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Volume LXXVII, Number 47

Historical Society of Princeton Presents Virtual House Tour . . . . . . . . . 5 PU Senior Sam Harshbarger Wins Rhodes Scholarship . . . 8 Free Expression Welcome At Relaxed Theater Performances . . . . . . . 9 PU Men’s Water Polo Wins NWPC Title, Now Shooting for NCAA Championship . . . . . . 25 Saving its Best for Last In Difficult Fall, PDS Boys’ Soccer Made Non-Public B Semis . . 30

Sixty Years Ago Today: JFK, Bob Dylan, and the Oswald Connection . . 16 Art . . . . . . . . . . . .21, 22 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 23 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . 33 Home for the Holidays . . .19 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 14 New to Us . . . . . . . . . . 24 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . 32 Performing Arts . . .17, 20 Real Estate. . . . . . . . . 33 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . 6 Tree Directory. . . . . . . 18

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HIP Eviction Prevention Team Faces Challenges In Providing Assistance During the pandemic, a federal moratorium on evictions for nonpayment of rent was put into effect. Since the moratorium ended on January 1, 2022, figures on evictions — and subsequently, homelessness — have been climbing. This is especially troubling to the Eviction Prevention Emergency Rental Assistance Team of Housing Initiatives of Princeton (HIP), the locally based nonprofit that assists individuals and families confronting housing insecurity. “We have seen a real uptick in our rental assistance applications,” said Kathy Taylor, who is part of the team. “I was just looking at some research that DCA [the Department of Community Affairs] put out saying that evictions were up five percent from 2021 to 2022, and I’m sure it’s much higher since the moratorium stopped.” HIP tries to keep renters from being evicted by assisting them with back rent. So far this year, the organization has helped 75 households, up from 40 in 2022. “It’s going to end up being more than double that, and we still only assist 15 percent of everyone who applies,” said HIP volunteer Jill Wolk. Potential recipients of help from HIP must be able to pay rent after the onetime assistance they receive. HIP works with partners — including Princeton Human Services, local churches, HomeFront, and Arm in Arm — to get people back on track. The organization serves all of Mercer County. About 66 percent of the assistance goes to clients in Trenton; people in Ewing, Hamilton, and Princeton make up the rest. “A large majority are single moms with one or more children, and no child support,” said Taylor. “Most are one emergency car payment or hospitalization away from being homeless. If they can’t pay their rent one month, then it can be impossible to get caught up.” According to the website for the Princeton University Eviction Lab, a team of researchers, students, and website architects who provide nationwide eviction data, “the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing costs, and eviction is transforming their lives. Yet little is known about the prevalence, causes, and consequences of housing insecurity.” Matthew Desmond, the principal investigator and a sociology professor at the Continued on Page 12

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Flu, COVID, and RSV Season Has Arrived As the holiday season gears up, along with colder temperatures and an increase in indoor activities, local health authorities are warning that this is the time of year when case numbers of COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) will probably rise. “Respiratory virus season is here,” said Kathryn J. Robison, Department of Medicine vice chair at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center and president of Penn Medicine Princeton Medicine Physicians. Fortunately, however, there have so far been relatively few predictions, like the ones heard in recent years, of an incipient tripledemic. “Penn Medicine Princeton Health has seen a slight increase in patients with COVID-19,” Robison added. “Overall in the community there have been no significant cases of influenza or RSV, however there is influenza currently in various regions throughout the United States, so we

expect to see more cases of influenza in our community during the holiday season.” In its most recent report of about 10 days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported moderate overall respiratory illness activity in New Jersey, with flu and RSV increasing and COVID-19 levels stable, based on visits to emergency departments. Hospitalization levels for respiratory illness in Mercer County have been low. Robison went on to emphasize the importance of vaccinations as “the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones against the serious complications of COVID-19 and influenza.” She noted that for the RSV vaccination, the CDC recommends that each person talk to their doctor before getting it. “By getting vaccinated, you can enable our health care teams to care for more patients with infectious diseases as well as other acute and chronic problems,” said Robison.

Internist and Princeton Board of Health Chair George DiFerdinando agreed, noting that flu season continues through February and in some years into March. “There’s still time to get the flu vaccine and for it to have impact,” he said. He recommended the vaccines.gov website for finding a pharmacy or other health care provider locally to administer the shots. DiFerdinando said that the vaccinations do not guarantee you won’t get the virus, but they are likely to protect you from severe cases leading to hospitalization or death, and he strongly urged the vaccinations. He cited low uptake on the national level of the most recent COVID-19 shot, and he emphasized, “It’s available. It’s a good shot. It saves lives,” especially for those who are over 65 or immunocompromised. The Princeton Health Department, in partnership with Wegmans Pharmacy and Princeton Senior Resource Center, Continued on Page 10

University Announces New Frist Health Center: “Healing in Character”

HOLIDAY STYLE: Hamilton Jewelers on Nassau Street is just one of the many local businesses that are festively decorated and ready for the holiday season. (Photo by Weronika A. Plohn)

Princeton University will be replacing its McCosh Health Center with a new facility more than twice as large. The new Frist Health Center, funded by a major gift from Dr. Thomas Frist Jr. and scheduled to open in 2025, will incorporate a renovated Eno Hall with a significant new addition to the south, according to a November 8 University announcement. “This extraordinary gift from Tommy Frist has enabled us to reimagine the University health facility as a place of welcome that offers a comprehensive approach to student health and well-being,” said Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber, as quoted in a University press release. He continued, “I am delighted that the Frist family’s legacy in health care innovation will now be reflected in the spectacular Frist Health Center. The University is deeply grateful to Tommy and the Frist family for their visionary partnership on this project and, when considered along with the Frist Campus Center, for their incalculable and enduring impact on our campus community.” Thomas Frist Jr. received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University, not Princeton, but several family members have attended Princeton, including his brother Bill Frist, former Continued on Page 11

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There is Pine Tree Farm at 3801 Lawrenceville Road, on a small section of the vast acreage purchased in the early 1700s by Henry Mershon, a Hugenot (French Protestant) fleeing religious persecution in France. Trenton businessman William J. B. Stokes bought the property as a summer home in 1925 after success in Trenton’s booming rubber industry, according to the HSP. A lso on L aw rencev ille Road is Shadowmawr, which was likely built by Charles S. Hunt in 1890. The property “is a strong example of a Colonial Revival home,” reads information from the HSP. “Its ow ners called it Shadowmawr, after the estate’s sprawling, shady lawn.” The property next went to the Gifford family, with whom it remained until Trenton businessman Robert Johnston Stokes bought it in 1920 for $400,000. Stokes raised his family on the estate and was very much tied into the Princeton and Trenton business communities. Shadowmawr played host to Stokes family gatherings and entertainment for many decades. The home at 7 Herrontown Road has a history that spans four major periods: the 1760s, 1810s, 1920s, and 1960s to the present day. Known as the GulickHodge-Scott House, it was originally a humble farmhouse “likely constructed by Barefoot Brinson, the Middlesex County Sheriff,

as a tenant house in 1767,” according to the HSP. “Major John Gulick purchased this property and additional acreage along Herrontown Road in 1797. Gulick continued to purchase the original Brinson estates and the Kingston Flour Mill, renaming the property Gulick Farm. He lived on the farm until his death in 1828, and his direct descendants still own and occupy the farm.” Finally, there is 419 Great Road, built in 1954 and angled on its three-acre setting to capture its expansive, rural views, which are preserved from development. Originally, the property was home to a white clapboard building. That building was transformed in 2004, but sat empty for a decade before being designed as a blend of Colonial and farmhouse elements. Continued on Next Page

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“The home brings a sense of traditional rural architecture with modern color palettes and amenities,” according to the HSP. “With the views of the rolling hills and neighboring small winery, the homeowners call the location ‘Napa in N.J.’ ” Tickets for the tour are $30, and provide access to all four homes. Houses will be released on a weekly basis, with all four available the last week of the tour. Visit princetonhistory.org for details. “Our Virtual House Tour provides important support for HSP’s history education programs and staff,” said Taggart. “At HSP, we feel strongly that quality history education provides an important foundation for our civic engagement and community building.” —Anne Levin

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adviser overseeing Harsh- Center for International Se- Princeton, Harshbarger will Sam Harshbarger Wins Rhodes Scholarship: barger’s work on The Tower curity Studies; and an under- pursue a Master of Philosonewspaper. “I owe graduate fellow of the James phy in history at Oxford From Cranbury to PHS, PU, and Around the World school any writing skills I have to Madison Program in Ameri- starting in October 2024. Sam Harshbarger, a Princeton University senior who grew up in Cranbury and graduated from Princeton High School ( PHS ), has won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford next year. He is one of 32 Americans to receive the scholarship and the only Princeton University recipient this year. Fluent in Spanish and Turkish, with advanced profi ciency in Azerbaijani and Russian, Harshbarger is a history major at Princeton with three minors — in history and diplomacy; Near Eastern studies; and Russian, East European and Eurasian studies. He described some of the early influences — from his parents, his childhood in Cranbury, and PHS — that helped to launch him on his ambitious explorations into the history of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. “For Christmas one year, my parents gave me Martin Sixsmith’s Russia: A 1000Year Chronicle of the Wild East,” Harshbarger wrote in an email. ”Inspired by this, in 2015, while I was in eighth grade at Cranbury School, I won the AFS: Project Change essay contest, writing about documenting the culture and history of Indigenous people in Russia. AFS sent me to Izhevsk, Udmurtia in Russia to document and share with Americans the richness of Indigenous Udmurt culture.” At about the same time, Harshbarger began studying the Russian language with

one of his neighbors who had been born in Russia and was the mother of one of his classmates. Harshbarger’s parents both work in business, but they encouraged his studies in history. His father brought Sam and his brother to Central America during summer breaks to stay with host families and study Spanish.

