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EVOLVING NEIGHBORHOOD

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I think it is the only town in the world where, when you are asked where you are from, you don’t need to say the name of the state or the province after the name of the town—just saying “Princeton” says it all.

However once every year, in the spring, Princeton lets its hair down and becomes an amazing scene of orange and black as it welcomes the University alumni and their families, some 30,000 people, back for its reunions. The reunions are a festival of fellowship, good feelings, bad food, great music, lots of beer, and the amazing alumni P-rade—a four-hour pilgrimage through the campus by some 75 years of Princeton classes celebrating the institution, its president, and each graduate’s class. In watching the P-rade, you can see some truly great American citizens march by as part of their class in those ridiculous costumes: Judge Harold Medina, Secretary of State James Baker, Chinese developer Gordon Wu, actor Jimmy Stewart, who was so much taller than I could ever imagine, and such athletic stars as basketball player Bill Bradley and Heisman Trophy-winner Dick Kazmaier.

Many envious peer institutions look at Princeton’s P-rade as the biggest fundraising machine in the entire nonprofit world. But, to many of the graduates, it is viewed as their entire lives passing before them as they see the young graduates, the young parents with their kids, and the older retired grads in their golf carts driven by undergraduates. There are tears in many graduate eyes as the classes march by to the cheers of each class...Rah! Rah! Rah!...Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!...Sis Boom Bah!...etc.

I believe the ridiculous costumes are a brilliant equalizer that makes the entire reunion experience work for each returning graduate. You can be a billionaire hedge fund mogul on Wall Street or a pastor at a small country church in Appalachia, but once you put on that gaudy orange and black class reunion uniform, you are just as equal to all of your classmates as you were, those many years ago, when you were all struggling undergraduates in a great educational institution where the tuition was only a fraction of what it is today.

With this as our Spring and Reunions issue, our fabulous Art Director Jeff Tryon suggested that instead of the usual stodgy Publisher’s portrait, I share with you some personal family reunion photos and an even more stodgy graduate portrait from The Nassau Herald. I will not own up to my class year since I am still with Jack Benny’s attitude that I am not yet beyond 39 years old.

All of the above said about reunions, I hope you enjoy our artistic presentation of the Princeton Reunions and the intriguing write-up of all that it takes for the University to orchestrate such a huge undertaking, year after year.

While reunions are all about class histories, this particular year marks the centennial of the American involvement in World War I. Princeton University’s memorialization of the loss of its many graduates was the inspiration of President Hibben as he called for the construction of the University Chapel, truly one of the most beautiful buildings on the campus.

We touch on some other important and interesting buildings in Princeton with our continuing series on important Princeton houses. In this issue we cover the Grant Homes restoration of the 1920s Ernest Flagg-designed home at 75 Cleveland Lane and Pinneo Construction’s new Hodge Road contemporary house, the elegant entrance of which graces this issue’s cover.

Consistent with the tone set by these amazing residences, you should enjoy our coverage of the books about the gardens of such prominent homes as George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and our own Morven, the home of Richard Stockton and, for many years, the official residence of New Jersey’s governors.

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With spring upon us, there is a lot to do around the house to get ready for a relaxing summer. In this fix-up mode, you may also feel inspired to try your hand at woodworking and metalworking.

There are now shops for hire where they teach you these new trades as a hobby and then rent you a space or a bench by the hour to further what you learned in the introduction classwork. Read our article on this new way to delay a big expenditure at Sears on equipment before you really know that you love using it.

Even if you don’t get into this craft world, please do enjoy the spring and your issue of this magazine. And, if you have nothing better to do on Saturday, June 3, take in the Reunion P-rade...you will never forget or regret it. I just might see you there.

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Evolving nEighborhood PrincEton’s WEstErn sEction homEs AdAPt to 21st-cEntury lifEstylEs by ilEnE dubE | PhotogrAPhy by Jon roEmEr

45 Hodge Road rinceton’s Western section, bordered by Bayard Lane, Westcott Road, Elm Road and Stockton Street, is prized for its Colonial, Tudor, Victorian and Gothic homes.

Designed by such noteworthy architects as Rolf Bauhan, John Notman and Charles Steadman, some of these houses have been lived in by members of the Stockton family, Woodrow Wilson and Grover Cleveland. Stately gardens and heirloom trees envelope the streets with a sense of nature.

To accommodate 21st-century lifestyles, many of the older houses have undergone complete renovations, and some have been rebuilt from the ground up. As the season unfolds, the Tudor Revival at 75 Cleveland Lane is blooming with new possibilities.

Formerly a single residence designed by Ernest Flagg in the early 1900s, the site will soon accommodate two houses. The property was bought in December 2015 by Jay Grant of Grant Homes and designed anew by Peter Dorne, A.I.A. A few blocks away, at 45 Hodge Road, sits a brandnew modern house designed by A.I.A. Award winner Wesley Wei of Philadelphia. Formerly the property was occupied by a gabled Cape-like cottage designed in 1970

by William Thompson, a one-time prominent Princeton architect whose Williamsburg, Virginia, origins influenced his style. The Thompson Cape sold for $1,650,000 in 2013 and was deconstructed for the owners by Details, a Baltimore company that repurposes cabinets and other salvageable materials. Homeowners who use Details, a nonprofit that provides jobs to skilled crew members who have faced barriers to employment, get a tax credit.

Both 75 Cleveland and 45 Hodge rose to the challenge of modern living in an historic neighborhood. Coincidentally, both builders who tackled these projects started out as philosophy majors.

During the late 20th and early 21st centuries, artists, curators, collectors and celebrities gathered behind the thick fieldstone walls and wrought iron gate at 75 Cleveland. Flagg, known for his Beaux-Arts designs in New York such as the Singer and Scribner buildings, Washington D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery, and in Princeton, the Princeton University Press building on William Street, built 75 Cleveland for Walter Colpitts, an associate of Brooklyn Bridge-designer John Roebling. Whimsical ironwork throughout is Colpitts’s own, presumably made from the forge he kept in the carriage house.

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A 2014 real estate listing provides a good description of what this property used to be: “Unique architectural features abound, from European tiles to intricately carved doors and corbels. Archways adorn the cathedral great room with striking fireplace. Off the breathtaking three-story front hall, the grandly proportioned dining room, lined with French doors, opens to the garden. Nestled on a lower level is a handsome library with a fireplace.

Beyond the eat-in kitchen is a back hall with a trio of servants’ rooms used as offices and served by a full bath… A sun-drenched family room, two suites and a third bedroom… comprise the second floor, while a large guest suite enjoys the privacy of the entire top floor. A separate two-bedroom apartment and a greenhouse flank the gravel drive.”

But after two years on the market, there were no offers. The starting price, $2.5 million, dropped to $2 million.

A realtor phoned Jay Grant to describe the property.

