Fund for Irish Studies Presents Lecture by Paul Muldoon 14
Mixing It Up with Phil Lesh And Ezra Pound 18
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Lewis Center Presents Anon(ymous) at McCarter 22
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Fueled by Mykhalchuk’s Playmaking, Hun Boys’ Soccer Defeats Blair in Prep A Semis to Earn Shot at Pennington in Final 35
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“Shop Local” is The Message For Residents, Tourists
The weather is balmy and Halloween is barely behind us, but the winter holiday season is officially on.
Black Friday and Small Business Saturday are several weekends away, with a late Thanksgiving (November 28) shortening the usual gift-buying season. Drawings for Experience Princeton’s “ShopPrinceton2Win” contest began this week, and decorations will soon be hung around town. The goal is to encourage patronage of local stores and restaurants.
“There is a lot of competition out there, especially online,” said Councilwoman Michelle Pirone Lambros, who is the liaison to Experience Princeton, the nonpro t that promotes local businesses. “You go into the big box stores, and the decorations are out. But it’s still not the same experience as going into a local shop. We have some new retail in town, and they all seem to be gearing up.”
The recently opened Graduate by Hilton Princeton hotel and Triumph Restaurant and Brewery are expected to be a draw. “They have made a really big impact and are big investments in the community, so hopefully that will translate into good residual sales for the local businesses,” said Lambros. “Tenancy is good. We don’t have a lot of empty
The Arts Council of Princeton opens its Artists’ Winter Chalets on November 14, running through December 22. The popup village on Hinds Plaza has become an annual event, with new and returning vendors selling textiles, jewelry, candles, pottery, clothing and additional pieces made by artisans.
At the Yankee Doodle Taproom, “Friendsgiving” is November 17, and Breakfast with Santa is December 1 and 8. Princeton Tour Company holds its annual Holiday Trolley Tours December 14 and 15. The Jewish Center of Princeton sponsors the annual Menorah Lighting on December 18 on the patio of the Nassau Inn, and the much-anticipated tree
State Urges Caution as Drought Persists
With October 2024 in the record books as New Jersey’s driest October in history, a statewide re ban is now in effect. On October 17, Gov. Phil Murphy issued a drought watch, urging residents and businesses to conserve water.
It hasn’t rained locally in over a month. And there is no real end in sight.
Thursday, November 14 is the first mention of any precipitation, with “rain ending in the morning” as predicted on Accuweather.com. The next possibility is November 22, when “a morning shower followed by a little rain in the afternoon” is listed. And nothing else is predicted until December 10: “Periods of light rain.”
No outdoor res — wood or charcoal — are permitted. And de nitely no reworks.
“This has been quite interesting to watch,” said Frank D’Amore, Princeton’s re official. “I can’t recall anything like it this late in the year. It’s very dry out there, so we are not approving any wood or charcoal burning permits at all. You can buy reworks in the store, but please don’t do that right now.”
While the possibility of wild res is the main worry, the drought is also causing concern for those who maintain Princeton’s forests and natural areas. Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS), which
is based at the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve, is keeping a close watch on the situation.
“Due to the drought, we have postponed fall planting to the spring, and our intern team has been busy keeping nursery plants hydrated,” said Anna Corichi, director, natural resources and stewardship, in an email. “Drought conditions also pose threats to water quality and wildlife habitat [at the Preserve]. As the lake’s water levels drop, nutrients and
toxins can become more concentrated, negatively impacting aquatic life; also, shallower and warmer waters could lead to an increase in algal and nuisance plant growth. FOPOS regularly monitors Mountain Lake with support from StreamWatch volunteers (organized by The Watershed Institute), FOPOS interns, and lake management professionals.”
Laurie Cleveland, executive director of The Sourland Conservancy, said her pond is the lowest she’s seen it. “I’m very
PPS Presents Theater, Music, Visual Arts; Neil Simon’s “Rumors” Nov. 14-17 at PHS
In theater, music, and visual arts, Princeton Public Schools (PPS) is presenting a diverse array of events in November and December.
Rumors, a 1988 Neil Simon “elegant farce,” as the author described it, will take the spotlight on the Princeton High School (PHS) stage November 14-17. At Princeton Middle School (PMS) on November 22 and 23, the theme will be self-image and social and emotional learning in Hoodie, a short “play for the times,” according to PMS Theater Director Chaundra Cameron.
The studio Jazz Band is preparing for Big Band dances on November 22 and December 13 from 7-10 p.m. in the high school cafeteria, as well as their annual Jammin’ with Santa event for children and families starting at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, December 14 and featuring arts, crafts, games, face painting, food, music by the PHS Jazz Ensemble, and a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus.
The PHS Choir will be presenting two concerts with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra as part of their Holiday POPS! concert on December 14 at Richardson
COW SERENADE: Cows were celebrated and honored at the Annual Cow Parade festival at Cherry Grove Farm in Lawrenceville on Saturday afternoon. The tradition comes from the Swiss Alps, when the cows are brought down from the mountains to the lower pastures each fall, with elaborate decorations. The event also featured hayrides, games, face painting, food, music, dancers, storytelling, and local artisans.
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Leighton Listens: Councilman Leighton Newlin holds one-on-one conversations about issues impacting Princeton from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on November 6 at the inside area of the Clock Tower, Princeton Shopping Center; on November 13 at Rojo’s Roastery, 33 Palmer Square (grassy area on the square); on November 20 at DeAngelo’s Market, 35 Spring Street; and on November 27 at Maman Princeton, 43 Hulfish Street.
Flu Vaccine Clinic: At Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Free, for both insured and uninsured Princeton residents age 3 and older. Registration encouraged but walk-ins welcome. Princetonlibrary.org.
Volunteer Land Stewards Wanted: On November 6 from 1-3 p.m.; and November 9 and 20 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS) holds stewardship sessions. Volunteers will work under the guidance of the FOPOS stewardship staff at the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve to help habitat restoration projects. Register at fopos.org/events-programs.
Food Pantry: Arm In Arm’s mobile food pantry is at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer County Library System, 2751 Brunswick Pike, on Monday afternoons in November and December, from 2-4 p.m. Fresh produce, eggs, milk, frozen proteins, and quality baked goods as well as canned and boxed items and personal care items are available for those in need.
Sustainable Princeton “Lending Library” : Sustainable Princeton offers residents and nonprofits in Princeton the opportunity to borrow sustainable home items such as electric landscape equipment, induction cooktops, and repair tools, for free, for up to two weeks. Visit sustainableprinceton.org for more information.
Millhill Holiday Giving Drive : Millhill Child and Family Development is collecting gifts and warm coats through November 29. In-person donations will be accepted through December 6. Contact Angie at AMcManimon@millhillcenter.org for details.
Volunteer Tax Preparers Needed : The Mercer County AARP Tax-Aide Program is seeking volunteers to prepare federal and state tax returns. Classes begin in November. All levels and types of experience are welcome. Visit aarpfoundation.org/taxaide or call (888) 227-7669 for more information.
Holiday Gift Drive : Princeton Human Services invites donations of holiday gifts for local children in need. To fill out a donor application, visit princetonnj.gov/753/ Holiday-Gift-Drive by November 15. To receive a gift, children must be between 0-12 years old and live in Princeton with their guardian. Submit applications by November 7 at 1 Monument Drive.
Free Salt Room Sessions for Breast Cancer Survivors : 4 Elements Wellness Center in Princeton Shopping Center offers free halotherapy sessions to anyone who has survived or is still battling the disease. The 50-minute sessions cleanse the respiratory system, reduce inflammation, and provide stress relief. 4elementswellnesscenter. com.
Donate Blood : The American Red Cross needs blood and platelet donors, especially type O blood, as the holiday season approaches. In Princeton, donations can be made at Frist Campus Center on the Princeton University campus, or Stone Hill Church on Bunn Drive. Additional opportunities in Trenton, Plainsboro, Pennington, Hopewell, Hamilton and Ewing townships are available. Visit RedCrossBlood.org for dates and times.
INJUSTICE: On Sunday, October 20, Hinds Plaza was the site of a rally to address the need for reform on the Supreme Court. Speakers included State Sen. Andrew Zwicker, the Rev. Robert Moore of the Coalition for Peace Action, Sara Wasserman of the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, and Mo Kinberg of Democracy Organizing with the New Jersey Working Families Alliance.
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PUMPKIN BIOLOGY: Members of the Molecular Biology Outreach Program at Princeton University (in MBOP shirts) show young visitors to their booth at the Arts Council of Princeton’s Pumpkin Palooza how to extract pumpkin DNA.
PU Graduate Students Bring Love of Science to Community Outreach Events
When a group of Princeton University graduate students set out to inspire youths and adults in the community with the wonders of science, they found that they ended up being inspired themselves.
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doctoral researchers in the Molecular Biology Outreach Program (MBOP) recently ran a science fair on campus for high school students; plan to judge a science fair at Stone Bridge Middle School in Allentown; and are inviting adults to a “Science by the Cup” night to educate them on what scientific processes go into making beer. They also showed community members how to make their own skin lotion, and demonstrated how to extract DNA from strawberries at the Ewing Library and from pumpkins at the Arts Council of Princeton’s Pumpkin Palooza event.
booth demonstrated how to extract DNA from pumpkins using soap, salt, and rubbing alcohol, thereby breaking open the cells of the pumpkin, and isolating the DNA, which is visible in strands.
“Kids can do this,” said Catalano. “We send home an instruction set, and they can also do it at home with fruit and other foods.”
“The kids say “gross,” or “cool” depending on their age, and some came back three or four times,” added Bernys. The University students made small necklaces containing DNA in small test
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extraction, are beloved by children and adults alike, but the group has two branches, one for youth outreach, and one for adult outreach. The adult outreach group will be at River Horse Brewing Company in Ewing November 9 to demonstrate “The Science of Beer” with posters on fermentation, the use of yeast, and all that goes into making beer, including color on bottles, at various points on a brewery tour.
MBOP also holds science fairs in different schools. Bernys recalled one impressive project in which the research was based on the fact that the student’s parents did not want him to play football. He was able to put together a controlled experiment that measured force against a foam head with different helmets, and “concluded that his parents were right, and talked about why,” said Bernys.
“This is what we were going for — using science to apply to day-to-day life,” said Catalano, who agreed with Bernys that they can feel an “infectious energy” at these competitions.
MBOP is dependent on support from its team of volunteers. The group manages a budget and plans logistics, the co-chairs explained. The Department of Molecular Biology generously supports them, they note.
Some events are annual with community partners, like a series of talks at Princeton High School on career paths in science, and some are from the creative minds of the group, such as the lotion day, and making ice cream on Hinds Plaza.
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A highlight this past year was an MBOP science fair at Princeton University, attracting some 50 high school students from the surrounding area. “We wanted to model it on the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair — where high school students from around the world compete annually — and we independently put together a complete fair, held on a single day, with a keynote talk by Princeton Professor Jared Toettcher,” said Catalano, who called both the talk and the fair an “incredible success” and said that having participated as a high school student, he “wanted to be on the other side.”
After planning for months, on the day of the fair he was exhausted, he said, but around mid-morning decided to walk around and speak with the students.
the sharpness, and the creaminess of it. Blue cheese goes with any vegetable — put it on tomatoes with olive oil and just go.”
Orlando: “Probably an aged Gouda — a little dry, a little sharp. I like to eat it as is.”
Maria: “My favorite is Comté, a French cheese. It’s a dry cheese that has a little bite to have with fruit, wine, and a baguette.”
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“The projects were incredible,” he said, recalling one student who followed the development of salamander eggs at Herrontown Woods. “We went to inspire the students, but I have to say that I was inspired.”
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Moreover, the students were impressed to be at Princeton University. Acknowledging the college’s reputation for academic excellence, “we want to use that force for good,” he said.
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“A lot of us got into science because of our curiosity,” said Bernys. “It’s so nice to share that, and get back to our roots.”
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“I love mozzarella cheese since there are many ways you can use it — you can do the pulled cheese, you can do the pizza cheese, and so on. It’s very versatile.”
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“My favorite is a smoked mozz, and I love it in a grilled cheese, with some soup. It is beautiful for fall and winter.” — Felicia Teter, Yakama Nation (Reservation), Wash.
Shubhangi: “Mozzarella, because you can put it on pizza, and it’s easy and affordable.”
Shy: “Goat cheese. Any sort with honey and nuts, and I’m there!”
Silas: “Brie, because it’s creamy and great at events.” — Shubhangi Sharma, Philadelphia, Shy Gomes, Iselin, and Silas Rozario, Orange, Va.
Cindi: “Mine would be a Roquefort or a Gorgonzola — a blue cheese. I like the tartness,
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Auditorium, and all choirs and orchestras will perform in the 79th Annual Winter Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 19 in the Princeton University Chapel. It’s a “huge concert,” said PPS Visual and Performing Arts Supervisor Patrick Lenihan, with more than 1,000 expected to attend.
The PHS Choir launched its performance season two weeks ago with a concert featuring music of Italy from Neapolitan songs to current Italian pop hits, a fundraiser for the choir’s upcoming February trip to Italy. The choir will also be caroling in Palmer Square each weekend in December.
In the field of visual arts, PHS’ student-run Lumina Gallery is spotlighting its “Beyond PHS Art Exhibition” of paintings, drawings, and mixed media work created by PHS students outside
of school classes. The rotating exhibit will run through December 6 and is accepting artwork on a rolling submission deadline, so there will be new work displayed throughout the coming month.
Lenihan praised the work of PPS arts students and teachers. “The PPS faculty are phenomenal at what they do,” he said in a recent phone conversation, “and they bring every student to the highest level possible.”
He went on, emphasizing the importance of the arts in the schools and in the lives of the students, “We believe it’s one of the most important things that students experience,” he said. “It’s a critical part of their education, and it really allows us to connect across cultural boundaries and gives students an opportunity to express themselves beyond the limits of language.”
He pointed out, “We provide a powerful experience
not only in each of the arts disciplines, but also for students in the social-emotional journeys they are all on.” He also expressed gratitude for the “Princeton community that is so supportive of the arts.”
Rumors director and drama teacher Julianna Krawiecki commented on some of the work her two separate casts of 10 each and backstage crew of 31 have been doing over the past few weeks in preparation for their November 14 opening. In addition to set building and painting, the running crews include the stage manager, lighting and sound designers, deck crew, and props and costume crews.
“Rumors is a more challenging play for the student actors than our previous fall plays,” said Krawiecki. “The characters are older and change quite a bit throughout the course of the play due to a series of events. There’s a
lot of memorization and character work that the students need to master.”
She continued, “The comedy in this show is more challenging to land for student actors as it lies mostly in the dialogue and characterizations. It’s been a great challenge that has given the actors the chance to really grow their skills, but it is a huge feat.”
Noting that “the rehearsal room is “full of laughter every day” as they work on the play, she added, “It’s a fun story and one that not many people know, so we hope we can make you laugh and enjoy a trip to the theater.”
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For the PMS fall play, Hoodie, Cameron describes the production as “an abstract ensemble performance that is turning out to be an existential interpersonal and intrapersonal approach to how communication Is so important to our social and emotional existence and growth.” About 43 middle schoolers make up the cast and crew, and, according to Cameron, “they are doing a fantastic job with a high level of ensemble work.”
The play is about middle schoolers facing the most essential questions about who they are, who they want to be, and whether to follow the crowd or stand alone.
“Hope you will join us in celebrating the talent of our amazing, resilient, and energetic middle schoolers,” said Cameron. Visit princetonmiddleschooltheatre. ludus.com for tickets.
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Fatherhood Conference Set for New Brunswick
The Father Center of New Jersey (TFCNJ) announces its 2nd Statewide Fatherhood Conference, taking place on Thursday, November 7, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the DCF Office of Training and Professional Development, 30 Van Dyke Avenue in New Brunswick.
Themed “Stronger Fathers BUILD Stronger Families,” this event will emphasize the critical role of fatherhood in building strong families and thriving communities.
The conference will gather leading experts, including keynote speaker Dr. Reggie Wright, to explore topics central to fatherhood and community development.
This free event led by Bryan Evans, CEO of The Father Center of New Jersey, is designed to equip social workers, mental health professionals, caseworkers, and community leaders with tools to help fathers become engaged, effective parents.
“At The Father Center, we believe that fostering strong fathers uplifts entire families and communities. The conference is an opportunity for professionals who work with fathers to gain critical insights, network and learn techniques to strengthen family units,” said Evans.
The Father Center remains committed to highlighting the importance of fatherhood in
both family life and community well-being. This conference will showcase how fathers play a key role in building resilient families and robust communities, offering attendees strategies and resources to empower fathers.
Trenton native Wright, a former professional basketball player and renowned motivational speaker, will deliver the keynote address. He will share his insights on how fathers can bridge the academic achievement gap and raise resilient children.
“I’m passionate about helping fathers realize their potential to shape not only their children’s futures but the future of our society.
I’m honored to speak at this year’s Statewide Fatherhood Conference and share insights that can help fathers and families thrive,” said Wright, who holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from New Jersey City University, a master’s degree from Cairn University, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Liberty University, is the founder of Reggie Wright Enterprises, is a mentor with Raising Black Men, and serves on the board of directors of The Charlie & Tonja Ward Family Foundation.
Anyone working in the social services, mental health, housing, or community organizations is encouraged to attend. For more information, visit thefathercenter.org or call (609) 695-3663.
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A cappella groups from Princeton University serenade on Palmer Square on December 5. At Morven Museum and Garden, the annual Festival of Trees begins November 20 and runs through January 5.
To encourage patrons to spend money while attending these events, Experience Princeton is running its contest, with weekly drawings through December 10.
Customers and businesses have a chance to win $500 at each drawing. The final grand prize drawing is for $1,500.
“We have a lot of people participating already,” said
Isaac Kremer, executive director of Experience Princeton. “We’ve been taking professional photos of some of the businesses, which we’ll share soon. What’s happening is the holiday season has begun earlier than usual, and we want to take advantage of that. We want to make sure Princeton is on the radar, early and often.”
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of Princeton Tour Company, has been running the annual Holiday Trolley Tours for nine years. At holiday time, the town takes on the character of “a small Euorpean hamlet,” she said.
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“If you really think about it, one of the world’s most beautiful campuses is the backdrop for downtown’s festive décor and live outdoor performances from a cappella groups and choral ensembles,” she wrote in an email. “Savvy planners organize a weekend stay and score tickets to the many activities around around town. We encourage our customers to explore the offerings of McCarter Theatre, the Paul Robeson Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton University Concerts, Princeton Public Library, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Princeton Chapel, and Morven’s Festival of Trees to round out a ‘quintessentially Princeton’ experience.”
—Anne Levin
Mercer County Executive Dan Benson continues to unveil the final programs funded by the federal American Rescue Plan (ARPA). At the last meeting of the Mercer County Board of Commissioners, they approved a resolution for an expanded round of MercerAt-Play funding focused on recreation for underserved populations.
Mercer-At-Play was first created in 2006 and reauthorized in 2016. The objective of the program is to expand active recreation opportunities for Mercer residents in partnership with the 12 municipalities.
Each year, the grants committee recommends to its voting members grants for local nonprofi ts. Since its founding, the fund has awarded a total of more than $2 million in support to local organizations.
“We had a fabulous group of grant applicants this year,” said Terry Kent, chair of the Fund’s Grants Committee. “I want to thank the committee members who dedicated their time to review applications and deliberate about every request. We learned so much about the work of our nonprofit partners in the process. It is a great pleasure to collaborate with these dedicated philanthropists.”
This year’s grantee partners are Arm in Arm, Center at 353 (formerly Trinity Counseling Services), PEI Kids, Millhill Child & Family Development, HomeWorks Trenton, and Dress for Success Central NJ.
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Mercer-At-Play For All expands recreation funding for accessible playgrounds, senior recreation upgrades, and after school sports mentor programs. These minigrants aim to expand access to recreation opportunities for underserved groups in Mercer by partnering with towns and nonprofits.
“Mercer-At-Play has been a fantastic success since its inception in 2006, but it has often taken far too long for funds to be approved and dispersed,” said County Executive Dan Benson. “Using federal ARPA dollars, we can quickly connect funding to nonprofits and towns to ensure our youngest and oldest residents have better access to expanded recreation opportunities.”
Additionally, grant payments were made to nonprofits that were awarded multi-year grants in 2022 and 2023: RISE, Housing Initiatives of Princeton (HIP), Womanspace, and the Children’s Home Society of New Jersey.
“Inclusivity and equity have been real values of this administration from day one, values that the Commissioners are proud to share,” said said County Commissioner Vice-Chair Kristin McLaughlin. “Programming is even more important for those populations where access can be challenging. MercerAt-Play for All brings programs to those most vulnerable, which can really uplift their spirits.”
The Fund for Women and Girls, a field-of-interest fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation founded in 1998, is a diverse group of community members who together invest in nonprofit organizations that improve the lives of economically vulnerable women and children in greater Mercer County. The Fund has granted over $2 million to nonprofits serving women and children in Central New Jersey and Bucks County, Pa.
Princeton Community Housing Gets Outstanding Project Award
“As a former director of recreation for the City of Trenton, and the former CEO of the Trenton area YMCA, I love the c ounty’s initiative to bolster youth and senior programing through ARPA funds,” said Commissioner Sam Frisby.
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On Tuesday, October 29, at the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey’s (HCDNNJ) 2024 Annual Community Development Conference and Membership Meeting, Princeton Community Housing was awarded the organization’s Outstanding Project Award in the Healthy Homes and Communities category for the construction of the Jim and Fannie Floyd House at Princeton Community Village, completed in 2023.
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The awards program and this category seeks to recognize member organizations that are increasing the supply of homes that residents can afford and are effectively addressing widespread issues that impact the health of neighborhoods and residents.
The Fund for Women and Girls at the Princeton Area Community Foundation awarded more than $200,000 in grants to six nonprofits that work to help single mothers, families with young children, abuse survivors, and high school students.
“I would love it if we didn’t need to continue this work — if our work was done. But it isn’t done. Great needs remain in the community,” said Carolyn Sanderson, fund chair.
