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Born in Philadelphia, of Irish and German descent, Grace Patricia Kelly was the third of four children, three girls and a boy. Her mother Margaret Katherine Majer was the ďŹ rst woman to head the Physical Education Department at the University of Pennsylvania and her father, John Brendan “Jackâ€? Kelly was an Olympic rower who won a gold medal on three occasions. Jack Kelly is still remembered in Philadelphia for his successful construction business. In 1935, he ran as a Democrat for city mayor and lost by a very close margin. During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him National Director of Physical Fitness. Kelly went to a prestigious Catholic girls’ school and showed an early interest in acting. Talent ran in the family. Her Uncle Walter C. Kelly was a well-known vaudeville star and Uncle George Kelly, playwright and screenwriter, had won a Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1926. Her 1947 graduation yearbook from Stevens School, a small private institution on Walnut Lane in Germantown, listed her favorite actors as Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton and expressed her hope to be “a famous star of stage and screen.â€? In spite of her parents’ reservations, Kelly pursued her dreams at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. After some work on Broadway and in television, she got a small part onscreen in the 1951 ďŹ lm Fourteen Hours. Her break came when she was noticed by Gary Cooper during a visit to the set. Cooper found her to be “different from all these actresses we’ve been seeing so much of,â€? and she starred with him in High Noon. Kelly’s physical beauty was striking. In 1955 she was photographed by fashion photographer Howell Conant in Jamaica. The images published in Colliers’ Magazine were very different from the usual shots of Hollywood starlets. Conant photographed Kelly with no makeup and in natural setting. His shot of her rising from the water with wet hair made the cover. Many would remark upon Kelly’s poise. Director John Ford noted her “breeding, quality and class.â€? She made ďŹ lms with the leading men of the day: Clark Gable in Mogambo; Ray Milland in Dial M for Murder; James Stewart in Rear Window, Bing Crosby in The Country Girl, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress (beating Judy Garland in A Star is Born); and Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, her third and last Hitchcock ďŹ lm. But she famously turned down a leading role in On the Waterfront opposite Marlon Brando for which Eva Marie Saint won an Academy Award. Kelly’s ďŹ lm career took a back seat after her marriage. She met her handsome prince when she headed the U.S. delegation at the Cannes Film Festival in 1955. The 40-minute civil ceremony took place in Monaco’s Palace Throne Room, April 18, 1956. The following day the church ceremony took place at Monaco’s Saint Nicholas Cathedral. The couple had three children: Princess Caroline (1957), Prince Albert (1958) and Princess Stephanie (1965). As Princess of Monaco, she focused on philanthropy in the arts and on her role as a United Nations advocate for children. The Princess Grace Foundation, Monaco, was founded in 1964 to support those with special needs. In spite of her success, however, Kelly never lost touch with her Philly roots. Her son, Prince Albert II of Monaco described the current exhibition as a means to convey a “glimpse the real Grace Kelly.â€? According to her nephew, Christopher Le Vine, owner of Grace Winery

and Sweetwater Farm Bed & Breakfast in Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley, “her children grew up much as she did.â€? On view are family snapshots of Grace with her sisters on the beach at Ocean City. “I remember when I was a child going to the grocery store with her once to get some scrapple to take back to Monaco,â€? said Le Vine. “She was going to tell the chef that it was a special Philadelphia patĂŠ pour le petit dejeuner.â€? Throughout the years, interest in Kelly, who died from injuries received in a road accident in 1982 when she was just 52, has never waned. She is remembered for her radiance, her dignity, her compassion, her individuality, and her style. In his eulogy, James Stewart described her as “the nicest lady I ever met. Grace brought into my life as she brought into yours, a soft, warm light every time I saw her, and every time I saw her was a holiday of its own.â€? Prince Rainier did not remarry and was buried alongside her following his death in 2005. For Lisa Tremper Hanover, the Michener’s director and CEO, the exhibition “acknowledges Grace Kelly’s impact on so many facets of 20th century history and relates ‘the real story’ of the girl from Philadelphia who adored raising her children as much as she loved clothes and culture.â€? A companion exhibition celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Bucks County Playhouse, where Ms. Kelly made her stage debut. Local Mill Makes Good: Celebrating 75 Years of American Theater at the Bucks County Playhouse will be on view from October 26 through March 2, 2014. From Philadelphia to Monaco:Grace Kelly Beyond the Icon runs from October 28 through January 26, 2014 at the James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine St., Doylestown, Pa. For more information, including tickets and times, call 800.595.4849 or visit: www. MichenerArtMuseum.org.

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Princeton University Art Museum on the university campus, The Itinerant Languages of Photography traces historical continuities from the 19th century to the present by juxtaposing materials from archival collections in Spain, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico and works by modern and contemporary photographers from museum and private collections through January 19, 2014. For information and hours, call 609.258.3788 or visit: http://artmuseum.

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the Rutgers campus at 71 Hamilton St., a short walk from the NJ Transit station in New Brunswick. Diane Burko: Glacial Perspectives in the Machaver Gallery through July 31, 2014. For admission and hours, call 732.932.7237, ext. 610 or visit: www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu. Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street, Philadelphia. LÊger: Modern Art and the Metropolis, inspired by Fernand LÊger’s 1919 painting The City, a cornerstone of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection and one of the most important works in the history of modern art. October 14, 2013 through January 5, 2014. For more information, call 215.763.8100, or visit: www. philamuseum.org.

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days and months after Sandy constitute his “proudest moments,â€? and the image of New Jersey he would like other Americans to hold onto. Christie strikes a similar note as he evokes the “famously independentmindedâ€? New Jersey residents who elected him as the state’s ďŹ rst Republican Governor in 12 years. “Everywhere I went, people told me they were concerned about the future of New Jersey,â€? he recalls. “Their concerns weren’t Republican or Democratic issues – they were things that everyone of every political stripe worries about.â€? These included “the economy; providing for their families; putting food on the table; sending their kids to college and having enough money to comfortably retire.â€? While his administration’s success in addressing these challenges is debatable, his re-election in 2014 appears to be assured. Christie, who seems a likely contender for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2016, sometimes appears to be an equal-opportunity infuriator. In a state with two football teams (the Jets and the Giants), he is a Dallas Cowboys fan. It was no surprise that Democrats were not pleased in 2012 when he vetoed a marriage-equality bill, but many people on both sides of the aisle were annoyed when he called for a costly, and probably unnecessary election in October to ďŹ ll Frank Lautenburg’s Senate seat. “I think this ends his 2016 chances,â€? one senior Republican ofďŹ cial reportedly said. “It’s year after year with this guy.â€? Qualifying his apparent ease with President Obama during two tours of hurricane-ravaged sites in New Jersey, however, Christie notes that “I didn’t vote for the president and there are a whole host of policy issues that I don’t agree with him on. But from day one, President Obama and the federal government have been there for us while we recover and rebuild from Sandy, and while we have a long way to go, the aid and resources New Jersey has received went a long way toward making sure that the Shore was open and ready for business in the summer of 2013. So I am glad the President has been here, I am grateful for the help from his administration and I look forward to working with him as we continue rebuilding our state and helping people put their lives back together.â€?

