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businesses that were forced to shut down in March and have patiently Editor’s Note: John Harmon, — or impatiently — waited for the president and CEO of the Trentonpandemic to subside and state reg- based African American Chamber ulations to change. of Commerce of New Jersey, issued First up were gyms and indoor the following remarks in response amusement venues, which were to the police shooting of Jacob permitted to open with capacity re- Blake in Wisconsin. strictions and other safety measures in place on September 1.

And the long-delayed restart of fter the murder of George indoor dining is scheduled for Fri- Floyd and the sustained global proday, September 4, just in time for test and the outpouring of corporaLabor Day weekend. tions and philanthropist Restaurants had been their commitbetween declaring prepared for the return ment to address the inof indoor dining in July, the justices and economic but that plan was abruptinequities of Blacks in Lines ly halted following outAmerica, we could have breaks tied to indoor easily concluded that dining in other states.

America was transitioning into a Restaurants will now be allowed country that we all envisioned. to operate at 25 percent capacity, However, with the recent shooting with masks required and numerous of Jacob Blake which resulted in other restrictions. Also included in him being paralyzed, from the the September 4 reopening are waist down, what should we conmovie theaters, which can also op- clude? It would be inconsequential erate at 25 percent capacity. at this point to say that black people As the state Chamber of Com- have had enough. merce put it in its statement: It is extremely encouraging to “The reopening of indoor din- see professional athletes throughing, movie theaters, and indoor en- out the United States take a stand tertainment venues is a positive on the continued injustices imstep for the New Jersey economy posed on black people, and to forand the employees in these indus- feit compensation and personal actries. While we believe it would complishments to support their have been desirable to reopen these people. This is a true demonstrabusinesses sooner, it is time to tion of the ideal of being “my move forward.” brother’s keeper.”

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Yes, there have been a few initiatives to address many of these areas; however, things appear to be reverting to a past that many hoped we were moving away from. In most urban cities, wherein the power is controlled by party bosses, blacks are not a priority in any of the areas mentioned above, which is unfortunate, given how the black vote has placed many of these leaders in positions of power.

The late Maya Angelou declared, that when people show you who they are believe them… it is difficult to determine who is truly committed to the interest of blacks in America, it appears that we are being played by both sides politically, and in spite of our collective best efforts, there still remains uncertainty at every turn. However, we cannot lose faith because that has always been our source of true optimism.

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s pharmaceutical companies around the world — including several, such as Johnson & Johnson, in the Princeton area — race to develop and test a viable vaccination against COVID-19, others have concerns about the safety and ethics of the race to a cure.

One academic is challenging a particular tactic — the challenge trial — that would speed up clinical trials but that exists in an ethical gray area. Ben Bramble is an assistant professor of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin and a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values. His essay, “Challenge Trials for a Coronavirus Vaccine Are Unethical Except for in One Unlikely Scenario,” recently appeared in the online journal The Conversation.

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he 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 sub-

jects to encounter the virus in the peated blunders, you’re still at a normal course of their daily lives, it very high risk of something really, could result in a vaccine much fast- really terrible. Sorry about that. er than a normal trial. Researchers But now, seeing as you are already need to know if the vaccine they are so very imperiled, would you mind testing actually produces some sort terribly if we increased your risk of immunity, so people have to even further, to help us all get out of come in contact with the coronavi- this giant pickle?” I believe that rus. The question is whether to pro- there is something deeply wrong duce that contact intentionally, or with asking people this. let random chance do it.

Full information. OK, risk is I am a philosopher and bioethi- bad, but what if volunteers fully cist who has been researching and understand the risks they face? writing a book on the ethics of the Would that make challenge trials pandemic. Challenge trials are not ethical? a new idea and have always faced a Unfortunately, it is unclear major ethical question: Do they ex- whether this is possible. The mediploit test subjects even if the sub- cal community’s knowledge of the jects volunteer? full health impacts of COVID-19 is To answer that question, ethi- simply too incomplete right now. cists must conFor example, resider an equacent studies sugtion involving gest the virus Challenge trials are risk, knowledge, might cause not a new idea and and need. Given long-term heart the current state have always faced a damage in paof the pandemic, tients who do major ethical questhere is only one not even require tion: Do they exploit rare situation in hospitalization which I believe a test subjects even if during their inichallenge trial tial infection. the subjects volunwould be ethiMoreover, in teer? cal. In most casorder to reduce es, it would unto answer that questhe risks of volfairly exploit unteers becomtion, ethicists must those who voling severely ill consider an equation unteer. or dying, they involving risk, knowlwould likely Risk minimihave to be young zation. The first edge, and need. and healthy peoquestion is risk. ple. But such Some propopeople have, by nents of challenge trials say that they might be definition, never experienced seethical if you only select volunteers vere illness before. Even if they who already have a high risk of have a good theoretical grasp of the catching the virus — for example, health risks, that is a far cry from people who live in high transmis- firsthand experience of severe, sion areas, or who are essential long-term illness. This is a substanworkers like doctors, nurses, bus tial problem. drivers, cleaners, food workers, Analogies with other profesand so on. People who support this sions. The final point that people argue that since these people are al- make is that there are many other ready at great risk, being purpose- contexts in which it is ethical to alfully exposed to the virus isn’t that low people to take on big health much riskier for them than normal risks for the sake of the community life.

