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Program aims to build community

Curaleaf coming to Route 130

By Rebecca BrieGS

By Sam Sciarrotta

Bordentown Regional Middle School has recently added a new program to their school called the Wingman program, a unique youth leadership program specifically designed for school environments.

The Wingman program stems from Dylan’s Wings of Change, a foundation created by Ian Hockley and dedicated to Dylan Hockley, one of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting on Dec. 14, 2012. The Wingman program is ideal for school environments focused on social and emotional learning, leadership, and community building.

The overall effect the program strives to leave is inclusion and acceptance among students and peers. Through conversation and experiential learning, the Wingman program provides opportunities for students to give their opinions on topics and talk about the world they want to live in.

The Bordentown Regional School District was looking for a leadership program to help strengthen the learning experience within their schools when Nell Geiger, the district’s Student Assistance Counselor, stumbled upon the Wingman program.

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One of the nation’s largest cannabis dispensaries is coming to Bordentown.

Curaleaf received final approval from the township planning board in early fall.

The Bordentown location will be the company’s second in the state—one is currently open in Bellmawr. Another location is also proposed in Mount Laurel.

“The township is excited,” said township administrator Michael Theokas. “Any time we get a chance for improvements on our primar y commercial corridor (Route 130) it is a positive. Curaleaf is a national company that will be making significant site improvements and building improvements on this location. They will be providing a ser vice to many who need this prescription medication.”

The company hopes the two new locations will offset traffic at the Bellmawr site, which is currently experiencing high demand—it’s one of nine in the state.

The dispensary is planned for the Stony Brook Sew and Vac site. The business will relocate, though a construction start date has not yet been set. Opening is projected See CURALEAF, Page 8

Bordentown football player Jaden Blanding returned to the Scotties this season after transferring to Holy Cross his junior year, and he proved to be an asset for the 5-3 squad.

The beauty of Blanding Do-it-all player helps Scotties to a 5-3 finish

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Jaden Blanding’s return was not the main reason Bordentown High’s football team enjoyed a renaissance this fall.

But it sure didn’t hurt.

After transferring to Holy Cross for his junior season, Blanding came back home this year and Bordentown finished 5-3 after going 0-9 in 2019. The five victories were

one more than the Scotties accrued in the previous three seasons combined.

In the middle of it all was Blanding, a 6-foot-1, 240pound two-way terror. Second-year coach Skip Edwards was thrilled to have him back.

“I wasn’t here his first two years but I watched film on him and he was a player,” Edwards said.

Offensively Blanding rushed for 403 yards and a team-high 10 touchdowns.

Defensively, he was on everyone’s All-County/Area teams with 37 tackles (and 67 hits), two fumble recoveries and

five sacks from his defensive line positions. He played end, tackle and nose guard with equal effectiveness.

“For me it wasn’t that difficult because my mindset was to just get to the ball and find the ball,” Blanding said. “I feel I’m capable of playing anywhere on the line. Wherever my coach needed me I tried to do the best I could at that position.

“The biggest difference (between end and tackle/ nose guard) was mainly just dealing with double teams.

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Remembering a colleague SAM SCIARROTTA FROM THE EDITOR

If you’ve ever walked into the Community News Service office, chances are you saw Mark Nebbia.

Or heard him.

He was a massive presence on Princess Road. And that’s why it was so shocking when he passed away last month—the idea that his presence wouldn’t be there when we eventually went back to working in the office fulltime was and still is hard to grapple with.

Mark was one of our account executives, handling Lawrence and his hometown of Ewing. He was loud. He was a delight. He was a grump with a heart of gold. And everyone in the office loved him.

Mark was always good for a solid Godfather impression. Sometimes he would come up to my desk and perform a Fredo Corleone rant—”I’m ya older brotha! And I was stepped ova!”

Other times, we’d hear a booming “SENATOR!” come from his cubicle when the office was particularly quiet.

Those moments became part of the CNS environment, part of our daily soundtrack. And that was just one of his many quirks.

I knew I was in for a treat whenever

Mark approached the editorial wing of the office. He loved to talk about podcasts—The Rewatchables was a favorite—and he loved to make me guess what kind of music he was listening to at his desk. More often than not, it was a classic ‘90s rap album. I think Mark had the most eclectic taste in pop culture of anyone I’ve ever met.

