Princeton Magazine, February 2016

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DAVID GRAY AND KYRA NICHOLS: ONE DANCES, THE OTHER DOESN’T

BY DONALD GILPIN

BY ANNE LEVIN

Building a ballet studio in Princeton

GOOD GRIEF

Helping children deal with loss 28

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BOOK SCENE TRENTON MAKES AMERICA’S FIRST SPORTS CAR

BY STUART MITCHNER

BY ILENE DUBE

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Celebrating the Mercer Raceabout 20

Art Therapy MARK YOUR CALENDAR 44

TITANIC: THE SCIENCE OF A TRAGEDY

BY ANNE LEVIN

A chronological journey at Liberty Science Center 38

DISCOVER NEW HOPE & LAMBERTVILLE Twin villages where community matters 52

VIVE LA FRANCE! FRENCH CULTURE IN PRINCETON

MARY BRADLEY EVENTS

BY LINDA ARNTZENIUS

BY KENDRA BROOMER

The Paris attacks resonate in Princeton’s French community

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ON THE COVER: David Gray and Kyra Nichols, photographed by Andrew Wilkinson.

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Happy New Year! And welcome to your first issue of Princeton Magazine for 2016.

As we were putting this issue together, I noted how engaging and beautiful its graphics were. Creative Director Jorge Naranjo and Art Director Jeff Tryon conceive and execute the graphic theme around each story.

This issue is also very representative of everything that makes Princeton such a unique place to live. It’s international, with our story on “The French Connection,” which is especially poignant after the ISIS attacks in Paris. It’s about history, with our story on the exhibition of the artifacts from the Titanic at Liberty Science Center. It’s also about local history, with the story about the amazing Mercer Automobile Company and its creation of one of the first sports car lines in America. If you like this story and want to know more, buy local historian Clifford Zink’s book, Mercer Magic, and learn about the place of the Mercer Automobile Company at the center of American technological innovation at the start of the 20th Century.

Princeton Magazine is also centered on community, with our story “Good Grief,” which is about a wonderful Princeton organization that helps children, teens, and families deal with grief. Our “Book Scene” section follows a similar theme, with books about art therapy for children.

Though it may be cold and blustery as you read this magazine, you can look forward to a warm spring as you leaf through our preview of the Philadelphia Flower Show and the amazing themes developed for each year’s presentation. The show should be called the “National Flower Show,” given the scope it has achieved with its long and rich history. Spring is also in the air with our Q&A of the high-profile event planner, Mary Bradley, whose specialty is weddings.

So many people speak to me about our coverage of the arts in Princeton and this issue is no exception. With our cover story, you will enjoy learning about husband and wife team David Gray and Kyra Nichols. Kyra was a star ballerina in the New York City Ballet for many years, and is now a ballet mistress with the Pennsylvania Ballet; David, who is the new executive director, grew up in Princeton, went to Princeton High and returned with Kyra to raise their family. Like so many couples that we cover, they are busy, dedicated, and passionate about their art and their careers.

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Dear Princeton Magazine readers,

While we are never short of topics that tell the story of Princeton, if you have something that you think would be of interest to our community always feel free to let us know about it.

Lynn Adams Smith and I send you our best wishes for a great 2016 and hope you will enjoy this issue and those that will follow this year.

Respectfully yours,

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One Dances, The Other Doesn’t It was the promise of free babysitting that lured David Gray and Kyra Nichols from Manhattan to Princeton some 16 years ago. With toddler Joe now part of the family, Nichols, a celebrated principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, and her husband Gray, a writer who had worked in that company’s press office, started thinking about the future.

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Kyra Nichols offers advice to dancers of the Pennsylvania Ballet a rehearsal of George Balanchine’s “Concerto Barocco” at the company’s studios in Philadelphia. During her tenure at the New York City Ballet, Nichols danced one of the lead roles in the piece many times. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.

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e knew we needed to move when another dancer told me I had to get Joe interviewed for pre-school. And he was only two!,” says Nichols, a lithe and young-looking 57.

“I also knew I wanted to raise my kids where they could run outside and play without having to be bundled up and taken into Central Park.”

Princeton, where Gray was raised and his parents still lived, seemed the sensible choice. The couple left their Upper West Side apartment and rented a fifties rancher not far from the Ridgeview Road house where Gray, a 1977 graduate of Princeton High School, grew up. Son Cameron was born a few years later. Grandparents pitched in, as promised.

The ranch house, now considerably expanded, is still home to the couple.

But lately, they have been spending much of their time in Philadelphia, where Gray, 56, is executive director of the Pennsylvania Ballet and Nichols is a ballet mistress for the company. That means he runs things from the business side, while she is one of three who teach and rehearse the dancers under the leadership of Angel Corella, the former American Ballet Theatre star who was named Pennsylvania Ballet’s artistic director in 2014.

The Philadelphia connection came at an opportune time. Nichols, who retired from City Ballet after a 33-year career in 2007, was teaching privately while raising her two boys. They are now grown—Joe is a freshman at the University of Miami and Cameron is a student at The Hun School. Gray, who ventured into finance and arts management and served as an interim executive director for organizations including the New Brunswick Cultural Center, the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, was ready for a change.

The Pennsylvania Ballet was in flux when he got the call in April 2014 to become interim director, a position that soon became permanent. A significant shake-up of the company had resulted in the resignation of its longtime artistic director and executive director. When Corella came in, he made some changes to the artistic staff. Among them was hiring Nichols, along with her former City Ballet colleague Charles Askegard and Canadian-born dancer Samantha Dunster, to train and rehearse the dancers.

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“Like many non-profits, the company had gotten themselves into some situations,” Gray says diplomatically. “But it’s now getting better.

And the company is growing. We’re elevating the art in terms of quality of performance, establishing it as a world-class organization. And so far, according to the reviews, we’re getting it done.”

Gray makes sure he and members of his staff are on hand as audiences arrive for each performance of the troupe. An ebullient personality, he is known to lighten the atmosphere by sporting loud items of clothing. At recent Nutcracker shows, he made his way around Philadelphia’s Academy of Music lobby wearing a blue and white snowflake-themed three-piece suit, completing the look with white sneakers.

Working together at the Pennsylvania Ballet brings him and his wife full circle, though they don’t see each other much. “The company’s offices are not at the studio, so we don’t commute together,” Gray says. “But we have lots of things to discuss now at the dinner table. I do get tired of hearing how badly I pay,” he adds, with a laugh.

Nichols and her two brothers grew up with ballet. Her mother, Sally Streets, danced with City Ballet before leaving the company and returning to her home state of California to “marry the man next door,” says Nichols, whose father was a professor of biophysics at UC Berkeley. “My mother taught ballet in my grandmother’s basement,” she recalls. “Half of the room was a pool table with light-up beer signs. I started when I was four, holding onto the pool table as a barre.”

The young dancer’s exceptional talent soon became evident and she was sent to study with other teachers in California, including her mother’s former partner Alan Howard. By the age of 11, she was taking the summer course at the prestigious School of American Ballet in New York, a feeder into City Ballet. She was invited to join the company at 16.

It was the late 1970s, a heady time to be in City Ballet. George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, the company’s chief choreographers, were in their prime.

“There was so much excitement,” Nichols says. “You just wanted to be at the theater. You were there all the time, because you didn’t want to miss anything.

I feel lucky that I had that chance.”

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Letting in lots of natural light was a priority for Nichols at the ballet studio that Richardson Smith Architects and Princeton Design Group built at the Princeton home she shares with her husband, David Gray, and two sons.

Nichols teaches privately at the customdesigned studio, but has recently been spending much of her studio time at the Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia.

Photo by Andrew Wilkinson.

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Nichols and fellow ballet master Charles Askegard, seated, work with dancers from the Pennsylvania Ballet at a rehearsal of Balanchine’s “Concerto Barocco.” Both danced the ballet during their careers with the New York City Ballet. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.

She found a special rapport with Robbins, who created the “Spring” section of his ballet The Four Seasons for her. Robbins was known as a tough taskmaster with a cruel streak, but that side never emerged in their relationship. “We just seemed to click,” Nichols says. “It was very special.”

Photos of the choreographer holding the couple’s son Joe, when he was a baby, hang on the wall of Nichols’ ballet studio. “He was always nicer to everyone when a baby was around,” she recalls. “People used to beg me to bring Joe to rehearsal!”

Nichols had great respect for Balanchine and his work, but they had a more formal relationship. “Balanchine would only interact with you if he saw you needed direction,” she said, “and he let me go my way. But I feel lucky because not only did I get to work with him, I got to dance with some of his favorite dancers like Suzanne Farrell and Karin von Aroldingen. I learned so much from them.”