“The intention was to sell it to someone who would restore it,” says Grant. A one-time philosophy major at Tulane, Grant joined his family business and has built homes in Hopewell and Princeton. Based in Mendham, with a Morristown mailing address, Grant Homes has built more than 200 spec houses. “But no one wanted to take on that monster—despite all its features and uniqueness, it hadn’t been touched since the 1920s and was dated. There were sewing rooms and hobby rooms that no longer made sense. The floor plan was not based on entertaining in the 21st century—but the one-acre site could be subdivided into two buildable lots. I bought it without conditions.” He paid $1.6 million—what some who admired the property might consider a steal, while Grant was calculating whether he’d be able to recoup his investment.

The initial problem Grant confronted was the subdivision would have to go straight through the house, splitting it in half. “It would break my heart to tear it down, but I’m in the business of building and selling,” says Grant. “We did our application for the subdivision, meeting all criteria—they can’t deny an applicant the legal right to use the land as zoned.”

Grant brought in his tennis buddy, architect Peter Dorne, recognized for his work in new design as well as historic preservation, renovation and adaptive re-use of existing spring 2017 prinCETOn MAgAZinE

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45 Hodge Road structures. According to his website, Dorne appreciates “design elements in the stately mansions and palaces of England and France, the gracious homes of Colonial and Victorian America and the austere lines of Early American Homesteads.” Among his credits are the Ryland Inn in Whitehouse Station and the Thomas Kean Reading Room at Drew University.

A one-time Chairman of the Historic Preservation Committee of Morris Township, Dorne uses cupolas, turrets, gables and balconies in his designs.

“Peter has an eye,” recounts Grant. “He came one Sunday morning to look at the house and said ‘You can’t take this down, it would be a sin. This house has great bones—you could never build a house like this today.’ “’I get that, but I have millions invested,’” Grant recounts. “I told him that if he could show me his vision I would make it happen.”

Grant’s strategy was to enlist the help of the Princeton Historic Preservation Commission, which wanted to preserve the house, and to approach the Planning Board for the needed variance. The approval was granted to subdivide the property in a way that would preserve the main house and carriage house, but also allow Grant to build a new house on the lot, with an address at 70 Lafayette. With construction on the new house expected imminently, Grant hopes 75 Cleveland will be complete by summer. Although not of the same genre, Grant says, these two houses, both surrounded by a stone wall, will be related. “More of a cousin that a brother,” he says.

The new house is expected to cost $3,300,000. The house at 75 Cleveland “will cost significantly more,” says Grant. “It’s been an extraordinary experience, complex and challenging. I had two guys chiseling concrete, putting in steel beams, shoring up the house, cutting holes in the bottom...” Experts from Philadelphia with special concrete saws were brought in for the 12-inch thick walls. “Hopefully the end result will be an awesome place to live and make a statement from which the neighborhood will benefit.”

One problem Dorne addressed was that the back of the house faced the road. Dorne’s idea was to move the front entryway to the street side, making it more inviting.

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The 21st-century features include a redesign of the grand ballroom, adding French doors and large windows to the lower-level billiards room, and increasing the light and the interaction with the exterior. “The house will have larger rooms, heated floors, central AC, and blown-in insulation so it is energy efficient,” says Grant. “I brought in a crew from North Jersey that specializes in slate roofs—that roof will be around longer than I will. The ideal buyer will want to entertain in large spaces. It will be a family that appreciates history, and they will have a home that couldn’t be built today. They will even have an apartment for a family member or nanny, all within walking distance from downtown.”

AT HOME IN THE 21sT CENTURY

The brand-new construction at 45 Hodge Road is a modernist’s dream. The owners, who requested their names not be used, learned about the A.I.A.-awardwinning Wesley Wei when they were shopping at the Philadelphia showroom of Bultaup Studio, which just happens to be run by his wife, Rachel Hoffman, an interior designer. Influenced by Bauhaus, Bultaup is a German engineered cabinet system. “It’s so well thought out, I became a convert,” says Wei. During his childhood outside Philadelphia, he wanted to design bridges. “But then I discovered that great bridges are designed by engineers,” says Wei, who served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania for 25 years. He considers his influences to be Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava Valls (known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons), and architects Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier.

“The owners wanted a new house close to town, where they could walk to do errands and go for dinner,” says builder Tom Pinneo. “Marc Brahaney was the architect of record, and Wes was the design architect.” Pinneo, who does both new construction and restoration, says he sees a growing interest among younger homeowners for new construction. “We now do about 75 percent modern houses,” he says. Current projects are on Lake Drive and Prospect, but in the past he’s received historic preservation awards from the Historical

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rendering and construction photography courtesy of grant homes custom builders.

75 Cleveland lane Marketed by Wendy Merkovitz, Broker Associate at Gloria Nilson & Co. Real Estate

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renderings courtesy of grant homes custom builders.

70 Lafayette road Marketed by Wendy Merkovitz, Broker Associate at Gloria Nilson & Co. Real Estate

Society of Princeton for Beatty House on Vandeventer, a Carriage Barn on Winant, and an addition and renovation at 19 Linden Lane.

Wei has designed homes in San Francisco, Montreal, Miami, New England and on the Jersey Shore. “I’ve always been interested in modernism, with its sense of space, light, simplicity and minimalism,” he says. “I’m attracted to things that don’t have visual static, but have a sense of calm and serenity.”

Taking their shoes off before walking on the pristine floors, Wei and Pinneo discuss how, in traditional architecture, molding serves a hidden purpose of resolving where one plane or condition meets another. “The challenge in a house like this is greater,” says Pinneo.

Another challenge is the scale of a modern building in a historic neighborhood, and setback variances had to be secured. If the house were surrounded by open space, there might be more glass walls, but the windows facing the street are smaller, saving the large glass walls for views of the garden.

“I see my work as an assemblage of components, and I’m fortunate that I have clients who have art collections,” says Wei. “We talked about how many cars, bedrooms, bathrooms, but the important thing was going to their house and looking at their artwork and furnishings.”

The front of the house had to fit in on the street, being symmetrical, proper and formal. Once inside, a wall, tiled in an Italian ceramic that resembles corten steel, becomes an organizing element around which all the space is spun off—the “bridge.” Extra-large white porcelain floor tiles, with radiant heat, extend from inside to the outside parterre, pavilion, pool and terrace.

The first thing that strikes a visitor upon entry is the Buddha set into a wall—just one example of how the house was designed for the owners’ artwork.

“The design didn’t spring full blown from my head like Athena, but it was organic over time,” says Wei. Even the lighting design, by Eve Quellman of Narberth, Pa., was sent to Boise Cascade so the framing could work around it. “We get excited about things that make it work that the client doesn’t even think about,” says Pinneo.

“This is the biggest house in my 27-year building career,” says Mike Danna, the project manager. “Everything has a purpose and I wasn’t used to it and had to learn it. Wes is unique and has a vision. The owners are peaceful, quiet and warm, and when the project was finished they had a soirée for everyone who worked on the project.”

“Doing a custom home is like couture, not off-the-rack but tailored,” says Wei. “I had to find a good home for the elements of their lives.”

The cabinets, from Hoffman’s Bultaup Studio, are a smoked oak, minimal and clean,

and it’s hard to believe any cooking goes on here, but when the cabinet doors are opened one finds, indeed, the hidden tools of a passionate cook. The smoked oak extends to coat closets and the cabinet surrounding the TV in the sitting room, which also houses a fireplace.

