Princeton Magazine, October 2015

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Amy Gutmann Straight talk from UPenn’s president on education, democracy, next year’s election—and yes, where to find the best ice-cream in Philadelphia.

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AMY GUTMANN

HEALTHY LIVING

BY LINDA ARNTZENIUS

BY SARAH EMILY GILBERT

Straight talk from UPenn’s president

Workout to go out gear

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EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL’S STATION ELEVEN

BY TAYLOR SMITH 24

MAKING NOISE ABOUT QUIET REVOLUTIONARIES

BY ILENE DUBE

Janet Gardner’s film-in-progress delves into the roots of Quakerism 26

MARRIED TO MEDICINE

BY ANNE LEVIN

He’s a geriatrician, she’s a plastic surgeon 40

RECYCLING THE PAST

BY ANNE LEVIN

Roaming the charmed aisles of architectural salvage outlets 66

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Exhale Spa’s Fred Devito and Elisabeth Halfpapp are fit for each other 48

The top apps for healthy living 52

How much are you worth? Calculating the monetary value of your body “products” from head to toe 58

MARK YOUR CALENDAR 20

ART SCENE

BY LINDA ARNTZENIUS

The poetry of the still life from Audubon to Warhol 32

BOOK SCENE

BY STUART MITCHNER

The builder as hero 62

FASHION & DESIGN A well-designed life 74

ON THE COVER: Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Welcome to our special fall double issue combining your Princeton Magazine with Healthy Living.

Our cover story is about a very special woman, Dr. Amy Gutmann, formerly a Princeton resident, the Provost at Princeton University, and now, for over a decade, the dynamic President of The University of Pennsylvania. She has led UPenn to become one of the most influential academic institutions in the world while also stimulating major urban renewal around the University’s campus, thus furthering the reputation of Philadelphia as one of the country’s most energetic and livable cities. Besides being a respected academician and political philosopher, Dr. Gutmann is the CEO of the largest private employer in the city of Philadelphia.

The idea for this story originated when my wife Barbara and I attended our daughter Jordan’s graduation from UPenn this last June in the Franklin Field Stadium. It was amazing how President Gutmann filled the stadium with her energy, presence, and personality. From her leading of the academic procession, her emceeing of the entire ceremony, to her heartwarming message to the graduates of UPenn’s 12 different professional schools—her leadership was awesome!

We decided that such a special personality deserved a special cover, and thus, through the talents of portraitist Olga Sweet, Princeton Magazine’s first ever painted portrait cover was created. Olga is new to Princeton having moved here from Greenwich, Connecticut in the last year. Her specialty is personal portraits and she happens to have painted a few university presidents in her career. Her portrait successfully communicates President Gutmann’s positive energy.

As we all know, Princeton is packed with terrific artistic talent. One artist we feature this month is documentary filmmaker Janet Gardner.

Through a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship, Janet is producing a movie, Quakers: Quiet Revolutionaries, about a spiritual movement that has played a huge, but unacknowledged, role in American religious, social and political life. Did you know that Quakers were the original settlers of Princeton?

If history or architecture is your passion, you are going to enjoy our shopping trip among all of the architectural salvage dealers in the region. What may be junk to one person is art to another. It is to the latter that these many “merchants of the old” present their array of cornices, shutters, fences, cupolas, and other antique architectural pieces.

There is a lot of architectural history in the beautifully restored home of our featured couple, Dr. David Barile and Dr. Nicole Schrader.

He is the Medical Director at Princeton Care Center and she is an independently practicing plastic surgeon. Their story leads the Healthy Living portion of your magazine.

In this section, you can also learn about Exhale Spa, an innovative fitness brand whose co-founders hail from Mercer County. And a fascinating article that asks, “How much are you worth?” This question is not about your stocks and bonds, but your eggs! Women with Ivy League degrees or other unique physical aspects apparently command higher prices for their eggs.

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Besides the usual sections on art, books, and the calendar, we are starting a new series on “Authors to Follow on Twitter” which begins with Emily St. John Mandel’s best-selling book Station Eleven. Let us know if you like this addition to our offerings. In fact, send us your story suggestions. Lynn Adams Smith joins me in hoping you enjoy this issue along with having a wonderful fall.

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Amy Gutmann Straight talk from UPenn’s president on education, democracy, next year’s election—and yes, where to find the best ice-cream in Philadelphia.

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hen former Princeton University Provost Amy Gutmann became the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, she embarked on an ambitious plan to show the world not only what could be done to further research, teaching, and clinical care at a first-rate Ivy League institution, but what should be done. Her inaugural address launched the Penn Compact, reconfirmed last year as Penn Compact 2020. The University has been transformed. And the city of Philadelphia is all the better for it.

Nothing demonstrates the power of Gutmann’s vision more vividly than the 2012 Design Champion Award-winning Penn Park, the beautiful 24-acre urban sanctuary that has taken the place of what was once an ugly asphalt parking lot. “My vision for Penn’s campus has been to elevate it as the model of the most innovative, beautiful, and sustainable urban university in our country and the world. Penn’s campus is first and foremost an enormous workshop of ideas—a living, breathing dynamo for discovery and creativity,” says Gutmann, with infectious enthusiasm.

Penn Park connects the campus to Center City Philadelphia and surrounding neighborhoods, as called for in the University’s master plan. But Gutmann’s vision goes beyond civic involvement in its academic goal to foster interconnections among Penn’s dozen schools as well as in its medical and health care system. She describes it as: “spurring urban development while propelling forward our world-class interdisciplinary teaching and research, as well as our groundbreaking clinical care.”

In the last decade, 3.5 million new square feet have been added to the campus not to mention another 1.5 million square feet of renovations; campus open space has gone up by 25 percent. As Philadelphia’s largest private employer, Penn is one of Pennsylvania’s most powerful economic engines.

Gutmann rattles off the figures. “In addition to educating more than 24,000 students every year, we employ more than 34,000 faculty, staff, and health care workers, care for more than 83,000 in-patients and two million outpatient visits in our health system,

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conduct over $900 million in sponsored research, provide $121 million in pro bono medical care and invest a similar amount through direct spending in our local community. In 2010, our annual economic impact on the city of Philadelphia was over $10 billion and our impact on the region over $14 billion.

That impact has grown dramatically over time and will continue to grow. All of the numbers are big, as is our endowment, but the positive net result—the outcome for our community, our nation and for the world—is even bigger still.”

Gutmann’s next step is to share the benefits of Penn’s research, teaching, and service to individuals and communities at home and abroad. It’s hardly surprising then that David L. Cohen, Chair of Penn’s Board of Trustees has called Gutmann “simply the best university president in the country” whose leadership has made the University “a stronger and more vibrant institution than at any time in its storied history.”

At Princeton from 1976 to 2004, the awardwinning political theorist was Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics; she was awarded the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award and was founding director of its University Center for Human Values. At Penn, she has expanded her international reputation for leadership in higher education by championing increased access through Penn’s all-grant policy for undergraduate financial aid recipients.

INCREASED ACCESS

Increased access to high quality higher education, says Gutmann, is “the single greatest gateway to other opportunities in life, for oneself, one’s family, one’s society and the world. In a global society that grows more interconnected by the second, it is close to a necessity. Ever since I had the good fortune to be afforded access to high quality schooling, it’s been among my highest priorities and greatest passions to work to enable all students to have affordable access to high-quality higher education regardless of their family’s socioeconomic status.”

Penn’s undergraduate financial aid budget this year is the largest in Penn’s history—$206 million.

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That, says Gutmann, is a 161 percent increase from where it was a decade ago. As a result, the average net cost to aided Penn freshmen—all freshman with financial need—is nearly 14 percent less today (in constant dollars) than it was ten years ago, she says.

“We aim to raise a total of $1 billion for student aid by 2020.”

GRANT-BASED FINANCIAL AID

Gutmann sees financial aid based on need as a way to promote socioeconomic diversity in higher education. Penn is one of a handful of universities in the country that have substituted grants for loans for undergraduates with financial need, which means that since, unlike loans, grants never need to be repaid, students from typical families with incomes less than $40,000 paid no tuition, fees, room or board.

Students from typical families with incomes less than $90,000 paid no tuition and fees. Typically ten percent of the students in Penn’s incoming class are

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the first in their families to attend college. “Most important of all, to my mind, is that our commitment to affordability benefits everyone, first and foremost, by maximizing creativity and innovation in education, which is the result of bringing the most talented, hardworking and diverse classes of students together in a great campus setting.”

Penn is the largest university to establish this all-grant policy for undergraduates qualifying for financial aid. Simply put, it’s string-free financial aid. While most other universities provide a mixture of grants and loans, Penn (and also Princeton) are among the small number providing “all grant” financial aid. Students are not expected to take out loans for their portion of the aid package.

A significant part of this success story stems from Penn’s strong endowment. Universities are institutions designed to last through the ages, says Gutmann: “In England, Henry VIII’s grandmother established some of the first endowed professorships and they continue to exist today. Universities take the long view and resist the short-termism that is so prevalent and destructive of socially constructive action in our society.”

A well-managed endowment provides a reliable revenue stream in perpetuity, which not only supports students and faculty but also enables universities to be anchor institutions in their communities. “When the economic going got tough in 2009, Penn not only stood by its commitment to all-grant, need-based financial aid for our students; Penn also continued to invest hundreds of millions of dollars per year in local building projects, in pro bono medical care and family services for members of our larger urban community.”

