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other TASK satellite location, Cornerstone Community Kitchen in the COVID-19 pandemic were Princeton, but I decided to expand those already struggling with pov- my volunteer hours to Trenton beerty, hunger, and homelessness and cause I wanted to stay active, stay the nonprofit organizations that ex- focused, and maybe use the time as a path for getting a job. ist to help them.

I also wanted to help out in the On page 12 of this issue, Dan Aubrey visits the Trenton Area city where I was born and raised, to Soup Kitchen, which, amid tight be more understanding, and help finances and operational restric- solve the problem of hunger and tions, has vastly increased the num- homelessness — a major problem ber of meals it is serving on a affecting the City of Trenton and its monthly basis and is striving to residents.

With the COVID-19 pandemic provide contagion-free affecting our area, the ways for its clients to connect and socialize between executives at the soup kitchen temporally with others.

The closed down the dining Accompanying the room and suspended Lines article is information volunteer activities. And about how members of like most of us, I have the community can help, especially with food for the up- been forced to stay home.

But, with the holiday season fast coming Thanksgiving holiday and warm clothes for the winter approaching, I am using this time months. But one person who has to reflect on my experience of volalready found a way to help is Au- unteering.

Within the first several weeks at brey’s son, Byron, who is already a regular volunteer at the soup kitch- TASK, I learned about the organization’s reaching out, feeding and en.

He reflects below on his experi- satisfying the needs of a communiences and the lessons he has learned ty, and meeting challenges that affect people physically, emotionalfrom them. ly, and financially.

I also learned it is essential to respond to their needs with respect and dignity. This demographic is dealing with problems which most people don’t think about on a day to day basis.

My volunteering has helped me n fall, 2019, I started volununderstand the struggles and chalteering at the Trenton Area Soup lenges that most TASK patrons are Kitchen.

I had been volunteering at an- dealing with and how to effectively communicate with them respectfully and compassionately.

U.S. 1 WELCOMES letI also found some of the patrons ters, corrections, and critiwho utilize TASK not only go there cisms. E-mail hastings@ for free meals but to get involved princetoninfo.com. with things where they can share interests and build connections with others in the community. An

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What matters most about my experience of volunteering at TASK is that it not only is a way to build a connection with the community and help bring people together, but it is a human experience.

It makes me realize the struggles people are going through and to know that there is hope on the horizon.

My volunteering also allows me to learn about myself. The experience helps me learn how to approach problems, realize that no one is perfect, and know that situations that cause people to utilize resources like soup kitchens can happen to anyone.

When COVID 19 subsides and conditions allow for the dining room to reopen once again, I hope to comeback to TASK with a new found sense of resiliency in being involved in the community and

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Byron Aubrey Editor’s Note: Byron Aubrey is the son of U.S. 1’s preview editor Dan Aubrey. He was invited to participate in Princeton’s Cornerstone Methodist Church’s TASK project by former U.S. 1 editor Barbara Fox.

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SURVIVAL GUIDE Thursday, November 19

Giving the Future a Chance

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iving the Future a Chance: A Different Look at Climate Change” is the Thursday, November 19, 10 a.m. talk presented by the 55PLUS group of Princeton.

The featured speaker is Elke U. Weber, a Princeton University professor with expertise in energy, psychology, and public affairs.

In a statement on her presentation dealing with a pressing national issue, Weber says, “We humans are creatures of bounded rationality and finite processing capacity, and it is understandable that we thus focus attention first on the here and now. And yet, many individual and social issues (from sufficient pension savings, to healthy eating, to sustainable living on our planet) require increased attention to the future costs and benefits of possible courses of action. Climate change is the most recent and arguably the most urgent and difficult challenge for individual and collective decision making. To make wise decisions we need to fully and justly weigh the immediate and certain costs and benefits of action (be it business-as-usual or greenhouse gas mitigation efforts)

against their delayed, risky, and often disputed costs and benefits.”

A noted expert dealing with perception and science, Weber shared some observations on how people — with a special attention to Americans — approach thinking about climate change — as demonstrated in the following excerpt from her study “What Shapes Perceptions of Climate Change?” published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change:

Despite its environmental, social, and economic importance, cli-

mate change is a phenomenon that is not easily and accurately identified by the lay public, using their normal tools of observation and inference.

Climate is a statistical phenomenon, a term that describes average weather conditions or their typical range for a region. Climate change in the meteorological sense refers to systematic (yet usually gradual) changes in average conditions, i.e., to reliable trends embedded in the random fluctuations of conditions that can be expected for both stable and changing climates. Observations are spaced in time, and memory of past events can be faulty.

As a result, climate change is not easily detected by personal experience, even though it appears to be open to personal observation and evaluation, as most people consider themselves to be experts on the weather and do not differentiate very strictly between climate (the statistical expectation) and weather (what we get).

The climate of a region (and changes in its climate) obviously determines weather. People often falsely attribute unique events to climate change and also fail to detect changes in climate.

Expectations of change (or sta-

bility) play a large role in people’s ability to detect trends in probabilistic environments . . . In (one) example, farmers in Illinois were asked to recall salient temperature or precipitation statistics during the growing season of seven preceding years. Those farmers who believed that their region was undergoing climate change recalled temperature and precipitation trends consistent with this expectation, whereas those farmers who believed in a constant climate, recalled temperatures and precipitations consistent with that belief.

Both groups showed about equal amounts of error in their memory for salient weather events, but the direction of the errors was biased to

Reliance on external sources of evidence and expertise to form beliefs about climate change raises two important issues, attention and trust. be in line with farmers’ beliefs and expectations.

Recently, behavioral researchers have shown differences in the way people learn about uncertain phenomena or environments from personal experience versus from being provided with a statistical (typically numeric or graphic) description of possible outcomes and their likelihood. This distinction between learning from experience versus learning from description has received much attention because ostensibly the same information about events and their likelihoods can lead to very different perceptions and actions.

Learning from repeated personal experience with outcomes involves associative and often affective processes, which are fast and automatic. Learning from statistical descriptions, on the other hand, requires analytic processing that needs to be acquired and requires cognitive effort.

When given the choice between attending to information provided in the form of statistical summaries or to information provided by personal experience, personal experience is far more likely to capture a person’s attention, and its impact dominates the often far more reliable and diagnostic statistical information.

Because climate change is so hard to detect and judge accurately based on personal experience, one might argue that its detection should be left to experts, namely climate scientists, and to their social amplifiers, the media and educators.

Such delegation makes climate change a phenomenon for whose existence and likely magnitude and time course people have to rely on their beliefs in scientific observation and modeling, in expert judgments, and/or on reports about all of these in the mass media.