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state university and a Top-25 research university,â€? he says. Speaking of “top ightâ€? universities, Christie’s son, Andrew, is enrolled at Princeton, providing yet another opportunity for a display of Christie’s sassiness. “This is the most expensive damn shirt I’ve ever gotten in my life,â€? he’s been known to complain when he wears a Princeton tee-shirt. Watching Andrew play catcher for the Princeton University baseball team is not a joking matter, though. Allowing that he tries “to get to as many gamesâ€? as his schedule “allows,â€? Christie says that he’s “proud of him and the team, and can’t wait to see them in action in the future.â€? Christie’s critics call him a bully; others say they appreciate his bracing, down-to-earth style. “Too often, politicians in Washington D.C. like to skirt around issues or say one thing while meaning another,â€? he says in his own defense. Hearkening back to his mother’s advice, no doubt, he suggests that “people appreciate an elected ofďŹ cial who is not afraid to be himself, even if that means being blunt, honest and truthful during tough times. People can respect someone who treats them like adults.â€?

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RACE FOR NEW JERSE E T A N E S . S . U Y

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hen Governor Chris Christie called for a special October election to fill the late Frank Lautenberg’s vacated U.S. Senate seat, he came in for criticism for not waiting until November’s general election. Why a costly second visit to the polls? In defending his decision, Christie pointed out the importance of the Senate seat. And indeed, the effect of having a stand-alone vote has been to draw attention to the race. Four Democrats and two Republicans threw their hats into the ring. Local elections in August weeded the pool to Democrat Cory Booker, the current mayor of Newark, and Republican Steve Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota. The two take opposing positions on almost every social and economic issue. Booker is pro-choice. Lonegan is pro-life. Booker wants to protect Obamacare. Lonegan wants to end it. Lonegan defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Booker supports marriage equality for gay men and women. Of late there has been much mud-slinging between them on the subject of sexuality. Lonegan has questioned Booker’s enjoyment of manicures and pedicures, while Booker maintains there’s more to being a man than drinking Scotch and smoking cigars, activities that Lonegan favors. With the special election due on October 16, Princeton Magazine, put some questions to the two candidates. Here are their respective responses:

LA: What sets you apart from the other candidates in the Senate race? CB: My opponent and I have very different approaches to the problems New Jerseyans face. I believe that every American deserves access to quality, affordable health care and that the Affordable Care Act will be instrumental in making that happen. My opponent believes the Affordable Care Act should be repealed. I believe that we must pass common sense gun legislation to help keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals, and keep our communities and our police officers safe. My opponent does not. I am a strong supporter of women’s rights and believe that a woman’s health care decisions should be between her and her doctor. My opponent does not. I believe that we can do much more to help turn this economy around, by fighting child poverty, investing in infrastructure and research and development, and raising the minimum wage. My opponent does not. And we have fundamentally different approaches to governing. I will always seek to reach across the aisle—to sit down with anyone and look for areas of agreement in order to move New Jersey and America forward. SL: The distinction between us is clear. I am a conservative, my opponent is liberal. I believe in a limited government, individual liberty, and lower taxes.

I believe the government should be prevented from spying on private citizens, and that the men and women of our military should not be entered into every conflict worldwide. The number one question I will ask when making a policy decisions is, “am I protecting your individual liberty?” LA: How important is bipartisanship to success in Washington today and which issues do you believe lend themselves most to bipartisan relations? CB: I believe that bipartisanship is crucial to success in Washington, and that we’re not seeing nearly enough of it. If elected, I will work across the aisle to get things done for New Jerseyans. In Newark, we did just that. We set aside our differences, forged partnerships, found areas of agreement, and made meaningful change. For example, we partnered with the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think-tank, to create cutting edge ex-offender re-entry programs that drove down recidivism rates. I believe that issues such as this, criminal justice reform, and others such as combating child poverty, putting Americans back to work and encouraging research, development and innovation in our country are not left or right problems. I will always listen, and seek common ground, because continued inaction in the face of very real threats to our communities and to our country is plainly unacceptable.

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SL: I believe bipartisanship is very important. As a mayor of 12 years, elected in a town that is 2-1 Democrat to Republican, I have learned the necessity of working with people of all political stripes. Bipartisanship means working together where we see common ground, where the desired outcome is mutual and favorable. Capitulation of your core principles, however, is not bipartisanship. I will work successfully across the aisle, but I will not betray my core principle of protecting your individual liberty. LA: Will climate change be a decisive issue in October’s special election? Regardless of your view on the causes of climate change, is a carbon tax, or some sort of punitive tax on pollution makers, a viable idea? CB: Global warming is a real and serious threat and we must start acting like it. I applaud the significant steps the president has taken to regulate carbon emissions, but ultimately Congress must take action

and pass legislation that creates a market-based incentive to reduce emissions. That said, a cap and trade system or a carbon tax must be designed in a way that is sensitive to poor, working class, and middleclass Americans, and to our economic growth. Either must also be paired with significant government investment in energy research and development so that consumers and businesses have access to cheap low-carbon alternatives. If done right, we can lead the world in both fighting global warming and creating good-paying jobs in the emerging green economy. SL: The core issue of this election is going to be individual liberty. Are we, as a country, going to allow big government to intrude on our privacy, tap our phone calls and monitor our emails? Are we going to allow big government to make our family healthcare decision? Are we going to allow big government to decide how our children are educated? I say no to these questions.

LA: How important will the issues of “Obamacare” be for your campaign? CB: The Affordable Care Act was an important step toward providing quality, affordable health care for all Americans. We’re already seeing the benefits: insurance companies can no longer deny coverage based on preexisting conditions, and important preventative care measures—like mammograms and blood pressure screenings—are now free. Right here in New Jersey, Obamacare has closed the Medicare donut hole for 109,000 Medicare beneficiaries and will save middle class New Jerseyans more than $1,000 per year by 2019. However, more can be done to control costs and make healthcare more affordable. For example, if elected, I will work to move our nation away from costly fee-forservice models and towards systems based upon coordinated care. SL: Obamacare is a very important issue. It is a massive government overreach, and we are already beginning to see the negative effects that it is having. Businesses are cutting back hours for part-time employees, families are facing the realization that they will not get to keep their current doctors, and it is going to cost more than twice the original estimate. A recent report has shown that the Obama administration has missed half of the implementation deadlines. Simply, this is a law we cannot afford to have implemented. LA: Who would you be your choice to replace Fed. Chairman Ben Bernanke? CB: I am confident that the president will make the right decision. SL: I will support a Fed. Chairman who will audit the Federal Reserve. As a country, we have relied heavily on an institution that does not answer to taxpayers and consistently seeks to manipulate the dollar. LA: The New Jersey state capital of Trenton has a crime index of 12 out of 100 (with 100 indicating most safe). What would you suggest as a way of tackling the city's problems.

