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Ben Bernanke, former Princeton University professor and economics department chair, has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award on October 10 to Bernanke, along with Douglas Diamond of the University of Chicago and Philip Dybvig of Washington University in St. Louis, citing their work to enhance “our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises.”
Bernanke, who was a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton from 1985 to 2002 and chairman of the economics department from 1996 to 2002, went on to serve two terms as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, leading the Fed through the 2008 nancial crisis. He was also chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advis-
The Swedish Academy noted that work from the early 1980s by the three economists had provided insight into the role of banks in in uencing the economy, especially in times of crisis. “Their analyses have been of great practical importance in regulating nancial markets and dealing with nancial crises,” the Nobel Com-
Bernanke wrote a landmark 1983 paper about the Great Depression in which he showed how bank runs had turned a recession into a global economic crisis, explaining how bank failures can be the
Bernanke, who earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from MIT, received an honorary degree from Princeton University in 2016. He was cited at the graduation ceremony that year for his role in helping to steer the country through the 2008 economic crisis and “preventing Great Depression 2.0 from his command post at the Federal
The Princeton University citation read, “When the house of cards crumbled in 2008, he and his colleagues rst stabilized an epochal mess and then led the nation on a difficult path to recovery. His courage to act shored up America’s damaged nancial foundations, and his steady hand at the helm inspired confidence when it was sorely needed.
There was applause from the audience at a meeting of Princeton Council on Monday, October 10, following a vote by the Council in favor of two resolutions establishing dog parks in the municipality.
The governing body voted unanimously to authorize installation of a temporary dog park in a section of Community Park South, and a pilot program for off-leash dogs at Quarry Park on Spruce Street. Several residents spoke, at the live meeting and over Zoom, in favor of the resolutions.
“I’m thrilled that this is happening. It has been such a long time coming,” said a resident of Cedar Lane, who said her son advocated establishing a dog park for his bar mitzvah project and has now graduated from college. A presentation was most recently made to Council about establishing dog parks nearly a year ago.
The 90-day pilot program for the Quarry Park site will go into effect November 1, and will be operational between 7 and 9 a.m. The second authorizes temporary fencing at a mostly unused athletic eld at Community Park South, with separate areas for small and large dogs. The cost of the fencing is not to exceed $10,000.
Mayor Mark Freda expressed concern about dogs being able to run without
being fenced in at Quarry Park, saying it is too close to Harrison Street and children are nearby. But that area has served unofficially as a dog park for several years, and there have been no incidents, said Councilwoman Mia Sacks, who was instrumental in bringing the resolutions forward.
“There are about 20 to 30 dogs there each morning, and there is not been a single incident to either a child or a dog. Offleash is something that exists throughout
Manhattan and the ve boroughs,” she said, adding that dogs act less aggressively when they are not leashed.
Dog parks have not previously been established legally in Princeton, which is why the Quarry Park program is a pilot. “If there is any issue with it, we will terminate it,” Sacks said. “It has been a major success in New York City. I feel very con dent it can work. If it doesn’t, after 90 days we can pull the plug.”
Ideally, she said, there would eventually
Thomas Edison State University (TESU) awarded 2,098 degrees to graduates with an average age of 37 at its 50th annual commencement ceremony at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton on October 1. The graduates came from 37 different states, all 21 counties of New Jersey, and from foreign countries including Chile, St. Lucia, and United Arab Emirates.
“The beauty of our graduating class is what makes our institution so unique,” said TESU President Merodie A. Hancock. “There is no trend in our graduating class other than the fact that everybody
has a story. They all have some story, something they’ve come through to accomplish this.”
She continued, “There was a graduate who went through breast cancer as she was working on her degree, and someone else who was diagnosed with an untreatable disease but still nished their degree. We have a tremendous military population and a lot of folks are deployed, and somehow still gure it out. They are all so driven.”
Addressing the TESU graduates this year was Elizabeth “Bette” Ewing from
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Washington Crossing His toric Park’s annual Autumn Encampment and Market will take place on the Penn sylvania side of the park on Saturday, October 15 from 12- 4 p.m.
During this event, colonial townspeople will gather in the historic village to sell their wares, soldiers will drill 18th-century military tactics, and the park’s fife and drum corps will perform throughout the day. Fami lies can take part in several
activities including crafts, cooking demonstrations, and one-on-one interaction with colonial reenactors.
Tickets are $8 for adults; $4 for children 5-11; and free for those under 5, ac tive duty military, and park members. Visit Washington CrossingPark.org/events. A $20 family ticket is also available for two adults and two children living in the same household and under 18 years of age.
Admission to Bowman’s Hill Tower is free that day with an event wristband.
This is a rain or shine event. Washington Crossing His toric Park is located at the intersection of Routes 32 (River Road) and 532. A Princeton tradition!
Emergency Donations: For those impacted by Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Fiona, gift cards can be dropped off at Princeton Human Services, 1 Monument Drive, or dropped in the box in the back of the building in an envelope addressed to Human Ser vices. Donations help provide clean water, food supplies, shelter, emergency response services, medical supplies, and clothing. Call (609) 688-2055 for more information.
Survey on Food Waste and Organics : The municipality is considering changes to the residential waste collection system to contain costs and decrease the carbon footprint. A survey to share feedback is available at accessprinceton@princetonnj.gov.
Community Visioning Survey : The next phase of surveys related to Princeton’s effort to update its Master Plan is available through October 31. Visit princetonnj. gov for the link.
Holiday Gift Drive : Princeton Human Services seeks donors for holiday gifts to go to needy children, up to age 12, not to exceed $75 (one to two gifts). Donations for gift cards are also sought. Visit princetonnj.gov/753/Holiday-Gift-Drive by November 18.
Poll Workers Needed : For the upcoming election on November 8, as well as vot ing locations beginning October 29. Compensation ranges from $200-$300 per day. Minors ages 16-18 can also work a full day at the polls on Election Day. Apply at (609) 989-6522 or by emailing BoardofElections@mercercounty.org.
COVID-19 Care Kits for Princeton Families : Low/moderate income families in Princeton can get these kits, which include tests and materials to respond to COVID-19, such as one-use thermometers, an oximeter, and extra household items. They are available for pickup at Princeton Human Services by calling (609) 688-2055. Certain eligibility requirements apply.
Free Vision and Dental Services for Low Income Residents : The municipality is offering these services for low-income Princeton residents impacted by the pandemic. For application information, visit Princetonnj.gov.
Flu Shot Clinics : Several clinics are being held throughout the fall at different area locations. For a full list, email healthdepartment@princetonnj.gov.
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Once a visitor to the Hopewell Valley Arts Coun cil’s annual “Amazing Pump kin Carve” gets a glimpse of one of the huge, intricately sculpted pumpkins that go on display at Woolsey Park each fall, they tend to want to see it up close. That wasn’t possible during the
pandemic, when viewing these sometimes outrageous works of art was only avail able from vehicle windows.
But this year’s event, which opens today (Octo ber 12) and runs through Sunday, October 16, allows a choice. Wednesday and Thursday, October 12 and 13 are walk-through days, while on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday the event is drive-through only.
“This is kind of a recali bration year. We actually made more money doing the drive-through, but people really want a chance to see these pumpkins up close,” said Carol Lipson, Hopewell Valley Arts Council board member. “So that’s why we’re putting our toe back in the water with a hybrid. In the future, we might do more walk-through days.”
The pumpkin carve is the largest fundraiser for the arts council. Last year, 3,000 visitors attended in their cars. Local artists carve more than 40 oversized pumpkins, usually weighing in at more than 125 pounds (the drought this past sum mer resulted in a slight re duction in size). The list of artists, which continues to grow, includes John Goeke, Jodi Walker, Joyce Vollmer, Aleece Davis, Benjamin Clark, Curtis May, Kathy Kutz, Sofia Gruson, Sarah Bernotas, and several more.
“Three quarters of them have been doing this since we started,” said Lipson. “Artists don’t get an oppor tunity to carve something this big very often. We do try and get new people ev ery year, so this year we have five new artists so far. And that’s fun, because ev erybody brings something new. Some of the pump kins are more spectacular than others, but they are all amazing.”
Flesh on the pumpkins can be up to two inches thick, “so you really have to learn how to get the dimensions and different levels of light,” Lipson said. “People defi nitely learn and come back. Some of them are woodcarvers, some are painters, some do other media. What is really fun is they come from all different back
grounds, and they all bring different tools.”
The artists are given an honorarium, but no money prize. “It’s not a competitive thing,” Lipson said. “They are very cooperative with each other. They help each other.”
The carvers will be in il luminated tents. Weather permitting, firepits will be lit for roasting s’mores and hearing storytellers relay spooky stories. Live bands are scheduled to play Friday and Saturday.
Admission is $5-$15, at the gate or in advance, for the walk-through. Drivethrough prices are $30 per vehicle. Hours are 6-9 p.m.
Wednesday and 5-9 p.m. Thursday; 6-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 6-9 p.m. Sunday. Visit hvartscouncil. org/amazingpumpkincarve/ for more information.
“This is a fabulous family event,” said Lipson. “We’ve been doing it for eight years, and it just keeps getting bet ter.”
About 550 Princeton homeowners will be re ceiving checks this week in accordance with a 2016 settlement that resolved liti gation challenging Princeton University’s property tax ex emptions.
These checks for 2022, approximately $2,465 per eligible home, are the final payments in a six-year pro gram. Recipients will have 90 days to deposit their checks and may use the funds for any purpose.
In compliance with the agreement, the University contributed $2 million in 2017 and $1.6 million per year from 2018 to 2022 to a property tax relief fund administered by the Com munity Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ).
The fund has distributed annual aid payments to Princeton homeowners who received a homestead ben efit under the New Jersey Homestead Property Tax Credit Act in the most recent year for which the fund re ceived from the state a list of homeowners who were paid homestead benefits.
To be eligible to receive a benefit this year, homeown ers had to qualify for home stead benefits in 2018 (the most recent year for which the fund received a list of homeowners who were paid benefits by the state) and must continue to own the home.
In each year of the pro gram, any excess funds, af ter all eligible distributions, are donated to 101:Inc., a nonprofit organization, to provide need-based scholar ships for graduates of Princ eton High School attending post-secondary educational institutions other than Princ eton University. More than $380,000 has been donated to 101:Inc. through the first five years of the program.
Eligible homeowners will receive checks directly from CFNJ starting in the week of October 10. Questions should be directed Caro lyn Lange at CJNJ at (800) 659-5533, extension 3004.
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“What is your favorite part of the festival?” (Asked Saturday at the Princeton Children’s Book Festival at Hinds Plaza) (Photos by Weronika A. Plohn)
Joanne: “I love the energy, the excitement, and meeting the authors. I feel like the festival brings the books to life if you get to meet the person who illustrated or wrote it.”
Nandita: “I love seeing the community come together. It seems like it is the first time in a while since the pandemic that we get to see so many people who are here for the love of books and reading.”
—Joanne Farrugia with Nandita Ammanamanchi, both of Princeton
“We just moved to town a few weeks ago, so it is our first time attending the festival. Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker was the first English-written book that we bought for our son, so it was very special to meet the author in person today.”
—Gabor, Agnes, Marsel, and Noel Meszaros, Princeton
Raywin: “I like books about dogs, and I am happy to see so many puppies here.”
Zara: “I met the author of my favorite book — I even got it signed. I will be back next year!”
—Raywin Hyder, Metuchen with Zara Hyder, Monmouth Junction
Brian: “It is nice to talk to the authors and get to know them better. I always appreciate the time that I get to spend with them.”
Dawn: “Connecting with the authors and being able to talk to them in person about the wonderful stories is my favorite part.
I always have a great time here!”
—Brian Toban with Dawn Henderson, both of Lawrenceville
“This is a classic festival of children’s books. The turnout is wonderful — the people who come are really excited and real book lovers and book fans, so it is a great place to be. I hope to be back next year!”
—Nina Crews, Brooklyn, N.Y.
—Anne Levin
When D&R Greenway Land Trust and partners announced plans to preserve the 19th century Point Breeze estate in Bordentown nearly two years ago, part of the lore related to the property was that former owner Joseph Bonaparte — Napoleon’s older brother — brought asparagus to the United States and grew it at Point Breeze, introducing it to this country.
It makes sense, then, that creating a historically relevant produce garden was part of the restoration vision. The garden’s first bounty has yielded summer squash, beans, carrots, beets, and turnips, among other varieties. In the new “Garden to Bistro” program, D&R Greenway has partnered with five restaurants in Bordentown that are preparing dishes using the garden’s crops. The program began October 3 at Hob Tavern, and continues through the end of the month at the Old Town Pub, Toscano, Under the Moon, and Crumb.
“Some plants did better than others,” said D&R Greenway Garden Steward Lara Periard, who manages the gardens, on Monday. “Summer squash and beans were really prolific. Others like fennel and kale had some germination and pest
problems. But the restaurants have been enthusiastic about the produce they’ve received. It’s going well.”
While visiting the restaurants, patrons can learn a bit of history from a Point Breeze table kiosk. “Bistro month in October connects people to the land’s abundance by providing a taste of the Historic Bonaparte Garden at Point Breeze,” said D&R Greenway President Linda Mead, in a press release. “Squash, turnips, carrots, and beans grown from historic seed are the very same crops grown at Point Breeze when it was home to the exiled King of Spain, Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte. The garden’s first harvest In September was donated to Bordentown’s Father Matt at Christ Church to feed the hungry. Now, thanks to our founding Garden to Bistro restaurants, these treasures of the land can be savored by all residents and visitors as they enjoy this historyrich and walkable town.”
Point Breeze was the palatial estate of Joseph Bonaparte, who fled to the United States in 1815 and bought the Point Breeze estate in 1817 from diplomat Stephen Sayre. The land is high on the Bordentown Bluffs overlooking extensive marshlands and the
confluence of Crosswicks Creek and the Delaware River. The location, between Philadelphia and New York, was documented in many paintings of the era that can be seen today in museums.
Remnants of tunnels, leading from Bonaparte’s mansions to the waterways, can still be viewed.
At the time, the 60-acre estate included sculpture gardens, coach trails, bridges, stables, a gardener’s house, a lake, and a three-story mansion, in addition to the vegetable garden. Preserving the property in December 2020 was a collaborative effort of D&R Greenway, the New Jersey Green Acres Program, and the City of Bordentown. D&R Greenway has been involved for more than 25 years with the Abbott Marshlands, the wetlands area between Bordentown and Trenton that is adjacent to the estate. Over the years, the land trust held some programs at the Divine Word Missionaries, previous owners of the property.
The garden was an important element of Bonaparte’s estate because its harvest was used to feed his family and guests, which included political and military figures, artists, and business owners. The Bordentown Historical Society mentions a few visitors, including Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Quincy Adams.
The past summer’s heat and lack of rain created some challenges this first
year for the new garden, but a drip irrigation system helped. Periard and local resident Val Sassaman, a member of the Bordentown Historical Society, researched the garden seeds that would have been used in Bonaparte’s time, and D&R Greenway purchased some of the seeds from Monticello, Jefferson’s estate in Charlottesville, Va.
“We’re also growing some heirloom beans and squash, and next year we’ll grow some corn varieties that are native and significant to the Lenni-Lenape people, whose ancestral homelands we’re planting on,” said Periard. “The Indigenous name in this area is Lenapehoking.”
Several volunteers helped
with the first planting, which also included flowers, lavender, and blueberries by the Gardener’s House. A group of six area residents joined Periard and D&R Greenway colleague Kirsten Clerico to plant the initial crop, build trellises, and care for the garden. Bill Flemer, recently retired site manager of D&R Greenway’s St. Michaels
Farm Preserve in Hopewell and a member of the Princeton Nurseries family, tilled the garden plot, transforming it from grass to create a footprint for the first planting.
Progress has been made, but more work is needed.
“There is an opportunity for people to share their love of history and gardening by
volunteering to help with the harvest season,” said Mead.
“As we prepare to open the former gardener’s house to the community this fall, we invite people to sign up to become docents and help tell the stories of this land.”
“If people feel a relationship with the land, then they care for the land,” said Periard. “That’s my hope, that in connecting to the history of this place, from the LenniLenape people who were here first, to Bonaparte’s time, to the present, people will feel a relationship to this area and ecosystem and be inspired to become — or continue to be — active in supporting conservation and restoration efforts.”
—Anne Levin
His place in history is assured, the nation is in his debt. And we are proud to have this opportunity to honor him.”
Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber responded to the Nobel Committee announcement on Monday. “All of us at Princeton know Ben Bernanke to be not only a marvelous scholar but
also a generous teacher, beloved colleague, and devoted University citizen,” he said, as quoted in a University press release. “By using his pathbreaking research, extensive learning, and practical wisdom to help lead America through a difficult financial crisis, Ben has exemplified brilliantly Princeton’s commitment to be ‘in the nation’s service.’”
Bernanke is currently a Distinguished Fellow in
Residence, Economic Studies, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and he remains chair of the advisory council of Princeton University’s Bendheim Center for Finance, which he founded in 1997.
Princeton University Economics Professor and Bendheim Center Director Markus Brunnermeier emphasized Bernanke’s impact on the economics department at Princeton. “Ben was foundational in shaping the economics department at Princeton,” he said.
“He put a lot of energy into building up the department and founded the Bendheim Center. In this way, he not only pushed the research frontier in economics and finance, but also others’ research at Princeton University. He had a big impact on the profession.”
It was while Bernanke was economics department chair that Princeton hired Nobel laureates, now professors emeritus, Paul Krugman (2008 Nobel) and Christopher Sims (2011 Nobel).
Princeton University Economics and Public Affairs Professor Alan Blinder, who played a prominent role in recruiting Bernanke to come to Princeton and preceded him as a vice chair at the Federal Reserve, recalled, “i was bowled over by young Ben Bernanke’s early work, and did everything I could to attract him to Princeton, where he fit perfectly and was very productive as a scholar. I practically cried when he left, though it was certainly for a good cause!”
The Nobel Prize in economics includes 10 million Swedish kroner, almost $900,000, divided evenly among the three recipients.
—Donald GilpinThe Witherspoon-Jackson Neighborhood Association (WJNA) will be holding a meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 15, at the Arts Council of Princeton to urge participation in the Community Visioning Survey.
The survey, available online through October 31 at engage.princetonmasterplan.org, is designed to identify “priorities, values, concerns, and hopes for Princeton,” according to an October 5 Town Topics letter to the editor from Princeton Planning Board (PPB) Chair Louise Wilson and PPB Vice Chair Tim Quinn.
“What we learn from this survey will influence the focus and format of upcoming community-wide open houses, as well as the drafting of overarching Master Plan goals and principles for Princeton’s growth, housing, conservation, and preservation in the coming years and decades,” Wilson and Quinn wrote.
WJNA Co-chair Leighton Newlin emphasized the importance of the survey. “Please take this seriously, as it will in part determine how where we live feels, looks, views smart growth, and how municipal government operates on what we the people think is important in our lives,” he said. Newlin went on to note, “While this meeting is open to all Princeton residents, this community visioning initiative will focus only on the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood. We ask for maximum participation. The main focus of the meeting
is not to generate discussion about what the neighborhood homeowners and residents want to see in the future, rather to make people aware of the community visioning survey, its purpose, and to communicate the importance of completing it on or before October 31.”
On Sunday, October 30 from 12-5 p.m., a special event amateur radio station will be set up in Van Nest Park picnic pavilion, 218 Cranbury Road in West Windsor, to mark the 84th anniversary of the iconic “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast.
Members of the Delaware Valley Radio Association will gather to commemorate the Halloween radio drama “War of the Worlds,” created by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air on October 30, 1938. The CBS radio broadcast, based on the H.G. Wells novel, sent residents nearby and listeners across the country into a panic after they announced that alien invaders from Mars had landed at Grovers Mill.
The following morning, newspaper headlines warned of “mass hysteria,” giving Mercury Theatre on the Air more publicity than anticipated. Historians argue that the hysteria was anything but mass, but the impact and psychological effect are a good reason to rebroadcast it each Halloween around the world.
“It remains a time capsule, a memento from the golden age of radio, when a handful of creative men and women working in a soundproof room could conjure joy or horror in the minds of their listeners, thousands of miles away,” reads a press release on the upcoming event.
The station, identifying with the call letter WOW, will be set up very near the spot locally known as Grovers Mill, in the park. Visitors are welcome and ham radio operators are encouraged to contact the station via “HF,” or shortwave bands. Operating frequencies will vary according to atmospheric conditions.
According to Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri and Princeton Police Chief Christopher Morgan, a former Princeton Public Schools (PPS) employee, 58, of Philadelphia, has been charged with allegedly stealing and selling more than $95,000 of school district property for personal gain. She was employed by PPS from 2000 to 2021, most recently as a purchasing agent. She was suspended from the school district in July 2021 and later resigned her position.
It was announced on October 6 that a criminal complaint was signed charging the former employee with two counts of second-degree official misconduct, seconddegree pattern of official misconduct, second-degree theft by deception, second-degree theft by unlawful taking, second-degree impersonation and second degree and third
degree financial facilitation of criminal activity.