Indeed, most people’s knowledge and exposure to climate change has been almost entirely indirect and virtual, mediated by news coverage and film documentaries of events in distant regions (such as melting ice sheets in Greenland or Antarctica) that ascribe these events to climate change, events and arguments for which people’s personal experience does not provide concurring evidence. Reliance on external sources of evidence and expertise to form beliefs about climate change raises two important issues, attention and trust.

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The installation, which can be found at the intersection of Perry and North Broad Streets in Trenton, has been described, quite literally, as a traffic stopper. It’s not unusual to see passersby stop to gaze and marvel at the vivid colors and relatable theme. “Traffic slows down when they see this beautiful work,” says Leroy Nevius, who owns the building where the four-panel

Attention is a very scarce cognitive resource. Unlike money or other material resources, which can be saved or borrowed, the amount of attention available to anyone to process the vast amount of information potentially available on innumerable topics is small and very finite.

Statistical evidence provided by scientists and anecdotal accounts of climate change provided by the media only become information that influences subsequent perceptions and behaviors when the general public attends to them. Everyday life provides plenty of competing targets for attention, such as economic survival or family problems. Climate change typically ranks low to last among the concerns that Americans are questioned about.

People’s fundamental values and worldviews influence which phenomena and risks they attend to and which they ignore or deny.

(Two investigating researchers) identify five distinct ‘cultures’ or distinct interpretive communities (labeled hierarchical, individualist,

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renton graffiti artist Leon Rainbow’s latest work of public art is a bold and colorful statement of thanks to the heroes of the coronavirus era – the essential workers who got out the vote, cared for us when we were sick, drove us to work day after day, and delivered food to our homes so that we could stay safe.“The pandemic has given us a greater respect and understanding of what it means to be an essential worker,” says Rainbow. “Their service to the community makes all of our lives better.” And Rainbow’s art makes our lives a little brighter.

Elke Weber speaks on climate change at the November 19 meeting of 55PLUS.

mural was created. “It enhances the building and has a positive impact on the neighborhood.”

TDA is proud to sponsor this and other murals in Rainbow’s pandemic-inspired series called “We Are Survivors.” The series, which also includes works at Clinton and Hudson Streets and the Sprout School of the Arts, was made possible by continued funding from NJM Insurance and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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egalitarian, fatalist, and hermitic, respectively) that differ in their endorsed patterns of interpersonal relationships in ways that affect perceptions of risk.

Perceptions about the existence of climate change, its causes, and likely consequences are socially constructed within these communities that are predisposed to attend to, fear, and socially amplify some risks while ignoring, discounting, or attenuating others.

A second important issue related to learning about climate change from external sources is that of trust. People pay attention to information about climate phenomena and incorporate it into their decisions and actions, if it comes from a trusted source.

The importance of trust for the use of climate information has been well documented in the context of climate variability, where seasonal to interannual climate forecasts are often provided by multiple (commercial as well as non-commercial) sources, and are only used when provided by trusted intermediaries. Different user groups put their trust into different organizations, from national meteorological services to independent farm organizations.

Both learning from personal experience and vicarious learning from statistical description contribute to people’s perceptions of climate change.

A better understanding of the mechanisms and challenges in both types of learning helps explain both the generally low level of concern about the phenomenon, as well as cultural and other group variations in perceptions and concerns.

Differences in climate change perceptions have been documented between climate scientists (and other scientists) and the general public. A Pew Research Center

poll, e.g., found that while 84 percent of scientists said the earth is getting warmer because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels, just 49 percent of the general public agreed. These differences can be attributed to both learning mechanism.

Climate scientists often have personal experience with climate change in connection with their research activities that take them to regions of the world where climate change is apparent. In addition, by virtue of their education and training, climate scientists and other scientists, more generally, can also

Variation in climate change perception seems to be associated with political beliefs and other deeply held values. be expected to rely more on their analytical processing system than members of the general population, and put greater trust and weight on extrapolations from statistical evidence and model outputs, that will thus make them more likely to consider global climate change to be a more serious risk than typical nonscientists.

For others, including the general public and politicians, variation in climate change perception seems to be associated with political beliefs and other deeply held values in ways that go beyond simple personal and strategic concerns. These cultural values and allegiances influence information processing and causal attribution processes by guiding attention to messages and shaping trust in the messengers.

Analogies from failures to fully understand and take action in other

domains provide hypotheses about cognitive and motivational challenges that need to be overcome.

Tests of these hypotheses applied to climate change are starting to emerge, though much work remains to be done to illuminate the special questions and challenges related to cognitive and emotional shortcomings that the proper understanding of the anthropogenic causes of climate change and their action implications bring.

The 55PLUS meets twice a month to provide a venue for interested persons to interact socially, attend lectures on interesting topics, and become involved in a variety of community activities.

Open to all genders, ages, races, and religious affiliation, the group normally based at the Jewish Center of Princeton — but now meeting only online — has no officers, no board, no dues, and no formal membership. A $3 donation per session is requested.

While Weber’s session is on Zoom, organizers say their license limits the number of viewers. For information visit www.princetonol.com/groups/55plus.

Business Meetings Wednesday, November 18

Central NJ Nonprofit Council: Pandemic Partnerships, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Panel discussion between area business and nonprofit leaders to learn about how businesses and nonprofits have come together during the pandemic in new and unique ways. Register. 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 19

Making, Growing and Maintaining Connections – During 2020 and Beyond, Women in Devel-

opment. www.widmercer.org.

Karen Hollywood, WID Mercer board vice president and director of corporate and foundation engagement at Grounds For Sculpture, discusses donor engagement and networking via Zoom.

Annual WID membership, $50, required. Register. Noon to 1 p.m.

Design in the Post-Pandemic World Webinar Series, American Institute of Architects New Jersey Chapter. www.aia-nj.org.

Princeton-based architect Joshua Zinder and others discuss how architects are leveraging their skills and creativity to provide counsel and services to business owners, developers, and property managers in light of the challenges brought on by COVID-19. Other panelists include Bruce D. Turner and Stacy Kliesch. Register.

12:30 p.m.

Business After Business Virtual Networking, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Re-engage with chamber friends for a fun evening of virtual networking, cocktails and connections from your home.

Attendees have the opportunity to present a 30-second commercial and participate in breakout discussion groups. Register. $25; $15 members. 5 to 7 p.m.

Friday, November 20

JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County. www.psgofmercercounty.org. HR Director Colleen Ferrary offers an interactive lesson on interviewing designed to give you different perspectives on the interview process while unearthing tools to fuel your success. 9:45 a.m. to noon.

Saturday, November 21

Digital Marketing During a Crisis, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. Panel discussion about what tools to use, how you can manage your brand, how you can make the most of digital marketing, and other tips and advice.

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Architect Joshua Zinder participates in a panel on ‘Design in the Post-Pandemic World’ on November 19.

