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Finding a path from law to urban farm BY RICHARD J. SKELLY
Corrine Gordon’s path to her current job — as urban farm manager at Capital City Farm on North Clinton Avenue — started with a law degree and hinged on an interest in draft horses. Gordon did her undergraduate studies in the classics at Tufts University in Massachusetts and earned a law degree from Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C. She has also worked previously at a
WW-P North cross contry runners Luke Ferrer (left), Allison Lee and Zui Chinchalkar.
North trio make impressive runs into cross country MOC RICH FISHER
It was the kind of post-season that coaches love to see from their runners. The West Windsor-Plainsboro North trio of junior Luke Ferrer, junior Zui Chinchalkar and sophomore Allison Lee started impressively in the Mercer County Championships and just continued to
excel all the way to the NJSIAA Meet of Champions. “From counties to sectionals to states to Meet of Champions each race got a little bit better and they finished with their best for sure,” said head boys coach Brian Gould, who also assists Warren Gerstacker with the girls teams. . See CROSS COUNTRY, Page 11
Exhibition shows Lenape’s importance to region BY DAN AUBREY
The introductory panel to the exhibition “Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories”—currently on view at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania—states something remarkably important to the region. But it isn’t in the words. It is the image on which the text is written: an overhead view of the Abbott Marshlands at the estuary where the Crosswicks Creek meets the Delaware River. Much of Mercer County was first populated by the Lenape Indians, and
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museum and historic site and was managing a living history farm in Bowling Green, Ohio — where she gained a working knowledge of growing and canning vegetables — before coming to her current post as urban farm manager at Capital City Farm. “I have only been in New Jersey since May of this year,” Gordon, a West Windsor resident, explains during a recent interview. “A few years ago a mutual friend put See FARM, Page 7
the earliest inhabitants of the area that is now known as Plainsboro and West Windsor townships were the Lenape. The Abbott Marshlands (located in part of Trenton, Hamilton and Bordentown) is the site of what had been one of the largest Eastern settlements of Native American. There is documentation of human activity there for 13,000 years, and it is roughly in the center of the land called Lenapehoking (Land of the Lenape). They are the indigenous people whose territory included all of what is See LENAPE, Page 8
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