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Outdoor Door to Door Trick or Treating. Those who plan to shadows of a truly scary pandemic, trick-or-treat should limit their the state of New Jersey has issued groups to current household memguidance for any determined trick- bers, consider staying local, and or-treaters, costumed party-goers, limit the number of houses on their and others this Saturday, October route. Social distancing should be practiced between all who are not 31: in the same household.

Traditional Halloween celebraFor those putting out treats: tions often involve crowds, close Limit interaction or contact with contact between individuals, and trick-or-treaters, wear a mask when activities in closed spaces. It is imindividuals come to the door, and portant to plan early and identify regularly wash hands. safer alternatives for celebrating Better options are to leave a treat the fall season. Outdoor activities, bowl on a porch or table as opposed to indoor or in a place where it parties and events, are between may be easily accessed recommended. Those while adhering to social The planning celebrations or distancing requirements participating in HallowLines or arrange individually een activities should packaged candy so that keep in mind public trick or treaters can grab and go health recommendations of social without accessing a shared bowl. and physical distancing, wearing Consider coordinating with masks that cover the nose and neighbors to develop a system, mouth, and hand hygiene. Costume such as signs or on/off porch lights, masks are not an acceptable substifor distinguishing houses particitute for cloth or disposable masks. pating in trick-or-treating from Individuals should minimize inthose that do not wish to particiteraction and contact with others pate. who are not a part of their houseWear a face mask to mitigate hold. against COVID-19 exposure. CosAs a reminder, no one should tume masks are not an acceptable participate in these activities if they substitute but can be supplemented or a household member have a with a cloth or disposable mask. known exposure to COVID-19, are Children under two should not sick/symptomatic, or have been diwear a cloth mask. agnosed with COVID-19 and has Candy should be commercially not yet met the criteria for disconpackaged and non-perishable. tinuing isolation.

Consider individual nonfood This year, as New Jersey contin“treats” to avoid sharing of food. ues to respond to ongoing transPractice hand hygiene (wash mission of COVID-19 in our comhands or use hand sanitizer) before munities, recommendations for leaving your home, after touching adapting traditional celebrations objects such as wrapped candy, and and considerations for ways to celwhen arriving home. ebrate Halloween safely are listed Outdoor Trunk or Treating below. Some communities may choose to cancel Halloween activi- (when children go car to car instead ties, so check with local sources of house to house). Limit the number of participating cars to ensure before making plans.

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owntown Trenton is home to so many wonderful restaurants, representing flavors from around the world. They are the heart and soul of the city. With the weather getting colder, and indoor seating at 25 percent, they face a tough winter. It’s up to us to keep the love coming—and our restaurants open— all year round. Here’s how:

• Buy Gift Cards – The holidays are fast approaching!

• Order Takeout – And ask about curbside pickup.

• Get Dinner Delivered – Many restaurants use delivery services or have their own.

• Share Your Love – Write online reviews, post

pictures of your favorite dishes on social media and share content from their pages.

Visit Trenton-downtown.com for a list of restaurants open in downtown Trenton.

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Design event in a long line, rather than a circle to ensure social and physical distancing to discourage crowding. Consider having assigned times or multiple shifts to minimize crowding during event.

Halloween Parties. Avoid large indoor or outdoor parties, which would be subject to the limitations currently in effect on indoor and outdoor gatherings. Keep up to date with the most current restrictions on outdoor and indoor gatherings.

Avoid participation in activities that require close contact and/or shared items such as bobbing for apples.

Haunted houses, hayrides, and corn mazes. Wear a cloth or disposable mask while participating in these activities. As noted

above, a costume mask does not suffice.

Indoor haunted houses should be avoided because of the possibility of congregation and screaming in close quarters. If hosting a haunted house, ensure visitors maintain an appropriate distance by staggering start times and limiting occupancy. A better option would be to host an outdoor haunted house without live performers.

Hayrides should limit the number of passengers per ride and keep openings to the same party. Any shared materials should be cleaned and sanitized after each use.

Corn mazes should only permit individuals to proceed in one direction, should limit occupancy according to the applicable restrictions in effect at the time, and should avoid use of shared materials.

Entities hosting these events are encouraged to take reservations and/or sell tickets in advance.

Examples of socially distant Halloween activities that would require minimal or no additional health and safety protocols include: • Virtual activities such as online costume parties.

• Drive through events where individuals remain in their vehicles and drive through an area/neighborhood with Halloween displays.

• Carving pumpkins with family.

• Dressing up homes and yards with Halloween-themed decorations.

• Halloween themed movie nights with family.

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Thursday and Friday October 29 and 30

Conference for Women Offers Platform for Growth and Connection-Building

While COVID-19 has forced organizations to reimagine how they execute their

signature events, sometimes the all-virtual reality of gatherings during a pandemic can change them for the better.

Case in point: the annual NJ Conference for Women, organized by the Women in Business Alliance of the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, which has a lineup of nationally and internationally known women set to speak at the two-day event.

The conference takes place virtually on Thursday and Friday, October 29 and 30.

Cost: $140. For more information or to register visit www.njconferenceforwomen.com.

The first day’s schedule includes a morning yoga session, followed by a mimosa networking session at 10 a.m. and further happy hour networking at 4 p.m., all via Zoom.

Friday morning kicks off with more yoga and networking over coffee, followed by the

schedule of featured speakers and breakout sessions.

Keynote addresses will be given by Leymah Gbowee, Kerri Kennedy, and Victoria Arlen.

Gbowee is a Liberian activist and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Trained as a social worker and women’s rights advocate, she is currently executive director of the Women, Peace and Security Program at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and is the founder and current president of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, the founding head of the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative, and co-founder and former executive director of Women Peace and Security Network Africa.

Her work with Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace helped to end Liberia’s civil war in 2003 and is recounted in her memoir, “Mighty Be Our Powers,” as well as an award-winning play.

Kerri Kennedy is the associate general secretary for international programs at American Friends Service Committee. She previously directed Women’s Campaign International, a global nonprofit that works to support women in politics and private-sector leadership positions. The New Jersey resident is also the author of “Indivisible: Global Leaders for Shared Security.”

Kennedy’s talk leads into a session on the power of engagement, focused on her work on working toward peace and empowering

Speakers at the NJ Conference for Women on October 29 and 30 include Leymah Gbowee, left, Kerri Kennedy, and Victoria Arlen. women globally to create change in the world.

The final keynote speaker, Victoria Arlen, is an ESPN reporter and host who overcame serious neurological diseases as a child to become a champion Paralympic swimmer. After spending four years in a vegetative state followed by a decade confined to a wheelchair, Arlen regained the ability to walk and competed on the television program “Dancing with the Stars.”

Her talk focuses on her “breakthrough program” for overcoming life’s darkest challenges.

Additional breakout sessions on Friday cover topics including “Leveraging Today’s Multigenerational Workforce,” “Rise to Resiliency: Learning New Responses for Stressful Times,” “How About Me? Getting the Recognition You Deserve,” “Engagement During Times of Uncertainty: An Opportunity to Shine,” “Own Your Worth Women, Wealth and the Path to Financial Independence,” and “The Power of Living a Deliberate (& Selfish) Life.”

Business Meetings Wednesday, October 28

Mercer County Drive-Through Job Fair, CUre Insurance Arena, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 609-989-6066. www.mercercounty.org/departments/one-stop-careercenter. Job seekers can connect with more than 40 potential employers who are actively looking for new employees. Mercer County will offer free information on other county services and resources. Face coverings required. Register. Email jobs@mercercounty.org. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. reach Customers Online with Google, SCOre NJ. centraljersey.score.org. Learn how customers find your business online and how to promote your business using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Smart Campaigns in Google Ads. Register.

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INTERCHANGE A Life Saving Prescription Drug Program for NJ

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by Sen. Shirley K. Turner & Dr. Kemi Alli

he pandemic has resulted in an ry was $77.03. Providing access to donated economic catastrophe for many New Jersey- medications at no or low cost will help to reans. Since March, New Jersey’s unemploy- duce state Medicaid spending and save taxment rate soared to over 16 percent, the high- payer money.