Republican Steve Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota believes Obamacare is a very important issue. It is a massive government overreach, and we are already beginning to see the negative effects that it is having.

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CB: I recently released a comprehensive plan to reform our nation’s criminal justice system, because my time as Mayor of Newark has taught me that we will

never arrest our way out of our nation’s crime problem. There will be a ceiling to our progress as long as economic opportunity is scarce, poverty is abundant, quality public education is elusive, illegal guns are readily available, drug laws and enforcement priorities remain misguided, our justice system and prisons continue to put the warehousing of human potential before rehabilitation, and we as a society fail to treat crime as the multi-dimensional societal ill that it truly is. The story of our crime fighting efforts in Newark has been one of constantly pushing against this ceiling. Since my administration began its work with the Newark community, murders are down 17 percent, shootings are down 27 percent, rapes are down 38 percent, and aggravated assaults are down 12 percent. In 2010, Newark went a full calendar month without a murder for the first time since 1966, and saw 43 days without a murder in 2008, which was the longest such stretch since 1961. SL: As a United State Senator, I will leave state and municipal matters up to the legislators at that level, but the best way for Trenton to improve is through economic growth. Through policies that allow for business creation, Trenton will have more jobs available, leading to lower unemployment and less crime.

LA: New Jersey property taxes are among the highest in the nation. Is the system to blame? Can it be reformed? CB: Property taxes in New Jersey are out of hand, and many hard-working families are struggling to make ends meet. As a United States Senator, I would not have control over the local property tax rates to which this question refers, but will vigorously pursue reforms to our federal tax code that protect working and middleclass Americans. I will also work to provide greater support to localities and school districts, which are facing enormous pressures and relying on property taxes to meet those needs. We must move towards a fairer system—one in which working and middle class Americans aren’t asked to disproportionately shoulder the country’s tax burden while we ignore loopholes that benefit the few. These are things that we should all be able to agree on, and I look forward to being able to reach across the aisle in Washington to make them happen. SL: As a United States Senator, I will not have a vote regarding state property taxes. While I would like to see property taxes lowered in New Jersey, I will leave the matter to the legislators of the state.

LA: Superstorm Sandy devastated the New Jersey Shore, do you think that the state has done a good job of funding and rebuilding, and why? CB: We’ve come a long way since Superstorm Sandy hit our shores nine months ago, causing widespread damage across the state. In the storm’s immediate aftermath, government at both the state and federal level worked together to direct much-needed resources to the hardest-hit communities. But many are still hurting and struggling to rebuild. Now, we need to make sure that promised money is getting out the door—removing unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy so that struggling families can rebuild and move on. I was pleased by the recent report released by President Obama’s Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, which made a series of recommendations to help homeowners stay in their homes, strengthen small businesses, and ensure that we are better prepared for future natural disasters. SL: The individuals who have been impacted by Hurricane Sandy have shown true resilience. However, I am deeply concerned about the failures of the bureaucracy of FEMA getting the necessary money to the victims of the disaster.

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LA: Why leave a job where you have been productive and effective for the Senate, where it is notoriously hard to get anything done? CB: Serving as the Mayor of Newark has been the greatest honor of my life. I have been able to work with tremendous public servants, from police officers to community leaders to clergy, to help tackle some of the toughest challenges facing the residents of any city in the U.S. I quickly came to learn, though, that there are enormous federal reforms needed to improve the lives of Newarkers and all New Jerseyans. These include, for instance, nonsensical federal gun laws and insufficient federal support for vital programs such as “SNAP.” So there is work that must be done, and I believe that it can be done. When I started my work in Newark over a decade ago, I was told by so many people—too many people—that Newark was a broken city, nothing could be done to fix it and I shouldn’t even bother. But today Newark is in the midst of its biggest period of economic growth since the 1960s and the population is growing for the first time in 60 years. If I can claim any credit, it’s that I was able to bring people together—business leaders, residents, entrepreneurs and philanthropists—and get them to believe in Newark. All anyone says today is that Washington is broken, the system no longer works—words that sound just like

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those I heard when I moved to Newark. I believe that I can help get things done in Washington, just as I did in Newark. It comes down to innovative problem solving and an unyielding commitment to finding the common ground necessary to advance ideas that will improve lives. That’s what we’re missing in Washington, and that’s what I am committed to changing if elected. SL: Being productive and effective at a current job is one thing, but bringing historic change to our country is another. I have an opportunity to help make a lasting impact on the future of the country, and it cannot be taken lightly. LA: Which of your personal qualities make you a good candidate for the Senate? Why? CB: If given the opportunity to serve as your Senator, I will bring my sense of urgency, forged through working with communities in need since I was in college, and my willingness to work with anyone who is interested in solving a problem. There is much room for agreement among Democrats and Republicans on so many issues, and we cannot afford continued inaction. I will always listen to those with whom I mostly disagree, and search for those areas of agreement that can empower the Senate to address today’s most pressing problems.

SL: As a small businessman and a father, I know the importance of a budget. Small businesses need help in this time of high taxes and uncertainty with government regulations and the implementation of Obamacare. Families are seeing their budgets shrink as the federal budget continues to grow to a monstrous level. I know both situations, and I will fight everyday for the survival of small businesses and for families to keep more of their hard-earned money. LA: How do you use social media? CB: Social media has tremendous potential to bring government closer to the people it serves, improving transparency, accountability, and responsiveness. As Mayor of Newark, I strived to do just that, and hope to do the same in the United States Senate. SL: Social media is a force multiplier for a campaign. It is an important counterbalance to the media, allowing us to get a clear message out—straight to the voter—and not through a filter. My campaign uses social media for everything from organizing volunteers, campaign updates, fundraising, and direct communication with voters with short messages about specific policy issues.

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iconic head-cocking dog looking into a Victrola—the symbol associated with RCA-Victor. There was actually a real fox terrier who got his name chasing rats and nipping at the backs of people’s ankles. Nipper also had a fondness for listening to music, according to legend, and was doing just that when artist Francis Barraud captured the scene on canvas in 1899 in “His Master’s Voice.� Eldridge Johnson, the founder of Victor Talking Machine in Camden, had a revelation when he saw that painting – it could become a symbol of how his machine was so good, even a dog couldn’t tell the difference between a recording and his master’s voice. An astute businessman, Johnson launched Nipper’s image and company name world-wide by branding everything from Victrolas and recordings to salt and pepper shakers. (In 1929, RCA purchased Victor to become RCA Victor.) The Sarnoff collection includes many objects with the beloved animal’s likeness, including a hand-hooked rug, a stained glass window, even a Nipper necktie. Many were donated by RCA employees. “These are the secret gems of electronic history,� says Curator Benjamin Gross of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, walking through a large room