All this speaks to Gutmann’s philosophy of public education as an essential responsibility of good government. “Democracy is especially dependent on a universally-educated citizenry, all the more so when modern technology is exponentially expanding the capacity of powerful individuals around the world to harm others, especially those who have been deprived of sufficient education to effectively defend their own interests.”

Need-based financial aid together with needblind admissions creates the formula for greatness in higher education, says Gutmann, for whom this issue has personal meaning. “Without need-blind admission, I would have never been admitted to Radcliffe (my mother supported herself and me on a secretary’s job and social security). Without need-based financial aid, I could not have afforded to go to Radcliffe, once admitted. My life is completely different today than it would have been without financial aid, which I forever will champion for others.”

Family Values

Born in Brooklyn to Kurt and Beatrice Gutmann, the future academician describes her parents as extremely hardworking, adventurous people in happy engagement with the world, intent on making a positive impact. “Those are qualities I value most highly,” she says. Her father’s experience in fleeing Nazi Germany in 1934 as a college student who brought his entire family, including four siblings, to join him in safety—first in Bombay, India, and

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then in the United States after World War II, could not fail to have an impact. “My father, Kurt, was the youngest of five children in an Orthodox Jewish family living near Nuremberg when Hitler came to power. At a remarkably early age, under incredibly trying conditions, he had the wisdom, foresight and courage to act on the deeply troubling developments and decided to escape. His brave decision profoundly shaped my life and that of my family. I would not be here today had he acted differently, and I do my best to uphold his example of wise and decisive action.”

Gutmann went to Radcliffe on a scholarship in 1967 and graduated magna cum laude in 1971 before going on to earn a master’s degree in political science at the London School of Economics the following year and a doctorate in political science from Harvard in 1976.

Reportedly the highest paid female university president in the United States, Gutmann has overseen Penn’s largest fundraising campaign ever. With perhaps a nod to Philadelphia’s past as much as Penn’s future, the campaign, launched in 2007, was titled, “Making History.” It raised a record-breaking $4.3 billion from 327,000 donors, large and small, exceeding its goal by more than $800 million.

Her titles speak of multiple accomplishments. In addition to being Penn’s president, she is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political

importance of access to higher education and health care, and the essential role of ethics in public affairs.

Her sixteenth book, The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It, co-written with Dennis Thompson and published by Princeton University Press in 2012, suggests that compromise is built into the democratic process and that its artful practice would be valuable in the current time of political polarization. Urging policymakers to read it, Judy Woodruff of PBS Newshour called it “a clear-eyed examination of the forces that bring warring political leaders together or keep them apart.”

Earlier works explored the core values of a civil democratic society: liberty, opportunity and mutual respect. Democratic Education (1987; revised 1999) tackled questions like: what should children be taught? how should citizens be educated? and the challenges and opportunities of multiculturalism.

Democracy and Disagreement (1996), also cowritten with Thompson, developed the theory of deliberative democracy and called for more reasoned argument in everyday politics. The book was praised by some as an effective remedy for polarized politics and criticized by others as impractical.

In 2011, Gutmann was listed among Newsweek’s 150 Women Who Shake the World.

Asked her opinion on aspects of the world that

“ I have found that a certain lightness of being—not taking yourself too seriously—is not only key to making your workplace joyful but also essential to seeing your way clear through the darkest tunnels and hardest times.”

Science in the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of communication in the Annenberg School for Communication, with faculty appointments in philosophy in both the School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education.

Besides her obvious smarts, Gutmann is bold, forthright, and decisive. Last year, after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, when protestors disrupted her holiday party for students, Gutmann joined them prostrate on the ground in a symbolic gesture that recognized the hours that Brown’s corpse was left lying on a Ferguson street.

Earlier this year, she inaugurated annual President’s Engagement Prizes of up to $150,000 for graduating seniors to design and implement local, national, and global engagement projects. In other words, awards that offer an opportunity to change the world.

Education and Democracy

Guttmann has published widely on the value of education and deliberation in democracy, the

might currently be in need of a good shake up, she says: “We need to make good schools, from preschool on up, available to all. We need to make high quality health care affordable and available to all. We need to clean up our shared environment and fight global terrorism and fanaticism so that future generations can live safely and breathe freely. To do any and all of this, we need a well functioning politics and economics. All of this and more need some serious shaking up today.”

According to Gutmann, Washington, D.C. has “veered perilously far away from a system and a spirit of governing that works, opting instead for a bleak and ineffective landscape of fiscal cliffs, vitriol, and polarized intransigence.. . . For too many years now, business is barely being done at all in D.C., and with quite dire consequences for tens of millions of people, especially the youngest and most vulnerable.

With next year’s critical elections approaching, it’s more urgent than ever that we all—young people importantly included—not only speak up but also head to the ballots and cast our votes for those

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(top) Gutmann with husband Michael Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of Law and International Affairs at Columbia University, daughter Abigail Gutmann Doyle, associate professor of chemistry at Princeton University, son-inlaw Jakub Jurek, and grandson Konrad. (left) A photo from Dr. Gutmann’s early childhood. (middle) Amy Gutmann’s parents, Kurt and Beatrice Gutmann. (right) The four Ivy women presidents receiving the Glamour Women of the Year award: Harvard’s Drew Faust, Brown’s Ruth Simmons, Gutmann and Princeton’s Shirley Tilghman. october 2015 PRINCETON MAGAZINE

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candidates who value working with others to move the ball forward for our common good more than they value scoring hyper-partisan style points in campaigning and not governing. Many even more disturbing features of our world need shaking up, but getting American politics unstuck would be the great start that ignites even greater change to come.”

Finding time from her busy schedule, sometimes in the wee hours of the morning, she’s currently in the preliminary stages of what may result in two new books, the first on bioethics, and the second a distillation of what she has learned about leading institutions of higher education. She won’t start writing these for a while though, and given her commitments, that’s not surprising.

Besides leading Penn, Gutmann is the very active chair of President Barack Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which has issued over a half-dozen major reports ranging from lessons to be learned from the Ebola epidemic, ethical standards for testing experimental vaccines, and steps to ensure that we undertake and enlist neuroscience research in the public interest. She has been deeply involved with each and is currently working on a report on Deliberation and Bioethics Education. She’s also chair of the Association of American Universities and founding member of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents, an advisory group to the secretary general of the United Nations.

How does she manage it all? “Nobody succeeds alone,” she says. “I have always had great teams working with me: engaged and wonderful boards, tremendously talented and collaborative executive teams, fabulous support staffs, wonderful deans,

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faculty and students, and throughout it all an incredibly supportive spouse and family.” Asked to share her strategy for success, she says there’s no secret: “It’s pretty darn simple: commit yourself unreservedly to everything you care about doing, focus like a laser on your highest priority goals, proactively consider the unintended consequences of your plans, inspire confidence and trust by knowing your subject matter and being honest with—and respectful towards—everyone, and always maintain a sense of humor and proportion as to what’s really important in life. I have found that a certain lightness of being—not taking yourself too seriously—is not only key to making your workplace joyful but also essential to seeing your way clear through the darkest tunnels and hardest times.”

To unwind, Gutmann reads, watches movies, goes to shows, bicycles, skis, swims, and does pilates. Currently on her nightstand are Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehesi Coates’s combination of memoir, history and analysis of white supremacy and being black in America; and Erik Larson’s Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.

She’s re-reading Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton and has just enjoyed the Lin-Manuel Miranda hip-hop Broadway musical it inspired. “It’s brilliant,” says Gutmann of the show.

“You should see it. I’ve read biographies of all the presidents and have enormous admiration for the great public officials of our history.”

Her sole guilty pleasure is caviar, but she doesn’t get to indulge it very often. She enjoys

comfort food, especially desserts, she says.

“And every summer meal has to include fresh Jersey corn.” Her forte is the dessert soufflé. But when she can’t find the time to cook, she seeks out classic French Macarons and the delights of Philadelphia’s Capogiro Gelato Artisans, which National Geographic listed among its top 10 places to eat ice cream. “And it’s only a block away from the president’s residence,” she laughs.

Since moving to Philadelphia, Gutmann misses the close access to the many good friends she has in Princeton. But, with her husband Michael Doyle, a professor of law and international affairs at Columbia University, she remains connected to the town through their daughter Abigail, who teaches chemistry at Princeton University and lives here with her husband Jakub Jurek and their two young children: Konrad, 2, and infant Leah, born in August.

As for Philly, Gutmann relishes the city’s links to the nation’s history, its broad range of arts and cultural institutions, its many restaurants. And, given her role at Penn, she has to give a shout out to The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, the oldest museum in the country. She enjoys being able to walk or bicycle to her favorite spots. But most of all, she says, “I appreciate the diversity of the people.”

Given her skill set, experience and philosophy it is impossible to resist the urge to ask Gutmann if she would ever consider running for office? Her response is hearty laughter! Clearly it’s not on this busy university president’s agenda. One can but hope.

