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reetings Artworks Community. I thank you for doing your part to keep yourselves and others safe during this time of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic is still very much upon us, but we have made progress towards containing the coronavirus and can begin to look towards a time of reopening and return to some semblance of normalcy. Artworks staff has already begun planning how we can return to physical exhibits and programming when it is again safe and sanctioned by the City of Trenton and State of New Jersey to do so. In the meantime, your creative spirit continues to help all of our community in these isolating times.

After much deliberation and soul-searching, Artworks has made the decision that Art All Night, our iconic arts festival which was postponed until the weekend of August 15-16 because of the coronavirus

Art All Night, traditionally held at Roebling Wire Works, will be a virtual event this August. pandemic, will now become fully virtual. As uncertainty continues over when and how New Jersey will recover from COVID-19, the likelihood of holding a festival in August, in Trenton, with thousands of attendees, seemed increasingly remote. We realized it was prudent to make other plans, and the more we explored the idea of a virtual event, the more we realized how Continued on page 4

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crease in those deaths examined by Case and Deaton as well as additional deaths in black communities — which has a higher percentage of deaths per population than the white community.

Seeing these additional despairrelated deaths as an “epidemic within the pandemic,” the report focuses on three contributing factors.

One is unemployment. “There is a relatively large body of literature examining the association between unemployment and all-cause mortality, as well as specific types of lthough Princeton profes- deaths. Work focused on suicides is sors emeritus Anne Case and Ag- the most established, showing that nus Deaton’s book “Death of De- a one point increase in unemployspairs” was released only in March, ment rates increases suicide rates its appearance at the outbreak of by about 1 to 1.3 percent. This imnational health crisis has made its pact is shown to vary substantially name and message a part of a na- with lower rates in countries with protective labor market policies. tional discusAnother study sion on the fuestimates that in ture of physical The uncertainty of the Great Recesand mental both the shortand sion a one point health. increase in unlong-term impact of The name is employment inused by the two the virus can have a creased suicides authors to de“serious impact on by 1.6 percent.” scribe the curHowever, the emergence and rent phenomecurrently unemnon of the rise of worsening of mental ployment relatmiddle-aged illness. ed to the coronawhite American virus “is unlike who died beanything seen cause of suicide, since the Great Depression of the substance abuse, and overdoses. last century.

From March 15 to The impetus for the behavior is April 30, 2020, 30 million individrelated to a changing economy, opioid use, an expensive health- uals have applied for jobless benecare system, and collapsed social fits; almost one-fifth of the workforce. This is comparable to what institutions.

But now, according a recent re- occurred after natural disasters such as in New Orleans after hurriport, COVID-19 can be added.

Released in early May, 2020, by cane Katrina. What happened to the Well Being Trust, a national one city is happening to the globe.”

Another factor contributing to foundation dedicated to advancing despair and death is isolation. Callmental and social health, the 23-page “Projected Deaths of Despair From COVID-19” sees an inContinued on following page

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Painter Thomas Kelly had the following to say about with work in progress, “House of Cards.”

I usually paint about 20-25 canvases a year. I am right on schedule with six painted during quarantine, but maybe a little more focused.

There are less distractions now.

There is nowhere to go but the studio.

I really haven’t changed what I paint during this pandemic. My process is longer. My method is to make a list and think about the painting until I can see it done in

my mind. Then I paint it and move on to the next. So I am just following my list. This keeps me focused.

The list takes the painter’s block out of the equation and leaves no excuses. I work on one piece at a time. I finish every painting I begin, keeping at it until I am happy.

During this quarantine time I am adding a “Q” to the painting signatures. I wish to document the work done under these circumstances. I want to remember. These are crazy times. The artists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers are front and

center now. With no sports or travel, people are appreciating the arts and culture more. During this pandemic, artists are doing a small part to help keep people sane and entertained. We hope it is ending soon, but it is a good time to paint.

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ing it both social isolation and physical distancing, the report says it leads to a loss of social connection and cohesion. It adds that the “pandemic has created the greatest forced isolation in our modern history.”

Then the uncertainty of both the short- and long-term impact of the virus on the nation can have a “serious impact on the emergence and worsening of mental illness. This is a novel virus with new and unanticipated results. Every day scientists shed light on new aspects and retract initial ideas and hypotheses.

These are unprecedented times, and uncertainty may lead to fear which may give way to dread.”

To fully address the issues that surround deaths of despair, the report argues for national policy solutions that are “comprehensive and attempt to tackle the social, economic, and health related factors all at once. This begins with a recognition of the complex interplay between employment status and our overall health and well-being. With the profound uncertainty surrounding our economy from COVID-19, it is not clear the full

extent unemployment may have on our nation as well as other nations.

This brief is not intended to offer up all the solutions to each of these complex problems, but rather draw attention to them so our government, at every level, can begin to realize the connections.”

For more on “Projected Deaths of Despair From COVID-19,” visit wellbeingtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/WBT_Deaths-ofDespair_COVID-19-FINAL-FINAL.pdf.

— Dan Aubrey

Business Meetings Wednesday June 3

Business UnUsual Webinar Series, BioNJ. www.bionj.org. “The Value of Medical Innovation in the Age of COVID-19” featuring Susan Peschin of Alliance for Aging Research, William S. Smith of the Pioneer Institute, and Terry Wilcox of Patients Rising. Register.

Free. 10 to 11 a.m.

Personal Cybersecurity During COVID-19, Rue Insurance. www. rueinsurance.com/cyber. Sabella Sparano, private client services, and Eddy Scanlan, market analyst, present a webinar on cyber risks, how COVID-19 may have increased those risks, actions you can take to reduce risks, and free

tools to see if your information has been included in data breaches.

Register. Free. 1 to 2 p.m.

Thursday June 4

Understanding Programs & Eligibility for NJEDA’s $50M in New Funding, New Jersey Small Business Development Center at The College of New Jersey. www.sbdcnj.com. Webinar featuring Christina Fuentes, NJEDA Director of Small Business Services, who explains changes to the Small Business Emergency Assistance Grant Program. Register via EventBrite.

Free. 10 a.m.

Executive Presence: How to Stand Out in a Virtual Workplace, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.princetonmercerchamber. org. Eleanor Lyons of Human Edge Resources, LLC, offers tips for projecting a persona that lets other people know you are in charge, confident, and capable of leading others. Register for Webinar. $15. 1 to 2 p.m.

Friday June 5

COVID-19 Rapid Fire Research Showcase, Bio NJ. www.bionj. org. Presentations by 10 companies working on COVID-19 research, plus remarks by Phyllis Arthur of BIO, who will discuss the industry’s response to the pan-

demic. Register. $95, $55 members. 9 a.m.

JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County. www.psgofmercercounty.org.

George Pace offers insights into the future of work, discussing the major players and sharing recommendations for top skills that may be needed. Register. 9:45 a.m. to noon.

Saturday June 6

How to Succeed in Franchising, Princeton SCORE. princeton. score.org. Jack Armstrong, owner of Frannet of New Jersey for the last 25 years, offers a webinar workshop on franchising. Register. Free. 10 a.m. to noon.

