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Randolph Actress Prepping Her First Independent Film

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By Steve Sears andolph’s Laurie Tieman was a late arrival to the acting business.

Formerly of Rockland County, New York and a graduate of Syracuse University, Tieman’s acting bug came via her three daughters, who all wanted to act, and took acting classes during their middle school and high school years. One of her children got the entire Tieman family into a commercial, and it was her mom’s introduction into the realm. “That was my first experience doing anything on camera,” Tieman says, “and then that led to other commercials, which I really enjoyed.” She furthered that enjoyment by taking classes at Rockaway’s LaGuardia Acting Studio with Joshua Nelson, which led to television shows (one being on the Discovery Channel) and appearances in independent films.

Now, Tieman has written her own first independent film. Found is four women – two who know each other, the other two strangers to all – meeting on a trail, ponder-

ing and talking about their lives.

“There’s just a lot of things that need to happen,” Tieman says about the current pre-production stage of her film. “For example, we spent hours just going through the script, and when you go through the script, every single word is so important. We spent a lot of time going through it over and over again and just tightening it up. And then in pre-production we had rehearsals, where all the actresses get together, and we just keep running through it, practicing and rehearsing. It also involves looking at locations, figuring out the props, figuring out the budget, the funding, all those things that need to happen to prepare for the film.”

Found, which was filmed on location in Morris County, stars Tieman, Marla Freeman, Eva Kantor, and Sarah Hewitt, and is directed by Trifon Dimitropoulos. The film opens with each woman in their own home, and all are frustrated with some part of their lives. All four decide to leave for a brief

period to find serenity on a nearby trail, and instead find each other - and various forms of conflict. “They run into some woman talking on the phone, and this other woman singing her mantra, and it’s just annoying. So, they have conflict,” Tieman says. However, when one of the women suffers an injury, the other three band together and aid her. “The film is about the interactions and conversations they have from then on while they’re kind of trapped, having to face each other and themselves.”

Her first written screenplay process has taught Tieman much. “I think ‘Found’ was an opportunity for me to express some of the feelings and frustrations and emotions that I have as a mother, and as an empty nester.

Those were two really predominant things in my life, and they’re quite complicated, and can be sad. It can also be frustrating, so this was my way of sort of getting all of that out. I think as for writing this, it was stuff I already have known about myself because I felt compelled

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to write about it, but when you see it in this way and actually listen to the conversations, it does help me sort through some of these feelings. It was a catharsis to write out the emotions.”

Post-production work for Found will be completed this winter, and a premiere of the film will follow.

Tieman’s time has been consumed by Found, but her wheels are always turning regarding other projects. “I need to be fully present to sit down and really flush things out,” Tieman says of future works. “But I’ve got a lot of thoughts jumping around in my mind and, as time goes on, they keep building.”

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road she is on. “I think it’s really important to have goals, but to really just focus on the journey,” Tieman says.

She recognizes that the arena of acting and writing involves rejection, so she feels it’s important to take pride and pleasure in all the steps taken to get where you are.

“Nothing is guaranteed, and sometimes your goals can

change, so I’m fully enjoying the journey. I do have goals and I keep my eyes on them, but I think you really have to enjoy everything that you’re going through in the moment, and be fully present with what you’re doing.”

For more information about Tieman and Found, visit her website at www.laurietieman.com.

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Randolph Team Raising Funds for Inclusive Playground

n an effort to create more inclusive and accessible playgrounds in Randolph Township, Rebecca Lory, a special education teacher in the Randolph school district submitted a proposal to modify local Randolph parks. Russ Newman of the Township Parks and Recreation department approved the proposed plan and allocated funds to partially fund the project at Freedom Park.

In order to raise required additional funds beyond what the town is providing, Lory partnered with Randolph PEACE (Partnership Endeavor for All Citizens’ Equality). Lory and Meredith Ross have started a fundraising initiative to purchase and install adaptive play equipment at Freedom Park. They set an original goal of $25,000 which would purchase two adap-

tive 5-point harness swings and a large glider to accommodate wheelchair users.

Due to the overwhelming support from our community (in both business and individual donations), and outreach from community members we have expanded both our project and our fundraising goal.

At present, we have raised almost $28,000 and have set a revised goal of $35,000. The additional funding will allow us to purchase a sensory board, as well as a communication board. “We are passionate about creating equitable access to play because we believe it helps facilitate inclusion, understanding, and acceptance. We have been so moved by the generosity of the donors and the people this project has touched,” Lory said.

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Change Your Genes Everyday Yep…

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I’m Referring to Your Genes Not Your Jeans

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You have probably been taught that the genes you are born with are yours for life. You excuse things like your angry behaviors, high blood pressure or your weight on your genetics. My patients often tell me that their illnesses are genetic, and because of that they can’t do anything about it. What if I told you that isn’t completely true? What if I told you that changing the way you think can actually change your life? That might sound like fantasy to some, but it’s true! I know, I know… now you feel like you’ve been living a lie, but it’s time to wake up!! Check this out…

Research shows that those who practice Meditation/Yoga can “steer” their DNA, reducing inflammation and reducing their risks for diseases like cancer.

You may be asking how in the heck is that possible?

Let’s break it down…

Our bodies have a sympathetic nervous system and a parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) aka “fight or flight” response is

activated by stressful situations. Historically this fight or flight response was needed for survival in the wild. For example, when being chased by an animal the SNS kicks in and all functions that are not needed for immediate survival (i.e digestion…) are shut down. Among other processes, the body speeds up, heart pumps faster, the muscles contract and the brain is more alert. Activating the SNS also triggers the production of a molecule called Nuclear factor Kappa b (NF-Kb), which is responsible for our gene expression. During this process NF-Kb activates genes that release cytokines. These cytokines are responsible for producing inflammation on a cellular level. During a life/ death event this is actually helpful short -term. However, in modern day life this same sequence of events occurs due to every-day stressors (that weren’t present in our early ancestors lives). Things like traffic, work-related stress and finances trigger this same “fight or flight” response, causing the same cascade of events that lead to increased NF-Kb and increased release of cytokines. In fact, just thinking about that stressful situation you had earlier will cause the same cascade of events to take place. Most people in

today’s society are living in a constant “fight or flight” state.

This long- term “exposure” to these cytokines are linked to cancer, premature aging, mental disorders (including anxiety and depression) and other diseases.

On the other hand, it has been found that practicing yoga/meditation activates the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). The PNS, known as the “rest and digest” state, is the way that the body should be functioning normally. In this natural state, the heart rate slows down, blood pressure decreases and digestion takes place.

