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Protestors Call for “Diplomacy, Not War” With North Korea

About 50 people, many carrying signs, gathered in Palmer Square at noon on Saturday to rally for diplomacy, not war with North Korea. In a demonstration organized by the Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) in response to heated rhetoric and threats, including President Trump’s threat at the United Nations last week to “totally destroy” North Korea, eight different speakers called for de-escalation and diplomacy rather than the saber-rattling that has been characteristic of the dialogue on both sides. “Unfortunately, we continue to see more of the same bluster and counterproductive threats coming from Donald Trump,” wrote CFPA Executive Director Bob Moore in response to Trump’s UN speech. “Less than a year into office, Trump has managed to take what was a Continued on Page 16

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University Unveils Lewis Center for the Arts After a decade of planning and four years of construction, the studios, rehearsal rooms, and theaters at Princeton University’s ambitious Lewis Center for the Arts have opened on schedule. Music, dance, and drama classes are underway in the three buildings along Alexander Street and University Place, part of the University’s $330 million Arts and Transit development. “It’s rare to have a project to work on that is transformative on a performance level and on the programs housed within,” said Noah Yaffe of Steven Holl Architects, during a press tour of the complex on Monday. “What is so fascinating is that we’re maximizing the visibility of the arts while maximizing the porosity of the place.” Making the center visible, accessible, and a focal point of the campus, is part of the University’s aim to encourage students to incorporate the arts into their educational experience. The Holl firm designed the arts buildings, while architect Rick Joy

is credited with the new Wawa market and Dinky train station. Joy also designed the renovations of the former station buildings, which now house The Dinky Bar & Kitchen and the Cargot Brasserie. The complex will also be used for some performances open to the public. The community will get a chance to explore at a weekend-long open house, taking place October 5-8 in the new buildings and at sites across the campus. Performances of theater, music, poetry, and dance are planned, and visual art will be on display. Among the attractions is 24 Hour Psycho, an art installation focused on the classic Alfred Hitchcock film and exhibited on a giant screen, two frames per second, so that a full viewing of the movie takes 24 hours. It was in 2006 that the late Peter B. Lewis, of the class of 1955, provided a $101 million gift to start the project. The Wallace Dance Building and Theater, the New Music Building, and the Arts Tower make up

the 145,000-square-foot complex, as well as the Princeton Atelier, which moved from 185 Nassau Street. The University’s visual arts program will expand at the Nassau Street location but also present exhibitions in a gallery in the new Arts Tower. The Lewis Center’s Program in Creative Writing will stay at the New South building. Continued on Page 18

206 Bridge Project To End on Schedule In Early November The project to replace the bridges that span the historic Stony Brook will be completed on schedule by November 3. Deanna Stockton, Princeton’s municipal engineer, reported the news to Princeton Council at the governing body’s meeting Monday, September 25. Continued on Page 16

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FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS: Ame Dyckman, author of “Wolfie the Bunny” and “Horrible Bear!,” among others, was one of more than 80 authors and illustrators featured at the Princeton Children’s Book Festival at Hinds Plaza on Saturday. Presented by Princeton Public Library, the annual event gives young fans the opportunity to meet their favorite authors and illustrators, listen to them discuss their work, and have books autographed. Readers share the interesting books they found at the festival in this week’s Town Talk, and more photos are on page 14. (Photo by Charles R. Plohn)

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Unruly Sounds Music Festival Returns for The Third Year — October 1 at Hinds Plaza On Sunday, October 1, Hinds Plaza, adjacent to the Princeton Public Library, will play host to the third annual Unruly Sounds festival — a showcase of composers and new music from local artists and from the Princeton University Department of Music. Mika Godbole, the festi-

val’s organizer, says that this year’s lineup has more of a singer-songwriter focus than in past years — more of an emphasis on groove-based music than on the highly experimental music that has been Unruly Sound’s signature in past years. But it will hardly be a pop lineup. Acts will include smpl (an electronics and percussion duo, joined by dancer Ursula Eagly), the electro-country group Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves (equal parts synthesizer and slide guitar), and compositions by PU Professor Dan Trueman for prepared digital piano — full of otherworldly pitch-bending, delay, and waveforms played backward.

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NEW MUSIC: Sandbox Percussion (pictured) will be among the twelve acts performing at this Sunday’s Unruly Sounds festival. Now in its third year, the event features composers and performances by local artists and Princeton University affiliates.

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THE STORY OF PRINCETON FROM 1950 TO THE PRE-TRUMP ERA: West Windsor writer Donna L. Clovis will read a chapter from her latest book, “Six Doors Down: A Journey Through Synchronicity” on Saturday, October 7 at 5 p.m. at Caddyshack Bar and Grill, 70 Hunters Glen Drive in Plainsboro. The event will inaugurate Plainsboro Library’s latest Library Reading Series. In addition to Clovis, local writers Ryan J. Torres, A.F. Roberts, Corinne Julienne, and David Messineo will read, and guitarist Lance Scott Greene will perform. a new reading series. Award-Winning Writer Inaugurates Reading Series The event, produced in

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nary scenarios that are “more real than not.” Her first book, Quantum Leaps in Princeton’s Place, is the story of Princeton in the years 19121950, based on interviews with two of its oldest citizens, as well as on diary material. “Basically, there is some sort of story behind every town; it is interesting to take a look at that history,” she says. “I really like talking to older people,” she continues, “and I like writing on location.” Six Doors Down continues the story of Princeton from 1950 to the pre-Trump era. Both books will be for sale at the reading; and a third book, The Future is My Past, is scheduled for publication in January 2018. Clovis has won a number of journalism awards, including a first-place feature writing award on racial profiling from the National Association of Black Journalists. Her documentary work on Holocaust survivors in Germany is archived in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Currently an adjunct professor of English at Rider Universit y, Clovis previously taught English and ESL, in the Princeton and West Windsor schools, where she also taught gifted students.

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Peter Baker is still trying to figure out who is Barack Obama, and what exactly will be the substance of his legacy? Chief White House correspondent for the New York Times since 2008, Baker told a full-house gathering of about 200 at Princeton University’s Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall on Monday that he wrote his new book, Obama: the Call of History (June 2017), to try and tackle those questions. “We don’t really yet know or understand him,” Baker said. “President Obama will go down in history as one of our most fascinating and perplexing presidents. Very rarely have we had a person reaching the highest level in American politics who is openly, overtly introspective and reflective about who he is as a person. He got his first appearance on the national stage with a book trying to figure out who he was, a book of introspection and exploration.” Commenting on Obama’s withdrawal from the public light since leaving office, Baker questioned, “Why is he silent? ” A reporter for the Washington Post for 20 years who covered presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton before joining the Times, Baker stated that he is hoping that Obama “will do what no president has done before: write an honest memoir. That’s something we would all benefit from.”

Baker noted that Obama did speak out on DACA and health care, ”but for the most part he wants to stay out of the public realm” to avoid providing Trump with a target to attack. “For Obama, this must be a frustrating moment,” Baker said in discussing Trump’s ongoing efforts to undo so many of the Obama administration’s accomplishments, including health care, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, the Paris climate accords, environmental reg ulations, and the nuclear agreement with Iran. “Trump has been singularly focused on undoing President Obama’s legacy,” rather than moving forward on his own priorities, Baker said. “Obama’s legacy is so unsettled. We don’t know.” Baker, who has taken considerable criticism from the White House in the past year, had many stories to tell about Obama and other presidents. He pointed out that Obama wanted to associate himself with, and was often compared to, Abraham Lincoln. But he was also compared to Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and, at different junctures during his two terms in the White House, even to Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter. Recalling Obama’s observation that “I don’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills,” Baker noted, “He wanted to be remembered as

a president who did things. He wanted to create a new foundation.” O b a m a, B a ke r n ote d , seemed to represent different things to different people. “A lot of people saw in him what they wanted to see. To conservatives he was a socialist, the second coming of Karl Marx or Bernie Sanders, dividing the country in some people’s view.” And, on the other side, he promised so much that some people blamed him for not living up to the promises he made. “People on the left found his compromises frustrating and dispiriting — on health care, drone strikes, immigration. He could be at the same time both too far left and too far right.” Going on to describe the physical and ideological divide in the country, Baker stated, “We are at this moment a polarized country. We have divided ourselves, and we’re in a 15-year cycle of thinking our country is screwed up.” He pointed out that for at least the last 15 years polls have shown that people think the country is not on the right track and that Trump “reflects our own sense of anger.” In attempting to explain why the United States has become such a polarized countr y, Baker provided some historical perspective from the lifetimes of many in the audience and their parents. “Politics has always been rough,” he said. “We’ve had McCar thy, Vietnam, Watergate. We created this

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Flu Shots Available Starting October 10

The Princeton Health Department and Princeton Senior Resource Center will be holding their annual flu immunization clinic and health fair Tuesday, October 10 at the Suzanne Paterson Building, 45 Stockton Street, from 1-6 p.m. The health department is urging all participants to make an appointment for the PSRC clinic by calling (609) 924-7108. Completed consent forms can be found at www.princetonnj.gov/health and brought to the clinic. Complete the highlighted

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Peter Baker Discusses Obama’s Legacy, Trump’s Divisiveness, Polarized Country

OBAMA AND TRUMP: New York Times White House Correspondent Peter Baker, author of the recent book “Obama: The Call of History,” spoke to a full house Monday night at Princeton University’s Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall, on the subject of President Obama’s legacy in the current Trump era. (Photo by Donald Gilpin)

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rather than just sit back apathetically.” At Lawrenceville he got involved with the Young Democrats, of which he is now the head, and Model United Nations clubs, and ”those clubs led me to want to do more related to politics and do more outside the gates of the school and in the world at large.” Wellemeyer was at first disappointed to find out that student interest in politics in New Jersey and in the nation as a whole is extremely low. In the 2016 election only about half James Wellemeyer the eligible voters ages 18-29 In a political climate that voted, many fewer than the looks each day more conten- general voter turnout rate of tious, toxic, and discourag- about 58 percent. “There is a need for more ing, what sort of recruitment campaign could ever inspire youth representation. Youth young people to get involved voter rates are really low and that concerned me,” he said. in politics? Lawrenceville School se- “I wanted to encourage youth nior James Wellemeyer has to vote, show them how to the answer to that question, vote, show them the experiand he has written a civics ences of other young people e-textbook, Young Voices, who did get involved in polion youth political involve- tics.” Wellemeyer won a grant ment to spread the word. In addition to his book, that will from Lawrenceville School be launched at the Chapin to write his civics textbook School this spring and is cur- over the summer, and in the rently under review for future process interviewed teenaguse at a number of other pub- ers from across the country. lic and private schools, Wel- The 150-page book includes lemeyer is working to create much basic, traditional civics a Presidential Youth Council information, but it is full of and a New Jersey Gubernato- quotes from politically-enrial Youth Council to give high gaged students and focuses school students more visible heavily on student narratives platforms on which to express and opinions. Beyond the their views and propose solu- usual civics course content, the book includes chapters tions to political issues. “My idea was to create a on youth in history, forming textbook that took a more a political identity, the impact modern approach to civics of technology on politics, bias and that gave kids new per- in news and reporting, stayspectives that engaged them ing informed, and getting in the topic more,” Welle- involved. Wellemeyer says that more meyer said. “I thought someone who is young might be than 10 schools are reviewing more willing to listen, more the book for future use and interested in politics if they that each week he reaches get the perspective from an- out to additional private and other young person or hear public schools throughout the that another young person country. “It’s an ongoing projdoes something really cool ect that I don’t envision finrelated to politics. I inter- ishing any time soon. I look viewed about 60 people this forward to getting feedback summer, and I included their from schools by this spring and using that feedback to stories in the book.” Wellemeyer described how create a second version next he first got interested in poli- summer. Maybe every year tics through social media as or two I’ll release an updated version with newer informaa middle ent; Schools Closedschooler during the tion.” 2012 election. He noted that ; Schools & Offices Closed Wellemeyer, preparing to Lawrenceville had ory Month Celebration, PHSSchool Auditorium, 7:30pm apply to colleges for next been effective at promoting Art Show, PHS Room 172, 5:30pm year, is not sure where he’d political activism, “enMusical,his “Once Upon a Mattress”, JWMS Auditorium, couraging people to under- like to go, but, not surprisingly, “I definitely want to end Musical,stand “Once Upon a Mattress”, JWMS Auditorium, the events in our nation and in the world at large up somewhere that is full of

political debate and discussion, with a strong political science department.” And after college? “I’m not exactly sure what I want to do, but I want to do something related to politics.” Wellemeyer lives in Princeton with his parents and his twin brother, who is also a Lawrenceville student. “He’s not interested in politics at the same level I am,” Wellemeyer said, ”but he’s definitely aware, and we all have different political views. I’m more liberal than my parents, which makes for interesting dinner table conversations.” —Donald Gilpin

Herb Society Luncheon, Symposium, Oct. 19

“Herbal Salts and Herbal Wine Liquors” is the subject of a symposium and luncheon presented by The Herb Society of America (HSA) on Thursday, October 19 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be held at The Windrows, 2000 Windrow Drive, across the street from Forrestal Village. Skye Suter, writer and lecturer, will discuss why we need salt in our diets and ways to use it in our everyday lives. Salt is used in the kitchen, in our beauty repertoire, in cleaning, and more. She publishes a bimonthly newsletter, The Herbal Leaf, on the art of nature, cooking, and the green life. She gardens on Staten Island. The second speaker, Karen O’Brien, will demonstrate how to prepare some herbal wine libations. People have used herbs to enrich their wines, meads, and beers for centuries. O’Brien holds the botany and horticulture chair of the HSA. She is the owner of The Green Woman garden and she can be found on Facebook. A buffet luncheon incorporating herbs and spices mentioned in the lectures will be soup, salad, a choice of entree, and a delightful dessert. To register, send a check for $40 with your name, address, phone number, and email address to Paul Cooper, Treasurer, DVU-HSA, 415 Pennington-Titusville Road, Titusville, NJ 08560-2012. The deadline for reservations is October 15. Space is limited. For questions, email Helen Hamilton hdhamilton@comcast.net.

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A GENEROUS DONATION: Realty of Princeton and Bonefish Grill recently donated to Community Options’ entrepreneurial businesses that operate to integrate people with disabilities into the workforce. At the September 20 event were, left to right: Ida Bormentar, executive director Community Options; Mary; James A. McKenna, broker/owner for Realty of Princeton; Christopher Wilkerson, managing partner of BoneFish Grill; Andrew Park, managing director of Community Options Enterprises; Melissa Alancourt, director of floral operations for Community Options Enterprises’ Vaseful Flowers and Gifts.

Celebrating Excellence In Education Superintendent’s Message The start of a new school year is upon us. We have come together as a family of educators. We have welcomed a diversity of students into our schools. And we are ready to transform education in our community and in our country. This summer, the Princeton Public Schools were once again recognized as the number one school district in New Jersey. I am proud of what our staff, our students, and our families have done to help us achieve that distinction. I am prouder still, however, that we aspire to an even higher standard of success – a standard focused not just on test scores and college admissions, but on the goal of equity. Equity. Simply put, our goal is for every student, regardless of race, religion, gender, readiness level, learning style, or economic background, to attain the highest possible levels of engagement, achievement, joy, and purpose. And central to our goal of equity is our continued focus on racial literacy. The events this summer in Charlottesville underscore the critical need for all of us – staff, students, and families – to be able to talk openly and respectfully about race, to be able to welcome different perspectives and the experiences of different cultures, and to be able to stand with courage and dignity in the face of injustice. The Princeton Public Schools will continue to strive to be leaders in the promotion of equity and racial literacy. The fresh start that comes with a new school year is an exciting time for students and staff alike. A new school year offers us an opportunity to reflect on our hopes and dreams, to set goals, and to prepare to learn and grow. As we meet our new students and welcome back those who are returning, we look forward to working together to make sure every child is known and that each child has the support and encouragement to thrive. Sincerely, Steve Cochrane Princeton Public Schools

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Narrow Focus on Apartment Fire Hazards Risks Sensationalizing a Nuanced Issue

To the Editor: Last week, you reported on the fears that some Princeton residents feel about timber-framed apartment construction [“Senior Living Complex Proposed for Harrison Street Spurs Fire Safety Concerns,” page one, Sept. 20]. I am concerned, however, that a narrow focus on apartment fire hazards runs the risk of sensationalizing a nuanced issue, which in turn could result in safety outcomes exactly opposite of those intended. Here are some considerations that I hope can “turn down the heat” on this issue: Fires in personal homes are more deadly than fires in apartment structures. In 2015, 70 percent of fires occurred in to one or two family home structures, but these fires accounted for 84 percent of total fire-related deaths; There were 3,300 fire deaths in the U.S. last year, compared to 35,000 deaths from car crashes. In other words, on any given day the risk of death by auto for a Princetonian is roughly 10 times greater than by fire; Third, fire risk in New Jersey is low compared to the rest of the country. According to the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), only four states have lower rates of fire death per 100,000 than New Jersey: Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California. Together, these facts suggest that, in New Jersey, it is safer to live in an apartment setting that doesn’t require daily driving to meet basic needs (as on North Harrison Street) than it is to live in a single family home, especially for senior citizens, and even more so for the vast majority without the substantial means needed for home-based care. I strongly agree with others in Princeton that fire safety is an important concern. But just as President Trump’s sensationalized language about immigration risks is used to justify the grotesque construction of a border wall, I worry that alarmist language about fire safety could create a hostile environment that would prevent the construction in Princeton of much-needed housing for seniors of all income levels. Housing that increases safety for seniors can also be constructed safely. Let’s work together to make this happen. NAT BoTTIgHEIMEr White Pine Lane

Backing Beth Behrend for Princeton School Board: She Unites Communities, Is Passionate About Education

