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If you’ve ever wondered about the vastness of the night sky, the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton might have just the thing for you. After being forced to pause meetings more than a year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the club is finally back and looking at the stars. 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. The observatory is home to multiple permanent large telescopes that are open to the public for free during the AAAP’s public Friday nights that run from April through October. The club resumed its public nights last month, and people of all interest levels are encourSee AAAP, Page 11
Gloom and doom were the tunes for piano manufacturers and their sales/service outlets. The piano industry had to face the music, so played the reports. “Hitting a low note: Pianos becoming extinct in US homes,” declared the seacoastonline.com news service in July, 2018. And only this past May 12, the research department of the online statistics portal Statista illustrated a report on the number of acoustic pianos sold in the United States with a bar graph looking like a mangled piano keyboard whose black keys had been chopped progressively smaller. In just five years, from 2005 through 2009, annual sales plunged from 95,518 to 33,060. After a slight stabilization, sales played a discordant descending scale from 31,073 in 2019 to 20,870 in 2020 — a loss of nearly a third. And now, in 2021? “The demand far exceeds the supply,” says Robert Rinaldi, vice president, education, for Jacobs Music and co-principal of the company with his brother Chris, president and CEO. See PIANOS, Page 4
West Windsor resident Fabian Nicieza, the co-creator of the comic book character Deadpool, is pictured above at the FanX Salt Lake convention with a young fan. He released his first book, “Suburban Dicks,” last month.
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Comic book writer Fabian Nicieza first moved to the Plainsboro/West Windsor area in the mid-1990s. Nicieza, 59, is probably most famous for being the co-creator of the character Deadpool, but he has also written almost
every major character in the Marvel and DC universes. But it was a contentious issue in town (more on that later), which occurred shortly after moving to West Windsor that helped spark the idea for what would become his first novel. More than 25 years later, Nicieza has finally written his book, titled Suburban Dicks, which released on June 22. Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Suburban Dicks is set in West Windsor and Plainsboro townships and tells the story
of former FBI profiler Andrea Stern and disgraced journalist Kenny Lee. The two join together to investigate a murder that occurs at the Valero gas station on Route 571 and wind up stumbling across a decades-old conspiracy. Suburban Dicks debuted to rave reviews and Nicieza has already been contracted to write a sequel. The book has also been optioned for a television show. Although the novel is set in the WW-P community, the See NICIEZA, Page 6
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WW-P School District set to receive security funding The West Windsor-Plainsboro School District is one of a number of local districts in the state that could receive funds from the $500 million bond referendum passed by voters in 2018 to pay for various educationrelated improvements. The state Assembly Appropriations Committee approved the funding plan on June 16. The measure, which would authorize the spending of more than $300 million in bonds, still needs to be approved by the full Assembly, State Senate and Gov. Phil Murphy. The funding approved by the Appropriations Committee is only a portion of the money authorized by the referendum. The entire package calls for $220 million from the plan to go towards vocational-technical schools, including $23.1 million for the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District. Some $26 million would be earmarked for county colleges, including almost $3 million for Middlesex County College and $4 million for Mercer County Community College. More than $65 million would go to K-13 schools for security upgrades, including WW-P, which would receive $212,195. The security improvements were included in the referendum by officials who wanted to address security issues in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. In addition to WW-P, area schools receiving security funding would be the Bordentown Regional School District ($140,402), Hamilton Township Public School District ($654,652), Hopewell Valley Regional School District ($197,057), Lawrence Township Public School District ($212,195), Princeton Public Schools ($212,195), Robbinsville School Dictrict ($179,643), and Trenton Public Schools ($212,195). The plan also sets aside $5.6 million for improvements for water infrastructure improvements to help mitigate lead contamination in drinking water. The only Mercer County area district set to receive this funding is Hamilton, which would receive $16,812. The 2018 ballot question passed by a slim margin, with 1,250,746 voting in favor (54.15%) and 1,059,060 (45.85%) voting against. –Bill Sanservino
WW Farmer’s Market now running through November Every Saturday until Thanksgiving, 17 farms and 20 artisan food producers plus a knife sharpener gather at the West Windsor Community Farmer’s Market in the Vaughn Drive lot at
the Princeton Junction train station. Running from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the market curates all you’ll need for your weekly fresh grocery shop, gift giving, or special meal. Located one mile from Route 1, with a new entrance from 877 Alexander Road, find everything from Jersey Fresh produce, artisan cheese and dairy products, beer, wine and spirits, ghee, curries, jams, mushrooms, sustainably caught seafood, grass-fed and pastured meats and poultry, farm fresh eggs, honey, teas and coffee Also available are locally grown oats, fresh pasta and sauces, vegan chocolates, prepared soups, salads, and broth, alpaca fiber wear, fresh juice and acai bowls, savory and sweet crepes, baked goods (gluten-free as well), local flowers, Said market manager, Chris Cirkus: “Saturday mornings at the farmers market are back in full force! Join us as we highlight what’s in season, fresh and delicious, and surround yourself with live music, community, and good cheer while you’re here.” The WWCFM accepts SNAP/ EBT and offers matching incentives towards fruit & vegetable purchases (up to $20 per market day). Several farms accept WIC/FMNP/SFMNP *** The following events will be taking place in July and August: July 3—Community Group: West Windsor Historical Society. Music: Frank & Ellen Ruck. July 10—Sponsor of the Day: Penn Medicine Princeton Health. Community Groups: Yes, We CAN! volunteers, West Windsor Bicycle & Pedestrian Alliance. Music: Rivertown Vintage Jazz Band. July 17—Sponsor of the Day: Woodmont Way West Windsor. Music: Kingston Ridge. July 24—Sponsor of the Day: Vijay Aluwalia/Edward Jones. Community Groups: Yes, We CAN! volunteers, West Windsor Bicycle & Pedestrian Alliance. Music: Dave San Soucie & Josh Leik. July 31—Sponsor of the Day: Woodmont Way West Windsor. Community Group: Friends of West Windsor Open Space. Music: This Old House. Aug. 7—Community Groups: Yes, We CAN! volunteers, West Windsor Bicycle & Pedestrian Alliance, West Windsor Historical Society. Music: Magnolias.