Studies show that practicing Meditation/Yoga, specifically, reduce NF-Kb, therefore turning off the genes that release the cytokines, which in turn reduces the inflammatory response and therefore prevents premature aging and diseases like cancer. This is all happening on the molecular level! You can actually leave a molecular signature on your cells to regulate your own gene expression! Boom… and there you have it! Now all you have to do is start Meditating to experience the benefits for yourself!

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Morris County Hope One Dedicates New Van

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orris County Sheriff James M. Gannon unveiled a new Hope One vehicle at a ceremony on Court Street in Morristown attended by human services and mental health professionals, law enforcement leaders, Superior Court staff and county employees.

The new vehicle, dubbed the “mini” Hope One truck, will help to expand the popular Hope One program, transporting the team to community events and client visits throughout the county. Launched in 2017, Hope One is a highly successful and often replicated mobile outreach program by which teams travel Morris County, offering critical support for individuals and families struggling with mental health and substance use disorders, and providing Naloxone (Narcan) education, training and kits in the community.

Since the beginning, the Hope One team has stopped at over 900 locations, marking over 30,000 contacts in the community. Hope One has distributed over 5,800 Narcan kits to family members and friends of those struggling with substance use disorders, free of charge. Narcan is used to immediately treat a known or

suspected opioid overdose emergency, and 114 people have reported using the Narcan kits distributed by Hope One to save or attempt to save a life.

“Hope One works because we go out into the community, we publish where we are going and we have a plains clothes sheriff’s officer, we have a mental health clinician and we have a certified peer recovery specialist who go out into the community and talk to people where they are,” said Sheriff Gannon. “We truly deal with people where they are at, and we have been very successful.”

During the initial height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hope One Project witnessed an increase of individuals who required access to critical public services. It became clear there was an elevated need for an additional Hope One vehicle to serve the community.

However, due to production delays, the Morris County Motor Services Center could not obtain a new van.

The Morris County Board of County Commissioners stepped in to provide the Hope One Project a 2019 Ford Transit passenger vehicle, which was converted into

Hope Hub Coordinator Officer Chelsea Whiting climbs into the new van, with (right) Hope One Coordinator Corporal Erica Valvano following her. Standing to the left (left to right) are Community Connections Coordinator Officer Justin Sudol and CPRS Jon-Erik Randazzo of CARES.

the “mini” Hope One vehicle dedicated this morning. All three vehicles now used

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“This is an immensely important program that has had a real impact with partner programs in Morris County on reducing

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The simple yet effective Hope One model has been replicated in eight (8) other counties across the State of New Jersey.

The Morris County Sheriff’s Office Hope One Project expanded in 2021 with the launch of the Hope Hub. The Hub is a multidisciplinary panel made up of law enforcement, social services, mental health services, healthcare

providers, treatment providers and recovery specialists. Struggling individuals and families are referred to the Hope Hub and connected to life-changing services.

To date, the program has offered assistance in 295 situations, reducing what is called acutely elevated risk (AER) in 97% of those cases.

Since Hope Hub’s inception, the Interfaith Food Pantry Network has donated a total of 17,603 pounds of food and Nourish NJ has provided Hope Hub with over 300 meals! Sheriff James M. Gannon is pleased to announce that the Interfaith Food Pantry Network & Nourish NJ’s logos have been placed on the newest Hope One van.

From homeless outreach to special events, Hope One provides a stigma free environment and a safe place for individuals and families struggling. Hope is here.

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Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. Appoints Randolph Resident Dan Swayze as Executive Vice President of Energy Services

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“Over the past 10 years, I’ve known Dan well and have respected him as a leader in the engineering and energy consulting business,” said Bowman Chief Executive Officer Gary Bowman. “Dan is passionate about the business opportunities presented by the energy transition and I’m delighted that he will be leading the implementation of our strategy to make renewable energy and energy efficiency one of our primary market segments.”

During his nearly six years at Onyx, Swayze also served as the interim co-chief executive officer and managed the engineering division, where he supported the implementation of the design of renewable energy projects from development to construction.

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By Henry M. Holden uaker settlement in New Jersey began in the 1740s on land purchase from Quaker landowners William Penn and William Kirkbride.

The Friends Meeting House, on Quaker Church Road, in Randolph, is the oldest religious building in Morris County that has not been used for any other purpose. It was built in 1758.

In 1973, the Friends Meeting House was placed on the National and New Jersey Registers of Historic Places and it is also a Randolph Township Municipal Landmark.

Firm in their belief of peace and equality of all people, Quakers resisted paying taxes during the War of Independence yet willingly fed Washington’s troops during the hard winters in Morristown.

In 1776, the Friends formed the first anti-slavery society in New Jersey. The Friends had tried to end slavery through moral persuasion, petitions to government, and active passive resistance, such as a boycott of products produced by slave labor. Quaker stores sold free goods and products produced by the free people and there was a strong opposition to any compromise, especially regarding Caribbean sugar and cot-

ton which was slave labor driven.

A decision is made to build a wood frame meeting house “twenty-six foot wide and twenty-five foot long…”

Built before the invention of power tools, the interior shutters and elder’s benches are virtually unchanged from the days when the Quaker settlers first met there.

Insulation from the cold was provided by plaster on the interior walls and heat was furnished from a fire built in a pit reaching through a trap door in the floor. This was later replaced by a woodstove and then a modern gas fed forced air heater.

The interior was marked by a gallery in the loft, and partitions for dividing the men’s meeting from the women’s meetings with oaken benches in each area, to remind members of the hard religious duty expected of Friends.

Most Friends Meeting Houses were characterized by separate entrances along one façade, but the Randolph Meeting House had one entrance between a pair of windows on the south and one entrance with one window on the east through which men or women passed for their respective worship meetings, without disturbing the other meeting.

The wide open space in the cemetery has according to ground penetrating radar has at least 100 unmarked graves (Credit Henry M Holden)

The partitions divided the interior meetinghouse room were called “shutters,” and they consisted of two-hinged panels connected to the floor rafters of the gallery, which when unlatched and lowered created the division or when raised permitted a united worship.

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Randolph volunteers drilled on the Meeting House grounds in preparation for active service in the Union Army during the Civil War. Although most Quakers stayed true to their pacifist beliefs and did not ac-

tively support the war, at least one member of Randolph Friends Meeting did enlist. Alexander L. Mott, of Shongum, served in Company B, 27th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, a company which was formed in Randolph.

For over 265 years, men and women established the cemetery and built the meeting house, cleared and farmed land, engaged in iron mining and built mills along

the Millbrook.

