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Education & Recreation Pages 23-25 PSO’s Fall Season is Virtual, Ambitious . . . . 5 Free Book Day in Princeton and Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . 8 Pandemic Makes High Holy Days a Challenge . . . . . . . . . 10 George Bailey's Bridge is Nearer Than You Think . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Pegasus Launches “Intimate Conversations Series” . . . . . . . . . . 17 PU Women’s Hockey Star Fillier Takes Another Step to Olympic Dream . . . 26 PHS Runners Enjoyed Bonding, Training at Recreation Department Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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PU President Eisgruber Promises to Increase Efforts to Combat Racism Princeton University is ramping up its efforts to combat racism on a range of fronts, in both scholarly work and practical operations, according to a September 2 letter from Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber to the University community. Eisgruber’s letter outlined the next steps the University, under the leadership of its senior academic and administrative officials, will take to address systemic racism at Princeton and beyond, including planning to extend a Princeton education to underserved populations in the area and significantly increasing the number of faculty members from underrepresented groups. In June, as demonstrations throughout the country protested the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Rayshard Brooks, Eisgruber called on his cabinet of University leaders to develop plans to combat racism, asserting, “As a University, we must examine all aspects of this institution — from our scholarly work to our daily operations — with a critical eye and a bias toward action. This will be an ongoing process, one that depends on concrete and reasoned steps.” On June 26, 2020 the Princeton University Board of Trustees voted to remove the name of Woodrow Wilson from its School of Public and International Affairs and from a residential college, because of Wilson’s “racist thinking and policies.” In following up, on August 25 Eisgruber and his cabinet examined a range of proposals during a full-day session, and on September 2 Eisgruber issued his update. “Princeton contributes to the world through teaching and research of unsurpassed quality,” he wrote, “and we must continue to find ways to bring that mission to bear against racism, and against all of the discrimination that damages the lives of people of color.” Eisgruber cited “an impressive range of data-driven insights, recommendations, and questions for further study” generated over the past two months, in addition to changes and initiatives announced in June, which included new funding for teaching, research, and service projects related to racial justice and a new grant program, Princeton RISE, that provided Continued on Page 12
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Progress Continues on the Rocky “Road Back” Princeton, along with the rest of New Jersey, has moved cautiously into Phase 3 of “the road back,” with schools reopening this week or next, restaurants restarting indoor dining, and gyms, movies, and religious events permitted to welcome participants, with restrictions. Princeton Public Schools (PPS) will start remotely on September 14, with students coming to the buildings for the first time for a phased-in hybrid program in October. Private schools are opening for remote, hybrid or in-person learning over the next two weeks. Emphasizing the Princeton Health Department’s focus on many different fronts in this transitional period, Health Department Press and Media Communications Officer Fred Williams noted, “The biggest challenges here are keeping more people healthy as increased social activities come into play. Our Health Department is prepared to observe how these reopenings impact our current infection rates and is prepared to act based on what they encounter.” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy delivered a favorable coronavirus report on Tuesday, September 8, describing the Labor Day weekend as “an incredibly good weekend in terms of compliance,” but adding, “You don’t see as much masking as you’d like.”
Although for the 11th consecutive day the transmission rate increased slightly, to 1.10, on Monday, (with any number over 1 indicating that each new case is leading to at least one additional case and the outbreak is spreading), Murphy expressed optimism that “the chances are relatively low” that recent reopenings will cause significant spikes in COVID-19 cases. In a week to ten days, he said, we would know more about possible effects of the reopenings.
In Princeton, Williams reported, “the Health Department has been busy working with our local restaurant owners in preparing their establishments for indoor dining. Guidelines have been disseminated and the process of inspecting and readying workplaces has also begun and is continuing. Business owners have been anticipating these reopenings for a few weeks now, which has resulted in the Health Department seeing tremendous cooperation in reopening these establishments within Continued on Page 7
Community Collaboration Saves 145 Ewing, Red Farmhouse with 265 Years of History When the Princeton Planning Board (PPB) approved a minor subdivision plan last month for 145 Ewing Street, known as the red farmhouse, it was a victory for the owner, for a group of concerned local residents who spoke up, for historic preservation, and for the whole Princeton community. “We were very happy with the outcome of the application,” said Planning Director Michael LaPlace. “It was really a team effort with the applicant, the town, and interested neighbors as well. A lot of credit goes to Brooke Brown, the owner. She was willing to rethink the application
in order to preserve the historic building.” He continued, “We saw it as a win-win for both the applicant and the community. We’re very excited about it. It shows that there are many ways to achieve historic preservation. This was a creative and sensible solution.” Built in 1755, with additions in 1830, the house has a rich history. It was the home of novelist Caroline Gordon from 1956 to the mid-1970s, and, though they divorced in 1959, her husband the poet and essayist Allen Tate was there frequently, reportedly along with such Continued on Page 12
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Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s Fall Season is Virtual and Ambitious
Like most every arts organization, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has faced major challenges since COVID -19 put live performances on hold. The PSO, which holds regular seasons at Richardson Auditorium on the Princeton University campus, has worked
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people wrongfully killed by the police,” he said. “It’s an emotional piece, a work that represents the time in which we live, but through the eyes of a person who belongs to that part of our society.” Also on the program are Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, a t ranscr ip tion for string orchestra of his String Quartet No. 8, and a solo performance by cellist Pablo Ferrández. “The Shostakovich piece is important because it was completed after he visited Dresden,” Milanov said. “He dedicated it to all the victims of fascist rule. I think it’s interesting how two composers have found a way to
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the parameters set forth in executive orders 181 and 183.” New Jersey restaurants restarted outdoor dining on June 15, and executive order 183 permitted indoor dining to reopen with limitations s t ar t i n g las t Fr i d ay, September 4. Under the executive order restaurants are limited to maximum capacity of 25 percent for indoor seating, with groups of customers limited to eight people, not including family members, all staff required to wear face cover ings, all orders made through a server, and windows open to provide for proper airflow. W i l l i a m s p o i n te d o u t that Princeton has been able to keep the curve flat and the numbers of active COVID-19 cases low. “Our most recent COVID cases remain low in number and not the result of any large community spread,” he wrote in a September 8 email. T he most recent repor t from the Princeton Health Department on September 2 cited just three active cases, with three new cases in the previous seven days, six in the previous two weeks. Reopening Challenges at PPS The Health Department has b e e n work i ng w it h PPS, which reported three cases of COV ID -19 last week at Princeton Unified Midd le S cho ol ( PU MS ) , formerly John Witherspoon Middle School, one a staff member of the school, one a construction worker, and anot her t he member of an independent company involved in constr uction work at the school. It is not yet clear if the three cases are related. There have been few staff members and no students in the building over the past couple of weeks. The middle school building will be closed to all PPS staff and the public through September 11 with plans to re-open on September 14. PPS Interim Superintendent Barry Galasso noted that he did not anticipate any changes to the schedule at the middle school, with all PPS staff continuing professional development training remotely in preparation for the district schools’ opening virtually on S eptemb er 14, w it h hybrid learning, involving students and teachers in the schools, scheduled to begin
on October 12. The infected individuals are being monitored and quarantined for at least 14 days, and the Princeton Health Department has been in touch with PPS staff and others who may have had close contact with these three individuals. The September 8 PPS Board of Education virtual meeting, which took place af ter press time, was expected to be well attended with several controversial issues likely to arise. Among those issues were teachers’ health concerns about inperson instruction and the denial of teachers’ requests for accommodations ; adm inistrat ion concer ns about adequate staf f ing for October in-person instruction; the question of how the athletics program shou ld proceed, w it h a September 14 New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association deadline for schools to decide whether t hey w ill par t icipate in interscholastic competition t his fall ; and quest ions about delayed maintenance, installation of new HVAC equipment, and the condition of school buildings in preparation for opening. On Tuesday af ter noon Galasso expressed confidence that maintenance issues would be resolved by October 1, and was optimistic that some students and teachers could be brought back into the building before the announced October 12 in-person opening date, depending on staffing, the local COVID-19 transmission rate, and final maintenance issues. He said that he would be making a recommendation last night concerning the athletic program. Asymptomatic Testing at PU Princeton Universit y completed its first week of asymptomatic testing on Friday, August 28, w ith initial results that support public health measures. Only four employees, no students, tested positive, for a positivity rate of 0.09 percent out of 4,477 tests administered to students and employees approved to be on campus for the fall semester, according to Princeton University’s Office of Communications. Princeton’s comprehensive asymptomatic COV ID -19 protocol, wh ich is par t of the University’s public health plan to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, is required for members of the
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The Old Barracks Museum will hold a virtual telethon fundraiser online on Saturday, October 10 at 1 p.m. to support educational prog ram m ing, including the new Connecting to the Revolution virtual field trips. Due to COVID-19, the Old Barracks Museum will not be hosting its annual Tavern Night event, which is the primary fundraising event for the museum’s educational programs. The telethon is being held in its place. It will be streamed via Facebook Live and Zoom. Content will range from histor ical to hu morous, and be performed by staff, volunteers, and friends of the Old Barracks. In a normal year, nearly 10,000 students visit the Old Barracks Museum on a field trip with their classmates. This year, onsite field trips are going to be replaced with Connecting to the Revolution, a selection of seven live virtual field trip programs. Classes will be able to take this field trip from school, home, or a hybrid of the two. The program is a mix of live and pre-recorded video, and students will be able to ask questions and interact with historical interpreters. The Old Barracks Museum closed its doors in March as a precautionary measure to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, and reopened with capacity restrictions and mask requirements on July 2. During the closure, and extending beyond it, museum staff has presented virtual presentations related to the history of the 18th century on Facebook Live, with hundreds of viewers for each program. The October 10 event is free to tune in, and donations will be accepted at barracks.org/ telethon from now through the end of the event.
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One of the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic is the annual Bryn Mawr-Wellesley Book Sale, a marathon us ed - book ex t ravagan za usually held in the gym at Princeton Day School. For 18-year-old Pennington resident Anna Salvatore and her family, the cancellation of this year’s sale was especially frustrating. “We were disappointed that we couldn’t go this year, because we look forward to it,” Salvatore said. “Then one day I saw that a neighbor who was moving was putting out his books, for free. And I thought it would be a good idea if everyone did that.” The enterprising Hopewell Valley High School graduate, who will be a member of Princeton University’s class of 2025, got to work planning a Free Book Day in Pennington and Hopewell.
The event was a success; so much so that Salvatore immediately thought of Princeton and Lawrence as the logical next step. Free Book Day – Princeton and Lawrence is this Saturday, September 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Residents with books to give away can place them on their front lawn or curb, and all Mercer County residents are encouraged to stroll the streets and shop for titles. “My thought was, how could it possibly fail in Princeton, where there are more nerds per capita than anywhere else?” said Salvatore. “So I have high hopes for this.” Were it not for the pandemic and the cancellation of on-campus classes and activities, Salvatore would be in the beginning of her freshman year at Princeton.
She has decided to take a gap year and work as an intern at Lawfare, a blog about current events. Coordinating Free Book Day has been her most recent focus. Salvatore used Instagram and Facebook to publicize the recent Pennington/Hopewell event. Friends helped her distribute posters and get the word out. While people were encouraged to sign up ahead of time, most did not. That caused concern. But any worries Salvatore had about attendance were quickly dispelled. “Dozens of households participated,” she said. “It was a really pleasant surprise to see how well it went. Families were walking around with backpacks on their backs, looking for kids’ books, among other subjects. We couldn’t have asked for a better turnout.”
As of last week, more people had signed up for Saturday’s event in Lawrence than in Princeton. “We’re hoping for more in Princeton, but people don’t have to sign up to participate, Salvatore said. “Everyone who hears about it is excited. There is no apathy when it comes to Free Book Day.” Signing up also links participants to a site indicating which types of books will be available on different streets. Connect on the Facebook page. Neighborhoods with low pedestrian traffic are encouraged to deposit books at a more centrally located friend’s house. If at the end of the day participants still have unwanted books, they can bring them to the Goodwill donation center at 15 Route 31, Pennington, or 18 Arctic Parkway, Ewing. “Use a tarp, a table, the grass — whatever works for you,” Salvatore said. “Then, drive or walk around to see what neighbors have put out. It’s up to you whether, at the end of the day, you have more or less books in your house. Hopefully, this is a reminder that there are physical books out there if you want them.” —Anne Levin
continue to do to support our Howell Farm Harvest Helps Residents in Need community.” Forced to cut back on programming due to COVID-19, Howell Living History Farm in Hopewell Township was able to shift more of its focus this spring and summer to the labor-intensive planting, weeding and harvesting involved in producing crops to help local food banks and pantries. The harvest is ongoing, but through the end of August its yield included 1,900 pounds of potatoes; 1,200 pounds of tomatoes; hundreds of pounds each of cabbage, collards, cucumbers, peppers and snap beans; several thousand pounds each of whole wheat flour, cornmeal and oatmeal that is distributed in 1.5- and 2-pound bags; and 650 dozen eggs. An estimated 12,000 people have received a food bank or pantry distribution containing a Howell Farm item. “Howell Farm has always helped feed Mercer County residents in need through local food banks and pantries, but the pandemic has made that role even more vital,” said Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes. “I applaud the farm’s staff and volunteers for the yeoman’s work they’ve done and
— WE BUY — BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS Also Buying: Antiques, Collectibles, Jewelry, Postcards, Ephemera, Pottery, Prints, Paintings, Old Glass, etc. BOOKS FOR EVERYONE: On Free Book Day in Princeton and Lawrence this Saturday, September 12, readers can get rid of unwanted volumes and find some new ones. The event was first launched in Hopewell and Pennington as a way to strengthen community bonds during the pandemic.
