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“HERE WE GO AGAIN” TRENTON, NJ. – After the Yes, there have been a few initiamurder of George Floyd and the tives to address many of these arsustained global protest and the eas; however, things appear to be outpouring of corporations and reverting to a past that many hoped philanthropist declaring their com- we were moving away from. In mitment to address the injustices most urban cities, wherein the and economic inequities of Blacks power is controlled by party bossin America, we could have easily es, blacks are not a priority in any concluded that America was transi- of the areas mentioned above, tioning into a country that we all which is unfortunate, given how envisioned. However, with the re- the black vote has placed many of cent shooting of Jacob Blake which these leaders in positions of power. resulted in him being paralyzed, The late Maya Angelou declared, from the waist down, what should that when people show you who we conclude? It would be inconse- they are believe them… it is difficult to determine who is quential at this point to truly committed to the say that black people between interest of blacks in have had enough.

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by Ben Bramble, Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, and appearing in the online journal The Conversation The world urgently needs a vaccine for COVID-19. Only when a vaccine is approved and people are safe can countries fully end their lockdowns and resume normal life. The trouble is that such vaccines usually take years to develop and test for efficacy and safety.

Recently, some bioethicists have proposed a way of speeding up this testing process by several months. Researchers would put volunteers in quarantine with access to the best medical care, give these volunteers one of the trial vaccines and then directly expose them to the coronavirus. This type of intentional exposure is called a challenge trial, and since researchers would not have to wait for subjects to encounter the virus in the normal course of their daily lives, it could result in a vaccine much faster than a normal trial. Researchers need to know if the vaccine they are testing actually produces some sort of immunity, so people have to come in contact with the coronavirus. The question is whether to produce that contact intentionally, or let random chance do it.

I am a philosopher and bioethicist who has been researching and writing a book on the ethics of the pandemic. Challenge trials are not a new idea, and have always faced a major ethical question: Do they exploit test subjects even if the subjects volunteer?

To answer that question, ethicists must consider an equation involving risk, knowledge and need. Given the current state of the pandemic, there is only one rare situation in which I believe a challenge trial would be ethical. In most cases, it would unfairly exploit those who volunteer.

Risk minimization The first question is risk. Some proponents of challenge trials say that they might be ethical if you only select volunteers who already have a high risk of catching the virus – for example, people who live in high transmission areas, or who are essential workers

like doctors, nurses, bus drivers, cleaners, food workers and so on. People who support this argue that since these people are already at great risk, being purposefully exposed to the virus isn’t that much riskier for them than normal life.

But I see a big problem with this idea.

These people are at such high risk of catching COVID-19 in large part due to failures of governments to properly lock down, test and contact-trace. In asking these people to volunteer, I see governments as saying to them: “Due to our repeated blunders, you’re still at a very high risk of something really, really terrible. Sorry about that. But now, seeing as you are already so very imperiled, would you mind terribly if we increased your risk even further, to help us all get out of this giant pickle?” I believe that there is something deeply wrong with asking people this.

Full information OK, risk is bad, but what if volunteers fully understand the risks they face? Would that make challenge trials ethical?

Unfortunately, it is unclear whether this is possible. The medical community’s knowledge of the full health impacts of COVID-19 is simply too incomplete right now. For example, recent studies suggest the virus might cause long-term heart damage in patients who do not even require hospitalization during their initial infection.

Moreover, in order to reduce the risks of volunteers becoming severely ill or dying, they would likely have to be young and healthy people. But such people have, by definition, never experienced severe illness before. Even if they have a good theoretical grasp of the health risks, that is a far cry from firsthand experience of severe, long-term illness. This is a substantial problem.

Analogies with other professions The final point that people make is that there are many other contexts in which it is ethical to allow people to take on big health risks for the sake of the community – firefighters, police officers, soldiers and many other people who work dangerous jobs do this daily. And of course, millions of essential workers are still going to work in the morning despite the risks involved.

The difference between firefighting and a challenge trial has to do with need. While there is robust debate going on over just how essential many of these jobs are, if every essential worker stopped going to work, society would grind to a halt. The country needs grocery store workers and firefighters to do their jobs.

By contrast, if the U.S. prevents people from volunteering for challenge trials, society will not collapse. It is true that the country needs a vaccine, but challenge trials are not the only way to get one. Researchers can simply run vaccine trials in the normal way.

When challenge trials are ethical If a normal vaccine trial can be run, I don’t believe challenge trials can be justified.

But imagine some point in the future before a vaccine is approved. Efforts to contain the virus have proven so effective that there is no longer enough of the virus still circulating in communities for a normal vaccine testing process to produce a result, but there is enough virus around to pose a significant risk of outbreaks if lockdowns were relaxed. In this specific scenario, countries could face a choice between staying in various states of lockdown indefinitely or conducting human challenge trials.

Here, it would be not only morally permissible, but arguably morally required to let people volunteer for challenge trials. The alternative to doing so would be a permanent and substantial diminishment of society and quality of life. Trial volunteers would then become truly analogous to essential workers, needed to prevent a kind of societal collapse.

If countries immediately commit to the effective interventions – mask wearing, locking down, testing and contact-tracing – and then actually do them, the virus could be contained. In that case, challenge trials could be justified.

Whether a country ends up facing the decision between indefinite lockdowns and a challenge trial remains to be seen, as there are a lot of unknowns with this virus. Until that decision is upon us, the equation involving risk, knowledge and need does not add up to a sufficient justification for challenge trials.

Disclosure statement: Ben Bramble does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

For more on the Conversation, visit theconversation.com.

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FILM

LITERATURE

DANCE DRAMA MUSIC

PREV I E W

DAY-BY-DAY VIRTUAL EVENTS, SEPTEMBER 2 TO 9 Pop Music

Event Listings: E-mail events@princetoninfo.com

Broadway Summer Spectacular, Summer Music Series, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage. org. An evening packed with Broadway’s best from composers like Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II. Via YouTube. $35. 7 p.m.