To the Editor: Beth Behrend has our vote for Princeton School Board! Beth unites communities. Beth values every person. And Beth is passionate about children and education. Beth has demonstrated her leadership skills in the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Congregation where we have known her best. As a trustee on our Board, she has served during the launch of a comprehensive building renovation and has led efforts to develop a planned giving program to sustain us into the future. She has chaired our religious education committee while teaching Sunday classes to children for the past seven years. Beth also demonstrates the principle of valuing every single person. As a fellow teacher, I have watched her bring a difficult child into the circle to engage positively with others, benefitting the child and the group as a whole. Beth models and teaches respect and care for our precious planet, another UU principle. She has shown this in her volunteer work with the riverside gardens and the “Healthy Children, Healthy Planet” garden fair, and in her service on the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association and the NJ League of Conservation voters boards. Beth brings her experience of a warm, community-service-centered town to everything she does here in Princeton. She is on the front lines of every project she tackles — planting the school gardens, teaching religious education classes, engaging her students in community service (be it stocking shelves at Arm and Arm or providing childcare for church events) and serving on several boards of trustees. She is never an armchair captain. Beth lives out the UU principle calling us to promote the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice

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the district can become more responsive to the taxpaying public and more financially responsible. The national pressures facing our schools and our community are critical and have been intensified with the current administration. Now is the time to look closely at your local candidates and ensure they have the time and energy to both protect and promote our schools. Jenny has made the choice to dedicate herself to working with others to see the schools grow, and we are confident she will continue to give 100 percent as a Board member. We encourage everyone to learn more about Jenny’s campaign by visiting her website: LudmerForBoE.org. CHErYL MINTz, HArrIS rICHTEr Franklin Avenue rACHAEL CooPEr, AMY AND ErAN zACkS Dodds Lane rACHEL AND MICHAEL BENEvENTo Shady Brook LArA AND JoSH WINN Prospect Avenue

Former Township Committee Colleague Supports Michele Tuck-Ponder for the Board of Education Board Candidate Is Dedicated, Level-Headed, To the Editor: I write to support the candidacy of former Township Works Well With a Wide Variety of People

Mayor Michele Tuck-Ponder for the Princeton Board of Education. I have known Michele for 25 years (we served together on Township Committee) and can attest to her diligence in examining issues, her genuine commitment to serving all sectors of our community, her creativity in crafting responsible and effective solutions to issues, and her proficiency in the administrative and technical skills necessary for public leadership. Michele has an impressive record of achievement in both the public and nonprofit spheres. In addition to her service as mayor, she has been the CEo of the girl Scouts of Delaware-raritan, interim executive director of the YWCA of Eastern Union County, assistant counsel to governor Jim Florio, and assistant director of the New Jersey Division on Women and the Division of Civil rights. Michele has a solid grasp of our significant school issues, both from her service on Township Committee and as the parent of a fifth grade student at Community Park School and a recent graduate of Princeton High School. Among her priorities are: 1) innovative measures to assure educational equity regardless of race or socio-economic status; 2) ensuring school facilities are maintaining and developed in the most cost-effective manner; 3) carefully exploring creative approaches to establishing a school budget that is appropriate but mindful of its impact on taxpayers; and 4) reviewing school disciplinary policies to ensure that they are fair, non-discriminatory, and do not unduly burden a student’s educational progress. I urge a vote for Michele (#3 on the ballot) on Nov. 7. STEvE FrAT Lake Drive

With Her Dedication, Persistence in Pursuing Issues, Ludmer Poised To Be an Effective Board Member

To the Editor: This letter is to express our support for Jenny Ludmer, a proven school and community leader, former scientific analyst, and friend. As the parent of three children, ranging from second to seventh graders, Jenny is well aware of the many strengths of the district, but is also aware of its challenges. raised in public schools herself, she is a passionate advocate for our community schools, as well as an active volunteer for the two schools her children attend: Littlebrook Elementary and John Witherspoon Middle School. Shortly after moving to Princeton six years ago, Jenny threw herself into volunteer work both for the schools and the community. Her remarkable organizational skills have allowed her to lead successful sustainability efforts at the schools, as well as a chess after-school activity, a thriving garden program, and an annual Science Expo. She also serves on the board of the JWMS PTo and is a member of the Complete Streets Committee for the town. With her dedication and persistence in pursuing the issues, Jenny is poised to be an effective and active Board member. She cares deeply about issues facing our schools and students, including the challenges of stress, as well as racial bias, and religious intolerance. Jenny also wants to see special education strengthened and differentiated instruction improved. Finally, she understands the need for prudent stewardship of our facilities and responsible planning for future growth. In order to take on any of these issues, the district must learn to work more efficiently and Board members must work collaboratively. Jenny will be a strong addition to the Board to ensure this happens. once she gets behind an issue, she knows how to work with administrators, Board members, teachers, parents, and the community to deliver impactful results. With a hard-working Board, we believe

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To the Editor: Did I tell you how much I love living in Princeton? one of the most amazing aspects of this phenomenal town is the potential of our public schools. Harnessing this potential so that all of our children learn to live and live to learn is an ongoing challenge that requires mature and responsible leaders from our community on our School Board. Having said that, I am delighted that we all have the opportunity to elect Jess Deutch to serve on our Board of Education. As a Princeton mom of two student athletes, Jess is tuned into what is most needed for our students in the academic and extra-curricular arenas. While we continue to marvel at the successes of our Princeton students, it’s important that the process is a journey and not just a destination. As a founder of the highly-regarded Princeton Balance, Jess has put many years of work into making sure that the learning experience is truly an enrichment experience. I know that Jess will insure that the wellbeing of our students is paramount to their academic experience. Jess is a seasoned professional with years of experience serving Princeton University students as an advisor. In addition, Jess is tireless volunteer worker serving in many different capacities to support our community, including taking on leadership board responsibilities for both education-based and charitable organizations. Jess knows what it takes for someone to be a high performing student while also maintaining the appropriate lifestyle balances. over the years, Jess has articulated, via the online Princeton Balance forum, mechanisms for parents and children to optimize their learning experiences. We’d be very fortunate to have Jess implement these ideas directly into our school system. Jess is dedicated, level-headed and works well with a wide variety of people. Jess takes the time to do her homework and fully understand the issues she is working on. Jess is a team player and a good listener. Jess loves sports. For all of these reasons, I hope you’ll join me in giving Jess one of your votes for school board representation on Election Day. Did I tell you how much I love living in Princeton? ErNIE BArSAMIAN Prospect Avenue

Girl Scouts Thank Community for Contributions To Silver Award Project Multicultural Learning Mural

To the Editor: We are ninth grade girl Scout Seniors who recently completed our Silver Award Project. over the summer, we painted a 48-foot wide x 7-foot tall outdoor mural to benefit Princeton Nursery School, a preschool that primarily serves families in need and provides a multicultural learning environment and a broad array of educational services. The mural depicts a beach showing life above and below the sea. Because most of the students are bilingual, we labeled the objects on the mural in both Spanish and English. As a finishing touch, we had the preschoolers put their handprints on the mural in the shape of coral so that they could become part of the project and feel connected with the painting. In creating this mural, we believe the students can learn in a more immersive way and engage in more imaginative play. A large amount of materials and labor were required due to the large scale of the mural and we would have never been able to execute this project alone. We learned the importance of teamwork and realize that both our friends and businesses in the Princeton community were very generous with their time and donation of supplies. We are grateful for the support we received from the following community members: J.P. Maman and Chris Czekanski of Hopewell Builders transported, custom-fit and installed the mural; katrina Nanney and Athena Boutros helped prime and paint the key components; Savannah Alizio, Skylar Peppard, and Jinmee Spagnoli helped prime the wood; Bruce Currie of Niece Lumber donated and delivered 12 large weatherresistant wood panels; Mike Smart of Sherwin-Williams Paint Store donated painting supplies; george Smith of Smith’s Ace donated all colors of paint for the main mural parts; Mark goldman of The Paint Barn donated primer and surplus paint; and Cheryl Clemmer of The Home Depot provided generous coupons toward supplies. With Sincere Thanks, LYDIA grIEBELL AND CATHErINE HoWArD Princeton girl Scouts

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and as English Lecturer at impact of human activity Bronx Community College. upon landscapes around the world, Gowin has spent 15 ——— years photographing more Gowin’s “Mariposas” than one thousand species Live at Library Oct. 3 of nocturnal moths in BolivLabyrinth Live at the Li- ia, Brazil, Ecuador, French brary is presenting Lewis Guiana, and Panama. Center Photographer and According to Andrea K. Professor Emeritus Emmet Scott in The New Yorker: Gowin in a talk about his “Moths f ly by night and book, Mariposas NocturGowin’s project is, at its nas — Moths of Central heart, about drawing his and S outh Amer ica , A jewels out of the shadows. Study in Beauty and DiverIn this sense, Mariposas sity (Princeton Univ. Press Nocturnas returns full circle $49.95). This special event, to the invention of photograpart of the Princeton Enviphy itself.” ronmental Film Festival, will Joel Smith of the Morgan take place on Tuesday, OcLibrary and Museum says tober 3, at 6:30 p.m. and is co-sponsored by the library, “Mariposas Nocturnas is an Labyrinth Books, and Princ- object of beauty and a document of inestimable value. eton University Press. The late-career transformaBest known for his portion of one of the most vitraits of his wife, Edith, and sionary artists of our time is their family, as well as for movingly manifested in this his images documenting the

extraordinary book.” An essay by Gowin provides a personal history of his work with biologists and introduces both the photographic and philosophical processes behind the project. ———

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The Lewis Center for the Arts Festival weekend will open on Thursday, October 5 with the biennial Princeton Poetry Festival in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, presented by the Lewis Center’s Performance Central. Starting at noon, the festival will showcase poets from Canada, China, Cuba, Iceland, Macedonia, Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, Serbia, and the U.S. in a series of readings and panel discussions organized by Pulitzer

Prize-winning poet, Princeton faculty member, and founding chair of the Lewis Center, Paul Muldoon. The Poetry Festival continues on October 6. Featured poets include Ellen Bass, Zang Di, Amal Kassir, Hester Knibbe, Michael Longley, Nikola Madzirov, Robert Pinsky (with Laurence Hobgood), Jacquelyn Pope, Ana Ristović, Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez, Sjón, and Karen Solie. For a detailed schedule of events, visit arts.princeton. edu/events/2017-princetonpoetry-festival/2017-10-05. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations required. Presented through the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Performance Central series as part of A Festival of the Arts at Princeton, celebrating the opening of the new Lewis Arts complex.

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Sanjay Sarma Vice President for Open Learning, MIT “DIPLOMACY NOT WAR”: About 50 people gathered in Palmer Square at noon last Saturday to attend an emergency rally to press for less threatening rhetoric and more diplomacy in the ongoing dialogue with North Korea. (Photo by John Lien)

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difficult, challenging situation, and turn it into a major crisis that puts the world on the verge of a catastrophic nuclear war. Threats and bombastic tweets are not leadership. They won’t keep America safe, and they need to stop.” In his speech to the gathering Saturday, Moore went on to urge diplomacy as the only way forward. “There’s a lot of fake news about whether diplomacy with nations like North Korea can work,” he said. “But it has worked, and it’s the only way to prevent war and reduce the risk of nuclear war.” Other local leaders and scientists who spoke included New Jersey State Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker, Princeton Council Member Tim Quinn, Princeton University Physics Professor Frank von Hippel, Imam Qareeb Bashir of the Ewing Islamic Center, CFPA’s Committee for Political Action Co-Chair Kip Cherry, CFPA Board Member the Rev. Carol Haag, and CFPA Board Chair Irene Etkin Goldman. Moore described Trump’s U.N. statements as particularly “breathtaking and catastrophic in the context of an institution that was created to prevent war.” He continued, “We need to stop this escalating roll toward a nuclear war, and quickly deescalate the North Korean crisis diplomatically. “There is no military solution to this problem. War on the Korean peninsula would kill many millions of Koreans, Japanese, and American troops stationed in the region, wreak havoc on the world economy, inflict a humanitarian crisis not seen since World War II, and potentially provoke the North Koreans to use their nuclear arsenal.” “Diplomacy not war” was “the basic mantra” of the rally, according to Moore, and he noted, “the fate of the region and the world depends on it.” —Donald Gilpin

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The completion of the project, which began on July 5, is “perfect timing for the half marathon on the fifth,” said Stockton, referring to the annual Princeton HiTOPS Half Marathon, which draws crowds to the area. Also at the meeting, Council voted to approve a resolution requested by developer J. Robert Hillier (a Town Topics shareholder) to change a developer’s agreement regarding the Waxwood property in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood. The development on Quarry Street will remain rental with eight units devoted to affordable housing. A more extensive story on the topic will appear in next week’s Town Topics. Route 206 was first closed in February 2016 due to failure of the parapet and spandrel wall above the north arch on the upstream side of the stone arch bridge. An in-depth inspection of the bridge, which was built in 1792 and widened in 1916, revealed additional problems. The New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT) performed emergency repairs, and the road was reopened to traffic on March 7, 2016 before closing again a year later. The project includes the replacement of the flood channel bridge, directly adjacent to the stone arch bridge. Work on the two bridges at the same time was done to minimize the duration of the construction and detours. The flood channel bridge was in a deteriorating condition, and is being replaced with a single span bridge to minimize environmental impacts. The project is located within the historic areas of the Princeton Battlefield/ Stony Brook Settlement Village and the Kings Highway Districts. Stockton also reported that the parking study undertaken by the town is nearing completion. A final public meeting on the study will likely be held the week of October 30. Mayor Liz Lempert asked Stockton to report on the 24-hour closing last week of a portion of Alexander Street. “A failure in the structure had been found and needed immediate repair,” Stockton said. “The road was actually deflecting under traffic. I spoke with the DOT and they are satisfied with the repair work. With the support of West Windsor and Princeton University, we advised them to look at replacing that structure or doing a more permanent repair when Mercer County replaces the bridge on the Stony Brook in about three years.” Also at the meeting, Assistant Municipal

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The music building, which augments the existing Woolworth Center, includes a spacious rehearsal room for the Princeton University Orchestra and other ensembles. The orchestra will continue to perform at Richardson Auditorium, but will rehearse in the new space. Individual rehearsal rooms, which are soundproof and suspended on cables; a jazz studies studio; areas for chamber music concerts; and room for the Princeton Laptop Orchestra are among the other spaces. “Michael Pratt (the orchestra’s conductor) said he can actually hear the second violins now, because of the state-of-the-art acoustics,” said Wendy Heller, chair of the department of music. When the press tour passed by Pratt’s office and Heller asked him to describe how he feels about the new building, he whooped with delight. Formerly crowded into space at 185 Nassau Street, the University’s dance students now take class and rehearse in several studios, and a 120-seat theater devoted specifically to their work. “Ten years ago we had an average of 70 students in the dance STATE OF THE ART: The practice rooms in the New Music Building at the Lewis Center for the Arts are acoustically so- program per semester. Now we phisticated and outfitted with new Steinway pianos. Steven Holl Architects designed the complex, which opens to the have 200,” said Heller. public with a festival October 5-8. (Photo by Denise Applewhite) Connecting the buildings is an 8,000-square-foot expanse called The Forum, designed as an indoor gathering space that

will serve as a lobby for the various arts venues as well as an informal performance space. “We wanted it to be like a living room,” said Michael Cadden, chair of the Lewis Center. Cadden added that Richardson and Taplin auditoriums will continue to be used for performances, so the arts will not be confined to the new complex. “It’s edge-toedge deployment of the arts,” he said. On Monday, crew members were installing the set for Gurls, a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a 2006 graduate of the University, in the black box theater. “This might be the best outfitted black box theater in the United States,” Cadden said. Among the complex’s architectural distinctions are a curved wall inside a cylinder, a “dancing staircase” with a perforation pattern based on symbols used in dance notation, windows of varying shapes, and an outdoor plaza with a reflecting pool visible from The Forum beneath. The complex was built with all LED lighting and geothermic heating and cooling systems, earning it LEED Silver sustainability status. “It’s about as state-of-the-art as it gets,” said Yaffe. Most of the events at the Festival of the Arts October 5-8 are free. For a full schedule of events and performances, visit lcaopening.princeton.edu. —Anne Levin

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D&R Greenway and the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey present “Species on the Edge,” an exhibit of winning nature art depicting threatened and endangered species by New Jersey fifth-graders, running through October 18. For the 15th annual Species on the Edge Art and Essay Contest, art and essays from students in each county were judged by artists and scientists. Students INDIANA BAT: This painting by fifth grader Emma Phelan was the Mercer County winner for the painted and wrote scientific 15th annual Species on the Edge Art and Essay Contest. An exhibition of other winning art from essays on New Jersey’s more New Jersey fifth graders is at the Olivia Rainbow Gallery in D&R Greenway’s Johnson Education than 80 threatened and enCenter through October 18. dangered species. Art was chosen by artists; the essays by scientists. The students’ texts reveal causes for the animals having become endangered, and methods of future protection. This year’s competition drew more than 2,500 entries. • SINCE 1929 • Mercer County’s winner is an Indiana bat in flight, by Emma Phelan. The elusive short-eared owl, by Joanne Nicole J. Huckerby, Esquire Bennet, won in Middlesex County. Ulises Tovar’s black skimmers won in Hunterdon Nicole has been with Pellettieri Rabstein and Altman since 1993. She concentrates County. her practice on complex divorce litigation, domestic violence litigation, preparation of “These talented children prenuptial agreements, and custody and parenting time disputes. Nicole also handles poured their hear ts into all divorce related post-judgment matters such as college contributions, spousal and the Species on the Edge child support issues, cohabitation, and retirement. She is accomplished as both a Contest, creating vibrant skilled negotiator and a trial attorney. artwork and passionate essays about these rare wildNicole has authored numerous articles on issues of children and divorce that can be life species,” said David found on the firm’s website. Prior to joining PR&A Nicole served as a judicial law clerk Wheeler, Conserve Wildlife in Burlington County to the Honorable John A. Sweeney, J.S.C. She is licensed to Foundation executive director. “We are inspired to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is a member of the New Jersey State connect the next generation Bar Association and the Mercer County Bar Association. of New Jersey conservation Nicole received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Gettysburg College and her Juris leaders with their natural world. Their art and essays Doctor from Widener University School of Law. Nicole resides with her family in illustrate the wonders of naPennington, New Jersey. ture, revealing challenges we must overcome to help We can help you make informed decisions. vulnerable wildlife survive in our densely populated Nicole J. Huckerby John A. Hartmann, III, Chm. Willing negotiators. state.” Jennifer R. Haythorn Lydia Fabbro Keephart Skilled litigators. Jillian F. Kalyan This year’s young artists were honored at an awards ceremony at the New Jer100 Nassau Park Boulevard, Suite 111, Princeton, NJ 08540 sey Education Association in Trenton. 609-520-0900 | www.pralaw.com

Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. through 5 p.m. weekdays. The Olivia Rainbow Gallery is in D&R Greenway’s Johnson Education Center, One Preservation Place, Princeton. Free admission. For more information, call (609) 924-4646 or visit ww.drgreenway.org. ———

Light Art Grand Tour at Updike Farmstead

The Historical Society of Princeton’s ( HSP) Updike Farmstead will be illuminated with projected images relating to physicist Albert Einstein on Tuesday, October 10. This event is a part of world-renowned Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter’s Light Art Grand Tour USA, which will feature light projections on 50 landmarks in 50 states. The three-year tour began on September 16 at Washington Crossing Historic Park in Pennsylvania. The team will visit one site in each state, making Updike Farmstead the only New Jersey site on the tour. The first year of the tour focuses on the original 13 colonies, followed in the second and third years by the remaining states, from east to west, along the route. This fall, Hofstetter will also display projections at Mount Vernon and Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library. The display organized for each monument or landmark will explore U.S. history and the connection between America and Switzerland. Einstein lived in Bern, Switzerland for seven years between 1902 and 1909; during that time, he published more than 30 articles, six of which are still considered part of the canon of modern physics. This includes his theory of special relativity and discovery of the photoelectric effect, which won him the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. Einstein moved to Princeton in 1933,

where he spent the last 22 years of his life. HSP is home to the Einstein Furniture Collection, 65 pieces of furniture owned and used by Albert Einstein in his Berlin and Princeton homes. In addition, HSP’s Gillett Griffin Collection contains E ins tein’s p ersonal belongings, including his pipe, compass, puzzle games, and the only known self-por trait of Einstein. Highlight pieces from the collection, along with photographs, documents, and other interpretive material, are permanently on view in the farmhouse museum at Updike Farmstead. Hofstetter and his team of experts will use a series of projectors to display multiple images, which will be photographed and filmed for an exhibition, a documentary, and a book. The project will be unveiled in Switzerland in 2020, after which the exhibition will travel to museums and other landmarks throughout the U.S. “We’re thrilled to host Gerry and his team at the Updike Farmstead,” said HSP Executive Director Izzy Kasdin. “Not only are our white historic farm buildings a perfect canvas for this kind of documentary artwork, but also HSP houses one of the most significant Einstein collections in the country. We’re so pleased to feature Einstein in this creative way.” Attendance at the light show October 10 will be available to a limited number of members and guests on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets are $10 per person; HSP Members and children under 12 are free. Guests are invited to picnic on the proper ty star ting at 5:30 p.m., and the performance starts at sunset. Light snacks will be provided. Registration is available online at w w w.princeton history.org.