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Pandemic Makes High Holy Days A Challenge for Local Synagogues In normal times, attending synagogue services is a focus of the Jewish High Holy Days. But these are not normal times. The pandemic has forced houses of worship to get creative about how to observe Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, starting the night of September 18; and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which begins the night of September 27. Gathering en masse under one roof for the various services that mark the holidays is not an option this year. Locally, observances will range from indoor services for very limited numbers to outdoor gatherings and, of course, Zoom. The traditional blasts of the Shofar, a ram’s horn that is blown in synagogue at different times during the holidays, will be heard outside instead. “We’re having drive-in shofar services, where cars will be lined up in our parking lot,” said Rabbi Jordan Goldson of Har Sinai Temple in Pennington. The ram’s horn will sound on Saturday, September 12 from 4:30 to 5:30
p.m. “The person blowing the shofar will be in the middle, and people can just roll down their windows to hear it. We’ll have loudspeakers if the weather cooperates.” Goldson and colleagues have worked hard to make the best of this year’s unusual circumstances. Special programs for children, including a bedtime story, are all part of the equation. “All the major services will be virtual,” he said. “We have found ways to create shortened services, which are abbreviated to some extent. We’ve also created parts of services that will be broadcast at a certain time, and have been sent out to the congregation as recordings.” Similar efforts are underway at The Jewish Center on Nassau Street, where a combination of live and prerecorded services is planned. “We’re very fortunate to have Cheryl Mintz (longtime production stage manager at McCarter Theatre) to help us as our sort of creative director,” said Cantor Jeff Warschauer. “It is a real collaboration between lay people, clergy, and
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and board members will be on hand to say hello and hand out High Holiday bags. All services will be online. For information, visit templemicah.org. Also in Lawrence, Adath Israel is holding services both in person — limited to 25 at a time — and online. “We’ve offered members the choice to come into the sanctuary in these small numbers, because we have been having Shabbat services that way and it has worked out,” said Rabbi Benjamin Adler. “We’ve broken up holiday services into hour chunks. Some parts will only be on Zoom, some will be pre-recorded, and some in person. But there’s always a Zoom option.” Planning this year’s services has been daunting, to say the least. “Some people are very excited,” said Adler. “They really want to come back to the sanctuary. Others are a little more hesitant, and they want to have a good experience at home. We want to accommodate everyone, and it is a major challenge to have a service that works both at home and on Zoom.” “Yes, it is a challenge,” said Goldson. “But the liturgy is a tool that helps move us to create a feeling, and a theme, and action. We’ve had to restructure the use of that tool. So, everything is rethought. Everything is new. There might be parts of the service we’re not doing, and that may be striking to someone. But in the end, we’re creating experiences. The liturgy is being used as a tool within those experiences to get out of the holiday what we need to get out of it.” —Anne Levin
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resources for undergraduate and graduate students engaging in work over the summer to address racial inequalities and injustices — in addition to the renaming of the residential college and the public policy school. A top priority identified for the current year, Eisgruber w rote, is t he challenge of ex te n d i ng P r i n ce ton Universit y’s educat ional resources to disadvantaged populations in the area by “exploring the possibility of a new credit- or degreeg r a n t i n g p r o g r a m t h at would extend Princeton’s teaching to a new range of students from communities disproportionately affected by systemic racism and related forms of disadvantage.” “Our growing experience with online learning adds to the tools we might use to enhance such a project,” Eisgruber wrote, pointing out that Princeton currently “has none of the degree-granting continuing education, general education, or related outreach programs that exist at almost all of our peers.” Among other priorities for “collective, university-wide
work beginning immediately” is the recruitment of a faculty that “more closely reflects both the diverse makeup of the students we educate and the national pool of candidates,” specifically to “increase by 50 percent the number of tenured or tenuretrack faculty members from underrepresented groups over the next five years.” According to data from 2019 cited in The Daily Princetonian student newspaper, 8 percent of tenured and tenure track faculty members at Pr inceton are Black or Hispanic, compared to 18 percent of undergraduates and 32 percent of the U.S. population. According to The Princetonian, Eisgruber’s letter received mixed reactions from student activists and facu lt y, some of whom had been involved in the consultation and discussion process so far. Many called for more specifics, a clear timeline, or more concrete action to advance these “first steps.” In his letter Eisgruber also stated that there would be opportunities arranged in the coming days and months for community input, dialogue, and discussion, including
m u lt ipl e tow n h a l l s i n September and October. Emphasizing that Princeton Universit y must address s ys tem ic racism in t he world as well as within its own community, Eisgruber ack n ow l e d g e d t h at t h e University, even though it has committed itself to becoming more inclusive for at least the past 50 years, has, for most of its history, “intentionally and systematically excluded people of color, women, Jews, and other minorities.” He went on to note how racism and its consequences “persist at Princeton as in our society,” as “race-based inequities in America’s health care, policing, education, and employment systems affect profoundly the lives of our staff, students, and faculty of color.” As evidence of “racist assumptions from the past” t hat “remain embedded in the structures of the University itself” he pointed out, “Princeton inherits from earlier generations at least nine departments and programs organized around European languages and culture, but only a single, relatively small program in African studies.” —Donald Gilpin
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literary celebrity visitors as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Walker Percy. Other, unconfirmed, stories of the red farmhouse include a visit by Thomas Jefferson in 1783, when he attended the Continental Congress in Nassau Hall, and a raid by British soldiers, who supposedly kicked down the front door during or after the Battle of Princeton in 1777. Job Stockton, who also built the Bainbridge House on Nassau Street and was a cousin of Declaration of Independence signer Richard Stockton, apparently bought the land from John Hornor and built the original farmhouse. According to cur rent neighbor Steve Hiltner, who was one of the participants in saving the house from demolition, Brooke Brown, who purchased the house in November 2018, considered tearing it down and re-building. A bicentennial plaque on the front of the house, she discovered, did not signify any official historic status or protection. When Hiltner and another neighbor, Galina Chernaya, found out about plans to possibly demolish the house they began to make inquiries with the town and the new owner to see if the house could be saved, or at least to try to salvage some of the historic materials for reuse. Another neighbor, Peter Thompson, had also been following the news about t h e h o u s e ’s p r o p o s e d demolition, and decided to post about it on the “I Grew Up in Princeton” Facebook page, where it received
considerable attention. “My sense is that the strong community response to that post got the attention of the town,” said Hiltner. “The town became aware of how much people care about this house.” “I saw it, and I was really u p s e t ,” s a i d P r i n c e t o n Councilwoman Mia Sacks. “It was something important that had fallen between the cracks. I saw it and I talked with Michael LaPlace and [Council President] David Cohen. If Peter hadn’t posted that I think the house would have been destroyed.” S h e c o n t i n u e d , “ I t ’s encouraging because often citizens feel they can’t make a difference, that things are inevitable. But you never know. It’s a story of the community coming together.” Cohen, LaPlace, and others worked with Brown in revising the proposal so that the house could be saved as part of a duplex. When the property is subdivided, the lot next to Harrison Street will include a new unit, a house, and the parcel that the old house is on will become a duplex with the old farmhouse preserved, Hiltner explained. “I think that’s the way things should work,” he said in reflecting on the process and its favorable outcome. “We associate history mostly with the western side of Princeton, I think, but this was a house that was very unusual for the neighborhood in how old it was. It was a quiet house, didn’t stand out in any way, just this red house on Ewing Street that people would be hurrying by on their way to somewhere else, but it has this amazing history to it.” Noting his interest in “the creative reuse of old objects,”
Hiltner, who is president of the board of directors of Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW), is looking forward to making use of an old eight-foot square shed and a nice, elegant gazebo” on the 145 Ewing property. He is working with Brown to arrange the transfer of the shed and gazebo to Herrontown Woods to stand near the historic Veblen House. FOHW could mount solar panels on the roof of the shed, Hiltner said, and use the inside as a place to store tools for a botanical garden they are creating. The gazebo could overlook some farmland and a little pond next to the Veblen House. “We’ll figure out how to move them,” he added, noting that one of the FOHW board members has a trailer they can use. Cohen, who serves on both Council and the planning board, applauded the resolution of the red farmhouse discussions. “It was a great collaboration between the community and the planning department,” he said. “It came to our attention because of concerned neighbors. We reached out to the planning department, and Michael LaPlace reached out to the owner.” He continued, “This is a great example of how good communication can uncover opportunities that you might have missed otherwise.” He added that the protection of individual properties that are historically important though not part of a historic district needs to be a topic for further investigation in the future. “I’m relieved and happy that everybody was able to come together and find a way to save this special place,” said Hiltner. —Donald Gilpin
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One of the latest eateries to emerge is More Than Q Barbecue Co., located at 3522 Route One North in The Square at West Windsor shopping center. Opened June 30, it is owned by John Procaccini, “Z” Pappas, and Matt Martin. Known for their success in establishing many restaurants in the Princeton area, including Osteria Procaccini, Trattoria Procaccini, and Pj’s Pancake House, among others, Procaccini and Pappas continue to look for new dining experiences for their clientele. More Than Q is the 10th restaurant under the auspices of their restaurant management and consulting company, Gretalia. New Opportunity “We were looking to move in a different direction, something unique,” explains
Procaccini. “I love barbecue, but I didn’t know how to do barbecue. ‘Z’ and I looked a l l o v e r, c h e c k i n g o u t different barbecue places, and then we found Matt in Lambertville.” Pitmaster Matt Martin had founded More Than Q Barbecue Company in 2014, and owns two establishments, one in Lambertville and another in Easton, Pa. He has an established reputation for offering high quality Texas-style barbecue, and he was looking for a new opportunity. “It was perfect timing,” he points out. “I had been looking for a new location, and Princeton was definitely on the radar.” The space, almost next door to Trader Joe’s, was available, and Procaccini is very pleased with the location. “It’s a big draw being so near to Trader Joe’s and in this mall. There’s a lot of traffic here, and we have been getting people right from the start. We are very encouraged.” More Than Q’s specialty is its Texas-style barbecue, which customers can’t seem to get enough of. “Our barbecue is dry-rubbed, and then smoked over oak or hickor y wood,” explains Martin, who had specialized in fine dining and retail management with Whole Foods, before discovering his love of barbecue. “Matt elevates the barbecue,” observes Procaccini. “This is upscale barbecue. We are set apart by Matt’s
expertise and by our own special recipes.” Customer Favorites Among the customer favorites are smoked ribs, brisket, and pulled pork. Choices can also be sliced or on-the-bone, and pulled chicken, wings, and sausage are also available The aroma of the smoking process often fills the restaurant, adding to the anticipation, as custom ers select either platters or sandwiches. Among the latter, the cornmeal-encrusted fried chicken sandwich is a big favorite. Also, among the “More” in the More Than Q is the G ol d m a n Tr i p l e b a c o n wrapped hot dog, as well as the ever popular Chili Dog. Soups and salads are on the menu, with Jambalaya soup and the Kale and Brussels Salad with buttermilk chive dressing especially popular. “Our sides are Southernstyle,” reports Martin, “and include grits, collard greens, corn bread, mac & cheese, MTQ baked beans, and coleslaw.” Garnishes include fresh house pickles (cucumber and red onion), fried pickles, and pickled cucumber. If customers wish, they can choose South Carolina Mustard BBQ sauce and Carolina BBQ sauce, among others. Desserts are not forgotten at More Than Q, and favorites include the Homemade Banana Puddin’, seasonal cobblers, and Bourbon Buttermilk Tassies. Desserts are made in house at Pj’s
Pancake House & Bakery in Kingston. Boylan’s sodas, tea, and bottled water are popular beverages. Down-To-Earth A Q Kids Menu is available, and also customers appreciate the attractive presentation of all the dishes. This is important to the owners, and it extends to the appealing and comfortable down-to-earth decor and atmosphere in the restaurant, including photos of steers, and the cut oak and hickory logs, which are placed on shelves in plain sight of the customers. “This offers both form and function,” notes Martin, referring to the logs. “It’s a place to keep the wood, and something for customers to notice.” Prices start at $8 for the Kids Menu, hot dogs from $8, sandwiches at $10, and platters in the $15 and up range. The virus is uppermost on everyone’s mind these days, and restaurants, especially, are coping with an assortment of often-changing rules and regulations. New Jersey is now allowing indoor dining, with appropriate safety precautions and distancing. “We normally could accom modate 70 people,” says Procaccini, “but now, we can only have 25 percent capacity, with customers sitting at every other table. We also have outside tables, and people are enjoying that in the nice weather.” Takeout is 95 percent of the business now, he adds, and delivery in the area and catering for all size events are also available. High Standards
BEST BARBECUE: “We use only fresh seasonal ingredients and select cuts of meat, making our delicious Texas-style barbecue the perfect Barbecue Experience.” John Procaccini (left) and Matt Martin, owners of More Than Q Barbecue Company, stand beside “Bubba,” their special steer mascot. Safety and proper sanitation have always been a priority for Procaccini and Martin, and they have adhered to high standards in their restaurants. “We have always been conscious of the importance of sanitation, and now, in addition, we follow all the state regulations, including everyone, customers and staff, wearing masks. The customers are very sensitive to this, and very careful.” More Than Q is off to such a great start that the owners have high hopes for the future, and they look forward to even more dining projects. “What I really enjoy is the next restaurant, the next opening,” says Procaccini. “It’s always a new challenge, a new adventure.” Adds Martin, “I enjoy the risk factor, taking a concept,