It took a while for Gray to get up the nerve to ask Nichols out, but they clicked right away. “Our third date was in Anguilla,” he says. They eloped in 1989, spending the next several years traveling with the ballet company before their first son was born in 1996. “We had a lot of fun on those trips,” Nichols says. “David carried my tutu.”

Gray stayed with the press office until 1994, when he began to focus on writing. After Joe was born, he spent two years as “Mr. Mommy,” he recalls.

“I loved that gig.” Among their favorite people was their neighbor Peggy, a former Ziegfeld Girl who had no relatives and became a part of their own family. “After we moved to Princeton, she’d come and babysit. And we’d visit her in New York. She loved the boys,” says Gray. “She’d say to us, ‘You live in a forest!’” Another beloved personality was Nichols’s former teacher Alan Howard, who also enjoyed coming to Princeton. Both have since died. “We miss those characters,” Nichols says.

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renting at first,” Gray recounts. “There weren’t a lot of people looking for fifties ranches in mediocre condition, so when we made an offer, the owner took it.” The couple hired the Princeton firm Richardson Smith Architects to add a ballet studio for Nichols, with an expansive room on top that is home to numerous guitars and comfortable seating – “the man cave,” as Gray calls it.

The ballet studio is bright and airy, filled with natural light. Large posters featuring Nichols that once advertised City Ballet outside the New York State Theater (now known as the Koch Theatre) hang on the walls alongside groupings of smaller photos from her long career – including the three of Robbins holding her baby son.

Designing a ballet studio was a first for Richardson Smith Architects. The firm partnered with Princeton Design Guild to build the addition.

“What made it work pretty well was that Juliet Richardson, my partner, took ballet for many years,” says architect Terry Smith. “So she understood when Kyra would say certain things about how the room would work, how she teaches, and the space she needed. One important dimension was a diagonal through the studio. It was interesting to go over all of that, and Juliet was familiar with the terms. Natural light was another thing. We needed a long wall of mirrors, but we had enough room to put clerestory windows above it.

Getting the elevation of the studio correct was important.”

The studio has been quiet in recent months as Nichols has focused her attention on the Pennsylvania Ballet. Driving to and from Philadelphia is nothing after the commute she used to make to New York, and both she and Gray have enjoyed discovering Philadelphia.

But Princeton is home. “I used to say this was the most boring place in the world, but I got over that,” Gray says. “I look at people I grew up with and see that they are doing amazing things. These are people I want my kids to grow up with. There is a value here on artists and creative types. It’s small, but it’s sophisticated. It’s a great town.”

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f historic preservationist Clifford Zink could travel back in time, he’d have to make at least three stops in New Jersey’s capital city. He’d want to land in 1845, at the site of what is now Waterfront Park, when Peter Cooper started a rolling iron mill.

“They were rolling the first I-beams in America,” says Zink. “I’d want to walk around that factory and see the steam- powered operations.”

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designer John A. Roebling & Sons build the largest wire rope factory in the world.

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His time travels wouldn’t be complete without a stop in 1912 at the Mercer factory on Whitehead Road.

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“They assembled the chassis, built the motors, tested them on blocks, did the upholstery, assembled and painted them

and then test drove the vehicle.” In business for 15 years, the Mercer Automobile Company manufactured 5,500 vehicles; only 140 of the classic cars have survived. Many were hauled from barns and fields, melted and scrapped for metal during World War II. The Roebling Museum has just published Zink’s book, Mercer Magic: Roeblings, Kusers, The Mercer Automobile Company And America’s First Sports Car. Now a collectible antique, the Mercer auto was designed to be raced and won competitions across the country.

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ENCHANTED BY BRIDGES On a gray wintry day, Zink arrives by bicycle at Princeton’s Whole Earth Center to talk about the car.

He encounters a friend who is restoring old planes at the Princeton Airport, and Zink gets excited hearing about another relic worthy of preservation.

The Bronx native who grew up in Bergen County moved to Princeton in 1972. He has been fascinated by the way things were made, suspension bridges in particular, since he was 5. His family would drive into New York and the best part, for him, was the trip over the George Washington Bridge.

“All the cars and trucks were held up by wires,” he marvels. “There’s something magical about suspension bridges. Old stone bridges have arches, and there’s a downward force supporting the load.

In suspension bridges, the weight is collected by spans to the tops of the towers, where gravity forces it down to the foundation and the earth. But I didn’t know all this when I was 5.”

Zink went on to write two books about the Roeblings and their legacy from the industrial age, made a film and helped to establish the Roebling Museum in the eponymous New Jersey town.

As executive director of the Trenton Roebling Community Development Corp., Zink led the effort to turn the wire rope company facility into an urban center for culture and commerce.

Zink’s interest in the car began in 2009, when the Roebling Museum held a reunion for Mercer collectors. He wanted to write about the Mercer, he recounts, because it was an unknown part of Trenton’s history. Collecting cars has become a good investment, as the value has gone up significantly in the last five years. “A lot of people who grew up in the 50s, 60s and 70s remember the golden era of American cars—Corvettes, Thunderbirds, Mustangs.

They want to show their kids the cars they drove when driving was fun. Driving has become a routine activity, a hassle in traffic. Collecting is not only an investment and hobby, but a social activity and opportunity for connoisseurship.”

FOUNDING FAMILIES “The Mercer car is one of the most interesting newcomers,” wrote The New York Times in 1910.

“The lines of the car are very graceful and the fitting very attractive.”

Mercer Automobile was founded in 1909 by Charles and Ferdinand Roebling, sons of John A. Roebling, and their friends and business associates, Anthony and John Kuser, twin sons of Swiss immigrant Rudolph Kuser, who consolidated the gas and electric companies in Trenton, served on the staff of three governors, was a U.S. Senator, founded Prudential Life Insurance, and gave financial support toward the founding of Fox Film Company, High Point State Park and the New Jersey Audubon Society. Princeton-area residents may be familiar with the Kuser Farm Mansion, on Kuser Road in Hamilton, a house museum on 22 acres with annual “Winter Wonderland” tours that draw large crowds. The Kusers focused on the finances of the business and the Roeblings took care of management and production.

“Trenton was fertile ground for startups,” writes Zink. Trenton had the same ingredients as Silicon THE MERCER AND THE BRIDGE, BY KEN EBERTS DEPICTED THIS 1913 RACEABOUT 35-J AT THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE.

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Valley today: wealthy capitalists, manufacturing technology and a highly skilled workforce. Metal, rubber and pottery companies also required skilled workers, and when Mercer started, it represented a chance for young machinists with skills to move up.

Companies retooled themselves to supply the auto industry, and Trenton became the top tire manufacturer until Akron, Ohio took that honor.

When the car was first assembled, temporary seats and a body over the engine were installed so adjustments could be made during test drives.

U.S.1 was a two-lane road without traffic lights and test drivers could bring the vehicle up to speed between villages. Gary Mount, who owns Terhune Orchards with his wife, Pam Mount, grew up on his family’s orchard on U.S.1, and recalls an uncle going out to watch the Mercers go by. Washington Roebling wrote about one of his brothers taking a ride out to Hopewell along Trenton-Pennington Road, before it was paved.

The Kuser family controlled the State Fairgrounds, where Grounds For Sculpture is now located, and the horse track was turned into a track for racing cars. “Young men were excited by the new technology and speed,” says Zink. “Cars were expensive, and only the wealthy could afford them.

Washington Roebling, then in his 20s, was one of these wealthy young men.”

By racing the cars, it helped to “improve the breed,” says Zink, because any deficiencies that wouldn’t show up under a year of normal use would become apparent in a day at the track. “The public was enamored of racing a machine that never existed before; it was totally new technology that went at speeds no one had ever gone before. People thronged to races and newspapers gave publicity to the winners, proving that your car was durable and fast. They handled well, going around a turn on

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bumpy roads at 70 mph, or over 100 on a racetrack.

People had never gone that fast before.”

Zink had the opportunity to ride in a Mercer Raceabout owned by George Ott. “It’s completely open,” he recounts. “There’s no cover, no seatbelts, no heat or air conditioning—it’s a pure machine.

The wind is blowing in your face, it’s noisy and you’re exposed to the elements, and you’re bouncing in the open-air seat. I don’t want to call it primitive, but there are no amenities, no protection.

It’s a visceral experience, and gets you closer to what it was like to experience the auto when it was an entirely new technology.”

In contemporary cars, he adds, “the experience of driving is filtered, diminishing the raw aspect of driving.”

