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| FROM THE PUBLISHER In its early days, Princeton Magazine was published out of Bergen County and featured dinner parties and dances around town and paid-for stories about local merchants. Ten years ago, when Editor-in-Chief Lynn Adams Smith and I bought the magazine, we were determined to write and publish it in Princeton and explore, with our readers, the rich inventory of intelligence, talent, energy, and dedication that make “Our Town” of Princeton and its region so very special. I mention this background because this issue is a beautiful example of our longstanding goals being met. Since this is what we like to call the “Back to School Issue,” let us begin with the cover, which is graced by Kathryn A. Foster, president of The College of New Jersey. “Kate” began her tenure just a couple years before COVID-19 hit and has become an advocate for using the lessons learned from the pandemic to develop the possibilities for change that they offer. Wendy Greenberg tells you all about this whirlwind leader and what she has already accomplished in her short time at TCNJ despite COVID-19. I first met Kate when she gave a lunchtime talk to the Princeton Chamber of Commerce. She was amazing, as an educator, talking to a group of businesspeople about the differences between theirs and her “business” as a nonprofit. The difference is that her “customers” apply to buy her services and they may, in fact, be rejected. However, in some cases, she even pays her customers to come in, through scholarships. She must also build “customer loyalty” so that her customers are happy to pay back for years even though they are no longer getting any services. Her talk got rave reviews. Along the same educational lines, at Princeton University, which was the original College of New Jersey, we meet Anne Case and Angus Deaton, both world-class economists who have published a very important book with rave reviews from world leaders, though it does have a gloomy title, Deaths of Despair and The Future of Capitalism. Donald Gilpin does his usual good work at presenting this fascinating couple — who seem buried in the “science” of economics — as wonderful, open, charming, and so happy to be living in Princeton. We go from gloomy to downright scary with Anne Levin’s wonderful recount of “The War of the Worlds” on Halloween Eve in 1938. This was an invasion of the Earth from outer space that happened in neighboring Grovers Mill and was broadcast by Orson Welles on the radio as “an interruption of regular programming.” It sounded so authentic and, without the visuals that television would provide today, was perceived by many as so real that panic broke out across the country. Welles claimed to be totally surprised at the reaction, and that specific program was banned by the FCC from ever being broadcast again. A personal story — as a “Townie” and a class officer at the University, I was responsible for an evening lecture series on campus and many of the topics were controversial, such as having sex researcher Alfred Kinsey of The Kinsey Report. I decided that, for Halloween, it would be fun to replay “The War of the Worlds” in McCosh Hall. Though this was less than 20 years since the original broadcast, I was able to get permission from the FCC to broadcast it, but only once! About 150 students showed up to listen. From outer space, into the woods we go with two articles by Taylor Smith. When it comes to Native Americans, we often think of the tribes in the West, especially since they are usually portrayed in battles in movies called “Westerns.” That said, have you ever heard of the Lenni-Lenape tribes that inhabited New Jersey and its surrounding states? Taylor Smith tells us they were peaceful and business-oriented, with much of their trading taking place on an island called “Mannahatta” — yes, before the skyscrapers! They also had dealings with William Penn and were in Princeton well before the 17th century where they established trails that today are occupied by such highways as Route 206 and Route 27, which is Nassau Street. You will enjoy learning how today’s descendants are maintaining the proud Lenni-Lenape history from which we can learn much. In Call of the Wild, Taylor takes us to Howling Woods Farm, a very special place for wolves and wolfdogs which, according to its founder, Mike Hodanish, are not those frightening creatures from childhood tales. A tour of

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Kathryn A. Foster, who launched her own academic career as an undergraduate geography major, has found her place — as president of The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). She feels it was a good spot to land. “Taking this position was the best decision I’ve ever made,” she said. Foster’s presidency seems to suit the school too. Nestled in a suburban setting in Ewing Township not far from well-known neighbors Princeton University and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, it could be easy to overlook TCNJ. Yet the school formerly known as Trenton State College has amassed accolades. Among them, TCNJ is ranked the No. 1 public institution among regional universities in the North by U.S. News & World Report (fifth overall). Its 2006 awarding of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter by the prestigious national academic honor society cemented its status as a selective college. TCNJ maintains the seventh highest four-year graduation rate among all public colleges and universities, and it is ranked by Money magazine as one of the top 15 public colleges “most likely to pay off financially.” Under Foster, fiscal 2021 was one of TCNJ’s strongest fundraising years. When visitors walk onto the campus with its landscaped walkways, green quadrants, and mix of stately Georgian red brick buildings (adjacent to a new commercial center with restaurants and a Barnes and Noble bookstore), “their jaws

drop,” said Foster, who has updated buildings and infrastructure. A dynamic woman in her early 60s, Foster, who goes by the name Kate, became president in 2018. Having weathered the pandemic with remote classes, she is ready for the fall semester, with (at press time) full residency, in-person classes, and a vaccination requirement, like many other colleges. The enrollment for fall is “strong,” said Foster, during an interview on a bench outside the four-year-old Brower Student Center, with a bronze lion, the school mascot, sitting proudly nearby. But the lessons of the pandemic are not lost on her. “We have gone through massive disruption because of the pandemic,” she said. “How do you take advantage of the insight gained from COVID? What choice or investment could we make today that will improve tomorrow? We don’t want to lose those lessons.” “We learned a lot,” she added. “The faculty and staff did a tremendous job, and I know they will continue excellence in a virtual world.” The college allowed remote flexibility to faculty and staff. Foster lauds the online interactions TCNJ has had with alumni, donors, families, and even companies that recruit students for employment — some interactions that the college may not have otherwise had. “The technology opens up spaces of opportunity. We can be mindful of which of those tools and methods work for us.” The more immediate challenge, she said, is the need for sensitivity to students, faculty, and staff

who came through COVID-19 and experienced family issues, and mental fatigue. “We are more mindful than ever to be a supportive community.” Susanne Svizeny, chair of the TCNJ Board of Trustees, said that Foster’s “principled approach to the college’s response to the global pandemic has kept the health and safety of the campus community in the forefront of every decision.” As a guest on Princeton University’s “We Roar” podcast in May 2020, Foster asked how the early college experience, skill-building, and early knowledge acquisition happen at home, and she predicted a more hybrid learning format. The planning for that year of quality hybrid and online learning was “so profound and so different from any other kind of planning that I’ve done,” she said. Having a regional planning background “is profoundly important to what I do,” said Foster. “I am inclined to think the way planners think: What choice or investment could we make today that will improve tomorrow? I think with the same ethos.” Foster was a geography major at Johns Hopkins University, got her master’s degree (MCP in city planning) at the University of California at Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in public and international affairs from Princeton University. When she was at Princeton, TCNJ had recently shed its Trenton State College moniker. But she had some years to go before she would meet the college she now calls home, and she knew little of the school growing up in Verona, New Jersey, where she still has family. SEPTEMBER 2021 PRINCETON MAGAZINE

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Kathryn Foster in the atrium of the Social Sciences Building.

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A distinguished academic career lay ahead. Foster spent years at the State University of New York at Buffalo as a faculty member in urban and regional planning and was director of the University of Buffalo Regional Institute, a research center of the School of Architecture and

