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38 ..... HERE & THERE .....

..... FEATURES .....

day school vs. boarding school BOOK SCENE

by Stuart Mitchner

School days

By Taylor Smith

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princeton’s Top 10 Things to do before heading back to school

digital classrooms: new paths in education by ellen gilbert

Nothing can stop online learning

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR

coming home

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ART SCENE

by bill alden

Mollie Marcoux finds a second home at Princeton 44

by Linda Arntzenius

Seen on the street: Philadelphia is one big outdoor gallery 68

destination: Brandywine River Valley by taylor smith

An autumn escape 72

BACH, BRICKS, AND BUBBLE TEA: AN ARTS COMPLEX GROWS AT RUTGERS by anne levin

Robert E. Mortensen Hall opens to rave reviews 52

visiting the 9/11 museum by ilene dube

Memories come flooding back 58

SHOPPING University life, 20 My cozy bedroom, 32 Gray matter, 42 VINTAGE PRINCETON

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paul krugman Interview by Lynn Adams Smith

Ralph Schoenstein

The economist talks about bitcoin, the minimum wage, and missing the birdsong

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ON THE COVER: Paul Krugman, illustrated

by Jorge Naranjo and Jeff Tryon.

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Welcome to our 2014 Back to School issue of your magazine!

In a town like Princeton where education is the main “industry,” back to school is a busy time! In summers past, when the University or any other school was not in session, Princeton was one very sleepy and quiet town for the months of July and August. That is not the case today: where did this summer go?

Our lead story on digital classrooms is about “distant learning” through free on-line courses from universities around the world and from right across Nassau Street. We all know how technology has so dramatically changed our work, our entertainment, our shopping, and our access to information. Now, you will see, it’s in the midst of changing how we are taught and how we will learn. Where computer technology has eliminated “bricks and mortar” stores through e-commerce, this could soon happen in the field of education, though the truly great campuses and institutions like our own Princeton University will still be here.

However, through this new technology they will be reaching and helping a much broader audience than ever before.

Some bricks and mortar will never be replaced, but will be greatly enhanced through excellent design. Such is the case with the constantly growing and evolving Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University with their new cultural arts center, the Robert E. Mortensen Hall. You can read about it and admire it here on our pages, but that won’t beat a visit to architect Michael Farewell’s handsome new addition to the Rutgers Campus.

There are some other great places to visit as the cooler autumn days come upon us. In our piece on Destinations, read about all there is to see and the museums to visit in Brandywine Valley along the beautiful Brandywine River. You should make it a weekend and, on the way there, make it a point to spend an afternoon in Philadelphia exploring the spectacular and gigantic murals that have come about through the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the subject of a beautiful piece of photo-journalism in our Art Scene feature.

With every September come memories of the tragedy of 9/11. This year, you can contemplate those memories through this issue’s sensitive, moving feature on the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

Like a lot of parents of teenagers, if you are fretting about what is the best educational model for your child, there is a lot of good information in our comparison between Day and Boarding Schools in the area and in the Northeast. You will learn the benefits of each, ranging from campus life, to size and type of class, to the scope of athletic programs. If you find your family budget being challenged by this type of education, don’t be shy in asking about financial aid which many of the schools have available.

With the new school year comes a new Director of Athletics for Princeton University: meet Mollie Marcoux! Hockey star, soccer star, consummate manager. We hope you enjoy getting to know her through our pages and will join us in wishing her the best in her new role.

Photography by Andrew Wilkinson

Dear Princeton Magazine Readers,

My “last word” about this issue of Princeton Magazine is about two “firsts” having to do with our cover. Our graphic artists Jorge Naranjo and Jeff Tryon have digitally created the sketch of Paul Krugman from a photo provided by his office. We hope to have more artist-created covers instead of photos as we continue to develop the character of the magazine.

The second “first” is a “second”: the second time Princeton’s Nobel Laureate of Economics has graced the cover of Princeton Magazine.

Paul Krugman, the subject of our Last Word section, is leaving Princeton University for a new and exciting position at CUNY in New York City.

He has been an amazingly cooperative subject in the two articles we have produced about him and we thank him for that and wish him well.

All best wishes to you as we all get back to school in one way or another.

Lynn Adams Smith, our Editor-in-Chief, joins me in hoping you enjoy this issue of your magazine.

Respectfully yours,

J. Robert Hillier, FAIA Publisher

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the end of their child’s eighth grade school year, parents are faced with the conundrum of where to send their teen to high school. In areas like Princeton, the options are plentiful. Private day school is an attractive choice to most since it combines academic rigor with the creature comforts of home. Some may even consider being a day student at a local boarding school, the Peddie School, Hun School, and The Lawrenceville School being three examples. There are also a group of students, who at the age of 13 and 14, dream of the pre-college experience that only boarding school can offer. These teens crave independence, adventure, and the unknown.

Knowing your teenager – their strengths, weaknesses, sociability, and adaptability – will help parents to decide whether being a day student or a boarding student is right for their child.

Private day schools in the Princeton area like Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Princeton Day School, and The Pennington School, all offer excellent college preparatory experiences. When they enter in the ninth grade, students will have the option to hand-pick from a diverse assortment of classes, clubs, sports, arts, science, and music programs. Student to teacher ratios are small, which means that most class sizes average twelve students. Guidance from teachers, coaches, and faculty members lends the school a familial atmosphere. In

addition, much emphasis is placed on the whole student, so that a student’s happiness is seen as being just as significant as their A.P. Chemistry scores. As a private day student, your child will travel locally to compete in athletics and come home at night to have dinner and to sleep in their own bed. Academic demands are strenuous, but the aspects of living at home remain intact.

The Northeast, and particularly New England, is home to some of the most elite and picturesque boarding schools in the world. Just visit St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire during the height of autumn to watch a cross-country meet and be overwhelmed by the history and majesty of the place. Partake in new levels of school spirit at an ice hockey match at Avon Old Farms in Avon, Connecticut or watch the spring musical at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts.

All of these experiences will help your teen to decide whether or not they would like to apply.

Applying to boarding school is not unlike applying to college. More often than not, both require campus visits, interviews, teacher recommendations, standardized test-taking and application fees. The application process ideally begins during your child’s seventh grade school year. Go to any school’s website to read about the faculty, facilities, boarding to day student ratio, and much more. Then, plan a road trip. It makes sense to visit when school is in session, between September and May. During this time, you can schedule a student-led campus tour through the admissions office.

If you are not set on one school, it is best to visit as many as you can. There are a high concentration of schools, located relatively close together, stretching from New Jersey to Connecticut and Massachusetts to New Hampshire. You can easily drive from one campus to another over the course of a few weekends. Once you have selected a list of schools, you will have to schedule formal interviews through the school’s admissions office. Interviews are part of the application, so remember to dress well, to be gracious, and to write a thank-you note to each interviewer.

Now, it is time to organize your paperwork.

TABS (The Association of Boarding Schools) developed the uniformed Boarding Schools Admission Application Form to simplify the admission process. Visit www.boardingschools. com to see a list of schools that currently accept the TABS Application. If your school is not on the list, you will have to download that school’s particular application from their website. All of the applications contain a slew of forms that include a student information form, questionnaire, student essays, parent statement, and teacher recommendation forms.

The final application must also include a copy of the student’s transcripts/academic records and their official SSAT (Secondary School Admission Test) scores. Lastly, you must submit an application fee, which is indicated on each school’s website. If you are applying for financial aid, all forms must be submitted at the

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The SSAT is a required test for most private and boarding schools. The Upper Level SSAT test is designed for students in grades 6 through 8 who are applying for matriculation in grades 9 through 12. The test includes quantitative (math), reading comprehension, and verbal multiple choice, along with a written essay.

For fall admission, most schools have a January deadline. Keep in mind that all components of the application must be completed and received by this time. Getting the application in before the winter holidays is always a good idea. Notification of acceptance usually occurs in March. Students are asked to notify each school of their final decision by May, at the latest.

Be it at a private day or boarding school, both routes will have a large impact on a child’s personal development and success in college. However, what is most important is that they enjoy their preparatory experience and eventually graduate with positive memories and a greater sense of self.

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When McBurney closed its doors in 1988, there was an auction of the contents. A story in The New York Times describes buyers looking for old yearbooks containing photos of future celebrities. While Salinger remains the most illustrious McBurneyan, two actors known for playing tempermental opposites on television went there: John Boy of The Waltons (Richard Thomas) and The Fonz from Happy Days (Henry Winkler).

Although McBurney had other noteworthy alumni, including Felix Rohaytan, chair of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and Ted Koppel of Nightline, it “may be best remembered,” according to the wikipedia entry, “as the destination of Holden Caulfield when he left all the equipment of the Pencey Prep fencing team on the subway.”

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very time the “back to school” theme comes up, I think of The Catcher in the Rye, New York City, and the year I went to McBurney School on 63rd Street off Central Park West.

I was 16 when I read Holden Caulfield’s story for the first of many times, not knowing that J.D. Salinger had been at McBurney decades before me and that some of Holden’s school experiences and relationships were drawn from his two years there.

On that first reading, I was struck by Holden’s mention of a fencing meet with McBurney School that never happened because, being manager of the Pencey Prep fencing team, he’d left the equipment on the subway (“It wasn’t all my fault. I had to keep getting up to look at this map”). So, even before I knew we had McBurney in common, there it coincidentally was, out of all the schools Salinger could have named. The passing mention of the school and the subway gave me an connection to Catcher beyond what was already a love-at-first-sight reading experience.