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.

Film

First Friday Film, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www. princetonsenior.org. Screening via Zoom of “Marriage Story.”

Register. Free. 1 p.m.

Wednesday September 2

Saturday September 5

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

South Brunswick Community Blood Drive, St. Augustine Church, 45 Henderson Road, Kendall Park, 732-616-9284. smarturl.it/NJBS_Drive. Blood drive in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Appointments recommended. 1:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Pop Music

Broadway Summer Spectacular, Summer Music Series, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage. org. An evening packed with Broadway’s best from composers like Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II. Via YouTube. $35. 7 p.m.

Good Causes

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

Email volunteer@lifeties.org for more information. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Faith

Lunch & Learn, Jewish Center of Princeton. www.thejewishcenter. org. Close reading of the Book of Jonah led by Elliot Salo Schoenberg, interim rabbi of the Jewish Center. Register to adulteducation@thejewishcenter.org for Zoom link. Free. Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Socials

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

In Person

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Thursday September 3 Literati Poetry Circle, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org. Virtual poetry reading and discussion via GoToMeeting. Poets and poetry lovers read their original poems or poems that inspired them. Register via email 7 p.m.

Fairs & Festivals

Nassau Street Sampler: A Virtual Festival, . artmuseum.princeton. edu. Live experiences and activities, including loteria, trivia, artmaking, chef videos, student performances, an art re-creation challenge, and a virtual dance party. 4 to 11 p.m.

Faith

A Time to Tear and a Time to Mend: Reimagining Teshuva in Light of Rabbinic Narratives, Jewish Center of Princeton. www.thejewishcenter.org. Tammy Jacobowitz, Ph.D., leads a deep dive into theories of change and personal transformation through the study of several stories from the Talmud. Register to adulteducation@thejewishcenter.org for Zoom link. Free. 7:30 p.m.

History

Princeton, The Nation’s Capital: 1783, Historical Society of Princeton. www.princetonhistory. org. The American Revolution

shooting war had ended in 1781 and the Colonies are awaiting word that peace negotiations in Paris will result in a treaty. Because of delays in negotiating across the Atlantic, Congress is in a dilemma. It has no money to pay the troops, but it cannot disband the army until there is a peace treaty. In June 1783, Congress, in session in Philadelphia, must flee after an Army mutiny (demanding back pay). Congress relocates to Princeton where it remains in session for 4.5 months. Join educator Barry Singer for an illustrated talk via Zoom describing this pivotal time in America’s history. Register. Pay what you can. 7 to 8 p.m.

Lectures

Intimate Conversations Series, Pegasus Theater Company. www.pegasustheatrenj.org. Facebook Live discussion with director Jason Chaet and composer Robert Manganaro of the movie “Seneca,” recently premiered on HBO. “Seneca” is about a Puerto Rican actor living in New York City as he grapples with his crumbling marriage and shifting priorities in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s destruction of his homeland. 8 p.m.

For Seniors

Art in the Academy, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www. princetonsenior.org. Presentation via Zoom by Melissa R. Klapper based on her new book, “Ballet Class: An American History,” highlighting such topics as ballet in popular culture, race, and gender in ballet class, and the connections between ballet class and

significant currents in American social and cultural history. Register. $10. 1 p.m.

Friday September 4 In Person First Friday on Front Street, African American Cultural Collaborative of Mercer County, Trenton. www.taacf.com. Live music, crafters, and food available from vendors. Wear a mask. 5 to 10 p.m.

Sunset Sips & Sounds, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music

by Karl Dentino & Bo Child, light fare, and wines by the glass. Face masks required on premises. 5 to 8 p.m.

Tiki Bar Shabbat Service, Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor, 50 Maple Stream Road, East Windsor, 609-443-4454. www. bethel.net. Bring your own chair and mask. Includes tropical Italian ices. 5:30 p.m.

Drive-In Movie Night, Mercer County Park, Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. www.mercercountyparks.org. Screening of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”

Each parking spot comes with a designated lounging area. Bring your own chairs, blankets, food, and drinks. No glass bottles or liquor. Free. Gates open one hour prior to showtime. 7:30 p.m.

Outdoor Flea Market, Princeton Elks, 354 Route 518, Blawenburg, 609-466-9813. Weather permitting. Vendor spots are $10 each. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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

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

Social distancing measures in place. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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

Yes We Can! food drive ongoing.

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

2020 Plowing Match, Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell, 609-397-2555. www. howellfarm.org. Farmers and draft horses from throughout the tristate area gather to compete in the field and on the obstacle course. Register for free ticket through Community Pass. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Weekend Music Series, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music

by Briz Conard. Wines by the glass with outdoor seating in the apple orchards. Limit of two hours and six guests per table. Face masks required on premises. 1 to 4 p.m.

Drive-In Concert, Mercer County Park, Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. www.mercercountyparks.org. Performances by Best of the Eagles and the Amish Outlaws. Each parking spot comes with a designated lounging area.

Bring your own chairs, blankets, food, and drinks. No glass bottles or liquor. Free. Gates open one hour prior to showtime. 6 p.m.

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Murals Keep Trenton Art Alive

the Trenton Downtown Association’s “Murals on

Front Street” project continues for the fourth year thanks to a $25,000 New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant.

The funding is designed to continue community-based arts programming in Trenton.

Noted Trenton street artist Leon Rainbow again coordinates the project transforming walls of a parking garage at the corner of Front and South Broad Streets into works of art.

Street artists Dean “RAS” Innocenzi and R Fab are joining Rainbow in the project that continues through September 20.

“Murals on Front Street” was launched in 2017 as a live visual art event to complement the Levitt AMP Trenton Music Series, a TDA-sponsored series of 10 free concerts in the Mill Hill Park in downtown

Trenton.

While the coronavirus pandemic forced the TDA to reschedule the 2020 series to 2021, officials were able to continue “Murals on Front” as well as the “We are Survivors” mural series created in partnership with the Trenton Health Team, and a city neighborhoods sidewalk chalk project.

