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to America, I experienced “reverse culture shock” in my own country, and too many people sadly undereducated and uninformed. Naturally, President Trump found his admirers among them.

Living in Princeton for the past nine years now has opened my eyes to a widespread “elitism” stemming from the university and its self-proclaimed superiority.

The danger is that elitism spreads from an assumption like that in a trickle down effect on faculty, students, and Princetonians in general, although it has not touched everyone, especially those students who spend only a short time at the university and in the town.

Elitism is a wide umbrella in read the Wednesday, Septem- Princeton, encompassing social ber 30, issue of Town Topics in and economic stigmas as well, not which many residents and faculty only racism. It touches those with members expressed heated con- little wealth and particularly many cern over the Department of Edu- who live in affordable housing in Princeton. Elitism in cation’s charge of sysoften distemic racism at Princebetween Princeton misses those who atton University. tended less than Ivy The There has been conLeague schools and siderable attention paid Lines those who did (how mato this issue at meetings I ny times have I heard have attended at the public library and in classes I have audiences boo — even in humor attended at the university. These — speakers who did not receive a meetings have improved aware- degree from Princeton, despite ness among the Princeton public. their degrees from other comparaHowever, I think the narrowness of ble Ivy League schools like the the DOE’s charge of racism is University of Pennsylvania).

Princeton has many individual matched by the university’s pushback on the subject: Targeting rac- volunteers and charities in the ism alone is isolating it from a town serving the less economically wider range of stigmas that exist at advantaged , which is commendthe university and in the town as able, but social out-casting is strikingly prevalent. I recall asking a well.

While living in Vietnam for a very prominent editor of a local decade I discovered a culture in- newspaper here why upon choosfused with Confucian respect for ing to live in Princeton (albeit on authority, elders, education, polite- the other side of the tracks in afness and appropriate manners and fordable housing), I felt invisible, Buddhist compassion, forgive- despite wearing acceptable apparness, and love. Returning in 2011 el, earning three graduate degrees from another Ivy League universi-

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Her answer was effectively, “... it’s not just wealth, certainly not how well you dress, it’s about being famous.”

Racism should be incorporated among these other stigmas that stain the name of an extraordinary university. An elitist university suggests one which offers a very high quality education; however, it has nothing to do with personal character or the other values which Einstein articulated beautifully in words carved into a bust of him on campus as those which guided his life: truth, beauty, and kindness.

I would include another term the brilliant scientist did not include but practiced as a resident here: tolerance of all people, regardless of wealth, education, or occupational status. He was beloved here for that trait as well.

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Survival Guide Interchange: ‘Pine Mud’ Exposes ORV Damage to Pine Barrens Editor’s Note: In her weekly commentary, Michele S. Byers of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation reports on a new film shedding light on the damage being done one of New Jersey’s best known natural landmarks, the Pine Barrens. For additional upcoming films and media related to the Pine Barrens, see Dan Aubrey’s stories on pages 14 and 15.

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or those who love nature and wildlife, the New Jersey Pine Barrens are a million acres of incomparable beauty and wilderness in the middle of the heavily developed East Coast corridor. It’s a region rich in rare plants and animals, some found nowhere else on Earth, and has been designated an international Biosphere Reserve.

Unfortunately for wildlife, the Pine Barrens are also a popular destination for off-road vehicle drivers whose idea of fun is tearing through wetlands, streams, ponds, and dunes, turning them into giant mud puddles. There’s even a name for the sport: mudding.

“Pine Mud,” a new documentary by New Jersey filmmaker Jared

Flesher, examines the environmenThe following spring, Flesher tal damage caused by off-road ve- was again in the Pine Barrens for a hicles (ORVs) in the Pine Barrens “Creature Show” episode. This and challenges the state to find a time, he went out with Jason Howsolution. ell, stewardship coordinator for the “The film is meant to raise Pinelands Preservation Alliance, to awareness of the issue, because a film Pine Barrens tree frogs, anlot of people don’t even know it’s other endangered species. “We saw an issue,” said Flesher. all kinds of trash, garbage, and tire “Pine Mud” will be shown at ruts,” Flesher recalled, including two outdoor screenings in South damage to vernal ponds that are imJersey this month: the first on Sun- portant breeding grounds for Pine day, October 11, on the grounds of Barrens tree frogs and other spethe Collingswood Grand Ballroom cies. in Camden County; and the second By then, the state had proposed a on Saturday, October 17, at the plan to limit ORV access in WharFranklin Parker Preserve in ton State Forest in the Pine Barrens Chatsworth, Burlington County, in — New Jersey’s largest state forest the heart of the Pine Barrens. Both — but quickly scrapped it in the screenings will be followed by an face of organized opposition by audience Q&A with Flesher, and ORV enthusiasts. the event at Franklin Parker PreIt was then that Flesher decided serve will be a documentary preceded by was needed to sunset hikes raise awareness Unfortunately for with naturalists. of the harm be“Pine Mud” ing done to the wildlife, the Pine Bargot its unofficial landscape and rens are also a popustart in 2015 wildlife. lar destination for offwhen Flesher Filmed bewas producing tween 2016 and road vehicle drivers “The Creature 2019, “Pine whose idea of fun is Show,” an interMud” is told tearing through wetnet series focuslargely through ing on the state’s the commentary lands, streams, rare wildlife. of Jason Howell ponds and dunes, He traveled to and another Pine turning them into githe Franklin Barrens native, Parker Preserve Mark Demitroff, ant mud puddles. to shoot an epia local historian sode on the and geology snakes of the professor at Pine Barrens where New Jersey Stockton University. The docuConservation Foundation’s biolo- mentary also includes old TV news gist, Dr. Emile DeVito, introduced clips and footage of off-road vehihim to endangered northern pine cles gouging deep, muddy ruts on snakes. Many of these gentle trails through the Pine Barrens. snakes — as well as turtles and am“There are people coming from phibians — are killed, DeVito said, Philadelphia, New York, and even when their underground nests, hi- Virginia who want to go mudding,” bernation sites, and other critical said Flesher. These off-roaders are habitat are crushed by ORVs. not shy, he noted; and many post

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Since completion of the film, Flesher said the state has taken some steps to reduce ORV damage in the Pine Barrens, including barriers to block access to ponds and dunes, and increasing enforcement of trespassing laws. But he still believes “an overarching strategic plan” is needed. He hopes “Pine Mud” will become a catalyst for that dialog.

“Do we want the Pine Barrens to become a giant ORV park?” he asks. “Or do we want to treat it like our own national park, which it kind of is? The Pine Barrens belong to the people of the state of New Jersey, and I think we should be planning for a better future.”

“Pine Mud” had been set to premiere in March at an environmental film festival in Washington, D.C. but was canceled due to COVID-19. “Pine Mud” finally got its first screening in August at an outdoor film festival in Princeton.

The two screenings in October will likely be the last until warm weather returns next spring. “This is a really challenging time to share films and live events,” Flesher not-

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Filmmaker Jared Flesher’s documentary ‘Pine Mud’ draws attention to the environmental damage caused by ‘mudding’ in the Pine Barrens. ed. “All of these screenings are socially distanced, and people are asked to wear masks.”

To learn more about “Pine Mud,” watch the film’s trailer, and make reservations to attend the October screenings, go to www.pinemud.com.

And for more information about preserving New Jersey’s land and natural resources — including the Franklin Parker Preserve — visit the New Jersey Conservation Foundation website at www.njconservation.org or contact info@njconservation.org.

For more information on protecting the Pine Barrens, visit the Pinelands Preservation Alliance website at www.pinelandsalliance. org.

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Women’s Leadership Summit, Middlesex County regional Chamber of Commerce. www.mcrcc.org. Second of four weekly sessions for the 19th annual summit with the theme Rest, Renew, Relaunch.

Discussions include “Creating a Self-Care Habit to Prevent Burn Out” with Alexa Fan; “Dressing from the Waist Up” with Tamara Heyer; “Rethinking the Workplace Environment: Flexibility and Engagement” with Theresa Richardson; and “‘What about me?’ Design your life to get what you want” with Kathleen Cashman-Walter, MBA, LCOP, PCC. Register. 11 a.m. to noon.

