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he Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick recently published the results of its “This I Believe project.”

The initiative asked individuals experienced with state government to reflect on the lessons learned between March, 2020, and January, 2021, as the nation was jarred by pandemic, the killing of George Floyd and the ensuing demonstrations, the 2020 election, and, finally, the January 6 siege on the United States Capitol Building.

Eagleton director John J. Farmer, Jr., a former State of New Jersey Attorney General, noted that the short essays “are by turns introspective and intensely personal, grief-stricken and hopeful, but also outward-facing and political, animated by a passion for social justice and progress, both despairing and optimistic; read together, they are an offering, almost a prayer, lifting up to the transcendent mysteries we all face our hopes for a brighter tomorrow.”

They also are part of an ongoing and uncomfortable conversation on how to manage a healthy democracy — something that the nation’s founders learned and the subject of the story on page X. As New Jersey slowly reopens from the pandemic emergency and faces the Fourth of July, it seems a positive time to share excerpts of the statements and renew a commitment to democracy.

John Farmer: We have lost sight of how fragile our democratic republic is among nations. The absence of an American religion, or ethnicity, or culture, means that our nation lacks elements that stifle individual initiative and choke off opportunity in other countries, to be sure, but those elements also provide cohesion and identity.

What defines us as a nation — the only thing that defines us as a nation — is a shared commitment to political ideals that sometimes conflict — liberty and equality — and to the constitutional framework we the people have adopted to mediate those conflicts and, in doing so, to define what those ideals mean for each generation.

Over the course of my adult life, that fabric of shared understandings has become frayed. We have

embraced what former President Carter called “a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others.

That path,” he foresaw, “would be one of constant conflict among narrow interests, ending in chaos and immobility.” In the process, we lost sight of our debt to history, to our unfulfilled commitment to equality, to the basic social justice imperative of ensuring that black and brown and Asian lives matter.

My hope is that our drift toward the “mistaken idea of freedom” has been laid bare by our deadly inability to respond as a unified community to the pandemic, by the disproportionate deaths in vulnerable communities, by the murder of George Floyd and the killings of others, and by the wave of “chaos and immobility” that crested in the United States Capitol on January 6.

Our commitment to the dignity and value of each individual life as the basis for legitimate government is relatively new to world history, and is openly scorned by authoritarian regimes that work every day

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to undermine it. It requires much of us: humility in accepting that even our deeply held convictions may be wrong; civility in understanding and working through our differences; equality in lifting up our most vulnerable communities.

Former Governor James J. Florio: I now believe that Democracy is a much more fragile institution for governance than I previously thought. Accordingly, we all must make a greater commitment to civic education and involvement. When someone as flawed as the former president gains power and comes as close to retaining it for a full eight years, we risk changing our nation into an unrecognizable form.

We require a restored sense of collective responsibility as opposed to living in isolated separation “doing our own thing,” rather than forming deliberative national goals.

The vehicle for such a move starts with rejection of the view that “Government is not the answer, it is the problem.” Government is not inherently good or bad. It is a tool which in the hands of honest competent people of good faith is essential for an orderly society. We have not had that for a few years.

I believe that can change if we can get citizens engaged in and informed about public policy issues.

The fact is that our democratic system does not work unless we all work at making it work. That’s the challenge.

Impact NJ Managing Partner and Visiting Eagleton Associate Michael Murphy: Our nation suffered two tragic challenges over the last 12 months, one occurred in nature and the other arose in the po-

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litical theatre.

In early March, 2020, the world was taken by surprise with the advent of a global pandemic, the likes of which we as a species had not seen since the “Spanish Influenza of 1918” during which over 50 million people lost their lives. Despite the fact that the federal administration downplayed the severity of the pestilence, American scientists, physicians and pharmaceutical companies rose to the challenge and in less than a year vaccines were created, developed and produced, saving countless lives.

The silver lining in this ominous cloud is found in the genius, resiliency and creativity of the country’s healthcare apparatus. A seemingly intractable crisis is now in the process of being brought under control.

The second crisis culminated in the storming of the US Capitol on January 6th of this year. Had this treasonous insurrection been the product of spontaneity I might take some comfort in that belief. Tragically, in my estimation, the demonstrative assault that day was seeded by falsehoods, conspiracy theories and baseless fears promoted by people who care not for a continuation of the American Experiment but to consolidate power in a neo fascist state.

The latter crisis is far more troubling than the former. Our institutions and constitutional framework are under attack. People of conscience are obligated to rise to this challenge with the same focus and vision as the scientific community did in addressing the pandemic.

I am reminded of the advice freely and thoughtfully given to me by my late Father, former Governor and Chief Justice Richard J Hughes, “Michael, always do the next right thing. Your conscience will be clear and you will be proud of the results.”

Visiting Eagleton Associate and NJ Spotlight co-founder Ingrid W. Reed: These past four years including our COVID time have reinforced my long-held belief that every person has human rights that ideally we resolve to respect — and that includes the right and responsibility to have a say in how we live together.

I have struggled with whether it is enough to focus on the individual — maybe as the first value, but what is the value of the group, or individuals with shared values, acting together for what I vaguely say is our common good.

For many, many years, I have carried something around in my head that makes me ask that question. My parents each immigrated to this country from Germany in the 1920s. Each was the only person from his or her family to do so, adventuresome, impatient with post World War I life. They met here, married and started a family in 1935 while each of their families remained to face the horrors of Hit-

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down. My words usually are seriler and another war.

At some point as I listened in, ous. Humorous, entertaining or discussions arose among my par- lighthearted words have purpose, ents’ friends about how awful it too. Words help us organize our life was that Hitler was in power. I re- and society. They do so in small member several times hearing that ways, like when we write notes to Hitler would never have been elect- family and friends. And in big ed if the parties on the left — or the ways, like when elected officials or opposing groups — had been able judges write laws or decrees. to agree … if the splinters had not Words allow us to express our comoccurred, if they had found a way to passion, tolerance and faith. And to work together. I don’t know the his- resolve disputes peacefully, under tory of the Weimar Republic and the rule of law.

