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In our last issue of your magazine my business partner and Editor-in-Chief, Lynn Adams Smith acknowledged the fifth anniversary of our purchase and makeover of Princeton Magazine. With this issue I mark the beginning of our second half-decade with our remarkable cover story on Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve and a leader of national and international prominence. This cover furthers the quality of the individuals we have been honored to feature with each issue of the magazine. The covers over the last five years have focused on residents of Princeton whose reach and influence goes far beyond this central Jersey region. Our number of issues have also grown from five per year to the present seven plus Princeton Magazine Healthy Living. This has been due to your enthusiastic response to the magazine and the accompanying demand of advertisers to be included. The town of Princeton is known for its dedication to sustainability as evidenced by the demands put on each new development with LEED as a measurement. One aspect of the LEED program is the requirement that the construction materials be as locally produced as possible. As we can see with the explosion of Farmers Markets, a similar sustainability attitude of “grown locally” now pervades our food purchasing. Our story on Robin and Jon McConaughy presents how one couple have taken that food sustainability a step further in establishing a new Double Brook Farm on lands along Carter Road to supply their new Brick Farm Food Market on Broad Street in Hopewell. This amazing new store with fresh produce and home grown meats will soon be followed by a new creamery with home made cheeses and ice cream. Robin’s grandfather, Peter Cook, was an accomplished painter, best known for his portraiture, including that of Hobey Baker, the legendary Princeton hockey player. On the topic of food, make it a point to digest our story on the new restaurant Mistral at the corner of Witherspoon and Hulfish Streets. Scott Anderson, who is also the Executive Chef of the restaurant elements, gives you a gourmet tour of this newest Princeton menu. In a different art form, I hope you enjoy the beautiful iron work from hinges to tapestry-like gate ways by the Samuel Yellin Metal Works. In its third generation of management, this is the company that did the 1927 gates for the Federal Reserve Bank in New York and is still providing period pieces of ironwork to Princeton University. If historical iron isn’t your passion, let’s go to one step short of science fiction with our story on President Obama’s Brain Mapping Project. We take you to this new frontier through lively discussions with Professor Stephen Hanson, the director of The Rutgers Brain Imaging Center and Princeton Professors Lynn Enquist and Sabine Kastner, who are just moving into their new Neuroscience and Psychology Center on Washington Road.
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PRINCETON MAGAZINE suMMER 2013
Photography by Andrew Wilkinson
Dear Readers,
That new center is just one of the great new science facilities that have been created during the awesome, twelve year tenure of retiring President Shirley Tilghman who is appropriately featured on our “Last Word.” Shirley Tilghman has put the University and therefore our town of Princeton on the map as one of the great intellectual and research centers of the world. My Princeton class made her an honorary member because we think so much of her and all that she has done to advance the University. Shirley, we wish you well and thank you! This has been a terrific issue to put together. Lynn and I hope you enjoy it. Respectfully yours,
J. Robert Hillier, FAIA Publisher