— firefighters, police officers, solBut I see a big problem with this diers, and many other people who idea. These people are at such high work dangerous jobs do this daily. risk of catching COVID-19 in large And of course, millions of essential part due to failures of governments workers are still going to work in to properly lock down, test, and the morning despite the risks incontact-trace. In asking these peo- volved. ple to volunteer, I see governments The difference between fireas saying to them: “Due to our re- fighting and a challenge trial has to

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Ben Bramble, a visiting fellow at Princeton University, does not yet see an ethical justification for the use of challenge trials for a coronavirus vaccine. 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

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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 www.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

Take to the Streets The African American Cultural Collaborative of Mercer County brings backs its First Friday celebration on Front Street in Trenton on Friday, September 4.

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 Scene Alive

the Trenton Downtown Association’s “Murals on Front Street” proj-

ect 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.

Murals clockwise from upper left: ‘Rock Dis Funky Joint,’ artist Dave Orantes’ tribute to a song by the Trenton hip-hop group Poor Righteous Teachers; Dean ‘Ras’ Innocenzi’s tribute to the late NJ skateboarder Brendan Wilkie; ‘Get Lost in the Rhythm of Our City’

by RFab Art; and ‘Uprising’ by Leon Rainbow.

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

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 wellbeing will be covered followed by conversation with facilitators through comments. Free. 4 to 5 p.m.

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.

Lectures

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

through the past Darkly, princeton University public Lectures. lectures.princeton.edu. Anne Case and David Autor discuss how the COVID crisis “unmasks” four decades of failed U.S. economic policy.

Register for Zoom link. Free. 6 p.m.

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

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by Dan Aubrey

, Jimmy Baldwin, as a ing attack on all that Americans beblack writer, must in some way rep- lieve themselves to hold sacred. It resent you. I’ll make you a pledge. means fighting an astute and agile If you will promise your elder guerrilla warfare with that Ameribrother that you will never, ever ac- can complacency which so inadecept any of the many derogatory, quately masks the American pandegrading, and reductive defini- ic.” tions that this society has ready for Glaude notes that with Baldyou, then I, Jimmy Baldwin, prom- win’s view “of the moral role of the ise you I shall never betray you.” writer; his faith in the redemptive That 1963 declaration made to possibilities of human beings, no students Howard University con- matter their color; and his initial tinues as the author of the books faith in the possibility that the “Notes of a Native Son” and “Go country could change, Baldwin Tell It on the Mountain” and the was catapulted to literary fame and plays “Amen Corner” and “Blues emerged as one of the most incisive for Mr. Charlie” and honest critcontinues to be a ics of America moral and social and its race The idea of America protagonist problem.

His is in trouble, Glaude against the opa d m i r e r s pression of racwrites. ‘We have told stretched across ism. ourselves a story that racial and politi“It was an cal spectrums. secures our virtue avowal of love Malcolm X reand a declaration and protects us from ferred to him as of his responsi‘the poet of the our vices. But today bility as a writer revolution.’ Edwe confront the uglidedicated to mund Wilson speaking the ness of who we are — described him truth,” states as one of the our darker angels Princeton Unigreat creative reign.’ versity professor artists of the and Department country.” of African AmerHe then says ican Studies chair Eddie S. Glaude a moral writer, such as Baldwin, Jr. in his book “Begin Again — “puts aside America’s myths and James Baldwin’s America and Its legends and forces a kind of conUrgent Lessons for Our Own” frontation with the society as it is, (Crown). becoming a disturber of the peace Glaude — who says he initially in doing so.” And that “Baldwin’s stayed away from the incendiary understanding of the American writings of Baldwin (1924 to 1987) condition cohered around a set of — quotes him as saying it is “the practices that, taken together, contruth that to be an American writer stitute something I will refer to today means mounting an unend- throughout this book as the lie.”