“I’m so very grateful for the support of all our fund members. I especially appreciate all our nonprofit partners who work tirelessly to help our neighbors get the assistance they need and who work together to address important and sometimes difficult challenges. They are incredible partners, doing their best every day to help build a thriving community.”
Founded 26 years ago, the Fund for Women and Girls is comprised of generous members — mostly women — who pool their donations because they believe they can make a larger impact in the community through collaborative giving.
The completion of the Jim and Fannie Floyd House added 25 new rental homes to the Princeton Community Village neighborhood. In the building are one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom options for very low-, low-, and moderateincome families and individuals. The new building was also constructed to meet or exceed Enterprise Green standards, which aligns the Municipality’s goals of sustainability. The all-electric new building is also constructed on an existing surface parking area, thereby preserving valuable woodlands and watershed areas.
The award was presented to Princeton Community Housing representatives at the annual Community Development Conference and Membership Meeting “Under One Roof: Empowering People & Places” held in New Brunswick.
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SPIA in NJ Program to Consider Ideas for a Healthy NJ Economy
How can the community contribute to an inclusive,
and healthy New Jersey economy? Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs in New Jersey (SPIA in NJ) is partnering with several departments and community nonprofi ts to fi nd out, with the goal of informing the public and identifying and addressing future challenges before the next election cycle.
The second of three sessions of the program New Jersey & The American Economy will be held on Tuesday, November 12 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 002. Co-sponsors are Princeton University Department of African American Studies, Princeton Public Lectures, the Program for Research on Inequality, Labyrinth Books, and the Princeton Public Library.
Although the three-part program is held close to the 2024 election cycle, it is actually timed for the next one. “We timed this program very intentionally so that New Jerseyans could hear from policy scholars and analysts about some of the issues that polls show matter most to them,” said Anastasia Mann, founding director of SPIA in NJ. “We designed the structure to highlight where we have come from and where we are heading, from a tax and budget perspective, when it comes to issues like wages, access to housing, public safety, food security, immigration, climate, health care, and more.”
Next year, she noted, New Jersey voters will choose “not only the governor but the entire legislature out of an already very crowded field. That underscores the importance of an informed public.”
The title of this second of three programs is “Can We Fix It? Yes We Can: New and Effective Ideas to Promote a More Inclusive Productive and Healthy Economy for All.” The conversation will highlight new ideas such as a guaranteed basic income and child care for all, and discuss how the ideas can be implemented in New Jersey to boost the economy and help community members lead healthy, thriving lives.
Moderator Brandon McKoy, president of The Fund for New Jersey, touted New Jersey’s many unique characteristics, and said, “When we think about the issues that face our great state, it is crucial that residents be more informed and engaged and empowered to tackle shared challenges, otherwise we will not be very successful. Whether it is climate change or housing affordability or reliable transportation, there are an array of things that we need to successfully deal with so that this state can continue to be a wonderful place for all of us.” He added that New Jersey has “accomplished a great deal in recent years and advanced policies that better center and support families, workers, and communities. We need to both celebrate those accomplishments and more proactively
and inclusively identify and address the future challenges we face. “
Speakers for the November 12 program will include Natalie Foster, the president and founder of Economic Security Project, a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, and the author of The Guarantee: Inside the Fight For America’s Next Economy ; Ilyana Kuziemko, the Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics, co-director of the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, and co-director of the Princeton Program in Public Finance at Princeton University, who served as assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury; and Nedia Morsy, the deputy director at Make the Road New Jersey, a grassroots movement of immigrant and working-class people that provides legal support and services, adult education, and youth development programming.
McKoy is an established leader in state policy analysis and advocacy in New Jersey and nationwide who spent more than seven years at New Jersey Policy Perspective in several roles before assuming leadership as NJPP’s president. In 2024, he became president of The Fund for New Jersey.
Mann said of the speaker roster, “Very intentionally, each program includes the perspective of a New Jerseybased analyst with policy expertise, a national-level expert, and a scholar who
can help us understand the long-term implications for the nation.”
Part 1 of the series, held October 30, was titled, “New Jersey and the American Economy: What’s Needed for the Garden State to Lead a Thriving Country.”
Part 3 of the series, planned for November 20 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Robertson Hall, Bowl 001, is titled “Where Do We Go From Here: Pursuing Rights, Justice, and Love as Economic Goals for New Jersey and the Country,” and will address how we think about big ideas “in a broader and holistic understanding of our economy that meets the tangible needs of our communities, and how can New Jersey lead?”
Panelists will be Darrick Hamilton, the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and founding director of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School; and Ryan P. Haygood, president and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice.
“Bringing together both local and national experts and advocates in conversation with community in this series to discuss our state, the issues that we need to tackle together, and how we can lead the country in doing so, is one small contribution that we can offer towards our broader goal of having an informed and engaged public,” said McKoy.
Registration for the remaining two sessions can be found at jrc.princeton. edu/events.
—Wendy Greenberg
Homefront’s Holiday Market Supports Families in Need
HomeFront’s Holiday Market 2024, an arts and crafts event with proceeds going to support local families in need, is Saturday and Sunday, November 23 and 24, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1880 Princeton Avenue in Lawrence Township.
The theme is “Homemade for the Holidays,” featuring over 40 area artisans and vendors. One-of-a-kind gifts, clothing, visual art, crafts, handsewn items, and home and holiday décor will be offered.
HomeFront’s mission to end homelessness in Central New Jersey is accomplished through the agency’s comprehensive slate of supportive programs. The Holiday Market is hosted by the agency’s healing art programs, ArtSpace and SewingSpace, which stress the life-affirming powers of creativity. Several of the vendors at the Holiday Market will be prior clients and volunteers of these programs.
“Not only is this a fun event, HomeFront’s Holiday Market delivers significant impacts across many areas. We are supporting struggling families, while encouraging the HomeFront artists and artisans, boosting their feelings of selfworth. Shoppers are giving back to their community in a valuable way,” said Ruthann Traylor, director of ArtSpace and SewingSpace.
“HomeFront is seeing increased numbers of families in need in Mercer County,” said Sarah Steward, CEO of HomeFront. “And we deeply appreciate all the community support and volunteerism
that happens at the agency every day. The holidays are an opportunity to share your own abundance and blessings with others who may not have as much.” Visit homefrontnj.org for more information.
Documentary on Fentanyl Followed by Discussion
A screening and discussion of the documentary “Love in the Time of Fentanyl” will take place Thursday, November 7 at 7 p.m. at Princeton Public Library. The event is part of Princeton’s Mayors Wellness Campaign, a statewide community health initiative.
The film chronicles the lives of the workers and community members of the Overdose Prevention Society — a renegade supervised drug consumption site in Vancouver that primarily employs active and former drug users. Its staff and volunteers save lives and give hope to a marginalized community as the overdose crisis rages throughout Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Following the screening, a discussion featuring Dr. Eric Alcera, chief medical officer and vice president of Carrier Clinic and behavioral health chair of Hackensack Meridian Health’s Central Region, will take place. Joining him will be Carla Ford, director of addition services for Catholic Charities.
As part of the event, Narcan, the medication that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, will be made available by the Municipality of Princeton Health Department.
For more information, visit princetonlibrary.org.
FACING FOOD INSECURITY: Mercer County Executive Dan Benson stopped by Arm In Arm’s mobile food pantry on October 21 to get a tour of the operation at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer County Library System. The food pantry continues on Mondays from 2-4 p.m. through the end of the year. No registration is required.
Arm In Arm Food Pantry
At Lawrence Library County Executive Dan Benson stopped by the Lawrence Headquarters Branch on Monday, October 21 to see Arm In Arm’s mobile food pantry in action. Nearly 100 Mercer County residents facing food insecurity visit the Library each Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. to receive a bag of groceries including fresh fruit and vegetables.
Benson was given a tour of the operation by Library Director Ellen Brown, Arm In Arm Executive Director David Fox, and Arm In Arm Director of Hunger Prevention Cecilia Avila.
“Programs like this represent the best of Mercer County, bringing together government and nonprofits to make food and other services accessible to those with the greatest need,” said Benson.
The pantry will be at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch on Mondays throughout 2024. No registration is required. Arm In Arm staff will register participants upon arrival. For more information, visit arminarm.org.
In conjunction with Arm In Arm, other social service agencies will be on site. On November 18, the Mercer County Board of Social Services and the Lawrence Township Health Department will also have informational tables. On November 25, the Mercer County Board of Social Services, Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Division Civil Rights will have informational tables.
Arm In Arm has been active in Mercer County for four decades providing essential resources like food and financial support. Healthy food such as fresh produce, eggs and milk, frozen proteins, quality baked goods, and shelf stable canned and boxed items as well as personal care products such as shampoo, soap, and diapers are made available to families in need. Arm In Arm welcomes 4,000-5,000 families annually through 40,000plus visits to our food and mobile pantries and works with 200-400 at-risk families to prevent or end homelessness.
Arm In Arm relies on volunteers to get food into the hands of those who need it most. To volunteer, contact
Shariq Marshall at (609) 508-7851, or shariqm@ arminarm.org.
The Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System is located at 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence Township.
Know Your Rights Program At Lawrence Library Branch
The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) will provide an overview of the Law Against Discrimination and two other antidiscrimination laws that their office enforces, as well as the New Jersey Bias Investigation Access System, at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer County Library System on Thursday, November 21 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
This online portal allows individuals to file complaints related to biasbased harassment or discrimination with DCR. The presenter will also share additional resources and initiatives.
“Everyone in our community deserves to live their life free from discrimination,” said Mercer County Executive Dan Benson.
“This partnership with the Division of Civil Rights will help equip Mercer residents to advocate for their rights.”
The program is supported by Friends of Lawrence Library. Advanced registration is appreciated. The library is at 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence Township. Visit mcl.org for more information.
AMERICAN FURNITURE EXCHANGE
Drought Persists continued from page one concerned about the danger of wildfire here in the Sourlands, especially considering the number of dead ash trees,” she wrote in an email.
Rob Aluck, the Conservancy’s stewardship d irector, echoed Cleveland’s concerns about wildfires. But barring that, he thinks the trees in the forest will survive. The Conservancy recently celebrated the planting of 50,000 trees and bushes that had been destroyed by the emerald ash borer insect.
“This is the time of year that the trees are usually pulling back the nutrients into their root systems,” he said. So I don’t think the drought will have a huge effect, unless it’s an annual issue.”
While most people think planting is best done in the spring, the Conservancy does most of it in the fall. “I think it’s the symbolism of spring being about renewal. But it actually puts a lot more stress on them because they’re putting all their energy into creating flowers and fruits and trying to establish themselves in a new environment,” Aluck said. “The forest does what a forest does. Proper leaf litter retains moisture. So they should do just fine if they are relatively established.”
But there are things people can do to care for plantings on their own properties.
“If you recently planted a tree or shrub, watering it is not a bad idea,” Aluck said. “If you have a lot of native
species on your property, they’ve evolved to tolerate these kinds of low moisture conditions. It’s a matter of following what your town is saying about wasting water.”
Cleveland shared some tips to encourage readers “to give Mother Nature a helping hand,” she wrote. “Use water-conserving practices and closely follow municipal drought restriction guidelines. Provide fresh water. Keep bird baths clean and filled, and place shallow containers of fresh water on the ground. Add rocks or pebble to help prevent drowning and provide landing spots.”
The planting of drought-
tolerant native plants, shrubs, and trees is encouraged. “Native plants often have deep roots that reach far into the soil,” she wrote. “These roots can access water that is deep underground, reducing the need for frequent watering. Native plants also provide critical food and shelter for local wildlife.”
Using natural mulch like fall leaves, watering plants until established, and installing backyard rain barrels to gather rainfall from the roof and store it for drier times like these are also recommended. For more tips, visit sourland.org/preserve.
—Anne Levin
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PU Fund for Irish Studies Presents Illustrated Lecture by Paul
A survey of Irish history, from the Vikings to the Troubles and beyond, is the focus of a reading by Paul Muldoon on Friday, November 15 at the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street. “A History of Ireland in 10 Poems” is a free, illustrated lecture presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.
The event is the latest in the Fund’s 2024-25 series, which will also include conversations with leaders of the Abbey Theater, and readings by authors Colm Toibin, Niall Williams, and Fintan O’Toole. The Fund “affords all Princeton students, and the community at large, a wider and deeper sense of the languages, literatures, drama, visual arts, history, and economics not only of Ireland but of ‘Ireland in the world,’” reads a release from the University’s Lewis Center for the Arts.
Princeton Professor Jane Cox, who co-chairs the Fund this year with Professor Robert Spoo, said she is particularly excited to begin an ongoing partnership with the Abbey Theater, which is Ireland’s National Theater. She described it as “a lens through which we hope to explore the relationship of Irish theater to a changing population in Ireland and abroad, and a changing political atmosphere.”
Muldoon has been teaching at Princeton for 35 years.
The Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing, he was the founding chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. Born in County Armagh, Ireland in 1951, Muldoon is the author of 15 collections of poetry.
He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for the ninth collection, Moy Sand and Gravel
Additional awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry,
Muldoon
HISTORY IN 10 POEMS: Pultizer Prize-winning poet and longtime Princeton University Professor Paul
will read from his work on November 15 at an event on the campus.
the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and honorary doctorates from 10 universities. Muldoon was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1999 to 2004, and poetry editor of The New Yorker from 2007 to 2017.
Muldoon, who lives in New York City with his wife, author Jean Hanff Korelitz, appears occasionally with the spoken word music group, Rogue Oliphant. In 2021, he edited Paul McCartney’s two-volume anthology The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present . He is a fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Muldoon is the founder and past chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. Cox, who
like Muldoon is of Irish descent, is a Tony Awardwinning lighting designer. At the University, she directs the Program in Theater & Music Theater, and is a Professor of the Practice in Theater.
Cox is excited to work with an expanded committee “which includes renowned Irish composer Donncha Dennehy, University librarian Anne Jarvis, and celebrated writer Yiyun Li,” she said. “We plan to continue to invite a diverse roster of Irish artists, intellectuals, and public figures in order to deepen connections and understanding between the Princeton community and Ireland, and Ireland in the world.”
The reading by Muldoon is Friday, November 15 at 4:30 p.m. Visit arts.princeton.edu for more information.
—Anne Levin
SHUPP’s Gift to Community Is Designed for Respite
Mayor Mark Freda cut the ribbon of the Sensory Garden at the Princeton YMCA parking lot on Saturday October 26, marking its official opening. The Sensory Garden is a gift of local nonprofit Send Hunger Packing Princeton (SHUPP), made possible with permission from the YMCA and YWCA, and thanks to the financial and hands-on support of many neighbors.
SHUPP President Ross Wishnick describes the Sensory Garden as “a tranquil, somewhat whimsical place to sit and enjoy a respite, listen to the wind chimes, feel the breeze, play with one’s children and read them a book from its Little Library … or just hang out with no purpose in mind.”
SHUPP is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing food insecurity among school-age children and their families in the Princeton community. SHUPP’s child-focused, community-wide initiatives include free weekly fresh produce pickups at the Arts Council of Princeton for local families with schoolage children; nutritious, year-round snack programs for Princeton public school
students; and fresh produce and shelf-stable foods via raised-bed gardens and pantries spread across Princeton neighborhoods.
Visit shupprinceton.org for more information.
Veterans Day Observance At University Chapel
The Princeton town and gown communities are invited to gather at 9 a.m. on Monday, November 11 at Princeton University Chapel for an in-person Veterans Day Observance. The service also will be live streamed on the Office of Religious Life Princeton YouTube channel.
Remarks will be delivered by Captain Kelley T. Jones, who is at the University as the Navy’s 2023 Arthur S. Moreau Scholar, working on her Ph.D. in security studies. Jones has commanded Patrol Coastal Crew MIKE and the USS Typhoon (PC 5), deployment to the Arabian Gulf. In addition to multiple senior staff roles, she has worked as the personal
aide to the secretary of the Navy, and served on the Joint Staff, Strategic Plans & Policy (J5 directorate) in the Joint Operational War Plans division.
The program will begin with an invocation by the Rev. Theresa Thames, the University dean of Religious Life and the Chapel. The “Star-Spangled Banner” and “America the Beautiful” will be sung by Kenneth Grayson, supervisor in the Princeton University Electric Shop.
Mayor Mark Freda and Roger Williams of The Spirit of Princeton will give welcoming remarks. Dr. Mary Rorro, psychiatrist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, will sing an original composition, and a trumpeter will play “Taps.”
The benediction will be offered by Khalil Abdullah, Princeton’s assistant dean for Muslim Life.
The event is sponsored by the nonprofit Spirit of Princeton and several branches of the University.
Open Houses at the Princeton Eating Clubs
Open Houses at the Princeton Eating Clubs
Princeton Prospect Foundation is pleased to announce free public access to Princeton
Princeton Prospect Foundation is pleased to announce free public access to Princeton University’s iconic eating clubs where generations of students have taken meals and socialized in historic and architecturally significant clubhouses that date as far back as 1895. Upcoming open houses will take place from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the following dates (no reservations are required):
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University’s iconic eating clubs where generations of students have taken meals and socialized in historic and architecturally significant clubhouses that date as far back as 1895. Upcoming open houses will take place from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the following dates (no reservations are required):
University’s iconic eating clubs where generations of students have taken meals and socialized in historic and architecturally significant clubhouses that date as far back as 1895. Upcoming open houses will take place from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the following dates (no reservations are required):
Sun., Nov. 10th: Cannon Club, Cap & Gown Club, Colonial Club, Ivy Club, Terrace Club, Tower Club
Sun., Oct. 20th: Cap & Gown Club, Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Ivy Club, Tiger Inn
Sun., Nov. 17th: Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Cottage Club, Quadrangle Club, Tiger Inn
Sun., Oct. 20th: Cap & Gown Club, Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Ivy Club, Tiger Inn
The fascinating origins and evolution of the clubs, along with many archival images and spectacular photos, are presented in The Princeton Eating Clubs, written by awardwinning author Clifford W. Zink in 2017. This beautiful book is available at Labyrinth Books and the Princeton University Store, and on Amazon.
The fascinating origins and evolution of the clubs, along with many archival images and spectacular photos, are presented in The Princeton Eating Clubs, written by awardwinning author Clifford W. Zink in 2017. This beautiful book is available at Labyrinth Books and the Princeton University Store, and on Amazon.
The fascinating origins and evolution of the clubs, along with many archival images and spectacular photos, are presented in The Princeton Eating Clubs, written by award-winning author Clifford W. Zink in 2017. This beautiful book is available at Labyrinth Books and the Princeton University Store, and on Amazon.
For more information, go to: http://princetonprospectfoundation.org
For more information, go to: http://princetonprospectfoundation.org
For more information, go to: http://princetonprospectfoundation.org
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(Photo by Christine Harris)
OPEN TO ALL: The Community Sensory Garden created by Send Hunger Packing Princeton (SHUPP) was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting by Mayor Mark Freda. (Photo courtesy of SHUPP)
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Leaves Provide Organic Nutrients for Soil and Should Not Be Thrown Away
To the Editor:
Imagine receiving a card from your mother or another loved one that reads, “I’ve given you a lifetime subscription to an organic fertilizer program from the oldest and most trusted provider in the U.S. It will be delivered free of charge and tailored to your location. Application will take about the same time as you spend mowing. You won’t need to spend on chemical fertilizers as you have been. Love, your Mother.”
Then, imagine going to great time and effort to drag that gift to the curb to throw it away, knowing that when it reaches landfill it will generate methane which harms the climate.
As I walk the streets of Princeton past massive piles of leaves raked laboriously to the curb, I see the gift of nature’s organic nutrients for our soil thrown away. I hope that more and more people will let go of an outdated mindset and see leaves — easily turned into nourishing mulch for our lawns by quickly mowing over them — as a priceless gift.
SHANNON DALEY-HARRIS Dorann Avenue
Councilmember Responds to Letter Questioning Town Services, Waste Management, Compliance
To the Editor:
I appreciate the opportunity to address Cyril Kucera’s inquiries published in last week’s Town Topics regarding Sustainable Princeton’s report on the Climate Action Plan [“Raising Questions Regarding Town Services, Recycling, Garbage, Leaf Collection Rules,” Mailbox, October 30] and how Princeton is addressing waste management, environmental sustainability, and local compliance. Below I’ll answer the questions directly.
Why is the Municipality spending money on environmental studies and making service changes?
The Municipality is committed to providing essential services that protect the health and safety of our residents while remaining cost-effective and environmentally sustainable. With rising waste collection costs affecting towns across New Jersey, Princeton contracted with DeFeo Associates in 2021 to evaluate new, efficient waste management options. This led to our updated system with municipal trash carts and separate bulk waste collection, which has helped us contain costs.
Why is the Municipality reducing services? And why can’t landscape contractors place leaves at the curb line?
Princeton continues to offer both loose and bagged leaf pickup for residents, whether leaves are left by residents or their landscapers. The schedule for curbside placement of materials has not changed and is enforced to prevent storm drain blockages and improve safety for all road users. Why isn’t recycling here administered like in Europe (glass, plastic, paper, cans)?
Princeton’s recycling program, provided by the Mercer County Improvement Authority, is subject to local processing capabilities and market demands over which the county and the municipality have limited influence. For years, the county had a dual-stream system but found that singlestream collection improved compliance and efficiency in our area.
Why are homeowners responsible for contractor compliance with equipment regulations?
holds property owners accountable for ensuring that landscape contractors comply with local regulations, including registration and equipment use. Homeowners, unlike contractors, are long-term stakeholders in our community. Requiring homeowners to ensure contractor compliance with municipal standards, as is done with our engineering and building codes, helps protect community health and environmental quality.
Why did the Municipality hire an “environmental cop?”
Our community compliance officer, like parking or police officers, ensures that ordinances, like those governing landscaper registrations, gas leaf blowers and waste management, are followed. However, education is a key priority of the community compliance officer, and one of their main goals is not only to gain compliance with the rules but to help residents understand these regulations and their importance to the health and safety of all.