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PIANOS continued from Page 1 Headquartered in Philadelphia, Jacobs Music is an authorized dealer for the internationally renowned Steinway & Sons brand. Jacobs has a total of seven stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey — including a showroom at the Windsor Green Shopping Center on Route 1 in West Windsor, just opened last autumn after 20 years in Lawrence and, before that, on North Olden Avenue in Trenton. Has the piano industry really gone from a funeral dirge to a pastoral symphony in less than a year? Robert Rinaldi insists it’s so. “From the industry as well,” the Marlton resident reiterates, “I can tell you demand far exceeds supply. We cannot get pianos for all the people who want them.” “And people want a higher quality instrument,” he adds. “People are more thoughtful about the expectations they have.” What happened? In an almost operatic plot twist, COVID-19 temporarily left its villainous role to play a helpful supporting part. Of course, among the pandemic’s many tragedies was its devastating effect on the performing arts, especially live music. The urgent need to reduce, even suspend, crowds closed businesses and schools, sending many workers and students to carry on at home. And live venue performing arts —including music concerts, festivals, and club shows — went on
Robert Rinaldi in Jacobs Music’s showroom. The store recently moved from Lawrence to West Windsor. (Photo by Richard D. Smith.) life support. But for the multitudes of persons working or studying remotely — many of them already music lovers and even players — the idea of having their own pianos at home to enjoy and share with family became quite attractive.
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And sharing with friends and neighbors, too. “Now with the vaccinations,” Rinaldi says, “people are more comfortable about having other people in their homes.” The cumulative result? Sales of pianos for home use not only recovered but became robust. “This is something unique because of the pandemic,” says Rinaldi. “I’ve never seen it.” Prices vary: Rinaldi says a new quality grand piano starts in the neighborhood of $10,000, whereas a new nine-foot Steinway concert grand runs about $180,000, though used ones are substantially discounted. Smaller pre-owned Steinways begin at about $25,000. The Princeton store has, as of this writing, a formidable inventory of some 50 new and pre-owned pianos, including seven concert grand pianos from venues and programs as prestigious as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts. Forced to close its factories for four months due to the pandemic, Steinway & Sons urgently needed to boost its income stream. These concert grands were not owned but leased by the venues. Steinway was forced to call them in and alert their dealers’ network to their availability for sale as very special certified pre-owned Steinways. Jacobs Music seized the opportunity: “While other people reduced their inventory, we doubled ours.” “There’s never been a time when
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we had seven concert grands in our showroom,” Rinaldi says, adding that it’s more than in Steinway Hall in Manhattan. Modern acoustic pianos range from the full 88-key, nine-foot long concert grand pianos and baby grands, to uprights and compact 66-key baby uprights. Modern grand pianos have some 12,000 parts including strings, levers, miscellaneous hardware, and multitudinous wood pieces (from a veritable ecosystem of trees providing specific qualities of resonance, strength, or appearance). To create richness of aural textures, there may be three strings per key. Hence the total string count far exceeds 88 and is often 230. The combined pulls of these strings, tuned to full concert pitch, can total an astonishing 20 tons of tension. “There’s a whole lot more to a piano than many people realize,” says Rinaldi with smiling understatement. The modern piano evolved from simpler, yet ingenious, ancient instruments whose strings were raised on thin wooden support “bridges” and sounded via striking with small wooden mallets (similar to today’s hammered dulcimers). Advances in mechanical technology led to systems in which the sounding mallets were hinged and fixed within the instrument’s body, operated by keys depressed and released by the player. Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori is credited with inventing the first true piano circa 1700. Its name came from “pianoforte,” mean-