Speakers include Ryan Harbinson, a former COO with 15 years of sales and marketing experience; Alexandra Cohen, founder of a boutique consulting firm focused on startups, small businesses, and nonprofits; and Sunny Sandhu is a co-founder of Tigers for Nassau, a Princeton University student-driven initiative created to assist local small businesses adapt digitally to Covid-19 and beyond through pro-bono consulting services. Register.

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Tuesday, November 24

Is Your Business Using Its Cash Flow Correctly?, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org.

Parag Nevatia of EZ Funding Solutions addresses topics including uses of cash flow; cash flow implications and the different ways it is used to run a business; definition of EBIDTA and why it is important; and calculating EBITDA from tax returns. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.

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Food & Dining

Squash for the Holidays, The Suppers Programs. www.thesuppersprograms.org.

Join Kim Rizk, Co-Owner of Jammin’ Crepes, to find out how squash can make a great addition to stews, salads, and chilis, or boiled and pureed as a base for soups.

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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.

Lectures

Wednesday November 18 In Person Art

Festival of Trees, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www. morven.org. Annual showcase of a juried collection of trees and mantles displayed throughout the museum’s galleries in addition to outdoor displays and lights. Free with museum admission. Continues daily through January 10, 2021. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Pop Music

A Secret Code, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Pamela Z, an awardwinning composer/performer/media artist, presents a free concert via Zoom featuring voice, live processing done on the computer (delay, reverb, granulation, and pitchshifting), sampled sounds (speech sounds, found objects, etc.), and sensor-based MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound using physical gestures. Register.

7:30 p.m.

Literati

Svetlana Alpers and Katherine Bussard, Labyrinth Books. www.labyrinthbooks. com. Alpers, professor emerita of history of art at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses her book, “Walker Evans,” about the American photographic artist, with Katherine Bussard, photography curator at the Princeton Art Museum. Register. 6 p.m.

Lectures

Rediscovering the Lost Generation - Inside the World of Shakespeare and Company, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. Joshua Kotin, director of the Shakespeare and Company Project, and Keri Walsh, editor of “The Letters of Sylvia Beach,” discuss the Lost Generation and the books they loved. Register.

7 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.

For Seniors

Regardez L’Art, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org.

Brigitte Aflalo-Calderon introduces a different level of French vocabulary through the discussion of paintings. One-time course is intended for those with a good knowledge of the French language. Via Zoom. Register. 10 a.m.

Dance Reimagined Princeton University’s annual dance festival has been transformed to a virtual format.

Shows featuring new choreography, site-based work, and multimedia performances begin Tuesday, November 23.

Thursday November 19 In Person 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.

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Virtual Information Session, CASA for Children of Mercer & Burlington Counties. www.casamb.org. Information on the

non-profit organization that recruits, trains, and supervises community volunteers who speak up in Family Court for the best interests of children that have been removed from their families due to abuse and/or neglect and placed in the foster care system.

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Benefit Galas

One of a ‘Kind’ Virtual Fundraiser, Greenwood House. www.greenwoodhouse.org.

Award-winning actor Richard Kind shares stories and anecdotes. Evening hosted by Nick Liberato, host of Netflix’ “Resaurants on the Edge” and operator of The Borscht Belt, Delicatessen, at the Stockton Farmers Market. Register. 7 p.m.

Faith

Two Prophets Speak Truth to Power, Jewish Center of Princeton. www.thejewishcenter.org. Second in a two-session Zoom course with Rabbi Eric Wisnia showing how

Giving the Future a Chance: A Different Look at Climate Change, 55-Plus Club of Princeton. www.princeton.com/ groups/55plus. Meeting and presentation via Zoom with Princeton University professor of psychology and public affairs Elke Weber. Free; $3 donation requested. 10 a.m.

Raising the Kanneh-Masons, Department of Music, Princeton University. music. princeton.edu. Join WNYC host and performer Helga Davis for a conversation with Kadiatu and Stuart Kanneh-Mason, parents of Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason (making their Princeton University Concerts debut on November 29). The Kanneh-Masons discuss raising their family of seven musicians, issues of race within classical music, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason’s recently released book, and more. Noon.

The Education of an Idealist: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Princeton University Public Lectures. lectures. princeton.edu. Samantha Power, professor of practice at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School, in conversation with, Deborah Amos, Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton. Register for Zoom access. Free. 5 p.m.

Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden, with Author Perdita Buchan, Morven Museum & Gardens. www.morven.org. Author Perdita Buchan explores eight New Jersey utopian communities with a focus on Roosevelt, New Jersey. Register. $10. 5:30 p.m.

Homelessness and Hunger in the Time of COVID-19, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. Panel discussion featuring Connie Mercer, CEO and founder of HomeFront; Bernie Flynn, CEO of Mercer Street Friends; Emily Lemmerman, a research assistant with Princeton University’s Eviction Lab; a former HomeFront client; and Gregory Stankiewicz, director of NJ Community Schools Coalition. Topics include how COVID-19 has impacted homeless and very low income people, locally and nationally, and the looming eviction crisis. Register. 6 p.m.

Elizabeth Robbins: Painting Still Life With Oil, Artsbridge Distinguished Artist Series. www.artsbridgeonline.com. The National Oil Painters of America 2020 Still Life Award of Excellence winner will demonstrate her painting technique and show some of her award-winning masterpieces.

Presentation via Zoom. Free. 7 p.m.

Third Thursday Photography Presentation, Mercer County Community College James Kerney Campus Gallery. www.jkcgallery.online. Online talk hosted by JKC Gallery director Michael Chovan-Dalton featuring Cliff Cooper, a School of Visual Arts graduate, photographer, and artist, who presents his works titled “In A Lucid Dream,” and Sharon Harris, an award-winning photographer who creates powerful and surreal images through the use of pinhole photography. Register. 7 to 8 p.m.

Autumn Evening Series, New Jersey State Museum. www.statemuseum.nj.gov.

Virtual conversations between museum curators and staff on a range of topics. Each program features a thematic drink creation, spirited dialogue, and a round of trivia via Zoom. Topic: Feasts, Festivals, and Commemorations. Register. Free. 8 p.m.

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Social Coffee, YWCA Princeton Area Newcomers. www.ywcaprinceton.org/newcomers. Learn about the organization, meet members, and find opportunities to explore your interests and community. Held over Zoom. Contact newcomersmembership@ywcaprinceton.org for more information.

9:30 to 11 a.m.

Virtual Happy Hour, D&r Greenway Land Trust. www.drgreenway.org. “First Year Harvest: St. Michaels Victory Gardens” by Aunt Chubby’s of Hopewell. Register to rsvp@drgreenway.org. 5 p.m.

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For Seniors

Healthcare Decisions Workshop, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Dave Roussel reviews key documents and issues for carrying out your wishes for endof-life care. Register. Via Zoom. 3 p.m.

