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Cicadas Come Calling

Merger of the Arts

Reinventing Ourselves

The fleeting invasion of the 17-year Brood X cicadas has lit a creative spark in area writers and poets.

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The Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton Festival have merged to operate as a single entity.

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A year apart means we are meeting our close friends again for the first time, writes columnist Pia de Jong.

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he Princeton Human Services Department is seeking donors for its 12th annual Backpack and School Supplies Drive. The drive benefits Princeton children who are lowincome and in need of school supplies and new backpacks.

For the past 11 years, the Princeton Human Services Commission, municipal employees, local businesses, organizations, and residents have donated book bags and school supplies that have benefited more than 150 Princeton children. The items are distributed to children from low-income families who attend the Princeton Public Schools and are entering kindergarten through sixth grade.

If you would like to participate in this year’s drive, you may drop off donations at the Princeton Human Services office on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The office is located in the former borough hall at One Monument Drive. The deadline for donations is Friday, August 6.

You may choose to donate bookbags or school supplies or both. Items that can be donated include book bags,

notebooks, binders, folders, loose leaf paper, pencils, pens, crayons, markers, scissors, glue sticks, and other school supplies.

Hundreds of applications have been distributed to families with children entering kindergarten through sixth grade. Your help and generosity are greatly appreciated. If you have questions, please call 609-688-2055.

It’s name day for ‘Princeton Middle School’

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espite some public objections to the generic name, the former John Witherspoon Middle School was officially renamed Princeton Middle School at the June 15 Board of Education meeting. The name change takes effect July 1.

The board used ranked-choice voting to arrive at the new name. In addition to generic names like the one chosen, several important figures in Princeton history and in the community were on a short list of names, including Shirley Satterfield, Paul Robeson, Michelle Obama, and Albert Einstein.

Among those, Satterfield was the most popular option, but support for a generic name dwarfed support for a specific person.

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University plan for Prospect Avenue courts controversy

By Sara Hastings

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he value of preserving history is facing off against the importance of addressing tomorrow’s scientific problems as a Princeton University plan to alter the historic Prospect Avenue streetscape to accommodate new engineering buildings has generated fierce debate.

The plan — the subject of a nearly four-hour Planning Board hearing on June 17 — calls for the demolition of the three Victorian-style houses at 110, 114, and 116 Prospect Avenue, on the north side of the street. Their razing would make way for 91 Prospect Avenue, a former eating club that is now used as administrative offices, to be moved to their vacant lots across the street.

The relocation would in turn create the space the university needs to construct new facilities for environmental studies and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Two connected buildings with outdoor plazas and green spaces would be constructed north of Ivy Lane and behind several of the active eating clubs along the south side of Prospect Avenue. The more than 600,000-square-foot complex would take the place of several existing surface parking lots as well as the 5 Ivy Lane building and some existing apartments.

The building at 91 Prospect Avenue was originally the Court Club — one of the storied undergraduate eating clubs at the university — and was constructed in 1927. The club was disbanded in 1964, and the building is now owned by the university and used for the Office of the Dean for Research.

The building is part of the large Princeton Historic District, listed on the state and national registers of historic places. The district does not encompass the three Victorian homes also owned by the university and slated for demolition, though they are part of a proposed local “Club Row Historic District” that has not yet been enacted by the municipality.

In his remarks to the Planning Board, University Architect Ron McCoy emphasized repeatedly that despite Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) review of the project, permission for construction from such a body is not required because none of the properties in question fall within a designated local historic district, and the relocation of 91 Prospect does not require any action with respect to the state and national historic designations.

The HPC’s report to the Planning Board — the result of an earlier threeplus hour hearing — recognized the value of the new engineering facilities while simultaneously strongly recommending that the Planning Board deny

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Plans prepared by Princeton University show the Court Club building’s current location and Princeton University: 91 Prospect Relocation June 17, 2021 new location in context Overall proposed with the proposed new buildings serving environmental studies and engineering. At right, the former Court Club at 91 Prospect Avenue.

the current proposal.

“The construction of this new facility will allow the University to create a state-of-the-art complex for both environmental studies as well as engineering and applied science studies on the campus. HPC strongly felt, however, that the proposed plans for the ES/SEAS complex which requires demolition of the three Prospect Avenue houses and relocating the Court clubhouse is disruptive and inappropriate to the Prospect Avenue historic character and streetscape, and further violates the integrity of the row of eating clubhouses and their relationship to each other,” HPC chair Julie Capozzoli wrote in her report.