James Baldwin, Jim Crow, and New Jersey

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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

Glaude is a man with a keen eye on our times and says the idea of America is in trouble. And “it should be. We have told ourselves a story that secures our virtue and protects us from our vices. But today 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

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.

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he 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 patently ironical. It was a movie about the German occupation of France, starring Mau-

‘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.’’ reen O’Hara and Charles Laughton and 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 energy, and that when he left the restaurant for the crowded

The latest book from Eddie Glaude, a professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton, examines the work of author and activist James Baldwin. 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 daughter 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,

street he experience an optical illusion — a type of “nightmare” — that affected him: “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.

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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.’

Author and activist James Baldwin.

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 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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until he died, that we reach for a Western District police station with different story. We should tell the a sign quoting Baldwin: ‘Ignorance truth about ourselves, he main- allied with power is the most ferotained, and that would release us cious enemy of justice.’ Activists into a new possibility. In some throughout the Obama years apways, as I scoured the rubble and pealed to Baldwin’s critical inruins of his life and works, this call sights on social media and reveled for a different story was the answer in his sexuality as a way of disruptI found to my own shaken faith. In ing older forms of black politics his last novel, ‘Just Above My (this black queer man represented a Head,’ Baldwin provided the key to different kind of radicalism than surviving and mustering the the masculinist politics of black strength to keep fighting amid the male preachers, they maintained). after times: ‘When the dream was They sought out his works as a way slaughtered and all that love and of making sense of a country on the labor seemed to have come to noth- cusp of change, because they were ing, we scattered . . . We knew protesting in the streets and walkwhere we had been, what we had ing the corridors of power demandtried to do, who had cracked, gone ing that change. With a black man mad, died, or been murdered in the White House, many believed around us.’ that, even as the Tea Party shouted, “Not everything is lost. Respon- as white nationalists panicked, and sibility cannot be lost, it can only be as Republicans obstructed, there abdicated. If one was a genuine refuses abdicaopportunity to ‘Revealing the lie at tion, one begins fundamentally again.” change the the heart of the AmerGlaude recountry. Nothican idea, however, turns to the coning in our past occasions an opporcept of “after would suggest times” (that is a that it was postunity to tell a differtime when somesible, but nothent and better story. It ing in our past thing new wants affords us a chance to be born) and suggested we says he believes would elect a to excavate the past we are once black man presiand to examine the again “ourselves dent either.” ruins to find, or at living after Glaude contimes” and “suftinues to say that least glimpse, what fering through “just as it did in made us who we are,’ yet another terriresponse to the Glaude writes. ble cycle in the civil rights tragic history of movement, the America.” lie moved He says an example of how a quickly to reassert itself. We soon cultural “lie” can distort “our his- heard cries of ‘All Lives Matter.’ tory can be found in how Barack Cops were found not guilty in the Obama’s election to the presidency killing of unarmed black men. Rewas largely framed as an ending: a publican legislatures began to contriumphant climax to the civil sider bills that would sanction prorights movement begun decades tests. They also passed draconian earlier. The elevation of a black voter ID laws that would affect the man to the presidency, such a story next election in places like Wisconsuggested, represented the notion sin. The anger of the Tea Party satuthat all constraints had fallen away, rated the country’s politics as many that if a black man could hold the pundits describe their economic highest office in the land, then sure- angst and downplayed their culturly we as a country had finally and al anxiety about the demographic definitively overcome our racist changes in the country. past. In this story, what King began “All of this was prelude to 2016, in Montgomery in 1955, Obama when chants of ‘Make America finished in triumph at Grant Park Great Again’ took center stage. on election night 2008. To be fair, Trump barely won the election but Obama himself did not discourage his victory felt like he had split the this reading of his own ascendance, land in two, and whatever was reeven though a simple look at the leased from below sucked up most American landscape at the moment of the oxygen. For many, the far of his election could not have made right had taken hold of the reins of more plain the hollowness of this government. Trump refused to constory. Still, the lie had a nice ring to demn white supremacists and neoit.”

Nazis in Charlottesville. Tried to ban Muslims from entering the country. Turned on ‘enemies’ withut Glaude proposes a differ- in and without. He embraced draent story, “one in which Obama’s conian immigration policies — presidency sounded not like an separating children from their parending but a beginning, the open- ents and building tent cities to hold ing of a new movement when the them — and declared the so-called lie and the dreadful consequences caravan of refugees at the southern might once again be interrogated as border a carrier of contagion (lepit was during the civil rights move- rosy) and a threat to the security of ment, when the energy of activists the nation. Contrary to what he and common citizens might be claimed during his inaugural admarshalled to bring forth a new dress, Trump did not stop the country. We saw this in the tremen- ‘American carnage.’ He unleashed dous response to the murder of it.”