Friday November 20 In Person Live Music

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

Acoustic Road rock/pop duo. 5 to 8 p.m.

Pop Music

broadway request Live, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www. musicmountaintheatre.org. Audience can request tunes from their favorite shows. Socially distanced seating for 50 patrons and 20 drive-in spots for vehicles. Virtual viewing available for home audience. 8 p.m.

For Families

Campfire Storytelling, Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Take a short hike and listen to our storytellers spin yarns from several cultures. Wear a mask and bring a flashlight and something to sit on. For ages 6 and up. Register. 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Shopping News

Adel Chefridi Trunk Show, Dandelion, 47 Palmer Square West, Princeton, 609-921-0345. www. dandelionjewelry.com. Jewelry featuring hand-selected natural gemstones. Show continues through November 22 at 5 p.m.

Private and virtual appointments available. 11 a.m.

Holiday Pop-Up Craft Sale, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www. morven.org. Artisan products for sale include jewelry, wearables, ceramics, basketry, wood, metal, and mixed media works. $10 includes museum admission. 1 to 9 p.m.

Virtual

Classical Music

PSO Festival of Music, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, WWFM, the Classical Network. www. princetonsymphony.org. Curated performances from the PSO archives spanning orchestral music from the Classical and Romantic to Modern and Contemporary periods, broadcast on WWFM. Listeners gain insights into the music and get to know the PSO Music Director Rossen Milanov as he introduces each program with radio host David Osenberg. 8 to 10 p.m.

Program features Zhou Tian’s Broken Ink; Claude Debussy’s La Mer; and Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis.

On Stage

Marie begins, Westminster Opera Theater. www.rider.edu/arts.

The JKC Gallery’s monthly ‘Third Thursday’ discussion on November 19 features photographer Cliff Cooper, who discusses his works titled ‘In a Lucid Dream.’

Composed by Ellen Fishman with a libretto by Julia Curcio, “Marie Begins” is an immersive Operactive experience in the audience is transformed from passive consumer to active participant. By combining traditional opera with modern multimedia production, interactive web technologies, and a modular score, “Marie Begins” presents this classic art form where anyone can be the director.

Free access online. 7 p.m.

Literati

Inside the Writer’s House, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. Rutgers University creative writing instructor Alex Dawson hosts a candid conversation with Darcie Little Badger, author of “Elatsoe.” Visit madmimi. com/s/de3065 for more information and event access. 2:50 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 for more information. 12:30 p.m.

Lectures

and more on the Princeton University campus. Zoom presentation. Register. Free. 10 a.m.

FYI Seminar, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Discover what you can do to lower your risk for heart attack and stroke at this program led by Phil Tran, RN-BSN, stroke coordinator with Penn Medicine Princeton Health. Via Zoom. Register. Free. 11:45 a.m.

Saturday November 21 In Person Live Music

Fall Music, Palmer Square, Princeton. www.plamersquare.com.

Performance by the MegaTones, a four-piece pop, rock and soul band that plays favorite Top 40 songs from the 60s to the 90s.

Noon to 2 p.m.

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Silent Q performs. 5 to 8 p.m.

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Dreaming Up New Jersey-Styled Utopias at Morven

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orven Museum & Gardens picks up its pandemicpostponed programs on Thursday, November 19, when Perdita Buchan provides the virtual talk “Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden.”

Based on Buchan’s 2007 book of the same name, the presentation is designed to complement the recently reopened Morven exhibition, “Dreaming of Utopia: Roosevelt, New Jersey,” on view through January 24.

Roosevelt, the town designed by the U.S. government to give a fresh start to Depression-era workers, is one of the eight chapters in Buchan’s Rutgers University Press book chronicling the rise and fall of various New Jersey-based Utopian ventures.

Others include American author Upton Sinclair’s Englewood colony of artists and educators, Union Township’s colony where homeless men would work and learn trades, and the Physical Culture City in Spotswood where one “could live the kind of life they could not find out in the rest of the world” — including scant attire.

The British-born Buchan lives in Ocean Grove and writes novels, non-fiction books, and magazine articles, including a New Jersey Monthly story on Roosevelt, New Jersey, architect Louis Khan.

In her utopia book opening, excerpted here, Buchan touches on her fascination with utopias and here fleeting experiences living in a commune: My interest in alternative communities is probably inherited. My English great grandfather was a

composer, a friend of the painter Edward Burne-Jones. Burne-Jones was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and a disciple of William Morris, socialist and guiding light of the Arts and Craft movement. . . I didn’t know much about Morris’s utopian socialism, but a group of people living for art at romantic Kelscott Manor (Morris’s retreat) beside a sleepy Thames seemed paradise enough.

Utopia, I have since learned, takes many forms. Vermont, when I

‘It’s a paradox that, living in a state that tears down and rebuilds at a frightening rate, I am constantly aware of the past.’ lived there, was a major locus for hippie communes. I knew of a number, some of shorter and some of longer duration.

I remember dinner at the Fish Farm, a crumbling farmhouse that satisfied my interest in both community and dereliction. I cooked with (noted 20th century nutritionist) Adelle Davis and studied “Living the Good Life,” Scott and Helen Nearing’s tale of subsistence farming at the foot of nearby Stratton Mountain.

I defined the term utopian broadly in choosing communities. My Random House Dictionary defines utopia in ever less qualified terms, from its origin as Sir Thomas More’s fictional island, perfect in laws, politics, and so forth, through

a “place or state of ideal perfection,” to “any visionary system of political or social perfection,” all were visionary.

When my daughter was born, I read A.S. Neill (a British education reformer who advocated self-regulation) and determined that I would have to return to England to send her to Summerhill, his progressive school. For one heady moment some could believe that the world was changing and that children would have to be educated for something freer and better.

The first time I left Vermont was for a ‘commune” in a big Victorian house on the New Jersey shore, established in the waning days of the Vietnam War by my then-husband’s draft lawyer.

This commune had much in common with Upton Sinclair’s Helicon Hall, a group of professionals, lawyers, and professors trying to combine domestic life with their work. Like those at Helicon Hall, we too cooked and took care of children in rotation, meeting on Saturday nights to plan the week. When one person’s patience with a three-year-kid was exhausted, someone else took over. I loved it. This, I thought, was the way to live. But it didn’t last.

For the next 20 or so years, I lived and worked in another kind of intentional community — a boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts, home of Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. I often drove up to Fruitlands, Alcott’s failed utopian experiment, on its high hill. I swam in Walden Pond and explored the replica of Thoreau’s hut. I read Hawthorne’s “Blithedale Romance” and tried to under-

Perdita Buchan gives a virtual talk on utopias in New Jersey in conjunction with Morven’s going exhibit on the town of Roosevelt. stand the convoluted ideas of (early 19th century French socialist reformer) Charles Fourier, whose philosophy was the basis for Brook Farm and the North American in Red Bank, New Jersey (both utopian-type colonies).