Words are essential to my prothat time to place blame, but I can ask how we should think about the fession, the legal profession. Used importance of committed individu- effectively, words can advance a als to recognize a mission greater client’s worthy cause. Used justly, than their own beliefs. What does it they can convict the guilty and extake to wisely put not personal val- onerate the innocent. Words in a ues but personal strategies aside for judicial opinion are especially important. Conscientious judges will a larger goal?

Skip ahead to our recent history, pause over every word, sentence as Trump became more frequently and paragraph to ensure that opinseen as a possible Hitler, the fear ions are clear, concise and consisthat he might be re-elected was fu- tent with the judiciary’s high staneled by the specter of a splintering dards. A judicial opinion, of course, Democratic party as candidate af- must be more than simply well ter candidate came forward, some written. It also must reflect the with strong believes and followers. court’s best judgment after applyI kept thinking of Germany and the ing the law to the facts. And it must conversations of my elders placing embody a sense of fairness and jusblame. But, in known and unknown tice, all via its words. . . . In this sensitive time in the ways, as the presidential election drew closer, the committed and life of our country, here’s a possible certainly qualified candidates rule to live by: Let’s be careful with moved in ways that solidified in- our words. We should speak our early 15 the years stead of splintered movement minds independently and freely. ago I spent a few days in that had Butrein@princetoninfo.com let’s do so thoughtfully and reneeded to forestall a future Memphis, Tennessee, taking in the spectfully as well. We should insist great potential to undermine Kinggovernmental Museum and Iofficials asked him he town’sand major tourist attractions, doifthe rights responsibilities of each that had ever been there.

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Jersey Supreme glass of cold ice tea poured onto his The Sun Studio tour was a revelaAssociate Court Justice and State Attorney lapEagleton by an angry woman. Director, tion: howPeter still pictures, sound,I and of Education Programs General G. Verniero: be- Director “I’m proud I was involved in it,” an informed, theatrical Center on the the civil American lieve in the power of thepresenter written and Colbert said of rights could bring an entire musical era to One of and spoken word. Words should Governor movement.John “TheWeingart: very thought that life in a but spacenot no bigger the lessons of the past year is that in inform mislead.thanThey you could be told you couldn’t sit averagebePrinceton livingblunt room. of widespread crisis we turn should candid, even when times in a particular place” was galling.

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After the studying at Savannah member a replica of a segregated lunch counter and an audio visual State College, Colbert joined the exhibit capturing the exchange be- admission office at the University tween President John F. Kennedy of Georgia, by then under orders to and the governor of Mississippi, integrate its student body. “Here it Ross Barnett, as he attempted to was in the late 1960s and the unithwart the integration of the state’s versity had about 50 black students university. Kennedy’s voice had a out of an enrollment of 18,000.”

The admissions job there led to steel edge as he told the governor the school would be integrated and the College Board and ETS and his that federal troops would be used to relocation to Princeton. He and his wife, Deborah Raikes-Colbert, the enforce that decision.

I am reminded of the Sun Studio tour and the Martin Luther King Jr. Museum often as I contemplate efforts to leverage some of Princeton’s historical assets into study centers that would attract ordinary tourists and serious scholars.

So when I heard that the birthplace of Paul Robeson was being opened to the public for a few hours lastPrinceton Sunday, the day afterForrestal the at Princeton Center at Forrestal Center 113th anniversary of Robeson’s birth ontoApril 9, 1898, I chargeds�uare �p to30,000 30,000 contiguous �p contiguous s�uarefeet feetofofsingle-story, single-story, over to visit the house at 110 Withhigh-tech,first-class first-class R&D R&D space immediately available. high-tech, space immediately available. erspoon Street, just across Green Street from the Arts Council’s Paul For information information contact: For contact: Robeson Center.

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derogatory references to bureaucrats and bureaucracy, we have over the past 15 months consistently looked to those individuals and agencies for expertise to help grapple with unprecedented sickness, uncertainty and fear. We may question or criticize the substance of some decisions or the ways in which they have been communicated but there have been few calls for government to get out of the way and, for example, let the private sector handle the essential policy- and decision-making.

Yet too often, government is thought of as “them” as opposed to “us.” Why don’t they do this better or faster or differently? Why don’t they exercise common sense?

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I hope that my idea of believe. utilizing part of the space as essentially a tourist attraction celebrating the life and times and struggles of Paul Robeson will not be viewed as a distraction.

I ask Colbert when he first heard of Paul Robeson. Given that Robeson had been blacklisted in the 1950s while Colbert and his generation were on the front lines of the civil rights movement, Robeson was not even on the radar then (and lived in relative obscurity until his death in 1976). Only later did Colbert discover the depth of Robeson’s story. The next generations may not have to wait so long to meet one of Princeton’s most amazing native sons.

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Event Listings: E-mail events@princetoninfo.com While many venues have returned to hosting in-person events, others are still taking place online.

Event descriptions specify if an event is being held virtually or in a hybrid format. To include your virtual or in-person event in this section email events@princetoninfo.com.

Wednesday June 30 On Stage Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin

ter, 157 Westcott Avenue, Hamilton. www.mercercountyparks.org.

Easy mile-long walk with to explore Spring Lake and other trails of Roebling Park. Free. Register via CommunityPass. 10 a.m.

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Socials Latarro. $45 and up. 2 p.m.

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 and up.

8 to 9 a.m.

Drink Your Plants: Herbal Beverages for Hot Days of Summer, The Suppers Programs. www. thesuppersprograms.org. Create delicious, nutritious, immuneboosting teas, cocktails, mocktails, smoothies and more, to keep you cool, calm, and collected over the summer. Join herbalist Tish Streeten for a virtual pre-

sentation on how to make this happen. Register. Donation requested. 7 p.m.

Kids Stuff

Read and Pick: Monarchs, Swallowtails & Honeybees, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Lawrence, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Hands-on educational program on the farm followed by a story. One adult chaperone per family group. Register. $10. Masks required for ages three and up. 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Lectures

Ruth Asawa: Sculptor, Educator, Art Activist, Pennington Public Library, 609-737-0404. www. penningtonlibrary.org. Presentation by Janet Mandel on American sculptor, educator, and arts activist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013), who

is known for her extensive body of work including paintings, printmaking, public commissions, and especially her wire sculptures that challenge conventional notions of material and form. Held via Zoom.