DRIVING COLLECTORS Perhaps the best-known collector is Jay Leno. Zink, along with his wife, curator Emily Croll, and their 21-year-old son and 19-year-old daughter, flew to L.A. to visit Leno’s Big Dog Garage. Leno’s collection, estimated to include about 150 vehicles, is the subject of an NBC TV series. “He met with us and was very gracious with his time, giving us a tour of the state-of-the-art equipment,” recounts Zink. “His routine involves taking out four cars a day to keep them running. I saw a photo of him with the Mercer Raceabout at the Burbank Diner, where he stopped for a burger.”

Among the Mercer auto collectors in Princeton is Brandon Hull, a healthcare venture capitalist. As a child, he read automotive historians Ralph Stein and Ken Purdy, who raved about the Mercer’s capabilities and its place in automotive history. Hull dreamed of owning a Mercer since he was a teen.

In 2011 Hull bought a Raceabout from Joe Vannozzi of Hamilton. “His father, Santo, bought

the car in 1932 from Vince Galloni, a former Mercer Automobile employee who kept a shop in Trenton dedicated to Mercers,” says Hull, who loves the car as an artifact of historic engineering. “The Mercer Raceabout was the supercar of its day, and cost the same as a good-sized house...It is endlessly satisfying to study the solutions its engineers devised to solve what were at the time brand new problems like brakes, as in: ‘how do we stop this complex, 3,000-pound object?’ Engineers were confronting modern design challenges with little precedent to guide them, and it is fascinating to study the solutions they evolved.”

Driving the Mercer is an event, says Hull. “It takes a few minutes just to go through the starting sequence, and once underway requires a few moments to adjust to its peculiarities. For me, the Mercer is a kind of time-machine, transporting you back to the sights, sounds, smells and feel that a motorist, likely born in the horse and buggy 19th century, would have experienced.” Ah, no wonder Zink was drawn to telling the story of this car!

“Some of the most interesting people are those who start businesses and create new technology and employment, like Steve Jobs or Tesla Motors product architect Elon Musk,” continues Zink.

“It parallels what was happening a century ago.

The iPhone excites us now, but 100 years ago cars gave us personal transportation and freed people from being dependent on horses. It gave them the ability to go greater distances faster and with style.”

Clifford Zink will give a talk about his book Mercer Magic: Roeblings, Kusers, the Mercer Automobile Company and America’s First Sports Car at the Princeton Public Library April 17. There will be a Mercer Auto Reunion at the Roebling Museum, Roebling, N.J., July 23.

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n a discussion room of the Good Grief Princeton headquarters on Mapleton Avenue, a group of 10-12-year-olds, all living through the recent death of a family member, is getting excited about answering questions from the question jar.

“What would you change about the funeral?” one of the questions reads.

“There wasn’t any cake,” one girl chimes in. Words of support arise quickly from the rest of the group. “Yeah, there should have been cake at the funeral.”

Next question: “Do you ever dream about the person who died?” An eleven-yearold responds, “My mom had this beat-up old van and she loved it. And dad sold it after she died.” In the dream the child’s mother came back and was angry and was asking where the van was, and, in the child’s words, “it really sucked that she was mad, but it was really nice to see her.”

The discussion could have ended there, but a facilitator, a volunteer trained by Good Grief professionals—36 hours of training in four days—asks, “What did it feel like to wake up?”

“I felt angry,” the boy replies, and every other child in the room nods in understanding, acknowledgement, empathy.

“They felt angry that they lost someone that they loved,” explains Malena Attar, development coordinator of Good Grief and also a facilitator on Nights of Support at Good Grief. “That’s an emotion that even adults don’t realize they can have when experiencing loss. But because this child shared his story and a facilitator asked a question, these children can now understand that loss is a part of life and it’s ok to feel angry. And they talked about how they can deal with their anger in healthy ways.”

Good Grief and its Nights of Support “are really about kids sharing their experiences and learning how to deal with those experiences,” Ms. Attar explains.

“That really is at the heart of what we do.”

One in seven children will lose a parent or sibling before the age of 20. In New Jersey alone in the coming year, approximately 20,000 children will be left to grieve this loss. Children who do not get support are at-risk and vulnerable, and studies show that peer support programs are highly effective. Good Grief works to provide all grieving children in Princeton and surrounding communities with the free grief support they need.

Funded by private donors, corporations and foundations, the Good Grief programs are free to grieving families for as long as they choose to stay, usually about three years.

Joe Primo, CEO of Good Grief, explains, “A child at heightened stress levels is in a perpetual state of anxiety which can lead to diabetes, heart disease or depression, which may not take a visible immediate toll, but it leads to lower life expectancy because of the risk factor brought to bear by toxic stress.”

“We work to make the stress more tolerable,” Mr. Primo, an ordained minister, continues. “It’s preventative work through the power of human connections and the impact that these relationships have. It’s the supportive power of a peer, who is walking down the same path as you, who might think your thoughts, feel your feelings.”

This peer relationship model seeks to strengthen the family in order to help children to become more resilient and to help them to eventually be able to live more meaningful and productive lives as they re-enter the world with a higher level of empathy and emotional intelligence and the ability to depend on their inner state.

(OPPOSITE) The Leaf Wall made up of memorial leaves designed by children to remember parents and siblings who have died.

Joe Primo, CEO of Good Grief, has ambitious plans to meet the needs of New Jersey’s grieving children.

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Liam Cunningham at the interactive wall of dreams and memories. (TOP-RIGHT) Good Grief Princeton headquarters on Mapleton Avenue.

At the Ribbon-Cutting Celebration to officially open the Mapleton Avenue Good Grief Center—(LEFT TO RIGHT) Plainsboro Deputy Mayor Neil Lewis, Plainsboro Mayor Peter Cantu, Emma Legacki, Erin Legacki, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert.

“Grief is often not something that requires treatment,” Mr. Primo says. “It does memories or pictures, a letter writing desk and mail boxes for letters to lost family require psycho-social support.” members, a play theater, a large sand tray, musical instruments, a play hospital room “There are losses no family expects to face,” Good Grief’s introductory brochure with a real hospital bed, an adult group discussion room, and a communal discussion states. “After the death of a parent or sibling, it can be hard to find a way forward. No room, a blue lounge, a tree house room for 10-12-year-olds, and a colorfully painted matter how someone died, Good Grief provides a community that understands the volcano room with padded mats on floor and ceiling—a safe space for kids to journey towards finding a ‘new normal.’ physically let loose with nothing breakable and nothing that can cause injury.

“Good Grief is a safe place for a grieving family to remember, share experiences, Program directors plan activities and discussion for facilitators for each session, and know they are not alone. Our programs offer peer support, not and the facilitators ask questions, keep the conversation going and counseling or therapy.” “make sure the space is safe,” according to Ms. Attar. “This is a Nights of Support, twice monthly for most grieving children very loud place on Nights of Support,” says Mr. Primo. and their families, start with a pizza dinner in the center’s café Ms. Attar adds that on Nights of Support “you see humanity area. The opening circle, one of the most important activities, at its best. Teens—the stereotype is selfishness, but I’ve never follows dinner. One at a time the children standing in a circle seen a more empathic group in my life. You see somebody else say their names and who they’ve lost. “It really normalizes the who is hurting and it doesn’t matter what their religion is, what conversation around death,” Ms. Attar says. “In our culture there’s their background is, you are just there as a human being. They’re a stigma attached to talking about loss. People avoid dealing with really united by this universal experience of loss. It doesn’t have it. Kids sometimes feel they have to suppress that memory and that to be scary. It doesn’t have to be negative. It just is, and we’re feeling. When kids and family are in a room together talking, it there for each other.” normalizes that conversation. So having an opening circle allows Eighteen-year-old Mackenzie wrote down some of his thoughts them to state a fact and to take away the weight of that reality.” about his father’s death and the process of mourning, “Grief is what After the opening circle, the children and parents divide up can tear a person apart. I’ve experienced grief first hand. My father into different age groups: 3-5, 6-9, 10-12, teens, young adults (up loved summer days filled with the smell of BBQ. He was the biggest to age 30) and parents. The Mapleton headquarters provides a guy to head over to the grill, spatula in hand and stay outdoors all day. rich carefully designed environment for many different activities.

My mother, sisters and I are not the same people we once were. We There’s a teen room with a pool table and game center, but for have all been through a lot after my father was taken from us. When teens, Ms. Attar says, “a lot of it is just having conversations— he passed away, days like those became our gloomiest. We weren’t ‘What’s scary for you?’ ‘What do you worry about?’ ‘Let’s talk able to be filled with the joy many thought we should have been.”

