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Porchfest Pages 22-23 Bicycle Tours of Historic Trail Where Trolleys Once Traveled . . . . . . . 5 Yom HaShoah Remembrance is Focused On Painter’s Journey . . 9 Celebrities Come to IAS, PU For Filming of Oppenheimer . . . . . . 10 Looking Behind the Facade — Thomas Mann In Princeton . . . . . . . 17 PU Orchestra’s Mindlin Memorial Concerts Return To Richardson . . . . . . 18 Sparked by English’s Versatility, PU Men’s Lax Edges Dartmouth . . . 29 McDowell Stars as PHS Baseball Rallies to Top Lawrenceville . . . . . . 32

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PU Trustees Extend Eisgruber’s Tenure For Five More Years Christopher L. Eisgruber’s tenure as president of Princeton University has been extended by the University’s Board of Trustees for at least five more years, as Princeton University looks forward to the expansion of its undergraduate student body, increasing investments in emerging areas of science and innovation, and the most ambitious building program in its history. In approving the extension of Eisgruber’s presidency at its April 9 meeting, the Board of Trustees cited “transformational gains” in student body diversity and philanthropic support, accomplishments that have enhanced the University’s teaching and research, and historic campus expansion, according to a Princeton University press release. “As the University and world emerge from a period of unprecedented challenges, the board felt it was important to give us all the reassurance and strength of Chris Eisgruber’s continued leadership for a minimum five more years, said Board of Trustees Chair Louise “Weezie” Sams. “This decision positions us optimally as we venture forward.” A constitutional law scholar and 1983 Princeton University graduate, Eisgruber joined the Princeton University faculty in 2001, then served as provost for nine years before he became the University’s 20th president in 2013. “I am grateful to the trustees for their confidence in me, and I am excited about what we can achieve in the next five years,” said Eisgruber. “It is a privilege to lead this University and this community that I love.” Sams praised Eisgruber and noted Princeton University’s prospects for unusual successes in the coming years. “Chris is a visionary thinker, and we are delighted to keep him at the helm as we lean into this moment of opportunity,” she said. In his annual State of the University letter earlier this year, Eisgruber emphasized the goal of taking advantage of Princeton’s growing endowment returns to expand “audacious bets on human talent” and explore “new dimensions” in the University’s teaching and research mission. The April 18 press release highlights Princeton University as “a national leader Continued on Page 14

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Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban Starts May 4 If you’re still using those store-supplied, single-use plastic bags for your groceries and other purchases, then it’s time for a change. Start bringing your own reusable bags when you shop. “Get in the habit before the law officially goes into effect on May 4,” this week’s Princeton municipal newsletter advises. The new law, signed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy in 2020, is the most progressive bag ban law in the country. It prohibits grocery stores and other retail establishments from providing single-use plastic bags to customers. Also, grocery stores 2,500 square feet or larger are not permitted to provide single-use paper bags, and the law also prohibits polystyrene foam (known as Styrofoam) takeout food containers and other Styrofoam food-service products. “I don’t think this will be a difficult transition for Princeton folks,” said Sustainable Princeton Executive Director Christine Symington, “because our community is already pretty cognizant of the impact of single-use plastic, and we’re supportive of the new rules.” Symington mentioned two good reasons for the new laws. “The primary reason was to reduce litter,” she said. “Single use disposable bags often find their way into the environment in places where they are not meant to be. This will certainly help to reduce litter.”

She continued, “Also this is a step in the right direction towards understanding the full life-cycle costs of the goods and products that we use. Hopefully this is helping us as a society to go away from a make-and-dispose culture towards more of a circular economy, an economy where we are extracting the most useful life out of a product before it makes its way to the landfill.” In urging the public to get ready for May 4, New Jersey Department of

Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette pointed out the destructive impact of single-use bags. “Plastics pollution has become one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems,” he said. “Americans alone use some 100 billion plastic bags each year. While some of these bags are recycled, many end up in landfills and many more wind up as litter harmful to our communities, ecosystems, and wildlife. Sadly, these plastic bags get into our marine Continued on Page 8

Many Musicians are On Deck for Princeton Porchfest Performances

With some 60 bands and musical attractions on 11 front porches in town, the inaugural Princeton Porchfest this Saturday, April 23, is shaping up to be the allencompassing community event that its planners had in mind. Barring a severe weather event, homes on Murray Place, Linden Lane, Maple Street, Willow Street, Wiggins Street, Mt. Lucas Road, Birch Avenue, Witherspoon Street, and Leigh Avenue; along with the Princeton University building that fronts 185 Nassau Street and the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts at 102 Witherspoon Street, will be the stages for musical attractions from across the spectrum. An eclectic-sounding list of names, including Mimosa Watusi, Ophelia’s Lover,

Lemon Glaze Band, Cousin Oven, Hot Jupiter, and Circle Round the Sun, are on the schedule. More traditional-sounding attractions on the list include Westrick Music Academy, Princeton High School Around 8, the Princeton University Band, Wildcats A Cappella, the Princeton Pianists Ensemble, and the Sourland String Band. For a full roster, visit Artscouncilofprinceton.org. Princeton Porchfest is the one of the highlights of the April ARTS Festival of Arts and Culture, which was inaugurated April 1 to reimagine the annual Communiversity street fair, which has drawn crowds in the range of 30,000 to Princeton in recent, pre-pandemic years. The Arts Continued on Page 11

BUNNY CHASE: Terhune Orchards hosted its annual Bunny Chase Spring Celebration last weekend with children’s activities including a self-guided treasure hunt, bunny-themed crafts, games, special play houses, and a play area in the barnyard. Participants share their favorite animals at the farm in this week’s Town Talk on page 6. (Photo by Weronika A. Plohn)

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WHEN TROLLEYS RAN THE RAILS: This 1929 photo of a trolley car on the route between Trenton and New Brunswick is included among the West Windsor Historical Society’s remembrances of the historic Trolley Line Trail.

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Bicycle Tours of Historic Trail Where Trolleys Once Traveled

Back in the early days of the last century, trolley lines were key links in local transportation systems. The line that ran from Trenton to New Brunswick from 1902 to 1937 spanned 27.5 miles,

stopping along the way in West Windsor. West Windsor Township happens to be in the midst of celebrating its 225th birthday this year, and recognizing the route is part of the schedule. This Saturday, April 23, at 10 a.m. and 12 and 2 p.m., bicycle tours of the old trolley line trail — now a pedestrian walking trail — are being offered by the West Windsor Historical Society and the West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance.

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D e p a r t i n g f r o m We s t Windsor Community Park Pavilion, the tours will run along the PSE &G power lines, the route once taken by the trolleys. The 10 a.m. tour includes a ribboncutting for a recently constructed extension to the trail. All three tours will explore the story of the trolley line, touching on other West Windsor history topics along the way. “What used to be the trolley line is now a pedestrian walking path, and not many people know about its history,” said Paul Ligeti, who is vice president of the historical society. “We thought people would like to know.” Saturday’s tours are just one part of a year-long series of events commemorating West Windsor’s history. They began in January with a lecture by author and historian Larry Kidder on “Ten Crucial Days,” about West Windsor’s role in the Revolut ionar y War; and conclude in December at the West Windsor History Museum. Numerous events are planned for this summer, including a cemetery tour and lecture, an antique car show, a cricket tournament, a history and culture parade, a Revolutionary War Colonial reenactment, open space tours, and more. “The historical society, local government, and other municipal groups are collaborating on a whole variety of events,” said Ligeti. “There are ongoing projects, including the installation of historic markers in different historic villages; and

beautifying the cemetery at Princeton Baptist Church [on Route 1], on which we are working a bit with Princeton University.” A portion of Princeton University’s Lake Campus, currently under construction, is located in West Windsor. Up until about 50 years ago, the township was rural and predominantly agricultural. “A lot of people don’t know that the western boundary used to extend up to Nassau Street,” said Ligeti. “And even today, some don’t know where the border between Princeton and West Windsor is located.”