EVE NIEDERGANG Princeton Councilmember Witherspoon Street
Hoping Planners of Hinds Plaza Refurbishment Consider Artwork as Expression of Community
To the Editor:
I read with interest the proposed plans for refurbishing the Hinds Plaza [“Council Hears Report From Consulting Firm on Revitalizing Hinds Plaza,” October 30, page 1]. I was on the committee that selected the art for the plaza. Recently the Princeton Public Library began to put together the history of the plaza, and I gave my records of our meetings to the library.
As mentioned in the article, Shirley Satterfield was on the committee. James Floyd was also on the committee. Members of our community will remember Jim as the first African American mayor of Princeton (Township).
I became concerned in reading the article because there didn’t seem to be recognition of the fact that the plaques are part of a sculpture designed by the artist Tom Nussbaum. Removing the plaques and placing them elsewhere would
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violate the work of art. Our committee had long discussions about how to honor Mr. Hinds. In unanimous agreement, we approved Jim Floyd’s idea of a gate which would be placed in such a way that it would signify unity between the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood in Princeton, the former Black section of town, and the Nassau Street–University white section of Princeton. The gate would always be open honoring Mr. Hinds for his many efforts to bring the white and Black members of the community together.
Below is a quote by Kyle Burkhardt stating how she was inspired by the gates. It was published in a Princeton Public Library release about an exhibition of her embroidery: “Born on April 14, 1902 in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood, Mr. Hinds lived until the age of 104. He contributed to the Princeton community in a myriad of ways, including paving Nassau Street, directing the YMCA, maintaining the Princeton Public Library’s furnace at its previous Bainbridge House location, and co-leading historical walking tours, among many others. . . . Two sets of brushed stainless steel gates and two plaques honoring Mr. Hinds, created by NJ artist Tom Nussbaum, were installed in the plaza in 2013. . . . One gate says ‘it’s always the right time’; the other says ‘to do the right thing.’ This was one of Mr. Hinds’ favorite sayings, and a play on Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘The time is right to do what is right.’ Most of the circles are American quilting motifs, one mimics the hubcap of Mr. Hinds’ car. The horizontal and vertical motifs are from West African textiles. . .”
There is another artwork in the Plaza as well — the covers for the circles of earth around the trees. The covers are etched with the equation for nuclear fission, as a reference to Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the Institute for Advanced Study’s role in advancing nuclear science.
As they proceed, I hope the planners will consider the meaning of the sculptures in the Plaza and how they are an expression of the Princeton community.
JUDITH
K. BRODSKY Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Art and Design, Rutgers University Clarke Court
Pennington Author Gates is Speaker For Arts and Health Month Event
Pennington author Tracey Gates discusses her book, The Power of a Few Kind Words: Create a More Meaningful Life One Letter at a Time, at Morven Museum & Garden on Saturday, November 16 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The book (Epigraph Publishing, $29.95) is an account of the year she spent writing a letter of appreciation to a different person each day, a quest to fill her soul with positivity. What she found on her transformational journey is that being interested in those around us is one of the kindest and most nourishing things we can do both for ourselves and others.
Gates, who was inspired by her father’s wish for “a few kind words” when asked what he desired, will demonstrate to attendees how they can cultivate the space to create a more meaningful and abundant life filled with empowering, uplifting, and connecting energy. A wellness coach, she considers herself a “kindness ambassador.” She was featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper and Nice News. She is a frequent speaker and has presented her workshop, “A Few Kind Words, The Power of Writing Unexpected
Princeton Makes Second Sunday Poetry Reading
Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, will host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, November 10 at 4 p.m. The readings will take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center.
The November reading will feature music themed poetry by Barbara H. Williams and Judy Rowe Michaels. Their readings will be followed by an open mic available to up to 10 audience members who would like to read their original poetry.
Michaels lives on a ridge in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey with her Maine coon cat, and for three months a year in her family’s cabin in Maine.
Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 37 local artists who work across a range of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry. Customers will be able to support local artists by shopping for a wide variety of art, including large paintings, prints, custom-made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and patterns, and more.
Ragged Sky is a small, highly selective cooperative press that has historically focused on mature voices, overlooked poets, and women’s perspectives.
For more information, visit princetonmakes.com.
Cheng Talks About “Ordinary Disasters”
Letters of Appreciation,” to audiences across the country including private gatherings, businesses, schools, and nonprofits.
The program is being presented by Princeton Public Library, in partnership with Morven Museum & Garden, as part of Arts & Health Mercer, a coalition of arts and culture organizations of the Mercer County region seeking to create awareness of the health benefits of the arts and provide access to these benefits through programming in the month November (National Arts and Health Month).
More information about Gates and the book can be found at afewkindwords.net.
Register at morven.org or princetonlibrary.org/events.
In her first book, Continuo, flutist Williams’ poems explore some of the many ways music has danced through her life. Williams was drawn to poetry while still an active professional flutist, enjoying a career as an orchestral, chamber and solo flutist, and teaching on the faculty of Westminster Conservatory in Princeton. She began to write in 2013, and co-founded a duo, AEOLUS, to further a dialogue between music and poetry. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and member of the DVP/US1 Poets collective, with work published in US1 Worksheets, Paterson Literary Review, and The Raven’s Perch.
Princeton University faculty member Anne Anlin Cheng will discuss her book, Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority, with author Richard Preston on Wednesday, November 13, at 6 p.m. at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street.
The book has been called “the most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today,” according to the publisher (Pantheon, $27). Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Cheng’s original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. In Ordinary Disasters , Cheng writes about negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, wife of a white man, and mother of biracial children, summoning grief, love, anger, and humor.
Bestselling Novelist Peters Reads In C.K. Williams Reading Series
A reading by award-winning fiction writer Torrey Peters, author of the bestselling novel Detransition, Baby , will take place on Tuesday, November 12, at 6 p.m. at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street. The event is part of the C.K. Williams Reading Series, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University.
Soncera Ball, Noelle Carpenter, Brenden Garza, Will Hartman, and Youngseo Lee, seniors in Princeton’s Program in Creative Writing, will also read from their recent work. Admission is free and open to the public. No tickets or registration are required.
The author’s books are available for purchase and signing. This event, cosponsored by Labyrinth Books, continues the 20242025 C.K. Williams Reading Series, named after the late Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet C.K. Williams, who served on Princeton’s faculty for 20 years.
Cheng was born in Taiwan, grew up in the American South, and is the author of three books on American racial politics and aesthetics. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Cheng is the 2023–2024 Ford Scholar in Residence at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is a professor of English and a former director of American Studies at Princeton University.
Peters will read from Detransition, Baby , which follows three women — transgender and cisgender — whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender,
motherhood, and sex. The New York Times Book Review calls Peters’ novel, “a poignant and gratifyingly cleareyed portrait of found family,” while TIME notes it as “a tender and bold exploration of gender, parenthood and love.” Peters won the PEN/ Hemingway Award for Debut Novel for Detransition, Baby (Random House, 2021). The novel was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Brooklyn Public Library Award, and it was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Recognized as one of the Best Books of 2021 by more than 20 publications including Entertainment Weekly, NPR, TIME magazine, Vogue, Esquire, and Vulture, Peters’ novel was also listed among the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times. Her other works of fi ction include the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker . Peters’ second book, Stag Dance , will be published in March. Holding an MFA from the University of Iowa and a master’s degree in comparative literature from Dartmouth, she splits her time between Brooklyn, N.Y., and an offgrid cabin in Vermont.
Michaels, a Geraldine R. Dodge poet and for many years a poet in residence and English teacher at Princeton Day School, has published five poetry collections, most recently This Morning the Mountain (Cherry Grove Collections, 2023) and three books on teaching writing. She has received residencies from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, and two fellowships from the New Jersey State Arts Council. She has given poetry workshops and readings for teachers around the country and served on the National Council of Teachers of English poetry committee. A seven-time cancer patient, Michaels gives talks on ovarian cancer to New Jersey and New York City medical school classes for the national program Survivors Teaching Students. She is a founding member of the nine-woman poetry critique and performance group Cool Women.
Preston is a bestselling author of 10 books including The Hot Zone and Crisis in the Red Zone . His books have been published in more than 35 languages. A contributor to The New Yorker, he holds awards from the American Institute of Physics science-writing award and the National Magazine Award. He is the only non-physician ever to receive the Centers for Disease Control’s Champion of Prevention Award.
This event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books, Princeton University’s Department of English, and Princeton’s Humanities Council.
Barbara H. Williams
Judy Rowe Michaels
RECORD/BOOK REVIEW
Mixing It Up with Phil Lesh and Ezra Pound
Writing on Sunday, November 3, I’m trying not to worry about the state of the nation on Wednesday, November 6. The backyard is painted yellow gold with leaves; the bird baths, front and back, are thriving; the new birdfeeders are wildly popular, and we’ve had a month of classic autumn weather — if you don’t count the drought. But I might as well be on “Dover Beach” with Matthew Arnold, the night-wind on my face on a sunny afternoon, the closing lines like one long sentence — “the world which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, not certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and light, where ignorant armies clash by night.”
How about going with something a little lighter but dark around the edges, like Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” (“let us stop talking falsely now, the hour’s getting late”) — or else “Desolation Row,” even if Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot are “fighting in the captain’s tower.” Funny, as much as Allen Ginsberg admires Dylan, he complains about that line on allenginsberg.org because “Eliot and Pound were friends.” Hey, this is Bob Dylan , this is what he does, he mixes things up, so does Pound, who didn’t ride to the rescue of The Waste Land with gentle suggestions: he struck the lance of his pen deep into the heart of the first page. Otherwise we’d have something called He Do The Police In Different Voices
OK, we’ll mix vintage Ezra with some buoyant electric bass from the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh, who died late last month. Lesh’s playing on “Dark Star” and “Alligator” kept me going as I tried to read The Cantos and early troubadour poems like “Na Audiart,” which reads like a verse translation of Lesh’s bassline, with the Dead putting the pulse of life into Pound’s refrain “Audiart, Audiart.”
Jiu Jitsu
In the unlikely event of an actual physical confrontation, the dashing young Pound — the ex-Wabash College faculty member who stormed London’s Bohemia in 1908 — would be a fearsome opponent. In the second volume of Writers at Work (Viking Compass 1965), Robert Frost recalls the time Ezra demonstrated his jiu jitsu skills in a London restaurant: “Wasn’t ready for him at all. I was just as strong as he was. He said, ‘I’ll show you, I’ll show you. Stand up.’ So I stood up, gave him my hand. He grabbed my wrist, tipped over
backwards and threw me over his head. Everybody in the restaurant stood up.’’ Frost adds that Pound also “cultivated the French style of boxing. They kick you in the teeth.” Frost is a good sport about it, even if he can’t help quoting a teacher of Pound’s at Penn who “had him in Latin” and claimed that “Pound never knew the difference between a declension and a conjugation.”
Learning from Poirier
The jiu jitsu story is from a 1960 Paris Review interview conducted by Richard Poirier, whose Introduction to Graduate Study class at Rutgers in the late 1960s starred Eliot and Joyce. Thanks to his Partisan Review essay “Learning from the Beatles,” the students who entered the program way back then were more conversant with the Doors and the Grateful Dead and the Beatles’ White Album than they were with Shakespeare and Milton. Poirier also had his own cunning way of “mixing things up,” both in his teaching and writing ( The Performing Self, Oxford 1971), which may be one reason I’m bringing together “strange bedfellows” like Lesh and Pound. “Think of putting together a mobile,” Poirier once told me. “A piece here, a piece there, no special order at first, just assemble it and make sure it’s balanced.”
Live Dead over and over deep into the night as I drowsed in and out of a “Dark Star” dream world haunted by the subtle poetry of Phil Lesh’s bass.
“Dark Star”
I once spent the night in the New York apartment of a fellow grad student with a fondness for the Dead. He’d just bought the Live/Dead double album, which had been recorded in early 1969 at Fillmore West and the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. Scrunched on a sofa in the disorder of his living room, I found sleep hard to come by, no wonder, since he played
Though the lyrics of “Dark Star” were a lesser feature of the experience, “Shall we go, you and I” is a direct echo of T.S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” in which Eliot does everything but hold out his hand and pull you aboard. “Let us go then, you and I” opens one of the most inviting poems in English, in marked contrast to Pound’s The Cantos (New Directions 1989), which I found massively uninviting until last week, when the 818-page life’s work Pound liked to call his Divine Comedy began making sense, its vastness and allusiveness reflecting the soundscape of the Net where anything might turn up, including an allusion to the cycle of folk tales sometimes known as “the grateful dead.”
A Talk With Lesh
A year after my wife and I saw Pound at the Spoleto festival in July 1966, we saw the Grateful Dead in Ann Arbor. When the show was over, we talked with Lesh about “the long strange trip” in music he’d taken since his time in Berkeley, where he and my wife had had mutual friends. Lesh told us that Jerry Garcia happened on the name “grateful dead” in an old dictionary (a page from the volume in question can be seen on ultimate-guitar.com). “The door opened and I walked in,” Lesh said after we asked how he and the Dead happened. “It was that simple.” Not so simple has been the recorded evolution of the Grateful Dead as a lifework like the Cantos , extended beyond the studio into a world in itself by devoted generations of so-called Deadheads.
An “Unreasonable Project”
Several months after our August 1967 conversation, Lesh and the Dead were in L.A. recording their second album Anthem of the Sun, which took six months compared to the three days needed to complete their self-titled Warner Bros debut. Company president Joe Smith called Anthem “the most unreasonable project with which we have ever involved ourselves.” Lesh apparently bore the brunt of the blame since what happened in the studio had been inspired by his fascination with the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, and John Coltrane.
Mixing “Anthem”
Although I knew nothing about the studio back story, Anthem was the Dead record I kept coming back to, drawn by the feeling that I was in touch with something comparable to the bassline visitation that dreamed me through my night with the Live Dead. Blair Jackson’s liner notes describing the recording sessions suggest a wild variation on the idea of “mixing things up.” After the producer walked out, the band took full advantage of the situation, creating layered versions of the album’s five main compositions “by combining studio tracks with a number of live performances of the tunes recorded on the road during the fall of ‘67 and the winter of ‘68.” Says Jerry Garcia: “We were making a collage ... where you are actually assembling bits and pieces toward an enhanced non-realistic representation. In other words, we mixed it for the hallucinations.”
Pound Post-Election
On my way into The Cantos , it helped to follow Allen Ginsberg’s example, taking advantage of “the series of practical exact language models which are scattered throughout like stepping stones” for readers to “occupy, walk on” in order to clarify their perceptions.” Reading the coded cantos Pound wrote while he was in a post-war detention camp in Pisa, I can imagine a writer in today’s divided nation doing something similar, mixing obscure under-the-radar allusions crafted to escape the meddling of malign authorities. Let It Shine
Ifigure there must be some Deadheads at Trump’s rallies. Sometimes I imagine someone behind the scenes blasting out “Turn on Your Lovelight” from Live/Dead, really loud, and suddenly all the haters are dancing and singing along, “Let it shine on me, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.”
—Stuart Mitchner
New Jersey Symphony Opens Princeton Classical Series with Music of Three Centuries
Itis not easy to find a connection among composers from Mexico, Austria and Russia, but New Jersey Symphony brought these three cultures together this past weekend with its opening concert of the 2024-25 Princeton series. Led by Music Director Xian Zhang, the Symphony successfully wound a musical thread through the works of contemporary Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, 18th-century Austrian Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and 19thcentury Russian Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
The key to the three pieces performed Friday night in Richardson Auditorium seemed to be the composers’ use of winds for innovative orchestral color. In Ortiz’s Kauyumari, wind solos reflected the diverse musical influences which surrounded Ortiz in her native Mexico. The one-movement Kauyumari , commissioned in 2021 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, depicts the ancient “blue deer” rite of Mexico which allows the Huichol people to communicate with ancestors and reaffirm their role as guardians of the planet. Channeling the sounds of Latin America into a classical work, Ortiz created a piece to capture both the blue deer, with its power to “enter the world of the intangible,” and the reopening of live music following the pandemic.
A very crowded stage of instruments hinted that Kauyumari would be filled with distinct orchestral effects, and this was indeed the case. Zhang and the Symphony began the music mysteriously, with a subtle fanfare traveling through the brass section. Lyrical piccolo lines played by Kathleen Nester soared above a strong ostinato in the lower strings, and the traditional Huichol melody played by oboist Robert Ingliss well complemented the instrumental palette. Zhang kept rhythms precise, guiding the players through extended passages of mixed meter to complex but controlled density. Ortiz’s appealing music drew to a close with a vibrant melody in the brass under clean flute lines.
As rich as the orchestration was for the Ortiz work, the ensemble was lean and concise for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major. In this three-movement piece, the soloist might be the primary focus of audience attention, but the Concerto was unusual in its prominent scoring for woodwinds. Wind instrumentalists up to that time tended to have minor roles in Mozart’s music, especially in Salzburg, where players were not as accomplished as in Vienna, but in this Concerto, wind solos abounded.
For Friday’s performance, the Symphony
brought a longtime friend of the ensemble, pianist Inon Barnatan, as soloist. A seasoned artist, Barnatan showed a solid command of Mozart style and Viennese elegance throughout the performance. Zhang and the orchestra began the opening movement with a graceful lilt to the music, complemented by subtle passages from a single flute plus pairs of oboes, bassoons, and horns. Barnatan began the keyboard solo lines with refinement, demonstrating crisp and decisive fingering with agile ornamentation. He effectively took his time in the cadenzas to the movements, as if entertaining friends with an intimate piano solo.
Zhang found a courtly tempo to the second movement “Andante,” aided by solos from oboist Robert Ingliss, flutist Bart Feller, and bassoonist Robert Wagner. Mozart’s writing for this instrumental trio suggested the vocal lyricism of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, which appeared two years after this Concerto. Both New Jersey Symphony and Barnatan made full use of Mozart’s dramatic pauses, including in the closing cadenza.
The third movement “Allegretto” foreshadowed the chipper and light-hearted character of The Magic Flute. Innovative in its structure as variations on a simple theme, this movement provided Barnatan the opportunity to execute nimble playing with a bit of humor. One variation for winds alone was particularly elegant, and a pair of horns made its presence cleanly known in the closing measures.
In Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, winds portrayed characters in an orchestral depiction of 1001 Tales of Arabian Nights. With the lead narrator represented by solo violin, New Jersey Symphony concertmaster Eric Wyrick captured the sultry voice of the Sultana with supple violin playing, often accompanied by harpist Tomina Parvanova Lyden. Wyrick’s violin sound was rich in the lower register, and no matter where the music traveled during the work’s four movements, the orchestral palette often returned to solo violin and harp to convey the next phase of the story.
Soloists flutist Feller, oboist Ingliss, bassoonist Wagner and hornist Chris Komer contributed exotic themes to the texture, with lyrical solo passages from cellist Jonathan Spitz. Conductor Zhang was consistently energetic on the podium, bringing out dynamic contrasts and drawing out the drama of the story well. Returning one final time to solo violin and harp, Rimsky-Korsakov’s programmatic work ended peacefully and poignantly.
—Nancy Plum
New Jersey Symphony will present its next Princeton performance on Friday, December 20 and Saturday, December 21 at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium. Conducted by Jeannette Sorrell, this concert will feature George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” with vocal soloists and the Montclair State University Singers. Ticket information can be obtained by visiting njsymphony.org.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024
6 P.M. Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau St.
TORREY PETERS
Torrey Peters is the author of the bestselling novel Detransition, Baby (Random House, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for the John Leonard Prize, longlisted for the Women’s Prize, and was a Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick. She is also the author of the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker
presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing and Labyrinth Books
Photo by Natasha Gornik
Hillsborough News
Hillsborough Chef Specializes in Open Fire Cooking for Catered Events
By day, Hillsborough resident Alexandra Donnadio works for an area sheriff’s office where she tests incoming weapons that were involved in crimes.
When not analyzing ballistics evidence, she fires up a grill and barbecues a hog, cow, or other meat, as well as fish, on an open fire. The chef and caterer has done well in national competitions, including Gordon
Ramsay’s Next Level Chef, a Fox culinary reality competition, and Beat Chef David Burke. This past summer she placed third in an international cooking competition in Taipei, Taiwan, and she was a pit master on the field at the 150th Kentucky Derby.
As her Instagram (@cookingwithzandge_s) notes, “There is something so satisfying about seeing
the smiles on people’s faces when you give them a good meal and an experience to remember.” (Zandges is how her younger brothers pronounced her name when they couldn’t say Alexandra.) She hopes to add smiles through her Hillsborough catering company, Iron and Oak, which she started because she realized at grill competitions that many of the competitors did catering.
“I came up with a name, put my own take on it,” she said. “I loved seeing expressions of those who ate the food. I found I loved giving people an experience with their food they normally wouldn’t get from a typical barbecue.”
Last year, she said, “I was at a meet-up in Medina County, Texas, where we did a whole cow. I did a good job. I realized this is a way of cooking I thoroughly enjoyed. It is so primal, just you and meat. A great stress reliever.”
With four younger brothers and a large Italian family, cooking was part of growing up. After Donnadio, now 30, began to do her own cooking, she said, her boyfriend encouraged her to go out on social media, and she got to 3,000 followers.
Fox’s Next Level producers reached out through her social media. “I thought it was spam at first, but turns out it was a real opportunity,” she said. She competed last year and made it to the top 12 out of 24.
Ramsay, the host, was “amazing, a lot nicer than he seems,” she said, calling him “warm, supportive, great.”
In the third level “basement” kitchen (part of the competition), she was used
to not having fancy equipment, but probably cooked too traditionally, she mused during her exit interview.
Donnadio has settled into open fire cooking with a custom cast iron 4x4 table, using oak wood (“I like the taste,” she explained), which inspired the company name Iron and Oak. She has hosted benefits for veterans and catered private events, providing tents and eyepleasing charcuterie trays before the star of the show — the protein — makes an appearance, whether it is cow, lamb, or hog, although she also cooks fish, salmon, branzino, and other proteins. Quality is important. She gets meat delivered a day before use from a respected purveyor to ensure freshness and uses a ghost kitchen in the area.