Malena Attar, development coordinator of about it.’ It’s like when you’re little you think there’s a monster Mackenzie’s family participated in Nights of Support and under your bed and when you turn the light on you see it’s just a pile Good Grief. other programs at Good Grief. “Good Grief has allowed us to open of clothes—much less scary when you talk about it, bring it to light.” our minds to a different way of thinking,” he says. “Hearing stories from people in our The 3-5-year-olds’ room is called “Enchanted Forest,” with beautiful sylvan age groups that have encountered similar situations eased how we felt about our own murals. There’s an arts and crafts room, a splatter room (where aspiring Jackson loss. We don’t have to feel alone anymore because Good Grief has made it apparent Pollocks can let loose with the paint brush), “interactive” walls to write on or post that we aren’t alone.

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A Good Grief participant with her father at the September ribbon-cutting celebration.

Lindsey Bischoff (LEFT) and Clara Huergo, Good Grief teen group participants.

“We can talk about those hot summer days and how we would love to smile but Good Grief is currently in the process of raising $100,000 to fund a fourth can’t find the strength to. The feedback we receive from others helps to build that weekly Night of Support and hoping to raise an additional $2 million to purchase the strength. If they are able to smile on days like that, we can too!”

Mapleton Avenue house and make it their permanent home.

Mr. Primo describes Good Grief as “a doorway to hope. Loss touches everybody.

Programs at the Princeton headquarters currently serve 29 communities within We all know someone who has faced tragedy. Even when children are at their rock 20 miles, with plans to reach out to grieving children within a 40-mile radius in the bottom, there is a place where hope dwells, and that place is here in this big yellow future. Good Grief also provides workshops, training and educational programs for house.” The large yellow Mapleton Avenue Princeton headquarters of Good Grief schools and community organizations. currently serves more than 160 grieving children and “In the face of loss and tragedy, there are always their parents. well intentioned people who do not know how to react Founded in 2004 in Summit, New Jersey, Good or behave,” explains Mr. Primo, who studied end-of-life Grief grew rapidly and in 2009 moved to Morristown. ethics and counseling at Yale Divinity School and served Three years later, as the number of participating children as a hospice chaplain before coming to Good Grief. and families continued to grow, with many families “In the workplace, human resources officials may be traveling over an hour from the central part of New unsure what to do about the tragedy. Schools are often Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania to attend sessions each unsure how to provide support for the students. The week, the Morristown base was no longer adequate. well intentioned approach tends to be off-target. It is our Mercer and Middlesex, respectively, are the New mission to transform each community’s understanding of Jersey counties with the second and third highest what childhood bereavement is and how to respond.” numbers of grieving children in the state. In response to In its ongoing work, Good Grief’s Campaign for the growing need in central Jersey, Good Grief opened Hope fund-raising goal is an ambitious $4 million, with its Princeton branch in 2012, renting space from Trinity half of that planned for purchasing the Princeton center Church and Princeton AlumniCorps to serve about 30 on Mapleton Avenue and the other half to create an families, and the demand continued to increase. Last endowment for program and education expansion.

July Good Grief happily moved into its Mapleton In the coming decade, Mr. Primo hopes to see Good Avenue home, and invited the community to a festive Grief adding three more centers to provide greater ribbon-cutting ceremony two months later. accessibility for children and families throughout New There are now three Nights of Support each week, Jersey. “We have expanded over and over again,” he “Happy Birthday” wall at Good Grief’s first anniversary “Birthday Party.” with a total of about 60 families involved plus a waiting said, “so that no child has to grieve alone.” list. “The last thing you want to do is put these families on a waiting list,” Ms. Attar explained. ”Grief doesn’t wait. We need to expand.”

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he most effective art therapy book I know is the Audubon Guide to Wild Flowers. My son must have been eight when he began looking through it, fascinated by the bright images, especially the more exotic flowers. The Audubon became his book of choice at bedtime. It wasn’t long before he wanted to make up his own guide. We found a large bound book of blank pages, gave him crayons and marking pens, and he spent many happy hours following the Audubon model. First he drew his idea of the flower, gave it a name, and then a description like the ones he knew.

These were all his own inventions. Not only was it more satisfying, and more do-able, for him to make up the flowers, rather than trying to copy the real thing, his small motor disability gave him no choice. Simply trying to copy the image would have led to frustration, as happened in school where most kids could at least draw some identifiable semblance of an assigned object.

In this case, neccessity truly was the mother of invention, for once he gave up the obligation to replicate the image, he was free to dive into the riot of color he’d discovered in the Audubon guide. An insensitive teacher would have made him feel at fault or inferior for not being able to keep up with his peers. Fortunately, he had one or two teachers who lived up to the Greek definition of therapy: therapeía “to be attentive” — and not judgmental.

FINDING RELEASE OR RELIEF

If you look for art therapy online you find the usual stories of artists whose work helped them overcome personal adversity. Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose version of a field guide was the copy of Gray’s Anatomy he studied while recovering from a childhood accident, ran away from home at 15 after his mother, who had encouraged his art, was committed to a mental institution. Putting his psychosis on canvas helped Edvard Munch survive deep depression and nervous breakdowns. One look at Van Gogh’s palpably alive paintings and art appreciation becomes psychoanalysis.

Whether children are dealing with mass shootings and terrorism and the ensuing paranoia or with the loss of a parent or sibling, they could presumably find release or relief in art therapy.

Indirectly related to my son’s use of plants as an outlet is Sophie Leblanc’s Art Therapy: Extraordinary Gardens: 100 Designs, Colouring in and Relaxation (Jacqui Small $19.99), which celebrates the “enchanting world of the garden, where birds, insects and flowers unite to form 100 beautiful illustrations for you to make your own.

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point is to be creative within a provided template, to “let your imagination wander” within the secure confines of the book where children (and adults) can “rediscover the simple, yet calming pleasure of observing nature at its finest” in the form of “hedge mazes, incredible topiary, elegant romantic gardens and friezes of evocative tulips of the Taj Mahal.” The adversary is not clinically specified but described in euphemisms like “the stresses and distractions of everyday life.”

THE PARIS APPROACH

If adults can find something therapeutic in Ernest Hemingway’s Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast, which has been selling remarkably well in Paris since the November terrorist attacks, a book like Secret Paris: Color Your Way to Calm (Little Brown $16) might be helpful for children shaken by the catastrophe. Another book by Zoe de Las Cases (not a person, apparently, but a shop) is just out this month: Paris Street Style (Potter/Ten Speed/ Harmony $16), in which “The coloring book is reinvented in a brand new journal format.” The idea is to make therapy companionable, you can take it with you, and use it to illustrate day to day moments “wherever you’re off to,” using “whimsical, full-

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page patterns, cityscapes and street scenes, feminine silhouettes, and stylish essentials.”

Offered through Barnes & Noble are Color Therapy: An Anti-Stress Coloring Book (Running Press $15) by Cindy Wilde, Laura-Kate Chapman, Richard Merritt, who is also, with Hannah Davies and Jo Taylor, among the editor-authors of Creative Therapy: An Anti-Stress Coloring Book. Both publications are part of an international coloring book series. Again, the purpose is to relieve stress, “lift your mood and focus your mind.” All you have to do is “just start coloring and doodling.”

An offering with a New Age twist is Rebecca Bloom’s Square the Circle: Art Therapy Workbook (Booklocker $13.95), which features mandala coloring sheets and activities created to help adults, teens and children dealing with anxiety, depression and PTSD. The idea is to get beyond “verbal

processing” to “image-making that safely allows the body to tell its story.” Using the eight limbs of yoga as a guide, you learn Ahimsa, to “practice non-violence toward yourself,” creating images that “don’t need to be pretty or even make sense,” but that “just have to be true and hopefully allow for more discussion to arise.” The second yoga concept is Dharana, “to allow yourself the time and space for inner awareness” and to use “these concepts of mindfulness as a powerful centering technique.”

These exercises can be used “alone or in individual counseling.”

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The adult coloring book phenomenon is the elephant in this particular art therapy room. For instance, Joanna Basford’s wildly popular Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book (Laurence King $15.95), and for people in “today’s busy world” the pocket-sized Mindfulness Series

by Emma Farrarons, featuring The Mindfulness Coloring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People (The Experiment $9.95).

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ne day in December, Paul Hoffman, the president and CEO of Liberty Science Center, was taking a stroll through Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, a show that has been breaking attendance records since opening this past fall at the Jersey City museum. A little girl, maybe six or seven years old, approached him.