One sabbatical year I became a “colony bum.” With a novel to finish I traveled from artists’ colony to artists’ colony, from New England to Virginia to Lake Forest, Illinois, and back to New England. Most artists’ colonies came into being during the same time as the utopias I write about here. Like these utopias, artists’ colonies often embody someone’s, usually a woman’s, dream for temporary freedom from domestic responsibilities and distractions, a community where art is central.

Eventually, something pulled me back to the mid-Atlantic and

New Jersey. It’s a paradox that, living in a state that tears down and rebuilds at a frightening rate, I am constantly aware of the past. It is almost as though New Jersey has compressed centuries of archaeology into a short space of time.

I found at least ten utopian communities in New Jersey that had existed (between 1850 and 1950).

I went looking for the physical and spiritual remains of some of them. I dove down New Jersey highways and backroads. And from those explorations come the description of what remains of each dream . . .

Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden, Morven Museum and Gardens. Virtual talk by Perdita Buchan, Thursday, November 19, 5:30 p.m. Register. $10. www.morven.org.

Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance presents

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The stream will be available on-demand through December 8, 2020

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VIRTUAL EVENT Free and open to the public via Zoom; registration for each evening is required

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Violin Masterclass, Department of Music, Princeton University. music.princeton.edu. Violinist and two-time Grammy nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient Jennifer Frautschi works with student violinists. Register for Zoom access. 4 p.m.

Matthew Shipp: The Piano Equation, Edward T. Cone Concert Series, Institute for Advanced Study. www.ias.edu/matthewshipp-piano-equation. Virtual concert, live from Wolfensohn Hall, by the virtuosic improviser who blends previously composed materials with music invented on the spot. Register. Free. 8 p.m.

60th Anniversary Alumni Faculty Virtual Recital, New School for Music Study. www.nsmspiano. org. Celebration of 60 years of excellence in piano teaching and learning. Performers include Tony Caramia, Scott Donald, Sara Ernst, Judith Jain, Beverly Lapp, Phyllis Lehrer, Elissa Miller-Kay, Susan Osborn, Craig Sale, Noriko Schneiderman, Allison Shinnick, and Todd Van Kekerix. $10 minimum donation per family for Zoom access. Register. 8 p.m.

The Spirituality of Laughter, Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor, 609-443-4454. www. bethel.net. Rabbi and comedian Bob Alper explores humor in ancient and modern Jewish tradition, and why laughter has been such an integral part of Jewish culture, via Zoom. Register. $18 and up. 8:30 p.m.

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The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence, McCarter Theater. www.mccarter. org. Virtual premiere of “Sleep Deprivation Chamber,” the second theatrical release in a fourpart series honoring the noted American playwright. Obie Awardwinning semi-autobiographical drama and meditation on race was written 25 years ago with son Adam Kennedy. Register. $15.

Recording available through February 21, 2021.

Welcome to Matteson!, Passage Theatre. www.passagetheatre. org. Digital reading of “Welcome to Matteson!” by Inda CraigGalván and directed by Andrew Binger. The play is a dark intra-racial comedy about reverse gentrification and how we deal with the “other” when the other looks just like us. $10. Register for live performance or to view recording November 22 through 24. 7 p.m.

Marie begins, Westminster Opera Theater. www.rider.edu/arts.

Composed by Ellen Fishman with a libretto by Julia Curcio, “Marie Begins” is an immersive Operactive experience in the audience is transformed from passive consumer to active participant. By combining traditional opera with modern multimedia production, interactive web technologies, and a modular score, “Marie Begins” presents this classic art form where anyone can be the director.

Free access online. 7 p.m.

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Virtual Classical Music

Erik Allesee: Piano Favorites, Westminster Conservatory. www.rider.edu/arts. Westminster Conservatory faculty member Erik Allesse performs works by Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, and others. Free access online. 8 p.m.

Politics

Small Talk: “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing”, Friends of Princeton University Library. libcal.princeton.edu/events. Adam Frankel, a 2003 Princeton alumnus who worked as a speechwriter for Barack Obama, discusses his recent memoir on family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, with American historian Stanley Katz.

Open to all. Register for Zoom link. 3 p.m.

Schools

Virtual Open House, Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart. www.princetonacademy.org/virtualadmissionevents. Learn more about the K-8 private school for boys in Princeton from current students, parents and educators.

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Monday November 23 Real Estate Management Services

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Virtual Dance

Princeton Dance Festival Reimagined, Lewis Center for the

FALL 2020 LECTURE SERIES

NOVEMBER 20 Patrick Radden Keefe (The New Yorker), on “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland”

4:30 p.m. via Zoom For more information about the event and Zoom link, visit fis.princeton.edu The Fund for lrish Studies is generously supported by the Durkin Family Trust and the James J. Kerrigan, Jr. ’45 and Margaret M. Kerrigan Fund for lrish Studies.

Passage Theater presents a virtual reading of Inda Craig-Galvan’s ‘Welcome to Matteson!’ on Saturday, November 21.

Arts, Princeton University. arts. princeton.edu/dance-reimagined.

New works created for a virtual environment led by professional choreographers Peter Chu, Francesca Harper, Rebecca Lazier, Dean Moss, Silas Riener, and Olivier Tarpaga. Works explore the intersections of dance and multimedia performance, digital animation, filmmaking, site-based work, and music. Each evening is a completely different and unique experience followed by a question and answer session with the choreographers. Free. Register for Zoom link. 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday November 24 Virtual Literati

Shakespeare Community Reading Group, McCarter Theater. www.mccarter.org. All are welcome to join the virtual group celebrating the fourth annual Sonnet Slam. Register. Free; donation requested. 7 p.m.

Wednesday November 25 In Person Art

Festival of Trees, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven. org. Annual showcase of a juried collection of trees and mantles displayed throughout the museum’s galleries in addition to outdoor displays and lights. Free with museum admission. Continues daily through January 10, 2021.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Virtual

Socials

Meeting, Union Toastmasters. www.tmclub6520.org. Learn how to be a powerful presenter and achieve mastery in the art and science of public speaking in an engaging and fun environment.

Email secretary@tmclub6520.org for link to join online meeting. 6 p.m.

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Off the Presses: ‘Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition’

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by Dan Aubrey

he Princeton University Press recently partnered with the online New Books Network to launch the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcasts — a series featuring PUP and NBN’s interviews with Princeton authors.

Edmund Fawcett, author of the just released “Conservatism,” recently spoke to NBN editor and podcast host Marshall Poe about his book and this timely topic. Here are some excerpted remarks:

I

’m the editor of the New Books Network, and I’d like to welcome you to the Princeton Ideas podcast.