ďŹ lled with artifacts from the pioneering days of radio and television. “It’s a treasure house of materials from the dawn of the 20th century.â€? Gross couldn’t be more suited to the job—he wrote his dissertation on the development of the ďŹ rst liquid crystal displays by scientists and engineers at RCA. / <3E 6=;3 The David Sarnoff Library was previously on U.S. Route 1 in West Windsor—where Gross did his doctoral research—before being donated to TCNJ in 2010. The main research lab was established in the Princeton area in 1942, halfway between the factory in Camden and the headquarters in Harrison. David Sarnoff, chairman, spent time here with his research staff. In 1951 the facility was renamed the David Sarnoff Research Center. When Sarnoff retired, he set up the library dedicated to his career. It opened in 1967, the 25th anniversary of the lab building. In the beginning it was much like a presidential library, tracing the life and career of the chairman, but under the longtime curatorship of Dr. Alexander Magoun, it evolved to become more about the history of electronics. The collection grew organically, including such objects

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as the key to Tokyo presented to Sarnoff and a calligraphic certiďŹ cate by the Institute for Electrical Communication, Japan. After SRI took over the research center and was not interested in maintaining the library, the David Sarnoff Library and Museum became its own nonproďŹ t corporation with a board of trustees. “The Smithsonian and the Henry Ford Foundation were interested in the artifacts but would not keep the museum, archival materials and artifacts intact,â€? says Emily Croll, Director of TCNJ’s Art Gallery and Sarnoff Collection. “We were pleased that it could stay in the state of New Jersey which has a rich history of electronics and technology, from Bell Labs to Edison Electric.â€? At TCNJ, it will be used for educational purposes and made available to the public. “Many RCA employees still live in the area and can be approached with questions.â€? The 2,800 linear feet of library materials have gone to the Hagley Library and Museum in Delaware, one of the largest business history artifacts in the country. “They already had the papers from RCA Camden so it was an appropriate home,â€? says Croll. Some of the technical manuals relating to the artifacts remain with the collection. Gross and Croll have been busy on the project for two years, putting together a catalog of the 6,000 artifacts, from microchips to large TVs, and 3,000 images. They launched an online database in December 2012. Students both contribute to and learn from the project, which features a comments section for crowd-sourcing data from former RCA employees. “Our goal is to introduce people to the breadth of technologies and to place it in a broader social, political, economic and cultural context,â€? says Gross. “The objects on their own are wonderful but they ďŹ t into broader history of American science and business.â€? 4@=; B63 A6B3B: A Russian immigrant, David Sarnoff grew up just outside of Minsk and was educated to be a Talmudic scholar. His father, a house painter, moved to New York City’s Lower East Side, looking for better opportunities. Abraham Sarnoff brought his family to the U.S. in 1900, when David was 9.

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In order to earn money, David sang in the synagogue choir and sold Yiddish language newspapers, opening his own newsstand at the age of 13. David learned the language quickly, and his abilities enabled him to compete in high school debates. “Recordings of his speeches show he valued the spoken word and prided himself on his mastery of the English language,â€? says Gross. “He felt his speeches were worth preservation and historians would want to read them. He loved giving speeches.â€? Although his education never went beyond high school—David worked to support his mother and siblings after his father died—he had ambitions to become a journalist. In 1906, intending to apply for a job at the New York Herald, he inadvertently walked into the ofďŹ ce for the Commercial Cable Company, thus

telegraph key to send messages to aid the rescue, helping him move further up the corporate ladder. Sarnoff wrote a memo to his supervisors in 1915, proposing a radio music box that enabled households to listen to signals sent from a central location and hear music and news. It was considered a hair-brained scheme—there were no broadcasting stations back then. Five years later, RCA grudgingly agreed to allocate $2,000 toward this concept that could replace the piano and phonograph. World War I was the ďŹ rst major conict to involve radio. “The U.S. government was concerned that a foreign company, Marconi, had too much control,â€? says Gross. “So the government came up with a scheme to organize a new company to hold all the radio patents so there wouldn’t be infringements.â€? 1919, RCA absorbed the American branch of Marconi, and Sarnoff became the commercial manager, moving up to general manager and then executive vice president. He was the ďŹ rst to bring radio, until then in the realm of the hobbyist, into the average home, by arranging for the heavyweight championship ďŹ ght between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier to be broadcast live by RCA. In the Sarnoff collection, the oldest radio with the RCA name is from 1922 and is in a hardwood case. The name Westinghouse is on top, because RCA was the licensing company for Westinghouse. 7< B63 </B7=<¸A A3@D713

changing the course of electronic history. When Sarnoff requested time off for the Jewish High Holy Days, he was ďŹ red and soon got a job for the American branch of Italian radio company, Marconi Wireless. By age 16, he was raking in $7.50 a week. In 1912 he was asked to be the manager of the new wireless station for John Wanamaker, sending messages back and forth between the New York and Philadelphia stores. “It was good public relations – people would come and watch the radio operator at work,â€? says Gross. In April 1912, when the Titanic crashed, Sarnoff spent 72 hours at the

In 1930, Sarnoff was named president of RCA. Just after the research facility opened in West Windsor, World War II broke out, and Sarnoff sent a telegram to President Roosevelt saying the factories at RCA were at his disposal. Radar, sonar, anything electronic – RCA could provide it, as well as networks to disseminate information. Eager to show his patriotism, Sarnoff was responsible for overseeing all communications systems with the D Day invasion. As a result, he earned the title Brigadier General, and was referred to thereafter as “The General.� “Sarnoff was always looking ahead to the next big thing in technology,� says Gross. “How could he grow the company. He sought to transmit images over the airwaves and developed electronic television.�

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Television involved cathode ray tubes and chemistry. According to his New York Times obituary, Sarnoff was neither scientist nor inventor, but a man of astounding vision. A technical autodidact, he developed a close rapport with the scientists, engineers, research staff and executives, distinguishing him from other business leaders of the time. He had electronic engineers who knew how to translate a video signal and transmit it over the air, using chemistry to develop phosphorus so the resulting image appeared bright and sharp. It was Princeton resident Vladimir Zworykin who developed the ďŹ rst picture tube. AT&T, GE and RCA were all working on television, but Sarnoff is credited with putting together a comprehensive system to broadcast and receive TV signals, using cameras and picture tubes. At the 1939 World’s Fair, Sarnoff announced that RCA was the ďŹ rst company to broadcast television via its afďŹ liate, NBC. The exhibition includes a vintage home entertainment center with television, radio and a record player – all with the Nipper trademark – in a carved mahogany cabinet with speaker housing. B63 <3FB 075 B67<5 Next, of course, came color. The collection includes a 1954 color TV, the CT 100, which originally sold for $995. “The downside was, only one station, NBC, was broadcasting in color in 1954,â€? says Gross.