“Her parents were busy reading some of the information on the walls. She turned to me, suddenly, and said, ‘How many icebergs are there? How big do you have to be to be an iceberg?’ I happened to have my I-Pad with me, so

we looked up her questions on line,” Hoffman said. “Then, she asked me how ships are designed today and how they stay away from icebergs. She had lots of great questions.”

That kind of intellectual engagement is the goal of Titanic. “This kind of exhibit is an example of the whole purpose of what we are doing,” Hoffman said. “It fires the imagination, and that leads people—children and adults—down all sorts of paths. It opens up people’s eyes and allows them to realize that science isn’t necessarily so formidable, that it undermines things in our lives.”

Science plays a major role in Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, which runs through the end of May. The show is the

latest version of one that has appeared in various forms throughout the world over the past 15 years. In Chicago, Paris, London, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, some 22 million people have learned about the disaster and examined artifacts brought up from the site of the notorious wreck.

The White Star liner, the most expensive and luxurious of its time, sank on its maiden voyage after being sliced open by an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic on April 15, 1912. More than 1,500 people perished in the disaster.

Split in two and lying more than 12,000 feet below the surface, the wreck was discovered on an expedition led by Robert Ballard in 1985.

Boy with Titanic boarding pass.

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Since the ship sank, there have been books, films, exhibits, and songs about the ship.”It fascinates people,” said Hoffman. “I think it’s the contrast between this being a marvel of technology and then the deep human tragedy that it was. And it was the most luxurious accommodation of the day, more than any hotel. They had 1,500 bottles of wine, just for the first class passengers. There were 8,000 cigars on board for first class, and that’s for just a seven-day voyage.”

The Titanic exhibit is a chronological journey that starts with the ship’s construction and ends with the recovery of artifacts from the ocean floor. It is full of facts that even the most obsessive enthusiast might find illuminating. For instance: Thomas Andrews, the ship’s designer, was not supposed to go on the maiden voyage. But when Lord James Pirrie, the managing director of White Star Line, had to cancel due to illness, Andrews went in his place. He was among those lost in the sinking.

The average cost of a first class ticket was $2,500—about $57,200 in today’s dollars. For the finest suites, passengers paid $4,500—the equivalent of $103,000 today. Third class passengers paid $35—about $620 today.

One of them was David John Barton of Wicken, Cambridge, England. His name was on a typical “boarding pass” handed to visitors as they enter the exhibit. Each pass bears the name of an actual passenger. Upon leaving the exhibit, visitors learn their passenger’s fate.

Headed for Rochester, New York to take a job with Kodak, David Barton was traveling alone in third class. According to a “passenger fact” on the boarding pass: “David had planned to sail on another vessel with two of his friends, but failed a routine medical inspection for third-class passengers. His friends sailed without him. After failing once more, David was finally deemed healthy and cleared to travel on Titanic.” Sadly, but not surprisingly, he didn’t make it.

Blown up photographs and diagrams of the ship, and of its designers at work, are at the entrance to the exhibit. Another shows a group of workers

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standing next to the ship’s massive propellers, which tower over them.

There are numerous items in glass cases that were retrieved from the ocean floor near the wreck—rivets, the bell from the ship’s crow’s nest, a leather bag, chamber pots used for seasickness, a medical syringe, a disintegrating bar of soap, a piece

of the wooden garland from the first class grand staircase, dishes, a broken crystal vase, bathroom floor tiles, coins, a top hat, and cuff links. There is a silver and diamond bracelet, a calling card that says “Miss Stella Cobo, Teacher of Piano,” electric fan blades, chunks of coal, a man’s shoe, a watch chain, and a perfume bottle with its contents still inside.

A phone on display (ABOVE). Recreation of a guest room aboard the Titanic (BELOW).

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A major attraction, especially for curious children, is a large, re-created iceberg that they can touch.

Visitors view a lavish first-class stateroom, and a considerably less elaborate third-class cabin with bunk beds and exposed pipes.

The exhibit explores the mistakes that were made, from the lack of sufficient lifeboats to the belief that

the ship was “unsinkable.”

“They cut corners,” Hoffman said. “They were trying to set a speed record. They took the shortest distance, which took them through dangerously icy waters. And they were going at very high speeds.

Even though this was the most technologically sophisticated thing ever done, they still cut corners.

Create lasting memories with this Titanic photo opportunity (ABOVE). Artifacts from the Titanic (BELOW).

They used iron on some of the rivets instead of steel, and those were the ones that popped when they hit the iceberg.”

The organization RMS Titanic Inc. is the only company allowed by law to recover objects from the wreck. The company was granted the rights in 1994 by a federal court and has conducted seven research and recovery expeditions, bringing back more than 5,500 artifacts. And there is more where those came from.

“Initially there was a public and private debate about whether the artifacts should be removed,” said Hoffman. “But once it became clear that everything was going to disintegrate, most of the descendants of the passengers thought we should bring the artifacts up.”

In the process, the exhibit reveals, scientists have discovered that iron-eating bacteria is slowly but steadily devouring what remains of the ship. The goal of RMS Titanic is to stop the deterioration, but the bacteria is winning.

Many of the children who tour the exhibit want to know how people died in the wreck. “Kids, like adults, are fascinated by life and death,” Hoffman said. “So it’s natural that they’re interested. What they find out is that most of the people died from hypothermia, not drowning.”

On his undercover strolls through the exhibit, Hoffman has observed visitors responding to different aspects. “People seize on different things according to their interests and their ages,” he said.

“So what we try to do is appeal to those different aspects. They are coming in force to see this. It’s about science and technology, but it’s a deeply human story.”

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit runs through May 30 at Liberty Science Center, 222 Jersey City Boulevard, Jersey City. Visit www.lsc.org for more information.

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8PM Pianist Igor Levit performs at Richardson

11AM “Mimosa and a Masterpiece” art workshop at

Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/richaud

Hamilton’s Grounds for Sculpture. Meet fellow painting enthusiasts and create a one-of-a kind masterpiece while enjoying drinks and conversation. www.groundsforsculpture.org

1PM The Exhibition on Screen Series at Princeton Garden Theatre presents Manet (2015). www. princetongardentheatre.org

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 7PM Princeton University men’s ice hockey vs. Colgate at Princeton’s Baker Rink. www.goprincetontigers.com

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 10AM Opening of By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 NOON-6PM Wine & Chocolate Wine Trail Weekend at Terhune Orchards. Sample chocolate and Terhune Orchards’ own award-winning wine (also on February 7, 13, and 14). www.terhuneorchards.com

8PM Princeton Symphony Orchestra performs PSO Saturday Evening POPS at Richardson Auditorium. www.princetonsymphony.org

Contributions to American Culture from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War at Princeton University Art Museum (through June 12, 2016). http://artmuseum. princeton.edu

3PM Princeton University women’s ice hockey vs. St. Lawrence at Princeton’s Baker Rink. www.goprincetontigers.com

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14

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Valentine’s Day

2:30PM Princeton University women’s squash

3PM Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Broadway and TV star Megan Hilty and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at the State Theatre of NJ in New Brunswick. www.statetheatrenj.org

vs. Brown at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym. www.goprincetontigers.com

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 12:30PM Katherine Meloan of New York’s Manhattan School of Music performs a free organ concert at Princeton University Chapel. www.princeton.edu

3PM The State Ballet Theatre of Russia performs the classical ballet Romeo and Juliet at McCarter Theatre. www.mccarter.org

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15 8AM-6PM The 140th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden (also on Tuesday, February 16). www.westminsterkennelclub.org

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 7:30PM Cabernet Cabaret at the Arts Council of Princeton featuring musical performances by Sarah Donner, along with a cabaret-infused show of drama, romance, and comedy. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org

7:30PM Daryl Hall & John Oates perform at Madison Square Garden. www.thegarden.com

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 11AM Join a Stony Brook Millstone Watershed naturalist on a exploratory tour of the fascinating textures, shapes, and colors of winter wildflowers and weeds.