seeing it in its infancy, and then watching it grow. It’s pretty amazing. Both of us look forward to the virus being over and also never being out of the growth mode. We’re looking forward to new projects and new opportunities for our customers.” ore Than Q is open seven days, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Opportunities include online ordering, takeout, and now both indoor and outdoor dining. ( 609 ) 642- 4770. Website: www.getforky.com. —Jean Stratton
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Princeton Community Will Be Well Served With Bierman on the BOE
To the Editor, The Princeton community will be well served with Adam Bierman on the (BOE) Board of Education. Adam is a teacher at the state Division of Children and Families, working with at risk students in Trenton. He attended Princeton Public Schools, where his mother taught, and his father was president of BOE in the late ’60s to early ’70s. Adam Bierman has the background and experience to help our schools avoid the mistakes that in the past have led to money wasted. He was against spending over $140,000 for non-local demographers. There are many issues involving teachers, students, and taxpayers that he would solve sensibly. ROBERT RAPHAEL Snowden Lane
Princeton Human Services Thanks Donors For Book Bag, School Supplies Drive
To the Editor: We are pleased to let our friends and neighbors know how enthusiastically we support Beth Behrend’s candidacy for reelection to the Princeton School Board. Beth reached out to us last year asking that we volunteer our time to join with a number of other Princeton residents with deep and varied professional backgrounds in public finance, planning, and development, and advise the Board on the immensely-complicated challenges our public schools are facing over the next few years. While both of us have spent most of our careers in the private sector, Harry previously served as finance chair of the Princeton Board of Education, and Bob served as an elected member of the former Princeton Borough Council. Public school enrollments are rising, as Princeton continues to grow and redevelop as a very attractive place for families to live and work. Enrollment growth is already placing significant stress on the capacities of our teachers, and also our school facilities, a number of them built well over a half-century ago. Our projections indicate enrollment growth is likely to continue into the next five years and beyond. Meanwhile, state-mandated spending caps on school budgets impose severe constraints on the Board’s financial options to address these pressures. Our team of volunteer professionals has been deeply engaged this past year with Beth and her district and Board colleagues in assembling the best data available on these challenges and supporting the work of outside planning professionals who are developing smart short-term and long-term planning options to address these issues. In the course of our personal engagement in this strategic planning process, we have been impressed with Beth’s capacity to listen and learn from others, including parents, staff and students. We have also been impressed with her initiative to reach out to dozens of other professionals in our community who are now becoming engaged, and are bringing to this process the best research available and sharing best practices from their experiences in the private sector and in government. And then, In March, the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly made the task of strategic planning immensely more complicated. During this past six months, Beth’s steady leadership, her extremely high level of energy, work ethic and commitment of time, and her extraordinary talent as a team leader of this substantial public enterprise in Princeton, have for us been singularly impressive. Princeton is most fortunate to have had Beth Behrend serve on the Board the past three years. We enthusiastically urge our friends and neighbors to support her re-election on November 3. BOB POWELL Vandeventer Avenue HARRY LEVINE Newlin Road
To the Editor: Princeton Human Services once again had a successful Book Bag Drive this year thanks to the many donors who contributed to its success. Each year, the department distributes backpacks to over 150 children from grades kindergarten to 12th. This year, the department received an overwhelming response from donors, allowing the department to extend the drive to Princeton middle and high school students, totaling over 230 students who received backpacks. For the past 11 years, the Princeton Human Services Commission, municipal employees, local businesses, organizations, and residents have donated book bags and school supplies. Due to the pandemic, the department was able to distribute face masks, hand sanitizer, tissues, and ear buds along with the school supplies to students. The items are distributed to children from low-income families who attend the Princeton Public Schools and are entering kindergarten through 12th grade. Princeton Human Services would like to thank Princeton municipal employees, local police officers, and the many Princeton residents who made individual donations. And a special thanks to Princeton University, W.B. Mason, the Princeton Police Department, I Support the Girls of Central/South Jersey, Stone Hill Church, and jaZams for their generous contributions and ongoing support to the Backpack and School Supplies Drive. This is truly a community effort and it’s great to see our community come together to ensure our children have adequate supplies as they start a new school year. Human Services has been coordinating this drive for over a decade and it wouldn’t be possible without the support of all of our donors and volunteers that help during supplies distribution. We look forward to continuing the Book Bag and School Supplies Drive next year and providing this service again to To the Editor: Princeton families. I write this letter in support of Paul Johnson, Karen LemMELISSA URIAS on, and Bill Hare for the Board of Education, as a private Director, Department of Human Services individual, as a Princeton taxpayer, as a volunteer in the community, as a wife, and as a mother of two PHS graduates, 2015 and 2018, and not on the behalf of the Board of Education. The Board needs engaged, proactive, and compassionTo the Editor, ate board members who will ensure a budget within the 2 For Adam Bierman, Princeton has always been home. His percent cap, will ensure that money is spent so that ALL stucandidacy for Princeton Board of Education gives me the wel- dents are given the tools they need to reach their potential come and fitting opportunity to say what I’ve been honored and who will be transparent and trustworthy in every vote to say before about this dynamic and engaged citizen: Adam they make on behalf of all our students, staff, and parents. Bierman lives his life embracing the spirit of the proud center Approximately 30 percent of Princeton households have of learning that is Princeton municipality. For Adam, that students in PPS. Paul, Karen, and Bill understand the immeans valuing the ability to think for oneself and using what portance of not only a diverse student body, but also of a you learn as a call to action. diverse staff and a diverse community that welcomes everyI first met Adam, an independent Democrat, a few years one. Paul, Karen, and Bill support the 2 percent cap and ago in Princeton Community Village, the oldest and largest will keep taxes lower by managing the expenses and holding affordable housing development in our town, and the place I call home. Bierman came with an open mind, a welcoming spirit, and a sense of urgency. His presence was an antidote Letters to the Editor Policy to cynicism and prepackaged thinking. Adam Bierman’s deep knowledge of Princeton is a resource Town Topics welcomes letters to the Editor, preferably just waiting for the opportunity to benefit all of us. I can think on subjects related to Princeton. Letters must have a of nowhere more important for him to devote himself on our valid street address (only the street name will be printed behalf than the Board of Education. with the writer’s name). Priority will be given to letters ERICA MOSNER that are received for publication no later than Monday Princeton Community Village noon for publication in that week’s Wednesday edition. Letters must be no longer than 500 words and have no more than four signatures. All letters are subject to editing and to available space. To the Editor: At least a month’s time must pass before another Ken McCarthy in his letter (Mailbox, September 2) asks if letter from the same writer can be considered for pubanyone can explain how 18 deaths in Princeton’s population lication. of 28,000 “creates a rationale for a multi-month crippling of the area’s local economy.” The relevant comparison is not the Letters are welcome with views about actions, number of deaths that occurred despite the stringent measures, policies, ordinances, events, performances, buildings, but the number that would have befallen us in the absence of etc. However, we will not publish letters that include those measures. content that is, or may be perceived as, negative towards local figures, politicians, or political candidates It is estimated that 50-60 percent of the population would have as individuals. to be infected before herd immunity is reached. And the fatality rate among those infected in the U.S. is around 3 percent. Using When necessary, letters with negative content may these numbers for Princeton yields somewhere between 420 and be shared with the person/group in question in order 504 deaths. Therefore the measures probably saved this minus to allow them the courtesy of a response, with the un18, i.e. over 400 and perhaps close to 500, lives. derstanding that the communications end there. The correct question is whether saving that many lives is worth Letters to the Editor may be submitted, preferably the effect on the economy. Perhaps not, but surely a very differby email, to editor@towntopics.com, or by post to Town ent comparison. Topics, PO Box 125, Kingston, N.J. 08528. Letters submitted via mail must have a valid signature. AVINASH DIXIT Gordon Way
Hare, Lemon, and Johnson for a Diverse, Accountable, Trusting Board of Education
administration accountable to their budgets and smarter spending. They want to reimagine our current facilities instead of building new ones. They promise to streamline and look to our community for expertise, instead of just hiring consultants who don’t know or understand Princeton. They promise that even when your children graduate PPS you will be able to afford to stay in Princeton, where you have put down roots and made a home for your family. The delivery of education, due to COVID, is changing and Bill, Karen, and Paul are ready to be the leaders needed to ensure that all our students are heard and that their safety, mental, and physical health and wellness will be addressed. They will support a level playing field so all students can learn and be the best they can be. They care deeply about supporting every student to be their best self and will support, not cut, educational services and staff needed so all students can thrive, value themselves, and respect each other. This is a unique time for our community and our schools. We have all witnessed the world rapidly changing due to COVID, horrific racial injustices, and financial uncertainty. We need Board of Education members who can handle all of these issues, while being strong leaders and ensuring that the district is providing a robust academic education that allows for ALL of our students to thrive. Princeton residents deserve a Board of Education that will represent their interests and Paul, Karen, and Bill are committed to earning your trust and your vote. Please join me in voting for Bill Hare, Paul Johnson, and Karen Lemon for Board of Education. DEBBIE BRONFELD Dodds Lane
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“It’s a Wonderful Life” — George Bailey’s Bridge Is Nearer Than You Think Actually, the town I had in mind was Califon, N.J. —Philip Van Doren Stern he first sentence of the screenplay for Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life calls for a night sequence showing various streets and buildings in “the town of Bedford Falls, somewhere in New York State.” Above the first sentence of the film’s primary source, Philip Van Doren Stern’s Christmas story, “The Greatest Gift,” there’s a drawing of a despondent looking man leaning on a bridge railing. The “little town” described, “bright with colored Christmas lights,” has no name. In a 1946 interview, the author, a Rutgers graduate who grew up in Jersey City, makes it clear that the place he had in mind was Califon, in Hunterdon County, 37 miles northwest of Princeton. As noted in Wikipedia, the center of town is “the historic iron bridge spanning the South Branch of the Raritan River, which divides the borough.” On the Bridge I’m beginning in Califon because it’s the original setting of It’s a Wonderful Life, not Seneca Falls, New York, the town that has declared itself the model for Bedford Falls by holding an annual festival; it even named a hotel after Clarence, the whimsical angel who appears on the bridge in time to save George Bailey from ending his life. Clarence accomplishes his mission by jumping into the icy waters himself, knowing that George’s instinct to help others is so fundamental that he’ll take the plunge to save a life. But look what just happened. Even as I’m trying to explain the motive for my online trip to Califon and its historic bridge, I’m still riding the emotional rollercoaster of the film’s final half hour as Clarence shows George the nightmare of Pottersville, a vision of the fate that would befall the community had he never been born and had the town been left to the mercy of Henry Potter, the unredeemed and unpunished banker from hell who makes Scrooge look like a sucker. In fact, the actual town of Califon is located a mere six miles west of a town called Pottersville, which lies the same distance from the Trump National Golf Club at Bedminster, a domain known as Camp David North or the Summer White House. Conventional Wisdom “I’m like a parent whose kid grows up to be president,” Frank Capra said in a 1985 interview regarding the fate of It’s A Wonderful Life, a box office flop in 1946 reborn three decades later as an American Christmas Carol. It was the surfacing of Capra’s masterpiece at the recent Republican National Convention that sent me back to the film and put me on the road to Califon. I’m thinking of the speaker who promised POTUS the “great gift the angels gave George Bailey – the chance to see what the world would
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be like without him.” Meaning that but for his enlightened leadership “we’d all be living in Pottersville.” No need to point out the absurdity of Trump as George Bailey, Jimmy Stewart’s daughter having done just that in a letter to the “fake news” New York Times in the name of “decency, compassion, sacrifice, and a fight against corruption” claiming the “analogy to be the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty.” Assuming that someone so self-absorbed knew anything about the film or the humane self-sacrificing character played so sympathetically by Stewart, I’d have thought he’d have been puzzled if not insulted by the comparison, not to mention the perish-thethought prospect of seeing, even hypothetically, what the world would be like without him. Or maybe he’s still fuming about last year’s Saturday Night Live travesty of It’s a Wonderful Life, and for all I know, SNL may be planning a sequel, bringing in a Joe Biden impersonator with a Jimmy Stewart stutter. You can already see the possibilities of a Bailey vs. Baldwin cold opening version of the first debate. Oh Those Angels Let’s say you’re seeing Frank Capra’s kid-whogrew-up-to-be-president for the first time. You’ve got no preconceived notions, no idea that you’re watching “a beloved holiday classic.” The first voices you hear belong to townspeople, friends and family praying for George Bailey. You follow the prayers up to heaven and find yourself listening to a conversation between two angels discussing how to help a man below who is on the verge of suicide. They decide to send a good-hearted but not very bright angel named Clarence (Henry Travers), who is shown a film of Bailey’s life, this film, in effect, except he needs help seeing it because he has yet to earn his wings. “Keep your eyes open,” the head angel tells him. “See the town?” The screen blurs then clears around the first scene, a bunch of boys sledding, 11-year-old George Bailey among them. For some viewers, the film never really survives that opening. The suspension of disbelief may give way now and again to the power of the acting and the brilliant cinematography, but for hardened film critics and film elitists the “vision