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The township is probably best known for the infamous 1938 radio broadcast War of the Worlds, during which Orson Welles, of the Mercury Theatre program, told terrified listeners that the West Windsor town Grovers Mill was the site of a Martian invasion. Though the hoax made international news and is considered a watershed moment in broadcast history, not everyone is aware of its notoriety. “There are actually a huge number of residents who don’t know about it,” said Ligeti. “And they are surprised when they find out.” For more information about the tours and other events celebrating West Windsor’s 225th anniversary, visit westwindsorhistory.com. “It makes it that much richer to live in a place if you know the history and you’re tied into it,” said Ligeti. “Regardless if families have lived here for two days or 200 years, it is everyone’s history. It’s a unifying thing.” —Anne Levin

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“What is your favorite animal in the Terhune barnyard?” (Asked Saturday at Terhune Orchards) (Photos by Weronika A. Plohn)

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McCaffrey’s Food Market, which has two stores in New Jersey, one in the Princeton Shopping Center and one in West Windsor, said that McCaffrey’s is recommending that shoppers either bring their own reusable bags, “which a lot of our customers already do,” or purchase reusable bags in the store. “We have reusable bags for purchase at checkout for 99 cents if they forget,” said Rushing. “We had a whole campaign of colorful, nice, reusable bags that say ‘Carry kindness.’ It reflects our ongoing sentiment, our new year’s resolution to be kind to each other and kind to our planet.” Rushing added that McCaffrey’s has had signage in stores and on social media warning that the plastic ban will soon be in effect. “People in the Princeton and West Windsor area are pretty socially conscious,” she said. “I think everybody is in tune with this.” Plastic bags that are exempt from the ban include woven plastic tote bags that many establishments sell at checkout lines; meat department bags that wrap uncooked beef, fish, poultry, etc.; produce bags to hold fruits and vegetables

or other loose items; pet store bags used to hold live animals, such as fish; deli bags that contain sliced or prepared food; dry cleaning bags; pharmacy bags to carry prescription drugs; and newspaper bags. Symington is expecting a smooth changeover for Princeton and the rest of New Jersey on May 4. “It may not be as hard as we think to get into the habit of bringing our own bags when we go shopping,” she said. “Once you start to do it, it becomes a habit.” —Donald Gilpin

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D&R Greenway Land Trust has announced local bird and conservation advocates Hannah Suthers and Sharyn Magee as recipients of the land trust’s 2022 Donald B. Jones Conservation Award. The award ceremony will take place at the annual Greenway Gala on Sunday, May 15, from 4-6 p.m. at Hillside Farm in Hopewell. The farm was recently gifted to D&R Greenway by Betty Wold Johnson’s family in her memory. The gala is a special opportunity for members of the public to have a bird’s eye view of the property, home of the future Betty Wold Johnson Preserve. The new preserve is not yet open to the public. High on a hill with sweeping views across the Hopewell Valley, the land holds great ecological value for birds and wildlife and is of historic significance. This 800-acre property will not open to the public until next year after a process is completed to ensure protection of conservation resources. D&R Greenway’s Donald B. Jones Conservation Award annually recognizes those who have made a significant

personal commitment with on-the-ground results. In 1977, The Featherbed Lane Bird Banding Station in the Sourlands was initiated by Suthers. Magee joined two decades ago. These two scientists have dedicated 15,000 hours at one of the longestrunning bird banding stations in the U.S. Their data informed Cornell University’s 2019 study that sounded an alarm: 2.9 billion birds have disappeared across North America in the last 50 years, largely due to loss of habitat. Suthers and Magee will be introduced at the gala by Paul G. Rodewald of Cornell University and science editor of the Birds of the World Project. “Sharyn and Hannah are

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It has been 77 years since the end of the Holocaust. Like numerous other religious organizations throughout the world, The Jewish Center Princeton will memorialize the six million Jews who were murdered, and honor those who survived, to mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on Wednesday, April 27 starting at 6 p.m. The program begins with a short film about 18 Enduring Voices, a painting of Holocaust survivors by Philadelphia area artist Debra Kapnek. Marcel Groen, son of one of the survivors in the painting, will speak, and Kapnek will talk about her experiences painting her subjects. A Q&A and evening service will follow. Kapnek, who earned degrees

in art at Temple and George Washington universities, started painting portraits after her brother returned from working in Mali, Africa, with slides of some of the people he encountered. “He encouraged me to paint them, to try to raise money for people there who were suffering from a drought,” Kapnek said. “That was my first series of portraits from photographs.” Trained to work from life rather than photographs, Kapnek was reluctant at first. “But it went better than I expected,” she said. “I had a show, and that led to a commission from the American Association for Ethiopian Jews to paint Jews in Ethiopia who were under house arrest at that time. That led me later

to paint portraits [from photographs] of the people of Darfur. They were used to raise awareness about the genocide that was happening to them. And probably still is.” It was a chance meeting with a Holocaust survivor in her neighborhood more than 20 years ago that led Kapnek to consider a different focus. “When he started to tell me his story, I realized his face was speaking as much as his words,” she said. “I decided to do a portrait of him.” That led to The Miracle of Survival, a large composition made up of paintings of six survivors whom Kapnek found by making connections. “One person would lead me to another,” she said. Next, she painted Chai, which portrayed 18

FACES THAT SPEAK: Artist Debra Kapnek’s painting of Holocaust survivors, titled “18 Enduring Voices,” is the subject of a short film followed by a talk at The Jewish Center Princeton.

women, based on photographs Kapnek took herself. Years went by, and she decided to do another series — 18 Enduring Voices. The paintings are in a structure that resembles the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. “The images of the faces are meant to be set in stone, as are the stones of the wall in Jerusalem that have endured over time to remind us of what came before,” she said. Over the years she has devoted to these projects, Kapnek has interviewed and photographed more than 50 Holocaust survivors. “A lot of times, I felt like I knew them, and they felt like they knew me. It was kind of a mystical thing,” she said. “I didn’t take all their stories — just the basic facts of their lives and what they wanted to share. But meeting them, it almost felt like it gave me strength just to be near them. They were all warm, supportive, giving, and loving people.” The film 18 Enduring Voices was sponsored by the Max and Bella Stein Foundation, for educational purposes as well as to accompany the painting. Kapnek has used it for four Zoom fundraisers during the pandemic, to benefit both Holocaust education and KAVOD SHEF, an organization that supports the needs of the remaining survivors who live in poverty in the United States. Kapnek will be on hand for the program, which will also be livestreamed. Admission is free and open to all. The Jewish Center is at 435 Nassau Street. Visit Thejewishcenter. org for more information. “My point in doing these portraits was to monumentalize their faces, which are

filled with expression, sorrow, wisdom, life, and light — not just the darkness we would have expected,” Kapnek said. “What drove me to begin was this incredible reverence I have for them for having survived, and gone on to live a whole new life. From the time I learned about the Holocaust, I never thought I would have been able to do what they did.” —Anne Levin

Library Invites Community To Help Plan its Future

As part of its strategic planning process, Princeton Public Library is inviting the public to give feedback about their use and views of the library through an online survey. Available in English, Spanish, and Mandarin, the survey is accessible at princetonlibrary.org. Librar y users can also complete the survey at kiosks located on each floor of the library. Kiosk locations are at the puzzle table on the first floor, second floor Discovery Center, and at a table across from the elevator on the third floor. “When it comes to planning the future of the library, there’s no perspective more important than that of those who use the library,” said Executive Director Jennifer Podolsky. “Whether they visit frequently or just occasionally, we want to learn how our users feel we can enhance our services and materials going forward. This is particularly important at a time when the town is growing and demand for our services will increase.” The communit y sur vey is being conducted by an o u t s i d e c o n s u l t a nt a n d

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Princeton Community Housing Announces New Trustees

P r i n c e to n C o m m u n i t y Housing (PCH) has named two new trustees, both health care executives with Penn Medicine Princeton Health. Jacqueline Kavouras is a registered nurse and currently serves as vice president of Population Health Management; and James Demetriades is the CEO. The two are especially welcome in their roles considering the important link between health care and housing. Both issues have special resonance at this moment, as COVID-19 has raised new economic challenges for many within the community. A press release on the appointments from Princeton Community Housing reads, “Historically, the high cost of housing has forced workingclass families to make tradeoffs between basic necessities such as food, transportation, and health care. This is particularly the case in Princeton where the cost of housing is so high. Income determines where we live. Wealthy communities have high-quality public education, jobs, healthy food, medical care, and transportation. Those living in an affordable home that is part of a nurturing community can more easily prioritize their health. When we develop affordable homes in Princeton, people of all socioeconomic levels can access the same resources.” For more information visit PCHHomes.org.