University representatives emphasized that the interior layout of 91 Prospect does not make it feasible for Engineering School use, and as such the options for the building were to demolish it entirely or to relocate it.

Efforts to preserve the building led to the plan to move it across the street, but should those plans be denied, McCoy noted, the university will proceed with the demolition of 91 Prospect Avenue.

Some 70 members of the public, including university alumni and representatives of the Princeton Prospect Foundation (PPF), a nonprofit serving the eating clubs, attended the meeting to voice opposition to the project.

“Such a plan would substantially diminish the aesthetic and historic continuity of Prospect Avenue, and it would set a disturbing precedent for the potential future moving and/or demolition of other historic eating club-

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houses and buildings by establishing a beachhead on Prospect,” noted Sandy Harrison, chair of the PPF board, in his presentation to the Planning Board.

A Change.org petition titled “Save Historic Prospect Avenue from Damaging Development” had garnered more than 1,000 signatures as of publication time. And as opposition mounts, the hearing will continue at the Planning Board meeting on Thursday, July 8.

Zoning Board updates

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he Zoning Board of Adjustment dedicated more than two hours during its June 15 meeting to a contentious hearing on a proposed new construction home. The result: The applicant will be back to present revised architectural plans at the board’s July 28 meeting.

The property in question is the .26-acre lot at 44 Wheatsheaf Lane, a cul-de-sac off Snowden Lane just one block from Princeton-Kingston Road consisting primarily of houses built around 1950, most of which are well under 2,000 square feet. Harry’s Brook — a source of bucolic views but also frequent flooding — runs behind the homes on the north side of the street,

including number 44.

The house at 44 in particular is a single-story 1,300-square-foot two bedroom, one-bath home that last sold in August, 2020, for $460,000. The real estate listing at the time described it as the “perfect project house” which required more than a little TLC “after a broken water main during freezing winter weather. Immediate damage has been repaired, but needs more work to put it back in liveable condition.”

The new owner of the home intends to renovate for use by his daughter and appeared with architects and attorneys before the Zoning Board to present plans for an entirely new home on the lot. The new home, with two floors and a flat green roof, would have 2,768 square feet of livable space with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. The front of the proposed home would include a carport and covered entryway.

Zoning approval is required for the application because the home lies on a nonconforming lot. Wheatsheaf Lane lies in the R-5 zone, which requires a minimum of a half-acre lot, whereas the property in question is roughly a quarter acre. Therefore the application was for what the board termed “routine” variances for building on an

The existing house at 44 Wheatsheaf Lane.

undersized lot, including lot area, lot width, and frontage, as well as side yard setbacks, carport setback, and height to setback ratio.

The new home, the architect noted, occupies a footprint only about 40 square feet larger than the existing structure. But the applicant also agreed to conform to side yard setback rules, meaning plans for the home will be revised to leave at least 15 feet between the sides of the house and the property line, rather than the 12 initially proposed.

However, the half-dozen neighbors who showed up to voice their opposition to the application viewed these variances as anything but routine. They argued that a home approaching 3,000 square feet was not in keeping with the character of the neighborhood and expressed concern about potential flooding impacts.

Wheatsheaf Lane resident Carolyn Rouse noted that past attempts to build walls to contain the creek’s flooding have failed, and because “they’re adding variance on top of variance on top of variance” the floodwaters now come from the street, resulting in a “soggy lot” both for the homeowner and for others downstream of that lot.

“It’s a beautiful house,” she said. “It’d be great if it were built somewhere else.”

“Even small additions add up,” noted resident Peter Burt, referring to the outsize impact on flooding of small increases in impervious coverage.

Other residents questioned why the rules for the R-5 zone in question exist if exceptions are almost always granted.

But board members were quick to point out that in this particular case, denying variances related to how close the walls of the house fall to the property lines render the lot essentially unusable.

And the application conforms to building regulations that aren’t impacted by the size of the lot.

Board attorney Karen Cayci explained, “They are dealing with the existing ordinances in the town, so they have to reconcile those ordinances with situations that come to them where the lot is undersized — and there are many, many undersized lots in Princeton.

That’s why the board asks owners, ‘can you acquire other land?’”

“What happens is in terms of precedent … the board really does look at the facts of every case. They will spend considerable time looking at the facts and making a distinction between what may have happened on one property and the property that is in front of them right now. In this situation, certainly the applicant can be asked, are they willing to reduce the size of the house, because to tell the applicant they cannot build on the lot creates a situation in which essentially it becomes a useless lot.”