Years later when I found that Salinger had not only gone to McBurney but had managed the fencing team, it was a thrill to discover that someone I admired more than any living

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author could well have shared the same morning ritual of a subway ride to Columbus Circle and the three block walk up Central Park West. Since his family lived in an apartment house on Park Avenue and East 91st at the time, Salinger would have taken IRT’s Lexington Avenue Line from 86th and changed to a crosstown train. From where I lived on East 53rd near Third Avenue, I took an IND train to Seventh Avenue, changing there for Columbus Circle. It sounds simple enough, but the morning rush hour for a kid from Indiana was a big deal: the daily battle to fight your way on and off packed trains before the doors slammed shut, and to come to school still reeling after being pressed face to face and body to body with a sweaty heaving mass of humanity in that super-intense zone of subway noise and motion.

Walking through the Boy’s Entrance at McBurney was not something a ninth-grader from the midwest ever took for granted. The 14-story West Side YMCA building occupied by the school resembled a “castellated Italian hill town, with towers, battlements and balconies rising in irregular sympathy, culminating in a huge, central tower with an octagonal roof,” according to New York 1930 (Rizzoli 1987). “Above the base the building’s masses stepped back with loggias and hipped tile roofs.” Reference is also made to Gothic and Romanesque details and “the extensive use of polychromed terra-cotta.” Inside, the architect Dwight James Baum sustained the “medieval Italian theme ... with studded plank doors, concrete beams painted and decorated in imitation of wood, rough plaster walls, medieval-

In New York, almost every school, public or private, big or small, can claim celebrity alumni.

It’s a form of what CUNY Sociology professor William B. Helmeich calls “community cachet” in The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6000 Miles in the City (Princeton University Press $29.95). One example is the naming of West 84th Street after Edgar Allan Poe. Another is P.S. 199 on Shakespeare Avenue in the West Bronx, which is known as the Shakespeare School and presents a play by the Bard every year in June. P.S. 149 on Sutter Avenue in East New York is known as the Danny Kaye School, after the comedian. Then there’s the West Harlem School on Edgecombe Avenue and 165th Street which features a mural depicting famous alumni, a diverse mixture that includes Diana Sands, who starred in Raisin in the

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Sun; singer Harry Belafonte, and economist and Federal Reserve chair, Alan Greenspan.

All the moral bases are covered at Washington Irving High School on Irving Place, from movie stars Paulette Goddard and Claudette Colbert, radio/television legend Molly Goldberg and The View’s Joy Behar, to porn star Asa Akira, rapper Vast Aire, and computer hacker Hector Xavier Monsegur (Sabu). But it’s hard to top Erasmus Hall High School on Flatbush Avenue in Brookyln, where the alumni list includes chess champ Bobby Fischer, artist Elaine de Kooning, movie star Susan Hayward, Moe Howard of the Three Stooges, novelist Bernard Malamud, Neil Diamond, Beverly Sills, Mickey Spillane, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Streisand and Mae West, and that’s a very selective list.

Helmreich’s example of the other side of community cachet is Cypress Hills in Brooklyn, bordering East New York, where just to the right of P.S. 65’s “Corinthian pillars” and the “decorative cement shields” above the entrance “a lonely pair of kids’ sneakers dangles on a telephone wire.” Posted on the stairs are “various exhortations” such as “Work hard to be nice,” ‘Raise the bar,” and “We are climbing the mountain to college.” As Helmreich observes, “a mountain it is, indeed” in a place like Cypress Hills.

The base of the statue of Erasmus in front of Erasmus Hall is inscribed, “Desiderius Erasmus, the maintainer and restorer of the sciences and polite literature, the greatest man of his century, the excellent citizen who, through his immortal writings, acquired an everlasting fame.”

In 1994 Erasmus Hall H.S. closed “due to poor academic scores.” In 2011 the New York City Department of Education announced that Washington Irving H.S. would be closed by summer 2015. At the time Hector Xavier Monsegur was attending, only 55 percent of the students graduated with their classes.

Vocational and Technical High School, where on his first day he was called into the principal’s office for picking up a sandwich one student had thrown at another and then eating it while the class watched. It was his “first act of classroom management,” and it was no chore: “The bread was dark and thick, baked by an Italian mother in Brooklyn, bread firm enough to hold slices of rich baloney, layered with slices of tomato, onions and peppers drizzled with olive oil and charged with a tongue-dazzling relish.” So began the first of the 33,000 classes McCourt estimates teaching in thirty years divided between McKee, Seward Park High School in Manhattan, Stuyvesant High School, and night classes at Washington Irving.

The conflict between an inventive “classroom management” style like McCourt’s and a clueless or dictatorial administration is also played out in John Owens’s Confessions of a Bad Teacher: The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education (Sourcebooks 2013), which recounts the author’s struggles teaching English at a public school in the South Bronx.

“THE LAUGHING MAN”

Before he attended McBurney, J.D. Salinger went to public schools on the Upper West Side, including P.S. 165 on 109th Street near Amsterdam Avenue, as he notes in the opening paragraph of “The Laughing Man,” one of his most autobiographical stories. The hero of the story is a young law student from Staten Island who has been hired by the parents of the narrator and his 25 classmates to drive them around after school in a bus; when the weather is suitable, he takes them over

to Central Park after school to play football or soccer or baseball. On rainy afternoons, the Chief, as his charges calls him, shepherds them to the Museum of Natural History or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After the playing is over and they’re back in the bus, the Chief tells them an ongoing narrative for which the story is named. Like most good stories, Salinger’s comes with complications, a love interest, and a sad, thoughtful ending.

The school at 109th and Amsterdam is still in business, but judging from the parentteacher blog, the situation there is dicey, to say the least, and all indications are that the issues raised in John Owens’s book are the reality: committed teachers and a struggling administration. The demographic is 70 percent Hispanic, 15 percent black, ten percent white, and three percent Asian.

On the P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon website is a photo of the entrance through which nine-yearold Jerry Salinger presumably came and went.

I have been unable to find out what Robert E. Simon’s contribution is or was. The P.S. 165 home page says, “Dare to dream, to achieve, to make a difference.”

Like McBurney, P.S. 165 should be best remembered for its relation to the life and work of a great American writer who dared to dream and make a difference. It’s a connection the school should make more of, since P.S. 165 is obviously in serious need of what William Helmreich calls “community cachet.”

TEACHERS

Some of the best-known accounts of New York City schools come from former teachers.

Generations of readers and moviegoers have read or seen Evan Hunter’s Blackboard Jungle, which was based on the author’s 17 days teaching at Bronx Vocational High School, and Bel Kaufman’s Up the Down Staircase, which reflects Kaufman’s experience teaching at various city high schools. Hunter, whose real name was Salvatore Lombino, also wrote under the name Ed McBain. He took his schooling seriously enough to base his pen name on his two alma maters, Evan for Evander Childs High School and Hunter for Hunter College, which was also Bel Kaufman’s alma mater.

Among the most engaging teacher memoirs is Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man (Scribner 2005), which begins with McCourt in his midtwenties teaching at Staten Island’s McKee

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t’s just a few years since MOOCs (massive open online courses) appeared on the scene. In 2011, Google research director Peter Norvig and computer scientist Sebastian Thrun taught the first MOOC (/mu:k/), a class on artificial intelligence, under the auspices of Stanford University.

More than 160,000 students enrolled. Thus was born what Uncharted authors Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel describe as “a revolution in higher education.”

There are naysayers, to be sure, prophesying doom and gloom as a result of the surge of enthusiasm for online learning. According to American Interest contributor Nathan Harden, MOOCs spell “the end of the university as we know it. In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. The future looks like this: access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.”

“Gaudeamus igitur.

Don’t need classrooms, that’s for sure.

Libraries are so passé— Remnants of another day.”

—Education writer Ted Fiske, College Songs for MOOC Era

An amusing rejoinder to Harden appears in a Daily Riff article (“Here a MOOC, There a MOOC, Everywhere a MOOC, MOOC...”) where writer C.J. Westerberg considers “16 Possible Effects of MOOCs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

Whatever the outcome, MOOCs appear to be here to stay, causing what a recent New York Times article described as “a snowballing revolution in education.”

COURSERA

Online courses are available for free to just about anyone who can log into a computer. Under the rubric of programs like “Coursera” anyone can sign on—for free—for courses ranging from “Internet History, Technology, and Security” taught by University of Michigan computer scientist Charles Severance, to “Classics of Chinese Humanities” taught by Ou Fan Leo Lee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Sites like “Harvard Medical School Open Courseware” are designed for specialist learning communities, and smartphone apps help prospective students and current participants in the course selection process, and allow users to access classes away from home.

Two-year-old Coursera is, so far, among the most successful ventures in online education. It exists thanks to millions of dollars of venture capital provided by investors like the International Finance Corporation (the investment arm of the World Bank); Laureate Education (a “higher education company” managing dozens of profit-making universities around the world); and individual entrepreneurs like Yuri Milner. At this writing the Coursera website indicates that there are 8,057,367 participants enrolled in 672 courses offered by 110 Coursera “partners.” Ivy Leagues and distinguished universities from abroad figure prominently in the mix. Coursera recently scored a coup by hiring former Yale University President Richard C. Levin to serve as its chief executive.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Universities weighing the decision about whether or not to embrace online teaching are stepping into largely uncharted terrain and must ask themselves whether they should join up at the risk of “devaluing higher

education,” or do nothing and risk being left behind.

Princeton University chose early on to be actively engaged in the digital revolution. The University’s McGraw Hill Center for Teaching and Learning coordinates the effort, and about a dozen Princeton faculty members currently teach Coursera classes. They include sociologist Miguel A. Centeno (“Paradoxes of War”); computer scientist Robert Sedgewick (“Algorithms, Part I”); bioethicist Peter Singer (“Practical Ethics”); and astronomer David Spergel (“Imagining Other Earths”).