On the lower level, even the gym and the fully stocked wine cellar have paintings on the walls. The artwork continues upstairs, where every window frames a view, as if these, too, were landscape paintings.

Before Pinneo became a builder, he was studying philosophy with the goal of teaching Taoism, but the greatest lesson he learned was from a carpenter: “What we know in this life we know from doing,” he recounts. “I had no training in building, but I had life training, knowing how to pull together the right people and step back.”

Wei, too, has learned to work with consultants. He is deliberate about calling the house’s design “modern” rather than “contemporary.” “For me, modern is an attitude, whereas contemporary is a style,” he says. “I hope my work is not a style but an attitude.

I tend to stay away from design magazines. I’d rather read about fly fishing.” spring 2017 prinCETOn MAgAZinE

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White House, south entrance & flower beds. Circa 1907.

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A Rich Spot of Earth by Peter J. Hatch, various seeds from the Center for Historic Plants, Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf, All the Presidents’ Gardens by Marta McDowell.

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ardening, it has been said, is one thing we can discuss while setting aside partisan politics—even when it involves the gardening practices of our nation’s political leaders. As garden historian Marta McDowell puts it, “Whether gardeners lean right or left, blue or red, we are united by a love of green-growing things and the land in which they grow.”

McDowell, who gardens and writes in Chatham, New Jersey, traces the story of how the White House grounds were conceived and how they morphed with changing administrations in All the Presidents’ Gardens: Madison’s Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses—How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America (Timber Press, 2016). We get glimpses into such presidential pastimes as Lincoln’s goats, Ike’s putting green, Jackie’s iconic roses and Amy Carter’s tree house.

When Michelle Obama dug ground for her organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in 2009, she was raising not only produce for the White House Kitchen and the Food Bank Organization, but also national pride in growing things. The roots of her garden go back to Colonial times. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison all operated farms, and believed agriculture was the noblest occupation and the foundation of democracy.

During the Revolutionary War, Washington encouraged his troops to eat vegetables and even to plant them if time allowed. While our nation’s early leaders may have torqued a tendon bending over to seed the fertile earth, their dedication to the soil shaped the way they forged the nation.

In Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature and the Shaping of the American Nation (Knopf, 2011), author Andrea Wulf looks at the founding fathers as gardeners, plantsmen and farmers. “Not only did they create the United States in a political sense,” she writes, “they had also understood the importance of nature for their country.”

Gardening, agriculture and botany were passions as deeply ingrained as their belief in liberty for the nation. Wulf reveals how, even as British ships gathered off Staten Island during the Revolution, Washington bombarded the manager of his beloved Mount Vernon with detailed instructions, insisting on prompt replies. If Washington were president today, such gardening correspondence might activate a Twitter storm.

During years of diplomatic service overseas, Adams and Jefferson toured private gardens and studied the latest agricultural techniques. Adams was the first president to live in the White House, then surrounded by mud flats, and Jefferson, focused more on his Monticello gardens than the White House, wanted only native shrubs and trees.

Reasons for gardening during Colonial times were similar to the reasons people garden today: To have a source of fresh produce, to be outdoors, breathing in the fresh air and sunshine, and to experience the simple pleasure of digging one’s hands into the dirt. Martha Washington once wrote that growing vegetables was among “the best parts of living in the country.”

It should be pointed out that none of these gardens would have been possible without the hard work of slaves. In 1799, Mount Vernon was home to a community of 317 enslaved men, women and children. George and Martha Washington relied on enslaved labor to keep their plantation profitable. And at Monticello, about 130 enslaved men, women, and children lived and worked on the plantation, producing cash crops of tobacco and wheat.

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reflection on her. She was a keen plants woman.”

Washington was serious about manure, the salvation for soils robbed of their fertility. His interest can be observed in a letter he penned to a friend requesting that he find Washington a farm manager “above all, Midas like, one who can convert everything he touches into manure, as the first transmutation towards gold.”

Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favored are thriving. The garden is a living expression of Jefferson’s distinctly American attitudes. Its impact on the culinary, garden and landscape history of the United States continues to the present day. Peter J. Hatch, who directed the restoration of the garden, has written A Rich Spot of Earth (Yale University Press, 2012), devoted to all aspects of the Monticello vegetable garden, from the asparagus and artichokes first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson’s retirement years (1809–1826). The author explores topics ranging from labor in the garden, garden pests of the time and seed saving practices to contemporary African American gardens. Hatch also discusses Jefferson’s favorite vegetables and the hundreds of varieties he grew, the half-Virginian half-French cuisine he developed, and the gardening traditions he adapted from many other countries.

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Benjamin Franklin believed agricultural self-sufficiency was vital for the increasingly rebellious colonies. While in London he sent seeds home, not just for the enhancement of his own garden but to be distributed to other Philadelphia plantsmen.

James Madison, Wulf suggests, is the forgotten father of American environmentalism. He sounded the clarion call against the perils of depleting soil by clearing forests and over farming land, urging fellow Virginia farmers to protect the old-growth forests. As president of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, he made a speech offering advice on how to live off the land without destroying it.

“This was an approach that celebrated the American landscape as it was rather than creating something entirely new and European,” writes Wulf.

Gardens during Colonial times (1600 to 1775) were diverse, varying by geographic area, climate, and economic status and heritage of the owner.

Seeds from around the world were mixed in with such native plants as tobacco and corn. Colonists did not develop or use garden plans as landscape designers do today. Most Colonial gardens were small and close to the house, with a walkway (brick, gravel or stone) from the house’s entrance to the center of the garden. Planting beds could be square,

circular or rectangular, and paths forked out from the main walkway. Fruits, herbs, flowers and vegetables were mixed together in beds that were frequently raised and enclosed with either fences or boxwood hedges. Visitors to the gardens at Mount Vernon today can see the ha-ha walls Washington created to separate the working farm from the pleasure grounds.

Washington oversaw all aspects of the landscape at Mount Vernon. He extensively redesigned the grounds surrounding his home, adopting the less formal, more naturalistic style of 18th-century English garden landscape designer Batty Langley.

Washington reshaped walks, roads and lawns; cut vistas through the forest, and planted hundreds of native trees and shrubs. The well-ordered gardens provided food for the mansion’s table and were also pleasing to the eye. Eighteenth-century visitors to Mount Vernon were treated to bountiful offerings of fresh vegetables and fruits, and reveled in after-dinner walks among opulent flowering plants.

Says Mount Vernon’s Director of Horticulture Dean Norton: “The kitchen garden was the most important garden on any grounds in the 18th century.

Ever since this garden was created in 1760 it hasn’t changed, and has generated a lot of fruits, vegetables and berries. The person who had more to do with this garden than George Washington was Martha Washington. One of her main responsibilities was the evening meal. Not only was it supposed to be abundant but elegant, and if not it was a direct

The Greenhouse at George Washington’s gardens at Mount Vernon.

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Aerial view of the White House, Washington, D.C.

White House, West Colonial Garden (present-day Southwest Rose Garden, which replaced the West Colonial Garden). Circa 1917.

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photographs courtesy of shutterstock.com Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years.