The Quakers did not anticipate the coming of the railroad or the Morris Canal; and the region of Millbrook, in Randolph, which was once alive to the sounds of gristmills and iron forges, has long since been silenced.

Meetings in the Quaker church were discontinued as early as 1864 because many Quaker families moved to western New York State. The building and graveyard were maintained and repaired by citizens living in the area.

In 1865, care of the site was informally taken over by descendants of the early Quakers until it was purchased by the Friends Meeting House and Cemetery Association in 1898. It has since been maintained as a historic property open to visitors and groups interested in meeting at the site.

The Quaker church reopened, and regular meetings began in 1954 by the Quakers living in the surrounding area.

The Randolph Friends Cemetery, initially referred to as the “Quaker Burying Ground,” was established on one acre of land purchased in 1758 by the pioneer Quakers.

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Randolph’s early pioneers, prominent antislavery figures, Civil War soldiers and one grave believed to be a Native American. The Cemetery, as part of a preservation program, was surveyed with the ground penetrating radar and documented. The wall around the site was restored and tombstones were repaired.

Since the early Quakers did not believe in marking graves, there is no record of where members were buried before the acceptance of markers starting in the 1840s. The early Quaker records list about 40 Mendham/Randolph burials, which is certainly less than the actual number of burials. In 2020, ground penetrating radar identified over 100 probable and 50 potential graves.

On September 3, 2020, a Norway Spruce that dominated the Cemetery since 1720, was removed. It had been struck by lightning in 2009 and became unstable. Some people feared it may fall from a weakened root system and crush the Meeting House and damage the tombstones.

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“We continue to talk to people who tell us they did not know the theater exists,” she says.

More than two decades later, Potters says several favorite RAA artistic endeavors come to mind, including the 2009 opening Gala. Every seat was filled, and the emcee introduced the performers, some of whom came from Broadway. Former Governor Tom Kean spoke about the importance of the arts.

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“What has been great all these years is bringing together the wonderful volunteers, members, talented performers, terrific sponsors, and the audiences to support our mission,” says Roxbury Arts Alliance president Jean Potters, on the 25th anniversary of the organization.

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Their programming committee plans a season of shows from September until June; and in the summer, they offer a free outdoor summer concert series.

RAA is home to amateur/professional artists alike who bring an abundance of talent to the community.

While audiences love to hear music/shows that feature old favorites, Potters says they expose audiences to various types of music, theater, dance and poetry that may be new to them.

“Having a chance to see professional performers right in our own community and give amateur performers a chance to perform increases involvement in the arts,” she says.

When it comes to dance, RAA has produced Irish, modern, ballet and Spanish. In the theater they have presented tribute bands that performed the music of Bobby Darrin, Billy Joel, The Rolling Stones and Tom Petty. They presented a string quartet from NJSO as well as Latin jazz and Celtic music. Music of Broadway, Big Bands, jazz and in the vein of the Andrews sisters have all been featured in the RAA theater along with radio shows and comedy nights.

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In 2020 the series drew many locals who had theirs cancelled.

After months-long isolation, audiences were pleased to have an opportunity to connect with neighbors and enjoy live music.

“For many of the talent, our shows were the first time they had performed in months,” Potters says their 2022 attendance was the highest it has ever been. “So we know we fill a need in providing live entertainment to all.”

Music at these outdoor concerts has included oldies, country, bluegrass, Caribbean Calypso and Motown, as well as pop and rock from every decade — 50s to the current day.

According to Potters, for people who appreciate the arts there are a number of places to go in Morris County.

“Our challenge is to publicize our events and inform people of the variety and quality of our offerings to attract them to come to our venue,” she says.

Relationships with donors and sponsors are vital to the success of RAA. Potters says they are grateful to the Township of Roxbury for leasing them the space where Investors Bank Theater is located.

And they appreciate all who become members of the RAA and make donations of any size.

“We appreciate the grants we received through Morris Arts with funding from the NJ State Council on the Arts and other grants,” she says. “Business and individual sponsors help us immeasurably to hire performers and run the theater.”

At times they partner with other organizations, including Roxbury Art Association, Act II Productions (Macbeth and other RAA plays, as well as other theater groups). And New Jersey Theatre Alliance sent a children’s play to RAA before the COVID shutdown.

They would like to continue to develop their drama program and produce more plays and musicals, according to Potters. She says they also hope to bring more prominent performers such as the Harry Chapin band.

If they had additional funds, they would love to purchase a new curtain to hang at the rear of the stage, new dimmers, and upgrade the lights and sound with more modern equipment.

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Roxbury Township’s Roots, Planted Deeply in Succasunna

efore the arrival of European explorers in search of what riches would unfold in the area that would become New Jersey, it was the sole domain of the Lenape of the Delaware tribe who had migrated here from Siberia thousands of years ago. They lived simply, fishing in the flowing waters, hunting, and gathering nuts and berries in the lush forests, while cultivating rows of corn and squashes in the rolling fields, oblivious of industrialization.

In 1664, the Dutch who had acquired the island of New Amsterdam from the native Indians in 1625, surrendered it to the British along with a large land mass to the west of it. Renaming the island New York in honor of the Duke of York, the British named the mainland New Jersey, commemorating the Isle of Jersey in the Enlish channel. 1664 marks the State of New Jersey’s official establishment.

Although iron ore was among England’s natural resources, it was of inferior quality, and the British were importing iron from Sweden, essential to its manufacture of daily commoditees and to its shipbuilding. In 1702 British mining prospectors

travelled twelve mlles west from Hanover, New Jersey’s first British settlement. Along rugged trails carved by the Lenape, the prospectors encountered Lenape leaders who led them them to “Suckahsinning,” translatable to the Place of the Black Stone, with its abundant outcroppings of “suckahsin,” magnetite iron of premium qualty in the hills surrounding a fertile valley, which the British named the Succasunny Plains.

The Lenape settement was near the site of what is now the Gray Building on North Hillside Avenue, currently the township Board of Education offices, a short distance from the intersection of the ancient Lenape trail carved by the Lenape as they made their yearly treks from the Delaware River to the Jersey Shore, now Succasunna’s Main Street. Before the start of the Revolution, the Lenape moved westward into Pennysylvania where Lenape descendants continue to live, assimilated into their communities, but still honoring their beginnings.