Register. Free. 7 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Bike Nature Tours, Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer Meadows, Pole Farm parking lot. www.mercercountyparks.org. Experience the rolling hills and forested areas of Mercer Meadows while gliding along on two wheels during this naturalist-guided tour.

Bring your own bike or rent one for an additional fee. Register via CommunityPass. $15; $10 for Mercer County residents. 9 to 11 a.m.

Watson Woods Walking Club, Mercer County Nature Programs, Tulpehaking Nature Cen-

Armchair Activist: What You Can Do to Make a Difference, Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice & Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Hear the stories of modern-day activists in our community and beyond. Do you want to protect our environment? Are you concerned about racial justice? Is access to healthcare for everybody your issue? For these and other social concerns, panelists can help you open the door to life-enhancing ways to make a difference without even needing to leave your home. Hosted by Drew Dyson, PSRC’s chief executive officer, Breana Newton of PSRC, and Carol Watchler of BRCSJ. Register. 11 a.m.

Sports

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder.com. Lehigh Valley Ironpigs. $12. 7 p.m.

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Thursday July 1 Art Virtual Watercolor Session: Using Toned Paper and Gouache, Princeton University Art Museum & Arts Council of Princeton. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Taught by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo over Zoom. Register.

Free. 8 p.m.

On Stage

Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 2 and 7:30 p.m.

Fairs & Festivals

Fireworks, Lawrence Township, Rider University. www.lawrencetwp.com/events/10910/.

Music and food trucks starting at 7 p.m. Fireworks begin at 9:15. 7 p.m.

Food & Dining

Happy Hour at the Mercer Park Boathouse, Landmark Catering & Mercer County Park Commission, 334 South Post Road, West Windsor. www.mercercountyparks.org. Specialty food and drink, live music, pontoon boat tours for $4 (weather permitting), and views of Mercer Lake from the grounds. Food and drinks are cash only. Seating is first-come, first-served. 5 to 8:30 p.m.

Farm Markets

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

Outdoor Action

Kayak Nature Tours, Mercer County Nature Programs, Mercer County Park Marina, West Windsor. www.mercercountyparks.org. Paddling and exploration during a naturalist-led kayak tour to encounter basking turtles, feeding songbirds, and carnivorous plants. Life vest, binoculars, and kayak rental fee included. Basic kayak instruction is provided.

For ages 16 and up. Register via CommunityPass. $35; $30 for Mercer County residents. 9:30 a.m. to noon.

Sports

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder.com. Lehigh Valley Ironpigs. $12. 7 p.m.

Friday July 2 Live Music Summer Wine & Music Series, Old York Cellars, 80 Old York Road, Ringoes. www.oldyorkcellars.com. Live music with Chris Giakas. Reservations required.

Food available for purchase.

Noon to 5 p.m.

Sips & Sounds, Terhune Or-

chards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music

by Jerry Steele, wines by the glass, and light fare. 5 to 8 p.m.

A Little Bit Off, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Bluegrass/folk. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Art

Fall in Love with Felt, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, Plainsboro. www.plainsborolibrary.org. Solo exhibition by Plainsboro resident Nellie Kouzmina on view through August 26 featuring wall and surface pieces, dress, and accessories such as scarves, hats, and necklaces all made from felt. 10 a.m.

On Stage

Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 8 p.m.

Fairs & Festivals

Independence Day Concert & Fireworks, Hamilton Township, Veterans Park, Kuser Road, Hamilton. www.hamiltonnj.com/fireworks. Concert by The Heartbeats followed by fireworks at 9:30 p.m.

Rain date July 3. 6 to 10 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Sports Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder.com. Lehigh Valley Ironpigs. $12. 7 p.m.

Saturday July 3 Jazz & Blues

and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 2 and 8 p.m.

Comedy

Wine & Comedy Night, Old York Cellars, 80 Old York Road, Ringoes. www.oldyorkcellars.com.

Comedy hosted by Helene Angley featuring Marion Grodin and Bob Marsdale. Reservations required. $25. Food available for purchase.

7 to 10 p.m.

Farm Markets

trade, take a close look at these animals before releasing them back to nature. Free. Register via CommunityPass. 2 p.m.

Socials

Shameless Name Dropping Tour, Princeton Tour Company, 116 Nassau Street. www.princetontourcompany.com. Scenic three-mile stroll to learn the chronological history of Princeton University while seeing all the essential sites on Princeton campus. Outside the gates, see the homes and hangouts of Albert Einstein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, TS Eliot, Woodrow Wilson, Grover CO Cleveland, Robert Wood JohnCONS NE O son, and more. Register. For nl all NT N W O ages. $35. 1 to 3 p.m. ny C1 OS RU EW

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The Royal History of New Jersey Monarchs

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rince Street is where I live. Princess Road is where I work. Princetoninfo is part of my email address. And the names — Kingston, Queenston, and Kings Highway — are all constant reminders that the region was once dominated by European royalty.

That was until, of course, a band of imperfect people decided in 1776 to eschew the “Divine Rights” of monarchs — especially that of England’s King George III — and took a gamble at creating a “more perfect union” through democracy.

And while George III is probably the best known ruler figuring into New Jersey’s history, he’s just one in a long succession of rulers — or multiple rulers — who held this region under their royal thumbs.

Pulling from my memory and my years working at the New Jersey State Museum — where I handled the press when the King of Sweden visited to commemorate the founding of New Sweden — and collecting bits of trivia, I’m offering the following royal view of New Jersey’s European monarchs — just in time for the Fourth of July weekend.

While English explorer John Cabot, sailing for England’s King Henry VII in 1497, could have been the first European to visit the region, Europeans got their first gawk at the future Garden State around 1524. That’s when Giovanni da Verrazzano was hired by France’s King Francis I to find a route to the Pacific Ocean and put the area on the map.

But that was pretty much window shopping. Colonization got its start 85 years later when in 1609 Henry Hudson, the British explorer working for the Dutch, claimed the land and called it New Netherlands.

Although a republic, the Netherlands would also involve royals and at the time, there was Maurice of Nassau, soon to be known as Prince of Nassau — a prominent family whose name shows up later. The river, now known as the Hudson River, was called the Mauritius River or the Mauritz River in the ruler’s honor.