“My motivation was to try to see what this new thing called a MOOC was like,” says Centeno.

“And, of course, to experience the ability to reach many more than will ever hear me lecture, or read one of my books.”

“The most important pillar behind innovation and opportunity—education—will see tremendous positive change in the coming decades as rising connectivity reshapes traditional routines and offers new paths for learning.”

—Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age

It may be no coincidence that Centeno, the Cuban-born scholar who came to this country at the age of 10, is also the force behind Princeton University Preparatory Program. “PUPP” as it is known, seeks to provide academically gifted students from low income families with financial aid as well the opportunity to develop the necessary academic skills, confidence and leadership abilities to flourish at top institutions of higher learning.

“I hope that ‘Paradoxes of War’ will get a conversation going not just about war, but about sociological analyses more generally,” says Centeno. “My aim in teaching is always to get people thinking in new ways.”

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FIRING UP THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE Coursera is not the only game in town. Princeton recently announced that several faculty members were signing on with a newer venture called NovoEd. One of them making a switch from Coursera to NovoEd is history professor Jeremy Adelman. His “World History Since 1300” will be taught synchronously in two, six-week modules on the Princeton campus and as a MOOC on NovoEd.

GROUPWARE

Adelman acknowledges that the main draw of NovoEd is its use of “groupware,” a software program that allows greater interactivity among students. “I know from teaching in Princeton that when the learning experience is fired up, the students are really learning from each other,” he observes. The result, he adds, is that “I can be a better teacher.”

“We’re creating new tradition.

Ours is wireless erudition.

We eschew all printed words.

Rest in pace Gutenberg.”

—Education writer Ted Fiske, College Songs for MOOC Era

Having both Princeton students and NovoEd registrants in the same class makes a lot of sense to Adelman, whose recent book, Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Princeton University Press), was met with excellent reviews.

Adelman believes that teaching history should “bring the world into the history of itself.” Rather than Coursera’s emphasis “on lectures and machine-graded assignments,” Adelman looks forward to proving NovoEd’s superiority by having students from all over the world working on collaborative projects as they learn about each other’s vocabularies for concepts like “conquest,” “trade,” and “globalization.” An effort to do outreach using the Coursera iteration of the class proved unsuccessful, he reports. Wanting “to offer something to the world where higher education systems have been shattered,” he created a separate section of the course for Syrian refugees, but “internet constrictions” made it untenable.

Which is not to say that Coursera doesn’t aspire to a higher calling, too. “We envision a future where everyone has access to a world-class education,” observes the Coursera website. “We aim to

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empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.”

More recently Coursera announced “Global Translator Community,” consisting of partnerships with international organizations to make their MOOCs available in foreign languages. To date, Coursera offers courses with subtitle translations in 13 foreign languages, with Chinese, French, and Spanish among the most popular. The company reports that only 40 percent of those taking Coursera classes live in English-speaking countries.

Adelman’s NovoEd class is, essentially, “the same course,” he taught before: “an exploration of the history of the modern world since Chinggis Khan that focuses on the connections between societies from the time of the Mongol conquests and the gradual, but accelerating ways in which connections became ties of inter-dependence.” The NovoEd version will, however, include some “very new materials” and assignments and projects will be less “traditional,” with “pre-assigned questions” and collaborative projects in lieu of individualized paper assignments. Teaching the class in two modules will give students greater opportunity to experience different peer groups.

A WORK IN PROGRESS

Centeno describes his Coursera version of what was originally called “The Western Way of War,” as “pretty close to the original but, of course, much abridged. It’s been a lot more work than I thought, but I have also learned a lot about what is critical in the material and what I have missed.”

Students challenged to maintain the momentum of regularly logging on to a class and doing work assigned by someone outside of a traditional classroom—and the faculty who teach them—are, to be sure, just getting the hang of it and have lots fine-tuning to do. The potential, however, is huge as more data is amassed. The New Digital Age authors Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen call online learning “a game changer,” citing MOOCs’ ability to collect and use data effectively as an important plus. A BBC Future segment aired last fall similarly enthused that “when students learn online, every mouse click is tracked. Harness this wealth of data and we can create the ultimate in personalized lessons.”

TRADITION

Princeton area residents interested in learning about something new—or adding complexity to what they already know—have at least two venerable institutions from which to choose: Princeton Adult

“We envision a future where everyone has access to a world-class education.

We aim to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.”

—Coursera website

School and Evergreen Forum. While they are not (yet) online options, the range of subjects both offer is remarkable and new topics are regularly introduced. Class leaders in both programs usually come from nearby institutions of higher learning or corporations, and students are particularly ready to meet a good challenge. Indeed, Evergreen Forum was founded about a dozen years ago when people who signed on to audit classes at Princeton University were tired of being relegated to the back of the classroom and prohibited from participating in the conversation. Evergreen Forum typically offers about 20 classes that cast a wide and somewhat idiosyncratic net. Spring and fall semester offerings are usually taught during the day at the Princeton Senior Resource Center. Offerings this coming fall include “Woody Allen: Light and Dark,” “Contemporary Business and Economic Issues,” “Fatal Attractions in Literature,” and “The Amazing Avian Artists.” Last semester students got to choose from “World of Downton Abbey,” “Alice Munro,” “1913 and the Armory Show,” and “Georgraphical Links: Explorers.” The six-to-eight week courses cost $60, and the enthusiastic response to some offerings sometimes necessitates a lottery. See www.TheEvergreenForum.org.

The Princeton Adult School, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary, is a much larger enterprise, currently reporting that it offers “300+ in-person courses; 1,000+ online courses, and 3,600+ students.” With all-year-round evening classes, Princeton Adult School was founded “to offer to the adult residents of the Princeton area—regardless of race, color, creed, place of national origin, or sex—a variety of educational courses for their bent and enjoyment.” An online catalog of the classes, which are held at various locations in Princeton, is divided into categories like “Digital Photography,” “Foreign Languages,” “Dance,” and “Personal Enrichment.”

Course fees vary and there is a $10 registration fee.

Visit www.princetonadultschool.org.

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rowing up in Ithaca, N.Y. during the 1970s and 80s, Mollie Marcoux developed a fondness for Cornell University. But when Marcoux traveled to Princeton University for a college visit during her high school years, she found a second home.

“It was just a feeling I had when I walked on campus,” recalls Marcoux. “The people that I met really cared about being great at sports and being great at academics as well. I have always been pro Princeton, it just felt right to me from the beginning.”

Turning down Harvard, among other Ivies, Marcoux came to Princeton in the fall of of 1987 and went on to establish herself as one of the greatest student-athletes in school history.

As a hockey player, Marcoux ’91 was a fourtime All-Ivy League performer, a three-time team MVP, an All-ECAC Hockey selection, and a member of the ECACH Team of the Decade. In soccer, she earned second-team All-Ivy honors.

Marcoux won the C. Otto von Kienbusch Award, the top senior female student-athlete award at Princeton which recognizes “high scholastic rank, sportsmanship and general excellence in athletics.”

This August, Marcoux will be returning to her second home, taking the reins as Princeton’s Ford Family Director of Athletics, succeeding Gary Walters, who is stepping down after a 20-year run in the post.

For Marcoux, who has worked the last 19 years with Chelsea Piers Management, which owns and operates two major amateur sports complexes,

Chelsea Piers New York and Chelsea Piers Connecticut, the chance to run Princeton athletics was too good to pass up.

“I had to think about it a little bit because it is a big thing for the family,” says Marcoux, 45, who is married to Andrew Samaan and has three children, ages 5, 8, and 10, and will be the first woman to serve as Princeton AD. “I was very honored and very appreciative of the opportunity. I think the committee was great, they were so encouraging. The people that I met here reinforced and confirmed things about Princeton. It is a very welcoming community and there was so much support, we decided to go for it.”

Reflecting on her experience as a studentathlete, Marcoux acknowledges that it took her a while to adapt to the rigors of Princeton’s academic community while playing two sports at a high level.

“It was hard, I think the thing with it is that you get better at it,” notes the lithe Marcoux, whose hair is still blonde and who carries herself with the grace of a natural athlete.

“It is hard when you first get here, you figure it out, just like everything else. I was just always a really, really hard worker. You get better, you figure out what you are good at and how you find the seam.

It is always a juggle but I never wanted to quit one of the sports because I loved them so much. Sometimes you could say why are you playing two sports, it seems like too much. You miss a little bit of the preseason in hockey but you are really ready for the season when it gets started. It never crossed my mind to not play either of the sports.”

Marcoux’s strong-minded nature has been evident from the time she started sports, taking up hockey in

the first grade even though she didn’t know how to skate and her mother encouraged her to do dance or gymnastics instead. Often battling with her older brother, Marcoux tried her hand at basketball, softball, golf and soccer in addition to hockey.

By high school, she had narrowed things down to hockey and soccer. Her drive, though, was not confined to sports as she decided early on that she would only apply to Ivy League schools when it came time to head off to college.

“I always had that passion for sports but it was clear that I needed to focus on school first and foremost,” says Marcoux.

“From a pretty early age I set my sights on the Ivy League. I was always a competitive, driven person. I wanted to figure out what the best thing would be and to me the best thing was balancing the two and being able to have the academics and the athletics. It was always a firm conviction on my part that I wanted both, the best possible school and the best possible athletics that I could find.”

While Marcoux made history as one of the best players to ever compete for the Princeton women’s hockey program, she relished her time on the soccer pitch as well.

“I did better at hockey when I was here than I did at soccer but I never really considered hockey to be my main sport,” says Marcoux.