We talked about baseball and football, especially the Yankees. We talked about The Sopranos. He loved to walk over with his joke of the day.

He also loved to do things like purposely walking in the same direction as someone else to see how close he could get before they would jump away—a typical Nebbia prank.

Most of all, though, Mark loved to talk about his family. He loved spending time with his wife and daughters, and he loved telling his coworkers about their exploits. He had a somewhat gruff exterior, but his heart was always full.

Mark was a pal to all of us. He always will be. I miss him dearly. But I know this—every time I watch The Godfather, listen to Tupac or take in a Yankee game, I’ll hear his voice. We all will.

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Congressman Andy Kim (NJ-03) announced last month that the U.S. Senate passed legislation that will rename the Bordentown Post Office after Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. The bill, H.R. 4988, was introduced by Congressman Kim last November and was cosponsored by every member of New Jersey’s bipartisan delegation.

“Clara Barton’s leadership has left a lasting legacy in Bordentown, New Jersey, and throughout our country,” Kim said. “I’m proud that the Bordentown Post Office will be a small piece of that great legacy and a reminder of the impact on the lives of millions thanks to her work.”

“Renaming the Bordentown Post Office is a fitting way to honor Clara Barton and all of her accomplishments in our state and across the country,” said New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. “She was a transformative figure in our nation’s history and her legacy is still alive in the American Red Cross today.”

In addition to her leadership role in founding the American Red Cross, Barton also helped found the first free school in New Jersey, located in Bordentown City. Barton’s efforts helped increase the number of children in school from six when the school was first established, to over 600 by the next year.

“On behalf of the residents of Bordentown I would like to personally thank Rep. Kim for his efforts in naming our local Post Office after a Bordentown folk hero Clara Barton who was instrumental in beginning the first Public School in the United States right here in Bordentown,” said Jim Lynch, Mayor of Bordentown City. “Her School House located here is currently undergoing renovations. This was no easy feat and I know the Congressman

has been working on this for some time now. We salute and thank him.”

Township receives housing grant

Bordentown Township received a grant of more than $2 million to develop affordable housing units last month.

The state recently awarded $2,077,280 to Habitat for Humanity of Burlington and Mercer Counties through the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, administered by the Department of Community Affairs. The fund aims to allow for the development of different types of affordable housing projects to support stronger, fairer and more affordable communities.

The Bordentown Residential Development project will construct five duplex buildings containing a total of 10 affordable homeownership units located at 179, 181 and 183 Crosswicks Rd. “I am excited to see these affordable housing units become a reality. They will help strengthen the Bordentown community, creating more diverse neighborhoods, while keeping Burlington County vibrant and prosperous,” said Lt. Gov. Sheila Y. Oliver, who serves as DCA commissioner. “The rental units will provide 10 families with the opportunity to have an affordable place to call home.”

The AHTF awards were given statewide to smaller rental and homeownership housing projects sized 25 or fewer units, which often have difficulty obtaining financing, said a township press release. Project funding was based on several core principles, including advancing equity in addressing housing needs, encouraging leverage of other public and private resources and allowing a flexible structure for funds to be used to complete projects. The DCA also held multiple listening sessions to hear from stakeholders about the best way funding could be most equitably spent.

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BLANDING continued from Page 1 had to deal with a tackle blocking you and maybe the fullback. On the inside it’s a lot more bodies, a lot more bigger bodies. It was more of a challenge but I was up for it.”

The beauty of Blanding is he has the strength to overpower blockers and the speed to get around them.

He could also cover receivers if need be.

“Jaden Blanding could have played strong safety, could have played linebacker if we wanted to,” Edwards said.

“He was so quick. But he was the kind of guy who liked to put his hand in the dirt. Our defensive coordinator, Rich McGlynn, saw some really good things in him. He came in and loved Jaden right away due to his work ethic as much as anything.”

Blanding began football in the South Jersey United Football League with the Rancocas Valley Chiefs at age 10. He played both ways but because of some excess weight, played offen-

sive line until moving to running back in eighth grade after slimming down.

“I think it was mostly losing baby fat,” he said. “But I started to realize I could actually make something out of myself in football so I started working harder and that contributed to my weight loss.”

