore your home turf. If you come across something that might be a good fit, send an email to ssciarrotta@communitynews.org.

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and 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends. Guests can check out agricultural exhibits and farm animal displays, as well as the fair’s famous racing pigs, food, vendors and, of course, carnival-style rides like the Super Himalaya, the Grand Carousel and Zero Gravity. Scott’s Magic Show will be held twice nightly on weekdays and three times on weekends. Nightly concerts start at 6:30 and include Rock of Ages on July 3, El Ka Bong on July 7, the B Street Band on July 9, Southern Steel on July 10 and local favorite Ernie White on July 11. Fireworks are set for July 3, 4 and 10. Tickets are $5 on weekdays and $8 on weekends and the July 4 holiday and can be purchased online. Free admission for county residents after 6 p.m. on July 3 and 4. More information: theleadfest.com.

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By Sam Sciarrotta

Riley Sager is on a roll.

The Princeton-based author has hit his stride in suspense over the last few years. He exploded onto the horror/ thriller scene in 2017 with Final Girls, a novel that sees its protagonist dealing with the aftermath of surviving a massacre that left six of her friends dead. She’s dubbed a “Final Girl,” after the horror trope that refers to the last woman standing at the end of a slasher film—think Laurie Strode in Halloween or Alice in Friday the 13th.

Stephen King tweeted about it, calling it “the first great thriller of 2017.”

The book was featured in Entertainment Weekly. Whoopi Goldberg held up a copy and raved about it on The View.

Sager continued to churn out books— 2018’s The Last Time I Lied, 2019’s Lock Every Door and 2020’s Home Before Dark all hit bestseller lists and earned praise from readers and critics for their thrills and badass women protagonists.

Now, he’s back with Survive the Night, a road trip thriller about Charlie, a woman who may or may not be stuck in the car with a serial killer she has a connection with. Sager called the book a “love letter to movies”—Charlie is a film studies major, and dozens of films are mentioned or integral to the plot.

“I set out to write a thrill ride,” Sager said. “I wanted this book to feel like a roller coaster, and I think it does.”

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Six09: It seems like movies really play a big part in “Sur vive the Night.” Were there any films that specifically inspired the book or any films that inspire you just in general?

RS: There was nothing that specifically inspired the book. My previous book, Home Before Dark, is a dual-timelines haunted house family saga that involved a book within a book, and it was just so complex and exhausting that I wanted to do something completely different, and I wanted to basically write a book that was as stripped down as possible. I wanted something that’s just written in real time, that’s mostly just two people in a car, speeding down the highway in the middle of the night. Then, I had to think up a plot. What is driving this, no pun intended? That was really the goal—to do something completely different and have fun with it. The movie idea came about when I decided that the main character was going to be a film studies major, because I was a film studies major in college, and therefore I didn’t have to do any research. I really wanted to pack in a lot of movie references because I think it’s a great way of bonding the reader with the main character. Charlie will make a reference to something, and if the reader knows what she’s referencing, they’ll under-

stand what she’s feeling in that moment.

There’s a connection there. It’s really kind of emotional shorthand to pop in a really apt film reference.

There are so many movies that I love, but this one, I really can’t think of a good example of something similar to it. It’s so obscure, but there was the Twilight Zone movie in 1982. There’s this framing device with Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd in a car, and one of them is like, “Do you want to hear a really scary story?”

It’s just a framing device, but it was very evocative to me. It’s just two people in a car kind of playing mind games with each other.

Six09: You’ve done some online movie watch parties ahead of the book’s release. How have they been going? It’s a pretty unique way to promote a book in a time where people still can’t necessarily get together in large groups.

RS: It’s been a lot of fun. It was something that we did last year just to entertain ourselves during the pandemic. It’s Saturday night, no one can go anywhere, let’s all watch a movie at the same time and tweet about it. When it came time to promote Survive the Night, with all its movie references, it was just a no-brainer to be like, “Let’s watch some of the movies referenced in the book.”