The British began mining the precious magnetite iron ore even before they negotiated a land tranfer deed between

A typical grocery delivery wagon from the 1800’s.

them and the Lenape in 1708, a copy of which is on file in the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark. Mining flourihed in the early 1700 Succasunna Mine in Mine Hill, and forging began accompanying forging began in Hanover and Lower Berkshire Valley. According to noted New Jersey historian John Cunningham, it was Succaasunna’s iron that fueled Morris

County’s economy into the late 1800’s.

Commercial, social and residential development took place along a segment of the ancient Lenape trail called the Morris Sussex turnpike by the British, and It became Succasunna’s Main Street.

By 1740, the New Jersey State Legislature had designated the entire area decontinued on page 17

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Roxbury Township’s Roots... continued from page 16 scribed in the 1708 land transfer deed as the Township of Roxbury, one of the first four towndhips in Morris County, which included not only the current Roxbury Township villages of Succasunna, Legewood, Kenvil, Lower Berkshire Valley, Landing and Port Morris, but also Mine Hill, Chester, Washington Township, Mount Olive Township, Mt. Arlington Borough, and parts of Hopatcong.

The intersection of the Lenape trail and another early trail that became the Old Post Road, now North Hillside Avenue, proved to be the perfect spot for Cornelius Slaight’s Tavern and Stagecoach Stop connecting the northern British colonies to its southern colonies. Built before 1770, the entire building was artfully incorporated into an addition constructed in the 1840’s, creating a residence now marked as 111 Main Street.

Travellers could spend the night on the upper level, horses would be exchanged or refreshed on the property, and miners could come down from the hills to pick up their pay in the tavern room. Bordering the property’s western boundary is a wall of massive stones built by captured British conscripted Hessian soldiers during the Revolution, many who chose to be assimilated into the new nation after the war.

Business was transacted in taverns before there were townhalls. General George Washington, headquartered in the Jacob Ford Mansion in Morristown during his winter encampments in Morristown during the Revolution,

would have stopped at Slaight’s Tavern when in Succasunna visiting his wounded troops in the 1760 church building of the First Presbyterian Church of the Succasunny Plains, which he had requisitioned as a hospital.

Soldiers stricken with smallpox were isolated nearby in the Daniel Carey Stone Farmhouse, still a residence at 308 Emmans Road in neighboring Ledgewood and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Daniel and Martha Carey family arrived here from the Massachusetts colony in 1742 for business opportunities, were among the founders of the First Presbyterian Church of the Succasunny Plains in 1756, had a son who served in the Revolution, and were influential in the continued development of the township into the 1920’s.

General Washington directed that artillery and weaponry seized by the Revolutionaries at the defeat of the British in the Battle of Saratoga in New York State be brought to the township to be stored on the church grounds. Ironically, it was used in battle against the British in the Battle of Monmouth County and was eventually melted down for repair of Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell.

Remains of Lenape are interred in the church graveyard, as well as those of pre-Revolutionary congregants and Revolutionary War soldiers beneath weathered grave stones, one dating to 1757. New Jersey’s Governor Mahlon Dickerson, a Princeton graduate, was born into the Jonathan Dickerson mining family in Mine Hill.

He served as Commissioner of Bankruptcy under President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren who attended a service with him in the original 1760 sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church. HIs funeral service was the first service celebrated in the new sanctuary in 1853.

The spire marking Mahlon Dickerson’s grave is near the entrance to the church graveyard.

A walk along Succasunna’s Main Street (www.roxburynj.us/280) a two-mile round trip beginning at Hillside Avenue and Main Street, introduces the walker or the armchair tourist to historic sites and the people who lived and worked in them during Roxbury Township’s beginnings in Succasunna: blacksmiths; ministers; milliners; tinsmiths; butchers; pharmacists; postmasters; carpenters; barbers; bakers; teachers; statesmen; stable keepers; grocers; writers; scholars; horse-drawn carriage painters; cobblers; adventurers, and doctors.

More detailed information can be found on www. roxburynj.com and in The History of Roxbury Township, Volumes I and II by Harriet Meeker and Annie Hosking, available through the Roxbury Township HIstorical Society headquarterd in its living history museum, the Silas Riggs Saltbox House at 213 Main Street in the Ledgwood section of Roxbury Township.

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By Steve Sears any would agree that George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is one of the most famous oratorios of all time. It’s been performed for almost 300 years, and is especially popular during the holiday season, its meaning relative to each and every individual who has performed it or heard it sung.

On December 17, 2022, a 50th anniversary of the initial performance of the famed work by the 1972 Roxbury High School choir will be celebrated. The event will be held at 3 p.m. at Roxbury High School, with a follow up dinner at the Randolph Diner.

Bud Beavers, choral director at Roxbury High School during that first performance, will return to conduct.

“This is a big deal for him (Beavers), and it is for all of us,” says Patti Siegel, who performed the Messiah as a Roxbury High School student in the mid to late 1970s.

“We started in 1972,” explains Beavers, who at that time was taking voice lessons at Westminster Choir College in Princeton. One of the people studying with him was the then-choir director from Newton High School, whose group every year performed the Messiah. “I asked him, ‘How did the kids react to that?’ And he said, ‘They love it. They really do, and they would run me out of town on rail if I ever stopped doing it.’ That kind of motivated me.”

Initially scheduled to do that first performance as a duo with Newton High School, those plans never bore fruit, but Roxbury did do the performance by themselves. “It really was a major task,” Beavers recalls. “I said, ‘The only way we can do this by ourselves is to have night rehearsals to get it done on time.’ So, we hunkered down for a month and

a half to two months. We just dug into it big time. So, December 17 comes – and not knowing quite what to expect, we were all quite nervous - we did it, and it went without a hitch. We got a very positive response from the community when all was said and done, and the kids just loved it. From that point, there was no turning back.”

If you were a Roxbury High School choir member for four years, every fall the Messiah was what you started with. Says Siegel, a 1979 Roxbury High School graduate, “He (Beavers) held us to a very high standard. We have a lot of fond memories because we’d have nighttime rehearsals.” There was also one year where the choirs of both Roxbury and West Morris Mendham, conducted by Beavers’ brother, Doug, sang it together. “The two different schools, we sang together the Messiah, which was really cool to get to know more people. It was really, really interesting.”

Under Beavers, the Roxbury High School choir performed the Messiah until 1983, and then under Lorraine Lynch, who took over when Beavers departed, until 1995.

There have been reunions in the past where a group of former choral members from the school assembled and sang while Beavers conducted, and much reminiscing went on about the attendees’ days in the choir. “The choir, and Bud specifically, was a huge impact on many of us,” attests Siegel. “If I were to say there was one thing that affected me in high school the most, it would have been being in choir and being under his tutelage. He just had great ideas.