Once he dropped behind the line, it was a refreshing change not to just be staring into the other guy’s eyes.

“It was a very, big, drastic move,” Blanding said. “It opened my eyes up and gave me a whole different perspective on football, seeing it from the backfield instead of just being in a three-point stance.”

Upon arriving at Bordentown, Jaden immediately jumped into the running back rotation. He rushed for 329 yards and five TDs as a freshman and 720 yards and seven scores as a sophomore.

Blanding did not start playing defense on a regular basis until transferring to Holy Cross, but he

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could only play half a season with the Lancers due to the transfer rule.

He returned to Bordentown early enough where he did not have to sit out, and enjoyed his finest all-around season.

The fact he played both ways was a joy for Blanding, who has so far received interest from Division III schools Norwich and McDaniel.

“I love running the ball, it’s my favorite thing to do,” he said. “On defense, I love to just tear apart the person in front of me. It’s just my nature in football.”

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many teams were unable to lift weights as a unit over the summer which may have made it tough to play both ways for a full season. But Blanding got a jump on staying in shape by playing spring football.

“I played for the All-American Chiefs in Westampton, playing both sides of the ball,” he said. “We played against teams in Philadelphia and Maryland. I kept myself conditioned that way so I was ready to do whatever the (Bordentown) coaches needed.”

Edwards feels that those coaches deserve much of the credit for the Scotties resurgence. McGlynn and line coach Mike Smith were in their first year, while holdover Larry Carthan coached a running back rotation to over 1,400 rushing yards. Volunteer Adam Drazpcuk coached tight ends and linebackers while Jalen Daniels worked with the receivers.

“I attribute a lot of this season, first to my coaching staff, and second to a lot of the younger kids getting experience last year and going from an 0-10 season and overcoming all the Covid things thrown at them this year,” Edwards said. “The senior group was a good leadership group. The other kids fell in line. They were out there working every day. We didn’t miss one game.”

Several other players transferred back to the Scotties along with Blanding, who said, “It was really an amazing season. We lifted up a lot of the young guys. A lot of the seniors came back this year and we were on a mission. We told ourselves we wanted to change the culture for Bordentown this year and that’s what we did.”

The Scotties should be strong next season as well. They lose key seniors such as Blanding, Trotman Kertes (69 tackles), Danny Poinsett (28 tackles), Ethan McGlone (35 tackles), Maurice Ciccia (42 tackles) and Symeer Bennett (56 tackles).

But some talented underclassmen return on offense including leading rusher Kerry Nicholas (769 yards, 7 touchdowns) and Omari Owes (235 yards, 9.0 yards per carry), along with quarterback Denny Morolda and all but one offensive linemen. Back on defense will be Michael Poinsett, who led the Scotties with 81 tackles.

“I’ll tell you what,” Edwards said.

“I just see good things coming along in this program the next two or three years.”

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WINGMAN continued from Page 1 gram because it was run by the kids, and because of the focus of the program. The district decided to allow one school to experience this program and Bordentown Regional Middle School’s Principal, Joseph Sprague, immediately jumped on the opportunity. Bordentown Regional Middle School guidance counselors Dawn Patterson and Michael Mcquarrie helped to incorporate the program into the school.

“The plan was to introduce it as a three year thing,” Mcquarrie said.

“So, each year, sixth grade would have Wingmen come in and teach lessons, that kind of thing, and in three years, it would be ingrained in the middle school. As those kids graduate, they can go to the high school, and as the middle school becomes more involved, there would be more kids to go down to the elementary school.”

The reason Bordentown Regional Middle School chose this program because of the independence offered to students within the program. The activities are run by the Wingman students, though each activity is supervised by teachers. After each activity, the students hold a discussion with the Wingman program, as a way to strengthen the learning environment and create empathy and acceptance among students.

Bordentown Regional Middle School selected 32 seventh and eighth graders over the summer to participate in the Wingman program. These seventh and eighth graders will go into the classrooms of the sixth graders and complete activities with them that are experiential-based, or hands-on activities. The school is merging these activities into the sixth grade health classes.

COVID-19 has made it difficult for the school to incorporate the program.

Though the school has completed training for the students, their training was conducted virtually. Overall, remote learning has caused many learning curves among students around the country, and BRMS is cautious about taking more learning time away from students by adding the Wingman program.