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Sunday, November 1

Thursday, November 19

7:30pm: Screening of the National Theatre Live’s Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch at Princeton Garden Theatre (also on October 25, November 8, November 22, and December 9). www. princetongardentheatre.org

8am: Princeton University Women’s Crew competes in the Lightweight Chase at Carnegie Lake. www. goprincetontigers.com

11am: Last day of the outdoor Princeton Farmers Market in Hinds Plaza (the indoor Winter Farmers Market will resume in December 2015). www. princetonfarmersmarket.com

8pm: Laugh out loud with comedian and host of The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson at the State Theatre of NJ in New Brunswick. www.statetheatrenj.org

Saturday, October 24 8pm: Rutgers University football vs. Ohio State at High Points Solutions Stadium in Piscataway. www. scarletknights.com 8pm: Anne Carrere pays homage to the French singer Edith Piaf in honor of her 100th birthday. Piaf! The Show at McCarter Theatre celebrates the performer’s journey from the streets of Montmartre to the halcyon days of Paris cabaret. www.mccarter.org

Tuesday, October 27 6pm: Joyce Carol Oates delivers a free, public reading of The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age at Labyrinth Books in Princeton. www.labyrinthbooks. com 6pm: The Calidore String Quartet performs at Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/richaud

Thursday, October 29 5–7pm: Come in costume and join the Arts Council of Princeton for the Annual Hometown Halloween Parade. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org

Saturday, October 31 9am: 4th Annual Spooktacular Halloween celebration at the New Jersey State Museum. www.statemuseum.nj.gov

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12:30pm: Screening of the Royal Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro at Princeton Garden Theatre. www. princetongardentheatre.org

Sunday, November 22

4pm: Princeton Pro Musica performs at Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/richaud

2pm: Wine and chocolate pairing at Crossing Vineyards and Winery in Washington Crossing, Pa. www.crossingvineyards.com

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Friday, November 27

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Saturday, November 14 9am–5pm: Pie Sampling Weekend at Terhune Orchards in Princeton. Sample over 20 varieties of pie to serve at your Thanksgiving table (also on Sunday, November 15). www.terhuneorchards.com 1pm: Princeton University football vs. Yale University at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. www. goprincetontigers.com 6pm: Dining by Design, the Arts Council of Princeton’s Annual Fall Fundraiser. Includes dinner, drinks, and an exhibition by Korean artist Jae Ko. www. artscouncilofprinceton.org

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mily St. John Mandel is the author of four novels, most recently Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award. A previous novel, The Singer’s Gun, was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Station Eleven has most recently been licensed as a feature film. Mandel shares her thoughts on her best-selling novel and the seed of her inspiration.

Mandel was watching an episode of Star Trek: Voyager when she was struck by the line, “Survival is insufficient,” an elegant expression of something that she believed to be true. Station Eleven is based on the premise that “no matter what the circumstances, we always long for something beyond the basics of mere survival.”

Unlike most dystopian fiction, Station Eleven begins more than a decade after an illness has ravaged society. The worst of the pandemic has passed and so with it has gone electricity, the Internet, modern medicine, and the majority of artistic expression. In spite of all this, a group of musicians form a travelling theatrical troupe, performing Shakespeare at small towns that have formed around abandoned gas stations.

According to Mandel, “the practice of theatre and music reminds these characters (and, they hope, their audiences) of their shared humanity.” She goes on to state that the world of Station Eleven “is a harrowing place, but it’s also beautiful. Think of the last time you saw weeds growing through a cracked parking lot, and then extrapolate that to an entire abandoned world—trees growing out of collapsed buildings and vines taking over entire houses.”

In an odd twist of fate, a comic book written and illustrated before the fallout

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becomes a sort of holy book and spawns a small band of new believers led by a ruthless and disillusioned young man who interprets the fantastical story as the word of God. However, another comic book of the same series takes on a different meaning for one of the title characters. For Kirsten, the illustrations are clues and faint memories of “an entire lost world that she can’t quite remember.”

It is in fact, “both an artifact and a talisman.” Kirsten’s close personal connection to the comic book artist is not revealed until the end.

Readers will notice that Station Eleven possesses a strong cinematic quality and Mandel reveals that, “although the process by which a book becomes a film is somewhat mysterious, I have sold the option and someone’s writing the script.”

Mandel is currently “working on a secret novel” and resides in New York City with her husband.

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Making Noise About Quiet Revolutionaries Janet Gardner’s film-in-progress delves into the roots of Quakerism

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he cylindrical box of oatmeal with the white-haired man in the tall black hat is as iconic as an American image gets. As a result, many associate the Society of Friends with the Quaker Oat Company, imagining people clad in old-fashioned garb riding buggies.

Because Quakers convey quality and reliability, their image has been used to market everything from safety matches and whiskey to cigars and even a 19th-century chamber pot—yet many of these are products Quakers wouldn’t even approve of. In the early 20th century there was an unsuccessful effort to get a bill through Congress that would have prevented using religious organizations to promote products but the Quaker Oats lobby blocked it, according to Thomas Hamm, a professor at Earlham College, interviewed in Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries, a documentary in the making by the Gardner Group.

“It is often said that Quakers have an influence beyond their numbers,” says Ben Pink Dandelion, a Quaker scholar affiliated with the University of Birmingham, England, also interviewed in the film.

In New Jersey and Pennsylvania, we are surrounded by remnants of Quaker culture, from schools (Earlham and Haverford colleges among them) to Philadelphia’s historic Bartram Garden, founded by Quakers. Peaceable Kingdom, 61 versions of which were painted by Quaker Edward Hicks, hangs in area museums from Philadelphia to Newark. We have Quaker prisons in our midst—

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia was influenced by Quaker thinking, where inmates, in solitary confinement, could be penitent in cells with skylights.

The Society of Friends—the preferred name for Quakers—was among the first group of Europeans to settle along the Stony Brook in Princeton, establishing the stone meeting house that is still in operation today. Built in 1726 and rebuilt in 1760, it is the oldest house of worship in Princeton. Within its walls, worshippers sit in silence, meditating, a silent form of prayer. When a worshipper feels moved, he or she may speak to share a thought or observation, announce a humane cause, or even sing a song.

A fundamental principal of Quakerism is “the light within,” which many Friends interpret as a direct and unmediated experience of the divine that guides everyday lives and brings together a community of people. Meeting for Worship is considered an opportunity for deep personal growth and spiritual nurturing.

Award-winning filmmaker Janet Gardner, who lives in Rocky Hill and New York City, observed films about Muslims, Amish and Jewish culture being screened on PBS, but saw little about Quakers. “Even the series God in America only had a passing nod to Quakers,” she says over fizzy lemonade on her sun porch. “I became passionate about the English part of the story.”

In spring, Gardner, who initially funded the project with a kickstarter campaign, received a Guggenheim Fellowship. “This will significantly

enable us to proceed with the principal photography and attract more support,” she says of the film, which is just under halfway complete.

Among the reasons Quaker history may be underrepresented, postulates Gardner, is because Quakers don’t proselytize. Also, their propensity to be thoughtful decision makers—they believe in achieving consensus before moving ahead—may have deterred some film projects. Quakers are often mistaken for Amish and Mennonites, and with Shakers—an offshoot of Quakers with whom they share a physical trembling of the body during worship.

Gardner and her late husband George Morren, an anthropologist, Rutgers professor and Rocky Hill mayor, joined a pilgrimage in 2010 from Philadelphia to England where George Fox was said to have had his vision. In the mid-17th century, Fox, who was tall and charismatic with a powerful voice, shared his belief in an “inward light” and that there is “God” (Quakers believe in the Christian god) in all of us. After not eating for days, he said he felt moved to go to the top of a hill. His vision, considered the beginning of Quakerism, was that anyone could have a direct relationship to “God,” everyone is a minister.

In 1662, the Church of England passed an act that made Quakerism illegal, and 11,000 were imprisoned, says Dandelion. Four hundred died in prison. Quaker women’s heads were covered with a bridle and a metal piece that cut their tongues— trembling and shaking were considered dangerous hysteria. Fox worked with Margaret Fell, who was married to a pre-eminent judge, to promote the idea OCTOBER 2015 PRINCETON MAGAZINE

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that women were responsible for bringing the community to meeting, or worship. Fell and her husband took in Quakers and protected them. For this, Fell’s land was taken away and she was sentenced to time in Lancaster Prison, where Fox was also imprisoned. When her husband died, Fell married Fox. The original name was the Religious Society of Friends of the Truth. When Fox was in court, the judge, mocking Fox for being charismatic, asked, “Do you shake before the Lord?” and Fox replied “Yes, and you should as well,” according to an early cut of the film.

“They didn’t like the name Quakers, but resigned to it and that’s how they’re now known,” says Gardner.

The former field producer, film editor and news writer for NBC News and WNBC-TV, WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.) and CBS News views herself as a “participant observer.” Gardner says she came to Quakerism slowly. Raised an Episcopalian, she met Quakers, who protest all wars, while she was reporting on Agent Orange for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Boston Globe, and making films about the Vietnam War and Cambodian atrocities: Dancing Through Death (1999), about the Cambodian monkey dancers, and the Emmy-nominated A World Beneath the War (1997). Quakers, early civil rights activists and followers of Gandhi’s civil disobedience, were among the first conscientious objectors.

In 2010, Gardner made Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, about the leader of the industrial revolution for whom Cooper Union, her alma mater, is named (she later studied film at New York University). “When you walked into the building, as I did as a young woman, you felt the breadth of history that Cooper endowed, but his

accomplishments were a well-kept secret,” she says.