The Health Care Association of New Jerest the state has seen since it began recordkeeping. 1.58 million individuals have filed sey (HCANJ), the state’s largest long term claims for unemployment benefits, and due care trade association, helped to promote the to the high volume of claims, many claim- prescription drug donation law out of their member centers’ concerns about having to ants had to wait months to receive benefits.

In addition to the loss of income, COV- dispose of so much unused, but still viable, ID-19 also caused many workers to lose medication when resident medication needs their health insurance. As of May, 2020, changed or residents passed away. AccordNew Jersey’s uninsured rate increased to 13 ing to a 2009 Associated Press report, healthpercent, leaving more people paying out of care facilities throw away an estimated 250 pocket or relying on Medicaid. Months with million pounds of pharmaceuticals each no income and no insurance disrupted year. HCANJ hoped to recycle unused medihousehold budgets, leaving many with the cations and make them available to those impossible choice of paying rent, buying who cannot afford them through a program modeled after those successful in other groceries, or filling prescriptions.

No one should be in the position of going states.

Henry J. Austin Health Center is ready to without their prescriptions because they need to stretch their dollars. Yet, one in four bring this solution to the residents of Trenton today. Founded in 1986, people do. Prescription Henry J. Austin Health drugs help people to efNo one should be in Center is a communityfectively manage many based health center that serious health problems, the position of going provides comprehensive including heart disease, without their prehealthcare services to cancer, AIDS, diabetes, scriptions because low-income residents. and high blood pressure, Like most community and to avoid burdening they need to stretch providers, they have been the public health care systheir dollars. Yet, one on the frontlines of COVtem with more costly in four people do. A ID-19 and are seeing inhealth care interventions, creased need for medicasuch as visits to the emerNew Jersey law ention access amongst their gency room, hospitalizaacted in 2018 can patients. tions, or surgery. With help them.

Henry J. Austin Health more households facing a Center has formed a partfinancial struggle, the nership with SIRUM, a need for a safety net is not national nonprofit and the largest medicine only crucial, it’s life-saving.

Fortunately, the State of New Jersey has redistributor, to launch this program. SIalready enacted a law that, when implement- RUM has redistributed more than $80 miled, can provide healthcare assistance to the lion worth of medications to partners and thousands of families making these impos- facilitated more than 800,000 donated presible choices. P.L. 2017, c. 254 was signed scriptions to those in need. With the support into law on January 8, 2018, authorizing the of SIRUM’s technology and resources, Henestablishment of drug donation programs ry J. Austin Health Center is ready to operathat would not only improve the health of tionalize this program immediately.

All that is needed to move such a valuable low-income individuals, but also reduce the cost to the state. The law required the New program forward is authorization from the Jersey Department of Health to create a pro- New Jersey Department of Health. The citigram to allow healthcare facilities like phar- zens of New Jersey and the thousands of pamacies and nursing centers, to donate to tients at Henry J. Austin Health Center need those in need, rather than destroy, unused and deserve the additional help that this drug donation program would provide. medications and supplies.

A program that makes prescription mediSenator Shirley K. Turner is the sponsor cations affordable not only helps to keep of P.L. 2017, c. 254 and represents New Jerpeople healthy, it is also an important cost- sey’s 15th Legislative District in the New savings measure for the state. According to Jersey Senate, covering parts of Hunterdon the Center for American Progress, state and Mercer counties. spending on Medicaid prescriptions has inDr. Kemi Alli is chief executive officer of creased more than 89 percent over the past 10 years. In fiscal year 2020, New Jersey’s the Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenaverage cost per prescription, per beneficia- ton.

com. Conference includes yoga, breakout sessions, and keynote addresses by Leymah Gbowee, Kerri Kennedy, and Victoria Arlen. Register. $125. 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County. www.psgofmercercounty.org. Bart Jackson, host of “The Art of the CEO” radio show, discusses tactics and perspectives to help jobseekers adapt and seize new opportunities in unprecedented times. 9:45 a.m. to noon.

Tuesday, November 3

JobSeekers. sites.google.com/site/njjobseekers. Virtual meeting for those seeking employment. Visit website for GoTo Meeting link. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 4

Engage 2020: Princeton’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference, Princeton University. innovation.princeton.edu/events/engage-2020. Multi-day, virtual conference to help create new connections among Princeton innovators and

Bart Jackson, right, speaks at the October 30 Professional Service Group meeting. leaders in entrepreneurship, industry, nonprofit organizations, and government in the state, regional and global innovation ecosystems. Online via Zoom. Register via EventBrite. Continues November 5 and 6.

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Meet the Entrepreneur, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. Tara Williams, founder of Dreamland Baby and a mom of four, explains what she did right and what she did wrong on her way to being selected on Shark Tank. Register. Free.

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Event Listings: E-mail events@princetoninfo.com Events for each day are divided into two categories: socially distanced, in-person gatherings, and virtual gatherings taking place online. Visit venue websites for information about how to access the events. To include your event in this section email events@princetoninfo.com.

Wednesday October 28 In Person Gardens

Garden Tours, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven.org. Docent-led what’s in bloom tours.

Face masks and registration required. Tours available Wednes-

Grave Situation The Historical Society of Princeton offers a virtual tour of Princeton Cemetery — known as the ‘Westminster Abbey of the United States’ — on Thursday, October 29. days through Saturdays. $10. Box lunch available for additional $20.

Masks required. Register. 11 a.m.

Virtual

Live Music

Bob Egan and Friends Virtual Piano Bar, . www.bobeganentertainment.com. Bob Egan and Friends perform Halloweenthemed music. Visit www.facebook.com/onlinePianoBar. 8 p.m.

Literati

Book Talk, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. spia.princeton.edu. Matthew Klein, economics commentator, Barron’s, and co-author of “Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace,” in conversation

with Michael Pettis, professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. Free.

Register for Zoom link. 12:15 p.m.

Poetry Reading, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary. org. Poets Maxine Susman and Juditha Dowd read from their works which center the lives and stories of women. Audience Q&A to follow. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

For Teens

Careers Without College Panel, Princeton Learning Cooperative. www.princetonlearningcooperative.org. Zoom-based panel discussion and community conversation about the kinds of careers young people can pursue without a college degree. A group of panelists discusses various paths available through trade schools, apprenticeship opportu-

nities, direct work experience, and entrepreneurial endeavors. Question and answer to follow. Register. Free. 7 p.m.

Politics

Who and What Will Likely Shape the Outcome of the Election?, Princeton Public Library. www. princetonlibrary.org. New Jersey political analyst Ingrid Reed hosts the second in a three session series. Register for Crowdcast presentation. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Socials

Library Drawing Party, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Follow along for a librarian-led drawing lesson, then share your finished work. For all ages. 7 p.m.

Thursday October 29 In Person Live Music

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Acoustic DuOver with pop/rock. 6 to 9 p.m.

Farm Markets

Princeton Farmers Market, Franklin Avenue Lot, Princeton. www.princetonfarmersmarket. com. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and artisanal products. Face coverings and social distancing required. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Kayak Nature Tours, Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer County Marina, 334 South Post Road, West Windsor. www. mercercountyparks.org. Partici-

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pants will kayak along the lake shore and in the coves to encounter basking turtles, feeding songbirds, and even carnivorous plants. Boats, binoculars, and life vests provided. Basic kayak instruction is provided before the tour. For ages 16 and up. Register. $30; $25 for Mercer County residents. 1 to 4 p.m.

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Thursday Night Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, Pennsylvania. www. bhwp.org. Series of guest lectures via Zoom continues with “Ethnobotany and Flower Folklore” with Alonso Abugattas. Register. $15.

7 to 8 p.m.