Tuesday June 9

JobSeekers. sites.google.com/ site/njjobseekers. Virtual meeting for those seeking employment.

Visit website for GoTo Meeting link. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday June 10

The Power of Storytelling, Ellevate Network. www.ellevatenetwork.com. Entrepreneur, presentation coach, and start-up advisor Heather Thomas gives a live webinar about the power of storytelling. Thomas is a managing partner at Ovid, a 25-year-old presentation coaching company, and founder of Winsome Consulting, a

Heather Thomas gives a webinar on the power of storytelling for the Ellevate Network on Wednesday, June 10. growth advisory firm. She graduated from Princeton University in 1994. Register. Free. Noon.

How Powerful Is Your Digital Presence?, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. Suzanne Stingo discusses messaging, profiles, and metrics for business and personal social media accounts.

Register. Free. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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exciting the possibilities were.

I know many of you will be extremely disappointed by this news, as there is really nothing which can compare to the wonderful in-person experience of Art All Night. I would like to invite you to join us as we embark on this new chapter for Art All Night. Just as each and every one of you is what collectively makes Art All Night such a wonderful event, your participation in this new virtual adventure is sure to ensure that it becomes a memorable success.

We believe that just about everything that you artists and attendees know and love about Art All Night — the huge variety of art on display, live music, live demonstrations, our film festival, children’s activities, master classes and talks — we will be able to present online for anyone and everyone to participate in and enjoy safely on August 15 and 16. Even more exciting is we will be able to provide the Art All Night experience not just to those who can travel to Trenton, but to anyone tuning in from across the country or around the world.

As we have continued to support artists since the COVID-19 lockdown began, we are particularly excited to be able to support artists and musicians through a virtual Art All Night, putting money in their pockets at this precarious time.

Your generosity helps us to do so, so please consider a donation to Artworks to help us produce a virtual Art All Night. Any amount is welcome.

Stay tuned for instructions on submitting artwork online to Art All Night, as well as submissions by music performers, filmmakers, and other participants. Follow Art All Night Trenton on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and check in regularly at the Art All Night Trenton website, artallnighttrenton.org, in order to receive timely updates on the new registration processes.

Thank you all for your strength and support. We’re excited to be able present a virtual Art All Night to you, enabling us all to connect and interact happily and safely as we celebrate our large, diverse, and creative community in these difficult times.

Lauren Otis Executive Director, Artworks

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Going Viral – A Report from the COVIDS

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ast year was an extraordinary year, one for the history books, a year in which we coronas were finally able to leave the nest and spread our wings, perhaps a strange metaphor for a snippet of RNA, but there it is.

For so long — how many millions of generations? — we have been confined to the bat population, and not only that, confined to this small area in what the Homo Sapiens (HS) call China. True we did have a choice of bat species — long-eared, horseshoe, or shorteared — but it was still very restricting. We were always on the lookout for the big breakout when we could grow and expand our small territory.

We, meaning the coronas in general, did have a minor breakout in 2002, and true, it did give HS quite a start, spreading quickly worldwide, but it fizzled out after a couple of years. It lacked the all-important transmission factor and, perhaps, a tad too lethal. Then, a decade later, there was the awesome MERS outbreak, not from bats though, but from camels. Unfortunately it was also a bit too powerful for its own good and died a natural death, in the sense that it killed off too ma-

ny of the HS carriers.

It’s also true that we viruses have had great successes in the past with the common cold rhinovirus, which has done well over the years, and of course HIV, which looks like a winner as it has piggy-backed on the earlier successes of HPV and herpes, using the irrepressible sexual activities of HS to their advantage. Precautions or no, those little guys are going to be around forever. And of course, we have a star in rabies, in spite of the efforts of the UK to keep it at bay.

Another global winner for centuries was smallpox, but in the end it was too smart and prolific for its own good, and HS finally got wise to it and wiped it off the face of the earth. There’s always a slight hope, a small chance that HS might revive it as a weapon!

But, we digress, we are now into many months of our new-found freedom. In retrospect, it was a short leap-frog, first to the pangolins, and from there to the omnivorous Chinese. Voila, the leap for SARS-covid-2 to HS was finally accomplished; the road to freedom and worldwide transmission was within our reach.

The genetic trick, which we learned by much trial and error,

was to lie low for a week or so in the HS host, and not to be too ostentatious, not to get too prolific; that way we could go undetected until we were able to spread farther afield, and since we have developed a transmission factor with a

We can look forward to a great future, one for the records; a triumph of simple, mindless, encapsulated RNA over the world of complex, ‘intelligent,’ antibodyprotected DNA. We coronas should be proud. But let’s not be complacent. comfortably high margin, we were able to migrate almost undetected.

Sometimes, you get lucky, and this time round we hit the jackpot — a perfect storm, if you will. It was the moment in the history of HS when multitudes were travelling long distances. When we first

escaped, it was the Chinese New Year and a billion HSs were on the move. We were easily able to migrate from our long-established base in Wuhan across vast, unimaginable distances in only a few weeks. Coupled with the love of international travel that the Chinese have developed in recent years, and their culture of reticence, we were able to migrate through HS worldwide in a month or two, an impressive result in corona history, by all accounts. We had a few setbacks when some countries got wise to us, particularly those that had suffered from the earlier SARS and other outbreaks, and others where governments acted quickly to control movement of the population, but, on the whole it has been a great success, and there are few parts of the globe where we haven’t had an impact.

Just as the old days in the bat colonies, where bat-to-bat transmission is a breeze under the cramped and congested living quarters, so it is with HS. We are flourishing in the cities where HS is confined in bat-like colonies, and in impoverished areas where they are clumped together in a small space. Fortunately for us COVIDs, we were able to quickly get a toe-

hold (so to speak) in New York City, New Orleans, and Detroit, and other places where poverty and close proximity overlap. Just imagine what promising times await us in Mumbai, Nairobi, and the favelas of Rio. We can look forward to a great future, one for the records; a triumph of simple, mindless, encapsulated RNA over the world of complex, “intelligent,” antibodyprotected DNA. We coronas should be proud. But let’s not be complacent. HS has been there before and is slowly assembling an arsenal of counter-attacks. They know about UV, IR, soap and surfactants, oxidants and quaternary ammoniums, and who knows what else they will come up with. Of course, we have the numbers and the territory, but, it’s a dangerous and threatening world out there. You can’t be too careful. The future of SARS-Cov-2 is at stake.

Maurice Harding is a retired research chemist living in Princeton.

Born in England, he completed post-doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University and returned to the United States for a stint at Union Camp followed by 25 years at FMC.

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VIRTUAL EVENTS, JUNE 3 TO 10 Event Listings: E-mail events@princetoninfo.com All of the events listed below are taking place virtually unless noted otherwise. Visit venue websites for information about how to access the events. To include your event in this section email events@princetoninfo.com.

Wednesday June 3 In Person Blood Drive, American Red Cross, Carl Fields Center, 58 Prospect Avenue, Princeton University. community.princeton.edu.