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From television, Zworykin and RCA went on to pioneer the ďŹ rst electron microscope. Scientists scanning specimens with electrons could get higher resolution than with an optical microscope, using electrical ďŹ elds to control the beam. James Hillier – father of Princeton-based architect and Princeton Magazine publisher J. Robert Hillier – was the engineer in charge of this project who rose to vice president, directing all RCA Laboratories worldwide. The exhibition includes a large photograph of Hillier with a pipe and an electron microscope, as well as one with Zworykin and early and more advanced microscopes in Camden. “The fact is, in my opinion, that there appear to be few problems in chemistry, physics, metallurgy, mineralogy, geology, biology and medicine, among other sciences, in which the electron microscope cannot be used,â€? said Hillier, as quoted in the exhibition. “Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey was the hot bed of innovation in the U.S.,â€? says Gross. “The ďŹ rst LCDs were developed at RCA. These artifacts show how RCA was on the cutting edge, leading the way.â€? The exhibition is organized in sections: biography, radio, phonograph, black and white TV, color TV, electron microscopy, liquid crystal display, semi conductors and computing. There is also an open study center with a pull-down screen, projector and seminar table and archive boxes on shelves.

One entire wall is consumed with a photo-realist painting of the David Sarnoff Research Center, that iconic mid 20th-century building on U.S. Route 1, with its numerous sections added on over the years. “David Sarnoff was not necessarily the most beloved man – he made enemies,â€? says Gross. “He was a businessman with forceful ambitions, and a technological insight most business leaders didn’t have.â€? During the Cold War, Sarnoff proposed dropping millions of radios and compact phonographs on the Communist Bloc to broadcast prodemocracy propaganda, and he supported Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Communist witch hunts and condoned blacklisting at RCA. He said it was hard work, not luck, that got him where he was, though his luckiest day was the one he arrived in the U.S. Sarnoff earned 27 honorary college degrees, but said he most cherished the diploma from Stuyvesant High School he was awarded in 1958, at the age of 67. When he retired (and was succeeded by his son Robert), a cigar-chomping Sarnoff still exerted control as board chairman from his ofďŹ ce on the 53rd oor of the RCA building in Rockefeller Center in New York. He lived to see photographs delivered electronically from space to Earth in satellites his company had made.

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it were possible to amplify the sound of two men hugging, the Christie-Obama embrace that took place on the storm-battered Jersey Shore on October 31, 2012, might be called the Hug Heard Round the World. Or Round the Land. Or, for presidential candidate Romney, The Halloween Hug of Doom, otherwise known as the Hug That Ate the First Debate. But just what sort of a hug are we talking about? Check it out online and you’ll see that it’s nothing like the full-edged, I-feel-yourpain embrace the president and the governor were giving folks shaken by Super Storm Sandy. Nor does it resemble the mobster clinch popularized on The Sopranos, the show that, along with Bruce Springsteen, put New Jersey on the map. What you mainly see is two men deep in the moment, feeling it to the fullest, knowing they’re in the right place at the right time, emotionally, pictorially, and politically as they walk toward the camera, arms around one another, their pale blue shirts almost a match, both appearing genuinely at ease, comfortable, and unposed, Christie a hale and hearty Falstaff to Obama’s suave Prince Hal. Keep in mind that this bipartisan idyll took place in Springsteen country, a stone’s throw from the Stone Pony. Until that magic Sea Bright moment, Bruce had been keeping

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his distance from his biggest fan. It was unrequited love writ large, for it’s not just the Jersey Shore that’s in Christie’s heart, it’s the man who wrote the songs the governor knows word-for-word and sometimes sings aloud at Springsteen concerts. A few days later, after Obama helped bring them together (hopefully not the only diplomatic rapprochement of his embattled administration), the Boss shook hands with the governor, gave him the longedfor hug, and made it ofďŹ cial, “We’re friends.â€? It was the moment of a lifetime for Christie, who later told the president, according to TIME, “the hug was greatâ€? and when he got home “there was a lot of weeping because of the hug.... And the President said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Well, to be honest, I was the one weeping. Everyone else was ďŹ ne.’â€? How many politicians in either party care that much about anything artistic or musically exciting or good for the soul, let alone a life-force born to blow the roof off Madison Square Garden? Christie has, at last count, attended 130 of the Boss’s concerts. Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in the July 2012 Atlantic describes the task of containing Christie at a Springsteen event as “an exercise in volcano management.â€? In Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to Power (St. Martin’s Press 2012), Bob Ingle and Michael Symons devote several pages to the one-way relationship that existed until Sandy and Obama brought the two men together. After quoting from a letter Springsteen wrote to his “hometown newspaperâ€? lamenting the cuts in services “eating away at the lower edges of the middle class,â€? the book points out that Springsteen’s only published comment about the governor at the time came when he told Vanity Fair, “let’s just say that he and I are coming from different places.â€? Politically, Bruce’s statement may still hold, but Goldberg got it right when he titled his article “Jersey Boys.â€? Christie was born in

Newark in September 1962, Springsteen in Long Branch in September 1949. You don’t need to read far in Ingle and Symons’s biography of Christie or in any of the slew of books about Springsteen to know that they both have Jersey, rock and roll, and baseball in their blood. Like any serious fan of Springsteen’s, Christie doesn’t just go to the show, he rocks out, gets down, and boogies. When you think of how much body English Bruce generates onstage, ďŹ gure the equivalent and then some is being generated by the governor. As for baseball, both men love the game, played it hard in their younger days, and still fervently follow it, Springsteen a diehard Yankee fan, Christie all Mets.

>:/G=44 B7;3 Since the special election for Frank Lautenberg’s senate seat is being held in the heart of the Major League playoffs, with the gubernatorial election looming, and since a passion for baseball is one big thing the Boss and the Governor have in common, it might be worth comparing their experiences with the National Pastime. Christie was a catcher with his high school team the Livingston Lancers until he lost his starting position when a star receiver transferred to LHS from another school. Undaunted, Christie became an inspirational force on the bench, cheering the Lancers through a 28-2-1 season that brought them a trophy as the best team in the state and a celebratory dinner at which Christie received a standing ovation in recognition of his “positive attitude and leadership after losing his starting position.â€? Meanwhile, growing up in Freehold, Springsteen was a scrappy (no surprise) Little Leaguer with the Indians (a presence in his classic song “Glory Daysâ€? and mentioned as “Indians in the summerâ€? in “Blinded By the Lightâ€?), playing during the club’s undefeated 1961 season. Later it was sandlot softball with his own E Street Band team, the Kings. The Boss-baseball dynamic swept the nation when TBS promoted broadcasts of the 2012 playoffs with a modiďŹ ed version of “Land of

Hope and Dreamsâ€? powerdriving video clips of the E Street band and ballplayers in action. For Christie, the 1986 championship season was “Mets fan nirvana,â€? but not so good for his ďŹ rst year of marriage. According to the Ingle-Symons biography, Christie and his wife Mary Pat were living in a studio apartment over a liquor store in Summit, “one room cut by a half-wall with an efďŹ ciency kitchen.â€? While Christie, who “wanted to watch every minute of every inningâ€? was following the Mets drive to the top of the baseball world on one side, Mary Pat was on the other side trying to read. “So that did not make me popular,â€? Christie admitted, “and we had any number of dustupsâ€? and “almost all involved the Mets.â€?