The walk will be followed by a drawing workshop led

by Arts Council of Princeton botanical illustrator, Ruth Councell. www.thewatershed.org

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 8PM Princeton University Concerts welcomes the Tetzlaff Trio to Richardson Auditorium. www.princetonuniversityconcerts.irg

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 10AM-4:30PM Opening day for the Holly Trostle Brigham: Sisters and Goddeses exhibit at the Michener Art Museum (through May 26, 2016). www.michenerartmuseum.org

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8PM Singer-songwriter Joan Baez performs at the Count

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3PM Westminster Community Orchestra performs at

Basie Theatre. www.countbasietheatre.org

Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/richaud

8PM Princeton University men’s basketball vs. Penn at

6:30PM Nerd Herd Smart Phone Pub Crawl (part of

Princeton’s Jadwin Gym. www.goprincetontigers.com

the Princeton Pi Day celebrations). Be sure to stop

by Yankee Doodle Tap Room to receive your nerd glasses. www.pidayprinceton.com

TUESDAY, MARCH 1 7:30PM Come to the Brick Farm Market in Hopewell after-hours for a “Raclette Evening” led by Michel Lemmerling, the Market’s Chevalier du Taste Fromage. Guests are welcome to bring their own beer and wine to accompany the tasting. www. brickfarmmarket.com

SATURDAY, MARCH 12 9AM Princeton Pi Day Pie Eating Contest at McCaffrey’s Supermarket at the Princeton Shopping Center. www.pidayprinceton.com

11AM Einstein Look-A-Like Contest at the Nassau Inn’s Prince William Ballroom. www.pidayprinceton.com

SATURDAY, MARCH 5 11AM Start of the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (through March 13). http://theflowershow.com

SUNDAY, MARCH 6 4PM (doors open at 3PM)Those Angry Days: The Lindberghs and World War II. Morven Museum & Garden presents Lynne Olson, author of Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939 - 1940. McCosh 50 Lecture Hall, Princeton University. Free and open to the public. *This special event is presented in conjunction with Morven’s current exhibition, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Couple of an Age.

TUESDAY, MARCH 8 7:30PM Opening night for Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at McCarter Theatre (through March 27). www.mccarter.org

Happy Birthday Albert Einstein!

NOON Dinky Train Rides with Einstein. Trains depart from Princeton’s Arts/Transit Station on Alexander Street. Be sure to ask Einstein where he is going on the train since he often forgets. www.pidayprinceton.com

1PM Pi Recitation Contest at the Nassau Inn’s Prince William Ballroom. The 2007 champion recited more than 15,000 digits of Pi! www.pidayprinceton.com

SUNDAY, MARCH 13 9:15AM Philadelphia’s 2016 St. Patrick’s Day Parade, a Philadelphia tradition since 1771. www.philadelphiastpatsparade.com

11AM Einstein in Princeton Guided Walking Tour led by Princeton Tour Company. Visit the homes and hangouts of one of Princeton’s most famous residents. www. pidayprinceton.com

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 1PM Wednesday Tea and Tour at Morven Museum & Garden (repeats every Wednesday). www.morven.org

SATURDAY, MARCH 19 9:30AM-4:30PM Masterworks of Hudson River Painting opens at the Brandywine River Museum of Art (through June 12, 2016). www.brandywine.org

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 6PM Playwright, Screenwriter, and Librettist David Henry Hwang delivers a free, public lecture at Princeton University’s McCosh Hall 50. http://lectures. princeton.edu

SUNDAY, MARCH 27 9AM Last day to view the “Orchid Extravaganza” exhibit at Longwood Gardens. As one of the premiere plant collections at Longwood, orchids have been lavishly displayed throughout the estate grounds since 1922. www.longwoodgardens.com

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arisian native André Benhaïm, who joined the Princeton University faculty in 2001, was traveling when the news broke: “In a somber coincidence of sorts, like on September 11, 2001, I was on the road, driving with my sons down to Virginia. All kinds of text messages started to come in, and I pulled over at a rest stop. This is where my children and I saw it on TV. Noah, who’s 9, asked immediately if my mother, who lives in Paris, was okay. Gabriel, who’s 14, was shocked by the number of victims, which, at the time (in the first hours of the events), was not nearly as high as it was going to be.”

Listening to French radio reports, Benhaïm drove south into the night, his teenage son asking: “Why France? Why France, again?” The family had also followed, live, the terrorist attacks in January, 2015, against Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket. Benhaïm quickly found himself moving from shock to anger as he discovered that the November attacks had happened in “the heart of the Paris populaire,” in the ‘gently’ gentrified but still ordinary, socially and racially mixed neighborhoods he knows so well. Having grown up in the 19th arrondissement in a blue-collar area just north of the attacks on Le Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon restaurants, Benhaïm felt as if his own childhood had been attacked. The terrorists had hit close to home.

As soon as he could, Benhaïm called relatives and friends. Fortunately no one he knew had been directly involved but, as is the case for many in Princeton’s French community, he felt connected to the victims and survivors. “My cousin, for instance,

has a very good friend who narrowly escaped the massacre in Le Bataclan, and I have close friends who live just down the street and go out in the neighborhood on the weekend.”

Also from Paris and familiar with the Bataclan area, Sophie Bailly, who came to Princeton in 2011, heard about the attacks when she picked up her sixteen year-old son, Clement, from Princeton High School. He was listening to the news feeds coming out of France. Bailly’s sister, Laurence, lives in the area near the shootings. Sirens blared in the background as they spoke on the telephone. “My first impression was of total confusion,” says Bailly.

“I didn’t panic at first because we had no idea how bad it was going to be. It happened late at night over there and it was very scary—for three days non-stop I was glued to my computer screen and to my radio.”

A former communications manager in France, Bailly has turned her passion for flea markets and French traditional upholstery into her own Princeton area business. In 2013, she co-founded Oh La La!, an informal group of designers and arts/ crafts professionals which has moved from sales in a private home studio to annual sales open to the public. Their November sale was a little over a week away when the attacks took place. Would they continue with the sale?

“After seeing how the people of Paris handled the terrible events—maintaining their calm with resilience, dignity and compassion—we decided to go ahead. The Parisians continued to go out, to go to restaurants, to movies, so we wanted to show solidarity. The response from the public was overwhelmingly supportive. The honorary consul

led us all a minute of silence and many Americans shared their experiences of 9/11. France is well loved here and we felt that,” says Bailly.

“Almost everyone has a story to tell about a family member, friend or acquaintance connected to the November 13 shootings,” says fellow Oh La La! member Anne-Renée Rice-Soumeillant who came to the Princeton area in 1998 with her husband who works in the pharmaceutical industry. Her brotherin-law manages La Pirouette restaurant in Paris.

“His employees were in panic and terror because of the restaurant shootings; many of them didn’t want to leave to travel home and of course, next day, they didn’t want to come to work. Like many businesses, the restaurant remained closed the next day.”

American by birth, Rice-Soumeillant is French by choice having caught the French culture bug early on and moved to Paris where she trained as a chef at the L’ecole Superiore de la Cuisine Francaise-Ferrandi. She slips easily between French and English and runs her own boutique catering company offering full service catering in Princeton area homes and businesses. She also tempts gourmands with fait maison savory French fare at Oh La La! events.

Like members of Oh La La!, students at Princeton’s French Theater Workshop, L’AvantScène, organized by Florent Masse at Princeton University, were profoundly affected by the terrorist attacks. With performances of classical and modern scenes from Molière, Racine, Marivaux, Feydeau, Beaumarchais, Beckett, and Musset, the workshop serves as a focal point for the Francophone community. Feeling the need to gather, the students

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organized an evening celebration at the Princeton University Art Museum in early December. “To come together in a celebration of French theater, arts and culture, which we felt, were more than ever needed, meant a lot to us,” says Masse.

Supportive Reaction

At Princeton University, Professor Sophie Meunier of the Woodrow Wilson School organized a roundtable that included member of the departments of Near Eastern studies, history, sociology, as well as Benhaïm and the French journalist Philippe Lançon, who suffered serious wounds in the Charle Hebdo attack. According to Benhaïm, the discussion was sometimes heated as to whether the French state might be partially at fault because of policies regarding the integration of Islam into its secular society.

Benhaïm teaches a seminar on the concept of hospitality in literature, culture, philosophy, and politics from Homer to contemporary France. His students, many of whom but not all are French, discuss issues of colonization, immigration, the refugee crisis, the welcoming of the stranger at large.

Their reactions were rather homogeneous, he says: “a refusal to excuse, or even to explain, if explaining means to ‘understand,’ if ‘understand’ supposes any kind of legitimacy for these acts.”

“I think the reaction of the French people was complex, and quite different from what was seen in January,” says Benhaïm. “In November, in part, because of the state of emergency, there were no large demonstrations. But people still took to the

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streets, paid all sorts of tributes to the victims, and made defiant statements towards the attackers and their supporters. The French flag was publicly displayed in many, sometimes very creative, ways like never before some would say.”

Chrystèle Baden was comforted by seeing the colors of the French flag. “I was moved and a little amazed by the outpouring of solidarity and support Paris received,” she says. “Here [in the United States] people display the flag easily as a matter of pride but that is not the case in France.” Baden’s cousin, Zenaide, was at work in a pharmacy when the shootings occurred. “She hid behind the counter and was relieved that there was no one in the pharmacy to attract the attention of the shooters. She was traumatized and like many others took time off from work.”