Sam Harshbarger “Through this and the experiences my mom recounted as a young adult living in France and Japan, I was inspired to venture somewhere new and unfamiliar and try to learn something,” Harshbarger wrote. Two of his former teachers recalled Harshbarger and his accomplishments at PHS. “He came to class every day excited about what we were doing,” said PHS history teacher Rick Miller, whom Harshbarger described as “the teacher who made me most excited to study history.” Miller noted, “He loved to talk history. It was never

about a grade or about just meeting some requirement for an assignment. He always wanted to know and learn and discuss — an amazing person to work with.” During his years at PHS Harshbarger took two classes with Miller, as well as pursuing several independent study projects, including one on Russo-American relations under President Woodrow Wilson and another on the impact of the Cold War on various European countries. “His level of primary resource research was really advanced,” Miller added. “I remember thinking he could be working in many schools’ graduate programs even as a PHS senior. You could tell he had that passion.” Miller related that Harshbarger started a club called the PHS Forum, inviting professors from Princeton University to come speak to students at PHS. “We had a former chair of the joint chiefs of staff, a former state department official, and a communications director for a national political campaign. He reached out to people and because of his passion they were willing to come in and share what they do with PHS students. Because of his excitement he helped others learn and get excited about it too. He has the ability to connect with others and share his excitement.” PHS English teacher Doug Levandowski taught Harshbarger in an AP English class and was also the faculty

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can Ideals and Institutions. He is the recipient of the Lawrence Stone and Shelby Cullom Davis Thesis Prize Fellowship. He is an international policy associate with Princeton’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, and in September 2022 he received the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence. In addition to his studies at Princeton, Harshbarger is a research assistant at work on Turkish foreign policy with the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, and he has also served as an international affairs research analyst with Bechtel, an international construction and engineering fi rm; as a research assistant with New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington, D.C.; and the Evergreen Strategy Group, which specializes in corporate activism. Af ter graduation f rom

Following his two years at Oxford he plans to return to Istanbul, he said, “where I hope to research and write on the nexus of conflict, economic power, and historical memory across Eurasia and the Middle East.” “Sam is a once-in-a-generation academic talent,” said Natasha Wheatley, Princeton assistant history professor who has taught Harshbarger and advised him on his thesis. “His exceptional academic work is fueled by a boundless curiosity, an expansive humanist ethos, and deep moral engagement in the contemporary world.” She continued, as quoted in the University’s press release, “His multilingualism corresponds to a profoundly cosmopolitan outlook: to a highly unusual degree, Sam can truly see the world from many different perspectives.” —Donald Gilpin

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When the curtain goes up on McCarter Theatre’s December 10, 1 p.m. performance of A Christmas Carol, midway through the December 6-24 run of the show, the audience isn’t likely to quiet down. In fact, talking and other modes of vocalizing are welcome. T his “rela xed ” per formance of the Charles Dickens classic is tailored to patrons with differences such as autism, Tourette syndrome, and ADHD. The doors of the auditorium remain open. The house lights are kept partially on. Everyone is welcome to leave and come back in. The usual audience rules of etiquette do not apply. “The intention is to welcome anyone who would benefit from a non-theater experience,” said Brooke Boertzel, McCarter’s director of education. “This includes autism, PTSD, social anxiety, and even parents with very young children or babies, who can’t take them to a regular show. This is a situation where expectations are relaxed, as long as they’re keeping themselves and others safe.” A Christmas Carol isn’t McCarter’s only production that devotes a performance to those with differences. On January 29, kids’ music favorite Laurie Berkner will present a relaxed show at the theater, and it is already sold out. Other arts organizations have embraced the concept. The December 3, 2 p.m. performance of Princeton University’s 2023 Princeton Dance Festival at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre is billed as a relaxed performance. So are upcoming productions

of The Nutcracker by the Roxey Ballet (December 9, 3 p.m. at Mill Ballet in New Hope, Pa.) and the Philadelphia Ballet (December 26, 12 p.m. at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia). “The benefit is for people who can’t attend theater with typical audience etiquette in place,” said Aliza Greenberg, an accessibility consultant who worked with McCarter on A Christmas Carol. “It looks different with each theater, depending on their experience doing this. Not every autistic person is sensitive to sounds and lights. Some are actually sensory-seeking. It’s really about striking a balance. We want to take out the very jarring effects.” The actors in A Christmas Carol are given preparatory materials to make them aware that the audience responses to the loud noises, rolling fog, and stage effects won’t be the usual ones. “We let them know what they might expect to see and hear, but we don’t have to change anything at all,” said Boertzel. “They might see more fidgeting, but they don’t need to wait or pause.” All of the doors remain open and lobby spaces are outfitted with engagement activ ities. “T he upstairs space is a calm-down space, where tables have materials for coloring and things like that,” said Boertzel. “The concessions remain open throughout the whole performance. But downstairs, we have a quiet room outfitted with a lot of sensory materials. There are chairs, small toys, weighted blankets, tents — a variety of things that children and adults can engage with.”

There are those who don’t even enter the theater, preferring to stay in the lobbies. “That’s fine,” said Boertzel. “They can hear some of it. Some theaters project what is going on inside. We don’t have that yet, but we might in the future.” Greenberg’s consulting work has taken her to different theaters. “I’ve sat outside in the lobby with audience members who are too anxious to go in, and gone through the prep materials with them, and they become more comfortable,” she said. “I’ve seen them jumping and vocalizing and doing things that would other wise be shushed. This is a no-shush zone.” McCar ter is par t of a cohort of theaters in the tr i-state area that pres ent relaxed performances. “We come together about sharing marketing and best practices,” Boertzel said. “It’s part of an awareness to be more inclusive in our practices. It’s really lovely to see other theaters are doing this as well.” While the relaxed performance of A Christmas Carol is not traditionally a big seller, “they are very well appreciated by the families and individuals that take advantage of them,” Boertzel said. “Coming out as a family can be so challenging, and the appreciation they express is wonderful. There’s a special sense of energy and joy in the space.” “This not just for people with disabilities,” said Greenberg. “It is definitely an experience where the whole family can see theater together, which doesn’t often happen.” —Anne Levin

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To the Editor: As an architect and longtime resident who cares deeply about the quality of life in Princeton, I have questions concerning some of the underlying assumptions of the Master Plan, and I am deeply worried about the consequences of its adoption. Its base assumption is the town should grow and densify well beyond the current pace of change that is already rapidly altering its fabric. Land Use Goals 2-5 essentially declare that the goals (implicitly our shared goals) for our town is for substantially higher residential density, greater economic development, and that we all agree and want to streamline the review and approval processes to allow the easier implementation of these changes. Are these base assumptions truly shared by most? I am pro-change and pro-growth, but not comfortable with these assumptions as declared. Some of us choose to live in our neighborhoods partly because they are not so densely developed. My greatest issue with the Master Plan is where it veers from providing a “vision plan,” to specifying and overlaying fundamentally new regulations governing land use that will change our town in ways we cannot fully predict. As I think about the economics of this plan in my neighborhood, the realist in me worries it will result in many existing, normal-sized homes being torn down to make way for up to four units being developed and sold for well beyond the $800,000 price tag example cited for the Plan’s targeted “missing middle.” This Plan creates yet another disincentive to investing in improvements of existing modest homes when owners know they can cash out, no inspection necessary, to speculators. Recognizing the lack of a real grocery or hardware store within a 15-minute walk of my neighborhood means, realistically, each unit will have up to two cars, because we live in central N.J., and delivery services can’t solve everything. Without details, I worry that to create this density, things like scale, daylight and mature trees will be sacrificed, and stormwater issues intensified. The details matter a lot. A certainty is once this plan is adopted, even in draft form, it will be impossible to retract. Many of us were expecting the creation of a Master Plan that was a vision document. Instead, with regard to land use, we are presented with a deeply impactful, legal and economic policy document about to be adopted with only a few days to consider its contents and consequences — and no vote or real voice to change it. I know that I am not alone in feeling surprised and deceived. A tragedy of trust. Given its importance and impact, I urge a pause in its adoption and further community discussion to ensure that its base assumptions are truly shared by the majority of the town, and a deeper and more detailed understanding of its true consequences for land use development can be illustrated, known, and understood by all. NICHOLAS GARRISON, FAIA Ober Road

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To the Editor: I support the concepts and intent of the Master Plan draft, but there should be corrections made before approval. I hope the Planning Board will take the time to listen to public comments and make appropriate adjustments. The Land use consultants Clarke Canton Hintz is the firm that prepared our “Affordable Housing Overlay” zones where Jugtown Historic district was overlooked in the AHO-2. This document was released without public input in the depths of COVID and did not benefit from public scrutiny. Let’s do a better job this time. My concerns are as follows: Reduce density in the “Greenway Neighborhood” (p. 41,43) from proposed 1-2 units/acre. This should be adjusted to 1-2 units per lot ,which would increase single family homes by allowing a second residence on each lot. Currently property owners in this neighborhood are limited to adding a modest sized ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit). Reduce density in the “Neighborhood areas” (p. 41,43) from proposed 2-8 units/acre. This zone often has 1.25 acre lots but varies wildly. Again, one to two dwelling units per lot would be a generous expansion in number of potential houses. Why allow 10 units on some typical 1.25 acre lots on Cleveland and Hodge roads?

Reduce density in the “Central Neighborhood” (p. 41,43) from proposed 4-20 units/acre. We understand that this zone can handle more density — but this number of units proposed is frightening. Developers would be able to infill our town with dense buildings conforming to maximum bulk regulations. We want to preserve our greenspace and the tree canopy. Most residents answering the surveys are not looking for multifamily housing with more than 10 units. This density should be reduced to a more reasonable level and require green space to be integral to new development. Land Use Recommendations (p. 46) recommends “increase building height in business and service districts to accommodate increased residential development within mixed-use buildings.” Jugtown and Witherspoon-Jackson already have 45’ high height allowances by the AHO- overlays. Any new increase should be limited to the Central Business District. Proposed new Downtown Zoning: “Downtown” (p. 4647) Proposes merging the Jugtown and Witherspoon Street business zones along with the Central Business District. The details they recommend are extensive and include eliminating minimum lot area requirements tied to the number of dwellings, allowing penthouses, and reducing or eliminating minimum open space requirements and more. There is a totally different scale to businesses outside of the Central Zone and they should not be grouped together. Commercial districts (p. 186) are divided into five zones. Jugtown and Witherspoon-Jackson are not mentioned, but seem to be included in the “Nassau Street/Witherspoon Street/ Palmer Square” district. The discussion refers to the “large and accommodating sidewalks” and “centrally located municipal parking deck.” I would recommend creating two additional zones for Witherspoon-Jackson and Jugtown commercial districts. The Jugtown 2 ½ story 18t h century crossroad listed on the National Register of Historic places should not be grouped with the Central Business District. CATHERINE M. KNIGHT, AIA Nassau Street

Growth May Be Inevitable, But Should Be Viewed as a Cost, Not Goal, of Plan

To the Editor: The new Princeton Master Plan has been shared with the public (see princetonnj.gov). The plan focuses on growth. In fact, it is a core statement in the 1996 plan that continues unchanged in this draft. The plan’s vision is that “Princeton will be a vibrant, growing, and welcoming community.” The very first assumption is that “Princeton will welcome new growth.” The plan proposes increasing density in several single family residential areas to 2-8 units per acre and in some areas near the central district to 4-20 units per acre. The plan hopes that these changes will make us a better community with more opportunities for diversity in housing. It is time to think about deleting “growth” as one of our goals. The growth that is envisioned in this new plan is not one that is good for the town. Neighborhoods closest to the center of town will be open to high density development. Traffic; pressure on our infrastructure and schools; increased demands on our police, fire, and social services; and the financial stress on our municipal government can all be anticipated. Growth is not a goal — it is a cost. We all want diversity in housing, and we all agree that we need to find ways to encourage housing for the “missing middle,” but growth is not the only path. In fact, it might not succeed at all: the free market, not our desires, sets housing prices. Let’s delete growth as a goal and a key assumption from the new plan. Let’s find other ways to become a better town. Let’s think about using currently vacant land or underutilized sites such as surface parking lots. Maybe we can expand our nonprofit ownership of affordable housing to avoid the costly (in terms of growth) builder’s remedy in use today. How can our zoning law encourage the type of housing we want without adding more population? Growth may be inevitable, but let’s view it as a cost, not a goal. HARRY LEVINE Newlin Road

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“Muppets in Moscow” Author Brings Cultural Gap to Life

Lane, Morison to Discuss “Plato’s Ideas of the Political” Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge, but what is the rule? In her new book, scholar Melissa Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between rulers and ruled. The Princeton professor will present and discuss these theories with her colleague in the Universit y Classics department, Benjamin Morison, on Wednesday, November 29 at 6 p.m. at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street. In Of Rule and Office : Plato’s Ideas of the Political (Princeton University Press, $49.95), Lane shows how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vo c abu lar y. Adopt i ng a

longstanding Greek expectation that a ruler should serve the good of the ruled, Plato’s major political dialogues — the Republic, the Statesman, and Laws — explore how different kinds of rule might best serve that good. Reading Plato both in the Greek context and in dialogue with contemporary thinkers, Lane argues that rule and office belong at the center of Platonic, Greek, and contemporary political thought. Lane is professor of politics and a faculty member of the Program in Classical Philosophy at Princeton University. Her books include Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue,