Today, we have the pleasure of talking to Edmund Fawcett about his book, “Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition.”

I am a political author. I was for 30 years a political journalist. I worked in many countries, eight years as the chief correspondent for The Economist magazine in Washington, but also for the same magazine in Paris, in Berlin, as well as Brussels. I was the European and the literary editor on the same magazine. So I’ve been a political journalist most of my career.

I wrote this book because I’m bewildered by the predicament we are in. Speaking as somebody who is, I’d put it, on the liberal left, and speaking for all of us in that position, I think we often don’t listen hard enough to the opposition. So I thought to myself, I really must understand the strength of conservatism, why it is so enduring, why it is so dominant, and what it has to say for itself.

It follows a book I wrote six years ago ... on liberalism, which I thought again was for different reasons, not very well understood.

Liberalism is so much part of the air we breathe, so much is taken for granted about it, I thought, again, that would be worth telling the history of.

So both books start in the 19th century and run through until now.

And both of them take in party political history, politicians, government, and the story of political ideas, neither of which, I sense, really make sense without the other...

Conservatism, like liberalism, is a practice, a historical practice of politics. It has a beginning, hasn’t yet had an end, but it’s got a dateable beginning early in the 19th century. It responded to a particular condition of society. It has followers, politicians, voters, thinkers, and so on. It has ideas. It has lots of them. It has an outlook. It has programs. But it isn’t a philosophy.

Philosophy sort of exists at a different level. I mean, this may seem a sort of unduly pointy-headed distinction, but I think it’s very important because it’s much too easy, I think, in looking at the political right, particularly today, to try and hunt out an outlook, a theory, and a philosophy. You have to get some sense of how the political right and the various thinkers justify what it is the political right is up to and

how they set out its ideals and so forth. But at the same time, you have to see what actually the political right is doing. So you need to keep the two together. I think the way I put it in my book was that conservatism is a practice that has an outlook but is not itself an outlook.

The character of what conservatives resisted in the early 19th century and were trying to preserve hasn’t greatly changed, but the

‘The character of what conservatives resisted in the early 19th century and were trying to preserve hasn’t greatly changed, but the content has.’ content has. I mean, let’s just take two examples.

Property. Conservatives started out in defense of property, but what was property when conservatives got started? In the 1820s and ’30s, certainly for conservatives, property was property in land. It was sort of invisible. Now, what is property? Property is virtual. It’s invisible. It’s utterly changed and it comes in so many forms one can’t begin to enumerate them.

So if you start out from this beginning of conservatism and look now, when conservatives then defended property, in one sense, they’re defending something very different from what conservatives defend now. In another sense, they’re defending the same thing.

Also, who owns property has huge-

ly changed. Then, very, very few people own property. Now, many, many, many people own property.

Rich, poor, all sorts of people. So, again, what property is and who owns it has vastly changed. But you can understand, we’re still talking about property.

Another example is the state. A political outlook has to have a view of the state. But when conservatives in the 1820s and ’30s were thinking about the state, it was an utterly different thing in one way from what we talk about today, just in a matter of size. The state then was tiny. Taxation was ... less than 10 percent. Now the state occupies 40 to 50 percent of a country’s economy.

Clearly, in one way, the scale and the reach of the modern state is vastly greater than the scale or reach of the state that early conservatives were talking about it. In another way, they’re talking about the same thing. They’re talking about a political authority which as liberals wanted, ought to be very constrained. And as conservatives wanted, they should be trusted and given full of full authority . . .

The first conservatives were the children and grandchildren of people who had been used to ruling.

They did what they ought to be doing. They knew what they should be doing. Why is because their parents and grandparents had done it.

They were used to ruling.

Conservatives by the 1820s and 1830s, they were the political outs.

The liberals became the political ins. It took conservatives not very long to learn the new rules of the new game and to become equals to the liberals at the electoral game and indeed to beat them. And that roughly was the political story

Edmund Fawcett, left, is a political journalist and author of ‘Conservatism,’ the subject of a recent episode of the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast. from the 1830s to the 1880s.

It was the smoothest in Britain, where you had a parliamentary system that had some history and you had two parties, the Tories and the Whigs. The Tories became the Conservatives. The Whigs became the Liberals. The Tories eventually learned enough about electoral politics to prevail over the Liberals.

The story was more complicated than the United States because the party labels don’t quite fit. You had to know Whigs and Jacksonians who morphed into Democrats and Republicans . . .

Over the course of the 19th century, as they adapted to modern liberal capitalism, conservatives had a choice. Either they remained resistant and recalcitrant, trying to bring back the past or hold up the future, or they became, in effect, rightwing liberals. What I mean by that is liberals who are keen on defending business, finance, and property, but who understand that they can’t control all aspects of human life.

They can’t tell people what to think or do or how to behave. In other words, they have to be socially quite liberal. And I think conservatives, when they were successful in the second period, got that message and became what I call right-wing liberals or liberal conservative . . .

You have really in this period,

1880 to 1945, you have two possibilities for people who don’t get into the liberal Democratic game on the right. You can either go to the hard right and try to reject the system or step out of politics and become a cultural critic. Cultural criticism of this kind has always been, ever since, a very, very strong voice among conservative intellectuals . . .

Something that’s very interesting about the hard right is they have a very brilliant and appealing set of rhetorical appeals. And one of them is the victim. We are victims. We have been victims of liberal elites.

We are the victims of foreigners. A related theme is the true nation. The true people have been captured.

Who have they been captured by?

They’ve been captured by liberal elites, or they’ve been captured by foreigners. These are very, very appealing. But when you look at them, they’re really quite empty.

As indeed, you know, Trump the billionaire hasn’t been captured by anybody.

“Conservatism: The Fight For A Tradition” by Edmund Fawcett, Princeton University Press, 544 pages, $35.

To hear the entire discussion or other Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast, go to press.princeton.edu/ideas/podcasts.

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TASK’s Pandemic Menu Is More Than Just Soup

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he Trenton Area Soup Kitchen has the following statement regarding helping its mission: Anytime is a good time for giving, but as the weather turns cold and people continue to suffer the negative economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, community support during the holidays is needed more than ever.

There won’t be a Thanksgiving or Christmas day meal served in the TASK dining room this year, however, the soup kitchen still needs your help in filling food baskets and providing other items for families and individuals. address the underlying causes that create the need for a soup kitchen in the first place.

“Tuesday through Thursday we have on site case managers for people without working phones,” she says, adding that case workers advise patients by giving them cellphones and then communicating with at a distance — including using the glass walls in the patio area.

The case workers then help clients create a foundation for basic services. That includes getting an ID for getting a job, getting an apartment, and building the foundation for stability.

“If you’re living a life with everything in your backpack and you lose it, it is more of a problem than you would think,” says Parker.