thing” with the angels makes it hard to take the picture seriously as a credible work of art. I may have felt the same, but not for long. The second scene, with young George (Bobbie Anderson) and Mr. Gower (H.B. Warner), the druggist he runs errands for, slapped all such doubts right out of my head. I saw it on an 11-inch Sony, but it might have been happening on a wallsized screen. As the novelist Graham Greene observed in a review of You Can’t Take It With You, Capra’s “complete mastery of his medium” is such that the “screen always seems twice as big as other people’s.” The Heart of Darkness In past columns, I’ve stressed the range and magnitude of Jimmy Stewart’s portrayal of George Bailey with an emphasis on his passion for the positive. Like the moonlit moment after a high school dance when George asks his future wife (Donna Reed) “What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down!” And when Mary says she’ll take it, he says, “Well, then, you can swallow it, and it’ll all dissolve, see, and the moonbeams’ll shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair!” Jump ahead to the sequence that leads George Bailey to his Christmas Eve moment on the bridge and all is lost —he’s been reduced to begging for a loan from the unconditionally ruthless Mr. Potter; he’s terrified his wife and children, crashing into a Norman Rockwell Christmas Eve like a madman; he’s viciously berated his daughter’s teacher over the phone, and staggered into a roadside tavern for a drink, the camera moving in close, as he prays, and though it’s the standard unexceptional “I’m not a praying man — but if you can hear me show me the way — I’m at the end of my rope — show me, God” sort of prayer, it’s emotionally immense and at the same time crushingly intimate, so that the darkness seems to be consuming him as he speaks. Concerned, the owner of the tavern, one of the many people whose life and livelihood he’s impacted, calls him by name, is overheard by the husband of the teacher he just vilified, who slugs him, shouting “She cried for an hour!” — words you
know must hit a caring man like George harder than the blow itself. George and Clarence The rest of the film lives up to James Agee’s quick study of “its pile-driving emotional exuberance,” and the way it “outrages, insults, or at least accosts without introduction, the cooler and more responsible parts of the mind.” One of the most admirable elements of Stewart’s performance is the way he accepts the reality of an angel named Clarence in the scene where they are drying off in the tollkeeper’s house after the plunge off the bridge. Dismissively humoring the angel, who is clad in the nightshirt Clarence says he “passed away in,” George is friendly and casually accepting (in contrast to the tollkeeper whose eyes grow wider at every word Clarence utters), telling him, “Look, little fella, go off and haunt somebody else, will you?” Even his self-pity becomes humanly engaging, Jimmy Stewart-style, “Yeah, you’re just the sort of angel I’d get” and “Yeah, I got a bust in the jaw in answer to a prayer a little bit ago.” Writing of Stewart’s performance in the 1994 edition of A Biographical Dictionary of Film, the British critic David Thomson sees the “first hint of frenzy and gloom” haunting some of the actor’s edgier postwar roles in films like Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Vertigo. Much of the picture’s darkest force is delivered in the closing scenes, as Stewart ranges from absolute despair to absolute ecstasy, and the mother of all happy endings. Except that, as critics like Andrew Sarris have noted, the monstrous Potter is never punished, contrary to the Hollywood code that evildoers must pay the price. No wonder Sarris finds this Christmas classic “one of the most profoundly pessimistic tales of human existence ever to achieve a lasting popularity.” eferring to the film’s “uneasy depths,” Thomson admits that he had not grasped it nor been gripped by it until he lived in America, where It’s a Wonderful Life was “an institution, all over the TV airwaves at Christmas, bringing good cheer without quite letting us forget a vision of dread. For happiness here was pursued by the hounds of living hell; the American dream was so close to the nightmare. The film that had failed in 1947 had become a token of uplifting fellowship, yet it was a film noir full of regret, self-pity, and the temptation of suicide. How could so many people convince themselves that it was cheery?” Thomson credits the “the craft, the guile, the magic” of a “movie so beautifully made, so rich in texture and nuance” typical of certain landmark American films with their “uncanny conjuring of ‘genius’ and the unwholesome.” These “problem films, secret revelations of the medium” remind him of The Triumph of the Will. —Stuart Mitchner
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egasus Theatre Company of West Windsor premiered its “Intimate Conversations Series” on September 3. The online discussion featured t wo of the ar tists behind the 2019 film Seneca: director and editor Jason Chaet, and Princeton-born composer Rob er t Manganaro. Pegasus b oard member John Paxton, a teacher and independent filmmaker, curated the conversation. The event came about because Manganaro is a family friend of Managing Artistic Director Jennifer Nasta Zefutie. “I grew up with Jennifer’s husband, John. He and I have remained close fr iends for years,” Manganaro says in an email to this writer. “I was best man in his wedding, so it’s fun that this came full circle.” As a songwriter and performer Manganaro has collaborated with Hamilton star Anthony Ramos on songs including “Ocean City,” “Take Me To The Middle,” and “Freedom.” He has performed the National Anthem at NBA and NCAA basketball games, in stadiums such as the Prudential Center and Barclay’s. He met Chaet through the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, where both are on staff. The bulk of Seneca’s score — which is by turns ethereal, pensive, and driving — was completed in Manganaro’s Manhattan apartment. There he “recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered every one of the tracks,” he recalls to Paxton and Chaet. “I’ve been writing music for a long time, [ but ] never for a film, until I started working with Jason,” Manganaro says of his background. “You bring with you what your experiences are … for me it’s about sitting down at the piano, [or] sitting down at the guitar, and writing.” Of the extent to which his musical influences — which include jazz and 1970s rock, rather than film scores — inform his compositions, he adds: “It’s this sort of fusion of all that music into whatever organically comes out.” Chaet is a theater director, producer, and acting teacher who got his start at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. He founded and was the artistic director of Stage One, an off-off Broadway company. He served as a creative consultant on the film Kissing Jessica Stein. His film Putzel premiered at the 2012 Woodstock Film Festival. Additional
credits include Remember (produced in association with the Puerto Rican film commission); and the web series Just Words, which Manganaro also scored. Manganaro recalls that his previous collaboration with Chaet gave him his initial experience in “matching music with picture, which I had never done in any kind of true meaningful way. As a songwriter, I’m just writing whatever I want, and it doesn’t matter what it matches with. Doing this was a totally different process, but that’s what made it fun: that collaborative effort. In order for it to be successful, the score writer has to be well connected to the director; that’s absolutely essential.” Concept and Themes Seneca is w r it ten ( and produced ) by Chaet and actor Armando Riesco. The film depicts a Puerto Rican actor and father, David Seneca (portrayed by Riesco), who struggles to confront challenges to his career; his crumbling relationships with his wife, Bianca (Susan Misner) and young daughter, Annette ( Claudia Morcate-Mar tin ); and Hurricane Maria’s devastation of his homeland. Chaet recalls that inspiration for Seneca came when Riesco, whose experiences as a Puerto Rican actor inform his onscreen character, “sent me a video about the stoic philosopher Seneca. That was just a spark; it’s not what the movie became about, [though] the last
name of the main character stuck. But there was something in that video about the philosophy of the stoics: no matter how wealthy they were, they wanted to live very simply.” “I got this image of a guy who’s been kicked out of his house … away from his family, and in a room by himself, with no furniture,” Chaet continues. Classifying the film as a “character study” he adds, “To me it’s about learning how to be a mentor; being a dad when you don’t really feel great about that; and the burden of expectation. There’s a lot about identity in the movie.” Manganaro agrees. “It’s [about] learning how to be a dad, but also recognizing that it’s not learning how to be a dad the moment you become a dad; it’s continuous. It’s a process throughout his entire life. That was interesting to me ; I was able to connect with that emotion. That’s ultimately where the music came from.” Process “Theater is so much about language, and film is so visual,” Chaet observes. “After I’ve done a scene, I like to watch it without the sound on — no dialogue, no music, no atmosphere — and if the cut is starting to make sense purely visually, then I start to feel good about where things are. I get a sense of the rhythm of the scene through the cut, without the sound. Then, I know that Rob’s amazing music, the dialogue, and
the sound design is going to enhance it. This has come to influence Chaet’s work as a director of live theater, giving him an idea for a rehearsal technique. “I make the actors do the scenes without dialogue, just trying to figure out in their heads where they are by reading the other person, and going through their physical actions, and the visual aspect of the scene.” Similarly, Manganaro preferred to prepare to score the film by watching it without “temp cues,” existing musical excerpts used by a director to convey the style of music that a scene requires. “I wanted to watch it with nothing. I didn’t want a temp cue … because I wanted to understand what the emotions of the actors were.” He feels that using temp cues “would have colored how things ended up turning out.” In August 2019 the film received a sold-out world premiere at the HBO NY Latino Film Festival. Subsequently it won several awards, including the Ultra Indie Feature Award at the Woodstock Film Festival, and Best Screenplay at the Queens World Film Festival. Seneca is available on HBO platforms as of August 28 of this year. “Intimate Conversations Series” The “Intimate Conversations Series” exists because Pegasus has “been working during the pandemic to develop programming that is both appropriate to the digital/online medium we’re required to work in, and continues to f ur ther our ar tistic mission,” Nasta Zefutie explains in an email. “These casual convers at ions — w it h g ues t actors, directors, w riters, and more — during which our patrons are also able to engage with our guests by asking questions through Facebook comments, allow us to continue to build and strengthen community through theater and performing arts.” he series will continue monthly. The next installment, featuring Kyle S c at lif fe, w i ll live s t re a m October 8 at 8 p.m. Scatliffe has performed in the Broadway revivals of Les Misérables and The Color Purple, and the National Tour of Hamilton. The November 5 installment will feature Bill Bowers, an award-winning actor whose Broadway credits include The Lion King and The Scarlet Pimpernel. —Donald H. Sanborn III
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“SENECA”: Pegasus Theatre Company presented an online conversation featuring the film’s co-writer, co-producer, director, and editor Jason Chaet; and its composer, Robert Manganaro. Above: Actor David Seneca (Armando Riesco, left) struggles to be a good father to his daughter Annette (Claudia Morcate-Martin). The film is available on HBO and HBO Max. (Image Courtesy of Kosher Quenepa LLC) To view the first installment of the “Intimate Conversations Series,” or learn about future events, visit Pegasus Theatre Company’s Facebook page. Seneca is available on HBO and HBO Max.
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Kathryn Boswell (Photo by Corinne Louie) the State Theatre in 2019. Broadway Online Trivia Night at State Theatre NJ H e r B r o a d w ay c r e d it s
State Theatre New Jersey will hold Broadway Online Tr iv ia Night, hos te d by actress Kathryn Boswell on Wednesday, on September 16 at 7 p.m. Proceeds raised suppor t State T heat re’s Com mu nit y E ngagement programs. A minimum donation of $5 allows patrons to participate in the trivia challenge. To sign up for Trivia Night, go to STNJ.org/Trivia. T he Broadway -t heme d trivia will be composed of 50 multiple choice questions covering everything from classic musicals like The Music Man and Fiddler on the Roof to composers and stars like Stephen Sondheim a n d B e r n ad e t te Pe te r s, to n e w e r m u s i c a l s l i ke Hamilton and Mean Girls. The first-place winner gets bragg i ng r ight s as well as a $150 State Theatre gift certificate and a State T he at re s wag bag. T he second-place winner gets a State Theatre swag bag. Online Trivia Night will b e hos te d on Z o om on each participant’s desktop computer and played on the smartphone-based trivia game app called Kahoot. Closed Captioning for this event can be made available by request by emailing info@ stnj.org by September 11. Boswell performed the role of Cynthia Weil in the national tour of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical at
include Anastasia and Gigi. TV and film credits include Bluebloods, Tales of the City, High Maintenance, and The Hating Game. State Theatre’s ongoing online Trivia series began in August with a popular, sold-out 2000s-themed trivia hosted by drag queen, comedian, and singer Pissi Myles. Online Trivia Nights b e n e f i t S t ate T h e at r e’s Com mu nit y E ngagement P r o g r a m s . M o r e Tr i v i a Nights will be added throughout the season.
Emerging Playwright Competition Extended to September 30
Submissions are open for Phillips’ Mill Community Association’s third annual jur ied one -act Emerging Play w r ight Competition. Send a shor t play by September 30, and a panel of three judges will blindly judge and select six of the best. Wr iters w it h in a 10 0 mile radius of Phillips’ Mill, located in New Hope, Pa., are invited to send their new short plays. W i n n i n g p l ay w r i g h t s will receive $100 and the opportunity to experience their plays at a live reading by actors on the stage at Phillips’ Mill in June 2021, followed by a talkback and a wine reception. G o to ph i l l ip s m i l l.or g and click on drama for the competition prospectus.
For the first three months of the pandemic, the Trenton Circus Squad closed its doors in order to come up with a new model for interacting with the community and spreading its mission of inspiring youth to take big leaps in life. The result was Trenton Circus Squad virtual, outfitting the organization with cameras, microphones, and production equipment for “Step Right Up! Plugged In,” a fundraiser taking place October 17 at 7 p.m. The event will take ticketed attendees to each of the partner organizations in Newark, Asbury Park, Camden, and Trenton to watch the young performers in action, see interviews, hear testimonies, and see participants perform in works inspired by the country’s current state of civil unrest. According to Executive Director Tom von Oehsen, “Each day, the Squad picked up their phones to research topics, focusing on the issues that matter to them, conversing, and creating storyboards of what they learned. The squad has discussed topics ranging from George Floyd and Breonna Taylor to Jeffrey Epstein, catcalling, harassment, and their constitutional rights. These discussions haven’t been easy. Sometimes they struggled to find common ground, many times feeling powerless to the injustice.” The Squad chose to tackle these tough topics, trying to understand how national and global issues impact their lives. For the fundraiser, they will take their conversations and experiences and express them through the art of circus. Trenton Circus Squad is a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring youth, with circus, to push themselves to take big leaps in life, and serve the community. Visit trentoncircussquad.org or call (609) 984-8599 for information.