“We could all use a little more positive energy and joyful, creative expression in our lives,” says Rainbow about the project.

For more information on the TDA and times to see the artists at work, visit www. facebook.com/trentondowntownassociation.

Film Saturday Night at the movies: the Count of monte Cristo, mercer County Library. www.mcl.org. 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.

Sunday September 6 In Person Hopewell Farmers market, , 62 East Broad Street, Hopewell. www.fairgrownfarm.com/ hopewell-farmers-market. Locally produced foods, plants, wines, and more. Masks and social distancing required. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Summer Carillon Concerts, princeton University Carillon, 88 College Road West, Princeton, 609-258-7989. Robin Austin, former Princeton University Carillonneur now based in Pennsylvania. Free. 1 p.m.

Weekend music Series, terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com.

Live music by Acoustic DuoVer. Wines by the glass with outdoor seating in the apple orchards. Limit of two hours and six guests per table. Face masks required on premises. 1 to 4 p.m.

Pop Music

broadway Summer Spectacular, Summer music Series, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage.org. An evening packed with Broadway’s best from composers like Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II. Via YouTube. $35. 3 p.m.

monday September 7 Labor Day. Bank and postal holiday.

In Person

Institute Woods 6K, princeton Athletic Club, Princeton Friends School, Quaker Road, Princeton. www.princetonac.org.

Trail run through the Institute Woods. Participants may choose mass start or time trial start. Bring your own water bottle to leave at the water stop. Register: $40 online; $55 day of. 10 a.m.

Greenwood Avenue Farmers market, , Corner of Hudson and Greenwood Avenue, 609-278-9677. www.greenwoodavefm.org.

Fresh produce, vegetables, tropical fruit, meat, and eggs. Reserved for seniors and people with disabilities, noon to 1 p.m. Free youth meals served 1 to 3 p.m. Noon to 4 p.m.

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

Good Causes

Virtual Information Session, CASA for Children of mercer & burlington Counties. www.casamb.org. Information on the non-profit organization that recruits, trains,

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

Register to jduffy@casamercer.org. 11 a.m.

Faith

Lunch & Learn, Jewish Center of princeton. www.thejewishcenter.org. Close reading of the Book of Jonah led by Elliot Salo Schoenberg, interim rabbi of the Jewish Center. Register to adulteducation@thejewishcenter.org for Zoom link. Free. Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Mental Health

Community Conversations with Avanzar: Self Care, trenton public Library, 120 Academy Street, Trenton. www.trentonlib. org. Community conversation via Facebook

Howell Farm’s 2020 Plowing Match takes place Saturday, September 5. focusing on mental health and self care skills to practice while coping with the traumatic experience of COVID-19, economic instability, and racial injustice. Practices to maintain mental and physical wellbeing will be covered followed by conversation with facilitators through comments. Free. 4 to 5 p.m.

Socials

Library Drawing party, mercer County Library. www.facebook.com/mclsnj. Follow along for a librarian-led drawing lesson, then share your finished work. For all ages.

7 p.m.

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september 2, 2020

Off The Presses: James Baldwin’s Promise and the Fire This Time

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by Dan Aubrey

, Jimmy Baldwin, as a guerrilla warfare with that Ameriblack writer, must in some way rep- can complacency which so inaderesent you. I’ll make you a pledge. quately masks the American panIf you will promise your elder ic.” brother that you will never, ever acGlaude notes that with Baldcept any of the many derogatory, win’s view “of the moral role of the degrading, and reductive defini- writer; his faith in the redemptive tions that this society has ready for possibilities of human beings, no you, then I, Jimmy Baldwin, prom- matter their color; and his initial ise you I shall never betray you.” faith in the possibility that the That 1963 declaration made to country could change, Baldwin students Howard University con- was catapulted to literary fame and tinues as the author of the books emerged as one of the most incisive “Notes of a Native Son” and “Go and honest critics of America and Tell It on the Mountain” and the its race problem. plays “Amen His admirers Corner” and stretched across “Blues for Mr. racial and politiCharlie” concal spectrums. tinues to be a Malcolm X remoral and soPullquote says some- ferred to him as cial (protago‘the poet of the thing profound. nist) against revolution.’ Edthe oppression mund Wilson deof racism. scribed him as one “It was an of the great creavowal of love, ative artists of the and a declaracountry.” tion of his reHe then says a sponsibility as a writer dedicated to moral writer, such as Baldwin, speaking the truth,” states Prince- “puts aside America’s myths and ton University professor and De- legends and forces a kind of conpartment of African American frontation with the society as it is, Studies chair Eddie S. Glaude Jr. in becoming a disturber of the peace his book “Begin Again – James in doing so.” And that “Baldwin’s Baldwin’s America and its Urgent understanding of the American Lessons for Our Own” (Crown). condition cohered around a set of Glaude — who says he initially practices that, taken together, constayed away from the incendiary stitute something I will refer to writings of Baldwin (1924 to 1987) throughout this book as the lie.”

— quotes him as saying it is “the Glaude is a man with a keen eye truth that to be an American writer on our times and says the idea of today means mounting an unend- America is in trouble. And “it ing attack on all that Americans be- should be. We have told ourselves a lieve themselves to hold sacred, It story that secures our virtue and means fighting an astute and agile protects us from our vices. But to-

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uthor and activist James Baldwin writes in his autobiographical “Notes of Native Son” that the year 1942 produced a “great change in my life.”

The Harlem-born Baldwin had come to Central New Jersey to work in the regional defense plant in Belle Mead and was “working and living among southerners, white and black. I knew about the south, of course, and about how southerners treated Negroes and how they expected them to behave, but it had never entered my mind that anyone would look at me and expect me to behave that way.

I learned in New Jersey that to be a Negro meant, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply at the mercy of the reflexes the color of one’s skin caused in other people.

Stating that he “knew about Jim-Crow but I had never experienced it,” Baldwin then provides two painful accounts of regional racism.