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David Schuchman, left, presents on ‘hidden’ jobs for the Professional Service Group meeting on October 9. Linda Czipo, above, discusses collaboration between for-profit and nonprofit entities during COVID-19 for the Princeton Chamber on October 14.

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Wednesday October 7 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 Wednesdays through Saturdays. $10. Box lunch available for additional $20.

Masks required. Register. 11 a.m.

The Great Pumpkin Carve The Hopewell Valley Arts Council presents a socially distanced rendition of its annual pumpkin carve in Woolsey Park, featuring a drive-through setup that allows families to observe the artfully carved pumpkins from the safety of their vehicles.

The event runs Wednesday through Sunday, October 7 through 11.

Wellness

Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans connect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can. 8 to 9 a.m.

For Families

Amazing Drive-Thru Pumpkin Carve, Hopewell Valley Arts Council, Woolsey Park, 221 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. www.hvartscouncil.org. 40 colossal pumpkins will be carved and electrified by area artists and displayed in an illuminated drive-through. Live music and DJs plus a chance for socially distanced photo-ops. Popcorn

and cider for purchase, plus free mini-pumpkins while supplies last.

Register. $25 per vehicle with up to six occupants. 7 to 9 p.m.

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Downtown Lunchtime Recital Series, First Reformed Church of New Brunswick. www.facebook.com/FRCNewBrunswick.

Lewis Baratz plays harpsichord music from 18th century London.

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Bob Egan and Friends Virtual Piano Bar. www.bobeganentertainment.com. Bob Egan and Friends perform music of Henry Mancini.

Visit www.facebook.com/onlinePianoBar. 8 p.m.

On Stage

An Evening of New York Songs and Stories, State Theater New Jersey. www.stnj.org. Livestream of Suzanne Vega’s hit show and album. Register. $24 per device. 9 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 “Filmmaking in Troubled Times” with multimedia artist Simone Leigh and Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art Tina Campt, with guests Julie Dash, Angela Davis, and Barbara McCullough. Register.

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Literati

Short Story Discussion, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Discuss “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. 8 p.m.

Mental Health

Too Much Stuff: Why Persons Tend to Hoard, NAMI New Jersey. www.naminj.org. Laverne Williams, CSW, discusses common beliefs around hoarding disorder, best practices to support someone with the disorder, and the financial and emotional costs to persons with the tendency to hoard and to their families and the community. Q&A follows. Register. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Harvest of Hope at Home, NAMI Mercer. www.namimercer.org.

Wellness conference continues with a workshop for those with an interest in the complex issues surrounding the substantial increase in the number of individuals with significant mental health treatment needs who have had interactions with the criminal justice system led by Dr. Joel Friedman and a workshop on approaches for convincing someone to seek professional medical help by Dr. Mark Komrad. Register. $10. 7 to 8:45 p.m.

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t was shortly after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy declared the pandemic closings of museums, galleries, and other cultural venues that U.S. 1 began its Art of the Quarantine series.

And over the past several months, artists responded to our invitation to share visual thoughts, feelings, and discoveries during our current health crisis.

The decision to create the section was simple. U.S. 1 is a regional arts newspaper and if galleries were unable to show artists then we would.

Now that some regional galleries and museums — such as the Arts Council of Princeton, Trenton City Museum, Artworks Trenton, Grounds For Sculpture, and Morven Museum & Garden — are

Clockwise from above: ‘The Story’ by C.a. Shofed of Trenton; untitled work by Sean Carney of Robbsinville; ‘Blue During Quarantine’ by Jane Zamost of Pennington; ‘Pere Lachaise’ by Rob Lowe of Trenton; ‘Elusive’ by Andrew Werth of West Windsor; and ‘Assunpink Swamp Canopy’

by Leni Morante of Hamilton. slowly reopening and exhibiting and artists are no longer quarantined to their studios as was the reality several months ago, U.S. 1 is now looking at new ways to support artists and arts organizations during a pandemic.

We are also looking back over the past months and glad we were able to partner with painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers, and others to bring fresh images

and ideas to the region during an uncertain time.

As a way of celebrating the slow reopening our arts community is begin to experience, we are closing our Art of the Quarantine series by featuring some of the submitted art work that had yet to be show and continue to document how resilient our regional arts community has been during this uncertain era.

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ince the beginning we were thinking about vegetarian,” chef Reggie Hallett tells me about providing vegan dishes for his restaurant with the very nonvegan name, the 1911 Smokehouse, on Front Street in downtown Trenton.

“We” includes Hallett’s brother, Maurice, who founded the downtown barbecue restaurant in 2015.

They are also part of a larger trend of restaurants hungry to cater to a non-carnivorous clientele.

Reggie Hallett continues to tell me that reaching that market was on his mind from opening day when he started offering meat-free collard greens and baked beans.

He says having vegan and vegetarian items on the menu makes sense because it makes cents.

To make his point, Hallett sits back in his chair at a table out front of the former Tony Kall’s café — a place where politicians would chew the beef and exchanged the bull — and draws an imaginary pie with an ever-growing slice of vegan and vegetarian diners.

“From my experience in the restaurant industry, salads are usually the vegetarian or vegan dish,” he says, adding that it took him a while to come up with some more creative offerings.

He then lists offerings to make it clear the Smokehouse is more than its “you can’t beat our meat” slogan.

There are black bean empanadas for vegetarians, the vegan empanadas — made with a plant-based “vegan beef” — fried avocados, vegan sausage, and vegan wings — the latter being battered mushrooms tossed in one of the restaurants spicy sauces.

“I want to play around with tofu, but I haven’t had a chance yet,” he says.

That’s because he has assumed both chef and management

duties after his brother moved out

of the region, though he still checks in remotely and makes monthly visits.

“I am basically running the business,” says Hallett, mentioning attempts to expand the restaurant on the family-owned property.

He says his recipe for approaching vegan cooking is based on his general approach to cooking — learning, experimenting, fine-tuning, and then taste testing.

He says he always liked cooking but got serious after working as a social worker in New York City, with special attention to situations

The Savory Leaf Cafe, left, is one of two fully vegan establishments at the Trenton Farmers Market.

Reggie Hallett, above, has added numerous vegan and vegetarian options to the menu at the 1911 Smokehouse in Trenton. at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

A 1981 graduate of Ewing High School with several years study at

St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, Hallett says one day he decided he wanted to cook and “like a con-

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struction worker I bought some tools,” chef’s knives in his case, and pounded New York City pavements looking to start.

E.U. Restaurant executive chef Sara Ochs evidently liked his moxie and gave him his start shucking oysters and managing the salad stations.

Over the next several years he worked in a variety of New York City restaurants and earned his salt as a cook.

Things changed when a couple of out of town fans lured him to Steubenville, Ohio, to be the chef at their Froehlich Classic Corner. He was there for eight years.

“I came back to my father’s funeral, and my brother asked to if I’d be a cook if he bought a restaurant,” he says about getting into Trenton’s restaurant game.

Although their main focus was on ribs, wings, and brisket, Hallett says he knew the value of providing options for vegetarians. “It was unfair that all (vegetarians and vegans) could order was a salad. I wanted to do something and played around in the kitchen.”

He also talked to people who practiced the no-animal-product lifestyle.

“The vegan wings?” he says.

“They’re called Ariana vegan wings. She was a state worker who was a vegan. She gave me the idea, so we named them after her.”

Trade shows also help. “That’s where I discovered the vegan beef.

That’s where ideas come from as well.”

But taste is king, says Hallett.

“There’s no magic. I taste it and say, ‘Okay, it needs to be on the menu.”

The result is he says he is seeing more vegans and vegetarians showing up. “They are surprised that a barbecue place has vegan food, and they say now they have a place they can go, too. Some say, ‘My husband comes here, and now I can come too.’”

To evaluate Hallett’s claims, I decide to do a taste test of my own and order the black bean empanada, vegan empanada, and the vegan wings to go.

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also contact Steve Fenster, founder of the New Jersey vegetarian and vegan group NJveg, to get his thoughts on vegan dining.

“Some restaurants you wouldn’t

expect are having vegan menus. It is making it a lot easier for vegans,” the Pemberton Borough resident tells me resident during a telephone interview.