And we were just the very beginning of the wonderful program that Roxbury has now. We were like the seed for that back in the 1970s, and they’ve taken it and gone that much further.”

A program from 1980

Siegel hopes that the 50th anniversary celebration on December 17 brings back wonderful memories, and also continued on page 23

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icture in your mind a warm bowl cupped in your hands, defrosting your fingertips after you just walked inside from a chilly afternoon. The bowl is heavy, full of hearty vegetables and spicy peppers that in just a few short moments will overwhelm your palate.

You dive in with a spoon, savoring every flavorful bite as you dip down to the bottom of the bowl searching for more to slurp up with every spoonful. Onion, red bell pepper and even corn all blended into not only a vegetarian meal but a chili-lover’s paradise. It’s got the spices to make you say, “wow” but the smoothness that reminds you of something your mom once made when you were young.

You throw your sweater to the side of the couch as your body temperature begins to rise. You start to feel your energy return as you spoon a second helping into your bowl for round two.

Not only does this recipe for Chipotle Veggie Chili hit you with a wide array of balanced flavors, but there is a surprise hint of citrus added toward the end – lime juice.

Just to add a little more texture and vibrance to this dish, it can be topped with your favorite garnishes like guacamole, sour cream, jalapeno slices and cilantro.

This Chipotle Veggie Chili is simple to make, needing just one pot throughout the entire cooking process. It simmers for about 25 minutes while you unwind from a long day.

So next time you need a pick-me-up after a chilly day outside, give this one a try. The savory aromas and wholesome consistency make this chili a 10-out-of-10 and a crowd favorite.

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Chipotle Veggie Chili Servings: 6-8 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium yellow onion, chopped 5/8 teaspoon sea salt, divided 1/4 teaspoon pepper, divided 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 red bell pepper, chopped 1 can (14 ounces) diced fire-roasted tomatoes 1 can (14 ounces) red beans, drained and rinsed 1 can (14 ounces) pinto beans, drained and rinsed 1 cup vegetable broth 1 can (7 ounces) chipotles in adobo sauce 2 cans (15 ounces each) sweet corn with liquid 2 limes, juiced guacamole (optional) sour cream (optional) jalapeno slices (optional) cilantro (optional)

In large dutch oven, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Stir and cook 5 minutes until onion is translucent. Add garlic and red pepper. Stir and cook 8 minutes until soft.

Add tomatoes, red beans, pinto beans, broth, chipotles in adobo sauce, corn, remaining salt and remaining pepper. Simmer 25 minutes, stirring occasionally, until chili has thickened.

Squeeze lime juice into pot; stir. Serve with guacamole, sour cream, jalapeno slices and cilantro, if desired. (Culinary.net)

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Make Dinner Memorable with Manicotti

ew cuisine styles are as diverse and beloved as those that have been exported from the Mediterranean nation of Italy. From pasta to pizza and everything in between, the rich and savory flavors of Italian cuisine are enjoyed across the globe.

Italian restaurants can be found in many cities and

towns throughout the world. However, it’s just as easy to create traditional, mouthwatering dishes at home with simple ingredients. Manicotti is a popular pasta dish that can be filled with cheese or other ingredients, and topped with a traditional tomato sauce or other saucy creations.

The word “manicotti” is the plural form of “manicotto,”

which translates to “little sleeves” in Italian. They’re meant to be stuffed and baked.

While manicotti may seem complex, they’re rather easy to prepare. Enjoy this recipe for “Mom’s Homemade Manicotti with Crepes (Crespelle)” courtesy of the blog 3 Italian Sisters (www.3italiansisters.com). They present well for the holidays or any special occasion.

Mom’s Homemade Manicotti with Crepes (Crespelle) Yields approximately 20 crepes Serving size: 2 to 3 crepes per person Crepes 4 extra large eggs 1 cup flour 11⁄4 cup whole milk 2 tablespoons vegetable or olive oil 1 teaspoon salt Butter for pan Ricotta filling 3 pounds part skim or whole milk ricotta cheese 1⁄2 cup fresh parsley, minced 1⁄2 cup grated pecorino romano cheese 2 extra large eggs, scrambled 1 pound mozzarella cheese cubed Salt and pepper to taste Premade tomato or meat sauce Put all the crepe ingredients into a blender. Blend till smooth; scrape sides if necessary and blend again till all ingredients are blended well.

Melt a little butter in a 9” nonstick frying pan over medium heat.

Pour in small amount of batter and swirl to cover bottom of it with a thin film. Cook for approximately 20 seconds and turn to the other side and cook for another 20 seconds. Transfer crepe to plate. Continue until all batter is finished. Crepes can be stacked on top of each other.

If you aren’t using them right away, wrap them tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate them for 3 days or freeze for up to one month.

Ricotta filling: Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl and set aside to fill crepes.

Take 1 tablespoon of ricotta filling onto each crepe and roll gently and place on a cookie sheet, seam side down.

Preheat oven to 350 F. Layer large casserole pan with your favorite tomato or meat sauce. Place single layer of rolled manicotti in the casserole pan on top of sauce. Ladle thin layer of sauce on top of manicotti and sprinkle with additional mozzarella cheese.

Bake in the oven for 25 minutes, or until sauce is bubbling and cheese is melted.

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How to Avoid Dry Turkey this Thanksgiving

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urkey is the centerpiece of Thanksgiving dinners. The National Turkey Federation estimates approximately 46 million turkeys are consumed on Thanksgiving each year, followed by 22 million turkeys at Christmastime.

Turkey makes a pleasing picture on the dinner table. However, some people insist that turkey is their least favorite component of the Thanksgiving meal. One of the biggest complaints is turkey tends to be dry.

There are many reasons why turkey can come out dry. Turkey is a lean meat, and Healthline reports that turkey has slightly less fat in its dark meat than chicken. Another reason why turkey may be dry is due to its poor breast-to-leg ratio. By the time one gets the leg meat to cook to temperature so it’s safe for consumption, the breast meat often has dried out. Seeing how many people dive for the breast meat initially, they could dish up some dry bird.

There are many ways home cooks can prevent dry turkey this Thanksgiving.

Consider these turkey-tending tips.

• Brine your bird. According to ScienceBlogs, what causes a human to

perceive a food as juicy may actually be his or her own saliva at work. Salty foods may stimulate the production of saliva in the mouth, helping the food to feel much more moist while on the palate. To adequately inject enough salt into the turkey meat, submerge it in a salt brine for a few days before cooking.