She was interested in the fact that Cooper, whose father was a “fire-and-brimstone Methodist,” was influenced by Elias Hicks, a leading Quaker. Cooper “followed Quaker principles in his philosophy. He believed wealth is a public trust. His was made by many people and he believed he should give it back to the people.”

Through the Princeton Friends Meeting, Gardner met Richard Nurse, her co-producer. She took the courses the Society offers for new Friends, and started reading on her own, learning how Quakers were tortured in England. She learned that there are Quakers all over the world, from Indiana and North

Gardner hires re-enactors to help tell the story of those who lived more than 100 years ago.

Carolina to the United Kingdom. In Kenya there are evangelical Quakers.

Perhaps the most famous Quaker was William Penn, who had become exposed to different ideas while a student at Oxford. Quakers were a radical group of farmers and tradesmen, communing with the divine in fields or their homes, without a church or a pastor. “Penn’s father, an aristocrat, was horrified,” says Gardner. “Quakers believed in equality, simplicity and religious tolerance.”

Penn’s father had loaned money to King Charles II and died before he could collect the debt. Charles

was eager to get Penn and his Quakerism out of England and so gave him the land he requested in the new world, “west of Jersey.” Penn saw Penn’s Woods, as it came to be known, as a place for religious tolerance.

Among the places Quiet Revolutionaries takes us to are Lancaster Prison, Haverford Friends School, Princeton Friends Meeting, the hill where George Fox had his vision, as well as Pennsbury Manor in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, Penn’s country home when he lived in Philadelphia.

“Penn wasn’t a typical Quaker,” says Gardner.

“He had nine slaves, although he gave freedom to one.” Quakers were conflicted over slavery and over taking land from Native Americans until John Woolman spoke out against such practices.

Seven years ago, Gardner saw a solo performance about the life of John Woolman. She took the card of the actor, and tracked him down to re-enact Woolman in Quiet Revolutionaries.

Both in the Peter Cooper film and the new one, Gardner hires re-enactors to help tell the story of those who lived more than 100 years ago. Cynthia Edwards, formerly of the New York City Opera, helps with casting, costumes and makeup. For Mechanic to Millionaire, there was a cast of 40 but it was shot at one location. For Quiet Revolutionaries, Gardner has been across the pond and around the country. And yet it all comes back home. In the scene shot at Pennsbury Manor, Princeton Friends Meeting member Marcia Willsie, who runs Ezekial’s Table cooking classes in Princeton, portrayed a kitchen worker, herding geese and kneading bread.

Quiet Revolutionaries has been brewing inside Gardner for a number of years. “I always knew I’d make this film,” she says. “From a budgetary and length standpoint, it’s my most ambitious film.”

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his fall, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a major survey of nearly two centuries of the most intimate, intricate, and varied genre of painting as practiced in the United States. Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life explores the nature and development of still-life painting from the days of the early American republic to the emergence of Pop Art in the early 1960s. The exhibition is a fresh take on the evolution of the genre and the various ways in which it has reflected American history and culture.

The show’s curator Mark D. Mitchell, who completed his doctorate in American Art History at Princeton University in 2002, began his career at the Princeton University Art Museum before going on to join the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “When I arrived in 2007, I had a number of conversations with Anne d’Harnoncourt about potential projects that would build on the museum’s strengths,” recalls Mitchell. “She wondered whether it would be possible to create a narrative of the relationship between Philadelphia and American art and I set out to test the viability of that.”

Audubon to Warhol began as the result of Mitchell’s conversations with the museum’s renowned director whose unexpected death in 2008 shocked the art world. It was an idea that continued to develop under the museum’s current director Timothy Rub, and expanded into a project to interpret American history, culture, and identity.

“Still life has a long history in America,” says Mitchell. “Emerging partly in response to a need for Americans to understand themselves in the wake of Revolutionary War, these works not only demonstrate a sense of relationship to objects produced here and to

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indigenous plants and animals, they are presented in a visual form that seeks to define a uniquely American experience.”

“Still life is an important subject that continues to fascinate us today,” says Rub. “It can be a meditative study of a single, small object and yet also serve as a metaphor for the world. The story of American still life begins in Philadelphia.”

“In the first years of the 19th century, when science and art were not as separated as they would later become, there was an explosion of self-reflection with works like Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language and John James Audubon’s The Birds of America,” explains Mitchell.

“Of the 90 works included, 45 have a strong personal relationship to Philadelphia,” says Mitchell.

“They show American identity coming into being in Philadelphia, then the political, cultural and artistic center of the nation, the place where new institutions of learning in arts and in science were founded. Here is an examination not only of still life’s development in America—motivated as much by wider cultural dynamics as by artistic taste—but also the distinctively regional association of American still life as a Philadelphia story.”

The first major show of its kind in more than 30 years, Audubon to Warhol brings together works of historical significance from collections around the country and it expands upon the intimate nature of still life by drawing viewers close to these often small-scale works. Rather than being organized in the conventional manner, it offers visitors an immersive experience by way of a series of encounters with small groups of paintings, arranged thematically.

Artists include Philadelphia’s famous Peale

family of painters, trompe l’oeil master William Michael Harnett, and moderns such as Georgia O’Keeffe, and Roy Lichtenstein.

The exhibition surveys the history of American still life in five chronological sections: “Describing,” “Indulging,” “Discerning,” “Animating,” and “Coda: Pop.” The first section features works from 1800 to 1845 under a suitably scientific heading for precise renderings of nature such as John James Audubon’s

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circa 1828 Carolina Parrot, depicting a species now extinct and an example of the combined artistic and scientific ambition of his Birds of America.

“Indulging,” paintings from 1845 to 1890, explores the pleasures of the senses that enraptured American still-life painters at the beginning of the Victorian era. The period of newfound prosperity and abundance is clear in vivid floral arrangements and tables overflowing with nature’s bounty. In “Discerning,” works from 1876 to 1905 reveal the lifestyles of the affluent in the years following the Civil War; “Animating” characterizes works from 1905 to 1950 that address the technological and psychological preoccupations of early 20th-century American artists. The iconic 20th Century Limited locomotive is the subject of Charles Sheeler’s 1939 classic Rolling Power.

Using a selection of iconic 1960s images, the final section, “Coda: Pop” draws upon the musical term to indicate an end as well as a summation of what went before.

The exhibition immerses visitors in recreated environments such as a Victorian parlor and the famous New York City saloon where crowds from nearby City Hall and around the world were drawn to view William Michael Harnett’s large-scale After the Hunt (1885). Interactive displays are designed to show the connections between art, science, medicine, food, sport and technology of the period.

In service to the art, the curator has considered each and every detail of the visitor experience: the context of each section, how the paintings are juxtaposed, the tone of voice on the audio guide, gallery height, flooring, lighting, ambient sound, even the sight lines between the galleries.

Raphaelle Peale, Blackberries

Asked to share a favorite, Mitchell demurs and then, when pressed, confesses to going back repeatedly to one image: Raphaelle Peale’s 1813 Blackberries. “It’s only ten inches wide but it is perfect, like a hand-held devotional in which the infinite can be sensed in the microscopic. It’s an object of poetry and a constant source of inspiration.”

Blackberries and all other works in Audubon to Warhol are represented in the fully illustrated exhibition catalogue along with essays by Mitchell and others.

Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life will be on view in the Dorrance Special Exhibition Galleries, on the first floor of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 2524 Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, from October 27 through January 10, 2016. Also on view: Wrath of the Gods: Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian focuses on Prometheus Bound by the great Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) alongside works by Renaissance and Baroque masters, including Michelangelo’s famous drawing of the Titan Tityus and Titian’s large canvas depicting the same subject for the first time on view together. For more information, call 215.763.8100, or visit: www.philamuseum.org.

Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton: Of the Best Materials and Good Workmanship: 19th Century New Jersey Chairmaking, through October 18. Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Couple of an Age, from November 13 through October 23, 2016. For more information, hours and admission, call 609.924.8144 ext.106 or visit: www.morven.org.

Princeton University Art Museum: Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection through January 3, 2016, presents Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, and a rare opportunity to discover lesser-known works by Degas, Manet, Van Gogh, and Modigliani, as well as a collection of watercolors, oil paintings, and drawings by Cézanne. For more information, hours and admission, call 609.258.3788, or visit: http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/exhibitions.

Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie in Cadwalader Park, Trenton, presents An Opening Dialogue: The Nature of Abstraction, September 19 through November 8. For more information, 609.989.3632, or visit: www.ellarslie.org.

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avid Barile is a geriatrician who is passionate about helping people age and die with grace. Nicole Schrader, his wife, is a plastic surgeon who strives to help her patients stay young.

“It’s ironic, isn’t it?” asks Barile, sitting with his wife recently in their Princeton living room. “We laugh about it a lot,” adds Schrader. “But it seems to work for us.”

During a late summer interview at the rambling, 1880s house they share with their two children, three dogs, a cat, and some chickens (who live outside), this low-key Princeton power couple reflects on their family, their careers, and the community they have come to call home. Bronx-born Barile, 50, is the Director of the Acute Care of the Elderly Unit at the University Medical Center of Princeton, and the founder of the non-profit New Jersey Goals of Care (goalsofcare.org). Lanky and handsome, with his black hair tied in a pony-tail, he is not what you might expect a geriatrician to look like.