Journalist and television producer Natasha L ance Rogoff speaks at the Prince ton P u bl i c L ibr a r y on Wednesday, November 29 from 6 to 7:15 p.m. in the Community Room. She will be joined by scholar Deborah Kaple to discuss her book, Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia (Rowman & Littlefield, $26.95). After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring the PBS telev ision show Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union. With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be, says the publisher. Lance Rogoff brings this tale to life. Amid bombings, assassinations, and a military takeover of the production office, Lance Rogoff and the Moscow team of ar tists, w riters, musicians, filmmakers, and puppeteers were determined to bring learning and a new way of seeing the world to children in Russia, Ukraine, and across the former Soviet empire. As such, the book provides a valuable perspective of Russia’s people, culture, and complicated relationship with the West. Forbes magazine said that “the book provides lessons

for businesses on how to overcome cultural clashes.” Lance Rogoff is an awardwinning American television producer, filmmaker, and journalist of television news and documentaries in Russia, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union for NBC, ABC, and PBS. Muppets in Moscow was a nominee for the 2023 Pushkin House Book Prize and received The Benjamin Franklin Independent Book Publishers Association for Best New Voice (Silver Medal) and Best Audiobook in Nonfiction (Silver Medal), and the Independent Publishers Book Award for Best First Book (Gold Medal). Kaple is a research scholar and lecturer at Princeton University, where she earned her Ph.D. She teaches a freshman seminar on the Cold War, and a class titled Communism and Beyond: Ru s s ia a n d Ch i n a. H e r publications include Dream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism in China, and Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir.

of Venice, presented as the universal messenger of beauty and conveyer of one’s dreams, a place of all places, a living city and an icon, unfolds on many levels. The narrative intermingles verse, essay, and reportage. Gorniak Morgan has been living in Venice since 1995, where she married the American painter Robert Morgan. She is the author of Venice My Love, translator of essays by Giorgio Agamben and his book dea della prosa, editor and coauthor of Il caffe letterario and Love Accessories. Delfina Marcell, dedicated to the work of the Venetian filmmaker and artist. Lev ing, who w ill moderate, is professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. The author of nine books and editor of six volumes, Leving has published more than 100 scholarly articles, many of them devoted to Vladimir Nabokov, and is the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal. A Passion for Venice This event is co-sponsored Fills Morgan’s Work by the Department of Slavic Poet, writer, and transla- Languages and Literatures at tor Ewa Gorniak Morgan Princeton University. is joined by Yuri Leving of Princeton University to Former Trenton Writer Talks discuss her latest book, About His Global Journeys Profession : Venice, and A Princeton Public Library her passion for the city she event, Thomas Swick: Trencalls home, on Thursday, ton, Warsaw, and the MakNovember 30, at 6 p.m. at ing of a Travel Writer, will the Princeton Public Library. feature travel writer Thomas Gorniak Morgan’s ode to Swick on Monday, NovemVenice (La toletta Edizioni) ber 27 at 6 p.m. at the liis an image-rich prose poem brary. Swick will talk about with details such as an an- history and self-discovery gel holding the Accademia and sign copies of his new Bridge aloft, as if to weigh memoir, Falling into Place: the crowds walking across; A Story of Love, Poland, a respectful traghetto gon- and the Making of a Travel dolier reaching out toward, Writer. but not quite touching, an Work i n g as a fe at u r e unsteady female passenger; writer in 1976, Swick fell and the Tess and Hat love in love with a visiting Polstory that lies at the heart ish student and soon moved of this enterprise. An inti- with her to Warsaw. During mate and intriguing portrait the next decade he lived in

Poland, Greece, and Philadelphia, and witnessed the changes in Poland, including the imposition of martial law. In 1989, he watched his partner in her country’s first free elections since pre-war independence. Falling into Place (Rowman & L it t lef ield, $ 35 ) is the personal story of a young man’s discovery of the world and his development as a travel writer. It is also a love story of overcoming cultural differences, intertwined with the story of a revolution that altered history.

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and Sustainable Living; The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter; and Method and Politics in Plato’s “Statesman.” Morison is professor of philosophy at Pr inceton and the author of On Location: Aristotle’s Concept of Place.

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Sixty Years Ago Today: Bob Dylan, JFK, and the Oswald Connection

oday is the 60th anniversary of November 22, 1963, a date Bob Dylan claimed a share of in late March 2020, bringing Shakespeare along for the ride in “Murder Most Foul,” a 16-minute whirlwind pop-culture tour of the Kennedy assassination. Dylan first heard the news with his then-partner Suze Rotolo and others in her sister Carla’s Greenwich Village apartment. According to his friend Bob Fass, Dylan’s response was “What it means is that they are trying to tell you ‘Don’t even hope to change things’.” So it was already they for Dylan when most of us who were alive on that day were too stunned to think beyond he, him, it. And in MMF it’s they who “blew off his head while he was still in the car.” And it’s they in “Roll On John,” Dylan’s powerfully sung response to the murder of John Lennon (“They shot him in the back and down he went”) which, like “Murder Most Foul,” uses lyrics to carry the message (in this case, Lennon’s “A Day in the Life,” “Come Together,” “Instant Karma”). At the same time, Dylan’s words seem to transcend a single subject. A line like “they’ll trap you in an ambush” could just as easily refer to the slain president. And if you happen to be thinking about Dylan’s controversial identification with the accused assassin who also died violently that weekend in Dallas, Oswald seems a more likely fit for rhetoric like “They tore the heart right out and cut him to the core” and “rags on your back just like any other slave / They tied your hands and they clamped your mouth / Wasn’t no way out of that deep dark cave.” Connecting with Oswald Although Dylan later said that Kennedy’s death did not directly inspire any of his songs, some lines of poetry he was writing at the time (“the colors of Friday were dull / as cathedral bells were gently burnin / strikin for the gentle / strikin for the kind”) surface in the third verse of “Chimes of Freedom” as “striking for the gentle / striking for the blind.” And once you’ve made the Dylan-Oswald connection, it’s possible to imagine Oswald in lines like “Tolling for the outcast,” “refugees on the unarm’d road of flight,” and “ev’ry underdog soldier in the night.” The Oswald subplot was revealed three Fridays after the assassination, on December 13, 1963, when a reportedly

inebriated Dylan gave a rambling speech in Shakespeare, as he does on the verge of the grand ballroom of New York’s Ameri- 80 in “Murder Most Foul,” telling Wolfman cana Hotel upon receiving the Emergency Jack to play “Stella by Starlight” for Lady Civil Liberties Committee’s Tom Paine Macbeth. Not only does he end his effusion award. After saying, “I don’t see why any- with Macbeth’s “out! out! brief candle,” body can’t go to Cuba,” perhaps recalling he does it with a Dylanesque flourish: that Oswald attempted to go there and was “life’s but an open window” and “I must turned away, Dylan stumbles off the deep jump back thru it now,” which echoes the end: “I got to admit that the man who shot metaphorical “jump” the long, confused President Kennedy, Lee Oswald, .... I got statement begins with: “so I found myself to admit honestly that ... I saw some of ... like I found myself once in the path of myself in him. ... I got to stand up and say a car” and I “jumped with all my bloody I saw things that he felt, in me — “ By now might just tryin to get out a the way but there were boos and hisses. “You can boo first screamin one last song when I spoke but booing’s got nothing to do with it. It’s of Lee Oswald, I was speakin of the times a — I just a — I’ve got to tell you, man, it’s I was not speakin of his deed if it was his Bill of Rights ... free speech.” A mixture deed. the deed speaks for itself.” of boos and applause Onstage followed his rushed Shakespeare may acceptance of the have come to mind award. because as Dylan Whatever made wraps up these devDylan the victim of astatingly unguardhis own remarks ed remarks (which, that night, which again, have been I’ve edited to fit in edited), he seems this space, there’s to imagine himself reason to believe back in the moment that he was still feelat the banquet, as if ing the aftereffects onstage, ostensibly of Kennedy’s muraddressing the auder, still both stimudience that booed lated and unsettled him: “I love you all by that weekend’s Cover art for "Murder Most Foul" by up there an the ones astonishments; one Bob Dylan. (Columbia Records) I dont love, it’s only headline above the photograph of Ruby gut shooting Oswald because I do not know them an have not said “A NATION APPALLED.” The impact seen them ... God it’s so hard hatin. It’s on Dylan the composer is evident not just so tiresome ... an after hatin something in “Chimes of Freedom” but (as the title to death, it’s never worth the bother an suggests) in the spirit of change running trouble.” And so he jumps back through “life’s through Another Side of Bob Dylan, the first album he recorded after November open window” to the albums and changes 22. And the residual power of Dallas is, to come, Another Side of Bob Dylan, incredibly, still active six decades later in Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, and all the “Murder Most Foul.” others on the long road to Rough and “life’s but an open window” Rowdy Ways. Surely one of rawest, most revealing Tom Paine’s Blues pieces Dylan ever put on paper is the At the end, after making nice with the bizarre, freeform, all lower-case statement, more commentary than apology, ECLC, Dylan goes one on one with Tom explaining the references to Oswald that Paine, who will surface five years later in had shocked and offended the audience “As I Went Out One Morning,” a song from at the ECLC banquet. Even as he seems John Wesley Harding that some Dylanto be flailing in his effort to deconstruct ologists suspect is a parable relating to that moment, the 22-year-old turns to the fateful banquet. After one peculiarly

tangled thread of apology (“I do not apologize for any statement which led some to believe ‘oh my God! I think he’s the one that really shot the president’”), he addresses the face on the plaque, seeing “a kindness” there and “almost a sadness ... his trials show thru his eyes. I know really not much about him but somehow I would like to sing for him.... yes thru all my flounderin wildness, I am, when it comes down to it, very proud that you have given this to me. I would hang it high, and let my friends see in it what I see, but I also would give it back if you wish.” Here Come the Beatles One of the harshest, truest lines in “Murder Most Foul” is “Hush, little children, you’ll understand / The Beatles are comin’, they’re gonna hold your hand.” Another event that impacted Another Side and the albums that followed was the arrival of the Beatles at JFK and on America’s airwaves February 7, 1964. In a 2014 Rolling Stone interview, Dylan recalls: “We were driving through Colorado, we had the radio on, and eight of the top ten songs were Beatles songs … ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’, all those early ones. They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid.… But I just kept it to myself that I really dug them. Everybody else thought they were for the teeny-boppers, that they were gonna pass right away. But it was obvious to me that they had staying power. I knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go.” So says one of those “little children” after “they blew out the brains of the king.” Just when Dylan’s reading “Don’t even hope to change things” into the murder of Kennedy, here come the Beatles. Finally “Now and Then” inally I have the CD of “the last Beatles song,” the first and last, since as soon as “Now and Then” grandly concludes, the sound of John Lennon’s harmonica announces “Love Me Do.” The power and beauty of the transition didn’t hit me at first. It was the perfect touch. The Beatles had performed their magic again for all the “little children.” —Stuart Mitchner

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Princeton’s Program in Dance Presents Annual Performances

The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance at Princeton University presents the 2023 Princeton Dance Festival at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre, 91 University Place, December 1-3. Students in the program w ill per form new and repertory works by Brian Brooks, Amy Hall Garner, and Bill T. Jones, staged by Catherine Cabeen, Ishita Mili, Shamel P it ts, and Donna Uchizono. The works include contemporary ballet, CELEBRATING MOVEMENT: Works by Brian Brooks, Amy Hall Garner, and Bill T. Jones are on the I n d i a n / h i p - h o p f u s i o n , program at the 2023 Princeton Dance Festival. (Photo by Maria Baranova) and contemporar y works from a multidisciplinar y perspective. Shows are December 1 at 8 p.m., December 2 at 2 and 8 p.m., and December 3 at 2 p.m. Visit arts.princeton.edu for more information.