The Vegetable Garden: The 1,000-foot-long garden terrace served as both a source of food and an experimental laboratory at Monticello.

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and Morven has a team of 30 volunteers who come to help on Thursdays.

As with all gardens, Morven’s is a place where survival of the fittest can be observed. In August, the blue winged digger wasp pays a visit. The wasp is a parasitoid—unlike a parasite that lets its host live, a parasitoid kills its host. Sounds nasty, except that the digger wasp’s victim is that notorious garden pest the Japanese beetle. The fierce wasps locate the white beetle grubs beneath the surface of the earth, tunnel through the dirt, deliver a paralyzing sting, and deposit an egg on the skin of the grub. The hapless white grub is incapable of removing the egg which soon hatches and the parasitic larva of the digger wasp slowly consumes its victim. After completing its development during summer and autumn, the wasp larva spins a cocoon of silk, pupates, and passes the winter in the burrow created by the white grub. Fresh, new wasps emerge as adults the following August.

But before you cancel your plans to visit: the digger wasp does not sting. “Yellow jackets give wasps a bad name,” says Ruch. “Most wasps will sting to defend their territory but are not aggressive and will not chase after you.”

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Morven Museum & Garden, the one-time home of Declaration of Independence signer Richard Stockton, is listed on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark. The grounds can be seen as a patchwork of history. The horse chestnut walk that connects the museum to the Princeton municipal complex is a restoration of one that existed in the late 18th century. The formal front lawn, rimmed by a row of Southern catalpa trees, came to be when the road now known as Stockton Street was straightened over 200 years ago. Disease-resistant American elms, replacements for those lost to Dutch Elm disease at the turn of the 20th century, once again flank the restored horseshoe-shaped drive.

From the vantage point of the back courtyard, a visitor can admire a 19th-century brick wall that divided the pleasure garden from the more utilitarian areas, a Colonial Revival garden that replicates one that Helen Hamilton Shields Stockton grew in 1927, and a recreation area that recalls the 1940s tenancy of Robert Wood Johnson.

For the past five summers, visitors could get a taste of culinary history in Morven’s Kitchen Garden, whose hearty beds featured heirloom and modern varieties of tasty roots and fruits. The robust

garden produced hundreds of pounds of food every year that Morven donated to food banks. But just as visitors grew accustomed to the bounty, so did insect pests—cabbage worms and squash bugs—and deer, and so the vegetables will be taking a year off this summer. The good news is, Colonial-era herbs and flowers will be planted in their stead, according to Morven Horticulturist Pam Ruch, who came on board in 2000 and has been through several phases of restoration of the historic property.

“We don’t really know what Richard and Annis Stockton grew,” says Ruch. “Although Annis may have written about certain plants in her poetry, it’s not necessarily what was grown here. We will be planting what you would have seen during the Colonial period, such as old varieties of zinnias and Maltese cross sunflowers.”

The vegetables had been grown in 16 four-by12-foot beds, and these beds, punctuated by an iron sculpture of interlocking circles, will bloom with flowers that attract pollinators. “The food banks like flowers, too,” says garden assistant Nancy Nicosia, who raises the plants from seeds under grow lights.

Among her seed sources is Monticello. At press time she was ordering celosia, Love-Lies-Bleeding amaranth, verbena and coneflowers. “Pollinators love it,” she says. Milkweed, the food source for the Monarch butterfly, already grows wild on the beds.

The garden is planned so something will always be blooming, and weeds will be suppressed with mulch—but there’s still plenty of weeding to do,

The Colonial Revival garden at Morven Museum & Garden replicates one that Helen Hamilton Shields Stockton grew in 1927.

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Half a year ago an ash tree was growing out of a cleft in the boulder, creating an effect not unlike the tree-in-rock formation in the right foreground of Cézanne’s Rocks— Forest of Fontainebleau, of which Ernest Hemingway said, “This is what we try to do in writing, this and this, and the woods, and the rocks we have to climb over.”

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In Cézanne: Landscape Into Art (Yale Univ. Press $75), Pavel Machotka photographs sites of Cézanne’s landscape paintings from the same spot, angle, and time of day, whenever possible. Then he juxtaposes the photograph with the painting. According to Machotka, “the discipline of landscape became Cézanne’s major source of support and sustenance.” As evidence, he quotes from a letter the painter wrote in 1896: “....were it not that I am deeply in love with the landscape of my country I would not be here.”

The sustenance Cézanne found in landscapes, Monet found in his garden at Giverny: “Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad.

I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” The quote is from Monet’s Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny (Frances Lincoln $25.99), a new paperback edition of Vivian Russell’s classic work that compares photographs of the garden with Monet’s paintings of it, as in Garden Path at Giverny. In another quote Monet asks, “How can one live in Paris?...I prefer my flowers and this hill that surrounds the Seine to all your noises and nocturnal nights.”

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Sarah Rutherford’s Capability Brown and His Landscape Gardens (National Trust 34.95) traces the life and work of the man they called the “Shakespeare of the art of gardening.” Among his projects was Highclere Castle, the location of the mega-hit series Downton Abbey. He got his colorful name, it’s said, from advising people that their grounds had “great capabilities” (meaning potential).

Also known as “The Omnipotent Magician,” he had some

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Two new books in the garden/landscape subject area from local publishers are Susan Brownmiller’s My City Highrise Garden (Rutgers Univ. Press $25), and Charles Waldheim’s Landscape as Urbanism (Princeton Univ.

Press $45), which presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape, examining works from around the world by designers ranging from Ludwig Hilberseimer, Andrea Branzi, and Frank Lloyd Wright to James Corner and Michael Van Valkenburgh. The result is “the definitive account of an emerging field that is likely to influence the design of cities for decades to come.”

Gardening might seem an unlikely fit for renowned feminist journalist/activist Susan Brownmiller, best known for her 1975 landmark work Against Our Will, but a Library Journal review suggests that the combination works: “Brownmiller writes with passion, humor, and complete candidness about 35 years of gardening on the 20th-floor terrace of her Greenwich Village apartment. Along with weather, climate, and critter issues, Brownmiller also describes unique gardening problems that a more traditional yard gardener couldn’t fathom, such as building renovations and neighbors unappreciative of leaf drift—although plenty of them are eager to share plants and pots for Brownmiller’s urban oasis, too. From stories of the loss of her beloved birch trees in the wake of a hurricane to tales of victory at her garden’s thrilling achievements, the author reveals all, including the odd assortment of detritus she discovered

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ometime in April of each year—typically just in time for campus preview visits for accepted high school seniors—the cold, grey damp of winter at Princeton University gives way to a brilliant spring. Dogwood flowers and daffodils grace the grounds with flecks of gold, and white and pink. Saucer Magnolias bloom, lining the newly verdant up-campus lawns. Following their campus’s botanical lead, students emerge too, and all life at the university becomes more visible. Professors hold classes on the steps of the sundial in McCosh Courtyard, and students take their reading outside. The odd frisbee or slack line appears.

Then, after about a week of this idyllic existence, the tents and fences start to go up. Slowly but surely, they spread across the campus landscape, obscuring its architecture and truncating its pathways. But as unsightly as the temporary structures may be, there’s no stopping them: Reunions weekend is on the horizon.