Schrader, on the other hand, has a flawless complexion that could make her a poster child for her practice. But her youthful appearance, at 45, comes from healthy living and a love of the outdoors. A native of Germany, she has her own practice in Princeton and is a double board certified surgeon in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat) and Head/Neck Surgery.

Their specialties suggest different ends of the medical spectrum. But the couple shares a commitment to helping patients live a better quality of life. Barile chose geriatrics because he sensed a serious need among the elderly. “I saw a lot of people

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struggling with geriatric care,” he says. “And it takes a lot of skill and attention and expertise in medicine to figure out what might be going on with someone.

Everyone presents differently. You have to think about the weakest link and the domino effect it causes.”

The elderly are vulnerable when it comes to medicine. “I think they are really exploited,” he continues. “I’m not politically active, but one thing that really pisses me off is ageism. You see it a lot in medicine.”

Barile is like an old-fashioned doctor, in a way. He makes house calls. He refers fondly to the way medicine was generations ago, “when doctors looked at the whole person,” he says. “And if you take the time to find that one thing that went wrong and tweak it, their whole life changes.”

He wasn’t always interested in medicine. But he thinks his eventual focus on geriatrics might stem from the fact that his grandfather was a part of the household when he was growing up. The family moved from the Bronx to Westchester County, New York, when he was small. “I didn’t have much interest in academics,” he recalls. “I went to SUNY Purchase to study art. But when I took anatomy as an elective, things changed. I switched to biology.”

By 2009, having spent several years in geriatrics, Barile founded Goals of Care with a specific mission: “We envision a revolution in geriatric medicine as it is instructed in the classroom and practiced at the bedside,” reads the organization’s website. “Through our programs, we aim to create a safe environment that respects and protects the rights and decisions for care by frail elders, while enriching geriatric education to provide better prognostication and patient-physician communication skills.”

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Schrader’s work in plastic surgery allows her to which is now closed. Next, Schrader got a residency home. It wasn’t easy at first. “Princeton is an old make a similar impact on her patients. “About 20 in ear, nose and throat at Temple University. “By community,” she says. “And it can be difficult for a times a day, I feel like I have had a big effect on then, I knew I wanted to focus on plastic surgery,” young doctor to start a practice.” Barile interjected, someone’s life,” she says. “It makes people happy. she says. “I love surgery and I was always interested “She’s being modest. She has always had to fight a It makes them feel good about themselves. It can be in reconstructing, forming, and sculpting a face.” lot of uphill battles being female. What she does is as little as a scar or a slight nasal deformity, to Barile was hired as assistant professor at Drexel male-dominated, and it’s very competitive to something bigger. I can do this every day, and that’s University College of Medicine, teaching medical practice in the northeast.” why I love my job so much.” students and residents. The couple moved to Schrader’s situation improved once the Schrader is not an advocate for major plastic Philadelphia and married in 1999.

University Medical Center of Princeton moved from surgery. “It makes me upset when people go and get its longtime location in town to the sprawling things done they don’t need,” she says. “But in this facility it now occupies in Plainsboro. While both area, people aren’t interested in a lot of she and her husband work at the hospital, they rarely IT MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY. transformation. A lot of women who want to get cross paths. “We’re in two different medical IT MAKES THEM FEEL GOOD ABOUT back to work after raising their children are worried worlds,” Barile says. “We hardly ever see each other THEMSELVES. IT CAN BE AS LITTLE AS about looking old, and a minor thing can make them at work.”

A SCAR OR A SLIGHT NASAL feel better. I listen to them. I take my time to focus But outside of work, they at make time for family The and Luxor Pavilion on the issues they bring up.” friends. Barile enjoys music and studied Center DEFORMITY, TO SOMETHING BIGGER. Carehas & Rehabilitation The couple came to Princeton by way of New guitar, drums, and most recently, piano. Schrader is I CAN DO THIS EVERY DAY, AND THAT’S York and Philadelphia. They met in 1997 when he an exercise enthusiast who enjoys walking her dogs WHY I LOVE MY JOB SO MUCH.” was a resident physician and she was an intern at along the canal and Mountain Lakes preserve. She Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital. loves to travel and often has to persuade her Barile had graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical husband to go on trips. “I’m more of a homebody,” School, and Schrader had come to the United States They relocated again in 2005 when Schrader got a he says. “But when she convinces me to go, I’m as part of medical school at George-August plastic surgery fellowship at Robert Wood Johnson always glad I did.”

University in Germany. She was intending to go University Hospital in New Brunswick. “One day, The house they purchased three years ago is not back to Germany after doing her student rotation, we happened to drive through downtown what they thought they wanted. “It was built in 1885 but things changed when she met Barile. “I had to Princeton,” Barile recalls. “It was an idyllic October or so,” says Schrader. “It’s a lot of house and yard. repeat my certification and exams,” she says. “But day. The town was beautiful, not what you think We had been looking for a contemporary, but oh in the meantime, I did research at Mount Sinai. And about when you think about New Jersey. We really well...we enjoy it. We’re so happy to come home to Care & Rehabilitation Center by the end of two years, I got my internship in liked it. So we moved here and we both commuted it. And that’s what matters.” general surgery at St. Vincent’s.” in different directions.”

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Our service is a premium, high-end fitness studio that gets results. The energetic, highly motivating workout in my meticulously clean, cutting edge studio only works if you go, so we wanted to locate right in the heart of where local residents shop, dine and attend to their weekly errands. Being close to our members allows us to be very involved in the local community. For example, we sponsored a table at the Princeton Half Marathon in which my husband ran. Being avid animal lovers, we continue to support the Princeton community by being a sponsor of SAVE, a local no kill shelter.

“I want to stay involved in the Princeton community. My employees and I, we’re a family; we support each other in order to make this business grow, not only financially, but grow in the community to spread the orange and the healthy lifestyle.”

When do you open and what does it cost?

Our presales office is open now. I expect the studio to be open late fall. Members who sign up now benefit from locking in “founding member rates” and get a discount on their heart rate monitor. Nothing is charged until we open. We are so confident you will love the workout; we have no long term contracts. Call us at 609-474-0090 to schedule a visit or drop in at your convenience and my team and I will help you get in the Orange and find a program that meets your needs.

“OrangeTheory really makes you feel like you’re a part of something, and that’s what I want people to feel when they come into my studio. I want them to feel like they are a part of something big and something growing.”

What is it about OrangeTheory Fitness that makes it so unintimidating?

There are people of all different ages, levels, and body types at OrangeTheory Fitness, and they’re working at their pace, nobody else’s. We hire quality trainers that guide you through the workout. When I first went to OrangeTheory, the trainer met with me for 15 to 20 minutes before the class started. They explained everything to me from the heart rate monitor, to what the results were on the screen I was looking at. They made me feel like the workout was designed just for me. No one’s heart rate is like my heart rate because it’s based on my body and current level of fitness. It’s comforting to know that the workout is effective no matter what one’s starting fitness level is. The class was like a personal training session for me. The classes are so fast-paced that there’s no time to be self-conscious or to look around and see what others are doing.

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The couple that plays together really does stay together. Husband and wife team and Hamilton, New Jersey natives, Fred Devito and Elisabeth (Lis) Halfpapp have managed to transform their work into play as vice presidents and founding members of Exhale Spa and co-creators of the workout routine, Core Fusion. While Fred and Lis’s version of play might include planking, lunging, and weight lifting, it’s certainly kept their relationship strong—32 years strong to be exact.

The dynamic duo has been connecting through fitness since they were Hamilton High School sweethearts. Fred played football for the Hornets and Lis was a cheerleader while she took ballet classes outside of school. With a mutual desire to teach after graduation, they decided to explore career paths that allowed them to share their interests with others. For Lis, that meant getting a dance degree from the School of The Hartford Ballet, and for Fred, it took on the form of a B.S. in Physical Education and Health from The College of New Jersey. After graduation, Fred worked as a health and physical education teacher at Hamilton’s Reynolds Middle School while Lis commuted out of Princeton Junction to conduct private fitness training in New York City. Always torn between teaching fitness and dance, Lis found her niche in the 1980s after answering an advertisement in the New York Times for a full-time teaching position at the Manhattan Lotte Berk Studio, the American home of the Lotte Berk Method.

Founded in the 1960s by European modern dancer, Lotte Berk, the Method combines ballet, pilates, and sculpting to create a lean, dancer-like physique. It is also known as the mother of the barre movement.

Lis was immediately taken by the effectiveness of the Method, so much so that she and Fred decided to move to Manhattan. After a period of traveling around playing music and teaching fitness classes on the side, Fred also became impressed by the body transformations created by the Lotte Berk Method.

Although the Method started out exclusively for women, it became genderneutral when Fred joined Lis and the Lotte Berk team in 1980. For 20 years, the couple taught 36 classes a week, and further revolutionized the Method by developing a barre/core technique that they taught to other instructors. As they began to see that the needs of their clients required more mind body balance, they decided to add yoga elements to the Lotte Berk Method, creating their own unique version of a barre workout.

In 2001, Fred and Lis’s years of fitness teaching and experimentation paid off when President and CEO of Exhale Spa Annebeth Eschbach brought them on to co-create Exhale’s proprietary Core Fusion classes. A combination of the Lotte Berk Method, pilates, yoga, dance, and orthopedic exercises that develop lean functional muscles, Core Fusion focuses on position and alignment while avoiding tedious repetitions. Fred is the first to admit that it was scary for him and Lis to leave secure jobs at Lotte Berk, but with their families’ support they found the confidence to take the risk.