Asked to explain the difference between vegetarians and vegans, Fenster says, “It is straight forward.

Vegetarians won’t eat flesh productions. Vegans will not eat animal products whatsoever — no eggs, dairy, or even honey.

A vegan for nearly a decade, the Parsippany-raised Fenster says he was a vegetarian before that.

He says most people make the

‘It was unfair that all (vegetarians and vegans) could order was a salad,’ says reggie Hallett of how 1911 Smokehouse expanded its meat-free offerings. ‘I wanted to do something and played around in the kitchen.’ choice to ditch meat for three reasons. “The most obvious is that it’s ethical — people don’t like to kill animals to eat and the way we treat them before they are killed is cruel,” he says.

The second is environmental and animal agriculture’s impact on land use and pollution.

And third is health. “There is a lot of research being done on how a plant-based diet can reduce diabetes/heart disease, and more,” Fenster says.

“My interest in going vegetarian was more a gradual awareness than anything sudden,” he tells me about going vegetarian in 2000. “I always had pets growing up and loved all animals. But I didn’t make the connection between the meat on my plate and killing an animal until many years later.

“In college (at Rutgers in New Brunswick) I took an ecology course and started becoming more aware of the environmental impact of animal agriculture. I was on the path when I met my wife, who had already been vegetarian for years.

That didn’t pressure me but raised my awareness further.

“About 10 years ago I decided to give up the few remaining animal products I consumed and go vegan — after realizing that the dairy and egg industries killed and harmed countless animals.”

Asked if he missed any foods, he says, “I was never a big dairy person. The big problem was ice cream and pizza. And now many stores carry a dairy-free ice cream and many pizza shops have vegan pizza.”

Fenster, who works as a systems engineer at Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, says he founded the small, all-volunteer nonprofit NJveg, which uses a PO Box address in Columbus.

But, he adds, it grew from a former central New Jersey vegetarian group. “The woman who started it wasn’t able to do it anymore, so we picked it up from there,” he says.

The group’s approximately 100 members — mainly from central and southern New Jersey — pay a $20 membership fee to support outreach projects, such as street fair tables, and social events, like hikes, social gatherings, and volunteering to assist animal shelters and other projects. Members also get a discount on special outings and events.

Asked where he and his vegan wife go to eat, Fenster says, “For us, it’s slim pickings. We go to Properly Fuel (in Bordentown). It’s one of the most vegan-friendly places.

“Then we do things with the group. Since most of our members are more north, we go to places in Mercer or Middlesex County.”

Getting specific, he says, “Our favorite place is in the Trenton Farmers Market, the Lady and the Shallot. It’s all vegan. There are actually two vegan restaurants in the Trenton Farmers Market. The other is Savory Leaf Café.”

Listing a few other places near the U.S. 1 corridor, he mentions Arlee’s Raw Blends in Princeton and Trenton, Salad and Smoothie Market in Princeton, Veganized and Seed Burger in New Brunswick, and the Moth Coffeehouse in Allentown, which offers a discount to NJveg members But what about ordering a meal when he needs to go to a business or family function at a mainstream restaurant?

“When I started 20 years ago, it was hard to find at least a vegetari-

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Left, an animal-product-free dinner gathering with members of NJveg at the Trenton Farmers Market. Above, Steve Fenster of NJveg working with injured animals. an dish,” he says. “Now most restaurants have at least one vegan option that makes it easy.”

As proof, he mentions the South Jersey-based Red Lion Diner that added a vegan menu. “That’s just an example of how many restaurants are doing that.”

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o test his claim I call several regional hot spots for meat and asked about vegan options.

For some, it’s still on the back burner.

The hostess at Toscano steakhouse in Bordentown said they generally offer pasta dishes. A representative of beefy Witherspoon Grill in Princeton listed salads. And the hostess at Rat’s restaurant at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton says they’ll work with people with a variety of food concerns and suggests calling ahead to alert the chef.

But for others, it’s sizzling. Take The Pig + The Pit in Pennington.

Although rooted in Southern barbecue cooking, the eatery gives more than a nod to vegans and vegetarians and serves up blackeyed bean burgers, barbecued jackfruit

Members of the vegetarian and vegan nonprofit volunteer group NJveg have gravitated to the Trenton Farmers Market, which features two vegan restaurants: The Lady and the Shallot and Savory Leaf Cafe. and tofu, and portabella mushroom dinners.

It also seems to reflect another reason for people developing a taste for vegetarian food. That’s the taste itself, thanks to improved products and techniques.

As Fenster says, “The first time I took tofu I thought, ‘How could you eat this?’ A lot of chefs and cooks are specifically thinking about it and are making it much tastier.”

Nevertheless, he says vegan and vegetarian practices are becoming more mainstream, and families are practicing “Meat Free Mondays.”

They are also showing up at the group’s dinner, such as a fivecourse vegan gourmet luncheon and fundraiser at the Lady and the Shallot.

“We had 40 people and raised $200 for an animal sanctuary,” he says, adding that attendance for restaurant gatherings is open to the general public, but members get a discount.

Another restaurant event is organized with Rowan University at Burlington County’s culinary school in Mount Holly. “We typically have over 30 people. Students make a vegan a meal and after they listen to me about why it is important to have vegan meals we give them a free vegan cookbooks.

“We are active on Facebook and Instagram and we’re always willing to help people who are curious and trying to get started. We’re always interested in helping.”

Meanwhile, back at the 1911 Smokehouse (with the 1911 connected to the founding of Maurice’s college fraternity), Hallett and two cooks scramble about the boxy kitchen to tackle a growing list of mainly non-barbecue take-out requests.

Soon I have mine, and in short order I am at home with the empanadas and the vegan wings lined up cafeteria-style on my kitchen counter and invite my wife and son to pig out.

And voila! In moments, the spicy tastes, pleasing textures, and enticing aroma take us to hog heaven — but without the hog.

1911 Smokehouse, 11 West Front Street, Trenton, 609-6951911 or www.1911bbq.com.

For more on NJveg, visit www. njveg.org.

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Understanding the History of Racism in Princeton: An Exploration Through Archives, Historical Society of Princeton. www.princetonhistory.org. Join HSP staff and members of the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society for a conversational exploration of ten historic documents from Princeton via Zoom.

Register. 7 p.m.

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Voter Info Workshop, South Brunswick Public Library. www.explorelmxac.org/ authors-at-home. League of Women Voters presents a Zoom webinar on voting options and how to help and encourage others to vote. Topics include registration and mail-in voting, in-person voting, all the deadlines involved, and voter education materials available. Register. Free.

Noon to 1 p.m.

The 2020 Ballot: What Do We Want - and Need - to Know, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. New Jersey political analyst Ingrid Reed hosts the first in a three session series. Journalists from NJTV and NJSpotlight News discuss the ballot questions on redistricting and the legalization of marijuana, the race for the U.S. Senate, congressional contests attracting national attention and an update on Vote by Mail. 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 8 In Person Classical Music

PSO Woodwinds, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Morven Music and Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.princetonsymphony.org. Program includes Samuel Barber’s Summer Music, Valerie Coleman’s Umoja, and other selections.

Outdoor concert on Morven’s grounds.

Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Register. $35 per two-person pod. 5:30 p.m.

Live Music

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards. com. John & Carm folk rock duo. 6 to 9 p.m.

Art

In Our Nature, Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, 609-397-4588. www. lambertvillearts.com. First day for exhibition featuring nature-inspired paintings by Beatrice Bork and Joe Kazimierczyk. On view through November 1. 11 a.m. to 6 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.

For Families

Amazing Drive-Thru Pumpkin Carve, Hopewell Valley Arts Council, Woolsey Park, 221 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. www.hvartscouncil. org. 40 colossal pumpkins will be carved and electrified by area artists and displayed in an illuminated drive-through.

Live music and DJs plus a chance for socially distanced photo-ops. Popcorn and cider for purchase, plus free mini-pumpkins while supplies last. Register. $25 per vehicle with up to six occupants. 5 to 9 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Kayak Nature Tours, Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer County Marina, 334 South Post Road, West Windsor. www.mercercountyparks.org. Participants will kayak along the lake shore and

Archaeologist Richard Adamczyk speaks about Native American presence at Trent House property in a Zoom talk on Saturday, October 10. 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.