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ing “soft-loud,” distinguishing it from earlier keyboard instruments such as the harpsichord in which the volume of notes could not be varied. A major movement in piano history — both metaphorically and literally — came a century and a half later with the 1853 immigration to New York City of German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg — soon to anglicize his name as Henry E. Steinway. Henry was skilled in traditional piano construction but also eager to combine the latest advances in mechanics, wood joining, and iron and steel casting with innovative interior and exterior designs to further develop the instrument. “So many of the elements of the [modern] piano itself are by Henry Steinway,” says Rinaldi, noting that the now-familiar shape of the grand piano was itself a Steinway innovation. Henry’s brother William proved to be a wizard at promotion and sales. His brilliant stroke was to build a roster of the greatest living pianists and send them on concert tours with, of course, Steinways, which he dubbed — with declarative forte — “The Instrument of the Immortals.” Steinway & Sons American headquarters, including a major factory complex, is in Queens, with a “Steinway Hall” showroom in Manhattan. Its European and international headquarters are in Hamburg, Germany. Flagship Steinway-brand pianos are made in those two locations. Its Boston line of mid-level market pianos are built in Japan, and its Essex budget line in China. Steinway is by no means the sole manufacturer pianos for American and world markets. Mason & Hamlin, Bosendorfer, Fazioli, Baldwin, Yamaha, and others have found their loyal market niches. But the decline of the piano as a standard, if specialized and expensive, piece of American home furniture has been very real. And it’s told by the history of Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Chestnut Street once held the city’s “piano row,” boasting 13 successful firms during its heyday. Jacobs Music — which had been founded in 1900 — arrived in the neighborhood impressively in 1937 with a four-floor, art deco-styled sales and service building. Today, it is the only survivor. Al C. Rinaldi, Chris and Robert’s father, established his career with the lease departments of major Philadelphia stores Gimbles and John Wanamakers in the late 1960s. In 1976, Al purchased Jacobs Music. It too was a family venture, with Chris and Robert’s mother working there. “I never thought I’d get involved with the business,” Robert says. “But music is infectious.” Sadly, the coronavirus is also infectious. Steinway had to close its factory last year for some four months. Jacobs Music has some 50 employees between its seven locations, including some 15 tuning and repair technicians plus their support persons. “We still had bills, rents, and benefits to pay. But we were afraid to close. And we bet on surviving.”
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The Blashfield Piano, top, on display at Jacobs Music, with its inscription to the Drexel family pictured above. (Photo by Richard D. Smith.) Chris and Robert took inspiration from family history. “My father beat cancer 14 times,” Robert reflects. “I thought, we can beat this.” Their faith in the future coincided with a major move in the Prince ton regional piano markets. When their lease on a Business Route 1 store in Lawrence expired last year, they opted to stay open but relocate a few miles north. They moved into the Windsor Green space last fall; also approximately 5,000 square feet but now much closer to their core Princeton-area clientele. As it turned out, this risky move perfectly positioned Jacobs Music for the sudden boom in home piano sales. The Princeton-area store has returned to regular business hours, confirms manager Randy Brown (although he urges buyers to make appointments so they will have personal attention and be able to play and hear the pianos without competing sounds from many additional patrons). But there are still challenges. Electronic keyboards had already cut into the general piano market with their versatility (especially in performing various styles of pop music), compactness, mobility, and prices. Steinway has countered with its Roland line of digital pianos. These use a “modeled” tone generation system instead of recorded “samples” that typified the first generations of electric pianos. The keyboard and pedal responses are designed to reproduce the feel of standard acoustic pianos. But with Bluetooth and Midi capability the Rolands can interface with Apple and Android devices. And — as proof that “everything old is new again” — Steinway & Sons is reinventing the player piano. Obviously, its Spirio player piano system isn’t the punched paper rolloperated piano of old cartoon movie sight gags and dimming first-person memories. But the Spirio is a true piano with a digital interface and memory containing some 4,000 tracks by more than 250 Steinway-endorsing virtuosos. And it has a real-time capacity — named with true Steinway
flourish as “Spiriocast” — that activates the subscriber’s piano so that it plays in the home exactly what the performer is playing in concert: at the same time and with the same notes, volumes, pedal workings, flourishes, and nuances. “This brings live performance into your home,” says Rinaldi. “We’re just starting to digest what it all means. I think people can’t wait to experience live music again.” That may apply to the new owners of an upright piano that was recently being carefully padded up and wheeled out by a moving crew from B&N Piano Sales & Services of Aston Township, Pennsylvania. They readily agreed with Robert Rinaldi — they’ve never been busier. Cue the piano flourish to herald the final act of the COVID-19 pandemic? Jacobs Music, Windsor Green Shopping Center, 3495 Route 1 South, West Windsor. 609-434-0222 or www.jacobsmusic.com/locations/ jacobs-music-piano-store-princeton-nj.