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Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, will host a “Grateful” Thanksgiving as part of its coffeehouse music series on Friday, November 24 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Princeton Makes artist studios and art market in the Princeton Shopping Center. This special Thanksgiving Coffeehouse will feature Zeke Levine singing and playing guitar, Jonah Tolchin on guitar, and Kevin Clifford on percussion. T hey will be playing a wide variety of Grateful Dead music as well as originals from Dhar masou l, Jonah and Kevin’s band, and Zeke. Princeton Makes is a coop e r at ive compr i s e d of 37 local artists who work across a range of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry. Customers will be able to support local artists by shopping for a wide variet y of ar t, including large paintings, prints, custom-made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and patterns, and more. Visit princetonmakes.com for more information.

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Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Thursday, November 23 at 11am Princeton University Chapel All are welcome to this treasured annual community gathering, sponsored by the Princeton Clergy Association.

Jazz Vespers Wednesday, November 29 at 8pm Princeton University Chapel An inclusive experience of poetry, music, and quiet centering, featuring saxophonist Audrey Welber, pianist Adam Faulk, and members of the Chapel Choir. Program continues: Feb 21, Mar 20, Apr 10

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HOLIDAY ART SHOW: Work by award-winning photographer Ann Darlington is featured in the Artists of Bordentown Holiday Art Show, on view December 2 and 3 at Old City Hall in Bordentown.

“GRAND OLD OAK”: This painting by Wayne Skylar won Best in Show in the Garden State Watercolor Society’s “2023 Members Exhibition.” The society is also presenting a Pop-Up Art Sale on Hulfish Street in Palmer Square through December 3.

Garden State Watercolor Society a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, Managing Director Craig Hosts Member Exhibit, Art Sale 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sun- Shofed spoke to the acThe Garden State Watercolor Society (GSWS) has announced its “2023 GSWS Members Exhibition,” viewable on the GSWS YouTube channel ( ht tps : //tiny url. com /29whh3am) through January 14. The exhibition was juried for prizes by Janet Campbell, a signature member and the president of the North East Watercolor Society. Best in Show was awarded to Wayne Skylar for “Grand Old Oak.” A simultaneous event is a return to Palmer Square for the GSWS 2023 PopUp Art Sale. This year it is being held at 45 Hulfish Street. Thirty-five member artists are displaying up to 18 pieces each, resulting in a large assortment of original artwork in various media to satisfy anyone’s taste or style. There are figurative paintings, landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, closeups of animals, barns, boats, cars, scenes of Princeton, and other landmarks to collect. All artwork is for sale with GSWS coordinating sales. The sale runs Thursday t h rou g h S u n day e n d i ng on December 3 ( Closed Thanksgiving.) An all GSWS member-artist staff will be on hand to offer advice and help shoppers find what they are searching for. Shoppers may browse the rows of portfolio racks where unframed work is separated by artist’s name. Art Sale hours are Thursday and Friday, 10

day, 12 to 5 p.m. For more information, visit gswcs.org then click on the Events tab and Art Sale. As a way of giving back to the community, GSWS will donate 15 percent of the art sale proceeds to Mercer Street Friends’ Send Hunger Packing project. Mercer Street Friends is a local nonprofit whose mission is to build alliances and provide integrated services for children and their families. Their Send Hunger Packing program provides supplemental meals on the weekend for children in kindergarten through sixth grade so that they are ready to learn during the school week.

Annual 10x10 Red Dot Art Sale at Artworks Trenton

One of Artworks Trenton’s signature events, the “10x10 Red Dot Fundraising Exhibition” enters its 13th year with hopes of being bigger and better than before. Addison Vincent, artistic director of Artworks Trenton said, “During the pandemic, we utilized the internet and a virtual gallery to keep the ‘10x10’ alive. We are carrying the virtual exhibition into this year’s event, learning that the popularity of the ‘10x10’ was far reaching, and it gives people accessibility without having to be here in person. Whether someone is buying their first piece of original art, or adding to their collection, they will find a piece of art to fall in love with.”

cessibility for artists, “The ‘10x10’ is an example of Artworks’ overall mission of making art accessible to everyone. Anyone can participate in the exhibition, from refrigerator artists, budding artists testing the waters and showing their work for the first time, right up to the seasoned veteran, we accept all works created for the event, provided they fit the 10”x10” criteria.” The Red Dot shows support for Artworks and the com munit y of ar tists in Trenton. More than 100 Trenton area and regional artists can pick up one free 10”x10” canvas courtesy of Jerry’s Artarama in Lawrence, at Artworks from now until supplies last. Jerry’s Artarama will also have canvases for a discounted price if the artists wish to create more than one. The works are dynamic, diverse, and all created specifically for Artworks. Works in oil, acrylic, mixed media, photography, pastel, watercolor, and more can be found in this exhibition. Each artwork sells for $100, with $50 going to the artist, and $50 going to Artworks. In many cases, the artists choose to donate the full proceeds of the sale to Artworks which is used for programming throughout the year. Art submissions run t h r o u g h N o v e m b e r 2 5. Drop off for artwork begins Novemb er 28 a nd r u ns through December 3, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Artworks

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Trenton members receive a one-hour preview and ability to purchase first, starting at 5 p.m. on December 9. The opening reception and sale for the general public in person and online will begin at 6 p.m. and run through 9 p.m. Sales will remain open until January 6. For m or e i n for m at ion about the exhibition, visit artworkstrenton.org.

Artists of Bordentown Present Holiday Art Show

The Artists of Bordentown Holiday Art Show will highlight seven well-known contemporary Bordentown artists and crafts people and Leaping Dog Art Studios. They will be displaying and offering their work

for sale on Saturday and Sunday, December 2 and 3, from 12 to 5 p.m. each day. The show is at the restored Old City Hall, 11 Crosswicks Street, Bordentown. Admission is free. The exhibiting Bordentown artists are Al Barker, outdoorsman and awardw inning w ildlife oil and watercolor painter; A nn Darlington, published and award-winning landscape and nature photographer; M a r s h a D ows h e n, we l l known ceramicist and clay ar t is t, a n d pro d u cer of functional and decorative pottery, tiles, wall hangings and pins; Debbie Pey, an eclectic abstract painter who previously taught art for 30 years; Maggie Rose,

specializing in oil painting, collage, and 3 -D assemblages after her work at the Johnson Atelier in Princeton (now at Grounds For Sculpture); Andrea Schlaffer, who has turned her collections of “stuff” from yard sales, flea markets, antique, and s econd - hand s tores into a joyful, very special collection of “people” and “animals”; and Pat Todd, a skilled painter well known for her extensive plein air and still life work, showing in many art shows, exhibitions, and competitions. Leaping Dog Art Studios will display the work of local, emerging art students aiming to join the ranks of the unique artists of Bordentown. Continued on Next Page

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MiKyoung Lee: Building Images with Mundane Materials

Saturday, December 2, 1 p.m. |Art on Hulfish Join the artist MiKyoung Lee as she leads a free art-making workshop in conjunction with her solo exhibition Threading Memories / MiKyoung Lee, which is on view at Art@Bainbridge. Experiment with making abstract, 3D art out of pipe cleaners, twist ties, and other found or recycled materials. All materials are provided. Space is limited and registration is required. Visit artmuseum.princeton.edu for details.

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created by many different artists. In addition to the art work hanging on the walls, there will be a basket of matted unframed work to choose from — all standard size for framing. As part of the nonprofit Cranbury Arts Council, the Gourgaud Gallery donates 20 percent of art sales to the Cranbury Arts Council and it programs that support the arts in the community. Cash or a check made out to the artist is accepted as payment. The Cranbury Arts Council provides arts-oriented programs, workshops, and performances aimed at enriching the cultural experiences of the community and keeping the creative spirit alive in adults and children. Their mission is to foster, support, educate, inspire, and promote artists and art appreciation. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For m or e i n for m at ion, v i s it cranburyartscouncil.org.

Call for Entry: Cass Street Mural Project

“BOUQUET”: This acrylic painting by Linda Gilbert is featured in “Trees, Flowers, and Water,” on view December 3 through December 28 at Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury. An opening reception is on Sunday, December 3 from 1 to 3 p.m.

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23A Nor th Main Street, Cranbury, presents its 13th Continued from Preceding Page annual open call exhibit, “Trees, Flowers, and Water” “Trees, Flowers, and WaExhibit at Gourgaud Gallery ter,” December 3 through Gourgaud Gallery, locat- December 28. An opening ed in Cranbury Town Hall, reception is on December 3

from 1 to 3 p.m. Admission is free. T he show w ill feat ure several different mediums (paintings, drawings, photography, collage) in a variety of styles and sizes,

Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes and the Mercer County Division of Culture & Heritage has announced that Mercer County has a public art Request for Qualifications on the CaFÉ (Call for Entry) website at callforentry.org. The county is issuing a Request for Qualifications (Phase 1), inviting artists/ artist teams who wish to be considered to submit by Dec. 8, 2023 their interest and qualifications for the creation of a public mural. This mural is to be installed on an exterior 319-foot (w) x 19foot (h) wall located at 600 Cass Street in Trenton on the New Jersey State Prison. This project is known as the Mercer County Cass Street Prison Mural Project. The initial Request for Qualifications ( R FQ ) for this project will be offered only through the CaFÉ site, which is also used by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for the Council’s Arts Inclusion opportunities. Artists interested in submitting qualifications for this RFQ are encouraged to set up a free artist’s account on CaFÉ. This free registration gives artists access to

monthly listings of public arts project opportunities in New Jersey and across the nation. Through CaFÉ, artists can upload up to 100 images of their work, as well as their resumes, bios, and other materials that can be used in applying for commissions announced through the website. Questions regarding the “Call for Artists” for this RFQ may be directed through CaFÉ once the call is posted. Artists who would like further information regarding the Mercer County Cass Street Prison Mural Project can email the Division of Culture & Heritage at cultureandheritage@mercercounty.org.

