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Spring is almost upon us and with it the annual renewal of our environment and our spirit. This particular spring there is a lot of renewal going on, especially with the changing of the guard at so many of our local institutions, including the Town of Princeton itself.

Last month we welcomed Robbert Dijkgraaf, the new director of the Institute for Advanced Study and this month we have an article on Cecilia Rouse, the dynamic new dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. There is also a new president of the Princeton Theological Seminary, Reverend Dr. M. Craig Barnes, a new headmaster at the Peddie School, and of course, come June, a new president of the University.

It is always a source of pride and amazement to me when I think about all of the national and international influence that radiates from this small central New Jersey town. Of course one of the major influences on the course of modern history and mankind is embodied by one of this issue’s features, Albert Einstein, who made his home in Princeton and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study. While touching on Princeton’s own “Pi Day”, we offer some local perspectives on Einstein’s life here.

Of less impact than E=mc2, but with long-term import, is Bill Flemer’s innovative pursuit of a “native” grass seed to be used in New York City parks, another example of the influences radiating from Princeton.

Flemer is of the fourth generation of the Flemer Family, the creators of Princeton Nurseries, at one time the largest nursery in the world.

With the renewal of spring, we can also see all around us the University’s renewal of housing for faculty, staff, and graduate students. The Hibben and McGee towers on Lake Carnegie are being replaced, the Stanworth and Merwick sites on Bayard Lane are being redeveloped, along with longer range plans for the World War II “Butler Tract.” There is even the small Olden House project for visiting scholars underway across from the Engineering Quadrangle. Anne Levin reports on this exciting multimillion dollar undertaking which will result in taxpaying entities for our town along with an easing of Princeton’s housing shortage.

The other departments of this issue are enhanced by the beautiful photography of Jon Naar and the inspiring “Last Word” by the University’s women’s basketball coach.

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Dear Reader,

All of this adds up to another interesting issue of Princeton Magazine about one of the most unusual, influential, and special towns in America. Editor-in-Chief Lynn Adams Smith and I consider it an honor and a pleasure to bring it to you.

Enjoy this issue, and your spring...when it gets here.

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“Fanaticism? No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing.”

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ooking ahead to the 2013 baseball season while browsing through some new and some not so new books, I’m thinking of my childhood idol, Stan Musial, who died in January at the age of 92. My passion for Stan the Man and the St. Louis Cardinals developed before you could watch every game on TV and long before you could find out everything you needed to know about your favorite player, and probably plenty you didn’t want to know, by going online, clicking a cable remote, or reading the latest pathography.

“Gentlemanly Slugger,” the phrase heading Musial’s New York Times obituary, echoes common baseball knowledge and is illustrated throughout George Vecsey’s feelgood biography Stan Musial: An American Life (Ballantine/ESPN $26). The Musial I idolized, however, was not the gentleman but the slugger with an exotic stance who struck terror in the hearts of opposing pitchers, particularly those laboring for the Cardinals’ arch rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers. The fact that he wasn’t moody and tempermental like Ted Williams or married to Marilyn Monroe like Joe DiMaggio, didn’t make him any less charismatic. As “Baseball’s Perfect Warrior” and “Baseball’s Perfect Knight” (the inscription on his statue at Busch Stadium), Musial stands in contrast to baseball’s down side—bench-clearing brawls set off by pitchers beaning hitters and hitters charging the mound while managers commandeer eye-for-an-eye retaliations, plus negatives of a more recent vintage like players pumping themselves up with steroids as agents and owners milk the

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cash cow and sold-to-the-highest-bidder player millionaires live out a King Midas fantasy.

ONE GAME The first and only time I saw Musial play in St. Louis was when my thoughtful but baseballclueless father drove us all the way there (250 miles). We spent the night at a hotel and the next afternoon watched the Cards beat the Dodgers 3-1 with Stan the Man homering off Preacher Roe in the sixth inning for the third run. After looking up that game online, I find that my father and I were two among 21,383 people in the stands that day, that the lone Dodger run was scored when Jackie Robinson drove in Duke Snider, and that in the top of the sixth inning, with Robinson on first base after a walk, he was picked off by the Cardinal catcher, Del Rice. I saw Jackie Robinson picked off first base! How often did such things happen? For that matter, how often did Musial hit a home run? It was his 20th of the year (he hit only 28), out of 645 plate appearances. How lucky was that? But the truth is, I expected it of Musial. I was counting on it. I promised my father that the Man would deliver and he did.

GRISHAM’S IDEA Novelist John Grisham is a third-generation Cardinal fan who grew up in small towns in Arkansas and Mississippi listening to games on KMOX out of St. Louis (as I did growing up in Indiana). In his foreword to Cardinal manager Tony LaRussa’s memoir One Last Strike (Morrow $27.99), Grisham mentions

telling LaRussa of his idea for a baseball novel where “the central plot involved a beanball and baseball’s unwritten code of dealing with it. Talk about a hot-button issue. Nothing torments Tony like a hit batter.”

In fact, the hot-button issue is at the heart of LaRussa’s lengthy explanation of his decision to retire from baseball following the Cardinals’ storybook World Championship season in 2011.

Some of the most enlightening thoughts on baseball and the manager’s role you will ever read are contained in One Last Strike, most memorably in the six pages LaRussa devotes to the two incidents that led him to close down a career that could have continued for another decade. First came the trauma of seeing one of his own players hit in the head and sent to the hospital, and after the game having to contend with the taunts of a reporter demanding to know why he hadn’t retaliated; the second, apparently decisive, incident occured during the 2011 season when, according to the eye-for-an-eye code, LaRussa had to instruct his pitcher to throw at an opposing hitter: “The duty I felt to protect a player had forced my hand, and I’d had to do something against a manager and a player that I really liked.”

The baseball novel Grisham described to LaRussa, Calico Joe (Doubleday $24.95), appeared last year, and though the writing lacks the authentic force and personal passion of

LaRussa’s from-the-gut views on the hit batter/retaliation conundrum, Grisham executes his own take on the beanball dilemma by giving it an Oedipal twist. The title character is one of those mythical superstars appearing out of nowhere like Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees or Roy Hobbs in The Natural. He’s already breaking records in what promises to be a glorious career when it’s brought to a shocking end by a pitch deliberately thrown at his head. The pitcher who beaned this baseball legend in the making, disabling him for life, is the narrator’s abusive father, a fictional member of the 1973 New York Mets. Grisham has fashioned a compelling situation with a strong denouement bringing together the father and the man whose life he ruined, but it would take a more gifted writer -- nothing less than a Musial of the word — to make literature of what is otherwise first-rate entertainment.

of playing appealed to me, and it was because of Cobb that my favorite American League team was the Detroit Tigers. By identifying with Cobb’s hellbent approach to the game, I was apparently setting up a dark antithesis to my hero, that “perfect knight,” Stan Musial. According to Marianne Moore’s formula, exciting baseball and exciting writing was bound to lead me beyond baseball, beyond Cobb, to the great game of literature played by sinners like Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov, Javert and Jean Valjean, Ishmael and Ahab.

WILD PITCHERS Marianne Moore’s “baseball is like writing” could be justly amended to “pitching is like writing,” for the players most likely to spread their literary wings and produce full-length accounts of life on and off the field are almost always pitchers. The Cardinals’ Dizzy Dean never wrote a tell-all memoir, but his earthy wit anticipates pitcher-writers like Jim Bouton. The latest pitcher to strut his stuff in the genre of funny, quirky firsthand accounts of the baseball life is Kent State graduate Dirk Hayhurst, whose 2010 Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran (Kensington $14.95) moved Keith Olbermann to call it “one of the best baseball books ever written.” The new book by the player the New York Times calls the “best writer in a baseball uniform” is Out Of My League: A Rookie’s Survival in the Bigs (Citadel $24.95), which Olbermann also admired for the way it “shows why baseball is so often used as a metaphor for life.” As far as I’ve read, the closest Hayhurst comes to the question of beanballs and the risk of pitching high and tight is when he faces his first hitter in the majors, urging himself, as he winds up, “Don’t hit him, don’t hit him, don’t hit him.”

NEW BOOKS Presumably Dennis D’Agostino’s collection of personal histories, Keepers of the Game: When Baseball Was the Best Job on the Paper (Potomac $29.95), offers a more positive view of journalists than LaRussa’s account of the reporter whose goading helped him decide to quit baseball. Twenty-three vintage baseball beat writers tell their own stories in a first-person format, with an individual chapter devoted to each writer. Included among the interview subjects are nine winners of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s J. G. Taylor Spink Award, the baseball writing profession’s highest honor.

For something completely different, there’s New York University President John Sexton’s Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game (Gotham $27.50). Published this month, the book grew out of Sexton’s NYU course of the same name that uses baseball to illustrate the elements of a spiritual life. The publisher’s description online refers to the “heroic achievements of players like the saintly Christy Mathewson and the sinful Ty Cobb.”

For the last word, here’s poet, wit, and baseball fan Ogden Nash (1902-1971) in Lineup for Yesterday (Creative Editions $19.99), an alphabetized picture book of limericks on baseball legends from Grover Cleveland Alexander to Cy Young: C is for Cobb, Who grew spikes and not corn, And made all the basemen Wish they weren’t born.

Lineup for Yesterday is introduced by a nicely felt reminiscence from Nash’s daughter, Linell Nash Smith, and illustrated with amusingly rough-hewn caricatures by C.F. Payne.

While I can’t say I ever idolized Ty Cobb, he was my favorite oldtime player. The tales of his headlong, thrilling, sometimes sinful style

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THURSDAY, MARCH 14 Happy Birthday Albert Einstein!

11AM Walking tour of Einstein’s neighborhood sponsored by the Princeton Tour Company.

11AM-4PM Winter Farmers and Crafters Market at Princeton Public Library (through Saturday, April 13).

8PM Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers provide an evening of bluegrass and comedy at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.

FRIDAY, MARCH 15 ALL DAY Poets from around the world

SATURDAY, MARCH 23 1PM Princeton University women’s lacrosse vs. Johns Hopkins; Princeton University’s 1952 Stadium.