The board ultimately did not vote on the application, as new plans for

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Summer fiction: Cicada edition

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ditor’s Note: As the song of the 17-year Brood X cicadas gradually recedes, leaving residents free to wander Princeton’s tree-filled and now cicada-lined streets without need of earplugs or fear that one of these infrequent fliers will land in their hair, the unique insects have offered creative inspiration to several Princeton-based writers.

Crossing the species barrier

By RoMa Johnson

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art I — return to the newly re-opened coffee shop.

3:0.0. pm Sunday afternoon, the only available tables — if you can call them that — are thin wedges sticking out from the wall above tortuously skinny benches, two to a side in the far back of the shop. I take the one on the corner.

Across from me a man, professorage, runner-thin, wearing chinos and a pressed polo shirt and wirerimmed glasses edits a paper. (I can tell he’s a scholar because the paper has no paragraphs.) We ignore each other. I pick up my book in one

hand and my latte in the other and settle in.

The wedge table farthest back is situated where the side bench and the back bench come together to

form a space tailor-made for a very small person. A very large person appears: a man in a rumpled summer suit and white shirt, wearing city shoes and carrying a briefcase.

He has a huge head of wiry hair like a dark Brillo pad and sports an at-least-three-day-old beard.

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what’s happening Fun for the Fourth

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.

LEAD Fest State Fair

So, just where is (609)?

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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check out the racing and swimming pigs at the leAd fest state fair, set for July 1-11 at Mercer county Park.

Enjoy 11 days of fun at the LEAD Fest State Fair, held at Mercer County Park in West Windsor July 1 to 11. The festival runs from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays

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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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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Riley Sager’s “Survive the Night” tells the claustrophobic story of Charlie, who may or may not be stuck in a car with a serial killer. read.” There’s just so many cool things being done with the genre right now— horror, thriller and suspense. It’s just a really, really great time with so many great people working at the top of their game. I think we all sort of, whether we know each other or not personally, want to do a great job. You want to top what someone else has done, so there’s that great friendly competition going on.

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.

‘I set out to write a thrill ride. I wanted this book to feel like a roller coaster, and I think it does.’

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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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home use. Hotfoil-EHS has produced 10 ovens so far — all built entirely in the company’s Hamilton facility — and Richards says they have sold units to professional chefs as well as casual users.

“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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company in 2012 called Hotfoil-EHS. After Neville’s retirement, Matt became president of the company.

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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Once inside, strips to his trunks, he waits for the boombox’s blast and catapults into the water.

This morning he enters to hear the hysteric lifeguard declares, Cicadas have conquered the pool!

He grabs fistfuls of the buzzing insects and tosses them onto the deck as in a game of water-polo.

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— Vida Chu Vida Chu has lived in Princeton for more than 55 years. She has poems in US1 Worksheet, U.S. 1 Newspaper, and others. Her two books of poems — “The Fragrant Harbor” and “The Thirteenth Lake” are published by Kelsay Books. She swims daily and cannot wait for the cicadas to disappear.

pair of thick plastic glasses and a cell phone, and with his head bent nearly to his knees, begins to scroll through.

Part II — the alien.

A cicada appears and begins a leisurely stroll across the back bench. The Big Man lifts his head and freezes in place.

Aren’t they beautiful? I say.

He looks askance at me.

I think they are beautiful, I say.

The Big Man leans closer to the back bench and peers at the cicada.

The Scholar, looks around, stands up and says, He’s on his way to die.

The Big Man looks askance at him.

Yes, says the Scholar, they only live a day or two, they have a very short life. They come out for a brief span of time and then they die.

Like us, I say.

The Scholar rears his head like a startled pony.

Well… uh…yes… he says. I suppose so. I mean we’re mortal.

He collects his computer and empty cup and walks away.

By this time the Big Man has gone down on one knee on the floor and is studying the alien being even more intently.

They don’t bite, I say. You can pick him up.

The Big Man hoists himself back up on the bench and says softly, To tell you the truth, I’m afraid of him.

Part III — contact.

I open my purse and take out a flattened paper mask. I walk over and place the mask in front of the pilgrim cicada, who has almost reached the far side of the bench.

Compliantly he steps aboard. I turn to the Big Man and hold the mask with its passenger closer to him. He leans in to look at the red eyes of the visitor.

I place my hand next to the mask edge and the cicada walks onto my fingers.