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Planning. There, she had one foot in the policy world, engaging in strategy, governing, building a team, and for six years, “delivered good work,” she said. But in her early 50s she began to think, “What do I want to do?” She had built a skill set, and wanted to be a leader. “There was nothing on my resume to suggest

that I would be a college president, but I thought maybe I could be a college president,” said Foster. “A number of people said maybe I needed two more steps to do that, but someone said, ‘Go for it.’ The stars aligned.” The next stop was president of the University of Maine, Farmington, where she served for six years. She took the reins at TCNJ on July 1, 2018, replacing R. Barbara Gitenstein, who had served as president since January 1999. Again, Foster put her planning skills to work. When she first came to TCNJ, she said her thinking was, “’How can we leverage a new president?’ ‘How do we not rest on our laurels?’ But I was also learning from the community.” As she got to know the TCNJ community, the goals were refined. Today, a priority is “diversity, equity, inclusion — or inclusive excellence.” Foster said most people “are not always aware of how diverse we are — racially, ethnically, and economically. The entering class is the most diverse in the history of the college.” That class includes 29 percent firstgeneration students; 21 percent who are “Pelleligible” (below a certain family income level and therefore eligible for federal Pell grants); 55 percent Caucasian; 17 percent Latinx; 13 percent Asian/Asian American, and 10 percent African American. (Five percent are other ethnicities.) “This is a more diverse place than most people know,” said Foster. She created a Division of Inclusive Excellence and helped develop an Intercultural Center, among other initiatives related to diversity. An appreciation for diversity was gained some years ago when, following her master’s degree and before starting at Princeton for her doctorate, Foster joined the Peace Corps and was posted to the former Swaziland, now Eswatini. The Black African nation ranked older white males in importance, she said, and for that time, she was a minority. “The experience was profoundly important,” she said, “to know what it feels like to be dismissed, and to have assumptions made based on my age, race, and gender.” These days Foster travels mostly to U.S. state capitals, a beloved pastime. This summer she went to Juneau, Alaska, where she added to her collection of photos of herself in front of almost every state capitol building. She just needs Honolulu, Hawaii, and Pierre, S.D. (She has been to South Dakota, but does not have the photo.) The state capitol building photo quest stems from a fundamental interest in people and place, and “how one shapes the other,” she said. A Pennington resident, she has traveled the region, much of it by bike. Although she considers herself a “citizen of the region,” she emphasized that “there has not been a capital that hasn’t been interesting, and I’m thrilled that we are near Trenton.” Her office at TCNJ has a painting of the Trenton State House, given to her as a gift by the college trustees.

The STEM Forum (foreground) is one of TCNJ’s newest buildings, opened in 2017. Green Hall is the oldest, completed in 1931. (Photo by Rakieer Jennings/TCNJ)

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An aerial view of Trenton Hall, which houses the admissions office and the Department of Nursing. (Photo by Rakieer Jennings/TCNJ)

navigation and maps. But for those who are sure of their futures, TCNJ offers seven-year medical school and optometry degrees in partnership with TCNJ has, from the beginning, been connected Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. to Trenton, located on Clinton Avenue until the Despite all the good news at TCNJ, there are mid-1930s. Founded in 1855 as New Jersey State challenges ahead for higher education. Even before Normal School, and changing its name in 1908 to the pandemic, a big issue was demographics. The New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton (the largest market for colleges — traditional first teacher training school in the state), students coming from high schools — is a the school was New Jersey State Teachers shrinking demographic, due to the birth rate College and State Normal School at Trenton in the early 2000s. That makes the higher before dropping the “Normal School” and ed landscape very competitive, and leads emerging as New Jersey State Teachers to strained resources. “We’re constantly College at Trenton in 1937. Its 1958 Trenton running to stay ahead,” said Foster, who State College name gave way to The College pointed out that tuition doesn’t cover all the of New Jersey in 1996 (which was the name expenses. of Princeton University until 1896). “While public opinion asks, ‘what is Today, some 160 initiatives connect the return on investment?’ we hear a lot TCNJ to the surrounding area, and TCNJ of skepticism about whether college is is working to better organize its “Greater worth it. There is pressure on colleges and Trenton commitment,” Foster said. Students universities to realize the expectations of the partner with Trenton Central High School, public as we continue to be an institution Capital City Youth Violence Coalition, that matters, to further the economy, and Connect Trenton, and more. The Center for civic life.” Community Engagement partners with youth Roscoe, the college's mascot, joins TCNJ students at an on-campus event. (Photo by In a competitive marketplace, students activities in Trenton, local environment and Lauren H. Adams/TCNJ) an added year could yield a master’s degree. But should have choices, she said. TCNJ is “an food security programs, ARC Mercer, Trenton excellent choice” for getting “the private college Foster has an affinity for the undeclared college Area Soup Kitchen, and other organizations. experience, wherein a student explores various experience at a public price point.” As a planner TCNJ is completing a walking path around the and geographer, Foster is happy to be actively subjects and discovers a new passion and/or skill. perimeter of the campus. Neighbors also enjoy engaged in mapping its future. She herself was “undeclared” as an undergraduate, sporting events (Division III), the Center for the and finally settled on geography because she loved Arts, and The Sarnoff Collection. TRENTON TIES

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The college is also looking toward expanding its graduate programs. Currently TCNJ enrolls approximately 7,400 students, including 6,790 undergraduates and 610 graduate students. In the next few years those students could find more interdisciplinary degrees, combining two fields of study, and more “plus one” programs in which

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he “grandfathers” or “ancient ones” as the Lenni-Lenape people are known, were the historic inhabitants of large swaths of the Northeastern United States. Originally occupying parts of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, the Lenape suffered forced migrations and removal to reservations at the hands of European settlers. In fact, prior to the 1600s, the Lenape lived all over the Northeastern woodlands and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, as noted on nanticokelenapemuseum.org. The Lenape trace their lineage to the Nanticoke or “Tidewater People” who resisted British colonial intrusion to the best of their abilities. The name “Nanticoke” references the Nanticoke River on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. At the time of European contact in the early 1600s, the Lenape were estimated to number over 20,000 people. A powerful and influential tribe, early Dutch settlers sought to establish amicable relations with the Lenape through trade of tools, sugar, firearms, animal pelts, and fabric. Unfortunately, like most early contact between Native Americans and European immigrants, tribespeople were deceived and diminished by unfair trade agreements and the introduction of contagious diseases. Dutch traders were established on the banks of the Delaware River by 1623. Swedish and Finnish colonists followed, significantly predating the arrival of German and English travelers in response to the establishment of William Penn’s colony. Familiar with the forests of Northern Europe, the Nordic immigrants cleared woodland in the new territory and introduced the use of the log cabin. What little is known of these early encounters between the Swedes and the Lenape is that both groups were independent, rugged individualists who practiced similar agricultural methods, rotating productive fields of crops along the banks of the Delaware River, according to paheritage.wpengine.com. In contrast, the Dutch were eager to establish business in the New World. They engaged in the trade of land, guns, and beads for beaver pelts. One of the most notorious transactions between the Dutch and the Lenape was the “purchase” of New York City in 1626. Long before high rise buildings and endless concrete sidewalks, New York City was truly an idyllic island, scattered with hills and marshland and teeming with plant and wildlife. Oak and hickory forests dotted the landscape while black bears, wildcats, beavers, tree frogs, oysters, mink, brook trout, and bog turtles roamed free. In a 2020 New York Times article, ecologist Eric W. Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo, noted that wolves were known to live on Manhattan until the 1720s and whales were an important part of the local ecosystem. “Mannahatta” (as it was referred to in the Lenape language) was a trading hub for the Lenape bands of tribes who regularly gathered on

the island for the exchange of goods. Mannahatta inaccurate depiction of Lenape dress (the Native was also the site of Lenape games and musical American figure is outfitted in Plains Indian performances. The native dwellers certainly garments). made use of the plethora of natural resources at According to thelenapecenter.com, the their disposal. For example, soaring tulip trees purchase of the island of Manhattan by the Dutch were favored for making canoes and the rich was quickly reinforced through the construction soil and pond water was ideal for cultivating of a wall around New Amsterdam. This act vegetables and oyster estuaries. represented the first time that the Lenape were In his poem “Mannahatta,” fabled New York forced out of their lands at the hands of European resident Walt Whitman writes: immigrants. The wall was constructed in 1660 “I was asking for something specific and around what is today known as Wall Street. The perfect for my city, passage between Lower Manhattan and Upper Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name. Manhattan was a major trade route and cultural Now I see what there is in a name, a word, hub for the Lenape people. liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, THE LENAPE WAY OF LIFE I see that the word of my city is that word from of old, The Lenape people typically lived in longhouses Because I see that word nested in nests of within a village setting. The longhouses could water-bays, superb, home several hundred people, but in the summer, Rich, hemm’d thick all around with sailships the tribes adopted more nomadic practices with and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, the aim of hunting and gathering flora and fauna. solid-founded….” More transient summer establishments were While Whitman paid literary homage to the original inhabitants of Manhattan, the actual transaction that took place between the Dutch and Lenape in 1626 was less equitable. Many modern-day historians suspect that the Lenape intended the sale to be for the purposes of sharing the island rather than excluding themselves from it. Two monuments in Manhattan currently stand in acknowledgement of the Lenape. One is in Inwood Hill. The plaque reads, “According to legend, on this site of the principal Manhattan Indian village, Peter Minuit in 1626 purchased Manhattan island for trinkets and beads then worth about 60 guilders.” The other monument, in Battery Park, was gifted by the Dutch government to the state of New York in 1926. It depicts a Dutch man and Native American standing together. Scholars have criticized the monument for its Jennie Bobb, and her daughter, Nellie Longhat, both Delaware (Lenape), Oklahoma, 1915. (Photo courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington)