Area Exhibits Ar t @ Bainbr idge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Threading Memories” through January 7. artmuseum.princeton.edu. A r t i s t s’ G a l l e r y, 18 Br idge Street, L amber tville, has “Mixed Realities” through December 3. Galler y hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com. Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox” through January 28. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Arts Council of Prince to n , 102 Wit herspoon Street, has “May You Be Happy” through December 2 in the Taplin Gallery. artscouncilofprinceton.org. Fic us, 235 Nassau Street, has “Playful Medley” through January 8. ficusbv. com. Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has works by members

of Watercolorists Unlimited in “Watercolor Gifts for the Holiday” through November 29. cranburyartscouncil.org. Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Local Voices: Memories, Stories, and Portraits” and “Spiral Q: The Parade” t hrough Ja nuar y 7 a nd “That’s Worth Celebrating: The Life and Work of the Johnson Family” through the end of 2024, among other exhibits. grounds forsculpture.org. Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Einstein Salon and Innovator’s Gallery,” “Princeton’s Portrait,” and other exhibits. Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m., Thursday to 7 p.m. princetonhistory.org. Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Fe s t iva l of Tre e s” through January 7, “Striking Beauty” through February 18, and the online exhibits “Slavery at Morven,” “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761–1898,” and others. morven.org. Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, has “Through the S t o r m , F i n d i n g H o m e” t h r o u g h D e c e m b e r 31 and “Earth Song Refrain: BIPOC Artists on the Climate and Environment” t h r o u g h J a n u a r y 12 . princetonlibrary.org. Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has “Meghan Tatuskar” through December 5. Prints and illustrations by Brett Martin are at the 254 Nassau Street location through December 5. smallworldcoffee.com. We s t W i n d s o r A r t s C e n te r, 952 A lexander Road, West Windsor, has “Off the Wall Holiday Market” through December 23. westwindsorarts.org.

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The Beijing-based artist Peng Wei creates artworks that reconsider and reckon with traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. Peng will be in conversation with Zoe S. Kwok, Nancy and Peter Lee Associate Curator of Asian Art. Reception to follow. This event is cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art.

LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. Additional support for this program has been provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. left: Photo: Hung Hung right: Peng Wei 彭薇, Autumn of Tang Dynasty (唐人秋色), 2008. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Peng Wei

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Thursday, November 23 9 a . m . : 13t h a n nua l Hopewell Valley 5K Turkey Trot, Rosedale Park, Pennington. Hopewellturkeytrot.org. 10 a . m .- 8 : 30 p. m . : Garden State Watercolor Society Pop-Up Art Sale at 45 Hulfish Street, Palmer Square. A portion of the sale proceeds will be donated to Send Hunger Packing — Mercer Street Friends. Gswcs.org. Friday, November 24 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Covered Bridge Artisans 29th Annual Studio Tour. Visit artists in their studios and in the Sergeantsville Firehouse event center, all within five miles of Stockton. Coveredbridgeartisans.com. 10 a . m .- 8 : 30 p. m . : Garden State Watercolor Society Pop-Up Art Sale at 45 Hulfish Street, Palmer Square. A portion of the sale proceeds will be donated to Send Hunger Packing — Mercer Street Fiends. Gswcs.org. 12-5 p.m.: Holiday Wine Trail Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Wine, fire pits, family activities, and more. Music by Jerry Steele. Terhuneorchards.com. 2 and 7 p.m.: American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker, at McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place. Arballet.org. 4-5:30 p.m.: Princeton Makes artist cooperative in Princeton Shopping Center hosts a “Grateful” Thanksgiving as part of its coffeehouse music series. Featuring Zeke Levine, Jonah Tolchin, and Kevin Clifford playing a range of music from the Grateful Dead to originals. Princetonmakes. com. 5 p. m . : A n nu a l Tre e Lighting in Palmer Square. The vocal harmony group Sensational Soul Cruisers and the Flying Ivories’ Dueling Pianos will entertain, along with Santa, the Princeton High School Choir, and others. Palmersquare.com. Saturday, November 25 10 a.m.: First annual LiLLiPiES Bakery Holiday Fest, Princeton Shopping Center. Carols, music from local a cappella singers, Storytime with Jeff, visit from Santa, gift basket drawing, signed copies of Pie For My Birthday by Jen Carson and Sofia Schreiber, and more. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Covered Bridge Artisans 29th Annual Studio Tour. Visit artists in their studios and in the Sergeantsville Firehouse event center, all within five miles of Stockton. Coveredbridgeartisans.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.: Garden State Watercolor Society Pop-Up Art Sale at 45 Hulfish Street, Palmer Square. A portion of the sale proceeds will be donated to Send Hunger Packing — Mercer Street friends. Gswcs.org.

12-5 p.m.: Holiday Wine Trail Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Wine, fire pits, family activities, and more. Music by Sarah Teti. Terhuneorchards.com. 12 -2 p. m . : We e ke n d holiday entertainment and strolling Santa, at Palmer Square. Palmersquare.com/ events. 1 and 6 p.m.: American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker, at McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place. Arballet.org. 1-4 p.m. : Winery with music, firepits, and mulled wine, at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Music by Jerry Steele. Terhuneorchards.com. 2 p.m.: Roxey Ballet presents The Nutcracker at Villa Victoria, 376 West Upper Ferry Road, Ewing. Roxeyballet.org/nutcracker. 2 and 5 p.m.: “The Underwater Bubble Show” is at State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $19-$39. Stnj.org. Sunday, November 26 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Covered Bridge Artisans 29th Annual Studio Tour. Visit artists in their studios and in the Sergeantsville Firehouse event center, all within five miles of Stockton. Coveredbridgeartisans.com. 12 -2 p. m . : We e ke n d holiday entertainment and strolling Santa, at Palmer Square. Palmersquare.com/ events. 12-5 p.m.: Garden State Watercolor Societ y Pop Up Art Sale at 45 Hulfish Street, Palmer Square. A portion of sale proceeds will be donated to Send Hunger Packing — Mercer Street friends. Gswcs.org. 1 p.m.: American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker, at McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place. Arballet. org. 1-4 p.m. : Winery with music, firepits, and mulled wine, at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Music by Sarah Teti. Terhuneorchards.com. 2 p.m.: Roxey Ballet presents The Nutcracker at Villa Victoria, 376 West Upper Ferry Road, Ewing. Roxeyballet.org/nutcracker. 4 p.m . : G at her ing in solidarity with the October 7 hostages, and a call for their release. Organized by a grassroots group of Israelis in Princeton. Tiger Park in Palmer Square. 7: 3 0 p . m . : S o p r a n o Sarah Brightman performs with orchestra and choir in “A Christmas Symphony” at State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $69-$199. Stnj.org. Monday, November 27 6 p.m . : Travel w r iter Thomas Swick talks and signs copies of his memoir Falling into Place: A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer at

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he Princeton University men’s water polo team came into the season with the goal of returning to the NCAA Championship field to win it all. It is an enormous goal that came with the assumption that the Tigers would win another Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) Championship to earn the league’s automatic bid to the NCAAs. The Tigers had manhandled conference rival Harvard in their fi rst meeting of the season, 17-11, even without one of their top players. The NWPC title became a little less certain when Princeton lost 14-13 to Harvard in double overtime in their regularseason meeting on October 29 three weeks before the NWPC tournament. When both Princeton and Harvard won their NWPC semifinals Saturday, it set up a rubber match that meant a lot more than just who would win the season series. Princeton went into the final treating the game as a qualifying game for NCAAs. “It was more of the only way to extend our season,” said Princeton head coach Dusty Litvak. “You have to win this one to move on, so that’s the significance of this one. The fact that we were 1-1 against them, we definitely watched the film a lot from the last time we played them and just kind of talked a lot about how we underestimated them and didn’t really respect them, and they came out and put us in our place early. We were playing catchup the rest of the game, and that’s not a place we want to be in. The last time we played them it was 14-13 and that’s way more Harvard’s style than our style.” Princeton’s ultimate NCAA goal is now center stage after the Tigers took care of business with an 8-5 win over host Harvard in the NWPC championship Sunday. Roko Pozaric scored five times, including his 200th career goal, and the Tigers also got single tallies from Vladan Mitrovic, Logan McCarroll and Yurian Quinones. Kristóf Kovács anchored the defense. The freshman goalie made 21 saves, including six in the final quarter after Harvard cut the Princeton lead to 6-5. “Our defense was incredible starting off with Kristóf in the cage,” said Litvak. “He made 21 saves, which is remarkable. He made some really big stops and counterattacked some things Harvard does really well with redirections in front of the cage and center shots. It starts with him. And then we had four or five field blocks which is excellent. We were swarming all over the center. The last game I felt we were a little slow to come back and help on center. This game I thought we were moving a lot quicker defensively to help each other, and on top of that in our 5-on-6 defense I think we held them to 2-for9, which is a big deal.” There was more significance to the win than sealing another trip to the NCAAs. It was the third straight NWPC

championship for the Tigers, something the program has never done. Princeton has won eight conference crowns, but previously never had a run of more than backto-back championships. “We talk a lot about consistency and the standard that the program has and raising the bar continually every year,” said Litvak. “For us, we won in 2018, my first year here. We lost to Harvard in 2019. That was a heartbreaker. I felt like they were the better team that year, but we outplayed them in the final and just came up short. It’s a credit to the guys. They really just decided that ‘we don’t want that to happen again.’ And they’re going to put in work in the summer on their own, because we don’t train together, and they’re going to come back in shape is a big change. That put us in a better position to start the season. It’s a credit to the guys not just for having a desire to establish ourselves, not just as a fluke, but a program that nationally teams should be concerned about.” Now the 27-5 Tigers get that chance to prove themselves on the biggest national stage. Princeton drew the No. 4 seed and will play UC Irvine in December 1 at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center in Los Angeles. The Tigers defeated the Anteaters 11-9 in a regular season contest on October 15. The victor of the rematch will play the winner of the matchup between topseeded UCLA and Biola the next day with the title game slated for December 3. “Our focus will be on whoever our opponent is in that first round and knowing if we do want to achieve our ultimate goal we’re going to have to beat probably two of the California schools,” said Litvak after the win Sunday before the NCAA draw was released. “We do have the advantage of playing UCLA earlier this year. It’s a different environment. You’re talking about the NCAA tournament. I do think our experience in being there a few times will help. I thought we played really well against SC last year, a team that was extremely talented and peaking at the right time even though they didn’t win it, they were one of the top teams in the country for sure. And we ran out of gas, but I think that experience helps us just in terms of how critical each moment is and taking advantage of our opportunities. But ultimately for us, we’ll have (Monday) off, and get back to work on Tuesday and know who our opponent is and our focus will of course be on ourselves, but make sure that we’re as prepared as we can be.” Princeton feels back on track for its NCAA title goals after the win over Harvard. The Tigers looked like their usual selves in holding the high-scoring Crimson to just five goals. Three weeks before, Litvak was disappointed to see his team essentially overlook Harvard only to then be upset. “I think we came in a few weeks ago to their place and in certain sense the guys

thought that this one’s not going to be so hard at full strength,” said Litvak. “Harvard has continually gotten better and better over the course of the season. For us, it was more that we didn’t really show up to play last time. It was very unorthodox for our group, and if we want to be consistent and we want to talk about our standards for the program, we just can’t do what we did, which was not respect our opponent and not respect ourselves and come in thinking it’s a done deal before it starts against a team like that. It’s a great thing that Harvard put us in our place, and we deserved it in that moment. Going into today, we knew we were capable of better. We knew we were capable of practicing better and capable of showing up with a better mentality. I don’t think we lost confidence after we lost to them. We just needed to refocus and reset.” The regular-season setback forced Princeton to get back to their defensive-roots. They put their efforts into playing the way that has made them a top tier program nationally. “We’re a very defensive minded team and to give up 14 goals to them last time is way below our standard so it was important that we really stressed defense these last two weeks,” said Litvak. “Everybody talked about our loss to Harvard being a good thing, but that only works out if you beat them the next time, which we did, but it defi nitely was a wake-up call. I can say that our training over the last two weeks is the best that it’s been. I’m really happy with the way the guys responded, and it showed today.” Princeton’s confidence got a boost with the win over Harvard. The Tigers played the way that they wanted to and dictated the outcome. Princeton is hoping it can use that boost as it heads into NCAAs. “Holding a team like Harvard to five goals is incredible,” said Litvak. “I think they’re averaging somewhere around 15 goals a game, definitely in double digits. It’s a team that just scores in bunches. To hold them to five goals should give our entire team a lot of confi dence. I like the way our defense is playing, both our front-court defense, our counter defense and of course our 5 on 6. We have a lot of offensive weapons. Today the offense was a little stagnant at times and a little sloppy, but ultimately we always pride ourselves on our defense and fall back on that so if we’re not shooting the ball as well as we’d like to, if the offense isn’t clicking we always have our defense. If we look at the energy that was on the bench, the energy that was in the water, our defensive presence, those are things we really pride ourselves on as a program. That should give us a lot of confidence going forward.” Princeton is in its third straight NCAA tournament. The Tigers won the playin game last year to start NCAAs (there is no playin this year) then gave