“I just happened to be relatively better at hockey, I guess. It was fun from the very beginning, playing at a high level and being able to contribute right away. Really being a part of the team was the most important thing. I loved the game of soccer and I love playing it. I got injured a little bit my SEPTEMBER 2014 PRINCETON MAGAZINE

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sophomore year. I didn’t miss too much but it was a bigger setback than I expected. It was the first time coming back that I had ever sat on the bench and I had to work my way back into the starting lineup.

That was good for me.”

Working hard in the classroom, Marcoux graduated cum laude, earning honors with her thesis on the history of women in sports.

“I was a history major, I liked American social history, that was my flavor; and I always loved sports,” says Marcoux.

“Everything I did related back to sports because that was my real passion, so I wanted to combine those things and work on something that is relevant to me and is really studying the history. The thesis was really tracking women’s history through that era of 1895 to 1945 but using sports as the mechanism to view the women’s role. It was fun and interesting and in my sweet spot.”

Marcoux was also fun around campus, recalls her college classmate and current Princeton soccer head coach Jim Barlow.

“She is a people person,” asserts Barlow. “She is engaging and makes people feel comfortable.”

On the ice, Marcoux made her teammates comfortable with her hard-charging style.

“I remember being really impressed with her as a hockey player; she could skate by everyone and score,” added Barlow. “She was a standout, she was by far the best skater. She was doing so much and she would set up her teammates.”

For Princeton football head coach Bob Surace, a 1990 Princeton alum, Marcoux was a role model.

“She was high achieving and driven,” adds Surace, noting that his future wife, Lisa, played on the soccer team with Marcoux and they remain close friends. “You look up to that good of an athlete; she had that extra desire.”

As Marcoux wrapped her college career, her desire was to remain in sports. “There was no doubt in my mind that in some capacity I wanted to combine my passion for sports and my passion for success in life,” says Marcoux. “I didn’t know what that would mean or where that would lead me.”

With the help of the mother of one her hockey teammates, Marcoux landed a position at the Lawrenceville School, coaching, working in the athletic director’s office, and serving as a housemaster. “I went to Lawrenceville with the idea that it would be for a year but I fell in love with the

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school, the culture and the whole place,” says Marcoux.

Instead, she stayed for five years, finding that coaching gave her the chance to develop her leadership abilities and the administrative posts helped her hone marketing and public speaking skills.

Deciding that she wanted to get into the business side of sports, Marcoux left Lawrenceville in 1995 and joined the fledgling Chelsea Piers organization.

“It was so exciting, I moved to the city and Chelsea Piers was just opening,” recalls Marcoux.

“All the same skills I had learned at Princeton and at Lawrenceville were transferrable.

Things like working hard, being prepared, being thorough, communicating well, and writing well were all extremely valuable. That was my biggest takeaway right away because I was nervous, I hadn’t been in the business world and it was such a start up. They would say we would like you to do this. I would say I have never done that before and they said you can do it. They gave you a lot of confidence to go out there and sink or swim and figure it out.”

Roland Betts, the founder and chairman of Chelsea Piers, took an immediate shine to Marcoux.

“She was young, enthusiastic, and smart,” says Betts. “She had numerous jobs here. We gave her more and more responsibility; we had complete confidence in her abilities. It is our management style, we believe if someone is highly intelligent and motivated, even if she is in over her head on day one of a job, over time she can succeed. Mollie always succeeded.”

For Marcoux, working with the Chelsea Piers management team, which includes Betts along with President Tom Bernstein and Executive Vice President David Tewksbury, has given her additional insight into leading an organization.

“It was interesting, having three bosses you get the value of learning from three very different styles and approaches,” says Marcoux. “I think that is what makes them so successful, they are very collaborative and listen to a lot of opinions and make it a really, thorough strong decision.”

While Marcoux had no desire to leave Chelsea Piers, having rebuffed approaches from headhunters over the years, she had to listen when Princeton called. The University reached out to Marcoux last December as the head of the athletic director search committee Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherry phoned her last winter to gauge her interest in the position.

“I was a little stunned, it crossed my mind but I wasn’t sure how that would fit into life and how it would fit into my skill,” says Marcoux, recalling that initial conversation. “Before they called I hadn’t given it much thought but when she called it was obviously very intriguing from minute one.”

Applying her customary thoughtful approach, Marcoux concluded that she would be a good fit for the job.

“It was diving deeply into what Princeton athletics means today and really all the tremendous success that Gary has had and what he has created here in addition to the longstanding tradition and how great it was when I was here,” says Marcoux, whose hiring was announced at an introductory press conference in April in Jadwin Gym.

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“Those two things, they just kept building on each other. I had a fantastic experience here and where Gary took it was fantastic as well. A lot of this really resonates with me.”

As Marcoux takes the helm of Princeton athletics, she has a lot of things going for her.

“Mollie is a very good listener,” says Betts, noting that Chelsea Piers encouraged Marcoux to pursue the Princeton opportunity and that her introductory press conference was piped into the office on large-screen TVs. “She is very hard on herself and intent on being the best at whatever she is doing. She works too hard, she puts in too many hours. She is a consensus person. She is a good listener and that will serve her well in the first few years as she is learning the job.”

Surace, for his part, cites Marcoux’s varied skill set. “Over the last nine months with Gary, there has been a lot of celebration but also talk about the qualities you have to have in that job,” notes Surace. “It requires many terrific skills and Mollie has them. She can communicate, she is a leader, she is smart, she has vision, and she is very humble.”

In Barlow’s view, that humility combined with intelligence will be assets for Marcoux.

“She can interact with administration and with different constituencies,” adds Barlow. “She is very good at thinking things through. She is patient but thoughtful. She wants to have all the information she needs before making a decision.”

This spring Marcoux spent much of her time gathering information in an effort to prioritize and have a handle on some of the hot button issues she will face.

“I think what has been so fun about this is that I am still very much in the learning phase,” says Marcoux, noting that Walters has been “off-the-charts fantastic” in providing his knowledge and insight over the last few months during the transition process.

“It is really fun to learn again, not that I wasn’t learning before but it is something new. I think right from the start it is learning and listening. It is a big department and there is lots of work being done on a day-to-day basis by a lot of talented people so fully understanding their roles and how I can support them.

I think that is really No. 1.”

Being the first woman to hold the post is a role that Marcoux relishes. “Like I said at the press conference, it is not always my first thought but I do think it is really cool,” says Marcoux

“It is always good to be the first of anything and I think you can serve as a solid role model for the women that we have here, athletes and non-athletes, that women can succeed at a good level. Women naturally bring different things to the table so I think that will be fun.”

While Marcoux knows that she will face a number of different challenges in maintaining Princeton’s record of athletic success, she is determined to have fun with things.

“I just love sports so much that being around this level of athleticism and this level of commitment to high quality coaching and being around people who are so passionate about sports is the thing I am looking forward to the most,” says Marcoux.

“Going to the games and being a part of that athletic culture here is just what I love to do. My mom was saying you always get the perfect jobs, they just fit your world. Once again, for this time in my life, she said how could you be happier than being in this environment.”

As Marcoux gets into her second act at Princeton, it appears she will feel right at home.

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This is the first new building in nearly two decades at Mason Gross, a college conservatory that trains actors, dancers, visual artists, and musicians for professional careers. The school’s Mason Gross Performing Arts Center complex, which includes the Nicholas Music Center, had not kept pace with its fast-growing reputation.

It was time to expand. The Princeton firm of Farewell Architects was hired for Phase I of an ambitious project that has provided muchneeded rehearsal space, studios and offices, as well as two public gathering places, all in a building that links the school’s two existing facilities at the site.

Several bases had to be covered in the project, which is named for Rutgers alumnus Bob Mortensen ‘63. “We needed additional rehearsal and practice space. We needed a dance studio desperately,” says George B. Stauffer, Dean of Mason Gross. “We wanted a large choral hall for vocal ensembles and smaller instrumental ensembles. In addition to these

spaces and practice rooms in the basement, we also wanted an indoor gathering space that would bring students together. These are students in dance, music and theater, and we wanted a way to unite them.”

The college community appears to love Mortensen Hall’s light-filled, two-story atrium, and has shown a particular fondness for Café 52, which sits at one end. The space has become a favorite spot not only for Mason Gross students but other members of the Rutgers community as well. They line up in the atrium for sandwiches with names like “Bach’s Lunch” and “The Tosca,” and the Taiwanese drink known as bubble tea.

“We worked very hard to get this building right,” says Stauffer. “We spent almost two years on the design. We talked with students and faculty and got a lot of input. The students were especially concerned about the café. And it’s been a huge success, just awash with students and faculty. Everything there is high quality so I’m quite comfortable bringing a guest or a donor there for lunch. And as for the space that it’s in— well, it’s just beautiful.”

Mortensen Hall posed one main challenge for architect Michael Farewell, whose firm has designed performing arts spaces in such settings as Drew University and the Westport Country Playhouse. “The existing 1960s and 70s buildings were big, monolithic brick boxes,” the architect says. “We wanted to make a connection of those big pieces to the Marryott building, which is part of the music program. So this is a link between

these two buildings—a kind of concourse, or connector, a transparent, open core. And because this is all about the performing arts, all of this energy can be on display. It’s a building that serves as a bridge between these two worlds, a route through the building, which gives us a chance to really show all the excitement of the program.”

The Kevin Goetz Studio for Theater and Dance, on the upper level, is all about natural light. “The idea of light in dance is interesting,” Farewell says. “It comes from above, and sort of lifts the spirit.”

Julia Ritter, who chairs the Mason Gross dance program, couldn’t be happier with the

George B. Stauffer, Dean of Mason Gross. Photography by Andrea Kane.