The book is obviously timely Trayvon Martin, in the formation of Black Lives Matter, in the return reading with racial and social unof the phrase ‘white supremacy’ to rest as part of our daily existence, the lips of people of all colors to de- and Glaude concludes it — one of scribe the arrangements of Ameri- his seven dealing with religion, can life. Decades of pent-up energy race, and philosophy — by saying were released into the streets, that he was guided by the writings massed into protests. Civil disobe- of and about Baldwin and “reached dience found renewed appears, as for Jimmy’s delicate hands to help protesters tried to make plain to the us in these after times.”

However, he now seems to be nation the truth of the value gap.

“No wonder, then, that in the last heeding Baldwin’s powerful voice year of Obama’s presidency we and joins in Baldwin’s exhorting saw a resurgence of interest in Americans to listen to a native son Baldwin’s life and work. Before — before we lie ourselves to oblivElection Day 2016, Baldwin was ion. everywhere in the Black Lives Begin Again — James BaldMatter movement. When residents win’s America and Its Urgent erupted in Baltimore, Maryland, Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. after the murder of Freddie Gray, Glaude Jr., Crown, $27, 272 pages. one activist was seen outside the

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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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Rider Cookbook Sees Voting as Recipe for Rights

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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).

Salads & Soups

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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.

Main Dishes

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llyn Ito of Hopewell is a GBWLC member and human resources executive for Helius Medi-

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; 1/8 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.

Desserts

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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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hrough the arts, we communicate and interpret the world around us. And in a time of crisis, we look to the arts to help us heal, express ourselves and build our communities.

Art is not a hobby or a career for Leon “Rain” Rainbow. It’s the way he deals with life. The acclaimed graffiti

Leon “Rain” Rainbow

artist is currently curating 10 weeks of live mural painting on Front and Broad Streets, as well as a COVIDinspired series of his own called “We Are Survivors.”

We invite you to see these amazing murals and other art by coming out to Art All Day & Trenton Ciclovia on Saturday, September 19th, from 12 to 6 p.m. for a self-guided “Open Studio, Open Streets” tour of Trenton’s vibrant creative district.

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A Site for Lost Soles and Down and Out Heels

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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 Giaquinto does standad’s shop. I’d there to be a shoe play out front repair center (for dard jobs like refurand do little the military). At bishing and sole-glustuff here and one point they ing, but he also gets there. But I fishipped him to nally got into Panama, and he special jobs, like rethe business was there for a pairing a set of clown when I was in few years. When shoes while the cirhigh school. I he came back he had to get bought the shop. I cus was in town. 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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give me a managing position, I 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.”

Robert Giaquinto’s shoe repair shop on South Warren Street has been a Trenton fixture for more than a half-century. It was his father who opened the shop’s original location on Front Street and introduced his son to the trade.

He also gets an occasional special 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.”

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contests),” he says. “I don’t even 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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Management Moves Mercadien PC, 3625 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton 08619. 609-689-9700. Conrad Druker, managing principal. www.mercadien.com.

Quakerbridge Road-based accounting firm Mercadien has announced the addition of Jeffrey Baresciano to the organization’s Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support team as a director.

USRowing, the Princeton-based Baresciano graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business ad- national governing body for the ministration from Drexel Univer- sport of rowing, has named Amansity. He is a certified public ac- da Kraus as its new chief executive countant, certified in financial fo- officer, an appointment effective rensics, accredited in business val- November 1.

As founder and CEO of Row uation, and a certified valuation New York, Kraus has spent the last analyst.

He has more than 15 years of ex- 18 years building an award-winperience in business valuation, ning organization with a focus on matirmonial litigation support, lost making the sport of rowing, paired us into that future, while building Jeffrey Baresciano, earnings and economic damage as- with top-notch academic support, on our strong foundation,” Kraus left, and Amanda sessments, along with other foren- accessible to young people. said in a statement. “First, I plan to Kraus.

“We are thrilled to announce that do a lot of listening to all of the sic and investigative accounting as well as litigation support services. Amanda will be joining USRowing stakeholders. I need to understand as our CEO later this fall,” US- what everyone wants and needs Additionally, Baresciano has ex-2019 tensive experience in complex fo- Rowing Board Chair Marcia from USRowing. I have my ideas brate diversity and to redefine what rensic accounting, valuation, and Hooper said in a statement. “She already, but it’s important to hear and who a rower can be.”

Kraus is also an adjunct associbrings tremendous leadership and from the broader rowing commulitigation assignments.