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The first indication for some residents of the western part of town in the area around the Institute for Advanced Study was a letter from the assistant location manager for Gadget Films LLC. She wrote to inform them that a feature film — no details provided — “plans to film in your neighborhood this April” and that most of the filming would take place at IAS and on Olden Lane between Newlin and Battle Road. “As always,” the letter read, “we will do our utmost to be respectful to the surrounding community and thank you in advance for having us in your neighborhood.” There was also a number and email address listed in case there were any questions. Indications that this might be more than a minor film arose about two weeks ago as black and yellow signs went up in the IAS area with arrows indicating the direction for “crew parking” and for “catering.” And then vintage 1940s cars were spotted parked outside of the main buildings on the IAS campus. On Monday, April 11, the movie crews, actors — including Cillian Murphy, Robert

Downey Jr., Matt Damon, and other celebrities — and fivetime Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter Christopher Nolan arrived to shoot scenes for their upcoming movie Oppenheimer. The film is based on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, theoretical physicist and IAS director from 1947 to 1966. He is among those credited as creator of the atomic bomb and a controversial leader in the World War II Manhattan Project that developed the first nuclear weapons. Filming at IAS took place on April 11, 12 and 13, mainly at majestic Fuld Hall and at the Olden Farm, the IAS director’s residence nearby on Olden Lane. Olden Farm, where Oppenheimer lived while serving as the third director of IAS, is now home to David Nirenberg, the recently appointed 10th director of IAS. After three days of filming at IAS, the filmmakers — cast and crew of between 100 and 150 — proceeded to Princeton University on Thursday, April 14 for a filming session in the area of East Pyne Hall and in the University Chapel. The spaces at the University were

more limited and the onlookers were far more numerous. Actors, crew, and hosting officials at IAS and Princeton University were not permitted to say much about the movie and its celebrity actors and director. IAS Communications and Public Relations Manager Lee Sandberg noted that operations at IAS proceeded more or less normally during the shooting. “The buildings weren’t disturbed,” he said. “There were folks peering out of the windows, but it was mostly seamless having the crew on campus. We have a lot of space and they were restricted to certain areas.” The scene at East Pyne on the University campus on Thursday was described as “campus chaos” by The Daily Princetonian, as hundreds of students and others crowded around the East Pyne courtyard, hoping to see familiar celebrities. Princeton Director of Media Relations Michael Hotchkiss suggested that “chaos” may be an exaggeration and that any disruption was probably minor. “The University reviews requests to undertake film

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projects on campus on a caseby-case basis,” he wrote in an email. “All filming is carefully planned with a focus on safety and minimizing any disruption to the University community.” The script for the movie, written by Nolan, is based on American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography written by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. Nolan’s films — including The Dark Knight Batman trilogy, Inception, and Interstellar — have grossed more than $5 billion and won 11 Academy Awards over the past two decades. Scheduled to be released by Universal Pictures in July 2023, Oppenheimer started filming in February and early March of this year in Abiquiu and Los Alamos, N.M. Although the casting process was reportedly extremely secretive, Murphy has apparently been cast in the role of Oppenheimer; Emily Blunt as his wife Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer; Damon as Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project; and Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, who as U.S. Secretary of Commerce and head of the Atomic Energy Commission was known to actively dislike Oppenheimer. Others in the cast include Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Josh Hartnett, and Jack Quaid. —Donald Gilpin

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Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, the K-12, all-girls college preparatory school, has announced two new additions to its staff. Hillary Nastro is the new director of enrollment management, and Frances Lyons has been named director of athletics, starting July 1.

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Frances Lyons In addition to spending the past few years at Princeton Academy, where she is also a parent, Nastro spent six years in admissions and c om m u n it y r e lat ion s at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut. This was preceded by nearly 10 years of admissions leadership at Morristown Beard School in Morristown; King School in Stamford, Connecticut; and Princeton Day School. Her experience has included supervision of admissions teams, the planning and execution of admissions events, representation of the school in the community and in professional organizations, membership on school committees such as Enrollment, Financial Aid and Innovation, and collaborations with the school’s diversity and marketing departments. “I am thrilled to work

alongside the fantastic team of administrators and educators at Stuart,” said Nastro. “After watching my daughter Anna thrive here these past four years, I look forward to bringing my own experiences to showcase the exceptional teaching and learning at Stuart as it prepares young girls to be confident and compassionate leaders.” Lyons has served as associate director of athletics at The Brearley School, an all-girls K-12 school in New York City, where she managed all operational aspects of athletics, collaborated with the diversity, communications, and admission offices, and built internal and external partnerships for the growth of the school and the athletics program. She was also a class advisor and coached the JV girls’ basketball and both the Middle School volleyball and track and field teams. “Ms. Lyons brings a proven experience in all-girls athletics programming, a passion for equal opportunities for girls in sports, and a vision for Stuart Athletics that will undoubtedly impact the success and continued growth of both our Middle and Upper School offerings,” said Fagin. “Ms. Lyons will work closely with Stuart academic leadership and admissions to enhance the student experience and introduce new families to Stuart.” P r ior to T he Brearley School, Lyons had a nearly 10-year career in youth sports with a dedication to creating more access for young girls and fostering a welcoming environment with the resources to succeed. From 2012-2018, while at the non-profit Asphalt Green in NYC, she helped develop spor ts leag ues for pub lic schools in underserved communities and created programs designed for girls in sports like basketball, flag football, volleyball, and soccer. From 2011-2017, she was the assistant varsity and head Middle School girls’ basketball coach at the Chapin School, an all-girls independent school in New York City. “I am delighted and grateful to join the Stuart family as Director of Athletics,” said Lyons. “Sports have played a pivotal part in my life, and I have witnessed how a strong athletics program for girls can bring a community together to support them, create a sense of belonging, and foster strong coaching and athlete relationships. I come to Stuart excited to fully embrace the school mission and goals and be a part of an environment that focuses on the development of young girls. I am committed to leading the athletics program with great pride (Tartan Pride)! I wholeheartedly look forward to getting to know the students, my colleagues, and families deeply and forming great partnerships.”

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Council of Princeton is behind the event, with support from Princeton University and the municipality. “It is very, very busy,” said Arts Council Executive Director Adam Welch, during a break on Tuesday. “The logistics of navigating all the different porches, bands, and everything else are a lot, but I think we have it under control. It’s the first year for us to be doing this, so there is that element of the unknown. But we’ve had help from Asbury Park, where they’ve been doing this for years, and I think now we know what to expect.” Enthusiasm from the community has been growing. “Social media has been active, and the bands are promoting themselves,” Welch said. “There is just so much to listen to, a real variety. People are excited about that.” Each of the porch locations will host five bands, playing 45-minute sets. At 185 Nassau Street, 10 attractions will perform for 15 or 20 minutes each. Apr i l A R T S pro g ra m s were inspired by similar endeavors in Hightstown, Bro ok ly n, N.Y., A sbu r y Park, a n d L a mb er t v i le. Princeton’s series began early this month with impromptu recitals on upright pianos, decorated by local artists and set up through town. When a call for donations of upright pianos went out to the community, Welch and colleagues were expecting five or 10. More than 30 were offered; seven were used. Professional musicians as well as eager amateurs have been testing them out. T he f inal Apr il A R TS event is McCarter Theatre’s production of Ride the Cyclone — The Musical, on Saturday, April 30 at 8 p.m. The Porchfest concerts are planned to take place rain or shine, unless rain is torrential. “But that’s not going to happen,” said Welch. “It’s going to be great.” —Anne Levin

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in expanding socioeconomic access to higher education,” citing sharp increases in the numbers of Princeton undergraduates eligible for federal Pell Grants for lower income students and in numbers of incoming students who are first-generation college students. More than 60 percent of Princeton undergraduates receive aid, and the average scholarship for students receiving aid will be approximately $64,000 in the coming year, the press release reports. Two new residential colleges at Princeton are set to open in the fall of 2022, increasing the number of undergraduates by about 10 percent. Also highlighted in the University press release are “centerpiece building projects” underway, including an engineering and environmental studies complex, a new art museum, and,

across Lake Carnegie, the initial construction phase of the Lake Campus Development, which will include graduate student housing, athletics, and recreational facilities. The University press release described Princeton’s physical upgrades as part of an opening-up of the University as it has strengthened ties to the town of Princeton, as well as West Windsor, Plainsboro, and Trenton. Praising the University community in its response to the challenges of the last two years and his senior administrative team for their work over the past nine years, Eisgruber noted, “I look forward to working with them, and with this extraordinary community, to advance Princeton’s mission of excellence in teaching, research, and service in the years ahead.” —Donald Gilpin