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studio and the entire building. “I believe that Mortensen Hall has allowed students and faculty from various departments to come together in a common space to create the Architect Michael Farewell kind of community that has long been hoped for at Mason Gross but it was a challenge due to the spaces we occupied on the campus,” she says.

“Now, Mortensen’s open spaces for gathering on both the ground floor and the gallery provide students, faculty, staff and guests with places to extend the learning of the classroom or studio through socializing.”

“Learning in the arts happens in many contexts,” Ritter continues, “not just the studio or classroom—our artists work in galleries, theaters, and private workshops so Mortensen is yet another space to explore our ideas and provides a communal atmosphere. The discourse that occurs between the disciplines is more possible and more energetic in the shared

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space of Mortensen Hall. Dance is most grateful for these new spaces and for the opportunities to interact with people from many disciplines.”

Also admired is the Richard H. Shindell Choral Hall, which has high ceilings and clerestory windows, excellent acoustics and more than 2,300 feet of space. “The choral hall was a big driver,” says Farewell. “Mortensen was a big supporter of the choral arts, and as we were designing it, it went from a rehearsal room to a kind of concert hall.”

“I love the choral hall,” says Stauffer. “It’s a lovely space and it can be used for lectures and faculty meetings as well as chorus. It’s very flexible.”

Mortensen Hall is a combination of glass and brick; the brick matches the older Mason Gross buildings. It is organized around a central spine that encourages students to pass through.

That spine broadens into a large staircase that leads to the mezzanine and dance studio.

A 12½ -by-14-foot mural by faculty member Steven Westfall lines the stairwell wall. “It’s enchanting to sit up in the art gallery on the second floor,” says Stauffer. “You can see the Raritan River to the east, and see through the building and the mural to the west. That mural has tremendous popularity.”

Though only a year old, Mortensen Hall has made a difference in the recruitment of students, Stauffer believes. “We just had our best entering class ever and just recruited our best ever,” he says. “The numbers are up. The quality is up.

We are extremely pleased with this class.

And this is a tough time for the arts, so we feel very fortunate. Without question, the building has made an impact on the appeal of the school.”

Part of the idea was to make Mortensen available to the community as well as Rutgers students and faculty. “We wanted to embrace the New Brunswick community,” says Stauffer. “We have an extension division with 1,800 high school kids who take lessons at Mason Gross, many of which are held in Mortensen. So the parents hang out here. They love it. We had Mayor Jim Cahill come to the dedication because it symbolizes that commitment.”

Farewell Architects has done the plans for Phase II of the Mason Gross project, which is planned to include a 450-seat opera house with a fly tower, wing space, an orchestra pit, and state-of-the-art equipment for fully staged productions of opera, dance, and musical theater. But meanwhile, Mortensen Hall is a monumental first step.

“The comments I get are ‘It seems as if it’s always been there,’ which I like,” says Stauffer. “We made a special effort to have architecture that would blend in with the existing buildings—kind of a Georgian brick style— but also with a bold statement, which is the atrium. We went to great pains to get that right, and I think we did.”

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f I had been asked, before visiting the 9/11 Memorial Museum, if I was personally affected by the September 11 attacks on our country, I might have answered no. After viewing the eight-acre site honoring the 2,983 people who were killed in the horrific attacks, I would have to say we are all personally affected.

When you enter the glass trapezoidal entry pavilion, you immediately develop a somber mindset. An enormous photograph depicting a peaceful scene of the Brooklyn Bridge and East River at 8:30 that morning gets you thinking about what you were doing when the planes hit.

Iconic 70-foot high columns with three-pronged tops soar into the lobby space, designed by Norwegian architectural firm Snohetta.

Trident: One of the architectural terms we learned at the time, referring to the three-branched element distinctive to the lower facades of the Twin Towers.

There were 84 that formed its structural perimeter, and here we see two of them, rising like contemporary sculpture, rusted Corten steel with painted markings that helped rescue workers identify them in the rubble.

These weighed 125,000 pounds and were too long and heavy for flatbed trucks so they had to be sawed in half, then rejoined with a protective sleeve, explains docent Howard Levy. The architectural elements were temporarily stored at the former Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, as archaeologists searched for human remains.

Levy was there at the time of the attack. A neighborhood resident, his apartment was filled with dust from the explosions. Registered with the World Trade Center Health Registry, he is regularly

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checked out for pulmonary disease. So far, so good.

Another friendly docent, a rescue worker, is not so lucky—he developed cancer.

Before beginning his 16 weeks of docent training, Levy volunteered at the Tribute Center on Liberty Street. His warm welcome helps to shake off the rain I had to wait in outside in the ticket holders line.

Shanksville, Pennsylvania: A place few of us had ever heard of before the passengers and crew of the fourth flight hijacked by terrorists that day launched a counter attack, bringing down the plane after it was forced to change course.

Box Cutters: A tool few of us knew of, no less that they could be used as a weapon.

Before descending to the museum’s subterranean levels, you walk through a dark corridor and hear voices of those interviewed on the day: “Papers floating through the air like feathers”; “Is this really happening?”; “Surreal”; “Like a Hollywood blockbuster”; “Everything stopped”; “I couldn’t wrap my head around how anyone could do this.”

Suspended screens suggesting the Towers’ shapes display these words, as well as a slide show of people on the street looking up, hands over their mouths.

Minoru Yamasaki: The Modernist architect we learned about in the 1960s; in addition to the Twin Towers, he designed Robertson Hall at Princeton University.

“What has 200 elevators, 1,200 restrooms, 40,000 doorknobs, 200,000 lighting fixtures, 7 million square feet of acoustical tile ceiling, more structural steel than the Verrazano Bridge and was built for more than $1 billion in the 1970s?”

And then the personal connections come flooding back: Yes, just out of film school, I applied

for a job as bartender at Windows on the World (no, I didn’t get it, although we ate brunch there.) My family loved taking visitors up for the view. Yes, my husband once worked in one of the towers, although he didn’t go in the day of the attack.

During college breaks, my father took me to watch the construction in progress. He was interested in the engineers’ slurry trench technology enabling the reinforced concrete perimeter wall to be sunk six stories into bedrock, and the specially designed kangaroo cranes from Australia that could lift the heavy loads as the towers rose into the skyline.

What’s amazing is that visitors are inside now, where the original slurry wall has been preserved, again like contemporary art, with reinforced tiebacks make up of 21 steel cables and enclosed in metal pipe to hold it to rock. The slurry wall is designated an historic artifact, as are the tiebacks.

Remnants of our national tragedy as contemporary art: How do I feel about this? The North Tower soared more than a quarter mile into the sky, supported by columns anchored 70 feet below ground. Recovery workers sheared the columns during cleanup. Many victims’ family members view the column remnants as defining elements of the sacred ground where their loved ones were killed.

They, too, are designated permanent historic assets.

Benches, like pews, are spread about so visitors can pay respect.

Standing in the center of the pit is “The Last Column,” affixed with memorial messages by recovery workers, first responders, volunteers and victims’ relatives. “The Last Column” was lowered on a flatbed truck in May, 2003, marking the official end of the nine-month Ground Zero recovery effort,

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while bagpipers played “Amazing Grace,” then shrouded and draped it with the American flag. When it departed, buglers played “Taps” and bagpipers and drummers played “America the Beautiful.”

Electronic stations allow you to add your own message and view those of others: “Everyone knows where they were that day”; “I never realized how strong our country can be”; “I was a child that day and am now a police officer with this memory heavy on my heart”; “I have dreamed of coming to NYC all my life to see the courage and strength of New Yorkers”; “Never forget.”

At right is a photograph of the towers and surrounding buildings at sunset, the windows illuminated like jewels. To the left is a section of the steel façade, now sculpture that visitors click their cameras at, and just beyond, a photo of that same skyline without the towers, just clouds of smoke. I remember the smoke, and how it drifted to New Jersey, and how we could smell death in Princeton backyards.

Feb. 26, 1993: The first effort to topple the towers by Islamic terrorists in a van loaded with 1,200 pounds of explosives that killed six.

Walls with screened projections of the postings for those missing, snapshots of smiling young people, happier times.

“The survivors’ stairs”: An artifact of the Vesey Street stairs hundreds used in seeking escape. It brings back those images that continue to haunt us, of those who fled by jumping out the windows. Two who held hands.

What were you doing on that morning? A

perfect end-of-summer day. I was sitting on my porch, having one extra cup of tea before work to enjoy that beautiful September sky. “Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on that September Morning” by Spencer Finch is an installation of 2,983 individual watercolor paintings, each an attempt to remember the color of the sky. Each is a unique shade of blue, creating a panoramic mosaic of color in memory of those killed.

Remember how the only visible difference on the skyline between the two towers was that one had an antenna protruding upward? A segment of it is here – all transmissions from it stopped at 10:28, when the second tower collapsed. By then I was driving to work through blurry vision.

Eleven firefighters were lost when the second tower fell. The FDNY lost 343.

Ever since that historic day, we contend with increased security protocols at airports and other public venues. Even here, before entering the museum, we must put our belongings in a gray plastic tub that goes through a scanner. No, it’s not part of the exhibition – it’s real security. In the “Reflecting on 9/11” Recording Studio, you can join the conversation with the likes of Robert De Niro and Bill Clinton (“We can’t get so concerned with security that we give up our freedom and give in to the terrorists.”)

Another flashback: Visiting one of the towers, witnessing the lobby filled with young men in stiff white shirts, scurrying to elevators, off to their important missions.

Advisory: “This area of the exhibition includes content that may be particularly disturbing.” In one theater area, recovered voice mail messages of those in the tower at the time. “The sky so pure, the air so crisp, everything was perfect.” “Walking over bodies…” Not all survived.