Cooking for others brings a deep sense of joy and fulfi llment, she said, because it’s a way to express love and care. “The act of preparing a meal especially when it comes to open fi re allows you to connect with people on a personal level,” she said. “This primal method of cooking allows you to create shared experiences and memories you wouldn’t typically get from a dinner party. Seeing people
enjoy your food and seeing the satisfaction as they taste your food is incredibly rewarding.”
Donnadio shies away from barbecue sauces. “With open fire cooking we use a more traditional Argentinian style of cooking where we emphasize the natural flavors of the ingredients rather than relying on barbecue sauces,” she said. “The key is to use high-quality meats simply seasoned with a course sea salt and using oak wood to enhance a rich flavor. Although, on occasion, we do use an amazing pickle barbecue sauce for our Iberic pork belly sliders with a sweet slaw.”
In December Iron and Oak will be collaborating with a Pennsylvania wine company to showcase various dishes. How does she balance her day job? “I take a lot of calls in the car,” she said. “I prioritize time management, using the weekend to prep food.” The Next Level Chef competition, she said, was more stressful than being a detective. But both skills take patience, which is actually listed in one of her recipes on ironandoakcatering. com as a secret ingredient.
—Wendy Greenberg
“NEXT LEVEL CHEF”: Hillsborough chef Alexandra Donnadio, left, has competed in Gordon Ramsay’s “Next Level Chef,” a Fox culinary reality competition, and other national competitions.
Hillsborough News
Hillsborough Township Contending
With a Warehouse Application Boom
After almost three years and some 15 meetings during which representatives for Homestead Road LLC of Boca Raton, Fla., presented plans for two Homestead Road warehouses, Hillsborough Township residents began to counter the proposal during a September 12 meeting of the Hillsborough Planning Board. They get another chance on Thursday, November 7 at 7 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 379 South Branch Road.
“We’re finally getting a chance to state our objections,” said Brian Tarantino, a Hillsborough resident representing the community group Stop Warehouses and Trucks (SWAT).
The proposed warehouses in question, at 189-203 Homestead Road, are a total of 537,229 square feet with 90 docks and 137 truck parking spots. The buildings would generate 1,892 truck trips in 24 hours, and the increase in impervious surface is 925,413 square feet, according to SWAT, quoting from the site plan.
During a July meeting, the last during which the applicant made its case, a representative from The Watershed Institute in Pennington reviewed potential problems with the storm water management system according to a SWAT press release, and said he was concerned about flooding.
Others who objected included the group Local Citizens Against Traffic, a representative of The Sourland Conservancy, and several residents, among them Tarantino.
“Warehouses may be necessary for e-commerce, but it is wrong to locate them on a property that is prone to flooding, on a rural road, miles away from an interstate, adjacent to a residential neighborhood, and near the proposed Hillsborough Town Center,” said Tarantino. SWAT also takes issue with comments during the testimony from the applicant’s architect, who stated he did not consider rotating the buildings so the noiseprone truck docks would be facing away from the residential neighborhood.
The Homestead Road properties are not the only locations where warehouses have been proposed in Hillsborough.
These include another on Homestead Road, 279 Homestead Road, a 127,750-square-foot building area with 23 docks, an increase in impervious surface of 218 square feet, and the potential for 484 truck trips in 24 hours; and on Weston Road, which is continuing before the planning board at a November 14 meeting. The lot of 130,418 square feet with 20 docks and 28 truck parking spaces, with an estimated 420
truck trips in 24 hours, and an increase in impervious surface of 317,962 feet.
The proposal for 279 Homestead Road was denied on September 12. “The interesting thing is that Weston Road property has an access easement for the town to reach an adjacent landfill, but the applicant wants to change the easement,” noted Tarantino. It is opposite the Hearthstone at Hillsborough senior community, and Hearthstone residents have opposed it.
A proposed warehouse on Harvard Way, with a 107,366 square foot lot, 17 docks and eight truck parking spaces, was denied and is the subject of a lawsuit.
The Township has agreed to purchase two properties that were proposed for warehouses with open space funds. One is at 1170 Millstone River Road and the other is at 303 Amwell Road. The two properties total 28 acres, and the resolution to purchase them was passed by the Township Committee on November 28, 2023.
On the Homestead Road properties, the planning board agenda for Thursday’s meeting states that the applicant seeks to consolidate the two lots and then subdivide “to construct two warehouse/office buildings, with associated stormwater, parking and site improvements, on property in the TECD, Transitional Economic Development District.” At that meeting, Tarantino said he plans
to introduce Carlos Rodrigues, PP, FAICP of Design Solutions for a Crowded Planet, for a planning review.
One aspect important for the surrounding area, said Tarantino, is that trucks would make their way to and from Hillsborough, either north on 206 from Route 295 through Princeton, or from the north through downtown Hillsborough.
“A warehouse is a heavy industrial use,” he said. “Hundreds of tractor trailers will be here daily. There are only a few ways to get to Hillsborough, and the main way is up 206 from Princeton, and through Montgomery Township, to get to 295.”
Weston Road is a narrow, winding road, with a school and retirement community. Homestead is near a residential community.
A representative of Hillsborough Township was contacted, but has not offered comment.
—Wendy Greenberg
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Foliage, Writing, and Orchids at Duke Farms
There is a small window of time to enjoy fall foliage at Duke Farms in Hillsborough Township, 1112 Dukes Parkway North. The peak time to see fall colors in New Jersey is usually between the second week of October and the second week of November, according to several New Jersey tourism organizations.
Duke Farms is a 2,700plus acre nature preserve committed to environmental protection and community education. Visiting is free, but parking passes are required on Saturdays from April through October.
The fall schedule of Duke Farms events has a birding series, and a science writing workshop on November 15 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The workshop begins with a 20-minute presentation on how to effectively use written language to share scientific information with a general audience, followed by questions and a 45-minute writing activity, with additional time afterwards for sharing and critique. The instructor is Chris Alice “Alie” Kratzer, an engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, illustrator, and author, who is the
founder and director of Owlfly LLC and manages its two divisions, Owlfly Engineering and Owlfly Publishing. Her newest book is The Cicadas of North America Her first book, The Social Wasps of North America , was released in 2022 and established her as one of the youngest published field guide authors in history.
Should the weather not be conducive to being outdoors, a feature of Duke Farms is its Orchid Range, which features subtropical and tropical orchids in various growing stages. The LEED Platinum-certified Orchid Range was designed by Boston architects Kendall Taylor & Stevens and was the first ornamental building constructed at Duke Farms.
Less than a mile from the Orientation Center, located in the Core, the Orchid Range houses a subtropical display and a tropical orchid display focusing on native plants.
Support greenhouses hold orchid plants in various stages of growth and bloom in preparation for orchid programs, demonstrations and presentations in the tropical orchid display.
For more information, visit dukefarms.org.
Wellness Walk and Talk
With Mayor Britting Hillsborough Mayor Robert Britting Jr. will host the Annual Mayors Wellness Walk and Talk Saturday, November 9 at Duke Farms. This annual event is an opportunity for Hillsborough residents to learn more about the mayor’s job and ask questions about Township-related issues while enjoying fall foliage in a peaceful, nature-filled setting.
Registration information is available at Hillsborough-nj. org, in the mayor’s e-newsletter, and on Hillsborough’s social media channels. The Mayors Wellness Campaign is celebrating its 17th anniversary, and Hillsborough Township has participated since 2008. In 2023, Hillsborough received the Healthy Town Award from the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute.
For the event day, walkers are asked to look out for the Hillsborough Township tent by the Duke Farms Orientation Center in time for the 9:30 a.m. check-in. The walk will take approximately one hour and end at the same location.
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Refugees in the U.S. Search for Family Members in “Anon(ymous)”: Lewis Center Presents a Contemporary, Stylized “Odyssey” at McCarter
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University is presenting Anon(ymous) at McCarter. Playwright Naomi Iizuka’s contemporary, stylized retelling of The Odyssey centers on two refugees in the U.S. — Anon and Nemasani — each of whom has been separated from a family member.
Iizuka’s script embraces and offers ample scope for multiple forms: drama, modern dance, and performance art — in short, much of what live theater offers. Bi Jean Ngo, director of the Lewis Center production (assisted by Matthew Cooperberg), takes full advantage of this; the polished staging makes use of often dazzling production values while ensuring that the performances are the primary focus.
Set Designer Yoshi Tanokura (along with Set Design Fellow Matthew Ciccone) generally is economical in furnishing the stage with scenery. Curtains hang at the back and sides of the stage, emphasizing that this is a piece of theater (and perhaps suggesting a possible interpretation
Nemasani (played by Ash Jackson, who infuses the character with the dignity to rise above her circumstances) assumes that her lost family member is dead. She toils in a sweatshop; whenever she is able, she sews a shroud that she firmly says is “not for sale.”
Anon(ymous) received its 2006 world premiere at the Children’s Theatre Company (in Minneapolis). Despite the name of the venue, the play does not deal with juvenile themes.
Indeed, both Anon and Nemasani are targets of sexual harassment. Anon is treated as little more than property by Calista (Kate Stewart, who succeeds in making the character both stereotypically bratty and dangerous). Calista is named for the nymph Calypso in Homer’s original. Nemasani is the target of unwanted advances from Mr. Yuri Mackus (made suitably domineering and lascivious by Avi Chesler), the manager of a sweatshop.
The play is an entertaining but sobering fable that considers how immigrants
their vulnerability. The piece also probes themes of disrespect for other cultures, as well as humanity versus nature.
Where Anon(ymous) makes itself available to younger audiences is not so much in its subject matter or themes, but rather in its manner of storytelling. The play is inhabited less by three-dimensional characters (other than Anon and Nemasani), and more by archetypes. This is particularly true of the antagonists, and Costume Designer Ariel Wang reinforces it in many of their outfits.
For example, the greedy Mr. Yuri Mackus wears a green shirt that immediately suggests dollar bills (unsubtly, he gives Nemasani the nickname of “Penny”). Spoiled rich girl Calista, a character meant to represent the worst of American excess, is given an artfully gaudy blue and red swimsuit (along with a red bow that inescapably recalls Minnie Mouse). Helen Laius (Chloe Ng), the affable but patronizing wife of a Senator, wears purple — suggesting an effort to appeal to both sides of the Ameri -
“Nice American Family” (portrayed by Ng as the mother and Stewart as the daughter). The casting, costumes, and staging all indicate that “nice” signals white, affluent, and culturally conventional.
On his journey Anon meets the sinister one-eyed butcher Mr. Zyclo (Destine Harrison-Williams), a character named for the poem’s Cyclops, along with his pet bird. Stewart plays the bird, for which Wang delivers a memorable design. HarrisonWilliams also plays Ali, the gregarious proprietor of a restaurant staffed by Ritu, the chef (Tima Alshuaibi) and Nasreen, their daughter (Kristen Tan).
Anon also encounters Serza (Chris Twiname), a bartender whose use of a specific figure of speech reveals that she is the daughter of another character; and a Barfly (James Han). Besides Naja, his primary helper is Pascal (also played by Nelson), a streetwise refugee from West Africa.
A climactic duel between Anon and one of the antagonists is smoothly staged by Fight (and Intimacy) Director Jacqueline
Performing Arts
Disney Stage Musical Comes To MCCC’s Kelsey Theatre
Maurer Productions OnStage presents Disney’s musical Beauty and the Beast
November 8-24 at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College in West Windsor.
are Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Rider University Chorale performs “You Do Not Walk Alone,” with special guests the Princeton Girlchoir Concert Choir, on Sunday, November 17 at 4 p.m. in Gill Chapel. The focus is on works by female composers.
On Sunday, November 24 at 5 p.m., Gill Chapel is the setting for the Westminster Choir’s concert, “the national anthems,” featuring music of Caroline Shaw and David Lang. The concert of contemporary works explores themes of national identity and immigration.
For ticket information on these and other cultural events, visit rider.edu.
Paul Anka Presents All the Hits — His Way
State Theatre New Jersey presents singer-songwriter Paul Anka: All the Hits — His Way on Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $49-$229.
The enduring fairy tale tells the story of Belle, a spirited young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, a prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end, and he will be transformed into his former self. But time is running out, and if those lessons aren’t learned soon, the Beast and his house will be doomed for all eternity.
The stage musical is adapted from Walt Disney Pictures’ 1991 animated film by the same name, which was based on the fairy tale by French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. The Broadway production opened in 1994, closing in 2007 after nearly 5,500 performances — the 10 th-longest running production in history. Dates and showtimes are Friday, November 8, 15, and 22 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, November 9, 16, and 23 at 2 p.m.; and Sunday, November 10, 17, and 24 at 2 p.m. The campus is at 1200 Old
Trenton Road. Tickets are $30. Visit kelseytheatre.org or call (609) 570-3333.
Several Cultural Events
On Rider University Stages
Rider University’s arts programs are performing in theaters on the Lawrence Township campus throughout the remainder of the fall season.
On Friday and Saturday, November 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m., the University’s dance majors present their fall dance concert in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater. The following weekend, Westminster Opera Theatre presents Die Fledermaus in the Yvonne Theater. Shows
Born July 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Canada, into a closeknit family, Anka sang in a choir, studied piano, and honed his writing skills with journalism courses, even working as a cub reporter at the Ottawa Citizen. In 1956, he convinced his parents to let him travel to Los Angeles to visit his uncle, where he hitchhiked to a meeting with Modern Records that led to the release of his first single.
In New York in 1957, Anka scored a meeting with Don Costa, the A&R representative for ABC-Paramount Records, playing him a batch of songs that included “Diana.” The hit made him a star at the young age of 15. He was
the youngest entertainer ever to perform at the Copacabana.
Anka went on to write songs for Connie Francis, Leslie Gore, and Buddy Holly and wrote the longestrunning theme in television history for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
In the late ‘60s, Anka wrote “My Way” for Frank Sinatra, and by the ’70s, he had another string of hits like “(You’re) Having My Baby,” “Don’t Like To Sleep Alone,” and “Times Of Your Life,” which confirmed his status as an icon of popular music.
In April 2013, Anka released his autobiography, published by St. Martin’s Press, entitled My Way During the same time, his new 14-song album entitled Duets was released by Sony Music Entertainment and featured artists such as Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Tom Jones, Celine Dion, and Michael Bublé. The State Theatre New Jersey is at 15 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. Visit Stnj.org for tickets.
Drawing Landscapes from the Collections: Pastels
Thursdays, November 7, 14, 21, December 5 art making
Join us each week at 8 p.m. for free, online pastel drawing classes inspired by Museum artworks depicting light. This series is part of Arts and Health Mercer, presented by the Museum in partnership with the Arts Council of Princeton. Check our website for details.
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BE OUR GUEST: Sally Graham Bethman, left, and Pat Rounds star in “Beauty and the Beast” at Kelsey Theatre November 8-24.
HITMAKER: Paul Anka is at the State Theatre New Jersey on November 12.
Hyde Solomon, Sky and Mountain
will join forces for a
Availability for Grosvenor’s recital is limited. Visit puc.princeton.edu for tickets.
Folk Music Society Presents Mustard’s Retreat
On Friday, November 15 at 8 p.m., the Princeton Folk Music Society presents an evening of uplifting songs and stories with Mustard’s Retreat. The performance takes place at Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane.
Since they first got together in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1975, Mustard’s Retreat (David Tamulovich and Libby Glover) have been performing songs and stories they enjoyed and cared about, regardless of the trends of the music industry and pop culture.
Two String Quartets
Perform as an Octet
On Wednesday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Richardson Auditorium, the Ebene and Belcea String Quartets will return to the Princeton University Concerts (PUC) series for the first time since 2022 and 2016, respectively. Their program, part of the Concert Classics series, includes music of Mendelssohn and Enescu; they will bring it to Carnegie Hall the following evening.
“String quartets have been at the backbone of the repertoire that PUC presents for over a century, and having two quartets come together is always a particularly special treat,” said PUC director Marna Seltzer. “These octets were written by Mendelssohn and Enescu in their teens, which adds to how remarkable they are and how they showcase the sonic power and rich, multilayered possibilities of an octet configuration. In the hands of Ebene and Belcea, two of today’s finest quartets, it’s an especially
Jazz Vespers
Wednesday, November 13 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.
exciting and celebratory program — fitting for the triumphant return of these tremendous ensembles to the PUC season.”
Tickets are $30-$50 ($10 students). Visit puc.princeton.edu or call (609) 2582800.
Benjamin Grosvenor to Appear In Princeton Concert Series
Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor will make a long-anticipated return to the Princeton University Concerts (PUC) series on Thursday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. at Richardson Auditorium on Princeton University’s campus.
Grosvenor last came to PUC in 2017, when he was in his early twenties; now he returns with a program of Johannes Brahms Intermezzi, Op. 117, Robert Schumann Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17, and Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.
This recital opens the Concert Classics series, the mainstage concert series that forms the backbone of Princeton University Concerts’ 131-year history. It also preludes a lineup of pianists appearing as part of the 2024-25 season, including Denis Kozhukhin (December 11); Sir Stephen Hough (February 20); Mitsuko Uchida (March 27); and Shai Wosner (April 2).
“We are so thrilled to welcome Benjamin Grosvenor back to PUC,” said Director Marna Seltzer. “His jaw-dropping talent was apparent in his debut on our series in 2017, and I absolutely cannot wait to experience how it has continued to evolve since then.”
Princeton University students will also have the opportunity to get to know the pianist at a special reception the evening prior to his recital, co-hosted by the Student Ambassadors of Princeton University Concerts and Rockefeller Residential College.
“The access to the world’s greatest performers facilitated by PUC was one of the most formative and unforgettable aspects of my time as a Princeton student,” says PUC Outreach Manager Dasha Koltunyuk (Class of 2015), “and it is thrilling to see the enthusiasm with which current students are greeting Benjamin. It reminds us how truly unique it is to host a concert series on a university campus.”
“Folk music is, at its heart, defiantly hopeful,” said Tamulevich. “We came of age in the 60s, at the confluence of Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan, and the singer/songwriter revolution. We care much more about what we do and stand for and finding that common ground with our audiences, than fame or money. This is our community of choice, and we consider ourselves so fortunate to be here.”
Tickets are $25 ($20 for members, $10 for students).
Visit Princetonfolk.org.
well loved and well read since 1946
GLEE CLUB 150TH
film screening
The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon
Wednesday, November 13, 7 p.m.
Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
Tuân Andrew Nguyên’s 2022 film follows an artist named Nguyêt as she navigates the vestiges of munitions in Vietnam, transforming weaponry into magnificent sculpture and prosthetics.
elson artist talk
Tuân Andrew Nguyên
Thursday, November 14, 5:30 p.m.
Roberston Hall 016 or Stream it live
Join artist Tuân Andrew Nguyên, the Art Museum’s Fall 2024 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence, for a discussion about how he deploys his art to transform the destructive forces of war into opportunities for healing and renewal. Reception to follow.
CHAMBER MUSIC: Members of the Ebene and Belcea String Quartets
concert at Richardson Auditorium on November 13. (Photo by Maurice Haas and Julien Mignot)
PIANIST RETURNS: Benjamin Grosvenor is back on the Richardson Auditorium stage on November 7 with a program of music by Brahms, Schumann, and Mussorgsky.
Rye Tippet’s “At First Light” At Morpeth Contemporary Morpeth Contemporary, 43 West Broad Street, Hopewell, has announced the opening of its latest exhibition, “At First Light,” the third solo show for painter Rye Tippet. Alongside Tippet’s paintings will be a selection of metal sculptures by fellow Bucks County, Pa., artist Justin Long, in his debut with the gallery. The opening reception is on Friday, November 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, November 24.
Tippet’s latest paintings are mysterious and allusive, yet involving, urging closer examination. Their surreal nature ignites viewers’ curiosity, inviting thoughts about where dreams join reality, how the past informs
and whether the departed commune with the living.
Tippet said of his work, “I don’t know where it comes from, it only just is. They come to me like a horse in the dark. It’s all just a dream that never stops working.”
Tippet is a storyteller; stories from the humorous to the somber, the historically accurate to the highly imagined. Those familiar with Tippet’s work will recognize the poetic visual dialogue between his illustrated subjects and their evocative landscapes, these two primary elements intrinsically linked in the stories he is telling. Ghosts warm themselves by a wood stove in a barren winter field, a horse gallops across the early morning sky, great phantom sea creatures loom above the trees, and a
resurrected ship defies the gravitational pull of the vast waters it once sailed, escorted by the spirits of those it protected.
Tippet is self-taught — he scoured dozens of art history books as a young, developing artist, informing his technique and helping to build his symbolic vocabulary. According to the gallery, “Tippet’s reverence for the past is unmistakable, yet we do see him give equal attention to the present world. At times, intersecting the two. Whether recalling the former grandeur of man-made machines, or the beauty and majesty of living creatures, all are granted importance through their great scale, set against his sweeping landscapes and expansive, emotive skies. These detailed subjects fill his large compositions, as if
having rushed to the fore to greet us and command our attention.”
Working out of his Bucks County studio, Long has created sculpture for over 20 years, and also expresses a respect for things discarded and forgotten. Long’s “Farm Series” draws inspiration from the local countryside and the tools that worked the fields of past. He collects artifacts from surrounding farmlands then reimagines them into new expressive beings, using techniques of the past and present. These lively creatures are animated by a skilled combination of gesture and abstraction. His playful bird, animal and human forms create an easy conversation with some of Tippet’s whimsical characters. Their surfaces, a warm patina of rusted steel, beautifully underscores their years of utilitarian purpose.
According to Morpeth, “We may view works from each of these artists as memorials to the present and the past, the living and the dead, adding weight to the legacies they represent. They form connections and remind us that we are not only observers of these stories, but indeed all part of a grand continuum.”
For more information, visit morpethcontemporary.com.
Arts Council Hosts Annual Sauce for the Goose Market Now celebrating its 30 th year, the Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) will hold the Sauce for the Goose Outdoor Art Market on Sat-
urday, November 9 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Downtown Princeton.
Sauce for the Goose is an annual destination for unique, high-quality, and handmade gifts. This year’s market will feature more than 100 local and regional artisans selling their wares in ceramics, textile, apparel, jewelry, printmaking, wood, glass, painting, and more.