The events leading to the charges were uncovered in July 2021 when a PPS business administrator became aware of a forged purchase order for a MacBook computer that was sold on eBay. After an investigation, the Board of Education commissioned a forensic audit. According to the audit, the employee used her position as a purchasing agent to create fraudulent purchase requisitions totaling $95,640.04. Electronic devices sold by her were recovered in Colorado, South Carolina, Cherry Hill, and Pittsburgh, according to the prosecutor’s October 6 press release, which noted video evidence of her picking up an item at a supply store.
She was arrested on October 3 and released pending future court proceedings.
PPS released the following statement:
“During the summer of 2021, the Princeton Public School District’s administrators became aware of potentially improper purchases made with funds earmarked for non-public schools in the municipality of Princeton, which the district is responsible for overseeing. The Board of Education immediately directed a referral to law enforcement, and took immediate steps to ensure the now former employee no longer had access to district funds. Since that time, the Board and district staff have fully cooperated with the efforts of law enforcement, and, at the direction of the Board, a full forensic audit was performed by external auditors. As a result of recommendations made by the auditors, the Board has implemented additional layers of accountability and communication regarding the expenditure of funds for non-public schools. The Board is unable to divulge anything more specific at this time due to the pending prosecution by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, but will share more information when doing so will not compromise any ongoing legal proceeding.”
On Oct. 1, at 2:45 p.m., a John Street resident reported that his white and red Vivi folding electric bike was taken from his porch sometime between September 29 and October 1. The Detective Bureau is investigating.
On September 27, at 10:52 p.m., subsequent to a motor vehicle stop on Elm Drive by the Princeton University Police Department of Public Safety, to which Princeton patrols responded to assist, it was confirmed that the driver, a 22-year-old male from Elizabeth, was driving a stolen vehicle from Fort Lee. The driver was arrested, transported to headquarters, and was processed, charged accordingly and transported to the Mercer County correctional Facility.
On September 26, at 6:50 p.m., an individual on Nassau Street was scammed out of approximately $400 after an unknown male posed as a PSE&G employee and informed him he had an outstanding balance. The individual wired money to the person posing as the PSE&G employee, and later learned he had been scammed. The Detective Bureau is investigating.
Unless otherwise noted, individuals arrested were later released.
Kits to Create an Oasis
Area residents can now build native habitats in their own yards, thanks to a kit of fered from the Sourland Con servancy. The Biodiversity Tree Kit grows into a garden that can provide critical food and shelter for pollinators, help reduce flooding, filter air and water, sequester carbon, and more.
Each kit contains one black oak tree, two Carolina rose bushes, deer protection (one tree tube, one support stake, three zip ties, and one bird net), and a new perennial bed design which was created by Pensive Weeds, a full service floral and landscape com pany in Pennington. Conser vancy members also get three little bluestem plants which are ideal for replacing mowed lawn in a sunny, well-drained spot. An instructional video is included.
Robert Aluck and Eric Wil liams, the Conservancy’s stewardship director and co ordinator respectively, sug gest using cardboard and woodchips to make space for native plants. “Over time these plants create more shade, sequester carbon, reduce pollution, reduce flooding, and attract bees, butterflies, and birds to your property,” said Williams.
Kits are $30, available on line through Friday, October 14. Pickup day is Saturday, October 15 from 1-3 p.m. at 83 Princeton Avenue, Hopewell. Visit sourland.org.
Community Options Re gional State Director Diane D’Orazio was honored by the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities (NJCDD) with the Daniel J. Keating Leadership Award.
Based in Princeton, Com munity Options is a national nonprofit organization that develops housing and em ployment supports for people with disabilities. As regional state director, D’Orazio over sees the organization’s op erations and development in Southern New Jersey.
“It’s with great plea sure that we honor Diane with the Daniel J. Keating Leadership Award,” said Mercedes Witowsky, execu tive director, NJCDD. “She
community while protecting the rights of individuals with disabilities and their families.
“I’ve had the privilege of seeing the impact of Diane’s work and the tremendous role she has had in advanc ing the mission of Commu nity Options for the last 25 years,” said Svetlana RepicQira, Community Options’ executive vice president.
“Through her efforts, hun dreds of people with dis abilities are thriving in their community of choice.”
For more information, visit comop.org.
Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Greater Mercer County has announced a new online non-sectarian support group for those caring for a spouse with Parkinson’s dis ease, Alzheimer’s, dementia, or any chronic illness. The group will provide a collective shoulder of support, as well as tips, techniques, and resources to help.
The sessions are open to the community and facilitated by Chaplain Beverly Rubman. The group will meet on Zoom ev ery other Tuesday, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., starting at the end of Oc tober. The fee is $50 for six ses sions. Advance registration and payment are required.
Contact Rubman at beverlyr@ jfcsonline.org or (609) 9878100 ext. 139.
Third graders often have amazing stories to tell, but the story of Yana Kodua’s escape from war-torn Ukraine
come with her family to Princeton and enroll in the Littlebrook Elementary School was remarkable enough to become the subject of an NBC News feature last week.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, millions of people have become refugees, fl eeing to Europe and beyond. More than 62,000 have come to the United States. Yana and her family escaped fi rst to Moldova, then to Poland, “hiding in a bunker, sleeping in train stations,” according
to NBC. Finally, during the summer, they came to Princeton, where they were sponsored by an aunt who works at Princeton University.
Yana’s father Albert described the situation they left behind. “You don’t know if you’ll wake up or not,” he told NBC News (in translation). “You want to eat, but you can’t. You run into the basement, because every minute or every five minutes you have a siren going off. This was not a desirable situation for us to stay in.”
Yana knew very little English, but she was ready to plunge into her new life at Littlebrook. “From the start Yana was able to
connect with kids, even though she couldn’t really speak their language,” said Yana’s third-grade teacher Danielle Gargione. “She was able to connect with them and really reach out to them. It was heartwarming.”
Gargione told how on the very fi rst day of school, as she met her students and walked with them down to their classroom, Yana reached out to take the hand of one of her classmates and they walked down the hallway hand-in-hand.
In just over a month at Littlebrook, Yana’s ability in English has improved dramatically. “She’s eager to learn, willing to learn,” said Gargione. “She wants to do her best, and it’s so fulfi lling to see her progressing. Her English gets better and better every day.”
In interacting with the other third graders in her class, Yana has shared stories about her family and about her dog that had to be left behind in Poland, but, Gargione explained, she hasn’t talked much about life in Ukraine after the Russian invasion and their escape. “Not too much about her actual story of coming here, more happy memories,” said Gargione.
levels did various fund raisers for Ukraine.”
She continued, “They are aware that Yana is from Ukraine. I think they know just enough. They know that she came here to fi nd safe ground. They know that here she’s safe and she’s welcome.”
day?’ ‘Can I help and show her where the bathroom is?’ ‘Can I be her buddy out on the playground?’ They just want to help.”
safe here, and I wanted to make her feel happy.”
“The third graders are aware of what’s going on in Ukraine, and they are aware that Yana is from Ukraine, but I don’t go into deep discussions about it with the kids,” Gargione added. “Last school year when the war broke out, a lot of the grade
Gargione noted that a number of students at Littlebrook, children of parents who come to the Institute for Advanced Study or to Princeton University as visiting professors from other countries, know little or no English. “We currently have another student from Israel who does not speak English,” said Gargione. “When Yana and this student were introduced to the class, the class totally just accepted them.”
She continued, “The kids are helpful. Students asked me, ‘Can I walk Yana to her Mom at the end of the
The arrival of the NBC News crew on the sixth day of school last month caused a stir amongst Gargione’s third graders. “It sure was an event,” she said. “The kids were very excited, and excited for Yana. The news crew was in our classroom for most of the day and also out on the playground. The kids were so well behaved.”
Any diffi culties involved in helping Yana to learn English and catch up on her language skills are far outweighed by the positive attributes that she brings to the class, Gargione says. “It has been 100 percent a teachable moment. As I said to the NBC crew, my goal was to make Yana feel a part of our classroom community, make her feel
She went on, “I think these three things are happening in the classroom. It’s great to see her growing in so many ways — socially and academically.” In math class Yana gets especially excited, Gargione said, “because math is a kind of universal language. She participates more than she does in language arts at the moment.”
Among the many friends Yana has made already, two of them speak Russian and sometimes help Yana translate in writing and speaking.
“The fi rst time I met her was through Zoom when she was still trying to escape, and here she is starting school,” said NBC News Correspondent Julie Ainsley, “The school has done a lot to help her out.”
—Donald Gilpin
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original Class of 1973, the first graduate to cross the stage at TESU’s first commencement on June 15, 1973. “As an adult student with a small child to care for, I was fortunate to fi nd Thomas Edison — a school that had just been established and created to serve adults,” she told the graduates.
“This school that began 50 years ago still offers everything it did when I was a student — flexibility, access, and hope,” she said. “My degree gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams of becoming a teacher … a meaningful career that I will cherish forever.”
In speaking to the graduates in attendance, accompanied by more than 4,000 friends and family, Hancock pointed out, ”Your alma mater is named after someone who refused to quit. How fi tting is that? Thomas Edison’s spirit of innovation and dogged pursuit of success is at the forefront of our university’s mission and in our actions every day. Some people may say I’m biased, but the proof is sitting in this arena, right in front of me. We have rocked it for 50 years and we
have only just begun.”
TESU has awarded approximately 72,000 degrees to more than 64,923 graduates since it began providing undergraduate and graduate education for self-directed adults through flexible collegiate learning in 1972.
With most of its courses conducted online, it sought to improve access and respond to the needs of working adult students, recognizing that college-level learning could take place outside of classrooms. Hancock noted some of the challenges facing higher education in 2022 and the urgency of responding to the needs of working adults, as well as the needs of their employers and their communities.
“TESU is uniquely positioned to redefine the future of higher education for adults,” the TESU website states. “The celebration of TESU’s 50th anniversary provides an opportunity to envision a bright future and to begin fully realizing it.”
Hancock described the university’s “vision statement,” based on the overriding goal of student success.
“It’s so direct and it really charts out where we’re going: building careers, advancing
professions, empowering communities,” she said. “One of our goals is to help our graduates realize what a voice in the community and how being educated in a community helps to empower a community.”
She continued, “Because our students tend to be more mature and in more leadership roles we see them impacting their professions, not just building their careers. We see them helping to inform how health care is done, helping to inform education. They are leaving their marks on how their professions work in the future.”
In the pursuit of these ambitious goals, TESU is taking a close look at each course in the curriculum. “Obviously innovation is always a way to get there,” she said, “but it’s not just innovation with technology. It’s innovation with how we do our curriculum. We have started going through every course we have and saying ‘What is the clear relevant outcome in this course?’”
One of the 2022 graduates, Erin Rybicki, recipient of a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree, chose TESU in 2018 for her doctoral degree after researching more than a dozen different programs. She described her experience as a TESU student, completing her requirements while serving as a full-time professor at Mercer County Community College (MCCC).
“Throughout my DBA studies, I worked with experienced doctoral-level mentors with a diverse range of expertise and professional experience,” she said. “Each mentor really challenged us
in our studies and business research. We delved into each of the major areas of business, from finance and management to economics and global supply chain studies.”
Rybicki’s TESU education has served her well in her ongoing career at MCCC. “While I am already a fulltime professor and not looking to change roles, I expanded my teaching scope into new business courses,” she said. “I also teach graduate school on the weekends, with a focus on MBA courses in business ethics, management, and business data analysis. The research and collaboration learning in the DBA program informs my teaching every day and has helped me to become a cross-disciplinary faculty member with a broader knowledge base to offer my students. I plan to continue my focus on teaching business courses and am currently working to develop a supply chain concentration within the business administration degree at Mercer.”
One of the speakers at the October 1 graduation ceremony, Rybicki is an enthusiastic proponent of the non-traditional education offered at TESU. “Every New Jerseyan should know about the amazing opportunities offered by TESU,” she said, referring to TESU as “a true jewel in higher education.”
She continued, “TESU’s DBA program is a prime example of how the university provides adult learners like myself with fantastic opportunities to grow and develop their career at every stage of their professional journey.”
Another 2022 graduate, Altereek Stembridge, described going to TESU as “the
fulfillment of a lifelong dream.” He received his master’s in information systems at the October 1 ceremony, having received his bachelor of science degree specializing in computer information systems from TESU in 2019.
Stembridge, 43, has been working in information technology (IT), often in leadership roles, since 2000. After completing the requirements for his master’s degree in December 2021, Stembridge received an offer to lead his own IT team, a whole department at a major supply chain management company. He is now the director of technology for that organization, “leading an initiative to transform that company and all of their back-end systems,” he said.
Married with a 19-year-old son, Stembridge described how TESU allowed him the flexibility he needed to complete his studies while keeping up with demands of work and family. “TESU afforded me the fl exibility to be able to take courses based on my work load and my need to be available to my family and still pursue my own dream,” he said. “That’s why I love Thomas Edison. I was very ambitious with my master’s degree and also wanted to complete it quickly, and I was able to choose the course work that allowed me to do that.”
Stembridghe was not sure whether he would attend the graduation in person or not, but he’s glad he did. “It was very inspirational to see the doctorates graduate,” he said.
“For me personally, that’s something I’m seriously considering doing.”
—Donald GilpinAfrican and international cuisine will be on the menu when the United Front Against Riverblindness (UFAR) presents its 12th Annual Soiree on Saturday, October 15 at 7 p.m. at Princeton Marriott at Forrestal, 100 College Road East.
Nkumu Katalay, a Congolese artist, orator, instrumentalist, and social activist; and Egun Omode, a Trentonbased West African dancers and drummers’ group, will provide the entertainment. There will be both a live and a silent auction. Daniel Shungu, founder of CEO of UFAR, will present awards to Simon Bush, Susan and Vasanth Victor, GlaxoSmithKline, and Christo Claassens.
Reservations at $100 ($50 for young professionals) are available at riverblindness. org. Virtual participation is also available. For information, email icahill@riverblindness.org or call (609) 902-1805.
Founded in 2004 by Lawrenceville resident Shungu, UFAR aims to eliminate or wipe out five neglected tropical diseases (NTD) – river blindness (onchocerciasis), lymphatic filariasis (LF), schistomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiases, and trachoma). With its partners, UFAR managed the treatment of more than 28 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2021 for the ongoing efforts to eliminate the selected major NTDs.
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of her 10th book, War in Ukraine, Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.
Council members Leighton Newlin, Eve Niedergang, and Sacks all thanked the munici pal staff and members of the task force for their work on the issue, but said more needs to be done. “We do not have a consensus,” said Newlin.
“This is a very tough needle to thread.”
will be offered for the more experienced riders ages 6 to 12. Walkers are welcome. Children are en couraged to wear Halloween costumes and to decorate them in celebration of the Halloween theme.
Parents with bicycle trail ers are welcome. Skating, scootering, and strolling participants are also wel come. Visit lhtrail.org for more information.
Saperstein, who will also preach at the Multifaith Ser vice for Peace earlier that day at 11 a.m. at the Princ eton University Chapel, will also participate.
Also at the meeting, Coun cil held public hearings on two ordinances. One, to regulate public parking spaces for the charging of electric vehicles at Spring Street Garage and the municipal lot at 400 Wither spoon Street was unanimously approved. The other, to estab lish a residential parking dis trict on Bank Street, was more problematic. After much dis cussion, including several com ments from residents, Council voted to defeat the ordinance, with David Cohen and Leticia Fraga, who are on the Permit Parking Task Force, casting the only votes in favor.
The ordinance would have established a lottery, with 13 spots being competed for by 24 residences. Longtime resi dent Chip Crider commented that residents would have less than a 50 percent chance of securing a spot. “We got into
Several other resolutions were passed at the meeting, including one endorsing an application designating a spe cial deer management area and community-based deer management plan, carried over from the September 27 meeting. Two ordinances were introduced related to loading zones and parking fees on Witherspoon Street between Nassau and Spring streets.
The encampment will take place at the New Jersey Park’s Overlook, next to the historic Johnson Ferry House, with a view of the river below. Reenactors will patrol the lower park, en couraging visitors to under take a brief “march” over the park’s pedestrian bridge and up to the Overlook where, around cozy fires, skilled reenactors will tell the rich history that took place in Mercer County. Special ef forts will be made to engage the youngest visitors in the hope of sparking their inter est in New Jersey history.
The suggested donation is $10. Pre-registration is required. Visit peacecoali tion.org.
The next meeting of Council is Monday, October 24.
—Anne LevinThe annual December re enactments by Washington Crossing Historic Park in Pennsylvania attract thou sands of visitors each year. But what happened once the troops landed in New Jersey? This year visitors can get a glimpse of that experience at the park in Titusville on December 11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The event will feature programming throughout the day, including a pre sentation by historian Larry Kidder entitled “The Cross ing Was Just the Beginning: The Little-Known Story of Local New Jersey Militiamen Who Guided Washington’s Army to Trenton . ”
Visit wcpa-nj.com/land ing for more information.
State Park historians, the Washington Crossing Park Association , the First Rhode Island Regiment (a group of African Ameri can reenactors who tell the stories of the historically underrepresented men and women who fought in the Revolutionary War), and other New Jersey-based re enactor groups will give the public an opportunity to ex perience both the crossing and the march to Trenton through the eyes of the men and women who lived it.
“Washington’s Landing in New Jersey” occurs on the same day as the Penn sylvania park’s rehearsal
The West Windsor Com munity Farmers Market (WWCFM) has been named New Jersey’s favorite farm ers market, No. 1 in the Northeast, and placed fourth in the nation in the American Farmland Trust Annual Farmers Market Cel ebration.
Founded in 2004, with eight farms and a baker, the WWCFM continues its mis sion to support New Jersey farmers and food produc ers and purveyors; connect consumers with the farmers and makers who grow, raise, and produce their food; cre ate a welcoming communi ty space; and engender a healthy lifestyle.
The WWCFM is entirely community member-run as a 501c3 and a true labor of love for the community. “We create a downtown on Sat urday mornings by gathering farmers, makers, musicians, and our community-at-large, all around local food, sea sonal eating, and a friendly positive environment — just what we all need to kick off the weekend,” said Chris Cirkus, the market’s man ager.
The market continues to run every Saturday, rain or shine, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. until November 19. Winter market season runs on the first and third Saturdays from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in the same location.
The market’s farms and vendors come from within 75 miles. Shoppers can find Jersey Fresh produce, arti san cheese and dairy prod ucts, beer, wine and spirits, curries, jams, chutneys, microgreens, mushrooms,
sustainably caught seafood, grass-fed/pastured meats and poultry, farm fresh eggs, honey, teas, coffee, locally grown oats, fresh pasta and sauces, vegan chocolates, Lebanese salads and sweets, Polish favorites, alpaca fiber wear, spice blends, naturally leavened breads and baked goods plus gluten-free baked offerings, and locally grown flowers. Food trucks include savory and sweet crepes, fresh juices, smoothies, acai bowls, and egg sandwiches, plus vegan breakfast and lunch selections.
Visit wwcfm.org for more information and a complete list of vendors and rotating schedule.
Registration is open for the 10th annual HiTOPS Princeton Half Marathon, presented by NRG. This USATF Certified Grand Prix Event takes place through out Princeton on November 13.
Runners can choose to participate live that day, or can complete the 13.1 miles at once or cumulatively be tween November 13 and 27.
Runners up to age 18 can sign up for the Youth Run to run any distance during the race dates; youth participa tion is offered at a discount when purchased with a half marathon registration.
In keeping with the race’s tradition of celebrating all things Princeton, the theme celebrates iconic resident Albert Einstein. The famous scientist is beloved not only for his brilliance and impact on science, but for his devo tion to civil rights and toler ance.
The year 2022 takes Hi TOPS over the million-dollar mark in net funds raised.
“The HiTOPS Princeton Half Marathon is our larg est annual fundraiser, and we are very excited to once again produce the event with a full field of runners,” said Executive Director Lisa Shelby. “The dollars we raise and the community support generated on this day ensure that we provide impactful programming and services all year long, The runners, runner-fundrais ers, sponsors, and all the folks who work to ensure a smooth race, are a big part of our ability to teach com prehensive sex education to youth and their parents, of fer support services for LG BTQ+ youth, and facilitate sexual health-related train ing to youth-serving organi zations and businesses.”
HiTOPS is grateful for the community created by the thousands of runners who have participated over the past 10 years.
“I’ve run every HiTOPS Princeton Half Marathon since the first one, including the virtual race in 2020,” said Princeton resident Mark Boulding. “I’m looking for ward to my 10th race in support of HiTOPS, an or ganization that has consis tently delivered on its goal of providing sex education and support for all youth. The course is filled with Princeton landmarks, and so many people come out to watch the run and cheer on the participants. It’s defi nitely a special race, and I plan to keep running it as long as possible.”
The course begins and ends in the heart of town
with landmarks that in clude the Princeton Battle field, Institute for Advanced Study, the home of Einstein, Princeton University, the Princeton Boathouse on Lake Carnegie, Westminster Choir College, Mount Lucas, and Herrontown Woods. Victory Village will be back this year at the Princeton Family YMCA lawn.