Glowing at the front of the Jacobs Pianos showroom is a gilded piano with a golden history. Philadelphia newspaper publisher George W. Childs Drexel (1868-1944) and wife Mary Irick Drexel (1864-1944) were lovers and patrons of music. Their Beaux-Arts style mansion, built in 1894 at 18th and Locust streets, eventually became part of Philadelphia’s worldrenowned Curtis Institute of Music. George Drexel was a serious amateur pianist and, also in 1894, commissioned a gilded Steinway grand piano adorned with illustrations inspired by classical themes. They were the work of American painter Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848–1936), whose murals grace state capitols, churches, courthouses, and universities across America, as well as some private residences — including the Drexels’ home. The murals on the dome of the Library of Congress main reading room are, literally, his overarching achievement. Such is his reputation that the instrument has become known among music historians as “The Blashfield Piano.” Like the mansion, it was donated to the Curtis Institute. “The Curtis Institute wanted to bring it back to a viable state,” Rinaldi says. “It had not been played for years.” Indeed, it had been in careful storage at the school. It was removed to the Steinway factory in New York for maintenance and restoration. But in the interim, Curtis undertook a major facility modernization (taking logistical advantage of its temporary closure due to COVID-19). The Institute will reopen to students in the fall, but the renovation project will likely continue to year’s end. For now, the Blashfield Piano enjoys the company of its fellow Steinways in the Jacobs Princeton showroom. So is it for sale? “It could be, but it’s not currently,” Rinaldi smiles. “It’s still the Curtis’s piano.”
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NICIEZA continued from Page 1 author goes to great pains to make sure people know that the story is totally fictional. “...though nearly all of the locations listed in the book are real, anything that happens once a character walks inside the door of that location is pure fiction. “For anyone planing to egg my house, fiction is not real.” A few weeks before the book was released, I conducted a lengthy Zoom interview with Nicieza shortly before the book was released. We discuss his life, career, the story and what the book is actually about. We also talked about his reasons for setting Suburban Dicks in the WW-P area. Below is an edited and condensed Q&A based on that interview, which will be continued in next month’s issue. Nicieza started our chat by talking about the incident that led to him writing the book: Fabian Nicieza: The whole thing came together as a result of things that were actually happening in my life, which was issues with the gun club (Citizens Rifle and Revolver Club) and our neighborhood being, in essence, threatened by the occasional bullet coming over on a routine basis. We tried to petition the township to limit outdoor shooting, not indoor shooting, just outdoor shooting, and we lost by a 5-4 vote. That was like 1994-95. If I was a gangster in Goodfellas, my remedy would be to hire someone to torch the gun club. But I’m not. I’m a
Fabian Niceieza’s promotional photo, left, which was taken in front of the tracks at the Princeton Junction train station. At right is the cover of his book, “Suburban Dicks.” writer. So my remedy was coming up with sweet revenge in my brain. What if a gun club did something in the past and it comes to light now and causes them all kinds of problems? It was the spark of the idea. What if a suburban murder led to the discovery of something in the past that could affect a lot of people? It just evolved in a really, really different way—to the point where my fic-
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tional gun club is barely a presence in the book itself, but that’s the root of the original book idea. WWP: Believe it or not, I actually started my career in 1987 for a local paper that covered West Windsor and Plainsboro, and I was in attendance covering the meetings where your development came in regarding the outdoor shooting issue at the gun club. It was very controversial. FN: It certainly gave me a very jaded view of town politics and the rationale that those people were making the decisions they were making were purely self-preservational and completely political. WWP: I want to get back to the setting being West Windsor and Plainsboro a little later. For now, can you tell me a little bit about your childhood? FN: I was born in Buenos Aires and we came here when I was four and a half to New York. My dad was an engineer, but he was also an artist. He had a bone china factory in Argentina, and the company didn’t succeed. In his very dramatically Argentinian way, he said, “If I can’t live my dreams here, then I must go look somewhere else.” His sister was already living in New York, because she was married to an international banker, who’s also an Argentinian. So they were already in Queens and they basically sponsored him and his green card to come in. We came here to the United States... in August ’66. We lived in Forest Hills, Queens and I started school in Queens. In 1968, my father got a new job that paid better, so we had to move New Jersey. Most of my dad’s career was in the toy industry. He worked at Remko, which was an old toy company, and the new job he got was... as a methods and standards line engineer in Edison, and we moved to Sayreville. So my elementary school years were in Sayreville.