Last night, we did Silence of the Lambs. It was great to look back on what is not a modern classic, although I feel so old because it’s 30 years old this year, and I saw it opening night in theaters when I was in high school.

Six09: Did you write “Sur vive the Night” in quarantine?

RS: I did, although I got the idea before COVID really hit. I knew it was going to be my next book, so it was just, I guess, serendipity to write about people stuck together. When it came time to write, it was a nice escape from the daily headlines and the madness of what was going on at the time.

Six09: What was it like being an author in quarantine? Last year, there were a lot of virtual author events when “Home Before Dark” came out. What’s it like doing that again but also seeing a really, really clear light at the end of the tunnel?

RS: It’s strange because in some ways, the book tour this year is exactly like last year. It’s all virtual. Nothing’s in person. But I think the big difference is last summer, it was a necessity, and now, I think it’s a convenience. Who knows if the typical book tour will ever return? It’s very time consuming and it’s very expensive. I’ll hop on a plane and fly to Chicago, go to a bookstore, get up the next morning and then fly to a different city. You can do all of that now from the comfort of your own

home and reach just as many, if not more, readers.

Six09: Are you working on anything else right now?

RS: I’m at a weird time where I just finished next year’s book, and my editor just read it. It’s this weird limbo. It’s always weird with writing and promoting books, because it takes such a long time for the publication process. Right now I’m talking about Survive the Night, while my main focus is on next year’s book, but then sometimes you have to go back and talk about a previous book.

It’s just sometimes hard to really compartmentalize. My third book, Lock Every Door, was just released in Mexico, so I’ve been doing some press for that. It’s been so bizarre to be finishing next year’s book while promoting Survive the Night and having to answer questions about a book that I have not looked at in, like, three years. There have been some moments where they’ve asked a question and I’ve just had to stop and think, “Okay, what book are we discussing right now?”

Six09: A lot of your books really focus on women. Is that by design, or does it just come naturally when you’re starting the process?

RS: It really comes naturally. It all began with my first book, Final Girls, which is about the trope of the horror movie “Final Girl.” I always joke that if the trope had been “Final Boy,” my career would be very different. But I knew if I was going to write about final girls that it needed to be told from the point of view of a final girl. Other than that, I didn’t give it much thought. I really didn’t think about gender. I thought about character. This woman’s life and previous experiences and suffering and guilt—how has this affected how she responds to this situation? When I start a new book, I never intend to say “Okay, this one’s going to be about a woman.” It’s just whatever the plot sort of dictates. Who is the best person to view these events through their eyes?

I’m sure there will come a day, and it might even be the next thing I write, where it’s like, “I think this should definitely be told through a man’s point of view. Right now, it hasn’t happened.

Also, I love writing and reading strong women characters. Survive the Night takes place in 1991, and that was just a year that was filled with really strong, badass movie heroines—Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs, Thelma and Louise, Sarah Connor in Terminator 2.

I love writing about people who don’t know their own strengths until situations force them to really act on them.

For more on Riley Sager, visit rileysagerbooks.com. He can be found on Twitter at @riley_sager and on Instagram at @riley.sager.

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Jersey history alive and well at Batsto Village

By Dan Aubrey

For those interested in getting back into family daytrips yet still concerned about getting out in public, New Jersey affords simple and affordable outdoor opportunities — such as Batsto Village.

Located about 60 miles away from the U.S. 1 region in Burlington County, Batsto is a trip into the New Jersey Pine Barrens and into American and state history.

The historic site located in Wharton State Forest and maintained and operated by the State of New Jersey was once a self-contained community productive from 1766 until the mid-20th century.

Although its name is connected to how the Finnish and Swedish settlers referred to the site’s river and lake as a bathing spot, Batsto as an important iron-producing site gets its start from English colonists.

The iron furnace was started in around 1766 by Charles Read and became the largest in South Jersey.

During the American Revolution, the ironworks was producing iron and casting housewares, as well as cannonballs and shot for the Continental Army.