• Watch your cook time. It’s important to avoid overcooking the turkey, which will turn it as dry as the Sahara. Some turkeys come equipped with pop-up timers to help cooks gauge when to take them out of the oven.

However, a more accurate tool is a digital food thermometer that can be set to go off when the turkey reaches the correct internal temperature.

• Cook the turkey parts separately. As previously noted, the breast meat will likely reach the desired temperature before the leg meat. To fix this, take the turkey out of the oven when it reaches five to 10 degrees before safe temperature for the breast meat, around 165 F. (Remember, the meat will continue to cook while “resting.”) Let guests “ooh and aah” over the picture-perfect turkey. Then cut off the legs and return them

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This approach does not prevent drying out, but it can make a turkey that has dried out a bit more satisfying.

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by Elsie Walker uch like the three wisemen who brought their gifts to the baby Jesus, the Port Morris UMC (United Methodist Church) has hosted a yearly “Christmas Through the Arts” advent program where area churches bring together their gifts to tell the story of the nativity.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the program through which the scenes of the nativity story are portrayed through song, instrumental music, puppetry, liturgical dance, chancel drama, chancel comedy and more. This year’s program is on Sunday, December 4th at 5pm at Port Morris UMC on 296 Center Street in Landing (parking on the street and in the back parking lot on Main Street).

“I am excited to be part of the 20th Annual Christmas Through the Arts program at the Port Morris United Methodist Church. Beginning Advent in a way that brings together not only the members of my own church but members from many different churches and denominations enables an expanded sense of community as we prepare for the Christmas season. It’s always a pleasure to see, hear and feel how each church expresses its excitement and joy as they await Christmas Day,” shared Richard Boyer, Jr. of Budd Lake, director of the Port Morris UMC’s a capella choir.

The program started in 2002 as the result of a chance “how’s your week been” conversation between a pastor and parishioner at the Port Morris church. The parishioner had a part time job which brought her in contact with a number of small churches. She told the pastor, the late Rev. Karen McMartin, of how she’d learned these churches each seemed to have a different talent which they utilized to make their worship special, much like the Port Morris church had with its a capella choir. The other churches had liturgical dance, mime, chancel drama and bells. McMartin noted that though the holiday season was many months off, she’d been thinking of having something special one Sunday in Advent. She seemed to be thinking of asking one of the churches to share its talent. Before she could say anything, the parishioner started to suggest asking them all! It could be a nativity program.

However, not every church had nativity costumes. Thus, it was decided not to use those but at the beginning of each year’s program, the audience was asked to use their imagination as each church performed its scene. That tradition has been followed since then with only a few costumes being used now and then. Also, that first year showed it was difficult to get churches from different areas to be able to rehearse at the same time. Thus, each church prepares its

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The first program shared the talents of St. James Episcopal Church (Hackettstown), Abiding Peace Lutheran (Budd Lake), Christ Episcopal Church (Budd Lake), Teabo United Methodist Church (Wharton), and the Port Morris church.

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With only 50 families, it was clear to the synagogue leaders had faith that other Jewish families would join them. (Credit: Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest Archives)

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By Henry M. Holden n the late 19th century, there was a large influx of Polish and Russian Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe to the United States. They were fleeing the extreme conditions under which they were living. Many landed on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and called it their first home.

In 1903, the first Jewish immigrants arrived in the Mount Freedom area. Max and Yetta Levine started a dairy farm. They were followed the same year by Sarah and Baruch Saltz. By 1910, there were at least eight Jewish families in the Mount Freedom area.

Many immigrant families were farmers, but they discovered that they could not make a living in the rock and bolder strewn soil left behind by the receding Ice Age. Soon, some of the families began to rent rooms during the summer months. Before long, there were hotels that were catering to a Jewish clientele. These boarding houses and hotels were built to accommodate the thousands of Jewish summer visitors who were discovering Mount Freedom.

In the early 20th century, Mount Freedom became a vacation destination for people from the urban areas, especially the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

However, there was no synagogue in the area at that time. Jews had to travel to other areas for worship services.

Mount Freedom Jewish Center, on Sussex Turnpike was the first synagogue established in Randolph, founded as an Orthodox synagogue in 1923.

Though the congregation was formed in 1923 it was not possible to build a synagogue immediately, because of the great financial burden involved. The Congregation could function without a synagogue. The ex-

istence of the physical structure is not necessary. Worshipers could pray together in each other’s homes on the Sabbath and on holy days. And so, the founders conducted the services in each of their homes.

The Hebrew Ladies of Yuri raised enough money for the construction of the physical building which was completed in 1924.

The building was a small white clapboard building consisting primarily of a sanctuary.

When the building was renovated, in 1958, care was taken to incorporate the original sanctuary by building around the exterior walls.

“A parking lot was not planned at the time because no one would dare drive to Shul on the Sabbath or on the holidays,” said Arthur Regan, an early member of the Congregation. “There was no running water, but we did have an old hand pump outside the building. A wood-burning potbelly stove in the front of the classroom, and the sanctuary was heated by a grill in the floor from the heat of the furnace below.”

“The first building did not resemble the current building,” said Regan who described the original building. “The total building area was composed of a lovely, simple sanctuary 22-feet wide and 40-feet long and a simple all-purpose room. This truly was an all-purpose room for it had been to serve as a classroom, a library, reception area and a room for weddings.”

The founders of the Mount Freedom Jewish Center followed an age-old and simple formula to preserve their Jewish way of life.

It had been the Jewish custom for over 2,000 years, that wherever they settled, they tried almost at once to form a Congregation.

The Congregation was the organization of continued on page 26

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By Steve Sears he communities of Hackettstown, Roxbury, and Denville ensure every Christmas season that our loyal, deceased veteran heroes who served our country are not forgotten.

On December 17 throughout our nation, through the Wreaths Across America program, wreaths are laid on the graves on soldiers who fought for our country as far back as the Revolutionary War. And volunteers young and old in the three, before-mentioned communities are just some of the many placing wreaths on the graves and saying the veteran’s name, making sure he or she “hears” beneath the soil or above the clouds that they are being honored for their service and are not forgotten.

HACKETTSTOWN Michele DeFazio of the Hackettstown’s Wreathes Across America has been location coordinator for two years. Elks Lodge #2331 is in their fifth year of doing the worthwhile ritual at the Union Cemetery. “At least a couple of hundred,” DeFazio says when asked how many wreaths are placed at gravesites.

“It fluctuates depending on how many donations we get in and how many people sign up. But, with COVID, last year was a little bit harder, but we still have done it. Usually, it’s at least 200 (graves) or more than that.”