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the “Three Sisters”: corn, squash, and beans. The Lenape eventually made use of a “slash and burn” technique; this form of farming involved shifting active plots of land. For example, when a plot of land became infertile, the Lenape would clear cut any remaining vegetation and burn it away. The resulting ash provided a nutrient-rich layer to help fertilize future crops. WILLIAM PENN AND THE LENNI-LENAPE

Black Beaver. Delawares. Alexander Gardner Portraits of Tribal Delegations to the Federal Government, 1872.

constructed of birch bark wigwams. Wigwam is the word for “house” in the Abenaki tribe. Usually 8 to 10 feet tall, wigwams were not portable, but were comfortable and easy to build. In terms of social structure, the Lenape followed a matrilineal system in which children traced their lineage through their mother’s side. Women played a significant role in the upbringing and education of their children and were also typically in charge of land and territory rights. Women planted, harvested the crops, and cooked the meals. Women were also creative and talented artisans, known for their ability to sew clothing and create pottery and baskets. Interestingly, a matrilocal system was practiced when a couple was first married. Specifically, a husband would typically live with his new wife and her parents. Family “clans” were thus identified through matrilineal heritage. Hereditary leadership passed through female lines and the women elders could remove people of power of whom they disapproved. Tending to the cultivation and harvesting of crops was a significant component of daily Lenape life. The Europeans were particularly impressed by the Lenape mastery of farming

William Penn arrived in his new colony of Pennsylvania in 1682. His land holdings represented a grant from Charles II of England. Penn also arranged the purchase of a significant portion of lands from the Lenape. In an ode to his Quaker ways, Penn sought to establish an attitude of respect between the settlers and Lenape people. In his 1683 “Letter to the Free Society of Traders,” written to attract future settlers still back in England, Penn said of the Lenni-Lenape, “Their Houses are Mats, or Barks of Trees set on Poles, in the fashion of an English Barn, but out of the power of the Winds, for they are hardly higher than a Man; they lie on Reeds or Grass. In Travel they lodge in the Woods about a Great Fire, with the Mantle of Duffills they wear by day, wrapt about them, and a few Boughs stuck round them. Their Diet is Maze, or Indian Corn, divers ways prepared: sometimes roasted in the Ashes, sometimes beaten and Boyled with Water, which they call Homine; they also make Cakes, not unpleasant to eat: They have likewise several sorts of Beans and Pease that are good Nourishment; and the Woods and Rivers are their Larder.”

The Treaty of Penn with the Indians by Benjamin West, located at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

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In 1683, Chief Tammany was present to sign the deed of land rights to William Penn for the purchase of four parcels of land owned by the Lenape. Tammany was considered by his people to be a great Lenape leader. Tammany and Penn reportedly maintained good relations, feasting together, visiting one another’s homes, and trading goods. The Wampum belt gifted to Penn by Tammany is today kept at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Penn traded guns, tobacco, clothing, pipes, and many more items for the land that would become part of Pennsylvania. This event was memorialized in an oil painting by Benjamin West titled The Treaty of Penn with the Indians. The painting depicts William Penn’s meeting with members of the Lenape tribe at Shackamaxon on the Delaware River. The subsequent Treaty of Shackamaxon in 1683 with Tammany included an agreement that the European settlers and Lenape would live in a state of perpetual peace. Alluding to Penn’s Quaker ideologies, the painting depicts three key factions of the state of Pennsylvania’s early identity — Native Americans, Quakers, and merchants. The painting was commissioned by Thomas Penn, son of William Penn. According to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (pafa. org), West was the first American-born artist to earn acclaim outside of his homeland. West was born in modern-day Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and went on to study fine arts in London.

catering to road-weary travelers. The formal name “Princeton” was first decreed in 1724. The King’s Highway Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Interestingly, in 1756, The College of New Jersey relocated from Newark to Princeton and erected Nassau Hall on land owned by the Lenape people. In 1758, the New Jersey assembly established a new home for the Lenni-Lenape people in Burlington County. This settlement would become known as the first “Indian Reservation.” The new community was overseen by the Reverend John Brainerd, a devout missionary who

THE LENNI-LENAPE IN EARLY PRINCETON

The first recorded history of Princeton, New Jersey, began in the 17th century when European travelers crossed New Jersey between the Delaware and Raritan rivers. These pathways were actually long-established routes of the Lenni-Lenape people. One of the most famous routes is the King’s Highway Historic Route, which covers portions of modern-day U.S. Route 206 and Route 27 towards Kingston. King’s Highway served as a main thoroughfare for people traveling from Lawrenceville to Kingston in Franklin Township/South Brunswick. At a certain point, some European settlers began establishing public houses along the route,

Above is a woman’s blouse with handmade silver brooches. Delaware, Oklahoma 1810-1880. Below on the left is an Abbott Zoned incised bowl, made between AD 200-900. On top is a piece of jasper flaked into a turtle found in Monmouth County. (Photos courtesy of the New Jersey State Museum)

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named the community “Brotherton.” Brainerd introduced the use of grist mills and sawmills, and the area eventually took on the name of Indian Mills. Far from an equitable deal, the state of Lenni-Lenape health and society quickly declined on the reservation. In 1801, the New Jersey Assembly decided to sell the reservation to the remaining Lenape residents, who at that time numbered fewer than 85. A few of the Lenape stayed in South Jersey while others joined the Cherokees and Osages west of the Mississippi and Oklahoma. Modern-day Lenni-Lenape are scattered across the United States, including Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. There are two federally recognized Lenape or “Delaware” tribes in the United States, and both are in modern-day Oklahoma. According to Delawaretribe.org, the Lenape were gradually pushed over time from their ancestral home along the Delaware to Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and eventually Oklahoma. Following the Civil War, the U.S. government forced the Lenape out of Kansas to make room for new railroad lines. The government then purchased a reservation in Oklahoma from the Cherokee, where the Lenape were told they could reside. In 1982, the New Jersey Legislature formally recognized the Lenape and two other tribes as “American Indian Tribes” originating in the state. Unfortunately, this political recognition was “dropped” during the Chris Christie administration in 2011. In consequence, Lenape tribe members lost access to federal grants and scholarships. The restoration of tribal recognition by the state of New Jersey was not reinstated until November 2018. As noted on nlltribe.com, tribal members hope that the new legal acknowledgement will help to foster an attitude of mutual respect between the state and existing Lenape tribe members. The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation is headquartered in Bridgeton, Cumberland County in Southern New Jersey. According to inclusive.princeton.edu, in 2018 the Princeton Histories Working Group recommended that Princeton recognize the historical links between the University and the Lenni-Lenape people. Notably, in September 2019, Princeton Council passed a resolution to observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the second Monday of October. The holiday serves as a reminder of the heritage of New Jersey’s original residents and is a timely counterpoint to the celebration of Columbus Day. While Christopher Columbus is attributed with the discovery of the New World, he is also strongly associated with violence against Native Americans, slavery, disease, and destruction. For those remaining Lenape who do continue to reside in New Jersey, it is imperative that the state continues to uphold their native rights, health, business, and cultural heritage. Tellingly, it is when history is forgotten that it tends to repeat itself. Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape’s 40th annual Pow-Wow in Woodstown, New Jersey, on June 7, 2019.