Writing in a 1976 edition of the Princeton Alumni Weekly magazine, Anne Rivers Siddons described her experience of attending her husband’s 25th reunion: “There were maybe 1,500 alumni on campus, all dressed in whatever their class had espoused for the weekend, and the result was absurdly like Disney World, moved lock, stock, and barrel into the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Perhaps even more absurdly, it didn’t look absurd. Princeton reunions, like The Turn of the Screw, have the ability to suspend one’s belief in an orderly rational universe.”

Anyone who has taken part in Princeton Reunions in any of its subsequent 40 iterations would probably agree that the event still hews very closely to her portrayal. It remains an absurd weekend: in equal measure a wild and beer-soaked carnival, a beloved pilgrimage, and—for the administration—a crucial annual (wild and beer-soaked) fundraising event.

But one significant change since that time is a matter of scale. Last year, an estimated 26,000 alumni and guests participated in Reunions—nearly doubling the town’s population, booking local hotels to capacity months in advance, and flooding town and campus with orange and black. What does it take to put on this massive event?

To get a sense of the view from the top, I spoke with Mibs Southerland Mara, who is the senior associate director for classes and reunions. Mara works in the Office of Alumni Affairs, and for the last 12 years has been the administration’s go-to reunions coordinator. Stories on Princeton Reunions, and Princeton alumni, often cite the event as the single largest purchase of beer in the United States after the Indy 500. I’d never been sure whether to trust this as fact, but I figured Mara might be able to shed some light on the matter. Her take is that it’s essentially an unknown. Certainly, the lager flows freely during the long weekend, but because the various alumni classes and eating clubs put in their own orders to a variety of suppliers, there’s no single beer order to account for. I settle for on a “maybe” for this one.

Mara speaks more readily on the scope of her office.

She works throughout the year to coordinate the Reunions efforts of many departments across the university. She’s in on discussions with Facilities to plan for alumni on-campus housing, the dozens of tents, and thousands of feet of fencing.

She works with Campus Dining to make sure everyone is well-fed, and with Transportation and Parking Service to arrange for buses to and from nearby hotels. Mara’s office also has a hand in organizing the Alumni-Faculty Forums, a series of lectures and panels on a wide variety of topics that collectively represent an opportunity for alumni to engage with the academic component of their alma mater between the weekend’s many social events. This year, there will be 25 forums over two days, with subjects ranging from “China in the World Order,” to space exploration, to managing a worklife balance.

Mara’s office is also a resource for alumni volunteers. Alumni classes do much of the organization for their own reunions, and major class reunions (multiples of five, generally) tend to have punny, Princeton-related themes (“Tigeritaville,” “Orange and Black to the Future,” and “May The Fortieth Be With You” are all upcoming this year). Mara often meets with members of alumni classes two or three years in advance of a major reunion to discuss their theme, their reunion logo and clothing, their considerations for entertainment, etc. spring 2017 prinCETOn MAgAZinE

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Alumni also work with Mara to run the P-rade, which for many is the high point of each year’s Reunions. This procession takes place on the Saturday afternoon of Reunions and, except for the evening fireworks, it is the last major event of a given year’s celebrations. Grouped by their graduating class and festooned with orange everything, alumni parade down campus, accompanied by all manner of marching bands and Princeton-themed cars and floats. The 25th reunion class always leads the procession, followed by the oldest returning alumnus and the Old Guard (members of classes beyond their 65th reunion). The P-rade winds down Elm Drive—the main road cutting through campus—cheered by progressively younger classes, who fall into line once the procession passes them. Finally, the graduating senior class joins just before the end of the route, as the alumni spill out onto Poe Field. Each enactment of the P-rade is a sort of living, walking history of Princeton University, with representatives of its alumni community on full display, and it is also a rite of initiation, welcoming the graduating seniors into that very same community.

It is also a logistical bear. Charles J. Plohn, Jr. ’66, acted as grand marshal for the P-rade from 2008 to 2012. In that capacity, he was the primary alumnus working with Mara to organize it. “Planning basically starts a few days after Reunions,” he says. There was more than enough to think about. As grand marshal, Plohn had to recruit other P-rade marshals to help usher along the procession. He had to make decisions about where to place water stops and bathrooms along the route, how many medical personnel to hire, how many golf carts to keep on hand to drive older alumni who are unable to walk the entire mile-long route. There are considerations of pace, too. A procession shorter than three hours, Plohn has concluded, isn’t feasible with the huge number of alumni who have taken part in recent years, but it also shouldn’t extend beyond three hours and 20 minutes. The hot late-May or early-June sun can be punishing, and a sluggish P-rade could lead to exhaustion or heatstroke for some participants.

All of this careful orchestration has to be executed with a light touch, too.

“We’re not trying to militarize the process,” Plohn says, “People are there to have

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fun.” For the marshals, then, it’s a busy afternoon of cajoling, gentle nudging, and firm but friendly shepherding.

On the other hand, for Carolyn Kelly, Class of 2018, who has worked as a student truck driver for Campus Dining during the past two Reunions, the P-rade provides a welcome respite in the midst of an otherwise taxing weekend of work.

“We love the P-rade,” she says. No non-parade vehicles are allowed on the roads on campus during the event, so it’s a chance for Kelly and her fellow student truckers to “relax, have some coffee, take a quick nap.” For most of Friday and Saturday, from 6:00am to 11:00pm, Kelly and her crew are on the move, loading up box trucks with trays of food and beverage coolers, and shuttling them to reunions tents across campus. It’s exhausting work, but Kelly says that the student truckers are well taken care of, and she knows she’s playing a valuable role in making Reunions happen. Last year, Campus Dining served over 36,000 meals during Reunions weekend, and there’s a small army of students and staff workers behind all of it.

Then, almost as soon as it’s begun, Reunions is over. Sunday morning comes, alumni eat breakfast and then filter back out of town as commencement exercises begin for the senior class. Sunday afternoon’s non-denominational Baccalaureate service is followed

by Monday’s Class Day ceremony and departmental receptions, before the seniors file out of FitzRandolph Gate on Tuesday morning to receive their diplomas.

The moving trucks and family minivans come and go, and campus sinks into a drowsy New Jersey summertime. But even then, the wheels are already turning, preparing for the return of the orange hordes to Old Nassau.

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Among those casualties were 117 from Princeton—some natives; others students from Princeton University. Their sacrifice is commemorated on a semi-circular, marble bench that sits in the triangular park at the corner of Nassau and Mercer Streets. Designed by New York architect and Princeton University lecturer Harvey Wiley Corbett, the memorial was installed in 1925 at a cost of $10,000, raised with contributions from Princeton residents and clubs.

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In this centennial year of the United States’ entry into “The Great War,” it is fitting to look back at Princeton’s service and how it affected life on campus and in the town.

The formal declaration of war by President Woodrow Wilson, well known to Princetonians from his days as president of the University, meant the immediate cancellation of intercollegiate sports at the school. Instead, there was Company L, the military unit made up of Princeton volunteers.