These are not actors. Tissues are provided.

Among the artifacts: Debris and papers that flew out of the buildings that day; a girl’s pink jacket with a Peter Pan collar and boy’s pajamas covered with fire trucks, worn by two children among the 53 passengers on Flight 77 that hijackers crashed into the Pentagon; melted touchtone phones, a Rolodex and photo cube from the Pentagon.

9:59AM: The South Tower collapses and Mayor Giuliani attempts to contact Vice President Cheney.

Remember the escape scene in North by Northwest, when Eva Marie Saint climbs Mount Rushmore in high heels? What was it like for women in their work shoes who had to run faster than their personal best? We see a photo of a rescue worker carrying a barefooted woman, and a display of some of the shoes worn by the evacuees.

10:03AM: Shanksville, Pennsylvania: On display is the watch of Todd Beamer, the Cranbury, New Jersey, resident aboard Flight 93 who tried to reclaim the aircraft from the hijackers. His last words: "Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll." His daughter was born four months later.

10:28AM: The North Tower collapsed.

Never forget. The 9/11 Memorial Museum will make sure you never do.

Tickets for the 9/11 Museum, $15-$24 (special discounts apply—see museum website), are sold for a specified time and can be purchased in person or online, available up to three months in advance. The museum is open daily. May 21, 2014-Sept. 21, 2014, 9AM-8PM and Sept. 22, 2014-Dec. 31, 2014, 9AM-7PM. Admission to the 9/11 Memorial, on the grounds outside the museum, is free. www.911memorial.org

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8PM Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra starring Nicole Ari Parker and directed by Emily Mann at McCarter Theatre Center (the production runs through October 5). www.mccarter.org.

10AM-5PM Celebrate fall at the 39th Annual Apple Day at Terhune Orchards. Fresh apple pies, apple cider, apple donuts, and Jug Band music, along with lots of activities for children like face painting, a corn stalk maze, and pick-your-own apples (also on Sunday, September 14). www.terhuneorchards.com.

8PM Crossing genres of classical, jazz, pop, and bossa nova, international music group Pink Martini performs at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ. www.countbasietheatre.org.

10:30AM 2014 Thompson Bucks County Classic Bike Race from Doylestown to New Hope, Pennsylvania.

The course covers 100 miles and gains nearly 7,000 ft. of elevation. The bike races continue on Sunday, September 14 with the Thompson Criterium of Doylestown, Cyclosportif 100K (Gran Fondo) for recreational cyclists, and a host of children’s races. www.buckscountyclassic.com.

10AM-6PM The Scarecrow Festival at Peddler’s Village in Lahaska, Pennsylvania. is a weekend of fall family fun with pumpkin pie eating contests, scarecrowmaking workshops, and pumpkin painting (also on Sunday, September 21). www.peddlersvillage.com.

8PM Grammy Award-winning musical group, Gipsy Kings, performs at Atlantic City’s Revel Casino & Resorts as part of their 25th Anniversary Tour. The band’s music is inspired by the Gitane culture of Southern Spain that includes Seville and Granada. www.revelresorts.com.

All Day The entire Hopewell Valley turns into an outdoor art museum with the exhibition of 68 fiberglass oxen painted and embellished by local artists. The event celebrates the launch of the Hopewell Valley Arts Council (through October 19). www.hvartscouncil.org.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 10AM-7PM The Mushroom Festival in “The Mushroom Capital of the World,” Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. This two-day festival includes cook-offs, foot races, wine tastings, and an old fashioned carnival (also on Sunday, September 7). www.mushroomfestival.org.

12PM Morven Museum & Garden hosts “Yoga in the Garden” led by Gemma Farrell of Gratitude Yoga of Princeton. Morven’s garden provides a peaceful atmosphere where all yoga lovers are welcome. www.morven.org.

8:15PM Spectacular Fireworks and Fountains Show at Longwood Gardens. The entire display is set to music by The Beatles. www.longwoodgardens.org.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

10AM-6:30PM The Brandywine Festival of the Arts, an annual arts festival in Wilmington, Delaware with over 250 artists exhibiting their works in a wide-range of styles and mediums. Food vendors and live music add to the atmosphere (also on Sunday, September 7). www.brandywinearts.com.

8AM The Alternative Half Marathon in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. Part of the Run Bucks Marathon Series. www.runbucks.com.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

1PM 2014 Epicurean Palette at Grounds for Sculpture. Sample food, desserts, wine, and beer from the Tri-State area’s premier chefs. Then spend the afternoon strolling the park. www. groundsforsculpture.org.

9AM-5PM The World Trade Center Memorial and The National September 11 Memorial Museum honors the victims of the World Trade Center attacks through a variety of tributes, exhibits, and walking tours. www.national911memorial.org.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 2PM Join the Paul Robeson House and the Arts Council of Princeton for a performance by Kevin Maynor, who will sing the Paul Robeson Repertoire accompanied by Eric Olsen on piano. This event will feature the Trenton Children’s Choir and The First Baptist Church Praise Dance. www. artscouncilofprinceton.org.

7PM One of Nashville’s most iconic singersongwriters and seven-time Grammy Award winner, Willie Nelson, performs at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. www,njpac.org.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 12PM-11PM The Italian American Festival hosted by the Mercer County Park Commission and featuring food, drink, and music in celebration of New Jersey’s Italian heritage (also on Sunday, September 28). www.mercercountyparks.org.

12PM-5PM The Brandywine Valley Wine Trail’s 11th Annual Harvest Fest. Join in the harvest festivities like grape stomping, picnicking, BBQs, and hay rides through the vineyard. This is the perfect opportunity to learn about the region where some of the East Coast’s best wines are grown (repeats on September 28, October 4, and October 5). www. bvwinetrail.com.

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SEPT. 14 8PM The Princeton Singers celebrate thirty years with a special anniversary concert featuring the world premiere of new works by PulitzerPrize winning composer Steven Stucky. www. princetonsingers.org.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 4PM The Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s season of romance begins with “Romantic Imaginings,” a concert featuring Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 performed by Bulgarian violinist Bella Hristova at Richardson Auditorium. A pre-concert talk will take place at 3PM. www.princetonsymphony.org.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 7:30PM International Symposium at the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University on “Sarah Levy’s World: Music, Gender, and Judaism in Enlightenment Berlin.” The symposium will include a salon-style recital, choral performances, academic conferences, and a reading of an Enlightenment play (also on Tuesday, September 30). www.masongross.rutgers.edu.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 9AM S.A.V.E. A Friend to Homeless Animal Shelter’s 5K Run/Walk at the Mercer County Park West Picnic Area. www.save-animals.org.

4PM Princeton University mens soccer vs. Dartmouth College at Princeton’s Roberts Stadium. www. goprincetontigers.com.

7PM Rutgers University football vs. University of Michigan at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway. www. scarletknights.com.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 7:30PM Outside Mullingar, written by Pulitzer Prize and Oscar Winner John Patrick Shanley and directed by David Saint, opens at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick (runs through November 2). www.georgestreetplayhouse.org.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 8PM The Princeton Sound Kitchen presents the Prism Saxophone Quartet and performs new works by student composers. www. princetonsoundkitchen.org.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 Opening of “Korea, Land of the Diamond Mountains” at the Newark Museum. The collection features over 500 Korean objects showcasing the variety of ornate Korean art created over the centuries. www.newarkmuseum.org.

4:30PM David Isay, Founder and President of NPR’s broadcast “StoryCorps,” leads a discussion on the first ten years of StoryCorps and answers questions from the public. www.princeton.edu.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 Opening of “Hail Specimen of Female Art! New Jersey Schoolgirl Needlework, 1726-1860” exhibit at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton (runs through March 2015). www.morven.org.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 Opening of “Chigusa and the Art of Tea in Japan” at the Princeton University Art Museum. The extraordinary tea-leaf storage jar named Chigusa dates to the thirteenth or fourteenth century and will be on display through February 2015. www. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

1-4PM West Windsor Arts Council’s Autumn Arts Afternoon is a hands-on visual arts festival for artists of all ages. www.westwindsorartscenter.org.

7-9PM Experience haunted Princeton with the Princeton Tour Company’s Ghost Hunt and Cemetery Visit in downtown Princeton (tours take place throughout the month of October). www. princetontourcompany.com.

8PM Fleetwood Mac reunites for a performance at the Prudential Center in Newark. www. prucenter.com.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 7:30PM Theresa Rebeck, creator and producer of the NBC hit Smash, pens a riotous tale of backstage battles in The Understudy at McCarter Theatre Center. Directed by Adam Immerwahr, this comedy takes a biting look at the art, celebrity, and competition associated with New York’s Broadway (runs through November 2). www.mcarter.org.

7:30PM An Evening with David Sedaris at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. www. kimmelcenter.org.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 8PM National Geographic Channel’s Cesar Milan delivers a live canine training demonstration and audience Q&A at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. www.countbasietheatre.org.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 7PM Musicians A.J. Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle perform a tribute concert to Simon & Garfunkel at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The duo re-creates the sounds of those early years in Greenwich Village with astonishing accuracy. www.bcptheater.org.

2-6PM Sample beers from over 90 regional breweries at the 17th Annual Kennett Brewfest in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. www.kennettbrewfest.com.

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n terms of art, Philadelphia is a top destination, from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, from the Rodin Museum to the Barnes Collection. The first of these is the oldest art museum and school in the country and is a showcase for American masters, while the second boasts a collection of some 300,000 works spanning two millennia. Admirers of August Rodin can explore the largest collection of the artist’s sculptures outside of Paris and then pop into the Barnes to see one of the world’s finest gatherings of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings presented in a way that is unlike any other world-class museum on the planet.