The Dutch began colonizing the Hudson

Valley region, establishing a colony at Bergen in what is now known as north New Jersey. Peter Minuit, one the settlement’s most recognized figures, arrived in 1624 and is credited with purchasing Manhattan from the Lenapes.

Meanwhile, under the auspices of King Gustavus Adolphus, the New Sweden Company hired the same Peter Minuit to oversee its colonization of southern New Jersey. The time is the early 1630s.

When Adolphus died in 1636, Swedes and Finns continued to colonize under the reign of his daughter, Queen Christine — whose name can be found in sights along the Delaware River.

The Dutch saw the Swedish presence as a threat to security and trade. So in 1655 they sent a fleet south from New Amsterdam and took possession of New Sweden and control of the area now known as New Jersey.

Another European rival then got into the act. In the early 1660s, English ships sailed into what is now New York Harbor and offered New Amsterdam leaders an offer they couldn’t refuse: surrender or be blown up.

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The Dutch surrendered. But they later decided to fight back and started a series of back-and-forth battles until they finally surrendered all of New Amsterdam to England’s King Charles II. Charles II granted the captured Dutch colony — including New Jersey — to his brother, James, Duke of York — who later became King James II of England.

In 1664, James granted proprietorship over New Jersey to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret — both defenders of the royalty through England’s civil war — and New Jersey got its start as East and West Jersey — with the Jersey name coming from the island between England and France.

Between Charles II and the 1776 revolution, the English monarchy was firmly in command through the following rulers:

James II, 1685-1688, as noted, provided the original grant to colonize what would eventually become the state of New Jersey.

William and Mary — he from 1689 to 1702 and she from 1689 to 1694 — inherited the agreement and its ensuing colony-related problems, including disputes over property ownership, rights, and borders. However, the royals seemed to be spared from acrimony.

In fact, William’s broader leadership and respect of parliamentary rights gained him wide support, and colonists celebrated him by using his hereditary name — Prince of Orange and Nassau — to honor him by designating an area of New Jersey as the Oranges (and briefly naming New York City “New Orange”).

Anne, 1702 to 1714, consolidated East and West Jersey into New Jersey and ap-

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From above left, King Charles II by John Michael Wright or his studio; King James II by Peter Lely; King William III of England by Sir Godfrey Kneller; and Mary II, also by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

From above left, Queen Anne Michael Dahl; King George I by Sir Godfrey Kneller; King George II by Thomas Hudson; and King George III by Allan Ramsay. pointed the state’s first governor, Edward Hyde, aka Lord Cornbury. His legacy includes taking the first recorded royal bribe and thus establishing the state’s penchant for corruption. Anne’s royal court eventually had enough of Hyde, called him home in 1708, and placed the state under the jurisdiction of the governors of New York State, triggering lingering resentment in New Jersey.

George I (1714–1727) ruled over a growing state. In this region a growing number of houses, taverns, shops, and a Presbyterian Church formed the village of King’s Town, now Kingston, in 1723.

Princeton got its name around the same time. As noted in the 1879 “History of Princeton,” there is a very general belief among our citizens that Princeton has a flavor of royalty about its name that it was given in honor of William, Prince of Orange, a prince whose memory was cherished with affection by hosts of men, who had been subjects of oppression and persecution in Great Britain and on the Continent of Europe, not of a few of whom had taken refuge in this country and in this neighborhood.

“But it is more probably that this name is traceable to Kingston, a village a few miles east of Princeton. Kingston is probably an older village by name than Princeton; and the idea of royal affinities seems to have been kept alive in the people of the neighborhood, in designating the names of several adjoining places. For we have first Kingston — next Queenston — then Princeton, and the last Princessville, succeeding each other on the road from Kingston to Trenton. The first of these names, Kingston, was probably so called because it was situated on the road called the King’s Highway — the ancient road leading from New Brunswick to Trenton.” And the Lawrenceville section of Princessville providing the name for the street where I work.

Also during this time another familiar name appears. The small town of Inian’s Ferry (previously Prigmore’s Swamp) was changed to New Brunswick in honor of the king whose other title was the Duke of Brunswick. The name also became the moniker for a regional highway, Brunswick Pike.

The king’s connection to the House of Ha-

nover also appears in Trenton’s Hanover Street.

George II, (1727–1760), brought England’s war with France to the colonies with the French and Indian Wars, aka “George’s War.” Although the king made citizens happy by reinstating a New Jersey governor in 1738, his long war fostered resentment in the citizens and perhaps primed the spirit for revolt and revolution. It was also during his reign that the British built the Trenton barracks — a prominent reminder of England’s rule.

Another prominent building created under George II is Princeton University’s Nassau Hall. It was completed in 1756, a time when the colony was experiencing tensions between the Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Quakers. The building was originally to be named for Governor Jonathan Belcher, who declined the honor and convinced the college administrators to name it “for the glorious King William the Third of the illustrious House of Nassau,” a champion of religious and political liberty. Obviously, Princeton’s main street and the university’s colors connect to William III, aka Prince of Nassau and Orange.

And George III, (1760–1820), oversaw an era when taxation, lack of ability to manufacture products, and new ideas regarding liberty and human rights led a New Jersey delegation — including residents of Bordentown, Hopewell, and Princeton — to sign the Declaration of Independence and begin a bold new experiment in governing and closed the history of New Jersey monarchy.

So while the above accounts for the royal names for where I have a business and email address, who’s the prince of Prince Street in Bordentown? That name comes from Prince Murat, a French royal who moved to the town to be close to his uncle, Joseph Bonaparte — the former king of Spain who took the crown jewels and set himself up in Bordentown far away from the problems caused by monarchs and emperors.

So, despite European monarchs controlling New Jersey for centuries, Bonaparte and the prince who lived in a mansion at the end of my street are the ones who actually settled in New Jersey — where they lived like kings.

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Off the Presses: ‘Fears of a Setting Sun’

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While that statement may seem Rasmussen writes that Jefferson like a future historian’s account of and Madison’s hidden from Washtoday’s politics, it is an assessment ington plan to organize opposition of politics during the early light of to the Hamilton-led Federalist prothe United States and just one of the gram involved one of Madison’s social tensions that caused event former classmates at the College of those who hand crafted a new na- New Jersey (now Princeton Unition governed by democracy to versity), Phillip Freneau. worry its future, as Dennis Ras“Jefferson offered (the fiery mussen explores in his new Princ- journalist) a sinecure as a translator eton University press book, “Fears in the State Department, and they of a Setting Sun: The Disillusion- gently suggested that he might also ment of America’s Founders.” wish to start a national newspaper.