In addition to meals, Parker says the other services TASK continues to provide include “hygiene kits.

Patrons who are homeless get their mail here. We have books we’re giving away. There is food pantry information. There are socks. And newspapers — patrons would go to the library for news, and when they were closed patrons didn’t know what was happening and asked for papers.

“There are bunch of things that you take for granted, and we don’t realize how important they are until you don’t have access as you usually had.”

That includes access to a computer for work.

Parker cites a specific example.

“Amazon wants to hire people and all the hiring is done through Zoom.

If you don’t have access to a Zoom meeting you don’t have access for applying for a job.

“So (our job search specialist) helps people remotely. We’re working on a hiring drive — so when we have companies looking to hire we can have a spot for people to help connect to the employer so they could do their job interviews here” — with “here” being the socially distanced patio area.

“The whole world assumes that everyone has a working smart phone. That is not true. When we make every service require something be done on the internet, it shuts a whole world of people out of services.

“The same is true about expectations that people have a car — so there are people who are locked out of services because they don’t have a vehicle. All of our services don’t require a vehicle — we have a walkup option. It’s a major barrier for people who don’t have cars.”

“We expanded a lot,” Parker says about current demand for meals and services. “We have added a couple of schools that we have made into community meal sites.

We’ll make extra meals and send them out and distribute them.”

In addition to 15 senior sites in Trenton, daily distribution locations include 14 community meal

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Demand is greatest this winter for adult clothing. New heavy hooded sweatshirts, hats, gloves, scarves, coats, and full-sized hygiene products can go a long way toward keeping our patrons clean, warm, and dry.

In addition to outerwear, which TASK will collect until the end of February, the soup kitchen will collect food to provide holiday meals for people struggling with hunger and food insecurity.

As the 90 percent jump in food service production over last year at TASK is a clear indicator of the area’s growing demand, it is anticipated that the number of folks in need of food at the holidays will be higher than years past.

For a complete list of needed products, go to www.trentonsoupkitchen.org/ways-to-give. sites in Trenton, Hightstown, Hamilton, and Princeton. Food is also delivered to HomeFront and 15 sites under the purview of the Trenton Housing Authority.

TASK’s associate director of operations, Paul Jensen, steps in to provide specific numbers. “A week is 8,500 to 9,000 meals,” he says about volume. “We did 36,000 meals for October. August was our top, 41,000.”

“COVID is the number one reason,” he says about the number increase and how it stopped some area senior citizen center services.

“We’ve made a commitment to (Trenton) to provide meals through the winter and see what the need is for the spring,” he says.

But the pain is being felt elsewhere, including Princeton, a place that Parker says “has more low-income people than people think.”

According to Jensen, “Princeton is back up to a 100 meals at the (Methodist) church and the housing authority is up to 60 to 70.

They’ve increased their meals steadily, and people know where to come.”

Joyce Campbell, TASK’s executive director, also provides some numbers and sets the current TASK operating budget at $3.8 million — up from last year’s standard $3.3 million to expand on COVID-related items.

That includes increased number of meals, the staffing and overtime

‘The whole world assumes that everyone has a working smart phone. That is not true. When we make every service require something be done on the internet, it shuts a whole world of people out of services.’ to prepare meals, additional kitchen supplies, general supplies — such as hygiene products when donations materials diminish, and keeping the out-front serving staff warm.

While TASK had hoped to slowly introduce indoor seating, Campbell is unsure of when it will be possible. “We’re dealing with a surge, and unless the numbers go down and the transmission rate is lower than one (the Center for Disease Control standard), we won’t have any patrons in our building.

“There has been a real loss of community in our dining room.

That’s what is missing for people who don’t have other social contact.”

Food services and facilities manager Paul Jensen, above, keeps thousands of TASK meals coming. At right, music programmer Caleb Walker, near right, drummer Earnest Siplin, and project manager Jaime Parker wrap up a Monday afternoon music session.

Another loss is a place for clients to be warm during the winter.

“We’re looking at how to keep people warm and partnering with the Rescue Mission to open a warming center,” says Campbell, who had previously racked up 20 years with Catholic Charities in Trenton.

She says the organization’s number one challenge is “preventing any COVID within in my staff.

We need to keep the kitchen open and feed people. We’re doing the best we can with it. It’s something I deal with every day, that everyone who is in the building is healthy.

“Another challenge is to supply the services people need within this environment. At the end of the day, our primary mission and goal is that we want to feed people.”

She says the community is also stepping up and that in addition to companies and organizations in the region, 1,500 new individual donors were added recently to their list.

“We’re doing the best we can and trying to expand to areas where people are hungry because they are newly unemployed or under employed,” she says.

They are also following the soup kitchen mission to “feed those who are hungry in the Trenton area and offer programs to encourage selfsufficiency and improve the quality of life.”

The project actively began in 1982 when the late Rev. Alice Parker headed the initiative that prepared and served daily meals at the First United Methodist Church on Broad and Front streets.

In 1991 TASK built a 6,000-square-foot building on cityowned property on Escher Street and continues to rent the site for $1 per year. A 3,300-square-foot expansion was completed in 2019.

Back at the patio, Jaime Parker says she and the staff have “shifted a lot of responsibilities, and the ways we’re doing things are different. We’re not doing too much to grow the staff but looking at what

we have and change the jobs to keep the employees and clients safe.

“Nobody really wants (the pandemic). It’s a difficult time, and we’re trying to be creative to provide things people need.”

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native and resident of Bordentown, where her father operates Riverside Studio and her mother is a special education teacher working for the Commission for the Blind, Parker says she got involved with TASK in 2001 when she was a Rider political science student working in the AmeriCorps program. She later earned a master’s degree in public administration from Rutgers University.

Her career started in 2005 when she was asked to take over the grant writing office. She is now the longest tenured person on staff.

Paralleling her interest in politics, Parker also studied theater at Rider and continues her involvement with the arts.

“Music is what I do,” she says, referring to the bands she plays with including Meeko Brando and Alpha Rabbit. The latter’s website describes it as a “Trenton-based band with three different songwriters, three different sounds, and one common goal: to make you dance and move your soul” — the band will be streaming from the House of Robots, the company that produced Analog Trenton — on Saturday, December 5, from 8 to 9:30 p.m.

“Art is very personal,” she says.

“There are people who need to make art, and they need to express their creativity, and they can do it many different ways. Some are positive and some art not.”

Applying that philosophy to TASK programs, Parker says, “Being in a band is a sense of belonging, and having a place where you feel you belong is important and that is what we are to a lot of people and that is what makes it hard to not let them in.

“We’re trying to stay in touch and calling (clients) everywhere and trying to get them to join Zoom meetings is a challenge.

“For some folks just being able to talk to people is a lifeline, and being isolated is so harmful to their mental health, and we’re being creative to try to get people to feel that they’re not alone but keeping ourselves safe and not exposing ourselves to harmful conditions.”