Virtual

Literati

Virtual Author Reading & Panel Discussion, Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. https:// eoas.rutgers.edu/ksr2020. Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson reads from and discusses his new novel, “The Ministry for the Future,” which presents a fundamentally hopeful vision of a near-future world striving to overcome the climate crisis. A panel discussion follows with journalist/ activist Naomi Klein, international environmental lawyer Cymie Payne, and environmental humanist Jorge Marcone, moderated by climate scientist Robert Kopp of Rutgers. Register. 6 to 8 p.m.

Sean Carroll, Princeton Public Library & Labyrinth Books. www.labyrinthbooks. com. Scientist, writer, educator, and film producer Sean Carroll of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Maryland discusses his book, “A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You.” Register. 7 p.m.

Gardens

Thursday Night Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, Pennsylvania. www.bhwp.org. Series of guest lectures via Zoom continues with “Putting Your Garden to Bed” with Kathy Salisbury.

Register. $15. 7 to 8 p.m.

Mental Health

Harvest of Hope at Home, NAMI Mercer. www.namimercer.org. Wellness conference concludes with Dr. Matthew Carter leading a discussion of what happens when we sleep and will offer a sleep scientist’s definition of “a good night’s sleep” and Diane Mintz presenting insights from a 24-year marriage to a man with schizoaffective disorder while she maintained longterm recovery from addiction and bipolar disorder. Register. $10. 7 to 8:45 p.m.

Lectures

Religion and the Public Conversation, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University. crs.princeton.edu. Eddie Glaude and Nyle Fort discuss how the study of religion can correct errors, raise new questions, and elevate the public discourse. Register. 4:30 p.m.

Looking at 17th-Century Dutch Paintings, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Ronni Baer, curator and lecturer, leads a virtual visit to the planned installation of 17thcentury Dutch paintings that had to be cancelled due to COVID-19. She introduces works that haven’t often been on view, places familiar paintings into new contexts, shares discoveries resulting from ongoing research, and explores recent acquisitions. Free via Zoom. 5:30 p.m.

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Autumn evening Series, New Jersey State Museum. www. statemuseum.nj.gov. Virtual conversations between museum curators and staff on a range of topics. Thematic drink creation, spirited dialogue, and a round of trivia via Zoom. Topic: Back to School with Museology 101. Register.

Free. 8 p.m.

Socials

Art Making: Drawing from the Collections, Arts Council of Princeton & Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum. princeton.edu. Artist Barbara DiLorenzo teaches via Zoom.

Free. 8 p.m.

Friday October 9 In Person Live Music

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

Just Us with rock. 6 to 9 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.

Amazing Drive-Thru Pumpkin Carve, Hopewell Valley Arts Council, Woolsey Park, 221 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. www.hvartscouncil.org. 40 colossal pumpkins will be carved and electrified by area artists and displayed in an illuminated drive-through. Live music and DJs plus a chance for socially distanced photo-ops. Popcorn and cider for purchase, plus free mini-pumpkins while supplies last.

Register. $25 per vehicle with up to six occupants. 5 to 9 p.m.

Socials

An eVening at the Princeton Shopping Center, Sustainable Princeton, 301 North Harrison Street, Princeton. www.sustainableprinceton.org. Explore several different electric vehicles (EVs) and e-bikes, speak with owners and dealers, and take a test drive.

Register at bit.ly/EVening. 4 p.m.

Virtual

For Seniors

FYI Seminar, Princeton Senior resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Cathy Forbes, Mercer County SHIP coordinator, explains options for the upcoming Medicare enrollment period, October 15 to December 7, via Zoom. Register. Free. 11:45 a.m.

Saturday October 10 In Person Live Music

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

Dark Whiskey with bluegrass in the afternoon, The Lifters with classic rock in the evening. 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m.

Williamsboy, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-3716000. www.workingdogwinerynj. com. Free live music. Wine for purchase. Tower Dogs Food Truck starting at noon. 1 to 5 p.m.

Art

Plein Air Paint Out, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon

Street, Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Grab your easel and pick a spot around town to let the surroundings inspire your next work. Sketch or paint your favorite place to join the Paint Out movement. Passersby can enjoy seeing local artists at work and all paintings created during the Paint Out will be featured in a future exhibition at the Arts Council. Register. Noon to 4 p.m.

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 and social distancing 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.

Social distancing measures in place. 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. Limit of two shoppers per family. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Film

Carpool Cinema, Acme Screening room, 204 North Union Street, Lambertville. www.acmescreeningroom.org. Parking lot screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Register. $30 per car. 7 p.m.

Park-In Movie, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Parking lot film screening of “Hocus Pocus” to be viewed from your car via FM radio frequency. Register. $25 per vehicle. 7 p.m.

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Register. $25 per vehicle with up to six occupants. 3 to 9 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Saturday Morning Walking Club, Lawrence Hopewell Trail, Village Park, Yeger Drive, Lawrenceville. www.lhtrail.org. Socially distanced round-trip walk across Keefe Road and through the Pole Farm section of Mercer Meadows. Total distance is just over two miles. Walkers will be divided into groups of 20 or fewer and must wear masks. 9:30 a.m.

Shopping News

Trenton Punk rock Flea Market, CUre Insurance Arena Parking Lot, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton. www.trentonprfm.com. Vendors of original art, vintage

History

Digging Up Trenton’s History before Stacy and Trent, Trent House Association. www.williamtrenthouse.org. Richard Adamczyk, an archaeologist with the historic preservation consulting firm Richard Grubb & Associates, presents a talk on Zoom about archaeological evidence of Native American life on what is now the site of the Trent House. View the talk at bit.ly/2QSaz9e. Q&A follows. 1 p.m.

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Fairs & Festivals

AppleFest Family Event, Wicoff House, 641 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro. tiny.cc/applefest2020.

Celebration including a new temporary exhibit, “Plainsboro’s Rich Farming History,” apple crafts, scavenger hunt, warm apple cider, and treats. Register. Free. 2 to 4 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

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.

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.

Amazing Drive-Thru Pumpkin Carve, Hopewell Valley Arts Council, Woolsey Park, 221 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. www.hvartscouncil.org. 40 colossal pumpkins will be carved and electrified by area artists and displayed in an illuminated drive-through. Live music and DJs plus a chance for socially distanced photo-ops. Popcorn and cider for purchase, plus free mini-pumpkins while supplies last.

Register. $25 per vehicle with up to six occupants. 3 to 9 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Tomahawk Throwing, Washington Crossing State Park, 335 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville, 609-737-0609.

Try your hand at sticking a tomahawk or small hatchet into a target at about 15 feet. Adults only. Register. Free. 1:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Schools

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In Person Admissions Fair, Nortre Dame High School, 601 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville. www. ndnj.org. Meet representatives from athletics, performing arts, clubs, and our parent community.

Register. Event will be held in the athletic fields with no building access. 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 and 12:45 to 2 p.m.

Shopping News

Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market, CURE Insurance Arena Parking Lot, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton. www.trentonprfm.com. Vendors of original art, vintage clothes and toys, vinyl and cassettes, and more plus food trucks.

Masks required at all times. $5 admission. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Slavic Folk & Classical Music: A Musical Travelogue, South Brunswick Public Library. www. sbpl.info. Internationally acclaimed concert violinist David Podles presents a variety of Slavic pieces that span the Slavic world of music in a live virtual concert. Register. 2 p.m.

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Book Talk: Anthony Appiah, Friends of the Princeton University Library. libcal.princeton. edu/calendar/events/appiah. An-

The brass and percussion sections of Princeton Symphony Orchestra will be live from Palmer Square with Aaron Copland’s ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’ on Monday, October 12. thony Appiah, philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist, discusses his recent book, “The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity,” a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, and incandescent exploration of the nature and history of the identities that define us. Appiah was a professor of philosophy at Princeton University before joining NYU’s department of philosophy and school of law. Sponsored by the Friends of the Princeton University Library. Register.

3 p.m.

Faith

Commandment 613: A Sacred Craft, Jewish Center of Princeton. www.thejewishcenter.org.