0==97<5 0==93@ Since there are as yet no biographies of the man most likely to be the new U.S. Senator from New Jersey (Rutgers University Press does have a book on Newark and Cory Booker in the works), I don’t know much about the Newark mayor’s baseball or rock’n’roll roots beyond his support for the Newark Bears, for whom he had high hopes when he threw out the ďŹ rst pitch; at this writing, however, the Bears are mired in last place in the CanAm League, 19.5 games out and almost 30

games under .500. As for books, there’s only Jonathan Wharton’s A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come: Newark, Cory Booker, and the Transformation of Urban America (to be published next month by Palgrave Macmillan for a list price of $100), which offers a political and historical analysis of Newark since 1950, culminating in Booker’s rise to power and prominence both in the city and in American political consciousness. The book is based on original interviews with Booker, city council members, and other prominent Newark politicians. It would take a team of biographers to keep up with Booker, who has his hands full saving lives as Super Mayor, much to the consternation of the governor in the hilarious Seinfeld/Newman Christie/Booker sketch made last year for the New Jersey Press Association’s annual Legislative Correspondents Club Show (you can see it on YouTube). Meanwhile the governor had another nervous moment at the beginning of the year when he showed up on the cover of TIME with “The Boss� in big red letters under his photo. “I’m just starting to develop a relationship with Bruce,� he told a crowd in Belmar, “and then the title they put under my picture...I’m going to go all the way to the back of the line again. It’s terrible.�

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n a balmy Saturday evening last fall, a full moon hung low over Princeton Battlefield. Scudding clouds castt th their i iintermittent t shadows, throwing the site of George Washington’s historic victory over the British in and out of eerie darkness. It was perfect weather for the first Princeton Battlefield Ghost Tour, and a sold-out crowd was gathering

near the Thomas Clark House to set off on a guided trek though the park. Mimi Omiecinski of Princeton Tour Company was busy handing out headphones and paranormal equipment—dowsing rods, thermameters and EMF (electromagnetic field) meters—to the eager participants. Some seemed giddy with anticipation of possible encounters with the ghosts of slaughtered Revolutionary War

soldiers who might be haunting the field. But to the normally highspirited Omiecinski and her mother Bella, who was assisting her in this inaugural expedition, the apparitions that might be hovering were not to be trifled with. “Ask them questions, but be respectful,” Omiecinski urged the crowd. “Be nice to them. You have to promise us that you won’t be mean to them.” Before letting the group fan out over the field, Omiecinski OCTOBER 2013 PRINCETON MAGAZINE

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Princeton Tour Company’s ghost tours of the Princeton Battlefield are spooky and atmospheric, especially on fall evenings. But the treks through the historic park aren’t designed to be scary, making them appropriate for children as well as adults.

told the story of the brutal battle that took place on the night of January 2, 1777. The Battle of Princeton, which claimed the lives of 40 patriots and 275 British soldiers, was—along with the Battle of Trenton—a turning point in the Revolutionary War. Washington had suffered grave defeats in New York the previous year, and the two encounters proved that his army could win. After Omiecinski’s introduction, the tourists began tracing the path of the troops. Soon, they were branching off into little groups, using their equipment to attempt contact with “The Other Side.” While no one actually saw anything ghostly, several people reported their dowsing rods had crossed when they attempted to ask questions like “Were you killed on this battlefield?” and “Did you die for the cause?” The tour was a hit. Because the Battlefield is a national historic landmark, Omiecinski needed permission from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to schedule the tour. Last spring, she was given the green light to schedule more of them. The tours resumed last month, and subsequent gatherings are scheduled for Saturday evenings, November 2 and December 7. “For believers, you’ll be shocked what you will feel on a tour,” reads Princeton Tour Company’s website. “For non-believers, expect plenty of historical information regarding the battle and Revolutionary War to keep you

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engaged throughout the hour and a half experience.” Omiecinski never considered herself a believer. Having fallen in love with Princeton after moving here from Nashville, Tennessee in 2006 with her husband and son, she started Princeton Tour Company and began leading themed tours on subjects ranging from “Literary Greats” to “The Atomic Red Scare.” But a few years ago, Omiecinski had a chance encounter while leading a corporate tour that got her thinking about the spirit world. “It was about three years after I’d started Princeton Tour Company,” she recalls. “I was giving this tour, and a gentleman took me aside afterward and said to me, ‘You know Princeton is haunted, don’t you? You should do ghost tours.’ All of his co-workers told me he really could see ghosts. So I started to look into it. His name was David Tyler, and he ended up leading the first ghost tours I did, gratis. That was great, because I didn’t know how to do it and I didn’t want to make up stories.” Impressed by Tyler’s knowledge, Omiecinski began doing research of her own. She asked her mother to help, and soon Bella was hanging around places like The Carousel restaurant, coaxing the old-timers who gathered there for morning coffee to tell their stories. “She just charmed them,” Omiecinski says, “and they told her about places like Theatre Intime, which they said is haunted, and The Barracks on Edgehill Street.”

Omiecinski contacted some paranormal investigators. “They’re a lot more responsible than you might imagine,” she says. “It is actually very boring work, and it takes a lot of time. But you go as a skeptic, and they refute everything. We asked them to show us hot spots around town, and they had no trouble finding them.” Walking through the Princeton University campus with the investigators, Omiecinski watched, amazed, as their equipment went crazy. “We went to certain spots, and asked [the spirits] questions. All this activity would come,” she says. “Outside of the gates, it was not as active. But inside? Whoa.” When she discovered that Princeton University had studied paranormal activities for 27 years through its PEAR program (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research), Omiecinski was further convinced that there might be something out there. So she began leading ghost tours, with three different routes through town. “We knew there had been some horrible activities, but we didn’t want to focus on them,” she says. “It became really clear that what people were most interested in was stories being real, and being able to use the equipment. I bought 50 dowsing rods, 50 thermameters and 50 EMF meters, and every customer gets an opportunity to learn how to use them.” The idea of using the Princeton Battlefield as a site was a natural. With the help of Revolutionary War expert Kim

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Mimi Omiecinski shows some young participants in a recent ghost tour of Princeton Battlefield how to handle the equipment. While no one on the tours has actually reported seeing a ghost, the dowsing rods and heat-measuring thermameters have yielded some spine-tingling results.