“My dad always told me to follow my passion,” Fred recalls. “Lis and I started doing the Lotte Berk Method and Core Fusion before fitness teaching was a thing, and our parents believed in us. I took my dad’s advice when I joined Exhale. Our families were always there for us, and now we are living the dream, doing what we love.”

Fred and Lis’s love of Core Fusion is shared by Heidi Klum, Cameron Diaz, and Allison Williams, just to name a few of their high-profile fans. It also attracts many professional athletes and dancers who are looking to recover from injuries or increase their balance and flexibility. Despite all the physical benefits offered

by Core Fusion, what truly sets it apart is Fred and Lis’s time-tested expertise in teaching. Unlike many other barre companies, Exhale is not a franchise, so Fred and Lis can be found teaching classes at one of the 29 Exhale Spa locations in 10 top markets to ensure quality control. Recently, they’ve started a certification october 2015 PRINCETON MAGAZINE

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program that welcomes people outside of Exhale to learn Core Fusion and take their practice back with them to their studio. As Fred explains, “We are teachers, not instructors who bark at you. [Exhale Spa] has teachers that find out where you are and try to get you to other levels of fitness.”

Fred and Lis are such good teachers that they’ve created a suite of 11 Core Fusion DVDs together. Taping their first DVD in their early 50s, the couple proves their belief that as fitness evolves and changes; they should also evolve and change. This philosophy is furthered by their plan to do live streaming videos of Core Fusion techniques so their teaching can have unlimited reach.

Core Fusion and Exhale Spa have spearheaded an entire fitness movement that focuses on mind, body, and soul. As Fred points out, in an industry often flawed by excess of ego, Exhale Spa teaches wisdom. The holistic approach to the Core Fusion training classes blends stress reduction, breath focus, and mind body awareness, so that their students achieve a higher level of living. For proof of its ability to make for a fulfilling life, look no further than the creators.

Fred and Lis’s key to a fruitful existence is balance, something that’s very fitting for a couple that specializes in core strength.

Lis explains, “We try to balance our relationship so that sometimes it’s a work relationship and other times it’s a marriage.” In regard to exercising and healthy

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living, the couple has a surprisingly similar attitude. They follow the “80-20 rule,” where 80 percent of the time they eat well and stay healthy and allow 20 percent for sweets, treats, and cheats. Both also emphasis time alone to focus, restart and reflect.

Not surprisingly, the duo puts in many hours of exercise instructing Core Fusion classes five days a week, but it’s something they both love, especially when teaching in Exhale’s Turks and Caicos location. While Fred prefers Core Yoga and Extreme Core Classes for his workouts, Lis still takes a ballet class once a week.

Fred and Lis are so passionate about Core Fusion that they never want to retire. Although they will eventually allow higher management at Exhale to take over, they hope to continue teaching fitness classes. Lis repeatedly states that she wants to teach until she’s 90, a promising aspiration for a woman trained in the Lotte Berk Method where Berk herself taught until she was 80. But, as Fred says, why retire when you have the best job in the world? “We’re so lucky to have a job that’s healthy for us. We can work while maintaining body and mind health.

God willing, we’re going to do this as long as our bodies allow.” With plans to expand Exhale Spa to at least 50 locations, a book coming out in November, and live stream teaching videos underway, there seems to be no end in sight for Fred and Lis, a couple that is clearly fit for each other.

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| Healthcare ExpertsHEALTHCARE in Spine & EXPERTS Scoliosis Surgery IN SPINE & SCOLIOSIS SURGERY | Dr. Darryl Antonacci and Dr. Randal Betz are renowned spine and scoliosis surgeons acknowledged and awarded by the Scoliosis Research Society, Cervical Spine Research Society, and American Spinal Injury Association. Specializing in Adult and Pediatric Spine Surgery. Dr. Antonacci is honored to be among the few individuals worldwide to have twice received (2001, 2003) the prestigious Russell Hibbs Award for Research from the Scoliosis Research Society.

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Dr. Antonacci has extensive surgical experience in adults and children, with particular specialization in scoliosis surgery and complex reconstructive neck and back surgery and is considered a 2015 Top Spine Surgeon in NJ and NY. He has practiced in Princeton and Manhattan since 2001, performing cutting-edge spinal surgery on adults and children at University Medical Center in Princeton, Mount Sinai University Hospital and Lenox Hill in New York. Dr. Randal R. Betz – a renowned pioneer and authority on children’s scoliosis treatments – recently joined Dr. Antonacci’s practice; together they possess over 50 years of surgical and patient experience.

Dr. Antonacci utilizes minimally invasive fusion techniques and has made pioneering advancements in muscle-sparing spine and scoliosis surgery, which drastically reduces blood loss and shortens hospital stays. Board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, he is among a select group of individuals worldwide with the expertise to perform a wide range of adult and pediatric spinal surgery, from traditional techniques to thoracoscopic and muscle sparing flexible fusion surgery for scoliosis, or percutaneous and mini-open approaches.

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Post-surgical patients have raved about resuming or starting activities they thought would no longer be possible in as little as six weeks.

“It’s all about bringing or creating the best, state-of-the-art techniques and options for our patients,” concluded Dr. Antonacci. “Whether scoliosis, kyphosis, spondylolisthesis, herniated disk, spinal stenosis or sciatica, we strive to define what the gold standard for successful treatment should be.”

Dr. Antonacci’s FLIF approach results in decreased surgical time, less blood loss, and decreased length of hospital stay.

For his adolescent scoliosis patients, Dr. Antonacci and Dr. Betz muscle sparing flexible fusion approaches. It supports motion after treatment, as opposed to “traditional” fusion. Flexible Fusion supports the child and adolescent’s growth as the spine continues to improve its curve. Ideal candidates for Flexible Fusion have a diagnosis of scoliosis, are ten years of age or older, and have thoracic, thoracolumbar or

For more information about Dr. Antonacci’s industry-leading surgical techniques, his extensive experience and highly-skilled surgical team, or to schedule an appointment in New Jersey or New York, contact the office at our New Patient line at (800) 372-6001 or (609)-912-1500; or visit our comprehensive website at www.spineandscoliosis.com.

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Americans are often criticized for using their mobile devices too much and for exercising too little. But what if cell phone use and exercise were combined? Luckily for us, “there’s an app for that,” in fact, there are several apps for that. From paying users to go to the gym to tracking their caloric in-take, there are apps designed for nearly every area of health and wellness. Below, Healthy Living outlines some of the best apps to download in order to stay active and motivated.

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Download Price: Free to download with cost of cash stakes to keep “pact” “Earn cash for exercise, healthy living, and eating right.” — Gym-pact.com

If an app that gives users money to make their fitness goals sounds too good to be true, consider the fact that Pact also takes users’ money when fitness goals are not met. The Pact app (formerly known as Gym Pact) allows members to make a “pact” to exercise, log meals, or eat vegetables daily for a user-specified period of time. When people sign up, they can have $5 to $10 deducted from their credit card or PayPal account for every day they miss. On the flip side, if users stay committed to their pact, they get paid 3¢ to $5 per week until they reach $10. Their payout comes from users who didn’t make their pact. How does the app know they’ve been committed? Users are expected to check into one of the 400,000 gyms in the Pact database and stay in its location for a minimum of 30 minutes. To prove they’ve followed their meal goals, users must take a picture of their food using their mobile phone. Other users are encouraged to vote down photos that shouldn’t count to prevent cheaters from cashing in.

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RunKeeper

Download Price: Free, offers in-app purchases “Join the running community that helps people get out the door and stick with running forever.”

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45 million runners currently use this fitness-tracking app.

Although it’s called RunKeeper, it can monitor many activities like walking and cycling using a smartphone’s GPS. The app provides detailed stats on pace, distance, and time and even gives coaching audio cues at designated workout intervals to motivate users during their exercise. Other features include music that matches the tempo of the workout, the ability to share pictures while taking part in the activity, and in-app training plans. RunKeeper logs the history of the user’s activity, so they can track personal bests or milestones against their goals. The app also connects to several social media platforms so that users can post updates on their exercise progress.

Instant Heart Rate Monitor

Download Price: Free, offers in-app purchases “The first, fastest, and most accurate mobile heart rate monitor.” — Azumio.com

Believe it or not, people can monitor their heart rate with their smartphone and the Instant Heart Rate Monitor app from Azumio. Each time the heart pumps, it sends a pulse throughout the body that causes the skin’s capillary vessels to expand. When this occurs, the color of the skin slightly changes. To have their heart rate measured, users must place their finger over their cellphone camera’s light so it can record the color changes in their fingertip with each heartbeat. By doing so, it measures the user’s beats per minute (bpm). Instant Heart Rate Monitor provides users with their results using a simple graphical interface and updates them on their progress. The average heart rate range is between 60 and 100 bpm, and variations in those numbers can tell someone a lot about their general health. The Instant Heart Rate Monitor also features in-app purchases like the Standup Test™ that provides users a detailed analysis of their heart’s strength based on how hard it needs to work when the individual stands.