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In this pandemic-haunted year, a number of new poetry books for children reﬂect issues ranging from slavery to social justice to environmental awareness. One of the most appealing expressions of a time of loss, loneliness, and togetherness is Patrick Guest’s Windows (Starry Forest 2020), illustrated by Jonathan Bentley. Guest wrote the rhymed story at a time when he was forced to isolate from his family as a medical worker. The book begins: “Out the window, I can see a new world looking back at me. The streets are still, there are no crowds ... but looking up, I see the clouds.” A physiotherapist by day and a children’s book author by night, Guest lives in Melbourne, Australia. An award-winning illustrator of over 30 children’s books and the author and illustrator of four of his own, Bentley grew up in West Yorkshire, England.

still have the bound volume containing the ﬁrst 20 issues of Classic Comics my parents gave me on my 7th birthday. Along with vivid graphic renditions of the likes of Moby-Dick and Gulliver’s Travels, I found poetry, everything from “Ojibwa War Songs” to Emily Dickinson’s “Railway Train,” pictured in the style of “The Little Engine That Could.” I also found Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing,” where “each sings what belongs to him or her and to none else,” and Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach,” which told me the world “which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams” has “neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.” I doubt if Arnold’s message got through to me at 7 (what’s “certitude”?), but when I was moved by the poem years later in college, the feeling that I’d been there before deepened the experience. Poetry seemed to be a primal element, as much a part of life as the air we breathe. I felt it again at the same age during the singing of Christmas carols, breathing in the beauty of “Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by” in “Little Town of Bethlehem.” Ten years later, when I discovered Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” there was a chill of recognition as I read “And little town thy streets for evermore / Will silent be.” I’d been there before, long ago, in another little town.

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THE WIND OF SLAVERY

Notable among recent releases is BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom (Candlewick Press 2020), a 2021 Newbery Honor Book by poet Carole Boston Weatherford, with illustrations by Michele Wood. Included are historical records and an introductory excerpt from Henry’s own writing as well as a timeline, notes from the author and illustrator, and a bibliography. The stanzas are six lines each, as here: WIND An autumn breeze blows maple leaves While I sit on my mother’s lap. Slavery is a cruel wind, she says, Sweeping children away from parents, Scattering families far and wide. She shivers and holds me close. A starred review from Kirkus says “Brown’s story never gets old, and this illustrated biography is rich in context and detail that make it heavier on history and better for slightly older readers than, for instance, Ellen Levine and Kadir Nelson’s Henry’s Freedom Box (2007). Heartbreaking and legendary.” A New York Times best-selling author and poet, Weatherford was named the 2019 Washington Post Children’s Book Guild Nonﬁction Award winner. Wood is an illustrator, painter, ﬁlmmaker, and designer whose numerous honors include a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.

FEELING BLUE

Marjorie Maddox’s I’m Feeling Blue, Too! (Resource Publications 2020) is a series of untitled poems on the color blue, accompanied by Philip Huber’s detailed, multi-textured illustrations. A blueberry becomes a “miniature morsel of midnight that pops” and a dragonﬂy “hums to the blue ﬁrs,” “strums with cicadas,” and “hovers by still lakes.” The book would be “a lovely addition to a library, according to School Library Journal, which lists it as a 2021 NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Notable Poetry Book. A professor of English and creative writing at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania, Maddox has published a dozen poetry collections, a story collection, and four children’s books. Huber is a Fulbright scholar and professor of art, also at Lock Haven. SCIENCE, NATURE, POETRY

Poet Leslie Bulion and illustrator Robert Meganck perform another cross-curricular celebration of science and poetry in Amphibian Acrobats (Peachtree 2020), which includes feats by frogs, toads, and salamanders. In a starred review, Kirkus ﬁnds it “a completely satisfying package” in which Meganck’s “wry cartoons amplify the humor. The backmatter, strong as the main text, serves young readers well .… Child readers and educators will ﬁnd themselves enthralled by short, punchy poems and the science behind them.” Nature is the subject of New Green Day by Antoinette Portis, with illustrations by the author (Neal Porter Books 2020). On each two-page spread, children can solve riddles about the animals, plants, and the weather encountered during a day outdoors. A New York Times review comments, “This poetic conversation with nature over the course of a new green day is friendly and familiar and fresh and surprising, and Portis’s evocative illustrations made with sumi ink, vine charcoal and leaf prints are as elegant and perfectly composed as a snail.” New Green Day is a NCTE Notable Book in Poetry, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a Junior Library Guild Selection. Portis is the author of many books for children, including Not a Box, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book.

and photographer Theodore Taylor III, with a foreword by New York Times bestselling author, and Newbery Award Honoree, Jason Reynolds. Vogue says, “This collection of poems by women of color covers topics relating to social justice, activism, discrimination and empathy, focusing on the need to speak out and inspiring middlegraders.” WALT’S WORLD

Given my ﬁrst Classic Comic reading of Walt Whitman, it was nice to see the continuum of poetry reaching from the 19th century to August 2021 in The World Below the Brine (Creative Editions), with illustrations by James Christopher Carroll. The poem was ﬁrst published in 1860 in the group “Sea-Shore Memories,” later included in “Sea Drift” in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. Using a single stanza format, Whitman pictures life within the ocean: “Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water.” Carroll’s other picture books include A Song, also published by Creative Editions. CLASSICS

Any time I want to revisit the days when poetry and songs and stories came together in tales like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack and the Beanstalk, I pick up The All About Story Book (Cupples & Leon 1927) with illustrations by John B. Gruelle. Some other classics of the genre that come to mind are Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses with the Jessie Wilcox Smith illustrations and Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, strikingly illustrated by the author himself.

ON BEING WOKE

Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice (Roaring Brook Press 2020) is a collection of poems edited by Mahogany L. Browne, a Cave Canem, Poets House, and Serenbe Focus Fellow alum whose books include Swag and #Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out Online in 140 Characters or Less. The book’s purpose is to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists. Contributing poets are Elizabeth Acevedo, the New York Times bestselling author of With the Fire on High and National Book Award-winning novel The Poet X and Olivia Gatwood, who has received national recognition for her poetry and writing workshops. Woke is illustrated by artist, designer, Illustration by Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories. SEPTEMBER 2021 PRINCETON MAGAZINE

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Samson is a mix of wolf and Alaskan malamute. He and three other wolfdogs from Howling Woods Farm appeared in the 2010 film The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Walt Disney Pictures. (Photo courtesy of Howling Woods Farm)

interacting with them and getting to observe their personalities. Just like people, says Hodanish, the animals at Howling Woods have their own personal preferences and mode of interacting with the human visitors. While some of the dogs may affectionately rest their giant paws on your chest for a playful “hello,” others are slightly more wary and will observe from a distance. Hodanish and his small team of volunteers also visit schools, libraries, scouting events, and fairs, where they attempt to answer any questions that people may have about wolves. Most people are surprised to learn how fearful wolves can be, along with how well they take care of their offspring. Wolves and wolfdogs become extremely anxiety ridden and depressed if they are forced into isolation, and they thrive in a pack system. For this reason, anyone who applies to adopt a wolfdog from Howling Woods must meet a strict series of requirements including the companionship of other preexisting dogs and no children.

“Most of the people that adopt our animals are senior couples that have time on their hands or younger folks in their twenties who have more time to spend with the animals, taking them to parks,” says Hodanish. “They also need to have a large, fenced-in yard. These aren’t house pets.” Adoptable wolfdogs will want to live primarily outside, so the overall backyard and home setting is an extremely important part of the application. The animals are dangerous with children, says Hodanish, primarily because you can’t predict the behavior of the child around the animal and the animal, in turn, doesn’t know how to respond. Applicants also must bring their preexisting dog (or dogs) to the sanctuary to see how they get along with the potential adoptee. The companionship aspect of the adoption process is key, says Hodanish, because the wolfdogs do not do well as solitary animals. “Out of every 100 applications, we have one successful adoption,” he says. “They have to want the animal for the right reasons.” So, how do these wolfdog hybrids find their way to Howling Woods Farm? Many of the animals were purchased from breeders, and once they grow to their full size and start to exhibit more wolf-like behaviors (as opposed to a domesticated dog) they are turned into shelters, and the shelters then contact Howling Woods. “Typically, by 7-8 months old, the dogs become aware of their unnatural surroundings and will develop separation anxiety and become destructive in the home,” says Hodanish. “Sometimes, when they get to the animal shelters, they are euthanized, and sometimes they contact us. We probably get two to three requests to take in wolfdogs every week, but we only have a certain amount of space, and I don’t want to take on more animals than we can handle.” When asked if there is a law in New Jersey that regulates how a public animal shelter should handle the arrival of a wolfdog, Hodanish says, “There is no law as to how a shelter responds to

No two wolfdogs are alike. Usually, they are a combination of wolf with Siberian husky, Alaskan malamute, or German shepherd, but can be mixed with other breeds as well. (Photo courtesy of Howling Woods Farm)