Boheme Opera NJ Guild Presents Outdoor Event
The Boheme Opera NJ Guild presents “An Outdoor Return to Boheme – Strings Style” at Diamond’s Restaurant, 69 Route 156 in Yardville, from 2- 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 25. The performance celebrates the return of live entertainment outdoors under a white tent arranged with social distancing in mind. A string trio featuring members of the Boheme Opera NJ Orchestra — violinists Eugenia Goldman and Phillip Pugh, and cellist Elina Lang — will perform classical, opera, Broadway, and pop music. Guests will dine on Italian light fare by Diamond’s staff. Coffee, tea, and soft drinks will be provided. Guests are
VIRTUAL CIRCUS: The pandemic has not stopped Trenton Circus Squad, which has planned an online fundraising event for next month. (Photo by Donnie Ramsey) welcome to BYOB. Masks are required when not eating. The cost of the event is $55 per person. Seating is limited. Reservations and advance payment are required by October 18. Include the name of each guest and mail checks payable to: Boheme Opera NJ Guild, P. O. Box 9165, Trenton, NJ 08650. Currently, the company can only accept payment in advance and via checks, which enables contactless payment and avoids credit card charges. The Boheme Opera NJ Guild is a nonprofit (501c3) organization that provides support for Boheme Opera NJ — now in its 32nd season —through social, educational, and outreach events. During its inaugural year, the Guild hosted its first fundraising event at Hopewell Valley Vineyards and made a contribution that helped Boheme Opera NJ bring Amahl and the Night Visitors into the Trenton community last December. This event and Guild membership are open to all. For more information, visit bonjguild@gmail.com; write to P.O. Box 9165, Trenton, NJ 08650; or call Joan Hoagland at (609) 208-2171.
Illustrated Talk on Irish Dance Presented by Lewis Center
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Deirdre Mulrooney 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University, which will be virtual for the fall. The event is free and open to the public. Mulrooney’s talk, which will include both live and recorded content, traces the links from Yeats’ and De Valois’ Abbey Theatre Ballets (1927-1933), through Lucia Joyce, a professional dancer and daughter of writer James Joyce, to modern dance pioneer Erina Brady (1940s), on to what is happening in dance in Ireland today. T h is h istor y w ill touch on the Irish dancing background of Riverdance, and what its stars are forging now in contemporary dance. Mulrooney’s presentation will include her short film on Lucia Joyce starring Evanna Lynch and brief clips from several of her other dance documentary films. Mulrooney is author of
Irish Moves: An Illustrated History of Dance and Physical Theatre in Ireland (2006), and Orientalism, Orientation, and the Nomadic Work of Pina Bausch (2002). Her ongoing dance history research and reclamation project began in 2004 with her fivepart RTE Radio One documentary series Nice Moves, in conjunction with the 2nd International Dance Festival Ireland. Her first short documentary film, 1943 – A Dance Odyssey about IrishGerman Modern Dance pioneer Erina Brady, was broadcast on RTE One television in 2013. She is currently a University College Dublin Arts and Humanities Creative Fellow. The Fund for Irish Studies affords all Princeton students, and the community at large, a wider and deeper sense of the languages, literatures, drama, visual arts, history, politics, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is co-produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts and organized by Paul Muldoon, Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities, Founding Chair of the Lewis Center, Director of the Princeton Atelier, and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. Visit fis.princeton.edu.
“OPENING LIKE A PARASOL”: This painting by Jessica Mensch is featured in “Here and Now,” the new fall exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art in Bedmister. It will be on view September 11 through December 11. A virtual opening reception will be held via Zoom on Friday, September 11 from 6-7 p.m.
“Here and Now” Exhibit At community of artists and art Art Against Racism Contemporary Art Center that is here and now.” Sher- Nationwide Art Project
The Center for Contemporary Art (The Center in Bedminster) has announced its new fall exhibition, “Here and Now,” on view from September 11 through December 11. . To celebrate The Center’s 50 th anniversary this fall, curators John Yau and Wes Sherman spent over a year assembling the work of 19 contemporary artists. The ar tists featured in the exhibition are Chakaia Booker, Willie Cole, Chie Fueki, Evan Halter, Takuji Hamanaka, Barry Hazard, Suzanne Joelson, Judy Koo, Talia Levitt, Jessica Mensch, Phillip McConnell, Ilse Murdock, Nadia Haji Omar, William A. Ortega, Joyce Robins, Stephanie H. Shih, Francesca Strada, Tejaswini. and Peter Williams. Co - curator Sherman said, “‘Here and Now,’ implies an awareness of the present, much like the name of this institution, The Center of Contemporary Art, there is a mindfulness of being contemporary. This awareness is a continuum of ideas, practices, and events that reflect what The Center for Contemporary Art has stood for these past 50 years. To paraphrase Isaac Newton, to see further we must stand on the shoulders of giants. This exhibition can only exist because of what has come before and celebrates the diverse
man is a teaching artist at The Center and chair of The Center’s Exhibitions Committee. In selecting the work that is on view, co-curator Yau explains, “I wanted to have no preconceptions as to what would be in the exhibition. I would not make t he decision. T he work would make the final choices for me. It would make a strong impact, make me look again, become in some way unforgettable. It would push me into new places and offer me different and fresh perspectives.” Yau is an award-winning poet and art critic, co-editor of the online magazine, Hyperallergic Weekend, and professor of critical studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University). The exhibition is on view Mondays-Thursdays at The Center’s Bedminster location and Fridays and Saturdays by appointment only. Visitors must follow posted COVID-19 protocols. A virtual opening reception will be held via Zoom on Friday, September 11 from 6-7 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The reception will include talks from the curators and a preview of the exhibition. RSVP to Leigh Zona at lzona @ ccabedminster. org to attend. (Note: Opening reception Zoom link will be sent out the evening of September 10.)
Since the killing of George Floyd, artworks protesting Black lives lost to police violence have emerged all over the world. “Art Against Racism: Memorial.Monument. Movement” is a nationwide virtual exhibition created in response to this moment and will be presented on a groundbreaking video platform beginning October 3 at 5 p.m. EST. “This is a grassroots project welcoming all voices, both professional artists and those who express themselves in other forms,” says Art Against Racism founder and organizer Rhinold L. Ponder. Contributors are submitting short videos about their projects, discussing why they made this work, how art is a powerful tool for creating a just society, and the urgency of voting in 2020. The interactive exhibition serves as a living archive for preserving the breadth of art inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. The exhibition is searchable by contributor’s name and geographic location. The deadline for artists to submit, in order to be included in the October 3 opening, is September 14, but artwork will continue to be accepted until Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021. To participate, view the prospectus at sites.rutgers.edu/ mmm.
“STRANGE WATER”: This painting by Ebony Flag is part of “Art Against Racism: Memorial. Monument.Movement,” a nationwide virtual exhibition making its debut on October 3. The deadline for artists to submit, in order to be included in the opening, is September 14, but artwork will continue to be accepted until Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021.
and is now associate vice president of Strategic Initiatives at Rutgers University. Cynthia Groya, a major contributor to the arts community in the Princeton/Trenton area, through artwork/ films focusing on social justice themes and through volunteer work at the Princeton University Art Museum and regional social service institutions, joins Ilene Dube, arts journalist/curator/documentary filmmaker whose focus is on the artists of central New Jersey — she writes for national art media such as Hyperallergic; Andre Veloux, a Princeton-based artist whose work with Legos focuses on gender equality and women’s rights and has been exhibited throughout the country; and Mary Oestereicher Hamill, a socially engaged artist/educator and curator at Princeton University’s Bernstein Gallery, in developing this Art Against Racism living national archive. Tune in to sites.rutgers. edu /m m m beg inning on October 3, 5 p.m., to experience the livestream opening reception for Art Against Racism’s “Memorial.Monument.Movement.”
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The West Windsor Arts Council (WWAC) will host an “Art and Healing” online opening reception on September 11 at 7:15 p.m. They inv ite the communit y to join them for a celebration of this exhibition in which participants will view the works in the show, and have an opportunity to hear from the juror about her selection process and from the artists about their works. For the exhibit, WWAC invited artists to explore the theme of Art and Healing, not only as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and the profound impact it has had on our lives, but also to reflect on past life experiences or feelings relating to healing from any condition or challenge. As we slowly emerge from the quarantines of the past few months, WWAC sought to create an exhibition that looks at art as a healing tool, reflecting the realities, feelings, or experiences during this surreal time, or from other past events, either personal or public. This event is free, but you must register at westwindsorarts.org/event/art-andhealing-exhibition. The WWAC will host an Autumn Arts Afternoon on Sept 12, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Each year the WWAC offers this free, community-wide event to kick off the fall season. Autumn Arts Afternoon is their way of sharing the arts — and the vibrancy of the arts center — with the West Windsor community and beyond. This year, due to ongoing health concerns, it will not be at its usual location at the Nassau Park Pavilion. However, thanks to ongoing support by the shopping center, they will offer the annual program online through Zoom. This is a free event. To find out more and to register, visit westwindsorarts.org/event/autumnarts-afternoon.
Area Exhibits
Check websites for information on safety protocols. D&R Greenway Land Trust, One Preservation Place, has “Garden State Watercolor Society’s 50th Anniversary Virtual Juried Exhibition: Out of the Wild,” through September 30 and the ongoing virtual galleries “Trail of Breadcrumbs: Nature in Fairytales” and “Portraits of Preservation: James Fiorentino Art.” The center is currently closed to the public. drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has the ongoing virtual exhibit “Not Quite Open: The Art of Sheltering in Place.” The museum is currently closed to the public. ellarslie.org. Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020,” and other exhibits. Hours are Thursday through Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Timed tickets required. Indoor buildings are closed to the public. groundsforsculpture.org. Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “A Virtual Tour of Hamilton’s Princeton” and the “History@ Home” series. princetonhistory.org. Hopewell Valley Bistro & Inn, 15 East Broad Street, Hopewell, has “This Too Shall Pass,” an exhibition of artwork by Hopewell Valley Arts Council members, through October 29. James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Ponstingl: Dreams of Past Futures” through September 27, and “Rising Tides: Contemporary Art and the Ecology of Water” through January 10. The museum is now open to the public. michenerartmuseum.org. Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Dreaming of Utopia: Roosevelt, New Jersey” through January 24. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. morven.org. Old Barracks Museum, 101 Barrack Street, Trenton, has the ongoing virtual exhibit “When Women Vote — The Old Barracks and the Anti-Suffrage Movement.” The museum is currently closed to the public. barracks.org. Princeton University Art Museum has a virtual tour of “Life Magazine and the Power of Photography” along with many online events. The museum is currently closed to the public. artmuseum.princeton.edu. West Windsor Arts Council, 952 Alexander Road, has the online exhibit “Art and Healing” through October 23. A virtual reception is September 11, 7:15 to 9 p.m. The center is currently closed to the public. westwindsorarts.org.