I was in sixth grade when we moved to Old Bridge, and we went from an apartment to a house. I spent all of my middle school years, high school years and then my college years (at Rutgers) living in Old Bridge. My first job out of college (in 1983) was a publishing company, Berkley Publishing, in New York. Then when my girlfriend, who became my wife, was going to start working for a government job with the state and it was in Lawrenceville. She had been doing a tremendous amount of commuting between postgraduation, her job, and going to graduate school in Camden. She wanted to be closer to work, and I said to her, “Find me a place that gets me into the city, and I’m fine,”and she said, “Okay there’s a train station (Princeton Junction) right near where my new office is going to be.” So we moved into Lawrence Square Village on Quakerbridge Road. We lived at the townhouse for five years and then we moved to a house in West Windsor. We were in West Windsor for eight years and then we moved to Plainsboro in 2001, and we lived there until about 2014. Then the kids were in college and we wanted a smaller house, and we moved back to West Windsor. I think that maybe I’ve got five years tops left here at this house, and then I want to downsize even more. Portugal is sounding really good right about now. WWP: How many children do you have? FN: Two. They’re 27 and 23. They went to Wicoff, Town Center and then North. We did the whole travel soccer, basketball, lacrosse, everything. I coached travel soccer for six, seven years. Both kids, two different travel soccer teams. I coached all through their elementary and middle school years. My oldest daughter was in Girl Scouts and did all that through like six, seventh grade. So, part and parcel, the entire West Windsor-Plainsboro experience. WWP: How did you come to work for Marvel? FN: Before I went to work at Berkley Publishing I had interviewed at both Marvel and DC comics, but I didn’t get either job because they were looking for a slightly higher level experience, and I had literally entry-level. The guy who hired me at Berkley Publishing basically said that publishing is a really incestuous business. It’s who you know, taking advantage of that and getting the opportunities. He said, “You’ll make more money by leaving and coming back here than you would by staying.” So I took that to heart. I really liked working at Berkley a lot. It was a good company. Really good people. We had an excellent softball team. But as often happens in publishing, a friend of a friend’s co-worker has a sister who’s working at Marvel and is looking to hire an assistant, and it was in the manufacturing department of Marvel books. It wasn’t the comics department, and I had no real idea what that meant, because really there
were not Marvel books back then in 1985. She interviewed me and offered me the job. The department was responsible for all of their licensed activity. I did that job for four months. It’s not what I wanted to do, but it was me getting my foot in the door. I got hired there in August of ’85, and in December ’85, the guy who got hired instead of me back in 1983 was looking to hire an assistant, and he hired me. Then, all of a sudden, they merged publicity with direct market sales and turned us into a little promotion and publicity department. All of 1986 was me basically being everyone’s assistant. By the end of ’86, the boss said, “Fabian, you’re going to be the advertising manager because that’s your strength.” So, I got a promotion, and my job was to write and produce all of the advertising that promoted Marvel Comics in Marvel’s comic books. I wrote copy lines and worked with the art director. I was doing four to six house ads, sell sheets, co-op ads, promotional flyers, promo posters and in-store displays. I loved the job. It was great writing experience, because you’re condensing content into something that attracts someone in the middle of all of the hoopla that goes on within a comic book. You have to have a page that draws your eye and makes you pay attention to it, because on the page before, there might be a building exploding and the page after might be Spider-Man diving into 16 characters, so you got to make sure your ad is something that draws attention. I did the job for several years, and I started selling my writing (for the comic books) while I was advertising manager. Back then Marvel would hire internal staff personnel to write freelance, but I wasn’t doing it on the job. I was doing it at home. All of the creative freelance work was done outside the company’s offices. So, I was doing my advertising manager job 9 to 5, and little by little the writing just kept taking off. I enjoyed being at the company a lot, and I had a growing role within the company. I always wanted to be a writer, but I really enjoyed the staff work and the staff interaction (of the regular day job). After about four and a half years as advertising manager, I wrote a copy line that sounded really boring and vaguely familiar to me, and it was because I had written that same boring line a couple of weeks earlier. I said, “okay, that’s it.” The editor-inchief at that time had been asking me if I wanted to be an editor (for the comic books), because they knew me by then, and they understood that the skill sets I brought to putting an ad together is no different than the skill sets necessary to put a comic together. I basically decided to switch over to editorial—not so much because I had a burning desire to be an editor, because it’s honestly an incredibly thankless job, but I wanted to stay within the company, and I wanted a new challenge. So I became an editor, and in 1990,
West Windsor resident Fabian Nicieza at a museum exhibition of Marvel works in Philadelphia. To his right is framed artwork from an “X-Men” comic that he wrote 20 years earlier. I think I was Marvel’s editor for most of their licensed material. So when I started, there was Alf, the old TV show with a little fuzzy alien guy. We had an Alf comic. I was going to be launching two Barbie titles, and Ren and Stimpy. We ended up with a book based on William Shatner’s, Tech World novel series. It was a weird mix of a lot of things. I told them that if I’m going to be an editor, I wanted to be editing things that are not like what I’m writing, and at that point I was mostly exclusively writing superhero stuff. Even though it was excruciating, the job was still a great learning experience, because I had to work with outside licensors and companies. I had to do a tremendous amount of presentations to them because companies go through licensing departments like candy bars. Every six months, they cycle a whole new licensing department through. I literally had to train three different licensing groups within Mattel about how comics are put together within a 14 month span. It was mind-boggling, you know? I did that until about ’94ish, and the writing had taken off so much. I was writing some of Marvel’s top-selling books at the time—the X-books: X-men, X-Force, Cable. All three were top 10 books for quite a while. That’s when we created Deadpool. (Nicieza created the character with writer/artist Robert Liefeld.) The books were selling a tremendous amount of copies back then, and the writing was making me nine-tenths of my income, but the editorial job was taking nine-tenths of my time. I’m not a math whiz, but those numbers didn’t make a lot of sense, so I basically cut back on my editorial job and was made an internal consultant. I did that going in two days a week in ’95 just to stay with my foot in the door in the company, until too many things were happening within the company that weren’t comfortable for me. I ended up quitting all my writing and my staff job at Marvel in a 12-month span. By the end of 95, I was