MONDAY, MARCH 25 10AM-5PM The Eighty-Second Annual Bryn Mawr-Wellesley Used Book Sale; Princeton Day School (runs through Friday, March 29).

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27

gather to read their poetry at the biennial Princeton Poetry Festival; Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall (also, on Saturday, March 16).

9AM-6PM The Longwood Gardens Orchid Extravaganza Orchid Sale; The Garden Shop, Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA (runs through Saturday, March 30).

THURSDAY, MARCH 21

4:30-6PM Princeton University Bobst

7PM 2013 Piano Concerto Winners from the International Association for Musically Gifted Children perform at Richardson Auditorium.

FRIDAY, MARCH 22 9AM-4PM Eden Autism Services’ Nineteenth Annual Princeton Lecture Series on Autism at Princeton University. Hear pre-eminent physicians, researchers, and scholars speak about the latest developments and challenges in the field of autism research.

Center for Peace and Justice Lecture entitled, “A Future for Democracy in Iraq?”; McCormick Hall, Princeton University.

7PM Pop singer Taylor Swift performs live at the Prudential Center in Newark.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30 NOON Princeton University men’s baseball vs. Yale University; Princeton University’s Clarke Field.

TUESDAY, APRIL 2

8PM The New Jersey Symphony performs

7:30PM Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale

Mozart’s Requiem; Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.

comes to McCarter Theatre (runs through Sunday, April 21).

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 8AM-6PM Princeton Public Library leads a guided tour of Edith Wharton’s “Old New York” through New York City. Visit Wharton’s childhood home, the noted Merchant’s House Museum, churches, homes, and institutions from Upper Fifth Avenue to Greenwich Village that played a role in shaping the author. The tour will depart from Community Park North off of Route 206, Princeton.

7PM The Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University hosts Susan Lester, an executive producer who has worked for ABC, CNN, and A&E, as part of their Annual Zagoren Lecture Series; Douglass College Center, Rutgers University.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5 ALL DAY Sam Howell Track & Field Invitational at Princeton University’s Weaver Stadium (also, on Saturday, April 6).

SATURDAY, APRIL 6 8PM Singer-songwriter Avi Wisnia performs an eclectic mix of original songs from acoustic Americana to Brazilian bossa nova at the West Windsor Arts Center.

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MONDAY, APRIL 8 7PM Dr. Jeffrey Kuan, the Dean of Drew University’s Theological School, delivers a lecture on “Asian American Biblical Interpretation”; Princeton Theological Seminary.

7:30PM One of America’s pre-eminent writers of humor and satire, David Sedaris reads excerpts from his bestselling books; McCarter Theatre.

TUESDAY, APRIL 9 2:15PM The Eagleton Institute of Politics at

THURSDAY, APRIL 11 10AM-10PM The Walters Art Museum of

FRIDAY, MAY 3

Baltimore and the Princeton University Art Museum present, “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe”; Princeton University Art Museum.

12PM Rutgers University’s Men’s and Women’s Track and Field host the Big East Championship at Bauer Track and Field Complex in New Brunswick.

8PM Westminster Conservatory’s opera

8PM Opening night for a re-telling of

presents Jacques Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann); The Playhouse, Westminster Choir College (through Saturday, April 13).

FRIDAY, APRIL 19 6PM Princeton University men’s lacrosse vs.

Harvard University; Princeton University’s Class of 52 Stadium.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 8PM The original Fleetwood Mac performs live at the Prudential Center in Newark.

Rutgers University hosts John Lawrence, Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi. Lawrence will deliver a lecture on “American Health Care: The Policy and Politics of the Affordable Care Act”; Douglass Campus Center, Rutgers University.

Pinot to Picasso fundraiser. Sample gourmet foods, hand-selected wines, and participate in a fine art lottery.

7:30-9:30PM Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan

ALL DAY Communiversity Festival of the

performs a solo recital of pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and more; Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.

Arts. Communiversity features non-stop food, music, shopping, and entertainment in downtown Princeton.

FRIDAY, APRIL 26 6PM The Princeton Arts Council’s annual

SUNDAY, APRIL 28

Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods; McCarter Theatre (runs through Sunday, June 2).

SATURDAY, MAY 4 8AM-6PM Princeton Public Library leads a literary tour of Harlem. The tour includes readings of Harlem Renaissance authors and visits to sites affiliated with W.E.B. DuBois, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, Ralph Ellison, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, and more. The tour will depart from Community Park North off of Route 206, Princeton.

8:30AM Miles for Isles 5K run and 1 mile walk.

Proceeds benefit Isles, Inc., an urban green development organization based in Trenton, NJ; Mercer County Park, West Windsor.

SUNDAY, MAY 5 2-3:30PM Cinco de Mayo at the Arts Council of Princeton. Create Mexican art projects, participate in a piñata demonstration and breaking, and learn about the traditions of Mexican art.

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rriving in America for one of his three stints at the Institute for Advanced Study, historian and political theorist David Mitrany (1888–1975) encountered a customs officer who made short work of Mitrany’s description of his destination. “Oh, you mean the Einstein Institute,” the officer is reported to have said, giving Mitrany the okay to proceed. Historian of Science Wolf Lepenies has similarly written that before he came to the Institute as a member of the School of Social Science in 1979, “the name ‘Princeton’ had a certain aura for me. But this aura had almost nothing to do with the Institute.

‘Princeton’ was the university, the place—I wrongly thought, as many still do—where Albert Einstein had worked...”

The conflation of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) with his adopted home is not uncommon. Einstein first came to Princeton in 1921 (a year before he won the Nobel Prize) to deliver the Stafford Little lectures on the theory of relativity and to accept an honorary degree.

Escaping the ominous political scene in Europe in 1933, he returned for good as a life member of the recently created Institute. He died at Princeton Hospital in 1955, and he remains a larger-than-life presence in the community.

Freeman Dyson, a distinguished physicist with a long history of his own at the Institute for Advanced Study, has

noted that “Albert Einstein’s life was full of paradoxes.” For Dyson, Einstein’s refusal to acknowledge the existence of black holes in the universe, even as more and more evidence of them accrued, is among the more glaring examples of inexplicable obstinacy trumping extraordinary brilliance. Then there is Einstein’s worldly gracefulness, reflected in a comment he made at the end of his life. Knowing he was ill, Einstein refused treatment, saying that it would be “tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”

His endearing silliness, on the other hand, is, of course, captured in photos that show the the great man sticking his tongue out, and sitting on the steps of his home at 112 Mercer Street, wearing big, fuzzy slippers. Is it any wonder that at least one child, looking at a 1994 photograph of Walter Matthau decked out as Albert Einstein for the movie IQ, has declared, with certainty, that the figure in the picture was Einstein himself, eating that Thomas Sweet ice cream cone?

Einstein’s starting salary at the Institute was $15,000 per year. His relationship with Director Abraham Flexner was not easy. Former Princeton University Press editor Alice Calaprice describes Flexner as “an overly protective boss,” who, citing security reasons and unbeknownst to Einstein, declined an invitation to Einstein and his wife from President Roosevelt. When he eventually

(Left) Albert Einstein photographed by Yousuf Karsh, 1948.

Courtesy of The Estate of Yousuf Karsh.

learned about Flexner’s machinations, Einstein sent Roosevelt an apology, and was re-invited. “Einstein finally did make it to the White House to meet the president,” Calaprice reports, adding that “he didn’t wear socks.”

SOURCES AND PLACES An important resource in any discussion of Albert Einstein is the informative website maintained by Princeton University Press (press.princeton.edu/einstein/). In addition to bibliographic information about the many books by and about Einstein that the Press has published (as well as earlier ones that they did not), along with essential copyright information, the site also provides descriptions about the contents and locations for what The New York Times described as “one of the most ambitious publishing ventures ever undertaken in the documentation of the history of science.” Sponsored by Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Einstein Papers include 40,000 documents from Einstein’s personal collection, as well as 15,000 Einstein and Einsteinrelated documents discovered by the editors since the beginning of the project.

It will comprise a projected 20 volumes by the time of its completion.

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(Top left) Albert Einstein at the age of three years, 1882. This is believed to be the oldest known photograph of Einstein. (Left) Albert Einstein with his wife Elsa. Date not recorded.

(Above) Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921, by F. Schmutzer. Wikipedia

on Institute property leading to its main buildings. The Historical Society of Princeton has enjoyed great success with “Einstein at Home,” its recent exhibition of Einstein’s furniture, and a retail store, Landau’s is the improbable home of a permanent Einstein “museum” where visitors can purchase Einstein-themed tee-shirts to take home with them. Don’t look for Einstein’s Alley, which is not a particular place, but the name of a Princeton-based, non-profit economic development initiative that encourages the growth of jobs and services in the area.

PI DAY AND MORE More ephemeral tributes have included a “consoli-cake” deigned to look like Einstein’s head (courtesy of McCaffrey’s) at the municipality’s recent consolidation celebration. A model car, shaped like a piece of pie with Albert Einstein in the

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driver’s seat, was also recently created by a Princeton cub scout for an annual derby.

One reporter duly noted that the car did not finish the race in 3.14 seconds, referring to the number for π (pi). In a wonderful twist of fate, Einstein was born on March 14, and “Pi Day” is a pretty big deal in Princeton. It typically includes events like pi recitations, a pie eating contest, pizza pi, and pi deals from local merchants. An Einstein look-alike contest draws hopefuls of every age sporting large, unkempt mops of white hair.

Personal recollections of Einstein in Princeton abound, and almost all of them are told the perspective of, gee, wasn’t he” a “just folks,” good egg kind of a guy? Adults who knew him as children recall spontaneous games of hide-and-seek and snowball fights, and sightings of Einstein walking down a street, lost in thought. In one story, Einstein goes inside to get his violin, so

he can accompany holiday carolers who’ve stopped at his door; in others, he helps children with their homework. How credible are these memories of the person Time Magazine declared the “Man of the (20th) Century”? Einstein biographer Ronald Clark has observed that “with his reputation for having changed man’s ideas of the universe, his pervasive humility, and his built-in ability to let the world make a fool of itself, he was tailor-made for apocrypha, and from the winter of 1933 onwards this grew around him...the stories are illuminating, not for their truth but for what Einstein was expected to be and to do.” Clark goes on to suggest that “if the small girl who brought him her sums to do had not existed, she would have been invented.”