Gallagher, she was able to compile a request and get it approved by the state Department of Environmental Protection. “He was really helpful,” Omiecinski says. “We had tried to do a ‘guts and glory’ pub tour together, which didn’t sell. But we stayed friends.” Omiecinski and her mother started researching the Battlefield. They took their dowsing rods over to the site on Mercer Road and started snooping around. “We found there were two major spots on the field where the fighting had happened. So we went over and introduced ourselves to whoever might be out there. I told them what I was doing, who I was, how long I’d be there. We said we knew the historic facts. Because the more details you know, the better. You might know who someone’s lost loves were, or that George Washington had one tooth in his head. You really have to look like you know them. And you say, ‘If you want to make a connection, we hope you will. If you’re here, please cross the rods.’ ” The rods crossed. “Once that happens, that’s when you want your questions to get harder,” Omiecinski says. “And when they cross, you can’t get too excited. You have to keep your head about you. And you have to thank them.” Around this time, Omiecinski had her own encounter with a spirit. “I had gone to my grandfather’s funeral in Nashville,” she recalls. “And I saw him, in my hotel room. He was looking over me. So I began to understand what this was all about. It gave me the confidence to do this.” Omiecinski leads the tours, always with

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a historian and a paranormal facilitator on hand. She encourages people to bring digital cameras, and guarantees that they’ll see “orbs,” which believers think are spirits and non-believers think are caused by dust. The tours begin at the Clark House, which is “absolutely haunted,” Omiecinski says. “General Hugh Mercer was nursed there by Benjamin Rush. We do things to honor General Mercer, like we always play a Johnny Mercer song, because he’s a descendant. It’s just a strategy to impress the other side and create the most likely opportunity.” From the Clark House, Omiecinski leads participants to what she calls “rally ridge,” the spot where General Washington rallied the troops. “Then we follow what we think is the exact path where he changed the tide and where the most brutal things happened,” she says. “That’s where we use the dowsing rods.” Using her megaphone, Omiecinski tells the tourists that on this night, the British are not their enemy. “There are two places where we try to bring in two British officers, Mawhood and Leslie,” she says.” Over at the colonnade on the other side of Mercer Road, the heat- measuring thermameters are brought in to detect any presence of spirits. The tour ends with a moment of silence at the burial ground for unnamed soldiers, which is behind the colonnade. Princeton Battlefield is closely monitored by the Princeton Battlefield Society, and president Jerry Hurwitz says the

organization has given it’s blessing to Omiecinski for the tours. “Mimi has submitted a script, so we’re wholeheartedly in favor of this,” he says. “Anything that calls attention to the Battlefield is something we appreciate. All of this had to be approved by the DEP, and it was. We certainly hope more people will take advantage of the tour and we’d love to expand on it.” Does he believe there are ghosts on the Battlefield? “I think it’s plausible,” Hurwitz says. “There are all sorts of documented stories about Gettysburg. And if it’s plausible there, it can be plausible in Princeton, though obviously there is a big difference in magnitude.” Omiecinski donates 25 percent of the gross revenue from the tours to the restoration of the Clark House. While the tour is meant to be unsettling, the goal is not to frighten people. “What we’ve learned is that The Other Side is like this side,” she says. “If you’re nice, you tend to attract nice ghosts. It’s dangerous to be mean or belligerent. We’ve never had an incident, but I’ve heard of other tours where there have been reports of scratches, or pushing. We don’t have that, because what we’re out to do is honor The Other Side.” For more information about the ghost tours and other Princeton Tour Company events, visit www.princetontourcompany. com or call 1.855.743.1415.

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nights throughout the month of October, from 7 to 10PM. Contact: 215.794.3378 Website: www.houseinthehallow.com B63 @=19G 6=@@=@ >71BC@3 A6=E The Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope from October 23 through November 2. Showings are at 7:30 and 11:30PM and of course, the audience is expected to come in costume and be ready to participate! Tickets start at $35 ($25 for students). Contact: 215.862.2121 Website: www.bcptheater.org 4:3;7<5B=< B@/7< @723 Board an historic train in Flemington and enjoy the ride to a large pumpkin patch in Hunterdon County where children can enjoy games, pumpkin painting, and Halloween treats. Trains depart from the Black River & Western Railroad, located behind the Liberty Village Premium Outlets in Flemington. The trains depart

every hour (beginning at noon) on Saturdays and Sundays for the month of October. Contact: 908.782.6622 Website: www.newjerseytrain.org/ maze.html /<<C/: :/;03@BD7::3 6/::=E33< >/@/23 This Halloween Parade through downtown Lambertville is one of the oldest parades of its kind in New Jersey. On Sunday, October 27, the parade will assemble on York Street by Mary Sheridan Park at 2:45PM. At 3PM, the parade will proceed towards the Little League Field where the costume judging will take place. Prizes will be awarded for the most creative costume, the scariest costume, etc. Website: www.halloween08530.com 1/</: = E33< 7< G/@2:3G Beginning on Sunday, October 27 at 6:15PM, participants can gather at the Delaware Canal that runs through Yardley,

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ome chefs and their restaurants inspire pilgrimages. It is a relatively easy matter to search out the best food that New York or Los Angeles has to offer. Barcelona, Paris, and London are farther afield but those who truly care will find a way to get there in their quest for culinary magic’s holy grail. Thomas Keller took a bit of a chance with the French Laundry, counting on pilgrims finding their way to Yountville, but Napa and Sonoma county wineries were already a draw. Once Chez Panisse took off long ago, everyone recognized the name, and a college town previously known for education and insurrection became a necessary station to tick off on the equivalent of a birding list for foodies. But what if that fabulous establishment was hidden in plain sight? What if it opened simultaneously with and was overshadowed by several other restaurants run by fine chefs with fabulous credentials, working in establishments on which small fortunes had been spent in order to dazzle Princetonians? What if it was in a town called Rosemont in Hunterdon County, a crossroads that few had heard of and that is hard to find? It was the chowhounds on the other side of the Delaware who picked up the scent. They already knew who Matthew Ridgway and Paul Mitchell were from their long stints at fine Philadelphia restaurants.

THE PARTNER CHEFS Ridgway grew up in Bucks County, the youngest of four children and the son of what he calls “hippie parents.” The rule of the house was that “the first one home has to cook.” The produce in those days was fresh and local, and so was the meat, a fact that he took for granted. Because he loved working in the kitchen, it did not at first occur to him to make cooking his profession. Yet he did. A distinguished graduate of Johnson & Wales’s Collegeofof Wales College Culinary Arts, he was mentored by master chefs Jean-Marie Lacroix and Martin Hamman at the Fountain Room at the Four Seasons in Philly and quickly rose to become chef de cuisine at Lacroix at The Rittenhouse. It was in these restaurants that he came to know Paul Mitchell, who is now co-chef at The Pass. Over the years, Ridgway managed to get a business degree at the Wharton School, to explore the culinary scene in northern California, to pick up new techniques from another master chef in Atlanta, to oversee the Oak Room’s large staff at the Plaza in New York, to use every vacation he had to learn about cooking in France, Italy, and other countries, and then to quit the restaurant scene altogether in order to start a charcuterie business called PorcSalt. Mitchell picked up Asian cooking techniques in Seattle and kept at his craft until the two came together again as

partners at The Pass. The credentials are one thing, but they do not tell the full story. These are two people who do not cook to live—they live to cook. Having mastered techniques, ingredients, traditions from many different cultures, they work without the typical kitchen support staff, bringing their guests a new menu every week. Their restaurant is named for the moment when food passes from the kitchen to the dining room under the watchful eye of the chef, who must approve of the plates. The Pass opened in May and is now on menu 17. By the time this article appears, it will be about four menus later. THE MENU AND THE BUILDING Every menu created remains posted on the restaurant’s website—a stunning array of dishes transporting the known and familiar into uncharted territory. The new selections appear every Monday, offering a prix fixe meal for $38.50 that includes a choice of one of about five “firsts,” one of three “seconds,” and a dessert. Beverages are not included in the price. Since the restaurant is currently BYO, you will also find suggested pairings of wines to go with each dish (a list containing many off-beat but undoubtedly apt recommendations). Along with the food and wine, you will find information about PorcSalt. The products are also sold at farm markets, mainly in Philadelphia, and