Throughout the American Revolution, Batsto was crucial in the supply chain for Washington. So vital was this place that in 1778 the British were heading to capture and destroy Batsto’s Ironworks

The mansion at Batsto Village. when they attacked and destroyed the Village of Chestnut Neck. The quick action of a small group of volunteer militia turned back the advancing British troops, sparing the Village of Batsto, ensuring Continental troops would have supplies to win the war.

In 1784, a year after the Revolution-

ary War was officially over, the forge became the property of first Joseph Ball and then his uncle, William Richards, whose family manufactured both iron and glass.

According to State of New Jerseyproduced educational materials, Batsto’s success at the time was con-

nected to its “high quality products made from pig iron. Special products of that time were cast iron water pipes and firebacks (iron plates used to line the back of a fire place). Batsto was even commissioned by George Washington to produce four monogrammed firebacks. Two of them can still be seen at his home in Mount Vernon, Virginia.”

By the mid-19th century, however, Batsto’s method of producing iron from ore heated by charcoal was eclipsed by more efficient methods, production ceased at the village, and nothing remains of the furnace or the iron works buildings.

Then there was a fateful turn. An 1874 house fire spread and destroyed the glass making facilities, remaining furnaces, and 17 houses. The Richards and many of the villagers moved away, leaving the site silent.

The debt-ridden Revolutionary town was sold at auction for just $14,000 to Philadelphia businessman Joseph Wharton.

As Timothy Regen writes in “The Ghost Towns of New Jersey, “Upon seeing the remains of Batsto, Wharton didn’t know if he should rebuild or just tear the whole place down.

Lucky for histor y he chose to rebuild.

Within a few years, Wharton had completely modernized the ironmaster’s house, or big house, rebuilt outbuild-

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One of the remaining village houses and the water pump at Batsto Village. ings, including the sawmill, and renovated many of the village homes . . .

Wharton grew sugar beets and raised livestock; those who remained in the village found work once again, and for the next 33 years, the Wharton Empire ruled over the 100,000 acres of the Pinelands. With his death in 1909, the Wharton Estate continued to manage the place, and although the industries mostly faded away, a few folks still called Batsto home for another 80 years.

“The year 1954 saw the entire Wharton Estate purchased by the State of New Jersey as protected forest. With the purchase came along all the secrets and ghost towns of the Wharton Estate: Atsion, Martha, Batsto, Washington, Harrisville, and many others that would now be able to be explored and protected for the future.

“Restoration began in 1955 with the big house, post office-store, and sawmill being the first to receive taxpayer monies for the process. By 1959, the Park Visitor Center was dedicated and when built resembled an early 19th century structure.”

After pulling into Batsto, the visitor’s center is the first stop. Currently closed for the pandemic, it features a first floor dedicated to the area’s natural and cultural history, including the presence of the region’s indigenous people, the Lenapes.

Yet the real thing waits outside and offers a leisurely stroll into both the past and nature.

Among the highlights are the 32-room Batsto Mansion. Towering over the village, the original section was created in the late 1700s by the Richards family.

It went through several permutations before Wharton took possession and renovated in the late 1870s and early 1880s at a cost of about $40,000 (over $1 million in 2021 value).

The Victorian-era structure features formal dining and conversation areas, including a large porched area. However, as educational materials note, it was the “high tech” improvements that were attractions at the time. “Originally, each room was heated with a fireplace. Mr. Wharton had a system for central heat installed in most of the rooms. One of the most interesting ‘modern’ features he added was indoor plumbing. He had a water tank installed in the tall tower. When water was released, it went to the bathrooms to flush the toilets or to fill the bathtub. Indoor bathrooms were something that not many families had in the 1880s.”

The Batsto Post Office opened in 1852 and, although it experienced several closings and reopenings, is one of the four oldest post offices currently operating in the United States. Interestingly, since it is an historic structure, it was never assigned a zip code and all stamps are hand-canceled.