Locals could watch them training on the University campus and at other locations around town before they were sent off for further training in Camden.

The volunteers marched on campus, and down Nassau Street.

There was trench training near Alexander Street.

The recruits could be seen demonstrating calisthenics on Brokaw Field. Historic photographs show a group of volunteers on the steps of the University’s Blair Hall, guns balanced between their knees.

An exhibit mounted by the Historical Society of Princeton in 2008 detailed this call into service.

“The group included several students who took leave of their studies to enlist,” read a bulletin board at the display. “During the year of 1917, the entire undergraduate body was receiving military

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training while still in school. Thirty-one instructors and professors also received training and several of them went to the front shortly after the war started.

Some even signed up and served under the French Tricolors before America entered the war.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920 novel This Side of Paradise, there is a character named Allenby, who is the football captain. Fitzgerald, who attended Princeton, modeled him on Hobey Baker, a hockey and football star at the school whom he idolized.

Hobart Amory Hare Baker ‘14 was a member of three national championship teams. He worked for J.P. Morgan Bank until enlisting with the U.S. Army Air Service, where he commanded the 141st Aero Squadron. Baker died in December 1918 after a plane he was test-piloting crashed, only hours after he was supposed to leave France for home. In 1921, Princeton named its new hockey arena the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink.

The University’s Mudd Manuscript Library Blog posted

an article last year about the school during World War I, adapted by Spencer Shen ’16 from a FAQ (frequently asked questions) posting for the library’s former website. The article details an address to incoming freshman by University President John G. Hibben on September 24, 1914, acknowledging that “the opening of this new academic year...presents to our minds a striking contrast: the peaceful setting of this assembly against the dark background of the terrible European war.”

Many students “took Hibben’s call ‘to the service of the world’

to heart,” the article continues.

“Several joined Canadian regiments and other branches of the Allied military services. Still others volunteered as ambulance drivers for the French Red Cross. A Princeton chapter of the National Red Cross Society formed, with representatives from both town and gown.”

By December, thanks to petitions from students, organized military training was taking place on campus. The program would continue over the next two years, and included lectures by Army officers on military history and organization. Once President Wilson finally agreed to declare war on Germany, “the atmosphere at Princeton changed instantly: Within ten days the entire campus was drilling,” the article reads.

“Between the sinking of the Lusitania and the declaration of war, 166 Princeton men had already left to enlist and 142 had given up academic work to take the first Intensive Military Training Course.”

But not everyone on campus supported involvement in the war. There were pacifists, two of whom asked President Hibben if they could use Marquand Chapel for a peace meeting. The answer was no.

“Princeton will not allow the use of its building for anti-war meetings,” it was reported in the Newark Star-Eagle, according to the blog posting.

“It was also reported that, while Hibben professed a belief in the freedom of speech, he declared that it was ‘no time for divided counsels.’ ” At least 3,000 Princetonians, including 117 faculty members, were in military service by December 1917. “The war resulted in a 63 percent drop in admissions, and the University found itself with a $135,000 deficit despite trustees having reduced expenses by some $120,000. In order to

stay afloat, Princeton opened its campus to the military in 1918, essentially becoming a military college,” the article reads.

The Princeton Flying Corps was established in the spring of 1917 on a rented 60-acre field along Mercer Street. One of 45 students chosen to train there was Charles S. Grant ’17. Grant designed and made detailed drawings of a 148 miles-per-hour pursuit plane, which had a retractable landing gear to increase its speed to about 168. He was vice president of the Princeton Flying Club and delivered the first lecture at the University on aerodynamics, according to the publication The Princeton Recollector, which was published by the Princeton History Project.

In June 1981, Grant wrote in the Recollector of his efforts. “I left to join the Army in December 1917, in my senior year (I was out for one year doing practical engineering work and would have graduated in 1918). The Dean would not give me my degree when I offered these plans as my thesis.

They gave me a ‘War Diploma,’ but no degree.

Later, when I graduated from M.I.T. Officers’ School, I applied again for a degree without any luck. So I have achieved what I have achieved without help from Princeton.”

Grant did earn a degree from M.I.T., however.

He served in the engineering branch of the Signal

Corps, Aviation Section, and graduated from M.I.T.’s School of Military Aeronautics in July 1918 as a second Lieutenant.

The Flying Corps attempted to obtain government backing, but was unsuccessful and eventually forced to disband, according to the Historical Society of Princeton’s 2012 exhibit. Out of the 45 participants, 27 men saw overseas duty with 20 of them sent to the front lines. The group also included three ‘aces’ shooting down five or more enemy fighters and were given three Distinguished Service Crosses.

The University’s role in World War I is commemorated by a bronze memorial tablet at Pershing Hall, the American Legion Post (now a hotel) in Paris. Given in 1930 by the Princeton Alumni Association, the memorial is adorned with flowers on Veterans’ Day each year to pay tribute to the alumni, students, and faculty who died in the conflict.

By the end of the war, according to the Mudd Library blog, a total of 6,170 students and 139 faculty had served. Some 430 decorations were given to Princetonians from 13 nations, including 227 from France and 117 by the United States. It was supposed to be “The War to End All Wars.”

But of course, it wasn’t.

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Metropolis is proud to be a certified Green Circle Salon, and was the first in New Jersey to join this super eco-friendly program two years ago. Through Green Circle, salon and spa waste is diverted from landfills and waterways and recycled and repurposed. Carr said the salon now recycles about 98 percent of its waste—including hair clippings, foils, color tubes and cans, papers and plastics, and more—which is turned into reusable products and has already totaled 1,978 pounds to date. The salon participates in partnership with D&R Greenway Land Trust, and 100 percent of the proceeds from the Green Circle launch event were donated to the organization.

Other salon features include a product testing area right up front, a hair color bar for finding just the right shade, and a private dining area for spa days, bridal parties or any special occasion. Metropolis also has a dedicated bridal team to provide the very best wedding day services either on site or at your location.

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ON JUNE 18, 2014, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HOSTED THE FIRST WHITE HOUSE MAKER FAIRE. PART SCIENCE FAIR, PART CULTURAL SHOWCASE, THAT DAY’S EVENT BORE WITNESS TO A 17-FOOT-TALL ROBOTIC GIRAFFE AMBLING AROUND THE GROUNDS, A WORKING PIANO KEYBOARD MADE FROM TOUCH-SENSITIVE BANANAS, A WEALTH OF 3D-PRINTED OBJECTS—INCLUDING PANCAKES IN THE SHAPE OF PRESIDENT’S FACE—AND MORE. IN HIS REMARKS ON THE DAY’S PROCEEDINGS, OBAMA HAILED THE INGENUITY OF ORDINARY CITIZENS MADE POSSIBLE BY INCREASINGLY ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGY. Obama located the inventors gathered there at the vanguard of the grand sweep of American innovation: Americans had realized dreams of a transcontinental railroad, networks of telegraph lines, the lightbulb, the Internet. What would come of this current frenzy of discovery and invention was anyone’s guess. “It gives you a sense that we are at the dawn of something big,” he said.