barely writing anything for them, and I was no longer on staff. That’s when the guy who owned Acclaim Comics was trying to get to come over and run their company. (Nicieza was hired by Acclaim Comics as senior vice-president and editor-inchief in 1996, and he became president and publisher in 1997. He left Acclaim in 1999.) There was a two to three year span there where I was overworked, and it was my own bad, conscious choice to do that. I was working seven days a week and also traveling for the company doing store appearances, convention appearances. I was doing a lot of distributor meeting presentations, licensing meetings, international publishing meetings, all of this stuff. After Acclaim, I really kind of slowed down a lot on purpose. And my second kid was born, so I started writing from home and basically purposefully scaling down quite a lot. WWP: So after Acclaim, have you primarily worked as a freelance writer? FN: Yeah, pretty much. I’ve done comic book work for pretty much every major company. I’ve done intellectual property management and story world development with the company Starlight Runner Entertainment in New York. I’ve done animation bibles. One animation story world development job I did is airing now on Kartoon Channel, which is a new app. It’s a cartoon called Superhero Kindergarten that Stan Lee had developed with
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Some of the animation bibles, pay well, but nothing ever becomes of it. It doesn’t get financing, it doesn’t get distribution, whatever. I tend to look at those work-for-hire jobs with—not mercenary, that’s not the right word— but understanding it’s very transitory in nature. With my experiences—even if some of them didn’t work or even if they had negative situations—I always walked away with something positive out of it. Either really valuable experience or making good friends and good contacts. WWP: When did you decide to work on the book? FN: I had tried to do it in the past and wasn’t happy with what I had done. I just didn’t think it was good, and I had tried to write this book a few times. I’ve tried to write a couple other books a few times and just ended up stopping real quickly. About 30 or 40 pages into it going, “meh, no, no, no.” At the end of 2017, I just said, “I’ve got to give this a shot, because if I don’t finish one that I start, then what? What kind of a writer have I been? I’ve been a professional writer. I’ve been paid to write for 35 years, but when I was 15 years old I wanted to write a book. So I just started it, and I realized for the first time that I probably was writing in my own voice and not somebody else’s, or badly trying to copy a better writer. I’m sure I have a couple startup novels that were really such bad versions See NICIEZA, Page 8
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NICIEZA continued from Page 7 of James Ellroy that I don’t even want to look at them again. What kind of an idiot would try to pattern themselves after James Ellroy? It’s like the most ridiculously unique and distinct writing style that you could have, you know? So I just started writing, and I got like three chapters into it, and I said, “I don’t think this is that bad.” That was literally my objective critical assessment. This is not that bad. I gave it to a couple people to read and I got really positive feedback, and that was enough to encourage me to keep going. So I just kept going, and I wrote little bits at a time. It wasn’t my regular gig, because it wasn’t a paying gig. So it took me over a year to write the first draft of the novel. Then a friend of mine recommended that I hire an editor to go through it and tell me where I could tighten, trim, cut, because it was too long, and I knew it was too long. The manuscript got down to about 450 pages, and I had luckily met an agent through my work with Starlight Runner—Albert Lee at UTA (United Talent Agency), who loved the idea of the book and said he’d be willing to show it to other agents internally at UTA when it was done. So I got lucky that I had that going for me, and I presented it to Albert. A group of people at UTA read it, gave me notes on where to cut more and make some character tweaks and some character changes. Ellen Claire Lamb was the first editor who I hired to read it. That was January or February of 2019. Albert got a manuscript version in summer of 2019, and they gave me notes back in September 2019, did my rewrites by November 2019, and I’d gotten it down to about 400 pages. My first draft was 547 pages. At that point, I told Albert, “If we’ve got to change more, I want someone who is actually willing to buy it to be the one to tell me that. I don’t want to just be shooting in the dark anymore.” Albert said, “Fine, let’s take it out,” All along I had taken this entire journey with this single desire to just do it. It was never with an expectation of selling. It was never with an expectation that I even had a chance to sell it. It was never with an expectation that it would make money. You know, I joke that when I first told my boss that I wanted to do this—and my boss is my wife—that if I’m lucky, we sell this to a mystery paperback book publisher for $5,000 or $10,000 and she’s like, “Okay fine, the kids are out of college and the mortgage is done.” But she wasn’t thrilled at that prospect. When Albert took it out, he sent it to some of the top buying editors at some of the top hardcover fiction houses, and we had multiple editors who wanted to buy it. Multiple companies who wanted