“Einstein, without any doubt, is the best-known scientist ever, and he occupies an astonishingly robust cultural place,” agrees Harvard professor of the

(Top left) Einstein, His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. (Top right) Albert Einstein and Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, photographed

by Ehrenfest in front of his home in Leiden in 1921. (Bottom) Einstein accepting U.S. citizenship, 1940. Wikipedia

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(Top Left) Photographic negative from the report of Sir Arthur Eddington verifying Albert Einstein's prediction of the bending of light around the sun. (Top right) Einstein's matriculation certificate at the age of 17 from the Aargau Kantonsschule (on a scale of 1-6, with 6 being the best mark). Wikipedia (Bottom) Sculpture and photo by Robert Berks of The Robert Berks Foundation. Town Topics

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Second Solvay Conference on Physics, Brussels, 1913. Courtesy of Institut International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium.

history of science and physics Peter L. Galison. “He doesn’t seem to come into and fall out of fashion as much as he is simply appropriated for new purposes with each generation.” Galison also acknowledges that “one of the perennial features of Einstein-the-icon is the figure of the great mind living in a world apart, the ultimate loner.”

“PUNY DEMIGODS” IN “PARADISE” Einstein’s views on his newly-adopted home are, apparently, also good candidates for the list of paradoxes.

“Princeton is a wonderful little spot, a quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts,” he wrote to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium soon after his arrival in 1933. “Yet, by ignoring certain special conventions, I have been able to create for myself an atmosphere conducive to

study,” he added. Elsewhere, Einstein reportedly described the move to Princeton as “a banishment to paradise.”

Ronald Clark suggests that Einstein chose Princeton, in part, because its population of its “rich, conservative Republican businessmen, some faintly anti-semitic... (who) were rather displeased with the sudden descent on their town of distinguished refugees whose intellectual eminence tended to overshadow their own social position. With a few notable exceptions, they made no attempt to establish contact with the newcomers.

That suited Einstein.” In A Princeton Companion, Alexander Leitch reports, however, that Einstein “found his quiet life at Princeton indescribably enjoyable,” telling “his friend, the physicist Max Born, that he had ‘settled down splendidly’ was hibernating ‘like a bear in its cave,’” and feeling ‘more at home than ever before in all my varied existence.’”

Wikipedia

The Princeton Public Library’s collections are replete with books about Einstein, including the highly readable expanded edition of Quotable Einstein, collected and edited by Alice Calaprice.

Recent biographies there include the one

by Clark, as well as Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: His Life and Universe and Jürgen Neffe’s Einstein, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch, a longtime Princeton resident.

Neffe writes that Einstein, who left specific directions for what was to be done with his body following his death, “did not want to leave anything that could be used as a place of pilgrimage or worship. He himself was the monument.

Gods have no graves.” The house on Mercer Street thus remains a private residence, and the ways in which Princeton remembers Einstein are as idiosyncratic as the man himself.

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| ART SCENE Darkroom magic from a moDern master at The James A. Michener Art Museum

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mazing things are happening at the Michener these days. If you haven’t made the trip over to Doylestown in a while, be sure to put it on your calendar for this spring. The Mind’s Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann is a mustsee retrospective of work from a pioneer of contemporary photography.

Uelsmann’s work is beautiful, surreal, funny, and provocative. So engrossing are these images that it comes as a surprise to realize they are all black and white with shades of gray. There is absolutely no lack of feeling about this. The photographer plays with perspective, juxtaposes hard and soft, negative and positive. His nudes and dreamy images are haunting. The Mind’s Eye is at times contemplative (witness “The Edge of Silence, 2008”) and disturbing (see his owl with human feet).

“Uelsmann is a master of experimental darkroom technique who has continuously pushed the creative and technical boundaries” says exhibition curator Phillip Prodger of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where the Michener show originated.

The opening image of a house on a tree (“Untitled,” 1982) lets you know immediately that you’re in for something extraordinary. The composite photograph reminded this viewer of the line “This house on the road to Suffern needs a dozen panes of glass,” from Joyce Kilmer’s poem “The House with Nobody in it” and the poetically inclined will find much to ponder here.

In today’s digital age it’s no longer enough for a museum to simply exhibit, it must also reveal the context, significance, and meaning of what’s on display. Justify, in other words, the space, effort, and time of bringing this particular material to public attention. The curators of The Mind’s Eye have done this superbly. Experienced photographers will appreciate just the right amount of textual commentary while the novice will enjoy the clarity with which Uelsmann’s technique is revealed.

A life size image of Uelsmann’s studio on the first wall shows the master printer’s production line of enlargers. Composite images from multiple negatives would build as he moved one sheet of photographic paper along the line to create a unique print, the result of experiments with masking, diffusing, burning, and dodging techniques in the days before Photoshop.

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1. Jerry Uelsmann Magritte’s Touchstone (first version), 1965 Gelatin silver print 13 5/8 x 8 3/4 in (34.7 x 22.2 cm) 2. Untitled, 1982 Gelatin silver print 13 1/4 x 10 3/8 in (33.8 x 26.4 cm) All images ©Jerry Uelsmann.

intensely real,” says Michener Director and CEO Lisa Tremper Hanover, who succeeded longtime director and CEO Bruce Katsiff last July, after 25 years at the Berman Museum at Ursinus College.

In exposing the photographer’s process, the exhibition speaks to an audience for whom digital images are the norm and a darkroom is a strange place. To illustrate how detached contemporary audiences have become from the photographic process, Prodger recalls being once asked by a young woman to explain a word he kept using. The word was “negative.”

1 Be sure to view the video of Uelsmann at work in his darkroom at the start rather than at the end of your tour. “This is the magic part of photography,” says Uelsmann as he places an exposed sheet of photographic paper into liquid developer. It’s “the alchemy that people who work on computers don’t get” he says, as a composite from four negatives is revealed.

For Uelsmann, taking a photograph is merely step one of a creative process that takes place in his darkroom/research laboratory. Negatives are the raw material.

The Mind’s Eye, which features 103 items, including 89 prints as well as video and three-dimensional items, even a self portrait on a pebble, is well-titled. Uelsmann’s images are dreamlike and mysterious, inviting interpretation. They marry the organic with the artificial and often have more than one focal point. He places eyes on walls and windows on trees, creating an unfathomable world of emotions and states of mind. “I believe that the world exists in us as much as it does around us,” is his quote writ large on one of the display walls.

Although there is a didactic quality to

the exhibition, it is not in the least ponderous.

“This exhibition is not text heavy,” says Hanover.

While cards supply context, visitors are free to experience the photographs without a great deal of philosophizing.

Speaking at the exhibition’s opening, Michener’s Chief Curator Brian H. Peterson recalled the reactions of the photographic community that greeted Uelsmann’s astonishing technical ability and poetic sensibilities in the 1970s. Viewing Uelsmann’s work was the “conversion experience” that prompted many young photographers to enter the field, he said: “His work was transformative. Uelsmann taps into something in our collective unconscious and these images still amaze us. They were shocking then and they still are.”

In referencing Surrealists like Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, and Man Ray, Uelsmann challenged the then prevalent idea of photographs as documenting the concrete. On show is his homage to Man Ray as well as works that place an eye in a urinal and a hand in a sardine can. A hotdog floats in the sky in “All American Sunset, 1971.” “Apple with Lips, 2010” is exactly that and “Chicken, 1969,” is a three-dimensional silver print on sewn linen. Don’t miss the delightfully mischievous video: “The Evolution of the Spaghetti Eater,” in which filming is reversed half way through.

According to Prodger, Uelsmann’s work examines the nature of reality, truth and the medium of photography. When Uelsmann started out, the field was dominated by representative photographers like Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston. Weston believed in pre-visualization where Uelsmann’s process is one of post-visualization. “I think of his approach as being almost like jazz,” says Prodger. “He gathers, thinks about, and then riffs and creates, going where the spirit moves him.

The results often defy explanation, even from the artist himself. There isn’t necessarily a narrative.”

In “Full Dome, 1973,” Uelsmann takes a gentle poke at his friend and rival, Ansel Adams, playfully restoring his famous half dome to full dome status.

Besides composite photography, there are also “straight” images, as in the unaltered examples from the 1950s, Uelsmann’s earliest work, showing a flair for composition, and in the political images documenting the racial segregation he observed in Florida, in the section titled, “The American Dream.” The exhibition is arranged in sections that show the photographer’s themes of relationships, family, home, and politics.

The Mind’s Eye presents works from Uelsmann’s personal archive, including much not seen before. Ten years in the making, it’s the result of a friendship between Uelsmann and Prodger, who says that if the photographer, now in his late eighties, were starting out today, he’d be a master of Photoshop, but after decades of refining his darkroom method, traditional

equipment is an integral part of his process.

Born in Detroit in 1934, Uelsmann was 14 when he took up photography. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957 and Master of Science and Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University in 1960 and then began teaching at the University of Florida, from which he is now retired. His first solo exhibition was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1967.

Be prepared to be amazed by The Mind’s Eye. Uelsmann’s stated goal is to amaze himself. And while technique is at the heart of this exhibition, the playful character of the man behind the lens comes across. By the end of the show one feels well acquainted with the dark-room magician.

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Barragan Red, 1965. Courtesy of Jon Naar and Alex Naar.

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by Linda Arntzenius

WRITING THE LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHER JON NAAR

Jon Naar is at home in London, Paris, and most especially, New York City.

His photographs capture city streets, people, and graffiti like no others. Naar has moved fluidly between photojournalism, portraiture, architecture and design, street art, and fine art over seven decades. He’s been described as: “pushing the limits of photography” with images that “catch the Zeitgeist,” and “take on a life of their own.”

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Jon Naar, Shadows of Children on Swings, March 1964, ©Jon Naar, Alex Naar.