As Rasmussen writes it come as Jefferson and Madison rightly resomething of a surprise for Ameri- garded the leading period of the cans “to learn that the founders time, John Feeno’s Gazette of the themselves were, particularly by United States, as a staunchly prothe end of their lives, far less confi- Hamilton outlet – it received a sizdent in the merits of the political able chunk of its advertising directsystem that they had devised, and ly from the Treasury Department – that many of them in fact deemed it and they hoped to counter its efan utter failure that was unlikely to fects on public opinion with more last beyond their own generation.” critical commentary.

And while general missing from “Freneau launched the National scholarly studies and history Gazette in October 1791, and withbooks, there was “a pervasive pes- in a few months it emerged as a simism, a fear that their revolution- fawning admirer of Jefferson and ary experiment in republicanism vicious critic of Hamilton. Freneau was not workwas unrelenting ing out as they in his attack: evexpected,” a ery aspect of point found in Hamilton’s fithe later writnancial program ings of George was depicted as Wa s h i n g t o n , deliberate ploy Control Alt J for rule Alexander to fleece everyoptions Hamilton, John day Americans Adams, and and further enThomas Jefferrich greedy merson — each loschants, as well as ing faith at difa dangerous ferent times and power grab on for different behalf of the fedreasons. eral government that would ineviWashington became disillu- tably pave the road toward monarsioned above all because of the rise chy.” of partisan and partisanship poliSince his personal devotion to tics. the ideals of the American RevoluAs Rasmussen notes, the first tion and egalitarianism held the president and commander in chief country together during its early during the American Revolution’s days, Washington was disappoint“long-term disillusionment began ed. And late in life he wrote that “a to set in during the election year of party exists in the United States . . .

1792” when Jefferson and Madi- who oppose the government in all son began a campaign against its measures, and are determined Washington’s trusted advisor and (as all their conduct evinces) by Treasury Secretary Alexander clogging its wheels . . . to subvert Hamilton, breaking the nation into the Constitution” and one of his fi-

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Classical Music CoOPERAtive Master Class: Your Musical Toolbox, Westminster College of the Arts. www.rider.edu/arts. CoOPERAtive Program director Susan Ashbaker leads a virtual master class. 4 to 6 p.m.

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Bobby Davis, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Jazz/ rock/folk. 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Fabulous Benson Boys, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-371-6000. www. workingdogwinerynj.com. Free live music.

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nal letters, “I have, for sometime past, viewed the political concerns of the United States with an anxious, and painful eye. They appear to me, to be moving by hasty strides to some awful crisis; but in what they will result — that Being, who sees, foresees, and directs all things, alone can tell.”

Hamilton’s disappointment and fears stem from his belief in a strong federal government and that it would be impossible to maintain a regime of liberty without one.

As Rasmussen notes, Hamilton’s “ideological and partisan opponents were so suspicious of the exercise of political power, he believed, that they had blinded themselves to the need for stability and energy in order for liberty to endure. This was most obviously true on the international stage: If the decentralizing impulse were to prevail and the union were to break up into multiple competing confederacies, then they would be easy prey for the European monarchies. Even in the domestic sphere, however, Hamilton insisted that the federal government needed to be strong enough to ensure order and carry out its duties, precisely in order to protect liberty.”

Hamilton was also “deeply dis-

appointed in the Constitution as it emerged from the convention. He believed that the narrow interests of the small states and the widespread by unwarranted apprehension about centralized power had prevailed even within the group of (mostly) nationalist Federalists that had gathered in Philadelphia.”

Rasmussen adds, “It is easy enough to speculate about why Hamilton became such an uncompromising nationalist. First, he was born and spent his childhood in the West Indies. Given that he was well into his teen years by the time he immigrated to the United States, he lacked the strong sense of state loyalty that many native-born Americans almost instinctually felt. Just as importantly, Hamilton’s experience during the war — as a soldier, as Washington’s aide-de-camp, and eventually as filed commander — convinced him of the need for national unity and an effective cen-

On Stage

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Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 2 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-394-3300. www. trentonthunder.com. Lehigh Valley Ironpigs. $12. 6:30 p.m.

Monday July 5

Farm Markets

Hopewell Farmers Market, Fairgrown Farm, 62 East Broad Street, Hopewell. www.facebook.com/hopewellfarmersmarket. Fresh produce and vendors selling grass-fed beef, flowers, and more. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

History

Declaration of Independence Reading, The Allentown Village Initiative, Pete Sensi Park, Main Street, Allentown. www. allentownvinj.org. Open to all. Readers welcome; call 609-208-9991 to sign up. 9 a.m.

Reading of the Declaration of Independence, Princeton Battlefield Society, 500 Mercer Road, Princeton. www.pbs1777. org. Bring your family and friends for a memorable reading and explore the Battlefield on the nation’s birthday. Noon.

Fairs & Festivals Fireworks, Cranbury Township, Village Park, Cranbury. www.lawrencetwp.com/ events/10910/. Bring a picnic dinner and enjoy music by the Mercer County Symphonic Band. Fireworks begin at dusk. No alcohol permitted in park. Rain date July 6.

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Community Reading: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. Community members read an amended version of Frederick Douglass’ influential speech, given on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, to the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society. Via Zoom. Not In Our Town board members Joyce Trotman-Jordan and Caro-

tral power.

“Still further, Hamilton’s predominant character trait was an allconsuming sense of ambition, which he felt on behalf of the nation as well as himself. His foremost dream for the new United States was that it would eventually achieve the kind of international prominence, military might, and economic prosperity that he knew embodied in all great European monarchies, particularly Britain.

He yearned for America, no less than himself, to one day play a brilliant part on the world stage.”

John Adams’ concern was connected to his belief that the American people lacked the requisite civic virtue for republican government.

Even in the midst of the Revolution, Adams harbored some rather serious misgivings about the virtue of his fellow citizen, notes Rasmussen. “His appraisal of their character seemed to change from

line Clarke give a presentation about the speech following the reading. Register.