By appointment only. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Kids Stuff

Meet the Animals, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Join Watershed Educator Samantha Bernstein as she feeds some of the resident animals in the Discovery Hall in the Watershed Center. Free on www. facebook.com/theH2Oshed. 11 a.m.

Lectures

Shrink Your Footprint: On Your Plate, Sustainable Princeton. www.sustainableprinceton.org.

Webinar to learn about the changes you can make in your diet to reduce emissions and support a globally sustainable food system.

The panel of experts will include Anu Ramaswami, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton, and will be moderated by Steve Averbuch of Sustainable Princeton’s board of trustees. Free. Register at bit.ly/ June3_OnYourPlate. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Thursday June 4 In Person 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.

Film

Hollywood Streaming Nights, Princeton Garden Theater. www.princetongardentheatre.org.

Hollywood Summer Nights are now Hollywood Streaming Nights.

Join the YouTube live stream to chat with others during “Scarlet Street,” a film noir directed by Fritz Lang. Available for free streaming through June 11. 7:30 p.m.

Literati

Library Live at Labyrinth, Princeton Public Library & Labyrinth Books. www.labyrinthbooks.com.

Jesse Wegman, a member of the New York Times editorial board, discusses his book, “Let the People Pick the President: the Case for Abolishing the Electoral College,” with Julian Zelizer, professor of history at Princeton and the author of 19 books on American political history. Register. 6 p.m.

Library Live at Labyrinth, Princeton Public Library & Labyrinth Books. www.labyrinthbooks.com.

Martha McPhee, author of “An Elegant Woman,” engages in conversation about her latest book with her sister, Jenny McPhee.

Her new novel is a story of discovery and reinvention, following four generations of women in one American family. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Food & Dining

Food Preservation, The Suppers Programs. www.thesuppersprorgams.org. Kim Rizk of Jammin’

Crepes teaches how to preserve the produce grown in area farms and gardens. Register. Free. Donation requested. 4 to 5 p.m.

Virtual Wine Tasting, Old York Cellars, Ringoes. www.oldyorkcellars.com. Sommelier and general manager Laurin Dorman leads a tasting via Facebook Live featuring the winery’s June package which includes chardonnay, merlot, and raspberry blush. $62 for the package; order online. 6 p.m.

Gardens

Thursday Night Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, Pennsylvania. www. bhwp.org. Series of guest lectures via Zoom. Jessica Schmit, research assistant at the Winous Point Marsh Conservancy in northwestern Ohio, speaks on wetland ecosystems. Register. $12. 7 to 8 p.m.

Lectures

Fascism: What Was It, and Are We In Danger of it Once Again?, 55-Plus Club of Princeton. www. princeton.com/groups/55plus.

Meeting and presentation via Zoom by David A. Bell, history professor at Princeton University.

Free. 10 a.m.

Behind the Iconic Images in Life Magazine, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Join contributors to the exhibition catalogue “Life Magazine and the Power of Photography” as they discuss some of the magazine’s most recognizable, beloved, and controversial pictures. Zoom link available online.

5:30 p.m.

The 27th Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition is on view online. Pictured: ‘Salt Hollow’ by Michael Ast, whose images were named Best Body of Work. Visit www.phillipsmillphoto.com. performance from the 2019 Princeton Festival. Visit website for full Virtually Yours calendar. 8 p.m.

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2020 Faculty Student Show, West Windsor Arts Council. www.westwindsorarts.org. Reception on Zoom celebrating the work of teaching artists and their students that was created in a class or workshop during the past year. Register. Free. 7:15 p.m.

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Herbal Medicine, The Suppers Programs. www.thesuppersprorgams.org. Herbalist Tish Steeten teaches about the healing properties of such foods as chocolate, cabbage, bananas, coffee, rice, celery, and oats. Register. Free.

Donation requested. 4 to 5 p.m.

Virtually Yours: Concordia Chamber Players, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival. org. WWFM 89.1 broadcasts a

Conversation with a Theater Maker, Lewis Center for the

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Arts, Princeton University. arts. princeton.edu. Zoom-based conversation with Program in Theater director Jane Cox and OBIE Award-winning playwright and Princeton alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. 4:45 to 5:30 p.m.

In Conversation with David Catlin, McCarter Theater. www.mccarter.org. Director, writer, and founding ensemble member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company David Catlin joins McCarter’s artistic director and resident playwright Emily Mann for a moderated conversation about their work as playwright-directors, their co-production collaborations, and the joys and artistic value of ensemble-based work. Register.

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Outdoor Action

Friday Morning Nature Hike, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Take a weekly hike via Facebook Live. Hikes will highlight seasonal wonders and

West Windsor Arts Council hosts a Zoom reception for its 2020 Faculty Student Show on Friday, June 5. The exhibit celebrates works created in the past year by teaching artists and their students. Pictured are ‘Pack a Snack’ (colored pencils and a shading pencil) by youth artist Allegra Alexander, far left; ‘Princeton Meadows’ (acrylic) by teaching artist Pratibha Raju; and ‘Between the Lab and Studio’ (linen, fiber reactive dyes) by adult student Adria Sherman. The exhibit is on view online through July 12.

In addition to student works, other teaching artists exhibited include Emily Buchalski, Kimberly Ducote-Schimmel , Judy Langille, Lori Langsner, Eleni Litt, Aarti Mantri, Zakia Ahmed, Pratibha Raju, Sarika Soman, Katie Truk, and Jennifer Yuan.

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Three Sea Stones

Get Ready ready to Ride! ride!

Kiato stone like a bean or an unformed heart girdled, ringed, cleft by a river of white given in green, parched in earth Pastmos stone

We’re celebrating National Bike Month! Five times in May we’ll hand a $25 Whole Earth gift card to a randomly chosen cyclist who rides to our store to shop.

Aztec puzzle, bull’s heart with stippled on arteries of blood Pollock of the fingertips Paros stone beloved button earth-sewn, your pastel skin is heaven’s evidence.

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ew Jersey poet Vasiliki Katsarou writes that her new chapbook, “Three Sea Stone,” distills images and themes touched in her first collection of poems, “Memento Tsunami,” published by Ragged Sky Press in Princeton. It also draws from her Greek heritage and her academic studies at Harvard, University of Paris,

and Boston University. Based in Hunterdon County, she also coordinates poetry events in Lambertville and is a Geraldine R. Dodge Poet in the Schools. The new collection is part of a limited edition designed, printed, and hand bound by Mary Ann Miller of Lucia Press in Clinton.

Printed above is the poem that gives the book its title.

encourage the viewer to find nature near their homes and in their heart. Free at www.facebook. com/theH2Oshed. 10 a.m.

In Person West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, Princeton Junction Train Station. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket. org. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and more.

Yes We Can! food drive ongoing.

Face masks required. Bring your own bags. Limit of two shoppers per family. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

2018 Princeton Festival. Visit website for full Virtually Yours calendar of events. 1 p.m.

Wellness

Einstein Family Program, Historical Society of Princeton. www.princetonhistory.org. Eve Mandel leads an illustrated talk about Albert Einstein. Register. 2 p.m.