Visit HiTOPSPrinceton half.com for more informa tion.
In 2022, Princeton High School (PHS) is ranked 490th nationally (U.S. News). In 2009, it was 94th. Yes, my dear neighbors and fellow parents, PHS is declining in pretty much every category in every national ranking. Some may say ranking is not everything. Some may also say I don’t have kids in public schools. Why bother? Well, 49 percent of our property tax goes to Princeton Public Schools (PPS) and people who plan to buy house in Princeton do look at these rankings. It does matter.
I moved here in 2016 and have witnessed a few relatively big events related to PPS. From the controversial renewal of Cranbury SRA, to the failed $100M infrastructure ref erendum, and to the very recent so-called math curriculum reform, which, if it took place, was essentially a dumbingdown effort to our children. Even though it has been called by current PPS administration a “rumor” after many parent groups raised their strong oppositions, it is fair to say that there have been serious trust issues among the PPS, the Board of Education (BOE), and taxpayers.
In pretty much every single such event, the BOE’s perfor mance has been somewhat mediocre. There has been no fiasco. Yet it has never tried to change or create anything better and new either. Until very recently, I can’t say I strongly disagree on how the BOE is representing us in managing the $90M-plus budget. It really is mediocre. I am just trained to not expect too much over the years: The schools are good after all. That changed when I recently noticed the declining of ranking and started to dig.
We deserve something different and better for the taxes we pay. Princeton is a town known for its excellent school district among surrounding areas, and that justified expen sive old houses. That is no more. Use math as an example: PHS’s math proficiency score is 51 percent. Montgomery is 70. West Windsor is 67. We need to elect someone new into the BOE to push for changes. Rita Rafalovsky is that person.
I met Rita in a Kung Fu class parking lot when both our sons still wore white sashes. We both moved into this town for the reputation of the public schools, and were both shocked to realize the reputation does not seem to hold anymore. Rita is the type of person who refuses to just stand there and watch. I was actually very relieved to learn she decided to run.
If you are concerned, we need Rita to be in the BOE to represent us. As a first-generation immigrant, Rita went through the public school system herself. Her pragmatism came from years of professional background in financial services and management consulting. Since Rita decided to run, I have watched her diligently working on diving into so many issues that have contributed to PPS’s trend of declining. I urge all my neighbors to go to Rita4BOE. com to learn more about her and vote for Rita to bring transparency, community, and excellence to PPS.
SHENWEI ZHAO Prospect AvenueTo the Editor:
I am endorsing Debbie Bronfeld for re-election to the Princeton Board of Education (BOE). I have known Deb bie for close to a decade, and in that time she has proven herself to be a smart, warm, compassionate, and dedicated member of the Princeton community. Before joining the BOE in 2017, Debbie worked for nonprofits that serve vital needs in the community, such as Mercer Street Friends Food Bank and Dress for Success. She started the Princ eton Children’s Fund, volunteers for Housing Initiative of Princeton (HIP), and is also on the board and volunteers for the Princeton Mobile Food Pantry, strengthening this worthy organization.
Whenever Debbie tackles an issue, problem, or proj ect, she puts her heart and soul into it. While on the School Board, she helped support a committee to discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues. With Deb bie’s input, the district hired Dr. Kelley as superintendent because of her work in the field of equity. Since Debbie has been on the Board, the Princeton school system has joined the BELE group and other equity groups, and she was instrumental in the Board approving an equity and racism acknowledgement, of which she is especially proud.
Mental health and well-being of all students and staff in Princeton schools are a top priority for Debbie. She has pushed for more guidance counselors and social workers, along with advocating for increased bilingual guidance and support services. She successfully advocated to start and end the school day later so stressed and exhausted students can get a fuller night’s sleep. She obtained state grants, along with partnering with the Y and local housing areas, to help our Pre-K program support early learners from low income families.
Because Debbie supports making the district more in clusive, other advances include advocating for the Special Education Audit, of which she is now pushing to implement its findings. She is particularly proud that, because of her actions, student musical casting is now open to the entire student body.
Some of Debbie’s future goals include hiring, train ing, and retaining diverse staff so our students can see
themselves in their teachers, and managing increased en rollment from new construction in town while ensuring that our schools’ capacity is being used effectively. Other goals include improving the tenure process and manag ing taxes so families can remain in Princeton after their children graduate.
As you can see, Debbie has an excellent track record from her six years on the Board and has made the wellbeing of our students her top priority in a myriad of ways.
She faced up to the unique impact the pandemic posed for the school system, and as a devoted and talented public servant, she is more than capable of dealing with the many challenges ahead. As a community, we are lucky to have her on the BOE, and therefore we must ensure that she is able to continue her good work. So please join me in re-electing Debbie Bronfeld this November 8.
BONNIE SCHULTZ Longview DriveTo the Editor:
During this election season, some have made inaccu rate claims that the Princeton School District’s external rankings have dramatically declined. While school rank ing systems are highly problematic in many ways, if we are going to use them to make policy, it is important to understand what informs the rankings and to be accurate about Princeton’s performance.
School rankings use different methodologies. Those based primarily on standardized test scores advantage magnet schools that have selective admission and school districts that have fewer lower-income students because of the substantial relationship between poverty and stan dardized test scores. If the objective is to have the highest standardized test scores in the state, the only effective strategy is economic segregation.
Unlike the majority of highly-rated school districts, Princ eton is economically diverse. That diversity is valued by my family and many others when choosing where to live.
Niche, which takes a comprehensive approach to rank ings, rates Princeton Public Schools as the third best school district in New Jersey with a cumulative grade of A+. Each of Princeton’s six schools are rated A+ or A and Princ eton High School is the highest rated open admission high school in the state and the seventh highest overall. The six high schools ahead of PHS as well as those rated eighth and ninth are all magnet high schools that admit students based on their standardized test scores as opposed to being open to every student who lives in their region.
No school district is perfect, and we should always strive to do better in providing a high quality education for every child. That includes understanding and accurately using data.
The writer is a parent of a Princeton Public Schools alum, a professor who researches and writes about education policy, and the director of the Public Policy Program at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
To the Editor:
I’m a parent of two children, ages 8 and 11, and my family has lived in Princeton since 2010. My passion for maintaining top-notch education at PPS and my concerns about where our district is headed are the reasons I chose to run for the School Board. As a former economically disadvantaged public school student, I can say that excel lent public education has the potential to be the greatest equalizer. Unfortunately, over the years, the quality of our public school education has fallen.
The BOE and PPS lead ership must understand why, nationally, Princeton High School dropped from 94th place in 2009 to 490 in 2022 (U.S. News), and why our high school’s math proficiency score is just 51 percent, while Montgomery is 70 and West Windsor is 67. This has been the case since 2015.
The Board claims that state scores are a poor indicator because of the low student participation rate and also because less academically motivated kids supposedly take the state test. I checked. Last year, the refusal rate was approximately 24 percent. If the Board were right, then both reading and math scores should theoretically be low, but our reading scores are 82 percent, which is within 1 point of neighboring schools.
The Board points to our SAT scores as the true indicator of our high school’s strength. It’s true that our SATs are neck and neck with Montgomery and West Windsor. It’s also true that only 50-62 percent of students have taken the SATs recently, and the test takers are typically students who are more academically motivated. So, one can simi larly argue that the SATs are not holistically representative of academic performance either. If the Board is right in that fewer academically motivated kids take the state exam, then it means they and PPS leadership have known since 2015 about many kids being just 51 percent proficient in math, and they’ve not done a whole lot to improve it. Or maybe they’ve taken actions, but those initiatives were unsuccessful. This is why it’s so important to measure the success of initiatives.
The point is, the Board cannot have it both ways. Stan dardized tests either are indicative or they aren’t. Testing is far from perfect, but I believe that both tests are indica tive. We should also ask ourselves: since state standardized testing is optional and SATs and ACTs are optional, what’s our plan to measure academic achievement? I don’t believe
in not measuring, and we need to be able to compare schools. While rankings are not the “final grade,” they are indicative of overall perceived quality. Homebuyers rely on school ranking to make purchase decisions, and our property values are tied to public school performance.
The BOE represents the interests of the community, the taxpayers, and makes sure that the schools are well run. Our BOE needs to address this. If elected, I would advocate the BOE to move toward a more goal-oriented relationship with the school administration; make datadriven, evidence-based decisions; and set measurable goals to track performance of major strategic initiatives.
RITA RAFALOVSKY Library PlaceTo the Editor:
Whatever would Princeton University do if it weren’t able to virtue signal its commitment to all things progres sive. Unfortunately, sometimes virtue signaling translates into actions and actions have consequences. In this case I specifically refer to the front page story in last week’s [October 5] Town Topics about PU’s decision to “divest and dissociate” from fossil fuel companies.
Let me play this out a bit — for a variety of reasons our U.S. energy costs are increasing rapidly (which also drives overall inflation), with those less able to afford it being hurt the most. Our president in trying to lower energy costs (you think there might be a political angle here, with an election four weeks away?), instead of increasing U.S. drilling and energy production, goes hat in hand to Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela and of course, the benefits of these high prices benefit Russia. Saudi Arabia’s answer was a less-than-polite, thanks but no thanks. We are also seeing our European friends and allies about to endure a winter of high energy prices and potential supply shortfall as they have “outsourced” their energy supply to Russia — we all can see how that is working. Perhaps they will start burning wood or maybe even coal. What would Princeton recommend?
So now PU, oblivious to the economic, political, and strategic factors which the West faces, decides now is the right time to divest and dissociate. I wonder if the Princ eton dons will be warm enough in their solar heated living rooms. All I can say is, timing is everything.
MICHAEL ECKSTUT Valencia Court, SkillmanTo the Editor:
I am writing to support the candidacies of Dafna Kendal, Debbie Bronfeld, and Susan Kanter for Princeton Public Schools Board of Education. I have known and worked with each of them for more than a decade through the various volunteer roles I have had in the district. Dafna, Debbie, and Susan are intelligent, diligent, and transparent in their efforts to support our public schools.
Our public schools continue to be highly ranked in the state and the county. Niche.com recently released its 2023 Best Schools and Districts rankings. Princeton High School was ranked seventh for college prep public high schools in the state, and is the No. 1 public high school in Mercer County. Princeton High School was ranked the 12th best public high school in the state. As a community, we should be proud that we have excellent public schools, while still being a welcoming community for all.
Dafna, Debbie, and Susan are on the Board for the right reasons — for the students, for the educators, and for the community.
Please join me in voting for Dafna, Debbie, and Susan for re-election to the Board of Education on November 8.
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The Bryn Mawr-Wellesley pop-up children’s used book sale will be held on October 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Princeton Shopping Center on North Harrison Street. Enter on the Grover Park side, from the interior courtyard by Princeton Nassau Pediatrics.
Entrance is free and prices start at 50 cents. Books are in very good to like-new condition and most are suitable for gifts.
The Book Sale gets donations from people who are
moving, downsizing, or refreshing their book collections. These are sold to raise funds for local college scholarships. New volunteers are always welcome.
“We offer carefully curated books to families, home schoolers, and small libraries,” said president Kathy Morris. “The Book Sale is grateful to the Princeton Shopping Center and Edens management for allowing us to hold the event in one of their spaces at no charge again this year.”
Patrons are asked to wear a mask if unvaccinated. Shoppers should bring their own bags or boxes. People with questions can email bmandwbooks@gmail.com.
Host Author Reza Aslan
Best-selling author Reza Aslan will be discussing his new book, An American Martyr in Persia: The Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville (W.W. Norton), on October 14 at 6 p.m. at the Princeton Public Library. For further information on this hybrid event, visit labyrinthbooks.com.
According to Publishers Weekly, An American Martyr in Persia is “a provocative portrait of an unsung American hero” ... with fascinating asides into the revolutionary politics of the era and the complex dynamics between Russia, England, and Persia.
On Friday, October 14 from 2-4 p.m., Trenton kids from Sprout U and other schools will visit Classics Bookstore, 4 West Lafayette Street in Trenton, to select books to take home. There will also be music, face painting, games, and poetry.
For over 16 years, Trenton children have come down to Classics Bookstore to select books to keep, courtesy of the Trenton Books at Home Program. Classics also partners with teachers and literacy organizations throughout the city to provide books directly to their students as well as through literacy-based projects and events, giving out thousands of books a year.
University and co-owner of Classics Bookstore; Laurice Reynolds, community organizer and matriarch of Classics Bookstore; Todd Evans, host of Capital City Open Mic; Nia Maywar, mechanical engineering student at Olin College of Engineering; and Noah Maywar, senior at Notre Dame High School.
Visit classicsusedbooks. com for information.
99 Nights in Logar (Viking, 2019), a finalist for the Pen/ Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Short Stories 2021.
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Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a 22-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel. He arrived in the midst of a democratic revolution — the first of its kind in the Middle East — led by a group committed to transforming their country into a fully self-determining, constitutional monarchy, one with free elections and an independent parliament.
A writer, producer, and scholar of religions, Aslan is the author of the New York Times bestseller Zealot, and editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East
Research shows that having access to books at home increases the level of education children will attain. The program is now supported by the Safkhet Literacy Project nonprofit. Through Safkhet, the Books at Home program can now accept tax-deductible donations and apply for grants that will help grow the program.
Trustees of the Books at Home Program are chair Pamela Sims-Jones, senior program associate at Mercer Street Friends Food Bank and former director of leadership Trenton; vice-chair Raj Manimaran, director of community relations at the College of New Jersey and board president of I Am Trenton Community Foundation; secretary Margaret Griffin, former owner of Micawber Books; treasurer Donna Maywar, assistant director for equity compliance at Princeton
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University presents a reading by Jamil Jan Kochai, a PEN/Hemingway finalist and 2022-23 Hodder Fellow at Princeton. The event will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12, in the Wallace Theater at the Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton University campus.
Kochai will read from his latest short story collection, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories , which was recently announced as a 2022 National Book Award finalist, one of five for fiction. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a conversation with director of the Program in Creative Writing Yiyun Li. There will be a book signing after the conversation, and books will be available for purchase at the event.
Kochai has been called a “masterful storyteller” by Publishers Weekly and an “exciting and true voice” by the New York Times Book Review. His stories move between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora in America.
Kochai is the author of
Kirkus Reviews calls The Haunting of Hajji Hotak “A master class in storytelling, and a beautiful reflection on a people that have endured decades upon decades of tragedy. Stunning, compassionate, flawless.”
For the 2022-23 academic year, Kochai is one of five artists awarded a highly competitive Princeton Hodder Fellowship. Hodder Fellows are writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performance artists, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have, as the program outlines, “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts.” Artists from anywhere may apply in mid-summer each year for the following academic year. Designed to provide fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work, Kochai will spend his fellowship year working on his second novel.
For more information, visit arts.princeton.edu.
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little boys playing baseball in the rain
—Randy Newman ... it starts with a game of catch —Adam Wainwright
N ew York Mets fans will remember Adam Wainwright as the lanky rookie pitcher who struck out Carlos Beltran with the bases loaded, sending the St. Louis Cardinals to the 2006 World Series. Randy Newman fans may remember his song, “Sigmund Freud’s Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America,” especially the verse that begins, “Americans dream of Gypsies.”
Eleven years ago my wife and I were having dinner at the Swan in Lambertville and spending our 45th wedding anniversary night up the road at the Black Bass Inn, where I watched the pitcher’s duel between the Cardinals’ Chris Carpenter and the Phil’s Roy Halladay, one of the great playoff games, won 1-0 by the wild card Cardinals on their way to the 2011 World Championship. I had to muffle my cheers because my wife had gone to sleep in the seventh inning.
Now it’s another anniversary, the wild card Phils are playing the Central Divisionwinning Cards, we’re in Lambertville again having dinner at the Swan Bar, and the Cardinals are facing elimination after the previous day’s ninth-inning debacle.
Ryan Helsley’s Finger 2022 had been a storybook season for the Cardinals — until that ninth inning. With St. Louis ahead 2-0, and the Phillies coming to bat, there was every reason to believe AllStar closer Ryan Helsley would be good for an extra inning of relief. Not once during the regular season had the Redbirds lost a lead after the eighth inning. With this in mind, I tore myself away from the TV to drive my son to an appointment he’d been looking forward to for days. If I still believed that a current of magical emotional energy ran between me and my forever team, I’d have stayed in front of the set. But that was me at 12. Now I’m a forever father who would have been breaking a promise to his grown son and for what? I’d have been going out of my mind, yelling at the TV, “It’s his finger dammit!” as soon as Helsley walked the first hitter. Yet he stayed in the game, gave up a hit, issued another walk, and then hit a batter, setting in motion a six-run catastrophe. A day later, no surprise, it’s goodbye to the post season dreams of Albert Pujols, Yadier Molina, Adam Wainwright, and the storybook Cardinals.
Think of it — a whole season riding on the left middle fi nger of Ryan Helsley’s pitching hand, which he’d jammed during the last series of the regular season. Helsley had been phenomenal all year and not just because he throws a 104 mph fastball. As a citizen of Cherokee nation, he called out the crowd-rousing ritual of the Tomahawk Chop that was being used to rally the hometown fans in the 2019 National League Division playoffs with the Atlanta Braves. Terming it “a misrepresentation of the Cherokee people or Native Americans in general,” he said, “It’s not me being offended by the whole mascot thing ... It’s about the misconception of us, the Native Americans, and how we’re perceived in that way.” Expressing “respect for Mr. Helsley’s concerns,” the Braves management amended their “in-ballpark presentation” by “not distributing foam tomahawks to each seat and not playing the accompanying music or using Choprelated graphics when Mr. Helsley is in the game.”
The Cardinals won that series, routing Atlanta in the fi nal game, 13-1. This year the Phillies, who were eliminated by the Cardinals in the 2011 playoffs, are on their way to the NLDS with the 2021 World Champion Atlanta Braves.
On Losing Big
While last week’s nightmare ninth-inning collapse was ugly, it was easier to handle than what happened in the 1985 World Series, which the Cards were on the verge of winning when umpire Don Denkinger blew the call that turned the tide for the Kansas City Royals. As Denkinger himself later admitted after viewing a replay, the runner crossing first base he’d called safe was clearly out. Although he was the subject of death threats for years thereafter (imagine the level of abuse he’d suffer in the killing fields of today’s social media), the historic Blown Call has become so much a part of Cardinal lore that the onceloathed umpire was the guest speaker at a 20th anniversary dinner honoring the 1985 season.
For all my moaning and groaning over the injustice of that call, which haunted me for years, I never felt total inconsolable disappointment, like the kids in the stands you sometimes see on TV, crying after their team suffered a rough loss. Players cried, too, most famously Mickey Mantle on the plane home from Pittsburgh after the crushing loss of the 1960 World Series. His wife tried to comfort him, telling him “it’s only a game,” but it was more than a game, it was life. “I couldn’t stop crying,” he said, as quoted in the New York Times. “I felt as bad as I’ve ever felt.”
Whenever I have the baseball blues, it cheers me up to listen to Randy Newman’s 2008 LP Harps and Angels, where even a near death experience can rouse a smile, as in the title song when the voice of God speaks French (“Encore! Encore! ... Tres bien! Encore!”) as the heavenly entourage departs. In “Potholes,” Newman’s variation on a talking blues, he sings “God bless the potholes down on Memory Lane” before relating his personal collapse during a sandlot ball game: “I used to pitch, I could get the ball over the plate, but anyway this one time ... I walked about fourteen kids in a row, cried, walked off the mound, handed the ball to the third baseman and just left the field.” Years later “I brought the woman who was to become my second wife ... to meet my father for the first time. They exchanged pleasantries, I left the room for a moment and when I came back he’s telling her the story right off the bat about how I walked fourteen kids, cried and left the mound. Next time he met her he told the same goddam story.”
As one of the “little boys playing baseball in the rain” in Newman’s song, I knew what he was talking about, but there were no tears in the sandlot days before adults and coaches took over, not when my friend Bob and I were happily locked into games of catch, which is where Adam Wainwright says baseball begins. We’d keep it going at night, in freezing weather, under the floodlights of a parking lot. No tears, just the joy of pitch
and catch, as much a ritual of friendship as practice for big games that never happened.
The exception for me was playing football in seventh grade, a third-string quarterback sitting on the bench wearing a real uniform, a beautiful, bright red, Cardinalred jersey. The coach had told me I could play, but when the time was right, instead of letting me in the game, he told me to take off the red jersey and give it to another kid. So I did and I didn’t cry until I was walking home. I lived only five blocks from the big flood-lit playing field. The tears had nothing to do with winning or losing. It was the shock of realizing that I was in another world, a world where adults were in charge. The joy of playing, whether it was baseball, football, or basketball, had been that we had it all to ourselves, no adults, no coaches, no managers. Just us.