the book, and we actually ended up having an auction between several publishing companies, which was incredibly phenomenally fun and weird and unexpected. At the end of the day, there were two publishers left, and each of them had offered a two-book deal as a way to try to sweeten the whole pot. We ended up deciding to go with Putnum for many reasons—the experience of the editor involved and the level of attention they would focus on it because of the nature of the contract. We knew that it would be a book they would promote and publicize, because it would be in their best interest to do that. The idea that my first novel is being published by the company that I first worked for out of college also meant something to me (Berkley is part of Putnam). I thought that was a really nice story. Not just a nice story to tell, but a nice story to feel. My problem has been, honestly, that the lead time in book publishing is so long, and I’m so not used to it, that this thing is coming out in a week and a half, but it’s almost ancient history by my standards. I’m used to producing multiple works per month. I’m not used to writing a book that I started in 2017 that doesn’t get published until 2021. I wrote the second book in 2020, and it’s being line edited now. I finished the first draft back in the fall. The second book won’t be published until summer of 2023. So it’s such a long lead time, it’s crazy. I think the only things that tend to be a little crazier than that is TV and film development, where things could be bounced around for 10 years sometimes. For me it’s been really weird talking about the book as some measure of creative fulfillment. Sometimes I’m feeling that from a lot of people, friends especially. Quite honestly, it’s like, what the hell you think I’ve been doing for the last 30 years? A part of me gets a little defensive when I’m being told that the book is like an accomplishment etc., etc., etc. I’ve sold a hundred million comic books. In my mind, I just type and I want to be paid when I type. That’s how I’ve been operating for a long, long time. I have a kind of a weird quirky perspective on it. I’m happy the book is getting really good reviews, and I’m surprised and pleased about that, but I don’t want to think that if this hadn’t been published, I would have died a failure. Next issue, Nicieza talks about the story behind the story in Suburban Dicks as well as how it relates to setting the novel in the West Windsor and Plainsboro area.
‘What kind of an idiot would try to pattern themselves after James Ellroy?’
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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.
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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. –Sam Sciarrotta
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.” We talked to Sager over the phone about writing women, the recent horror lit boom and more. The conversation follows below. *** Six09: “Sur vive the Night” is almost out, and it really does seem to be a big summer for horror and thrillers with this new class or writers. There’s Sur vive the Night, a new Stephen Graham Jones, a new Grady Hendrix. How does it feel to be a part of this gang of writers all doing different things with the genre? Riley Sager: It’s a really good time to be a reader and a writer. This summer is just ridiculous with the amount of amazing books coming out. I’ve been joking with other writers on Twitter that we should call it #HotBookSummer. It’s just filled with all of these books. Every time I see a new list, it’s like, “Okay, that one I’m gonna read, that one I’m gonna
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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.’ –Author 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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would want to see in an improved oven. “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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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. When Garzio learned that Hotfoil outsourced the production of its equipment, he suggested that the company could save money by moving manufacturing operations in house and offered
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The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton welcomes members from Plainsboro, West Windsor and a number of other 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. Members from Plainsboro and West Windsor include Sushant Chadha, Pauline Guenard and Ritvik Rangaraju. Rex Parker, director of the AAAP, has been involved with the club since the 90s. He retired in 2014 as a senior research fellow from Bristol-Myers Squibb and is a biochemist by training. Always having an interest in understanding the origin of life transferred over to the question of life on other planets. Astronomy and astrophotography are some of Parker’s areas of interest and knowledge that he brings to his position as director, which he held back in the 90s, again in the early 2000s and now for the past six years. 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. “One of my main projects over the last half dozen years as director has been to acquire new, higher technology equip-
ment and to train and coax the members and the keyholder trained members, teach them how to use it and get them enthused about using it so that we can improve the quality of the experience of astronomy by the public as well as by members,” Parker said. 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, 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. 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. “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. 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.” 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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Each month, the Historical Society of West Windsor—a nonprofit dedicated to documenting, preserving and publicizing the history of our community—publishes a column covering our town’s surprisingly rich heritage. This month, we explore yet another venerable crossroads community: Edinburg.
Lënape and landowners This column has covered several topics since its start in January, including two of our town’s oldest communities (Dutch Neck/Penns Neck) and the history of the indigenous Lëni Lënape. Today, we extend this exploration to include yet another community indelibly tied to Lenape roots, colonial settlement and township development. Primarily situated around the intersection of Edinburg, Windsor-Edinburg and Old Trenton roads, the community of Edinburg is replete with history. This area was originally frequented by the Lënape (see May/June articles). Over the centuries, artifacts such as arrowheads, axes and more have been found along the banks of the nearby Assunpink Creek—itself
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Looking down Old Trenton Road and at Edinburg’s general store and post office in 1962. The Edinburg Hotel on the right edge and Jacob Clayton’s is store on the left. (Photo courtesy of Howard E. Schrader.) named after the local Lënape subtribe. As explored in June, a recently discovered deed strongly suggests that in 1703, two Lënape leaders—Hapohucquona and Tolomhon—sold all of West Windsor south of the Assunpink Creek—or about 1,900 acres—to David Lyell, one of our town’s original landowners. Combine this with Lyell’s 1697 acquisition of 4,500-acres north
of the Assunpink Creek and east of Penn-Lyle Road, and it seems he may have possessed nearly all of presentday Edinburg for several years, albeit as an absentee landowner.