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“YARD GUARD”: This repurposed metal sculpture by Eric Schultz is featured in “Mechanical Moments,” running September 30-October 21 at Morpeth Contemporary at 43 West Broad Street in Hopewell. It is Schultz’s first solo show at the gallery. The area’s premier found object artist, he is known for his unconventional process of transforming defunct and discarded objects into sculpture. Fragments of machinery are imaginatively repurposed into “metal translations of dreams and memories.” Schultz is best known locally for “The Sleeping Giant” created during his artist in residence at Grounds For Sculpture in 2010. An opening reception will be held at the gallery September 30 from 6-8 p.m.

“EVERYTHING WITH WINGS II”: This sunflower painting by Helen M. Rudnick is featured in “Everything With Wings II,” running from October 1 through November 17 at Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury. A reception will be held on Sunday, October 1 from 1-3 p.m.

“Everything With Wings II” taught basic art skills. In Horner began taking 35mm 2015, she decided to close photos as a hobby, working At Gourgaud Gallery

Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street in Cranbury, will feature an exhibit by Helen M. Rudnick, “Ever ything With Wings II,” from October 1 to November 17. A reception will be held on Sunday, October 1 from 1-3 p.m. “Everything With Wings II” is a continuation of an artistic theme that Rudnick began in 2015. It mixes real with fantasy, natural with spiritual, eastern with western. Sometimes the vision calls for watercolor, sometime acrylic, and occasionally photographic mixed with ink. Rudnick was born and raised in the city of Hangzhou in China. At age 15, she entered a special high school in Hangzhou for the artistically inclined. After high school, she was accepted into the prestigious China National Academy of Fine Arts where she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. She then moved to the United States to find herself as an artist. She enrolled in a master’s degree program in art education at Kean University, receiving her degree in 2007. From 2001 to 2014, Rudnick ran her own art studio, Helen Studio, where she

the studio and focus on her own art. She has had solo exhibitions and has also participated in group exhibitions. Gourgaud Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays October 1 and October 15 from 1-3 p.m. ———

Pinelands Photographer Horner To Speak in Princeton

Albert D. Horner, an awardwinning fine art photographer whose images distill the quiet beauty and intimate landscapes of New Jersey’s Pinelands National Reserve, will speak at the Princeton Photography Club meeting on Wednesday, October 11 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Johnson Education Center at the D&R Greenway Land Trust at One Preservation Place in Princeton. Self-taught, Horner brings curiosity, patience, and a practiced eye to his craft, recording the oak and pine forests, cedar swamps, meandering water ways, and native wildflowers that make the Pine Barrens a place like no other. “Although the Pinelands does not have mountain peaks or lush valleys with babbling streams, it does have a beauty and uniqueness all its own,” says Horner.

first in black and white and then in Kodachrome. He visited scenic locations in the United States and abroad, but wasn’t quite satisfied with the images he produced. He soon realized he needed a subject close at hand where he could monitor light and weather conditions in all seasons. For the Medford Lakes resident that subject was the Garden State’s Pinelands, a place he had explored since childhood. In the past decade, using digital photography, Horner has produced more than 150 images taken in the 1.1-million-acre Pinelands National Reserve. Some 80 of these fine arts photographs appear in his 2015 monograph, Pinelands : New Jersey’s Suburban Wilderness. A Pinelands Preservation Alliance board member, Horner uses his art to advocate on behalf of the ecologicallyimpor tant region, giv ing presentations and exhibiting his images. The event, sponsored by the Princeton Photography Club, is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be offered. For more infor mation, contact David Anderson, president, at (609) 658-8551 or visit the website at www.princetonphotoclub.org.

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“MILLSTONE MORNING”: Artist Richard Chenoweth of Princeton has won an award for his painting, “Millstone Morning,” at the Phillip’s Mill 88th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, which opened on September 23. The exhibition, which runs through October 29, is at the historic Phillip’s Mill at 2619 River Road in New Hope, Pa. It is open daily from 1-5 p.m. Adults, $5; seniors, $4; students, $2. For more information, call (215) 862-0482 or visit www.phillipsmill.org.

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Area Exhibits Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery, Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road, shows The Arts Council of Princeton’s 50th Anniversary Exhibit through October 5. Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, shows “Rise Above: The Art of the Counterculture — Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market” through October 14. www. artworkstrenton.org. Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has The Neighborhood Portrait Quilt on permanent display. “The Mask of Femininity: Feminist Portraits” by Andre Veloux runs through January 1. www.artscouncilofprince ton.org. D&R Greenway Land Tr ust, 1 Preser vation Place, has “Same Moon: Diverse 5 Voices of Nature” through October 27. “Species on the Edge,” nature art by fifth graders, runs through October 18. www. drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has “Bruce Katsiff at Ellarslie” and “The Artist/Dealer Relationship” through November 12. www.ellarslie.com. Friend Center Atrium, Princeton University campus, shows the 2017 “Art of Science Exhibition” weekdays through April 2018. arts.prince ton.edu. Grounds For Sculp-

ture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “That’s Worth Celebrating: The Life and Works of the Johnson Family” through December 31, “Daniel Clayman: Radiant Landscape” through February 25, and other exhibits. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: The Architect in Princeton,” “The Einstein Salon and Innovators Gallery,” and a show on John von Neumann, as well as a permanent exhibit of historic photographs. $4 admission Wednesday-Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Thursday extended hours t ill 7 p.m. and free admission 4-7 p.m. www.princeton history.org. The James A. Michener Art Museum at 138 South Pine Street in Doylestown, Pa., has “George Sotter: Light and Shadow” through December 31, and “Highlights from the New HopeSolebury School District Art Collection” through October 8. www.michener artmuseum.org. Morpeth Contem porary, 43 West Broad Street, Hopewell, has “Eric Schultz: Mechanical Moments” September 30-October 21. The opening is Saturday, September 30, 6-8 p.m. (609) 333-9393. Morven Museum and G a rde n, 55 Stockton Street, has “Newark and the Culture of Art: 19001960” through January 28. morven.org. Phillips’ Mill, 2619 River Road, New Hope,

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Pa., has the 88th Annual Juried Art Exhibit through October 29. www.phillipsmill.org. The Princeton University Art Museum has “Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler” through October 8 and “Making History Visible: Of American Myths and National Heroes” through January 17. “Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography 18951925” runs October 7-January 7. (609) 258-3788. APPLE DAYS FALL FESTIVAL WEEKENDS AT TERHUNE ORCHARDS: Discover fall fun at Terhune Orchards over the course of a three-day weekend, beginning Saturday, October 7 through Monday, October 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Search the pick-your-own pumpkin patch for the perfect jack o’ lantern. Find other farm decorations including pots of colorful mums, gourds, and corn stalks. Kids will enjoy the corn maze, hay bale maze, rubber duck race, and live music performances by country music bands. Be sure to visit the Farm Store for freshly baked pumpkin and apple treats including Terhune’s apple cider donuts, apple pie, and freshly pressed apple cider. The Postpar tum Ad- Pick-your-own apples are available seven days a week at 13 Van Kirk Road. Admission to all j u s t m e n t S u p p o r t festival days is $8 ages 3 and up. No admission to Farm Store, Winery, and apple orchards. Group will meet, at Princeton Fitness and Wellness Center, 1225 State Road in Princeton on Wednesday, September 27 at 1 p.m. Join healthcare professionals from Princeton Healthcare System for a relaxed conversation. Mothers are encouraged to bring their infants. No charge. ———

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T he mont hly meeting of The Piano Teachers Forum ( PTF) at Jacobs Music, 2540 Brunswick Pike in Lawrenceville will take place on Friday, October 6 at 9:15 a.m. (coffee at 8:45 a.m.). PTF members will perform pieces from the 2018 Spring Syllabus with the theme of “Myths and Legends.” Guest fee of $20 at the door.

SURVIVORS IN STYLE: October 6 is the annual Lord & Taylor “In the Pink” fashion show to raise funds for the Princeton YWCA’s Breast Cancer Resource Center. Breast cancer survivors and their families, friends, and health professionals attend the event at the Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village, which will begin with a cocktail recepton followed by an auction, dinner, and the fashion show. Models this year will include Dr. Peter Yi of Princeton Medical Group. Pictured here are models from last year’s show. Call (609) 497-2100 ext. 333 for tickets. (Photo by Amit Shakma)

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s a young girl, Katherine Johnson loved to count. “I counted ever y t h ing,” rec alls t he 99-year-old former NASA mathematician, whose remarkable story was prominently featured in the 2016 movie Hidden Figures. “I counted steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed — anything that could be counted, I did.” Along with Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, Johnson made exceptional contributions to the NASA space program, starting in the 1950s. The fact that all three women were African American made the challenges they faced in a maledominated profession even more daunting. Not only did they persevere, they succeeded. Their dedication and extraordinary mathematical skills have not only been highlighted in Hidden Figures, but by Johnson having received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation’s highest civilian honor), and most recently with the opening of the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility, the state-of-the-art laboratory for innovative research and development, suppor t ing NASA’s m is sions. Role Models Role models, to be sure, as is another outstanding scientist, Julie Webster. She served as spacecraft operations team manager for the

20-year Cassini mission to orbit the planet Saturn. This project was a combined endeavor of NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency, which came to a successful conclusion on September 15. The mission was able to discover important and previously unknown information about the planet, its famous rings, and its moons. Johnson, Webster, and the others are among those most prominently known for their work in the field of science. Of course, there are many others: physicians and surgeons, astronauts, marine biologists, geologists, and more. Nevertheless, professions in what is known as the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and science) field remain today predominantly male-dominated. “There is a significant gender gap in STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and math,” says Risa Engel, director of communications at Princeton’s Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. “According to a recent report by General Electric economists, the lack of women in technology and engineering is holding back the pace at which these sectors can advance. Women make up just 19 percent of computer programmers and only 14 percent of engineers. This under-representation corresponds to leadership roles as well.” And, as the GE repor t

concludes, “In the digital industrial future, companies and countries that cannot close the gender gap will not succeed.” In addition, points out Engel, “There is a significant gap for women-owned businesses. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, just 36 percent of privately-owned b u s i n e s s e s a r e wo m e n owned.” Opportunities for Girls So — although women have made important strides in these fields over the years, much more remains to be accomplished. Recognizing this, schools, organizations, foundations, and businesses are firmly suppor ting oppor tunities for girls and young women to take on leadership roles and to aspire to whatever careers and professions, including science, that their abilities enable them to undertake. In the Princeton area, Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Villa Victoria Academy — both all-girls schools — and scienceSeeds, a science-based organization focusing on encouraging children’s interest in and curiosity about science, are strongly engaged in helping girls reach their potential and “close the Girl Gap” in scientific endeavors. Stuart, which has had a STEM program since 2011, held an all- day “Conference for Risk-takers and Change-makers” last April.

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More and More Girls Head Toward Science Projects As STEM Educational Opportunities Increase in Area

Girls in the fourth grade at Stuart Country Day School learn about coding as well as electricity in their STEM class. They combined the two by using the application Scratch to program electronics, and used a toolkit called Makey Makey to test circuit connections with different materials. In this photo, the girls are sharing the activities and games they develop with girls in other grades in the Lower School. Presented by The Stuart Center for Girls’ Leadership, “Lead Like A Girl,” it featured 85 speakers, with more than 50 presentations, workshops, and panels. As Head of School, Dr. Patty L. Fagin points out, “As experts in educating girls, at Stuart we know that it is crucial to educate young women to know they are powerful, that they can affect change, and their voices are important — particularly in male-dominated arenas.” “STEM for girls at Stuart began with a simple question, ‘What will girls need

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Sam Shepard’s “Simpatico” Is a Gritty Tale of Double Lives; A Red Orchid Theatre Brings Chicago Production to McCarter

cCarter Theatre has opened its season with Sam Shepard’s Simpatico. Asked by The New York Times what makes actors good in their work, the playwright — who died July 27 —responded, “Adventure. An actor who’s willing to jump off the cliff, he’s going to go anywhere.” This production proves Shepard’s point. On multiple levels, Simpatico is a gritty, chaotic odyssey. It is a journey across America; the action takes place in California and Kentucky, and each of the two protagonists travels from one state to the other. Video screens, Mike Durst’s lighting, and Joe Court’s sound design, which includes effective use of music, all contribute to a raucous ambience typical of a roadhouse where one might stop during a trip across the country. For more than one character, the play is an odyssey from fragile control to despair. For others, it is a journey from defeat to a measure of hope. “There are two men, Carter and Vinnie,” director Dado comments in a promotional video for the production. “And sometimes I think it’s one man that got psychically split down the middle.” Like the actors, Dado is a member of A Red Orchid Theatre. The ensemble is based in Chicago, and presented Simpatico there in 2013. This production is their first collaboration with McCarter Theatre. Fifteen years before the action takes place, Vinnie and Carter were partners in a plot to fix a horse race. The scheme involved shady photographs in which Simms, a racing official, was pictured with Rosie, a femme fatale who dated Vinnie but married Carter. Many journeys involve baggage, including dirty laundry. In Simpatico this is both metaphorical and literal. More than one character has a briefcase or box filled with mysterious contents, and Vinnie’s squalid apartment is filled with clothes that need washing. “You shouldn’t ought to let the laundry pile up on you, Vinnie. It gives you a bad impression of yourself,” Carter chides him. Vinnie retorts, “I don’t need the laundry for that.” Carter offers to hire domestic help for Vinnie. Carter has managed, at least outwardly, to exchange his dodgy past for a respectable affluent life with a wife and family. He bribes Vinnie to prevent him from sabotaging this façade. Carter offers Vinnie money for the photographs that were crucial to their scheme, which ruined Simms. Simpatico takes place in 1994, the year it opened, and there are topical references to the damaging potential of technology:

“You’ve got no concept of how things are hooked up these days,” Carter rages at Vinnie. “How international files are kept. Information stored. Microchips. Fibre optics. Floppy discs. It’s an art form now, Vinnie! An industry!” Vinnie indicates that the photos are now in the possession of Cecilia, a woman whom he attempted to impress by pretending to be a private investigator. Cecilia, whose dream is to attend the Kentucky Derby, met Vinnie while working at a supermarket. According to Vinnie, Cecilia is suing him for harassment. In an attempt to regain possession of the photos, Carter visits Cecilia. He discovers that Vinnie has lied about his relationship with her. Carter hires her to assist him in recovering the pictures; this task leads her to Simms. Simms has given himself the pseudonym of “Ames” and works for the Kentucky Racing Commission. Simpatico’s structure bears some resemblance to Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde. Shepard’s opening and closing scenes feature Carter and Vinnie. The intervening vignettes include a meeting between Carter and Cecilia, and one between Cecilia and Simms. Also, Vinnie temporarily reunites with Rosie. Most of the scenes feature only two characters, though a select few involve a third. That is what makes this play particularly

entertaining: the chance to observe how each character changes their persona with every new encounter. As expected, this affords the actors ample scope, and they respond with versatile performances. With the exception of John Judd, who portrays Simms, the actors are reprising their roles from the 2013 production. Michael Shannon and Guy Van Swearingen have been working together for over two decades, having co-founded A Red Orchid Theatre, with actor Lawrence Grimm, in 1993. Like the characters, the actors have a long history; this preexisting rapport enriches the onstage chemistry. To Carter, Michael Shannon brings the intensity that marked his performance as Nelson Van Alden in Boardwalk Empire. An ominous veneer of deceptive calm evaporates, to be replaced by an eruption of rage. Carter would like to believe he is in control of circumstances, but Shannon’s unsettled use of body language underlines the tenuousness of that control. As Carter’s mask of affluence is stripped away, his cool calculation dissolves into desperation. This is complemented by Guy Van Swearingen, whose Vinnie alternates between emotive pathos and streetwise toughness. His scenes with Carter constitute a sparring match in which the volume is gradually, but relentlessly, increased.