Zoom discussion with Rabbi Kevin Hale and Miriam Lewin, a Princeton resident and director of a 23-minute documentary in which Hale joyfully practices the sacred craft of Torah restoration, bringing new life to scrolls saved in Czechoslovakia during the Shoah. As his scribal work takes him to communities now entrusted with the scrolls, he reflects on his own path to faith and practice.

Film is available online through October 13. Register to artsandculture@thejewishcenter.org.

7:30 p.m.

Lectures

The Planets As Conscious Beings, Astrological Society of Princeton. www.aspnj.org. David Hamblin propose that the planets are conscious beings that are constantly in communication with one another, and that astrological effects can be explained by these interactions. Email aspinfo@ aspnj.org for more information.

Register for Zoom session. $10. 2 to 3:30 p.m.

The History of US Presidential Elections and New Jersey, Mercer County Library. www.mcl. org. Lecture by Brian Armstrong, a collector of US presidential election memorabilia, covers all elections from 1912 to the present discussing the candidates, the issues, the campaigns, and the results. Register to hopeprogs@ mcl.org for GoToMeeting link. 2 to 3 p.m.

Monday October 12 Columbus Day. Bank and postal holiday.

In Person Classical Music

Filming & Fanfare, Princeton Symphony Orchestra. www. princetonsymphony.org. The orchestra’s brass and percussion sections of the orchestra are filmed performing Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” followed by a full performance of the piece at 5 p.m.

Passersby are likely to be filmed.

Rain date October 13. 3:30 p.m.

Farm Markets

Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market, Corner of Hudson and Greenwood Avenue, 609-2789677. www.greenwoodavefm.org.

Fresh produce, vegetables, tropical fruit, meat, and eggs. Reserved for seniors and people with disabilities, noon to 1 p.m.

Free youth meals served 1 to 3 p.m. Noon to 4 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.

Tuesday October 13 In Person Farm Markets

Greenway Farmer’s Market, 202 Carnegie Center, Princeton. www. carnegiecenter.com. Fresh, local, artisan food and products including baked goods, fruits and vegetables, and more. Vendors vary.

11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Socials

Buffalo Bonsai, Firkin Tavern, 1400 Parkway Avenue, Ewing. www.firkintavern.com. Learn to style and care for your own bonsai tree. Participants receive a healthy, two-year-old dwarf jade pre-bonsai tree, ceramic pot, soil and substrate, and wire, plus an order of wings. Register via EventBrite. $52. 6 to 7:30 p.m.

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Literati

Authors at Home Virtual Series, South Brunswick Public Library. www.explorelmxac.org/authors-at-home. Author Alex Bernstein presents a discussion of his novel “Miserable Love Stories” followed by a participant Q & A. Register. 7:30 p.m.

Good Causes

Giving and Taking: A Night of Stories to Benefit Princeton Mutual Aid, Labyrinth Books. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Evening of storytelling hosted by NPR’s Deb Amos and featuring “The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi,” Priya Vulchi and Winoona Guo of Princeton Choose, Princeton University professor and author of “Undocumented,” Dan-El Padilla Peralta, and others to benefit Princeton Mutual Aid, a network of direct aid to neighbors in need.

Register for Zoom event. Pay what you can. 7 p.m.

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Lectures

Who really elects the President? The Workings of the electoral College, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org. Frank Argote-Freyren, history professor at Kean University speaks on the history of the electoral college. Register to hopeprogs@mcl. org for GoToMeeting link. 6 p.m.

Politics

beyond the 19th Amendment, Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers University. cawp.rutgers.edu. Panel discussion of the women’s suffrage centennial, moderated by Rutgers political science professor Susan J. Carroll with panelists Wendy Smooth, associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and political science at Ohio State; Deborah Gray White, Rutgers history professor; and Christina Wolbrecht, political science professor at Notre Dame. Register. Free. 1 p.m.

Wednesday October 14 In Person Gardens

Garden Tours, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www. morven.org. Docent-led what’s in bloom tours. Tours available Wednesdays through Saturdays. $10. Box lunch available for additional $20. Masks required. Register. 11 a.m.

Virtual

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bob egan and Friends Virtual Piano bar. www.bobeganentertainment.com. Bob Egan and Friends perform music of the 1950s. Visit www.facebook.com/onlinePianoBar. 8 p.m.

Literati

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Conversation with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. arts.princeton.edu. Informal talk and Q&A with award-winning author, editor, music scribe, producer, screenwriter and Princeton alum Selwyn Seyfu Hind, Class of 1993. The author of the novel “Washington Black” and adaptation of the graphic novel “Prince of Cats,” and writer/producer on Jordan Peele’s new iteration of the Twilight Zone will be in conversation with Princeton Lecturer in Creative Writing A.M. Homes, a novelist and film and television writer and producer. Free. Register. 6 p.m.

Darcey Steinke and Susan Wheeler in Conversation, Labyrinth books. www. labyrinthbooks.com. Author Darcey Steinke discusses her new book, “Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life,” with Susan Wheeler, an author and professor of creative writing at Princeton.

Register. 7 p.m.

Virtual Author Talk, North brunswick Public Library. www.northbrunswicklibrary.org.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author David Rohde discusses his latest book, “In Deep: The F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the Truth about America’s ‘Deep State,’” and answers questions. Register at form.jotform.com/202574448486162. 7 p.m.

Good Causes

Virtual Information Session, LifeTies, Ewing, 609-671-0040. www.lifeties.org/volunteer. Information for prospective mentors and volunteers for the non-profit organization whose mission is to nurture wellness and self-sufficiency in vulnerable youth, young adults and their families. Register.

Email volunteer@lifeties.org. 5:30 p.m.

Socials

1980s Online Trivia Night, State Theater of New Jersey. www.stnj.org/trivia. Trivia challenge covering 80’s pop culture, including movies like “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”; music groups like Run DMC and The Bangles; fashion trends like leg warmers and spandex; to nostalgic games and toys like Pac Man and Care Bears. Register. Minimum $5 donation supports the theater’s community education programs. 7 p.m.

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he New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers University in New Brunswick puts the lens on a major New Jersey subject on Friday, October 9, with the online presentation of “The Pine Barrens.”

Philadelphia-based filmmaker David Scott Kessler calls the feature-length work something more than a documentary.

“While it falls under the umbrella of documentary, I think of it as an experimental documentary, a tone poem. It plays with reality and folklore and subjective experience,” says the 45-year-old director during a telephone interview.

Created over six years, the film captures the sounds, images, and moods of the 1.1 million-acre wilderness in the midst of the most densely populated state in the union.

It is also a record of the various people engaged with maintaining a way of life against political and social pressures.

That’s accomplished through the use of recurring images of people swapping stories around bonfires, cranberry harvesting, natural scenes, drivers ripping through the wilds, and a state committee clashing with local residents over plans to extend a gas pipeline through the forest.

While Kessler’s involvement with the Pine Barrens contrasts with his northern New Jersey roots, it also seems natural.

“I grew up in Union,” he says. “I had only kind of heard of the Pine Barrens. For most of my life I understood it as folkloric place and mysteries surrounding it. Even for the first years in Philadelphia I had not even visited the Pine Barrens until I wanted to make a film.”

That decision followed a series of film works he was creating. “I had been interested in exploring the sense of place in a cinematic tone poem form. I had done previous work under the El train tracks in Kensington (Philadelphia). It was done in an impressionistic way.

“I wanted to see how that style could be adapted to another place — explore the relationship to place.

The Pine Barrens made a lot of sense. It had mythological significance. I came in with some ideas. I had a tone in mind. But it evolved.

After six years of filming I came to understand it more. The film hopefully holds onto those different stages of understanding.”

The son of a lawyer and an elementary school teacher, Kessler originally chose to study art at Parsons School of Design in New York City.

“But after a couple of years I couldn’t live in New York City. It was too expensive, but I wanted to go to school where I could be in the city.”

He says he chose in 1995 to go to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where focused on painting and illustrating and then film.

He has remained in Philadelphia and launched his own commercial

film company, Studioscopic, named after an early independent project filming artists in their studios.

He currently provides video animation for clients such as Alexion Pharmaceutical and Jewish Relief Agency while developing his own projects.

Looking at his artistic work, Kessler says, “I still think of myself as a painter, but I happen to be working with film.” He has interest in “exploring the character of a place.”