Mental Health

On Stage

Mental Amusements, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage.org. Interactive, virtual mind-reading show by mentalist Vinny DePonto. Recommended for ages 16 and up. Front row tickets, $50, allow for audience participation. General admission $35.

8 p.m.

Film

Combahee Experimental: Celebrating Black Women’s Experimental Filmmaking, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. arts.princeton.edu/visfilm-series. Zoom webinar on “Experiments in Narrative” with multimedia artist Simone Leigh and Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art Tina Campt, with guests Garrett Bradley and Rungano Nyoni. Register.

Free. 6 p.m.

Good Causes

2020 Impact Awards, NonProfitConnect. www.nonprofitconnectnj.org. Virtual celebration to recognize local individuals and organizations who have made an impact in our community, network virtually, and raise funds to support NonProfitConnect. Award recipients are Joanne CanadyBrown, owner, The Gingered PeachLiz Erickson Impact Award; Smith Family Foundation, Community Award; and NJM Insurance Group, Corporate Award.

Register. $50 recommended donation. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Family and Friends Seminar, NAMI Mercer. www.namimercer. org. Relevant information and support to those who have loved ones with mental health conditions. First of four weekly session through November 19. Free; registration required. 7 to 8 p.m.

Virtual Tour of Princeton Cemetery, Historical Society of Princeton. www.princetonhistory.org.

Get into the Halloween spirit with a virtual stroll through Princeton Cemetery, referred to as the “Westminster Abbey of the United States.” Learn about some of the historic people buried in the cemetery of Nassau Presbyterian Church, including a U.S. president, vice-president, and Civil War soldiers. Register. Pay what you can. 7 p.m.

trans woman to be elected in the USA, speaks on “The World I Live In: The World We Live In.” Free.

Register for Zoom link. 1 p.m.

The Case for Reparations to Descendants of Enslaved People, Racial Justice Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton. www.uuprinceton. org. Attorney, activist, and advocate Caroline Clarke gives a free presentation via Zoom. She has worked for Disability Rights NJ, the Division on Civil Rights, and the Department of Labor & Workforce Development, and she serves as a board member of Princeton’s NIOT. Register. 7 p.m.

Seeds of Great Calamity: English Colonization in Lenape Country, Burlington Meeting House. www.burlmhcc.org/walkto-wyalusing-webinar-sign-up.

Zoom webinar by Dr. Jean R. Soderlund about Quaker attempts to rightfully possess Native lands, at least as the Quakers were able to see it, contrasted with Native perceptions of that activity. Register. 7:30 p.m.

Lectures

Socials

Wellness

A Seat at the Table, The Suppers Programs. www.thesuppersprograms.org. Free virtual event includes guest speakers, a live Q&A, and an optional eat-along featuring healthy Suppers-friendly meals available to order from Jammin’ Crepes and Terra Momo Restaurant Group. Emceed by Supper board member Kim Booker. Register. 6 to 7:30 p.m.

History

Queer Politics Webinar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. spia.princeton. edu. Andrea Jenkins, vice president, Minneapolis City Council, and the first out African-American

Art Making: The Effects of Light, Arts Council of Princeton & Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

Artist Barbara DiLorenzo teaches via Zoom. Free. 8 p.m.

Friday October 30 In Person

The Gingered Peach’s Joanne Cannady-Brown, left, is honored at NonProfitConnect’s Impact Awards on Thursday, October 29. Kim Booker, pictured above with Dor Mullen, emcees the Suppers Program’s ‘Seat at the Table’ event, also on October 29.

Live Music

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Winery Catz. 6 to 9 p.m.

On Stage

Dracula, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville, 609-397-3337. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Bram Stoker’s classic. Socially distanced seating for 50 patrons and 20 drive-in spots for vehicles. Virtual viewing available for home audience. 8 p.m.

For Families

Corn Maze, Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell, 609397-2555. www.howellfarm.org.

Four-acre maze with the theme “bridges of Mercer County” with two miles of paths, victory bridge, games, and more. Courtyard with pumpkins, food tent, private hayrides, and more. Register. $10.

Noon to 8 p.m.

Drive-Thru Trick or Treat, Princeton Orthopaedic Associates, 325 Princeton Avenue, Princeton, and 1 Union Street, Robbinsville. www.princetonorthopaedic.com.

Physicians and staff will be dressed up and handing bags of goodies to the cars driving through. Kids and their drivers remain in their cars. 5 to 7 p.m.

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Session 1: November 11, 2020 to December 12, 2020 6 One Hour Training Sessions @ The Robbinsville Field House Cost $150.00 per player , Sibling Discount $20.00 Ages: 5-14 Year Old Boys & Girls Wednesdays: 6pm to 7pm and 7pm to 8pm

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by Dan Aubrey

he little girl down my block was clear when I walked by.

She loved dinosaurs and had the dino-shirt, dino-model in hand, and the smiling eyes and mouth to prove it.

A quick chat with the girl’s mother confirmed the obvious.

“She’s crazy about them,” mom said.

She then added that they were looking for ways to encourage her interest during the pandemic.

As a dinosaur-enthusiast from way back, I had an idea of what was running through the girl’s mind.

That’s because these bigger-thanlife once-real creatures are an enchanting potion of science, imagination, and mystery.

They’re also cool.

And as a former New Jersey State Museum administrator whose job involved dealing with paleontologists, I also had some real deal information about New Jersey’s major role in dino-history, how women were involved, and places to go to connect with the big brutes.

So if you’re looking to bone up on dinosaurs in New Jersey, let’s go.

“The birthplace of American paleontology was in New Jersey,” writes William Gallagher in his important Rutgers University-published book “When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey.”

A former assistant natural history curator at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, author of numerous studies, and current assistant professor at Rider University, Gallagher connects that statement to the discovery of the world’s first substantial dinosaur skeleton in 1858 in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

That’s a small town 13 miles outside Philadelphia (45 miles from Princeton).

At the time scientists on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean had already amassed a number of large reptile bones that clued them in that giant lizards had once romanced the world.

And while the term dinosaur — terrible lizard — had been coined to classify them, in order to group them, no skeleton existed to figure out what they actually looked like.

To fill the gap scientists used their imaginations and understanding of anatomy.

That was until Philadelphiabased lawyer and geologist William Parker Foulke pieced together the strange bones found by farmers and reported to Foulke while he was on a summer break outside the big city.

Since the New Jersey State Museum had yet to be founded, Foulke contacted noted paleontologist Joseph Leidy at Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Science.

Leidy knew what it was, and he and Foulke soon presented the first dinosaur skeleton finding report ever to the academy later that year.

Leidy also christened the critter with name Hadrosaurus foulkii, Latin for Foulke’s bulky lizard.

Above, a statue of the world’s first major dinosaur discovery, a hadrosaur, stands tall in downtown Haddonfield, near where it was discovered. Two carnivorous Dryptosaurus, first discovered in New Jersey, fight to the death in American artist Charles Knight’s painting, right.

As Gallagher notes, with “the most complete dinosaur skeleton known at this time from anywhere in the world,” scientists then were able to see for the first time what a dinosaur looked like.

The effort was aided by British artist Waterhouse Hawkins, who had helped a prominent British paleontologist create paintings and sculptures of what he thought dinosaurs looked like.

Hawkins happened to be in Philadelphia in 1858 and convinced Leidy and the academy to study the Hadrosaurus.

After making castings and creating missing pieces, including the skull, Hawkins turned the New Jersey find into the world’s first mounted dinosaur skeleton.

Hawkins also made casts that became the first dinosaur exhibitions at Princeton University and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. as well as the first European exhibition at Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.

No wonder the Academy of Natural Sciences has called the New Jersey find “The dinosaur that changed the world.”

A few years later, in 1866, another significant New Jersey dinosaur discovery occurred. Its finder was another important 19th century paleontologist and Leidy protégé, Edward Drinker Cope.