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Digital Guide to Olmsted Includes Two Local Sites

On April 26, the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., considered the father of landscape architecture, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will unveil “What’s Out There Olmsted,” a digital guide to more than 300 North American landscapes designed by Olmsted and his successor firms. The Lawrenceville School and Trenton’s Cadwalader Park are included on the list. Olmsted Sr. is well known as the co-designer of New York City’s iconic Central Park, but his legacy and that of his successor firms is vast. “What’s Out There Olmsted” includes a detailed and illustrated introduction, a searchable database of North American landscapes, and nearly 100 biographical entries about the Olmsted family and the fi rm’s many employees, consu ltants, and collaborators. This will be TCLF’s twentieth digital “What’s Out There City and Regional Guide,” (including six guides produced in partnership with the National Park Service). “What’s Out There Olmsted ” is optimized for iPhones and similar handheld devices, and includes “What’s Nearby,” a GPS-enabled feature that locates all landscapes within a given distance, customizable by mileage or walking time. For more than 100 years, Olmsted Sr., and his successor fi rms shaped cities, parks and park systems, scenic reservations, residential neighborhoods, cemeteries, and governmental, cultural, and academic campuses and more. Their work helped cre-

ate a national identity and an unrivaled design legacy. The sites in “What’s Out There Olmsted” range from more than 30 National Historic Landmarks to lesser-known gardens, parks, and comprehensive plans. The Olmsted imprint can be found coast to coast: in North Carolina at the great Biltmore Estate; Colorado’s Mountain Park System near Denver; the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; California’s Stanford University and Yosemite National Park; and Montreal, Canada’s Mount Royal. “The impact of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., on the nation’s identity and the profession of landscape architecture is inestimable,” said Charles A. Birnbaum, TCLF’s President and CEO. “ ‘What’s Out There Olmsted’ provides easy access to a broad range of landscapes designed by Olmsted, Sr., and his successor firms and opportunities to discover the people associated with them.” Each entry includes a c o n c i s e, 250 - wor d s i te d e s c r i pt i o n , d r op - d ow n menus w it h infor mation about the site’s typology (e.g., public park, suburb, etc.), style (e.g., picturesque, Beaux-Arts/Neoclassical, etc.), designers, and related landscapes. It also indicates if a site has recognized significance (e.g. National Register of Historic Places, National Historic Landmark). Each entry has a media gallery with four to 10 images, and where applicable, a complementary video or link to an external website. Visit tclf.org for more information.

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On April 9, at 9:13 a.m., a Library Place resident reported that someone used his personal information to set up an account with an online retailer and used his VISA credit card to purchase two Microsoft Surface Pro 8 tablets valued at $1,500 each. The monetary loss was reported at $3,000. The Detective Bureau is investigating. On April 7, at 6:10 p.m., a Parkside Drive resident reported that she provided her personal checking account number to an unknown male who had contacted her by telephone and claimed to be a Public Service Electric and Gas (PSEG) employee. The phone call was determined to be a scam and there was no monetary loss. On April 5, at 1:49 p.m., a Nassau Street resident reported that an unknown individual hacked into his computer and stole $6,000 in Bitcoin currency from his account. The Detective Bureau is investigating. On April 5, at 7:40 p.m., a Spruce Circle resident reported criminal mischief to his vehicle sometimes between March 18 and April 4. The vehicle was parked in a marked parking stall in Spruce Circle where it sustained scratches to the driver’s side window and cracks to the front windshield. The Detective Bureau is investigating. Unless otherwise noted, individuals arrested were later released.

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Mailbox Princeton Needs to Change and Adapt if It is to Remain Special

To the Editor: “Princeton is special” is a phrase that is often invoked in discussions of contentious issues like parking, housing, and cannabis. Depending which side of an issue you are on, special can mean very different things, from safety to charm to high property values. Being explicit about what makes Princeton special is worth doing so that in the midst of these issues we can work to preserve and promote what we want the town to be. To me, what makes Princeton special is three distinct things: strong institutions, vibrant business districts, and diversity. Princeton has a unique and truly remarkable array of institutions that enrich the town: a world-class university, a regional theater, great public and private schools, civic organizations, a strong local government . . . the list goes on. I am particularly impressed with the openness, thoroughness, and civility that our town government brings to complex and emotionally charged issues — an often thankless task for which those involved deserve to be thanked. All of these institutions need to be valued, supported, and preserved. Princeton’s downtown and the commercial districts extending down Witherspoon Street, up Nassau Street and at the Shopping Center stand in sharp contrast to the shopping areas on the sides of through-roads that characterize so many other towns. Being able to park, walk, and shop is a lure and a pleasure for residents, employees, and visitors alike. The number of empty store fronts we currently see is troubling. It is critical that we ensure that our local merchants can run viable, sustainable businesses. Princeton residents’ diversity in terms of wealth, age, race, ethnicity, and other measures make the town vibrant and resilient. The thousands of students who flow through and use the town each year add even greater diversity and vitality. As the town fulfills its obligations to build affordable housing it will only become more so. There will always be tensions between the goals that aim to help the town, but one thing is clear: trying to keep things the way they have always been is a recipe for irrelevance. Princeton needs to change and adapt if it is to remain special. ANDREW GOMORY Shadybrook Lane

we observe the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, following the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report is long and thoroughly researched, but to summarize: It is time to redouble our efforts to stabilize the climate by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Governmental-scale action is needed, and President Biden and Congress should be urged to meet the president’s goal of reducing climate-harming emissions by 50 percent over 2005 levels by 2030. If you’d like to add your voice to this call for top-level action on climate change, here’s a swift and simple way provided by the nonpartisan nonprofit Citizens’ Climate Lobby at cclusa.org/action. This site makes it easy for you to email your elected federal representatives. It walks you through the process, which takes 5-10 minutes at most. As a bonus: this campaign is called “Stand With Ukraine,” because transitioning to clean energy de-funds bad actors whose economies rely on exporting fossil fuels. What a lot to accomplish in one short step — please do this today! CAROLINE “CALLIE” HANCOCK Laurel Road The writer is a volunteer with Citizens’ Climate Lobby as the New Jersey state coordinator and group leader of the Princeton Chapter.

An Appreciation of Trees, One of the Planet’s Lifesavers

conversation among friends, Alpert makes a convincing case that it is our deep, often unspoken commitment to ‘greatness’ that stands in the way of improving the quality of our political, social, and economic lives. L ear n ing to s eek ‘good enough’ may be the key to social transformation.” L aby r i nt h B ook s, T he Princeton Public Library, and Princeton University Press are co-hosting this conversation between Alpert and Wampole, who both regularly contribute to the New York Times forum for philosophers and contemporary thinkers, The Stone. Alpert is lecturer in the Writing Program at Princeton University and coeditor of Shifter magazine. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us about Living Well without Perfection. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Aeon. Wampole is professor in the French and Italian Department at Princeton University. She is the author of The Other Serious: Essays for the new American Generation; Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor; and Realism: Novel and Nation in 21st Century France. Her opinion pieces and essays have been published in the New York Times and The New Yorker, among other places. This event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and is part of the ongoing, joint Labyrinth and the Library Live series of events (LLL).