Another sort of pothole tripped me up the night the 2000 presidential election was called for Bush. Hours earlier I’d seen the television moment when CBS gave Florida to Gore and I’d seen the tense do-something-about-it expressions on the faces of the Bush family aimed at governor Jeb after they heard the news, which was based on exit polls. Beyond depressed, I was stupefied, and then, like they say in movies, “Everything went black” and when I woke up Gore had been stopped on his way to concede because suddenly Florida was “too close to call.” Then came the extra-inning epic of the hanging chads, the mob shutting down the Miami recount, and the Supreme Court fi xing the game for good in an election where the loser was pronounced the winner, without benefit of a video replay.
ight years later, with Bush in offi ce, Randy Newman composed “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country.” The lyric appeared in print on the op-ed page of the January 24, 2007 New York Times (with one notable deletion concerning the three most conservative members of the Supreme Court). The last lines still resonate: “The end of an Empire is messy at best / And this Empire is ending / Like all the rest / Like the Spanish Armada adrift on the sea / We’re adrift in the land of the brave and the home of the free / Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.”
—Stuart Mitchner
“Sigmund Freud’s Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America,” is from Little Criminals (1977), which I referred to in an August 27, 2008 article on Newman, with “Impersonation” erroneously printed as “Interpretation.”
Princeton University’s Theatre In time has opened its season with a double bill of one-act plays by Har old Pinter (1930-2008): Celebration and Party Time . Both works offer a caustic look at social gatherings of the affluent and powerful.
Celebration (2000) depicts two concur rent dinners at an expensive restaurant, while the darker Party Time (1991) por trays a lavish house party, some of whose guests are connected with sinister political machinations.
Both plays are directed by Kat McLaugh lin, who effectively uses the scripts’ exami nation of social hierarchies as a point of departure for an exploration of physical space. “What is it to exist in, to observe, to desperately maintain a space?” McLaugh in asks rhetorically in a program note. She explains that she chose Celebration as a “comedy to mirror, reflect, and lighten the tensions raised in Party Time .” She acknowledges that the plays are “similar in tone.”
Celebration begins when a mildmannered, dignified Waiter (Solomon Bergquist) strides from the audience to the dark stage. Lighting Designer Nicabec Casido lights the two tables only after the Waiter has approached them. Behind one of the tables is a bar, at which the Waiter stands for much of the play, further sepa rated from the affluent clientele. Later, he moves claustrophobically between a wall and a chair to wait one of the tables.
Seated at the first table are brothers Lambert (Andrew Duke) and Matt (Faisal Fakhro), both of whom are self-described “strategy consultants”; and sisters Prue (Julian Gottfried) and Julie (Ellie MakarLimanov). Lambert and Julie are married, as are Matt and Prue. The two couples are celebrating Lambert and Julie’s wedding anniversary.
Russell, a banker (Rilla McKeegan) and Suki, his one-time secretary (Antea Garo) are seated at the other table. Late in the play, we discover that the two parties are linked by the fact that Lambert and Suki had a brief relationship when they were younger.
Periodically, restaurant managers Rich ard (Jonah Clatterbuck) and Sonia (Wasif Sami) interrupt the diners’ conversations. Richard discovers that the diners at table one have been to a ballet, and asks what it was. “Good question,” deadpans Lambert. Julie’s low opinion of the meal does not prevent her or Prue from flirting heavily with Richard; they tease him with double entendre-laden remarks.
The Waiter approaches both tables, and asks permission to “interject.” This always is a cue for a bizarre story about his grandfather, who he claims was intimately acquainted with numerous luminaries in the worlds of literature and film.
At the end of the meal, Lambert exuber antly hugs Richard and Sonia, giving them both a lavish tip (instructing the latter to put hers “in your suspenders”). The Waiter offers a final rambling monologue about a telescope that his grandfather gave him.
McLaughlin concludes the play with a bit of staging that creates a deft bookend to the beginning. The Waiter stays on stage to deliver his speech; the diners, however, move into the audience. The Waiter still is separate from the diners, but the char acters have changed their physical spaces (if not their personalities).
The set design is by Sabina Jafri, in col laboration with McLaughlin. The stage is largely reconfigured for Party Time . The dining tables are replaced by a couch and an assortment of chairs. The bar, however, remains to link the two plays, as does a door that seems to want us to wonder what is happening on the other side of it.
Bergquist is given a role that sharply contrasts with Celebration’s Waiter — and is equally engaging in both. In Party Time he plays Terry, a debonair — but domi neering and misogynistic — connoisseur of luxurious clubs, which he describes to the party’s host, Gavin (Duke, who again plays the instigator of a gathering).
Listening to many of the conversations in this play in tandem with Celebration makes it easy to become impatient with
the incessant pointlessness of these some what archetypal characters’ lives, and the disjointed randomness of their dialogue, but that seems to be the point.
Terry’s wife Dusty (Lara Danisman) en ters and inquires, “Did you hear what’s happened to Jimmy?” Later we learn that Jimmy (Emily Yang) is Dusty’s brother.
Terry brusquely instructs Dusty to drop the subject, and tell Gavin more about the club; she complies. McLaughin uses verti cal levels, often having Terry physically tower over Dusty, accentuating Terry’s domination. In one key moment Terry talks to other characters, while Dusty stoi cally sits behind him, stony-faced.
Another woman, Melissa (MakarLimanov) enters and observes that the streets outside are deserted, except for “some … soldiers.” Terry orders Melissa some wine from a Bartender (Clatterbuck, who again plays a character who is there to ensure the happiness of the guests, rather than enjoy the event himself).
Other guests include Liz (Ava Kronman), who furiously tells Charlotte (McKeegan) about her hatred for a romantic rival.
Meanwhile, Fred (Gottfried) and Douglas (Fakhro), discuss politics. Douglas enig matically remarks that events transpiring on the streets are progressing “like clock work.” In a subtle but inescapable bit of prop placement, there happens to be a
clock on the table between the two men.
Costume designer Aleha Amjad uses a distinctive color scheme for each play. Most of the outfits for Celebration almost blend in with the tablecloths. This is apt, because it is clear that the upscale res taurant is something of a second home to these diners — they almost have become part of it. (Suki wears a dark outfit that corresponds to the Waiter’s vest — and the artfully uninviting black walls). For Party Time the palette broadens (Dusty wears a red dress, setting her apart from several characters who wear darker colors).
As with Celebration, certain characters in Party Time link the separate cliques. Terry and Melissa are members of the same club, and Charlotte knows Fred, who she says gave her a “leg up in life.” We learn that Charlotte is a widow; she ominously states that her late husband “wasn’t ill.”
Dusty again asks about Jimmy. Terry op pressively tells her that the issue is “not on anyone’s agenda.” Dusty retorts that it is on hers, prompting a comment from Gavin about “men who can’t control their wives.”
In a coda to the play, Jimmy enters. He addresses the audience rather than the par tygoers, delivering an eerie, cryptic mono logue. “Sometimes I hear things. Then it’s quiet. I had a name. It was Jimmy.”
Remembering McLaughlin’s question, the monologue makes us wonder what it is to exist in Jimmy’s space. In Harold Pinter’s Party Time (Routledge, 2016), G.D. White notes that the play premiered shortly after a “wave of largely non-violent revolutions that swept eastern Europe in 1989,” and suggests that Jimmy is in some sort of prison, in proximity to … horror afflicting others.”
McLaughlin’s selection and staging of these two plays suggests that the answer to her question depends on whether one has the means to control one’s space. The restaurant staffers in Celebration have their personal space invaded (by condescending physical affection), while the powerful guests in Party Time are des perately maintaining their space of safety from the unrest their actions are creat ing. Outsider characters such as Dusty and the Waiter largely are resigned to observing the proceedings in the spaces they inhabit.
In exploring these themes, McLaugh lin and the designers skillfully use the space afforded by the Hamilton Mur ray Theater — and the actors, several of whom use body language to considerable effect — to create powerful, visually ap pealing (if unsettling) stage pictures.
—Donald H. Sanborn IIIFor information about Theatre Intime’s upcoming productions call (609) 2585155 or visit theatreintime.org. For information about the centennial of the Hamilton Murray Theater, visit hmt100.org.
“CELEBRATION/PARTY
The Princeton University Orchestra opened the 2022-23 season this past weekend honoring a longtime member of the University Music Depart ment and featuring a dynamic and out standing piano soloist from within the student body. Under the direction of conductor Michael Pratt, the University Orchestra showed its collective ability to take on any challenge while exploring the most difficult of musical repertoire in the ensemble’s annual Peter Wester gaard Memorial Concerts. Friday night’s performance at Richardson Auditorium (the concert was repeated Saturday night) included two works composed less than 50 years apart, but each a technical won der in itself and demanding the most from the Orchestra players.
Composer Frédéric Chopin may have been born in Poland, but his music was heavily influenced by his residency in early 19th-century Paris. Much of the repertoire from Chopin’s all-too-short life was for solo piano, and his music has been an influence on piano composition ever since. Chopin composed only two piano concertos, and his earliest work in this genre bridged musical evolution between the tunefulness of Mozart and the complexity of the mid-19th century composers.
Composed when Chopin was merely 20, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 in E minor was a rich symphonic work full of revolutionary musical colors from both pia no and orchestra. The first movement’s ex tended instrumental introduction displayed long melodic violin lines, clean light winds and Chopin’s obvious affinity for the cello. For this past weekend’s performances, the University Orchestra featured senior Ky rie McIntosh, who has studied piano since early childhood. Exuding confidence at the keyboard from the outset, McIntosh began the piano solo with a dramatic flourish. In a movement of wistful reflection, McIntosh demonstrated great fluidity in both hands and considerable sparkle in the highest registers of the keyboard. McIntosh effec tively introduced a gentle second theme, accompanied by clean horn playing from Selena Hostetler, and later contrasted by McIntosh’s dramatic left-hand octaves against a nonstop right hand.
An introspective second movement “Romanze” was marked by a Schuber tian solo piano part as McIntosh took his time through the elegant passages, with Pratt leading the Orchestra in tandem. His playing was complemented by a bas soon counter-melody, gracefully played by Gabriel Levine. The quirky rhythms of the
Polish “Krakowiak” dance enlivened a duet between the piano and strings in the third movement “Rondo,” with McIntosh taper ing phrases well. The spirited refrain of the “Rondo” was well punctuated by brass, and McIntosh led the concerto to a majes tic close with perfectly timed solo running passages.
Originally composed in 1874 as a set of piano pieces, Modest Mussorgsky’s Pic tures at an Exhibition was orchestrated in the early 20th century by French im pressionistic mastermind Maurice Ravel. Any music subjected to Ravel’s instru mental imagination is bound to have attention-grabbing musical effects, and the University Orchestra brought out all of these in Friday night’s performance. The 11 movements of this suite were a tribute to Mussorgsky’s friend, Russian artist Victor Hartmann, with each move ment musically capturing Hartmann’s in novative visual art style.
The opening trumpet solo by Trevor Holmes announced what would be a crisp yet rich performance of these short mu sical vignettes. Trumpeters Holmes and Gabriel Chalick led the way through the “Promenades” which recurred after sever al of the movements. Decisive string play ing conveyed a regal character, while the unusual wind orchestration and extensive percussion effects illuminated the stories within Hartmann’s paintings. Percussion played a key role in the depiction of a grotesque little “Gnomus,” and saxophone player Bryan McNamara added a unique color to the tale of “The Old Castle.” Eng lish horn player Sarah Choi also added to the musical intensity with languorous melodic lines.
The fifth movement “Bydlo,” describing a rustic oxcart, featured tuba player Wes ley Sanders ploddingly moving the oxcart along. Ravel’s orchestration showcased all parts of the orchestra, and conductor Pratt allowed each solo instrument to speak well above the texture. Especially humorous was the depiction of “The Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells,” with the flutes and piccolo providing abundant chirping.
The 11 movements of Mussorgsky’s suite flowed seamlessly, with Pratt and the Orchestra bringing out each movement’s character well. The very full ensemble on the Richardson stage ended the work majestically in opulent 19thcentury Russian style, with the triumphal rendition of the closing movement “Great Gate of Kiev” having particular relevance in today’s world.
—Nancy Plum
The Princeton University Orchestra will present its next set of concerts on Friday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 4 at 3 p.m. in Rich ardson Auditorium. These concerts will include music of Alexander Borodin and Gustav Holst and will also feature the Princeton University Glee Club.
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State Theatre NJ Presents “Rocky Horror” Screening State Theatre New Jersey presents a screening of the cult classic movie musical, The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday, October 22 at 11 p.m. Prior to the screening, the State Theatre is hosting a preshow party with a full-service bar and DJ from 9-11 p.m. The evening will be hosted by Rutgers University’s Cabaret Theatre.
Tickets are $15 and include a goodie bag of props.
Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, and Meat Loaf, The Rocky Horror Picture Show film features the songs “The Time Warp,” “Dammit Janet,” “Sweet Transvestite,” and “Science Fiction/Double Feature.”
For tickets, more information, or group discounts, visit STNJ.org. The theater is at 15 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick.
Presented in Theater and Virtually
Tickets are on sale for the 23rd annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, which will be held from Sunday, October 30 through Sunday, November 13. This year’s festival will include 10 films screened at the Regal Cinema in North Brunswick (October 30–November 6), and eight presented virtually (November 6-13).
Award-winning international feature and documentary films are showcased this year from the United States, Israel, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Italy, and Belgium, as well as discussions with filmmakers and special guests. Of the 17 films being shown, one is a U.S. premiere, two are East Coast premieres, and nine are N.J. premieres.
In-theater tickets are $12 and virtual tickets are $14. There are also several discount passes available. The festival is sponsored by Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and is
made possible by a grant from the Karma Foundation.
The festival kicks-off on Sunday, October 30, with two feature films. Cinema Sabaya portrays the experience of eight diverse Arab and Israeli women in a video production workshop who forge unlikely bonds as they begin to document their lives and share their art with one another. The fi lm swept this year’s Israeli Oscars, winning Best Film, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress, among other awards. ( Cinema Sabaya will also be available for online viewing November 6-13.) Opening day will also feature the New Jersey premiere of the German rom-com Love and Mazel Tov. Award-winning director Wolfgang Murnberger presents a look at modern love in this witty film.
Making its New Jersey premiere at the festival, Dead Sea Guardians is an Israeli documentary about the heroic effort to save the Dead Sea from drying out and
disappearing. Three historic enemies who share this wonder of the world — Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians — join forces to try to stop this catastrophic loss. Film director Ido Glass will speak about the fi lm in person on November 6.
How Saba Kept Singing is the story of 94-year-old David “Saba” Wisnia, who survived Auschwitz by entertaining his Nazi captors with his beautiful singing voice. The documentary follows the journey of David and his grandson Avi Wisnia back to his hometown and to Auschwitz where long held secrets are revealed. From executive producers Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, this fi lm makes its United States premiere at the festival. The screening will also feature Avi Wisnia, in person, for a Q&A and special musical performance on November 6.
For a full list of fi lms, visit BildnerCenter.Rutgers.edu/ film.
Last week, at its first board of trustees meeting for the season, the McCarter board gave Michael Rosenberg a champagne toast and wished him well as he prepares to depart to lead New York City Center later this month.
“It has been an honor and a privilege to work at this institution during this unprecedented time in American theater,” said Rosenberg. “I have loved working alongside Sarah Rasmussen as artistic director. Her work is incredible, and I have no doubt she will lead McCarter to wonderful new heights in the years ahead.”
McCarter has hired veteran arts and culture management consultants to identify an interim managing director for the theater, which will be
followed by a search to fi ll the role permanently. “We are confi dent we can fi nd an incredible new leader to join the team and take the reins at McCarter swiftly. Once we do, we look forward to introducing the new person to the community,” said Board Chair W. Rochelle Calhoun.
In the meantime, Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen will oversee the staff and operations. “We have a strong team in place, and we have wonderful shows to share this season. We hope the community will continue to come to McCarter and enjoy all we have to offer,” she said.
The Wolves is currently running at McCarter through October 16, and A Christmas Carol will be back this holiday season. Visit McCarter.org for information.
Kelsey Kids kicks off its 2022-2023 season with Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fable The Emperor’s New Clothes , the story about the foolish emperor who thinks he knows everything about fashion (but his wardrobe isn’t what he thinks it is).
The play, adapted by Kathryn Schultz Miller, is brought to life by the Virginia Repertory Theatre in a fresh adaption set during the American Revolution.
Performances for this oneday-only family show are Saturday, October 15 at 1 and 4 p.m. at the Kelsey Theatre on the Mercer County Community College campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor.
Virginia Repertory
Theatre is a nonprofit, professional theatre company with four distinct venues and an educational touring arm. The group has been producing children’s shows since 1975.
Tickets are $12 for children, students, and senior citizens, and $15 for adults. Visit KelseyTheatre.org or call (609) 570-3333.
Guitarist Beppe Gambetta presents a fusion of American and Italian folk music traditions at a concert presented by the Princeton Folk Music Society on Friday, October 21 at 8 p.m., at Christ Congregational Church, 50 Walnut Lane.
Gambetta is a guitar master (think Earl Scruggs meets Richard Thompson) who taught himself to flatpick by listening to bluegrass LPs. He combines the folk music of Italy and points east with the bluegrass style of Kentucky. Gambetta is also a vocalist.
Tickets are $5-$25. Masks and full proof of vaccination are required for admission. A livestream is also available. For more information, visit princetonfolk.org.
Tickets are now available for the first annual Lambertville Halloween Film Festival to be held October 20-23 at the Acme Screening Room, 25 South Union Street, Lambertville.
Films selected evoke the themes of the Halloween season, anything from creepy thrillers and paranormal investigations to classic horror.
The festival will open with a masquerade party Thursday evening October 20, featuring live entertainment and prizes for best costumes. Film screenings will begin Friday afternoon and will run all day Saturday with the awards ceremony Saturday evening.
Saturday morning will feature a demonstration by SFX makeup artist Bec Johnson of the Makeup Academy in Doylestown, Pa. All demo participants will be entered into a raffle to win a free master makeup class. At 5
p.m., the Lambertville Historical Society will be hosting a Lambertville Ghost and History tour.
Sunday will include a children’s craft activity, and a screening of the documentary Halloweenville by Garry Cohen, highlighting the decorations through town. Cohen will take part in a Q&A following the film. The award winners of the festival will be screened Sunday afternoon.
Visit acmescreeningroom. org/lhff for tickets.
Hospice is about living the fullest life possible according to a patient’s capabilities within a life-limiting condition. In hospice, your choices guide the care we provide. Hospice care affirms quality of life. Our goal is to prevent and relieve pain, discomfort, anxiety and fear.
We provide emotional and spiritual support to patients and their loved ones. Hospice care is provided wherever a patient feels most comfortable or where they call home. We help families and caregivers prepare for endof-life challenges and find creative ways to share in life review and legacy projects so that our patient’s wisdom and memories can be treasured for future generations.
Our Hospice Team consists of:
• Hospice Medical Director, a board-certified hospice physician
• Registered Nurses (RNs) monitoring pain, managing symptoms and guiding patient’s plan of care
• Hospice Certified Home Health Aides (CHHAs) providing personal patient care
companionship
• Social Workers supporting patients
families
connecting them
resources
• Spiritual Counselors providing emotional support and personal counseling
• Bereavement Services offering guidance and education concerning anticipatory grief to families throughout care and bereavement
• Hospice Volunteers assisting with a variety of patient and family personalized support activities
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The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) presents “Retrieving the Life and Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists: Rex Goreleigh, Hughie Lee-Smith, Selma Hortense Burke, and Wendell T. Brooks,” on view in the Taplin Gallery October 14 through December 3 The exhibition reveals how Black artist/teachers were integral and infl uential members in a predominantly white regional community in the last quarter of the 20th century. While there have been signifi cant exhibitions of contemporary Black artists during recent years of efforts by museums and galleries to become more diverse, this is one of the fi rst exhibitions to explore the historical context from which these artists emerged.
This exhibition focuses on five late 20th-century master artists who lived and worked within 25 miles of each other in the geographic region from Princeton to New Hope, Pa.: James Wilson Edwards, Rex Gore-
leigh, Hughie Lee-Smith, Selma Hortense Burke, and Wendell T. Brooks. These Black artists represent a diverse and vibrant regional arts community largely overlooked in contemporary American art history.
“Retrieving the Life and Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists” is curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Rhinold Ponder and will be accompanied by a full schedule of programs, including:
Art Collecting as an Act of Love — October 14, 4-5 p.m.: This panel discussion will feature lenders to this exhibition comprised almost entirely of work from private collections. Speakers will include collectors Lewis Tanner Moore, Mary Guess Flamer, Brenda and Lawrence Thompson, Joye and Scott Shepperd, Malcom Peyton, and Barbara Winchester, and James Petrucci, moderated by Brodsky and Ponder. Free; at ACP, 102 Witherspoon Street.
Opening Reception — October 14, 5-7 p.m.: Free; at ACP.