The first was a lunch counter where he “went to the same self-service restaurant three times and stood with all the Princeton boys before the counter, waiting for a hamburger and coffee; it was always an extraordinarily long time before anything was set before me; but it was not until the fourth visit that I learned that, in fact, nothing had ever been set before me: I had simply picked something up. Negroes were not served there, I was told, and they had been waiting for me to realize that I was always the only Negro present. Once I was told this, I determined to go there all the time. But now they were ready for me and, though some dreadful scenes were subsequently enacted in that restaurant, I never ate there again. It was the same story all over New Jersey, in bars, bowling alleys, diners, places to live. I was always being forced to leave, silently, or with mutual imprecations.

“I very shortly became notorious and children giggled behind me when I passed and their elders whispered or shouted—they really believed that I was mad . . My reputation

day we confront the ugliness of who we are – our darker angels reign. That ugliness isn’t just Donald Trump or murderous police officers or loud racists screaming horrible things. It is the image of children in cages with mucussmeared shirts and soiled pants glaring back at us. Fourteen-yearold girls forced to take care of twoyear=old children they do not even know. It is sleep-deprived babies in rooms where the lights never go off, crying for loved ones who risked everything to come here only because they believed the idea. It is Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his twenty-three-month-old daugh-

in town naturally enhanced my reputation at work and my working day became one long series of acrobatics designed to keep me out of trouble. I cannot say that these acrobatics succeeded.” And he was fired.

The other occasion was in Trenton on what he calls his “last night in New Jersey,” and when a white friend from New York took him to Trenton to go to the movies and have a few drinks.

“Almost every detail of that night stands out very clearly in my memory,” he writes. “I even remember the name of the movie we saw because its title impressed me as being so patly ironical. It was a movie about the German occupation of France, starring Maureen O’Hara and Charles Laughton and

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called ‘This Land Is Mine.’ I remember the name of the diner we walked into when the movie ended: it was the ‘American Diner.’

When we walked in the counterman asked what we wanted and I remember answering with the casual sharpness which had become my habit: ‘We want a hamburger and a cup of coffee, what do you think we want?’ I do not know why, after a year of such rebuffs, I so completely failed to anticipate his answer, which was, of course, ‘We don’t serve Negroes here.’ This reply failed to discompose me, at least for the moment. I made some sardonic comment about the name of the diner and we walked out into the streets.”

Baldwin says that Trenton was experiencing a “brown-out,” a World War II practice to protect cities and conserve energies, and that when he left the restaurant for the crowded street he experience an optical illusion — a type of “nightmare” — that affected him:

ter facedown, washed up on the banks of our boarder. Reality can be hard and heartless.

Yet, he says, “Revealing the lie at the heart of the American idea, however, occasions an opportunity to tell a different and better story. It affords us a chance to excavate the past and to examine the ruins to find, or at least glimpse, what made us who we are. Baldwin insisted, until he died, that we reach for a different story. We should tell the truth about ourselves, he maintained, and that would release us into a new possibility. In some ways, as I scoured the rubble and ruins of his life and works, this call

“People were moving in every direction but it seemed to me, in that instant, that all of the people I could see, and many more than that, were moving toward me, against me, and that everyone was white. I remember how their faces gleamed. And I felt, like a physical sensation, a click at the nape of my neck as though some interior string connecting my head to my body had been cut. I began to walk. I heard my friend call after me, but I ignored him. Heaven only knows what was going on in his mind, but he had the good sense not to touch me — I don’t know what would have happened if he had — and to keep me in sight. I don’t know what was going on in my mind, either; I certainly had no conscious plan. I wanted to do something to crush these white faces, which were crushing me. I walked for perhaps a block or two until I came to an enormous, glittering, and fashionable restaurant in which I knew not even the intercession of the Virgin would cause me to be served. I pushed through the doors and took the first vacant seat I saw, at a table for two, and waited. I do not know how long I waited and I rather wonder, until today, what I could possibly have looked like.

Whatever I looked like, I frightened the waitress who shortly appeared, and the moment she appeared all of my fury flowed towards her. I hated her for her white face, and for her great, astounded, frightened eyes. I felt that if she found a black man so frightening I would make her fright worthwhile. She did not ask me what I wanted, but repeated, as though she had learned it somewhere, “We don’t serve Negroes here.” She did not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown so accustomed, but, rather, with a note of apology in her voice, and fear. This made me colder and more murderous than ever. I felt I had to do something with my hands. I wanted her to come close enough for me to get her neck between my hands. So I pretended not to have heard her, hoping to draw her closer. And she did step a very short step closer, with her pencil poised incongruously over her pad, and repeated the formula: “. . . don’t serve Negroes here.” Somehow, with the repetition of that phrase, which was already ringing in my head like a thousand bells of a nightmare, I realized that she would

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for a different story was the answer I found to my own shaken faith. In his last novel, ‘Just Above My Head,’ Baldwin provided the key to surviving and mustering the strength to keep fighting amid the after times: ‘When the dream was slaughtered and all that love and labor seemed to have come to nothing, we scattered . . . We knew where we had been, what we had

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never come any closer and that I would have to strike from a distance. There was nothing on the table but an ordinary water-mug half full of water, and I picked this up and hurled it with all my strength at her. She ducked and it missed her and shattered against the mirror behind the bar. And, with that sound, my frozen blood abruptly thawed, I returned from wherever I had been, I saw, for the first time, the restaurant, the people with their mouths open, already, as it seemed to me, rising as one man, and I realized what I had done, and where I was, and I was frightened. I rose and began running for the door. A round, potbellied man grabbed me by the nape of the neck just as I reached the doors and began to beat me about the face. I kicked him and got loose and ran into the streets. My friend whispered, “Run!” and I ran.”

Later, Baldwin says, ”I saw nothing very clearly but I did see this: that my life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart. . . .”

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tried to do, who had cracked, gone damentally change the country. mad, died, or been murdered Nothing in our past would suggest that it was possible, but nothing in around us.’