To the Editor: Trees are on my mind! I lived in Princeton for many, many years and one of my memories has to do with that space next to the McCaffrey’s parking lot. When my children were growing up, a traveling circus would come to town once a year and where did they set up? On the space in the midst those now beautiful tall pine trees. For years those trees have serviced Princeton with their ever deepening roots sequestering much carbon and holding back more water from flooding the surrounding area. If they are mowed down now to make it more convenient for the builder to construct housing, much will be lost. Are we really interested in taking care of our environment? Then every old statuesque tree that we kill is one more action that declares hypocrisy. With a creative approach, these could be saved. One more item: The current mulching methods used by the majority of landscaping services are actually killing your trees. Every year more mulch is piled up around the trunk creating an environment of extreme moisture that then breeds rot and insects that destroy the trapped bark. Placed four inches from the surface of the tree or bush and only to a depth of three inches will be safe to spread. The chemical formula used for the black and red dyed mulches is not available and can contain poisonous chemicals such as arsenic — as can the wood that is chopped up for the mulch itself. Ah trees — one of our planet’s lifesavers if we take care of them and plant the ones that support our native pol- Galassi, Martha McPhee Talk About “School Days” linators. Jonat ha n G a las s i a n d To the Editor: JUDITH K. ROBINSON Martha McPhee will be disWhen spring arrived in Princeton this year, we all had Columbia Avenue, Hopewell cussing Galassi’s new novto do without the annual display of blossoms on the Bradel, School Days (Penguin ford/Callery pear trees along Witherspoon Street. They $25) in a Library/Labyrinth had been removed for good reasons, such as being an Livestream Event on Tuesinvasive and superannuated monoculture. Nevertheless, day, April 26 at 7 p.m. To many people expressed regret at the loss of a natural register for the online event, feature that had been part of our streetscape for decades. visit labyrinthbooks.com. Fortunately, our town will soon have replacement trees According to Kirkus Reof appropriate species gracing Witherspoon Street. But v iews, “Galassi’s underwe will still remember how the center of Princeton felt stated style and economical without its longtime leafy denizens. The many benefits prose are well suited to this that street trees bring to communities are well known; elegiac story … A thoughtful for instance, a bill introduced by our NJ12 Congressional exploration of the lingering Representative, Bonnie Watson Coleman — the SHADE effects of repressed sexual Act [H.R .4166, with 55 co-sponsors — would support identity.” planting trees in low-income and/or minority communities throughout the country. Galassi is the chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Among the invisible gifts of trees is that they absorb A former poetry editor for carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases generated by the Paris Review, a former fossil fuels that contribute to climate change. This month, chairman of the Academy of American Poets, and the Letters to the Editor Policy recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship for poetry, he is Town Topics welcomes letters to the Editor, preferably the author of three poetry on subjects related to Princeton. Letters must have a collections and the novel valid street address (only the street name will be printed Muse, and is a translator of with the writer’s name). Priority will be given to letters Italian poetry. that are received for publication no later than Monday noon for publication in that week’s Wednesday edition. McPhee is the author of the novels An Elegant WomLetters must be no longer than 500 words and have an, Dear Money, L’America, no more than four signatures. Gorgeous Lies, and Bright All letters are subject to editing and to available Angel Time. Her work has space. been honored with fellowAt least a month’s time must pass before another ships from the National letter from the same writer can be considered for pubE ndow ment of t he A r ts lication. and The John Simon GugLetters are welcome with views about actions, genheim Memorial Foundapolicies, ordinances, events, performances, buildings, tion. In 2002 she was nomietc. However, we will not publish letters that include nated for a National Book content that is, or may be perceived as, negative to“The Good Enough Life” Award. She professor in the wards local figures, politicians, or political candidates English Department at HofSubject of April 20 Event as individuals. stra University. When necessary, letters with negative content may Av r a m A lp e r t w i l l b e at the Princeton Public LiThis event is hosted by the be shared with the person/group in question in order discussing his new book, brary and online, visit laby- Princeton Public Library and to allow them the courtesy of a response, with the unThe G ood Enough Life rinthbooks.com. cosponsored by Labyrinth. derstanding that the communications end there. (Princeton University Press According to Barr y $24.95), with Christy Wam- Schwartz, author of The “Runaway Climate Change” Letters to the Editor may be submitted, preferably pole on April 20 at 6 p.m. Paradox of Choice : Why Subject of April 21 Discussion by email, to editor@towntopics.com, or by post to Town Adriana Petryna and EnTopics, PO Box 125, Kingston, N.J. 08528. Letters For further information More Is Less: “The Goodsubmitted via mail must have a valid signature. about t he hybr id event, Enough Life is a great book. v iron m enta l Hu ma n it ie s which will be held in person In a style that feels like a scholar Rob Nixon will be

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discussing Petryna’s book, Horizon Work – At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change (Princeton University Press $26.95) on Thursday, April 21 at 6 p.m. For information about this hybrid event and to register for the livestream, visit labyrinthbooks.com. This event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Council for the Humanities. Author of The New Climate War Michael E. Mann com ments,“Petr y na pro vides much-needed perspective at a time when it feels like climate change has literally ignited our planet. Read this book to understand the gravity of the climate crisis and to feel empowered to do something about it.” Petryna is professor of Anthropology at the Universit y of Pennsylvania. Her award-winning books include When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects and Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Rob Nixon is professor of English as well as Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University. He is the author of four books: London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin; Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood : South African Culture and the World Beyond; Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy; and Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.

Trenton Author Book Fair Highlights Local Talent

Trenton Free Public Library (TFPL), 120 Academy Street, invites the community to a Trenton Author Book Fair on Sunday, April 24 from 1-4 p.m. The fair will provide free books for children to take home and feature Kassahun Checole, founder of Africa World Press/Red Sea Press, along with more than 20 local authors offering books for sale. “This book fair highlights the talent in our community,” said TFPL Executive Director Rebecca FrancoMartin. “We are proud to offer an opportunity to meet the authors and learn about their work.” Each child attending will be able to take home a free book. Light refreshments will be offered thanks to local sponsors including Starbucks, Royal Cake Creations, Italian People’s Bakery, and Halo Farm. Checole founded Africa World Press/Red Sea Press in 1983 and is still the president and publisher. He previously taught at Rutgers and El Colegio de Mexico and has won numerous awards. In business since 1983, the mission of the press is to provide high-quality literature on the history, culture, and politics of Africa and the African Diaspora. The press is based in Trenton and has published over 3,000 books, and currently publishes 40-60 books per year. T he event, hosted by Friends of the Trenton Free Public Library, will showcase community authors of books for children, youth, and adults including City of Trenton Health and Human Services Director Adela Ames-Lopez, basketball professional and CEO La’Keisha Sutton, community activist Teska Frisby, Classics bookstore owner Eric Maywar, and many more. For a complete list of authors, visit trentonlib.org/events.

Looking Behind the Facade — Thomas Mann in Princeton The way that history has taken has been so filthy, such a carrion-strewn path of lies and baseness, that no one need be ashamed of refusing to travel along it, even if it should lead to goals we might commend if reached by other paths. —Thomas Mann, from a letter (1938) ... grave, genial, aloof, a little shy still because of his English, [Mann] was silent most of the time: but his deep feeling in the reading of his paper on democracy impressed everyone: at one point he could hardly keep back his tears. —Lewis Mumford (1940) he passages above appear in Stanley Corngold’s The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton (Princeton University Press 2022). The first is from a letter Mann wrote on his September 1938 arrival in Princeton; the second is from an account of his appearance at the City of Man conference in Atlantic City, May 1940. I added this glimpse of Mann writing and speaking to supplement the cover image, shown here, in which he eyes the reader with a look that seems to say “Who are you, why are you here, and what do you want?” What a contrast is the cover of The Magician, Colm Tóibín’s 2021 novel about Mann and his family — a treat for the eyes, the packaging bold and bright, with Mann nowhere to be seen, unless you count the dark figure in the foreground gazing at a Venetian fantasia, San Marco in a mist. The dust jacket hooks are all about Tóibín, “the bestselling author of The Master and Brooklyn, one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists.” Unfortunately Tóibín ran into problems when attempting to “saturate himself in the dense intellectual world of Mann,” as D.T. Max reports in the September 20, 2021 New Yorker. Tóibín knew that he could “capture Mann’s erotic yearnings and his conflicts with his children; but could he make repartee about abstract ideas come alive on the page?” Apparently not. His editors told him that ideas “stopped the novel in its tracks,” and he agreed. Einstein and Kafka More at home in the intellectual world Tóibín necessarily circumvents, Professsor Emeritus Corngold devotes the most substantial part of his book, around 120 pages, to a section titled “Reflections of a Political Man,” in which he summarizes and discusses talks Mann gave during his two-and-a-half year residence in Princeton (1938-41). And since I’m more at home with Corngold as a Kafka scholar, I paid particular attention to an anecdote in the preface about Mann’s admiration for Kafka, which