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Today’s wolfdogs, like Rubix, are not the result of wild wolves breeding with domestic dogs. They are the result of dozens or more generations of wolfdogs bred with other wolfdogs. (Photo courtesy of Howling Woods Farm)

summer, horse troughs are filled with fresh water, so the animals can cool themselves off with a quick bath. By far, the wolfdogs dramatically prefer New Jersey winters to summers. Hodanish notes that the dogs will stay out all day in the freezing winter temperatures, and it is quite evident that they are relaxed, comfortable, and enjoying themselves when the thermometer drops to glacial levels. All the animals at Howling Woods are spayed, neutered, microchipped, and vaccinated. The older animals require extensive vet care. Ninety percent of Howling Woods’ funding comes from tour donations. The tours require a donation of $20 per person, but personal donations can also be made online at howlingwoods.org. To schedule a tour, call 732.534.5745 or email luv2howl@optonline.net. Adoptable animals can be viewed at howlingwoods.org/foradoption. Tours are Tuesday through Friday at 11am , 12pm , and 1pm . Weekend tours are on Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm . Howling Woods is closed to the public on Mondays. Visit the website to learn more about how to have a howling good time at the sanctuary this fall.

receiving a wolfdog. Decisions are internal to the shelter and township. Sometimes, someone will have a purebred Alaskan malamute or Siberian husky, but if they tell the shelter that the dog is part wolf, the shelter may feel obligated to euthanize it. Other times, the shelters actually become fond of the wolfdogs and will contact us to rehome them.” Hodanish and his team do Embark testing (embarkvet.com) to determine if there is any wolf DNA in the dogs. This just involves taking a cheek swab from the dogs. The DNA testing is largely done for the personal knowledge of the staff. All the ambassador dogs, as they are known at Howling Woods, have had DNA testing. These are the animals that are typically included in public education events. According to Hodanish, the ambassador dogs are 30-90 percent wolf and can be walked on a leash into a building with people. “Most of the dogs that are primarily wolf are actually quite timid and afraid,” says Hodanish. “They stay away from people as much as they can, and for good reason — they don’t want to get shot by a human or run-over by a car.” Wolfdogs can weigh anywhere from 60-120 lbs. and are built more like a deer than a dog — with long legs and a high, narrow, chest. “When they lose their winter coats in the summer, they look about 30 pounds lighter,” says Hodanish. The canines eat a diet of raw chicken leg quarters supplemented with kibble and other nutrients. All the animals prefer to live outside on the sanctuary’s seven-acre property. In the Howling Woods Farm provides learning experiences to the public about wolves and wolfdogs. (Photo by Matthew DiFalco)

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James Fiorentino intertwines art and athletics in strokes of watercolor genius. At an early age he was best known for his athletic prowess, but he already was showing promise as an artist. He rose quickly and prominently to national attention when he began combining his two passions as a teenager, and remains one of the most decorated sports watercolorists in the country.

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he Flemington house that the 44-year-old Fiorentino shares with his wife, Jessica, a social worker in the Princeton Public Schools system, and their 12and 8-year-old boys, is a collage of more than 30 years of colors and collections. A small room just inside the front door is overflowing with collector items and autographed works, an ode to how Fiorentino’s passions for painting and sports first united. A table buried under side-by-side piles of Fiorentino’s recent paintings and giclees primed to be sent to buyers, galleries, and shows sits just outside his studio room. A small TV hangs in one corner of his studio, looking down on the surprisingly neat art table where he paints every day. One wall features a mix of art and books while Fiorentino’s paintings adorn the three other walls from floor to ceiling. Through the studio and down a set of stairs are more pieces brightening the basement level. Fiorentino’s other works adorn museums, galleries, companies, and private collector’s homes around the country and even internationally. His realistic watercolors and illustrations of sports figures and celebrities, as well as wildlife and landscapes, are highly sought. Art and athletics have been passions he first balanced as a boy, and then later combined when art became a profession. “I think the art came first, but not by much,” said Fiorentino. “My whole life I’ve been playing sports and painting. So from when I was a little kid, I’ve been drawing and painting and went to private lessons.” His first painting lessons came from Carol Gadek

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Skapinetz when he was just 8. She agreed to teach him because of a sports connection. “He was the youngest private student I ever took,” said Skapinetz. “I knew his family through Little League in Middlesex.” Fiorentino grew up a fan of Yankee great Don Mattingly, and admired shortstops like Derek Jeter, Barry Larkin, and Alex Rodriguez. He went on to star in their mold as a power hitting, smooth fielding firstteam All-State shortstop for Middlesex High School, which will induct him into their Hall of Fame next year. He also started for four years at shortstop at Drew University, where he majored in fine art — though already he had been painting professionally for years. “When he arrived at Drew, he was probably the only student who was paying his own way,” said Drew Professor Michael Peglau. “He was paying for his whole package with painting.” Fiorentino’s interest in trading cards and memorabilia spawned his early sports work. He painted Joe DiMaggio at 14 and brought the piece to a show to try to get an autograph from the Hall of Famer. It worked, and soon clients were coming to him. His art was winning contests and a year later, when he was 15, he became the youngest artist displayed in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum for his rendering of Reggie Jackson. It added to the thrill of a return trip to the Hall of Fame with his American Legion baseball team. “We would travel to Cooperstown every summer,” he said. “Hitting a homer at Doubleday Field was exciting because I was the kid who had the painting in the Hall of Fame and then I hit a home run there.” Fiorentino was commissioned at 17 by Ted

Williams to paint the 20 greatest hitters of all time and asked to be official artist to Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2131 project, and he then began to see a professional future in artwork. “I don’t think a lot of guys and girls knew that they were going to do something specific at such an early age,” said Fiorentino. “All through school I was working, but I was also learning all different sorts of art. I had already established clients at that point when I was 15, 16, 17 years old and working with all these players throughout Drew.” Hall of Fame athletes were calling Fiorentino’s dorm room to commission his evocative watercolors. He worked with Topps on a collection for the first time in 1999 when he was still in college. That came five years after he was the youngest to ever win Beckett Magazine’s annual sports art competition. Fiorentino was passed out of Drawing 1 at Drew, a nod to his ability as an illustrator that is a key to being an accomplished watercolorist. In 1998, he became the youngest artist inducted into the New York Society of Illustrators. Peglau taught Fiorentino in Drawing 2, two painting classes, and an independent study and served as his adviser. Peglau, a former player himself, would often talk baseball as much as art with Fiorentino. “He was very, very hard working,” said Peglau. “He really listened. He was extremely easy to work with. A lot of athletes that get far enough along, they have to put in an endless amount of work.” Peglau believes Fiorentino’s athletic background and experience resonate in his artwork, citing his painting of a glistening with sweat Whitey Ford that

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bared the hard nature of being a pitcher. Skapinetz says Fiorentino was blessed with an incredible eye. It helped give him a strong starting point as he honed his art skills. “There’s no doubt it’s God given,” said Fiorentino. “I just wanted to color and draw all the time.” He focused on watercolor in part because of the influence of Skapinetz and Sonja Weir, the private teacher he went to later during his early teens. Skapinetz lost touch when she moved out of state, but recently found Fiorentino’s work. “When I started seeing what he was doing, it blew me away,” she said. “But it didn’t surprise me. He’s taken it to another level.” Watercolor is unforgiving — the hardest of all painting media. Make a mistake and it can’t be painted over. Watercolorists need to work quickly, a part of the process that Fiorentino enjoys along with the challenges of making his portraits and sports paintings as realistic and accurate as possible. “Watercolor sets me apart,” said Fiorentino. “I’m still learning and challenging myself. I love being able to show that to people and they say, ‘Wow, I can’t believe that’s watercolor, how are you doing that?’” Fiorentino begins by sketching out the piece. He paints in his studio often with the TV or music on in the background, mixed with the chaotic sounds of family life, something that he is used to from painting in his family living room while growing up. He can finish a painting in a couple of days or a couple of

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weeks, depending on its size. There is a distinctive style to his work, fashioned once he grasped the painting process in those early private lessons. He experiments with new ways to put his watercolors on the thick smooth paper that he uses, often using household materials for certain techniques that he has developed.