The White House hosted the event again in 2015 and 2016, but more than the later iterations, that inaugural event represented the validation on the national stage of a movement that had been brewing across the country for about a decade. That movement, the “maker” movement, is something of a catch-all term for independent manufacturers, craftspeople, hackers, and artisans. Infused with DIY spirit, this 21st-century update to the Arts and Crafts movement is a friendly meeting of garage scientists with Etsy nation. The maker movement owes its cohesion in part to Make magazine, first published in 2005, and in part to maker faires like the ones held at the White House (There are now over 100 such events held worldwide each year). But perhaps most important are the sites for this democratized industry, the places where the work of making happens: makerspaces.

Makerspaces, sometimes called hackerspaces or fab labs, are collaborative work spaces that house a variety of equipment for members’ use—anything from sewing machines to laser cutters, welding equipment to 3D printers, all depending on the particular location. And as the movement itself has grown to encompass the Garden State and its surrounding areas, the makerspaces have come too.

ACCESS TO TOOLS The DIY Joint is among the newest of these. This woodworking studio and instructional space opened in Hoboken in June of 2016. Inside, rows of work benches run into a lounge area at one end of the space, outfitted with homey, modern decor—some of which was made in house.

Earmuffs, goggles, and all manner of hand tools hang in abundance along one wall. Students at the DIY Joint can take classes to learn how to build pieces such as bookshelves, side tables, and cutting boards.

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skills, but typically also serve to certify them to use the facilities on their own during open studio hours.

Justin Wertz has been going to the DIY Joint since this past summer. His fiancée runs a small jewelry boutique, and Wertz is in the process of building up his own home goods and aromatherapy business. He was drawn to the DIY Joint in hopes of building both of their storefronts. Now, after months of improving his craft, he says he has learned enough to do far more than the basic shelves he first envisioned. Beyond what he’s gleaned from his formal classes, Wertz also learns a tremendous amount from the other people working in the studio. He says that “a really nice mix” of backgrounds and skill sets contributes to a culture of sharing there that he values.

This was part of what founder Priscilla Van Houten had in mind when she established the DIY Joint. Three years ago, while fixing up a residential property, she became frustrated by her near-total lack of construction skills. “I was nervous to hang up a picture frame,” she recalls. So she set out to change things. Initially, she took a few classes for hands-on instruction, but she largely taught herself woodworking through reading and online learning. Years of practice paid off as she gradually honed her technique and developed an enduring love for the craft. Eventually, realizing that others might benefit similarly from woodworking, Van Houten decided to start up the DIY Joint. “It’s invaluable to be a part of a greater community you can bounce questions and ideas off of,” she says. It’s something that she feels would have served her well when she was just starting out, and something she aimed to facilitate by building a designated space for it.

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Van Houten says that woodworking benefits her in a number of ways. First, she finds the the work itself has a sort of therapeutic value. “You spend so much time consuming information,” she says, but woodworking is one way to cut through the digital noise of modern life. Whether you are working a table saw or a drill press, “all you can think about is woodworking. It brings you into the present,” she says. Indeed, students register for classes at the DIY Joint through MINDBODY, an online health and wellness scheduling platform primarily aimed at yoga studios and fitness classes. And though Van Houten says this is largely because it is a good platform, she also sees the DIY Joint as an appropriate fit, if not an immediately obvious one. Many of her students are “looking to decompress,” and like her, they find working with their hands in this way to be a productive outlet. She also finds that, through woodworking, she developed “a newfound awareness of everything around me”—a sense of wonder and recognition of the work that brings the built world into being.

Finally, Van Houten says that process of mastering her craft has been incredibly empowering. Though she continues to be challenged by the need to prove her credibility as a young female woodworker, she finds that her gradual realization that she could navigate and contribute to what has traditionally been such a maledominated craft is something that drives her forward. Now, she says, “My goal is to help all people—regardless of their gender, age, or background—foster the maker spirit within them.”

WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD In Philadelphia, there is a makerspace of a different kind.

NextFab, established in 2009, has locations in North and South Philadelphia, and a third studio opening soon in Wilmington, Delaware. NextFab bills itself as a “gym for innovators,” and

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has a broader focus than the woodworking-centric DIY Joint. Like the Hoboken-based makerspace, NextFab holds classes and offers a coworking space, but in addition to woodworking, they provide facilities and instruction in metalworking, 3D printing, laser cutting, and a host of other tools amenable to small-scale manufacturing. NextFab also runs start-up incubator and accelerator programs.

NextFab’s founder Evan Malone went to the University of Pennsylvania and considers Philadelphia his adopted home. After earning a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Cornell—where much of his work involved developing 3D printing technology—he came back to Philly, viewing the city as an ideal home base for a makerspace.

Philadelphia has a history of diverse manufacturing, Malone explains, and he saw an opportunity to help revitalize that through NextFab. By the late 19th-century, the greater Philadelphia area boasted thousands of firms in sectors ranging from textiles, to glass-making, to ship and locomotive building, earning the city the moniker “the workshop of the world.” While NextFab does attract its share of hobbyists, it’s this reemergent industrial spirit that Malone aims to seize upon and encourage.

“We really view ourselves as a partner in economic development,” he says.

If NextFab is any indication, the future of industry in Philadelphia will be multiple and heterogeneous in ways that echo its history, albeit more refined. NextFab has played host to businesses as disparate as Philly Love Notes a one-woman operation making woodcut maps of Philadelphia, and to Noria, a start-up manufacturing lightweight smart air conditioning window units that raised over $3.5 million through crowdfunding campaigns. The activities of NextFab’s members are as divergent from each other as NextFab itself is markedly different from the DIY Joint and other makerspaces.

And maybe that sort of variety should come as no surprise. If, at some level, the maker movement aims to create whole new worlds, it stands to reason that it will contain worlds as well.

If you’re interested in joining or visiting a makerspace, in addition to the DIY Joint and NextFab, the greater Princeton area is also home to the following: Philadelphia Furniture Workshop www.philadelphiafurnitureworkshop.com JD Lohr School of Woodworking www.jdlohrschoolofwoodworking.com Philadelphia Woodworks www.philadelphiawoodworks.com

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Calendar M u s i C | b o o k s | t h e at r e | l e C t u r e s | s p o r t s Thursday, May 18 10am – 3pm Return of the Outdoor Princeton Farmers’ Market at Hinds Plaza (repeats weekly). princetonfarmersmarket.com

4 – 9pm Shop great sales, taste yummy treats, and feel your best at Girls Night Out in Princeton’s Palmer Square. www.palmersquare.com

6 – 10pm Liberty Science Center in Jersey City presents “Grecian Gala” as part of their LSC After Dark Series.