by the photographer’s personal history: born in Dresden in 1909, a rabbi’s son active in anti-Nazi circles who fled to Paris in 1933 with his new wife under the pretense of taking a honeymoon; Einstein and his wife had settled in Princeton for good in October of the same year. The photograph that resulted is one of the most hallowed images of Princeton’s patron saint. Although Mann might well have enjoyed the good-looking, 30-something photographer’s company, the result suggests that not much was said beyond hello/thank you/goodbye. In the complete, uncropped photograph, which resides in Berlin’s Jewish Museum, Mann is posed at his desk holding a typed letter the way a wealthy merchant in a Rembrandt or Holbein might hold a proclamation. Reading with Mann In “A Typical Evening’s Reading,” Corngold describes Mann’s custom of reading before going to bed: “His days were symmetrical: the mor n i ng w as i nvar i ably devoted to writing one creative page; his evenings were rounded with a read.” According to his diary for October 22, 1940, he read in “Nizer’s book” and “in Mumford’s.” In Louis Nizer’s Thinking On Your Feet: Adventures in Speaking, where Mann is termed “the greatest living man of letters” and “part of the intellectual treasure that Hitler expelled from Germany,” the passage Corngold thinks would have particularly interested Mann concerns a ceremonial encounter with Einstein at the Manns’ 65 Stockton Street residence. With newsreel cameramen there to film Einstein presenting Mann with a medal for high achievement,” Mrs. Mann observes “that Einstein is wearing no socks. It is bitter cold out. He has come in without a hat. A simple sport coat which buttons high in the neck relieves him of the necessity of wearing a shirt or tie. With motherly solicitude she condemns him for not wearing socks. Without the slightest trace of humor, he replies that he never does, because he has trouble with them when they get holes. His simplicity staves off laughter. We all maintain an acquiescent silence.” While it’s not clear which book of Mumford’s Thomas Mann was reading that night, Corngold later quotes from a letter in Works and Days in which Mumford offers “a vivid picture of Mann’s public persona” — “the creator of Joseph, who

always ... carries with him the indefinable aura of a true German prig, an aura conveyed best by the tone of his voice: just a touch of fussiness and unction.” Yes Yes Yes On the rebound from Mumford’s allusions to “fussiness and unction,” I’ve gone back to my ancient, marked-from-stem-tostern copy of H.T. Lowe-Porter’s translation of The Magic Mountain. What follows is a paragraph about the novel’s hero, “honest Hans Castorp,” beneath which, at age 20, I wrote in huge crazed letters, Yes Yes Yes — “For then, in the very innermost of his nature, and in the inmost of that innermost, perhaps there was just himself, just Hans Castorp, again and a hundred times Hans Castorp, with burning face and stiffening fingers, lying muffled on a balcony, with a view across the moonlit, frost-nighted high valley, and probing, with an interest both humanistic and medical, into the life of the body!” At the time, I assumed that Mann’s translator H.T. Lowe-Porter must be an Englishman with Germanic sensibilities. All these years later, reading over the passage that roused that ecstasy of yesses, I’m aware of a marked contrast with the more straightforward style of Edwin and Willa Muir’s translation of The Castle. I like the “inmost/innermost,” the “hundred times Hans Castrop,” and “the moonlit, frost-nighted high valley.” Found in Translation ’ve only just discovered that H.T. stands for Helen Tracy, a native of Towanda, Pa., and that she and her paleontologist husband Elias lived in Princeton and, according to Corngold, belonged to the same circle of friends that the Manns did. Searching further online I find a photo of the translator in her youth looking like the young Isabelle Huppert and in her early forties, surrounded by three children, looking like a woman you’d be curious to know more about — even if it means discovering that she is the present English Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s great grandmother. On that note, I turn to the last words in my copy of The Magic Mountain, from Mann’s account of the making of the novel: “The Grail is a mystery, but humanity is a mystery too. For man himself is a mystery, and all humanity rests upon reverence before the mystery that is man.” Or, if you like, Mann. —Stuart Mitchner ——— The real magician here is Stanley Corngold, who has pulled Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle out of his Mind in Exile hat. With the focus on Goethe in Princeton, the book has been released in the Bloomsbury series, New Directions in German Studies.

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moved the author of The Magic Mountain to give Albert Einstein a copy of The Castle that was returned “not too many days later” with the comment, “I couldn’t read it for its perversity.” Although the story of the returned book may be apocryphal, it’s likely that Mann, who “exchanged infrequent visits with Einstein,” had terms like “perversity” in mind when he composed a fine, deeply felt homage to Kafka dated “Princeton June 1940.” For whatever reason — in this instance to correct the notion that Kafka could be cast as “either a romantic, an ecstatic, or a mystic” — Mann contends that the author of The Castle is “too clear-cut, too realistic, too well attached to life and to a simple native effectiveness in living” to be so labeled. “Yes, he was a dreamer,” Mann writes, “and his compositions are often dreamlike in conception and form ; they are as oppressive, illogical, and absurd as dreams .... But they are full of a reasoned morality, an ironic, satiric, desperately reasoned m o r a l i t y, s t r u g g l i n g with all its might toward justice, goodness, and the will of God.” At the same time, Kafka’s style is “conscientious, curiously explicit, objective, clear and correct.” Warming to Mann After reading Mann’s appreciation, which is included with the 1954 Definitive Edition of The Castle, I feel closer to the solemn gentleman on the cover of The Mind in Exile. I can even imagine him smiling as he writes about Kafka’s tendency to laugh out loud while reciting his work to friends: “His listeners laughed through their tears, and Kafka too had to laugh so hard that his reading was interrupted.” Mann adds: “Mirth of that kind is very deep-seated and involved .... But when you consider that laughter of such a sort, with such deep and lofty sources, is probably the best thing that remains to us, then you will be inclined, with me, to place Kafka’s warm-hearted fantasies ... in the world’s treasury of literature.” The Photographer The photograph of Thomas Mann used for the cover of The Mind in Exile was taken by Fred Stein, who returned to Princeton to photograph Albert Einstein on the occasion of his 67th birthday, March 14, 1946. Stein had been allotted a mere 10 minutes of the physicist’s time; as it turned out, Stein and Einstein conversed for hours about art, politics, and religion. The physicist was intrigued

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ach year, the Princeton University Orchestra designs its final concert of the season as both a tribute to former Orchestra percussionist Stuart Mindlin and a send-off to the ensemble’s graduating seniors. Over the years, these performances have often presented a single massive orchestral work, but as with many musical events these past months, things are a little different. Led by conductor Michael Pratt, the University Orchestra performed four pieces which may have looked as though they had little in common but were in fact interconnected through their themes of common struggles against tyranny, racism, and intolerance toward diverse backgrounds. The four works of Ludwig van Beethoven, Carlos Chavez, William Grant Still and Leonard Bernstein spoke to both liberty and loss, as well as hope and love, with messages the graduating seniors can take with them as they launch their new lives outside the University. The Orchestra opened Friday night’s concert at Richardson Auditorium (the performance was repeated Saturday night) with a classic well-known to the ensemble. Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, Opus 72a was intended for an 1806 production of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. In a single movement, this work travels from the despair of the prisoner Florestan to energetic fire and finally to victory through Beethoven’s trademark symphonic joy. From the solid opening chords, the Orchestra was always responsive to Pratt’s musical leadership, with the drama of the music building slowly through the introductory passages. Flutist Christine Deng’s chipper playing aided in a smooth transition to the overture’s familiar themes, with a trio of trombones and pair of trumpets adding subtle brass color, as well as a dramatic offstage trumpet. Dynamic swells were well-executed, and drama was maintained through effective sforzandi and the precise playing of timpanist Elijah Shina. Flutist Deng and oboist Jeremy Chen were paired in expressive musical passages, and the Orchestra was effective in creating a fast and furious musical swirl to the closing coda. Friday night’s concert brought together the music of four completely different cultures, and the Orchestra moved easily from traditional Beethoven to the innovative 20th-century Mexican composer, conductor and teacher Carlos Chavez. Chavez extensively researched the music and instruments of the indigenous Native American cultures of Mexico, and incorporated these rhythms and melodies into his own works. Chavez’s 1936 Sinfonia India called for a large percussion section providing pulsating effects from all of the players, but especially timpanist Shina. The piece contained many of the same mixed meters heard later in the concert in the music of Bernstein, and conductor Pratt led the Orchestra