Classical Music Virtually Yours: Madama Butterfly, Princeton Festival. www. princetonfestival.org. Live stream of the opera production from the

RANDOM ACTS OF COMMUNITY IS A PROJECT OF THE WHOLE EARTH CENTER

Participate virtually in HomeFront’s run/walk for hope on Sunday, June 7.

Saturday Night at the Movies: Good Will Hunting, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Borrow the featured title from the Hoopla catalog with a Mercer County Library card and watch it in the virtual company of your community. 8 p.m.

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Build a Rain Barrel, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Register for a time slot to pick up rain barrel materials, then follow along with a live howto video. Required tools not included in the kit are disposable gloves, channel locks, 8-10 inch adjustable wrench, and a 48-inch bungee cord. $50. 1 to 3 p.m.

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Introduction to Imago Relationship Therapy, Trinity Counseling. www.trinitycounseling.org.

Kelly McElvaine introduces couples to therapies to support them during this time. Register. Free.

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Lessons from COVID-19, New Jersey Foundation for Aging. www.njfoundationforaging.org.

“Impact on Long-Term Care and Medical Decision Making” presented by Dr. David Barile, Goals of Care Coalition of NJ; Laurie Brewer, Long-Term Care Ombudsman; and Gwen Orlowkski, Executive Director, Disability Rights NJ. Register. 10 a.m. to noon.

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We look forward to returning to our usual Random Acts program next year when we’ll once again be out in town distributing multiple gift cards from Princeton businesses. In the meantime, please support the businesses that have supported biking by being part of Random Acts: bent spoon • small world coffee • Terra Momo • Triumph Brewing Co. Olives • Miya Table & Home • Labyrinth Books • greendesign Nassau Inn • Nassau Street Seafood • Local Greek Blue Point Grill • Jammin’ Crepes • LiLLiPiES Princeton Soup & Sandwich • Tico’s Juice Bar Homestead Princeton • jaZams • Kopp’s Cycle Princeton Tour Company • Town of Princeton Olsson’s Fine Foods • Princeton Family YMCA 360 NASSAU STREET Hinkson’s • Princeton Record Exchange

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Eyes on Eagles, Mercer County Park Commission. www.mercercountyparks.org. Webinar features footage of bald eagle nesting behavior in Mercer County and commentary from naturalists.

Submit questions to krypkema@ mercercounty.org. 2 p.m.

Sports for Causes

Run/Walk/Dog Walk for Hope, HomeFront. www.homefrontnj. org. Join community members coming out solo, with their family, or as part of a virtual team to support HomeFront’s year-round children’s program for over 400 local children in need. Start from your front door or any spot of your choosing and complete the 10K, 5K, 1-mile, or dog walk. Register.

Facebook live kickoff event starts at 9 a.m. 9 a.m.

Monday June 8 Wellness Virtual Meeting, PFLAG Princeton. www.pflagprinceton.org.

Support group meeting for families and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals. Register by email to info@pflagprinceton.org for Zoom link. 7 p.m.

Lectures

Race in the COVID Era, Princeton University. inclusive.princeton.edu/events. Zoom webinar on “What America’s History of Racism and Xenophobia Means for Today.” Panelists include Andy Kim, Congressman from New Jersey’s 3rd District; Beth Lew-Williams, associate professor of history; Keith Wailoo, professor of history and public affairs; Helen Zia, activist and author; and moderator Aly Kassam-Remtulla, associate provost for international affairs. Register. 4 to 5 p.m.

Limitless: Carve Your Path and Live Your Best Life, South Brunswick Public Library. www. sbpl.info. Virtual talk by Keri Mandell, ultra marathoner, Ironman, Crossfit coach and yoga instructor/studio owner, who explains how she got into fitness, her career, how she completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, and how to start carving your path to live your best life.

Register. 7 to 9 p.m.

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Gallery Going: Van Gogh in Princeton & Hamilton

Opportunities Art Online The West Windsor Arts Council is offering an online drawing class led by Barbara Schaeffer. The course, designed for adult beginners and homeschooled teenagers, will cover free hand and perspective drawing, shading, and adding color through nature, still life, and landscape drawings. The course meets Fridays, June 12 through July 24, from 1 to 3 p.m. with no class July 3. The cost is $10 per class or $60 for the full course. For information about additional online courses or to register visit www. westwindsorarts.org.

Food Drive Mercer County Community College is hosting food and clothing drives at its James Kerney Campuses in Trenton during the month of June.

Collection of new and slightly used clean clothing is scheduled for Fridays, June 5 and 12, at the James Kerney Campus, 102 North Broad Street in Trenton. The donation bins will be located at the rear of the building off of Academy Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Donations at the West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road, will be collected on Wednesdays, June 3 and 10, and Monday, June 8, in the lot off of the Hughes Drive entrance from 9 a.m. 3 p.m. Donors are encouraged to pre-sort their clothing in bags by size.

Both locations will also accept donations of canned and boxed non-perishable foods. Donors are encouraged to comply with social distancing standards and to wear face coverings when donating.

Donations from both drives will be distributed at JKC on Wednesday, June 24, starting at 10 a.m. in the student and faculty parking lots. Thursday, June 25, will serve as a rain/overflow date. Local authorities will provide security for the distribution. More information is available at www.mccc.edu/GivingBack.

Call for Art The Mercer County Culture & Heritage Commission invites Mercer County artists ages 60 and over to submit works to the online edition of the Mercer County Senior Art Show, to be held virtually from July 23 through August 7. All submissions must be the original work of the applicant, created within the last three years, and not previously entered in a county or state senior art show.

Applicants may submit one piece of art in any of the following categories: acrylic, craft, digital imagery, drawing, mixed media, oil, pastel, photography, print, sculpture, and watercolor. The entry deadline is Thursday, July 16.

For more information email art show coordinator Cheryl Reed at chreed@mercercounty.org. Visit www.mercercounty.org to register.

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With regional museums closed and waiting to reopen, we

are continuing to remind readers of their important collections by highlighting visual art works you can visit as soon as social distancing practices change and museum doors open.

This week’s pick is Vincent Van Gogh’s 1888 painting, “Tarascon Stagecoach” (La Diligence de Tarascon). It can be found in two manifestations in two important area arts centers.

The first is the original oil painting, part of the Pearlman Collection housed at the Princeton University Art Museum. Drawn to southern France’s clarity of light, vivid colors, and rustic lifestyle and painting in his expressive style of broken brushstrokes, thick layers of paint, and vivid contrasts, Van Gogh wrote that the painting completed during a single afternoon was inspired by a story where the author dreams of such a wagon traveling through North Africa.

The second version is Seward Johnson’s metal and aluminum sculptural version of the painting at Grounds For Sculpture. The noted regionally based sculptor, who died in March, created the work in 2001 as part of his popular and fun “Beyond the Frame” series based on 19th-century paintings. It’s on view in the Belgian Courtyard near Rat’s Restaurant.

For information regarding openings, check online: Princeton University Art Museum at artmuseum. princeton.edu and Grounds For Sculpture at www.groundsforsculpture.org.­

Reducing Inflammation Through Nutrition, The Suppers Programs. www. thesuppersprorgams.org. Dr. Adi Benito discusses chronic inflammation and managing it through nutrition. Register.