“That’s all self-taught,” said Fiorentino. “That’s just 20-something years of doing it, and every day you’re sort of figuring out things. That’s why everybody has their own style.” Sports subjects seemed a natural pursuit, though Fiorentino is also lauded for his wildlife and landscape

work that is inspired by his support of conservationist efforts. He is a trustee of the Raptor Trust of New Jersey and of D&R Greenway Land Trust and does work with Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, which recently relocated to Princeton. “In the private lessons I was doing wildlife and landscapes and things like that, which I did love, but I loved painting baseball players and football players,” said Fiorentino. “I remember a juror saying, you should stick with the landscapes and don’t paint sports. I tell people, ‘I stayed true to the way I felt.’ I still am today. I’m influenced by certain things. I love painting everyday life, I love doing landscapes and nature, but I still love painting sports so that’s always been a thing for me.” Fiorentino always had a strong interest in the history of sports, particularly baseball, and he gravitated toward painting former rather than current players. He built a friendship with the late Yogi Berra after meeting him as a teenager and talked baseball with Williams. Fiorentino often talks baseball with his clients, many of whom have become friends, and he finds his own athletic experience a helpful backdrop. “I think that has an influence on how you set up a painting, certain shots, and how you want to depict an athlete,” said Fiorentino. “The passion for knowing how great a player is and knowing how good they have to be, that gets you excited.” Art opened the door for Fiorentino to meet legendary athletes like Muhammed Ali and

Mickey Mantle, political figures such as President Joe Biden, and historic figures like Buzz Aldrin and Desmond Tutu. He has painted trading cards for Topps, Upper Deck, and Kellogg’s; had work featured on the covers of Sports Market Report and Beckett magazines; and done an impressive collection of horse racing-related art for charity in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. His painting of Roberto Clemente is kept in the Hall of Fame’s permanent collection. The late Congressman John Lewis hung Fiorentino’s painting of him in his Washington, D.C. office. This spring, he contributed locally to Mercer County College’s inaugural Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The breadth of his work is exhaustive. “This is literally all I’ve done,” said Fiorentino. “To make a living for 20-some years and a successful living being an artist and illustrator and being known for sports has been a dream.” What continues to interest and drive Fiorentino now are chances to paint new and emerging athletes and history-changing subjects, to continue to see his own work evolve, and to develop new projects. Card collecting and memorabilia made a sharp uptick during the COVID-19 pandemic, and his collection “There Is Only One: The Most Iconic Trading Cards of All Time” will debut at the Philly Show from September 24-26 at Valley Forge Casino outside Philadelphia before it travels the country on display. The paintings are large 22x30-inch replicas of trading cards, which he has never done at this scale. It follows last spring’s release of his paintings at the other end of the scale,

“The Topps 2021 Transcendent Collection Hall of Fame Edition,” which consisted of 50 boxes, priced at $23,000 each, that included one trading-card sized painting apiece from Fiorentino along with 46 other cards autographed by Hall of Fame baseball players. Unlike the 1999 Topps collection in which his 11x14 paintings were shrunk down, he painted the 2021 collection on their original card size. “The hard part was drawing them,” said Fiorentino. “You’re drawing so small, there’s not a lot of room for error. When you draw or paint larger, there’s a lot more room to be off a little and still look good. The challenge with those bigger trading cards I’m doing is all the detail and the writing.” Fiorentino regularly makes appearances for charity work and shows his art around the country. His “Baseball in Black and White: The Watercolors” is on display November 17-December 31 at Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery in Bernardsville. Fiorentino’s experience makes him an elder statesman among sports artists, but he isn’t slowing down in his fourth decade of painting. Coming out of the pandemic, he has found himself as busy as ever with more than a year of work lined up. He ambitiously is building his own brand, Fiorentino Elite, in which he will paint the most legendary athletes of all time on a larger

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ou might think that Anne Case and her husband Angus Deaton, both economics professors emeritus at Princeton University, would be the epitome of ivory tower academics detached from the vicissitudes of the everyday world. The title of the book they recently co-wrote, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, might lead you to believe that that ivory tower would be a dark and gloomy place to inhabit. On both counts you would be wrong. Deaton and Case — or “Sir Angus and Lady Angus” since 2016 when Deaton, a 2015 Nobel laureate, was knighted at Buckingham Palace by Prince William, or “Dada and Lady Anna” as they are known by their grandchildren — joined me for a Zoom interview in July from their home on Pretty Brook Road in Princeton. Economics may have been labeled as “the dismal science,” but Case and Deaton are a warm, engaging, and entertaining couple — committed to making an impact on one of the most troubling problems plaguing our country, as they wield significant weight in the corridors of power. Deaths of Despair, which depicts the decline of the American dream amidst a surge in deaths of working-class men, has been cited as one of the most influential books written in the past decade.

“Economics is the language of power,” said Case. “We would be delighted if people in positions to make decisions read our book and took it on board. It’s clear that some of them have. Janet Yellen, secretary of the treasury, is a fan of this work. Cecilia Rouse, who was the dean of the [Princeton University] School of Public and International Affairs and is now the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, is also a fan of the work. So, we’re really hoping that we’ll be able to make some progress through the writing.” As they state in the preface to Deaths of Despair, “We hope this book … will help put us back on track to make the progress in this century that we have generally made in the past. The future of capitalism should be a future of hope and not of despair.” “OUT OF DRAGONS’ EGGS”

The couple described the very different routes each had taken into the world of academics, the field of economics, their focus on poverty, and on their journeys to Princeton. Deaton provided the short version: “Economists come out of dragons’ eggs.” Case filled in the details. “Neither of our parents were educators,” she explained, “but they did believe in education. When I went to college, I studied economics and thought I wanted to go out and do good, so I came to Princeton and studied at what

“We went to the Oval Office. President Obama came to the door and opened it. I put out my hand. He shook my hand, and I said, ‘I’d like to introduce Anne,’ and he said, ‘Professor Case needs no introduction. I’m a great fan of her work. You guys come in here and we’re going to talk about that paper you’ve just written.’”

—Angus Deaton

“I think most academics would tell you that no one in power listens to them,” Deaton said. “We can’t say that. People in power listen to us, and we know that the people who are running the country know the work.” He recalled the couple’s visit with President Obama in the White House following the announcement of Deaton’s 2015 Nobel Prize for economics. He continued, “If they’re not doing something about it, it’s because there’s really nothing they’re able to do. One of the stories in our book is about just how difficult it is to reform things, with a system that’s helping keep rich people rich, often at the expense of poor people.”

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was then the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.” Deciding that getting a Ph.D. in economics would be “a step along the way of going out to do good,” Case proceeded to earn her doctorate from Princeton in 1988, and realized, “I really loved the research. I loved teaching. I loved the idea that I could be in the classroom and also do field work. I was entirely smitten with life as an academic.” Case worked as an assistant professor at Harvard University for three years before returning to Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, where she has served on

the faculty for the past 30 years, becoming the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs in 2007. An award-winning scholar, Case has written extensively on health economics and currently serves on the Committee on National Statistics. She described her interests that led up to their landmark 2015 paper and Deaths of Despair five years later. “As long as I’ve been an economist, I’ve been interested in how poor people cope, how they keep body and soul together,” she said. She did research work in South Africa for about 12 years before deciding to tackle problems closer to home. “I realized it was time to tie off that work in Africa and begin to look at what was going on in the U.S. And that’s about when Angus and I started this project.” Deaton, who grew up in Scotland and has both British and American citizenship, described a different journey to Princeton and to the pinnacle of the world of academics. “Neither of my parents graduated from high school,” he said. “My dad started out life as a coal miner and wanted me to have a much better education than he had. My mother was not so convinced. She was a carpenter’s daughter and thought working with your hands was a really good idea. But she liked to tell stories, and I think that was something important I learned from her and inherited from her.” Starting out as a mathematician, Deaton attended the University of Cambridge in England. He had always read a lot, and the transition into economics came naturally. “To me one of the great things about economics is that it combines mathematics with history,” he said. He described contrasts between himself and Case in their approaches to the field of economics, contrasts that have contributed to their success in collaboration as researchers and writers. “I’m not sure I was dedicated to doing good,” Deaton continued in reflecting on his early interest in economics, “not as dedicated as Anne was. She’s the conscience of the two of us. I like to play with data and see patterns, which is what this book was almost entirely about — just seeing those patterns.” Deaton described economics as the “imperial science,” which confers a certain power to its practitioners. “We can trespass in a way that’s harder for sociologists or demographers or political scientists,” he said. “Our training trains us about how to handle data, and that’s a big advantage in doing this sort of work.” Stressing the importance of drawing from many different fields in working to address problems, Case added that Deaths of Despair would not have been as rich and extensive as it is if they had not read sociology, psychology, and history. “We’re believers in the interplay,” she said. “We don’t believe that economics should take over all of social science. We need to coordinate with others.”