Stoneware Bas Relief Workshop — October 22, 1:30-5 p.m.: ACP teaching artist Fran Smith will lead students to create their own bas relief in the style used by featured artist Selma Burke. Burke was an American sculptor and member of the Harlem Renaissance movement, best known for her bas relief of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many believe her relief portrait of the former U.S. president, which was hung in the White House in 1945, inspired the profile used on the dime which was minted in 1946. A bas relief can be a portrait, an animal, or an object and is a low or mostly flat sculpture carved onto a flat surface such as a wall or a tile rather than a 3-D sculpture. $25 materials fee upon registration; at ACP.
Family Saturdays — October 22, November 12, and December 3, 1-2:30 p.m.: Family workshops invite children and caregivers to learn, connect, and grow together through hands-on artistic experiences. Families are invited to explore the exhibition through dropin art-making workshops.
In viewing, discussing, and creating artwork together, families invest in the arts in personal and meaningful ways. All workshops are designed and led by artistinstructor Dr. Ronah Harris. Free; at ACP.
For information about more events through November, visit artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Local Master Potter Caryn Newman opens her studio to the public on Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for her Annual Fall Sale featuring her new ceramics.
“I love making all sizes of
bowls,” said Newman, who noted that cups, plates, vases and serving pieces round out her line. “People are learning that, in these challenging times, using handmade objects in your daily life around food and home decor enhances these experiences.”
Newman works in both stoneware and porcelain clays. She has been experimenting with mixing colorstained clay and porcelain for unusual and not always predictable new designs.
Willowood Pottery has been shown at HomeFront’s ArtJam in Palmer Square in Princeton every year, and she is an artist member of the local craft cooperative
Red Tulip Gallery in New Hope, Pa.
The studio is located at 7 Willowood Drive, Ewing. It is open for the sale weekend and by appointment. For more information, call (609) 203-7141, email caryn@willowoodpottery.com, or visit willowoodpottery.com.
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Now at Small World Coffee Marine creatures and other nature paintings by an award-winning Japanese painter Minako Ota are on display at Small World Cof fee, 14 Witherspoon Street, through November 1. It is her third show at this venue.
Born in Osaka, Japan, Ota studied traditional Japanese painting at Tama Art Univer sity in Tokyo. Upon gradu ation, she attended Cam bridge University in England where she focused on West ern painting conservation.
Since she left her native country some 30 years ago, she has immersed herself in Western cultures in the U.S. and Europe. Her artwork is a cultural hybrid between Japan and the West, as she combines Western painting techniques that she learned through her 20-plus years as a professional painting con servator and the traditional Japanese aesthetics that she grew up with.
More information can be found at minako-art.com.
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Join us at 12:15 PM for in-gallery chats with artists featured in the exhibition.
Join us at 12:15 PM for in-gallery chats with artists featured in the exhibition.
UPCOMING: OCT. 19
José Camacho & Matilda Forsberg NOV. 16
Join us at 12:15 PM for in-gallery chats with artists featured the exhibition.
Sinéad Hornak & ShinYoung An Visit Statemuseum.nj.gov for additional dates.
Join us at 12:15 PM for in-gallery chats with artists featured in the exhibition.
UPCOMING: OCT. 19
José Camacho & Matilda Forsberg NOV. 16
Sinéad Hornak & ShinYoung Visit Statemuseum.nj.gov for additional dates.
Sinéad Hornak & ShinYoung An Visit Statemuseum.nj.gov for additional dates.
New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence is a project of the New Jersey State Museum and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by the New Jersey State Museum Foundation through the Lucille M. Paris Fund.
New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence is a project of the New Jersey State Museum and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by the New Jersey State Museum Foundation through the Lucille M. Paris Fund.
New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence is a project of the New Jersey State Museum and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by the New Jersey State Museum Foundation through the Lucille M. Paris Fund.
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The Trenton Artists Workshop Association (TAWA) and the Trenton Free Public Library present “Fresh Art I” at the Trenton Free Public Library through October 29.
The exhibition features work by three Trenton artists: Alia Bensliman, FlyKickz, and Leon Rainbow.
Bensliman lives in
Robbinsville. She grew up in Tunisia, North Africa, and her work is influenced by North African and Berber art. She works with mixed media on arch paper and has recently started creating her own watercolor palette made of nontoxic pigments.
Her work has been shown throughout the tri-state area. Her painting I Am Roebling is in the permanent collection of the new building of the New Jersey Department of Health.
FlyKickz works primarily with sneakers and uses other materials. She has exhibited locally and distributes her work on the internet. “By combining my love of art and sneakers I’ve created a style of art that can be described as a collection inspired by SOLE,” she said.
“My concepts are a mesh of boldness, beauty, and fun — a clear reflection of an artist whose creative talents are both complex and changing.”
Rainbow primarily works with acrylic and aerosols. His murals can be seen throughout the Trenton area and on Spring Street in Princeton. He coordinates the yearly “Jersey Fresh” mural painting event at TerraCycle, and has exhibited at the New Jersey State Museum, Ellarslie Museum, Theory Gallery, and Prince Street Gallery in New York City. His style is graffiti art mixed with abstract and pop art with lots of patterns and textures.
The Trenton Free Public Library is located at 120 Academy Street and is in the new Creek2Canal Trenton Arts District. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information on the library, call (609) 392-7188.
More information on the Trenton Artists Workshop Association can be found on the organization’s Facebook page.
The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) has announced the return of the Ceramic Scavenger Hunt on Saturday, October 15 from 1-3 p.m. Participants are invited to explore downtown Princeton while on the hunt for the
20 pieces of pottery hidden throughout town by the ACP.
To join the free event, follow the ACP on Instagram at @artscouncilofprinceton. From 1-3 p.m., ACP will post hints as to where to fi nd hidden pieces of handmade ceramics. Find one and it’s yours to keep.
“The Ceramic Scavenger Hunt was born in 2020 when social distancing was in full effect,” said Melissa Kuscin, ACP programming/ marketing manager. “It was so popular that we brought it back with double the ceramics in 2021, and it was so fun to see folks running around town on the hunt. Now that we’re in our third year, we’ve upped the ante by creating pieces exclusively for this event, meaning the only way to ever get your hands on these ceramics is by fi nding them during the event.”
Any participant who fi nds a ceramic piece is also entered into a drawing for the grand prize of a complimentary ACP Family Membership, valued at $100, an ACP tote bag, and a $10 gift card to Small World Coffee.
“The beauty of this event is that not only is it fun to use your detective skills to try
to identify where the piece is hiding, but it gets you out and about in town in its peak of autumnal beauty,” said Kuscin. “It’s a great time for residents and visitors alike.”
For more information, visit artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Tyler Park Center for the Arts, located at 10 Stable Mill Trail in Richboro, Pa., will host the Crafts in the Meadow Juried Invitational Fine Art and Craft Show on October 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and October 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. General admission is $10 (free for members and children under age 12). Pets are not allowed. This event will take place rain or shine.
Crafts in the Meadow will feature artists representing a variety of very selectively juried works including fine art, photography, ceramics, jewelry, wearable art, fiber, wood, metal, basketry, and more. There will also be live demonstrations, community partner exhibits, food vendors, and live music.
For more information, visit tylerparkarts.org.
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The “93rd Juried Art Show at Phillips’ Mill” opened on September 23 and continues through Sunday, October 30. Visitors can meet and greet artists in the gallery through out the run of the show.
The Phillips’ Mill Commu nity Association Art Com mittee traditionally invites the artists who created the works lining the Mill walls and sculptures throughout the two floors of display space to spend a few hours mingling with visitors, talk ing about their work, their process, their inspiration, and history.
Artists scheduled include George Anthonisen, Arthur Areyan, Chee Bravo, Bea trice Bork, Karen Brodsky, Raymond Brown, Shawn Campbell, Mary Carol Cheshire, Larry Chestnut, Elissa Goldberg, Helene Mazur, Shirley Mersky, Bill Miller, Margie Milne, Paul Mordetsky, Mark Oliver, David Orban, Debbie Pisa creta, Shoshana Pofelis, Lin da Rhone, Jennifer Hansen Rolli, Sharon Shaw, Mavis Smith, Steve Smith, Dean Thomas, Emily Thompson, George Thompson, Helena van Emmerik-Finn, Charles Viera, Janine Dunn Wade, and Tom Whitcraft.
Check the Phillips’ Mill website for the latest
schedule to see who will be at the Mill and when at phillipsmill.org/art/meetthe-artists.
The “93rd Juried Art Show at Phillips’ Mill” is open daily from 1 to 5 p.m. at 2619 River Road (Route 32), just north of New Hope, Pa. The show will be open during road construc tion on Route 32. Follow signs and detour information.
To learn more about the Phillips’ Mill Community Association, the art show, membership, and other arts programs, visit phillipsmill. org.
Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks” through November 27. art museum.princeton.edu. Artists’ Gallery, 18
Bridge Street, Lambert ville, has “Emotional Odys sey” through November 6. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com.
Art on Hulfish, 11 Hul fish Street, has “Time’s Relentless Melt” through November 6. artmuseum. princeton.edu.
Arts Council of Princ eton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Inked!” through November 5 and “Retrieving the Life and Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists” October 14 through December 3. artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices/Fox & Roach, Realtors, 253 Nas sau Street, has “Emergence: Expanding in Light,” photo graphs by Lisa Granozio, through November 4. lag photography.com.
Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, has “The Stacy-Trent Hotel” through November 28. el larslie.org.
Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell, has “Alice Grebanier: Altered Vision” and “Scott R. Hoerl: Found Images” through October 23. gallery14.org.
Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has “Back to the Palette: New Paintings by Watercolorists Unlimited” through October 30. cran buryartscouncil.org.
Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Ham ilton, has “Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter” through January 8, 2023, and “Frag ile: Earth” through January 8, 2023, among other exhib its. Timed tickets required. groundsforsculpture.org.
Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farm stead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Einstein Salon and
Innovator’s Gallery,” “Princ eton’s Portrait,” and other exhibits. Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m., Thursday to 7 p.m. princetonhistory.org
The Jewish Center, 435 Nassau Street, has “Black + Jewish: Connection, Cour age, Community” through October 31. thejewish center.org.
Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Walk This Way” through January 15 and “re)Frame: Com munity Perspectives on the Michener Art Collection” through March 5. michen erartmuseum.org
Morven Museum & Gar den, 55 Stockton Street, has “Ma Bell: The Mother of Invention in New Jer sey” through March and the online exhibits “Slav ery at Morven,” “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761–1898,” and others. morven.org.
Phillips’ Mill, 2619 River Road, New Hope, Pa., has “93rd Juried Art Show” through October 30. phillipsmill.org.
The Present Day Club, 72 Stockton Street, has paintings by Margaret Kalvar-Bushnell through October 28. Viewing ap pointments are avail able weekdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., except for Wednesdays. Call (609) 942-1014 or email
Princeton Public Li brary , 65 Witherspoon Street, has “Telling a Peo ple’s Story” through October 30, and “Salvadoran Art: A Father and Son Exhibit” and “Uprooted Trees, Magicica das and Climate Change” through November 27. princetonlibrary.org.
Princeton University Library has “Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933-2021” through December 11. li brary.princeton.edu
Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has “Minako Ota: Paintings and Drawings” through No vember 1. “Jahnavi Joyce Zondervan: Acrylic and Wa tercolor Paintings” is at the 254 Nassau Street location through November 1. small worldcoffee.com.
West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Tren ton Community A-TEAM” through October 29. west windsorarts.org.
Wednesday, October 12
6-9 p.m.: Princeton Acad emy of Art holds its an nual salon and auction of students’ and instructors’ works at Morven’s Stockton Education Center, 55 Stock ton Street. Abbey Ellis of the Institute for Advanced Study is guest speaker following a cocktail hour. Princeto nacademyofart.com.
8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers present a contra dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monu ment Drive. Sue Gola with the Princeton Pickup Band led by Doug Healy. $10. Princetoncountrydancers. org.
Thursday, October 13
7:30-9:45 a.m.: Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber presents “The Changing Garden State: Urban & Sub urban Farming,” at Trenton Country Club, 201 Sullivan Way, West Trenton. Princ etonmercer.org.
10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers’ Market is at the Dinky train station parking lot, across from the Wawa. Princetonfarmersmarket. com.
10 a.m.-12 p.m.: “The Race to Address Flooding in Princeton,” free presen tation at Princeton Public Library’s Community Room.
Sophie Glovier of The Wa tershed Institute will speak. Princetonlibrary.org.
10 a.m.: The 55-Plus Club of Princeton meets via Zoom. Princeton Uni versity philosophy profes sor Gideon Rosen presents “When Experts Disagree, or Politics for Amateurs in the Internet Age.” Princetonol. com/groups/55plus.
1-5 p.m.: Trinity Church 47th Annual Rummage Sale, 33 Mercer Street. $10. Clothing, accessories, art, books, antiques, house wares, linens, and more.
6:30 p.m.: Morven Muse um presents a watch party of “Sisters with Transistors,” a celebration of the women who pioneered electronic music. Hybrid event with composer Laurie Spiegel in virtual discussion. $10-$20. Morven.org.
6:45 p.m.: Learn public speaking with Mercer’s Best Toastmasters Club, Law rence Community Center, 295 Eggert Crossing Road, Lawrence Township. Mer cersbest.toastmastersclubs. org.
7 p.m.: At Hopewell Train Station, Cheryl Jackson of the Hopewell Valley His torical Society presents “Cemetery Journeys on the Sourland Mountain.” Free. Sourland.org.
7:30 p.m.: Violinist Ge neva Lewis and pianist Au drey Vardanega perform at Richardson Auditorium. Pucprinceton.edu.
8 p.m.: “The Price is Right Live” comes to State The atre New Jersey, 15 Livings ton Street, New Brunswick. Hosted by Todd Newton. $25-$150. Stnj.org.
Friday, October 14
1-5 p.m.: Trinity Church
47th Annual Rummage Sale, 33 Mercer Street. Free. Clothing, accessories, art, books, antiques, house wares, linens, and more.
2-4 p.m.: Trenton Book Giving Day, at Classics Used Books, 4 West Lafay ette Street, Trenton. Trenton schoolchildren select books to take home; music, face painting, games, and poetry.
4:30 p.m.: “Screening Ireland: A Life in Film with Lenny Abrahamson,” at James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Free. Fintan O’Toole interviews Abrahamson on his career as a director. Arts.princeton. edu.
6 p.m.: Writer/scholar Reza Aslan launches his new book An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville , at Princeton Public Library. Registration required at princetonlibrary. org.
6-8:30 p.m.: 15th Annual Wine & Food Tasting to ben efit PEI Kids. At TrentonMercer Airport featuring 20 restaurants, over 200 wines, exotic cars and aircraft on display. $80. Peikids.org/ tasting-event.
Saturday, October 15
9 a.m.-1 p.m.: Trinity Church 47th Annual Rum mage Sale, 33 Mercer Street. Free admission, items half price. Clothing, accessories, art, books, an tiques, housewares, linens, and more.
9 a.m.-4 p.m.: 16th An nual Bucks County Ancestry Fair, via Zoom. “Compendi um: Pennsylvania Records and Research,” featuring three speakers. Ancestry fair.org.
9 a.m.-5 p.m.: Bryn MawrWellesley pop-up children’s used book sale, at the Princeton Shopping Center on North Harrison Street. Entrance is free and prices start at 50 cents. Books are in very good to like-new con dition.
10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Fall Fam ily Fun Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Pick and paint pump kins, pony rides, pedal trac tors, the corn stalk maze, adventure barn, barnyard animals, live music by Albo, food, wine, baked goods, and more. $15 online in advance/$18 the day of the event. Children under 3 are free. Terhuneorchards.com.
10 a.m.-2 p.m.: S.H.R.E.D. fest, at Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane. Princeton residents can have documents shredded, get rid of household goods and clean clothing; recycle medi cal equipment, electronics, and computers; and donate bicycles and dumpster dis cards. Accessprinceton@ princetonnj.gov
11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Histori cal Society of West Wind sor hosts a Revolutionary Encampment at the West Windsor History Museum, 50 Southfield Road. Conti nental Army soldiers, British spies, musket-firing demon strations, trades/crafts, and
more. Westwindsorhistory. com/1776.
1 p.m.: Social Justice Sing at Rider University’s Bart Lu edeke Center Theater, Route 206, Lawrence Township. Westminster Choir College faculty and students will be joined by ChildrenSong for this intergenerational event in honor of World Singing Day. Rider.edu.
1-3 p.m.: Ceramics Scav enger Hunt, sponsored by the Arts Council of Prince ton. Free. Follow Instagram @artscouncilofprinceton for information.
1 and 4 p.m.: The Emper or’s New Clothes is at Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor. $12-$15. Family show by Virginia Repertory Theatre. KelseyTheatre.org.
2 p.m.: Cool Women Vol ume 7 Publication Party, readings by 11 poets from the group. Free, at Prince ton Public Library, 65 With erspoon Street. Princetonli brary.org.
5-7:30 p.m.: Trenton Cir cus Squad presents its “Step Right Up 2022” grown up carnival fundraiser under the tent at Princeton YMCA. Tickets: $125-$200 at tren toncircussquad.org
6-10 p.m.: At the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pa., “Cocktails at the Castle.” Annual fundraiser with food, drinks from area restaurants and caterers. $175-$200. Mercermuseum.org/cock tails.
7 p.m.: African Soiree to benefit a cure for tropical diseases, at Princeton Marri ott at Forrestal, 100 College Road East. Entertainment by Egun Omode, Trenton-based West African dancers and drummers group; and Nku mu Katalay, Congolese art ist, orator, instrumentalist, and social activist. Live and silent auction. $50-$100. Riverblindness.org.
7:30 p.m.: “Dance to the Piano: Prokofiev,” solo recit al by Westminster Conserva tory faculty member Choah Kim at Hillman Performance Hall, Marion Buckelew Cul len Music Center, 101 Wal nut Lane. Free. Rider.edu.
8 p.m.: Princeton Sym phony Orchestra performs Britten and Elgar at Richard son Auditorium, with violin ist Elina Vahala. $30-$112. Princetonsymphony.org.
8 p.m.: Central Jersey Dance Society presents No Name Dance, at Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stock ton Street. Open dancing, no partner needed. Follows 7-8 p.m. West Coast Swing lesson. $10-$15. Centraljer seydance.org.
Sunday, October 16
9 a.m.-1 p.m.: Hunterdon Land Trust Farmers’ Market at Dvoor Farm, 111 Mine Street, Flemington. Fresh, organic offerings from 20 farmers and vendors. Morn ing yoga; music. Hunterdon landtrust.org.
10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Fall Family Fun Weekend at Terhune Or chards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Pick and paint pumpkins,
pony rides, pedal tractors, the corn stalk maze, adven ture barn, barnyard animals, live music by Meghan Carey, food, wine, baked goods, and more. $15 online in advance/$18 the day of the event. Children under 3 are free.Terhuneorchards.com.
11 a.m.-3 p.m.: Histori cal Society of West Wind sor hosts a Revolutionary Encampment at the West Windsor History Museum, 50 Southfield Road. Conti nental Army soldiers, British spies, musket-firing demon strations, trades/crafts, and more. Westwindsorhistory. com/1776.
1 p.m.: Tour of Princeton Battlefield, 500 Mercer Road, led by historical in terpreter. Learn about the Battle of Princeton, soldier and civilian experience. $5 donation; children under 16 and veterans free. Register at Pbs1777.org/battlefieldtours.
1 p.m.: Lisa Lonie, Prince ton University Carillonneur, performs at Cleveland Tower on the graduate campus. Listen outside the tower. Free.
1-4 p.m.: Community Suk kot Fall Fest, JCC Princeton Mercer Bucks, 148 Cedar ville Road, East Windsor. Live music, inflatables, pet ting zoo, pony rides, face
painting, crafts, train rides and more. $9 (under 2 and grandparents free). Jccpmb. org/FallFest.
4 p.m.: Princeton Sym phony Orchestra performs Britten and Elgar at Richard son Auditorium, with violin ist Elina Vahala. $30-$112. Princetonsymphony.org.
7 p.m.: The Princeton Singers perform at Art on Hulfish,11 Hulfish Street, in conjunction with the exhibit “Time’s Relentless Melt.” Led by Steven Sametz; works by Perotin, Paul Hin demith, David Lang, Caro line Shaw, and Sametz. Princetonsingers.org.
Monday, October 17
The Women’s College Club of Princeton meets at Morven Education Center, 55 Stockton Street. Terry Antoniewicz presents “A Historical Presentation in Period Costume: Mary Kath erine Goddard and the Dec laration of Independence.” Free. Wccpnj.org.
Tuesday, October 18
6:30-7:30 p.m.: The His torical Fiction Book Group discusses The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Princeton and Princeton Public Library. Virtual ses sion. Princetonhistory.org.
7 p.m.: Author Laurie
Lico Albanese discusses and signs copies of Hester: A Novel at Princeton Pub lic Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
Wednesday, October 19
12 p.m.: “The Mysterious World of the Garden Grot to,” virtual presentation by Dr. Gerald and Margaret Hull, presented by Mor ven Museum, where Annis Stockton had a grotto. $5. Morven.org.
6 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meet either in the Library’s Community Room or via Zoom. Princetonlibrary.org.