Free. Donation requested. 4 to 5 p.m.

Ask An Expert: Gardening with Natives, Controlling Invasives, Sustainable Princeton. www.sustainableprinceton.org. Mike Van Clef answers questions about gardening with native plants and controlling invasive species. Van Clef is the stewardship director of Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space and serves as program director of its NJ Invasive Species Strike Team. Free. Register via bit.ly/June9_AskAnExpert. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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Top, Van Gogh’s ‘Tarascon Stagecoach’ at Prince­ ton University Art Museum and J. Seward Johnson’s sculptural rendition of it at Grounds For Sculpture. Above, Van Gogh’s notes on the piece.

Library Live at Labyrinth, Princeton Public Library & Labyrinth Books. www.labyrinthbooks.com.

Donovan Hohn, former editor at GQ and Harper’s, discusses his new book of essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human, “The Inner Coast,” with Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor at Harper’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Rolling Stone. Register. 6 p.m.

Kids Stuff

Meet the Animals, The Water-

Martha McPhee, Princeton native and daughter of John McPhee, celebrates the release of her fifth novel with a virtual Labyrinth livestream in conversation with her sister, Jenny McPhee, on Thursday, June 4. Her novel, ‘An Elegant Woman,’ traces four generations of women in an American family based on her own. shed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Join Watershed Educator Samantha Bernstein as she feeds some of the resident animals in the Discovery Hall in the Watershed Center. Free on www. facebook.com/theH2Oshed. 11 a.m.

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Summer Fiction All Summer Long Waiting for the Quiet Car (With apologies to Joyce Carol Oates)

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by Joanne Sutera

ast night, a balmy October evening, members of the university had honored me with a warm welcome at a lovely, well-attended wine and cheese reception. My $5 million alumnus contribution to the endowment fund guaranteed that. The speakers praised my accomplishments at the tender age of forty-three as the female entrepreneur of a hugely successful hedge fund. I took notes, a habit developed there during my student days. I truly appreciated their time and effort in sorting out some of my lessor known, often silly, personal details like my allergy to chocolate, which everyone agreed was egregious or teasing me about my outrageous collection of feminist tee shirts. I was grateful their remarks weren’t off my questionable bio on the Wikipedia page. Written thank you notes would follow in the next few days.

The next morning, standing on the platform of Princeton Junction train station headed to New York, my eyes, quite accidently, connected with a smallish man who turned in my direction. He was wearing the ubiquitous professorial garb: tweed jacket with patches and khaki trousers. Was that Professor R—? I believe it was. I was sure there was a momentary glance of recognition between us. Whatever his reaction, I felt perplexed.

It’s what happens when someone appears out of their element, his being the classroom. I searched my memory to confirm it was him.

Seeing him opened a wound I didn’t know I still had. Surely those days were behind me. I chafed at the thought. Oh, on occasion I would read a piece of his in the New Yorker or perhaps I would see an article in the New York Times Magazine but that was ages ago. I do have a vague memory of wondering what had happened to him. But, my god, I haven’t thought of him in years.

I debated approaching Professor R—. What would I say? You changed my life. From where he stood, he was waiting for the Quiet Car. Obviously, he didn’t want to be bothered. He never turned in my direction. His head kept bobbing up and down searching the empty tracks like a gopher coming out of his hole waiting to crawl back in. Not me, today would be an indulgence. I loved riding trains: the noise, the chatter, the animation of the riders and I hadn’t done it in such a long time.

Usually my limo service drove me back and forth from my Park Avenue penthouse or my Wall Street office. I don’t get out this way often, so today I took some time and opted for a trip down memory lane. Seems like I’m being overloaded with recollections.

Sitting by the window, I placed my overnight bag at my feet. The unread Wall Street Journal sat on an empty seat next to me as I sipped hot coffee and stepped back in time.

I was starstruck then. Professor R—, the rock star literature profes-

sor on campus, intimidated me with his insightful revelations of Dostoevsky navigating the streets of St. Petersburg or his lecturing on Huxley’s Brave New World.

Yet, I was among the twelve chosen, an apostle selected for his seminar, ready to prostrate myself at his feet to learn by osmosis. The writing sample I had submitted on Kierkegaard, Rilke, and Camus impressed him. Frequently though, in class he ignored me. If I were tongue-tied, sometimes tripping

‘Oh, hello, Professor.’ I blurted out. ‘I apologize,’ I stammered a bit as heat crept up my neck. ‘I didn’t mean to stare earlier.’ I blocked the entrance. His haughty expression confirmed more that an acknowledgement would never pass his lips. over my words, he had to needle me into speaking. (Not so last night. The audience hung on my every carefully crafted word.)

And, the other two other female students in the select group were so pretty and poised. They handled themselves well, laughing at his jokes and fawning over him like the popular male students did. Early on, he seemed to lose interest in me and my work. I felt clumsy and awkward. Sometimes I wondered if I was part of a joke.

His grade at the end of the semester surprised me at first, then

angered me. I worked so hard and wanted — no deserved — an ‘A+’ not a ‘B+’. Especially when I heard that brow-noser, Stuart received a stellar grade for what we all knew was a mediocre paper.

But one learns from one’s disappointments. My choice of Virginia Woolf from the canon instead of one of the men like Huxley or Wells secured my reputation as a budding feminist, at least for my professor. When the semester ended, I did send him a brief request for guidance, but he never responded. I was disappointed since I had purchased each of his books, which he autographed to me, Carol Carson. My confidence was too low to continue in the abstract world of language arts. So, I turned to my other love, economics. I’ve always been more comfortable in the world of concrete thinkers, people who could quantify the world.

Infused with these thoughts that morning, time moved quickly. The train rushed past my old world on smooth wheels and raced toward the place I now occupied. At each stop, passengers boarded. At Newark Penn Station, a woman glared at my newspaper which I picked up and folded onto my lap when she sat. Traveling without makeup and in a nondescript track suit, I chuckled to myself that I had bristled at her reaction, embarrassed at my own insightful moment. The train rolled on. My reverie interrupted; my thoughts again returned to the present day.

When we finally arrived at Penn Station, as I walked to the escalator, the professor materialized in front of me.

“Oh, hello, Professor.” I blurted out. “I apologize,” I stammered a bit as heat crept up my neck. “I didn’t mean to stare earlier.” I blocked the entrance. His haughty expression confirmed more that an acknowledgement would never pass his lips. For a millisecond, his continued arrogance intimidated me. Then, I took a deep breath and sighed, my voice clear and strong.

“But, you see, I was more than a little startled because I thought you were dead.” His bewildered expression at my remark was priceless. He seemed to shrivel and now looked so harmless. I forgot the rest of the conversation.

I suppose there was a certain irony to our meeting, especially at this time. Recently, Scribners approached me to do my memoir.

They want the full story of how I put together and ran the hugely successful Phoenix Hedge Fund, a primarily female firm. Imagine that, I’ll be writing again — from a room of my own. Professor R— may get a paragraph or two. Or, maybe not.