He says his approach for “The Pine Barrens” was to create something “to be experienced as cinema.

I wanted it to feel like a painting rather than an educational documentary.

“A lot of decisions I made were to have the viewer being there at the moment. I didn’t want to put text on the screen. I wanted it to feel like a direct experience.”

That also includes allowing people to appear on the screen without captioned identifications.

‘I think of it as an experimental documentary, a tone poem. It plays with reality and folklore and subjective experience.’

The intent, he says, is to create a sense of the everyday. “These were just people you just meet in passing. You don’t know the details except for what they reveal to you,” he says.

Kessler says although he had taped thousands of hours between 2011 and 2017, the film structure emerged because of an artistic choice: the founding of the Ruins of Friendship Orchestra to create the musical landscape for the film.

“They were friends of mine,” he says. “They didn’t play together. It was assembled for this project.”

He says he and one of the subjects of the film took the musicians “out to a ghost town in the Pine Barrens called Friendship. They played for the first time in the basement of a ruin” and took the name for their group.

Kessler says as he taped he would also have presentations where the musicians would perform during the screenings that organically suggested themes and organizations.

Director David Scott Kessler, right, and stills from his film ‘The Pine Barrens,’ above.

The musicians using traditional and digital instruments along with recordings of the Pinelands’ natural sounds helped created tonal moods. “(The musicians) basically became my collaborators over time.

They became improvisational.

There was a structure (to the film), but a lot of it was improvised.”

Since he was not a musician, Kessler says, “I had to come up with a language of how I wanted certain things to feel. I had never really had much experience in music, so this allowed me to feel that musical collaboration that I never had before. Music still holds a lot of mystery.

“A lot of it is done in a minor key and has a moody tone. You have this feeling of new and old. You have the landscape and this uncanny quality. You have harp and banjo and harmonium and mixed with synth. There’s that mix, but it’s seamless. It certainly sets a tone.

It’s the juxtaposition between different sounds that works for ‘The Pine Barrens.’

“I went out and recorded audio.

So you get all the tree frogs and insects, sounds of wind, and sounds of fire. I also worked with engineer and record all of that. The sound was an important element.”

He says the film’s consistently rich visual tone was helped by necessity. “I am a one man crew. The only time I had other people were the campfire scenes. Everything else was me and a camera. Everything was filmed on a tripod and allowed the film to have a more cinematic look.”

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he filmmaker also credits new technology with helping make the film possible. “I was able to use the Sony A7S — with very fast lenses. Those cameras are handheld. They’re not like a cinema camera. Just having that equipment without a crew adds a lot of immediacy to film. It adds to the quiet nature of the project. It was more relaxed.”

Explaining his production costs, Kessler says one of his biggest savings was he didn’t have to pay for a crew. “I shot and edited myself. It would have been financially diffi-

cult to have crew. There was Crowdfunding to raise money. And on top that in 2015 I was awarded a Pew Grant. It was for an artist to focus on their work. That allowed me not to worry about having a fulltime job and allowed me to have the time to focus on the film.”

He says the musicians were paid through crowd funding and through ticket sales for live presentations held in the Pinelands and regionally at the Hopewell Theater and the Princeton Environmental Film Festival.

“We definitely want to do more screenings with a live score,” he says. “That’s the best way to see it.

I’m particular about the tone and the sound.”

Looking at the creation of the film, he says he was surprised how welcoming the people in the Pines were.

Initially unsure of how to meet people, he says he started posting on social media with little response until Pinelands writer Karen Riley intervened.

Kessler says the lawyer-turnedwriter who had moved into the Pine

Barren region years before understood his situation and connected him with the circle of people she had connected to over the years she was collecting information for her books.

“She was a huge help,” says Kessler. “She stayed with the project for a number of years and died of cancer. There were a number of people who died during the filming. It became more important to make the film. We need to cherish people while we can.”

He also says during the filming he also remembered that “people need to appreciate a place on its own terms. You can come with preconceived expectations, but it only reveals itself when you get past that. You have to accept that it isn’t always going to be entertaining and there is boredom. But then you start to notice other things. You let the details reveal themselves.”

And let the camera capture them to share.

To see “The Pine Barrens” and other films in the 2020 New Jersey Film Festival, go to www.njfilmfest.com.

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ne of the New Jersey State Museum’s most recent exhibitions — closed by the pandemic — was “Preserving the Pinelands: Albert Horner’s Portraits of a National Treasure.”

The exhibit was designed to bring the beauty of the New Jersey’s Pinelands National Reserve to the general public and to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pinelands Preservation Act, considered by former Governor Brendan Byrne to be the most important accomplishment of his administration. (See U.S. 1 October 9, 2019, “Pinelands Photographer Thinks Beyond the Lens.”)

Horner, however, is also a Pinelands advocate who created the blog “Pine Barrens Under Siege” and strives to draw attention to current ecological problems affecting our collective natural treasure.

With the New Jersey Film Festival’s inclusion of David Scott Kessler’s “The Pine Barrens” in its current schedule of screenings, it seemed proper to let Horner share some thoughts noted in his blog “Pine Barrens Under Siege” under the title “Our Public Lands are Being Devastated”:

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hen you think of our state forest, wildlife management areas (WMAs), Green Acres properties, private conservation preserves you may envision open fields, grassy meadows, tranquil streams, beautiful stands of native trees, all protected and out of harm’s way with the exception of, perhaps, forest fires.

This is not what my colleague and I have found during our recent, and on-going, tours of public lands, all locations visited were within the Pine Barrens.

Our mission was, and is, to record locations damaged by abusive operators of 4 x 4 Jeep type vehicles, dirt bikes, ATV (all considered off-road vehicles) and serial trash dumpers, all illegal activities.

There is pervasive eco-carnage going on day and night in our public lands. We have begun identifying locations within our public lands that have been vandalized by these land assaulters and what we’ve found is quite astounding.

Keep in mind that once we started our project we logged 115 locations that have been violated in a very short period of time.

We have an additional long list of locations to visit from information gleaned from state and local officials plus our extensive personal knowledge.

Below is what we have found while conducting our surveys:

At right, Pinelands photographer Albert Horner in his home studio in Medford. Above, an image of the damage caused by all-terrain vehicles that speed through the muddy Pinelands for sport and destroy the delicate ecosystem with their wheels.

Hundreds (this could be more like thousands) of acres of public lands have been driven over by these motorized bandits as if our public lands are their personal Mad Max movie set. The vegetation, soils and waterways have been damaged, in many cases permanently, by erosion, compaction, crushing and deforestation. Noise

Thousands upon thousands of acres of our public lands are no longer accessible to the general public because these offroad machines have rendered them impassable to travel by normal vehicles. pollution and fragmented wildlife habitat are also in the mix.

Ecologically valuable wetlands, vernal pools (breeding grounds for amphibians), open meadows, ice age formed hills and sand dunes, and stream beds have been forever damaged.

Thousands upon thousands of acres of our public lands are no longer accessible to the general public because these off-road machines have rendered them impassable to travel by normal vehicles. The mud holes and wallows that have been created by these off-road vehicles are now new breeding grounds for

mosquitoes.

Public utility right-of-ways are almost entirely unprotected and are havens for off-roaders, wheelers, mudders and dumpers of trash. We haven’t found one right-of-way that hasn’t been abused.

They practice a form of recreational bulldozing day and night, usually in groups. Consumption of large quantities of beer and open fires are common, even when our forests are under fire restrictions (just about every site we have visited is littered with beer cans and has the charred remains of a fire).

Organized 4 x 4 clubs from Maryland to New York routinely visit our state forests and public lands. They act like a squad of Marines going on a mission, big trucks, big tires, beefed up suspensions (no expense is spared) — their enemy is our public lands. There are organized competitions, many of which are sanctioned by state authorities, with hundreds of organizations where they pay a nominal permit fee, are not required to post any type of bond or insurance for damage they may cause and take their profits home.

Dumping is routinely practiced by contractors, landscapers and the general public. Often the same areas are used again and again. You don’t have to travel very far on any back road to find a dump site. I have seen more than one boat discarded in the woods.

All of our work has been within the Pine Barrens, a.k.a. Pinelands National Reserve, a most sensitive

ecosystem that is recognized as a national and world wide treasure.