With Rosie, this volume is abruptly stifled, as Vinnie attempts to hide his emotions. As Rosie, Jennifer Engstrom oozes charm, caressing every line of dialogue as though it were a phrase in a bluesy torch song. When she feels threatened, her flamboyant effusion gives way to operatic madness. By contrast, Mierka Girten is a calming influence as Cecilia. As Simms, John Judd exudes a grizzled, sturdy panache, though he is especially entertaining when Simms awkwardly, though passionately, flirts with Cecilia. Kristin E. Ellis infuses Kelly, Rosie’s personal assistant, nanny, and protective gatekeeper, with confident inner strength. Dado’s staging uses the space effectively, as does the set design by Grant Sabin. Dado and Sabin often fill the stage, but they also know when to leave space empty. Like the characters’ identities, the bare stage, seen by the audience upon entering the auditorium, is deceptive. A platform opens, just as Carter’s suitcase might, to reveal Vinnie’s apartment. Eventually the stage will be filled by two other boxlike sets. Cecelia’s apartment is decorated with throw-rugs, which Carter suggests that Vinnie needs. Simms’ cluttered office is stuffed with boxes and racing memorabilia. This is a marked contrast with Rosie’s spacious house, which sports a billowing curtain and chandeliers that seem to belong in a ballroom out of My Fair Lady. Rosie’s interior decorating is just as much of an affectation as Carter’s suit. The costumes by Christine Pascual precisely define the personality of the characters. Carter’s well-tailored suit, which nevertheless never seems like it quite belongs on him, is a marked contrast to Vinnie’s loose-fitting shirt and baggy pants. Rosie’s dress is silky and effervescent. In 1994 Simpatico premiered at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. The film version opened in 1999. Horses and racing were subjects of multiple Shepard plays. In Geography of a Horse Dreamer, gangsters kidnap a man whose dreams predict winners of races. Kicking a Dead Horse centers around a man whose journey is stalled by the death of his horse. impatico is rife with double identities, transformations, and revela“SIMPATICO”: Performances are underway for A Red Orchid Theatre’s production of “Simpations that demand that its actors be tico.” Directed by ensemble member Dado, the play runs through October 15 at McCarter’s prepared to undertake a labyrinthine adBerlind Theatre. Vinnie (Guy Van Swearingen, left) threatens to sabotage the veneer of venture. Fortunately, this talented ensemrespectability that is carefully maintained by his ex-partner Carter (Michael Shannon). ble delivers the tour de force performances (Photo by Richard Termine) required by Sam Shepard’s script. —Donald H. Sanborn III “Simpatico” will play at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre, 91 University Place in Princeton, through October 15. For tickets, show times, and further information call (609) 258-2787 or visit mccarter.org.

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BOLLYWOOD BLAST: On Saturday, more than 600 people attended an Arts Council of Princeton event, An Evening with Bollywood, at the Princeton Shopping Center. Curated by Uma Kapoor of Nach Nation, it was an evening celebrating Indian culture with traditional music, dance, art, Eric Rieger henna tattoos, a marketplace and authentic foods. Nitya Narayan, in foreground, portrayed Faculty Recital Series, King Aditya in a Bharatnatyam pose. (Photo By Priyanka Madia)

contemp orar y ar t prac - 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Octices, the course provides tober 15 at 2 p.m. Tickets students an introduction to are $25 for adults and $20 radical performance prac- for students and seniors. tices through which artists They can be purchased at consider the gendered and the door, through the box racialized body that circu- office at (609) 896-7775 lates in the public domain, or online at www.rider.edu/ both onstage and off. arts. General admission preKosoko is a Niger ian - view tickets are $9 for adults American curator, poet, and and $5 for students and seperformance artist from De- niors and are only available troit, Michigan. He is a 2017 at the door. For more inforJerome artist-in-residence mation, visit rider.edu/arts. with Abrons Arts Center, Music is by Frank Wilda 2017 Association of Perhor n, lyrics are by Don Brenda Dixon Gottschild for ming Ar ts Presenters Black, and the book is by “Reclamations! Lectures in Leadership Fellow, a 2015 Ivan Menchell. Rider faculty Black Feminist Performance” American Express Leader- member Robin Lewis is the Princeton Arts Fellow and ship Fellow, a 2012 Live director and choreographer faculty member Jaamil Ola- Arts Brewery Fellow as part and his colleague Nathan wale Kosoko curates “Recla- of the Philadelphia Live Arts Hurwitz is the music direcmations! Lectures in Black Festival, a 2011 Fellow as tor. Feminist Performance,” and part of the DeVos Institute of At the height of the Great welcomes Brenda Di xon Art Management at the John Depression, Bonnie Parker Gottschild, award-winning F. Kennedy Center for the and Clyde Barrow went from dance scholar, on Monday, Performing Arts, and an in- two small-town nobodies in October 2 at 7:30 p.m. This augural graduating member West Texas to America’s lecture, which is free and of the Institute for Curatorial most renowned folk heroes open to the public, will be Practice in Performance at and Texas law enforcement’s held in the Roberts Dance Wesleyan University. Kosoko worst nightmares. FearStudio in Princeton Univer- is in-residence at Princeton, less, shameless, and allursity’s new Lewis Arts com- teaching, researching, and ing, Bonnie & Clyde is the plex. continuing to develop new Brenda Dixon Gottschild work. is the author of The Black Presented by Princeton’s Dancing Body — A Geog- Program in Dance, the seraphy from Coon to Cool ries is cosponsored by the (winner of the 2004 de la Lewis Center for the Arts’ Torre Bueno prize for schol- Committee on Race and the arly excellence in dance pub- Arts. “Reclamations! Leclication); Waltzing in the tures in Black Feminist PerDark: African American formance” continues in the Vaudeville and Race Poli- Roberts Dance Studio with tics in the Swing Era (win- lectures by artists Ebony ner of the 2001 Congress on Noelle Golden on Monday, Research in Dance Award October 23, and Autumn ______________ for Outstanding Scholarly Knight on Monday, Novem_______________ ______________________ Dance Publication ) ; Date and & berTime: 6, both at 7:30 p.m. Digging the Africanist Presour ad, scheduled to run ___________________. To learn more about the ence in American Perfor- Program in Dance, visit arts. oughly and pay special to the following: mance: Dance andattention Other princeton.edu. A freelance writill tell Contexts. us it’s okay) ——— er, consultant, performer, “Bonnie & Clyde” at and former consul� lecturer, Fax number � Address � Expiration Date Rider University tant for Dance Magazine, Rider University’s musical she is professor emerita of dance studies at Temple Uni- theatre presents the Tonynominated musical Bonnie versity. The lecture series is part & Clyde October 11 through of a fall course taught by 15 in the Yvonne Theater on Kosoko and cross-listed in the Rider University campus dance, visual arts, and Afri- in Lawrenceville. The percan American studies, “An formances are Wednesday, Introduction to the Radical October 11 at 7:30 p.m.; Imagination.” Using an inter- Thursday, October 12 at disciplinary visual and per- 7:30 p.m.; Friday, October formance studies approach 13 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, to explore various sites of October 14 at 2 p.m. and Fast Food • Take-Out • Dine-In

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“Liederabend” at Westminster, Oct. 8

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Fall Showcase at Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street. The lineup includes local, regional, and international student filmmakers. Friday, September 29 9 a.m.: Coffee & Tour of University League Nursery School, 457 Nassau Street. 6 p.m.: C.K. Williams Reading Series: Vincent Toro with thesis students from the Princeton University Program in Creative Writing at Labyrinth Books in Princeton. Free. 6 p.m.: Princeton University women’s field hockey vs. Yale at Princeton’s Bedford Field. Saturday, September 30 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.: West Windsor Community Farmers Market at the Princeton Junction Train Station Parking Lot. Over 16 farms and 11 artisan food and natural product vendors are represented (repeats weekly). 10 a.m. to noon: The Sourland Conservancy presents “Build Your Own Birdhouse” for adults and children ages 7 and older. All materials and tools will be provided. Admis-

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sion is $10 per birdhouse. Advance registration is required at www.sourland.org/ birdhouse. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Apple Days Fall Festival at Terhune Orchards every Saturday and Sunday through October 29. Enjoy a full day of fun on the farm and celebrate the apple harvest with 34 varieties of apples to pick from. Treat yourself to freshly made apple cider, apple donuts pies, muffins, and more (repeats weekly). 12 to 6 p.m.: Fall Food & Wine Festival at Unionville Vineyards’ sprawling winery estate in Hunterdon County. Wine tastings, food trucks, winery tours, hayrides, cork crafts, and more. Visit www. unionvillevineyards.com. 2:30 p.m.: M R Square Dance Club presents a dance with caller Dayle Hodge at Manors Clubhouse, 26 Fairway Court in Lawrenceville. Suggested admission donation is $10 per person. Club policy is that children pay half price when accompanied by paying adult(s). For questions, call

(609) 844-1140. 8 p.m.: Comedian Tracy Morgan performs at State Theatre in New Brunswick. For more information, visit www. stnj.org. Sunday, October 1 2 to 4:30 p.m.: Walking Tour of downtown Princeton and the University campus presented by the Historical Society of Princeton. Tour begins at Bainbridge House. Tickets are $7. 4:30 p.m.: Lawrenceville Main Street’s A Night in the Village is a “moveable feast” that allows guests to sample fine foods from 11 establishments. Tickets include food from the 11 establishments, one beer, music, and raffle tickets. There are two tour options beginning at 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. BYOB. Learn more at www.lawrenceville mainstreet.com 5 p.m.: Dorothea’s House presents “Building a Nation with Music—Opera and Italian Nationhood from the Risorgimento to the First World War” delivered by Adelphi University Professor Jonathan Hiller. The

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lecture is free and open to the public. Dorothea’s House is located at 120 John Street in Princeton. 7:30 p.m.: Scott Bravo on acoustic guitar with singersongwriter Seth Adam at 1867 Sanctuary, located at 101 Scotch Road in Ewing. General admission is $20 ($5 for students). For more information, call (609) 392-6409. Monday, October 2 Recycling 5 to 6 p.m.: Ingrid Reed will facilitate discussions of the challenges facing the next New Jersey governor and legislature in the Newsroom at Princeton Public Library. Issues discussed will be drawn from papers, agendas, and statements developed by New Jersey organizations (repeats weekly through October 23). 7 to 8:30 p.m.: “Hallowed Ground: Putting the Civil War Dead to Rest” lecture presented by Martin M. Mosho at Princeton Public Library. Mosho is the author of two books and previously taught at Mercer County Community College. Tuesday, October 3 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: The renowned photographer and emeritus professor of photography at Princeton University discusses his 15-year project to capture the beauty of more than 1,000 species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana and Panama. This special event of the Princeton Environmental Film Festival is co-sponsored by the library, Labyrinth Books and Princeton University Press. The event will take place at Princeton Public Library. Wednesday, October 4 6 p.m.: “Falling Awake: Poems” with Alice Oswald at Labyrinth Books in Princeton. Free. 7 p.m.: Princeton Garden Theatre is partnering with the Historical Society of Princeton for a film screening of 2001’s A Beautiful Mind followed by a panel discussion with John Nash’s son, John Stier, and Princeton University Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Joseph Kohn. Thursday, October 5 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.: Opening of “A Festival of the Arts at Princeton” in celebration of the opening of the new Lewis Center for the Arts. The Festival will include concerts, plays, readings, dance performances, art exhibitions, screenings, multidisciplinary presentations, community workshops. Events will be open to the public and most will be free (through Sunday, October 8). 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Shop local produce and baked goods at the Princeton Farmers Market at Hinds Plaza (repeats weekly). 4:30 p.m.: Panel Discussion: The Architecture of the Lewis Center for the Arts in celebration of the opening of the new Lewis Center for the Arts at McCosh 10. 6 p.m.: “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are” with Seth Stephens Davidowitz, Aaron Retica, and Sam Wang at Labyrinth Books in Princeton. Free. 7 p.m.: “The Outlet Dance Project: Dance on Film Festival” at Grounds for Sculpture. Experience an evening of dance films from around the globe produced and created by women filmmakers and choreographers. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the artists. Tickets are $15.

The Bard and the Dreamweaver: Celebrating “King Lear” and “I Am the Walrus”

ifty years ago this week at EMI’s Abbey Road studios, the Beatles were recording John Lennon’s “I Am the Walrus,” a rock and roll tour de force unlike anything in popular music before it, including other Beatles pinnacles like “Tomorrow Never Knows,” “A Day in the Life” and “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Lennon has claimed on numerous occasions that the bizarre, unabashedly nonsensical lyrics were written to baffle listeners looking for hidden meanings, including in particular the English teacher at Lennon’s old school whose class was studying Beatles lyrics. With King Lear’s surprise guest appearance at the end of “I Am the Walrus” in mind, I began rereading the play along with Harold Bloom’s chapter on it in Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Penguin 1988), where Bloom observes that King Lear “ultimately baffles commentary,” showing “an apparent infinitude that perhaps transcends the limits of literature.” Bloom finds the experience of reading Lear “altogether uncanny.” Since terms like these can also apply to “I Am the Walrus,” I may be falling into Lennon’s trap by putting serious literature on the same page with something he went out of his way to make un-serious. Yet John took his identification with the song seriously enough in 1970 to bring it into “God,” his solemn, moving, beautifully sung farewell to the Beatles: “The dream is over/Yesterday I was the dreamweaver/But now I’m reborn/I was the walrus/But now I’m John.” In 1978, he told a New York D J that the song was among his favorites “because it’s one of those that has enough little bitties going to keep you interested even a hundred years later.” Literature’s Fab Four “Joyce, Proust, Beckett, and Kafka were the Beatles (but not ‘the moderns’),” is a statement attributed to Harold Bloom I found floating around in the cybersphere. This pairing of the giants of 20th-century literature with the Lads from Liverpool prefaces a video interview with Bloom on bigthink.com in the context of his “fierce” early convictions. Who or what the “moderns” exactly are is not for me to say. I just find the quote irresistible, though I know better than to take it any further. Lennon and Joyce you can make sense of, but try matching Paul with Proust (well, there’s “Yesterday”) or maybe Ringo with Beckett (“I can’t tell you what I see when I turn out the light, but I know it’s mine”), which leaves George with Kafka (“It isn’t me, it’s just my mind that is confusing things”). Shakespeare in the Air So how did an excerpt from a BBC broadcast of The Tragedy of King Lear turn up in the haunting fade-out of “I Am the Walrus”? According to Mark Lewisohn’s Abbey Road Studio Session Notes for Friday, 29 September, 1967, it happened during a most “unusual” and “inventive” remix session in which John Lennon “took an active role.” It was Lennon’s idea that mix 22 should be “done with a live feed from a radio,” the tuning dial landing on Act IV, Scene VI of the Third Programme’s 190-minute King Lear. While John had no idea which play the passage was from, the words “untimely death” would have attracted his attention a month after the shock of Beatles manager Brian Epstein’s death and

at a time when the Paul is Dead craze was at its peak with people scanning album covers and songs for clues to perpetuate the morbid rumor. What mattered to John during a session that lasted till 5 a.m. was the opportune discovery of yet another exotic ingredient to add to his already fabulously allusive feast of a song, one more tidbit to keep listeners guessing; or, as he puts it a year later in “Glass Onion” on the White Album, “another clue for you all/The Walrus was Paul.” Like most reasonably sentient rock and rollers in post-war England, Lennon grew up with BBC-disseminated culture in the background of daily life, bringing Shakespeare and Dickens and a whole company of national media household names into the air he lived and breathed — one reason the Beatles were at

Playing the Fool In The Invention of the Human, Bloom refers to Shakespeare’s “pervasive presence in the most unlikely contexts: here, there, and everywhere [subconsciously quoting the Beatles?] …. He is a system of northern lights, an aurora borealis visible where most of us will never go. Libraries and playhouses (and cinemas) cannot contain him; he has become a spirit or ‘spell of light,’ almost too vast to comprehend.” When Bloom says that “Shakespeare created us,” the idea is that he constructed a paradigm so complex and so complete that it becomes timelessly, humanly relevant to an extent that transcends “the limits of literature.” After reading King Lear and listening to

home performing a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the 1964 television special Around the Beatles. The acknowledged literary inspiration for “I Am the Walrus,” however, was Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” as Lennon has noted in numerous interviews (“To me, it was a beautiful poem”); the ambitions of his lyric, the way it gathers up an amusing melange of unrelated objects, can be traced back to the Walrus’s declaration, “The time has come to talk of many things/Of shoes — and ships — and sealingwax — /Of cabbages — and kings.” As Lennon told Playboy in 1980, he had no idea when he wrote the lyric that the Walrus was the “bad guy” and the Carpenter the “good guy.” Although he playfully turns it around (“I should have said ‘I am the carpenter,’ but that wouldn’t have been the same, would it?”), he sings the words as a snarling, sneering, devious, wildly inventive, totally irresponsible bad guy.