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1936, on his sixteenth birthday, Jon Naar discovered two books in a Paris bookshop that were to influence the rest of his life. The bookshop was Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company. His finds were James Joyce’s Ulysses and Paris de Nuit, photographs by the Hungarian born French master George Brassaï portraying the denizens of the bars, brothels, and streets close to where Naar was living. As a result, Naar wanted to be both a writer and a photographer.

As a photojournalist, he is both. Naar’s photographs are narratives.

Naar describes his work as “political” and, like a true Scrabble player (on most Friday nights he can be found competing with fellow enthusiasts at Trenton’s Classics Books) he calls up the word’s Latin origin in “polis,” or “of the city.”

Ninety percent of his photographs are related to the street. But in Naar’s hands, “street scenes become a magic doorway to poetry,” as art critic and poet Corinne Robins once said.

Internationally, Naar is known as a New York City photographer, but eleven years ago, after living in mid-town Manhattan for four decades, he moved to the historic Mill Hill district of Trenton.

He hasn’t regretted it for a moment.

He lives in a roomy house with a large workspace overlooking the Assunpink Creek. His entire Manhattan studio apartment could fit into his current living room, he says. At night he hears nothing but the babble of the creek.

Born in London in 1920, Naar’s Paris-inspired ambitions to become a photographer and writer were put on hold by World War II. After studying languages, particularly French and German, at the Sorbonne, the University of Vienna, and London University, Naar went straight into the military. His father had been a King’s Messenger (i.e. courier) in the First World War and Naar had hopes of working in military intelligence.

Naar’s name, incidentally, is Sephardic Jewish in origin and his family originated in Jerusalem, settling in England from Holland, where Naar’s grandfather was born, after sojourns in Spain and Portugal.

His inspiration now came from T.E. Lawrence (the famed Lawrence of Arabia) and his book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Naar was an officer in the Royal Artillery when he volunteered for overseas assignment. After a year, he was recruited into the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Interviewed

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“Naar wanted to be both a writer and a photographer.

As a photojournalist, he has achieved both. Naar’s photographs are narratives.” at home for this story, Naar recalled seeing a notice-board in Cairo calling for volunteers for a secret mission: “French Essential.” He was interviewed for the mission in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem and sent off to spy in Syria and Libya. Naar worked for MI6 for six years during WWII in the Middle East, Balkans and Italy, reaching the rank of Major.

In 1946, Naar came to the United States, having met and married his American wife Ellen in Naples, when he was leading a training course she was enrolled in. His wife was then a young captain in the O.S.S. (the Office of Strategic Services, a predecessor of the CIA, formed to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines). “I was a GI bridegroom,” laughs Naar.

The War left little time for photography other than occasional travel shots. He was still using the Tessar Super Ikonta B, a 120-film, range-finder camera he had received as a bar mitzvah present from his cousin Leslie. In 1958, he bought an East-German, 35mm, single-reflex Praktica at the Peerless Camera Store near New York’s Grand Central Station. “It was built like a tank,” says Naar.

By this time, he was working in international marketing using his camera

on weekends to photograph what he saw in the streets of Greenwich Village where he was living. He was on his way to being a professional photographer.

BECOMING A PHOTOGRAPHER A ten-day business trip to Mexico in 1960 was Naar’s breakthrough moment. Naar was transfixed by the quality of light in Mexico City’s then unpolluted sky. He shot three rolls of film—street scenes— and developed them in his make-shift darkroom/bathroom back in New York City. Architect Jaime Lopez Bermudez saw twelve 8 x 10 inch prints and thought Naar deserved an exhibition. A year later, Naar had his first exhibition in the Galeria Coyote Flaco, Coyoacan, Mexico.

Bermudez came up with the title: El Ojo de un Estranjero, The Eye of an Outsider.

As Naar looks at vivid colors of his photographs of the home of Mexican architect Luis Barragán, taken during this period, he points out that they would not be possible today: “The air was clean in Mexico then, unlike now. That’s why the sky is so very blue. That’s not Photoshopped.”

An encounter with the HungarianAmerican photographer Nickolas Muray, celebrated for his portraits of virtually

photography by Alex Naar

every major figure of the 20th century, including Renoir, Garbo, D.H. Lawrence, Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, and Babe Ruth, led to an introduction to the photojournalist André Kertész. Muray persuaded Kertész to look at Naar’s portfolio. When Naar asked Kertész whether he should become a photographer, Kertész told him that he already was.

Soon, Naar was part of a heady world of international photographers and writers. In 1965, the leading photography critic Jacob Deschin, published regularly by the Sunday New York Times, reviewed Naar’s oneman show at New York University’s Loeb Student Center. Deschin described Naar as “a fresh, new talent with an obviously bright future.” Naar’s photography, he wrote, was “characterized by a flair for design and an eye for the unexpected, his pictures generate the kind of excitement that one associates with discovery of newness in the familiar.”

One of Naar’s photographs, “Shadows of Children on Swings, March 1964,” was selected by Ivan Dmitri, for his Photography in the Fine Arts exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. “I couldn’t do better than that image, which was one of the first I ever took,” says Naar. It’s now in the Met’s permanent collection.

Other exhibitions and work assignments followed. When Norman Mailer wrote the introduction for Naar’s book of photographs, The Faith of Graffiti (1974), Naar acknowledges that he gained “entrée to a lot of publishers.” The book is now a collector’s item.

(Top) NY downtown skyline from the 30th floor of unfinished building with construction workers standing by office chairs in 1968. Taken with 35mm Nikon FM. ©Jon Naar, Alex Naar 1973, 2012.

(Bottom left) The photographer by his son Alex Naar, Courtesy of Jon Naar and Alex Naar.

(Bottom right photos) Actress Sedgwick aka ‘Factory Girl’ and Warhol entourage at the Silver Factory. Photo taken in 1965 with a 35mm Nikon FM. ©Jon Naar, Alex Naar 1973, 2012.

FIRST ASSIGNMENTS Naar was in Munich, Germany in 1965, when he was asked to photograph Andy Warhol for New York magazine, then just starting up. He had been a professional photographer for only one year.

The Factory, as Warhol’s Silver Factory on East 47th Street was called, was just three blocks from Naar’s apartment and he remembers hauling all his own equipment to the shoot. He arrived at three in the afternoon. Loud rock music was playing and everyone was smoking marijuana. Warhol was in the middle of filming Poor Little Rich Girl with Edie Sedgwick.

“Andy, who was always very polite, asked me if I’d mind waiting for half an hour and ushered me into his office,” recalls Naar. “I saw a red sofa and set up the shot. I remember I had one light and one umbrella.

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An unattributed postcard of this 1974 photograph by Naar of Warhol was kept by NJ State Museum Curator of Fine Art Margaret O’Reilly for three decades before she discovered that Naar was the photographer. It was first published in New York magazine, supplement to the Sunday New York Herald Tribune. Courtesy of Jon Naar and Alex Naar.

(12 frames on a roll). I had a feeling I had some good work—in those days you didn’t see your work instantly. He asked me if I’d mind taking some shots of his entourage, which I did.” Besides the blonde ‘superstar’ Edie Sedgwick, Warhol’s entourage included the poet Taylor Mead and Warhol’s co-producer Gerard Malanga.

A week later Naar showed Warhol the proofs. He loved them. Then, recalls Naar, Warhol said something that gave him pause. Referring to Naar’s photograph of him on the red sofa, Warhol said “that’s one of the best shots I’ve ever taken,” which was strange to Naar, because he was the photographer.

“Andy had this idea that he was the author.” “The Red Sofa” is probably Naar’s best known photograph.

Copyright on this one image has earned him more money than any other photograph, some $50,000 over the years, he estimates.

Had Warhol a sense of humor?

“Oh yes,” says Naar. “I photographed him twice after that and he was always very generous with his praise. “The Red Sofa” became quite famous in that world because it was there that Warhol filmed The Blow Job.”

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TRENTON EXHIBITION Naar’s photographs of Warhol are part of a retrospective of his work currently at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton.

Jon Naar: Signature Photographs is curated by Margaret O’Reilly. For more than 30 years, O’Reilly carried a black and white postcard of Warhol she’d picked up during her student days in New York City. No photo credit was given and she had long puzzled over who it might be. Last year, O’Reilly found out when she saw the image in a painting by the New Jersey artist Mel Leipzig. At last she had discovered the photographer responsible for her cherished Warhol portrait. Not only that, he was living less than half a mile from the New Jersey State Museum where she works as Curator of Fine Art. On a visit to Naar’s studio, O’Reilly was astounded by “photographs that capture the ever-changing cultural zeitgeist of the second half of the 20th century,” she says. “His 1965 images of Luis Barragán’s house in Mexico, with its bold colors and strong geometry, reveal Naar’s early mastery of color and composition.”

The idea of an exhibition was born.

O’Reilly’s selections reveal

This iconic portrait of Andy Warhol on red sofa in his Silver Factory was taken with a 6x6 cm Haselblad and first published in New York magazine, supplement to the Sunday New York Herald Tribune, August 4, 1965. Courtesy of Jon Naar and Alex Naar.

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(Below) Strasbourg Children, © Jon Naar, Alex Naar. (Opposite) 155th Street Station. “Redbird” subway car with tag of Graffiti King “Stay High,” was shot using a Nikon FM-2 on Kodachrome film in 35mm format and published in The Faith of Graffiti, 1974. Courtesy of Jon Naar and Alex Naar.

(Bottom) Naar holding The Faith of Graffiti, portrait by Andrew Wilkinson.

the photographer’s work under the headings: graphic work for magazines, interiors, graffiti, political, reflective, advertising, architecture, portraiture, and photojournalism. “What I’ve discovered about Jon Naar’s work is that it is cinematic in scope,” says O’Reilly.

“Some are long-form documentaries as seen in his ongoing series on graffiti and its artists, and others are short films: brief narratives which tell us about an artist, a place or an object in just a photograph or two. He has the vision and facility to nimbly move about between the two forms with equal clarity.”