After moving from his hometown of Philadelphia to Haddonfield in order to take advantage of bones being found by regional farmers and clay diggers, Cope hit pay dirt in nearby Gloucester County when he put together the major skeletal portions of Ameri-

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ca’s first carnivorous dinosaur.

The creature is the Dryptosaurus aquilunguis, a fierce cousin of the monstrous Tyrannosaurus Rex. Dinosaur bones, prehistoric marine fossils, mastodons and mammoths, and dinosaur foot tracks in stone continued to be found and eventually directed to the New Jersey State Museum, founded in 1985, making it the center for New Jersey dinosaur fossils and research.

That includes an important late20th century State Museum-led field study at the Ellisdale site on the boundary of Burlington and Monmouth counties.

Currently the focus of a major study involving the NJSM and the Smithsonian Institute’s United States National Museum of Natural History, Ellisdale, now part of the Monmouth County Parks System,

Dinosaur bones, prehistoric marine fossils, mastodons and mammoths, and dinosaur foot tracks in stone made their way to the State Museum, which became a center for dinosaur fossils and research. is a story with two beginnings.

The first starts 75 million years ago and involves dinosaurs during the cretaceous period — the final portion of “the age of the dinosaurs.”

The other start involves the humans finding dinosaurs remains in the 1980s and the woman who would eventually oversee the excavation.

Robert Denton and Robert O’Neill are the two who unearthed the discovery in a seemingly routine spot.

“When I worked at Johnson & Johnson, I was living in Allentown,” says Denton during a telephone interview. “I thought there were fossils sites in New Jersey and started going around.”

A geologist, Denton is also an avocational paleontologist who

learned the trade through Harvard University-led excavations and other hands-on research.

When he noticed a type of terrain by a wooded stream bed off Province Line Road near the former Princeton nursery, he got intrigued and began considering other such sites that yielded a mixture of prehistoric sea and land animal fossil specimens.

He says he also recalled the following advice from a mentor: “If you look for fossils at places where people had found some, you’ll find the same. But if you find a place that no one had gone and found something, it will make you famous.”

After a few visits and finding only the remains of prehistoric fish, Denton says he says he began to have “an intuitive feeling” that piqued his curiosity.

Soon he and O’Neill began exploring the grounds but “didn’t find any fossils, at first. But it looked different than any other places.”

That was, in part, because the prehistoric wood at the site had not been transformed into coal like at other fossil locations.

While initial visits yielded little, Denton says he couldn’t get the ravine out of his mind and says it “was yelling at me” to revisit.

“We went back in the August of 1980 and started walking up the ravine by a stream,” he says. “And right there was a fossil turtle shell. I walked a few more feet, and we found a neck vertebra of a Hadrosaurus. Then there was another.”

The two took the specimens to the New Jersey State Museum’s chief curator of natural science, David Parris, who immediately grasped the significance of the site and told Denton “to keep your eye on the spot.”

Denton says “soon after every major rain storm we’d find another bone. Then there was the great event that happened in March,

1984. We had a classic New Jersey Mid-Atlantic Nor’easter and 11 inches of rain. The storm had cut into what we found was the fossilbearing unit, and there were pebbles and bones everywhere. They just kept washing out. In a few weeks the collection went from several hundred to several thousand (specimens). And we realized that we needed to investigate the site.”

The museum then submitted and won a grant from the National Geographical Society in 1986 to conduct a study of the Ellisdale site (Full disclosure, I helped with the grant).

T he following was history.

“I was the main person who was

paid — an excavator supported by the NGS grant. I was in charge of digging in fossils. (Others) were digging but as volunteers,” says Barbara Grandstaff, a paleontologist and now the head of the gross anatomy course at the University Of Pennsylvania School of Veterinarian Medicine.

She describes her duties as follows: “I identified and sorted through (specimens) and cataloged them. I was involved with curating the fossils when we brought them back to the museum.

“Digging up the fossils is the fun part. You get to get be outdoors and digging in the creek, which is exciting. But then you have to catalog the records and document them to make sure they’re available to the world in the future.”

She says the site provide a unique glimpse of the world during New Jersey’s Cretaceous era. “The site is incredibly interesting. Not only do we have dinosaurs, we also have marine fauna (animal life occurring during a particular era).”

With little fanfare, Grandstaff says, “And we have the first mammals (found) in the Eastern United

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Clockwise from above: New Jersey State Museum curator David Parris and paleontologist Robert Denton on the hunt at the Ellisdale fossil site. The State Museum’s Natural History Hall features the casts of two Dryptosaurs skeletons replicating the fight in Charles Knight’s painting. Artist Waterhouse Hawkins in front of the hadrosaur skeleton he first mounted in Philadelphia. Barbara Grandstaff is the paleontologist who managed the Ellisdale excavation in the 1980s.

States. We have a lot of the little things that lived with the dinosaur.

And we can put an ecosystem together.”

She says several factors make the site unlike others. “There are layers of mud and sand. Even though it’s 75 million years old it hasn’t been compressed in rocks.

That is unusual. And to find an estuary is incredible and isn’t common.”

Additionally, she says, the site “is a different environment than we see west of the Mississippi (where a good deal of dinosaur collecting continues). There was a sea way that separated the two land masses.

The animals we’re seeing here are different than others west of the sea way. We’re seeing things that are more like Europe.”

She says that she did a lot of discovering in the lab when she went through soil and looked at objects through a microscope.

While there were a lot of fish bones, she says that while “sorting through the dirt to find what goodies were in there” she “found a lot of the little lizard jaws and salamander bones. I also found baby dinosaur teeth. That’s pretty cool, baby Hadrosaurus.”

She says the salt marsh estuary “was productive enough to be a nursery ground for Hadrosaurus babies and also for sharks.”

But for Grandstaff, the most exciting thing was finding the remains of a mammal. “I didn’t find it in the field but in the lab. I cried ‘hurray’ because I found a mammal’s tooth. It was the first time anyone found a mammal’s tooth from the cretaceous period. It was the tooth of a tiny animal that was related to possums.”

Grandstaff’s big news about a tiny discovery is part of southern New Jersey’s important role in dinosaur history — especially the discovery that put dinosaurs in museums and connected New Jersey with paleontology history.

Like the small girl at the start of the story, Grandstaff says her love of dinosaurs and fossils goes back to her childhood. “When I was six my mom and dad gave me ‘The

Golden Book of Dinosaurs’ for my birthday. They said it was because I liked fossils, and I didn’t realize it.”

An Ithaca, New York, native, Grandstaff and her family moved to Holland, Pennsylvania, when her Atlantic Richfield employee father was transferred to the Philadelphia region.

She says her early collections were made when her family traveled to upstate New York to visit her Methodist minister grandfather whose parsonage was on grounds with fossils.

“I fell in love with them,” she says. “From then on, from age six to 12, I collected fossils, horn corals, much older than dinosaurs, 300 million years old. Solitary corals that look like ice cream cones.

They’re really neat to find. My parents never minded carrying the corals and rocks I was collecting.”

After studying earth science in high school, she went to Millersville State College, where she majored in earth science and geology with a minor in biology.

“I had already decided that I wanted to be a paleontologist.

When I applied to grad school I was looking for one where I could study paleontology and went to Princeton (University).”

Grandstaff was a one of the first group of females to attend the university and was able to take advantage of its paleontology program and collection that existed until the 1980s. She earned a master’s degree in geological and geophysical sciences in 1973.

Questioned about challenges she faced while studying a field dominated by men, Grandstaff says that one professor, Glenn Jepsen was “a bit of a misogynist.”

On the other hand, she says most others were supportive. “They liked to have someone excited by paleontology. That’s what matters most. Jepsen was unusual. (His attitude) is far from the truth from most paleontologists. They’re really good people.”

One in particular she mentions is a fellow classmate mentioned earlier mentioned, the NJSM’s David Parris.

“Dave and (a fellow student) stood up for me and got me out into the field. It would have happened if Dave hadn’t pushed.”

She also credits Parris for her involvement in the Ellisdale project.