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Tuesday July 6 Classical Music CoOPERAtive Master Class: Warren Jones, Westminster College of the Arts. www.rider.edu/arts. Musical America’s Collaborative Pianist of the Year leads two master classes with CoOPERAtive participants. View online.

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On Stage

Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 7:30 p.m.

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day to day — sometimes from paragraph to paragraph. At times it seemed to him that American people possessed every admirable character trait and they were destined to have the brightest future of any nation in history, while at others he felt sure that they were was selfish and corrupt as all prior peoples had been and their feeble attempt at self-government would soon meet with the usual swift demise. As early as January 1776, after telling Mary Otis Warren that it was almost axiomatic that in a republic “the people must be wise virtuous and cannot be otherwise,” Adams immediately went onto cast doubt on that axiom: “But Madam there is one difficulty, which I know not how to get over. Virtue and simplicity of manners, as indispensably necessary in a republic, among all orders and degrees of men. But there is so much rascality, so much venality and corruption, so much avarice and ambition, such a rage for profit and commerce among all the ranks and degrees of men, even in America, that I sometimes doubt where there is public virtue enough to support a Republic.”

In another letter, he notes, “Our dear Americans perhaps have as much (public spirit) as any national now existing, and New England perhaps has more than the rest of America. But I have seen all along my life, such selfishness, and littleness even in New England, that I sometime tremble to think that, altho we are engaged in the best cause that ever employed the human heart, yet the prospect of success is doubtful not for want of power or of wisdom, but of virtue.”

He was also concerned by his fellow citizens’ willingness to participate in the excessive aggrandizing of American leaders. While noting that Washington’s character was “the greatest our country ever produced, he lamented that “the feasts and funerals in honor of Washington Hamilton and (Fisher) Ames are more hypocritical pageantry to keep in credit, banks funding systems and other aristocratical speculation. It is as corrupt a system as that by which saints were canonized and cardinals, popes, and whole hierarchical systems created.”

Although he was wary of a central banking and industrialization, Jefferson’s main concerns grew from social and personal reckoning with slavery. the nation sectioning over the spread of slavery.

As Rasummens notes, “For all that accomplished in terms of cre-

ating a new nation based on liberal principals and proving that republican government could work on a large scale, the American founding was marred by not just one but two original sins: the widespread presence of black chattel slavery and the persistent betrayals and occasional slaughter of various American Indian tribes.”

While Jefferson had been satisfied with a nation where the state rights were strong and the federal government was weak. his beliefs were challenged by a development by the application of a new state, Missouri.

“In 1819 the country was evenly split between 11 free states and 11 slave states, so a great deal appeared to hang in the balance when Missouri applied to Congress for statehood. In February of that year James Tallmadge, a New York Republican, proposed an amendment to the Missouri statehood bill that would have prohibited the further importation of enslaved people into the state and imposed a system of gradual emancipation on the slaveholders who currently resided there. Southerners exploded with indignation: the (white ) majority in Missouri had approved a constitution that permitted slavery, and proslavery members of Congress contended that the Tallmadge amendment would effectively deprive the state of its constitutionality guaranteed equality by allowing the federal government to overrule its decision. Northerners responded that the Constitution authorized Congress to regulate the slave trade after 1808 and to ‘make all needful Rules an regulations’ regarding the territories – not to mention that admitting Missouri as a slave state would give the South an advantage in the Senate at a time when it already enjoyed outsized influence in the House of Representatives and the electoral college thanks to the three-fifths clause.”

A slaveholder, southerner, and

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Wednesday July 7 Classical Music CoOPERAtive Master Class: Warren Jones, Westminster College of the Arts. www.rider.edu/arts. Musical America’s Collaborative Pianist of the Year leads two master classes with CoOPERAtive participants. View online.

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Is There Still Sex in the City?, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. A world premiere starring and written by Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City” and staged by

defender of state rights, Jefferson “lined himself up squarely behind the most extreme southern position of the right ‘to regulate the condition of the different descriptions of men composing a state’ belong exclusive to the state in question; Congress held no constitutional authority to dictate that a state — even a territory that was soon to become a state — must eliminate slavery.”

As Rasmussen reports, Jefferson had come to see slavery as a multiple of evils: “A great economic evil, insofar, as it crippled industry and promoted indolence; a great social evil, insofar as it both degraded the enslaved and gave

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slaveholders and their children a taste for tyranny; a great political evil, insofar as it undermined the love of liberty that I so essential in a republican citizenry; and a great moral evil, insofar, as it was an obvious violation of enslaved people’s inalienable rights. ‘Indeed,’ Jefferson declare, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.’ He even envisioned the almighty turning the ‘wheel of fortune’ so that one day it would be white people who were enslaved by black people , as retribution for their slaveholders’ manifold sins against humanity.”

Referring the Missouri situation a death knell, Jefferson in a way presaged the Civil war by noting that “a geographical line, coincid-

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BCP Artistic Associate Lorin Latarro. $45 and up. 2 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Bike Nature Tours, Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer Meadows, Pole Farm parking lot. www.mercercountyparks. org. Experience the rolling hills and forested areas of Mercer Meadows while gliding along on two wheels during this naturalistguided tour. Bring your own bike or rent one for an additional fee. Register via CommunityPass. $15; $10 for Mercer County residents. 9 to 11 a.m.

Watson Woods Walking Club, Mercer County Nature Programs, Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Avenue, Hamilton. www.mercercountyparks.org. Easy mile-long walk with to explore Spring Lake and other trails of Roebling Park. Free.

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ing with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper”. Jefferson concluded (a) letter with an unforgettable expression of regret: “I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves, by the generation of ’76, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be that I live not to weep over it.”

Adams also struggled with Missouri’s application to join the union for similar reasons and in a letter to his daughter said, “The Missouri question . . .hangs like a cloud over my imagination . . . I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is like to produce in this country … You would think me mad if I were to describe my anticipations. If the gangrene is not stopped I can see nothing but insurrections of the blacks against the whites and massacres by the whites in their turn of the blacks … until at last the whites exasperated to madness shall be wicked enough to exterminate the negroes.