Sir Angus is knighted by Prince William at Buckingham Palace in 2016 as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. “It’s a wonderful tribute to scholarship, and much more fun than having to find a horse, a suit of armor, and a lance, so to ride into battle for the Queen,” said Deaton. (Photo courtesy of Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

Deaton pointed out that he has “always been interested in what makes people tick, why some people are poorer than other people.” He continued, “I began my life studying savings and spending patterns and differences between people, and it’s not a big step from there into studying poverty.” He emphasized that poverty is about much more than just money. “It’s about your health,” he said. “It’s about your education. It’s about deprivation in multiple forms, so I think both of us moved towards health-related things over the years.” Deaton was happily and successfully ensconced at the University of Bristol (England), “a lovely place which I really liked,” as a professor of econometrics, when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979. Thatcher, he claims, precipitated his emigration to the United States. “It was Mrs. Thatcher who did it,” he said. “Mrs. Thatcher was taking a lot of the budget away from British universities, and it became very unpleasant at Bristol and very difficult to work there. I visited Princeton between 1979 and 1980, and I had friends here in the economics department, and when I made it clear that I would consider moving to the U.S., this was one place it was suggested I come. I’ve never regretted it.” Deaton joined the Princeton University faculty in 1983 and is currently the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs

and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at SPIA and the Department of Economics. Since 2017 he has held a joint appointment with the University of Southern California, where he is the Presidential Professor of Economics. He was previously widowed, with two children born in 1970 and 1971. Deaton and Case were married in 1997. “ALPHA DOGS”

A marriage is one thing, but a working partnership between two strong-minded writers and economists is another. Despite their extraordinary successes over the years as coauthors, it has not always been easy. “When we first got married, we tried to work together,” Deaton recalled. “I remember we were writing a paper together and we were on New Jersey Transit coming back from New York. By the end we were barely speaking to each other. We were so angry.” Case has not forgotten the incident. “We literally fought over every word,” she said. “So that wasn’t going to work if we were going to write a book together. We’re both sort of alpha dogs, so we had to figure out how this was going to work.” She continued, “We worked on an outline, then a chapter outline. Then Angus would take the first stab at the writing, and I was the numbers person, and then we would kind of flip around and each do what the other one had been

doing and clean it up or reword it or whatever, understanding that it was something that could break, that it wasn’t just a given that this was going to work well.” Their dedication to the work and the collaboration prevailed. Case went on, “I think we almost felt like — it’s a little strong to say this, but I think we almost felt as if we were on a mission. We really wanted this to work. We really thought it was important to get the word out, so we were willing to check our egos at the door and just plow into the work, more so than we might have otherwise.” “Also, we’ve found it works,” Deaton added. He went on to point out a particular strategy that helps the collaboration: “We’ve often gone to nice places when we have a deadline to write something.” The introduction to Deaths of Despair describes how the book “was born in a cabin in Montana,” where they spend August each year, in the town of Varney Ridge on the Madison River overlooking the mountains of the Madison Range. They were especially looking forward to the trip this year, and after the intense pace of their work over the past year they were hoping to find time for rest and recreation. “So, we booked two fishing trips a week instead of one,” Deaton said. LIFE-CHANGING HONORS

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“This is our home, and I love the fact that when I walk down the street I often see people I know, and I stop and chat, catch up a bit. You feel like you’re part of a community here and that’s enormously important, that kind of connection.” —Anne Case 2015 changed their lives. In early October of that year Deaton was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in helping to achieve economic reform and reduce poverty by first illuminating individuals’ consumption choices. “His work has helped transform the fields of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and development economics,” read the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences citation. Case and Deaton’s landmark paper, “Rising Morbidity and Mortality in Midlife Among White Non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century,” came out less than a month later. “We’d just recovered from the tsunami that came with the Nobel Prize,” said Deaton, “but the tsunami associated with the paper was much, much more overwhelming.” Case and Deaton’s carefully documented discovery that the American dream was in decline;

that mortality rates were rising significantly among middle-aged, white, non-Hispanic men, particularly the less-educated; and that hundreds of thousands in the U.S. were dying “deaths of despair” from suicide, drugs and alcohol abuse sent shock waves throughout the country. In following up on their discovery over the next five years, they expanded their research leading up to the publication of Deaths of Despair in 2020. “There is something going on in America that is different, and that is particularly toxic for the working class,” they wrote in the book’s introduction. “Much of this book is concerned with trying to find out just what that something might be.” In 2015, in the days between the announcement of the Nobel Prize and the award ceremony in Stockholm, Case and Deaton were invited to the White House. “We went to the Oval Office,” he said. “President Obama came

Deaton and Case were recipients of the 2017 Franklin Founder Award, one of the numerous accolades they have received for their work in economics. (Photo courtesy of Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

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to the door and opened it. I put out my hand. He shook my hand, and I said, ‘I’d like to introduce Anne,’ and he said, ‘Professor Case needs no introduction. I’m a great fan of her work. You guys come in here and we’re going to talk about that paper you’ve just written.’” Case added, “He gave us very good advice. We had been grappling with the fact in our first paper that these deaths from suicide, drugs, and alcohol were happening to white people who don’t face overt discrimination. It was this group where all of the dysfunctions were taking place.” She continued, “He said, ‘You need to make sure you look at what happened in the Black community in the 1960s and ’70s, because that’s the point at which a lot of the dysfunctions you see now happening in the white working class were happening in the Black working class.’ And that was incredibly helpful as we made our way through thinking about how to put this group into the broader picture of what has happened in the U.S.” PRINCETON LOCALS

Case and Deaton’s emeritus status does not seem to have any correlation to retirement, as they continue to be an active, visible presence at the University and around town. Case will be teaching graduate courses this fall on Poverty, Inequality, and Health in the World and Economic Analysis of Development. “The local community has always been interested in hearing about our work,” said Deaton. “Non-University people in Princeton like to know what’s going on at Princeton University.” Case and Deaton have spoken a number of times at the Princeton Public Library, and participated in several events at the Nassau Club, the Center of Theological Inquiry, and with the Old Guard of Princeton. They have also bought burial plots in the Princeton Cemetery, “next to Grover Cleveland,” Deaton reported. “This is our home,” said Case, “and I love the fact that when I walk down the street I often see people I know, and I stop and chat, catch up a bit. You feel like you’re part of a community here and that’s enormously important, that kind of connection.” Princeton also seems to fulfill two of Case and Deaton’s shared lifelong passions: for music and fish. “At Princeton we love the fact that there are concerts at the University and lectures, open to the public, where everyone is welcome,” said Case. “The town has a real sense of self, and we’re happy to be a part of that.” Deaton expressed his love of fish and fishing. “We eat a lot of fish in Scotland,” he said, and he noted his disappointment when he lived in England to find that “the fish was terrible, and I hated it.” When he first came to Princeton there was no fish shop, but he and Case are now very happy to have Nassau Street Seafood in town. He added, “We know them well and they know us well, and we’re in there often.”