I was certain the university would give me his address. I’ll be sure to send him an autographed copy.

Joanne Sutera writes short stories, and fiction reflecting today’s crazy world, plays that explore relationships, and dark and acerbic poetry. She nourishes her passion by taking classes, attending seminars, and learning from writers she admires. She is published in Zest Magazine, The Kelsey Review, US1 and At Death’s Door, an anthology. She belongs to Room at the Table and the Princeton Writers’ Group. She lives in Lawrence.

Summer Fiction All Summer Long Short Stories & Poems from the readers of U.S. 1

U .S. 1 Newspaper extends its annual invitation to all writers and poets to present original short fiction, short plays, or poetry.

This is an opportunity to have your work published in hard-copy form and to be recognized in public for your effort.

To participate, submit your previously unpublished short story, play, or poem as soon as possible. Please: No more than two stories or five poems per writer.

Work will be considered for publication on a rolling basis.

Please submit work by e-mail to fiction@princetoninfo.com.

Authors retain all rights.

Preference will be given to central New Jersey writers whose work addresses a theme or place relevant to the greater Princeton business community. Submissions from children are not encouraged.

Questions?

E-mail fiction@princetoninfo.com or call 609-452-7000.

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City Artists Stirring It Up Trenton Style

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ust be something in the water,” Crossroads Theater producer Ricardo Khan told me after the 1985 world premiere of Trenton playwright William Mastrosimone’s “Tamer of Horse” — which I was reviewing for the Times of Trenton.

Khan was talking metaphorically, but he was emphatic that something was going on in Trenton that was making an artistic difference.

After all, in addition to Mastrosimone — who had written the hot New York play “Extremities” — there was a list that included the internationally known playwright and poet Ntozake Shange, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cristofer, and nationally known playwright Don Evans who inspired the creation of Crossroads and developed the Players Company in Trenton (and is also the father of internationally known Trenton-born jazz pianist Orrin Evans).

But it wasn’t just the stage.

There was world famous pianistcomposer George Antheil who became a sensation when he took Trenton to Paris and collaborated with poets James Joyce and William Butler Yeats.

Filmmaker Amy Robinson put Trenton on the screen with “Baby It’s You” and Zalman King heated it up with “Two Moon Junction” and “Wild Orchards.”

And innovative television pioneer Ernie Kovacs brought Trenton humor to the world.

So what about these artistic waters? Several artists readily dove in when asked about it.

One is the late internationally known Trenton alto sax jazz performer Richie Cole, who created the soulful and playful big band composition called “Trenton Style.”

When asked to explain the idea of a Trenton style, Cole told me Trenton style has “a certain sound.

When you hear it, you know it. It is the sound of Trenton, New Jersey.

It’s a mood thing. When you hear it, you can picture Trenton. It’s a mellow, sexy sound between Philadelphia and New York. When you hear it, you say ‘that sounds like Trenton.’”

by Dan Aubrey Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Trenton resident Yusef Komunyakaa, who was born in Louisiana and came to Trenton after he joined the faculty at Princeton University in 1997 (he now teaches at New York University), has his own personal riff on the capital city.

“Trenton became an anchor of the past for me,” he told me a few years ago. “It seemed that there’s a southern enclave here. I think a lot has to do with the rituals and how people interact with one another. I started thinking about the great migration — and I felt slightly at home. The other reason that I ended up here in Trenton was that (novelist and Princeton University faculty member) Russell Banks

Trenton style has ‘a certain sound,’ Richie Cole said. ‘When you hear it, you know it. It is the sound of Trenton, New Jersey.’ told me that he wished he had purchased a place in Trenton instead of Princeton. I think that says something of the artist in him. Here there are down-to-earth-people — which is the blues.”

From his West State Street home, the poet continued to share his thoughts on his adopted city.

“Trenton is interesting. There is something. The history of the place fascinates me. The culture and the great potential fascinate me even more. I think there’s a little enclave that people are waiting to discover.

One of the collections that I’m writing is called ‘The Country Across the River,’ and I think it’s about Trenton. I’m slowly discovering what the essence of that is. I think it’s going to take me a little while to write that collection.

“I think what happens is that we internalize a landscape, and that’s how we view the rest of the world, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually. There’s something that seems as if I have been here before.

I lived in a small town, and that’s

From above left, poet Yusef Komunyakaa, artist Leon Rainbow, the late playwright Ntozake Shange, and artist Mel Leipzig.

At right is the late saxophonist Richie Cole’s ‘Trenton Style’ album cover. one appeal. I wish I had I had known what (Trenton) was like earlier.

“There’s also an element of the blues here. I hear it. I don’t know why, because the Delaware is not the Mississippi. I hear an element of the blues, this yearning for what is to become as well as for what was there. It’s that beckoning. The foundation exists, but also the dreaming. That’s what it is all about. I call it ‘extended possibility.’ It’s great when artists begin to see it.”

Nationally known visual artist Mel Leipzig said recently that moving from his native New York City to Trenton “was one of the best things I did. There was nothing to do here. Just paint. I could just do my own thing. It is so comfortable to paint here because you do anything you want to do.”

Leipzig, whose work is in major collections and who has interacted with some of the major artists of the 20th century, said, “There were so many artists in New York, and you were friends with so many people and hear all their opinions — there were so many influences that have nothing to do with you. In New York (artists) are so intense in dragging you into their way of thinking. Here I was able to work at my own rate and do what I wanted to do.”

Yet Trenton’s proximity to other cities and the art world in general was a benefit. “Because I was near New York I could go in and see shows and I could go into Philadelphia — they have good shows. But I could do things that expressed me, what I was interested in doing.”

A retired professor of art at Mercer County Community College who lives in Trenton’s Glen Afton neighborhood, Leipzig said, “A lot of things I ended up painting had to do with this city. And because I was so obsessive I ended up painting my students, the teachers, and peo-

ple at my college — I’m the only person who painted the cafeteria.”

About his art he added, “I don’t consider myself an imaginative painter. I find reality unbelievably fascinating. I think I have a unique approach — I’m not a realist.”

After saying, “I must paint people,” Leipzig added that “besides the subject matter, it’s the way I approach painting. I approach figure painting in a way that the background is important. That excites me. The way, they interact with their backgrounds.”

“I love Trenton,” he continued.

“I think it gave me the freedom to go into myself. There is a precedent. In order to become a great painter Cezanne left Paris and went to the south of France to develop his style.”

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fter accessing some of the city’s characteristics and thinking about the history of art, Leipzig said, “It is between being a country town and a city town — it is also the state capital. And it really has as many people as did (ancient) Athens — you can only have culture in a city.

Thinking about his recent art — where he readily replaces soft blue skies for bold oranges and reds — he said, “I was influenced by (Trenton’s) graffiti artists. As I was painting them, everything started changing. And I would not have known the graffiti artists if I was in New York. I really respect them tremendously.”

One of those artists, Leon Rainbow, has his own thoughts on the subject. “Being between being New York and Philadelphia has been good. We have brought people from both places to Trenton and learned. Trenton is a great blend of New York and Philadelphia and New Jersey. It’s like a melting pot

in that aspect.”