The sawmill, part of the Batsto community for more than 200 years, was revised in 1882. State materials say the current operators replaced water-powered equipment with a turbine-driven circular saw still in use today. During Wharton’s era, the mill was a profitable East Coast supplier of cut lumber and shingles.

And then there are the village cottages, where in 1852, 376 people lived.

But after the 1874 fire, when 75 homes were lost, only a two-lane row of buildings for visitors to walk along and visit remains.

It is also where the last resident of Batsto remained until 1989, roughly 232 years after the first resident moved in — something that makes the past very present.

For more information on Batsto Village: batstovillage.org.

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“We saw that there were changes that we could make to improve the oven greatly, for instance by strengthening the stainless and having it be a lot thicker,” Richards says. “We could use different insulation to insulate it better, and also we made it larger on the inside, so that he would be able to cook four 12-inch pizzas at once, instead of one or two.”

Hotfoil-EHS also designed its oven with a damper on the front of the oven, so cooks didn’t have to lean over and risk burning themselves to adjust it up on the flue.

Traditional wood-burning ovens are made of brick, clay, ceramic or stone — materials that get hot and stay hot. A well-known weakness of steel ovens, Carannante says, is that they don’t retain heat well. But he says that between the heavy-duty food-grade bricks that Hotfoil-EHS used for the cooking surfaces, along with the thicker stronger grade of steel, helps set the Garzio Oven apart from other options.

“It heats up quickly, it maintains temperature really well, it makes a great pie,” Carannante says. “It does its job.

Sometimes you have smaller ovens that don’t get the job done the same way (a larger oven would).”

Carannante was pleased that HotfoilEHS was able to increase the interior size of the oven without really changing the outside dimensions significantly.

He says that mobility is a key to Brothers’ catering success. “We’re not a food truck,” he says. “We can roll into people’s backyards. We can literally set it up near your pool.”

Brothers preps food ahead of time in the restaurant before a catering job, but wood-fired pizzas cannot be prepared ahead of time. So having the ability to make the pies onsite is a real attraction.

And the oven can be used to make more than pizzas, and Carannante also uses it to finish wings, sausage and peppers or really anything else — steaks, calzones, even a turkey.

Operation of the oven is simple: to get things going, you just set a stack of wood in the center of the grill and get a fire going. After a half hour or so, you slide the red hot embers to one side, wipe the ash off the bricks, and start cooking.

Richards sees that mobility, flexibility and ease of use as a key for any potential customer, whether for restaurant or

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“You can put it right in your backyard, like several people have done,” he says.

“It’s sitting there just like a barbecue or your wood-fired grill.”

Hotfoil-EHS has a batch of 10 more in production now, and Richards says eventually he sees the company producing smaller versions of the oven as well. For now, there is a single design available with either a wheeled or stationary cart that has space to stack wood.

Carannante and Joe Scharibone of Jojo’s Tavern have helped get the word out about the oven. “I’ve been very good friends with Joey at Jojo’s for 15 or 20 years,” Richards says. “He was nice enough when he saw it to say, ‘Hey, I’m going to put a link on my website and let people know they can buy one of these ovens.’” *** Hotfoil-EHS itself has a long history in Hamilton Township. Richards originally moved to Hamilton from the United Kingdom in 1977, with his parents, Neville and Irene Richards. Richards was 9, and his sister, Sarah, was 4.

Neville Richards worked for a British company called Hotfoil, which had asked him to move to New Jersey and help the company enter the U.S. market. Hotfoil was originally located in South Plainfield.

Richards graduated from Steinert High School in 1986. One day in 1987, his father asked him to help out in the warehouse for a few weeks. “But that two weeks turned into another week, and another … and with that, my Hotfoil journey began,” Richards says.

In 1993, Neville Richards purchased Hotfoil’s U.S. operations from its U.K. based owners and went into business for himself, renaming the company Electric Heating Systems, Inc. “In the beginning, the only employees were myself, my father, a secretary and a part-time accountant, working out of a 3,000-square-foot space in South Gold Industrial Park in Robbinsville,” Richards says.