An avid fly fisherman, Deaton is not entirely happy with the Stony Brook. “It has trout in it, but it’s not what you’d call a fly-fishing stream,” he said. “I have fished in the Stony Brook, but only in desperation.”

enormous hype by the people who have benefited from the system, and that’s going to be really hard.” There are potential solutions, Deaton pointed

LOOKING AHEAD: “A DANGEROUS POSITION”

Unsurprisingly, life for Case and Deaton in the 18 months since Deaths of Despair came out has been extremely busy. There were many questions early in the pandemic, with callers asking what COVID-19 would mean for deaths of despair. But there was no data available and little Case and Deaton could say definitively. A long, complicated international book tour, which was originally scheduled to start at Labyrinth Books on Nassau Street, was conducted almost entirely through Zoom readings and discussions online. “I believe the book continues to have legs,” Case said, “because we haven’t solved the problems that were there that we think are structurally undergirding this mid-life mortality. Because we haven’t dealt with those, the problems aren’t just going to solve themselves.” Deaton went on, “I really think we’re in a dangerous position. In the long run the American economy has been working well for well-educated elites. But it’s not working well for everyone else, and that is not a sustainable situation. We’ll see

out, but not the willingness to implement those solutions. “We have the remedies,” he said. You would have thought, just to take an example, that we’d give the IRS more funding to collect what is

due, right? Well, there’s a huge uproar about that from the right, saying ‘How dare you try to make us pay the taxes that we owe?’ Well, if you can’t do that, you know, it’s going to be really hard.” Insisting that he remains optimistic, “at least in the evening when we’ve had a glass of wine or two with a meal,” Deaton went on to note that there is evidence of progress. “I think our work has actually helped, because before our work a lot of people would say, ‘You know these people are actually not doing so bad. You’re just not measuring it right. The price index hasn’t been going up as much as you think. Poor people have actually done really well over the past 50 years. All this pessimistic stuff is from Marxists, Communists, or something. But when you tell people that they’re dying — you might lie about your paycheck, but you don’t lie about being dead. And so I think that had a big impact, especially among conservatives who thought that everything was OK.” Case and Deaton will be pursuing their ongoing research and their mission to combat these deaths of despair and to reshape the future of capitalism. “This fall will be very busy,” said Case. “A lot more quantitative research papers will come out of the book, and we’re trying to write them at a level that the average person can just pick up and read. There’s a lot of work to be done.” Deaton added, “We love Princeton. We’re very grateful to both the University and the community for giving us such a great place to live and work.”

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“The War of the Worlds” A Made-Up Martian Invasion That Continues to Fascinate By Anne Levin

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Mercury Theatre radio rehearsal, 1938. (Wikimedia Commons)

ecades before the term “fake news” became familiar, there was “The War of the Worlds.” The infamous 1938 radio broadcast, inspired by the H.G. Wells novel of the same name, announced to fans of the CBS Radio drama series Mercury Theatre on the Air that Martians had crash-landed in a farmer’s field in Grovers Mill, New Jersey, and were invading the earth. It was the golden age of radio, and Sunday night was prime time. October 30, 1938 also happened to be mischief night. Led by 23-year-old Orson Welles, the theater company decided to take things a bit further than usual and give listeners a jolt. Just how much of a jolt they intended remains in question. An announcer who claimed to be at the crash site just a few miles from Princeton breathlessly described a slimy Martian slithering its way out of a metallic cylinder. “Good heavens, something’s wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake,” he began. “Now here’s another and another one and another one! They look like tentacles to me. I can see the thing’s body now. It’s large, large as a bear. It glistens like wet leather…. I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it, it’s so awful! The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is kind of V-shaped with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate.” It was all a spectacular hoax, of course. But to some listeners across the country, the sophisticated sound effects and supposedly terrified announcers reporting Martians firing “heat-ray“ weapons created chaos. Newspaper reports at the time said people claimed they saw things that didn’t exist, and crowded the roadways in an effort to escape the invasion. Local legend has it that in Grovers Mill, an inebriated farmer shot at the wooden water tower because he thought it was an alien (never proven, but people who grew up in the West Windsor town have recalled seeing bullet holes in the tower). The legend lives on. In leafy Van Nest Park just down the road from the actual Grovers Mill buildings, a series of four plaques along the pond tell

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the story of the broadcast. A large, sculpted monument that pays tribute is prominently positioned. Over the years, West Windsor has commemorated the notorious event at key anniversaries. A section of the township’s website is devoted to the broadcast, its history, and the havoc it caused. On Saturday, October 30, a family-oriented celebration of the event will be held at the MarketFair mall on Route 1, in collaboration with the West Windsor Arts Council. “Every year, especially come October, we get inquiries,” said Gay Huber, West Windsor’s municipal clerk. “That’s why we put all that information on the website. There used to be several individuals who actually lived through it, and I was able to give their names to people. But they’re no longer with us.” While newspapers reported widespread panic due to the broadcast (“Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact” read the front page of the New York Times), most local residents may have taken it in stride. “If you think about it, there was no Twitter, no Instagram or social media,” Huber said. “So, a lot of people didn’t know about it. My family’s farm was only a couple miles away, and I’m not sure they even knew about it. It wasn’t something my grandparents talked about.” But October 30, 1938 certainly put Grovers Mill on the map. “It’s still something that we consider one of the more popular aspects of West Windsor history. However, there used to be a lot more interest,” wrote Paul Ligeti, head archivist of the Historical Society of West Windsor, in an email. “For the first half century, WotW [“War of the Worlds”] was actually a point that many in town did not want to highlight, because of the image that many thought it would give the town (of local yokels running for their lives from a hoax – whether this was actually true or not). However, in the late 1980s, there was a push to reframe WotW as a point of pride, and in 1988 there was a series of celebrations for its 50th anniversary.” In a strip mall a few miles from the “crash site,” the Grovers Mill Coffee House celebrates the broadcast with newspaper clippings, photographs, and artifacts. Prominently on display is a mural by Princeton artist Robert Hummel, showing the water tower said to be the target of the gun-toting,

Orson Welles in the studio in 1938. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Plaque commemorating the radio broadcast in Van Nest Park, West Windsor, and the Grovers Mill Barn. (Wikimedia Commons)

drunken farmer. The mural is one in a series of artworks Hummel has created that’s the story she told,” Hummel said. that were inspired by the broadcast. At the West Windsor Arts Council’s building on Alexander Road, Hummel painted the coffee house mural after listening to the recorded a 12-foot sculpture by Eric Schultz, called Scout Ship, greets visitors. 1938 broadcast for the first time. “It was what I had thought listeners that It was commissioned to help launch a sculpture program and mark the night may have been imagining while tuning in if not realizing it was only 80th anniversary of the broadcast. In recent years, the nonprofit has a radio play,” he said. created programming around the annual mischief night His second painting, created for the 75th anniversary anniversary of the event. of the broadcast, is the artist’s version of the action that “‘War of the Worlds’ is important because it was the might have taken place later in the night, with more first time there was this realization that art was used to Martians and destruction. For the 80th anniversary three surprise people, and maybe fool them,” said Aylin Green, years ago, his painting was focused on the Princeton executive director of the arts center. “Orson Welles University Observatory, which plays a part in the radio didn’t like to look at it that way, but that’s kind of what play. Hummel is having the painting framed in oak happened. It was able to happen because of the tenor of wood trim that was salvaged from an office inside the the times, and what was going on in the world. There observatory. “When they tore it down last year, the head were general fears about invasions. I love that this was engineer let me in to see it before it was demolished,” he a work of art – a theatrical production. That gets a little said. “He gave me some of the oak wood that was around bit lost in the story. But it’s an example of art having a the doors.” real impact.” Scene two, as well, is framed in salvaged wood with a In interviews just after the craziness caused by the historical pedigree – interior pine planks from within the broadcast, Welles claimed that he had no idea it would red barn in place at the time of the broadcast. They were affect people the way it did. But as time went on, he given to Hummel by the barn’s current owner when he admitted that his intentions weren’t so innocent. was transforming it into living accommodations. “I still meet people all over the place, everywhere in The farmer firing at the water tower is just one the world who’ve had experiences, bitter or otherwise, as example of the folklore surrounding the broadcast. a result of our little experiment in broadcasting,” he said “Another [legend] talks of someone being so scared that in a filmed interview that is available on YouTube. “I they took off in their car so quickly they forgot to open the suppose we had it coming to us. We were fed up with the garage door and crashed right through it! Unfortunately, Scoutship by artist Eric Schultz, in front of the way in which everything that came over this new magic it’s hard to tell currently whether these stories are 100 West Windsor Arts Center. (Courtesy of WWAC) box, the radio, was being swallowed. Anything that came percent accurate or not – they could be, or they couldn’t be,” wrote Ligeti. through that new machine was believed. So, in a way, our broadcast was an Hummel’s mother had a lifelong friend from Shamokin, Pennsylvania, assault on the credibility of that machine. We wanted people to understand – coal mining country – who claimed that a frightened relative hid in a coal that they shouldn’t take any opinion pre-digested, and shouldn’t swallow mine to escape the Martians. “I find that hard to believe, personally, but anything that came through the tap. Whether it was radio or not.”

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