Vendors will line Paul Robeson Place from the corners of Witherspoon Street to Chambers Street, outside ACP’s Paul Robeson Center for the Arts. This year’s group of vendors includes returning favorites such as Sprouts Flower Truck, Jean Ceramics, and Red Sean Illustration. Additions to the market include Tuft Broad, Thmble & Needle, and Contemporary Whirligigs & Kinetics.
Attendees are also invited to enjoy live glass blowing demonstrations by Pezz Glassworks and learn more about upcoming lessons and glassblowing programs at the Arts Council.
“Not only does every attendee have the opportunity to shop right from the creatives that make our world a little brighter and more colorful, but our downtown location means that you get to take advantage of our bustling Central Business District,” said ACP Executive Director Adam Welch. shares, Make a day of it —grab unique gifts for
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loved ones at Sauce, then head into town for lunch or dinner. It’s the easiest way to support our neighbors and small businesses.” For a full vendor list and more information, visit artscouncilofprinceton.org.
“Near and Far” Exhibition At Cranbury Public Library
The Cranbury Public Library is hosting a solo exhibition by local artist Donna Senopoulos through December 29. Entitled “Near and Far: From NJ to Florida in Watercolor,” the collection includes scenes from locales such as Cranbury, the Jersey Shore, and Fort Myers, Fla. The artwork is primarily watercolor-based medium on paper, canvas, and wood, and also includes mixed media with pen or pencil, and metallic foils. All artwork is for sale.
A resident of Plainsboro, Senopoulos has exhibited her art locally for many years. She has a background in graphic design, illustration, and architectural renderings. Now retired, she splits her time between New Jersey and Florida.
The exhibition can be viewed at Cranbury Public Library, 30 Park Place West, Cranbury, Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Sunday 12 to 4 p.m. Gallery hours are subject to the library’s holiday closures. For more information, call (609) 722-6992.
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SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE: The Arts Council of Princeton’s Sauce for the Goose Outdoor Art Market, featuring unique gifts from more than 100 local and regional artisans, celebrates its 30th year on November 9 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in downtown Princeton.
“AT FIRST LIGHT”: This oil on panel work by Rye Tippet is featured in his third solo show at Morpeth Contemporary in Hopewell. An opening reception is on Friday, November 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. the present,
“CRANBURY HOLIDAY STREET”: Works by local artist Donna Senopoulos are featured in “Near and Far,” on view at the Cranbury Public Library through December 29.
“NO TIME TO EXPLAIN”: This acrylic and mixed media work is featured in “The Super Hero’s Journey,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Princeton resident Patrick McDonnell, on view November 9 to December 7 in the Arts Council of Princeton’s Taplin Gallery. A gallery opening is on November 16 from 3 to 5 p.m.
ACP Presents McDonnell’s “The Super Hero’s Journey”
The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) will present “The Super Hero’s Journey,” a solo exhibition of paintings by artist Patrick McDonnell, November through December 7 in the Taplin Gallery. McDonnell, a Princeton resident, has entertained audiences for 30 years with MUTTS , his internationally syndicated comic strip. For the first time on the East Coast, he will display his large modernist paintings. McDonnell’s works, created with acrylic latex, oil stick, ink, and collage, are a continuation of the story of self-discovery told in his graphic novel, The Super Hero’s Journey, created for Marvel and Abrams Books.
“All art is a form of meditation, a looking inward to find the real you, the secret identity of the super hero in us all,” said McDonnell. “I’ve always loved the raw beauty and kinetic energy of both comic art and abstract expressionism. My art heroes include Schulz, Herriman, and Kirby, along with de Kooning, Twombly, and Basquiat.”
The paintings in this exhibition celebrate a surprising symbiotic interplay of these two dynamic art forms. McDonnell explores and expands on the spiritual and political undertones of the early Marvel super hero comics of his youth: the interplay between gods and man and the divisiveness of hero versus hero. “This work is a dance of nostalgic simplicity and moral innocence trying to come to terms with today’s unprecedented fear of a dystopian future with hope for a better tomorrow,” he said.
“The Super Hero’s Journey” was curated by Charles David Viera, who said, “Patrick’s paintings are individual and special. There have been few artists who have been able combine their illustrator and fine arts skills successfully. Roy Lichenstein immediately comes to mind, but he entered the union from the fine arts side. Patrick arrives at that
Ernestine Ruben’s “Layers,” Gerrit Dispersyn’s “Liquid Spheres,” Jill Mudge’s “Seascapes.” and Julie Tennant’s “Simply Portraits” present a fascinating and diverse body of work including landscapes, macro photography, and intimate visions of the sea.
Founded in 1982, the Princeton Photography Club is one of the largest clubs of its type in the area. Members meet both in person and online for a wide range of activities, and works by members are regularly featured in several ongoing exhibits. For more information, visit princetonphotoclub.org.
Larry Parsons supported and helped bring into Gallery 14. This small group of artists uses the gallery as a special learning studio with a focus on watercolor. The featured artists include Janet Bacon, Julie Cavallaro, Nancy Gardner, Jean Parsons, Joyce Reynolds, and Aimee Viola.
Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography is located at 14 Mercer Street in Hopewell and is open Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment. For more information, visit gallery14.org.
union from the comic illustration side, and in doing so, has elevated the comic artform to a fine arts consideration. His paintings are quite a departure from his MUTTS creations, but they maintain the humor, warmth, and insights that the comic strip has become known for. Couple this with his frenetic brush stroke, and you have something completely unique.”
The public is invited to a gallery opening on November 16 from 3 to 5 p.m. McDonnell will be featured in an artist interview with Viera on November 30 at 3 p.m., also free and open to all.
On view in ACP’s Lower Level Gallery is “Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story,” a special exhibition of hand-colored prints with remarque from the MUTTS comic strip and McDonnell’s new book of the same name, centering on the plight of tethered dogs. A portion of the proceeds from sales will benefit Skillman’s SAVE: A Friend to Homeless Animals, a nonprofit shelter dedicated to protecting the health and welfare of homeless companion animals in the greater Princeton area and beyond.
ACP is located at 102 Witherspoon Street. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information, visit artscouncilofprinceton.org or call (609) 924-8777.
Photography Exhibit At Lakefront Gallery
The Princeton Photography Club, in conjunction with Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) University Hospital, Hamilton, is presenting an exhibit of four local photographers as part of its Spotlight Series. The exhibit is on view at the Lakefront Gallery November 7 to January 29, 2025, with an opening reception on November 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. The works of the four photographers in the exhibit span a wide range of styles and themes.
The Lakefront Gallery is located at 1 Hamilton Health Place, Hamilton Township. Note that all visitors to the Lakefront Gallery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital are subject to New Jersey’s General State Visitation Guidelines for Hospitals and RWJ’s specific visitor policy. Visitors should check the hospital’s website at rwjbh. org/rwj-university-hospitalhamilton prior to visiting for the most up-to-date guidelines and should access the Gallery by using the hospital’s outpatient entrance. The Lakefront Gallery is open during normal visiting hours of 12 to 8 p.m. daily.
Three New Exhibitions At Gallery 14 in Hopewell Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography in Hopewell now presents photography exhibitions by members Rebecca “Becky” DePorte and Charles Miller, as well as paintings by the Watercolor Women of Galley 14, on view through November 24. Works by DePorte can be seen in “Walk on The Wild Side.” New to Gallery 14, she is an award-winning photographer specializing in wildlife. Her photographs have been published in USA Today, FotoNostrom, BirdWatching magazine, Gardener’s Journal, and Backroads catalog. Deportre has taught Wildlife Photography at Princeton Adult School. Her favorite subjects are animals with fur or feathers, and her exhibition features the animals she has photographed in Africa, India, and the U.S.
Charles T. Miller, a longtime member of Gallery 14, is considered by many to be a “flower photographer,” but over time he has worked on many styles of photography and presentation styles. For “Old and New: Exploring Alternatives,” he presents a variety of images, both old and new. Most are floral images, but not all. He reaches back in time to show some alternative styles of presenting works including on fabric, metal, and acrylic. Images may be straight photography, or they may be highly manipulated works using available software to create new visions. Originally trained as a theater designer, his works are highly influenced by a theatrical approach and style. “I like to work on pieces to find new looks and hidden beauty, so they become more than just a photograph,” said Miller. “They should take the viewer into new unexplored visual worlds.”
The “Watercolor Women of Gallery 14” annual exhibit features work by a group of artists that former member
Area Exhibits
Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Heléne Aylon: Undercurrent” through February 2. Art museum.princeton.edu.
Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Chromatic Wanderings” November 7 through December 1. An opening reception is on Saturday, November 9 from 1 to 3 p.m. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Lambertvillearts.com.
Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography” through January 5. Artmuseum. princeton.edu.
Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “The Super Hero’s Journey” in the Taplin Gallery and “Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story” in the Lower Level Gallery November 9 through December 7. Artscouncilofprinceton.org.
David Scott Gallery, 253 Nassau Street, has “Available Light,” a collection of paintings by New York architect and artist Mark Oliver, through December 31. Davidscottfineart@gmail.com.
Dohm Alley, next to 100 Nassau Street, has the Princeton Einstein Museum’s “Einstein’s “Attraction to Magnetism,” open 24/7 through November 30. princeton einsteinmuseum.org.
Ficus Bon Vivant, 235 Nassau Street, has “Capture the Rhythm” through January 12. Ficusbv.com.
Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has “In Plain Sight: A Lingering View of the World Around Us” through November 26. Cranburyartscouncil.org.
Green Building Center, 67 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has an art show by the MUGA Group through December 31. Greenbuildingcenter.com.
Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “That’s Worth Celebrating: The Life and Work of the Johnson Family” through the end of 2024, among other exhibits. Groundsforsculpture.org.
Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Princeton Reflected: Stories from HSP’s Collection” and “Einstein Salon and Innovator’s Gallery.” Museum hours are Thursday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m. Princetonhistory. org
Mercer Museum, 84 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “The Doan Gang: Outlaws of the Revolution” through December 31, 2026. Mercermuseum.org.
Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Monuments and Myths: The American Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French” through January 5 and “Charlotte Schatz: Industrial Strength” November 16 through March 9. Michenerartmuseum.org
Milberg Gallery, Princeton University Library, has “Monsters & Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the TwentiethCentury Bestiary” through December 8. Library. princeton.edu/monstersandmachines.
Morpeth Contemporary, 43 West Broad Street, Hopewell, has “At First Light” November 8 through November 24. An opening reception is on November 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. morpethcontemporary.com.
Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Morven Revealed: Untold Stories from New Jersey’s Most Historic Home,” through March 2. Morven.org.
Russell Marks Gallery at Princeton Windrows, 2000 Windrow Drive, has “Learning Curves: Works from the Beginning Drawing Classes” through December 31.
Silva Gallery of Art at the Pennington School, 112 West Delaware Avenue, Pennington, has “Alia Bensliman: From North Africa to North America” through December 13. Silvagallery@ penningtonschool.org.
Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has “Flore Organic Botanics” through December 3. Acrylic canvases by Bhumika Raghuvanshi are at the 254 Nassau Street location through December 3. Smallworldcoffee.com.
Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park, Trenton, has “Mercer County Photography 2024” through December 1. Ellarslie.org. West Windsor Arts, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Off the Wall Affordable Art Show” through December 21. Westwindsorarts.org.
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, 71 George Street, New Brunswick, has “Michelle V. Agins: Storyteller” through December 8 and “Smoke & Mirrors” through December 22. Zimmerli. rutgers.edu.
“BATIK IRIS”: This work by Charles T. Miller is part of “Old and New: Exploring Alternatives,” on view at Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography in Hopewell through November 24.
“NATITO”: This photograph by Rebecca DePorte is featured in “Walk on the Wild Side,” on view at Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography in Hopewell through November 24.
TOWN TOPICS | Mark Your Calendar
Wednesday, November 6
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Leighton Listens. Councilman Leighton Newlin is available to discuss current events with members of the public at the inside area of the Clock Tower, Princeton Shopping Center.
3:30-6 p.m.: Pumpkin Smash at The Meadows at Lawrence, 2 Morris Circle Drive. Outdoor event, free. Bring your own undecorated pumpkin. After the smashing, scraps will be composted at Cherry Grove Farm. Meadowsatlawrence.com.
5-7 p.m .: Opening reception for an exhibit by four local photographers from the Princeton Photography Club, at the Lakefront Gallery, 1 Hamilton Health Place, Hamilton Township. Princetonphotoclub.org.
6-7:30 p.m .: “Family and Community” and “Music and Performance,” discussion hosted by poets Enriqueta Carrington and Carlos Hernandez Pena at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
6 p.m .: Richard Brookhiser, author of Glorious Lessons, John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution, appears at The Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street. $50 donation at pbs1777.org.
6 p.m .: Author Maureen Sun and poet Jennifer Chang read from their works, followed by a moderated discussion, at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
7 p.m .: Princeton Garden Theatre screens The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert , in conjunction with “Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography,” on view at Art on Hulfish. Free. 160 Nassau Street.
8 p.m .: Princeton University Wind Ensemble, Richardson Auditorium. Works by Bernstein, Giroux, Grainger, Sousa, and more. Tickets.princeton.edu.
Thursday, November 7
10 a.m.-3 p.m .: Princeton Farmers Market is at Hinds Plaza. More than 30 vendors with local organic produce, pasture-raised meat and eggs, cheeses, fresh flowers, knife-sharpening, jewelry, and more. Live music. SNAP/EBT cards and matches accepted up to $10 a day. Princetonfarmersmarket.com.
11 a.m.-1 p.m .: Meet the Eating for Your Health team in the lobby of Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
2 p.m .: Teens: Exploring Quantum Physics, at Princeton Public Library’s STEAM Studio. Workshop led by Princeton High School students for students in grades 3-5. Registration required. Princetonlibrary.org.
4 p.m .: Holly Johnson, professor of journalism at Mercer County Community College, discusses “solutions journalism” in the
Newsroom of Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
5:30 p.m .: Conversation with playwright Naomi Iizuka and Princeton University Professor Barbara Graziosi at the Berlind Rehearsal Room, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place. Free but tickets required. Arts. princeton.edu.
5:30 p.m .: Artist Shahzia Sikander in conversation with Princeton University Art Museum Director James Steward at Julis Romo Rabinowitz 399 on the campus. Artmuseum. princeton.edu.
7 p.m .: Screening of the documentary Love in the Time of Fentanyl, followed by a panel discussion, with guest speaker Dr. Eric Alcera of Carrier Clinic. At Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
7-10 p.m .: Bingo at Congregation Beth Chaim, 329 Village Road East, West Windsor. Open to those 18 and over. Bethchaim.org.
7:30 p.m.: Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor appears at Richardson Auditorium in a concert of works by Brahms, Schumann, and Mussorgsky. Puc.princeton.edu or (609) 258-2800.
8 p.m .: The play Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka, based on The Odyssey, is at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, 91 University Place. Presented by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. $20 (students $10). Mccarter.org.
Friday, November 8
7:30 p.m .: The Hot Sardines perform at McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place. McCarter.org.
8 p.m .: The play Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka, based on The Odyssey, is at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, 91 University Place. Presented by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. $20 (students $10). Mccarter.org.
8 p.m.: The new musical A Life Worth Living is at the Wallace Theater in the Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University. Free but tickets required. Arts. princeton.edu.
Saturday, November 9
9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Farmers Market at Vaughn lot, Princeton Junction train station. Fresh produce and much more. Wwcfm.org.
10 a.m .: Join a three-mile walk along the D&R Canal. Meet at Turning Basin Park on Alexander Street. To be notified of cancellations due to weather, visit canalwalkers@googlegroups.com
10 a.m.-2 p.m .: Shred Fest, household waste and shredding event for Princeton residents only, at Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane (entrance on Franklin Avenue). Visit princetonnj. gov for a list of accepted and prohibited items.
11 a.m.-4 p.m .: Sauce for the Goose holiday art market at the Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street. Artscouncilofprinceton.org.
2-3:30 p.m .: West Windsor Arts presents Open Mouth Poetry, open to poets 15 and older. Free at 952 Alexander Road. Westwindsorarts.org.
2 p.m.: The new musical A Life Worth Living is at the Wallace Theater in the Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University. Free but tickets required. Arts. princeton.edu.
8 p.m .: The play Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka, based on The Odyssey, is at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, 91 University Place. Presented by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. $20 (students $10). Mccarter.org.
Sunday, November 10
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Friends of Princeton Open Space present a fall nature walk at Mountain Lakes Preservation Area, 57 Mountain Avenue. Led by Anna Corichi. Fopos.org.
3 p.m.: OnStage Seniors presents “documentary theater’ on the theme of “Give and Take,” at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Discussion follows. Princetonlibrary.org.
4 p.m.: Princeton Pro Musica performs Haydn’s The Creation at Richardson Auditorium. Princeton promusica.org.
Monday, November 11
9 a.m.: Veterans Day Observance at Princeton University Chapel. Remarks by Captain Kelley T. Jones, invocation by the Rev. Theresa Thames, remarks by Mayor Mark Freda and Roger Williams of the Spirit of Princeton, and more. Also streamed by the University’s Office of Religious Life Princeton YouTube channel .
7 p.m .: Scott Major, fly fisherman and creator of the “PA Woods ‘N Water” YouTube channel, speaks on “The Traditional Fly Fisherman” at a gathering of the Ernest Schwiebert Chapter of Trout Unlimited. At D&R Greenway, 1 Preservation Place.
Tuesday, November 12
7:30-10 a.m.: “Residential Renaissance in Trenton,” presented by Princeton Mercer Chamber’s Trenton Economic Development Series, at Cooper’s Riverview, 50 Riverview Executive Park, Route 29, Trenton. Panelists are Jenali Garrett of Trenton Housing Authority, Roland Pott of Pott Real Estate, Mark Hall of Astoria Housing Partners, and Susannah Henschel of RPM Development Group. Princetonmercer.org.
4:30 p.m .: The Atelier@ Large series at Princeton University presents “Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era” with Jennifer Finney Boylan, Meredith Monk, and Maria Stepanova, in a conversation moderated by Paul Muldoon, at Richardson Auditorium. Free. Arts.princeton.edu.
4:30 p.m .: Author Natalie Foster discusses her book The Guarantee Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy as part of a panel presentation on New Jersey and the American economy, at Robertson Hall, Princeton University. Registration required at princetonlibrary.org.
6 p.m.: Reading by Torrey Peters and Creative Writing seniors from Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street. Free.
6:30-8 p.m .: “Buttons 102: Every Button Has a Story,” workshop at Princeton Adult School, Princeton High School, 101 Moore Street, focused on modern buttons made in the 20th century. Bring your own to be analyzed. Princetonadultschool.org.
Wednesday, November 13 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Leighton Listens. Councilman Leighton Newlin is available to discuss current events with members of the public at Rojo’s Roastery, 33 Palmer Square (grassy area on the square).
6-7:30 p.m .: The new affordable housing bill is the topic of a discussion at The Jewish Center, 435 Nas-
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sau Street, by state and local experts including Adam Gordon of the Fair Share Housing Center. To register and send specific questions, contact Linda Oppenheim at linda.oppenheim@gmail. com
6 p.m .: Lecture: Saladin Ambar, “What is Political Leadership?” at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
7 p.m .: Screening of Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s film The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon , at Betts Auditorium in Princeton University’s School of Architecture. Artmuseum. princeton.edu.
7:30 p.m .: The Ebene and Belcea String Quartets perform at Richardson Auditorium. Works by Mendelssohn and Enescu. Puc.princeton.edu or (609) 258-2800.
Thursday, November 14
10 a.m.-3 p.m .: Princeton Farmers Market is at Hinds Plaza. More than 30 vendors with local organic produce, pasture-raised meat and eggs, cheeses, fresh flowers, knife-sharpening, jewelry, and more. Live music. SNAP/EBT cards and matches accepted up to $10 a day. Princetonfarmersmarket.com.
Opportunities for Relaxation and Exercise
These are challenging times, as nearly everyone is quick to point out. Worries over politics, bank accounts, negative social media, AI, kids’ anxiety and depression —and more — all abound.
Not everyone can take time to go sailing, spend a few weeks at a beach resort, or visit other stress-free (hopefully) locations.
by yoga in scientific studies; everything from Alzheimer’s to anxiety, back pain to osteoporosis, diabetes to heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis to insomnia.”
Her interest in yoga began in 2004, she explains. “I had some health issues, and I looked into yoga, and started taking classes. I had an excellent teacher, and I found that a lot of the health issues began to subside, but then they came back. But as I took more frequent yoga classes, the problems began to stop.
tion to offering yoga therapy sessions, group yoga, and meditation classes, she designs and provides advanced training for yoga teachers.
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She has also taught yoga for a number of years in various cancer wellness programs and to incarcerated boys and girls throughout the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission.
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Another opportunity, however, and closer at hand, is yoga. A proven method to offer stress relief and at the same time provide both exercise and empathy, it has become a popular means for many to enjoy quiet moments away from that ubiquitous “To-Do List.”
Princeton Yoga & Wellness at 88 Orchard Road in Skillman is such an opportunity. Founded by yoga therapist and yoga teacher Andrea Sacchetti in March 2024, it offers private sessions, group classes, and special events.
Unique Ability
An important focus was to “emphasize therapeutic yoga’s unique ability to enhance health and wellness, and address the root causes of many physical, emotional, and psychological imbalances,” points out Sacchetti. “As of 2019, there were 117 conditions shown to be helped
“The more classes I took, the more I wanted to learn and I wanted to share what I had learned with others.”
Her comprehensive yoga therapy training was with Yoga Life Institute. She is certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT), also a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance at the highest level (E-RYT 500), and is a registered provider of continuing education to yoga teachers YACEP). In addition to her yoga training, she received a BA degree in religion, magna cum laude, from Duke University.
Sacchetti’s yoga learning journey took her to India, Tibet, and Nepal, with opportunities to study with many of the most respected yoga teachers in the world.
Since 2005, she began adapting yoga for individual students and specific populations, with safety, wellness, and healing as the highest priorities. In addi-
Among her specialties are complementary therapies appropriate for autoimmune challenges, chronic pain, anxiety, and bone health and bone density.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sacchetti offered Zoom yoga classes, including meditation. “This was helpful to people during that difficult time,” she notes, “and then I decided that I wanted to open a warm and welcoming yoga center.”