Early settlement We don’t currently know the precise year settlers came to the Edin-
burg area, but within the next several decades, farming families began to settle the vicinity. Some, such as the Tindalls, Conovers, and Mounts (among others) still reside here. They cleared swaths of woodland and established expansive farms. They constructed sturdy barns and houses of timber and stone. They established and maintained road systems, some of which lasts to this day. And they lived lives as vivid and complex as ours. By the mid-1700s (perhaps the 1730s/40s), a community began to manifest. In fact, township tax records claim that the oldest remaining house in West Windsor is at 1727 Old Trenton Road and may date back to 1742. Another, the John Rogers house, stands just southwest of the Mercer County Park marina. You may have visited these brick ruins, dating to 1751/61, and recently converted to an open-air history exhibit. This community was originally called “Sanpink,” ultimately a shortening of the local Lënape tribe’s name. It was initially part of a stagecoach route connecting various towns in New Jersey. Its name was reputedly changed to Edinburg in the mid-1800s to honor a popular resident who was from Edinburgh, Scotland. See EDINBURG, Page 14
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EDINBURG cont. from Page 13
Edinburg Establishments According to tradition, a pre-Revolution hotel/tavern sat about 300 yards from the crossroads. It was reputedly relocated to the intersection in the early 1800s and operated until it burned down around 1895. It was rebuilt in a Victorian style but was heavily modified over the decades. During Prohibition, the hotel was reputedly a speakeasy. In the 1940s, it became the base for recreational hunting weekends. The hotel still stands at 1719 Old Trenton Road, albeit as an orange stucco office building. Mid-1800s maps show a schoolhouse near the current Edinburg Animal Hospital. Indeed, when the old West Windsor school system (c. 1827/8-1969) was created, Edinburg was listed as a sub-district. This building was demolished decades ago. The community’s general store at 1720 Old Trenton Road was likely constructed between 1790 and 1825. It offered food, dry goods, and services not easily obtained elsewhere. A post office was reputedly set up inside around 1852 with Richard R. Rogers as postmaster and storekeeper—like many of his successors. Mail traveled by stagecoach and connected the community to the rest of the world. Apparently, gas was sold at least as far back as the 1920s, and two antique pumps still stand at the intersection. The building now houses Greenhouse Graphics and the Village Pantry Deli.
Ebenezer Melvin Sailey (left) in front of his basket factory at 1337 Edinburg Road. Date unknown. (Photo courtesy of the Updike Family.) A variety of businesses called Edinburg home. Jacob Clayton operated a different general store which stood at the crossroads (1716 Old Trenton Road) until a few years ago. In the early 1800s, Daniel Howell operated a blacksmith shop that lasted for about a century. Around 1810, Thomas Leonard established a foundry. In the mid-1800s, Amos Tindall operated a distillery selling “applejack” and cider. Elison Carson ran a grist mill near the junction of Robbinsville-Edinburg and Old Trenton roads. Other establishments included a broom factory, a wheelwright shop, several shoemaker’s establishments, a chair maker, a weaving shop, and two bas-
ket factories—one owned by Melvin Sailey and another by Absalom Hart. However, there was no house of worship—instead, parishioners visited churches in Dutch Neck, Windsor (in Robbinsville) and Hamilton.
20th Century development
1990s/2000s suburban developments throughout town. Mercer County Community College opened in 1972 on the site of former farmland. Around the same time, the Mercer County Parks Commission was in the midst of buying the land that would become Mercer County Park and dammed the Assunpink Creek creating Mercer Lake in the process. Amid this flux, vast swaths of farmland and dozens of old farmhouses vanished forever. The old businesses have long disappeared. And the heart of the community is now chronically congested. Still, much of old Edinburg persists. A few dozen 1700s-early 1900s buildings still dot the landscape. Hundreds of acres are still farmed along Robbinsville-Edinburg, Old Trenton, and Windsor-Edinburg roads. And descendants of some of the community’s earliest settlers still live there, maintaining centuries of heritage. All this change and development makes the recognition of our town’s history, and the preservation of what remains, that much more critical. To contact, join,or donate to the Historical Society and explore more WW history, visit westwindsorhistory.com. We are also on social media—search “Historical Society of West Windsor” on Facebook and “@SchenckFarmstead” on Instagram. Email us at westwindsorhistory@gmail.com.
Edinburg remained a farming community through the early 1900s, hardly changing except for the introduction of street lights, electricity and paved roads. However, things changed in the latter half of the 20th century. In the 1960/70s, communities such as Edinburg/Jefferson park off Edinburg Paul Ligeti is the head archivist of the and Conover Roads were portents for Historical Society of West Windsor. –
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