To another correspondent, Adams said that Missouri admittance would “stamp our National character and lay a foundation for Calamities, if not disunion.”

As the historian and professor of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs writes, these individuals who participated and generated political upheavals lived in an eras that saw violent changes: “the king of France, guil-

lotined; the king of Sweden, shot; the czar of Russia, strangled in his bed. The crowned heads of England Portugal had lost their reason; the rule of the Sicilies had lost his throne. Republics had fared no better — Venice, Switzerland, the Low Countries, all subverted or subdued.”

And the United States, the largest democratic experiment in history, “enjoyed no automatic immunity from such a fate” — and still doesn’t, as recent U.S. events have demonstrated.

Far from despondent, Rasmussen ends the book by focusing on the more sanguine James Madison, who fought in the Revolution (and was wounded in the Battle of Trenton), a major contributor to the U.S. Constitution, and fourth U.S. president, James Madison.

“Madison announced in March 1836 that, however many ills the nation may face and however uncertain the future may be, “I am far … from desponding, of the great political experiment in the hands of the American people.”

A statement that touches on the book’s title and Benjamin Franklin calling attention to the sun on horizon design on the back of a chair used during the Constitutional Convention and rhetorically asking if it were rising or setting – and deciding on the former.

Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Funders, Dennis C. Rasmussen, 280 pages, $29.95, Princeton University Press.

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Off The Presses: The Empathy Advantage

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he deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and far too many others can be our impetus as parents, caregivers, and educators to work toward a future of racial acceptance, diversity appreciation, and equal protection under the law,” writes Lynne Azarchi at the start of her book “The Empathy Advantage.”

After quickly adding that eliminating bias, discrimination, and hate is hard work for individuals, families, and communities, she states that “it is the existential work necessary for our nation if we are to increase kindness and respect and achieve greater social justice and equality.”

The statements -- written at a time when Azarchi says, “COVID-19 and many African Americans’ deaths wee drastically changing our world in ways that we could never have been imagined” -- were nothing new for the author who is known in the central New Jersey region as the executor director of Kidsbridge Museum.

Its mission “is to educate and empower children and youth through social-emotional learning, diversity appreciation lessons and bullying prevention skills training.

The purpose is to create empathetic individuals and caring citizens who live their lives without prejudice or discrimination and who are positive advocates for themselves and others.”

Background material for the 20-year-old Ewing-based organization – the only youth oriented museum of its kind in the nation and attracting 2500 students and 300 educators annually materials – says uses ‘evidence-based’ programs to address the myriad forms of bullying, bias, prejudice, and discrimination, to help promote empathy and respect for others and self.

Azarchi’s book continues the theme but starts on a dark note by saying, “Empathy is lacking in the world. Tolerance for those who are different is more absent than ever.

But in these pages, I can help parents make this world change the better, one child a time.”

With the belief that empathy’s promotes an advantage, one that “helps us transform ‘otherness’ into inclusiveness” and “creates better relationships, closer friendships, and stronger communities,” Azarchi divides her 312-page book into 24 empathy themed chapters that emphasize evidence-based lessons to help parents and educators to join the effort.

Arguing that empathy can be taught, Azarchi also fixes it as an essential in the early chapter “The Science of Biology and Empathy” and notes: “Researches have witnessed the presence of empathy in animals and discovered there’s a science behind the curtain of nature. Since humans are, in fact, animals, it stands to reason that other animals can be our gateway to truly understanding the hows and whys of em-

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pathy. From that starting point, this chapter explores what anthropologists have learned from studying our earliest evolutionary ancestors.

Then it introduces a more traditional splash of science, things that can be seen and measured – in this case, the electrical signals traveling our body’s neurological circuitry. I conclude with what scientists have learned from studying human behavior.”

The chapter then focuses on primates and other animals to show how empathy is a natural force that provides safety and support for the species and brings up an intriguing exception: “According to the latest neuroscience research, 98 percent of people have the ability to empathize: the capacity to step into the shoes of others and understand their feelings and perspectives.

What about the other two percent?

The exceptions to the rule are those with psychotic or psychopathic tendencies. Simon Baron-Cohen, a professor at Cambridge University and a renowned neuropsychologist (and a cousin of Sacha Baron Cohen, a comedic actor and fellow primate) has studied and researched psychopath and sociopaths. He defines them with the very works of his book title: “Zero Degrees of Empathy.’ He lists narcissistic, borderline, and psychopathic person-

alities as people lacking ‘affective empathy,’ meaning their ability to self-regulate how they treat others is significantly compromised.”

While Azarchi offers interesting cases and information throughout, the self-proclaimed empathy girl’s personal story recounts a prejudice that strongly affected the region.

Here, the daughter of a sometime real estate agent and sometime auto mechanic says, “No one wants to be the ‘other.’ No one wants to be the outsider or be made to feel small. Yet it happens to everyone at one stage of life or another. It took a while for me to suffer that first awful experience. I had a wonderful childhood in Trenton, with loving parents and terrific friends.

Money was tight. Almost everyone who grew up in Trenton in the 1960s was fairly poor, so having no money meant you were just like everyone else. There was no reason to feel envy.

“Yet I did eventually come to know the occasional pain of being the ‘other.’As a Jewish kid growing up in a small, largely Italian-Catholic community the in the city’s Chambersburg section, I remember visiting a friend’s house when I was in ninth grade and accidentally overhearing my friends’ parents chatting in the kitchen. Out of nowhere, I heard the remark: “Well, you know the Jews killed Christ.’

I’d never been exposed to that thinking before. It was a shock that these adults, whom I valued and respected, thought Jewish people were responsible for killing their Lord. I instantly felt like a bit of an outsider in my friend’s home. From then on, I was on alert for remarks wherever I went in the supermarket, at the movies, in restaurants. It was disheartening – a wakeup call.

My family moved across the river to a town in Pennsylvania during the 1968 race griots. It too was a warm, wonderful place. But those around us had more money, so my identity was the ‘city girl,’ out of place, who couldn’t quite fit in the suburbs. Life was good, but that feeling of ‘otherness’ lurked in the background, always hanging over me.”

Written with former Times of Trenton writer Larry Hanover, the book is an easy to read mix of textbook, self-help, and lessons learned shared in antidotes and reports on studies – the latter supported by a 13 page bibliography.