Lennon singing “I Am the Walrus,” it doesn’t require a great leap of the imagination to find parallels to Lennon’s mad lyrical virtuosity as the Walrus and the Eggman in the passionate inventiveness of “transcendent, altogether uncanny” characters like Lear’s Fool and the Earl of Gloucester’s devoted son Edgar, whose antic performance as Mad Tom is one of the many wonders of the play. Rock musicians often profit by playing the fool in the court of culture, the Beatles above all, whether in Edwardian gear or Sgt. Pepper band uniforms or the egg-man/walrus regalia John wears in the film Magical Mystery Train. Referring to the Fool’s speech in Act III beginning “I’ll speak a prophecy before I go,” Bloom describes “a fine chant of nonsense” in which “priests, brewers, nobles, and tailors all cheerfully are condemned,” a fate not unlike that of Lennon’s cheerfully nonsensical policemen, fishwives, priestesses, and choking smokers. The power and wonder of “I Am the Walrus”

is in the way John Lennon’s inspired singing, one of his most compelling performances, merges with the pounding, richly orchestrated score, a string-driven juggernaut of eight violins and four cellos), over which he chants “I am me as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” It’s not an invitation he’s offering, it’s togetherness by command; he’s not telling you to listen, he’s demanding it; he wants you in the song not outside it. There’s no room to breathe or hesitate or think as the words come at you, charged with the singer’s take-no-prisoners style — “See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly” — and the line he was born to sing, “I’m crying,” a cry from the soul of the song, repeated six times and lifted each time by George Martin’s magnificent arrangement. Masters of Invective Few other songs so unsparingly convey the caustic, fiercely emotional essence of John Lennon, and of all the plays in Shakespeare, few can equal King Lear’s rhetoric of invective as words seem to physically attack the victim of choice, Lear’s evil daughter Goneril’s insufferable steward Oswald, the “serviceable villain” who utters the words “untimely death” in the fragment of Lear that accompanies the song’s slow march into silence. Reading the play after listening to Lennon’s “pretty little policemen,” “stupid bloody Tuesday,” “pigs in a sty,” “crabalocker fishwife,” “pornographic priestess” “expert texpert choking smokers,” “yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog’s eye,” you can find a kindred spirit in Shakespeare’s “whoreson dog,” “eater of broken meats”; “beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave”; “whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue” who “art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch.” This Realm, This England One of the most symphonic moments in Beatles music comes amid the invective, abruptly, seemingly out of nowhere in a kind of frozen transition, time to catch your breath in the crazed glory of it all as Lennon ascends to another richer level of feeling, singing “Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun,/if the sun don’t come you get a tan/ From standing in the English rain.” Here again you’re aware of Shakespeare’s way of claiming “this earth, this realm, this England” for his subject muse, as if he alone were chosen to sing its praises. So it is with the England claimed here by the Beatles. The garden referred to may be Lennon’s own at Weybridge, but breaking through the lyric’s mixture of menace and derangement it appears as the one and only eternal English garden. here’s more to come in the year ahead — the splendor of “Hey Jude,” called by one listener “the Sistine Chapel of Rock”; the beauty of “Blackbird,” which captures the English countryside in just over two minutes of music; and then the proto heavy metal storm of “Helter Skelter,” perhaps Paul McCartney’s answer to “I Am the Walrus” where amid the crashing chaos you can almost hear Shakespeare’s mad king crying “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout: Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!” —Stuart Mitchner

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Battle of the Sexes

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Stronger

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Brads Status

Friday - Saturday: 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 (R) Sunday - Thursday: 2:20, 4:45, 7:10

Viceroys House

Friday - Saturday: 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 (UR) Sunday - Thursday 2:05, 4:35, 7:05

Menashe

Friday - Thursday: 2:25, 7:20 (PG)

Starting Friday Battle of the Sexes (PG-13) Continuing Rebel in the Rye (PG-13) Ends Thursday Viceroy’s House (NR) Ingrid Goes West (R) Local Filmmakers Student Film Showcase (NR) Royal Shakespeare Company Titus Andronicus (NR) Sun, Oct 1 12:30 pm Special Program Janis: Little Girl Blue Tue, Oct 3 7:30pm Special Program A Beautiful Mind Wed, Oct 4 7:00pm Showtimes change daily Visit or call for showtimes. Hotline: 609-279-1999 PrincetonGardenTheatre.org

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The LEGO Ninjago Movie

CINEMA REVIEW

Unassuming Teen Becomes Formidable Ninja in Latest LEGO Movie

loyd Garmadon (Dave Franco) must be the least liked student at Ninjago High. The unassuming 16-year-old is so unpopular that nobody will even sit on the same side of the bus with him on their ride to school. What they don’t know, however, is that he has a super hero alter ego — the Green Ninja. He is the leader of the Secret Ninja Force, a team of five teens and an android who are helped by Lloyd’s wise and wisecracking uncle, Master Wu (Jackie Chan). Master Wu has taught each of his protégés how to harness the different forces of nature that are contained in his magical treasure chest. The hot headed Red Ninja (Michael Pena) controls fire; the musicloving Black Ninja (Fred Armisen) has mastered earth; the Blue Ninja (Kumail Nanjiani), lightning; and the Gray Ninja (Abbi Jacobson), water; and the robotic White Ninja’s (Zach Woods) domain is ice. Their mission is to prevent Lord Garmadon (Justin Theroux) from conquering Ninjago City. It turns out that the evil villain is Lloyd’s long-lost father, who abandoned his wife (Olivia Munn) and baby when she

refused to accept his decision to go to the dark side. As a result, all Lloyd knows about his father is what he’s been told by his mother and uncle. Consequently, Lloyd is eager to meet and defeat the diabolical warlord who has the reputation of being the world’s “Worst Guy Ever.” If you’ve seen either LEGO or LEGO Batman, then you have an idea of what to expect from the third film in the animated series. Directed by Charlie Bean, the film is not only a visually captivating adventure, but also has pithy asides and clever allusions to screen classics that also make the movie interesting to adults. In this critic’s opinion, Ninjago is the best episode in the series because of all the positive messages that are delivered by the picture’s end. Excellent (HHHH). Rated PG for mild action and rude humor. Running time: 101 minutes. Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures. —Kam Williams

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I DON’T KNOW WHY NOBODY WANTS TO SIT ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE BUS AS ME: Lloyd (Dave Franco, left) is shunned by his fellow students as they ride to school. However, they don’t know that he is secretly the Green Ninja who is leading the Secret Ninja Force in the battle to defeat Lord Garmadon (Justin Theroux, not shown), who is bent on conquering Ninjago City, and also happens to be Lloyd’s father. (Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture © 2017 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved)

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Race begins at 8:30 a.m. • Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017 Trinity Church • 33 Mercer Street, Princeton Register at www.trinityturkeytrot.org 5 K run and walk through the historic streets of Princeton. ALL net proceeds go to local charities Arm in Arm, Urban Promise of Trenton, Trenton Children’s Chorus and Housing Initiatives of Princeton.

Family Day 2017

American Assassin (R for torture, profanity, brief nudity, and pervasive graphic violence). Thriller about a 23-year-old (Dylan O’Brien), grieving for his fiancée killed in a terrorist attack, who is recruited by the CIA’s deputy director (Sanaa Lathan) and teamed with a veteran agent (Michael Keaton) to apprehend a mysterious madman (Taylor Kitsch) trying to start World War III. With Charlotte Vega, Chris Webster, and Buster Reeves. American Made (R for sexuality, nudity, and pervasive profanity). Tom Cruise stars in this biopic about Barry Seal (1939-1986), the commercial airline pilot-turned-drug smuggler for Pablo Escobar (Mauricio Mejia), the ruthless kingpin of Colombia’s infamous Medellin cartel. With Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, and Jesse Plemons. In English and Spanish with subtitles. Annabelle: Creation (R for horror violence). Tale of demonic possession about a dollmaker (Anthony LaPaglia) and his wife (Miranda Otto) who open their home to a nun (Stephanie Sigman) and several orphans, only to have them terrorized by one of his creations (Samara Lee). With Talitha Bateman, Lulu Wilson, and Kerry O’Malley. Battle of the Sexes (PG-13 for sexuality and partial nudity). Documentary drama recreating the 1973 match between reigning champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and 55-year-old hustler Bobby Riggs, a misogynist who created a media circus by boasting he could beat the best female player in the world. With Sarah Silverman, Elisabeth Shue, and Bill Pullman. The Big Sick (R for profanity and sexual references). Romantic comedy about the real-life courting of a fan (Zoe Kazan) by a Pakistani stand-up comedian (Kumail Nanjiani as himself). Supporting cast includes Ray Romano, Holly Hunter, and Aidy Bryant. Brad’s Status (R for profanity). Ben Stiller plays the title character in this comedy as a man who finds himself reevaluating his career choices when he accompanies his college-bound son (Austin Abrams) on a tour of schools in the Boston area. Supporting cast includes Michael Sheen, Jenna Fischer, Luke Wilson, and Jemaine Clement.

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Dunkirk (PG-13 for intense battle scenes and some profanity). World War II movie recreating the evacuation of over 300,000 Allied soldiers from the shores of France after they were surrounded by the Nazi army. Ensemble cast includes Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Barry Keoghan, and Harry Styles. In English, French, and German with subtitles.

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Flatliners (PG-13 for violence, terror, sexuality, mature themes, and drug use). Science fiction thriller about five med students who participate in a dangerous near-death experiment, briefly stopping their own hearts in order to experience the after life. Ensemble cast includes Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, Kiersey Clemons, and Kiefer Sutherland.

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The Hitman’s Bodyguard (R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity). Comedy about a bodyguard (Ryan Reynolds) who helps an assassin (Samuel L. Jackson) negotiate a gauntlet on his way to the Hague where he will testify at the International Court of Justice. Co-starring Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, and Élodie Yung.

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Home Again (PG-13 for sexuality and mature themes). Dramatic comedy about a recently-separated mother of two (Reese Witherspoon) who relocates to Los Angeles where she rents her carriage house to three aspiring filmmakers (Nat Wolff, Pico Alexander, and Jon Rudnitsky), only to have her husband (Michael Sheen) show up unannounced. With Lake Bell, Candice Bergen, and P.J. Byrne. Ingrid Goes West (R for sexuality, disturbing behavior, drug use, and pervasive behavior). Aubrey Plaza has the title role in this character study of a stalker who relocates from Pennsylvania to Los Aangeles after becoming obsessed with an Instagram celebrity (Elizabeth Olsen). Featuring O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Wyatt Russell, and Billy Magnussen. It (R for violence, profanity, and bloody images). Adaptation of the Stephen King bestseller set in Maine in the summer of 1989 where seven ostracized ’tweens join forces to exact revenge on the shape-shifting monster (Bill Skarsgard) that is terrorizing their hometown. Ensemble cast includes Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, and Wyatt Oleff.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (R for graphic violence, drug use, sexuality, and pervasive profanity). Colin Firth returns in this sequel that finds the British spy (Colin Firth) miraculously revived and heading to the U.S. to join forces with his American counterparts to help in a showdown with a ruthless crime syndicate. A-list ensemble cast includes Oscar-winners Firth, Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, and Julianne Moore, as well as Channing Tatum, Vinnie Jones, and Sir Elton John. Leap! (PG for action and impolite humor). Animated adventure about an 11-year-old orphan (Elle Fanning) living in Brittany who runs away to Paris with a friend (Nat Wolff) to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a prima ballerina. Voice cast featuring Mel Brooks, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Maddie Ziegler. The LEGO Ninjago Movie (PG for mild action and rude humor). Third feature in the animated series is about a high school student (Dave Franco) who creates a formidable team of teen ninjas to topple an evil warlord (Justin Theroux) who is his long-lost father. Voice cast includes Jackie Chan, Olivia Munn, Michael Pena, Fred Armisen, and Zach Woods, with cameos by Michael Strahan and Robin Roberts as themselves. Menashe (PG for mature themes). Menashe Lustig plays the title character in this drama, set in the heart of New York City’s Hasidic community, about a grieving widower’s struggle to raise his son (Ruben Niborski) in the wake of his wife’s untimely death. With Yoel Weisshaus and Meyer Schwartz. In Yiddish with subtitles. Mother! (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity, and disturbing violence). Oscar nominee Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) wrote and directed this thriller about a couple (Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem) whose domestic tranquillity is disrupted after they allow some uninvited guests (Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer) into their country home. With Brian Gleeson, Domhnall Gleeson, and Amanda Chiu. Polina (Unrated). Anastasia Shevtsova has the title role in this story about a Russian prima ballerina who leaves the prestigious Bolshoi Company to explore improvisation and modern dance. With Veronika Zhovnytska, Juliette Binoche and Aleksey Guskov. In French and Russian with subtitles A Question of Faith (PG for mature themes). Film about three families whose fates become linked by a tragic accident. Co-starring Kim Fields, Richard T. Jones, Jaci Velasquez, Karen Valero, C. Thomas Howell, and Renee O’Connor. Rebel in the Rye (PG-13 for profanity, sexual references, smoking, and brief violence). Nicholas Hoult portrays J.D. Salinger in this biopic about the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye. Featuring Zoey Deutch, Kevin Spacey, Hope Davis, Eric Bogosian, and Sarah Paulson. Spider-Man: Homecoming (PG-13 for action, violence, profanity, and suggestive comments). Tom Holland has the title role in this remake of the Marvel Comics series in which Peter Parker is living with his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) and attending high school in Queens while being mentored by Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) until it’s time to morph into his superhero alter ego to engage a new nemesis (Michael Keaton). With Gwyneth Paltrow, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Donald Glover, and Tyne Daly. Stronger (R for pervasive profanity, gruesome images, and brief nudity and sexuality). Biopic describing the injury and recovery of Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal), a spectator who had both of his legs blown off by a terrorist blast while waiting for his fiancée (Tatiana Maslany) to finish the 2013 Boston Marathon. Supporting cast includes Miranda Richardson, Patty O’Neil, and Nate Richman. ’Til Death Do Us Part (PG-13 for mature themes, sexuality, violence, domestic abuse, and profanity). Thriller about a newlywed (Annie Ilonzeh) who flees an abusive marriage, adopts a new identity, and falls in love with another man (Taye Diggs), only to have her vindictive ex-husband (Stephen Bishop) track her down. With Malik Yoba, Robinne Lee, and Suzanne Whang. Viceroy’s House (Unrated). Hugh Bonneville plays Lord Louis Mountbatten in this historical drama, set in New Delhi in 1947, recounting how the Viceroy of India oversaw the country’s transition to independence. Co-starring Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, and Simon Callow. Victoria and Abdul (PG-13 for profanity and mature themes). Adaptation of Shrabani Basu’s bestseller describing the friendship forged between an aging Queen Victoria (Judy Dench) and her 24-year-old Indian servant (Ali Fazal). With Eddie Izzard, Olivia Williams, and Michael Gambon. In English, Hindi, and Urdu with subtitles. Wind River (R for profanity, rape, graphic violence, and disturbing images). Thriller about a rookie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who teams with a veteran game tracker (Jeremy Renner) to solve a murder after a body is discovered in the woods on an Indian reservation. With Graham Greene, Judith Jones, and Jon Bernthal.

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AT THE CINEMA

Join us for a fun-filled day of art-making and activities inspired by the exhibition Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler. free and open to the public. refreshments will be served

The Luxor Pavilion at MERWICK

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The Right Team for Your Recovery

Howard Russell Butler (American, 1856–1934), Solar Eclipse, Lompoc, California (detail), 1923. Oil on canvas, center panel of a triptych. Princeton University, gift of H. Russell Butler Jr.

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oming into its clash at Lafayette last Saturday, the Princeton University football team was determined to unleash its ground attack. “We felt that we weren’t tight enough in our run blocking; we weren’t doing a great job on our double teams, getting at the backers,” said Princeton head coach Bob Surace. “We had a lot of good, solid runs but we just weren’t able to get ourselves in the open field. I felt we really had a good week of practice and did a good job of coming off the ball.” That practice paid off as Princeton overran the Leopards, outgaining Lafayette 194 yards to 36 on the ground, cruising to a 38-17 win and improving to 2-0. Although the Tigers eventually pulled away, Princeton experienced some anxious moments early on as the rivals were tied at 10-10 midway through the second quarter. “They are a 60 scholarship team and they are well coached; we knew we were going to get a terrific effort,” said Surace. “They got called out a little bit in the last game and some of the guys didn’t finish the game. We knew they were going to come flying around the field and that it was going to be a battle. Most of the games we have had with

them have been battles.” Princeton gained an upper hand in the battle as scoring jaunts from Volker and Ryan Quigley gave the Tigers a 24-10 lead at halftime. “We crossed midfield on the kickoff return after their field goal and then we come up with, boom, boom, three or four good plays in a row and Charlie is in the end zone,” said Surace. “We kick off, they muff the kickoff and we end up pinning them inside their 10. They punt it to us and we had good field position again. We did a two-minute drill really well and we scored again.” In the second half, junior receiver Jesper Horsted took over with touchdown receptions of seven and nine yards as Princeton extended its lead to 38-10 early in the fourth quarter. “Jesper is really playing well,” said Surace of Horsted, who made six receptions for 58 yards. “I thought the last half of the season last year, he played extremely well. He has really taken it up a notch this year.” Senior quarterback Chad Kanoff continued his good start this year, connecting on 31-of-41 passes for 256 yards and two touchdowns. “I thought Chad played well,” said Surace, noting that a couple of bad bounces led to Kanoff’s two interceptions on the day. “He was on

the money and he threw the ball really well.” After a shaky start, the Princeton defense came on with a big effort. “I felt that the second drive of the game for them, their touchdown drive, we didn’t set edges real well,” said Surace. “They had a really good plan and they got outside us two or three times and ended up scoring a touchdown on a screen from inside the 10 yard line. I felt from that point on, we really tightened up our run defense. That was good to see.” Surace liked seeing senior linebacker Mark Fossati produce another sparkling performance as he ended the day with a team-high 11 tackles. “Mark has had two games in a row where he has been over 10 tackles,” said Surace. “He is flying around the field, he is playing the pass game well. He is leading our defense in a really good way.” After the game, Surace enjoyed a special moment with Lafayette first-year head coach John Garrett, a teammate with Surace at Princeton in the late 1980s who later served with him on the coaching staff of the Cincinnati Bengals. “He was a great leader on our team and I always looked up to him,” said Surace. “He pretty much got me

to Princeton because he is the one who got me to Cincinnati. There is a lot of respect there. It was pretty emotional afterward, I gave him a hug.” The Tigers know they are in for an emotional battle this Saturday as a 2-0 Columbia squad comes to Princeton Stadium in the Ivy League opener for both teams. “They are a veteran team, their quarterback [Anders Hill] is a senior and has played for a long time there on and off as a starter,” said Surace. “Their offense is executing and the quarterback just looks confident. He is very athletic, he runs with the ball, he will throw it some and when he throws it, he is a good thrower. He is really a weapon for them. They have got three senior offensive linemen, so they are a veteran offensive line. They have two sophomore dynamic receivers. Their defensive line is as good as any we will see all year. They are two deep, they are all upperclassmen, mostly seniors, with a few juniors and a sophomore. They are not giving up points, they are not giving up first downs, and they are not giving up yards.” The challenges posed by the Lions will require Princeton to execute well on both sides of the ball. “We are going to have to make big plays when we have them,” said Surace. “They are a very aggressive defense, so there is going to be a few times where we get