After she had volunteered at the state museum, she says she ran into Parris at a conference where Ellisdale fossils were on display.

“He asked if I would like to help out with the project,” says the married mother of a daughter. “I was teaching part time (at Temple University), so I had some time.”

Although Grandstaff worked on other field digs in South Dakota and North Carolina, she says the Ellisdale excavation “gave me a chance to do field work in paleontology, actually collect the fossils.

Doing all of that nitty-gritty work gave me a better view. And that’s the kind of thing that I like — to see the whole fauna and not just one thing. I got to be in at the ground floor — at the start and finding how exciting the work was.”

“I never expected to be part of history,” she says. “I’ve been very lucky at being at the right place at the right time.”

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or area residents who want to help their dino-crazed children dig into their interest or just want to go dino-hunting themselves during the pandemic, here are some tips — both outside and in.

First, why not go to where it all began? Head to Haddonfield, New Jersey, and check out the life-sized memorial to the town’s most famous resident, who also happens to be New Jersey’s official state dinosaur, the Hadrosaurus — aka Haddy.

Created by sculptor and former Rutgers University Fine Arts Department chair John Giannotti, the giant figure is situated in the heart of town and close to the exact place where the actual dinosaur was found.

Combine with the trip with a downtown snack near the statue or have a picnic at the site. This is a low-key and low-cost adventure to where it all started and puts the Garden State’s dinosaur history in context.

Second, make a visit to the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia where the first Hadrosaur has been greeting visitors — including a younger version of me — for more than 150 years.

The museum and its impressive Dinosaur Hall are currently on open on a pandemic-limited schedule, Fridays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets range from $16 to $22. www.ansp.org.

Third, wait for the reopening of the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton and make a visit to its natural history hall. There kids and adults can immerse themselves in New Jersey’s dinosaur history through footprints and mounted cast skeletons, including “Haddy” as well as a stirring homage to New Jersey’s own Dryptosaurus.

But make that a double.

Inspired by famed American artist Charles R. Knight’s popular painting of two fighting dinos, the NJSM’s display features a pair of hungry skeletons in a perpetual

battle that stirs the imagination.

Additionally, look for the handson Innovation Lab, which lets visitors get a feel for fossil hunting and watch museum volunteers and staff sort and catalog materials that make their way from Ellisdale or Southern New Jersey.

And finally, why not start exploring the world right under your feet?

As curator Parris said in a note, “While Benjamin Franklin and other Philadelphians were founding American sciences (including paleontology), the people of southern New Jersey were suppliers of vast numbers of actual specimens.

In a very real sense, the farmers and miners of southern New Jersey provided much of the support that launched American science.”

And with a new crop of New Jersey girls and boys interested in dinosaurs, new discoveries and revelations may just be waiting.

Take Grandstaff’s advice, “Science is always built on the people that came before you and continues with those who come after. It grows. We’re handing it off to young folks.”

In other words, it’s time to get real crazy for dinosaurs.

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Hacked Off!

by George Point “There is surprisingly little voter fraud and not nearly enough to justify blocking vote-by-mail systems in a pandemic.” - Brookings Institution report, 2020 Scene: The sub-basement of what appears to the casual observer to be an Amazon warehouse near Langley, Virginia; except for the helipad, barbed wire, dense forest, and the absence of roads leading into the site.

The interrogator speaks first.

‘W

ell, Ivan — you don’t mind if I call you ‘Ivan’ do you? — are you ready to talk?”

“I would prefer that you address me as ‘Boris.’”

“Ah, now we’re finally getting somewhere. So, your name is ‘Boris,’ is it?

“No, it is not, but I have always had fondness for Boris Badenov, character on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. Title of ‘world’s greatest no-goodnik’ is one I aspire to, and I still go into orbit like space dog Laika when I dream of lovely Natasha Fatale...”

“Hey, none of that kind of talk Ivan, Boris, or whatever your name is. This is America, and you’ll keep a civil tongue in your head. Unless, of course, I have to cut it out if you don’t tell me what I want to know.”

(Sighs) “First I must know how you found me out. I thought I had devised perfect plan...”

“Everyone who sat in that chair before you thought they had the perfect plan, Boris, everyone. A sharp-eyed postal security guard

Fall Fiction spotted you when you were entering the Philadelphia central distribution center for the umpteenth time. You made a rookie mistake, a classic blunder if you will.”

“But that cannot be! Uniform was perfect! eBay seller guaranteed it was unused, genuine United States Postal Service issue. And they had 99 percent positive ratings!”

“Yeah, but we checked your Web search history, and you made one little a slip-up that brought an end to your little caper. Tell me, Boris Not-good-enov; what do the letters ‘NOS’ mean to you?”

“Nothing, why do you ask?”

“Just as I thought. For your information, pal, NOS is eBay-speak for New Old Stock.”

“What is that, and what of it?

Uniform has not changed in years, I Google images…”

“Maybe the uniform hasn’t changed, my Bolshevik brother, but the Mr. Zip shoulder patch has.”

“Who is this ‘Mr. Zip’ you speak of? Is he American spy counterpart of Mr. Big, ironically named tiny boss of Boris Badenov?”

“No, borscht-for-brains. Mr. Zip is the ironically named official mascot of the United States Postal Service. That eagle-eyed security guard — and postal memorabilia collector — knew your uniform patch had been discontinued in the 1970s, so he hauled you in.”

(Thinking to himself) Although he admitted he considered offering you a hundred bucks for it and letting you go… “Anyway, what in the name of Hannity Almighty were you up to?”

“My mission was to accomplish impossible… hack 100,000 paper

ballots in key swing state and change results of presidential election!”

“Limbaugh Almighty, Bor-van, were you out of your freakin’ mind? What were you smoking when you agreed to take on this nutso assignment?”

“Although I do not understand the words you just uttered, I recognize sarcasm when I hear it. Plan had every chance of success. Before I say more, I must ask you to again guarantee my safety in exchange for full co-operation.”

“Coulter Almighty, man, this is

Lots of desperate people out there, but Murdoch Almighty, how would you manage to get all those envelopes opened, change the votes, and re-seal them in time?

America! We keep our promises, except when we determine that to do so would cause grievous and irreparable harm to our nation.”

(Thinks to himself) Void where prohibited, your mileage may vary…

“OK, Here is plan. Thanks to prearranged payoff of postal personnel, I took position as driver of collection truck for absentee ballots. But instead of returning directly to distribution center, I stop at secret location; abandoned J. C. Penney store in abandoned mall outside Conshohocken. There I had crew waiting to steam open 100,000 ballots and change choice for president...”

“Hold on there, Nikita! No way

could you steam open that many ballots, change the votes, and return to your distribution center without being missed. Impossible!”

“Possible, with enough people and right tools. With thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers out of work, people part was easy...”

“All right, I’ll give you that.

Lots of desperate people out there, but Murdoch Almighty, how would you manage to get all those envelopes opened, change the votes, and re-seal them in time?”

“I will show you. I see you have box with my personal effects.

Please remove vape pen and examine closely...”

“No tricks now, my commie comrade! One false move and...”

“Vape pen is trick. Is not vape pen, but micro-steamer powered by secret fuel source that can open thousands of envelopes on single charge. Perhaps you have heard of this fuel, created by Soviet double agent that infiltrated American space program in the 1950s. His real name was Alexi Alexnikov, but your people knew him as Professor Twiddle, and the secret fuel was...”

“No! (Gasping in surprise) It can’t be! He couldn’t be! You mean to say that the secret fuel is...”

“Yes, secret fuel is Carborium X. ‘Twiddle’ played inventor on Superman TV show. No one suspected Carborium X was real, so was easy to take out of your country. How do you think our little Soviet Sputnik beat mighty United States space program into... space?”

“It all makes sense now, comrade Kuryakin! You collect the ballots, drive them to the mall,

change 100,000 Biden votes to Trump...”

“Sorry to interrupt, but did you say ‘Change 100,000 Biden votes to Trump’?”