8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers present a contra dance at Suzanne Pat terson Center, 1 Monument Drive. Ridge Kennedy with Where’s Fred. $10. Princ etoncountrydancers.org.
Thursday, October 20
10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers’ Market is at the Din ky train station parking lot, across from the Wawa. Princ etonfarmersmarket.com.
7 p.m.: At Hopewell Train Station, Donetta Johnson of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Muse um presents “The African American’s Deep Connec tion to the Land: Steward ship and Conflict.” Free. Sourland.org.
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He adds that Tanzanite is also very popular. “Its beautiful blue shades look like sapphire, but it is much more affordable,” he says.
t’s good to know that in our current era when “fast and furious” seems to be the dominating force, there are still places, con cepts, and visions that do stand the test of time.
Garbo Jewelers is such a place. Located in the Mont gomery Shopping Center on Route 1 North, it has a story to tell, and a continuing fo cus on high quality jewelry and knowledgeable, friendly service and advice.
Its history dates to 1982, when owner Gary Ber ezowsky opened his first jewelry store in Avenel. A master goldsmith and ap praiser, he decided to move to the Princeton area in 1997, and Garbo Jewelers has been a mainstay for his many loyal customers.
The full service store of fers a wide selection of jew elry, including Berezowsky’s own custom designs well as on-premises repair service.
His knowledge of the jew elry business extends back to his early days as an ap prentice. As he explains, “I apprenticed with a jeweler when I was just starting out, and I leaned about jewelry.
Then, I went to the Gem ological Institute of America (GIA) in New York City, and became a gemologist and a GIA certified appraiser.
“When I moved to Mont gomery, the store offered expanded space, and we added more high end piec es, including emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and dia monds.”
These all became favorites with customers, who have appreciated the excellent quality of the Garbo selec tion.
“We have GIA-certified di amonds, Ceylon sapphires, Zambian and Colombian emeralds, and Burmese ru bies,” says Berezowsky. “These are very special.”
In addition, pearls remain remain a favorite at Garbo.
“They have a classic look that is always in style, and that appeal to many cus tomers. We have a variety of styles and sizes, including the highly desirable Tahitian pearls. Baroque pearls are also especially appealing, as they epitomize the unique quality of pearls since no two pearls are identical.”
Opals are also a favorite with many clients, who en joy the stone’s nuanced look and lovely shading.
Rings and earrings are best-sellers at the store, but necklaces and bracelets are also popular. Stackable
EXCELLENCE AND EXPERTISE: “Jewelry is a keepsake. It can be passed down from generation to generation. It may com memorate a special occasion, an important moment and memory. This is why it means so much to people.” Gary Ber ezowsky, owner of Garbo Jewelers, is shown by a display of high quality pieces, including a two-tone mosaic necklace, Baroque pearls, 18-karat multi-color Tahitian and South Sea pearls, and a 14-karat yellow gold necklace with industrialinspired interlocking links.
bangles are especially in demand now, reports Ber ezowsky.
Engagement and wedding rings are very important at Garbo, and while diamonds are still No. 1 for engage ment rings, precious stones of color — such as emer alds, sapphires, and rubies — are favored choices now too.
Anniversary bands con tinue to be in demand, and can be a treasured way to commemorate a special an niversary.
Garbo also has an impor tant selection of estate jew elry, with a variety of items including vintage cameos in different sizes, rings, brace lets, brooches, and watches.
“Estate jewelry is popular because it has a different look, a history,” explains Berezowsky. “A lot of peo ple like vintage, and it can range from more than 100 years ago to the 1960s. All across the spectrum.”
A selection of men’s and women’s watches is also offered, in a wide array of styles. Seiko is a specialty, and as he points out, “We have been a Seiko dealer for 40 years.”
Assorted choices in men’s jewelry are also offered, and include rings, bracelets, chains, and cufflinks.
“We also carry religious medals, crosses, and Stars of David, and Jewish Chai necklaces,” he points out.
Berezowsky had noticed changes in customers’ choic es over the years, and as he says, “In the’80s and ’90s, yellow gold was very popu lar. Now, people want white gold and platinum. As to style, it’s really everything, from delicate designs to big, bold, and dramatic. It’s very personal. Everyone really as their own individual taste.”
Garbo is not only set apart by its exceptional selection of the finest jewelry, but also by its on-site workshop. There, Berezowsky creates his custom designs, and also does repair work and clean ing.
“I especially enjoy rede signing older pieces,” he observes. “It’s the creativ ity and coming up with new ideas. We can enhance an older piece with a more
up-to-date look. We often replace old mountings with new ones.”
These pieces have senti mental value, he adds. “The client wants to keep the ring, for example, but wants to give it a more modern look. I particularly like the creativity involved in making an old ring into a new one. And another possibility is to turn it into a pendant. This is often very popular.”
Garbo’s clients come from all over the Princeton area, and even beyond, he reports. “We have a very large and loyal clientele, and we even have customers in Florida and South Carolina, who have moved from this area. They’ll call me and de scribe what they are looking for, and they know they can count on us to have it for them. They can also find things on our website.”
The store was closed for several months during the height of COVID-19, but customers have been return ing in large numbers, says Berezowsky. “They are so glad to be able to come in and have face-to-face inter action, and spend time with us.”
Garbo offers a wide price range, he adds. “We always emphasize quality, but we also try to have something for every budget. We have items at many price points, and we will they to help cus tomers find the best piece within their price range.”
Gift certificates are also available.
In addition to jewelry for sale, Berezowsky purchases gold, and also offers an ap praisal service.
There is a romance to jewelry, and when a special piece becomes an heirloom to be passed down to an other generation, it can be priceless. The clients who visit Garbo, seeking some thing that special will find both abundant choices and unique personal attention. That is how an establish ment endures and thrives for 40 years!
F or more information, call (609) 252-9797.
Visit the website for specific items and pricing at garbojewelers.com.
—Jean
Despite getting off to a 3-0 start this fall, the Princeton Univer sity football team had been plagued by some choppy ex ecution in the early going.
Princeton fell behind Stetson 14-7 in its season opener on September 17, was knotted in a 10-10 tie at halftime against Lehigh a week later, and then spent most of the first half of its Ivy League opener at Colum bia on October 1 clinging to a 7-6 lead.
But last Saturday at La fayette, the Tigers produced some sharp play from the opening whistle, going on scoring marches of nine plays, 54 yards, 12 plays, 62 yards and 10 plays, 63 yards in building a 20-2 half time lead on the way to a 23-2 win over the Leopards before 3,303 at Fisher Sta dium in Easton, Pa.
Princeton head coach Bob Surace liked what he saw from the Tigers as they im proved to 4-0.
“We only had nine drives and we scored on four,” said Surace, whose team is now ranked 23rd nationally in the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) FCS Coaches’ Poll. “We missed what should have been a high percentage field goal and we had a touchdown called back on a mistake in alignment. We were off the ball — we should have been on, so we ended up losing that drive. We drove it for the last nine minutes and we were putting backups in and we ended up getting stuck on the one-yard line.”
Tiger senior quarterback Blake Stenstrom capably led those scoring drives, continuing to show progress as he made his fourth career start.
“That was a really chal lenging defense and they have a terrific D-line,” said Surace of Stenstrom, who connected on 30-of-40 passes for 290 yards. “It doesn’t matter who they have played, they are go ing to put you under duress. He handled it extremely well. He was accurate, the numbers don’t even reflect how well he played. We had a 70-yard touchdown pass called back. We were really successful running it down in the tight red zone so he did not end up with any touch down passes. He is playing at a really high level.”
Producing some high level play, senior receiver Andrei Iosivas made 10 receptions for 150 yards last Saturday, both career-highs.
“He and Dylan [Classi] are flip-flopping,” said Surace. “If you put attention on An drei, it opens things up for Dylan and Carson [Bobo]. When Andrei can get oppor tunities, he makes the most of them.”
Freshman running back Ryan Butler continued to im press, rushing for 49 yards and two touchdowns in the win over the Leopards.
“Ryan just runs hard,” said Surace. “He is really mature — there were a cou ple of blitz pickups that he made. He is pretty high level on that. He is really playing
well, he is playing with a lot of force.”
The Tiger defense has emerged as a force this fall and it produced another strong effort last Saturday, holding Lafayette to 206 yards total offense and com ing up with an interception and a fumble recovery.
“I thought we played with much better discipline for the majority of the game,” said Surace, whose defen sive unit has not allowed a touchdown in the last two games as the score in the Columbia contest came on a fumble recovered in the end zone. “They threatened a lot of things you do responsibili ty-wise. It is a tougher game, they are not taking a lot of five-step drops. The quarter back is not holding the ball. It is out quickly, it is a lot of screens. It is a really hard team to effect in the pass rush that way. I thought we did a really good job of get ting off the field. We stopped them three or four times on fourth down.”
Princeton’s linebackers spearheaded the defense as Liam Johnson made a teamhigh eight tackles with Ozzie Nicholas making six stops, Joe Bonczek getting six tackles, Will Perez making four, and Anthony Corbin making two.
“Because of the nature of their offense, the way they were going to run it and how they were throwing it, our linebackers were going to make a lot of tackles,” said Surace.
“All four of inside backers — Liam, Ozzie, Joe and An thony —played between 20 and 30 snaps. We weren’t on the field for a lot of plays be cause our offense controlled the clock and they did not run the ball as much because they were behind. They com bined for something like 26 or 28 tackles. Literally ev ery play, it seemed like they were in on a tackle.”
Senior defensive back Mi chael Ruttlen Jr. made one of the big defensive plays of the game with an inter ception early in the fourth quarter that halted a Lafay ette drive at the Princeton 21-yard line.
“His interception was great,” said Surace. “It was his acceleration and then he cut underneath the throw af ter a scramble to the right and kind of toe-tapped it. He looked like a wide receiver. It was a really good inter ception, He is just a steady leader back there, always in the right spot.”
With Princeton bringing that 4-0 record into the Ivy League stretch drive, Surace
is pleased with the steady intensity he has seen from his squad as it heads into six straight league contests.
“We have played 240 min utes and our effort has been outstanding,” said Surace, whose team is 1-0 in Ivy play. “We are finding the ball, we forced two more turnovers on Saturday. We were pretty clean with it on offense. Those things are really important. If we can continue to be good in those areas, that is a good step. Our situational football has been good. We were re ally good Saturday on third downs and fourth downs on offense. We were really good getting off the field on de fense. That is going to be a key as we get into these Ivy games.”
This Friday evening, Princ eton will need to produce another superb effort as it hosts high-powered Brown (2-2 overall, 0-1 Ivy), which has been averaging 27.25 points and 365.3 yards a game under the guidance of head coach James Perry, a former Tiger offensive coor dinator.
“You can see the physical strength; their linemen are tremendously improved,” said Surace. “Their offen sive and defensive lines are stronger. The athleticism that James is recruiting is re ally building a team. You can see those pieces coming into place. Offensively, he has done a great job everywhere he has been. Now you are seeing the special teams and defensive improvements and the stamp he is putting on that. This is by far the best team I have seen this year in terms of the pitch and catch part. They are mak ing dynamic catches, back shoulder and toe-tapping. It is a real challenge for the D-backs.”
With the game being tele vised by ESPNU, Surace sees it as an opportunity for Princeton to showcase its ex cellence before a nationwide audience.
“Our league was able to get the ESPN deal, it is not just football, it is for a lot of different sports,” said Surace. “For football spe cifically, we only play 10 games so it is making sure that every team in the league is on there once. We have been pretty fortunate to be on there twice. I think there is value. As a football pro gram, we recruit nationally. There are kids from regions of the country that just can’t get out and watch us if we are not on TV. There are families that can’t make ev ery game.”
—Bill AldenDaniel Diaz Bonilla and his teammates on the Princ eton University men’s soccer team were fired up last Sat urday to finally play their first game at the new Rob erts Stadium.
After their originally scheduled debut at the new venue against Monmouth on October 4 was postponed due to a rainstorm, Princ eton hosted Yale four days later.
“It is a total privilege to play here,” said Princeton senior star forward and cocaptain Diaz Bonilla. “It is a beautiful venue, it is prob ably the best venue in the Ivy League.”
But the debut turned ugly for the Tigers as the Bull dogs jumped out to a 3-0 lead by early in the sec ond half and held off a late Princeton charge to earn a 3-1 win, snapping its eightgame winning streak in Ivy League play over the last two years.
“We are really disappoint ed that we couldn’t open up the stadium with a win,” said Diaz Bonilla, who ended the game on the sidelines with his left knee wrapped in ice after taking a knock late in the second half. “It is sad we couldn’t get a win on this beautiful field.”
In falling to 4-4-1 over all and 1-1 Ivy, Princeton struggled to find an offen sive rhythm.
“I think we need to keep our grit on defense and then as soon as we get the ball, calm it down and start play ing more calmly on offense,”
said Diaz Bonilla, a 5’11, 175-pound native of Vienna, Va. “That is the way we are going to get goals and get chances. At the end of the day, you can’t win the Ivy League if you are conced ing three soft goals. It starts with focus on the defensive end and then we just have to put away our chances.”
Down by three goals, the Tigers showed focus as they pressed forward to cut into the Yale lead.
“When we were 3-0 down, we decided we had nothing to lose so just go for it,” said Diaz Bonilla. “We were for tunate enough to get a goal back and we probably could have gotten another one.”
It was Diaz Bonilla who tallied the goal with a blast at the 57:41 mark, making history in a losing cause, be coming the first Tiger men’s player to score in the new venue.
“I just figured if no one else is going to do it, I bet ter do it,” said Diaz Bonilla, who now has three goals on the season to go along with two assists. “I decided to take it on myself, we need more of that from guys. I think guys need to not ex pect someone else to score and say I am going to score this goal so that is what I was thinking on my goal.”
As Diaz Bonilla heads into the final weeks of his Princ eton career, he is looking for a big finish.
“It is definitely a sense of urgency — this is my third season and fourth year at the school,” said Diaz
Bonilla. “I think 25 guys haven’t lost an Ivy League game because we went 7-0 last year. But for me, I know what it is like to lose. I have been in these games before. This is my last year so I want to go out on top.”
Princeton associate head coach Steve Totten was dis appointed that the Tigers didn’t come up with a win in their first game at their new home.
“We think it is a premier facility in college soccer,” said Totten. “Our guys have been really excited just to train out here and every time they see it, we know how lucky we are and what a special place it is. It is disap pointing not to get the result on the first day. We are still very thankful for what we have and hopefully we put a performance worthy of the place next time.”
Totten acknowledged that Princeton was outperformed for much of the game by a tough Yale squad.
“Yale is a really hard team to break down, that has al ways been one of their best traits,” said Totten. “I don’t think we really understood what it was going to take until it was two or three down. Even saying that, when it was 1-0, we created the really good chance that was headed over the bar and they scored soon after. Then when it was 2-0, we created another good chance inside the six that we didn’t do enough with and they scored soon after that one.”
The Tigers did create some
good chances as they battled back down the stretch, out shooting Yale 19-5 in the second half.
“There was probably about 30 minutes here I think we can be really proud of,” said Totten. “If the guys under stand that is the expectation then maybe we have made some strides that can help us the rest of the way. But we need to have that from the beginning of the game and then the team has enough quality to win the league.”
In Totten’s view, Diaz Bo nilla displayed his quality in the defeat.
“This might have been his best game of the year where he was good at everything,” said Totten.
“He played simple at the right times. He made good, clear connections at the tight times. He got chances for the team. We need that version of Daniel if we are going to be a successful team.”
While the loss stung, Tot ten noted that the Tigers are still very much in the Ivy title race as they look to win a second straight league crown.
“We have a good opportu nity to prove ourselves next week,” said Totten, referring to Princeton’s game at Co lumbia on October 15. “In the Ivy League, every game is a championship game. If we win all five, we are cham pions. It is still in our hands because Yale already has a
loss. We control our own destiny but winning five Ivy League games is really, re ally hard. We just have to start with one at a time.”
Diaz Bonilla, for his part, believes the defeat to Yale could serve as a wake-up call for Princeton.
“The best thing I can think about after this game is that maybe it is a blessing in dis guise and it gets us going,” said Diaz Bonilla. “It is hard to play as a champ some times because everyone is gunning for you. Now I feel like we are kind of an under dog and we have to chase the league. Hopefully this gets the guys fired up and we go into next week ready to go.”
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Rowan Gilmore has been making some noise this fall along the back line for the Princeton High girls’ soccer team.
“I am definitely trying to be very vocal on the field, yell ing a lot and communicating,” said PHS senior defender and co-captain Gilmore. “If people don’t know where they are supposed to be, I am letting them know. Encouragement is such a big thing and just let ting everyone know that they are doing well.”
Last Saturday as PHS host ed Robbinsville, Gilmore got some encouragement from her teammates as the program held its annual Senior Day.
“It is definitely a very emo tional day,” said Gilmore. “It is always a lot of fun getting to see how the juniors and ev eryone decorates for us. It is awesome. It is very emotional but a lot of fun too.”
There were some sad emo tions Saturday for the Tigers as they fell 2-1 to Robbinsville. PHS yielded a goal with 17:20 left in the first half and held the Ravens scoreless for the next 51 minutes. Robbinsville found the back of the net with
5:40 left in regulation but PHS kept battling and Alysse Kiesewetter buried a penalty kick with 2:54 remaining to make a 2-1 game.
“We were hoping for a dif ferent outcome but I think we really worked hard and we did what we could,” said Gilmore, reflecting on the setback. “We really wanted to win, especial ly on Senior Day. We worked as a team and we put it all out on the field.”
The Tiger defense worked hard as it held the fort against an aggressive Robbinsville at tack which controlled posses sion for much of the contest.
“It is difficult, especially when it is in our half a lot,” said Gilmore. “There is not a lot of rest there, it is all about communication. I think we have a great bond, especially our back four that works really well in the field.”
Serving as a team captain this fall along with fellow se nior Lucia Salvato and junior Kiesewetter has been a great experience for Gilmore.
“It has been a lot of fun,” said Gilmore. “I love working together with my other cap
tains and getting to be a leader of this team. These girls are so much fun; they are so nice.”
With PHS heading into the Mercer County Tournament this week, the team’s veterans are drawing confidence from the squad’s historic postsea son run last fall which saw it advance to the MCT semis and then win the Central Jersey Group 3 sectional on the way to making the Group 3 state championship game for the first time in program history.
“I think it does help a lot, we have the experience of playing tougher teams,” said Gilmore. “We have that under our belt but at the same time it is hard to keep up with that success from last year.”
In Gilmore’s view, the key to a deep postseason run for the Tigers is to stick together through adversity.
“We have had a lot of inju ries this season so it is mak ing up for those injuries that we have,” said Gilmore. “That team chemistry again is just so important for getting up the field and getting those goals.”
—Bill Alden
It was Ella McLaren’s fi rst tournament game for the Princeton Day School girls’ soccer team and things didn’t get off to a good start.
With fourth-seeded PDS hosting fi fth-seeded Morristown-Beard in a state Prep B quarterfinal contest last Thursday, the visiting Crimson tallied a goal in the first 30 seconds of the game.
“It was definitely a challenge; it is not great to fall behind but it didn’t bother us,” said PDS freshman midfielder McLaren. “It motivated us to work harder. It was a wake up we needed to play better and more together.”
That work paid off as PDS knotted the game at 1-1 when junior star Adriana Salzano converted a penalty kick with 2:24 left in the first half.
“That helped us with our mentality,” said McLaren. “It was alright we are tied, we don’t have to be rushed and panicked. Now we can settle down and play our game and not worry about playing theirs.”
McLaren broke the deadlock with 8:34 left in regulation, taking a corner kick from senior star Grace Romano and knocking it off her chest into the goal.
“I saw a goal, I know I am good in the air,” said McLaren, recalling the play. “I went for a header and it hit my body but it went in. I am very happy with that.”
That proved to be the winning tally as PDS added a goal by Romano just over a minute later to pull away to a 3-1 triumph.
“It really is a confidence builder,” said McLaren, who picked up an assist on Romano’s goal. “I have never played in a game like this before.”
As the season has gone on, McLaren has been building her confi dence in her debut campaign.
“I have always played with older girls so it is not really much of an adjustment,” said McLaren. “It is getting used to new chemistry and new players. It is having to fit in with them and knowing where I am needed.”
With three goals in her last four games, McLaren is fi tting in nicely with the Panthers.
“I feel like once I got one, I was motivated to get more,” said McLaren, who scored her first goal in a 2-0 win over the Hill School (Pa.) on September 28. “I know I can get one so I need to just keep going.”
PDS head coach Chris Pettit was proud of the way his squad kept going after yielding the early goal.
“Really from that moment on, I thought we were very, very good,” said Pettit. “We pressed well, our shape was good. We really had them under pressure.”
Getting the goal from Salzano late in the first half was critical.
“It was very important because as much as we dominated, we missed the chances that we created,” said Pettit.
“If you are at one-nil down, then you have that doubt in the back of your mind. We scored so it is now we play the second half, we already know about this team and it is even. Sophia [Zhou] did a great job getting in front of the girl and it was clearly a penalty. Dre was obviously very calm with the finish.