Our goal with this study is to generate public awareness of this out of control land grab and return our public land to the public and out of the hands of a chosen few who use our lands as their own personal giant sandbox or profit making ventures.

The main reason our public lands have come to be known as a type of motor sports park or arena is that the DEP and the Pinelands Commission have for years issued permits for motor sport events, ORV events. This practice has created a culture among many that only see the Pine Barrens as their personal off-road vehicle (ORV) playground.

It would not be unreasonable to think that many of the off-road vehicles sold in this region are bought especially to off-road in the Pine Barrens.

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Environmental Film Festival Goes Virtual

A scene from ‘Picture of His Life.’

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rinceton Public Library presents its annual Environmental Film Festival in a virtual format this year. The 14th annual festival features 20 films of local, regional, and international relevance that will be available ondemand from Monday, October 12, through Sunday, October 18.

“We’ll miss the experience of viewing the films together as a community, but we are thrilled to share this year’s timely, thoughtprovoking and important films,” said librarian Susan Conlon, who directs the festival along with Kim Dorman.

Among the films available for viewing will be: “Pollinators,” which follows migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honeybees as they pollinate the flowers that be-

this region that allows motor sport activities in state parks and public lands. Maryland, Delaware, New York and Pennsylvania to do not allow ORV events in state parks.

Thus the reason South Jersey gets so much ORV traffic from out of state – they can’t do it in their state.

What is more annoying ORV events are only staged in the South Jersey Pinelands. These events are not permitted in Stokes State Forest, High Point State Forest, Round Valley Recreational Area or Spruce Run Recreational Area, just to name a few Northern State Parks that seem exempt for this activity.

Please pass this blog on to anyone you feel is deeply concerned about our public lands. Sign-up to follow our blog so as we update you will be notified of new post while the mission continues.

For more information, visit www.pinebarrensundersiege. com.

come the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat.

“Invisible Hand,” a documentary produced by actor Mark Ruffalo on the Rights of Nature Movement. The film looks behind the curtain of our daily economy to reveal a new future for democracy and nature.

“Mossville: When Great Trees Fall,” an intimate look at Mossville, Louisiana, a once-thriving community founded by formerly enslaved and free people of color and

an economically flourishing safe haven for generations of African American families.

The town is now a breeding ground for petrochemical plants where many residents have been forced from their homes, and those who stayed suffer from prolonged exposure to contamination and pollution.

“Picture of His Life,” a film about Amos Nachoum, the legendary underwater still photographer whose lifelong dream is to swim underwater with a polar bear and cap-

ture it face-to-face on film. Nearing the end of his career, he is determined to give it one last shot.

“Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man” focuses on Jack Sim, a quirky Singaporean and crusader in global sanitation. A former entrepreneur, Jack uses humor to campaign for a crisis that impacts more than two billion people.

“Sacrifice Zone,” a look at Newark, New Jersey’s Ironbound district, one of the most toxic neighborhoods in the country. The film follows Maria Lopez-Nunez, as she leads a group of environmental justice fighters determined to break the cycle of poor communities of color serving as dumping grounds.

View the films online at www.princetonlibrary.org/peff.

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Landau Owners to retire

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fter 106 years — through two World Wars, evolving fashions, and technological leaps in how people do their shopping — it’s a global pandemic that might finally stop “the little shop that could.” Brothers Henry and Robert Landau, owners of the eponymous woolens shop that has been in Princeton since 1955, have announced their retirement.

“Current conditions make it very difficult for our unique business model. Limited access to our special products, limited ability to touch and feel, limited staffing with health concerns, limited customers with health concerns,” Robert Landau said in a statement. “So brothers Henry and Robert Landau announce a retirement sale to begin Wednesday, October 7, while discussing a potential sale to another family business with several shops.”

Landau was founded by the brothers’ grandfather, Henry, in Jersey City in 1914. Their parents, David and Evelyn Landau, moved the store to Princeton in 1955. It occupied a small space on Witherspoon Street before moving to its longtime home at 102 Nassau Street in the early 1960s.

Throughout its history, the store has distinguished itself by listening to customers and carrying the products they want. In a 2015 interview with U.S. 1’s E.E. Whiting, Robert Landau explained that when the family store first arrived in town,

Left, Landau has been a fixture on Nassau Street since the 1960s. Above, a catalogue cover illustrated by Lonni Sue Johnson. restaurant workers came in looking for specialty uniforms. “Specialty uniform stores were not part of the landscape then,” he said. “This was another chance to focus on what people wanted.”

Soon after that, when a customer asked about pants she had seen cowboys wearing out west, Landau became the first non-western store to carry blue jeans. In 1959 it was Wrangler’s largest U.S. specialty store.

Landau gained a new claim to fame in the late 1960s, when a

woman who had been in England asked if they carried “hold-ups,” a precursor to pantyhose that had already come into fashion in Europe.

The Landaus contacted the British manufacturer, Pretty Polly, and became the company’s representative in the United States. When pantyhose emerged in 1967, Landau was the first store in the U.S. to sell them.

It was in the 1970s, after Robert Landau had graduated from the University of Virginia and joined the family business, that he and his

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wife happened to buy some wraps made from Icelandic wool at a trade show. Before long the store accounted for 30 percent of Iceland’s woolens exports. In 1982 the Landaus were dubbed “the wool family” by Iceland’s president.

But while the store has centered its business on fine woolens, it is also ingrained in Princeton’s larger cultural scene. Its marketing efforts have frequently involved noted Princeton artists. In the 1980s the store held a caption contest for cartoons created by New Yorker car-

toonist and Princeton resident Henry Martin. Noted architect and designer Michael Graves coordinated with Landau on the design of a series of Irish throws.

Landau’s catalogs featured artwork by Lonni Sue Johnson, another New Yorker illustrator who grew up in Princeton. (When a virus in Johnson’s brain caused severe amnesia, Robert Landau’s wife, Johns Hopkins cognitive scientist Barbara Landau, led research on the relationship between Johnson’s return to art and recovery

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Brothers Henry, left, and Robert Landau at the 2013 unveiling of Bjartur, the Icelandic ram that was acquired to replace Lindi, the store’s original mascot that was stolen in 2012. from her brain injury; see U.S. 1, September 21, 2011.)

In 1994, around the time the Einstein-centric romantic comedy “I.Q.” was being filmed in Princeton, Landau transformed the back corner of his store into an Albert Einstein museum — yet another detail that makes Landau unique.

As shown in a 2017 answer on the “Jeopardy!” quiz show —“Oddly

Deaths David Gore on September 12.

His long career in market research included stints at Gallup and Robinson, Opinion Research, and Hase-Schannen Research, from which he retired as a vice president.

Maria Gracia Leibowitz, 64, on October 1. She was the chief compliance officer and senior vice president for First Bank.

Carol C. Bowker, 68, on October 3. She worked for the state Department of Labor Division of Temporary Disability Insurance as

the only museum devoted to this physicist is tucked inside a woolen shop in Princeton NJ” — the Einstein museum, like the store, is one of a kind.

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Gloria M. Dill, 87, on September 30. She was a medical laboratory technician with Helene Fuld in Trenton for 40 years.

Kevin T. Delaney, 76, on September 26. He worked for the tin shop at Princeton University for 45 years and was a volunteer firefighter.

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ith normal life getting underway very gently here in New Jersey, I think of my Aunt Tonnie.

Especially when I smell the rich aromas of autumn that rise from the earth in the evening.

In a time marked by poverty and war, three of my mother’s six sisters ended up in the monastery. I have a picture of a very young Tonnie, in a habit, symbolically marrying Jesus. Ever since then she has worn his wedding ring.

Aunt Tonnie would rather have had a man of flesh and blood, like my mother. A man she could make love to, have children with, and have fun with. It was not for her. On the other hand, she was allowed to leave the monastery for two weeks every autumn. Then she came to us.

My father and I were waiting for her at the station. We saw her waving through the window, then stepping off the train with her ridiculously large suitcase and kissing me lavishly. Once at home, she smiled and displayed all her presents for us on the kitchen table. A cornocupia of scarfs, sweaters, and socks. She had started knitting, crocheting and sewing months before.