‘Well what else in Sam Hill would your Muscovite masters expect you to do?”

“I confess I am feeling little, how you say…sheepish? Message from Moscow was garbled, and was unclear which candidate’s votes were to be changed.”

“So, don’t keep me in suspense, my blini biting buddy, what did you do?”

“I made what you in your country call ‘executive decision.’ I change 50,000 Biden votes to Trump and 50,000 Trump votes to Biden.”

“But that makes no sense, my math-challenged miscreant! What you did will have absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election!”

“True, but as you might say, ‘Outcome? Schmoutcome! I had to make my numbers, or else...”

“But, don’t you care who occupies the White House for the next four years?”

“Nyet. In Russia we have saying, ‘Chto yest’, to yest.’’ In America I believe you say ‘It is what it is.’ And as beloved comedian and atomic physicist Yakov Smirnov would say, ‘America, what a country!’”

Lawrenceville resident George Point’s freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, U.S. 1, and other local and regional publications. He currently produces and presents Book Talk! for radio station WDVR FM in Hunterdon County. In past years he has served as a reader of submissions for the Summer Fiction issue.

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Outdoor Action

Origins of Halloween Night Hike, Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Journey through the woods led by a trail guide and stop to meet the characters in an Irish Folktale that unfolds along the path. Register. 6 to 8:30 p.m.

An Evening With Owls, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Demonstration of research on the Northern sawwhet owls, Pennsylvania’s smallest owl. Portion of proceeds benefit the Wild Bird Research Group.

Register. $35. 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Virtual

Live Music

Chris Harford’s Central Jersey Show Dance Band, Hopewell Theater. www.hopewelltheater. com. Livestreamed show in celebration of Independent Venue Week. Free; suggested donation to Save Our Stages, #SOS, emergency relief fund. 8 p.m.

On Stage

Mental Amusements, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage.org. Interactive, virtual mind-reading show by mentalist Vinny DePonto. Front row tickets, $50, allow for audience participation. General admission $35. 8 and 10:30 p.m.

Kids Stuff

Halloween Spooktacular, New Jersey State Museum. www.

statemuseum.nj.gov. Zoombased Halloween show includes a paper spider turning into a “reallive” spider, tales of Count Eggbert and Countess Eggberta as they battle the wicked witch, a floating eyeball, and dry ice. Each child receives a free goody bag.

Send photos for the virtual costume parade. Register. 6 p.m.

Lectures

On All Fronts: An Education of a Journalist, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. spia.princeton.edu. Talk by Clarissa Ward, chief international correspondent, CNN, moderated by Daniel K. Nikbakht, a former International producer for CNN. Free.

Register for Zoom link. Noon.

Saturday October 31 Halloween.

In Person Live Music

Fall Music, Palmer Square Green, Princeton. www.palmersquare.com. Students from Princeton School of Rock play rock music and Halloween favorites. Free. Noon to 2:30 p.m.

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Bad Hombres with R&B in the afternoon, DJ Darius the 1st Halloween party in the evening. 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m.

On Stage

Dracula, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Bram Stoker’s classic.

Socially distanced seating for 50 patrons. Virtual viewing available for home audience. 3 p.m.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Lambertville, left, livestreams an Evensong concert on Sunday, November 1. Chris Harford, above, performs a livestreamed concert from Hopewell Theater on Friday, October 30.

Farm Markets

Farmers Market, Montgomery Friends of Open Space, Village Shopping Center, 1340 Route 206 South, Skillman, 609-915-0817. www.montgomeryfriends.org. Jersey Fresh produce and farm products, baked goods, chicken, eggs, sausage, and more. One person per family. Face covering required. 9 a.m. to noon.

Pennington Farmers Market, Rosedale Mills, 101 Route 31, Pennington. www.penningtonfarmersmarket.org. Face masks required for everyone over age 2.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, Princeton Junction Train Station.

www.westwindsorfarmersmarket. org. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and more.

Yes We Can! food drive ongoing.

Face masks required. Bring your own bags. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For Families

Family Fun Fall Weekends, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Activities for kids including adventure barn, hay bale maze, pony rides, pumpkin picking & painting, pedal tractors, and exploring the farm trail. Live music, apple products, wine, and more. Timed entry ticket required. $10; children under 3 free. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Corn Maze, Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell, 609397-2555. www.howellfarm.org.

Four-acre maze with the theme “bridges of Mercer County” with two miles of paths, victory bridge, games, and more. Courtyard with pumpkins, food tent, private hayrides, and more. Register. $10.

Noon to 8 p.m.

Drive-Through Masquerade Parade, D&R Greenway Land Trust, St. Michaels Preserve, Hopewell. www.drgreenway.org.

Drive through themed floats lining the farm road through St. Michaels Preserve. Surprise guests including Boomer walk the parade route to entertain attendees. Parade-goers are encouraged to decorate their cars and make signs on the theme: “I Love LAND Because...” Register. $25 per carload. Rain date November 1.

12:45 to 5:45 p.m.

Virtual

Pop Music

Halloween Rock ‘n’ Roll Concert, bucks County Playhouse, 215862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. Spooky celebration in song streamed live from the playhouse stage starring Jeremy Kushnier (Broadway’s “Footloose,” “Jersey Boys”), Brandi Chavonne Massey (Broadway’s “Wicked”), and Andrew Polec (“Bat Out of Hell” World Tour).

Register. $25 to $35. 7 p.m.

Lectures

Public Presentation, Institute for Advanced Study. www.ias.edu/ ias-PublicPresentation. Francesca Trivellato, professor in the school of historical studies, presents “Risk and Credit 500 Years Before Modern Finance,” followed by a discussion with Lorraine Daston, director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Via Zoom. Register.

Free. 2 p.m.

Sunday November 1 In Person Live Music

Sunday Afternoon Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Alex and Gian with Jazz standards. 2 to 5 p.m.

On Stage

Dracula, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Bram Stoker’s classic.

Socially distanced seating for 50 patrons. Virtual viewing available for home audience. 3 p.m.

Farm Markets

Hopewell Farmers Market, 62 East Broad Street, Hopewell. www.fairgrownfarm.com/ hopewell-farmers-market. Locally produced foods, plants, wines, and more. Masks and social distancing required. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For Families

Corn Maze, Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell, 609397-2555. www.howellfarm.org.

Four-acre maze with the theme “bridges of Mercer County” with two miles of paths, victory bridge, games, and more. Courtyard with pumpkins, food tent, private hayrides, and more. Register. $10.

Noon to 4 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Family Nature Walk, Washington Crossing State Park, 335 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville, 609-737-0609.

Informal naturalist-guided trail walk. Register. Free. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Virtual

Classical Music

Choral evensong, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Lambertville, 609-397-2425. www.standrewslambertville.org. Virtual choir and orchestra present the chorale (known as “Jesu, Joy of man’s desiring”) from Cantata 147 by J.S Bach; music by Elizabethan composer William Byrd, and a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by 19th century composer Charles Villiers Stanford. The service concludes with remembrances of the departed and with playing of Movement 4 from Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. Free via Zoom. 4 p.m.

Literati

Victoria de Grazia: “The Perfect Fascist”, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org.

A conversation between Victoria de Grazia, professor of History at Columbia University, and author Jenny McPhee about de Grazia’s recently published book. Register.

3 to 4 p.m.

Monday November 2 In Person Art

Day of the Dead Art Exhibit, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www. artscouncilofprinceton.org. Art installation inspired by the culturally rich Mexican holiday on view in the Taplin Gallery through November 14. The gallery will be filled with an elaborate altar, flower constructions, plus the sugar skulls, papel picado, and nichos created by participants from community workshops. 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Virtual

On Stage

Mental Amusements, bristol riverside Theater. www.brtstage.org. Interactive, virtual mind-reading show by mentalist Vinny DePonto. Recommended for ages 16 and up. Front row tickets, $50, allow for audience participation. General admission $35.