SPRINTING TO VICTORY: Princeton University football player Charlie Volker eludes a foe in 2016 action. Last Saturday at Lafayette, junior running back Volker, an Ivy League champion sprinter, rushed for 111 yards and a touchdown on 20 carries to help the Tigers cruise to a 38-17 win over the Leopards. Princeton, now 2-0, hosts Columbia (2-0) on September 30 in the Ivy League opener for both teams. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) some guys open. We are going to have to protect and make the plays. We are going to have to grind out yards. It is a defense that is stingy against the run. Defensively, we are going to have to have great eyes. Their QB is so deceptive with the ball. He is a runner, he is a passer. We are going to have to do a great job containing the big plays.” Despite being undefeated this fall and having posted

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BACK ON TRACK: Princeton University field hockey player Maddie Bacskai controls the ball in recent action. Last Sunday, senior star Bacskai scored the lone goal as 17th-ranked Princeton defeated No. 24 Boston University 1-0 to post its third straight win. The Tigers, now 4-4 overall and 1-0 Ivy League, host Yale on September 29 and play at No. 6 Syracuse on October 1. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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and then holding off a furious charge from their foes. In the view of Princeton head coach Carla Tagliente, the victory over Maryland gave her squad a major boost of confidence. “We have been knocking on the door in those games,” said Tagliente, whose team lost 2-1 to No. 4 Duke and 2-0 to third-ranked Penn State in his last two appearances before the Maryland game. “I do think it was a little bit of a tipping point for us to get some momentum. In that stretch of those games that we played, it was important that we get one or two wins. To lose by a goal or two on all of those games is a bit tough mentally to come out of. It was good to get that win and in the fashion that we did it as well.” Keeping the momentum going into last weekend, Princeton won 5-0 at Dartmouth last Saturday in the Ivy League opener for both teams and then edged No. 24 Boston University 1-0 a day later on a goal by Maddie Bacskai. “I think our kids like the competitive schedule but they were looking forward to starting Ivy play,” said Tagliente. “Ever y game is different and has a little bit of an unknown quantity to it in terms of some teams are a little bit unorthodox. I think the team was ready to get going and establish themselves and send a message about how we are going to approach each game in the Ivy League.” Against Dartmouth, the

Tigers jumped out to a 3-0 halftime lead and then held the Big Green without a shot in the second half in pulling away to the win. “I think they had all of their shots and opportunities in the first half, we closed that down in the second half,” said Tagliente. “I think overall that we cleaned some things up at halftime and put on a lot more pressure.” I n t h e w i n over B o s ton University, the Tigers clamped down in the second half again, holding the Terriers to one shot over the last 35 minutes of the contest in posting their third straight victory and improving to 4-4. “Their better opportunities came in the first half; we had a little bit of disorganization but in the second half, we had the ball in our half for 95 percent of the time,” said Tagliente. “They were hitting some long balls trying to relieve pressure and try to break an opportunity. After we got

through a half of hockey and settled in, we did a pretty nice job.” The Princeton defense has been doing a very nice job in recent play. “We have made a few tweaks in personnel back there and defensively, we are a lot more sound at the moment,” said Tagliente, citing sophomore Bacskai as sparking the back line. “I like what I see from that.” Tagliente likes what she is seeing from senior striker Ryan McCar t y, who had two goals and an assist in the win over Dartmouth and now has a team-high six goals in the season. “Ryan has been doing a nice job, she settled in on penalty corners and has k nocked in a couple of goals,” said Tagliente of McCarthy, who was named the Ivy League Player of the Week for her production. “She is so dangerous in the open field, she is so fast. Things are starting to fall in place for her. She made a few changes to her game and the production has been

coming in from her.” The Tigers are also getting some production from their freshman players. “Some of the younger players like Mary Kate Neff, Marge Lynch, and Clara Roth have come along in terms of how we are playing, how we are pressing, and how we are defending,” said Tagliente. With Princeton hosting Yale on September 29 before playing at No. 6 Syracuse on October 1, Tagliente believes her team is coming along collectively. “We are doing well, the goal production over the last couple of games has been good; I think we should have knocked in a couple of more against Boston University,” said Tagliente. “But a win is a win at this point and it gets us to .500 at about the halfway point. I thought we would probably be 6-2, but I will take 4-4 right now with the schedule that we play.” —Bill Alden

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Coming off a 5 - 0 w in over Lawrence High a day earlier, the Princeton High boys’ soccer team found itself in an uphill battle when it hosted powerful Westfield last Wednesday. Although generating some scoring chances, PHS couldn’t stymie Westfield and surrendered a pair of goals to trail 2-0 at halftime. PHS head coach Wayne Sutcliffe saw the contest as still being up for grabs despite the two-goal deficit at intermission. “I didn’t think we were that bad in the first half, they were just a little more clinical in the box on the first goal and the second goal,” said Sutcliffe. “We almost scored at the end of the half on a free kick. We switched to a 3-43 to try to spread the game out. We were just trying to get some possession going and nick a goal; 2-0 is the

most dangerous score in soccer.” But it was Westfield that nicked a goal in the second half, scoring on a free kick and never looking back on the way to a 3-0 win as the Little Tigers suffered their first loss of the season in dropping to 4-1-1. The margin could have been even larger for Westfield if not for PHS goalie Patrick Jacobs, who recorded 10 saves on the day. “Patrick was great in the second half; it was great to see,” said Sutcliffe. “He is just getting better every day; he’s earning that respect and that confidence.” In Sutcliffe’s view, the loss to Westfield could ultimately serve as a blessing in disguise. “It is a little different if you have dropped a game and are not undefeated heading in the center of the season or the late stages of the CVC

(Colonial Valley Conference) campaign,” said Sutcliffe. “That pressure just mounts if you are undefeated. It is a non-league game so it doesn’t count for the league but we missed some power points today.” The Little Tigers are facing a key CVC showdown when they host Hightstown (5-1-1) on September 28. “Hightstown is very talented, we have seen them play,” said Sutcliffe. “Their freshman team was very strong last year and soccer is a big deal in Hightstown so I am expecting them to be really sharp and play with a lot of hunger against us. It is going to be a great game.” Sutcliffe expects his squad to take some valuable lessons from the Westfield game. “We are nursing some guys back; our best soccer is ahead of us, no doubt about it,” asserted Sutcliffe. “We will draw a lot for the game, aside from the result. Credit to Westfield, they were sharp, they had a good day. We are going to take a lot from it. We will watch the tape and see how we can get better.” —Bill Alden

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GIFT OF GRAB: Princeton High boys’ soccer goalie Patrick Jacobs scoops up the ball in recent action. Last Wednesday, senior star Jacobs made 10 saves in a losing cause as PHS fell 3-0 to visiting Westfield. The Little Tigers, who moved to 4-11 with the setback, host Hightstown on September 28 before playing at Hamilton on October 2. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Building on Breakthrough 17-5 Campaign, PHS Girls’ Volleyball Produces Sizzling Start After producing a breakt h rou g h 17- 5 c a mp a ig n i n 2016, t h e P r i n c e ton High girls’ volleyball team couldn’t wait to get back on the court this fall. “The message was that it feels like we are picking up where we left off,” said PHS head coach Patty Manhart. “When you don’t graduate too many starters, it is a huge difference moving forward from last year to this year.” In the wake of last season’s success, Manhart has raised the bar schedulewise. “In the WJIVL (West Jersey Interscholastic Volleyball League), the league we play in, some schools are Group 4 but we didn’t necessarily have a lot of Group 4 teams on our schedule,” said Manhart. “I am thinking more long term. I wanted to get teams like East Br unsw ick and Hillsborough to help out with our seed standings for postseason.” PHS didn’t waste any time show ing it could handle tougher competition, defeating East Brunswick 2-0 in its season opener on September 5. “It is a good confidence builder to go up against a new opponent that is traditionally a very strong program and be able to take that win,” said Manhart. “I think that really helped the girls keep things rolling after that.” T he Lit tle Tigers have kept rolling, producing a program-best 12-0 start before falling 2-0 to Rancocas Valley last Saturday. “The big picture is that there is a lot to be happy about but I think it is every-

one’s ability to contribute,” said Manhart, whose team defeated Montgomery 2-0 last Monday to improve to 14-1. “Everyone has to be on their own A-game each day, be there for one another, pick each other up, and play together in order to be successful. The fact that I have got a great group of girls that are all consistent and can get the job done is really exciting.” Senior star Anna Cao has been getting the job done as she is currently second on the team in kills (82) and third in service aces (33). “Anna is a captain and is a leader on the team,” said Manhart. “As a hitter, she is very smart, she has a great ver tical and a killer arm swing. She has everything you could want.” Another key hitter for the Little Tigers is sophomore Gillian Hauschild, who is t he team leader in k ills with 97. “She is 6 feet tall and she is left-handed which makes her a useful player on defense,” said Manhart. “She is also there to block the other team’s outside, who is usually going to be a ver y strong hitter. She was also playing very competitive volleyball this summer. She has come back to this program even stronger than she started as a freshman.” PHS has relied on senior co-captain Rachel Cheng to serve as the catalyst for its big hitters as she piled up a team-high 150 assists. “Rachel has been doing a really nice job, making smart sets,” said Manhart. “She is really thinking about how to use the hitters and mixing things up

so blockers don’t always get set on our attack. She is a very smart player.” Senior Sara Vigiano and junior Julia Brow n have done a nice job stepping into the starting rotation this fall. “We didn’t graduate too many people except for Noa Levy so we had a spot in the middle,” said Manhart. “Sara moved into that one option out of the middle. Julia came up from junior varsity and she is in the two position in the middle.” While Manhart is thrilled w it h t he team’s si zzling star t, she has her sights set on guiding the squad to a stronger finish in the postseason this fall with PHS having lost in the first round of the state Group 4 tournament in 2016. “There are a lot of really good schools up north that we don’t see very often in the regular season,” said Manhart, whose team plays at Hopewell Valley on September 28 before hosting Mahwah on September 30 and a rematch with Hopewell Valley on October 3. “We want to make sure that all hitters are producing and that we are minimizing our errors. We will make ser ving errors and blocking errors but we pick it up in other ways. The focus is just cutting down on that as much as possible for when we elevate the level of competition that we are going against.” —Bill Alden

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After Producing Historic Campaign in 2016, PHS Boys’ Cross Country Maintaining Focus The Princeton High boys’ cross countr y team may have a target on its back this fall but it isn’t running scared. Last fall, PHS produced a season for the ages, winning the county meet, the Central Jersey Group 4 sectional crown, and the state Group 4 title before culminating 2016 by winning the Meet of Champions for the first time in the program’s history. In reflecting on his 2017 squad, PHS head coach Jim Smirk said his runners believe there is room for improvement. “Last year we spent a lot of time, having to convince ourselves that we could be in the conversation,” said Smirk. “This year, we are spending a lot more time having conversations about how doing what we did last year but better. We had a great season last year but there were things that if we had paid attention to or if we had known, we could have done better. That is a lot of our conversation and we are working towards that.” Last Saturday, PHS put in some good work, taking fourth in the Varsity 2 race at the Bowdoin Cross Country Classic in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Senior star Will Hare led the way for the Little Tigers, placing first individually in a time of 16:25.30 over the 5,000 -meter course. Senior Alex Ackerman placed eighth in 17: 03.20 w ith Jackson Donahue coming

in 10th in 17:10.50. “Will and A lex [ Rot h ] worked really well together as teammates and he has learned his lessons really well and he is apply ing them,” said Smirk, referring to graduated star Roth who is now competing for the Penn men’s cross country team. “He is taking ownership of his own success and ultimately the success of the team bonding as well. He is a good leader. He is a captain for us as well as Alex Ackerman and Nick Delaney.” The trio of seniors has set a positive tone for PHS. “We are really happy with them, they are good voices, and they have formed a belief about what they are doing and how they are doing it,” said Smirk. “Their goal is to be the best they can be without sacrificing their own ideas about how to do that. I am thrilled to see them continue to grow as athletes. They are strong and their experience is going to help us after what we accomplished last year.” A fourth senior, Donahue, has displayed a strong will to improve. “Jackson is an example of that. He dedicated himself to being a better athlete and it shows,” said Smirk. “His opening race was great (a seventh place finish in the Colonial Valley Conference opener), he solved a lot of challenges himself. It wasn’t a wholesale re-do, it

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is how do I do what I know I can do best.” Junior Tucker Zullo, who took 28th at the Bowdoin race, is also benefit ting from an increased level of dedication. “A work in progress is Tucker Zullo, he was sitting in the 8th to 11th spot last year on the varsity B; he would have been varsity somewhere else,” said Smirk, noting that star junior Acasio Pinheiro will be joining the lineup soon after getting a late start on the 2017 campaign. “He worked really hard over the summer and put together a great summer training season and some good hard work. He opened really well.” Smirk, for his part, believes that staying internal will help his runners produce another great season. “Our program has always been focused on doing what we are doing to the best of our abilities,” said Smirk, whose team is next in action when it runs against Hopewell Valley, Lawrence, and Nottingham on October 3 at Washington Crossing Park. “I don’t think that has really changed, the guys have good heads on their shoulders.” —Bill Alden

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College women’s cross country team. “She is running dual meets right now. When we get to invitational meets, she will get to show what she has. We are excited for her to get that opportunity.” Smirk is excited about the work ethic being displayed by the intense Ayers. “Chloe is actually a competitive wrestler, she is setting a really solid example of what work looks like,” said Smirk of Ayers, the daughter of Princeton University wrestling head coach Chris Ayers. “She is an amazing kid; the lessons of the wrestling room are playing out for her as a competitive runner. She has this real grit. It is there, it exists, and she is going to build it and grow it.” Sophomores Oake and Hare have the potential to grow into something special. “Erica was our top freshman last year and at mid-

season, she unfortunately t we a ke d h er h ip f lexor that took a little longer to heal than we thought,” said Smirk. “I am not surprised at the quality of her performance, the talent was there, we just wanted to make sure she is healthy. Lizzy is also a competitive diver so she is coming off her diving season. She is in the midst of getting ready for competition, she is doing good training and getting focused on doing the work she needs to do.” In Smirk’s view, PHS has the ability to excel both this fall and in the long run. “We are raw, we believe in taking some risks to get to the next level,” said Smirk, whose team has a meet with Hopewell Valley, Lawrence, and Nottingham on October 3 at Washington Crossing Park. “I think if we can solve those things over the season, we are going to do some pretty nice things this year and that will set the foundation for the future.” —Bill Alden

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Sacred Heart ( Pa.) a day earlier. “O u r c o n f i d e n c e w a s down, we picked it up,” said Hannah, noting that the team was inspired by a quote asserting that playing a solo game won’t be enough to beat a team. “We had a good talk about teamwork today. We have a quote of the day and it focused on teamwork and working together.” Stuart showed some good teamwork on the defensive end, holding the fort in the face of some intense pressure from George down the stretch. “Our defense is really strong, we all work together really well,” said Hannah. “We are such a unit that we know where our teammates are at the right time, where to pass to, and where to recover to. Sam Johnson is a really great goalie with communication and telling us where we need to be so that really helps us out. I think that led us to our success on the defensive end today.” In Hannah’s view, the vic-

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It was fitting that Hannah’s goal came off of a penalty corner. “Offensively, we like our corners,” said Bruvik. “We feel like if we can get a corner and get a shot off, we are scrappy enough in front of the goal to finish.” The scrappy play of junior defender Breasia Williams has been a major plus for Stuart this fall. “Brea had a nice game,” said Br uv ik. “She is so steady, she is a constant kid.” In Bruvik’s view, her squad is showing steady improvement. “I love the way the kids just want to learn, we are throwing the younger kids in there in key situations,” said Bruvik, whose team is slated to host Lawrence on September 29 and WW/PNorth on October 2. “I love our seniors who are willing to play multiple positions. It is just play the game and play together, whether we are down or up or whatever the score is.” Hannah, for her part, is confident that things will come together down the stretch for the Tartans. “Last season, we ended in the state Prep B final and we are trying to get to that place,” said Hannah. “We are unified as a team; it is similar to what I felt at the end of last year. I feel really good going into the rest of the season.” —Bill Alden

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M.C. Shea has been a agile, which is really helpbusy girl this fall for the ful; diving more and makHun School field hockey ing interceptions. Even if it is not pretty, it has got to team. The junior goalie had aver- be effective. I have gotten aged 16 saves in Hun’s first a lot more comfortable with three games coming into its getting on the ground and game against visiting Mont- trying to save a shot.” In addition, Shea has gotgomery last Friday. Things weren’t any dif- ten more comfortable with ferent in the clash with the providing verbal direction Cougars as Shea faced a to the Hun back line. “I do my best. Thankfully barrage of shots, recording 17 saves in a losing cause I am a little bit louder,” said as the Raiders fell 3-0 and Shea. “I am a catcher for softball, so I am used to didropped to 0-3-1. Still dripping with sweat recting and multitasking.” Hun head coach Kathy af ter ward, Shea has no qua lm s w it h her he av y Quirk likes the way Shea has caught on in the cage. workload. “M.C. is doing a nice job,” “Sometimes I feel like I am under fire, not necessar- said Quirk. “We have been ily in a bad way. It is more playing 95 percent of the like they are good shots,” game on defense.” said Shea. The Raiders need to do “ T h e m or e t h e s h ot s more offensively to get on come, the more I am able the winning track. to determine where I am “We just can’t capitalize,” in relation to the cage and lamented Quirk. “We don’t where my defense is.” get to the ball, we practice Shea credits the Hun de- on this a lot.” fense with holding the fort With Hun having a history in front of her. of getting better as the sea“It is really helpful with son goes on, Quirk believes my defense, they are doing her team can overcome its an amazing job,” said Shea. “They are working really hard and we are working as a cohesive unit.” Heading into her second season as a starting goalie SAVE SITUATION: Hun School field hockey goalie M.C. Shea guards the cage in recent action. for the Raiders, Shea has Last Friday, junior star Shea made 17 saves in a losing cause as Hun fell 3-0 to Montgomery. worked hard to improve her skills. The Raiders, who moved to 0-3-1 with the setback, play at WW/P-North on September 29. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) “I am definitely stepping up to of fensive players more,” said Shea. MANOR “ I h av BOULEVARD e g o t te n m o r e

slow start. “This is where we were last year at the same mark so maybe we can get going,” said Quirk, whose team plays at WW/P-North on September 29. “We have to score goals. If we could just put one in the cage, I think it would boost our confidence. I thought for sure we would get one today.” Shea, for her part, is confident that the Raiders will get going in the right direction. “We are a ver y young team and I think that it is just working together and getting more comfortable with each other,” said Shea. “We haven’t found that combination of people yet but we have got a good core group so once we figure out those fine details, I think we will be phenomenal. We have been getting better every game. I think from preseason to now it has gotten 10 times better, which is really nice to see.” —Bill Alden

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Football: Josh Henderson had a huge day as Hun defeated the Capital Preparatory Magnet School (Conn.) 61-28 last Saturday. Junior running back Henderson rushed for 300 yards and three touchdowns on 11 carries to help the Raiders improve to 3-0 and extend their winning streak to 25. Hun hosts Friendship Collegiate Academy (D.C.) on September 29. ——— Boys’ Soccer: Sparked by Elijah Smarr, Hun defeated Gill St. Bernard’s 2-1 last Saturday. Junior midfielder Smarr tallied a goal and an assist for the Raiders, who improved to 1-4. Hun hosts the Pingry School on September 28. ——— Girls’ Soccer: Unable to get its offense going, Hun fell 3-0 to the Germantown Academy (Pa.) last Friday. The Raiders, who moved to 4-2, play at the Pingry School on September 28. ——— G i rl s’ Te n n i s : G et t ing some superb play at singles, Hun excelled in the opening round of the Mercer County Tournament at Mercer County Park last Monday. Sophia Lin advanced to the semifinals at first singles and Isbana Desai followed suit at third singles. The Raiders stood second in the team standings heading into the final day of competition with 16 points, trailing first place Hightstown by four points. The MCT will wrap up with the semifinals and finals on September 27 at the county park. Hun has a home match against Peddie on September 28.