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Organized by a New Jersey-based coalition of Black, brown, and white artists, educators, writers, curators, attorneys, journalists, and activists, the project will document and exhibit the outpouring of artwork protesting Black lives lost to police violence that has sprung up across the nation. “There comes a time when silence is betrayal” – these words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., were inscribed on the sidewalk last June by a young girl, only to be washed away by town officials. The next day, neighbors redrew her words and added many more. “Community-created art, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, is the powerful voice of history,” says artist/author/educator/ curator and organizer Judith K. Brodsky. “We must preserve these expressions of protest and support. “Memorial.Monument.Movement” is how we can prevent erasure and keep these images alive.” “It’s time,” says artist / organizer Cynthia Groya, in discussing the project objectives. “Time to open the doors of freedom and justice and celebrate Black lives : writers, musicians, artists, scientists, historians, teachers, athletes, military heroes, inventors. Americans who have stood in the shadow for 400 years.” Art Against Racism’s “Memorial.Monument.Movement,” in partnership with Rutger s Un iver s it y, has invited artists, both individual and in collaborative groups; community organizations; houses of worship; arts organizations, galleries, and museums to participate. The work can take the form of sculpture, projections, street art, quilts, or other fiber works such as crochet or beadwork, culinary creations, spoken word, performance, music, posters, murals, animation, digital projects, crafts, replacements for toppled statues, or other creative forms of expression. Themes include racism, police violence, mass incarceration, African American historical figures or moments, murdered and mar tyred victims of racism and white supremacy, civil rights, and community needs that have been affected by systemic racism. The concept for “Memorial.Monument.Movement” originated in a conversation between Ponder and Brodsky about building on the success of his project, Art Against Racism, created in 2019 as a series of exhibitions. Ponder has had a long career as a lawyer and educator as well as being an artist. Brodsky is a professor emerita at Rutgers University, and also an artist who, beginning with the Feminist Art movement of the 1970s, has worked for social justice. Enthusiasm for the project spread and attracted additional committee members: Kimberly Camp, one of the first African American women to hold the directorship of an important visual arts institution (she was director of the Barnes Foundation); Nancy Shell, a well-known Philadelphia artist; and Isabel Nazario, who first came to Rutgers as founding director of the Rutgers Latino Center for Arts and Culture
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Wednesday, September 9 4-5 p.m.: Suppers Webinar: “Sugar on the Brain.” By donation, with registration required at www.thesuppersprograms.org. Thursday, September 10 12-1 p.m.: Monthly membership luncheon of the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber is held virtually. Patr ick R. G aston, past board chair of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., speaks on “Diversity, Governance, and St rateg ic Philant hropy.” Visit princetonchamber.org to register. 4:30 p.m.: Reading and Conversation with Eve L. Ewing reads from her poetry followed by Q&A sponsored by The Lewis Center for the Arts. Free. Register at arts. princeton.edu. 6 -9 : 30 p.m. : Music + Movie Night at the Princeton Shopping Center Courtyard. Music with Tyrone Stackhouse Band at 6 p.m., film screening of John Lewis: Good Trouble begins at 8 p.m. Bring your own lawn chair or blanket and mask. Event is free — registration v ia Pr inceton Public Library is required to attend: princetonlibrary.libnet.info/ event/4564481. Friday, September 11 12-2 p.m.: Friday with Friends, a socially distanced and masked in-person gather ing in the pav ilion at YWCA Princeton, 59 Paul Robeson Place. Bring your own food and drink, wear a mask. www.ywca.org/newcomers. 7:30 -9:30 p.m.: Drivein Movie Night at Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Disney’s Moana will be screened in Grandparents Grove. Visit mercercounty parks.org. Saturday, September 12 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, West Windsor. 9 : 3 0 a .m . : L aw r e n c e Hopewell Trail Saturday Morning Walking Club hosts a walk over the new Mercer Meadows Bridge. Starts at Rosedale Lake parking lot. The walk is 4.5 miles; wear face masks and walk socially distanced in groups of 20 or less. lhtrail.org. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Flu shot clinic at Princeton Methodist Church, 7 Vandeventer Avenue. Free for uninsured Princeton residents. Call (609) 497-7608 for information. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Book Jam at Princeton Public Library, via Crowdcast. Co -sponsored by JaZams. Authors, illustrators, panel discussions, and more. princetonlibrary.org. 5 p.m.: ACME Screening Room of Lambertville holds a Carpool Comedy Fundraiser at the parking lot of 204 North Union Street to help support programming during the pandemic. Tickets are $30. Visit www.acmescreeningroom.org. 6-9 p.m.: Drive-in Concert at Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Swing combo and Tempe Alegre perform in the Cricket Field. Visit mercercountyparks.org. Sunday, September 13 2 p.m.: Hebrew University professor Emanuel Alexandre
leads a webinar, “Hatikvah: A Sacred Reading of a Secular Text,” presented by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers. Free. For more information or to register, visit BildnerCenter. Rutgers.edu. 4 - 6 p.m.: At the Well Women’s Leadership Academy presents Dr. HadiyahNicole Green in a virtual meet and greet titled “Together We Can Help Save Cancer Patients.” www.atthewellconfeences.org. Monday, September 14 Recycling 1:30 p.m.: Book Talk, “Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy” by David Frum and Julian Zellzer, presented by Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Via Zoom. Free. Register at princeton.edu. Tuesday, September 15 11 a.m.-7 p.m.: Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber’s 2020 Golf & Tennis Outing, at Forsgate Country Club and Cherry Valley Country Club. princetonchamber. org or (609) 924-1776. Thursday, September 17 9 : 3 0 -11 a .m . : S o c i a l cof fee v ir t ual gat her ing of Y WCA Princeton Area Newcomers and Friends. Visit y wcaprinceton.org / newcomers. 12 p.m.: Monthly roundtable of Central NJ & Bucks Women in Development via Zoom. The topic is “Burnout! Strategies for Handling Our New Normal,” presented by Lauren Ronaghan, program coordinator at Old Barracks Museum. widmercer.org. 4-5 p.m.: Suppers Webinar: “Bitters — The Antidote to Sugar.” By donation, with registration required at thesuppersprograms.org. 5 - 6 p.m.: D & R Greenway’s Virtual Happy Hour. David Wheeler, executive director of Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey; and Allison Sonya Injaian of University of Georgia will share recent observations on positive and negative effects of the COVID’s pandemic’s changes upon wild creatures, with a focus on wildlife of New Jersey. Free. rsvp@drgreenway.org. Friday, September 18 10 a.m.: Women in Retirement meeting via Zoom, featuring Sandy Smith of the League of Women Voters. Presented by Princeton Senior Resource Center. princetonsenior.org. 11: 45 a.m . : S e m i n a r, “New Rules with the Secure Act,” presented via Zoom by Princeton Senior Resource Center. Free, but registration required. princetonsenior.org. 3 p.m.: “Transition to Retirement,” discussion group led via Zoom by Princeton Senior Resource Center care coordinator Dave Roussell. princetonsenior.org. 4:30 p.m.: “Sweet Dancers: An Illustrated Talk on Irish Dance” by Deirdre Mulrooney, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts. Free, via Zoom. arts.princeton.edu. 7:30 -9:30 p.m.: Drivein Movie Night at Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Disney Pixar’s Inside Out is screened at Grandparents Grove. Visit mercercountyparks.org. Saturday, September 19 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor
Community Farmers Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, West Windsor. 6-9 p.m.: Drive-in Concert at Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Kindred Spirit and The Sensational Soul Cruisers perform at the Cricket Field. Visit mercercountyparks.org. Tuesday, September 22 9:30-11 a.m.: 10th Annual Virtual Regional Healthcare Symposium presented by Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber. Speaker is Judith M. Persichilli, New Jersey Commissioner, Department of Health. For information, visit princetonchamber.org. Thursday, September 24 9 a.m.-2 p.m.: The New Jersey Conference on Diversity and Inclusion is presented online by the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber. Speakers are Debby Irving, Randall Pinkett, and Avery Ince. princetonchamber.org. Friday, September 25 11: 45 a.m . : S e m i n a r, “Combatting Isolation and Loneliness in Elders,” presented via Zoom by Princeton Senior Resource Center. Social worker Christopher Kellogg leads. princetonsenior.org. 7:30 -9:30 p.m.: Drivein Movie Night at Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Sonic the Hedgehog is screened at Grandparents Grove. Visit mercercountyparks.org. Saturday, September 26 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, West Windsor. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Flu shot clinic at Princeton Public Librar y, 65 Witherspoon Street. Free for uninsured Princeton residents. (609) 497-7608. 6-9 p.m.: Drive-in-Concert at Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Sounds of Sandstorm and Instant Funk perform at the Cricket Field. Visit mercercountyparks.org. Sunday, September 27 1:30 p.m.: “Science on the Small Screen: A Short History of Science Education via Remote Learning,” via Zoom, part of the Sundays at the Sarnoff series. Science historian Ingrid Ockert takes viewers through a tour of the groundbreaking science television genre and will discuss what early lessons are useful for educators today. For registration information visit davidsarnoff. tcnj.edu. Monday, September 28 Recycling Wednesday, September 30 4:30 p.m.: Virtual talk by Anthony Jack and Cecelia Rouse, “The Privileged Poor.” Sponsored by Princeton University. Registration needed. princeton.edu. 6 p.m.: Reading by Rabih A lameddine and seniors from the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creat ive Wr it ing. Free, v ia Zoom. arts.princeton.edu. 7 p.m.: Ask an Exper t about EVs: How to Choose, Charge, & Change, webinar on electric vehicles, sponsored by Sustainable Princeton. Register at bit.ly/askabout-evs. Friday, October 2 7:30-9:30 p.m.: Drivein Movie Night at Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Ghostbusters is screened at Grandparents Grove. Visit mercercountyparks.org.
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arah Fillier just turned 20 this past June, but she is already on track to achieving a pair of ambitious goals in her ice hockey career. Having accumulated 114 points on 44 goals and 70 assists in her first two seasons with the Princeton University women’s hockey team, star forward Fillier is more than halfway to breaking the Princeton career assists (122) and points (218) records held by Katherine J. Issel ’95. “I always plan to have a better season that the last one,” said the 5’4 Fillier, a native of Georgetown, Ontario who tallied 22 goals and 35 assists in each of her campaigns with the Tigers. “I think the type of player that I am, you take points into that consideration and with that in mind, it would be great to be able to break records and set records.” While Fillier didn’t increase her point total in her second season, she felt was a better player with a year of college experience under her belt. “As a sophomore, I definitely had more confidence in the league for sure,” said Fillier, whose honors this winter included making American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) secondteam All-America, first-team All-ECAC Hockey, first-team
All-Ivy League and secondteam All-USCHO. “I had been playing with Maggie [Connors] and Carly [Bullock] for a year and knowing how to handle school.” Displaying that confidence on the international scene, Fillier has her sights on playing for Canada at the Beijing Winter Games. “Making the team in 2022, that is my goal for sure,” said Fillier. Taking another step in the road to the Olympics, Fillier was named to train with Team Canada through its National Women’s Development Camp, which is being held virtually throughout the summer. “It is always an honor to get that invite, and being in the online camp, we still get to be together virtually,” said Fillier, who was named to the 2018-19 Canada National Development Team, competed in two International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women’s World U18 Championships, winning silver in 2017 and bronze in 2018 as team captain, skated in the Four Nations Cup in November 2018, winning a silver medal with Hockey Canada as the only collegiate freshman on the roster, and was named to the 2020 World Women’s Hockey Championships team. While the players weren’t able to be together on the
ice this summer, they were still kept busy by the Canadian national program. “We have weekly Zooms with mental performance, nutrition, strength and conditioning,” explained Fillier, who was joined in the camp by classmate Connors. “It is basically trying to develop and get better. We lose the on-ice aspect but we get all of this great information from really great people in the program.” Assimilating that information, Fillier has worked on fine-tuning her approach to the game. “Even if I have not been on the ice developing in that sense, with these camps and staying connected with everyone, I have developed different parts of the game, definitely mentally, over these past few months,” said Fillier. “I think I am definitely progressing. It might not be from being on the ice all of the time but in different ways.” Fillier helped the Princeton team make a lot of progress this winter before the 2019-20 campaign canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic as the Tigers went 26-6-1 to set a program record for most wins in a season. Princeton edged No. 1 Cornell 3-2 in overtime in the ECAC Hockey final to earn its first league title
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and the sixth-ranked Tigers were slated to play at No. 4 Northeastern in the NCAA quarterfinals. “We were playing the best hockey of our season and circumstances that you can’t really control came into play, it is really tough,” said Fillier. “That win over Cornell was the best game we played all year. I think it is special too that we ended our season and our seniors ended their career on a win. That is really big and something that we will be able celebrate out of all of this stuff. We felt great going into the NCAAs. We had a lot of confidence. We were expecting to come out of that with a win. We saw ourselves in the Final 4. We were excited and we wanted to be in Boston to play.” Fillier was excited to see the team’s Class of 2020, which included Carly Bullock, MacKenzie Ebel, Steph Neatby, Claire Thompson, and Sylvie Wallin, experience that victory over Cornell. “Their class has been phenomenal, they have been through some tough seasons and they have been the backbone of our program,” said Fillier, who served as a team captain this winter. “They really led that push this year. I got to get really close with all of them as part of that leadership group. They are great players and phenomenal people. The program and I are really going to miss them.” Sent home from school in mid-March due the pandemic, Fillier and her teammates maintained that group feeling virtually. “We just wanted to make sure that everyone got home and got settled in,” recalled Fillier. “We have some pretty international kids so we were just waiting for everyone to get home and make sure everyone is safe. We tried to schedule some regular small group meetings with
ICE BREAKER: Sarah Filler controls the puck in a game this past winter during her sophomore season with the Princeton University women’s hockey team. Having accumulated 114 points on 44 goals and 70 assists in her first two seasons with the Princeton University women’s hockey team, star forward Fillier is more than halfway to breaking the Princeton career assists (122) and points (218) records held by Katherine J. Issel ’95. This summer, Fillier was named to train with Team Canada through its National Women’s Development Camp, which is being held virtually. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) the coach and a couple of people to just to like say hi and check in once a week. Then we had some team Zooms weekly to check in. I know everyone’s class stayed really close.” While Fillier was disappointed to see the season end abruptly, she was able to recharge through training at home. “The time we got sent home was good timing from the perspective that, normally, at the end of our season, we take a good break to recover and regroup, so we had that,” said Fillier, whose twin sister, Kayla, also plays for the Tigers. “I was able to rent some equipment, so we were able to set up our home gym here
in Ontario.” When Filler is able to get back in action on the ice, she will bring a different perspective to the game. “It will definitely have a different mentality because now I know what it is like to be away from the game, away from my team, and away from my friends for six months,” said Fillier, who is taking a leave of absence from Princeton for the 2020-21 school year. “I will think about just enjoying the moment and understanding the passion I have to play hockey. It is something I really do want to pursue and that is going to help with development and training and everything.” —Bill Alden
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Hunting is generally permitted every day starting one half hour before sunrise and ending one half hour after sunset, except for Saturdays, when no hunting is allowed between 10 am and 2 pm; and Sundays and Christmas Day, when no hunting whatsoever is allowed. In addition, no hunting is allowed other than from an elevated stand, or within 20 yards of any road or trail, and no hunting is allowed with a firearm. Warning signs will be posted at the entrances to each of the properties that will be hunted. All State and local reg-
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PU Football Alum Carlson Makes Cleveland Browns
Former Princeton University football star Stephen Carlson ’19 will be back for his second season in the NFL, surviving the final cuts last weekend to make the 53-man roster of the Cleveland Browns. Carlson, a 6’4, 240 -pound native of Jamestow n, N.Y., made five receptions for 51 yards and touchdown during his rookie campaign for the Browns in 2019. During his senior season at Princeton in the fall of 2018, Carlson earned second-team AllIvy League honors after
6 Princeton Rowers Compete in U-23 Regatta
F loyd B enedikter ’23 provided a highlight as six members of the Princeton University rowing program competed last weekend at the 2020 European Rowing U-23 Championships
in Duisburg, Germany. Benedikter, a member of the Princeton men’s heavyweight program, helped G er many’s men’s eight earn gold at the competition. Benedikter and his G er man boat posted a time of 5:44.40 over the 2,000-meter course, more than three seconds ahead of Romania. Italy took home the bronze, crossing the finish line at 5:48.60. Jelmer Bennema ’23, another Tiger men’s heavyweight rower, competed for the Netherlands men’s eight which took fourth in 5:50.78. Greta Jaanson ‘23, a memb er of P r inceton’s women’s open rowing program, took fifth for Estonia in the women’s single sculls final in 8:06.16, finishing behind Greece, Germany,
Russia and Ireland. Eoin Gaffney ’23, who rows for t he Pr inceton men’s light weight crew, was on the Ireland boat that finished fifth in the men’s lightweight quadruple sculls final in 6:13.31, placing behind France, Italy, Germany, and Turkey. David van Velden ’25, a future member of the Tiger men’s lightweights, led Netherlands men’s lightweight quadruple sculls to a first place finish in the B-final (6:32.46), 2.7 seconds in front of Spain. Anne du Croo de Jongh ’25, a future Princeton open rower, helped the Netherlands women’s pair take third in the B race (7:35.66). This was the first “water” competition for the 2020 international rowing
season according to WorldRowing.com following the postponement of all major rowing events in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Rowing U-23 Championships is raced in 22 boat classes and is open to all European Member National Federations (which includes Israel) for athletes under the age of 23. A rower may compete in an Under 23 rowing event until December 31 in the year in which they reach the age of 22.