Naar reports that seeing his work re-arranged by someone else, helps him to understand and re-evaluate it. “I am very fussy about who handles my images and though I get quite a bit of critical praise, the only meaningful criticism comes from one’s peers or from experts I respect, and that’s a small number of individuals. Margaret O’Reilly falls into that distinguished category. As in any relationship, I believe that there are no gray areas, either it works or it doesn’t. We met quite recently and it was an instant love affair. She had carte blanche.”

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BESIDES WARHOL Given his skill as a storyteller and the interesting personalities Naar has encountered in his long life, the autobiography he is currently working on is sure to be a good read. Besides Warhol and Sedgwick, he’s photographed numerous artists, designers, architects and celebrities including: Josef Beuys, Marcel Breuer, Josef Albers, Harry Bertoia, Luis Barragán, and Betty Parsons, to name a handful. He’s also photographed British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

More recently and closer to home, he’s photographed Mel Leipzig and the graffiti artists Leon Rainbow and Will Kasso.

Albers challenged Naar to make him a portrait “the world will remember me by.” Judge for yourself whether he achieved this goal by visiting. Naar’s photograph of Albers is in the Trenton exhibition.

Naar’s work has been featured in leading magazines like House Beautiful.

Besides the Met, he’s been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum, Centre Pompidou, Fondation Cartier, Kunstgewerbe Museum, and elsewhere. In 2005, there was a 50-year retrospective of his work titled Getting the Picture, in Holland and in 2007, the Museum of the City of New York featured his work in Graffiti: Art or Vandalism?

In addition to his distinction as a photographer, Naar is also a renewable energy specialist and consultant. Of his 12 books, Design for a Limited Planet (with Norma Skurka, 1976) is regarded as the first popular book on solar energy.

It sold over 100,000 copies. Published in 2005, Getting the Picture, celebrating his photography from 1955 to 2005, won Best Design Book of the Year in the Netherlands. In 2007, The Birth of Graffiti, was published by Prestel to critical praise here and in Europe.

At 92, now a widower with one son and one grandson, Naar works out every day at the local YMCA. Cosmopolitan and gregarious, he has a talent for putting people at ease. He still feels connected to Europe, where he sells most of his work. “Paris is like going home,” he says.

On reflection, Naar sees a common thread in Joyce’s Ulysses and Brassaï’s

Paris de Nuit, the books that so impressed him on his sixteenth birthday.

Each describes “the world of a flâneur, a stroller in the city,” says Naar, who continues to be something of stroller in the city. He has no car and loves his Trenton home’s central location: six minutes walk from the railroad station, ten from the State Museum, with the Mill Hill Park right on his doorstep.

He’s also still paring words back to their origins: “Every time I look through the viewfinder eyepiece of my Nikon D-7000 or at the LCD screen of my Canon Power Shot S90 and press the shutter-release button, I am reminded that “photography” means “writing the light” and that photography is essentially a form not so much of technology but of magic.”

Jon Naar: Signature Photographs is a major exhibition of the artist’s work over seven decades at the New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, through May 5. Naar will speak about his work on Friday, April 5, from 12:10 to 12:50PM. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 9AM. to 4:45PM. For more information, call: 609.292.6464, or visit: www. newjerseystatemuseum.org. For more on Naar, see also: www.jonnaar.com.

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ith a faculty that includes economists Paul Krugman and Alan B. Krueger and political scientists AnneMarie Slaughter and G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Political and International Affairs might seem a daunting institution to oversee. But Cecilia Rouse, a faculty member for two decades who became dean of the school last September, seems to have taken it in stride. The new post is just the latest challenge for this accomplished educator and former staff member of the administrations of presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The 49-year-old mother of two, a well-known scholar of the economics of education, is used to multi-tasking.

“It’s a big honor, a big responsibility,” she said in January, reflecting after a few months on the job. “I have less time for research now, though I continued to teach a class in micro-economics this fall, which I love. But now my role is also to help advance the faculty, raise the profile of the school, and make sure the students are getting a sound education. I’m enjoying the challenges.”

Rouse was raised in Del Mar, California, the daughter of an astrophysicist and a school psychologist. “Economics is a sort of hybrid of what my parents do,” she said. “I didn’t fully know what I wanted to do when I was young. I enjoyed math.

I wanted to be an engineer for a time. But I was always interested in policy. I had always gravitated to social issues.”

Rouse’s concern for the disadvantaged began early. As a child, she recalled, she organized a fundraiser for muscular dystrophy by designing games with her sister (Carolyn Rouse, now a professor of anthropology at Princeton) and two friends.

A few years later, she became aware of another kind of social problem. “During the recession of the early 1980s, I remember seeing a Ph.D. in philosophy driving a cab, and being very struck by the pressure of unemployment and what a tragedy it is,” she said. “It really made an impression on me.”

As an undergraduate at Harvard, Rouse took an economics class that helped set her on her career path. “My mother encouraged me to take the course,” she said. “And I was really taken by it. I found that it was a nice combination of bringing some mathematical rigor to economics and social problems.”

Rouse remained at Harvard to earn

Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer (on right) and Cecilia Rouse, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, watch as President Barack Obama signs the Economic Report of the President in the Oval Office, Feb. 11, 2010. (OFFiCiAl WhitE hOusE PhOtO By PEtE sOuzA)

a Ph.D. in economics 1992. She joined Princeton’s faculty that same year. She became part of the university’s Industrial Relations Section, which functions as a research bureau, reference library, and sponsor of research seminars. In 2001, she started the Education Research Section, an interdisciplinary unit within the Industrial Relations Section and the Wilson School that promotes the use of research in education decision-making. She later served as director of the section from 2006 to 2009.

Brookings Institute, and also serves on the editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

As a guest on television news shows, Rouse has shared her expertise on education policies, the dropout rate and how it makes us less competitive, and the drastic loss of middle class wealth, among other subjects. “I’m in labor economics, so I’m interested in issues of unemployment and discrimination,” she said. “I spend most of my time working on the economics of education, the social benefits of attending

“I participated in wider ranges. And I learned about some issues I hadn’t thought about.”

Rouse’s research topics have included the economic benefits of community college attendance and the effect of private school voucher programs on student achievement. With Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, she studied the impact of “blind” auditions (where the candidate is unseen) on the hiring of women in symphony orchestras. She is a senior editor of The Future of Children, a policy journal published by the Wilson School and the

community colleges, looking at who the students are and what kinds of economic benefits they get. Right now, I’m doing some work on the impact of scholarships designed to reward students for doing well in school – where you actually earn the money as you succeed during the semester.

I’ve looked at issues like that.”

Rouse’s first stint in The White House was in 1998, during President Bill Clinton’s second term. “I was a special assistant to march 2013 PrINcETON maGaZINE

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the president in a group called the National Economic Council, which coordinates the economic policy of the administration,” she said. “All the decisions from the administration have been negotiated among the president’s economic team ahead of time. We coordinated that process. It provided me with an opportunity to take an issue from soup to nuts. You really try to bring together the administration’s position.”

Her more recent stay was in the Obama administration. From 2009 to 2011, she was one of three members of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. “I didn’t have a narrow portfolio where I got to do soup to nuts. Instead, I participated in wider ranges. And I learned about some issues I hadn’t thought much about,” she said.

Rouse and her husband, architect Ford Morrison, are the parents of two girls, ages nine and twelve. Once her term in Washington ended, the family returned to their Princeton home. “I have lived here longer than I have lived anywhere else,” she said. “I love it and I don’t love it. I really like how easy it is to live here, especially with young children. I love the University.

It’s a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues and phenomenal students. It’s

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such a well-run institution. But it’s small.

We loved living in Washington and we loved living in New York City. We miss the city.”

Having replaced Christina Paxson , who resigned her job as dean last June to become president of Brown University, Rouse has received at least one rave review for her work so far as dean of the Wilson School.

“Dean Rouse has rapidly immersed herself in the challenges of leading the Woodrow Wilson School,” said Princeton Provost Christopher Eisgruber, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs at the Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values.

“She took over the reins at a complicated time, when the School was in the midst of a major reform to the undergraduate program. She has been reaching out to all constituencies to make sure that everything goes as smoothly as possible. She is a pleasure to work with, and her unique combination of scholarly excellence, government experience, and personal energy make her a wonderful dean for the School.”

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A perspective showing how the Lakeside community, designed by Studio Ma, will look when completed.

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recent months, the Princeton University development project most frequently in the news has been the $300 million Arts and Transit complex targeted for a stretch of land along University Place and Alexander Road. A significant component of this controversial plan, which finally won municipal approval last December, involves relocating the Dinky transit station — a move that does not sit well with many town residents.

But while this ambitious scheme was being bandied back and forth between town and gown, three other significant development projects at the University were quietly getting underway. New rental housing for graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars is going up in three separate areas on or near the campus. Each with its own distinctive design, these projects have been plotted out to better meet the needs of twentyfirst century students, faculty and staff.

Alongside Carnegie Lake south of the campus, the Lakeside rental apartments for graduate students will replace the two eight-story Hibben-Magie apartments.

The 1960s-era buildings have been demolished to make way for a new,

vastly different complex of apartments and townhomes, between four and five stories tall. The architect is Studio Ma of Phoenix, Arizona, and the targeted occupancy date is the summer of 2014.

Off Bayard Lane, rental units for faculty and staff are planned at the location of the current Stanworth Apartments and the former Merwick rehabilitation facility. The residences are being designed by Torti Gallas of Silver Spring, Maryland, and are scheduled to be ready for residents starting in 2015.

Across town on Olden Street, the local architecture firm, studiohillier, has designed a three-story complex of studios and one-bedroom dwellings to provide short-term rental housing for visiting scholars. Olden House will be situated opposite the University’s Engineering Quad, where the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment is currently under construction. The building is projected to welcome its first residents next fall.

The impetus for these developments, part of the University’s 2005 Housing Master Plan, was not to add to its substantial holdings on and around the campus. Rather, the goal was to better what already exists.

“This isn’t a growth program. It’s an improvement program,” says Andrew Kane, the University’s director of Housing and Real Estate Services, of the Lakeside and Merwick/Stanworth properties. “The existing stock was nearing the end of its useful life. The buildings were expensive to maintain and were not meeting the lifestyle needs of our graduate students and faculty.”