There are also 30 pages containing online resources for each chapter topic – suggesting that the book

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will be updated to meet changing social attitudes and events.

Reiterating her stance that empathy can be enhanced through education and related experiences – such as getting to know about people from other cultures and races – Azarchi says, “It largely comes down to the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.” By understanding someone else’s feelings, you find yourself able to treat others the way you would like to be treated. The Golden Rule, in short, is ‘Be empathetic! And be kind and respectful!” While there are many other important social-emotional skills, I find empathy to be the most important: the foundation and the first building block for other skills.”

The Empathy Advantage, 312 pages, $30, Rowman & Littlefield.

The Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum is located at 999 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing. 609-771-0300. For more information, call 609-7710300 or go to kidsbridgemuseum. org.

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Sonia Delgado Appointed as Chair-Elect of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Board of Trustees Sonia Delgado has been elected to become the next chair of the board of trustees of the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

Delgado, a partner at Princeton Public Affairs Group who was raised in Trenton and lives in Lambertville, will assume leadership of the Board in December at the end of the term of the current board chair, Anthony “Skip” Cimino.

“Sonia is a tremendous leader,” said Cimino. “She will bring her incredible knowledge of the community and her passion for service to the position. As the Community Foundation enters a new era as a result of the pandemic, the board of trustees has selected an experienced, well-thought-of trustee, who is the right leader for the right time.”

Over the next six months Delgado, Cimino, and Jeffrey M. Vega, Community Foundation president & CEO, will work together closely to transition leadership.

“I’m honored to have the chance to build on the work of our previous leaders,” said Delgado. “We have a lot of wonderful things to aspire to in the next three years, and I’m really thankful for the opportunity.”

Since its founding 30 years ago, the Princeton Area Community Foundation has used the power of philanthropy to make a difference

Edited by Sara Hastings in the region. A local philanthropy expert, the foundation connects donors with causes they care about and provides grants and educational opportunities to nonprofits that serve the community.

At its June meeting, the PRCF board of trustees voted unanimously to select Delgado as the next leader of the board. She served as a trustee from 2011 to 2016, and then returned when she was appointed as a trustee at the December board meeting. This year, she has served as chair of the COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund Grants Evaluation Team as well as chair of the Committee on Impact, which provides oversight of the foundation’s responsive and strategic grantmaking programs.

Over the past year, the board’s governance committee followed best practices to identify the next board chair. Several candidates were considered and interviewed, based on the strategic needs of the organization and the community.

The recommendation to appoint Delgado was brought to the board six months before the end of Cimino’s term to allow for a seamless transition.

“Sonia is a leader for the transformational time the Community Foundation is facing, and she’s a very important thought partner for our CEO, Jeff Vega,” said Jamie Kyte Sapoch, the governance committee chair. “She will be a terrific leader, filling the big shoes that Skip will leave. It was our honor to

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make the recommendation to the board.”

Delgado is an expert in health policy, business development, and strategic planning, with more than two decades of experience in analysis and management of legislative and regulatory issues in healthcare, public sector, and corporate settings.

Last year, she was named to the Insider 100 Policymakers list. She has also received the NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business Award and the Women’s Political Caucus Woman of Achievement Award.

A member of the Board of Latinas United for Political Empowerment Political Action Committee (LUPE PAC), she also previously served on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Jersey Initiatives Advisory Committee and the boards of Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare and Oaks Integrated Care.

American Repertory Ballet Names International Ballet Star Gillian Murphy As Its First Artistic Associate American Repertory Ballet welcomes iconic ballerina Gillian Murphy to be the organization’s first-ever Artistic Associate, effective immediately.

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tor Julie Diana Hench. “She is such an inspiration, with her unparalleled gifts, unique artistry, breadth of experience, and generous nature. Her involvement will be a tremendous opportunity for our professional Company dancers and Princeton Ballet School students, as they’ll be able to learn firsthand from this extraordinary artist.” Ms. Murphy’s appointment is made possible by Lewis and Genevieve Geyser.

A principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT), Gillian Murphy’s repertoire includes leading roles in all of ABT’s current full-length classics and in shorter works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Jiri Kylian, Antony Tudor, William Forsythe, Martha Graham, Lar Lubovitch, Paul Taylor, Frederick Ashton, and Agnes de Mille.

Murphy was raised in Florence, South Carolina and received her high school education and advanced dance training under the tutelage of Melissa Hayden at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. As a teenager, she was awarded the Prix de Lausanne Espoir, and she joined American Ballet Theatre in 1996. After being honored with a Princess Grace Foundation Award, Murphy was promoted to soloist in 1999 and to principal dancer in 2002.

She starred as Odette/Odile in ABT’s PBS television production of “Swan Lake” and as Giselle in the New Zealand Film Commission’s movie of Stiefel and Kobborg production of “Giselle” at the Royal New Zealand Ballet, where

she was a principal guest artist for three years.

Murphy has also appeared onstage in world premieres of new creations by Alexei Ratmansky, Mark Morris, Benjamin Millepied, Michelle Dorrance, Jorma Elo, Marcelo Gomes, James Whiteside, Azure Barton, Peter Quanz, Natalie Weir, John Neumeier, Robert Hill, Christopher Wheeldon, Ethan Stiefel, and Twyla Tharp. She has danced as a guest artist throughout the world, performing with the Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, Kiev Ballet, Australian Ballet, as a ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera, and in numerous other international engagements and galas. She is a proud charter member of the concert ensemble, Stiefel and Stars, and for three summers in Martha’s Vineyard, Murphy directed a training program for dancers aged 12 to 14, Dreamcatchers. More recently, she has taught ballet masterclasses in Tokyo, Indianapolis, WinstonSalem, and San Diego as well as classes in New York City for Dance Theatre of Harlem, ABT’s Studio Company, and dancers of the Metropolitan Opera. In 2009, Ms. Murphy was the recipient of a Princess Grace Statue Award, the organization’s highest honor. In 2014, she received an honorary doctorate in the performing arts from UNCSA. In 2018, Murphy graduated summa cum laude from St. Mary’s College of California with a bachelor of arts. In 2019, she successfully completed the Harvard Business School’s “Crossover into Business” program for professional athletes.

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