“Not everything is lost. Respon- our past suggested we would elect a sibility cannot be lost, it can only be black man president either.”

Glaude continues to say that abdicated. If one refuses abdica“just as it did in response to the tion, one begins again.”

Glaude returns to the concept of civil rights movement, the lie “after times” (that is a time when moved quickly to reassert itself. something new wants to be born) We soon heard cries of ‘All Lives and says he believes we are once Matter.’ Cops were found not guilty again “ourselves living after times” in the killing of unarmed black and “suffering through yet another men. Republican legislatures beterrible cycle in the tragic history of gan to consider bills that would sanction protests. They also passed America.”

He says an example of how a draconian voted ID laws that would cultural “lie” can distort “our his- affect the next election in places tory can be found in how Barack like Wisconsin. The anger of the Obama’s election to the presidency Tea Party saturated the country’s was largely framed as an ending: a politics as many pundits describe triumphant climax to the civil their economic angst and downrights movement begun decades played their cultural anxiety about earlier. The elevation of a black the demographic changes in the man to the presidency, such a story country.

“All of this was prelude to 2016, suggested, represented the notion that all constraints had fallen away, when chants of ‘Make America that if a black man could hold the Great Again’ took center stage. highest office in the land, then sure- Trump barely won the election but ly we as a country had finally and his victory felt like he had split the definitively overcome our racist land in two, and whatever was repas. It this story, what King began leased from below sucked up most in Montgomery in 1955, Obama of the oxygen. For many, the far finished in triumph at Grant Park right had taken hold of the reins of on election night 2008. To be fair, government. Trump refused to conObama himself did not discourage demn white supremacists and neothis reading of his own ascendance, Nazis in Charlottesville. Tried to even though a simple look at the ban Muslims from entering the American landscape at the moment country. Turned on ‘enemies’ withof his election could not have made in and without. He embraced dramore plain the hollowness of this conian immigration policies – sepstory. Still, the lie had a nice ring to arating children from their parents and building tent cities to hold it.”

But Glaude purposes a different them – and declared the so-called story, “one in which Obama’s pres- caravan of refugees at the southern idency sounded not an ending but a border a carrier of contagion (lepbeginning, the opening of a new rosy) and a threat to the security of the nation. movement when Contrary to the lie and the what he dreadful consecleared during quences might his inaugural once again be inaddress, terrogated as it Pullquote says some- Trump did not was during the stop the civil rights movething profound.

‘American carment, when the nage.’ He unenergy of activists leased it.” and common citiThe book is zens might be obviously marshalled to timely reading bring forth a new country. We saw this in the tremen- with racial and social unrest as part dous response to the murder of of our daily existence and Glaude Trayvon Martin, in the formation concludes it – one of seven dealing of Black Lives Matter, in the return with religion, race, and philosophy of the phrase ‘white supremacy’ to – by saying that he was guided by the lips of people of all colors to de- the writings of and about Baldwin scribe the arrangements of Ameri- and “reached for Jimmy’s delicate can life. Decades of pent-up energy hands to help us in these after were released into the streets, times.”

However, he now seems to be massed into protests. Civil disobedience found renewed appears, as heeding Baldwin’s powerful voice protesters tried to make plain to the and joins in Baldwin’s exhorting Americans to listen to a native son nation the truth of the value gap.

“No wonder, then, that in the last -- before we lie ourselves to obliviyear of Obama’s presidency we on.

“Begin Again -- James Baldsaw a resurgence of interest in Baldwin’s life and work. Before win’s America and Its Urgent LesElection Day 2016, Baldwin was sons for Our Own” by Eddie S. everywhere in the Black Lives Glaude Jr., Crown, $27, 272 pages.

Matter movement. When residents erupted in Baltimore, Maryland, after the murder of Freddie Gray, one activist was seen outside the Western District police station with a sign quoting Baldwin: “Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.” Activists throughout the Obama’s years appealed to Baldwin’s critical insights on social media and reveled in his sexuality as a way of disrupting older forms of black politics (this black queer man represented a different kind of radicalism than the masculinist politics of black male preachers, they maintained).

They sought out his works as a way of making sense of a country on the cusp of change, because they were protesting in the streets and walking the corridors of power demanding that change. With a black man in the White House, many believed that, even as the Tea Party shouted, as white nationalists panicked, and as Republicans obstructed, there was a genuine opportunity to fun-

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Opportunities Learn Italian Registration for Princeton’s Dorothea’s House Fall 2020 Language Classes is open. Classes will begin the week of September 14 and will run for 12 weeks. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all fall classes will be taught remotely. Instructors will notify students which internet-based tool to use.

Please go to www.dorotheashouse.org and click on Italian Classes to view the class descriptions, fees, and to register. Register

by Monday, September 7 to avoid a late fee.

For any questions, contact Linda Bruschi at LindaBruschi@dorotheashouse.org or leave a message for Linda at 609-306-0773 to receive a return call.

Scavenger Hunt The Garden State Watercolor Society invites the public to participate in a unique, family-friendly scavenger hunt, with its “Beautiful Creatures” exhibit throughout the town of Princeton and Exhibit Scavenger Cards at Greenway Meadows park.

Six special prize cards, depicting forests and meadows preserve locally by D&R Greenway Land Trust, can be found hidden at the land trust’s Johnson Education Center campus on Rosedale Road and in the surrounding Greenway Meadows park. D&R Greenway, a partner with GSWS for this celebration of art and nature, preserves and cares for land where real-life beautiful creatures make their homes in wild habitats.

Forty-three GSWS artists created 90 Beautiful Creatures paintings, limited to secondary colors of green, orange, and purple. These 5x7-inch paintings were to have been displayed in the D&R Greenway galleries in the Johnson Education Center. Instead, the “Beautiful Creatures” — as 90 numbered, laminated art cards — have been placed throughout the town of Princeton and on the grounds surrounding D&R Greenway’s Johnson Education Center, for the public to “seek and find.”