Prior to joining Mercadien, fundraising skills, community de- nity — how can we best be a re- ate professor at New York UniverBaresciano worked at a Top 5 Na- velopment and outreach experi- source to rowers and rowing pro- sity’s Wagner School of Public Sertional CPA firm as a director in ence, and diversity and inclusion grams, from people just learning to vice where she focuses on teaching fundraising to graduate students. their Financial Investigations & efforts to our team. She is a proven row to our Olympians?”

She was aFRIDAY rower and team capin our sport, having built Disputes Practice, where he was leader SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY “I’m looking forward to helping responsible for performing and Row New York into one of the the sport better reflect the rich di- tain for the University of Massaoverseeing engagements on the country’s most admired rowing or- versity of this country,” Kraus con- chusetts at Amherst, where she also earned a bachelor’s degree in Engganizations.” aforementioned services. tinued. “For too long, our idea of a lish. She also holds a master’s de“I think we’re at an exciting inDAILY GRIND CLEAN YOUR TELL YOUR FRIENDS DID YOU SIGN UP and it’s USRowing, 2 Wall Street, ‘rower’ has been limited, gree in education from Harvard.

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tate Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick has announced extensive renovation focused on accessibility and safety; audience and artist experience; and operational efficiency.

“State Theatre is committed to improving our accessibility and operations to ensure the finest experience for live performance and arts education programs in our beautiful historic venue,” said Scott Fergang, State Theatre New Jersey Board Chair. “Since State Theatre’s last major renovation in 1988, we have welcomed over 5.9 million people through our doors.

These upgrades will allow us to continue to serve our community and build audiences for the next 100 years and beyond.”

Upgrades include adding an elevator and accessible seating and restroom facilities in order to become ADA compliant. The the stage rigging system, dressing rooms, and lobby spaces will all be updated.

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated cancellation of live theater performances means that construction will progress at a faster pace. “We are using this time to accelerate the construction timeline and immediately address projects that focus on safety and security for all,” said Sarah K. Chaplin, president and CEO. “State Theatre will be at the forefront in providing a safe and clean environment for the community to experience live performing arts and entertainment in a post-COVID-19 world.”

The improvements made critical by the COVID-19 crisis include the replacement of the HVAC system to improve air flow control and filtration, installation of magnetometers with thermal scanning at all entrances, the installation of protective barriers at service areas, the installation of new modular seating to facilitate social distancing if required in the future, and the addition of touchless technology in all restroom facilities.

The renovations are being funded by the theater’s Next Stage capital campaign with a fundraising goal of $26.5 million. At the end of August the theater had raised 86 percent of that goal.

Major support has come from Middlesex County and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Other major donors include the late philanthropist Betty Wold Johnson; Johnson & Johnson; Joan and Robert Campbell; the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation; Andrew J. Markey; the Presser Foundation; the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust; the John and Susan Heldrich Family Fund; the Hyde and Watson Foundation; and Investors Bank.

State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick 08901. 732-2467469. Sarah K. Chaplin, president and CEO. www.statetheatrenj.org.

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The site, accessible from Woosamonsa Road, features a new sign and kiosk and a gravel parking area. The shortest trails can be completed in under an hour; the longest is roughly 90 minutes each way.

“Hopewell Township values our beautiful and varied landscapes and we are always thrilled when new opportunities to explore these resources are opened,” Mayor Kristin McLaughlin said in a statement. “With the new kiosk and parking lot, Township residents, and others, have an additional outlet for recreation. The Woosamonsa Ridge Preserve is a stunning addition to the open space resources in Hopewell Township.”

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Deaths Meryl R. Miller, 74, on August 25. She worked for 20 years as a computer programmer for ADR/Computer Associates.

Warren Rodman Class Jr., 89, on August 24. He was an electrician and worked on cold fusion projects at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

Lewis J. Pepperman, 67, on August 25.

An attorney, he was chair of the Business Practices groups at Stark & Stark.

Robert W. Roach Jr., 88, on August 22.

He retired from CV Hill Refrigeration in Trenton.

Brenda V. Gaunce, 77, on August 17.

She was an information technology administrator for the State of New Jersey.

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MONTGOMERY PROFESSIONAL CENTER

2,072 & 2,973 sf (+/-)

• Built to suit tenant spaces • Private entrance, bathroom, kitchenette and separate utilities for each suite • High-speed internet access available • 1/2 Mile from Princeton Airport and Route 206 • 210 Parking spaces with handicap accessibility • Close proximity to restaurants, banking, shopping, entertainment, hotels & more • On-site Montessori Day Care

Route 518 and Vreeland Drive Skillman, NJ • Somerset County

SPACE AVAILABLE:

Office • Medical

1,148 & 4,918 sf (+/-)

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