After a year, the Richardses reclaimed the Hotfoil, Inc. name, and in 1996 they expanded the business to include heattreating equipment, starting a new division again with the Electric Heating Systems name. Both divisions have thrived over time, and were merged into a single

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Today, Hotfoil-EHS has more than 60,000 square feet of office, manufacturing and warehouse space in Hamilton, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and LaPorte, Texas, and more than 40 employees.

The Garzio Oven is named in memory of one key employee — Frank Garzio.

Garzio was a welder and fabricator who had worked for many years in the sheet metal shop at the General Motors plant in Ewing. In 2002, Garzio was retired from GM and living across the street from Matt Richards.

Richards says Garzio loved to talk business and took an interest in his company. He credits Garzio with helping Hotfoil-EHS establish a welding and fabricating outfit of its own.

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Garzio died of cancer in 2014. The weld shop at Hotfoil-EHS is named after him, but Richards wanted to honor him further by naming the oven after him as well. Garzio “single-handedly changed the course of the business forever,” Richards says.

Richards still resides in Hamilton with his wife, Susan, and sons Evan and Kyle, 21 and 18. His parents also still live in Hamilton, as does his sister, her husband and their daughter. Susan has been the office manager of Hotfoil-EHS for the past 16 years.

For more information about the Garzio Oven, call George Litynskij at (609) 4956677 or email george@hotfoilehs.com.

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BS: Yeah, I want to personally thank all the people in town for their cooperation during this pandemic.

Honestly for me, that was really positive.

I’m still working every year on infrastructure—whether paving roads, upgrading things, adding park amenities and things like that. We’ve been very active in the last seven or eight months.

Also, all along while I’ve been mayor we’ve been filing for grants, but we’ve been even more proactive this time than any other time.

In fact, we’re putting in two new tennis courts at Banchoff Park. We had to shut them down a couple of years ago because of the condition they were in.

Hopefully we’ll have that done before the end of summer—maybe even in the middle of the summer.

We are putting in more security cameras, because we had some vandalism at the Community Center. What I get upset about is the fact that they’re destroying stuff that’s for them. It’s teenagers and individuals who just think it’s fun to bust windows or throws pool furniture in the pool and things like that.

At the batting cage, people were taking the replacement fluorescent light tubes and going through the batting cage and smashing them. There was glass all over the place.

For the life of me, I cannot understand that. So that’s been very upsetting to me.

Anyway, all of our recreation programs are going to be active this year, although they’ll be scaled back to a version where we’re complying with all the COVID state regulations and stuff like that.

EO: How will you be ramping up the recreation programs and the senior programs?

BS: They’re going to be doing more outside than inside, and when they’re inside, we’re going to limit the number of people.

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One of my biggest problems is actually students taking street signs.

I can’t tell you how many there have been.

I think we probably replaced, in the last six months, at least 18 to 20 signs.

I think they’re using them to decorate their walls and homes. It’s like, “you’ve got to be kidding me.”

In fact, on one corner, we’ve replaced the sign four times in a month. We’re trying to come up with a creative way to control it.

I wish there was a chip that we could put in them, and we actually are actively exploring that, but it doesn’t really make economic sense, because right now the system that they have is very expensive. It’s cheaper for us to print a new sign.

The college is aware of it because we bring it to their attention. We had even had a moratorium where we’re saying, “Hey look, if you have a street sign, or know somebody who has a street, please bring it back. They’ll be no consequences.”

But overall, our relationship with the college is excellent. You can’t blame everything on students.

EO: How is Campus Town at TCNJ doing?

BS: They were struggling, but they’re doing much better. They’ve got a new restaurant (Arooga’s Grille House and Sports Bar) coming in where Landmark used to be. In fact, I met with the owners recently and they’re hoping to open in August. It’s a chain and there’s three of them in New Jersey.

It’s more of a family type restaurant than the previous restaurant. They actually have a really good control over how they distribute liquor. If you buy a drink, basically that’s on your tab that you have one drink, and then they have a limit as to the number you can have. They also won’t two drinks at a time.