Catherine Arnoux, president of L’Association Francophone de Princeton (ASFP), who has lived in Princeton since 1998 and served as ASFP President for the last five years, immediately thought of her niece Julie who lives in Paris. “We were touched when our American friends and neighbors called us immediately, asking if we needed any help.”

Resources for the Francophone Community

According to Anne de Broca-Hoppenot, Honorary Consul of France in Princeton, the French community in the area numbers around 5,000, almost half of the number in New Jersey as a whole.

Many are drawn here by the pharmaceutical industry, a world class university, and by the French

American School of Princeton.

L’Association Francophone de Princeton, a community of people in the greater Princeton area with a passion for French language and culture, provides opportunities for both adults and children to learn or improve French through classes and conversation groups, occasional lectures and social and cultural events. The organization is open to all French speakers and its 100 member families represent some 15 nationalities.

It’s not hard to see why Princeton is a prime destination. “Princeton is seen as a great place to live and to raise a family,” says Hoppenot, who came to the United States 25 years ago and to Princeton about 15 years ago. She teaches French in the upper school at Stuart Country Day School. “Princeton looks a little like a small French town and a lot of small businesses have been set up by young French entrepreneurs.”

As Honorary Consul, Hoppenot is the representative of France in New Jersey and serves as a link between the embassy in Washington and the consul in New York, helping French citizens, visitors and businesses with election proxies, visas and such from her home office.

“Princeton provides a good transition into American culture,” agrees Arnoux. “You can walk everywhere and as a university town there is a lot of French culture and it’s situated halfway between New York City and Philadelphia.”

As ASFP president, Arnoux helps Frenchspeaking newcomers settle into and discover the best that Princeton and America has to offer. “The French are known for being highly critical and

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some spouses who have given up their jobs to come here for their partner’s career may not be happy to have left their home, they may be homesick or, if they come from Paris, they may feel lost in a small town. But in a few months they begin to find their feet. We don’t try to replicate France or to cocoon people in French culture but to help them make a new home here.”

“When you move abroad,” says Bailly, “the immediate focus is on the language difference, but much more is involved in learning to navigate a new culture; finding out what makes people tick, can be an everyday challenge.”

“One of the goals of Oh La La! is to share the French aesthetic appreciation for quality over quantity and to make that accessible in the Princeton area,” says Rice-Soumeillant. Bailly illustrates this difference every time a buyer of the fine French linens she imports and sells at the Princeton Farmers Market exclaims that they are too nice to use everyday. “That is precisely the point,” she says. “Use and enjoy beautiful things everyday in celebration of life, I tell them; I use them every day.

Life is short. Please use and enjoy.”

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and children Laure (now 9) and Lucas (now 6). The children attend the French American School and Baden now thinks of Princeton as her home. She is now ASFP vice president of the organization and will take over from Arnoux in June.

“There is always someone speaking French or some other language on Nassau Street or in the local cafés and many of the restaurants are influenced by Mediterranean style cooking that favors olive oil and fresh vegetables. And then there is the local market for fresh farm produce. Not only that there is the best bread at Terra Momo and good croissants made by the Le Petit Chef on Tulane Street, but you have to get there early for those.”

“Le Petit Chef does pastries like you would find in France,” adds Arnoux. “And of course you can get a selection of French cheeses at Bon Appétit, McCaffreys and Wegmans. Who wouldn’t enjoy living in Princeton?”

Now a realtor, Baden joined Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty as a sales associate last September. At first it was a struggle to find her place in Princeton, she says, after leaving a high level job in Paris with the French railway system, SNCF. With a background in physics and engineering, her job was to advise architects and

contractors expanding the Metro system in the cramped city, building more platforms and tracks on top of existing lines: no mean feat, especially as the work has to be done while trains continue to run.

As copies of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast (Paris est une fête) fly off book shelves in Paris, members of Princeton’s French community continue to ponder the shootings. Asked if they are worried about their country, Baden and Arnoux respond with true Gallic calm. “No, not especially,” says Baden. “We were in shock, we didn’t see it coming, we were not prepared enough. France is traditionally a very open society accepting of others and we are not scared to go back to Paris to visit our relatives and friends.”

“You can’t change your life because of what happened, it can happen anywhere at any time but you cannot live in fear,” adds Arnoux.

In the spirit of liberté, equalité and fraternité, Arnoux points out that a senseless shooting is deplorable whether it takes place in Paris or in Baghdad.

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FRENCH CULTURE IN PRINCETON Alliance Française promotes and enhances the knowledge and appreciation of French language and culture: http:// www.allianceprinceton.com/aboutus.html L’Association Francophone de Princeton is community of people in the greater Princeton area with a passion for French language and culture – the food and wine, the art, the regions, the history and the politics. It provides opportunities for both adults and children to learn or improve French through classes and conversation groups, occasional lectures and a social and cultural events: www. asfprinceton.com French American School of Princeton, 75 Mapleton Road: www.ecoleprinceton.org The Little Chef Pastry Shop, 8 South Tulane Street, Princeton for wonderful croissant and excellent mille fieulles, cakes tarts, éclairs and napoleons prepared by pastry chef/proprietor, Edwige Fils-Aime: http:// littlechefpastries.com/ Terra Momo Bread Company, 75 Witherspoon Street, for the authentic breads, viennoiserie, cakes and cookies from Parisian boulanger Denis Granarolo: www. terramomobread.com

Oh La La! holds a three-day pop-up boutique sale of French antiques and unique designs each year in Hopewell featuring gourmet food, paintings, photographs, home decor, fine crafts and collectible books and high-quality products, many of them home-made or imported from France. A sale is planned this spring for May/June. For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/ohlalaprivatesale.

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After saying ‘Yes!’ what would be the first step you suggest the Bride/Couple take?

MB The first thing a couple should do is to discuss budget. After a budget is set, the first step should be to book a venue.

When you first meet with a client to start planning an event, what are your first steps?

MB I usually like to hear what their expectations are from the beginning of their day to the end. It’s important for me to get to know what a client really wants, so I can make their day exactly what they envision.

When it comes to choosing the perfect location for a wedding, whether local or destination, what advice do you give brides?

MB If they want to keep their costs down, a destination wedding can be a good idea, since less people attend. If a couple is willing to go somewhere off season, they can find some great deals as well.

If the wedding is local, choosing a venue where DIY is encouraged, and transportation is not needed can really save on costs. The best type of venue for DIY is one where you can start decorating the entire week before. Choose a venue that does not have a wedding the night before or is available for set up at least three or four days prior to your event. Then, you nicely ask your friends and family for help setting up (don’t forget clean up the next day as well)!

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What is your favorite venue in New Jersey?

MB I have many: Jasna Polana, Bonnet Island Estate and The Liberty House are my top three.

What are the most important things for a bride (and groom) to remember on the day of their wedding?

MB To enjoy their day and be flexible! Sometimes things don’t always go as planned (like the weather) and they need to remember that they set the tone for the day. For example, if it’s raining, and the couple is not bothered by it one bit, their guests will follow suit. If they are upset, their guests will also be upset.

Any great stories from working with a client?

MB I’ve had some really nice couples. Recently, I had a bride who in the middle of getting ready with all of her bridesmaids, immediately stopped everything when she saw that her grandmother needed some assistance with her makeup. She sat with her grandmother and patiently helped her in such a loving way. Oftentimes, girls get so caught up in what they are doing, that they forget what the day is really about.

Are there any trends that you absolutely love or would love to see the brides leave behind?

MB I always love the dances with the parents (even if I have parents who are reluctant) or we ask the whole wedding party to join in. It’s a touching moment.

What is your current favorite color combination?

MB Soft blues and grays.

What advice can you give to couples who are in the midst of planning?

MB Get help! Planning a wedding can be a big undertaking. Also, it’s nice to have someone else who can lead the way and to bounce ideas off of.

What’s the hardest part of your job that no one sees from the outside?

MB I think my job is a lot more time consuming than most people would guess. That is the comment I get most often when someone is truly paying attention to what I do in a day!

What types of projects excite you the most?

MB The details and helping really nice people.

Do you have an all-time favorite past project?

MB I was fortunate enough to be able to do a wedding in Charleston, South Carolina last year. It was held at a family plantation and the details were amazing. We had a children’s game and craft tent, a bagpiper processional, a Baptist choir recessional, authentic Church pews in the middle of a meadow under a canopy of oak trees, and professional fireworks to end the night!