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Bordentown Regional Middle School plans to incorporate the activities of the Wingman program into the sixth grade health classes. This decision was made in an effort to prevent taking more time away from the main core classes. This was also a way for every child to be involved in the program, regardless of schedule or the courses a child is taking.

The students participate in handson activities and games, which are meant to teach and strengthen empathy and inclusion. The exercises are team-building, in the hopes of creating a stronger learning community.

The Wingman program has helped the school promote the anti-bullying program #hatnothate, where the students and staff wore blue hats to show their fight against bullying.

“The student leaders also help us promote other programs that we might want to run in school,” Patterson said.

“For instance, we had this program earlier in the year called Hat Not Hate, that was anti-bullying. We had an assembly, and we had breakout sessions, but every student got one of these blue hats, and the blue hat was supposed to be symbolic of remembering not to bully and to stand up to bullies.”

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The plan calls for a single-level, 9,546 sq. ft. structure. Access to the building will be provided through two existing driveways along Route 130 and Route 206. According to Curaleaf’s application, the facility will operate 10 a.m.-7 p.m. daily. It calls for 40 total employees and 106 parking spaces, as well as two to three delivery vans that will operate out of a dedicated loading site at the rear of the building.

The dispensary will be a welcome addition for some residents. One township native said during a recent planning board meeting that she often has to travel several hours to get cannabis that she uses to treat a neurological condition. This location, she said, will be much more convenient.

Curaleaf was founded in Massachusetts in 2010 and currently has 93 stores, 22 cultivation sites and 350,000 registered patients across the country. Its focus is curated and personalized treatment through a variety of strains, terpenes, delivery methods, dosages, cannabinoids and ratios. The majority of its dispensaries are medical-only.

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Curaleaf is the world’s largest cannabis company by revenue and is currently located in 23 states. It has partnered with organizations like the Veterans Cannabis Project, and it focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion, social equity and sustainability.

The company aims to adapt to the constantly evolving nature of cannabis consumption across the countr y—New Jersey residents voted to legalize mariuana statewide in November.

Curaleaf’s rapid expansion makes it the kind of company that the township appreciates coming to Bordentown, Theokas said, and officials are looking forward to its opening.

“Any time a national company chooses Bordentown Township, it is a positive,” he said. “We have seen several large companies in the last year alone (such as Tractor Supply, Capital Health, Rothman Institute, for example) that have opened or chosen Bordentown to locate their businesses. That is a great sign for the township. We have a great deal of optimism for growth in our commercial corridor, and having a company like Curaleaf join our business community is a great example of that.”

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“Jamie and Aneka have left indelible Board of Education starting this and positive marks on our school dismonth.

Aneka Miller stepped down from trict and should be acknowledged for her seat in December after being their hard work, insight and contribuelected to Bordentown Township tions,” said superintendent Edward Forsthoffer in a letter to Council in November, the community. which created a vacancy Miller has been a Borfor the remainder of her dentown resident for 14 term, set to expire Dec. years. She works as a 31, 2021. regulatory affairs project The new board memmanager for Merck. She ber will have to fit the currently serves on the following criteria: be Bordentown Regional able to read and write; Board of Education and hold United States citihas volunteered in PTO zenship; residence in the services at various disBordentown Township trict schools. She is also for at least one year; be a longtime family mema registered voter in the ber of the Bordentown district; have no interest Bulldogs youth football in any contract with or Miller team. claim against the board; Augustyn has lived not simultaneously hold two elected offices; and not be con- in Fieldsboro for over 15 years and is a senior project accountant for a victed of certain crimes.

The board sought resumes and let- construction management firm. She ters of interest through Dec. 15. The has two children, both in the Bordennew member will be appointed during town school district. AAugustyn is the Jan. 4, 2021 board reorganization the president and founder of the Bormeeting. Incumbents Eileen Fran- dentown Rec Field Hockey League. cisco-Cabus and Janet Nielsen were She has also served as the director set to be sworn in, as was newcomer and founder of the Girls Empowering

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Girls campaign, which is dedicated dentown schools great. With a carfor leadership, empowerment and ing, committed superintendent at the anti-bullying. As her term ends, she helm, we have traversed a lot of comprovided a statement to the Current. plicated and difficult topics throughMiller did not respond to a request out the last three years, with COVID being the latest. “The board, past for comment.