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Ewing Recreation July Ewing Pool System has two pool complexes, Hollowbrook Community Center (HCC) and Ewing Sr. & Community Center (ESCC). The pools are open noon – 8pm (7:30pm after 8/15) daily through Labor Day. Ewing Recreation Day Camp: June 28 - Sept. 3 at ESCC. Children entering grades K - 7. Daily capacity limit 12 campers max per grade. All activities at ESCC. Camp hours: 8:30am - 4:30pm, Early Hours: 7:30am - 8:30am, Late Hours 4:30pm - 6:00pm.

Activities: swim lessons, arts & crafts, dance, nature, drama, sports, group games, entertainers, cooking,special events and much more!

Teen Travel and all field trips cancelled this summer due to COVID-19.

Ewing Girl’s Field Hockey program, for Elementary and Middle School girls, will meet starting July 6 – August 19, on Tuesday and Thursdays at the EHS Turf field from 8:30 –

2021 10:30am. Lauren Davis, EHS Field Hockey coach will be program director.

Ewing Recreation Department is taking applications for picnic area permits at the following parks, John Watson on Upper Ferry Rd., Banchoff on Mt. View Rd., Higgs Park on Summerset St. Email Nancy at npappano@ewingnj.org or contact the office for more information or to reserve a date.

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Online registration for all Ewing Recreation Department programs is available at communitypass.net. You can securely register your entire family for all Ewing Recreation Department programs Recreation Department phone number is 609-883-1776. Any questions email Nancy at npappano@ewingnj.org. or Ted at tforst@ewingnj.org.

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Counting life by laughs

The first step to growing old gracefully is to readily admit that you’re getting old. Yep, I’m in my 60’s, I forget stuff, I take twice as long to do stuff as I did 20 years ago, and I have wrinkles.

But, I have retained my sparkling personality and (relatively) quick wit and my hair (so what if it’s going silver?) has kept much of its natural curl.

What more could a woman ask for?

Besides a jawline that doesn’t resemble that of a basset hound, that is.

My husband George is 18 months younger than me. and he makes it sound like there’s 20 years between us. I keep reminding him that he is old as well. Frequently, he can’t (or selectively won’t) hear me when I talk to him.

If he has not known someone his whole life, or if they are not family and very close friends, he does not remember names. I try and tell him a story about someone and this is how it goes. Note that names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Me: So Mary and her husband Patrick just bought a place in South Carolina.

George: Who? Me: Mary and Patrick. You remember them. He used to work at the college with you.

George: Never heard of them.

Me: Yes, you have. She’s tall and blonde, used to teach at (fill in the blank), and Patrick worked in (fill in the blank) department at TCNJ. He retired when you did.

George: I don’t know anyone named Patrick.

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We realize our age more when our kids are around. They are all in their thirties, and they are well-versed in pop culture, movie lines, songs, everything.

We are well-versed in nothing. They sit at the dinner table and have entire conversations using movie quotes. I at least know some of them (“That’s from My Cousin Vinny, right? or Bad Boys 2!”. George is just sitting there mumbling, “Huh?” or “I have no clue what you’re talking about” under his breath.

Georgie, Donnie and our daughterin-law Michelle were over for dinner the other night.

Let me just insert here that it was supposed to be a combo birthday/ Father’s Day dinner for George, but I had the wrong week for Father’s Day. So now it’s known as Fake Father’s Day. We were sitting in the living room watching the Phillies game and Michelle starts telling us a story. She’s laughing so hard it was difficult (for we older folks) to understand her at first.

Short version: we had all gone to my sister Pam and my brother-in-law Ed’s house up in Phillipsburg. We left the party at the same time and were taking the same route home. George and I were cruising along (probably below the speed limit) and chatting. George says, “Oh, the kids are behind us.” So we both wave. We kept driving and didn’t think any more about it.

Turns out that Donnie, who was driving, had pulled up right next to us and Georgie was leaning out of the back passenger window waving frantically at us. We never saw him. Donnie said that Georgie’s entire torso was out the window.