CRIMSON TIDE: Princeton University men’s water polo player Yurian Quinones pressures a Harvard player in regular season action. Last Sunday, senior Quinines scored a goal and helped key a stifling defensive effort as Princeton defeated Harvard 8-5 in the final of the Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) tournament at Cambridge, Mass. The triumph gave the Tigers their third straight NWPC title, a program first. Princeton, which improved to 27-5 with the win over the Crimson, will now compete in the NCAA tournament where they are seeded fourth and will face UC Irvine in a first round contest on December 1 at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) Southern California a scare before falling 11-8. They also beat Stanford in a monumental win during the 2022 regular season. “After the win over Stanford last year, after playing UCLA to a two-goal game and being tied in the fourth quarter, both of those things give us belief that we are within sight of our goal, that this is not a pipe dream so to speak,” said Litvak. “Of course every team sets their sights on an NCAA championship at the start of the season — it’s realistic for some, not for others — but I think there’s a maturity in the guys, in terms of how much better we can get better in three months.” Unlike the West Coast teams, Princeton only has three months to develop its team each year. Princeton is one of the few teams nationwide that is unable to practice year-round due to Ivy League regulations. The Tigers’ commitment to their individual training in the summer has made a difference, and put them in position to consider winning a national crown. “I think there are a lot of people and teams that think that it’s unrealistic still for any East Coast team to compete for a national

championship,” said Litvak. “As well as we’ve done the last couple years, as competitive as we’ve been with the big four, I still think there are a lot of people that think it’s not possible. But we have a group of motivated driven guys and of course no one can predict the future but I can tell you that we will be ready. We’ll 100 percent be ready, and this is the group with the talent and drive to get it done.” The goal is right in front of them now. After the long build-up, Princeton is three wins from a national championship. Just as the

Tigers had to do for the NWPC, they cannot get ahead of themselves. “We knew we needed to get the job done today to advance our season so there’s relief there as well as the enjoyment of beating Harvard after they beat us a couple weeks back,” said Litvak. “But also with the foresight and understanding that we’re really serious about our goal of winning a national championship and this is just another step. Now we have to go back to work and attack our next opponent.” —Justin Feil

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“We talked yester- a good learning experience the NCAA Bridgeport Regional With Freshman Goalie Smith Coming Up Big, Fogarty. day about making sure that from yesterday and how it Final last year but are off to a we are the first ones to the can go sideways if we are shaky 3-5-3 start this winter, it is hunt men, hunt not competing. Anybody can Smith believes that Princeton Tiger Men’s Hockey Edges Cornell 2-1 in OT forecheck, pucks. Your only job is to take win on a given night in this needs to bring the intensity it

Arthur Smith has fit in quickly with the Princeton Universit y men’s hockey team as he has joined the program this winter as a freshman goalie. “The older guys do a really good job of doing the right things all of the time,” said Smith. “It doesn’t really feel like I am a freshman, it feels like I am just a new person in the culture. They do a good job of making sure that we are all held to the same standard, it doesn’t matter if you are a freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.” L ast Fr iday, Pr inceton didn’t live up to its standard as it fell behind 5-1 to visiting Colgate midway through the second period. Smith came on in relief at that point and calmed things down, making eight saves as the Tigers fought back before falling 6-3. A day later, Smith got the start against 10th-ranked Cornell and sensed that the Tigers were determined to rebound from the defeat to the Raiders. “I think the whole team came to the rink today with a different mindset,” said Smith. “I don’t know how much me coming in contributed to it — we came out ready to play today.” Building on his solid effort against Colgate, Smith played ver y well against the Big Red, recording 36 saves as Princeton rallied for a dramatic 2-1 overtime win against Cornell before a standing-room only crowd of 2,500 packing Hobey Baker Rink. Smith got off to a good start in the contest, making nine saves in the first period as the rivals skated to a scoreless tie in the first 20 minutes of action. “It was nice, it comes down to everyone getting off to a good start,” said Smith, a 6’4, 205-pound native of Farmington, Conn. “It kind of made it easy — a lot of the shots were from the outside. It was definitely nice to settle into a rhythm.” The Tiger defense played well in front of Smith all night. “They were blocking a lot of shots, clearing out lanes so I could see a lot of pucks,” says Smith. “They were also picking up guys coming in late, we were all in it together.” Cornell took the lead with a goal early in the second period and Princeton answered back with a tally by Adam Robbins on a breakaway to knot the game at 1-1 entering the third period. Early in the final frame, Princeton got hit with a five-minute major penalty and Smith helped the Tigers hold the fort as they killed off the penalty to keep the game tied. “We had a short media break right before it and the energy on the bench was that we are going to get this kill and we are going to build off of that momentum,” said Smith, who made several dazzling saves on the kill to stymie the Big Red. “Everyone was bought in and that gave me the mindset too that we are all going to get this kill and move on from that. Our defense did a good job, clearing out bodies and

clearing out lanes. I could see everything.” Neither team scored again in regulation and the game headed into overtime. With Princeton having posted overtime wins against Yale and Brown a weekend earlier, Smith and his teammates were confident heading into extra time. “We have been in these games all year, we know how to win these games,” said Smith, who was under the gun as Cornell controlled possession through much of the OT. “No one was really nervous, we were excited at a chance to keep winning. I really just wanted to do it for the guys around me. We got to that point and it would suck to fall short there. It was just staying mentally focused for the whole overtime.” With just six seconds left in OT, sophomore forward Brendan Gorman blasted the puck into the back of the net to give the Tigers the hard-earned victory. “I saw Murph [Ian Murphy] leave it for me and I saw a couple of guys in the way,” said Gorman, recalling his winning tally. “I kind of used them as screens and luckily it found its way through.” Princeton made its luck as a ferocious check by senior defenseman Nick Carabin dislodged the puck from a Cornell player and gave the Tigers possession near the Big Red crease. “Carabin’s hit was huge, he was good all night,” said Gorman. “To make a play like that and for it lead to a goal was massive.” Gorman was not surprised to see the Tigers rally from the 1-0 deficit. “This whole year we have a thing to keep the energy up no matter what the score is and always having positivity on the bench,” said Gorman, who leads the Tigers in scoring with seven points on two goals and five assists. “After that goal goes in, we kept the positive energy. We were able to find one and eventually got the overtime goal.” Smith saw the win as a major positive for the Tigers. “It is a big for our confidence, our team knows that when we play well, we can stick around with anybody,” said Smith. “When we go out and do that, it is huge.” Princeton head coach Ron Fogarty credited Smith with coming up huge against the Big Red. “I love Artie, I have known him in the recruiting process for two years,” said Fogarty of Smith who now has a 2.73 goals against average and a .913 save percentage. “I made a lot of trips to watch him play juniors. I believe in him. He believes in himself and believes in the team. He is one of the best people you will ever meet in your lifetime, he is just an unbelievable person. He played big tonight, he played confident. He has got two wins now as a firstyear guy.” The goal by Robbins was a big moment for the Tigers. “Adam is playing really well,” said Fogarty. “He is clutch. I like what he did on the PK tonight as well.”

In bouncing back after a tough night against Colgate, the Tigers displayed their grit. “We made a couple of adjustments but it had nothing to do with systems,” said Fogarty. “It was all about dedication and commitment for each other and to each other.” That commitment was exemplified by Carabin’s big hit in the overtime. “That was a great forecheck by Carabin,” said

the man and he did that and that created the turnover. It all starts from being physical and taking men, that was the catalyst for the goal.” Six games into the season, Fogarty likes the way his players are getting the job done. “We have learned to win and be resilient,” said Fogarty, whose team improved to 3-2-1 overall and 3-2-1 ECAC Hockey with the victory over the Big Red. “It is

conference. The resiliency is superb right now, it is tough to win in this conference. It is one of the few times we have beaten Cornell and it is in our barn too. We knew they were going to be upset from last night (an 8-4 loss at Quinnipiac) and we were equally but we needed the game more than they did.” The Tigers are facing a tough challenge as they play a twogame set at Ohio State on November 24 and 25. In taking on the Buckeyes, who made

showed against Cornell in order to have a big weekend. “After playing a game like that, you just want to build off of it but you are only as good as that last time you played,” said Smith. “It doesn’t matter unless we play well next weekend. When we play well, we can play with anybody and that game just proves it. I know Ohio State, they are a good team. We are just looking forward to playing them.” —Bill Alden

KING ARTHUR: Princeton University men’s hockey goalie Arthur Smith guards the crease in recent action. Last Saturday night, freshman Smith made 36 saves to help Princeton defeat Cornell 2-1 in overtime. The Tigers, now 3-2-1 overall and 3-2-1 ECAC Hockey, play a two-game set at Ohio State on November 24 and 25. (Photo provided courtesy of Princeton Athletics)

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After the Princeton University football team suffered a heartbreaking 3628 double overtime loss to Yale in its home finale on November 11 to get eliminated from the Ivy League title race, it could have gone through the motions as it ended the fall at Penn last Saturday. But in the wake of the defeat to Yale, Princeton senior quarterback Blake Stenstrom vowed that the Tigers would go out in 2023 with a bang, not a whimper, as they faced the Quakers at venerable Franklin Field in Philadelphia. “If this team is the team I believe it to be we are going to come out and we are going to attack practice regardless of what awaits us,” said Stenstrom. “Guys are going to fight and go out on a high note. There were a lot of tough ones this season and at the end of last season, and guys have never quit.” Tiger head coach Bob Surace was confident that his players would keep fighting to the final whistle. “We always correct mistakes the next day and then you move on to the opponent,” said Surace. “Our guys will practice great this week, I guarantee you they will practice great. Penn has played well all year. They are a very good team and if we don’t, it will be embarrassing.” Wr it ing a f it t ing f inal chapter to one of the wackiest Ivy League seasons ever,

Princeton certainly didn’t embarrass itself as it pulled out an improbable 31-24 win over Penn in a game that saw the Tigers get outgained 500 yards to 277 but force seven turnovers to subdue the Quakers. The Tigers ended the fall at 5-5 overall and 4-3 Ivy with two of their league losses coming in overtime (2827 to Brown on October 14 along with the Yale loss) and the other by two points (2321 at Dartmouth on November 3) in a tense campaign that saw most Ivy games end in one-score results. Reflecting the parity that exemplified the 2023 campaign, the Ivy title raced ended in a three-way tie between Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth as they all ended up 5-2 in league play after a dramatic final Saturday which saw Yale defeat Harvard 23-18 and Dartmouth top Brown 38-13 to create the logjam atop the standings. In t he clash at Pen n, Princeton fell behind 7-0 late in the first quarter but then started cashing in on turnovers to build a 10-7 lead by halftime. The Tigers got on the board in the second quarter with a 45-yard field goal by Jeffrey Sexton that culminated a 44-yard scoring march set up by Tahj Owens interception. Princeton forged ahead 10-7 on an 11-yard touchdow n pass from Stenstrom to Connor Hulstein with 55 seconds left in the half.