well through the work’s varied sections. A quartet of principal string players provided broad and spacious music, especially when in unison. Contrasting the string sound was elegant wind playing by clarinetist Allison Yang, flutist Audrey Yang, and oboist Jeremy Chen. Pratt introduced the music of American composer William Grant Still as interpretive of what it is to be a Black person in America, and Still’s 1924 symphonic poem Darker America sought to capture the triumph of a people over their sorrows through fervent prayer. Still scored this work for very light winds against a lush string palette, and English horn player Vedrana Ivezic well conveyed the “sorrow theme” of this piece, especially when paired with oboist Darren Chiu and clarinetist Emily Liushen. The music was also marked by a dramatic sectional celli solo from the more than 10 cellists in the Orchestra, and Pratt and the players concluded the piece introspectively, as if the conflict between sorrow and hope was not quite settled. The musical interpretations of cultural intolerance and unresolved differences heard in the first three pieces of this concert all came together in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Bernstein’s musical set the theater world on fire when it premiered in 1957 with its jazz rhythms, soaring melodies and raw delving into issues of intolerance and racism. Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances captured the most popular elements of the theatrical score while maintaining the overall poignancy of a timeless plot. Pratt and the Orchestra drew out the dynamics well in a saucy opening of the “Jets” theme, with clean muted bass and fast fingering from the cellists of the ensemble. Especially poignant passages were heard from a string quartet of players, as well as Benjamin Edelson’s horn solo on “Somewhere.” Harpists Allana Iwanicki and An-Ya Olson added refinement to the orchestral color, and the wind sections were well led by clarinetist Neerav Kumar, flutist Alex Tsai, oboist Ivezic, and bassoonist Annie Jain. his was the fi rst Stuart B. Mindlin Memorial Concert in three years at the University, and the evening well captured commitment and intrepidness. As with other University ensemble performances, the Orchestra partnered in this concert with the “02.24.2022” student Ukrainian Refugee Appeal, making the performance bigger than the ensemble itself. Conductor Pratt referred to this year’s graduating class as heroic; having spent at least half of their Princeton careers coping with pandemic restrictions and finding new ways to be creatively productive, the seniors of the University Orchestra, as well as the rest of the players, certainly spoke to current struggles through their music. — Nancy Plum

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BACK ON CAMPUS: Famed guitarist Stanley Jordan, who graduated from Princeton University in 1981, leads a master class Thursday, April 21. (Photo courtesy of Stanley Jordan) retirees. They all have in common a love and talent for playing their instrument and a desire to make music BELOVED BEAR: Paddington is the subject of a musical, based on Michael Bond’s books, com- for the community. ing to New Brunswick this weekend. Admission is free, but donat ions are welcome. Visit STNJ.org for tickets attended public concerts are For more information, visit Paddington Bear on Stage and further information. in the summer outdoor series BlawenburgBand.org. At State Theatre New Jersey in Hopewell Borough. The family-oriented comGuitarist Stanley Jordan Leads Blawenburg Band Concert The anniversary concert edy Paddington Gets in a Master Class at Lewis Center Jam comes to State Theatre Marks 132nd Anniversary program this year continOn April 21 at 4:30 p.m., The Blawenburg Band will ues the tradition of presentNew Jersey, 15 Livingston Princeton University welcommemorate its 132nd aning a rich selection of music Avenue, New Br unsw ick comes back alumnus Stanley on Saturday, April 23 at niversary year with a free from the concert band rep- Jordan ’81, considered one of concert on Sunday, May 15 ertoire, with the usual mix 1 p.m. Tickets range from at 3 p.m., at the Hopewell including marches, medleys, the greatest living jazz guitar$15-$65. Valley Central High School overtures and patriotic mu- ists, back to campus to share The show was created and Performing Arts Center, 259 sic. Major selections include his knowledge and experidirected by Jonathan RockPennington-Titusville Road, The King and I, Rogers and ence with the Princeton comefeller. The production has munity. The public is invited Pennington. Hart medley, “Intermezzo” garnered a Drama Desk to observe an open master Founded in Blawenburg in from Caballeria Rusticana and Off-Broadway Alliance class where Jordan will work nomination for Best Fam- 1890, the Blawenburg Band by Pietro Mascagni, and the and perform with current stuworld premiere of “Winter continues a great tradition ily Show. The production dents from the Department of brings the famous bear to the that began when towns de- Sunrise” by band member Music’s Jazz Program at Lee stage for the first time with pended on their own people Samuel (Skip) Livingston. A Music Performance and Rea new adventure inspired by for live musical entertain- special feature of this year’s hearsal Room in the Lewis Britsh-born Michael Bond’s ment. The group is one of concert will be traditional Arts complex. book series. For over 60 the oldest community bands and contemporar y music Jordan is a guitarist and years, Bond has w rit ten in the state and among the dedicated to the citizens of composer who has made a Ukraine. most active. Conducted since stories about Paddington, major impact on the music The band has about 60 the bear from Darkest Peru, 1985 by Dr. Jerry Rife, rescene since his rise to fame tired professor of music and active members, ranging in famous for his love of marin the mid-1980s. He is widechair of the fi ne arts departage from their teens to their malade. Paddington is populy regarded as the foremost lar with both children and ment at Rider University, the nineties. They are dedicated expert of the touch, or tapband historically performs amateurs as well as musiadults. His adventures have ping technique, in which a been adapted several times about 20 concerts a year cians with formal musical guitarist uses both hands on throughout the area. It plays training and professional for television, with his debut the neck of the instrument, onto the big screen in 2014. at holiday parades, commu- experience. Members in- allowing him to play simultanity celebrations, church clude teachers, business A second film, Paddington neous melodies with a degree 2, followed in 2017 and a socials, senior centers, and people, computer special- of independence previously retirement homes. Some of ists, homemakers, medical third film is in the works. the most popular and well- professionals and active possible only on the piano.

Today this technique is common among guitarists, however, when Jordan started it was virtually unheard of. While at Princeton, Jordan’s technique caught the eye of visiting jazz lecturer Benny Carter, who invited Jordan to join himself and Dizzy Gillespie in a performance at Princeton’s Alexander Hall in 1979. During his undergraduate years at Princeton, in addition to honing his own music and techniques, Jordan studied computer music with Paul Lansky and theory and composition with Milton Babbitt. He also did a stint as a DJ at WPRB, Princeton’s radio station. Since his graduation, he has performed in over 70 countries on six continents. He has authored articles for music theory and computer science journals, and he is currently an artist and spokesperson for the

American Music Therapy Association. Jordan has received four Grammy nominations, and his album Magic Touch was Billboard’s #1 Jazz Album for 51 weeks. He has done many television appearances through the years including Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Arsenio Hall, and Jimmy Fallon. He played a cameo role in the movie Blind Date with Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger. Jordan has performed or recorded with a wide variety of artists including Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and Sharon Isbin. His guitar work on Kenny Rogers’ “Morning Desire” helped make that track the top country song of 1986. Admission is free and the public is invited. Visit arts. princeton.edu for ticket information.