Olden House, on the other hand, is completely new. It fills a need for something that has been woefully lacking: temporary housing within walking distance of the campus. Residents will be able to stay between a month and a year in the fully furnished apartments.

“These kinds of facilities are common internationally,” says Mr. Kane. “What we’re getting is a neat little academic visitor community.”

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idea of harmony with the surrounding neighborhood. “It’s fitting in — not replicating,” says Mr. Kane. “Olden House is a refreshing modern take on its surroundings. And Merwick/Stanworth brings in elements of the old Stanworth as well as the western section and John Street neighborhoods.”

According to University Architect Ron McCoy, each complex has a specific programmatic goal. “Each is, in terms of design and the architects we’ve worked with, very specifically focused on the context,” he says. “At Lakeside it’s all about the maximum preservation of the woodlands and creating a community — a sense of community that was not present at Hibben-Magie. Those sort of midrise buildings, where people get in elevators and walk down halls, don’t have a sense of community. This is much more oriented to the site and makes a much greater effort to reach up and connect to the central campus.”

The architectural direction at Merwick-Stanworth is toward a more traditional neighborhood. “We selected a team that is particularly experienced in these kinds of smaller-scale housing in historic settings,” Mr. McCoy says. “And again, the focus is on community — but one that already exists because of its small, modest, two-story homes.”

Olden House has a unique architectural theme. “The idea is simply to be a good neighbor,” Mr. McCoy says. “We don't want a building that is particularly unique or stands out. Our

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goal is to create a building that reinforces the good housing stock in town. It’s an elegant, more contemporary design, but its not meant to be anything unique or showy — just really good.”

Since the 1960s, Hibben-Magie has been home to scores of graduate students, faculty, staff and their families. While the buildings’ construction was solid, it needed major renovations to meet present standards. Mechanical and electrical systems were outdated. The 192 units had no air-conditioning.

“The irony is those buildings were built to last,” says John Ziegler, Director of Real Estate Development for the University. “But they have outlived their usefulness. We tried to re-purpose them but ultimately we decided on a new plan.”

Instead of the two, three and fourbedroom units configured on two floors each, the new Lakeside complex will offer 329 units (715 beds) of apartments and townhomes with one to four bedrooms.

“The context at this site is a forest, a natural environment,” Mr. Kane says.

“The old buildings created a kind of wall between the lake and the campus. The new buildings will open a new view corridor down to the lake and link it back into the campus. The water view which was kept from so many buildings will be visible.”

Lakeside is being designed to meet the needs of families with children, childless couples, and single individuals.

“The real big demographic we’ve seen is people who want to share,” says Mr. Ziegler. “With the larger units, there will

be shared kitchens and common areas, but each person will have their own suite with bedroom and bath.”

A 6,000-square-foot commons room with two separate, furnished areas, a children’s playroom, and a parking deck with at least 432 spaces are part of the Lakeside plan. So is sustainability. An effort is being made to preserve the woodlands. Working with the slope of the site, taller buildings will be located toward the lower part of the grounds and smaller buildings toward the higher ground levels.

“We changed the orientation of some of the buildings to take advantage of natural light,” says Mr. Ziegler. “Because of the slope, stormwater management is a challenge. But there will be stormwater rain gardens to take care of that.”

With 329 units instead of 192, the site will be more heavily populated.

But Mr. Kane says the increase will not be as noticeable as some might expect.

“We’ve done traffic studies, and the very basic people-movement on campus we don’t think will be all that different,” he comments. “In fact, more people will be able to leave their vehicles behind and walk.”

The Merwick-Stanworth site brings together two adjacent properties. The existing Stanworth Apartments include 23 brick and shingled buildings, a mix of 154 studios and one-to-three-bedroom residences, dating to the 1940s. The nineacre Merwick site just above it was, until 2010, home to the Merwick Care Center.

The University bought the property from

(Left) studiohillier’s design for Olden House, intended for visiting scholars, is designed to “reinforce the good housing stock in town,” says University Architect Ron McCoy. (Below) A site plan for the Merwick-Stanworth community is at left. Below is an architect’s elevation sketch of the apartment complex, which will be home to faculty, staff and their families.

Princeton HealthCare System and has demolished the building to make room for the new complex.

The property will be home to faculty, staff and their families, with 20 percent devoted to affordable housing available to low-and-moderate-income local residents.

The first phase will be the Merwick site, which will have 128 units within twostory townhomes, two-story multi-family stacked units, and three-story apartment buildings. The development of Stanworth will follow, removing the houses but using their footprints for the new construction.

Exactly how the complex will be designed has yet to be determined.

“Stanworth is more or less the same configuration as the existing community,” said Mr. Ziegler. “It would have been too costly and would have taken down too many trees to start new. Like Lakeside, this property is blessed with some fairly mature trees, and we want to maintain them.”

Bike paths and playgrounds are planned to be open to the surrounding neighborhoods. “We have done our best to make it an all-inclusive community,” said Mr. Kane. “The prototype occupant is our assistant professor, who is likely to rent rather than buy. We have a variety of housing types because this can range from

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As work is being done on the University's development projects, residents have been relocated from one site to another. Former Hibben-Magie graduate students are in Stanworth units while Lakeside is underway. Construction on Merwick begins this spring, and is projected to be ready for faculty and staff the summer of 2014. As the Stanworth redevelopment begins, those residents will move to Lakeside.

Still on the drawing board are plans for the Butler Tract, a complex of barracks-style apartments, built 70 years ago, off of Harrison Street. While the university has no immediate plans for the site, it is probably coming down. The complex will be vacated next year and its residents moved to Lakeside, despite the fondness many have for its outdated buildings. “The students love it there, because it’s a real neighborhood,” says Mr. Ziegler. “But the apartments have really rudimentary systems. The heating and utility bills are very high. It’s just not practical.”

Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman outlined five guiding principles intended to steer the planning process for its growth: Maintain a pedestrian-oriented campus, preserve the park-like character, maintain campus neighborhoods while promoting a sense of community, build in an environmentally responsible manner, and sustain strong community relations.

“We have tried hard to make sure those principles are followed at each of these developments on the campus,” said Mr. Kane. “And each project will reflect them, in individual ways.”

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hen Olmsted and Vaux carved out a piece of Manhattan, and later Brooklyn, to create refuges of rolling hills, expansive meadows, wooded ravines, ponds and boathouses – the first landscaped parks in the U.S. – no one was thinking about non-native invasive plants like purple loosestrife and multiflora rose.

Today, a 30-year project is underway to convert New York City’s former Fresh Kills Landfill – once one of the largest garbage dumps in the world, closed in 2001 – into a park for the 21st century, with fields of native plants and grasses.

At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park will be almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park developed in New York City in over 100 years. The park is intended to be a symbol of renewal and a model of restoring balance to the landscape. The design, restoration and programming will emphasize

environmental sustainability.

Plans include pathways for mountain biking, horseback riding and walking, as well as waterways for kayaking and canoeing. There will be public art projects and wildlife habitats, including native plant communities that will connect with other parks on Staten Island. The seeds for this bucolic plan begin here in central New Jersey.

ROOTED IN THE REGION Saul Steinberg’s iconic 1976 New Yorker cover illustration shows the world ending just past New York City’s Hudson River, but New York has always depended on the rolling green fields and farms of the Garden State for agricultural products.

The groundbreaking experimental bulk native seed program is on six acres at St. Michaels Farm Preserve in Hopewell.

The joint project of D&R Greenway Land Trust in Princeton and the Greenbelt Native Plant Center on Staten Island – a

division of the New York City Parks department – began in 2011 with the planting of 13 plant species.

“This project provides a creative and ecologically sound way to restore natural habitats on degraded sites,” says Linda Mead, D&R Greenway president and CEO. “Together with New York City Parks we are creating a new model by using this genetically adapted seed – literally rooted in the region – to establish a new measure for land stewardship.”

Through programs at the Johnson Education Center in Princeton, the Greenway promotes the use of native plants that are both beautiful in the landscape and, at the same time, attractive to native birds, bees and butterflies.

“People will see them and want to plant them on their own land, and we’ll be able to provide the seed mix,” says Mead.

These plants, including New England aster and Joe Pye Weed, Indian grass and broom sedge, goldenrod and milkweed, evolved for the region alongside native

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animals and insects, and provide crucial nourishment and shelter for wildlife, both at St. Michaels and Freshkills. The plants will enhance soil tilth, increase rainwater infiltration and support native pollinators.

St. Michaels Farm Preserve, site of a former orphanage, was acquired by D&R Greenway from the Diocese of Trenton for $11 million in 2010, with funding from public and private partners, as well as $3.3 million in grassroots support. St. Michaels is agricultural land, and the soil and climate are similar to New York City’s. Seed plugs were started in greenhouses at the GNPC, then shipped to New Jersey where the native species have to be a certain distance from wild stands so the plants don’t interbreed.

The goal is to produce seed, not plants. For a project the scale of Freshkills Park, live plants are not economically viable. The bulk seed will be broadcast over a large area, much like grass seed.

The first harvest was followed by a labor-intensive seed cleaning process in winter 2012 that will be repeated this year. Mechanized seed-cleaning takes place at a center in Cape May, where large quantities can be processed in a Rube Goldberg-like device, using vibration, forced air and gravity to segregate materials by weight, sending these different categories of seed out different chutes.

JOURNEY HOME Bringing beauty to New York City parks has come full circle. Managing the bulk native seed project for D&R Greenway is William Flemer IV. His great grandfather and namesake founded Princeton Nurseries in 1913. Selling nursery stock to landscapers, Princeton Nurseries was internationally renowned for providing strong cultivars of exceptional beauty, and was one of the largest commercial nurseries in the country, selling to municipalities and even the New York City Parks Department. The firm closed its Kingston operation in 1995, and closed its Allentown facility in 2009.