Rainbow said one of the factors that helped him was that “Trenton was real open — partially because of the issues it has. We were able to have a lot of freedom. We would get permission to paint and people seemed to like it. The politicians liked it. The city has always been accepting of us.”

He summed it up by saying that one of the things that has worked for him is “people really being open to allow you to be creative.”

That includes fellow artists.

“There was also some healthy competition. (Artist Will) Kasso would do a great wall, then I’d want to do a great wall. Then there were some competitions and projects, Art All Night, and the Punk Rock Flea Markets.”

He said the desire to find “our own style” was important. “New York and Philadelphia have their own things — and everyone pisses on New Jersey. But at the same time it gives us that chip on the shoulder that makes us what to prove something. And that is good.”

Asked to explain the style, Rainbow said, “There is something that is indescribable. There is a lot of positivity and negativity we struggle through. But greatness comes through struggle, and that’s part of it. You have a lot creative people who are doing stuff and people.

You get a wide range of emotions that you get to pull from, and I pull from both negative and positive experience. I definitely feel like there’s some sort of special sauce.”

One that includes that metaphorical Trenton water.

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Life in the Fast Lane CDC Gives Advice for Safe Office Openings

Edited by Sara Hastings

or who have a sick family member able wipes and other cleaning maat home to notify their supervisor terials so that they can properly wipe down frequently touched surand stay home. faces before each use. Provide emEmployees who appear to have s the state of New Jersey ployees adequate time to wash their symptoms upon arrival at work or gradually allows more business to hands and access to soap, clean wawho become sick during the day resume normal operations, the Centers for Disease Control has is- should immediately be separated ter, and single use paper towels.

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o you want to sign the documents for the house closing in your car in the title company’s parking lot?

The question was not a joke.

In fact it was augmented with details of a masked and gloved representative providing me a clipboard with the documents and a pen.

But then another question followed.

Or would you like to meet with a masked and gloved lawyer alone in his office?

Both were asked by our realtor to prepare my wife and me for taking ownership of a new property.

Both also are a peek into the strange new world of real estate transactions — just one of the situations I’ve encountered while buying a new house, moving, and listing my old house during a pandemic.

Obviously it wasn’t planned that way.

My wife and I had owned our former home for 16 years. It’s in good condition and served us well.

But we had decided a few years ago to move to a place that fit new needs and interests.

And with savings, good credit history, and the decision to sell our then-current home after buying a new one, there was nothing to hold us back.

So in 2019 we contacted realtor Linda Kelly, a Smires Realty agent with 17 years of real estate experience.

We picked her because we knew her through the regional arts community — she’s the wife of artist Tom Kelly — and developed a

comfortable and honest relationship.

In a matter of days she had a number of regional properties for us to look at and consider.

In early 2020 we had focused on Bordentown City and started to get more serious.

Meanwhile COVID-19 also started getting more serious and started taking over the headlines.

While we did not take the virus lightly, we also pushed it to the back of minds and kept inspecting and passing on properties.

Then we found something that

In early 2020 we started to get more serious. Meanwhile COVID-19 also started getting more serious and started taking over the headlines. fit our criteria and announced our interest to buy with a strong and acceptable offer on March 15.

But the next day New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy also made an unprecedented announcement, an executive order that mandated social distancing practices and closed schools, entertainment venues, and non-essential retail businesses to stop the spread of the virus.

It also made us stop and consider what to do. Could we move forward under Murphy’s mandate?

And should we move forward

while an invisible menace is spreading through our state and communities?

After Kelly boned up on what the order meant for the real estate business, she advised us that we could continue, but there were two caveats.

One was that we would have to comply with social distancing practices. The other was that with businesses closing and people working from home, we were moving into uncharted territory.

We then took stock of our situation. We had a deal, a pre-approved mortgage, and interest rates were low. So it made sense to continue.

But what about the ethics of doing so while our fellow citizens are dying, getting ill, or being laid off from work or furloughed?

The answer was that by continuing we would make a positive statement about the future and support community businesses.

So we decided to move ahead with the purchase and immediately put our current home on the market.

We did not anticipate how strange and oddly challenging it was going to be compared to our last house purchase.

The strange came fast. Instantly everyone we were dealing with wore a mask and showed their awkwardness by fidgeting with the coverings to make them fit more comfortably. (The only exception was the owner of the moving company, who met us video-face to video-face on Zoom during his virtual estimate-making tour of our house.)

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Smires agent Linda Kelly’s professional attire now includes a fresh mask and fashionable gloves. masked participants were home inspectors, movers, home repairers, a painter, and a house cleaner — none of whom I would recognize if I ever met them again.

And since we had decided to close at the lawyer’s office, there was the eerie experience of being greeted by a masked receptionist as we entered the office and then being ushered into a conference room where one masked man with gloves

was waiting alone for us — unlike our last house purchase where we sat with our realtor, the sellers, the attorney, and an assistant.

While all of this was becoming more and more like a strange dream of a world where no one has a face, it got even stranger when a masked Verizon technician arrived at our new home to install the telephone and internet.

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405 Basin Street, Princeton: This newly constructed 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home is a stone’s throw from the D&R Canal and within walking distance of downtown Princeton and the university campus.

Listed by Anna Shulkina of Re/Max of Princeton for $1,199,000.

While real estate agents have had to adjust their tactics to include virtual walk-throughs and online open houses, there are still houses to be sold. Below is a sample of what’s available in the Princeton region.

306 Carter Road, Hopewell: What started as a chateau in the French countryside is now a 7 bedroom, 7.5 bathroom luxury residence on a 93-acre lot. Architectural finishes include items from the Vanderbilt mansion in New York City. Listed by Norman Callaway of Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s for $4,500,000.

13 Camas Court, Plainsboro: Located on a culde-sac, this recently updated home has 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, and a heated pool. Listed by Ellen Calman of Coldwell Banker for $999,000.

7 Golden Crest Court, Hamilton: This 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home also has an attached two-car garage as well as a backyard patio and shed.

The house is located on a quiet cul-de-sac with easy access to major highways. Listed by Jan Rutkowski of BHHS Fox & Roach Hopewell Valley for $489,900.

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Books? With libraries that host window and started giving me instructions on how to change wires. used books sales closed, I rememWhen I asked if there were any bered that used book stores could potential of me getting electrocut- probably use several boxes of books in great ed (a valid quescondition and tion), he sighed and said, “If we All of this was becom- contacted Classics Books in didn’t have the ing more and more Trenton. virus I could be like a strange dream But what in there and fix about 200 VHS the whole probwhere no one has a tapes? While I lem in a short peface. could have riod of time.” thrown them in But there was the trash, I the virus and it wanted to be environmentally conwas wreaking havoc on the state.

Instead of thinking about it, my scious — after all I had assigned wife and I are trying to pack and and edited several U.S. 1 articles on discovering that formerly simple recycling.

And in the midst of a pandemic moving-related tasks were now a and a move, I found myself on what challenge.