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Headspace

Download Price: 10-day free trial, followed by monthly or annual subscription “Headspace is meditation made simple. Learn online, when you want, wherever you are, in just 10 minutes a day.” — Headspace.com

Deemed by Headspace as “the gym membership for the mind,” this mobile health platform helps train your mind to meditate for at least ten minutes each day. With well over one million users, Headspace is revolutionizing the way people cope with their daily stresses. Users can try a 10-day free trial where co-creator and former Buddhist monk Andy Puddicombe guides them in 10-minute meditation sessions.

After the free subscription is over, users have the option of a monthly or annual subscription. A full member has access to 350 hours worth of guided meditation lessons. Once the foundation stage of mediation is complete, Headspace users can move on to meditation in the form of health, performance, relationships, or Headspace Pro where they are able to guide their own sessions.

Fooducate

Download Price: Free, offers in-app purchases “Let Fooducate be your diet toolbox.” — Fooducate.com

Fooducate is like a personal dietitian in app form. It has a database with over 250,000 food products that are graded from A to D based on their nutrition facts panel and ingredient list. Users can even scan a product’s barcode to see its personalized nutrition grade. The less processed the food, the higher the rating. The Fooducate app can track the quantity and quality of calories consumed by a user as well as their daily water consumption and exercise. Other features include healthy recipes, daily tips, and forums where users can address questions to the Fooducate community. Winning first prize in the U.S. Surgeon General Healthy App Challenge for best nutrition app is clear evidence that Fooducate helps improve its users health through better food decisions.

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Egg Donation: $5,000-$35,000 per donation cycle Egg donation is one of the few areas where women earn more than men. This is partially due to the complicated nature of the painful egg harvesting procedure compared to that for sperm. After undergoing extensive medical and psychological examinations and meeting all of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) guidelines for egg donation, a woman can begin the donation process. Although the ASRM states, “Total payments to donors in excess of $5,000 require justification and sums above $10,000 are not appropriate,” there have been instances of women being paid well above the suggested compensation rates for their eggs. That’s because they are merely recommendations and not federal laws. Consequently, there’s an entire egg donation industry targeted toward “elite donors,” or women of superior beauty, IQ , and athleticism, among other attributes. One such agency is The Egg Donor Program in California. When asked how much they’d be willing to pay an attractive Princeton University graduate for her eggs, they readily offered a $10,000 minimum payment for the first donation. However, they made it known that their donors have been paid upwards of six figure amounts, while most exceptional donors make $25,000 to $35,000 for their donations. At first glance, The Egg Donor Program’s website could be mistaken for a dating website or booking agency rather than an egg donation company. It markets itself as an exclusive club where selected donors are referred to as “Premier Donor Angels: beautiful, accomplished, highly educated” (www.eggdonation.com). These programs generally have stricter donor requirements than those suggested by the ASRM. For example, the ASRM requires donors to be between 21 and 34 years of age, but elite donors are usually between 20 to 30 years old and college educated.

Sperm: $80-$100 per donation Although the compensation rates for sperm donation are much less than egg donation, they can be made much more frequently and easily. Participation in sperm donor programs usually requires a six to twelve month commitment wherein participants must donate two to three times per week. This means that men can earn upwards of $1,200/month for every acceptable donation (as donors only get paid when their sperm count meets a certain standard). Like egg donation, there are expert guidelines and recommendations, but no regulation as to who is donating or how often. This is controversial when it comes to how many pregnancies result from one sperm donor. While the ASRM suggests 25 live births per population area of 850,000, there have been reports of donors having over 100 genetic children (conceptionconnections.wordpress.com). As with egg donation, there is big business for exceptional sperm donor programs where agencies are highly discriminatory in their donor selections. Agencies such as NW Cryobank require donors to be a minimum height of 5’10, between the ages of 18 and 35 years, and “within the normal limits of weight for [their] muscular build and height.” Meanwhile, the ASRM suggests donors be between 18 and 40, with no mention of body type. Another elite donor agency called Fairfax Cryo Bank (where accepted donors join Club Fairfax) gives donor recipients the option of using their FaceMatch™ program when selecting a donor. This allows them to submit a photo of their face or a celebrity’s face into the donor image database. The program then finds donors with a similar look to the photo submitted. In other words, if donor recipients want their baby to be a mini Brad Pitt, Fairfax Cryo Bank is for them.

Womb (Surrogacy): $30,000-$50,000 For this body part, it’s not so much donated as it is “rented out” for nine months, but for a high cost. Not only are there monetary expenses for using a surrogate, but also legal implications. There are few states in the U.S. that allow commercial gestational surrogacy or surrogacy in which the woman is unrelated to the fetus and is contractually compensated for carrying the baby. New York and New Jersey are among the states where surrogacy is nearly impossible.

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However, when it is allowed (as in California, Rhode Island, and Connecticut) women can make large sums of money (creativefamilyconnections.org). Most agencies like Shared Conception require surrogates to have birthed and raised at least one child prior to being accepted. Experienced surrogates who have had uncomplicated previous pregnancies usually receive an additional $5,000 on their base compensation rate. But, like elite sperm and egg donation programs, there are exceptional surrogacy agencies that pay higher compensation rates for “gifted” surrogates. Since there are huge emotional risks involved in surrogacy, the parents of the baby being carried should expect additional legal fees in order to uphold their contractual agreement with the surrogate.

Breast Milk: $1-$2.50 per ounce Until the feeding bottle was introduced in the 19th century, wet nursing was a bona fide profession with contracts and laws to regulate the practice (A History of Infant Feeding, Emily E. Stevens, Thelma E. Patrick, Rita Pickler). However, there has been a modern resurgence of the wet nurse, but in a slightly different form thanks to the internet. Websites like onlythebreast.com allow women to post whether they’re interested in buying or selling milk and then categorize it under options like “Special Diet (Vegan, etc.), Selling Locally, or Selling in Bulk.” Users also specify how old their baby is as the breast milk composition changes based on the amount of time it’s been since birth. The younger the baby, the more a woman’s breast milk is usually worth.

Such online forums are unregulated, and thus, could potentially pose a risk to the individual consuming the milk. In fact, the FDA recommends against feeding your baby breast milk acquired directly from individuals or through the internet (www.fda. gov). A safer alternative comes in the form of milk banks that take voluntary steps to screen milk donors and safely collect, process, handle, and store the breast milk. While many milk banks do not compensate women for their milk donations, The Mother’s Milk Cooperative pays $1/ounce. The compensation rates for breast milk might not seem worth the trouble, but according to KellyMom.com, the average baby consumes 25 ounces of milk per day. If a woman received $2.50 per ounce for a year, she’d make well over $20,000 annually.

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Hair: $100-$4,000 Hair certainly makes the cut when it comes to high value body products. Men and women can post hair classifieds on websites like Hairwork.com or HairSellon. com to buy and sell human hair. In high demand in the beauty industry to make hair extensions and wigs, human hair can be worth a significant sum of money under the right conditions. According to Marlys Fladeland of Hairwork.com, long, straight, red hair that’s never been dyed is usually worth the most money. While prices vary depending on inches available, color, and texture, Fladeland reveals that one woman from Indiana received $4,000 for 31 inches of hair in 2013. On HairSellon.com, people set their own prices for their hair and in the description often include information on their race, hair washing habits, and even their diet. The website also features a hair pricing calculator tool to help people estimate the value of their hair by inputting the length, color, thickness, and condition.

Plasma: $20-$50 per donation What exactly is human blood plasma? It’s the liquid portion of blood that contains 500 different types of protein, and according to the American Red Cross, around 150 of these can be used to diagnose diseases or manufacture therapies. In other words, blood plasma is of high demand in the medical field, so much so that people are paid to donate it. According to DonatingPlasma.org, in approximately 90 minutes, people in good health between the ages of 18 and 69 can donate their plasma for money. While compensation rates vary nationwide, donors get compensated according to their weight. The more a donor weighs, the more plasma can be collected, and therefore, the more money made. The compensation range is generally 20 to 50 dollars. The FDA limits donations to twice within a seven-day period, so a frequent donor can make upwards of $400 per month, or almost $5,000 annually. Donor locations have also been known to include bonuses or incentives like movie tickets or gift cards to frequent donors or those who bring a friend with them to donate.

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Crusoe, a Do-It-Yourself man almost 200 years before the rise of the acronym DIY, is shown carving stakes for the fence, borrowing a sail from the wreckage of his ship to make a canvas tent overhead, chopping down trees and splitting the trunks to make planks. The big Vermonter who helped make our house a home didn’t need to chop down trees or split trunks, but what he accomplished was no less remarkable.

A HOUSE WITH CHARACTER

We found Everett Gross through a friend with a large library for whom Dale (the name used by everyone but us ) had fashioned numerous floor-to-ceiling, wall to wall built-in bookcases. Working on saw horses in our garage, breakfast room, and bed room accompanied by classical music tapes, Everett built the equivalent of two libraries for us, one in the living room and one in the finished basement. In both places, the intimate, homey effect he created more than lived up to my old Robinson Crusoe dream. It wasn’t long before my Arts and Crafts-minded wife discovered that the man from Vermont could build anything and everything she asked for, and for a more than fair price. What she wanted above all was character, meaning no runof-the-mill hollow, flat-surfaced doors or clam shell moldings. Door frames, window frames, baseboards, or shelving, everything was paneled, grooved, rounded, and touched with style. Besides acting as our contractor for the kitchen, which was entirely renovated, Everett laid the floor tiles himself and created a storage closet,

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as well as putting in French doors to the deck, building medicine cabinets for both bathrooms from scratch, installing a magnificent dining room cabinet with glass doors, and shutters of natural wood for the windows all through the ground floor, where his masterpiece was the array of bookcases and cabinets in the living room.