My recent favorite project was my beautiful niece’s wedding at Jasna Polana. Seeing her happy was the best feeling!

Walk us through your typical day: Are you often traveling for work? Meeting with clients? Checking out venues in person or shopping for decor pieces?

MB Yes, all of the above. My day-to-day varies, but usually I meet with clients at the venue or a client’s residence. I also shop for décor. Then I frequently check in with vendors to make sure that we are all on the same page.

During all of your years of experience, what have you come to identify as the key ingredients for a great party?

MB Honestly, the best events tend to me completely organized, yet still often evolve on their own. It’s good to have structure, but you also want the event to feel free-flowing. Sometimes, the best moments are not planned, or at least, don’t seem planned!

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Philadelphia Flower Show Meets The National Parks By

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Known for enormous-scale displays, elaborate gardens and over-the-top floral creations, the Philadelphia Flower Show brightens the dull days of March. This year, the show takes on a theme big enough to match its reputation: a tribute to the centennial of the National Park Service. One of the first anniversary celebrations of the year, the Philly show is sure to be spectacular. No less could be expected from the world’s largest indoor horticultural event and the largest flower show in the United States.

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The 2016 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, Explore America, will celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service and our country’s majestic landscapes, rich history, cherished monuments and vibrant culture, March 5 - 13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Rendering courtesy of Pennsylvania Horticulture Society.

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s chief of Shows & Events for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Sam Lemheney has a big title and an even bigger responsibility—directing the planning and creation of the Society’s major events including the Philadelphia Flower Show.

But it’s a job he’s been raised for. His grandfather owned a landscape nursery and his father operated his own flower shop. When managing the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, Lemheney chaneled the talents and energy of Disney's horticultural staff into a transformation of the gardens into one of the country’s most exciting flower and garden events.

And who can forget the illuminated Eiffel Tower his team created for the 2011 Philadelphia Flower Show, “Springtime in Paris.” Or the 2012 show’s spectacular entrance to “Hawaii: Islands of Aloha.” The entrance is the show’s biggest attention getter and this year is no exception.

“When we thought about the magnitude of the national parks, we realized that there was no way to recreate that experience in a 300,000-squarefoot exhibition space, so rather than create a mini version, we have chosen to put visitors at the start of a typical visit to a national park, which in many cases is through a ranger station or one of the magnificent timber lodges such as those in Yosemite or Yellowstone,” says Lemheney, who reveals that visitors will find “an open-air/portico feel with ferns and early spring bulbs as well as a 14-foot waterfall; the 90-foot diameter pavilion has projections of amazing views of parks overhead.” Think of the spectacular sights of Arches, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and you’ll get the idea. From there, visitors are invited to explore the displays created by individual designers inspired by the nation’s great parks.

The National Park Service (NPS), which manages all of the nation’s national parks and many national monuments as well as other conservation and historic properties, was created by an act of Congress on August 25,

1916, following a campaign praising the scenic and historic qualities of the parks and their possibilities for educational, inspirational, and recreational benefits. NPS was charged to “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”

In the nineteen sixties, the emphasis turned from saving great and wonderful scenery and unique natural features to making the parks accessible to the public. Since the inception of the Park Service, the number of national parks has grown to 59.

While the theme selection process begins with Lemheney, who maintains a list of possibilities—a sort of wish list of concepts he’d like to work on—he acknowledges that it’s not entirely an outlet for his personal creativity. “Part of my responsibility is to attract people to horticulture and so I have to take the interests of the general public into account as well as picking themes that are a good fit for horticulture,” he says. In selecting a theme, Lemheney works with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) marketing team for what is the Society’s major fundraising event.

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The Philadelphia Flower Show has been running since 1827, when PHS was founded. The society’s motto is “planting seeds, growing lives” and also runs “Philadelphia Green,” an urban greening program promoting improvements in the urban landscape and acknowledging efforts across the state with an annual Community Greening Award.

This year’s theme was conceived two years ago. It was a “no brainer,” a great fit for the entire show, which is expected to draw a quarter of a million visitors over the course of its nine-day run. Such numbers have been typical since the show moved to the Convention Center in 1996. february 2016 PRINCETON MAGAZINE

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Views of the 2012 Philadelphia Flower Show, Hawaii: Islands of Aloha.

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Artistic whimsy at the 2014 Philadelphia Flower Show, Articulture.

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(left and far-left) PHS 2011 Springtime in Paris photographs courtesy of the Philadelphia Horticultural Society.

( above) View of the Eiffel Tower constructed for the 2011 Philadelphia Flower Show, Springtime in Paris, and some of the event’s entertainers. (below) Views of plants on display.

That inaugural event drew a whopping 318,000; since then the number has been in the range of 220,000 to 270,000, says Lemheney.

While some years the show has had no particular theme, recent years have been focused. Last year’s displays were inspired by “The Movies.” In addition to the abovementioned Paris and Hawaii, earlier years have taken inspiration from agriculture, Italy, jazz, Ireland, great gardeners of the world, and hometown USA. Major show participants have been working on this year’s theme since receiving a heads up some 14 months prior to the event. There are between 35 and 50 major landscape and floral exhibitors as well as some 150 in the competition class and five to six hundred plant competitors. After all, this is still a good old-fashioned flower show with plants being judged and ribbons and medals vied for. The approximately 200 judges, all of whom are volunteers from across the country, are experienced horticulturists, landscape architects, flower arrangers, and designers. About 60 major awards are given out and judging occurs daily.

Lemheney, who is expert in growing annuals, container gardens, and greenhouse/forcing plants, serves as a judge for premier flower shows in Singapore, Japan and South Korea, and has judged the floats at Pasadena’s Tournament of Roses Parade.

Asked about his own favorite parks, Lemheney says that while he can’t claim to have seen them all, he has an affinity for majestic trees. Besides the Grand Canyon, he favors the redwood forests of the Muir Woods National Monument, named for the Scottish-American naturalist John Muir (1838–1914), the Sierra Club founder. Muir, who is known as the “Father of the National Parks,” petitioned Congress for the bill (passed in 1890) that established Yosemite National Park.

Besides being “wowed” by the show’s entrance, visitors will be delighted, says Lemheney, by “the creative ways in which individual competitors interpret rather than imitate nature in their floral extravaganzas.” Particularly exciting, he suggests, will be the AMTRAKsponsored miniature train garden in the show’s satellite activity area, which will present a journey through many different national park landscapes, as created by the Train Garden Association using Bachmann Model Trains.

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Grand entrance and an exhibit inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas, featured at the 2015 Philadelphia Flower Show, The Movies.

Preview Party and Special Tours

Show week begins with an exclusive and elegant black-tie Preview Party on Friday, March 4, from 6 to 11pm. “This is always a great experience,” says Lemheney, noting that in recent years the event takes place on the show floor where partygoers can enjoy food and beverages among the exhibits. For the first time, this year, the evening is being extended to 11pm rather than ending at 9pm as in earlier years.

The show is open to the public Saturday, March 5, from 11am to 9pm; Sunday, March 6, from 8am to 9pm; Monday through Friday, March 7 to 11, from 10am to 9pm; Saturday, March 12, from 8am to 9pm; and Sunday, March 13, from 8am to 6pm.

PHS member previews take place Friday, March 4, from noon to 3:30pm and Saturday, March 5, from 8 to 11am.

For those seeking a behind the scenes look in small groups of between 10 and 15 visitors, early morning tours are offered Monday to Friday, from 8am to 10am, before the show opens to the public. “These tours are led by volunteer tour guides who have been with us for years and know the show inside out,” says Lemheney, “Tickets are premium priced so these are for real horticultural enthusiasts and all proceeds from ticket sales support the Society’s charitable work including City Harvest, feeding more than 1,200 families in need in Philadelphia.”

The Philadephia Flower Show takes place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center at 12th & Arch Streets in Center City Philadelphia (PA 19107), which is the main entrance and ticket office, but you can also enter the show on Market Street between 11th & 12th Streets (via Jefferson Station).

Besides the horticultural aspect, the nine-day show offers live entertainment, culinary demonstrations, gardening how-to workshops, and lectures by experts as well as special events and products and services related to floriculture and horticulture.

And if you’ve ever wondered what happens to all those gorgeous plants when the show comes to an end, cut flowers are most often reused or donated by the exhibitors who will save uncut growing plants for future exhibitions. Show Management prohibits the public from taking and/or purchasing exhibit plants from the Convention Center.

For more information on the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), 100 N. 20th Street, 5th floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103, visit: www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org.

For more on the National Park Service, visit: www.NPS.gov.

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