That included something as felt like an absurd search for green mundane as picking up moving alternatives for a worthless collecboxes. With closed shops or limited tion of tapes that ranged from Inghours as well as state-enforced mar Bergman to “Rocky and Bulldriving restrictions, it was sudden- winkle.”

After exploring several options ly a planned effort.

Then there was the downsizing and finding out that I’d have to pay

Above left, Kelly stays safe by stocking her car with a ready supply of hand and surface sanitizers and masks. Masked movers, above, masked lawyers, and masked home inspectors are just part of the strange new normal of moving. a hefty sum to get rid of them, I found a New Brunswick recycler who welcomed them.

But, once again, I needed to plan a delivery without violating the state’s travel restrictions.

Curious about what others were going through and what was happening in real estate market, I asked Kelly what factors were making her job odder and more difficult.

“We must think safety first,” she replied.

She then added some examples.

“There are hold harmless releases, being signed by both buyers and sellers. This makes it evident that people have safety in the forefront on both sides. “(And) now it is customary to use personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks, gloves, and shoe coverings when looking at homes being offered. People are

good with this as they understand it is for the safety of all involved.”

As for other changes, she said, “More sellers are asking to see mortgage pre-approvals to ensure the potential buyers are qualified

financially. This minimizes exposure to only qualified visitors to see the home.

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he trends that Smires agent Linda Kelly cites in Dan Aubrey’s account of his midpandemic move from Hamilton to Bordentown are reflected in data on April home sales recently released by New Jersey Realtors, the Trenton-based trade group.

Across the board, all numbers were down compared to April, 2019, except for prices, which have increased.

“It’s a case of supply and demand,” said 2020 New Jersey Realtors President Angela Sicoli about the rise in costs. “Far before this pandemic, we had an inventory shortage throughout the state and now, compounded with a large percentage of people who were ready to sell in March but have put their plans on pause, you are seeing buyers who have far less to choose from. With only a small pool of homes to choose from buyers are sometimes paying slightly above asking or finding themselves in a situation with multiple offers on the property.”

In New Jersey new listings were down 63.1 percent year over year, with 7,272 listings added. A total of 35,714 homes were for sale in April, a 35.6 percent decrease from the year prior.

The median sale price, however, rose to $333,000, a 14.4 percent increase from last April.

In Mercer County there were 202 new listings of single-family homes in April, compared to 597 in April, 2019, a 66.2 percent decrease. Median sale price, however, rose from $261,500 to $283,750, and homes spent on average five fewer days on the market.

Statistics are similar for townhouse and condo units. New listings dropped from 134 to 55, while the median price rose from $168,000 to $195,000. The average time spent on the market dropped drastically, from 79 days in 2019 to 52 days this year.

Finally, new listings in adult communities dropped from 23 last year to 13 this year, while median price rose from $315,000 to $320,000. Such homes spent an average of 40 days on the market, compared to 54 last year.

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Kelly said virtual video home tours were also becoming a new trend and “will stay popular in the future as it can make it more efficient time-wise, to rule homes in or out of consideration for buyers.”

But, she said, “Buying and selling of a family home is a very emotional ordeal. We know this. People want that personal guidance, ear to listen and shoulder to cry on. They

rely on our expertise. We still must be there for the clients. No matter how advanced technology is today, the trust our clients have in us as a real estate professional can never be replaced.”

As for how the virus was affecting real estate traffic, Kelly said, “The market was super crazy in the beginning of this year. January and February were record months for New Jersey. With the announcement of COVID-19 and when the

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With social distancing forcing agents to work from home, Kelly makes a lonely stop to an empty office. initial shut down was enforced, it became quiet for a couple weeks.”

But, she continued, “Now with limited inventory, the seasonal spring market, and low mortgage rates, prices are starting to rise and many homes are receiving multiple offers and selling over asking price.

The other trend we are noticing is the exiting of the cities and densely populated areas. The new buyer demands are in-home offices, more square footage, and now in-ground pools.”

Talking about how the presence of the virus had affected her personally, she said, “I was always a germ-aware person to start with.

Wiping off door handles and being aware of contact points while showing properties was always in the forefront and a minor obsession

Now with limited inventory, the seasonal spring market, and low mortgage rates, prices are starting to rise and many homes are receiving multiple offers. with me. So I am even more prepared and conscious of this factor of safety.”

But something she could not prepare for was an office closed for social distancing. “I am a full-time realtor, and I like to be in the office every morning to make my calls, do my research, and start my day.

In the office I get energized with my colleagues. We share ideas, experiences, and insights on specific homes, neighborhoods, and strategies. We also help each other with recommendations for lenders, tradespeople, inspectors, and legal needs. I miss the camaraderie and the group guidance.”

Then mixing the professional and the personal she said, “The bottom line is that people are still buying and selling. The full-time agents like myself need to work and provide for our families. The part-time agents may be able to sit on the sidelines a little, but I think it’s easier to keep momentum than to gain momentum. Just as in 2008 with that recession, the market will come roaring back, and those with momentum will hit the ground running.”

One difference, she said, is she has to be safe and mentally strong for clients — and anticipate the look on their faces when they are asked if they want to sit in their car in a title company’s parking lot and read and sign a real estate contract.

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Manhattan, on 53rd Street between Park and Lexington avenues.

Her mother was a homemaker, and her sister was an art history major. Connie herself studied Italian Renaissance painting at Vassar College, but soon became more interested in architecture. She met her husband Robert, an engineer (and later an executive search specialist), when he attended social weekends at her college.

Connie and Bob lived in Chicago and in New York before moving to Hopewell in 1958. They relocated to Princeton in 1960 (where, in addition to the Historical Society, Connie was an active and knowledgeable member of the Planning Board). The Greiffs moved to Rocky Hill in 1981. Along the way, Connie founded Heritage Studies, which consulted on architectural restoration and historic site designation projects.

Soon after moving to Princeton, Greiff met future collaborator Mary W. Gibbons on the train to New York. Gibbons turned out to have attended Vassar a few years behind Greiff and to share an interest in Princeton’s great early-19thcentury carpenter/builder Charles Steadman. (Gibbons and her husband had just purchased a Steadman house standing at 12 Morven Place.) Greiff and Gibbons created a seminal 1963 exhibition, “300 Years of Princeton Architecture,” at Borough Hall, which led to their equally landmark book “Princeton Architecture.”

“All of my American architecture is self-taught,” Greiff says.

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“Research was a very different thing in the ’60s. It was a lot of shoe leather and a lot of note taking on index cards. I had a loose leaf notebook with various sections. It was a different world,” she says.

How different? Greiff recalls doing research in the 1960s on the Cooper Hewitt Company’s contribution to the second rebuilding of Nassau Hall. The New York Historical Society archives had copies of the firm’s letter books. But these had been made by an antiquated contact process that rendered them mirror images of the originals.

In this pre-digital era, Constance Greiff hit upon a non-digital — and perfectly effective — solution. “I found a drug store and bought a little hand mirror,” she smiles. “Then I went back and sat there and read the pages that way.”

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The family plans a public memorial service to be scheduled and announced when the coronavirus crisis subsides.

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