Pennington Fo otba l l : Ian Crosland starred as Pennington defeated the Pingry School 21-7 last Saturday. Crosland rushed for 107 yards and a touchdown for the Red Raiders, who improved to 2-2. Pennington hosts the Germantown Academy (Pa.) on September 28. ——— Boys’ Soccer: Ibrahima Diop triggered the offense as Pennington defeated the Germantown Academy (Pa.) 6-1 last Friday. Diop tallied two goals and three assists to help the Red Raiders improve to 5-1. Pennington plays at St. Benedict’s on September 27 and then hosts Princeton Day School on October 2.

PHS G irls’ Soccer: Abeigeal Ryan had a big game but it wasn’t enough as PHS fell 4-3 at Lawrence last week. Senior defender Ryan tallied two goals in the September 19 contest as the Little Tigers dropped to 2-3-1. PHS plays at Hightstown on September 28 before hosting Hamilton on October 2. ——— Girls’ Tennis: Led by its doubles teams, PHS finished the opening round of the

Lawrenceville Football: Running into a buzz-saw, Lawrenceville fell 44-0 to Choate Rosemary Hall (Conn.) last Saturday. The Big Red, now 1-2, play at Penn Charter ( Pa.) on September 29. ——— G i rl s’ S o c c e r : Au drey Chun came up big as Lawrenceville tied Choate Rosemary Hall (Conn.) 1-1 last Saturday. Chun tallied a second half goal as the Big Red overcame a 1-0 deficit to earn the tie and move to 1-2-2. Lawrenceville plays at Princeton Day School on September 28.

Stuart Volleyball: Stuart fell 2-0 at Phillipsburg last Monday as it dropped to 0-3. The Tartans will look to get on the winning track when they play at Trinity Hall on October 2. ——— CORRECTION: In the Stuart field hockey item that ran in the September 13 paper at page 37, it should have stated that Catherine Biava tallied the Tartans’ goal in its 1-1 tie with Pennington.

PDS Field Hockey: Gwen Allen had a strong game in a losing cause as PDS fell 4-3 at Blair Academy last Saturday. Junior star Allen had a goal and an assist as the Panthers dropped to 4-2. PDS hosts Lawrenceville on September 28 and then plays at Pennington on October 2. ——— Boys’ Soccer: Manas Sood provided some highlights as PDS lost 2-0 to Peddie last Monday. Senior goalie Sood made six saves as the Panthers dropped to 4-3. PDS hosts Lawrenceville on September 28 and then plays at Pennington on October 2. ——— Girls’ Soccer: Featuring a balanced at tack, PDS defeated Peddie 5-0 last Monday. Kelly Beal, Britney Chia, Madison Coyne, Rebecca Kuzmicz, and Jules Romano each scored goals for the Panthers, who moved to 6-2. PDS hosts Lawrenceville on September 28 and then plays at Montgomery on October 2. ——— Girls’ Tennis: Led by its doubles teams, PDS produced a solid performance in the opening rounds of the Mercer County Tour-

nament at Mercer County Park last Monday. The first doubles pair of Arya Jha and Tarika Kumar and the second doubles team of Guilia Gerschel and Emma Dries both advanced to the semifinals. The Panthers are fourth of 18 schools in the team standings heading into the final day of competition. Hightstown is currently in first with 20 points while the Panthers accumulated 14.5. The MCT will wrap up with the semifinals and finals on September 27 at the MCP tennis complex. The Panthers have a home match with Lawrenceville on September 28 before playing at Pingry on October 2.

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The Princeton Recreation Department is offering a CPR/AED/First Aid Training Course. The American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED program helps participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing, and first aid emergencies. This course teaches skills that participants need to know to give immediate care to a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over. This program certifies participants in first aid, Adult and Child CPR, and AED to meet the various training needs of a diverse audience and is offered in a traditional classroom format. The course costs $83/person and is open to anyone 15 years of age and older. Course dates are October 24 and 25 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. in the Lower Level Conference Room of the Recreation Department Building at 380 Witherspoon Street. Participants must attend both sessions. Space in the program is limited. Individuals can register online at: http://register. communitypass.net/princeton. The course is located under the Tab “2017 Community Programs.” For more infor mat ion, v isit w w w. princetonrecreation.com or call (609) 921-9480. ———

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T h e P r i n c e ton Fa m i ly YMCA is currently accepting registration for its 2017 Fall Basketball League. The Y focuses on skill development, team work, and fair play. The program includes the following divisions: PreK- K (coed); 1st2nd grade (coed); 3rd-4th grade boys; 3rd-5th grade girls; 5th-6th grade boys. Games will be held on Friday nights starting on October 6 at the Y’s facility at 59 Paul Robeson Place. The program is also seeking volunteer coaches and officials. Players registering in the 3rd-4th grade boys and 5th6th grade boys divisions must attend a skill evaluation on October 4 from 5:30-6 p.m. There were be a preseason meeting on October 5 for coaches at 6 p.m. in the Y conference room during which there will be a draft for the 3rd-4th grade boys

and 5th-6th grade boys divisions. The registration runs from September 15 to October 3; The feel for a full facility member is $140 and is $170 for program member. For more information on the program, contact Sports and Youth Programs Director, Michael Sentance, at msentance@princetonymca.org. ———

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Mercer County Tournament in fifth place of 18 schools in the team standings. The first doubles pair of Caroline Tan and Denise Yang and the second doubles team of Sora Sato and Adriana Todorova made it through the draw to the semis in action at Mercer County Park last Monday. The MCT will wrap up with the semis and finals on September 27 at the county park. PHS plays at Allentown on September 28 before hosting Hamilton on October 2.

Princeton Junior Football Opening Day Results

In opening day action last Sunday in the Princeton Junior Football League’s (PJFL) senior division (ages 11-14), Majeski Foundation Falcons beat the Trattoria Procaccini Saints 38-13. Max Majeski scored two touchdowns for Majeski with Gabe Majeski, Benji Tartar, Ryan Friedman Jeremy Sallade each adding one. For the Saints, Ryan Cruser rushed a touchdown and Aidan Liao added a touchdown reception on a pass from Seth Liebowitz. The Lions topped the Jets 30-7 as Peter Knigge returned an interception for a touchdown early in the game to get things going the victors. Will Brandt scored three TDs to help the Lions pull away to the win. The Princeton PBA 130 Broncos topped the Ironshore Giants 16-6. Carl Birge caught two touchdown passes from James Petrone for the Broncos. Will Renda scored for t he G iants on caught a touchdown pass from Nico Cucchi. In the junior division (ages 8-10), the Pure Insurance Steelers defeated the Narragansett Bay Lions 49-7. Travis Petrone starred for the Steelers, contributing four interceptions and four

ON THE MOVE: Princeton High field hockey player Mariana Lopez-Ona races upfield in recent action. Last Monday, junior star Lopez-Ona chipped in a goal as PHS defeated Nottingham 4-0 to post its second straight win. The Little Tigers, now 3-31, host WW/P-North on September 27 before playing at Lawrenceville on September 29 and at Hamilton on October 2. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

touchdowns. Hayden Kostopolis and Braden Barlag each had an interception and a touchdown in the win, with Colton Monica adding a touchdown. The Lions’ lone score came on a run by Dylan Powers. The Christine’s Hope Cardinals defeated the Graylin Design Saints 28-14. Corey Woodson scored three touchdowns to lead the Cardinals with Jake Winn adding a touchdown reception on a pass from Jacob Reece. Luke Haan and Micah Brox scored for the Saints. The Petrone Associate Eagles posted a 14-7 win over the Chubb Insurance Bills,

sparked by a rushing attack led by quarterback Merritt Long. Jack Crotty rushed for a touchdown to get the Bills on the board. In the rookie division (ages 6-7), Chase Gallagher had two touchdowns, and Noah Prete and Henr y A mbra added a touchdown apiece to help the University Orthopaedic Falcons defeat Ayco 2 28 -21. Cooper Casto, Grayson Babich, and Sean Devlin each scored for Ayco 2. The University Orthopaedic Giants and Ayco 1 played to a 0-0 tie in a defensive battle.

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Obituaries

Stephen Alan Decter Stephen A. Decter died on September 5, 2017, in Capital Health Regional Medical Center after suffering a sudden hemorrhagic stroke. Born in Newark, New Jersey, on June 21, 1937, the son of Rose Jacobson Decter and William Decter, he was pleased to have reached the age of 80 years. Steve was a loyal lifetime resident of New Jersey, growing up in Maplewood, attending Columbia High School. He received his AB from Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs in 1959; and an MA in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962, preparing for a lifetime of service in government and public policy. S te ve m ove d to We s t Windsor Township in 1977. He became involved in local politics as a Democrat and was twice elected to the Township Committee from 1983 to 1988. He served

as mayor in 1987. During his time on the Township Committee, he focused on planning and development issues as the Township was undergoing rapid growth. As a member of the planning board, he would joke about the applicants’ teams of attorneys and developers arriving for the then weekly meetings in their stretch limousines. He championed the expansion of Township services to accommodate a growing population including the building of a new senior center, zoning for a variety of housing, and purchasing land for a muchneeded central community park. In an effort to create a downtown in the former farming community, he led a study of Princeton Junction with the hope of designing a commercial and service center around the train station while coping with the major Route 571 thoroughfare. After leaving the committee, he continued in Township service as an advocate for a workable affordable housing plan and chaired the Grow th Management Study Committee. He later returned to the planning board as a voting member. Steve served as an academic administrator and researcher at Rutgers University in New Brunswick for 31 years. At his retirement in 1999, he was the senior associate director of the ecopolicy center of Cook College and the New Jersey Ag r icu lt ural E xper iment Station. Previously, he was a research associate at the University’s Center for Government Studies, formerly the Bureau of Government Research.

Steve was genuinely committed to making the state a better place, contributing through his work at Rutgers. His commitment to service to the state was an outstanding example of what a land-grant university aspires to provide. His research interests encompassed many areas, and he contributed numerous useful publications that included studies of the future of agriculture in New Jersey ; env ironment and natural resource use, water and solid waste management; land use planning and management with a focus on farmland preservation, transfer of development rights, and growth management; housing and affordable housing policy; regional planning and development, especially the Hackensack Meadowlands Development and Redevelopment Act. He developed and taught courses in the Rutgers departments of environmental resources, ecology, evolution and natural resources, and political science. He also had considerable experience as a practitioner hosting numerous meetings and workshops and serving as a consultant to New Jersey State government departments of agriculture, environmental protection, community affairs, and the State Legislature, as well as county and municipal governments. Steve found true pleasure in physical activity. He said it kept him calm and focused. He enjoyed a serious and vigorous game of tennis anytime. During the summer he swam 40 laps to the mile at Broadmead Swim Club. He bicycled, ran, and

in recent years, took many active-adventure vacations to national parks, New England, California, Europe, and Belize. His home was part of a ver y special communit y. Glen Acres was established in 1958 as a deliberately integrated neighborhood, allowing African American families to purchase homes during the era of red-lining, and residents still share a special bond of caring and support for each other as many still reside in their original homes. He was a regular host of the many parties and picnics and helped organize special events such as the 40th and 50th anniversary celebrations. His neighbors remember him as a generous and caring person interested in them, their children, and grandchildren. Steve never married. He was predeceased by his brother Philip and his nephew Andrew, and is survived by his sister-in-law Alice, his niece Lori Yaspan and husband Richard, and four grand nieces and nephews. He is remembered fondly by his longtime friend and travel companion Susan Stanbury. Per his wishes, Steve was cremated under the direction of the Kimble Funeral Home. Steve’s life will be celebrated with a memorial service and reception on Sunday, November 19 at 2 p.m. at Palmer House, 1 Bayard Lane, Princeton, at the corner of Route 206 and Nassau Street. Contributions in his name may be made to the ALS Association in memory of Andy Decter at www.alsa.org.

Memorial Service Announcement The Memorial Service for Peter Gruen will be on Friday, September 29 at 2 p.m. at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street in Princeton.

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SundayHoly Week Trinity Church 8:00&a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I Easter Schedule

9:00 a.m. Christian Education for All Ages March 23 10:00Wednesday, a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II Holy Eucharist, Rite II, 12:00 pm 5:00 p.m. Evensong with Communion following Holy Eucharist, Rite II with Prayers for Healing, 5:30 pm Tenebrae Service, 7:00 pm

Tuesday Thursday March 24 12:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist

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Holy Eucharist, Rite II, 12:00 pm Holy Eucharist with Foot Washing and Wednesday Stripping of the Altar, 7:00 pm p.m. Holy Eucharist Keeping Watch, 8:00 pm –with Mar. Healing 25, 7:00 amPrayer

The. Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector Br. Christopher McNabb, Curate • Mr. Tom Whittemore, Director of Music

Friday, March 25

33 MercerThe St.Prayer Princeton www.trinityprinceton.org Book 609-924-2277 Service for Good Friday, 7:00 am The Prayer Book Service for Good Friday, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Stations of the Cross, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Evening Prayer, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm The Prayer Book Service for Good Friday, 7:00 pm 214 Nassau Street, Princeton

St. Paul’s Paul’s Catholic Catholic Church Church St.

214 Nassau Street, Princeton Msgr. Walter Rosie, Nolan, Pastor Msgr. Joseph Saturday, MarchPastor 26 Msgr. Walter Nolan, Pastor Easter Egg Hunt, 3:00 pm Saturday Vigil Mass: 5:30 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter, 7:00 Vigil Mass: 5:30pm p.m. Sunday:Saturday 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 and 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 and 5:00 Mass in Spanish: Sunday at 7:00 p.m. p.m. Sunday,Sunday March 27 Mass in Holy Spanish: at 7:00 p.m. Eucharist, Rite I, 7:30 am Festive Choral Eucharist, Rite II, 9:00 am Festive Choral Eucharist, Rite II, 11:00 am The. Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector The Rev. Nancy J. Hagner, Associate

Wherever you are on your journey of faith, you are always welcome to worship with us at:

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Princeton 16 Bayard Lane, Princeton 609-924-5801 – www.csprinceton.org

Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church 124 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 10:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:00 a.m. Children’s Sunday School

Wednesday Testimony Meeting and Nursery at 7:30 p.m.

and Youth Bible Study Adult Bible Classes

¡Eres siempre bienvenido!

(A multi-ethnic congregation)

Sunday Church Service, Sunday School and Nursery at 10:30 a.m.