That really gave us the platform to go on. I felt comfortable at halftime that we were going to going to win the game. Whereas when you
are one-nil down, you are still scrambling.”
After halftime, PDS kept the pressure on by getting balls deeper down the field.
“In the second half, when we started doing that higher up the field,” said Pettit. “We had a bit more variety, playing the balls behind. Then all of a sudden we opened them up and made them have to react to something differently rather than just sitting there and collapsing on the space.”
Pettit credited McLaren with providing some high level play for the Panthers.
“Ella has been stepping up and she has been stepping up at times playing center back and at times playing the six (defensive midfi elder),” said Pettit. “She has everything she needs to instantly be a success at high school. She is huge because she is technically very good, but she is also drives and plays without fear. She plays without consequence and that is good, especially in attacking area. Physically, she can handle it. She drives through and makes things happen.”
Getting the insurance tally from Romano sealed the deal for PDS.
“I was happy with that goal because the buildup play was good; that was one of those balls that was played between the defenders into that line where Grace could run onto it,” said Pettit, whose team will be playing at top-seeded Rutgers Prep in the state Prep B semis on October 20.
“Whereas in the first half, as much as we had all of the play, we kept playing it to Grace and Abby Weed’s feet. That allowed them to sit in the middle and say you can have that.”
With the Panthers hosting
Pennington on October 13 and then starting play in the Mercer County Tournament, Pettit is happy with where his squad is at heading into postseason play.
“We are a young team, it was going to take a while for us to jell,” said Pettit, whose team edged George School (Pa.) 1-0 last Saturday in improving to 8-3. “Now I feel like the players are starting to settle and to understand what we are asking of them and what their own strengths and weaknesses are as individuals. We are starting to figure it out — that is my hope. I feel now we are getting to the point where our understanding of each other and our togetherness has been very good so that helps.”
For McLaren, playing with Salzano has helped her become a stronger player.
“Coming into the season, I really looked up to Adriana,” said McLaren. “I wanted to be as good as her, if not better. She has defi nitely motivated me and pushed me to be the best I can be.”
— Bill AldenDante Barone played tight end for his former team two years ago but Hun football head coach Todd Smith saw more potential in him.
“He’s a real Swiss Army knife for us,” said Smith. “He’s probably the most versatile kid on the team.”
Barone indeed has devel oped into a two-way player that has helped the Raid ers start 5-0 for the second straight season. The senior had a pair of touchdown catches and was part of a dominant defensive line in a 48-7 romp at Blair on Saturday as he continues to impress on both sides of the ball in his second year at Hun.
“It was definitely different compared to my old school because I was more of a traditional tight end at my old school,” said Barone, a Manalapan resident. “And playing at Hun, it’s kind of similar to the way Kyle Sha nahan uses Kyle Juszczyk on the 49ers which I really like. I’m in the slot, I’m at fullback, I’m at wing, and also at tight end sometimes. I think it’s really cool to be able to be versatile. I like to run and I like to catch the ball and I like blocking. I do all those things. It’s really cool.”
Barone was just one weap on for the Raiders, who saw quarterback Marco Lainez III account for six of Hun’s seven touchdowns. Lainez ran in two of them and passed for four touchdowns with Logan Galletta catch ing a 35-yard strike and Liam Thorpe on the receiv ing end of the final passing touchdown. Kamar Archie ran in the Raiders’ other touchdown.
“We came out and took care of business,” said Smith. “We did a good job of spreading the ball around to a bunch of different guys. The kids really executed the
game plan on both sides of the ball, and we came out on top.”
Hun will try to remain un beaten when it hosts the Hill School (Pa.) on October 15 for Homecoming Weekend.
Blair was the first Mid-At lantic Prep League (MAPL) team that the Raiders have faced this season as its schedule has featured some New England prep schools to this point.
“With the MAPL teams, it doesn’t matter who’s on the team or who we’re playing, it’s always going to be some sort of rivalry just because there’s always been one,” said Barone.
“It was definitely more of a personal game, especially Blair because they’re one of the better teams. They have a couple guys who will be playing college football. It was nice to win that game.”
The winning never gets old for Barone, who was a part of last year’s unbeaten season at Hun. With a lot of new additions and sev eral other returning players in different spots, he is one of the few back in the same role as the Raiders continue to steamroll teams with a steady formula.
“Right now our D-line is killing it this year,” said Bar one. “We have a bunch of guys that will come in. We have a good rotation and we have really good linebackers and safeties but it’s not re ally getting back to them so quick anymore like it was last year. Our D line is kill ing it. And offensively we can do it on the ground, we can do it in the air. A lot of games we’ve been on the ground with Kamar and JT [Goodman] and Dom [De Luzio], our running backs, all scoring. But this game, I think Marco had six total touchdowns, and five in the
With his versatility, Bar one helps in all facets. De fensively, he has become a reliable piece of the defen sive line. And on offense the 6’3, 250-pounder has showed off his skills in a number of ways. He has already eclipsed last year’s touchdown total with six scores through five games.
“He possesses this elite size, but he’s a gigantic ath lete,” said Smith. “He goes out and makes plays on both sides of the ball. He prob ably has the best hands on the team. He’s become a much bigger threat to run the ball this year. We give him two or three carries a game and I think he’s av eraging 15.8 yards a carry right now. He’s a beast.”
Barone has gotten com fortable with what he can bring to the Raiders in his second year. He worked in the offseason in improving his burst off the ball de fensively, and he put more focus into his blocking on offense to complement his years of experience of pass catching and running routes.
“He’s probably Marco’s favorite target,” said Smith. “He’s 6’3 and makes plays. If he catches the ball in the flat he can run it in for a touchdown. He had two touchdowns against Salis bury and two touchdowns against Blair today. He’s become a real threat every time he touches the ball. But he’s a ridiculous blocker. He does a great job of pass pro tection, and a great job in the run game for us leading the way for some other guys. Probably one of our favorite formations is when we put him and (Owen) Wafle next to each other at fullback. We have about 500 pounds of fullback in there, which is awesome.”
Barone is willing to help Hun in any way possible, whether it’s with his legs,
hands, or just blocking. The Raiders keep every option open for him with him lining up in different spots or mo tioning into new formations. On Saturday, he picked up a pair of scores through the air from Lainez. The two have developed a good con nection in their second year working together.
“With Marco, I really don’t expect the ball anywhere else besides my hands,” said Bar one of the Iowa-bound quar terback. “He’s really good. He’s become one of my best friends. Building that chemis try, we’re two of the only two returning starters at our same spot. Some people are play ing other positions. Having that same connection from last year definitely helps. Be ing with him the longest on the team out of all the receiv ers helps chemistry-wise.”
With the offense clicking, Hun is getting ahead and that has helped the defense be more effective. Early leads have forced teams to adjust their game plans and put them on their heels against Hun.
“People get away from the run,” said Smith. “It’s re ally difficult to run the ball against us. If you’re going to have a steady diet of passing the ball we’re probably going to get there a good amount of the time, or at least put pressure on the quarterback. That’s tough. Pressure equals big plays in the back end. Dillon Bucchere had a great interception today. I think we got after the quarterback and sacked him three or four times, but the pressure was always there. The defense is playing lights out. They’re do ing a great job. They’re tak ing pride in it and everyone
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Relishing the chance to get in the trenches, Barone has been enjoying playing de fense for the Raiders. Hav ing only played offense for Manalapan, he’s making the most of his chances on the other side of the ball while sustaining his passion for of fense.
“I love playing defense,” said Barone. “I think it’s also a great way to show my ag gressiveness if I’m not show ing it too much on offense.
I really like offense more. I think I’m more of an offensive player and the fact that I’ll get to keep playing that Hback position is really special to me.”
Barone is slated to play H-back when he joins the Rutgers University program next year. He has taken big steps to prepare for the next level since joining the Raiders and looks forward to the next challenge ahead.
“I’m really excited about getting to the next level be cause I think I’ll be able to flourish in that competitive environment, and just the fact that right now I’m preparing myself every day in practice
by going against the guys on our team,” said Barone.
“Like going against Owen Wafle – I have to block him sometimes on defense, and Zach Aamland, these are some of the best guys in the state. Being at The Hun School and being in that en vironment, and preparing myself to play bigger com petition, I think that’s what’s really going to help me prog ress when I get to Rutgers.”
Barone still has the second half of the season left with Hun, but he’d like to bring to head coach Greg Schiano’s Rutgers team the same suc cess that he has experienced with the Raiders. His versatil ity and playmaking were im portant for Rutgers to keep in-state.
“That definitely is a big thing,” said Barone. “Schiano is a really good guy. I have a lot of trust in him. I think he’s going to help everyone on the team succeed. That New Jersey connection, we have to start building that back up. Obviously Rutgers hasn’t been where it wants to be the past couple seasons and I think recruiting guys with the same mindset and same drive to be great and for the state of New Jersey is a big thing.”
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After winning its first seven games this season, the Hun School field hockey team tasted defeat twice last week.
While Hun head coach Tracey Arndt was disappointed to see her squad fall 1-0 to Pennington on October 3 and then lose 4-3 at the Blair Academy last Saturday, she believes the setbacks could be a positive in the long run for the Raiders.
“Sometimes losses early in a season prepare you for postseason,” said Arndt. “The Blair game and Pennington showed we can hang with these teams. Blair is good and they are aggressive and so was Pennington. We got bumped around and we held our ground and no matter what the score was, we kept battling. Those are all the things that are helpful as you prepare for playoffs.”
Hun gave undefeated Blair (9-0) a good battle, jumping out to a 1-0 lead at the end of the first quarter and trailing 2-1 at halftime. After the Buccaneers scored two unanswered goals in the third quarter, the Raiders responded with two straight goals in the fourth quarter.
“It was 2-1 at halftime, it was a competitive game; that was exactly what we needed,” said Arndt. “We really felt that we played hard. I really appreciated the grit and the perseverance that the girls showed.
At the end, we just ran out of time. We scored with hardly any time left, who knows if we had five more minutes. Their team was very good.”
Junior Ava Che had a very
good game for the Raiders against Blair, scoring both of the fourth quarter goals.
“Ava usually plays back for us, she has got nice skills has a great hit,” said Arndt. “Typically we don’t bring her up to the corners because she is a defender and I am always conscious of a transition ball. We had nothing to lose then so
I put her on the fi rst corner and the last corner. It paid dividends, she just ripped it.”
With Hun not losing in September on the way to a 7-0 start, the players gained a lot of self-belief.
“The girls had created several goals for themselves this year and one of them was to be undefeated in September so that was very cool to do that,” said Arndt. “Over the last few years, we really had to look at minor, little victories so I think that was a large victory for them. It gave them the confidence that they need. Our league is really strong and our county is really strong, setting that goal and achieving it was really great.”
With the Mercer County Tournament starting this week, Arndt is confident that her squad can do some damage.
“We are in a good spot, I think they are realizing that they can do great things,” said Arndt. “They have to really play together for a whole game. When that happens, good things can come.”
Playing together has helped the Raiders develop a balanced attack as eight players have at least two goals, led by junior Ana Dios with five
followed by senior Logan Frith and junior Avery Barrett with three apiece and junior Alexa Cavalli, junior Ava Olender, senior Mio Chiodo, junior Che, and sophomore Phoebe Thielmann each having two.
“They said that one of their goals was to have many people score, so that part is really cool,” said Arndt. “When you look at different people scoring, it is a ‘next man up’ mentality. Some games, it could be one more than others. We talk about that sometimes girls are just on and the connections are there.”
Junior transfer Dios, a native of Spain, has proven to be a catalyst in the midfield
“Ana has really nice skills, she is a fluid player and a consistent player,” said Arndt. “She has a really nice game IQ, she reads the game very well. I think we could use her as a forward for sure because she has a keen eye to finish. She has been really nice for us in the midfi eld. She and Maya [Zahlan] and Phoebe have been making some nice connections in the midfi eld. She really played outstanding on Saturday. She reads the game differently and that has brought a new level of education for our girls. It has been great.”
A pair of seniors, Sammy Kandel and Abby O’Brien, have spearheaded the Raider defense along with junior goalie Norah Kempson.
“We started with two backs with Sammy and Abby in the backfield and Norah as our goalie,” said Arndt. “I don’t
we can underestimate the strength that Norah brings back there. At the same time, with Sammy and Abby, even though hockey is not their first sport with softball for Sammy and lacrosse for Abby, they are just strong. They are really great athletes.”
In Arndt’s view, the Raiders could do some great things down the home stretch of the season.
“Tournament time adversity always brings out the best in people or reveals their character at least,” said Arndt.
“We need to play our game and play at a high intensity from the start and focus on what we do well. I tell them they have to walk off the field really proud of how they played and that is a success. That is really our goal.”
Having been battle-tested should help Hun achieve that goal.
“We have been down one goal or two goals whatever it is, all of those little experiences will help us,” said Arndt. “Who knows how far we will get. We go one day at a time and one win at a time but those experiences do help.”
— Bill Alden
[1950] Conte’s has become a Princeton destination; a great old-school bar that also happens to serve some of New Jersey’s best pizza, thin-crusted and bubbly.
restaurant hasn’t changed much since then; even the tables are the same. It’s a simple, no-frills space, but if you visit during peak times, be prepared to wait well over an hour for a table.
(Pa.) 2-1 last Monday. Lynch chipped in a goal and an as sist as the Red Hawks im proved to 10-3-1. Penning ton will be starting action in the Mercer County Tourna ment this week.
Boys’ Soccer : Connor Frykholm led the way as Hun edged the Blair Acad emy 3-2 last Friday. Ju nior star Frykholm tallied two goals and an assist to help the Raiders improve to 8-2-1. Hun hosts the Hill School (Pa.) on October 14 and then starts play in the Mercer County Tournament.
Girls’ Soccer : Failing to get its offense going, Hun fell 2-0 to Blair Academy last Saturday. The Raiders, now 4-5-2, host the Hill School (Pa.) on October 15 and then start action in the Mercer County Tournament.
Football : Keon Kenner had a huge game as Pen nington defeated George School (Pa.) 38-19 last Sat urday. Kenner rushed for 291 yards and four touch downs as the Red Hawks moved to 4-1. Pennington hosts the Academy of New Church (Pa.) on October 15.
Field Hockey : Gracen Ward and Genevieve Vallieres each scored two goals as Pennington defeated Stuart Country Day School 4-1 last Friday. In upcoming action, the Red Hawks, now 5-3-1 will be starting play in the Mercer County Tournament and the state Prep B tourney.
Boys’ Soccer : Sparked by Matty Lynch, Penning ton defeated LaSalle High
Football : Peyton Cosover starred Lawrenceville topped Penn Charter (Pa.) 31-10 last Saturday. Cosover threw three touchdown passes to help the Big Red improve to 3-2. Lawrencev ille plays at Peddie on Oc tober 15.
Field Hockey : Led by Caitlin Hoover, Lawrencev ille defeated Princeton Day School 6-1 last Saturday. Hoover tallied three goals as the Big Red improved to 3-4. Lawrenceville plays at the Peddie School on Oc tober 15 and will also start action in the Mercer County Tournament.
regulation and 20 minutes of overtime. The Panthers, who moved to 3-6-2 with a 2-2 tie with George School (Pa.) last Saturday, will be starting play in the Mercer County Tournament this week. In addition, PDS will be playing at top-seeded Gill St. Bernard’s in the Prep B semis on October 20.
Girls’ Tennis : Neha Khandkar and Amy Zhou came up big as PDS edged Lawrenceville 3-2 last Thursday. Khandkar posted a straight set win at first singles while Zhou pulled out a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 victory at third singles. The Pan thers, who improved to 5-5 with the win, will be start ing play in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Ath letic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public South Jersey sectional where they are seeded first and were slated to host ninth-seeded Paul VI on October 11 in a quarter final match with the victor to play in the semis on Oc tober 13.
Field Hockey : Jadyn Huff scored a goal but it wasn’t nearly enough as PDS fell 6-1 to Lawrenceville last Saturday. The Panthers, now 4-5, will be starting play in the Mercer County Tournament this week.
Boys’ Soccer : Prevail ing in a marathon contest in the state Prep B quarter finals last Thursday, PDS edged Rutgers Prep 2-1 in a shootout after the teams had played to a 1-1 draw through
Football: Sophomore quarterback Travis Petrone passed for 148 yards and ran for a touchdown in a losing cause as PHS fell 4014 to Cherry Hill East last Saturday. The Tigers, now 0-7, face the WWP football coop on October 14 at WW/ P-North.
Boys’ Soccer : Coming up short in a nail-biter, PHS fell 1-0 in overtime to Rob binsville last Saturday. The Tigers, now 8-4, are slated
to start action in the Mer cer County Tournament this week.
Girls’ Tennis : Winning each match in straight sets, PHS defeated Notre Dame 5-0 last Thursday. The Ti gers, who improved to 7-1 with the victory, will be starting play in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group 3 sectional this week. Thirdseeded PHS was slated to host sixth-seeded Northern Burlington in a quarterfinal match on October 11 with the victor advancing to the semis on October 13.
Girls’ Volleyball : Led by Sarah Villamil, PHS defeat ed Lawrenceville 2-0 (25-19, 25-13) last Monday. Senior star Villamil had 12 kills and seven digs to help the Tigers improve to 13-1. PHS plays at Lenape High on October 12 before hosting Montgom ery on October 14, Washing ton Township on October 17, and Florence Township on October 18.
Field Hockey : Madison Leggett scored the lone goal for Stuart as it fell 4-1 to Pennington last Friday. The Tartans, who dropped to 6-3 with the setback, are hosting Hun on October 12 before starting play in the state Prep B tourney and Mercer County Tournament.
In action last Sunday in the Princeton Junior Football League (PJFL) Seniors divi sion (ages 11-14), the Petrone Associates Colts defeated the Princeton Global Jets 53-25.
Charlie Baglio threw touch down passes to Xander Cox and Victor Espitia with Mason Merse adding a touchdown on the ground. For the Jets, Colton Monica ran for a touch down and threw touchdown passes to Nolan Maurer and PJ Ross while Everett Marcus added a touchdown on the ground.
Fletcher Harrison powered the Dick’s Sporting Goods Ravens over the Chris tine’s Hope Lions 54-26 with three TD receptions, two from Andrew Spies and one from Jacob Reece. Reece added a kickoff return for a score while Spies had interception return for a touchdown and Will Sch mitt added rushing TD. For the Lions, Matt Brophy had two TD passes to Phineas Choe and Liam McCloskey. Choe also rushed for two touch downs.
The Tamasi Shell Steelers defeated the DZS Clinical Cardinals 50-31. Ryan von Roemer threw three TD pass es to Langsdon Hinds and one to Koby Smith for the Steelers. Smith and von Roemer ran for
scores while Hinds returned an interception for a touchdown.
Julian Frevert led the Cardi nals, rushing for two touch downs and throwing a touch down pass to Manuel Tellez. Ty James threw a touchdown pass to Julian Frevert, and Manfred Yan added a rushing TD.
In the Juniors division (ages 8-10), the McCaffrey’s Eagles defeated the DZS Clinical Packers 31-26 behind three touchdowns by Zephaniah Chambers, two interceptions and a TD run by Dylan Cham bers. In a losing cause, Pack ers QB Henry Ambra threw three TD passes, two to Mal colm Harris and one to James McFarlane.
The Sunoco Steelers topped the Petrone Associates Chiefs 27-19. For the Steelers, Aiyan McCollum scored three touch downs, Ilan Spiegel threw and ran for a TD. As for the Chiefs, Luke Branagh scored two touchdowns and Alexander Shah added one.
The PREA Lions edged the Mercato Ravens 27-26 as Bryce Davison led the way with three touchdowns and Everett Cole added a TD re ception. For the Ravens, Alex Spies starred with three TD passes and three intercep tions. The PBA-130 Raiders and Woodwinds Bengals tied 20-20. For the Raiders, Adam Nayden scored two touch downs and Reggie Wright added another. For the Ben gals, Josiah Brox and Jamie Monica ran for touchdowns and Lock DeTuro threw a TD pass to Teddy Hogshire.
Hildred Anderson Storey Geertz passed away peace fully at her home in Prince ton, New Jersey, on Septem ber 30, at the age of 95. She was a devoted anthropolo gist, prolific author, beloved teacher, mentor, mother and grandmother, bold advocate for services to the elderly, and friend to many.
Hilly was born in Queens, New York, on February 12,
1927 and reared there and in Teaneck, New Jersey. A graduate of Antioch College, she received her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1956.
Her first book, The Java nese Family (Free Press of Glencoe, Inc.), was pub lished in 1961. After her initial fieldwork in Java, she taught at The University of Chicago from 1960 to 1970 before coming to Princeton
University in 1970. At Princ eton, Hilly taught courses on the history of anthropologi cal theory, the anthropologi cal study of life stories, the anthropology of art, and the ethnographer’s craft.
In 1972, Hilly became the first chairperson of the De partment of Anthropology at Princeton University, and thus the first woman chair of a department at Princeton, a position in which she served for many years. She was named Professor Emeritus in 1998.