She found the perfect spot. A converted farmhouse in Skillman, in an attractive natural setting, it offers a spacious and lightfilled environment. Its large main room for classes offers plenty of room for postures (positions) and exercises as well as an atmosphere conducive to relaxation and peace of mind.
Students are men and women of all ages, says Sacchetti, and classes are one hour or an hour and a half. Ten to 12 students typically participate in a class, and there are also one-on-one sessions. A series of four classes for teens is available as well.
“Yoga is actually a system of philosophy, originating in India,” she explains. “It works with an Eastern paradigm that integrates body, mind, psychology, and spirit. There are eight primary components of yoga philosophy. One is the physical poses or postures; another is the breathing practices. Both the postures and the breathing practices are designed to work with the energy system and channels — similar to acupuncture — hence the physical, mental, and emotional benefits.
“The classes begin with centering and breathing. Helping people to be conscious of their breath can help them to be calmer and relax. The postures, combined with the focus on breathing, can take you to a nice place, with clarity and peace.”
Where You Are
Sacchetti also points out that “Yoga can transform anxiety into vitality, strength, and peace. Yoga meets you where you are. The teaching of yoga helps us connect with happiness that exists regardless of the circumstances surrounding you. It can be very powerful in adding underlying peace for many conditions. In other words, yoga can help you find peace and well-being in the midst of difficulties.”
She adds that all classes can be adapted for individuals with specific conditions, such as arthritis or other physical difficulties. Chair yoga is available, and postures can be customized to the needs and abilities of each student.
Over the years, Sacchetti has also focused on bone density issues, including osteopenia and osteoporosis. As she explains, “Studies have shown that yoga, done with a particular technique, has been able to boost bone density in key areas of the spine, hip, and femur, and also improve the internal architecture of the bone. These poses and techniques have also been shown not only to maintain bone density, but to reverse bone loss and make bones stronger and more resilient.”
“In addition,” she continues, “many of these natural remedies for optimizing bone health can actually have very positive side effects, such as reducing anxiety, systemic inflammation, improving digestion, posture, sleep, strength, joint mobility, ability to focus, and mood. What’s more, they are designed to have an overall rejuvenating effect.
“The medical and scientific research on the benefits of yoga is very little known. We want more people to be award of this.”
Fundamental Principles
In fact, an upcoming event will focus on bone density. “Yoga For Bone Density: Nourish and Build Bones Naturally” will be held on Sunday, November 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. at the Princeton Yoga & Wellness location. This mini retreat will include homemade chai, discussion, complete yoga practice for all levels, and written materials. A $21 discount is available for those who register by November 10.
“This in-person mini retreat is a also a beautiful kick-off event for our up-
coming Bone Density Healing project series (offered in-person, on Zoom, and via recordings),” says Sacchetti.
“These sessions will deepen your understanding of the fundamental principles at work and of the role of lifestyle and guided relaxation, and of course, assist you in mastering the prescribed postures and technique.”
Previous workshops and retreats have focused on “Emotional Healing & Resilience” with Swami Maheshananda Saraswati (Swami Mahesh) in attendance, and “A Day of Yogic Exploration, Experience, and Connection” with Jeff Migdow, M.D., a holistic physician, Reiki master, and experienced yoga instructor.
Princeton Yoga & Wellness classes are held seven days a week, with day and evening hours. Consult the website for specific class hours.
Payment arrangements vary with opportunities to
pay $24 for each class or with packages of 20 classes for $299. A first class is free with the coupon code “yoga home.”
“We also accept donations,” adds Sacchetti. “If people can’t pay the full amount, we still want to make it available for them. It is so important that they are able to participate.”
Sacchetti is very pleased with the response to Princeton Yoga & Wellness. Interest in yoga continues to be strong, and new students are joining the classes all the time.
As she observes, “I enjoy making a difference for people and helping them find peace and wellbeing; and showing them that with the help of yoga, you can be happy within yourself.”
or further information, call (609) 891-6060. Visit the website at PrincetonYogaWellness. com.
—Jean Stratton
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EXERCISE AND EMPATHY: “Yoga, and sharing this gift with , has been among the greatest gifts of my life, and at the heart of my healing journey,” says Andrea Sacchetti. A yoga therapist, registered yoga teacher, and the founder and director of Princeton Yoga & Wellness, she is shown in the studio’s welcoming area for new students.
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With Senior Defender Brown Playing Through Pain, PU Women’s Soccer Tops Columbia, Will Host Ivy Tourney
Ryann Brown may have felt a little knee pain before the Princeton University women’s soccer team played at Columbia last Saturday.
That pain was forgotten in Princeton’s 1-0 win over the Lions that clinched the outright Ivy League regular season title for the Tigers and right to host the Ivy postseason tournament this weekend.
“There isn’t really a better way to end this chapter of my life,” said Brown, a senior defender from Laguna Niguel, Calif. “It feels like everything I did in the past, everything led up to this moment. I feel like there is a happy ending at the end of all of this.”
Brown is part of a defense that pitched its eighth shutout of the season to make junior Pietra Tordin ’s 64thminute goal all they would need to hand Columbia their first Ivy loss. Senior Tyler McCamey was stellar in goal behind the stout defense as Princeton improved to 12-4 overall, 6-1 in Ivy play. The Tigers are the top seed for the Ivy tournament and will host fourth-seeded Harvard this Friday at Roberts Stadium in a semifinal costs with the victor advancing to the final on Sunday. The winner of the event earns the league’s automatic bid to the upcoming NCAA tournament.
“What I was most proud of was the fortitude,” said Princeton head coach Sean Driscoll. “On the road in a game you had to win. They were allowed to draw. They would have won the league if they had drawn. So we had to find a way to win on the road, away from home, in a place that we’ve only won once before. So it was a difficult task and I just give the kids a lot of credit for fighting valiantly until the very end.” Brown has done that individually as well. She has bounced back from a knee issue that kept her out of action all last year.
“I was there,” said Brown. “I went to every practice, every game. I was on the team still. I just was on the sideline doing physical therapy, cheering my team on and I think that was a huge development year for me. I learned so much about how much it means to be on the field and how much I can give also not on the field. I think there are two very distinct goals that I think each one is just as important as the other.”
It was a big change from the 2022 season in which she was named second-team All-Ivy. Brown could not help the defense in the same way in 2023.
“It was really hard,” said Brown. “There were moments where I told my athletic trainer, ‘I haven’t been practicing, but can I go on the field right now and play?’ When we were playing Rutgers, I asked my trainer if I could play in the game, not having played a minute prior, not having practiced at all. There were moments where I’m urging to play, I want to play for them. There’s not much you can do in those moments.”
Brown had gone through platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy but it hadn’t done enough. She went through PRP again before this fall and felt it helped more, though the pain was still there, along with some doubts. But her pain management is better and she’s motivated to finish her Princeton career on her terms.
“It feels a tad inhibiting,” said Brown. “It just feels like I’m not myself, it feels like there’s moments with things I can’t do that I know I used to be able to do, but I can’t do anymore sometimes. Or it feels like maybe my knee is going to give out in a moment during the game. But I think the adrenaline takes over and usually once the game actually starts I don’t really feel as much pain anymore. That’s what happened today. I mean, I take medicine before for the pain. There is a psychological factor of me being like ‘my knees hurting, I don’t know how I’m going to play,’ but I think once the game actually starts, usually those feelings of apprehension go away.”
Brown didn’t get as much preparation time as others. The program had to manage her efforts and time on the practice pitch, but she’s been a part of a special defense that features sophomore Zoe Markesini, senior Heather MacNab, senior Kate Toomey, senior Kiley Hamou, and junior Kelsee Wozniak. It ’s not a secret what has made them so good.
“Our back line’s playing the best it has for all of them in their respective careers, and Tyler anchors us in goal and Toomey in the six winning balls all the time and being very difficult to deal with and then you have Ryann and Zoe who have been a tremendous partnership and obviously Kylie and Heather and also Kelsee too are giving us a lot too,” said Driscoll. “They’ve just played so well, and they just they get along well, they work well off each other.”
The defense is ranked 11th nationally in goals allowed average at 0.56, tops in the Ivies. Only one team, Yale, has managed to score more than one goal in a game on the Tigers. Brown said the chemistry is great in the back and that the players are using each other’s strengths to make the defense one of the best in the country.
“I think our communications, our work ethic, all of us are probably incredible one-on-one defenders and we have speed and not to mention if you get behind our four players in the backline, our goalie is probably one of the top goalkeepers in the country,” said Brown. “I just think it’s hard to score on us. There’s so much a team has to get through. We’re great in the air. All of us are really good ball winners. We go up on corners and we also defend on corners.”
Adding to their shutout total Saturday was just business, nothing more, to Brown. It was a chippy game and possession was difficult for both teams. The difference was the Tigers kept Columbia off the scoreboard.
“We’ve had a good amount of shutouts, so there’s not usually a pride in it,” said Brown. “It’s more like we got the job done. There’s not really a celebration. It’s more like, we did what we were supposed to do. I think that’s just the life as a defender. There’s not much glory and we kind of are all humble and we know that that’s our job and we just do it.”
In a game that wasn’t pretty all the time, the Tigers showed their grit to persevere. They had to battle start to finish to knock off the Lions, who were previously unbeaten in the Ivies.
“Championship games usually aren’t the prettiest because those teams are willing to put everything on the line to win, and that was one of those games,” said Brown. “And I think our mindset kept us in this game. Our desire to win — we haven’t won an Ivy League title since 2018 — so we all wanted it really badly, and if we were this close, we were going to do whatever we possibly could.”
The defense will have to remain stingy this weekend. Columbia and Brown open the Ivy tournament in the first semifinal on Friday. The final is slated for 1 p.m. Sunday at Roberts Stadium.
“We’re going to have to continue to defend like we always have, like we did today and have all season,” said Driscoll. “That’s going to be No. 1. That’s our platform for everything, but we need to do a much better job of asserting ourselves and playing our style. I think that the team that does that is going to win this tournament.”
Playing well at Columbia gave Princeton the right to host the tournament. The Tigers face the tough task of beating the remaining top contenders for the Ivy title for a second time this season, and they are protecting against being overconfident.
“ We ’re home and we are pretty good at home,” said Brown. “So I think the mindset is just to be us. I think our identity that we present right now is that we like to value the ball, we score off counters, we’re good in the air off corner kicks. So it’s just playing to what we’re good at, and usually we’re better at doing that at home. Every team we’re about to play, I believe we have beaten them before so it’s carrying what we learned from playing them the first time and carrying that over to the games coming up.”
Brown is thrilled to have the chance to be back on the field to help bolster the Tiger defense and help it produce a big postseason run.
“It’s a great feeling to play again,” said Brown. “It was hard last year. Every day I’m grateful that I can play. And whenever there are players that are hurt on my team I empathize so much because I know how it feels wanting to be on that field. I do it for myself, but I also do it for the other players that can’t play right now that are hurt. I do relish every moment I am on the field.”
—Justin Feil
ON THE MARK: Princeton University women’s soccer player Ryann Brown, left, marks a foe in recent action. Last Saturday, senior defender Brown helped Princeton blank Columbia 1-0 to clinch the outright Ivy League regular season title and the right to host the Ivy postseason tournament this weekend. The top-seeded
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Junior Star Lee Triggers Offense Down the Stretch
As PU Men’s Hoops Rallies to Top Iona 81-80 in Opener
There was plenty of hype surrounding the Princeton University men’s basketball team as it headed into its season opener against Iona last Monday night at Jadwin Gym.
when they are not scoring on us. Eventually for me, at least, I started feeling a little bit better and they started dropping.”
In the frontcourt, Princeton got some good things from sophomore Jacob Huggins, who contributed 12 points on 6-of-6 shooting, with freshman Malik Abdullahi chipping in six points as he hit 3 of 4 shots.
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The Tigers were a nearly unanimous selection as the favorite in the Ivy League Preseason Poll. NBA scouts have flocked to their practices and the squad’s two junior stars, Caden Pierce and Xaivian Lee, were both included in the ESPN Preseason Top 100 players. Some media outlets have been forecasting the Tigers as a potential singledigit seed in the NCAA tournament.
But as Princeton took the court against the Gaels, they seemed to be resting on their laurels as they found themselves down 49-37 at halftime.
Reflecting on the shaky start, Pierce acknowledged that Tigers were a bit lackadaisical early on.
With Princeton trailing 80-79 in the waning seconds of the contest and fans in an uproar, Lee sliced to the hoop, drawing a foul. He proceeded to drain both free throws to provide the margin of victory.
“I was honestly trying to get downhill, there wasn’t really much of a play,” said Lee, who had blood stains on the front of his jersey and leapt for joy after an Iona shot clanged off the basket at the buzzer. “I was trying to get something at the rim. It was a similar situation in the first half and I took a step back. Coach told me I have to get to the rack there. I was trying to get a layup and get fouled and that is what happened.”
Henderson credited Lee with taking the Tigers on his shoulder down the stretch.
“Between Jacob and Malik, they were 9-for-10 from the floor,” said Henderson, whose team faces Duquesne on November 8 in the Jersey Jam at the C URE Insurance Arena in Trenton and then plays at Northeastern on November 10. “They had never played in really in any significant minutes. I am very pleased but we will see if we can keep getting a little bit better because there is real room for improvement.”
Pierce, for his part, believes that getting the gut check against Iona will help him and Lee become better leaders.
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“We didn’t really come ready to play in the first half,” said Pierce. “I think we kind of expected to just walk out there and do our thing. We got punched in the face and I think we needed that.”
Pierce implored the Tigers to punch back in the second half.
“At the end of the day, I didn’t think they were doing anything special and they put up 49 points in the first half, ” said Pierce. “They were just beating us one-onone, out-toughing us. I told the guys when we broke the huddle in the second half, let’s toughen up and take some pride and win our oneon-one matchups.”
Displaying that toughness, Princeton overcame a 58-42 deficit with 16:35 left in regulation to pull out a dramatic 81-80 win before a roaring Jadwin crowd of 1,690. The key sequence in the rally came when the Tigers reeled off a 16-0 run to turn a 60-46 deficit into a 62-60 lead.
Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson credited his players with picking up the intensity.
“We decided to play harder, we finally just played harder,” said Henderson. “We made some plays but the defense got better. I am happy that we had a game like this early, right up front. It taught us so much.There is a lot of noise around us and I thought we played like it for the first few minutes of the game and then we found toughness in the second half. That is a really good team and difficult to guard. It was downhill with every single guy out there. There is lots to learn from in that one.”
Lee started going downhill himself, scoring 17 of his game-high 27 points down the stretch.
“I thought the game started to come to me a little bit more,” said Lee, who hit 9-of 14 shots, including 3-of-7 from three-point range. “It started with the defense. In the beginning of the second half we came out and made more stops. Once we got steps I felt like the momentum kept coming. It is lot easier to play
“He was terrific,” said Henderson of Lee. “He made it look simple and then he made his free throws when everyone else was struggling.”
Reflecting on the triumph, Henderson acknowledged that it was a struggle.
“Every single guy had multiple scratches; it was a really physical game, there was bleeding everywhere,” said Henderson. “I am glad to get one like this under our belt early. It felt like a later in the season kind of game environment with how physical it was. I think winning a game when you go 11-of-22 from the line and play defense as poorly as we did, that is a good thing. That is where we have been really good in the past few years. We have figured out ways to get it done.”
“I think the first half kind of exposed us a little bit, the last two years we were lucky to have leaders like Zach [Martini] and Mush (Matt Allocco),” said Pierce, who ended up with 18 points, eight rebounds, and six assists in the win. “In the past two years when times got tough we always had those consistent voices. Now that those voices are gone, it is up to me, Xaivian, and Blake [Peters] to step in and fill that role. In the first half we didn’t do a good job of that. It is a young season. We are figuring things out as well and we will improve on that.”
When things got tough on Monday, Pierce and Lee certainly stepped up.
—Bill Alden
OPENING SALVO: Princeton University men’s basketball Xaivian Lee dribbles upcourt last Monday as Princeton hosted Iona in its season opener. Junior guard Lee tallied a game-high 27 points as Princeton overcame a 58-42 second half deficit to pull out an 81-80 win over the Gaels. In upcoming action, Princeton faces Duquesne on November 8 in the Jersey Jam at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton and then plays at Northeastern on November 10. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
With Syer Taking the Helm of PU Men’s Hockey, Tigers Looking to Tighten Up Things Defensively
During his 13-year tenure as an assistant coach for the Cornell University men’s hockey team, Ben Syer helped the Big Red consistently rank as one of the top defensive squads in the country.
Cornell averaged 2.21 goals allowed-per-game, rank ing third among all Division I programs over the past 13 seasons. In addition, the Big Red rank ed in the top ten in in scoring defense nine times and twice led the country in that statistic (2017-18, 2023-24).
As Syer has taken the helm of the Princeton University men’s hockey team, he is looking to instill those principles to his new squad that is coming off a season that saw the Tigers yield 3.8 goals a game.
“I think a key is the consistency within our habits and our details, things that are in each and every everyone’s control ,” said Syer, who is succeeding Ron Fogarty. “It is being physical, playing with sticks down, that is certainly something we need to continue to improve on. Then also just having consistency in our effort away from the puck as well. Lastly, it is being able to protect the puck. That puck is like gold and treat it as such. It is hard to get it so don’t give it away.”
With Princeton set to open its 2024-25 campaign by hosting Harvard on November 8 and Dartmouth on November 9, Syer likes the way his players have been responding.
“It has been going good,” said Syer, who is taking over a program that went 10-164 overall and 8-11-3 ECAC Hockey last winter. “It has been a lot of fun working with them. We have seen a lot of really good things and still have a lot of work to do.”
The Tigers have produced some good work in the preseason, topping the University of Waterloo 6-0 in an exhibition game on October 26 and playing hard in some scrimmages.
“We have a great compete, we have a real desire to improve and get better,” said Syer in assessing how the preseason has gone. “We have seen that within the scrimmages and the exhibition which has been great.”
While defense is Syer’s calling card, he has paid plenty of attention to the other end of the ice.
“We have been working on defense but at the same token we are spending a great deal of time working on the offensive side of it, trying to track the two of them together,” said Syer. “I feel like there has been a real buy-in. There is more and more comfort in that area and the way that we want to play.”
At forward, sophomore Kai Daniells (8 goals, 11 assists in 2023-24), senior Jack Cronin (11 goals, eight assists), sophomore Carson Buydens (2 goals, 1 assist), junior David Jacobs (7 goals, 17 assists), and junior Brendan Gorman (7 goals, 17 assists) along with freshmen Drew Garzone and Jake Manfre have been playing well.
“Kai had a very good freshman year last year, we would expect him to be able produce here as well,” said Syer. “Cronin is playing right now with Daniells and Buydens. Drew has done a really nice job here as a freshman coming in, winning some face-offs here and giving us a little bit of a look there. Jake has done a really nice job, he has started to play a little bit here with David and Brendan to give us some of that balance.”
Senior star Noah de la Durantaye (3 goals, 15 assists) figures to be spearheading the Princeton defensive unit.
“Noah has had a really good fall here, he started by asking about some attention to detail and stuff like that,” said Syer. “I see a guy who is trying to really round out his game and play on both sides of the puck. He certainly has some flashes of the skill that shows itself in his ability to be able to break pucks out. I have been very happy with him so far.”
In addition, Syer has been happy with the play of some other veteran defensemen like junior David Ma, who was sidelined last season due to injury, sophomore Ian Devlin (1 assist), and junior Nick Marciano (2 goals).
“Ma is a guy that wants to get better every time he gets on the ice, that is what we need from him because that bleeds over to the other guys,” said Syer. “I thought Devlin showed a poise and a calmness on the scrimmage with Cornell. He didn’t play a ton last year early on, it is nice to be able to see him show some things here. Nick was a guy who was a little more in and out last year. We have been really happy with his progress this year, we need to continue to see growth in his game.”
The Tigers boast a trio of experienced goalies in senior Ethan Pearson (4.05 goals against average, .855 save percentage in 2023-24),
sophomore Arthur Smith (2.96 goals against average, .899 save percentage), and sophomore Conor Callaghan (5.02 goals against average, .853 save percentage).
With Callaghan currently out due to injury, Pearson and Smith have been battling for time between the pipes.
“I have really been happy with their level of compete over the last couple of weeks,” said Syer of Pearson and Smith. “That is an area that we want to be enhanced with that effort as they are competing here day in, day out. It is nice to have some experience. That confidence is something that is earned by your performance day in, day out. They have been doing a good job in practice and I am looking for that to continue. We haven’t gotten to the point where we say hey you are the guy or there is a rotation. We are evaluating them day in, day out in terms of where each of them are at.”
As Syer has gotten a handle on the Tigers, he likes the way they are competing collectively in training. “I am continuing to learn about our guys day in, day out here,” said Syer. “It has been fun because I think the guys know how important practice is to be able to show consistency.”
Looking ahead to opening weekend, Syer is hoping that the Tigers will put on a good show as they face arch rivals Harvard and Dartmouth.
“We will be excited, they are obviously two great teams that will be coming to us here,” said Syer. “We will be ready to roll. You don’t have to explain who is coming to town when Harvard and Dartmouth are coming.”
—Bill Alden
NEW DAY: Princeton University men’s hockey player Noah de la Durantaye controls the puck in a 2022 game. Senior star defenseman de la Durantaye figure to spearhead things along the blue line this Princeton. The Tigers open their 2024-25 campaign by hosting Harvard on November 8 and Dartmouth on November 9 as new Princeton head coach Ben Syer makes this debut behind the bench for the program.
(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
PU Football Digs Early 28-0 Hole Against Cornell, Rally Falls Short as Tigers Lose
Before the Princeton University football team even took the field against visiting Cornell last Saturday, it was fighting an uphill battle.
“We went out to practice Tuesday and we had 38 guys on the injured list,” said Princeton head coach Bob Surace. “We lost five from the last play on Tuesday through Wednesday. We got one back so we had 42 on Thursday. I just had to make decisions. Some guys were playing hurt, it is can they perform better than some inexperienced guys.”