The allee of elm trees on Washington Road leading into Princeton and the towering London Plane trees lining Mapleton Road in Kingston are just two of many contributions the Flemer family has made to the beauty of the state. In its heyday, Princet Princeton Nurseries encompassed 1,200 acres in P Plainsboro, Kingston, West Windsor, Prince Princeton and South Brunswick, employing 300 people and providing the water for Kings Kingston. Here, disease-resistant el lm trees were ddeveloped to be planted elm

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from Boston to Chicago and Washington, D.C., when, after World War I, shade tree commissions set out to beautify the nation’s cities and towns.

William Flemer III held patents for October Glory Red Maple, Greenspire Linden, and the Shademaster Locust, as well as various machinery including a tree-digging machine. Princeton Nurseries was an innovator in bare-root shipping, a lighter way of transporting trees without heavy root balls during the dormant season.

Bill Flemer studied botany and horticulture at the University of Wisconsin and has worked in the nursery business since he was 10.

“Growing up in the middle of Princeton Nurseries in Kingston instilled in me a love for that place and that business, as it had done for my father and grandfather,” says Flemer. “Being named William Flemer IV gave me the message that continuing the lifework of the three preceding William Flemers was an honorable undertaking.”

His sisters, Heidi and Louise, also went into the nursery business. Today, Heidi and her husband, Richard Hesselein, operate Pleasant Run Nursery in Allentown.

and municipal budgets for shade trees had shrunk. Development increased property values and pushed agriculture further south. “The organization got top heavy and it was difficult to operate a large organization profitably.”

“There was increased competition from competing nurseries with mechanization, and from box stores,” adds Karen Linder, President, Friends of Princeton Nursery Lands, a group formed in 1997 after the Kingston property was sold to Princeton University to preserve and protect the historic agricultural property. “Princeton Nurseries always competed on quality, and it became hard to compete on price and pay the staff what they were worth.”

Mapleton Preserve, partly owned by South Brunswick Township and D&R Canal State Park, is 230 acres of passive open space and historic preservation easements, with offices in the former Princeton Nurseries headquarters, renovated in the mid 1900s by Princeton architect Rolf Bauhan. Bird, tree, wildflower and mushroom walks are offered at the Preserve. Historic trees are preserved and an arboretum has been established with cultivars developed by Princeton Nurseries, including Princeton Sentry, a variety of Gingko biloba that was selected to be tall and upright, perfect for city sidewalks, as well as a male tree (the female Gingko tree has a fetid fruit).

At Mapleton Preserve, Linder pointed out non-native invasives that had established themselves – Wisteria, Autumn olive, Zelkova. The latter may have been from an experiment gone awry, but back in the day, the Flemers unknowingly planted invasives, as did all nurseries, says Flemer.

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Flemer describes the relationship he had with his father as “close and loving,” and from him Bill learned traditional horticultural skills – budding, grafting, pruning, pest control – and how to drive a tractor and handle plant materials. “My father was more a plant person than a people person, and my Uncle John did more of the administrative and personnel stuff. I was mentored by both and learned the horticultural and supervisory side.”

Princeton Nurseries closed for several reasons, according to Flemer.

Technological advances led to more container production, and field production diminished. Also, demand for trees and shrubs along interstate highways – a huge market – diminished,

Leaving the family business to set out on his own in the 1980s, Flemer worked at several other nurseries, and later volunteered with D&R Greenway, helping to design and build the native plant nursery at the Johnson Education Center in Princeton. His bluegrass band, Riverside, performed at Greenway events, and another band he was in opened for Kate Taylor performing a fundraiser for St. Michaels at Off Broadstreet Theatre in Hopewell. Flemer even wrote a song about St. Michaels for the occasion.

“I got to know him through the Princeton Nursery Lands Preservation project, and thought Bill would be a perfect fit for the scale of the native seed project,” says Mead. When Princeton

“The family tradition of growing keeps on growing.

Flemer’s daughter, Emma, who plays fiddle in Riverside, is creating a school garden at the Lawrenceville School, raising vegetables and chickens. ”

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Nurseries closed its Allentown facility in 2009, the John and William Flemer families made a commitment to permanently preserve 1,900 acres – a $28 million transaction and the largest farmland and open space protection transaction in state history. Situated where Monmouth, Mercer and Burlington counties meet, Princeton Nurseries Land is more than five times the size of St. Michaels. D&R Greenway facilitated initial discussions between the state and the Flemer family.

“Not only was Bill experienced with native plant nurseries, but he is good at working with people. St. Michaels is a community project and we needed someone to interact with people as well as ride the tractor,” says Mead.

On a typical day, Flemer maintains the trails and fields through mowing and clearing unwelcome vegetation. He puts up birdhouses and organizes the repair and demolition of barns and sheds, and is working with an architect on restoration of an historic barn. He facilitates public events at St. Michaels, such as last summer’s dance performance by Passage Theatre Company.

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past growing season is in cold storage on Staten Island, awaiting planting time.

“Since this was the initial harvest off the plots, the quantities are quite small and not from every species under cultivation, which is typical the first year,” says Edward Toth, director, GNPC. “In total there are about 20 pounds of seed from 8 of the 13 species. Some of the quantities are quite small. It is not a meaningful quantity of seed for a project the scale of Freshkills. The harvest just completed this fall and starting to be processed should yield much more significant quantities.”

SEEDS OF THE FUTURE The family tradition of growing keeps on growing. Flemer’s daughter, Emma, who plays fiddle in Riverside, is creating a school garden at the Lawrenceville School, raising vegetables and chickens.

In spring, she will be growing vegetables on one-and-a-half acres out of the 15 that will eventually be in use. There are three sheep for fertilization and grass control.

Born in Kingston, Emma moved to North Carolina with her parents, and stayed with her mother, surrounded by a large vegetable garden, when her parents

divorced. After majoring in creative writing at Ithaca College she pursued a career in farming.

“I’ve always loved to cook and eat good food, and the best way to do that is to grow it,” she says. “It’s cool that my dad and I are doing similar stuff – when we get together we can discuss irrigation and the benefits of plastic mulch.”

Emma started playing violin at three, and was classically trained by her mother, a music teacher. “My dad always played bluegrass and it became part of my psyche,” she says. “When I was living in North Carolina I was surrounded by a rich tradition of Appalachian fiddle music.

Growing up in a musical family, I spent time around other musicians.” Her husband, Jake Morrow, a Latin teacher at the Lawrenceville School, also plays in Riverside.

In February, Emma will add a new generation to the Flemer family. The great-great-great-grandchild of Princeton Nurseries founder William Flemer will be encouraged to play in the soil at the Lawrenceville School, and something new will take root.

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The emphasis on quality extends to every detail of a project, from the initial design through the execution and installation. A master curator, Deborah thoughtfully composes a unique home true to its owners. By layering art, integrating collections, and above all, editing and mixing ingredients such as heirlooms, books, and personal touches, Deborah transforms spaces into comfortable havens, regardless of whether the aesthetic is modern or traditional.

Deborah’s studio is nestled in the heart of historic Pennington, NJ, between New York and Philadelphia, within short driving distane to Connecticut and the Hamptons. We’re always at work on diverse projects throughout the tri-state area, whether a historic farm renovation in Bucks County or a brand new apartment in New York City.

Desirable Western Section The gated entry affords a grand impression for this stately colonial situated on two acres. The grandeur of the rooms are accented by custom features: fireplaces, curved walls, multiple french doors & a spiral staircase. The kitchen and dining room provide views of a continuous brick terrace which overlooks an Olympic sized inground pool and meandering paths to a side garden. The great room and living room offer fireplaces, a front study and the all season room leads to a lovely spa room with high ceilings and a third fireplace. (Spa removal would make for a sunny art studio or exercise room.) 6 bedrooms, 4.5 baths (three newly renovated) and a 4 car garage. Listed below assessed value, this is a perfect purchase!

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bout a year ago an ambitious new restaurant opened in Lambertville, a magnet for restaurateurs.

Instantly, Brian’s stood out from the crowd as if it were the magnetic source itself.

Reviewers began beating a path to the door and as soon as they arrived they could not shower the chef/owner with enough praise. Their descriptions of the décor and the food were virtually the same and their ratings were uniformly very high. Even during a recession it was hard to get in and only in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy did business slow for a brief time. If you want to make a reservation at Brian’s you need to plan ahead—two weeks in advance for a weekend and one for a weekday. How to explain such success?

It helped that Brian Held, who has loved cooking since childhood, was not an unknown. You might say that he was a chef with both a calling and a following.

The Culinary Institute of America graduates many brilliant students. There is no guarantee, however, that all that talent will succeed. A fine palate is one thing, but an ability to “take the heat” and run a business is another. After he graduated in 1995, Held got his start at the River Club in New Brunswick. A mere six years later, he opened his own restaurant in Richboro, Pennsylvania. Juliana Rose Cafe was successful, but ambitious as he was, Held moved on, opening Rouget in Newtown Township, Bucks County in 2007. A high-end prix-fixe BYO restaurant offering French cuisine in a Victorian home setting, Rouget was a regional hit, drawing raves from diners who were sorry to see it close. But the economy made it hard to continue, and following a cycle of change at roughly six-year intervals, Held moved on to reinvent himself once again.

COZY SETTING AND RUSTIC FARE When restaurant No. 9 at Klines Court in Lambertville closed, Brian Held and Jim Hamilton (of Hamilton’s Grill) took over the space and redefined it. The two of them worked toward a Provençal and Northern Italian feel, with a wood-burning pizza oven and semi-open kitchen visible from the dining room; a banquette lined with plush cushions along one wall; a large blackboard overhead announcing the evening’s specials; photos of “old friend” celebrity chefs lining the way to the

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restrooms as if they were ancestors; blue and white plates hung strategically on the walls; gilded mirrors of various shapes and sizes well placed to make the space seem larger; mellow lighting; an old–fashioned buffet/dresser signaling a step back in time in one corner; and not too elegant but not too casual seating with place settings for about 40 people at twelve tables. It is perfect for these times, positioned and designed to make you feel as if you were in someone’s country home. Very soon after opening, however, some of the original ideas began to evolve. Key elements of the rusticity were the oven and the pizza. So were the weekend breakfasts—relaxed meals that nevertheless required attention and hours that could be better spent doing something else. For someone as dedicated and determined as Brian Held, some tough choices had to be made. The pizza oven still provides a nice backdrop, a country touch, but it is only rarely used for cooking and the breakfasts are no more.