DeFazio has had family members serve in the military. In fact, her son is a United States Marine. It’s personal for her, and for many.

“When they asked me the first year about Wreaths Across America, I was honored to be able to do this because I felt that I’m honoring them, but I also felt honored that I could participate. One of the processes when you lay the wreath is you’re supposed to say the name of whoever’s grave that you’re laying the wreath on. When you do that, you actually almost feel like you’re personally there with that person. So, I’m very respectful of the military, and I believe this is something that we can all do.”

Every military branch is present at Union Cemetery, laying the official ceremonial

wreath. DeFazio adds, “We also have the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts come out, and the Junior ROTC came out last fall. Each year it seems like we involve more of the community.”

ROXBURY Kim Armstrong is both a volunteer for Wreaths Across America and lead coordinator for Roxbury since 2014, when she initiated the worthwhile event in town. Her dad was a Navy veteran, and she brought the Wreaths Across America idea to her Ferro Monte Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Wreaths are layed at the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery & United Methodist Church Cemetery, and the Flanders-Hillside Cemetery. “We lay wreathes on all the veterans’ graves in Roxbury now,” Armstrong says.

“We’re up to about 670 graves.”

As previously mentioned, all war vets are remembered. “We will mark our Revolutionary War soldiers’ graves,” Armstrong says of the earliest burial spots at First Presbyterian Church Cemetery & United Methodist Church Cemetery. During the Revolutionary War, First Presbyterian Church served as a barracks and hospital for the wounded, and General George Washington may have even visited the ailing. “We have the first one that was buried there who died of smallpox, and we honor him every day. If you looked at any of our materials, that’s the gray stone that we use, to honor his sacrifice for us to be here the way we are today.”

Roxbury Wreaths Across America promotes something a little different than the program nationally. They do a children’s wreath. Armstrong explains. “We get a wreath, and we have the kids waiting on line for Santa Claus stop and write a message thanking a veteran. It could be somebody they know or just a generalized one. They’re getting a little bit of that history themselves, which is really neat.” The wreaths are displayed on Main Street trees throughout the holiday season. continued on page 27

“Here in the synagogue, one could express religious feelings and find strength and identification with each other,” said Regan.

“There have been a lot of changes to the building, some of which can be seen when repairs were made, and walls were taken down. If you lift the lovely stained-glass windows in the sanctuary and lobby you can see the clapboard walls of the original, simple wooden building behind them,” said Regan.

Orthodox Jewish law required its followers to walk to Shabbat worship services. As a result, the vacation bungalows were built within walking distance of the Mount Freedom Jewish Center. It was enlarged several times over the years to accommodate the increase in worshipers.

Around 1950, zoning changes began to prohibit buildings from expanding unless they were placed on separate lots of 100 feet.

In 1950, there were over 900 seasonal dwellings in Mount Freedom. But the 1970s saw a distressing drop to 400. Hotels which once featured a-listers as evening entertainment were feeling the trend. It marked the beginning of the end of the resort era.

At its peak, the summertime brought

The MFJC today is a prominent building on Sussex Turnpike. (Credit: Henry M. Holden)

upwards of 10,000 visitors to Mount Freedom. But slowly, the businesses began to fade, but not the Jewish Center. It had slow but steady growth as it accommodated vacationers and the newly developing permanent residents.

By 1982, the resorts were gone, and the few remaining structures have since been repurposed. The immigrants are also gone, but some of their descendants have remained.

Today, almost one hundred years later, the MFJC is not only a house of worship, but also a place of learning, a source of caring, and an outlet for social enjoyment.

The founders will smile when they look down to see this thriving community soon to celebrate its Centennial.

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continued from page 26 Armstrong also adds, “We also encourage people to bring their kids (on December 17).

They do the Pledge of Allegiance in front of every veteran grave when they’re laying a wreath.”

DENVILLE Wreaths Across America volunteers annually lay wreaths on the graves of veterans at 3,137 cemeteries nationwide.

“When we started out, there was maybe 1,000, maybe 1,200,” Anna Marie Osvold says. Osvold started Wreaths Across America in Denville six years ago. “Each year it’s grown, which is wonderful.”

Three of those over 3,000 current cemeteries are in Denville: Denville Cemetery, Cooks Cemetery at the Rockaway River Country Club, and a tiny plot for one gentleman on Cooper Road.

Osvold explains her introduction to the annual event. “My brother was in the army.

He did a couple of tours over in Iraq, Operation Freedom. About seven years ago, he had sent me a picture, and it was him placing a wreath on a veteran’s grave in Colorado.

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Osvold gets between 200 to 250 volunteers on the day that Wreaths Across America is held. “It’s wonderful to see the community come out and support this event,” she says. “The fire department, the police department, the mayor - just everybody helping us is unbelievable. It’s such a good feeling.”

Osvold articulates perhaps the most important reason for Wreaths Across America.

“Some of these veterans don’t have family members anymore. We need to thank them for their service. They’re not forgotten, and it’s important that we ensure that their memory lives on. When we place that wreath on a veteran’s grave, we say their name out loud, so that their memory will live on. It’s just a thank you for the freedom that we have today.”

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continued from page 24 Christmas Through the Arts service in December. In past years, I have enjoyed this unique and creative ecumenical service which shares the Christmas story through a variety of performing arts with participants from many different churches…. A great memory was when our Stanhope UMC Jazz Trio performed in the service [ playing “We Three Kings”]. This year I will be performing with some of my instrumental music students from Bedminster. We are hoping to put together a jazz duet and a jazz trio.

My students and I really enjoy performing together. Last spring, we were fortunate enough to put together a jazz quintet for Stanhope UMC Mardi Gras Jazzy Worship Service,” shared Scott Lefurge of Byram, a music teacher in the Bedminster school system and member of the Stanhope United Methodist Church.

The mix of talents can be different each year and different kinds of “gifts” having been offered, such as singing and signing in American Sign Language done by the St. James Episcopal Church. However, one recent mainstay of the program has been “Camille the camel”. An over-the-top diva, Camille is a puppet that helps introduce the audience to the program each year and would tell you that the camels with the wisemen were the most important part of the story.

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The participants, as well the as audience, look forward to coming together to share the nativity story with each other. Katie Williver, of Oak Ridge, reflected on the program: “For the past five or six years I have been participating in the annual nativity program at Port Morris UMC. I have enjoyed participating because it has given me the opportunity to sing with my nieces and my son. Furthermore, it is such a beautiful program because people from all denominations come together to celebrate the birth of Christ. There are so many talented people involved in this nativity program; it is a beautiful night of music and storytelling.”