For 25 years he was our mainstay, making all needed repairs, helping out every time the basement flooded, and, toward the end, refusing to charge us. He died two years ago. We will never forget him. How could we?

We live in The House That Everett Built.

THE VERMONT CONNECTION

Looking through some newly published books on remodeling, home improvement, and architecture, I’m reminded all over again of how fortunate we were to find Everett. Coming from Vermont, a man of few words who never said “the other,” always “t’other,” he would have had some interest in the books published by the Vermont-based outfit Storey, particularly The Woodland Homestead, by Brett McLeod. The book, which is attractively illustrated with black and white line-drawings, offers “Case Studies” with titles like “From Woods to Goods” that encourage the development of a person’s “woodland eye” to aid in understanding how “past events” resulted in “current conditions.” Subjects range from a home with a small back yard in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin, to a 40-acre homestead in northern Virginia where the occupants hoped to satisfy “farm and forest ambitions.”

The author, who manages to balance being a professor of forestry and natural resources with professional lumberjack competitions, oversees a 25-acre mountain homestead.

under review. Howe is remembered by one of his students as “the sorcerer’s consummate apprentice, interpreting his master’s dreams and visions, translating them into limpid, poetic renderings and beautiful, down-to-earth construction documents— while teaching us along the way.” A charter member of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship at 19, Howe remained there for the next thirty-two years, earning a reputation as “the pencil in Wright’s hand” before establishing his own architectural practice in Minnesota. Influenced by Wright’s principles of organic design, he operated under the conviction that “the land is the beginning of architecture.”

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his buildings “appear to have grown naturally and organically from the landscape.” Also worth seeing are the visionary architectural schemes he created while serving time in prison during World War II as a conscientious objector—futuristic visions that anticipated Eero Saarinen’s later designs for airports and Victor Gruen’s for America’s first indoor shopping mall.

SELF-RELIANCE

Another new book from the Vermont-based publisher Storey is architect Will Holman’s Guerilla Furniture Design, which features plans for building lamps, chairs, tables, and more from salvaged materials. Holman’s grass roots manifesto demonstrates how “the seeds of self-reliance are deeply rooted in American history,” from Native and Colonial to Modernist. Says Holman, “My design sense was shaped by nomadism, recessionary economics, and the great abundance of America’s waste stream. Over the years, it would have been easy to furnish my varied apartments with thriftstore finds and big-box buys. Instead, I looked at each move as a fresh start, a new opportunity to solve a set of old problems: how to get me, and my stuff, off the floor. With little money, few tools, and improvised workshops, I shaped my environment out of paper, plastic, wood, and metal. Guerilla Furniture Design is meant to help readers do the same.”

THE DIGITAL GENERATION

Brit Morin’s Homemakers: A Domestic Handbook for the Digital Generation (Morrow) is one of 2015’s bestselling house and home titles. Known as “Silicon Valley’s Martha Stewart,” Morin, who is seen smiling on the cover and throughout the book, was named among Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in 2014. In addition to addressing traditional domestic arts like cooking, sewing, decor, and woodworking, her book also explores high-tech design and features, among other projects, a nightstand that can charge gadgets wirelessly. While Everett Gross might find it hard to connect with the CEO and founder of Brit + Co’s introduction, he would surely approve of what she says in a San Francisco Chronicle interview “To make something with my own hands—it’s something our generation wasn’t taught, and it’s so empowering.”

Even though she’s thrived on an online media and e-commerce platform that has 185K Facebook likes and 22.9K Instagram followers, Morin wrote her book as a reaction against being “immersed in the digital world” that has led some to attend “digital detox camps just to get away from their virtual reality.”

For the Robinson Crusoe in all of us, there’s HomeMade Modern: Smart DIY Designs for a Stylish Home (Running Press) by Ben Uyeda, whose popular HomeMade Modern YouTube channel gives step-bystep directions for making environmentally sustainable furniture for inside and outside the home. A designer, lecturer, and co-founder of HomeMade-Modern.com, FreeGreen.com, and ZeroEnergy Design, Uyeda won

the U.S. Green Building Council’s Natural Talent Design Competition in 2010 by creating affordable green home designs for the New Orleans’ Broadmoor neighborhood as part of the rebuilding effort following Hurricane Katrina.

SUBSTANTIVE SKILLS

Urban Homesteader: How to Create Sustainable Life in the City, a boxed set from Microcosm, collects four previously published titles. The most popular book of the set, Make Your Place, has sold over 110,000 copies on its own, according to publisher Joe Biel, and many of those sales came before Microcosm had traditional distribution. Biel expects the boxed set will do better at nontraditional retailers than at bookstores, because it spans several areas, including gardening, canning, and nontoxic cleaning. “I think consumer interests—and especially the things that motivate those interests—are more complex than bookstore sections,” Biel says.

He believes Microcosm’s readers instinctively link preparing food, cleaning without chemicals, getting around urban areas, and making things at home, because those are all lifestyle skills. “What we see over and over in reader habits is wanting to learn substantive and practical skills.”

Though he was no urban homesteader—Everett lived on the Princeton-Lawrencevile Road in a house he built himself—the man from Vermont’s substantive lifestyle skills elevated the business of homebuilding and home design to another level.

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t New York Old Iron in Brooklyn’s Gowanus section, under the F and G subway train tracks, rows of reclaimed clawfoot tubs and old pedestal sinks are piled end to end. Some are chipped. Some are yellowing. Others are encrusted with decades of grime.

But to the homeowners and apartment dwellers who roam the cluttered aisles of this and other architectural salvage outlets in New York, New Jersey, and beyond, those blemishes are hardly a deterrent. Their nicks, dents, and age spots are seen as signs of character — especially if they fit into a design scheme that calls for styles of an earlier era rather than new furnishings made of modern materials.

The stacks of old doors and mantels at Philly Provenance, the ornate chandeliers at Philadelphia Salvage, and the reclaimed beams and flooring at Recycling the Past in Barnegat all represent a growing trend in reusing and reclaiming articles from the past to furnish homes of the present. But not all salvage is vintage. At Green Demolitions’ locations

throughout the tri-state area, whole kitchens that are nearly new and completely functional sit waiting to be reclaimed. And they can represent considerable cost savings.

Following is a sampling of some area architectural salvage operations. Some are new; others have been around for decades. Many have a particular area of expertise. All offer a range of items, from intricate door hardware to imposing wrought iron gates.

Amighini Architectural, Jersey City: Need a mahogany entrance door for that brownstone you just purchased? How about some stained glass windows? Amighini Architectural might be your go-to place. The salvage yard, in operation since 1945, has a huge supply of doors and also sells wood paneling, restored columns, iron gates, outdoor furnishings, and much more. The company also offers rentals of how-to videos and movies for do-ityourselfers. Find them at 246 Beacon Avenue, Jersey City. 201.222.6367 or info@amighini.net.

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Recycling the Past, Barnegat: This is one of the largest salvage companies around. The more than 80,000 square feet of space is home to a revolving collection of doors, windows, lumber, stone, tubs, industrial salvage, and vintage artifacts from residences and industrial buildings. A particular niche is aircraft and marine salvage. And don’t forget to check out the huge selection of garden antiques. 381 North Main Street, Barnegat.

609.660.9790 or recyclingthepast.com.

Philly Provenance in Philadelphia, subtitles itself “Old Soul Architectural Salvage.” Their unique inventory comes from some of the city’s most historic landmarks. A recent scan of the company’s website revealed pressed tin ceilings, reclaimed wood, brick, and stone, an old Horn & Hardart Retail Shop neon sign, staircases, and much more. They boast an in-house crew trained in the safe removal of valuable and reusable materials. 912 Canal Street, Philadelphia. 215.925.2002 or info@ phillyprovenance.com.

Philadelphia Salvage Company’s salvage, refinishing and restoration operation spans 25,000 square feet at two locations, one of which serves as a reclaimed lumberyard. New inventory comes in every day. In addition to the furniture, flooring, shutters, sinks, lighting, doors, hardware, cabinets, and all manner of antique knick-knacks, the four-year-old company offers deconstruction and demolition services with a goal of zero waste, dipping

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New York Old Iron is along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and has salvage that comes mostly from Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. Everything is negotiable here, from hardware to clawfoot tubs to stained glass windows.

Scrap metal and iron are the specialty, but there is much more to this yard located across from Lowe’s.

You might find some old mannequins propped up among the pillars and sinks and chairs awaiting their new owners. 118 2nd Avenue, Gowanus.

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Hobensack & Keller in New Hope, Pa. is the place for unique antiques including iron gates, Oriental rugs, and vintage garden statuary. Local architects and designers swear by this treasure trove, which has been around since 1957 and is old-school, which means no website. Visit them at 57 Old York Road, New Hope, Pa. 215.862.2406.

Green Demolitions specializes in recycled, high-end kitchen and overstock items rather than architectural salvage. The nearest showroom is at 275 Route 46, West Fairfield. 862.210.8332 or greendemolitions.com.

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