“I learned so much during my three and present in my tenure, has taken years on the board. It was a difficult each of these challenges in stride decision to leave, and all the wonder- and found ways to make our schools a better place for our chilful people involved dren. Each of the board in the Board made it members comes from difeven harder. Being a ferent places and perspecsingle mom, working tives, but we have always full time, raising two been respectful and children (14 and 12) worked together to come as well as running the to the best decision. As a Bordentown Rec Field small community, keeping Hockey Program with to budgets and achieving Kim Crowell, I have a the growth and changes lot on my plate. the community desires “I was not sure of has been difficult at best, the specifics of the but limited resources is position when I ran, not holding Bordentown but I knew that I back. I cannot say enough wanted to volunteer Augustyn for the administration, my time and serve teachers, and staff in Bormy community.

It was a great experience, and I am sad dentown. As a parent and a board to leave, but I am certain that Joseph member as well as an active commuDean will serve the community well nity member, all I can say is there is a lot of love and dedication in our disin my place.

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I knew many years before that I Holt, a Bordentown resident whose regular reviews can be found in the would write a fiction book about some Philadelphia-based Broad Street aspect of Beethoven’s extraordinary Review. (She has also contributed to life and wound up with two books totaling about 600 pages in length. I am also the Current’s sister paper, U.S. 1.)

In addition to being knowledge- interested in Chinese philosophy and able about the composer’s artistry, music, am the co-editor of a book on Holt has also written two novelized Daoism (a Chinese philosophy), and recently was filmed as a subject matter accounts of Beethoven’s life. ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ The first is The Black Spaniard, her expert for a documentary produced by 2016 story of Beethoven’s personal the Beijing music conservatory.

DA: Why is Beethoven and artistic struggles (see excerpt below). The other is the 2019 Invic- extraordinar y?

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Recently, as Beethoven’s official one who rose from poverty, obscurity, Check out our menuDec. 17 birthdate approached, Holt and abuse to unimaginable success engaged in a series of questions and as a musician in Vienna, the glittering online! answers on Beethoven, her interest music capital of the western world, only and background, and about the recent to lose, at an early age, the one sense he depended most: his hearing. charges of white supremacy.any specials, ✯Excludes not validonon www.townandcountrydiner.com Driven to depression, despair, and Dan Aubrey: How did you get holidays offers or he sacrificed his www.townandcountrydiner.com thoughts of suicide, interested Beethoven? ✯Excludesin any specials,or notwith validany on other townandcountrydiner.com www.townandcountrydiner.com own self-interest to continue to bring Linda Holt: Oddly enough, it wasn’t holidays or with any other offers or through music. I was 11 or 12 and music to humankind, not just for the bought the first volume of a child’s ency- moment, but for all time, and in doing clopedia at the Acme (in Bordentown) so, changed the course of western and was flipping through the alpha- music forever. Today he is one of the betical sections: apples, Asia, Babylon. most beloved composers around the Then I turned the page, and there was world and is especially appreciated in China, where millions of people study Beethoven! I still have the book.

The illustrator depicted Beethoven the piano, and classical music is enjoyas a blond, believe it or not, but every- ing a rebirth. *Excludes any specials, not valid on Beethoven was the first surviving thing about the entry thrilled me: holidays or with any other offers Beethoven conducting, Beethoven child of a poor couple in Bonn, which playing the piano, Beethoven walk- was part of the Holy Roman Empire. ing alone in nature, Beethoven facing Reports of people who saw or knew down the storms of life. I took one him as a child and adult commented look and thought: “That’s me! That’s on his dark skin, his stormy eyes, his someone who thinks and feels about untamed hair. He did not look like your typical, blond northern German. life the way that I do!”

I already had a passion for music I think this is why stories began that and would improvise on the piano he may have been of African ancestry.

Of course, there is no proof or at my father’s foster parents’ home whenever we visited them in Allen- evidence in the official genealogy town. We didn’t have money for a records. But records do not tell all the piano and lessons, so I had to learn to story. We do not even know for certain read music from library books until I on which day he was born, though there is evidence that he was baptized reached high school.