After Penn took a 14-10 lead early in the third quarter, the Tigers converted another turnover into points. An interception by Nasir Hill gave Princeton the ball at the Quaker 35-yard line and the Tigers got a 3-yard TD run from Jiggie Carr as they went ahead 17-14. L ate r i n t h e q u a r te r, Princeton defensive lineman Collin Taylor snatched a deflected pass for another T iger intercept ion. Two plays later, Stenstrom hit AJ Barber for a 27-yard TD pass as Princeton increased its lead to 24-14. Penn got a field goal from Graham Gotlieb early in the fourth quarter to make it 24-17. On their next possession, the Quakers got bit by the turnover bug again as defensive lineman Ryan Savage scooped up a Penn fumble. Getting the ball at the Penn 7, Dareion Murphy scored on a five-yard touchdown run to put the Tigers up 31-17. Not surprisingly, given the drama that exemplified the Ivy campaign, Penn scored Daniel Downs Owner

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44 seconds left Opportunistic Princeton Football Forces 7 Turnovers ato TDdrawwithwithin 31-24. The Quakers then recovered an kick to get the ball at To Defeat Penn 31-24 in Season Finale, End Fall at 5-5 onside the Princeton 48. The op-

portunistic Tiger defense, though, came up big one last time as Hill made an interception to snuff out the Penn threat and close the deal for Princeton. On the day, the Tigers grabbed four interceptions and recovered three fumbles and converted the seven turnovers into 24 points. Surace had hoped that his squad would take advantage of its last opportunity to get a win but even in this topsyturvy campaign, he could have hardly imagined that the Tigers would ride seven takeaways to victory. “I told them you get 10 swings and we have taken nine hard ones and we are going to go up to the plate one more time,” said Surace, whose team came into Saturday with 13 turnovers in nine games. “The process for the most part has been really good, but the outcomes haven’t.” On Saturday, the outcome was really sweet for a Tiger squad that never stopped battling this fall. —Bill Alden WIZARD OF OZ: Princeton University linebacker Ozzie Nicholas celebrates after a big play in a game earlier this fall. Last Saturday, senior star Nicholas ended his Princeton career on a high note, making eight tackles and recovering a fumble to help the Tigers defeat Penn 31-24 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia in the season finale. Princeton ended the season at 5-5 overall and 4-3 Ivy League. Nicholas, for his part, led the Tigers and the league with 104 tackles. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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With New Coach Dubuque Bringing Energy, PU Wrestling Finishes 3rd at Navy Classic Joe Dubuque was thrust into a whirlwind when he took the helm of the Princeton University wrestling program in mid-September. With head coach Chris Ayes unexpectedly leaving Princeton to guide the Stanford program, longtime assistant Dubuque was promoted to guide the Tigers. “The time was a lit tle hectic when I got the job, three days later we had our largest recruiting visit so that was a little stressful,” said Dubuque, speaking recently at the program’s media day. “It was doing some new things that I wasn’t in charge of before while also doing the things I was in charge of prior. The first two weeks were stressful. Now I feel like I have my legs under me.” W hile Dubuque wasn’t about to reinvent the wheel having assisted Ayres for a decade, he is making some changes. “I addressed the team as head coach and told them there is going to be a lot of continuity between myself and Chris so there are going to be a lot of things that are going to stay the same,” said Dubuque, whose staff includes longtime Tiger assistant Sean Gray and recently graduated Tiger star Quincy Monday. “ W e a r e just going to tweak some things, I think the biggest thing that I emphasized was energy. We needed new energy — it was almost kind of like we had a lull last season. Every practice, every competition, every match,

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STOUT DEFENSE: Princeton University wrestler Luke Stout, right, battles a foe in a bout last winter. Last Saturday, junior Stout placed first in the 197-pound weight class at the Navy Classic in Owings Mills, Md. Stout’s heroics helped Princeton finish third in the team standings at the event, which was won by Nebraska. The Tigers, who are being guided by new head coach Joe Dubuque, are next in action when they host Indiana on December 3 at Jadwin Gym in their first dual of the season. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) “It is close to my personality, one of the things if you have ever seen me in the corner, I go a little crazy, a little wild,” said Dubuque. “It is also releasing any pressure or expectat ion that these guys feel. I have told them the only expectations that matter are the expectations of us within the team. We just have to stick together and stick to what our vision is and what our competitive philoso phies are. If we stick to that and stick to our brand, we are going to be successful and we are going to hit all of the things that we want

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Princeton Women’s Soccer Falls to Texas Tech in NCAAs

Battling hard against a national power, the Princeton University women’s soccer team fell on penalty kicks at Texas Tech after the teams played to a scoreless draw through 110 minutes in the second round of the NCAA tournament last Friday night in Lubbock, Texas. Princeton outshot the Red Raiders 16-9 overall and 6-3 on goal, holding Texas Tech without a shot on goal until less than two minutes remained in regulation when Tiger senior Madison Curry cleared a would-be goal off the line. The Red Raiders prevailed 4-3 in the shootout to advance. Texas Tech came into the contest ranked No. 4 in the nation and holding the second seed in Princeton’s section of the bracket, where t he Tigers were seeded seventh. P r i nce ton h e ad coach Sean Driscoll was proud of how his players battled to the end against the Red Raiders, who were supported by a facility-record crowd of 2,346. “Coming into this, we weren’t sure how this was going to go, other than the fact we knew that our kids would give a great effort. But if you told me this was the effort we were going to

PU Women’s Hoops Tops San Diego

Madison St. Rose led the way as the Princeton University women’s basketball team topped the University of San Diego 62-51 last Sunday. S op h o m or e g u a r d S t. Rose tallied a game-high 22 points to help the Tigers improve to 3-1. In upcoming action, Princeton will be taking part in the Elevance Health Women’s Fort Myers, Fla., TipOff where they will be facing Oklahoma on November 23 and Indiana on November 25.

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PU Men’s Cross Country Takes 11th at NCAAs

Nicholas Bendtsen set the pace as the Princeton University men’s cross country team took 11th in the NCAA Championships last Saturday at the Panorama Farms course in Charlottesville, Va. Junior standout Bendtsen finished 29th individually, covering the 10,000-meter course in a time of 29:38.6. With that placing, Bendtsen earned All-American honors. S en ior C on nor Nisb e t was the next finisher for the Tigers, taking 59th in 30:07.2, followed by junior Daniel O’Brien who placed 94th in 30:30.6. In the team standings, the Tigers had a score of 345 in coming in 11th with Oklahoma State taking the title with 49.

PU Women’s Volleyball Loses in Ivy Semis

Maya Satchell played well as the second-seeded Princeton Universit y women’s volleyball team fell 3-1 to third-seeded Brown in the semifinals of the Ivy League postseason tournament last Friday in New Haven, Conn. Senior star Satchell contributed 13 kills and 14 digs but it wasn’t enough as Brown prevailed 25-18, 1325, 25-13, 25-16. The defeat left the Tigers with a final record of 14-9.

Sarah Fillier starred as the 13th-ranked Princeton University women’s hockey team edged No. 6 Cornell 4-3 last Saturday. Senior star forward Fillier tallied two goals as the Tigers improved to 7-4-1 overall and 3-4-1 ECAC Hockey. Tiger Men’s Swimming Princeton hosts RPI on Defeats Penn, Cornell Tyler Hong starred as the December 1 and Union on Princeton University men’s December 2.

s w i m m i ng te a m topp e d Penn 193-107 and Cornell 204-96 in action last Saturday at DeNunzio Pool. Junior Hong earned wins in both the 100-yard and 200 butterfly events and also helped the 200 medley relay to a first place finish. In upcoming action, Princeton, now 5-0 overall and 5-0 Ivy League, will be hosting its annual Big Al Invitational from November 30 to December 3.

PU Women’s Swimming Tops Penn, Cornell

Ellie Marquardt and Margaux McDonald each won two races to help the Princeton Universit y women’s swimming team defeat Penn 226-74 and Cornell 222-78 in action last Saturday at DeNunzio Pool. Senior Marquardt prevailed in the 200-yard and 500 freestyle races while senior McDonald places first in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events. Princeton, which moved to 5-0 overall and 4-0 Ivy L eague, w ill be hosting its annual Big Al Invitational from December 1 to December 3.

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get, I would have taken it every single day and time and time again,” said Driscoll. “I’m just so proud of my team. I’m so proud of the effort. I’m so proud of my seniors, and the hardest thing for me really is just to say goodbye to them.” The defeat left the Tigers at 10-5-4 overall while Texas Tech went on to fall 1-0 to North Carolina 1-0 last Sunday in the NCAA Round of 16 to end the fall at 17-2-4.

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the semifinal contest at the state sectional and all of and the building blocks are Saving its Best for Last in a Difficult Campaign, St.InRose, a short-handed and that stuff, it is about the broth- there. Gyan’s hard work at the fatigued Panther squad was erhood and the bonds you cre- end of the year really helped on empty as it lost ate with your teammates.” guys.” PDS Boys’ Soccer Advanced to Non-Public B Semis running 4-0 to end the fall at 3-16-1. The squad’s senior group With younger guys getting

Having gone winless as it headed into mid-October and not getting invited to the Mercer County Tournament due to its poor record, the Princeton Day School boys’ soccer team underwent some soul-searching as it looked ahead to the homestretch of the season. “We had a pretty big meeting around the time when we found out we didn’t make MCTs for the second year in a row,” said PDS head coach Brian Thomsen. “We talked to the boys a lot, about what we can do moving forward to make sure it is a meaningful experience the last three or four weeks.” The Panthers responded by topping Nottingham 2-1 on October 18 to get their only regular season win and then produced an unlikely run to the semis of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) South Jersey Non-Public B Tournament. Despite its record and losing two key stars, junior Todd Devin and senior Yaseen Mousa, late in the season, Thomsen was confident his team could do some damage in the Non-Public B competition after having battled a gauntlet of tough foes in its first Colonial Valley Conference campaign. “You really look at their schedules and you say to yourself as a coach, they really haven’t been battle-tested while we have been battletested,” said Thomsen. “When you sit back and look at it, we had one of the toughest

schedules in the state of New Jersey. You are not going to play a team in the Non-Public B that is going to come close to that in terms of the strength of schedule.” Thomsen imparted that message to his players. “We talked about the same thing over and over, like ‘Hey, you guys have got an opportunity every year to play deep into November if you really want to,’” said Thomsen. “You could see at that turning point, you could start to see the seniors and how their mindset changes a little bit. They understand that it could be coming to an end real quickly for them. It is the ‘I don’t want the season to end’ type of mentality.” Br ing ing t hat mental ity into the first round of the Non-Public B tourney, the 10th-seeded Panthers routed seventh-seeded Gloucester Catholic 10-0. “When we went down to Gloucester, we were up 5-0 into first 10 minutes of the game,” said Thomsen, who got three goals from senior Gyan Gautam in the victory with junior Hart Liu-Nowakoski contributing two goals and three assists. “At that point, the boys started to understand they could play and they were going to be able to compete.” In the quarters, PDS had to play hard to overcome second-seeded Doane Academy 1-0 in double overtime. “Doane was very, very competitive with us and we held strong throughout the whole game,” said Thomsen. “They had a couple of guys

up top and we ended up figuring out how to man-mark them. We just hung on for a long period of time and made the game as competitive as it was.” After hanging in there through regulation, the Panthers broke through with an overtime goal by junior Penn von Zelowitz to advance to the semis. “Once we got to overtime, I decided to move Penn from the center defensive midfield up to one of the forward spots,” said Thomsen. “I was thinking, ‘we have got to take a chance at some point here.’ We took our chance in overtime. Penn basically had a point blank opportunity to score right before he scored, which forced the corner kick to happen. Then on the corner kick, Penn got on the end of the play. It was great to watching them have an enjoyable moment after a difficult season.” Von Zelowitz and Liu-Nowakoski formed a productive partnership down the stretch of the season. “Once we moved Penn and Hart next to each other in that deep midfield role and we started playing a 5-3-2, we had those two guys as the anchor in the middle of the park,” explained Thomsen. “It allowed us to be a lot more competitive in games. Those guys were able to come compete. Hart and Penn’s relationship grew a little bit and they started battling for each other. That allowed Hart to go and do things, he had more confidence to go and play.”