Guests ages 21 and over can enjoy cocktails, laser shows, dancing, food, and music. lsc.org

7 – 9:30pm Developing a Vision Board Workshop with Taneshia Nash Laird, executive director of the Arts Council of Princeton. Learn to use collage art to create a personalized vision board that expresses your desires for the future! www.artscouncilofprinceton.org

saTurday, May 20

4 – 6pm Opening reception for “Dharma in the 21st Century” at West Windsor Arts Center. The exhibition features works of artists of the Indian diaspora and will raise funds to support the Clean Ganga Fund, an Indian national effort to save the endangered holy river. westwindsorarts.org

saTurday, May 27 8:30am The Spring Lake Five Mile Run. This great race signifies the start of the summer at the Jersey Shore! www.springlake5.org

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Friday, June 2 5 – 8pm Sunset Sips and Sounds at Terhune Orchards (repeats weekly). www.terhuneorchards.com

8pm It’s all Greek for The Princeton Triangle Club in this special encore performance of Greece’d Lightning at McCarter Theatre including the worldfamous all-male kickline (also on Saturday, June 3). www.mccarter.org

saTurday, June 3

Aquarium in Camden. Learn about sharks and learn what you can do to save these wild creatures and their natural habitats (also on Sunday, May 28). www. adventureaquarium.com

NooN-5pm Hunterdon Mistral Release Weekend celebrates Unionville Vineyards’ new Rhone-inspired wines! Experience a weekend of live music, winery tours, food truck eats and wine tastings (also on Sunday, June 4). unionvillevineyards.com/pages/ upcoming-events

3 – 4pm Stories and songs in German for children ages 2 and older at the Princeton Public Library.

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10am – 5pm Shark Awareness Weekend at the Adventure

aLL DaY Cape May Restaurant Week 2017. This

NooN – 5pm Spring Lake Irish Festival along Third and

7:30pm The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa.

Morris Avenues. Experience Irish step dancers, Irish soda bread contest, beer and wine garden, photo booth, and more. www.springlake.org

presents Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story through June 17. www.bcptheater.org

eight-day event offers fixed price lunch and dinner menus at restaurants throughout Cape May (through Sunday, June 11). www.capemay.com

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7pm Princeton Ballet School’s Annual Spring Production of The Sleeping Beauty at Patriots Theater at the War Memorial in Trenton. www.arballet.org

sunday, May 21 NooN – 4pm Watershed Trail Run & Festival in Pennington. The 5K and 10K routes are designed to take runners on a tour of the different types of habitats featured at the Watershed Reserve. thewatershed.org

3pm Special Exhibition Tour: “The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C.” at Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu

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1pm Memorial Day Observance at the gravesite of Continental soldiers at Washington Crossing Park. The gravesite marks the resting place of soldiers who died during the Continental Army’s December 1776 encampment in Bucks County. www. washingtoncrossingpark.org

Thursday, June 1 aLL DaY Princeton University Reunions weekend attracts almost 25,000 alumni, family, and friends for walks, talks, community service projects, Alumni-Faculty Forums, picnics, parties, and more. Remember to breakout your orange and black attire for the one and only P-rade (through June 4). alumni.princeton.edu

6pm An Evening of Illumination: Grounds for Sculpture’s 25th Anniversary Gala and After Party. gfsgala.org 6:30 – 10pm “A Concert Under the Stars” at Updike Farmstead presented by the Historical Society of Princeton. The evening features al fresco dining and musical performance by local bands. www. princetonhistory.org 8pm Performance of Man of La Mancha at McCarter Theatre. This inspirational show won five Tony Awards on Broadway and endures as one of the best-loved American musicals. www.mccarter.org 8pm New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents its Season Finale with Zhang and Bronfman at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank. www.countbasietheatre.org

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Sunday, June 11 10am 9th Annual Kids Marathon hosted by Princeton Healthcare System and Princeton Fitness & Wellness Center at ETS Princeton. All children in grades Pre-K through 8 are invited to participate. www. princetonhcs.org

4pm Eastern Wind Symphony performs at Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/richaud

7 – 9pm Princeton Bluegrass Jam at Small World Coffee (Witherspoon Street location. www. smallworldcoffee.com

Friday, June 16 6 – 9pm jaZams Summer Block Party on Palmer Square West. Enjoy live music, crafts, activities, food trucks, and family fun. www.palmersquare.com 8pm Diana Krall brings her 2017-18 World Tour to

Project for a concert during the Summer Solstice. Bring a picnic dinner and a blanket and join in the festivities at the Roy DeBoer Evergreen Garden. www.rutgers.edu

thurSday, June 22 TBD Princeton Summer Theater’s 48th Season opens with a production of Pippin (through July 9). www. princetonsummertheater.org

6pm C’est Bon Cajun Dance Band performs at the Princeton Shopping Center. www. princetonshoppingcenter.com

Saturday, June 24 3 – 11pm Freedom Festival at Mercer County Park Festival Grounds. mercercountyparks.org

WedneSday, June 28 7:30pm Screening of The Last Picture Show (1971) at

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8pm VOICES Gala Weekend Concert at Richardson

Philadelphia. Attracting thousand of visitors, the Night Market gathers together the city’s best food trucks and restaurants for a fun evening of food, music, and community (also on August 10). www.visitphilly.com

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Saturday, June 17 NooN AcroYoga Fundamentals at Princeton Integral Yoga Community Center at the Princeton Shopping Center. Build trust, communication, and move past fears through the blended wisdom of Thai massage, yoga, and partner acrobatics. www.iyccprinceton.org 3pm Art All Night 2017 at the Historic Roebling Wire Works in Trenton. Experience 24 straight hours of creativity, community, and inspiration (through 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 18). www.aantrenton.org

thurSday, June 29 6 – 10pm Night Market at Spruce Hill in downtown

7pm Trenton Thunder baseball vs. Richmond at Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton. trentonthunder.com

Saturday, July 1 2 – 4pm Start of the Summer Music Series on Palmer Square Green. Free to attend. Guests should bring their own lawn chairs and picnic blankets (every Saturday in July and August). www.palmersquare.com

Monday, July 3 WedneSday, June 21 6 – 9pm Summer Solstice Jazz and Wine. Rutgers Gardens partners with The New Brunswick Jazz

3pm Celebrate independence with the Historical Society of Princeton. Learn where and why many of our nation’s founding fathers spent time in Princeton on this

educational tour (guests should meet at Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street). www.princetonhistory.org

tueSday, July 4 NooN July 4th Jubilee at Morven Museum & Garden.

Each year, in honor of Independence Day, Morven hosts a free event to celebrate our American heritage at the home-turned museum of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. www. morven.org

thurSday, July 6 7:30pm James Taylor & His All-Star Band perform with Bonnie Raitt at the Prudential Center in Newark. www. prucenter.com

Saturday, July 8 10am – 5pm Blueberry Bash at Terhune Orchards. Pick sweet summer berries from the two-acre blueberry patch, listen to live country music, and snack on blueberry cobbler (also on Sunday, July 9). www. terhuneorchards.com

4pm Princeton Tour Company’s Shameless NameDropping Tour. These tours begin at 116 Nassau Street inside the Princeton University Store (occurs every Saturday and Sunday through October). www. princetontourcompany.com

Saturday, July 15 8pm Grammy Award-winner Boz Scaggs performs at the State Theatre of New Jersey. Scaggs blurs the line between rock, soul, country, jazz, and blues to create a truly unique sound. www.statetheatrenj.org

Friday, July 21 7:30pm Musical group Phish performs an unprecedented 13-night run at New York City’s Madison Square Garden as part of their tour, The Baker’s Dozen. www.thegarden.com

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