As the afternoon winds down and the outdoor table is being taken in, Parker says, “We’re learning a lot about ourselves. We at TASK are asking how we can be better, how we can learn, how we can grow.”

Good questions as the days get darker and colder and people are forced indoors where the virus spreads more easily.

“We’re going into some scary territory,” says Parker.

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Pia de Jong

On the Move RWJF’s Morita Named to Biden’s COVID Team

The War of the Words

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hat a relief. When news of Joe Biden’s victory came on that bright autumn Saturday, honking and cheers rang out in the streets, even in the ever-so-proper Princeton. Coincidentally, a nearby church bell also started to ring. Salvation at last. After four years of darkness and pandemic, it seemed, this country had recovered. A hopeful future dawned.

Ah, not so. The biggest surprise of this presidential election is that there is no surprise. The country turned out to be exactly as split as it was four years ago. Well, once all the votes are counted exactly again, Biden will appear to have won a split verdict.

Who knows, he may actually be allowed to move into the White House and run the country. But the more than 72 million Trump voters don’t care about that. They have long lived in a parallel universe of alternative facts. A reality where their candidate always wins, as long as you don’t count the other side’s “fraudulent” votes. Where you are free from logic and can explain everything to your advantage.

Where all men have square jaws and all women are slim and blonde.

Where facts adapt to thoughts, instead of the other way around.

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What psychologists call cognitive dissonance is now playing out on a national scale. When the facts are at odds with our beliefs, we resolve our internal contradictions not by changing our ideas but by denying the facts.

Our grand illusion was that these elections would give America closure. That the country would choose to go left or right. But everything continues as it was, now on a double track. One half of the nation on the left, the other on the right. Well, sometimes one half is the boss, then the other. For the past

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four years, the Democrats have lived in occupied territory under a foreign power. Now the Republicans can feel that. Some fear a new Civil War. But that’s nonsense. The new Civil War is not fought in fields and forests with bullets and cannons, but in the old and new media, with talking heads and tweets.

The new Mason-Dixon Line runs through the internet. Trump will continue his shadow government in Mar-a-Lago, which for many will become an alternative White House where the “real” president resides. Politicians will receive his blessing.

Just as he went on to play a successful tycoon on television, even though he was a failed businessman, he will now play a successful president on his own TV channel.

The fight, meanwhile, continues. First the Senate elections in Georgia, then Congress in two years, and before you know it, it’s … 2016 all over again. Trump is not a bad loser. He just can’t. He lacks the vocabulary. It remains a mystery how everyone continues to underestimate him, when he just does what he has always done. One definition of madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. Who’s crazy here?

Trump will never give in. He reminds me of the Black Knight in the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” When King Arthur cuts off his arm, it’s “just a scratch.”

The other arm “just a flesh wound.”

Limping on one leg, he says he will always triumph. When he finally loses all his limbs, he shouts to the departing party, “Okay, we’ll call it a draw.”

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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Rider to Offer Acting Degree

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ider University has expanded its undergraduate academic offerings by adding a bachelor of fine arts in acting for film, television, and theater beginning in the fall of 2021.

In addition to training actors for stage and screen the BFA program will cover web series, voiceover, and new media. Collaboration with industry professionals in New York and Los Angeles will include a showcase for agents and casting directors in both cities.

“Graduates of this program will be adaptive and authentic artists able to perform in any form of media,” Ivan Fuller, chair of Rider’s Department of Theatre and Dance, said in a statement. “They will be completely immersed in two major cities for the entertainment industry with the physical, intellectual, vocal, imaginative, entrepreneurial skills and passion needed to be successful.”

“Students will receive the technical acting training, but will also know how to market themselves,” Fuller said. “They will have a full portfolio of skills ready to begin their professional careers.”

For more information on the program or to apply visit www.rider.edu/acting.

Gift to PU Supports Biodiversity Work

A gift from Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron has enabled

Princeton University to establish an endowed fund that will significantly increase support for environmental research related to biodiversity.

The Biodiversity Research Challenge Fund will support individuals or teams of Princeton faculty and students who pursue research crucial to preserving species and the interconnectivity of ecosystems. The program will be under the aegis of the High Meadows Environmental Institute (formerly the Princeton Environmental Institute).

“Currie and Tom Barron care deeply about preserving our planet’s biodiversity,” president Christopher Eisgruber said in a statement. “They have been dedicated and creative champions for envi-

Edited by Sara Hastings ronmental research at Princeton for several decades, supporting our approach to finding workable global solutions through interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists, policy makers, industry, and storytellers. We are deeply grateful to the Barrons for their vision and their commitment.”

“President Eisgruber has raised the bar for Princeton to draw on the strengths of many interdisciplinary fields to help us answer these very big questions,” Tom Barron said in a statement. “We need to reach people in ways that go beyond the science. The atmosphere, the oceans, the forests: All of those are going to be saved only if we understand that the Earth itself is a great story, a story that includes us. We need to tell that story in a much more compelling and inspiring way.”

A member of the Class of 1974, Barron later studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned law and business degrees from Harvard. He left a career in finance to become a writer and is now the author of 31 books. The former university trustee was influential in the founding of HMEI and remains as a member of its advisory board.

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Two Senior Communities Sold

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In Hamilton, the 75-unit Twin Ponds development off Yardville Hamilton Square Road was purchased from Crestwood Ventures LLC by an affiliate of the Kamson Corporation for $16.4 million.

The buyers intend to complete additional construction to add a further 69 units. Existing units have two bedrooms and two bathrooms and range from 900 to 1,125 square feet. The property was fully occupied at the time of the sale.

In Princeton, Acorn Glen Assisted Living has been acquired by Mount Laurel-based Brandywine Living. The complex on Mount Lucas Road will be known as Brandywine Living Serenade at Princeton.

The company, which now owns 20 communities in New Jersey, plans upgrades including restaurant-style dining and more spacious suites.

Deaths Mary Strunsky Wisnovsky, 81, on November 8. She worked for numerous area organizations including McCarter Theater, Princeton University, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, the Hillier Group, Princeton Senior Resource Center, Princeton Child Development Institute, Princeton Public Library, and the Institute for Advanced Study, where she got her start organizing the Einstein Centennial Symposium in 1979.

Marion D. Mennel, 95, on November 9. She retired as a principal audit account clerk for the State of New Jersey.

Ursula Dressler, 65, on November 6. She worked for Princeton Mortgage Company and Wegmans.

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50 Princeton-Hightstown Road, Princeton Jct.

346-1,872 SF office for lease • Walking distance to the train station Close proximity to Route 1

Mercer Corporate Park, Robbinsville

5128 SF office/research for lease • Easy access to 130/TPK/195/295

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