Christian Science Reading Room

178 Nassau Street, Princeton

609-924-0919 – Open Monday through Saturday from 10 - 4

609-924-1666 • Fax 609-924-0365 witherspoonchurch.org

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Experienced tf WRITER/EDITOR: • Deadline: 2pm Tuesday • Payment: All ads must pre-paid, Cash, credit card, or check. MUSIC LESSONS: Voice, piano, Colonial. be Well maintained. Hardwood writer available to help you with your guitar, drums, trumpet, flute, clarinet, floors throughout. Full attic & basewriting $15.00 project. Correspondence, MULTI –•FAMILY YARD SALE: 25 words or less: • each add’l word 15 cents • Surcharge: $15.00 for ads greater than 60 words length. violin, cello,in saxophone, banjo, manment. Off-street parking. Close to Saturday, September 30, 9:00 to 1:00. reports, articles, novels, biography, dolin, uke & more. One-on-one. $32/ town & schools. No pets. $3,300/mo. • 3 weeks: $40.00 4 649-2359. weeks: $50.00 • 6 weeks: $72.00 • 6 month and annual discount rates available. Rain date if needed: October 1, 9:00 memoir, etc. Call • (609) half hour. Ongoing music camps. plus utilities. (609) 737-2520. TOWN TOPICS CLASSIFIEDS CALL TODAY! FARRINGTON’S to noon. 251 South Harrison Street, 09-13-3t 09-20-3t • Ads with line spacing: $20.00/inch • all bold face type: $10.00/week GETS TOP RESULTS! MUSIC, Montgomery (609) 924Princeton. 09-27 ESTATE SALE: Belle Mead, Friday & Saturday September 29 & 30, 8-2. Rt. 206 or River Road to BelleMeadGriggstown to Black Horse Run #29. Furniture, some high-end antiques. Maple dining table w/6 ladder back chairs, corner cabinet, oak ice box, marble top tables & small dressers, mirrors, lamps, collectibles-Lladró, Santa Clara pottery, frames. 09-27 MOVING / GARAGE SALE: Saturday, September 30th, 9 am-4 pm (rain date the following Saturday). 426 Riverside Drive East, Princeton. Artwork, furniture, arts and crafts supplies, children’s toys, textbooks & books, college dorm decorations, kitchenware, tools, electronics, brica-brac & more! Everything must go. 09-27 FABULOUS PRINCETON ESTATE SALE: 40 years accumulation. Everything must go. Antiques, furniture, kitchen items, hockey equipment, collectibles, books & much, much more. No early birds. G.G. Estate Sales, (215) 962-7222. Thursday, Friday, Saturday- Sept. 28, 29 & 30; 9-4. 38 Pardoe Road, Princeton, NJ. 09-27 ESTATE SALE: 50 years of collected items. Antiques, pictures, purses, women’s clothing, housewares, holiday & much more. Saturday September 30, 8-12, 25 Toth Lane, Rocky Hill. Rain or shine. 09-27

PRINCETON RENTAL: Single family home with newly renovated eat-in kitchen. 2.5 BR, 1.5 baths, H/W floors & central A/C with spacious back yard & walking distance to campus & shops. Located on Linden Lane in Princeton. Basement includes washer/dryer & off-street parking. No pets. $2,500/mo. plus utilities. After 5 pm, (609) 273-4416 or mariagdifo@ hotmail.com 09-20-2t CONTRERAS PAINTING: Interior, exterior, wallpaper removal, deck staining. 16 years experience. Fully insured, free estimates. Call (609) 954-4836; ronythepainter@ live.com 09-06-4t ROSA’S CLEANING SERVICE LLC:

HOME HEALTH AIDE: 25 years of experience. Available mornings to take care of your loved one, transport to appointments, run errands. I am well known in Princeton. Top care, excellent references. The best, cell (609) 356-2951; or (609) 751-1396. tf LOLIO’S WINDOW WASHING & POWER WASHING: Free estimate. Next day service. Fully insured. Gutter cleaning available. References available upon request. 30 years experience. (609) 271-8860. tf EXCELLENT AFTER SCHOOL SITTER

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PROVINCE LINE ROAD • LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP Susan A Cook $3,300,000 CallawayHenderson.com/id/7054528

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MERCER STREET • PRINCETON Madolyn Greve $1,400,000 C allawayHenderson.com/id/7058861

WINDERMERE WAY • PRINCETON Catherine ‘Kate’ Stinson $1,395,000 CallawayHenderson.com/id/7054190

BENSON LANE • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Jane Henderson Kenyon $1,395,000 CallawayHenderson.com/id/7055831

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ALLISON ROAD • PRINCETON Oliver Dennison $1,295,000 C allawayHenderson.com/id/7054300

VICTORIA MEWS • PRINCETON Michael Monarca $1,240,000 CallawayHenderson.com/id/7055515

LOVERS LANE • PRINCETON Catherine A Hegedus $1,095,000 CallawayHenderson.com/id/6974142

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ROOSEVELT AVENUE • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Maura Mills $1,095,000 CallawayHenderson.com/id/7045928

CARTER ROAD • LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP $799,000 CallawayHenderson.com/id/7056482

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STORAGE SPACE: 194 Nassau St. 1227 sq. ft. Clean, dry, secure space. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 06-10-tf SMALL OFFICE SUITENASSAU STREET: with parking. 1839 sq. ft. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 06-10-tf HOME REPAIR SPECIALIST: Interior/exterior repairs, carpentry, trim, rotted wood, power washing, painting, deck work, sheet rock/ spackle, gutter & roofing repairs. Punch list is my specialty. 40 years experience. Licensed & insured. Call Creative Woodcraft (609) 586-2130 06-28-18 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. 12-27-17

WE BUY CARS Belle Mead Garage (908) 359-8131 Ask for Chris tf WHAT’S A GREAT GIFT FOR A FORMER PRINCETONIAN? A Gift Subscription! We have prices for 1 or 2 years -call (609)924-2200x10 to get more info! tf YARD SALE + TOWN TOPICS CLASSIFIED = GREAT WEEKEND! Put an ad in the TOWN TOPICS to let everyone know! (609) 924-2200 ext 10 tf MULTI – FAMILY YARD SALE: Saturday, September 30, 9:00 to 1:00. Rain date if needed: October 1, 9:00 to noon. 251 South Harrison Street, Princeton. 09-27

ESTATE SALE: Belle Mead, Friday & Saturday September 29 & 30, 8-2. Rt. 206 or River Road to BelleMeadGriggstown to Black Horse Run #29. Furniture, some high-end antiques. Maple dining table w/6 ladder back chairs, corner cabinet, oak ice box, marble top tables & small dressers, mirrors, lamps, collectibles-Lladró, Santa Clara pottery, frames. 09-27 MOVING / GARAGE SALE: Saturday, September 30th, 9 am-4 pm (rain date the following Saturday). 426 Riverside Drive East, Princeton. Artwork, furniture, arts and crafts supplies, children’s toys, textbooks & books, college dorm decorations, kitchenware, tools, electronics, brica-brac & more! Everything must go. 09-27 FABULOUS PRINCETON ESTATE SALE: 40 years accumulation. Everything must go. Antiques, furniture, kitchen items, hockey equipment, collectibles, books & much, much more. No early birds. G.G. Estate Sales, (215) 962-7222. Thursday, Friday, Saturday- Sept. 28, 29 & 30; 9-4. 38 Pardoe Road, Princeton, NJ. 09-27

ESTATE SALE: 50 years of collected items. Antiques, pictures, purses, women’s clothing, housewares, holiday & much more. Saturday September 30, 8-12, 25 Toth Lane, Rocky Hill. Rain or shine. 09-27 MOVING SALE: Everything for your home! Furniture, rocking horse & chairs. Tools, garden equipment, etc. Saturday September 30 from 9-3. 192 Loomis Court, Princeton (off Walnut Lane). 09-27 WRITER/EDITOR: Experienced writer available to help you with your writing project. Correspondence, reports, articles, novels, biography, memoir, etc. Call (609) 649-2359. 09-13-3t PRINCETON RENTAL: Single family home with newly renovated eat-in kitchen. 2.5 BR, 1.5 baths, H/W floors & central A/C with spacious back yard & walking distance to campus & shops. Located on Linden Lane in Princeton. Basement includes washer/dryer & off-street parking. No pets. $2,500/mo. plus utilities. After 5 pm, (609) 273-4416 or mariagdifo@ hotmail.com 09-20-2t

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CONTRERAS PAINTING: Interior, exterior, wallpaper removal, deck staining. 16 years experience. Fully insured, free estimates. Call (609) 954-4836; ronythepainter@ live.com 09-06-4t ROSA’S CLEANING SERVICE LLC: For houses, apartments, offices, daycare, banks, schools & much more. Has good English, own transportation. 25 years of experience. Cleaning license. References. Please call (609) 751-2188. 09-06-4t HANDYMAN: General duties at your service! High skill levels in indoor/outdoor painting, sheet rock, deck work, power washing & general on the spot fix up. Carpentry, tile installation, moulding, etc. EPA certified. T/A “Elegant Remodeling”, www.elegantdesignhandyman.com Text or call Roeland (609) 933-9240 or roelandvan@gmail.com tf CARPENTRY: General Contracting in Princeton area since 1972. No job too small. Licensed and insured. Call Julius Sesztak (609) 466-0732. tf PRINCETON RENTAL: Sunny, 2-3 BR, Western Section. Big windows overlooking elegant private garden. Sliding doors to private terrace. Fireplace, library w/built-in bookcases, cathedral ceiling w/clerestory windows. Oak floors, recessed lighting, central AC. Modern kitchen & 2 baths. Walk to Nassau St. & train. Off-street parking. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright disciple. (609) 924-5245. tf HOME HEALTH AIDE: 25 years of experience. Available mornings to take care of your loved one, transport to appointments, run errands. I am well known in Princeton. Top care, excellent references. The best, cell (609) 356-2951; or (609) 751-1396. tf LOLIO’S WINDOW WASHING & POWER WASHING: Free estimate. Next day service. Fully insured. Gutter cleaning available. References available upon request. 30 years experience. (609) 271-8860. tf EXCELLENT AFTER SCHOOL SITTER With references, available in the Lawrenceville, Princeton and Pennington areas. Please text or call (609) 216-5000 tf

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IN-TOWN HOUSE FOR RENT: 4 Bedroom, 1.5 bath house, on pleasant residential street. One block to Nassau Street. First floor is furnished. Some furnishings on second floor. Pleasant side porch. Tenants are responsible for all utilites. No pets, no smoking. Available immediately for one year or longer. $3,100 per month. Credit check and security deposit required. Call (609) 924-0970. Leave message. 09-27-2t PIANO LESSONS: Learn to play piano- a magnificent journey! Call Bob Ross, teaching all styles for 18 yrs. Jacobs Music Lawrenceville & in-home special arrangements. (908) 874-0274. 08-30-6t FOR RENT: Lovely 3 BR, center hall Colonial. Well maintained. Hardwood floors throughout. Full attic & basement. Off-street parking. Close to town & schools. No pets. $3,300/mo. plus utilities. (609) 737-2520. 09-20-3t PRINCETON: Charming fully furnished room. Skylight, with windows overlooking yard. W/D, Wi-Fi, light kitchen privileges, parking. Utilities included. No smoking or pets. $850./mo. Call (609) 924-4210. 09-27-3t

AN OLD FASHIONED HOUSE PERFECT FOR A CONTEMPORARY BUYER Yesterday’s charm is combined with today’s amenities in the Historic Wilmot House, Circa 1830, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, living room/parlor, new kitchen, inviting back yard and garage. A house with charm and character and a very reasonable price. In a most desirable Ewing Township neighborhood. Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/1349823

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PRINCETON NEW HOUSE: FOR RENT. 4 BR, 4 bath. Private home, 1 acre lot. Deck, garage, modern kitchen, central air, walk-out basement. Walking distance to Nassau Street. $3,800/mo. plus utilities. Call (609) 216-0092. 09-27-3t HOUSECLEANING/ HOUSEKEEPING: Professional cleaning service. Experienced, references, honest & responsible. Reasonable price. Call Ursula (609) 635-7054 for free estimate. 09-13-6t

HOUSE CLEANING: By an experienced Polish lady. Call Barbara (609) 273-4226. Weekly or biweekly. Honest & reliable. References available. 09-27-4t 3 & 6 ROOM OFFICE SUITES: Historic Nassau Street Building. 2nd Floor, w/ Parking. (609) 213-5029. 09-27-5t HOUSECLEANING: Experienced, English speaking, great references, reliable with own transportation. Weekly & bi-weekly cleaning. Green cleaning available. Susan, (732) 8733168. 09-27-8t CLEANING LADY: My lovely cleaning lady is looking for more jobs. Employed by me 20 yrs. Thorough, trustworthy & reliable. Call for references, (609) 306-3555. 08-23-13t CLEANING BY POLISH LADY: For houses and small offices. Flexible, reliable, local. Excellent references. Please call Yola (609) 558-9393. 09-27/03-21 TOWN TOPICS CLASSIFIEDS GETS TOP RESULTS! Whether it’s selling furniture, finding a lost pet, or having a garage sale, TOWN TOPICS is the way to go! We deliver to ALL of Princeton as well as surrounding areas, so your ad is sure to be read. Call (609) 924-2200 ext. 10 for more details. tf PRINCETON LUXURY APARTMENTS: 253Nassau.com Weinberg Management, WMC@collegetown.com Text (609) 731-1630. 07-12-tf TK PAINTING: Interior, exterior. Power-washing, wallpaper removal, plaster repair, Venetian plaster, deck staining. Renovation of kitchen cabinets. Front door and window refinishing. Excellent references. Free estimates. Call (609) 947-3917 09-27/03-21 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. 08-23-18 SUPERIOR HANDYMAN SERVICES: Experienced in all residential home repairs. Free Estimate/References/ Insured. (908) 966-0662 or www. superiorhandymanservices-nj.com 08-30/11-15 J.O. PAINTING & HOME IMPROVEMENTS: Painting for interior & exterior, framing, dry wall, spackle, trims, doors, windows, floors, tiles & more. 20 years experience. Call (609) 305-7822. 08-02-18 MUSIC LESSONS: Voice, piano, guitar, drums, trumpet, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, saxophone, banjo, mandolin, uke & more. One-on-one. $32/ half hour. Ongoing music camps. CALL TODAY! FARRINGTON’S MUSIC, Montgomery (609) 9248282; West Windsor (609) 897-0032, www.farringtonsmusic.com 07-19-18 JOES LANDSCAPING INC. OF PRINCETON Property Maintenance and Specialty Jobs Commercial/Residential Over 30 Years of Experience •Fully Insured •Free Consultations Email: joeslandscapingprinceton@ gmail.com Text (only) (609) 638-6846 Office (609) 216-7936 Princeton References •Green Company HIC #13VH07549500 05-10-18 AWARD WINNING SLIPCOVERS Custom fitted in your home. Pillows, cushions, table linens, window treatments, and bedding. Fabrics and hardware. Fran Fox (609) 577-6654 windhamstitches.com 04-12-18 BUYING: Antiques, paintings, Oriental rugs, coins, clocks, furniture, old toys, military, books, cameras, silver, costume & fine jewelry. Guitars & musical instruments. I buy single items to entire estates. Free appraisals. (609) 306-0613. 12-27-17

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Put an ad in the TOWN TOPICS to let everyone know! (609) 924-2200 ext 10 tf Multi – FaMilY Yard sale: Saturday, September 30, 9:00 to 1:00. Rain date if needed: October 1, 9:00 to noon. 251 South Harrison Street, Princeton. 09-27 estate sale: Belle Mead, Friday & Saturday September 29 & 30, 8-2. Rt. 206 or River Road to BelleMeadGriggstown to Black Horse Run #29. Furniture, some high-end antiques. Maple dining table w/6 ladder back chairs, corner cabinet, oak ice box, marble top tables & small dressers, mirrors, lamps, collectibles-Lladró, Santa Clara pottery, frames.

40 years accumulation. Everything must go. Antiques, furniture, kitchen items, hockey equipment, collectibles, books & much, much more. No early birds. G.G. Estate Sales, (215) 962-7222. Thursday, Friday, Saturday- Sept. 28, 29 & 30; 9-4. 38 Pardoe Road, Princeton, NJ. 09-27 estate sale: 50 years of collected items. Antiques, pictures, purses, women’s clothing, housewares, holiday & much more. Saturday September 30, 8-12, 25 Toth Lane, Rocky Hill. Rain or shine. 09-27 MoVinG sale: Everything for your home! Furniture, rocking horse & chairs. Tools, garden equipment, etc. Saturday September 30 from 9-3. 192 Loomis Court, Princeton (off Walnut Lane).

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residential rentals: trenton – $850/mo. 2 BR, 1 bath, 2nd & 3rd floor apt. Older downtown center city. Available October 8, 2017. Princeton – $1,650/mo. 2nd floor office on Nassau Street with parking. Available now. Princeton – $1,650/mo. 1 BR apt. with eat-in kitchen, LR, 1 bath. Available now. Princeton address-Franklin twp – $1,950/mo. 3 BR, 1 bath renovated home with LR, DR, kitchen. Fenced-in backyard. Available now. Princeton – $2,500/mo. 3 BR, 1 bath, LR, DR, kitchen. Shared driveway parking. Available now. Princeton – $3,800/mo. 4 BR, 2.5 baths, LR, DR, kitchen, garage. Great neighborhood. Available now.

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NEW CONSTRUCTION? YOU STILL NEED YOUR OWN AGENT Buying a new home comes with lots of perks - like knowing you’re the only one who’s ever tracked mud on the floor or smeared food on the counter. And most new developments offer another lure: their own on-site agent. Should you bite? No. Here’s why: Like any other seller’s agent, a builder’s agent is working in the best interests of the builder. That’s not to say anything shady is going on; just that the agent - by law - must put the builder’s interests first. A buyer’s agent, on the other hand, will be looking out for your interests first and foremost. That means they can advise you on the “fairness” of the home’s pricing in relation to the market and neighborhood, help you find financing, and even negotiate on your behalf for upgrades like higher-end appliances, finishes and other extras. They can also help you find a home inspector (yes, new homes should still be inspected) and arrange for closing. In short, having your own agent means you can enjoy greater peace of mind and feel more confident you’ll be getting just what you’re expecting: the home of your dreams.

P/t BookkeePer: Small family-owned business looking for P/T Bookkeeper for general bookkeeping duties. QuickBooks a must. Approx. 8 hrs/wk. Located in downtown Princeton. $25/hr. Email resume to: elisarosen@yahoo.com 09-27

Part-tiMe & suBstitute staFF needed: University NOW Children’s Center is looking for several M-F, Part-time Support Staff members ranging between the hours of 11:30-6 pm & Substitute Support Staff. We are looking for warm, nurturing, energetic, reliable & responsible individuals to work in a team teaching situation. Under the supervision of our classroom staff, the part-time & substitute cares for children ranging from 3 months to almost 5 years. The Substitute is an “on call” position with variable hours 8:30-6:00 pm. Experience working with young children required. CDA, AA degree or more a plus. Please no phone calls. Email resumes to sbertran@princeton.edu

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Writer/editor: Experienced writer available to help you with your writing project. Correspondence, reports, articles, novels, biography, memoir, etc. Call (609) 649-2359. 09-13-3t Princeton rental: Single family home with newly renovated eat-in kitchen. 2.5 BR, 1.5 baths, H/W floors & central A/C with spacious back yard & walking distance to campus & shops. Located on Linden Lane in Princeton. Basement includes washer/dryer & off-street parking. No pets. $2,500/mo. plus utilities. After 5 pm, (609) 273-4416 or mariagdifo@ hotmail.com

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PRINCETON $818,000 A multi-level townhouse has LR with W/B FP, a kitchen with eat-in area & sliders to a balcony. The master BR has en suite BA & sliders, plus 2 more BRs & a full BA in the hall. Eric Branton 609-516-9502 (cell)

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TITUSVILLE $620,000 Historical farmhouse on 4.5-acres. Beautifully maintained & surrounded by gardens, pool & trees. Features a guesthouse with BR, full BA, loft & gas FP. Dir: Rte 546 to Bear Tavern Rd. Linda Twining 609-439-2282 (cell)

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