The Tigers didn’t perform well against the Big Red as they fell behind 28-0 with Cornell star quarterback Jameson Wang passing for two touchdowns and rushing for another in the early onslaught.
“We got off to a bad start obviously,” said Surace. “I look at the first half — we didn’t get the fourth and one and we didn’t get the fourth and three. We had some chances. We didn’t convert and we put our defense in some tough spots on those.”
The Tigers showed some toughness as they responded with touchdown runs by quarterback Blaine Hipa and Dareion Murphy to trim the Cornell lead to 28-14 with 3:17 left in the first half.
The Tigers then got an interception by Evan Haynie and looked poised make it a one-score game going into intermission. But Hipa fumbled two players later and Cornell went on to get
49-35, Now 2-5
as it went ahead 35-14 at the half.
“We had the pick, we have got a chance to try to get the ball down to the twominute warning and we had the fumble at the end of the first half,” lamented Surace. “That touchdown was a tough one because it looked like it could be a pick.”
Cornell never looked back, building a 49-14 lead heading into the fourth quarter on the way to a 49-35 triumph before a homecoming crowd of 7,626 at Princeton Stadium, dropping the Tigers to 2-5 overall and 1-3 Ivy League.
Princeton junior QB Hipa acknowledged that the Tigers misfired in the first half.
“I think we game-planned very well, we just have to execute a little better on the early downs,” said Hipa.
Princeton failed to execute in the key sequence late in the first half.
“It is a game of momentum sometimes,” said Hipa. “We got the ball back and we tried to make something out of it. It was the ebbs and flows of the game. It is just football, it is unfortunate.”
Hipa helped the Tigers gain some momentum in the fourth quarter as he threw a touchdown pass to Luke Colella and two scoring strikes to Charley Rossi.
“We had guys make plays,” said Hipa, who connected on 26 of 40 passes for 257 yards and three touchdowns
good offense, it is just putting the pieces together at the end of the day. It showed we can do it.”
While the result stung as Princeton fell into the Ivy cellar along with Yale and Penn, Surace credited his players with battling through adversity.
“The guys have been fighting all year,” said Surace. “I told them I appreciate it. We had guys that were limited participants all week in practice that fought through and played. They are doing the best they can. I have to decide whether a guy who is 80 percent is better than an inexperienced guy that is closer to 100 percent.”
With the Tigers hosting Dartmouth (6-1 overall, 3-1 Ivy), who is in three-way tie for first place with Harvard and Columbia, on Friday night, Princeton is facing another tough battle.
“I told the team, they are a very violent team, they play very physical,” said Surace. “We have got to get our bodies refreshed on a short week and come out with whoever is healthy, playing physical because that is how they play.”
Hipa, for his part, is confident that the Tigers will play well against the Big Green.
“Dartmouth is a great team, they are doing well this year,” said Hipa. “We are going to take it like any other opponent. We will start tomorrow, watch the film, see what we have got to fix and get better throughout the week. We will come out here Friday and try to get a win.”
—Bill Alden
Tiger Women’s Hockey Produces Shaky 2-4 Start
But Freshman Alexander Emerging as a Key Weapon
As Mackenzie Alexander made her debut at Hobey Baker Rink last Friday evening when the Princeton University women’s hockey team hosted St. Lawerence, she was pumped up.
“It was incredible with all the fans that came out, it was really cool to see,” said freshman forward Alexander, a native of Etobicoke, Ontario. “The atmosphere was really fun to play in. I really appreciate them coming out.”
After No. 8 St. Lawrence jumped out to a 2-0 lead before a crowd of 1,065, Alexander gave the Baker Rink fans something to cheer about as she tallied a goal with 3:14 left in the first period to narrow the gap to 2-1.
“Izzy [Wunder] made an incredible pass to my back door, all I had was the entire net wide open,” said Alexander. “I was lucky enough to just tap it in. Izzy did all of the work.”
Alexander’s line did some good work as Wunder scored a second period goal on an assist by Emerson O’Leary but it wasn’t enough as Princeton fell 6-2.
Playing with juniors Wunder and O’Leary has helped Alexander make an immediate impact for the Tigers.
“They are great mentors for me, they are always making sure that I have enough confidence to play with them,” said Alexander, who has nine points on four goals and five assists to tie Wunder for the team lead in points “They do a great job of moving the puck around. They are two really good players and I am really excited to play with them.”
In making the jump to college hockey, Alexander has focused being smarter with the puck.
“It is definitely a big jump, coming from junior to college; it is a lot faster, a lot more physical,” said Alexander, who had an assist as Princeton finished the week
by losing 6-3 to No. 6 Clarkson in moving to 2-4 overall and 0-4 ECAC Hockey. “The players are a lot stronger. In juniors, I am used to having the puck a lot more with a lot more time and space to make plays. Here as soon as I get the puck there is someone on me. I just need to learn to make sure I know where the next play is and move the puck there.”
Competing for Hockey Canada’s Development Team this summer helped Alexander get up to speed.
“Playing against the best players in the summer was a really fun experience,” said Alexander. “I think it helped me adjust going from junior to college a lot easier.”
Being on the Canada squad along with Princeton junior forward Sarah Paul also helped Alexander adjust to playing for Princeton.
“It was fun because she is my mentor here,” said Alexander. “It was really cool to meet her there and get comfortable with her so I am more comfortable coming to the team.”
Alexander is also developing a comfort level playing against high-powered ECACH competition.
“It has been really fun and really challenging,” said Alexander. “I am really excited because I think it will help me develop, playing against all of these strong players. It has been really good.”
Princeton head coach Cara Morey saw some good things from her squad against St. Lawrence despite the final score.
“I was encouraged by a lot of the stuff I saw in there, what people don’t realize is that it is a lot of young kids logging minutes,” said Morey. “There were some unfortunate bounces and some of the goals were really weird. That is an emotional game, it is hard to bounce back from those. I felt pretty good seeing what they did while they were losing. That matters.”
The Tigers clearly have a promising young star in Alexander.
“That was a great goal, that was one of the nicest power play goals I have seen,” said Morey of Alexander’s goal against the Saints. “Our power play is really buzzing and pretty lethal. There are just so many threats out there. She did what we wanted her to do and that is tap those in on the back door.”
The combination of Alexander and Wunder is becoming lethal.
“Izzy has been singlehandedly, creating a ton,” said Morey. “She is a passer, that is why we put Mac there to finish. It has been going really well, that line generated quite a bit.”
Although things haven’t been going well for the Tigers so far this season, Morey believes staying the course will get the squad on the winning track.
“We have just got to keep doing what we are doing, it is hard when you are trying to do things and the results don’t come but you have to stick with it,” said Morey, whose team plays at Harvard on November 8 and at Dartmouth on November 9.
“That is the thing with most sports, hockey, life, you can throw your hands up and change or you can stick with it. You know it might be hard at the beginning but it is going to work. We have got a team that has a lot of talent and a lot of potential. Once we clean up some of the stuff the young kids are going to do, I think it is going to be a really scary team.”
In Alexander’s view, Princeton has what it takes to put a scare into its foes going forward.
“We just need to come together and play with a lot of grit, that is what we always talk about,” said Alexander. “It is our team identity and I think we just need to stick to that and play some good d-zone and hopefully put a few in the net.”
—Bill Alden
provided courtesy of Princeton Athletics)
MAC ATTACK: Princeton University women’s hockey player Mackenzie Alexander fires a shot last Friday as Princeton hosted St. Lawrence in its home opener at Hobey Baker Rink. Freshman forward Alexander tallied a goal in a losing cause as Princeton fell 6-2 to the Saints. The Tigers, who lost 6-3 to Clarkson on Sunday to move to 2-4 overall and 0-4 ECAC Hockey, play at Harvard on November 8 and at Dartmouth on November 9. (Photo by Shelley Szwast,
PU Sports Roundup
Tiger Men’s Soccer Defeats Dartmouth Sparked by Nico Nee, the Princeton University men’s soccer team defeated Dartmouth 2-1 last Saturday.
Senior forward Nee scored two goals as the Tigers improved to 10-5 overall and 5-1 Ivy League.
Princeton, which had previously clinched a spot in the Ivy postseason tournament, hosts Penn on November 9 in its regular season finale. That match will decide the Ivy regular season title and host site for the tournament.
Princeton Field Hockey
Edges Yale, Wins Ivy Title
Beth Yeager came up big as the No. 13 Princeton University field hockey team defeated Yale 1-0 last Saturday to win the Ivy League title outright.
Junior star and U.S. Olympian Yeager tallied a penalty stroke with 3:14 left in regulation to provide the margin of victory to help the Tigers improve to 12-4 overall and 7-0 Ivy.
Princeton is next in action when it hosts the Ivy Tournament where it is seeded first and will face fourth-seeded Columbia in a semifinal contest on November 8 with the victor advancing to the final on November 10. The winner of the event earns the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
PU Women’s Volleyball
Defeats Brown 3-2
Kamryn Chaney produced another dominant performance to help the Princeton University women’s volleyball defeat Brown 3-2 last Saturday.
Sophomore Chaney contributed 19 kills and 11 digs as the Tigers prevailed 2523, 25-19, 20-25, 15-25, 15-9
Princeton, now 10-10 overall and 8-2 Ivy League, hosts Cornell on November 8 and Columbia in November 9.
Tiger Men’s Water Polo Sweeps LIU, Iona Will Garlinghouse and Roko Pozaric starred as the No. 6 Princeton University men’s water polo team posted a sweep of Iona and LIU in action last Sunday.
Garlinghouse and Pozaric each totaled six goals on the day as Princeton topped LIU 22-9 and posted a 22-6 win
over Iona.
In upcoming action, Princeton, now 18-8 overall and 6-1 Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC), hosts MIT and Harvard on November 9 and Brown on November 10.
PU Women’s Rugby Falls to Queens in Finale
Amelia Clarke, Sofie Grouws, and Ciara Loughran scored tries as the Princeton University women’s rugby team fell 48-17 to Queens last Sunday in its season finale.
Having posted its first-ever wins in its three seasons as a varsity program, the Tigers ended the fall with a 2-6 record.
Women’s Cross Country Wins Ivy League Heps
Mena Scatchard set the pace as the Princeton University women’s cross country team placed first at the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships last Saturday on its Meadow Campus course.
Senior Scatchard finished second individually clocking a time of 20:04.7 over the 6,000-meter course, sophomore Anna McNatt was the next finisher for the Tigers, taking third in 20:17.1 while senior Alexis Allen took seventh place in 20:25.2.
In the team standings, Princeton has a winning score of 40 with Harvard coming at 53 to take second.
The Tigers are next in action when they compete in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional on November 15 at University Park, Pa.
PU Men’s Cross Country Takes 1st at Ivy Heps
Myles Hogan led the way as the Princeton University men’s cross country team placed first at the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships last Saturday on its Meadow Campus course.
Junior Hogan finished fifth individually clocking a time of 23:05.4 over the 8,000-meter course. Senior Nicholas Bendtsen crossed the finish line next for Princeton, taking eighth in 23:10.7 while junior Connor McCormick took 11th in 23:14.9 and junior Jackson Shorten came in 13th at 23:24.4.
In the team standings, Princeton has a score of 51 with Harvard coming in at 62 to take second.
The Tigers are next in action when they compete in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional on November 15 at
University Park, Pa.
Former PU Star Venable
Named Manager of White Sox
Former Princeton University men’s basketball and baseball standout Will Venable ‘05 was named as the manager of the Chicago White Sox last week.
Venable is the first Princeton alum to be named manager of a Major League Baseball team. He had recently served as associate manager with the Texas Rangers for the previous two seasons, helping the Rangers to the 2023 World Series. He also spent time as a coach for the Boston Red Sox and with the Chicago Cubs.
Reflecting on taking the helm of the White Sox, Venable is fired up to get the club back on the winning track.
“This is a great opportunity with a White Sox organization that is putting a lot of good things into place and laying a solid foundation for the future,” Venable said in a statement from the White Sox. “It’s exciting to be part of that process to help get back to the type of baseball White Sox fans are used to seeing. We want players who show up to work hard every day, but also smart baseball players who understand the nuances of the game. There is a rich tradition here and a fanbase that deserves winning baseball, and I am excited to do whatever I can to help.”
Venable came to Princeton as a basketball player and starred for the Tigers, scoring 1,010 points with 155 steals and 253 assists in his hoops career. He was a first-team All-Ivy League selection as a junior, when he led Princeton to a 13-1 Ivy record and the league championship. He was a second-team selection as a senior.
The former Tiger returned to baseball only as sophomore, after two years away from the sport. He hit .344 with 20 RBIs as a junior and then .385 with nine home runs, 33 RBIs and 35 runs scored as a senior, when he earned first-team All-Ivy League honors.
Venable went on to a pro baseball career, playing nine years in Major League Baseball for three clubs — the San Diego Padres, Texas rangers, and Los Angeles Dodgers — batting .249 with 81 home runs, 307 RBIs, and 135 stolen bases.
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CLOUDY SKYE: Princeton University women’s basketball player Skye Belker dribbles upcourt in a game last year. Last Monday, sophomore guard Belker tallied 14 points and had three assists but it wasn’t enough as Princeton fell 76-66 at Duquesne in its season opener. The Tigers play at DePaul on November 9.
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Making its First State Playoff Appearance Since 2014, PHS
Football Loses to Winslow, Finishes Fall at 5-5
There was a buzz around the Princeton High football team last week as it prepared to face Winslow in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) South Jersey, Group 4 Tournament, making the program’s first state playoff appearance since 2014.
“The guys realized 10 years has been long time since we have been in the playoffs,” said PHS head coach Charlie Gallagher. “To be there is a tremendous achievement. The guys really rallied around the fact that they had done something that a lot of football teams at Princeton High haven’t done in a while.”
Getting another week together had the Tigers hoping for more.
“It was nine years of consolation games so this game meant a lot more; in the grand scheme of things; if you win, you keep going,” said Gallagher. “When you had a consolation game, that was your last game. You get into the playoffs, you say to yourself, who knows what the last game is going to be. Our guys had a feeling, ‘Hey this is going to be a tall order but at the same time, who knows.’”
Playing at top-seeded and undefeated Winslow last Saturday in a first round contest, the eighth-seeded Tigers couldn’t get it going as the powerhouse Eagles jumped out to a 21-0 first quarter lead on the way to a 69-6 victory
“Outside of them just being an outstanding football team,
offensively we really couldn’t muster up many yards because they really swarm to the ball,” said Gallagher. “They were in our backfield. When we made plays, they were there to stop us. We would make a nice catch. If it was seven yards, guess what, we got seven yards. There were not many yards after catch.”
PHS senior quarterback Tracis Petrone provided a highlight for the Tigers, scampering for a five-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.
“It was a fantastic touchdown, it was designed to be a pass and Tracis ended up scrambling like he does,” said Gallagher. “He does a great job of that. He saw a little bit of daylight along the sidelines and he just ran for it. It was a great drive.”
Gallagher acknowledged that PHS committed some miscues that helped turn the game into a rout for Winslow.
“We made a few mistakes; we gave up a punt return,” said Gallagher. “They returned an interception for a touchdown. We had a fumble they returned for a touchdown. They were opportunistic, they made their own luck. We talk about making our own luck. If you do good things in the football game, the ball tends to bounce your way when you think it might not. It bounced their way just about everywhere. It is what it is. It was a great atmosphere, the kids were really jacked up.”
The squad’s senior group
created a great atmosphere around the PHS program this fall.
“We graduate about nine guys, and all were major contributors.” said Gallagher, whose Class of 2025 includes Wyatt Arshan, Brady Collier, Joe George, Elisio Moncada, Sean Wilton, Leo Sarett, Richard Jean-Pierre, and Gabe Sigrist in addition to Petrone. “We are really happy that those guys got to the playoffs, they deserved it. Last year was a successful season, 5-4, but the previous two years, their freshman and sophomore years, I think we may have combined for three wins. They looked at it and put a little bit of onus on their own shoulders. They committed themselves when they really didn’t have to commit themselves. They could have just said this is who we are going to be. Between last year’s group and this year’s group, they really wanted to change the culture, which is awesome.”
In Gallagher’s view, the Tigers have an awesome foundation in place going forward due to the legacy left by the seniors.
“And now I look at it, a lot of these young guys, from Ellington Hinds to Zyair MackeyWright to Carmine Carusone to Andrew Foreman to Julian Frevert to Langston Hinds, they are going to reap the benefits of those guys,” said Gallagher. “I don’t think we are missing too many pieces. The future is very bright. I told them that the greatness of the Tigers is in its future.”
While the loss to Winslow stung, Gallagher believes his players will take some life lessons from the experience that will benefit them in the future.
“I said in an email last Sunday that you will be better people because you played in this playoff game,” said Gallagher.
“I don’t know what the score is going to be. In 2014 the score was not great either and in 2024 the score was not where we wanted it to be. I think they all come out of this game with their chin held up high, standing up straight with their chest out and ready to take on the world, both athletically and, most importantly, as a good human beings and good citizens. The kids care about each other and hopefully will care about their future communities and families and all that.”
—Bill Alden
WILL TO SUCCEED: Princeton High football player Sean Wilton runs upfield in
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Howes Stars as PHS Girls’ Soccer Tops Jackson, Tuning Up Before Stunning Freehold in State Opener
As the Princeton High girls’ soccer team hosted Jackson Memorial last Thursday, Kacey Howes took a knock on her foot midway through the first half and had to leave the contest.
But PHS junior star Howes wasn’t about to take the rest of the day off in the team’s final home game this fall.
“She just kicked my ankle, it is like a recurring injury,” said Howes, who headed to a table near the Tiger bench to get her ankle taped by Tiger trainer April Daly. “I just wanted to play on because I knew I wanted to be out there. It hurt a little bit but it was play through the pain.”
With the game knotted at 0-0 12 minutes into the second half, Howes caused Jackson some pain as she got loose in the box and slotted the ball into the back of the net.
“It was a great ball by Taylor [Hamerschlag], and I just wanted to make sure that I got around the goalie because she would jump out to grab it,” said Howes. “Once I was around her, it was calm and easy into the goal.”
The tally by Howes opened the floodgates for PHS as Manuela Dante Boarato, Virginia Marchesi, and Hamerschlag each scored goals as the Tigers pulled away to a 4-0 win.
“Once we got our spirits up, everyone was ready to just go up,” said Howes, who assisted on the goal by Dante Boarato.
Looking ahead to its New
Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 4 Tournament first round game at Freehold Township, Howes believed that the win over Jackson would give the 16th-seeded Tigers momentum as they faced the topseeded Patriots.
“It is a great tuneup,” said Howes. “We really wanted to end on win so we had the energy to go make a good states impression and come out hard.”
Last Monday, PHS brought that energy, stunning Freehold on penalty kicks (5-4) after the teams had played to scoreless draw through regulation and overtime. The Tigers, now 7-9-3, will play at eighth-seeded Montgomery in the quarterfinal round on November 7.
Having emerged as the leading goal scorer this fall for the Tigers after being in a more defensive role last fall, Howes is following in the footsteps of her older sister, Holly, who scored a team-high 14 goals last year in her senior season for PHS.
“She was our forward last year and I always look up to her because she would always score, she was very clean with it,” said Howes, who now has five goals this fall. “This year going to forward, I definitely felt a lot of pressure because I wanted to make sure that I was like her. It ended up working out, I figured it out.”
The Tigers have figured out things collectively, going 6-1-1 in their last eight
ABOUT THAT: Princeton High girls’ soccer player Kacey Howes controls the ball in recent action. Last Thursday, junior star Howes tallied one goal and one assist to help PHS defeat Jackson Memorial 4-0. On Monday, Howes helped 16th-seeded PHS defeat top-seeded Freehold Township on penalty kicks (5-4) after the teams had played to scoreless draw through regulation and overtime in the first round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 4 Tournament. The Tigers, now 7-9-3, play at eighth-seeded Montgomery in the quarterfinal round on November 7. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
games as a 1-0 win over Nottingham on October 10 gave them a boost of confidence.
“We realized we were not bad, we can be really good,” said Howes. “Once we won, it was like, ‘OK, we are pretty good, we can do it.”
PHS head coach Meghan Brennan believed her squad was determined to make a very good effort in their last home game.
“We have seven seniors, it was the last home game ever for those seniors,” said Brennan. “We tried to keep that in mind and pull it out for them.”
In the early stages of the game against Jackson, PHS struggled to finish.
“We just weren’t connecting in the final third,” said Brennan. “We were doing well but we were making mistakes in the final third, not getting that final pass or getting that shot. In the second half, we came out a lot stronger and put it together.”
Brennan was not surprised that Howes connected to get the scoring started.
“Kacey is just excellent, she is always fired up,” said Brennan. “She always has a good touch, she played well. I was excited to see her get the first one. That gave everyone energy and hope, it helped them believe in themselves. That was awesome, all of the goals were really good.”
The Tigers got good play at the defensive end against Jackson as junior Romy Johnson and senior Ava Tabeart spearheaded the back line.
“We have been doing well defensively,” said Brennan. “We just got Romy back too, she is one of our captains. She has just started playing again after having an injury so having her back is hugely helpful. Ava played a great game. She anchored the defense for sure, she did what we know she can do.”
Brennan sensed that PHS could do some good things this fall despite struggling in the early going.
“We had a tough start to our season, we got down on ourselves a little bit after losing some tough games,” said Brennan. “We knew we could do it. We hung with some really good teams. We keep telling them, now is the time to peak. It is not about how you start, it is about how you finish.”
Heading into the state clash against Freehold, Brennan was optimistic about her team’s chances.
“I would rather be the underdog,” said Brennan, who got goals from Tabeart, Clara Burton, Julia Zaladarriaga, Johnson, and Collette Colarusso in the penalty shootout with goalie Zaldarriaga making a key save. “Freehold is an excellent team, they have a great program. It is going to be a super hard game but being the underdog is fun. We are getting psyched for it, we have nothing to lose.
Howes, for her part, is excited by how the Tigers have caught fire in their excellent stretch run.