The Big Man doesn’t meet my eyes, but slowly, shyly holds his hand next to mine and the cicada walks onto his hand.

From somewhere deep within the Big Man, who knows from how long asleep, A boy emerges.

RoMa Johnson, MA, MDiv, has been writing and teaching on various topics of Celtic and World Spirituality for more than 20 years.

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THE ARTS

Marriage of the arts: Princeton Symphony, Festival to merge

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wo leading Princeton-based non-profit music organizations, Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and The Princeton Festival, have announced their strategic merger under the legal entity of Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The Princeton Festival will retain its name and continue going forward as an artistic program of the PSO alongside the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s classical, pops, chamber music, and PSO BRAVO! education programs.

The two organizations hope that the depth of their combined resources means a bright future for high quality live music performances in Princeton.

Both organizations successfully pivoted to online platforms during the pandemic while being mindful of budgets and continued fundraising efforts.

“The merger capitalizes on the strong positions and proven resiliency of both organizations coming out of the pandemic. With strong artistic leadership, we will pave the way to a new era of creativity, making high-quality performing arts more available to our community and beyond,” PSO Executive Director Marc Uys said.

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and much changed environment for the arts,” he said.

Multiple Festival board members were nominated to the PSO board in June, and a Festival Advisory Board was created. Two full-time members of the Festival staff will join the orchestra’s veteran administrative team.

“We look forward to a cross-pollination of ideas and resources,” PSO Music Director Rossen Milanov said. “Together, our creative team will capture the imagination and spark community dialogue with new music, cutting-edge operas, and fresh musical theater productions. We’re well-poised to earn Princeton a national reputation for live arts innovation.”

The merger came about through the efforts of Uys, von Schröder, Milanov, and other members of the merger committee including Costa Papastephanou, Princeton Symphony Orchestra Board Chair Yvonne Marcuse and The Princeton Festival Board Chair Benedikt von Schröder (seated) sign off on legal former Festival Board chair, Yvonne documents formalizing the agreement to merge their two arts organizations.

Marcuse, PSO Board chair, StephaStanding are merger committee members PSO Board Vice Chair Stephanie nie Wedeking, PSO Board vice chair, Wedeking, PSO Executive Director Marc Uys, and former Festival Board Chair and Michael S. Mathews, PSO trustee.

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Boards of both organizations formally committed to the merger on Thursday, Benedikt von Schröder views the merg- zation with the creative, artistic, and June 10. er as a positive move. “The merger will financial strength providing a foundawww.princetonfestival.org or www. create a formidable combined organi- tion for future growth in a challenging princetonsymphony.org

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HAPPENING

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ll manner of musical performance come to the green at Palmer Square this month.

The annual Summer Music Series continues every Saturday. Up first is blues rock band the Outcrops, led by founders songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Cassidy Rain and lead guitarist Bryan Schroder, on July 3 from noon to 2 p.m. The following Saturday features Some Assembly Required, performing everything from country and Americana to classic rock and pop tunes, July 10 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Burne Holiday — an alt-rock band founded up the road at Princeton University in 2011 — performs July 17 from noon to 2 p.m. And the Ess Gees, a power rock trio, round out the month’s lineup on July 24 from noon to 2 p.m.

Also returning to the square this summer are “Dueling Piano Nights,” scheduled for Thursdays from July 15 through August 12. Pair the all-request, singalong performances by the Flying Ivories with snacks from Palmer Square eateries and a drink from the pop-up outdoor bar, which will be serving happy hour beverages. The events run from 6 to 8 p.m.

Finally, the square holds a family movie night on Friday, July 9, at 8 p.m. with a free family-friendly outdoor screening of “Sing.” Bring your own blankets or lawn chairs. www.palmersquare.com

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The ‘Bring on the Joy’ mural at Princeton Shopping Center, above, will be dedicated at a July 9 celebration. Princeton University Carilloneur Lisa Lonie, right, coordinates the ‘Tuning the Sky’ summer concert series and performs in the July 25 show.

Horszowski Trio next up in Summer Chamber series

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he next installment of the three-part Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts can be streamed directly into your living room on Monday, July 19, at 7:30 p.m.

The Horszowski Trio, consisting of violinist Jesse Mills, cellist Ole Akahoshi, and pianist Rieko Aizawa, performs a program of works

by Smetana, Clarke, and Schubert. The trio is the ensemble-in-residence at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and of the Leschetizky Association July 18: Joey Brink, carillonneur at the University in New York City. The free concert is accessible online. www.princetonsummerchamberconcerts. of Chicago. org.