Beyond the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, there’s even more to see; much of it for free. Artwork is on display all over the city, courtesy of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, which marks its 30th anniversary this fall.

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Ironically, the program that has given Philly its reputation as the “City of Murals” began as part of an effort to combat graffiti. The city’s first African American mayor Wilson Goode hired California muralist Jane Golden to combat the blight. But instead of painting over the “problem,” Golden reached out to graffiti writers. Their raw talent would ultimately transform the city.

In 1996, the Anti-Graffiti Network gave birth to the Mural Arts Program with Golden as its executive director. The now nationally recognized program and the nonprofit that supports it have since become a successful public/private partnership with over 3,600 murals cherished by residents and a must-see for Philadelphia visitors.

What may be the world’s largest outdoor art gallery can be toured by trolley car, by train, or on one of the walking tours that leave from the Mural Arts Program’s Tour Center located in The Gallery at Market East at 9th and Market Streets.

Advance reservations are recommended for the “Mural Mile Walking Tour,” which showcases the growing collection in Center City. There are now so many to see that the tour has been divided into two separate parts covering Mural Mile North (from north of Market Street into Old City, through Chinatown, and around City Hall) and Mural Mile South (from south of Market Street to Lombard Street and back along the recently revitalized 13th Street corridor).

Each of these walking tours takes about two hours but you can be left off at a number of predetermined stops along the route. The Mile North tour has 15 such stops. City visitors can park in garages nearby on 10th and 12th streets between Arch and Filbert, and the Reading Terminal Market is a great place for food after you have worked up an appetite.

Besides seeing the murals, you’ll learn about the grassroots collaborations that produced them. Your guide is sure to share stories of the streets and the people involved in these incredibly vibrant artworks, many of which spring directly from neighborhood residents and give voice to individual and collective concerns.

In addition to being an expression of culture and tradition, this is art with a mission. The Mural Arts Program has empowered thousands of at-risk Philly youth who take part in educational programs across the city every year.

Golden has put into practice her personal belief that “Art Saves Lives” with murals in neighborhoods with a past history of neglect. Their titles say it all, from the series, “Unifying the Neighborhoods” and “Cultures of Philadelphia,” to the “History of Chinatown,” depicting the work and struggles of Chinese immigrants.

For the recent “Finding Home,” the city’s homeless were invited to write their thoughts of “home” on strips of cloth that were then folded and woven together.

The three-dimensional mural has words that, depending on where you stand to view it, reveal themselves as “visible, or “in-visible,” “dignity” or “in-dignity.”

Some of the murals are complex and ambitious installations like the 85,000 square foot “How Philly Moves,” at the Philadelphia International Airport. One of the largest murals in the world, “How Philly Moves” was created by a team led by Jon Laidacker and incorporates images of dancers by photographer Jacques-Jean “JJ” Tiziou. It has turned the mundane exterior of the airport’s parking structure into a stunning gateway for the airport with swirling figures on a black background that serves to intensify their palpable energy.

“Love Letter” is a narrative series of 50 text-based rooftop murals that can be seen from the Market/Frankford El. Philadelphia native and former graffiti writer Stephen Powers painted them so that they could be read by a girlfriend on her way home from work.

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(OPPOSITE) A tour guide expands upon “Common Threads” by Meg Saligman completed 1997, restored 2011. Broad & Spring Garden Streets Photo credit: Jack Ramsdale for Mural Arts Program. (c) City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

(THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP-LEFT) 2012 Metro by Steve Weinik; 2012 Philly Painting Dre photography by Jon Kaufman; “We The Youth”

by Keith Haring completed 1987, restored 2013.

2147 Ellsworth Street. Photo credit: Steve Weinik for Mural Arts Program (c) Keith Haring; “Peace Wall” by Jane Golden. 29th & Wharton, Gray’s Ferry Neighborhood. Completed 1997. Photo credit: Jack Ramsdale for Mural Arts Program (c) City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

(BELOW) “How Philly Moves” Covering nearly 85,000 square feet of wall space on the parking garages at Philadelphia International Airport, “How Philly Moves” is among the largest murals ever created in the United States and is the largest project the Mural Arts Program has completed to date. © 2010 Jacques-Jean Tiziou, the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and the Mural Arts Advocates. Mural Photography © 2011 Joel Avery, CREATiVENESS.

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“Celebration of Poetry” by Parris Stancell.

1531 W Girard Ave. Completed 2004. Photo credit: Jack Ramsdale for Mural Arts Program (c) City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program;

“Philly Painting,” created in collaboration with Dutch artists Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koolhaas, is designed to spur economic development of 60 buildings along a struggling commercial corridor into a vibrant district for locals and incoming businesses. Set in North Philadelphia, around Germantown and Lehigh Avenues, this is neighborhood beautification writ large.

Little wonder that Golden has received numerous awards for urban transformation, including the 2012 Governor’s Award for Innovation in the Arts and a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania Award from former Governor Ed Rendell. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and has co-authored several books about the murals including, with David Updike, the new Mural Arts @ 30.

For more information on the Philadelphia Mural Arts Project, The Gallery Market East 9th and Market Streets, Level 3, call 215.925.3633, or visit: muralarts.org; for a tour schedule, visit: muralarts.org/tour/mural-mile-walkingtour. A cell phone App that provides a tour of the murals is also available.

AREA EXHIBITS Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street: Princeton Artists Alliance 25th Anniversary Show celebrates the founding of this local group with an exhibition of work by its members from October 11 to November 26. For more information, call 609.934.8777, or visit: www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.

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Grounds for Sculpture, Seward Johnson: The Retrospective, the largest and most significant exhibition in the park’s history, presents work by its 83-year-old founder and features more than 150 of his sculptures, including “Forever Marilyn,” “The Awakening,” and “Unconditional Surrender,” through September 21. For more information, visit www.groundsforsculpture.org.

James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine St., Doylestown, Pennsylvania: Out of this World: Works by Steve Tobin, through October 26. For more information, hours and admission, call 215.340.9800 or visit: www.MichenerArtMuseum.org.

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick: Odessa’s Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth through October 19. For admission and hours, call 732.932.7237, ext. 610 or visit: www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Vermeer’s “Young Woman Seated at a Virginal” on view through September 30; Making a Classic Modern: Frank Gehry’s Master Plan for the Philadelphia Museum of Art through September 1, examines the architects designs for the museum’s future renewal and expansion.

For more information, call 215.763 8100, or visit: www.philamuseum.org.

Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, 5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware: Costumes of Downton Abbey, designs from the award-winning television series through January 4, 2015. For more information, hours and admission, visit: www.winterthur.org.

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he Brandywine River Valley encompasses sections of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Northern Delaware. This is horse country, rich in farmland, rolling hills, and history. The area is dotted with 19th century grist mills and Civil War sites.

In autumn, the foliage is alive with color and the many bed and breakfast lodgings open their doors to weekend travellers. It’s no wonder that the famously talented Wyeth clan made the Brandywine their primary home when they weren’t in Maine. Located only a few hours from Philadelphia and Manhattan, the Brandywine makes for a relaxing long weekend.

Visitors will soon come to understand why it is often referred to as the “England of Pennsylvania.”

Kennett Square (www.historickennettsquare.com) is a small town with many shopping and dining attractions. The unique eateries range from Japanese to German. Sovana Bistro is an excellent choice for authentic European and Mediterranean cuisine (www.sovanabistro.com).

Half Moon Restaurant and Saloon (www.halfmoonrestaurant) is a cozy pub in downtown Kennett Square that serves a huge selection of bottled Belgian beers accompanied by hearty entreés. Art galleries and home décor stores are a particular highlight when visiting Kennett Square. The Longwood Art Gallery (www.longwoodartgallery.com) has been serving the Brandywine River arts community for over 30 years. They currently represent more than 50 local and regional artists. Scout & Annie (www. scoutandannie.com) houses a fun collection of vintage furniture, pottery, accessories, fine candles, and luxurious bath products. They are the go-to source for mid-century modern furniture.

Gateway Stables Riding Center (www.gatewaystables.com) in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania provides expert riding services to locales and visitors,

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alike. The center offers English and Western-style riding lessons 7 days per week, along with trail rides, and boarding services. Autumn trail rides are particularly peaceful. These rides are geared towards riders ages 10 and older and last approximately 1 hour. Reservations are requested to ensure availability of horses and guides. Dress code is also enforced for the comfort and safety of the rider. Be sure to wear long pants and boots with a heel.

Don your warmest fall sweater and rent a canoe from Northbrook Canoe Co. (www.northbrookcanoe.com) in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

The Brandywine River is calm and quiet here—almost meditative. On your paddle journey you will pass by stately acorn, oak, and sycamore trees,

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(top, left) Winterthur along with a host of local wildlife. Be sure to row past Trimble’s Ford, the spot where British and Hessian troupes crossed the river to surprise George Washington. A one-hour canoe rental is $45.

Longwood Gardens (www.longwoodgardens.com) was once owned by the industrialist Pierre S. du Pont who purchased the property to serve as an arboretum and his private estate. Du Pont was greatly inspired by his world travels and added extensively to the property over the years in the form of fountains, sculptures, and flora. Today, the property consists of 20 outdoor gardens, 20 indoor gardens, greenhouses (conservatories), fountains, tree houses, and a new meadow garden. The entire property is set on approximately 1,077 acres. Longwood Gardens changes with the seasons. The onset of fall brings new life to the acres of walking paths.

After Thanksgiving, the estate creates special yuletide displays, light shows, and festive orchestral concerts. Longwood Gardens is located less than 15 minutes from Kennett Square.