“We have been stepping up overall. This season started out a little harsh, but now we are really getting our footing,” said Howes. “It is really good to see, I am really proud of our team.”
—Bill Alden
Sparked by Mykhalchuk’s Playmaking, Physicality,
Hun Boys’ Soccer Defeats Blair in Prep A Semis
Sasha Mykhalchuk was downing sips of honey on the bench as he took a break in the first half when the Hun School boys’ soccer team hosted Blair Academy last Wednesday in the Prep A state semis.
When senior midfielder Mykhalchuk was on the field for Hun, he gave the squad a jolt of energy, smoothly passing for an assist in the first half and providing physical play all over the field as the second-seeded Raiders pulled away to 4-0 win over the third-seeded Buccaneers.
With just over four minutes into the contest, Mykhalchuk showed his playmaking ability, slotting a pass to Luciano Verduci who buried the ball into the back of the net to give Hun a 1-0 lead.
“I saw space, I knew that back wasn’t as fast as me so I just ran,” said Mykhalchuk “I saw Luciano, I passed, and he scored.”
Hitting a lull after the early tally, the Raiders got rolling in the season half as Toba Olaleye scored two goals and Donovan Hayes added another.
“I feel like in the first half, we didn’t play to our best game; we took a lot of time to settle into the game,” said Mykhalchuk , a native of Kyiv, Ukraine. “Coach (Pat Quirk) was telling us to be more intense, play with more speed, with more strength, and we did. In the second half, we found the rhythm. We were playing with speed and we just smashed them.”
The Raiders will now play at top-seeded Pennington in the Prep A final on November 6.
“We know if we win, we play Pennington,” said Mykhalchuk of the Raiders, who fell 3-1 to the Red Hawks on September 18 in a regular season contest. “It is a final, we haven’t been there for like 10 years. It was a good motivation for us.”
Mykhalchuk was motivated to come to the U.S. for the combination of soccer and academics offered by Hun along with the opportunity to be reunited with his older brother.
“American can provide soccer and an education — that is why I came here,” said Mykhalchuk. “My brother is here, that is a big reason as well. I didn’t see him for three years. Being with family is very important for me as well.”
Joining the Raider team this summer for preseason training, Mykhalchuk fit right in.
“It was like a family since the first day, it was not hard to settle,” said Mykhalchuk “I found friends, the guys are like my brothers now. It is very easy.”
Settling in with his new friends, Mykhalchuk leads the Raiders in assists with 10 and is tied for the team lead in goals with six.
“I thought I would score more goals at the start of the season,” said Mykhalchuk “I feel like I pass more. I feel like I can pass and shoot. I am trying to provide for my teammates as well as trying to score myself. I don’t care whether I score or whether my teammates score as long as we win the game.”
Hun head coach Pat Quirk liked seeing his squad explode for the three second half goals.
“I loved it, we were just saying, ‘we had the second guys in and they were moving the ball a little bit better, one and two touch,’ which is what we were asking guys to play,” said Quirk. “We started winning more 50/50 balls, trying to get the intensity up.”
With Luke Donahue, Christopher Meehan, and Verduci also having scored six goals this season in addition to Mykhalchuk , the Raiders are featuring a balanced attack.
“All throughout the season
we have been trying to get everybody in, different guys step up in different games,” said Quirk. “Luciano finally got one today. Toba finally got on the scoreboard for the first time.”
Quick credits Mykhalchuk with stepping up in big way this fall.
“Sasha has been great, he has the most assists,” said Quirk of Mykhalchuk, who had a goal and an assist as Hun defeated Peddie 8-4 last Saturday in a regular season contest to improve to 13-3-2. “I think in the preseason we might have expected him to score a little more. Now that he is getting a little more assists, it frees him up a little more to be a little more creative. He is physical, he can hold on to the ball. He can battle shoulder to shoulder with any of them.”
At the defensive end, senior goalie Diego Pena and a pair of defenders, junior Chris Meehan and senior Bradford Barnes, held the fort for the Raiders against Blair.
“Diego in goal and the two center backs, Chris and Bradford, have been really set for us,” said Quirk. The team’s positive chemistry has been a key factor in its success this fall.
“Everybody is stepping up,” added Quirk. “It is all spread out. It is a really nice group of kids, everybody understands their role. Guys get in, guys get out, so it has been nice.”
Things have come together nicely for Hun down the homestretch.
“I think we are in a really good spot,” said Quirk. “The Hill game (a 3-2 loss on October 19) was a little bit of a disappointment unfortunately. I think we have bounced back from that really nicely. We have had a couple of good wins since then with Lenape (2-0 on October 24) and Lawrenceville (3-0) on October 26 and this one.”
Looking ahead to the rematch with Pennington in the Prep A final, Quirk believes his squad has a good chance to turn the tables on the Red Hawks.
“We are excited, I know that they are going to be a little different than when we played them,” said Quirk. “They definitely prepare for us. We get a week to prepare for them, we are definitely excited to hopefully give them a good game.”
In Mykhalchuk ’s view, the Raiders are primed to produce an exciting performance in round two against Pennington.
“It is going to be tough, it was 1-1 for 70 minutes before and then we conceded two goals,” said Mykhalchuk . “They are tough, they are our rivals. We will play our best. We don’t care who is the favorite, we are just going to go hard and try to win.”
—Bill Alden
BALL CONTROL: Hun School boys’ soccer player Sasha Mykhalchuk dribbles the ball in a game earlier this season.
Last Wednesday, senior Mykhalchuk chipped in an assist to help second-seeded Hun defeat third-seeded Blair Academy 4-0 in the Prep A state semis. The Raiders, who defeated Peddie 8-4 in a regular season contest last Saturday to improve to 13-3-2, play at top-seeded Pennington in the Prep A final on November 6.
(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Football : Jack Moran produced another huge game as Hun defeated the Peddie School 56-6 last Saturday in its season finale. Senior quarterback Moran connected of 28-of-34 passes for 524 yards and seven touchdowns as the Raiders ended the fall with a 9-1 mark.
Field Hockey : Addi McNally and Aspen Swanson scored goals to help Hun post a 2-1 win over the Peddie School last Saturday to wrap up its 2024 campaign. The victory lifted the Raiders to a final record of 8-9-1.
Girls’ Soccer : Ending the fall on a down note, Hun lost 3-1 to the Peddie School last Saturday in its season finale. The Raiders posted a final record of 2-10-4.
Football: Posting its fourth straight win, Lawrenceville defeated the Blair Academy 27-7 last Friday. The Big Red, now 6-2, host the Hill School (Pa.) on November 9 in their season finale.
Field Hockey : Unable to get its offense going, Lawrenceville fell 2-0 to the Blair Academy last Saturday. The Big Red, now 9-7-1, will be continuing play in the Prep A state tournament where they are seeded sixth and were slated to play at fifth-seeded Kent Place in the final on November 5. Lawrenceville will then host the Hill School (Pa.) on November 9 in its regular season finale.
SUPER SAVER: Princeton High field hockey goalie Emily Suttmeier guards the cage in a game earlier this season. Last Monday, junior Suttmeier made 16 saves in a losing cause as 13thseeded PHS fell 4-1 at fourth-seeded Ridge in the first round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) North Jersey Group 4 tournament. The Tigers finished the fall with a 6-10 record. (Photos by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Boys’ Soccer : Archie Smith and Simon Danos Peltekian starred as PHS tied Colts Neck 4-4 last Wednesday. Smith and Danos Peltekian each tallied a goal and an assist as the Tigers moved to 14-2-4. PHS will be starting play in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 4 tournament where it is seeded third and was slated to host 14thseeded Hightstown in a first round contest on November 5 with the victor advancing to the quarterfi nal round on November 8.
Girls’ Volleyball : Naomi Lygas came up big to help PHS defeat Union Catholic 2-0 (25-18, 25-20) last Wednesday. Junior star Lygas contributed 13 kills and 12 digs as the Tigers improved to 23-1. In upcoming action, PHS will be starting play in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 3 Tournament where they are seeded first and will host a quarterfinal round contest on November 6.
Boys’ Cross Country : Sparked by Finn Widman, PHS placed fourth in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 4 sectional meet last Saturday at Thompson Park in Jamesburg. Sophomore Widman placed 12th individually, clocking a time of 16:36.40 over the 5,000-meter course. In the team standings, PHS had a team score of 181 in taking fourth at the event won
by Manalapan with 61. The Tigers are next in action when they compete in the Group 4 state championship meet on November 9 at Holmdel Park.
Girls’ Cross Country : Karol Karra and Grace Hegedus set the pace as PHS finished first in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 4 sectional meet last Saturday at Thompson Park in Jamesburg. Junior Karra took fourth individually, posting a time of 18:38.40 over the 5,000-meter course with sophomore Hegedus taking sixth in 18:49.60. Sophomore Eowyn Deess was the next fi nisher for the Tigers, coming in eighth in 19:11.60. In the team standings, PHS had a winning score of 49 to edge runner-up Freehold Township which came in at 54. The Tigers are next in action when they compete in the Group 4 state championship meet on November 9 at Holmdel Park.
PDS, coming in sixth in 17:57 while sophomore Alexander Chia took seventh in 18:12. In the team standings, PDS had a winning score of 42 with Newark Academy coming in second at 61.
Girls’ Cross Country : Olivia Lumba led the way as PDS took sixth in the Prep B state championship meet last Wednesday at Blair Academy. Sophomore Lumba came in 11th individually, posting a time of 23:20 over the 5,000-meter course. PDS had a team score of 128 in taking sixth with Villa Walsh winning the event at 27.
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Field Hockey : Unable to get its offense going, eighthseeded PDS fell 3-0 to ninthseeded St. John Vianney last Monday in the first round of New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public, North Jersey Tournament. Senior goalie Molly Hall made eight saves in the defeat as the Panthers ended the fall with a 6-10 record.
Boys’ Soccer: Running onto a buzz saw, PDS fell 6-1 to Oratory Prep last Wednesday. The Panthers, who dropped to 5-13 with the loss, started play this week in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) South Jersey, Non-Public B Tournament where they are seeded sixth and were slated to host 11th-seeded Bishop Eustace in a first round contest on November 5 with the victor advancing to the quarterfinals on November 8.
Girls’ Soccer : Sparked by Julianna Hartman, PDS defeated Hightstown 6-0 last week. Junior star midfielder Hartman tallied two goals and one assist in the October 29 contest as the Panthers moved to 8-8-1. In upcoming action, PDS starts play in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) South Jersey, Non-Public B Tournament where they are seeded seventh and will play at second-seeded Bishop Eustace in a quarterfinal contest on November 7 with the victor advancing to the semifinals on November 11.
Girls’ Volleyball : Putting up a good fight, PDS fell 2-0 (25-22, 25-16) to Lawrenceville last Monday. In upcoming action, the Panthers, now 8-14, will be starting play in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) South Jersey NonPublic B Tournament where they are seeded eighth and will be hosting ninth-seeded Holy Cross Prep in a first round contest on November 6.
Boys’ Cross Country : Grayson McLaughlin set the pace as PDS placed fi rst in the Prep B state championship meet last Wednesday at Blair Academy. Junior McLaughlin finished third individually, covering the 5,000-meter course in a time of 17:23. Sophomore Edward Letko was the next finisher for
Football: Jumping out to a 20-0 halftime lead, Pennington cruised to a 33-7 win over Notre Dame last Friday in its season finale. Posting wins in its last three games, Red Hawks ended the fall at 6-3.
Field Hockey: Genevieve Vallieres led the way as Pennington edged Lawrence High 2-0 last Friday to end the fall. Vallieres scored both goals for the Red Hawks as they fi nished the season with an 11-6-1 record.
Boys’ Soccer: Sparked by Alvaro Carnicer Cozar, Pennington defeated Woodstock Academy (Conn.) 2-0 last Sunday. Carnicer Cozar tallied two goals for the Red Hawks, now 15-1.
In upcoming action, topseeded Pennington will be hosting second-seeded Hun in the Prep A state fi nal on November 6.
Girls’ Soccer: Riley Conway and Maya Raghanundanan each scored a goal as second-seeded Pennington defeated third-seeded Blair Academy 2-0 in the Prep A state semis last Wednesday. The Red Hawks, who improved to 11-2 with the win, were slated to host fourthseeded Pingry in the Prep A final on November 5.
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Princeton Junior Football League Playoff Results
In playoff action last Sunday in the Princeton Junior Football League (PJFL) Seniors division (Grades 7-8) , the UOA Broncos defeated the Princeton Global Packers 33-27 on a touchdown reception in overtime by Alex Arnold. John Monica threw two touchdown passes to his brother Jamie and added a rushing touchdown in the victory. For the Packers, Judah Lerman, Aiden Davidson, and Luke Giannatasio each ran for a touchdown and Mathew Robinson threw a TD pass to Davidson. The Besler Chiefs defeated the Mercato Eagles 34-20. Henry Ambra triggered the offense for the Chiefs, throwing four touchdown passes to Shail Besler. Ambra also added an interception return for a TD to round out scoring for the Chiefs. Sean Devlin contributed an interception and Eme Morehead had a key sack on defense. For the Eagles, Shaan Patel ran for a touchdown and tossed a TD pass to Christian Barr. In addition, Barr fired a TD pass to Theo Henderson.
Field Hockey : Emily Harlan made nine saves in a losing cause as 12th-seeded Stuart fell 2-0 to fifth-seeded Mount St. Mary last Monday in the first round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public North Jersey Tournament. The loss left the Tartans with a final record of 5-11-1.
Volleyball : After producing a solid 10-6 regular season campaign, Stuart will be starting play in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) South Jersey Non-Public B Tournament this week. The Tartans are seeded sixth and will be playing at third-seeded Timothy Christian in the quarterfinal round on November 8.
In the Super Juniors division (Grade 5-6), t he Christine’s Hope Giants defeated the C.O.E. Packers 28-21 as Leo Miele rushed for three touchdowns TD’s and connected with Ben Heady for a TD pass in the win. The C.O.E. Packers scored on touchdown runs by Nazir Rollins and Myles Eldridge and a TD catch by Lucas Agosto. The Petrone Associates Steelers edged the Besler Chiefs 6-0 as Jax Cherian rushed for a touchdown to account for the only score in the contest.
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In the Juniors division (Grades 3-4), the Woodlands Associates Chiefs defeated the Lulu Lemon Packers 2514. The Chiefs were led by Andrew Lutz who rushed for two touchdowns and had a TD catch. James Armstrong chipped in a touchdown catch. Jack O’Dowd threw two touchdown passes for the Chiefs. For the Packers, Rehm Casto caught a touchdown pass from Noah Fairey, who also ran for a touchdown. The Christine Hope Giants outlasted the C.O.E. Broncos 25-19. Aiden Spies led the Giants with a touchdown run and three TD passes, including the OT game winner to Max Brown. Jake Brown and Henry Arns also caught TD passes. For the Broncos, Everett Zweig threw for a touchdown and ran for another. In addition, Parker McEvoy made a touchdown reception while Kai Taffer ran for
Obituaries
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Elisa Hirvonen, devoted wife, mother, sister, and friend. Born on October 16, 1956, in the Bronx, New York City, Elisa’s life was filled with joy, love, and inspiring resilience.
Along with her parents, Olavi Hirvonen and Hilja Hautamaa, and older brother Esa, her childhood was spent enjoying the outdoors in the mountains of Vermont before moving to Westchester County, New York. Growing up with parents who had emigrated from Finland, they were proud to witness Elisa win the Miss Finlandia competition as a stunning teenage tyttö (young girl).
Elisa went to Earlham College to study art in 1974. There she met Henry Dale while they were on a college field trip. They moved together to Philadelphia where Elisa continued her education at the Philadelphia College of Art. However, back home tragedy struck the Hirvonen family as Elisa learned that her brother, Esa, had been killed in a motorcycle accident in 1977. As the family recovered from the sudden loss of Elisa’s older brother, they bonded together to plan a Finnish-American wedding for Elisa and Henry one year later. The couple were happily married at Lapland Lake, a cross-country ski center established by her parents.
After a time spent exploring various living options, Elisa and Henry eventually settled in Princeton, New Jersey. There in 1980, Elisa continued honing her artistic ability as an early member of the Arts Council of Princeton where she practiced drawing nude figures. In 1984, she gave birth to the first of her three sons, Kai David Dale.
Motherhood did not stop Elisa from continuing to produce artwork at home and as a student at Trenton State College nearby in Ewing. The family welcomed two more boys to the family, George Nikolai Dale in 1992 and Julian Asaph Dale in 1994. However, Elisa was not the only female in the household. She happily welcomed the arrival of Henry’s mother, Amy Gatchell,
disease in 2007, which remained a constant challenge to her active lifestyle. While her 17-year battle with the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease may have slowed down her physical movements, she kept her spirit and passion for life going. She worked at Princeton Makes, a co-op for local artists, working studio, and haven for anyone with artistic curiosity. She was a Qigong instructor after taking the opportunity to travel to China on a Qigong retreat earlier in her life and years of training and dedication to the movement. In 2014 she co-founded the band Woe Nellies which shortly became a five-person group that would practice and perform regularly to share their mutual love of playing the ukulele and singing.
to their home and the pair quickly formed a lasting bond.
Elisa shared her love of the outdoors with her family and organized camping trips and summer excursions to the Jersey Shore every year. Elisa and her family would also continue to return to the town of Benson, NY, where they would visit Elisa’s mother and her husband, Phil, before hitting the ski trails at Lapland Lake nearby to visit with Elisa’s father, his wife Ann, and their daughter Leila.
As Elisa’s sons grew and she found more time to herself, she turned her attention back to establishing a career, beginning with one passion she had particularly cultivated in her free time: gardening. In 1997, Elisa began her own gardening and landscaping business, calling herself “The Garden Nanny.” The business flourished, but Elisa found that she was not spending enough time expressing creativity in her work and shuttered the service after a year.
In 2001, Elisa’s family was devastated by the sudden passing of George, Elisa’s middle child, who was killed in an accident during a parade. The loss of George had a tremendous impact on the family and Elisa was a beacon of strength through the tragedy. With the generous support of friends and family, Elisa was able to establish a fund in George’s name for underprivileged children to take classes at the Arts Council of Princeton.
As the years passed, Elisa was finally able to leverage her education in the arts to pursue a career as an art teacher. After earning a graduate degree at Bank Street College in NYC, Elisa landed a position at the Princeton Charter School, teaching art classes to elementary school students in 2005. At home, Elisa continued exploring artistic mediums and adopted a passion for working with clay. She founded The Raisin Studio, born out of a refurbished shed in her backyard, where she hosted clay sculpting classes and crafted her signature “edgy bowls.”
Sadly, Elisa was diagnosed with Parkinson’s
In Elisa’s later years, she found movement increasingly difficult but remained a constant source of support for her family and friends. While rarely asking for help, Elisa found an abundance of willing supporters in loved ones around her who were often more than willing to share in her creative pursuits and outdoor excursions — despite her mobility challenges.
Elisa is survived by her husband, Henry Dale; sons, Kai (Kriti Gupta) and Julian; sister, Leila; aunt, Linda (John Booth).
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to The Parkinson’s Foundation.
Peter Giller
Peter Giller, beloved father, family man, and highly respected executive in the Princeton, New Jersey area, who was a leader in the power generation industry, passed away on November 2, 2024, at the age of 82. Over his remarkable 50-year career, Peter was an engineering pioneer and often an unconventional figure devoted to advancing energy solutions and reshaping the landscape of power generation. He will be greatly missed.
Born on February 17, 1942 and raised in Hameln, Germany, Peter pursued a dual degree in electrotechnical and mechanical engineering in Kassel. In January 1960, he met the lovely Renate, his future wife, whom he married in 1966 at the historic Ruderverein Weser rowing club in Hameln. In 1969, Peter accepted a position with Westinghouse Electric in Philadelphia, PA, and he and Renate traveled to the United States by ocean liner from Le Havre, France, still learning English en route. Initially planning to stay only two years, Peter and Renate ultimately immigrated to the U.S. and built a family together with the births of their son, Oliver, and daughter, Michelle.
Peter joined ABB and moved to Princeton, NJ, in 1976, where he eventually rose to President of ABB Energy Ventures, overseeing the global development, ownership, and operation of power plants. In 2000, Peter became the CEO of International Power (now ENGIE), Europe’s largest independent power producer, and relocated with Renate to London, England. They made their home near the iconic Tower of London. He later became an advisor for Blackstone, spearheading Germany’s first project-financed offshore wind farm, Meerwind Süd Ost. As Chairman of A&A EIC, he contributed to international energy investments, and more recently, Peter explored innovative technology in green ammonia production with Fuella in Norway, expanding his legacy in sustainable energy solutions. Outside of his impactful career, Peter was a devoted sailor and skier with a profound love for family, adventure, and travel. He was a member of the Seaside Park Yacht Club and actively participated in the Flying Scott fleet’s Sunday Race Series. His sailing adventures spanned from St. Martin, the Greek Islands, the Mediterranean, Baja California, Canada’s Desolation Sound, Nantucket, to the British Virgin Islands, often with family and friends. Peter and Renate were active and devoted members of the Lutheran Church of the Messiah in Princeton.
Son of the late Karoline and Eduard Giller, Peter was predeceased by his wife Renate Giller, his son Oliver Giller, and his brother Eduard Giller. He is survived by his daughter Michelle Clark and son-in-law Ted Clark of Seattle, WA; daughter-inlaw Susanne Giller of Pennington, NJ; grandchildren Tagg Clark, Maika Clark, Alexander Giller, and Julia Giller; brother Günter Giller and sister-in-law Christa Giller of St. Augustine, Germany; and sister-in-law Dagmar Giller of Hameln, Germany; as well as nieces and nephews Jessica Giller, Nicola Gantert, Jens Giller, and Heike Müller.
The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, November 11, 2024, at the Lutheran Church of the Messiah, 407 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, concluding with burial at Princeton Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the following organization that was dear to Peter’s heart: Good Grief in Princeton, NJ.
Memorial Service
Landon (Lanny) Jones
A memorial service for Landon (Lanny) Jones will be held at the Princeton University Chapel on Friday, November 15 at 1:30 p.m.
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