DA: When did you pick up on on December 17, 1770, usually the day after a child’s birth at that time, which Beethoven again?

LH: I continued to play and study is where my story begins.

DA: What about Beethoven’s music as I worked in PR for some years (I was married and had a child, artistr y?

LH: Beethoven lived in a time which Vanessa, who was an editor for the Princeton Packet chain and now many people in our region can identify works as an editor in Houston, where with. There are many historical markers in New Jersey and Philadelphia she lives with her husband and cats).

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This was an era in which royalty was toppled and replaced by democratic rule by people of reason. It was an age in which the morality of slavery was challenged and banned in many parts of the world (sadly, not in ours until decades later). Women’s voices were beginning to be heard (Mary Wollstonecraft, polemicist and mother of Mary Shelley, the novelist).

Beethoven was part of this societal movement toward freedom and equality. He refused to stand to the side or remove his hat when aristocrats were walking down the street. He championed what he thought was the liberating spirit of Napoleon until the French leader crowned himself Emperor, when he denounced him as a tyrant.

Even his 6th Symphony, the Pastoral, is a celebration of common people living in harmony with nature.

Musically, Beethoven burst the boundaries of staid classical music.

Think of a scene from a Jane Austen movie in which partygoers are dancing the minuet. That is not Beethoven.

He was the man who turned the polite minuet into a thrilling scherzo, expanding the range of harmony, the use of loud and soft dynamics, giving voice to people’s deepest passions and most profound convictions.

Think of his music that most people have heard or heard of: The Moonlight Sonata (Kobe Bryant’s favorite “song”), the Fifth Symphony (da da da DAH!), the Ode to Joy (the anthem of the European Union), even little “Fur Elise,” a short piece whose opening measures

anyone can learn to play on the piano.

And speaking of the piano, manufacturers actually had to expand the number of keys as Beethoven’s music demanded bigger instruments.

Remember when it was thought that 386SX was a lot of computer memory?

Compare that to the gigabytes we use today. So it was with the piano. When Beethoven was a child, his piano was the equivalent of a 386SX but by the time he died in 1827, he was generating multi-gig sounds that couldn’t be understood for decades to come.

The composer Igor Stravinsky said Beethoven’s music (specifically the Great Fugue) was not only contemporary for our time but would stay contemporary forever. If Beethoven had never written anything after his Opus 1 (the first published works, which were three trios he published in his early 20s), he still would be remembered as a great composer.

Think of the 32 piano sonatas he composed during his lifetime which, outline the process of molting the old classical skin and releasing the infinite possibilities of human imagination.

Think about the 9th Symphony, which lasts more than an hour and ends with a chorus that has won the hearts of people around the world. Beethoven could not hear it as he co-conducted that final symphony, and a member of the choir had to turn him around to see the cheering and applauding audience.

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Bordentown: the dawn of innovation DOUG KIOVSKY THE BEND IN THE RIVER

Following the end of the Revolutionary War and subsequent years with the implementation of the US Constitution, the adoption of the Bill of Rights, and the creation of political parties, our young republic established the foundations of a prosperous economy that grew steadily and brought extraordinary cultural diversity with the influx of European immigrants. At the end of the 18th century, the revolution that brought independence was now directed on industry.

The newly developed factory system and the ability to operate machinery often led to a higher standard of living than working on a farm.

The downside was that factory conditions were often unhealthy and unsafe. Uncompromising when it came to these issues, shrewd businessmen turned their attention to improved transportation systems on land and water where people could travel further, raw materials could reach factories, and manufactured goods could be shipped to their destinations.

Innovators like John Fitch tried to capture people’s attention with the ingenuity of the first steam-powered vessel.

Although he was a talented individual that worked as a clockmaker, silversmith, gunsmith, and map maker, his inability to understand marketing concepts involving the first steamboat passenger service along the Delaware River led to his undoing. In 1790, regular service began between Philadelphia and the New Jersey river towns of Burlington, Bordentown, and Trenton.

Traveling at a speed of eight miles per hour, the odd looking contraption consisted of several side paddles that were lifted by a moving rail as opposed to a paddle wheel. In light of its appearance, it had the potential as a viable alternative to stagecoach travel. However, too many obstacles persisted. The erratic travel route, onboard fires, lack of financial support from investors, and Fitch’s volatile temperament quickly spelled its untimely downfall. Despondent by overwhelming failure and poverty, he died by his own hand eight years later.