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to fine restaurants all across the country. That he is able to keep the restaurant and PorcSalt going is testimony to Ridgway’s devotion to his art and his many artisanal skills, as well as to his tirelessness. He seems to have mastered the anatomy of all the animals and fish he works with and every known way to dress, cure, cook, and flavor them. The decades-old porcelain display case at the front of the restaurant showcases PorcSalt’s products, which can be bought on the premises. New Jersey discovered The Pass shortly after the fans from the other side of the river. But anyone who knew and loved the Café at Rosemont, which was run and owned by Lola Wykoff for over twenty years, is familiar with the mid nineteenth-century general store at the crossroads of town, its worn hardwood floors, its colorful pistachio-green wainscoting, the hard-used wooden tables, the shelves on which knickknacks were displayed, and of course that fabulous repurposed porcelain case in which baked goods were once offered. Ridgway and Mitchell were smart enough to respect what was there and not to tamper with it greatly. So here, in spite of the two chefs’ impressive backgrounds, you will find no

white tablecloths, no fussy chandeliers, no piped in music, no fancy wine glasses, and no chef whites. They compare the low-key conceptualization to a “routier,” a restaurant found along the roads of France. Maybe Matt Ridgway will come out to your table in a white apron over his jeans and T-shirt, but that is as close as he gets to showmanship and razzle-dazzle. The food is the central attraction. Service, however, is friendly and you will get good information about the dishes from the servers, who, as lucky guinea pigs, get to sample creations before they reach the menu. They are essential to the success of the restaurant and a key part of the group—as you will be too if you become a devotee. Listening carefully to Ridgway, one often hears him use the word “community.” And it is with this word that we get back to the Chez Panisse connection. COMMUNITY Even when he was working in Philadelphia, Ridgway was puzzled by the difficulty of finding good meats and produce. Why did so much have to be imported from elsewhere? He knew from his childhood that right outside of the city

there was great produce and fine livestock. These were the days when California was in the vanguard of local sourcing, foraging, and farm-to-fork locavore philosophy. It took quite awhile for this approach to reach New Jersey. Never daunted (a word that seems to be absent from his vocabulary), Ridgway went out and found suppliers himself. When he started PorcSalt, he had to do the same, convincing farmers to raise a particular breed of heritage pig that he wanted for his business and then guaranteeing that he would find other buyers to make it worth their investment. Puzzled that Pennsylvania farmers were selling their wares at the Union Square market in New York but not locally, he then became the essential link in the chain himself. Explaining how all this came about, he sounds both confident and humble; but that is the way he talks about everything he does. In short, he had community all those years when he worked in those Philly kitchens and wherever he has gone since he has tried to recreate that type of collective. Now, he says, someone might actually come to him, appearing at the restaurant to offer a chanterelle goldmine—can Matt and Paul

Chef Matthew Ridgway and a couple of tasty offerings from The Pass; the menu items change weekly.

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Co-chefs Paul Mitchell and Matthew Ridgway preparing in the kitchen at The Pass.

use any? A menu is then designed around the mushrooms. These are the stories told repeatedly about the Berkeley eating scene. And it is that unpretentious homelike setting, the adventurous local sourcing, and the “we’ll try anything” spirit that radiates outward to growers and diners alike that most recalls the early days of Chez Panisse. You pick up that “vibe” immediately when you make the pilgrimage to Rosemont. THE FOOD The richness and depth of flavor, the contrast of color and taste, the complexity and unexpected pairings of ingredients— these are the hallmarks of true creativity in the kitchen. Schools and mentors can teach techniques, travel and cookbooks can broaden experience, and science can raise mastery to a higher level. But there has to be something else and that something else is rare. With the first spoonful of beet gazpacho from menu 17, my companion and I knew that the written description of that “first” course small plate as being topped with “almond blancmange and cauliflower salad” was deceptively simple and came nowhere near to doing justice to it. We were

immediately transported to food nirvana. How had that effect been created with those ingredients? The slight pickling of the few bits of perfect baby cauliflower, with the texture of the oval blancmange beneath, floating on the sea of purple beet—this was culinary magic. We moved on from one stunner to the next—octopus terrine with smoky roasted grape dolce forte, charred skirt steak with marinated shallots and watercress, summer heirloom tomato salad (which we would have passed by if it had not been generously brought to us to sample) unlike any such salad I have ever tasted (no thick slices of tomato here—rather little bits of it with a gelée dressing that was heavenly), and ravioli giardiniera with arugula made with fresh pasta. How in the world could the “seconds: match these? We moved on, however, to simpler but perfectly prepared sweet and sour roasted rabbit leg and duck fricassee with orange and rye (both inflected with those Asian flavors brought back by the chefs from their travels). Baked tilefish with parsley crust was also on the menu that week. We did not sample it but its presence highlighted that pattern—great complexity to start and fine simplicity to follow. We did try all three

desserts that night, none of which (gateau Basque, Austrian pancake, peaches in cabernet) was quite up to the level of the rest. Other people rave about the desserts from previous menus. We did not try the cheese plate (a $3 supplement) but discovered when we asked that the bread and cheese were from our favorite bread bakers and cheese makers—Nina and Jonathan White of Bobolink Farms in Milford. Mitchell and Ridgway had wisely chosen them as part of the community of suppliers. Obviously, others agree with our assessment and the reviews so far have been raves, warning that you should book now before the word spreads further and tables are reserved weeks in advance. Similar comments from diners are posted on the website. One of them refers to Ridgway as a “curator” of flavor. Think of The Pass as a gallery. Think of the chefs as both artists and artisans (although Mitchell might artlessly admit that from time to time they make mistakes—as do all creative people). Think of the food as an art that you are invited to share. Think of Rosemont as a place worthy of a pilgrimage. Think of The Pass as a whiff of Chez Panisse in the night.

The Pass, 88 Kingswood Stockton Road, Rosemont, NJ 08556, is open Wednesday through Saturday, 5:30-10 PM. The charcuterie is open Tuesday through Sunday 10:00AM-5:00 PM. The restaurant is BYO but the partners are exploring the possibility of pairing with a winery if they can find the right match. The website is www.atthepass.com. Watch there for notice of a brunch menu, coming soon. Reservations are highly recommended—phone 609.961.1887. Credit cards are accepted and handicap access is difficult but possible if you call ahead. Parking is behind the restaurant.

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