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By Steve Sears s much fun and success as Roxbury High School alum, Doug Miller, had playing the sport of soccer, he now enjoys much more the joy of coaching and teaching the sport to others, especially youngsters.

Miller was born in 1969 and was raised by his dad, James, and mom, Jackie. He has three sisters; Kim, Tracy, and Tammy. He attributes much of his success to his mom, who often drove him all over to play the sport he grew to love.

“She was a stay-at-home mom,” Miller says, “and she really sacrificed getting me from point A to point B, and not just for me, for my three sisters as well. She was always available to sacrifice her time for us.”

Miller, the youngest child in his family, initially played baseball. “My uncle Raymond was going to pitch for the Milwaukee Braves in 1957, and he ended up with cancer and he passed away at age 19,” Miller explains. “My mom’s brother was a heck of a baseball player, and I never got to meet him. I enjoyed playing both baseball and soccer growing up, but when I was 14, soccer became more prominent to me because it was more active. It was always moving, you’re always running around, and I think it just became the joy of chasing after a soccer ball instead of getting hit with a baseball.”

Miller was one of the first freshman ever to play varsity soccer at Roxbury High School. “I remember going to a game.

We played, I think, at Roosevelt Elementary School. And there was a game where the referee was counting down.

10…9…8…, and I ended up scoring the tying goal or the game winning goal with a second left. And that was the pivotal time for me, coming into my own as a freshman, playing varsity, and then it was three more years of playing high school soccer where we weren’t very good. All four years, I think we might have won 10 games. But it’s not always being on a winning team that means success. You can be on a team like I was and still find your way out of it.”

And he did. Miller turned his eyes and heart towards playing soccer year-round, and at age 18, had committed to County College of Morris, when his friend asked if he’d like to head for Rutgers University in New Brunswick and try out for the Olympic Festival team. He was the youngest player there, but his skills were impressive – so much so that the assistant coach of Loyola College soccer called Miller’s dad and asked them to visit. While there, he was offered a full scholarship to attend the school.

In his senior year with Loyola, his club gave up two goals the entire season. “We routed teams in that year when I was Player of the Year in the conference,” Miller says. He also finished 10th in the nation in scoring.

His professional career, in a somewhat brief rundown.

Miller was initially drafted by the MSL’s Kansas City Comets, who eventually folded. The Baltimore Blast of the Major Indoor Soccer League signed him next. “I was very fortunate enough to play indoor in Baltimore pretty much every other day in the wintertime,” Miller says, “so I knew the game much better than most of the other guys who were coming in.” After playing one season in Baltimore, the MISL folded, and Miller then moved on to the National Professional Soccer League’s Harrisburg Heat, for whom he played 1 ½ seasons.

In March of 1994, Miller was traded to the Cleveland Crunch soccer team, and while there, the Crunch team went on to win the NPSL championships in 1994 and 1996. After is years of sparkling for losing teams, Miller was now the member of a winning squad.

However, he didn’t have much time to rest with that success. Miller then headed to Rochester and its Raging Rhinos (who would become simply the Rhinos). It would change his life. “It was a brand new franchise,” Miller says.

“Indoor was my passion, but outdoor gave me another opportunity to play six months outdoors, six months indoor.

And so, we went there and probably the best thing that happened to me was that I met my wife. She was a dancer for the Rhinos. I met her probably the first month that I was there. A year and a half later, I married her, and the soccer part of it was the secondary part.” In addition to his ability to go out and score goals, Miller also started teaching kids how to play the game of soccer in Rochester, and he was also a winner again. “I spent 1996 to 1999 in Rochester, where we won two championships, the USL (United Soccer League) championship, and we won the Open Cup Championship.”

Miller didn’t play for the Rhinos again until 2003, and played with them until 2005, when he started his Doug Miller Soccer Academy (now known as Rochester Lancers Academy) in Rochester, New York.

In 2011, Miller returned to the field at age 42, coming out if retirement a second time to play for the Rochester Lancers of the newly begun MISL. He played for the Lancers until 2013. “I played for the Lancers in another coming out of retirement party,” he recalls. “And I was an MVP in that league and broke every scoring record. I had a lot of successes in different decades playing the game.” In 2018, Miller coached and was President of the soccer operation of the Indoor Rochester Lancers of the MASL (Major Arena Soccer League) and for the NPSL (National Premiere Soccer League) and UPSL (United Premiere Soccer League) teams.

“I coached until last year. We continue to provide a product for the community. We have 400 kids who play for us in my program in Rochester, New York. I really focused on the youth business and teaching. Sport teaches life, and for me it was all about ‘How do we transition from sports and teach life lessons through that?’ That’s been my goal ever since turning pro in 1991.”

Miller recognizes the desire to win is much more important than size and speed. He explains. “There’s always somebody who’s going to be bigger, badder, stronger, faster, which is nice, but how do we take adversity and turn it into opportunity? I think my whole career I wasn’t always the best player, the most technical player, but I had a desire that I wanted it more than anybody, and I was willing to sacrifice more for that. Most people would. When I talk about teaching the kids, the three D’s of Doug Miller are desire, determination, dedication: desire to be your best, determination to work hard, and dedication to never quit.”

And he didn’t quit, even when in 2019 the dome to his soccer academy collapsed and he had a complete loss with the multimillion-dollar structure. “How did I rebuild? That adversity that I went through during my career allowed me to have that fight to rebuild something even better.”

Doug Miller as a Rochester Rhino (courtesy of Doug Miller)

When asked if he would consider coaching and perhaps even playing again, Miller says. “The coaching? Absolutely.

There’s a time in your career, however, when you ask, ‘Can I go and compete?” He did in 2020, playing the last indoor games in Rochester against Florida, and Kansas City, and against Kansas City he ended up with two goals and two assists at age 51. However, for Miller, it’s more important to focus on coaching.

Doug Miller and his wife Kari have been married for 24 years, and just like their mom, the Miller daughters, Kayla and Kalista, are dancers. “They were a part of the entire journey,” Miller says. “When I went back and played for the Lancers, they were the Junior Lancers dancers, and my wife was the choreographer. When I started coaching the team, they were the Lancers Dancers and my wife was the choreographer. It was a very family atmosphere, the better for me because my family was still involved in regards to that. So, it wasn’t like I was doing something and they were at home. They were with me through that process and that journey.”

Miller now lives full-time in Florida with his family. “It’s the next portion of my journey. The sun shines every day, I still have my business in Rochester, New York, and my staff is running it. I go back and forth when I have to, but God has blessed me immensely.”

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