July 25: The Treblemakers, featuring Lisa Lonie and Philadelphia-based carilloneur Janet Tebbel. gradschool.princeton.edu/news/summer-carillon-2021 Carillon Sunday concerts return

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he Princeton University Carillon at the Princeton University Graduate School will again host live Sunday summer concerts for the surrounding community starting on July 4. Coordinated by Princeton University carillonneur Lisa Lonie, the 1 p.m. concerts continue through September 5 and are held rain or shine. Admission is free. The 2021 “Tuning the Sky” series feature the following carillon artists during the month of July: July 4: Carlo van Ulft, past faculty member of the Royal Carillon School in Belgium and director/carillonist of the Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon in Springfield, Illinois.

July 11: Frank DellaPenna, master carillonneur, graduate of the French Carillon School in Tourcoing, France, and creator of the Cast In Bronze traveling carillon concerts.

Arts Council decks the walls at Princeton Shopping Center

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he Arts Council of Princeton celebrates the dedication of a new mural on the courtyard wall of Princeton Shopping Center on Friday, July 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. The “Bring on the Joy” mural created by a team of artists from the Arts Council is the first in a series of three murals that will adorn the Shopping Center’s wall. A new mural reflecting the changing seasons will be painted in the fall.

The July 9 celebration includes a chance to hear from the artists, representatives from the Princeton Shopping Center, and Princeton dignitaries, including Mayor Mark Freda. The event also includes a performance by We May Be Right, a Billy Joel tribute band, along with family-friendly activities. www. princetonshoppingcenter.com.

PARTING SHOT

Reinventing ourselves

By Pia de Jong

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he bell of my front door rings.

Such a commonplace thing, yet it excites me. It’s not the daily ring of the mailwoman, alerting me that she has left a package. No, I expect a real visitor. Someone invited who will actually enter my home, drink a cup of tea, while we talk about things we used to talk about. That is, if we can remember our once-familiar ritual.

Knowing my friend is waiting for me outside is a strange, new feeling. I will be happy to see her, but at the same time I have some trepidation. I have been away for so long. Not as if I were traveling with my backpack through Europe. More like the kind of away as if I were a mole digging a hole deep underground.

The bell rings again. Oh, no, let’s hurry! She may think I forgot, or even worse, that I am not happy to see her.

I hasten to the front door and fling it open.

For a few seconds, I am speechless.

Yes, it is my friend. But at the same time, I wonder, is this really her?

She looks very good, vibrant, but something about her is different. What

is it? Her hair looks so pretty. Thick and healthy. Has she gone to a different salon maybe?

Later, when I pour her a second cup of tea, it suddenly hits me. My friend has gone grey!

“Oh, yeah,” she confirms. “I used the quarantine to let my dyed hair grow out. It looked awful for months, but, hey, no one saw me anyway.”

Now that we slowly but certainly are leaving our cocoons — bedroomturned-office or kitchen-turned-classroom — we have to reconnect with our friends. Or is it reinvent our friendships? All of us have changed so much.

Not only are we a year older and, I hope, wiser, but we also look different. Some of us are in better shape, many quite the opposite. Some might have more wrinkles, because they stopped using fillers and Botox. Others have gone underground to have some “work” done.

My neighbor who always looks finished and just-so-stylish doesn’t bother about her appearance anymore. Her acrylic nails, her micro-bladed eyebrows, her eyelash extensions — they are all gone.

“I do not feel any need for that anymore,” she tells me. “It was so much

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work to keep it all up, not to mention all the money I spent on it. And guess what? I like myself better this way.”

I wonder about myself. What do people think when they see me?

“For sure you love your black jogging pants,” my son recently commented.

He was right. It was my go-to outfit this year.

The next day, I prepare to go to the first party since March, 2020. I look at my dresses. I didn’t wear any of them.

And my shoes. Did I really wear those heels? How uncomfortable. Even my jewelry has been untouched. I dust of my favorite earrings and put them on.

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Getting in the party mood, I decide to add some makeup. It is still there, hidden in my drawer, all those jars and pencils and lipstick. Most of it has dried out. I put on some mascara.

“You look different,” my son says before I leave. “This is not you, mom.

Somehow.”

I think he’s right, even more than he realizes.

Pia de Jong is a Dutch writer who lives in Princeton. She can be contacted at pdejong@ias.edu.

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