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book Discussion: “The Garden Party and other Stories”, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. Discussion of Katherine Mansfield’s collection of short stories is the first in a series of explorations of titles frequently borrowed from Shakespeare and Company in Paris.

The English-language bookshop and lending library in Paris was opened by American and former Princeton resident Sylvia Beach in 1919. Register. 11 a.m. to noon.

Socials

Socrates Cafe, Mercer County Library, 609-448-0957. www.mcl. org. Pose questions, listen to others, raise challenges, and consider alternative answers. Background in philosophy is not required; no preparation is necessary. Register to hopeprogs@mcl. org to receive GoTo Meeting link.

7 to 8:30 p.m.

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Off the Presses: Revolutionary Princeton 1774-1783

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round 9 a.m., on the bitterly cold Friday, January 3, 1777, the terrifying sounds of musket and cannon fire made by several thousand soldiers finally diminished and became more distant,” starts William (Larry) Kidder in his new book, “Revolutionary Princeton 1774 - 1783: The Biography of an American Town.”

The Ewing resident and author of “A People Harassed and Exhausted: The Story of a New Jersey Militia Regiment in the American Revolution,” “Crossroads of the Revolution: Trenton 1774-1783,” and “Ten Crucial Days: Washington’s Vision for Victory Unfolds” continues by taking the reader deeper into the home located on what is now known as the Princeton Battlefield and opens the door to history.

Here we meet “34-year-old farmer Thomas Clarke, his 24-yearold sister Sarah, their 28-year-old enslaved woman Susannah, and 19-year-old French Huguenot farmhand David de la Force.

We also quickly learn they are “cowering in the shelter of their farmhouse in the Stony Brook community just south of the village of Princeton, New Jersey, all felt tremendous relief.

“Following their farmer’s routine, they had awakened early to start the farm chores that bitterly cold morning when they unexpectedly heard and then saw a long column of American Continental soldiers and militiamen marching up the little-used dirt road that passed the front of their house. As they watched, several hundred soldiers turned left from the column and marched across crop stubble and winter wheat shoots on their frozen farm fields and the adjacent icy cropland and bare orchard of their 41-year-old brother, William.

“In horror, these peaceful Quakers watched an intense battle flare up when those American troops ran into about 500 British troops coming towards them from the Post Road connecting Princeton and Trenton.

“The resulting combat ended in less than an hour, but the fighting had been very heavy near their houses, with an occasional British bullet peppering a wall while they cowered inside. As the sounds of battle became more distant, Thomas and Sarah’s great relief suddenly changed to shocked sadness when several American soldiers came to their door carrying wounded, heavily bleeding men, including one identified as a high ranking officer.

“The peaceful Quaker siblings accommodated these injured men in their home, knowing there must be more wounded and dead outside lying on their fields.”

That’s just one of the vivid moments Kidder presents in this 384-page book that brings local history alive.

It also contains some important observations and harsh realities.

For example, take Kidder’s overview of the region’s Quakers who “lived comfortably but did not

by Dan Aubrey display magnificent homes, expensive furniture, or other signs of wealth.”

But, like others throughout the British colonies, they employed indentured servants and owned enslaved persons, despite some members’ push to abolish the practice and treat slaves like brothers and sisters.

“Concerns among Quakers in West Jersey about the ethics of slavery first appeared in 1688 when the Germantown, Pennsylvania Quakers wrote up an anti-slavery petition. From that time until the years of the Revolution, Quakers debated how they could enslave individuals of African descent while firmly believing in the spiritual equality of all humans.

“The debate led to increasing abolitionist expressions, protests, and actions, including among the Princeton area Quakers. Quakers manumitted many slaves, including ones at Princeton, during the 1770s.”

However, as Kidder points out, “while early Stony Brook residents were primarily Quakers, Presbyterianism became prevalent throughout the area as the population grew.

The Presbyterians were not strongly anti-slavery at this point, and some Quakers may have converted to escape criticism for owning slaves. Commenting on the enslaved people around Princeton, Presbyterian Reverend John Witherspoon, president of the college in Princeton, a slave owner himself, noted rather casually, if not defensively, that ‘Negroes are exceedingly well used, being fed and clothed as well as any free persons who live by daily labor.’”

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t’s such social and personal conflicts that pull the reader into the minds of the people who created our region and nation.

The book strikes its flint spark in 1774 when “many residents of Princeton, like many people in the 13 British North American colonies, had become increasingly concerned about acts passed by the distant British Parliament that affected their lives.

“The resultant protest actions, however, came more under the heading of news than something in which people were actively involved. The rising tide of protests against these acts reached flood level on December 13, 1773, when protestors acted out their disgust with a small tax on tea and destroyed a shipment of it in Boston Harbor.”

Then, as Kidder so keenly reports, “One night in late January, a few days after Paul Revere rode through Princeton spreading the

Larry Kidder, right, is the author of a new book on Princeton at the time of the American Revolution. news about the destruction of tea in Boston harbor, College of New Jersey students held their own protest against the tax of imported tea.

Several boys broke into the college steward’s storeroom, took out the winter supply of tea, and then went from room to room, removing all privately owned tea.

“They destroyed the tea in a bonfire built in the yard in front of Nassau Hall while tolling the school bell and making ‘many spirited resolves.’ Other students enthusiastically burned effigies of Massachusetts Governor Hutchinson, ‘amidst the repeated acclamations of a large crowd of spectators.’

“Not everyone in the village agreed with the boys’ actions, and tempers flared on both sides. Innkeeper William Hick, whose inn stood across the street from the college, drew negative attention to himself by making pro-government remarks that others in the assembled crowd found obnoxious.

College senior Samuel Leake became so emotionally caught up that he somehow insulted a college trustee, possibly local lawyer Richard Stockton, who came by and calmly tried to break up the ‘riotous proceedings.’

“Afterward, the Pennsylvania Gazette reported that ‘we hear from Princeton, in New Jersey, that the officers and students of the college, have unanimously agreed to drink no more TEA.’” Kidder’s witty blending of American figures such as Paul Revere with the day-to-day details of colonial Princeton engages and quickly reminds us of the region’s placement as both the crossroads for East Coast travel and the crossroads of the Revolution.

Here’s another example of the

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many prominent historic figures to be mentioned — and a Princeton tavern that had been known to locals until the late 20th century: “Before the Continental Congress was scheduled to meet, 39-year-old John Adams set out from New Brunswick in a carriage smartly drawn by four horses. Squeezed in the vehicle with him were his older cousin Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, and Robert Treat Paine, the Massachusetts delegates to the upcoming Continental Congress, and also their four servants.

“After a jarring, dusty ride of about 15 miles over the uneven dirt Post Road, sometimes called the King’s Highway or the Upper Road, connecting New York and Philadelphia, they entered the pretty village of Princeton about noon.

“Their driver stopped the carriage in front of 38-year-old Jacob Hyer’s tavern, proudly displaying an image of the literary character Hudibras on its sign. This inn stood quite near massive Nassau Hall, constructed from light brown, locally quarried sandstone that housed the College of New Jersey.

“Presbyterians brought the college to town in 1757, and Jacob had humorously named his tavern the Hudibras, after the title character in Samuel Butler’s 1663 mock-heroic poem satirizing religious dissenters, such as ‘New Light’ Presbyterians.”

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s expected, the thoroughly researched and heavily detailed book covers the main points of the era — the break from England in 1776 and American and British forces fighting in Princeton at the start of 1777.

Yet while Kidder handles the above with the skill gleaned from

Kidder’s witty blending of American figures such as Paul Revere with the day-to-day details of colonial Princeton engages and quickly reminds us of the region’s placement as both the crossroads for East Coast travel and the crossroads of the Revolution.

his career as a history teacher, it is his ability to place the reader into the era’s uncertain times and the grating daily challenges that people faced that makes the book more than just a recount of familiar history.

As the writer notes at the start of his chapter “1781,” “Morale in America had reached another low point as (the year) began to unfold.