Participants are invited to travel on a “Beautiful Creatures” safari to find these whimsical creations that are sure to bring a smile. All are encouraged to post their “findings” on Instagram, with the hashtag #gswsbc.

The Scavenger Hunt is open and available through Sunday, September 13. D&R Greenway’s Johnson Education Center is located at One Preservation Place, off Rosedale Road, in Princeton.

For information about the scavenger hunt including maps, how to win one of six special prizes and how to purchase prints and original artwork visit: www.gswcs.com or www.drgreenway.org.

Call for Volunteers The Friends of Princeton Open Space seeks volunteers to assist at the Forest Restoration Site in the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. Sessions will be held Wednesdays and Thursdays, September 2, 3, 9, and 12, from 8 to 11 a.m. Email info@fopos.org with “VOLUNTEER” in the subject line. Please indicate which date works for you, or if you would like to be added to the volunteer list for future dates.

CONTACT of Mercer County is looking for volunteers to takes its fall 2020 hotline training course.

The course is conducted over Zoom and is offered free of charge.

The training course teaches active listening skills, awareness of mental health issues, and community resources. Upon successful completion of the course, trainees will be invited to answer CONTACT’S crisis and suicide prevention hotlines. Further training will be offered in Chat and online services.

Hotline training is open to community volunteers who are 18 or older and out of high school. The training course is offered on 10 consecutive Wednesday, September 16 through November 18, or Thursdays, September 19 through November 19, from 7 to 10 p.m.

Call 609-737-2000 and leave a call back number or register online at www.contactofmercer.org.

Literacy New Jersey Mercer Programs offer a tutor training workshop via Zoom. Volunteer tutors help adults improve their English literacy skills. Work one-toone or in small groups to teach adults who are learning to speak, read, and write English.

Prospective volunteers must attend four two-hour sessions on Wednesdays, September 9, 16, 23, and 30, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Training includes some independent online assignments. Previous teaching experience not necessary.

After the training, you’ll be ready to start meeting with a student online once a week. All of our current tutoring is now online.

Call 609-587-6027 or email mercer@literacynj.org to register.

Virtual Sports for Causes The ninth annual Sourland Spectacular bike ride to benefit the Sourland Conservancy will take place in a virtual format from Saturday, September 5, through Sunday, September 13. The organization is offering three routes, ranging in distance from 26 to 63 miles, that can be completed as a hike, bike ride, or run. All begin and end at the Otto Kaufman Community Center in Skillman. For more information or to register visit www.sourlandspectacular. com.

Joan Capaldo’s ‘Giraffe,’ a part of ‘Beautiful Creatures.’

The Sourland Conservancy also relies on volunteers to accomplish its mission of protecting, promoting, and preserving the Sourland Mountain region. To explore volunteer opportunities visit www.tiny.cc/SCVolunteer.

Miles for Isles, the annual road race benefiting the Trenton-based community development organization, has moved to a virtual format.

To participate in the “5K My Way,” register online for one or more of four events: a fun run/walk; a 5K run; a 10K run; or a 26.2-mile bike ride. Participants are invited to share their chosen routes on social media. Cost is $20 per event. For more information or to register visit www.isles.org/milesforisles.

Call for Artists The Arts Council of Princeton invites professional and amateur artists to participate in two days of open air studios scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, October 17 and 18, from 2 to 5 p.m.

Participants in “Art and About” can set up their front porch, driveway, or lawn as an open-air studio that is accessible to the public with proper social distancing. Artists can keep 100 percent of proceeds from sales of their work. Register

by Saturday, September 5, to be included in promotional materials.

Visit www.artscouncilofprinceton. org.

In collaboration with the Ewing Township Arts Commission, a cannabis dispensary opening in Ewing seeks up to five New Jersey artists to create murals for the exterior walls of its building. Murals will be created on five nine-footby-ten-foot panels, and each must be an original work of art with a strong connection to the neighborhood and its community.

Submissions are due by Tuesday, September 15, and artists will be selected in October for November 1 delivery. For details visit bit. ly/callforartistsNJ.

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he centennial of the 19th Amendment that guarantees American women the right to vote is being marked by Rider University with a publication that honors historic publications that had been important to women who hungered for the right to vote.

“The Rider University Women’s Suffrage Centennial Cookbook” is “similar to suffrage cookbooks of the late 19th and 20th centuries,” write Pamela G. Mingle and Polly Dell’Omo in their introduction to the 184 page book published by the council. The authors are co-directors of the Gail Biernebaum Women’s Leadership Council (GBWLC) at Rider University.

Subtitled “Advancing the Cause for Voter Engagement,” the book includes recipes and contemporary political messages created in the tradition “of our courageous Foremothers.”

“This little volume is sent out with an important mission,” noted Hattie A. Burr in her 1886 “The Woman Suffrage Cook Book.”

Taking that as a theme, the codirectors note, “Our ‘important mission’ was to honor the women of the past as well as to encourage women — of all ages — to be active and engaged citizens and to VOTE!” The two also say they hope the collection of recipes and personal messages will be, in Burr’s words, “an advocate for the elevation and enfranchisement of women.”

Edited by Rider University Board of Trustees Vice Chair Joan C. Mazzotti (Rider class of 1972) and featuring submissions from engaged women ranging from New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way to current Rider University students, the book is also designed to raise funds to support scholarship for women attending Rider (see details below).

Yet an immediate application is the opportunity to try a new dish for a family or special meal and as well as reflect on the meaning and power of voting as Election Day, Tuesday November 3, 2020, comes closer.

As a sampler, here are some examples that provide just a taste of what’s in the pages.

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adison Becker, a current GBWLC protege from Ewing, says while working the polls she “heard different generations talking about why they vote and who they were voting for. Every person had a different reason for voting, although when we considered it thoughtfully, they weren’t all that different.

For me, it is my way to make sure my opinion is expressed, so that others are not making decisions for me. It is my way to speak up.”