The flowers on the tables and the choices of music appropriate for the setting remain, however. So does the attentive, friendly service.

THE MENU Here is a quote from the restaurant’s website: “To say the menu at Brian’s is subject to change does not tell the whole story. While regular customers will often find their old favorites like the Mushroom Soup or a new classic like Sweetbreads Milanese, the truth is there are no guarantees when it comes to Brian’s except a wonderful meal. Brian Held is always experimenting and developing new plates. When something delicious like the Blanquette de Veau of last year goes away, it is replaced by something new and exciting like the succulent Monkfish Grenobloise. Brian knows you have your favorites, but he also believes there is great joy in discovering something new every time.” The adventurous approach of chef and diners is really the hallmark of this restaurant. If you go online and look at the menu, you will find a comparatively affordable prix fixe dinner of $35 per person on weekdays and $40 per person on weekends. You will also find an advisory that carries more weight than usual: “menu subject to change.” Right now you will see the highly touted Wild Mushroom Soup with White Truffle Oil, a follow-up to the “decadent mushroom, leek, and truffle

soup” that a reviewer for the Bucks Happening website raved about in spring 2012. Pat Tanner, in New Jersey Monthly last summer, started her review commending Held’s “skilled hands” and the way he had elevated such an earthy soup by adding “nuance and refinement.”

But if he gets bored with the dish, Held will move on. I sampled what seemed to me to be a huge number of dishes on the night that I dined with a friend, but only a few of them turned up in earlier markers on the well-beaten path. The Sweetbreads Milanese was among these. Karla Cook in her October 2012 review in The New York Times singled out this dish for particular praise—“Clearly this is no ordinary Milanese dish. No, if one order is a reliable indicator, this appetizer is excellent. An ethereally light and thin breadcrumb crust covers a hot, custardlike essence, the flavor slightly reminiscent of liver and, unmistakably, offal. It is all set against a smidgeon of lemon-brown butter sauce, capers, and a bright and cool arugula salad barely dressed with a squeeze of lemon and canola and dotted with bits of Parmigiano-Reggiano.” I could not have described this dish better myself. I have to say that I do not usually try sweetbreads, but this appetizer was an exception. The ravioli that is made on the premises also receives universal praise.

We sampled two variations, first sheep’s milk ricotta and spinach ravioli served in a brown butter sauce and then sweet potato ravioli with a brown butter sauce with sage and pignoli nuts—both melted in the mouth and were light as the proverbial feather. Other restaurant signature dishes were the Pappardelle Bolognaise, which was not particularly to our liking, although it receives universal applause from others, and the Boeuf a la Mode with Horseradish. The Headcheese with Mustard, Cornichons, and Croutes also get wholehearted raves.

ADVENTURES IN DINING Although Crabcake in Mustard Sauce is on the website menu, the Crab Cheesecake with Red Pepper Cream Sauce is not, and we considered this one of the most successful dishes we sampled. Not sweet but still like cheesecake, with surprisingly large chunks of crab nestled into the wedge of luscious “cake,” it was both a surprise and a delight. In fact, all the fish was excellent—the Scallops on a Bed of Risotto with Wild Mushrooms and

(Top) Sea scallop with a wild mushroom risotto. (Center) Daniel Hernandez methodically prepares potato ravioli.

(Bottom left) Potato ravioli with prosciutto and sage brown butter. (Bottom right) Dining room at Brian’s.

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White chocolate bread pudding, garnished with a fresh raspberry.

White Truffle Oil, the monkfish, and the flounder were superb. The quail was also excellent. On the menu in January were a Braised Duck Ragu with Roasted Garlic and Polenta and Filet Mignon with Mushroom Blue Cheese Sauce. These are worth going back for, I am sure, although we had no room to try them. The Organic Chicken Breast with Potato Crepe and Truffle Cream is undoubtedly superb too.

Some reviewers tout the lamb shanks and many other dishes. But who knows what will be on the menu months from now?

Held follows his instincts and perhaps will never again return to some of these preparations. The one area where I think there could be some improvement and where I would eagerly welcome change is the desserts, although every other reviewer, you might say, “eats them up.” What do Roasted Pineapple with

Coconut Ice Cream (even if the ice cream is homemade) and Chocolate Torte with Whipped Cream have to do with the restaurant’s theme of rusticity, the local, southern French and northern Italian influences? Since baking on the premises is clearly a strength (witness the bread, which is delicious but which ought to be served warmed rather than at room temperature), why not stay with the program and serve fruit tarts and panna cotta—something lighter and more complimentary to the rest of the selections? This part of the menu could use some new trail blazing.

OFF THE BEATEN PATH As if it were not enough to hold himself to such high standards six days a week as he constantly experiments with new recipes,

Held will periodically prepare a theme meal. Recently the restaurant offered a New Orleans Dinner, with Creole Garlic Bread, Crab and Crawfish Beignets, Corn Fried Oysters with Horseradish Cream, Blackened Pork Tenderloin with Dirty Rice, and Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce, among many other selections.

A genial and tireless host, a workaholic, a tireless innovator, he deserves the three-star rating granted to him by New Jersey Monthly and will surely reach greater heights and new cooking continents in the future. If the every six-year transformation holds true, who knows what he will be up to in 2018?

Whatever it is, you will want to follow him there too.

Brian’s is located at 9 Klines Court in Lambertville. Reserve well in advance by calling 609.460.4148. The restaurant is open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday 5:30-9:00PM and Sunday 5:00-6:00PM. Visit the website at Brianslambertville.com.

There is a liquor store conveniently located across from the BYO restaurant, making it easy to choose something perfectly suited to your meal. Metered parking is available nearby.

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Courtney Banghart is in her sixth season as the head coach of the Princeton University women’s basketball team.

During her tenure, Banghart, 34, has guided the program to unprecedented heights, coaching the Tigers to three straight Ivy League championships and a 41-1 league mark in that span after going 21-37 overall and 13-15 Ivy in her first two campaigns at the helm. The former hoops star and assistant coach at Dartmouth has Princeton on track for another title this winter as the Tigers were 18-5 overall and 9-0 Ivy as of February 23 when they established a new Ivy League win streak record with 33 consecutive league victories.

Athletics has been a big part of your life; when and why did you first get into sports?

I’ve always been around athletics. Both my parents were athletes and valued our involvement for its physical benefits and life lessons. I think my first word might even have been “ball” back when I was learning to talk. I got cut from my first team at the age of 9, when I tried out for an under 12 soccer team. I was devastated.

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tennis year round and basketball whenever I could. My mom has said the cheapest form of day care was to buy a basketball hoop and I spent hours upon hours out there.

There was a rule in my house: no dribbling the ball until 8:00AM Needless to say, basketball has always been my love. I was an All-American soccer player and a tennis state champion, but basketball has always had my heart.

What factors led you to become a coach?

It’s the only pay check I’ve ever received. I was the tennis pro at our local swim and tennis club at the age of 15. In my off term at Dartmouth, I was the head coach of the varsity boys’ tennis team.

As an Ivy League graduate, I figured sports would be my passion but academic administration would likely be my profession. I always wanted to be a college president or high school head of school.

I didn’t think coaching was a reasonable vocation.

I was an athletic director at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. in my first year out of college. I did that for 3 years, then returned to Dartmouth as an assistant coach (as they paid for my masters in writing/leadership development). Four years later, I presented my thesis in May of 2007, turned 29 the next day, and a week later got a call from Gary Walters [Princeton Director of Athletics]. Safe to

You have built the dominant program in the league; has the team exceeded your expectations and what are the keys to staying at the top?

Every year is a new year. But the foundation we pride ourselves on and has led to our success: daily effort, toughness, being accountable, celebrating one another. In collegiate athletics, every year is so different.

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That’s inspiring.

What are the hallmarks of your coaching approach?

I hope I coach with clarity. Meaning I’m honest in my communication and I’m clear with what I want this program to be about. I genuinely respect and enjoy the kids in my program and I hope they see and feel that. I believe that people inherently want to be a part of something great. I have a role in that and I’m committed to it. Just as they are (and need to be) to their roles. The winning will take care of itself. I hope at the end of the my career, my players would say that their experience with me has made them better in some way. That would mean it was time and effort well spent for me.

Photos by Beverly Schaefer, provided courtesy of Princeton University Office of Athletic Communications.

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You understand the challenges of being a student-athlete in the Ivy League, how does that impact the way you coach?

I think it helps a lot that I’ve been in their shoes. My players are multi-talented, they have many interests and they’re good at a lot of things. They’re committed to excellence in all areas of their life.

I understand how, at times, that can be complicated. I use my captains a lot to help me understand the ebbs and flows of Princeton’s challenges. I trust my players implicitly—they earn it. And it has to help how much I genuinely respect their talents, on and off the court. These guys are really special.

You are facing a coaching challenge with this year’s group incorporating new players and installing a new offense, what are your thoughts on how the team has responded so far?

I couldn’t be prouder of this group.

There is no ego on this team. We say in our locker room that “you set goals with the idea that no matter what happens along the way, you will work to reach them.” Sure, we’ve had a lot of injuries, we’ve been hit

by graduation, and we have a lot of young players to get into the fold. We have a new offense that’s better suited for our personnel and talent. It’s all a part of the journey for us. We want to be as good as we need to be, whenever we need to be it. We came up short last year and we’re driven to do better this year, no matter what obstacles there are.

I give all the credit to the team. Everyone is on board. And we’re getting pretty good along the way. It’s a very fun team to coach.

In looking at your future, do you see yourself as a lifelong Ivy coach or pursuing other challenges?

I’m proud to be at Princeton and I’m honored to lead this program. I feel supported from the administration, Gary [Walters] has become an important mentor in my professional life. Coaching is an exhausting process; I found that out early on. I made a deal with myself in the beginning that I would only coach at places where I would proudly send my own children some day. In that way, it has to be at a place I believe in to my very core.

Princeton fits the bill.

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