Hilly did extensive field work in Morocco, and in Java and Bali, Indonesia and returned to Indonesia repeatedly during her ca reer to conduct the research which helped fuel her exten sive list of publications. She completed more than two years of fieldwork research in the village of Batuan on the island of Bali. Work ing in the same village that was studied in the 1930s by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, she focused on the interconnections between different Balinese art forms and how and why such forms have changed through time. She investigated the effects of economic development and tourism on Balinese ar tistic endeavor.
The first book from the re search in Batuan, Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bate son and Margaret Mead, was published in January 1995 (University of Hawaii Press). In 2004, The Life of a Balinese Temple: Artistry, Imagination, and History in a Peasant Village was also published by the University of Hawaii Press. Among her other works, Professor Geertz
is co-author with her former husband Clifford Geertz of Kinship in Bali (University of Chicago Press, 1975), and co-author with Clifford Geertz and Lawrence Rosen of Meaning and Order in Mo roccan Society (Cambridge University Press, 1979). Most recently, in 2017, at the age of 90, her book, Storytell ing in Bali, was published by the Dutch publishing house Brill. She took great pride in sharing her final work with friends and family.
Throughout her long ca reer, Hilly touched the lives of many with her insight, kindness, and generosity. After retirement, she be came an energetic member of Community Without Walls (CWW), advocating for pro grams to provide needed services to the elderly com munity of Princeton. She is survived by her children, Er ika Reading and Ben Geertz; her brother Warren Storey; and grandchildren Andrea and Elena Martinez. A cel ebration of her life will be announced at a future date. Donations in her memory may be sent to the nonprofit Princeton Senior Resource Center (PSRC). CWW is now an affiliate of PSRC.
The family wants to ex tend a special thanks to Marci HoSang, of Millenium Home Care, LLC, Michelle HoSang, and Monica Rod ney, for taking such good care of Hilly, keeping her comfortable, happy, and safe in her own home.
passed on to his daughter, Jeannemarie, and his son, Christian. One of the origi nal shareholders of the Mad River Ski Area Co-op in Vermont, he and his family spent many holidays hiking and skiing in the mountains. For his wife, Annie, he was an anchor of strength, love, and best friend. For his two children, he was a source of unconditional love and a model of personal integrity.
Predeceased by his par ents and brothers, Paul Skal ka and his wife Doris and Robert Skalka, Rudy is sur vived by his wife of 62 years; his children; his daughterin-law Susan Skalka and son-in-law Alan Calfee; his grandchildren, Kazimir and Shiloh; his sister-in-law Bar bara Skalka; and his nieces and nephews, Gerald, Paul, Doris, Catherine and Mary. Rudy is also survived by ex tended family and friends.
Calling hours will be held on Thursday, October 13, 2022, from 5 until 7 p.m. at the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Av enue, Princeton.
The funeral will be held 9 a.m. on Friday, October 14, 2022, from the MatherHodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princ eton. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10:30 a.m. at St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church, 47 Skillman Road, Skillman, NJ 08558 with burial to follow at Princeton Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers dona tions may be sent to Hands Together, PO Box 80985, Springfield MA 01138 or to Catholic Charities of Trenton.
husband, Mel, joined the faculty of Rutgers Universi ty. It’s safe to say that Princ eton provided an air of in spiration, imagination, and encouragement that kickstarted 60 years of creativity that lasted until her passing! Her home studio reveals the volume, breadth, and depth of her creations: oils, acryl ic, watercolors, pen and ink, woodcuts, monotypes, handmade paper, and book and magazine illustrations and covers, a good deal of it chronicling Town and Gown and highlighting her family’s travels abroad. She was a mainstay of the Princ eton Art Alliance, frequently organizing and contributing to its exhibitions. Her work hangs in the embassies and consulates of several coun tries as well as corporate of fices, hospitals, and private collections.
Over the course of her life, she also worked in public re lations, advertising, travel, and real estate, taught art appreciation and gave art lessons on cruise ships, and, with her husband — academ ic and author Mel — raised three children (Scott, Andi, and Dana), enjoyed and counseled six grandchildren (Zach, Erica, Jake, Hillary, Michael, and Shirah), and delighted in two great grand children (Asa and Bode). She was a talented baker and gourmet cook, whose cheese and chocolate fondues were popular and in-demand with her children’s Princeton High School friends. Her recipe for candied tongue was devoured at New Year’s Day parties.
Rudolph John Skalka, 90, of Princeton, NJ, passed away at home, surrounded by his loving family.
Born in New York City to Julius and Pauline Skalka, Rudolph was a graduate of St. Ann’s Academy and St. John’s University. He be gan his professional career with the accounting firm of KPMG (Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.) after re turning from France while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces from 1954 to 1956. A licensed New York State Certified Public Accountant, he was a financial executive for several companies, re tiring from AMREP Corpo ration as Vice President of Finance in 1995. Since then, he was a private Financial Consultant to several NY Stock Exchange companies and a Member of the Boards and Chair of the Audit Com mittees for Onconova Thera peutics, Inc. and the Catho lic Charities of Trenton.
Rudy and his wife, Anna Marie Sturn Skalka (Annie), were members of Princeton University’s Aquinas Insti tute, and more recently of Saint Charles Borromeo’s parish in Skillman. A lifelong athlete and avid sportsman, he enjoyed canoe camping, golf, cycling, and especially skiing, the love of which he
Longtime Princeton resi dent and artist Anita Bena rde passed away on October 5, six days shy of her 97th birthday. She is probably best known for penning and illus trating the children’s book, The Pumpkin Smasher, a beloved Halloween classic published in 1972, influenced by happenings here, but set in Cranbury to protect the guilty and the innocent.
Anita, however, was mak ing all kinds of art long be fore she arrived in town with her family in 1961 when her
Of her professional accom plishments, she remained most proud of The Pumpkin Smasher with its evocative, orange and black, autumnal drawings and enduring mes sage of the importance of an inclusive community standing up to bullies if we are to live in a just and compassionate world. Original galleys and illustrations are housed in Princeton University’s Cotsen Children’s Library. (Another children’s book, Georgio, The Train that Wanted to Ride a Boat, was a sweet metaphor for triumphing over adversity, something she did herself as she overcame various medical issues, and gave the Energizer Bunny a run for its money.)
Fifty years after publica tion, The Pumpkin Smasher still resonates with children, parents, grandchildren, and grandparents. Coincidence or something else, Anita Be narde arrived in this world in October, set her most cher ished work in October, and waved farewell in October, having filled “the unforgiv ing minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.”
The family is planning a celebration of her life for early November.
Anne M. Fields, the daugh ter of Bernard L. and Marga ret (Illig) Flanagan, was born on her mother’s birthday Feb ruary 17, 1939 in Wellsville, New York. She is survived by her husband Kenneth D. Fields of Peterborough, NH.
Anne received a BS Degree in Education from State Uni versity of New York at Buffalo in 1961, where she was an elected Representative to Stu dent Congress and President of College Union Board. She was a cellist with the Orchard Park Symphony in New York State.
Anne received a New York State Regents Diploma from Wellsville High School in 1957. She was Copy Editor of her yearbook and a week ly columnist for the school newspaper. During high school she had her own week ly three-hour radio show at WLSV in Wellsville called Ac cent On Youth. She planned the show and presented the top fifties recordings over the air. She earned numerous New York All-State awards for solo cello, orchestra and was a soprano with the choir and the nine-member Treblettes. She received the 1957 Arion Music Award for
outstanding senior in music.
She was a third-grade teacher at William Gillette School in the Rush-Henrietta School District in suburban Rochester, NY in 1961-1962.
A first-grade teacher at Paja rito School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1962-1963, she was a cellist with the Al buquerque Civic Symphony.
In the fall of 1963, she moved to Palo Alto, Cali fornia, where she taught first grade at Crescent Park School. She was a cellist in the Stanford Symphony and a soprano at St. Ann’s Chapel. She married the late Dennis W. Elliott in Palo Alto in 1964.
They had two children: Claire born in 1965 and Mark born in 1968. The family moved to Lexington, MA, in 1971 where she taught a Foods for Entertaining class for Adult Education. During that time, she was a member of the Harvard Business School Wives Club. Relocating to Old Greenwich, CT, in 1973, she was a member of the Green wich Junior Women’s Club Drama Troupe performing at Greenwich schools, historical houses, and events.
The family moved to Princ eton, NJ, in 1976 where Anne lived for 21 years. She was a Docent at Princeton Univer sity Art Museum from 19771981, researching paintings and giving gallery talks that are written up and in the archives. After her children were grown, Anne studied to be a paralegal and became in terested in Real Estate. She earned a GRI designation and had a 12-year career in Real Estate starting out with Gloria Nilson Realtors in Princeton and later with Richard A. Weidel Realtors in Hopewell, NJ. She was a
member of the National Asso ciation of Realtors, New Jer sey Association of Realtors, and Mercer County Board of Realtors. During that time, she received numerous certi fications and awards in resi dential, land, and commercial Real Estate.
In 1997, Anne moved to Peterborough, NH. She was a soprano with the Monad nock Chorus, performing with them at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1998. She was an In The Wings volun teer with the Peterborough Players. She met her hus band Kenneth D. Fields when they were both members of a church choir and later served as deacons. They were mar ried May 4, 2003. Anne was a member of the Dublin Com munity Church. As a soprano in the church choir, she will be remembered for her fine melodic soprano voice. She was also one of the Readers of Scripture for services. In addition to her interests in music and art history, her reading interests were diverse including economics, politics, and history, as well as fiction. Anne has traveled extensively in Europe including England, Scotland, Sweden, France, Austria, Spain, the Canary Islands, and the Caribbean. She was on the Board of Directors of Crafts Inn in Vermont where she and her husband owned one of their timeshare weeks.
During their years together Anne and Ken shared life in terests, including Ken’s love of jazz and Anne’s love of classical music and opera. They were yearly subscrib ers to the Boston Symphony and Tanglewood. Most years they spent time in Virginia and Hilton Head Island, SC.
In 2004 they spent three weeks exploring Scotland. Anne had a love of animals, especially dogs. She had an adventurous spirit, sense of humor, memorable laugh, and a wonderful enthusiasm for all that she set out to ac complish.
As a young woman, Anne’s greatest hope was to have children. She devoted the largest part of her life to be ing a mother. Her children have an abundance of photo albums that tell the story of her motivation, encourage ment, and support of their ac tivities, parties, and projects that she planned and carried out with them. Throughout the years when her children visited, they always brought out photo albums to share with friends or show their children what they were like at the same age.
Anne was a continuously sober member of AA for 46 years (December 9, 1975) and had a profound influence on the many lives she touched through that fellowship. She attended the Rutgers Univer sity School of Alcohol Stud ies in 1982 and was a vol unteer at Carrier Foundation in Belle Mead, New Jersey, from 1982-1986. Anne had a core belief in the value of gratitude for blessings in her life. The words “thank you” were instilled in her children and encouraged with her grandchildren.
In addition to her husband Ken, Anne is survived by her son Mark Elliott and wife Ewa, granddaughters Katie and Lizzie, grandson Jan; daughter Claire Elliott; step children Margery Langevin, Bruce Fields and wife Chris sy, Heather Marrotte; 11 step grandchildren; and five step
great-grandchildren.
Anne was pre-deceased by a brother Richard J. Flanagan in 1991, a grandson Benja min Flanagan Elliott in 1999 and a stepdaughter Laurel Humphrey in 2021.
A Memorial Service was held at 11 a.m. on Sunday, October 9, 2022 at the Mac Dowell Dam.
Burial will be in the Fields
Princeton’s First Tradition
Family Plot at Wayside Cem etery in Ocean, New Jersey.
Should friends desire, con tributions may be sent to Al coholics Anonymous General Service Office, PO Box 2407, James A Farley Station, New York, NY 10116-2407.
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Preaching Sunday, October 16, 2022
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Guest musicians, the Snow Pond String Quartet with Jo-Ann Sternberg, clarinet will present prelude music beginning at 10:45 a.m. They will also play during and after the service.
Featured composers include Mozart, Piazzola, Finzi, and Brahms.
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In today’s real estate market, you need to work with a real estate professional who you can trust. As proud members of the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network, we provide the absolute finest service, dedication, and expertise possible to our clients. Whether you want to buy, sell, or rent — we will help make your home ownership dreams come true. Our websites offer a wealth of information on finding and buying a home, and we are always ready to answer any questions you have.
Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty
4 Nassau Street, Princeton
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As a Princeton native, I love sharing my knowledge of and passion for this beautiful, culture rich, and historic community. I have specialized in listing and selling homes and estates in the Princeton area for over 30 years and I value all my past and current client relationships. Real estate is an investment you can enjoy even during minor fluctuations in market conditions, so don’t put off buying or selling a home based on news headlines or interest rates. I love the real estate business and look forward to guiding my clients through this transitioning market.
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350 Nassau Street, Princeton
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Beatrice’s strong sales and excellent negotiation skills stem from her earned MBA degrees in finance and
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Amanda Botwood
Compass Real Estate
47 Hulfish Street, Princeton (609) 710-2021 | (609) 727-3255 amanda.botwood@compass.com amandabotwood.com
Amanda is committed to quality service at every price point, ensuring that buyers’ and sellers’ unique situations and needs are met is always her priority. Providing professionalism, dedication, and deep knowledge of Mercer, Middlesex, and Somerset counties, Amanda is your go-to real estate resource whatever your buying, listing, or investment goals.
Amanda uses her marketing expertise and deep understanding of market conditions, along with Compass concierge to maximize your home’s selling potential.
She is committed to supporting homebuyers through the process of purchasing the right property for them. It’s your biggest investment — Amanda understands how important making the right decision is for you.
Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty 4 Nassau Street, Princeton (609) 921-1050 callawayhenderson.com
Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty is central New Jersey’s premier real estate firm. Combining a rich heritage and deep rooted local expertise with unparalleled international reach, we are uniquely qualified to serve communities that are at once small and tight-knit, yet a magnet for the world’s best and brightest. We are a locally owned market leader, serving the greater Princeton area with four offices throughout central New Jersey including Lambertville, Montgomery, Pennington, and Princeton.
Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty is the exclusive local affiliate of Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC. The Sotheby’s International Realty network has more than 24,000 sales associates located in approximately 1,000 offices in 75 countries and territories worldwide, connecting the finest independent real estate companies to the most prestigious clientele in the world and providing a powerful marketing and referral program for luxury listings.
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Discover how our real estate agents are helping buyers find their place in Princeton every day, one home at a time. Compass is building the first modern real estate platform, pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless.
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10 Nassau Street, Princeton
O: (609) 921-1411 | M: (609) 658-3771
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Heidi A. Hartmann’s professional achievements include 30+ consecutive years as a multi-million-dollar producer and a recipient of the state of New Jersey’s highest sales status, the esteemed Platinum Level, from 2014–2017. Over the years, Heidi has been recognized by Coldwell Banker for production and earnings ranking her No. 1 in the Princeton office for the seventh consecutive year and has been awarded membership into the prestigious International President’s Premier Club, for the last four years, placing her in the top 1 percent out of 94,000 Coldwell Banker agents worldwide.
Heidi provides the finest quality of service and expertise to her clientele and offers a high level of discretion. She deals well with confidential issues such as potential hires for companies and corporations and has an innate talent for relocation work as she is specifically chosen to represent many executive level buyers and sellers. Heidi is comfortable with complicated financial and divorce situations where she has been a court appointed agent, and has a keen eye for reviewing architectural drawings for builders and buyers to insure floor plans are designed to facilitate today’s style of living.
Heidi enables buyers to visualize the potential of each home she shows and offers sellers a discriminating sense of staging their home for sale. Her extensive understanding of real estate law and successful negotiating skills are invaluable assets to both buyers and sellers.
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Coldwell Banker Realty
10 Nassau Street, Princeton
O: (609) 921-7554 | M: (609) 240-7554
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Having the right real estate agent means having an agent who is committed to helping you buy or sell your home with the highest level of expertise in your local market. This means also to help you in understanding each step of the buying or selling process. This commitment level has helped me build a remarkable track record of delivering results.
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Nothing is more exciting to me than the gratifying feeling I get from helping people meet their real estate needs. You can count on me to always do what’s in your best interest. I pride myself on being honest, trustworthy, and knowledgeable in the real estate market. I know how important it is to find your dream home or get the best offer for your property. Therefore I will make it my responsibility to help you achieve those goals.
Whether you are an experienced investor or a first-time buyer, I can help you in finding the property of your dreams. Please feel free to browse my website or let me guide you every step of the way by calling or emailing me to set up an appointment today.
4 Nassau Street, Princeton (609) 921-1050 | M: (609) 439-2282
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My real estate expertise is informed by my corporate and small business background. I’m a creative problem solver with a cool head and well-developed negotiating skills, and my clients always have top priority.
I have been a resident of the beautiful community of Princeton for almost 30 years. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, I grew up climbing mountains in the summer and skiing in the winter. I still rise at dawn most days to row, swim, or run.
My diverse background has provided me with insight across numerous industries. After receiving my BA in economics from the University of Washington in Seattle, I pursued a career in publishing, working for Bon Appetit, Architectural Digest, and GEO in Los Angeles, and The Wall Street Journal in Princeton.
An avid cook, I pursued culinary school in New York City and graduated with a Blue Ribbon degree (highest honors) in culinary arts. I later co-founded Twin Hens, Inc., a nationally distributed artisan line of frozen chicken pot pies found in such stores as Whole Foods and Dean & DeLuca.
Community involvement is an important aspect of my life. I’ve been a member of Trinity Church since moving to Princeton, serving on the Vestry (the governing board) and as director of youth education. I am a past member of the Master Gardeners of Mercer County, I co-founded a communitybased business networking group, Princeton Works, in 2012, and am an active supporter of the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative.
My son, Peter, attends Connecticut College where he studies chemistry and plays ice hockey. My husband Ken is a financial writer with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
For additional information about the real estate market in Princeton, and its wonderful lifestyle, follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Princeton Home Marketing Center 253 Nassau Street, Princeton
O: (609) 683-8505 | C: (609) 462-2340 robin.wallack@foxroach.com robinwallack.com
Robin’s experiences in the workplace and the community are both extensive and intensive. She spent many years working as assistant to the director of Career Services at Princeton University. Robin served on the Princeton Regional Board of Education for six years as both president and vice president. Robin also served as vice president of the Mercer County Board of Education, as a Princeton Civil Rights Commissioner, and as a member of the Site Plan Advisory Board.
Robin says, “Real estate is a process, and I will be with you every step of the way. For me, real estate is deeply rooted in relationships. Even after you close on your house, you can always feel free to call me for advice, for help, for information. As one of my customers once said, ‘Once we work with you, we’re velcroed together forever!’ I will be there for you, both as you change and as your real estate needs change. I recognize that ‘home’ means different things to different people and my success is predicated on knowing what my customers expect, and then showing you those homes that meet your specific needs.”
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Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (Hopewell Township)
Simply called “The Arc”, this visionary modern residence on almost 7 acres was brought to life by Princeton-schooled architect Phil Holt and the master builders of Lasley Brahaney. The striking primary spaces of the home lined with floor-to-ceiling glass walls make up a 90 degree curve that doesn’t fully reveal itself until you are invited inside. Maple flooring, cherry cabinetry and rolling barn doors bring warmth and movement to the expansive spaces, which include a 20-foot high family room with a spiral staircase and views of the pool. The main suite is in a wing of its own where corner windows light up the bedroom and the spa-like bath wrapped in clerestory windows, as well as your choice of an office or gym. An open-air loft study is upstairs along with 3 generously sized bedrooms with access to a long, curving balcony. The basement is finished and ready for casual entertaining and hours of play.
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Arc”, this visionary modern residence on almost 7 acres was brought to life by Princeton-schooled architect
Simply called “The Arc”, this visionary modern residence on almost 7 acres was brought to life by Princeton-schooled architect Phil Holt and the master builders of Lasley Brahaney. The striking primary spaces of the home lined with floor-to-ceiling glass walls make up a 90 degree curve that doesn’t fully reveal itself until you are invited inside. Maple flooring, cherry cabinetry and rolling barn doors bring warmth and movement to the expansive spaces, which include a 20-foot high family room with a spiral staircase and views of the pool. The main suite is in a wing of its own where corner windows light up the bedroom and the spa-like bath wrapped in clerestory windows, as well as your choice of an office or gym.
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Holt and the master builders of Lasley Brahaney. The striking primary spaces of the home lined with floor-to-ceiling glass walls make up a 90 degree curve that doesn’t fully reveal itself until you are invited inside. Maple flooring, cherry cabinetry and rolling barn doors bring warmth and movement to the expansive spaces, which include a 20-foot high family room with a spiral staircase and views of the pool. The main suite is in a wing of its own where corner windows light up the bedroom and the spa-like bath wrapped in clerestory windows, as well as your choice of an office or gym. An open-air loft study is upstairs along with 3 generously sized bedrooms with access to a long, curving balcony. The basement is finished and ready for casual entertaining and hours of play.
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