Becker’s contribution for Kale Chips is as follows: Ingredients: Fresh kale; avocado oil (olive oil can be substituted); choice of salt (I use pink Himala-

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yan salt, but seasoned salt or regular salt works as well); garlic powder. (Note: You can substitute the salt and garlic powder with your preferred seasonings.)

Preparation: 1. Preheat oven to 350F 2. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and lightly spray with oil.

3. Clean and dry kale 4. Break kale from the stems.

5. Place kale in large bowl and dress with ingredients (your choice of oil, salt, and garlic powder).

6. Mix thoroughly (make sure to coat all the kale).

7. Place kale on prepared baking sheet, spread out evenly, and bake for about 8 minutes or until crispy (but not burnt).

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ucienne Beard, executive director of the Alice Paul Institute in Mt. Laurel, says that at the institute when “we talk to elementary school students about voting rights, we always tell them, ‘You may not get your way, but you always have your say.’ Having the right to vote means having a voice. It means having a chance to change how things are done, to make the world a better place. Every time I cast a ballot, I am reminded that generations of women fought for me to have this right, and I do it with gratitude and in their honor.”

Beard shared this recipe for Moonblush Tomato Salad: Ingredients: 1 pint grape tomatoes; 1 teaspoon thyme; 1/4 teaspoon sugar; 2 teaspoons salt; 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 8-10 cups arugula, fresh spinach, or any assortment of darker green lettuces; 1 cup goat cheese, crumbled.

Preparation: 1. Preheat oven to 450F. 2. Cut grape tomatoes in half. Place cut side up in a baking dish. Sprinkle with thyme, sugar, salt, and olive oil.

3. Place baking dish in preheated oven and turn off oven.

4. Leave in oven overnight (or for several hours until oven is completely cool).

5. Remove tomatoes from the baking dish, reserving the juices from the tomatoes.

6. To make the dressing: In a medium bowl, whisk the juice reserved from the tomatoes with 2 tablespoons olive oil and lemon juice.

7. Place the salad greens in a large serving bowls. Add the tomatoes and goat cheese.

8. Toss with dressing.

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Alice Paul Institute executive director Lucienne Beard, above, is one contributor to Rider’s new cookbook celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage. cal based in Newtown, Pennsylvania. She says, “The vote is important to me because it honors the voices and sacrifices of all the women and men who fought for a just and equal society. As a 5th generation American of Japanese ancestry, whose mother was born in the World War II internment camps because of her ethnicity, I believe passionately that all who benefit from this great American story should have a voice in the way the story is written.”

Fittingly, she includes this recipe for Grandma Miyoka’s Teriyaki Chicken Marinade: Ingredients: 1 cup of soy sauce; 1/2 cup sugar; 1/4 cup brown sugar; 1/4 cup honey; 1/4 cup mirin (if you don’t have it, no worries, just leave out); 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 2-3 cloves garlic, minced; 1-inch ginger root, freshly shredded or 1-2 tablespoons of fresh minced ginger.

Preparation: 1. Heat all ingredients in a sauce pan. Let cool to room temperature.

2. Marinate chicken, beef, or tofu overnight. Reserve some marinade, in a separate container, for topping after the meat is cooked.

If Grilling: Allow excess marinade to drip off of meat/tofu prior to grilling. Brush reserved sauce on after grilling is completed.

If Baking Chicken Thighs: Preheat oven to 400 F. Place thighs in the baking dish and pour any excess marinade over the chicken.

Cook for 30 minutes on one side, and then flip the thighs over and bake for another 15-30 minutes until the thighs are cooked through.

Use reserve marinade to drizzle over the meat before serving, if desired.

If Baking Steak: Preheat oven to 400F. Place the marinated steak in a baking dish and pour any excess marinade over the steak. Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil.

Cook in the oven for 30-40 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 145F. Let the steak rest for

5 minutes before cutting. Use reserve marinade to drizzle over the meat before serving, if desired.

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rica Gutman of Princeton, a data specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, states, “Equality of all humankind is important, and this is a step in the right direction. To allow women’s voices to be heard and enjoy the very same freedoms as men, the future can be a wonderful place. How do we know what could be invited, discovered, revised, and improved until women are given the same opportunity to pursue the challenges that exist today in order to make the world a better place? There is no losing outcome.”

She presents a recipe for cheesecake.

Ingredients: For the crust: 1.5 cups graham cracker crumbs, from 12 whole crackers; 5 tablespoons butter, melted; 2 tablespoons sugar; 1/8 teaspoon salt.

For the filling: 32 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature; 2 cups sugar; 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour; 4 teaspoons vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice (optional); 1/4 teaspoon salt; 6 large eggs; 1/2 cup sour cream.

For the topping: Any kind of berry sauce (optional).

Preparation: 1. Preheat oven to 375F and set an oven rack in the lower middle position.

2. Spray the inside of a 9-inch or 10-inch springform pan with nonstick cooking spray.

3. In a medium bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar, and salt. Stir until well combined.

4. Press the crumbs into an even

layer on the bottom of the prepared pan.

5. Bake the crust for 10 minutes, until set. Remove the pan from the oven and set aside.

6. Reduce the oven temperature to 325F. 7. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese, sugar, and flour together on medium speed until just smooth, about 1 minute. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl to be sure the mixture is evenly combined.

8. Add the vanilla, lemon juice, and salt; beat on low speed until just combined.

9. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing on low speed until incorporated. Mix in the sour cream.

10. Make sure the batter has a uniform consistency. Pour the batter on top of the crust.

11. Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes to 1 hour and 45 minutes.

12. Turn off the oven and leave oven door slightly ajar.

13. Cool the cheesecake in the turned-off oven, with the oven door is slightly ajar 14. Once cool, remove the cake form the oven. If necessary, run a thin-bladed knife around the side of the cake to make sure it’s not sticking to the pan. Cover with plastic wrap and transfer to the refrigerator to cool for at least 8 hours or overnight.