PU Women’s Lightweight Rowing Adds 4 Freshmen
The Princeton University women’s lightweight women’s rowing team is welcoming four freshmen into its program this year. The four incoming mem-
bers of the squad are: Nathalie Verlinde, a Princeton, N.J., resident who competed for the Prince to n N at i o n a l Ro w i n g Club; Anella Lefebvre, a Westport, Conn., resident who comp eted for t he Saugatuck Rowing Club; Kalena Blake, a Bethesda, Md., resident who rowed for TBC Racing; and Lily Feinerman, a Winnetka, Ill., resident who competed for New Trier rowing. T he Tigers had t heir 2020 season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Coming into the spring, Princeton was looking to build on a banner 2019 campaign which saw it win the Eastern Sprints title and earn a silver medal at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) national championship regatta.
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making 51 catches for 683 yards and five touchdowns as the Tigers went 10-0 to produce their first undefeated season since 1964. The four other Princeton alums in NFL camps this summer — quarterback Kevin Davidson ’20 with the Browns, tight end Jesper Horsted ’19 with the Chicago Bears, fullback John Lovett ’19 with the Green Bay Packers, and defensive lineman Caraun Reid ’14 with the Jacksonville Jaguars — were each waived last Saturday.
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PHS Alum Gonzalez Returns to Old Stomping Grounds Coaching JV Baseball Team, Taking Helm of Post 218
to the head coaching role for the program, succeeding longtime coach Tommy Parker. Unfortunately, due to the Benito Gonzalez experi- times a week instead of wait- guiding the middle school COVID-19 pandemic, the team. enced a turning point in his ing a week to do it.” Mercer County American baseball career as he headed “I enjoyed the experience. Legion League (MCALL) canDuring his time at TCNJ, into the latter stages of his Gonzalez decided to get I always knew that I wanted celed the 2020 campaign. Princeton High career. involved in teaching and to coach high school ulti“I think what was disap“I enjoyed playing for the coaching, looking to help mately. What I learned and pointing this year is that Jon team, I felt much better students and players turn what I really appreciated at Durbin (administrative manabout my junior and senior the corner as he had during the time was that I had a re- ager), Tommy Parker (now ally good eighth grade group serving as general managseasons,” said Gonzalez, a his high school days. 2010 PHS alum. “I had always done well in that is probably going to fea- er), and I did have a lot of “Looking back, I feel like school and I always enjoyed ture pretty prominently on ideas,” said Gonzalez. that is where I turned a cor- being around people,” said the high school team.” “We wanted to make the In 2019, Gonzalez joined Legion team a better prodner and started thinking Gonzalez. more about playing in col“My favorite coaches and the PHS baseball coaching uct for the people in Princlege and things like that.” teachers were the ones that staff and took the helm of eton or the people who Gonzalez went on to play helped me reflect on things the junior varsity squad. would transfer to play for “I was really happy be- Princeton Legion.” college ball for The College and helped me learn the of New Jersey, developing process instead of telling me cause I got to see a lot of Gonzalez knows that sucwhat to do. I respected those guys I already had a little ex- ceeding Parker will be a into a star relief pitcher. “I threw a lot of two seam- people a lot who helped me perience with, so I felt a lot challenge. ers and sliders at first; it was along the way and I wanted more comfortable for sure,” “I don’t know if you can something that coach no- to be able to do that for said Gonzalez. follow him, considering evkids.” “W hat I really enjoyed erything he has done for ticed,” said Gonzalez, who After teaching for a year about going to the high the town, not even thinking went 4-4 in 40 appearances in his career with the Lions, in Franklin Township, Gon- school was that we had a about baseball,” said Gonposting an ERA of 3.73 with zalez returned to Princeton lot of more time to develop zalez. 40 strikeouts in 70 innings. to teach sixth grade social kids. When you make that “It is an impressive run of “Probably the quickest studies at the Princeton jump to high school it gets public service. He has got to be more serious and there Unified Middle School and way to get in and involved is a little more skill develop- such a great attitude about was to be a reliever. I ended coach its baseball team. everything. He is great with “It was so interesting be- ment.” up really enjoying pitchkids, he is really fair with That summer, he served kids, and kids genuinely reing out of the bullpen. You cause I had to think back to wouldn’t have the same in- how I played at that level be- as an assistant coach for spect him and enjoy being nings but it was nice being cause I didn’t really play un- t he P r inceton Post 218 around him. You can tell afinvolved potentially in the til eighth grade year there,” American Legion team and ter all of these years that he outcome of a game several said Gonzalez, reflecting on in 2020, he had moved up still enjoys it and still feels like a passion. 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With its dirt trails, steep hills, and manicured soccer fields nestled in a bucolic setting off of Rosedale Road, the Greenway Meadows Park is a superb training venue for distance runners. Over the last two weeks of August, the park was teeming with runners as the Princeton Recreation Department held a two-week cross country program run by Princeton High cross country head coach Jim Smirk. “When we found out that we were unlikely to have a school sponsored preseason, we really felt like there was an opportunity for us to provide them with some quality training and face to face time,” said Smirk, noting that the fall season is still in doubt due to COVID-19 concerns. “Our goal was to provide a safe training environment and with the opportunity to reconnect with each other. Our team is so important to each other and we wanted to do that.” The program drew approximately 45 runners, mainly from the PHS boys’ and girls’ cross country teams. “The runners are all in slightly different places,” said Smirk, who was assisted by PHS track coach Ben Samara with former PHS with Rutgers standout distance runner Lou
Mialhe serving as a counselor along with two of her Scarlet Knight teammates, Nadia Saponara and Chloe Wong. “For our older runners, we were trying to provide them with leadership opportunities. A lot of this is athleterun in the sense that they know the training plans from me. They send me back what their plan is to supplement that and then we talk about and they run it. We rotated who was in charge for our veterans.” While Smirk was pleased with the conditioning displayed by the runners, he was happier by the camaraderie he saw over the two weeks. “They all came in pretty good condition so I don’t think that that by itself wasn’t too much of a challenge,” added Smirk. “We are not changing a whole lot. It is more strength work, it is more hill work and that is appropriate for this time of the season anyway. They certainly did a good job with that but I think more than anything, it was excitement seeing their teammates.” PHS senior cross country star Jacob Bornstein were certainly excited to be reunited with his teammates. “These two weeks are special to myself and the team,” said Bornstein.
“We were able to spend time together that we might not have this fall. A lot of us hadn’t seen each other in a really long time before the camp. The first week was really nice, just getting used to running together again. In the second week, we were used to it and it was a lot of fun. I am glad to be with my teammates.” For Bornstein, the work at the camp proved to be a continuation of the plan he had been following. “Coach Smirk gave us a training schedule to do during the pandemic when school was closed and for summer training,” said Bornstein. “We have been doing a lot
of the same stuff here as what we were doing on our own.” Even if there is no cross country season for the Tigers, Bornstein is going to keep training on his own. “Heading into senior year, training wise my goal is to do the best I can, take it each day at a time, and don’t worry about the season,” said Bornstein. “It is just focus on training and doing all of the work that is required to become a successful runner. It makes me wake up early in the morning and get outside running. It is productive way to start the day.” Another senior, PHS girls’ cross country veteran Emma Lips, saw the camp as a good way to renew bonds heading into the fall. “It is honestly great to finally
get a time with my teammates again,” said Lips. “We definitely miss each other a lot. It is fun to bond again and get the whole team together and just do running. It is what we love.” Being together led to some good running for Lips and her teammates. “It has been a bit difficult for all of us because we haven’t been able to get together and train like normal,” said Lips. “You have to figure out the training on your own. It was great to have two good weeks, get the habits set in, and put us back on the right track.” Developing those habits will be beneficial no matter what happens this fall. “If we don’t have a season, we will continue this good training together,” said Lips.
“It is just building a base layer and getting back into the running mindset. Once we do have a season, hopefully in the winter or spring, we will be good to go.” In Smirk’s view, the camp helped his squad come together as everyone deals with the uncertainty of what this fall will look like athletically and otherwise. “Cross country is a team sport, and developing that work ethic, that community, and all of that, comes from having even this short of an opportunity for two weeks,” said Smirk. “We have had some great conversations with all levels — our veterans, our rising runners, and those trying to get on varsity. It has been a pleasure.” —Bill Alden
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New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) issued guidance last week regarding how COV ID -19 positive tests should be handled. While noting that Bailey Basketball Academy “a ll decisions are loc a l Holding Registration for Fall and should be made by T he B ailey B asketball school administrators in Academy (BBA) is holding c o n s u lt at i o n w i t h l o c a l registration for its 2020 fall public health departments,” programs. the NJSIA A provided The BBA program is “scenarios” to assist in the r u n b y K a m a u B a i l e y, decision-making process. the New Jersey director/ The scenarios set international deputy director for t h detailed protocols for the Philadelphia 76ers concerning contact rules, Basketball Team Clinics and contact tracing, return to former Princeton Day School play, and reporting positive girls’ varsity basketball head tests to opponents. coach. I n a n e arl ier rele as e, D ue to t he COV I D -19 the NJSIA A provided pandemic and N.J. health updated guidelines related guidelines, the BBA hoop to transfers and spectators programs will be held attending games. outside at the Princeton As for transfers, while Unified Middle School NJSIA A will continue basketball cour ts at 217 to bar students from Walnut Lane. Parents and transfer r ing for at hletic p l ay e r s l o o k i n g for a n advantage, it has modified instructive and constructive what it identifies as “athletic positive environment and advantage.” For the 2020hoops experience will have 21 school year, a transfer an opportunity for daily high for athletic advantage will quality, small group and not include a transfer made individualized instruction, because the student’s school sk ills development, and cancels or postpones an fundamentals as well athletic program due to the as competitive hoop pandemic. However any enrichment games. student who transfers after Compet it ive team and September 1, regardless league play is restricted at of t h e r e a s o n , w i l l b e the present time in N.J. and required to sit for half of all BBA participants will be the fall season, or 30 days, N.J. Athletic Organization required to wear a mask. whichever is shorter. There will be BBA outside Provides COVID-19 Guidance As for spectators, schools With the fall sports season op e n g y m a n d k i ck- of f registrations for interested arou n d t h e cor n er, t h e will be required to obey the outdoor gathering limit in place at that time. Currently, the limit on outdoor (609) 683-8900 gatherings is 500 people. 242 Nassau Street, Princeton However, this limit will not www.pizzadenprinceton.com include participants or individuals that are on the field
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players and parents from S e pte mb e r 9 -13 at t h e Princeton Unified Middle School outdoor basketball courts from 4-7 p.m. and September 12 and 13 from 9 a.m.- noon. Parents can sign their players up for hoop programs for boys and girls all ages. T he prog rams of fere d include daily player development and skill sessions open to boys and girls of all ages. The sessions will feature instruction on ball handling, shooting, passing, footwork, speed, agility, movement with and without the ball, and oneon-one moves, along with ot her baske tba ll -relate d skills. In addition, there will be a coed “First Hoops” program for K-2 players giving an introduction to basketball and development of fundamentals skills. For more advanced players, BBA is offering high intensity preseason training for players in grades 9-12 with high school/collegelevel workouts. BBA is also holding “Shot Doctor” sessions for indiv idual and small group instruction. For m or e i n for m at ion on t h e B BA fa l l ho op s programs, contact Kamau Bailey at (917) 626-5785 or via email at kamau.bailey@ gmail.com.
SKILLS DEMONSTRATION: Stuart Country Day School field hockey head coach Missy Bruvik demonstrates some stick technique to one of her players during a recent optional team workout. Stuart is coming off a superb 2019 season which saw the Tartans go 11-4-1 and advance to the Mercer County Tournament final and the state Prep B semis. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) of play (coaches, officials, brain aneurysm on her 16th birthday in 2008. Helene trainers, etc.). had planned to revive the Helene Cody 5K Race Cranbury Day 5K that had Will Be a Virtual Event been previously discontinThe 12th Annual Helene ued as a way to combine Cody 5-kilometer race and her love of distance run1-Mile Fun Run is taking ning and community serplace virtually now through vice. One of her classmates September 12. hosted the first Helene Cody The race will is a free Cranbury 5K after her passevent in 2020, so there will ing in 2008, and ever since, be no T-shirts or medals. the Helene Cody Foundation Participants can post results has used the race to bring on RunSignUp. Finisher’s the community together and certificates will be awarded fund youth service projects to those who post a time. and scholarships. In addition, runners are enIf one is in the position to couraged to post pictures donate this year, the orgaand videos on social media nizers would appreciate any and tag #helenecody5k to support people can offer to congratulate each other and the the Helene Cody Founshare their progress. dation, a 501(c)(3) charity The course in Cranbury with the mission of inspirwill be marked and deco- ing youth to volunteer, to rated for those who would better their communities like to run the original route. and themselves. Donations T his event honors t he will support youth-led projmemory of Helene Cody, ects benefiting central New who passed away from a Jersey.