“They just ran out of gas against St. Rose,” said Thomsen. “The three goals we gave up in the first half were all off of corner kicks.” Although the Panthers didn’t achieve their goal of making a sectional final, Thomsen enjoyed the ride. “It really is a testament to the character of the kids, it made the last three weeks of the season very enjoyable,” said Thomsen. “It didn’t matter if we won or lost the game, they would always come back to training the next day asking me what is next, coach. When you have that mentality, you kind of put the results out the window but you enjoy the process more and our training sessions and the team aspect of it. It became something that was fun to watch with the understanding that high school sports is not all about winning

played a key role in that process. “We had six seniors this year, you had Gyan and Yaseen who were a bigger part over the last three years of our success,” said Thomsen. “Sebastian [Rzeczycki] ended up becoming a good part of the core of the group. The other three guys (Samuel Elkin, Christian Escobar, and Jameson Reilly) supported the cause from there.” Thomsen was proud of how Gautam finished his PDS career. “He was definitely moving at a different pace; we saw a different type of Gyan from October 18 to the end of the season,” said Thomsen. “Gyan had a really significant impact on our program the last three years. His NJSIAA playoff record is seven wins and three losses — it is something he should be proud of. The legacy of the program

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As the Wilberforce School cross country runners competed in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public B championship meet earlier this month, Caleb Brox achieved a historic double for the Wolverine boys while the girls’ squad fell agonizingly shor t of making history of their own. Senior Brox pulled away from the pack to place first individually in the Non-Public B boys’ race, making it two titles this fall as he had previously placed first in the Mercer County championship meet in mid-October. Brox covered the 5,000-meter course at Holmdel Park in 16:56, 32 seconds ahead of runner-up Ryan Gaulrapp from Bishop Eustace. The Wolverines had two other runners finish in the top 10 as freshman Micah Brox placed seventh in 18:16 while freshman Elias Edwards came in eighth at 18:18. Wilberforce finished third in the team standings with a score of 85 in a meet won by Bishop Eustace, which had a winning total of 77. “Caleb was very strong, he really had the game plan to run to win. Coming out of the bowl, he just took off and didn’t look back,” said Wilberforce head coach Lois Szeliga. “It was beautiful to see, it is just something that he wanted. I was just so happy to see him do that.” Coming off his triumph in the country meet, Brox was primed for the title double. “He was ready, but of course you never take anything for granted,” said Szeliga. “You have to do it the day of. It was definitely one of his goals coming into the season. Once he got healthy in time for counties and he won counties, he was really looking forward to seeing if he could have that other feather in his cap this season.” Seeing freshmen Micah Brox, the younger brother of Caleb, and Edwards finish in the top 10 was a feather in the cap for Szeliga. The two newcomers are following in the footsteps of older siblings as Edwards’ older sister, Adeline, stars for the Wolverine girls’ squad. “Even though that is not their technical personal record, that was their Holmdel PR, that was a PR effort,” said Szeliga, who had a third freshman, Henr y

Jepson, excel at the meet as he took 25th in 19:39. “I think when you have people with older siblings who run, they are wondering is this really my thing. They really established this year that this is their thing. They are really talented.” The squad’s younger runners have been inspired by senior star Brox. “Caleb is a very strong leader, he has a very hard work ethic,” said Szeliga. “He is the perfect captain to have when I have such a young team. They were very excited for him, they all almost tasted the victory.” Ending the fall by competing in the NJSIAA Meet of Champions at Holmdel on November 11, senior Brox took 104th at 17:12 while the younger Brox finished 156th in 18:45 and Edwards took 159th in 19:11. “I think for Caleb, his goal is always to be there; there is nothing like the MOC in our sport, it is everybody running at once,” says Szeliga. “I think for the freshman to be able to compete at that is great because nobody is expecting anything. It is the experience. It is the top runners in the state and you have earned that. That is something to be very proud of, to be able to compete at the MOC.” Heading into the Non-Public B meet, the Wolverine girls knew they were in for a tough competition against rival Villa Walsh. The last two years, Wilberforce had placed first at the meet with the Vikings just behind in second. “It was a battle of battles, it is a great rivalry,” said Szeliga. “They had won the Prep B meet this year, they had won meet after meet. We could see the lineups, we could see where their runners were and where our runners were.” This year’s battle between the rivals turned out to be a nail-biter decided by the narrowest of margins as the Wolverines fell just short of the championship threepeat, getting edged 38-39 by Villa Walsh. While disappointed to see her team get nipped, Szeliga had no qualms about the effort she got from her girls. “It was just so close, it did hurt losing by one point,” said Szeliga, whose team was led by sophomore Laura Sallade, the fourth place finisher in 20 : 00, while

j u n ior Adel i ne E dw ard s placed seventh in 20:38 and sophomore Eve Szeliga, the coach’s daughter, took 10th in 20:53. “I said to the girls after the race, ‘You all did the best you could do that day and we were a point short. All you can do on any given day is do the best you can do. Somebody w ins and somebody loses.’ For them to come so close to another state championship in spite of all of the adversity they faced this fall with injuries, I am very proud. These girls ran with so much heart.” The two top Wilberforce runners, Sallade and Edwards, showed heart as they battled through leg injuries. “Laura was running with pain, Adeline ran in pain too,” said Szeliga. “Adeline said she was so proud of that day, even though they lost. She had been coming off of an injury so going into the meet, the girls had faced adversity.” Szeliga is proud of her daughter’s progress as she went on to be the only Wolverine girl to compete in the MOC, taking 92nd in 20:38. “For Eve to have that No. 10 spot at the Non-Public meet was great, she is just becoming a cross country runner,” said Szeliga. “She was a soccer player and she did some races to get that confidence. You learn by doing and now she has gotten a few races under her belt. She did have confidence coming into that race to score for the team. They did have their assignments, they did know what the other team was capable of. They did all execute and that did include trying to get three runners in the top 10.” Senior Virginia Whitman also executed at the NonPublic meet, taking 14th in 21:58. “Virginia had a great season; she is our captain and she was always in our top five,” said Szeliga. “She was a constant this year, someone we could really depend on, especially with some of the injuries we had. She is someone who would always perform. She had her PR, this was her best season by far. She improved by a lot, she won our most improved award. She had a great season.” Another Wilberforce veteran, junior Gwen Mersereau, has likewise been a constant for the squad. “Gwen is the same, she is always on our top five,” said Szeliga. “If you are going to

have a No. 5 runner it is great to have someone like Gwen who is fierce down to the line. There was someone bearing down on her in the Non-Public meet and she stayed ahead of that person. She just performs for the team.” While the Wilberforce runners performed well collectively this fall, the younger athletes are primed to do even better going forward. “We have some very special senior athletes graduating, but I think the program is in great hands,” said Szeliga. “Sometimes not winning can make you hungry. They were all happy with how they did. They were proud of themselves and yet they are hungry for next year.” —Bill Alden

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TALENTED TIGERS: A group of Princeton High senior student-athletes are all smiles as they gathered together recently to celebrate their commitments to compete for Division I college sports programs. Pictured, from left, are Tiger stars Stella Solvibile (University of Miami, rowing), Cate Quinones (Fairfield University, rowing), Owen Brown (Cornell University, rowing), Gabrielle Zammit (Stanford University, rowing), Natalie Ruzich (Rutgers University, rowing), Courtney Weber (Boston College, swimming), Delaney Keegan (Cornell University, field hockey), and Patrick Kenah (Lafayette College, lacrosse).

JUNCTION BARBER SHOP SPECIAL FORCE: Members of the Wilberforce School boys’ cross country team show off the medals they earned at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public B championship meet earlier this month. The Wolverines took third in the team standings at the meet, led by senior Caleb Brox who placed first individually. Freshman Micah Brox placed seventh, while freshman Elias Edwards came in eighth. Pictured, from left, are Philip Schidlovsky, Henry Jepson, Elias Edwards, John David, Caleb Brox, Micah Brox, and Andy Pratt. (Photo provided courtesy of Lois Szeliga)

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he was stationed in Fort Hood Texas and trained in low level flying with night vision binoculars, followed by an assignment for several months to England in the Salisbury Plains teaching British pilots the same. After his honorable discharge w ith the rank of Captain, he worked for Merrill Lynch in Manhattan as a commodities broker. Dissatisfied with corporate life he learned that Grover Lumber Company in Princeton was for sale, where he had worked for many years part time growing up. With the help of family and friends, he and his wife were able to buy the company. He was President of Grover Lumber Co for 20 years until the company was later sold to Princeton University. A lifelong devotee to the sport of ice hockey, Bloxy was both a coach and the ultimate “hockey dad” to his three sons. He is survived by his wife Nancy Luria of Salisbury and t wo step daughters, Cary Ullman of Lakeville, C T, and Samant ha Harlow of Middlebury, VT; his three sons, with his former wife Nancy Howell Rogers, Charles of Sarasota, Fl, Henry (his wife Tiffany) of Wilton, CT, and Peter (his wife Wendy) of Montvale, NJ ; t hree grandchildren (Henry, Lily, and Sophie); s i s te r s G e r t r u d e M i l l a r (James) of Marshfield, MA, Leanne Baker of Nantucket, MA ; and brother Warren Baker ( w ife Deborah ) of Lakeside, MI. A memor ial ser v ice is planned for a later date in Princeton, NJ.

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Hospice is about living the fullest life possible according to a patient’s capabilities within a life-limiting condition. In hospice, your choices guide the care we provide. Hospice care affirms quality of life. Our goal is to prevent and relieve pain, discomfort, anxiety and fear. We provide emotional and spiritual support to patients and their loved ones. Hospice care is provided wherever a patient feels most comfortable or where they call home. We help families and caregivers prepare for endof-life challenges and find creative ways to share in life review and legacy projects so that our patient’s wisdom and memories can be treasured for future generations.

Our Hospice Team consists of: • Hospice Medical Director, a board-certified hospice physician • Registered Nurses (RNs) monitoring pain, managing symptoms and guiding patient’s plan of care • Hospice Certified Home Health Aides (CHHAs) providing personal patient care and companionship • Social Workers supporting patients and families and connecting them with community resources

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Cranbury Township, NJ | $999,000

Lambertville City, NJ | $729,000

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