The Brandywine River Museum (www.brandywinemuseum.org) houses a definitive collection of art works by the Wyeth clan. Located in beautiful Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, the area inspired the many folkloric scenes painted by N.C. Wyeth, his son Andrew Wyeth, and grandson Jamie Wyeth.

The current exhibit, “Exalted Nature,” includes the visionary landscapes of Charles Burchfield, and is on view through November 16. Paintings and drawings depicting the quests of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table will be on view from November 28 through January 4 in the exhibit, “Enchanted Castles and Noble Knights.” Visitors can take a tour of Andrew Wyeth’s actual studio in Chadds Ford where he painted from 1940 to 2008.

The modest studio has undergone careful restoration to preserve its original appearance. Not to be overlooked is the museum’s collection of American landscape paintings, illustrations, still lifes, and portraits.

The Benjamin Ring House (www.thebrandywine.com/attractions) is a historic building on the Brandywine Battlefield in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

The home, which served as main headquarters for General George Washington during the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, is now a walk-through museum and contains a delightful collection of Quaker-style furniture.

The Benjamin Ring House Winterthur (www.winterthur.org) is one of America’s leading museums for the exhibition of American decorative arts. Costumes of Downton Abbey is an exhibition of original fashions from the awardwinning television series Downton Abbey. The exhibit is on view through January 4, 2015. The museum’s 60-acre garden and surrounding woodlands make for ideal exploration especially if the weather is cool and mild. The museum offers a variety of tours and programs for families with young children. Museum stores and cafes are another fun diversion.

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Wyeth Gallery at the Brandywine River Museum The Inn at Montchanin Village (www.historichotels.org) in Montchanin, Delaware, was named for Alexandrine de Montchanin, grandmother of the founder of the DuPont Gunpowder Company. The inn is actually a 19th-century village that includes 11 restored buildings, landscaped gardens, outdoor fireplaces, walking trails, and the popular Krazy Kat’s Restaurant, which was once the village blacksmith shop. The village is located halfway between New York and Washington, D.C., and only 25 minutes from Philadelphia’s International Airport. A stay at the village is ideal for a family vacation or a solo retreat.

The Fairville Inn (www.fairvilleinn.com) includes elegant accommodations and is conveniently located a short distance from Longwood Gardens, Winterthur, and the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Although it is a bed and breakfast, the home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Fairville Historic District. Situated on over five acres, the inn is surrounded by miles of backroads, which make for excellent hiking and walking paths.

Each of the 13 rooms and two suites are individually decorated in elegant colonial décor. The inn serves a complimentary homestyle breakfast each morning with freshly-baked breads and muffins. Afternoon tea is served daily, accompanied by fruit and cheese. If you are looking to break a sweat, the inn will direct you to nearby golf courses and bike rentals.

The Chaddsford Winery (www.chaddsford.com) was founded in 1982 and has since then grown into one of the most productive vineyards in Pennsylvania. They regularly produce Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Pinot Noir, to much acclaim. Their new artisan series includes a collection of Niagra, Sangria and Spiced Apple. The Chadds Ford location consists of a tasting room, patio and market where you can purchase all of their wines. They also maintain a Wine Tasting Room at Peddler’s Village (www.peddlersvillage.com), a popular outdoor shopping center in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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alph Schoenstein (1933-2006), a longtime Princeton resident, is remembered as a Renaissance man who brought excitement and passion to all that he pursued. An author, humorist, and beloved NPR commentator, Schoenstein grew up in Manhattan, the son of the Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper editor Paul Schoenstein. His first book, The Block (1960), written after he graduated from Columbia University, is a memoir of his childhood, including daily interactions with seven friends, all of whom lived around West 78th Street before World War II. A wordsmith with a knack for observing the sociological, psychological, and geographical nature of his family and neighborhood life, Schoenstein became a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Daily News and Playboy. He also wrote over 18 novels and non-fiction works and ghost wrote a number of books for celebrities like Joan Rivers (Bouncing Back: I’ve Survived Everything...and I Mean Everything...and You Can Too! in 1997), Ed McMahon (Here’s Johnny! in 2005), and Bill Cosby.

Ironically, one of Schoenstein’s most widely read books is one on which his name does not appear. He is the uncredited co-author of Cosby’s popular 1987 book Fatherhood. He also co-authored the 1988 follow-up, Time Flies as well as two more Cosby titles.

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Schoenstein’s first article, which appeared in 1968, took the form of an undercover piece with a comedic twist. He had found his forté and it led the once quiet observer into trouble when he was arrested for impersonating a police officer at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in the summer of that same year. He also found himself out of favor with the White House because of a 1969 book about President, Lyndon B. Johnson’s dogs. My Year in the White House Dog House provoked a substantial backlash from the presidential party.

He wrote for the first issue of National Lampoon and is said to have inspired the character of Donald “Boon” Schoenstein in the film Animal House.

In addition to The Block and a biography of his father, Citizen Paul: The Story of Father and Son (1978), republished as Superman and Son (1995), Schoenstein’s most popular books include Yes, My Darling Daughters: Adventures in Fathering (1976); The I-Hate-Preppies Handbook, a best seller in 1981; and Toilet Trained for Yale: Adventures in 21st-Century Parenting (2002).

Schoenstein also served as a commentator on the Today program, which aired on NBC in the mid-1960s. In the 1990s, he became a part of the NPR Program, All Things Considered, for which he was a commentator for almost a decade, cheering the journeys of countless daily commuters. His last such commentary took place just a year before he died.

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(top) Paul Krugman during a book tour. (below) Princeton faculty, students and administrators and members of the media packed Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall for a press conference in honor of Krugman's Nobel Prize.

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Interview by Lynn Adams Smith

obel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman will be retiring from Princeton University in 2015 to join the faculty of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, as professor in the Ph.D. Program in Economics, where he will become a Distinguished Scholar at the Graduate Center’s Luxembourg Income Study Center (LIS). He will continue writing his column and blog for The New York Times.

Tell us about the Luxembourg Income Study Center.

The background here is that a number of countries have long collected data on the distribution of income —the US has been doing it since 1947—but it was often hard to compare the results across countries and to some extent over time. What LIS does is coordinate with local statisticians so that they produce comparable information, and help support research on what we learn from these comparisons. We learn, for example, about the comparative role of government programs in reducing poverty in many countries.

New York’s minimum wage is currently $8 per hour.

Germany is introducing a national minimum wage next year of 8.50 euros, equivalent to $15 an hour. Swiss voters recently rejected increasing their minimum wage to 22 Swiss francs or nearly $25 per hour. What would you like to see the minimum wage be in the US? I’m for raising the minimum to something over $10 nationally, which would bring it back in real terms and as a share of average non-managerial wages to its level in the 1960s. High-productivity centers, like New York, could justify going higher.

How has studying economics at a Ph.D. level changed since you were a student?

I’m actually struck by how little it has changed. The basic structure of course-work that lays a foundation, followed by dissertation, is the same; the math and statistical level has risen, but it was already pretty high in 1975! The content of some fields has changed, of course, mostly though not everywhere for the better. On the whole, though, the structure both of education and of the career track for young economists has been remarkably stable.

I think that’s starting to change now, as the web and the proliferation of think tanks shake up the sources of career success. But that’s just happening, after decades of stability.

Do you have any concern that mounting student loan debt will eventually impact the economy and housing market?

It’s already happening. Household formation is very low, and debt has to be part of the explanation.

How much inflation is appropriate and why has the inflation rate remained low despite the expansion in the money supply?

Inflation is a tradeoff—higher inflation raises some costs of doing business, but low inflation or deflation have the effect of prolonging slumps. In the ’90s there was a sort of consensus that 2 percent made the most of that tradeoff, but subsequent experience shows that the costs of low inflation are much bigger than we thought. So I’d

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advocate something like 4. As for why inflation hasn’t picked up—both theory and historical experience told us that in a depressed economy with near-zero interest rates increases in the quantity of money would just sit there. Some of us were saying that over and over back in 2009 and 2010; what will it take for people to admit that we were right?

Are bubbles good or bad and do we need them to create strong economic growth and reach higher levels of employment?

Bubbles are bad if you have an economy near full employment, where they divert resources from their proper use and set the stage for financial instability. In a depressed economy, even ill-conceived spending can help create jobs, so bubbles aren’t necessarily bad. There are reasons to believe that we’re facing an era of persistent economic weakness, which means that we’ll only feel prosperous during bubble periods.

Please comment on how artificially low interest rates have impacted the current value of baby boomers’ retirement portfolios and should this be a consideration of the Federal Reserve?

Oh, boy. What do you mean “artificially low”?

Compared to what? The appropriate level of the interest rate, most economists would say, is the rate that gives us full

employment without inflation; since we don’t have full employment, that says that rates are too high.

And no, the Fed’s job is to stabilize the economy, not to protect incomes of some groups at the expense of that mandate.

Do you think Bitcoin will gain momentum and become a viable currency?

No. I could be wrong, but Bitcoin is harder to use than other forms of electronic payment, and lacks any fundamental source of value (unlike dollars, which can be used to pay taxes). It’s possible that Bitcoin will somehow become self-supporting, but for now my guess is that it’s largely a fad that will collapse one of these days.

What do you like to do for fun in New York City and what will you miss most about living in Princeton?

People don’t necessarily know this, but New York is a great walking and running city; the outdoors seems especially precious amid all that urbanism. I also value the music scene, and just the sheer number of interesting people. Oh, and tons of good modest-price restaurants.

What I’ll miss about Princeton is the birdsong, the good friends I do have there, and some of the cultural institutions, McCarter Theatre in particular.

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