She was a cascade of words. She stayed up until the sun came up, giggling and sipping from my mother’s bottle of vermouth. She pulled on my red Wellies and spent hours walking with me through the floodplains. We didn’t come back until we were all covered in mud.

Aunt Tonnie was my favorite aunt.

She was naughty and mischievous, just as maladjusted as I was then.

Since September, restaurants and shops are starting to reopen in Princeton. The university will remain mostly closed. But still, there is bustle in the streets and a familiar buzz is returning.

Now I can dare to go out again with friends. There is a lot to talk about. But it is not like before. I am not used to other people. I find them too cheerful or too quiet and have difficulty paying attention to conversations that go in all directions. The rest of the night I lie awake with a humming head.

I am no longer the same as I was before the pandemic. I can’t just pick up my old life, pretend there’s not a half-year gap.

Social contact, I read, is one of the most complicated things for our brain.

I am no longer the same as I was before the pandemic. I can’t just pick up my old life, pretend there’s not a half-year gap. Social contact, I read, is one of the most compli-

Illustration by Eliane Gerrits cated things for our brain. Research into people who have spent a long time in isolation shows that returning to society does not come naturally. Polar explorers, prisoners, long-term sick, hermits, they find it difficult to get used to society.

Dealing with people requires a mental muscle, which you have to train, otherwise social atrophy will occur.

After all these years, I finally understand my Aunt Tonnie. Because of her life in the monastery, she was not used to interacting with people.

How happy she must have felt when she, together with a girl in her crocheted poncho who could have been her daughter, skipped stones over the river.

Only now do I understand how much those two weeks a year meant to her. And how long those other fifty weeks must have been.

Pia de Jong is a Dutch writer who lives in Princeton. Her bestselling memoir, “Saving Charlotte,” was published in 2017 in the U.S. She can be contacted at pdejong@ias.edu.

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825 Route 33 • Mercerville, NJ 08619

609-890-6111

Store Hours: Mon, Thurs, Friday:- 6pm 10-8 Store Hours: Mon. thru Sat. 10am Sunday 10am Tues-Wed: 10-6, Sat:- 4pm 9-6, Sun: 10-4

Synchrony GEBank Capital Financing Financing

OCTOber 7, 2020

Yes, We’re

FOOD & DINING

OPEN!

Arlee’s Raw Blends

25 S Warren Street • 609-880-1101

A

Capital Dog at Capital Center

t this time last year, Jose Pantoja was getting ready to open Delia’s Empanada Cafe on South Warren Street in downtown Trenton. It was an instant success. A couple months later, Arlee’s Raw Blends owners Brian Moore and Paula Taylor brought their popular pressed juicery to the Capital City.

50 E State Street • 609-310-8880

City Deli

15 N Willow Street • 609-695-1119

Columbus International Pizza 8 S Warren Street • 609-393-5707

Corner Café at Capital Center 50 E State Street

The opening of these and other new businesses signaled a positive change in Trenton that could only benefit long-standing businesses like R. Giaquinto’s Shoe Repair (established 1947) and Lucy Cho’s Beauty World. Today, like so many small businesses in downtown Trenton, they need your love to survive.

Crown Fried Chicken

2 N Broad Street • 609-393-4394

Delia’s Empanada Cafe

113 S Warren Street • 609-396-7775

Downtown Deli

118 S Warren Street • 609-392-5200

This year has been incredibly challenging for small businesses, but there are signs of hope everywhere you look, especially the ones that say, “We’re open.”

Together we can keep them open.

Love local for Trenton!

NOW

Dunkin Donuts

47 E State Street • 609-695-0200

Fabio’s Pizza

105 E State Street • 609-393-9333

Gyro Express

7 E State Street • 609-393-5555 From the top: Jose Pantoja of Delia’s Empanada Cafe, Brian Moore of Arlee’s Raw Blends, Robert Giaquinto of R. Giaquinto’s Shoe Repair and Lucy Cho of Beauty World.

Health is Wealth

242 E State Street • 609-378-9088

1911 Smokehouse BBQ

11 W Front Street • 609-695-1911

RETAIL & SERVICES

NJ Weedman’s Joint

322 E State Street • 609-437-0898

• Beauty World •

• Capitol Copy Service •

• Classics Books •

Po Po Chinese

8 N Broad Street • 609-695-2830

Royal Cake Creations

9 N Willow Street • 609-536-6400

Starbucks

17 East State Street, Trenton, NJ

116 West State St., Trenton, NJ

Call 609-695-3838

Call 609-989-8776

Monday – Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. www.capitol-copy.com

• K Weidel Insurance •

• New Pod City •

102 S Warren Street • 609-393-0261

4 Lafayette Street, Trenton, NJ

Call 609-394-8400

Sunrise Luncheonette

classicsusedbooks.com

26 S Warren Street • 609-278-8994

• R. Giaquinto’s Shoe Repair •

111 S Warren Street • 609-393-1845

The Big Easy

The Hummingbird Restaurant 29 S Warren Street • 609-278-9555

Tracey’s Kitchen

241 E Front Street • 609-337-9098 23 South Warren St., Trenton, NJ

247 East Front Street, Trenton, NJ

Call 609-599-2588

Call 609-222-2691

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. www.weidelins.com

Open 7 days a week, 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. www.newpodcity.com

115 South Warren Street, Trenton, NJ

Call 609-599-9090

Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Call ahead for hours and seating availability.

Visit Trenton-downtown.com for updates.

For a complete list of businesses in downtown Trenton, visit Trenton-downtown.com.

If your business is open and not on our list, let us know. We want to promote you!

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LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP Sue Havens $210,000 MLS# NJME298658

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP Susan Hughes $499,000 MLS# NJSO113572

PENNINGTON BOROUGH Maura Mills $735,000 MLS# NJME300882

PRINCETON Norman T Callaway $2,075,000 MLS# NJME301656

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP Janet Stefandl $399,000 MLS# NJME297726

NORTH BRUNSWICK TWP Lauren Adams $599,000 MLS# NJMX124148

PRINCETON Barbara Blackwell $799,000 MLS# NJME299438

PRINCETON Jennifer E Curtis $2,095,000 MLS# NJME286738

PLAINSBORO TOWNSHIP Gail Ciallella $435,000 MLS# NJMX124898

ROBBINSVILLE TOWNSHIP Danielle Spilatore $609,900 MLS# NJME301664

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP Susan A Cook $799,900 MLS# NJME296474

PRINCETON Barbara Blackwell $2,200,000 MLS# NJME299210

newly priced

Age Restricted PLAINSBORO TOWNSHIP Merlene K Tucker $439,000 MLS# NJMX123180

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP Susan Hughes $625,000 MLS# NJME298564

PRINCETON Clare Mackness $875,000 MLS# NJME301212

PRINCETON Norman T Callaway $2,225,000 MLS# NJME292578

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WEST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP Gina Marie Spaziano $669,900 MLS# NJME300964

SOUTH BRUNSWICK TWP Danielle Spilatore $925,000 MLS# NJMX124212

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP Grant Wagner $2,250,000 MLS# NJBL380830

Age Restricted PLAINSBORO TOWNSHIP Catherine ‘Kate’ Stinson $455,000 MLS# NJMX124558

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Amy Granato $679,000 MLS# NJME300256

NO BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP Kathryn Baxter $999,900 MLS# NJMX124848

PRINCETON Michael Monarca $2,725,000 MLS# 1000261801

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PRINCETON Denise L Shaughnessy $450,000 MLS# NJME297100

Age Restricted PLAINSBORO TOWNSHIP Merlene K Tucker $465,000 MLS# NJMX122588

CRANBURY TOWNSHIP Martha Giancola $725,000 MLS# NJMX124694

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MONTGOMERY 908.874.0000

PENNINGTON LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP Barbara Blackwell $475,000 MLS# NJME299924

PRINCETON Colleen Hall $729,900 MLS# NJME291878

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP Sylmarie Trowbridge $1,550,000 MLS# NJSO113674

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP Susan L DiMeglio $4,449,000

Each Office Is Independently Owned And Operated. Subject To Errors, Omissions, Prior Sale Or Withdrawal Without Notice.

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PRINCETON 609.921.1050