According to Georgie, had he leaned out a bit more, he could have knocked on my window. Apparently, that’s how close they were. Michelle said they drove like that for at least 5 minutes. WE NEVER SAW THEM. When they told us this story, I laughed so hard my stomach hurt, even the next day. You have to know our three kids to understand my stomach hurting.

When the three narrate a story, they accompany it with gestures and physical re-enaction of the event. The story was hilarious, but after they left, George and I looked at each other and reaffirmed our awareness of our aging. “Good grief, we are old.”

In my mind, I am still in my 40s. I am continually shocked at how old I actually am. This most frequently occurs when I look into any mirror or reflective surface. But, hey. I am thankful for every wrinkle, silver hair, every candle on the cake, and every laugh that life offers.

Ilene Black has been a resident of Ewing for most of her life and lives across the street from her childhood home. She and her husband, George, have two sons, Georgie and Donnie.

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their own way to preserving the history of Ewing, and the Society is so very grateful for it.

Through the work of gracious donors such as these, we can learn more of the lives of the people who have come before us, here in Ewing and elsewhere.

The gifts do not have to be great and impressive. Currently, the Society continues to encourage people to share their experiences and challenges due to the COVID pandemic through their “Voices of Ewing” project. These can be in the form of writings, drawings, poems, diary entries, photos, videos - however you are comfortable in sharing into our archives your experiences with current and future researchers.

The Society also welcomes your willingness to offer donations—of photos, books, diaries, postcards, artifacts and other such memorabilia—related to life in Ewing and the surrounding area.

While the future Ewing Museum will not have space to accommodate everything which may be offered, the Board is always willing to consider the items for display or archival purposes. And of course, if you have a Ewing story or memory to share, there are folks ready to listen and record it for future generations.

The Sarah Temple Tea annually recognizes the “historic” generosity of a particular member of our community. But we know there are so many more people able and willing to share!

If you are one of them, please contact the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society at info@ethps. org. The Future will thank you, as will we!

This month we leave behind Pat Whitehead Stoner’s 1940 reminiscences and stories of life in late 19th/ early 20th century rural Ewingville, and instead reflect upon and express gratitude for people like Ms. Whitehead, who share their experiences to bring the past alive to us all these years later.

As I write this in mid-May, the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society is hosting its annual Sarah Temple Tea. The event, named in honor of the second wife of Benjamin Temple, recognizes and celebrates those people who have contributed in a significant way to the Society and to our community in preserving the history of Ewing, whether it be through contributions of time, energy, expertise, artifacts, or other gifts.

At this year’s 8th annual celebration, the honoree is the Reverend John Allen, who has served as an advisor and board trustee to the Society, as well as a generous donor and active participant in events and activities.

Reverend Allen’s life—as a history major and ordained minister—has been a testimony to his dedication to people past and present: to improving the lives of living individuals through his call as a pastor, and to learning from those who have gone before us.

These passions came to fruition for him as the former pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, where he lifted up and celebrated the long and significant history of that congregation, as well as lifting up the people of the congregation and the community, by facilitating the host- Helen Kull is an adviser to the Ewing ing of meals, food banks, job fairs and Township Historic Preservation Society. other physical and spiritual support activities for Trenton residents.

But as a Ewing resident, John has also been involved with the Ewing Historic Society, based in the 18th c. home of Benjamin Temple on Federal City Road.

Fully Insured He initiated the “Colonial Sampler” Free Estimates event held in the past, has portrayed Benjamin Temple several times, and has hosted members’ picnics at his home.

John has not only generously donated time and financial resources, but has also donated various colonial items, toys and artifacts, and several books to the society’s collection. Most importantly, he has always been generous with his expertise and knowledge. He is a most deserving honoree, and is greatly appreciated by so many!

Others have similarly been honored at this Tea in the past, including All Home Repairs Carol Hill, Grace Starrett, Don Cox, And Renovations and the late Jim and Judy Peoples.

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