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Eden 5K Race For Autism To Be Held Virtually
The 2020 Eden Family 5K Race and 1-mile Fun Run will now take place virtually on October 3 and 4. The race was originally scheduled to take place on October 4 on a course beginning near the Eden School at Mer wick Road in Pr inceton For restal Village. But after careful deliberation, Eden decided to hold the event as an a l l - v i r t u a l r a c e d u e to coronavirus-related health and safety concerns for the runners, walkers, and the Eden community. For more information or to register for the virtual race, log onto edenautism. akaraisin.com/ui/ Eden5K2020.
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Ellen (Helen) M. Long Ellen ( Helen ) “Bunnie” Mathilda Long died peacefully on September 1, 2020. Her daughter Eileen was with her. A resident of Princeton, NJ, since 1953, she was an active member of St Paul’s Parish, Princeton, NJ, and retired from Princeton University Firestone Library in 1995. The fourth of five siblings, Helen was born in Fairtown, Co. Cavan, Ireland. In the 1920s her parents met and married in Brooklyn, NY, where two of Helen’s older siblings were born before the family returned to Ireland and bought a small farm. Shortly after she was born they all returned to the USA to live in Brooklyn. The Great Depression changed those plans yet again and they all went back to Ireland in 1936 where Helen spent a contented childhood. In 1953 she set sail for New York on the SS Mauritania from Cobh, Co. Cork, and as she writes in her memoir, “...to face the world on my own.” After a short stay with her Aunt Helen in NY she took
a job in Princeton, NJ, and eventually met Patrick J. Long. They married in 1956 settling in Princeton where they both worked, raised three children and proudly took advantage of all the opportunities of their USA citizenship. Helen’s children have the most wonderful memories growing up with their happy parents. Helen was an enthusiastic volunteer both in St Paul’s ministries and at the Princeton Senior Resource Center. She shared a love of music, art, travel, and the simple pleasures of the world outdoors with everyone. Helen had a special approach to the aesthetics of everything around her. She trained, apprenticed, and was employed as a professional seamstress early in her working life. That expertise, talent, and her love of design meant she always planned and often made everything exactly to her own specifications. Her pretty gardens and generous hospitality welcomed visitors from everywhere. Her travel adventures took her around the US, to the Holy Land, Italy, France, Bahamas, through the Panama Canal and many times back to Ireland. Predeceased by her husband Patrick J. Long and her son Michael P. Long, her brothers Nicholas Smith and Thomas Smith, and sister Kathleen Smith, Helen is survived by her son Brian J. Long of Princeton, NJ, daughter, M. Eileen Long and son-in-law, Tarik R. Shahbender both of Princeton, NJ; her sister, Margaret Paul of Lawrenceville, NJ; stepsisters Helen Cordner of Brewster, MA, and Mary
Ellen Benedetto of Ventura, CA; and many cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends locally and around the world. There will be a Mass of Christian Burial on September 10, 2020 at 10 a.m. at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. Mass will also be viewable starting at 9:50 a.m. at www.stpaulsofprinceton.org. Burial will follow the mass at Princeton Cemetery on Greenview Avenue, Princeton, NJ. A memorial for Helen will be planned at a later date when it is safer for friends and family to gather as we wish. Donations in memory of Helen are welcome for the Princeton Senior Resource Center at princetonsenior. org or to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at stjude. org. Arrangements are under the direction of MatherHodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
Maurice D. Lee, Jr. Maurice D. Lee, Jr., age 94, a longtime resident of Cranbury, New Jersey, died on July 12, 2020, as a result of a fall. Born in 1925 in Buffalo, New York, he was educated at the Hotchkiss School and Princeton University, from which he received his doctorate in 1950 after service in the Navy at the end of WW II. A distinguished historian of 16th and 17th century British/Scottish history, he spent his life as a college professor, teaching generations of undergraduates and graduate students, first at Princeton University from 1950-59, then at the University of Illinois until 1966,
and finally at the Douglass College Department of History at Rutgers University. He eventually chaired the History Department at Douglass, and in 1987 he was appointed the Margaret A. Judson Professor of History in honor of his distinguished predecessor at the College in the Tudor/Stuart field. A prolific writer, he wrote ten books, primarily focused on the Stuart period of British/Scottish history. For his lifetime of work in Scottish history, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1994 from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Although he officially retired from Douglass in 1996, he continued to teach at the College, and publish, for many years thereafter. Maurice was deeply engaged with his friendships, politics, theatre, current events ; he always had a book on hand. In the arts, his first love was opera, a lifelong passion. He was still attending Saturday matinee productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York until the pandemic brought the curtain down on live performances in the spring of this year. His wife of over 50 years, Helen, died of Alzheimer’s in 1999. He is survived by two children, Maurice D. Lee, III and L. Blair Lee, five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and his partner of many years, Laurine Purola. Because of Covid, a memorial has not yet been scheduled. As a strong supporter of women’s education, contributions may be made to the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.
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Kelly Procaccino Kelly Procaccino, of Princeton, died Monday, August 31, 2020 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, Plainsboro. Born in Princeton, NJ, she was a lifelong resident and attended Princeton High School. Kelly was employed by the State of New Jersey for 34 years, most recently as a Human Resource Specialist with the Division of Developmental Disabilities. She was a member of St. Paul’s Church. She was a wonderful, kind, and loving person who cared about everyone she came in contact with. She especially loved celebrating Halloween
and Christmas, going to the beach, and red Twizzlers. Her late father, Ralph Procaccino, was a sergeant on the Princeton Borough Police Force. Her late mother, Marion (née Gibbons) Procaccino, was an operating room nurse at Princeton Medical Center. She met her husband, Thomas A. Clark, in 1978. Together for 42 years, they were married at La Piedad Church in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, on January 21, 1995. She is sur vived by her husband, Thomas A. Clark; daughter Haley M. Clark; sisters Michele L anahan and Rebecca Israel; nieces Ashley Israel, Alexis Stemler, Emily Clark, and Grace Clark; and nephews Christopher Lanahan, Andrew Bilgrav, and Thomas Bilgrav. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Friday, September 11, 2020 at St. Paul’s Church (216 Nassau Street, Princeton). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone must wear a mask and social distance. A memorial celebration will be held at a later date.
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TOWN TOPICS, PRINCETON, N.J., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEmbER 9, 2020 • 34
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Nelson Glass & Aluminum Co.
“Yes, we also rescreen screens regular & pawproof.”
741 Alexander Rd, Princeton • 924-2880 Brian Wisner
I BUY ALL KINDS of Old or Pretty Things: China, glass, silver, pottery, costume jewelry, evening bags, fancy linens, paintings, small furniture, etc. Local woman buyer. (609) 9217469. 09-04-20
Broker Associate | Luxury Collection BUYING:
Brian Wisner
Broker Associate | Luxury Collection
of Princeton
C: 732.588.8000 O: 609.921.9202
Brian Wisner E : bwisner19@gmail.com
Antiques, paintings, Oriental rugs, coins, clocks, furniture, old toys, military, books, cameras, C: 732.588.8000 silver, costume & fine jewelry. Guitars O: 609.921.9202 & musical instruments. I buy single items to entire estates. Free appraisE : bwisner19@gmail.com als. (609) 306-0613. : BrianSellsNJ.com BrokerWAssociate | Luxury Collection 01-15-21
Brian Wisner
Broker Associate | Luxury Collection W : BrianSellsNJ.com 343 Nassau St. Princeton, NJ 08540
C: of732.588.8000 Princeton O: 609.921.9202
343 Nassau St. NJ 08540 C:Princeton, 732.588.8000 O: 609.921.9202
Lic: 1432491 E : bwisner19@gmail.com
2016
Lic: 1432491
E : bwisner19@gmail.com W : BrianSellsNJ.com
Each Office Independently Owned and Operated
343 Nassau St. Princeton, NJ 08540
W : BrianSellsNJ.com Each Office Independently Owned and Operated 343 Nassau St. Princeton, NJ 08540
ESTATE LIQUIDATION SERVICE: I will clean out attics, basements, garages & houses. Single items to entire estates. No job too big or small. In business over 35 years, serving all of Mercer County. Call (609) 306-0613. 01-15-21
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LET’S TALK REAL ESTATE... 2016
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WHAT’S A GREAT GIFT FOR A FORMER PRINCETONIAN? A Gift Subscription! Call (609) 924-2200 ext 10; circulation@towntopics.com tf
WE BUY CARS Belle Mead Garage (908) 359-8131 Ask for Chris tf WHY NOT HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE? Make sure to advertise in the TOWN TOPICS to let everyone know! Call (609) 924-2200 ext. 10; classifieds@towntopics.com DEADLINE: Tues before 12 noon tf TERHUNE ROAD MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALE: Saturday Sept. 12 & Sunday Sept. 13 from 10am-4pm. One Person’s Trash Could Be Your Treasure! WHERE: TERHUNE ROAD between Grover Ave. & Randall Road. WHAT: FURNITURE, CLOTHING, TOYS, BOOKS, MUSIC, ELECTRONICS, APPLIANCES, HOME DECOR & MORE!! Socially Distanced Shopping Will Be Enforced. MASKS ARE MANDATORY TO SHOP! Cash/Digital Payment options. 09-09
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DOES YOUR PROJECT NEED A BUILDING PERMIT? Home renovations and improvements can be exciting, rewarding, frustrating, and time consuming – sometimes all at the same time! Experts agree that planning your home improvement projects can save you time and headaches. Most people start with details such as design, costs, and materials. But a crucial step that some homeowners forget is determining if your project needs a building permit.
Employment Opportunities in the Princeton Area P/T EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Small Princeton non-profit that serves the elderly, seeks seasoned professional for its part-time Executive Director position. Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the ED will have overall strategic & operational responsibility for the organization including its finances, programs & execution of its mission. Minimum 5+ years’ experience in a senior non-profit position required. Email cover letter & resumé to info@ seniorcareservicesgp.org 09-09-3t
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PART-TIME SUPPORT STAFF NEEDED: We are looking for warm, caring, energetic, reliable & responsible individuals to work in a team teaching environment. The hours are 12 to 6 pm, M-F. Experience working with children is required. A CDA, AA degree or more is a plus. If you love working with children, UNOW offers you the opportunity to develop your skills in a pleasant school setting. Under the supervision of the classroom staff, part-time support staff will nurture & care for children from 3 mos. to 5 yrs. Salary is $17.50 hr. Please no phone calls. Email resumes to sbertran@princeton.edu 09-02-4t
PART-TIME HELP SOUGHT in fall/winter, for an interesting & intelligent elderly woman. Reliable, patient, & fun. Must be able to lift a transport wheelchair if necessary. English or French speaker sought. Own car. (917) 838-9107. 09-02-2t
FOR SALE: Outdoor Bar Set (w/4 chairs). $250 or B/O. Email: mho13@aol.com 09-09
A building permit is an official approval by your local government that allows you or your contractor to make changes to your house or property. Although details may vary depending on your municipality, the process also involves an inspection after the project is complete to make sure it meets building codes and standards. Not every project requires a building permit. But even some seemingly minor projects do require one. Generally, projects that need a permit involve structural, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical work.
PRINCETON: Charming fully furnished room. Skylight, with windows overlooking yard. W/D, Wi-Fi, parking. Utilities included. No smoking or pets. $900./mo. Call (609) 9244210. 09-09
An experienced building or contracting professional should be able to navigate the permitting process, including paperwork and inspections.
Sales Representative/Princeton Residential Specialist, MBA, ECO-Broker Princeton Office 609-921-1900 | 609-577-2989(cell) | info@BeatriceBloom.com | BeatriceBloom.com
SPACIOUS FURNISHED ROOM: Combo BR/sitting room/study, (28’x17’). Room has fridge & microwave. Bright, w/windows on 3 sides, W/D access, wireless internet, parking, 1.4 miles from Nassau Hall @ Princeton University. $1,200/mo. utilities included. Short or long term. (609) 924-4210. 09-09
Lush Grounds, a Lavish Interior, and a Saltwater Pool 76 Pettit Place, Princeton. Following the aesthetic of grand Southern European estates, this sprawling home on over an acre is full of light and free-flowing rooms designed to welcome guests into a lavish environment and give residents the luxury of spreading out and enjoying every minute of their downtime. The centerpiece of the interior is a stunning, sky-lit Great Room with the feel of a central courtyard encircled by arches. A glorious sunroom has panoramic vistas and a glass floor offering a peek of the saltwater pool and spa below! The natatorium opens to a patio, just one of many heavenly outdoor areas that take advantage of the setting abutting 25 preserved acres. A sauna, game room, lounge, full kitchen and a bedroom suite make the lower level a home unto itself, as well as a paradise for recreation. With ceilings of extraordinary height and detail, broad balconies, walk-in closets and fireplaces, each 4 of the bedroom suites and a solarium atop the extra wide, light-filled stairway have features that wow. This showplace unlike any other is just 55 miles from NYC. $2,650,000
Olga Barbanel
Sales Associate Phone: 609.921.1050 Mobile: 908.310.3852 4 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey 08542
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These days, there’s nowhere more important than home. And there’s no better place to live than Rabbit Run Creek. • 37 homes offering 3,600 square feet in a well-established, exquisitely landscaped community • Expansive, open living area spanning the entire first floor with second-floor master suite and standard private elevators in all homes • Choose a quick-delivery home or customize your home any way you like it • Ideal location with easy access to New York, northern New Jersey, and Philadelphia
Quick-delivery homes available. Move-in ready in Fall 2020.
Starting at $1,150,000 215.862.5800 | RabbitRunCreek.com Rte 202 (Lower York Road) & Rabbit Run Drive, New Hope, PA
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