The continual dragging on of the inconclusive war had created or exacerbated many problems, including the depreciation of currency and Loyalists’ efforts to disrupt the revolution. The 13 new states had not even come together to ratify the Articles of Confederation.”

And in addition to a difference among citizens between being governed by a strong central government or a strong statement government, “no one was happy about the condition of the army and the suffering of the soldiers.”

That included the patriot soldiers themselves, who unglamorously mutinied in Morristown, marched to Philadelphia to confront the Continental Congress over pay and service, and arrived on January 1 and stayed for a week — concerning the anxious citizens who remembered the battles of 1776 and saw no end of war in sight — although British General Cornwallis would surrender at Yorktown several months later.

“Princeton experienced the Revolution and the war as a diverse community trying to deal with events that were outside their control,” writes Kidder at the end of his book.

He then gets to the heart of his life’s work and the importance of learning history: “In many ways, they were like us today, and understanding their struggles in the 18th century can help us understand our struggles today.”

Revolutionary Princeton 1774 - 1783: The Biography of an American Town by William (Larry) Kidder, 2020, $19, 384 pages, Knox books.

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Life in the Fast Lane Joseph Bonaparte’s Point Breeze Property Preserved

Edited by Sara Hastings

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he New Jersey landscape and Delaware River overlooking the once palatial home and gardens of Joseph Bonaparte is being permanently preserved in the City of Bordentown.

The acquisition of the property on a bluff overlooking the confluence of the Crosswicks Creek with the Delaware River was accomplished through a partnership agreement between the City of Bordentown and D&R Greenway Land Trust with the State of New Jersey, all of whom are providing funding.

The action secures the permanent preservation of the City of Bordentown’s last unprotected large open landscape and an important place of history.

In the 1800s Joseph Bonaparte — Napoleon’s older brother and the former King of Spain and of Naples — lived on a palatial estate on the property, known as Point Breeze, for 17 years.

The former king owned the largest library in the United States, as well as an unparalleled collection of European art, and created one of the finest picturesque gardens in America.

According Patricia Tyson Stroud, an historian and author of the Joseph Bonaparte biography “The Man Who Once Was King,” the Bordentown years “were the happiest of Bonaparte’s long life and where he hosted politicians, diplomats, artists, famous authors, and naturalists.”

Those visitors included former President John Quincy Adams, Marquis de Lafayette, and members of the New Jersey State Legislature.

The property, 60 acres on Park Street, is at Bordentown City’s gateway and has been under the ownership of Divine Word Missionaries since 1941. The property is currently being transferred to the

preservation partners.

The $4.6 million acquisition was approved at the October 12 City of Bordentown commissioners meeting and was followed by D&R Greenway Executive Director Linda Mead and City of Bor-

The agreement between Bordentown City and the D&R Greenway secures the permanent preservation of the City of Bordentown’s last unprotected large open landscape and an important place of history. dentown Mayor James Lynch signing purchase agreement documents.

According to the arrangement,

the property’s 60 acres will remain as open space, with walking trails and outdoor and indoor recreation opportunities. Existing buildings will be repurposed for Bordentown City municipal use.

The Gardener’s House, the only remaining structure that exists on the site from the time of Bonaparte, will be owned and managed by D&R Greenway, with support for docent-led tours from the Bordentown Historical Society.

Other plans include opening Gardener’s House, restoring gardens, and providing educational programs to inform the public about the history of the property from the time of Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte through Divine Word’s stewardship of the land.

Partners believe that the property’s connection to the Delaware River and its location as a gateway to the community of Bordentown will be a key component in connecting people to this site “of great national, even international, significance.”

The State of New Jersey owns

Left, D&R Greenway’s Linda Mead and Bordentown City Mayor James Lynch sign paperwork ensuring the preservation of the Point Breeze property, above. the land on the bluffs that surround this soon to be preserved site. During the pandemic, NJ Green Acres staff worked closely with the city and the nonprofit D&R Greenway staff to ensure that this site would be permanently preserved.

Across Park Street from the Point Breeze land is the site of the former Ocean Spray plant, which will be converted into 296 loftstyle apartments and mixed-use

commercial space called Cranberry Park, with bicycle and walking access to the downtown.

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Divine Word Missionaries purchased the property in 1941, acting as its steward for almost 80 years.

Continued from preceding page The property was used for educaas recognizing the Lenape occupa- tion and mission activities and as a tion of this setting more than 10,000 priests’ retirement home. As resiyears ago. dent numbers declined, it became Peter Tucci, a member of the apparent that the land would have board of trustees of both the Bor- to be sold, and the Mission moved dentown Historical Society and the off the site.

D&R Greenway Land Trust, will The Mission’s director and manexhibit his premier collection of ager Father Jefferson Pool entered Joseph Bonaparte artifacts to edu- into exploratory discussions with cate visitors and students of histo- D&R Greenway (with whom they ry. had cooperated over the years to Tucci said in a statement, “I present historical and ecological can’t think of a better place to ex- events) and partners, the State of hibit these treasures than at the pre- New Jersey and the City of Bordenserved Point Breeze, where all who town, all of whom wanted to see are interested this property can learn what preserved.

‘The site’s permanent life was like in a According to preservation is a tessmall town for a D&R Greenan exiled king.” tament to the resident way statement, Monmouth “The site’s perpriests’ interactions University armanent preserwith the community chaeologist vation is a testaRichard Veit, ment to the resifor many years and who has conpriests’ intheir care and love for dent ducted signifiteractions with this land, along with cant archeologithe community cal excavations for many years the commitment of on the site, says their care the preservation part- and in a statement, and love for this ners to ensure this “ J o s e p h land, along with B o n a p a r t e ’s the commitment national treasure rePoint Breeze esthe preservamain for the benefit of of tate was one of tion partners to future generations.’ the finest counensure this natry houses in the tional treasure Delaware Valremain for the ley. Although only traces of the benefit of future generations.” original Point Breeze mansions in Bordentown City mayor James Bordentown remain, extensive ar- Lynch said he and the town’s govchaeological deposits survive to erning body are grateful to all the reveal their grandeur during involved partners in preserving the Bonaparte’s American sojourn property and that the town (1815-1839). Legendary for its pic- $1,655,000 investment is a “great turesque landscape, wonderful gar- benefit to the city and its residents” dens, extensive art collection, and and protects the city’s rich history. large library, Point Breeze was a — Dan Aubrey center of American social life.”

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Board chairman Robert S. Schimek said in a statement that the decision was unanimous and “reaffirms our steadfast belief in President Dell’Omo’s leadership of our university.”

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In 2019 Rider received its largest ever philanthropic gift, a $10 million donation from Norm and Elaine Brodsky to endow scholarships for business students and support future business projects.

Dell’Omo also oversaw the controversial move of Westminster Choir College’s operations from its Princeton campus to the university’s main campus in Lawrenceville.

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Deaths Frances Ellen Biddle, 73. She worked for 20 years as a library assistant at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Doris O’Donovan, 83, on October 25.

She worked in library acquisitions at Rider University for 25 years.

Helen J. Hatrak on October 22. Prior to retirement she was chief clerk with the Mercer County Board of Social Services.

Toby Elaine Robinson, 85, on October 22. Trained as a nurse, she worked for more than 20 years at the Planned Parenthood Association of the Mercer County Area, retiring as medical director.

In retirement she continued as a volunteer with the American Cancer Society and Adath Israel Congregation.

Donald C. Olearchik, 67, on October 18.

He worked at the General Motors plant in Ewing for 20 years.

Marie-Elaina Belardino Csorgo, 72, on October 19. She was operations manager at Ameriprise Financial, Lawrenceville, for 28 years.

Giovanni ‘John’ A. Pennacchi, 88, on October 20. He was employed as a mason in the family business, Pennacchi Brothers Masonry.

Anthony R. Tanzone Jr., 81, on October 22. The Hamilton resident was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service for 40 years.

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