Demonstrating that not every inspiration followed success, Fitch was eventually recognized by the fact that powered ships would one day rule our waterways.

It was this inspiration that embraced a 37-year-old Baptist minister by the name of Burgess Allison as he and other curiosity seekers observed Fitch’s vessel in astonishment from the shoreline. Born and raised in Bordentown, Allison understood the fundamentals of overcoming adversity. As a young man, he sought

theological enlightenment and founded the town’s first educational academy for boys in 1778 when the landscape was ravaged by British troops. Years after attaining a great reputation as a classical boarding school, Allison left his position as principal in 1796 to pursue other endeavors. One of these involved improvements to the steamboat with the placement of paddlewheels at the sides.

In addition, he collaborated on other ideas with a young Bordentown resident by the name of John Isaac Hawkins. An English immigrant, Hawkins had an intuitive mind for civil engineering. He invented a device called the autopen that made duplicate copies of a handwritten original letter or document.

Upon holding a private demonstration in Philadelphia where the federal government was initially seated, the multi-talented Thomas Jefferson was so enamored by its functionality that he brought one to his beloved home in Virginia. Hawkins also exhibited his musical versatility with the invention of the “pianino” which was a portable upright piano held within an iron frame.

In 1803, he decided to move to London with his wife but moved back to New Jersey with his third wife in 1848 in hopes of recapturing his former achievement. But this was not meant to be. Scarred by years of misery, he died a broken man in 1855.

Divinity inspired a different path for Burgess Allison. He resumed leadership of his school in 1801 but resigned years later due to ill health. In 1816, he was living in Washington, DC when he was elected chaplain to the House of Representatives. After his term expired, he was appointed chaplain of the Washington DC Navy Yard. He held that post with reverence until his death in 1827.

Like his predecessors, Stephen Sayre delved into innovations that improved the field of navigation. In 1807, he received a US Patent for the improvement of rigging vessels. He also designed a warship.

Spending 17 years of his life in England, this former Long Island native navigated the choppy waters across the European political spectrum as a self-appointed diplomat defending colonial rights in America. He was a firm believer that the breadth of his varied career would solidify his destiny for greatness within social and political realms.

In 1773, he was elected for a term as the sheriff of London. Two years later, he married Elizabeth Noel, a wealthy aristocrat that would bore him a son named Samuel. Although he enjoyed the privileges that were bestowed upon him as he frequented English society, he desired to return to America where he felt that his services would be appreciated.

In 1783, he set sail alone, leaving his

Some innovators have been forgotten, but their Bordentown connections are strong.

wife and son behind. This proved to be a foolhardy decision as he spent significant time appealing to Congress for recognition and reward regarding his foreign diplomatic skills. In addition he requested money for the “effective fighting ship” that he designed. Both were repeatedly denied. After two years of frustration, he returned to England and attempted to pay off debts from a previous banking career that sent him to confinement in the Tower of London.

This embarrassment was a far cry from the days when he served as the private secretary for Benjamin Franklin.

In 1787, his efforts failed again and he was sentenced to 20 months in a debtors’ prison. Several months after his release, his wife died. Despite his grief, he moved to France within the year, became a tobacco merchant, and married another wealthy English woman by the name of Elizabeth Dorone. As the French government crumbled, Sayre outwardly supported the actions of the revolutionaries. Fearing execution, he was forced to flee Europe forever.

In 1793, he and his family settled on a farm in Bordentown. Known as Point Breeze, the property was purchased in his wife’s name with money from her family. This action was taken as a precautionary measure against hostile creditors. Through it all, his fruitless campaigns to secure a federal government post did not silence him in his old age.

By 1816, financial pressure forced him to sell the farm and move to his son’s home in Virginia. Surprisingly the buyer was an American agent for Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s oldest brother. The price tag was $17,500. Sayre died two years later.

His wife died the day after him.

Although the innovators mentioned are mostly forgotten to history, their connections to Bordentown are strong. If revolutions consume their originators, then these men left no greater monuments than committing their passion and energy to the early days of the Industrial Revolution.

Doug Kiovsky is the vice president of the Bordentown Historical Society.

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