15. When you are ready to serve, remove the sides of the springform pan. Serve the cheesecake right from the base of the pan.

16. Top with a berry sauce, if you like. My favorite is cherry topping!

Rider University Women’s Suffrage Centennial Cookbook, $19.20. www.rider.edu/cookbook or 609-896-5000, ext. 7032.

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obert Giaquinto’s shop at 115 South Warren Street in downtown Trenton isn’t pretty. In fact, the decades-old city fixture shows its wear and tear — a condition that fittingly sets the stage for what it is all about.

“I recraft shoes and repair shoes, handbags, jackets, and belts,” says Giaquinto, 58. “If it can be fixed, I can repair it. Anything.”

The sole survivor in a throw away culture, Giaquinto basically stepped into his father’s shoes and a career.

“My dad started in 1947,” Giaquinto says between handing out brown-bags of spruced-up shoes to customers stepping in and out during a recent Friday afternoon.

He says his dad — the original R on the R. Giaqunito’s Shoe Shop sign — started repairing shoes in Gimbles and Lit Brothers department stores before getting his own shop on Front Street.

Giaquinto provides some background. “My dad was born on Bond Street (in North Trenton). His father was a carpenter. His mother was pregnant with him when she came over from Italy on the boat.

They came from a town outside Naples.”

He says his father began doing shoe work when he was a kid working in different shoe repair shops, tion of Hamilton. My mom still making deliveries on a bike and lives there,” says the 1980 graduate of Hamilton High West. then in the shop.

He says he got into the business “Then he got drafted and went to work for the Army. They kept him when at age 10 he would get on the bus and “come at Fort Dix. It was down to my very important for dad’s shop. I’d there to be a shoe play out front repair center (for and do little the military). At stuff here and one point they Pullquote says some- there. But I fishipped him to nally got into Panama, and he thing profound. the business was there for a when I was in few years. When high school. I he came back he had to get bought the shop. I working pahave the bill of pers to work sale and the lease for Kinney’s shoe store on Route from Lit Brothers.”

About his own life, he says, “I’m 33 in Hamilton.”

Giaquinto worked there until he adopted. I was born in upstate New York, the Village of Silver Creek.” graduated from high school and He says a Lutheran minister then divided his time between friend of his parents was the one Hamilton and the new shop at the who helped make the arrangement Quakerbridge Mall.

“They had me driving from the for Robert and his older brother to Route 33 shop to the Quakerbridge be adopted.

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went to Art Broader’s Florsheim Shoes (in the Quakerbridge Mall).”

But he says he couldn’t take the management there and decided to go to work for his father.

“I was about 21 when I started working with him,” he says, noting his father was happy about the decision.

Giaquinto says the state took over the building his father was renting around 1981. “That’s when he moved over to Lafayette and Warren (it was a dry cleaner and now an empty lot). That was when I took it over.”

He says that in the early 1990s he moved to the current location and in the mid-1990s purchased the building from the locksmith Caola & Company. “I also make keys,” he says pointing to a wall of them.

After nearly 40 years of dealing with old heels and lost soles in downtown Trenton, Giaquinto says, “I love what I do. Especially when you get shoes that are falling apart and I recraft them. They look beautiful when they get done. I take something that looks like hell and make it look new.”

He then gets more specific. “I do everything, lifts and heels to recrafting anything to cementing anything. There are six different cements we have to keep on hand.

There used to be one, but now there are different materials, and there are all kinds of crazy things that I have to do.”

Customers coming in for gluing soles (cost around $25) or quality shoe refurbishing (approximately $75) include “neighbors and state and federal workers. I run the gamut of everybody.”

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cial visitor. “Years ago it got to be whenever the circus was at the stadium something would come from them. I had to re-sole the clown shoes. I had done the high wire shoes. I had to do the harnesses and bridles for horses and collars for elephants. Whatever they need I’d do.”

He then smiles and says, “The clown shoes were huge. I had to buy a sheet of leather to fix the soles.”

Giaquinto says another business perk is “I am always learning.

Some of the old-time shoemakers, they don’t want to learn or do something different. I’m very much into that.

“I am in the Shoe Service Institute of America (SSIA). They hold conventions with new products and sessions. I also belong to Shoe Repair International, SRI. That’s big on Facebook and all over the world.

We have members from Greece, Mexico, and they post pictures of what they do and how they do it.

“Between both associations you can submit rebuilds and recrafts.

It’s a contest. They’re judged by our peers. So it’s neat to see what they put in for their awards. You get the guys who put out videotapes about what they did. And I learn.

You learn a lot from those guys.”

“I never put anything in (the contests),” he says. “I don’t even

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post anything online regarding my work. As long as my customers are happy that is all that counts.

“But if I’m not sure of how to do something, I’ll put something out on the SRI Facebook and ask.”

He then adds that the SSIA website is a “reliable place” for people looking for a shoe repair maker and has a list that is growing shorter.

“I used to Google to find shoe repairers,” he says. But now, “there are not many.”

Another love he says is the downtown Trenton location, even though the current COVID-19 closures are affecting his business.

“Without the state and city being here, there’s nobody down here.

That’s the hardest thing to deal with.”

He says one way to stay in business is through mailing. “People can mail (the job) to me. All they have to send is a name and daytime phone, and I’ll contact them and discuss what has to be done.”

But some love has come back through the state via an AAE loan, and “the Trenton Downtown Association gave me a nice grant,” he says.

The married father of two boys says another challenge is his health, affected by an autoimmune condition and breathing problems connected to his tools of the trade including solvents, glues, and dyes that he has used for the past four decades. “When I was younger I just had the door open and fans on.

I didn’t have ventilation. I now do.”

Nevertheless, when he looks back and takes stock of his business, Giaquinto says, he his interest and investment are in a downtown Trenton shoe repair shop. “I love it down here.”

R. Giaquinto’s Shoe Repair, 115 South Warren Street, Trenton, Open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Closed Sundays. 609-5999090 or www.rgiaquintoshoerepair.com.

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