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McConnell added, “The idea of peace is something Continued from Preceding Page I think about a great deal. These days I can barely stand to listen to the news, because at its core, most of the stories we hear are about an inability or unwillingness to get along with others. People have disagreed with one another surely since the beginning of time, certainly as long as I have been alive. And yet, I cannot recall another time where the idea of disagreeing led to viewing the other side as the enemy.” The aim of the concert, McConnell said, is to work toward peace, and “get people thinking about peace and their role in creating it. That is our goal — to make the words speak more clearly LONGING FOR PEACE: A concert by Voices Chorale NJ, with the Berks Sinfonietta, is centered through the music. Hopefully, our music-making only makes around music focused on peace. Artistic Director David A. McConnell directs. the message of those words generational chamber orches- themes echoing his other resonate more strongly.” Concert Presents Works Expressing Efforts for Peace tra co-founded and directed works. Selections by Men- McConnell founded Vox On Saturday, April 30 at by Voices Artistic Director delssohn and Haydn refl ect Philia in 2012, a chamber peace within the context of choir comprised of profes8 p.m., Voices Chorale NJ David A. McConnell. Christian musical traditions. sional and gifted amateur The chorale will perform presents an in-person and live-streamed concert that various pieces from Ba- Contemporary pieces include singers, and co-founded the was originally planned for the roque, Classical, Romantic, And for a Breath by Ryan Berks Sinfonietta chamber spring of 2020 but was post- and Contemporary periods. Main, A Prayer of Compas- orchestra in 2014, both of poned due to the pandemic. These works express the sion by Gwyneth Walker, which feature an intergeneraAt Trinity Church, 33 Mercer longing for peace through and 1000 Beautiful Things tional approach. He teaches Street, the chorale will be ac- distinct approaches. Though by Annie Lennox of the Eu- music courses at Pennsylvania State University, Berks companied by pianist Akiko little known, Handel’s rare- rhythmics. Voices Chorale NJ origi- Campus, and Alvernia UniHosaki and the 16-piece ly performed Anthem on Berks Sinfonietta, an inter- the Peace contains musical nally planned to perform versity in Reading, Pa. He this selection of music in the received his Doctor of Musispring of 2020. That makes cal Arts degree from the Uniperforming together in perversity of Cincinnati CollegeFun Ornaments & Holiday Decor son even more relevant, Conservatory of Music. Best Selling Nautical 3-D Wood Maps & Princeton Decor especially due to current Pianist Hosaki, accomNJ Local Cookbooks & Made To Order Baskets world events. “We will accom- panist with Voices Chorale Adorable Baby & Kid Gifts plish something good if we NJ, has worked with several Handmade Pottery & Candles have people thinking about opera companies in the U.S. Holiday Masks, Soaps & Hand Sanitizers their role in creating peace,” and Japan and is an active And Much, Much More.“If they leave chamber musician. She is the said McConnell. comforted and challenged by head of vocal staff accompa• • the texts, we will have made nists and the pianist coordi609.688.0777 | homesteadprinceton.com the words speak more clearly nator at Westminster Choir 300 Witherspoon Street | Princeton through the music.” College, and senior choir

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“FISH CAR”: Works by artist Jeanine Pennell are among those featured in the self-guided Cov“THEDA SANDIFORD: JOYFUL RESISTANCE”: Works by award-winning, self-taught fiber and in- ered Bridge Artisans Studio Tour to be held on April 30 and May 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the stallation artist Sandiford are featured in a new exhibit at The Center for Contemporary Art in Delaware River Valley of lower Hunterdon and Bucks counties. Bedminster. The Center will also host solo exhibits by Lily Colman, Jennifer Croson, and Debra Samdperil from April 22 through June 4. Covered Bridge Artisans will provide a rare oppor- work throughout the year. Host Spring Studio Tour tunity to see so many open The group features a variety Spring Solo Exhibitions at opportunity for time and to S at urday, Apr il 30 and The Covered Bridge Arti- studios regionally. Visitors of artisans working in glass, Contemporary Art Center focus more exclusively on Sunday, May 1. THAT was sans Studio Tour is a self- can have the opportunity to jewelry, ceramics, photogThe Center for Contempo- her practice. An artist from founded by a small, dedi- guided tour located in the visit the workshops, shop for raphy, cast bronze, paintrary Art in Bedminster has early on, she watched and cated volunteer group of art- Delaware River Valley of distinctive gifts, and learn ing, weaving, bookbinding, announced the opening of learned from her mother as ists and longtime Hunterdon lower Hunterdon and Bucks from each artist about how woodworking, quilting and four solo exhibitions begin- she painted. Her mother County residents in 2016. counties. The studio tour and where they create their more. THAT’s artists will be fea- takes place in seven pro- work. For more information, and ning April 22 and remain- also exposed her to numerThe Covered Bridge Arti- a map connected to GPS ing on view through June 4. ous artists’ work taking her tured in a special exhibition fessional ar tists’ studios The opening reception will to many art museums long at Hunterdon Art Museum in Lambertville, Stockton, sans Studio Tour is an intro- links, visit coveredbridgeartbe held on Friday, April 22 before she even understood (HAM) in Clinton, NJ. Art- New Hope, and Sergeants- duction to a varied group of isans.com. from 6 to 8 p.m. and is free what she was seeing. Her work is offered for sale bene- ville areas with 14 additional professional artists creating Continued on Next Page professional life has always fiting the artists, THAT, and artists at the Sergeantsville and open to the public. focused on the visual arts. HAM. The festivities kick off Firehouse Events Center. All “Lily Colman: The Knots From years as a photogra- on Friday, April 29 from 7 studios are located within 5 on the Underside of the pher and video producer to to 9 p.m. with an outdoor miles of Stockton. Carpet” presents the work numerous positions in art opening reception. Meet the of Lily Madeleine Colman For 27 years the Covered education at colleges and artists, see their work, and a film-based photographer community programs both use the exhibition, along Bridge Artisans have hostfrom Philadelphia, where in Boston and New York with the signature website ed an annual Thanksgiving s h e cu r rent ly l ive s a nd City, she always has been and printed map, to develop weekend tour, but decided to works. Colman was most introduce a spring event this drawing in one form or an- your own tour. recently featured in the year on April 30 and May other. Samdperil earned THAT welcomes a new 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 2021 International Juried a BFA from School of the alliance with the Covered Exhibition at The Center for Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts B r i d g e A r t i s a n s ( C B A ) in alliance with the HunterContemporary Art, where University, and has exhibit- group, which is hosting its don Art Tour. The weekend she was awarded First Prize ed work and participated in first-ever spring tour on the and a Solo Exhibition. She residencies ever since. same weekend. THAT is also also won Second Place for “Theda Sandiford: Joy- happy to collaborate again the 2021 Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award, and ful Resistance” showcases with Whittemore Commuhad a virtual solo exhibition the work of award-winning nity, Culture, & Conservafeatured on their website. self-taught fiber and installation (WCCC) in Oldwick to She completed her master’s tion artist Theda Sandiford, curate an exhibit of works degree in photography from based in Jersey City. Using by members of the Hunterthe Rhode Island School of racial trauma as a starting don Watercolor Society — a Design in May 2020, as well point, Sandiford juxtaposes new tour partner — Eleaas a Certificate in Collegiate various fibers with a vari- nor Eick, Pamela LaFevre, Teaching in Art and Design. ety of found materials us- Lana Pagano, and Norma She earned her BA in fine ing free-form weaving, coil- Walaka; along with paintar t por trait photography ing, knotting, crochet, and ers Ahni Kruger and WCCC and curatorial studies in jewelry-making techniques. Artist-in-Residence Alison May 2013 from Hampshire Meticulously collected mate- Scherr; and sculptors Jeff College in Amherst, Mass. rials and community dona- Mase, Elie Porter Trubert, tions, transformed by their and WCCC Sculpture Gar“Jennifer Croson : New collective memory become den Director and Curator Encounters, Resetting The “social fabric,” weaving to- David Horowitz. An openStage” exhibits the work gether contemporary issues ing reception will be held on of Jennifer Croson, a New and personal narratives. Saturday, April 30 from 6 Yo r k- b a s e d m u l t i m e d i a Community art making is to 8 p.m., and the unveiling artist. A graduate of The key to her process. San- of Trubert’s Spring, the first State University at Geneseo, diford curates’ multi-disci- piece in a four-part series, w i t h a M a s te r of F i n e plinary experiences pairing is set for Sunday, May 1 at Arts degree from Queens people, sound, and artmak- 12 p.m. College, Croson has exhibing to create a safe space Artists’ studios and partited in numerous one-, two-, to explore themes such as ner events at more than 40 and three-person shows, inequity and inclusion, sus- locations will be open to the cluding Hall Walls, Portal: tainability, and personal public on Saturday, April 30 Governor’s Island, Denise well-being. She has shown and Sunday, May 1. Artist Bibro Fine Ar ts, Gibson extensively nationwide. San- and partner addresses and Contemporar y, From the diford received Excellence detailed contact information Drawer, The Attleboro Art in Fibers VI from Fiber Art can be found on TheHunterMuseum, Mizuma, Kips, and Now, the 2020 Jersey City donArtTour.com under 2022 Wada Art. As a dedicated Arts, Visual Artist Award, Artists and 2022 Partners educator who is chair of the and the 2021 Fellowship in headings in the red banner Visual Arts Department, she Craft from the New Jersey on the home page. All Tour teaches courses in painting, State Council on the Arts. participants are expected sculpture, and design at The Center for Contempo- to comply with COVID-19 Marymount School of New rary Art is located at 2020 protocols. York. Burnt Mills Road in Bedmin“Now in its fifth year, we “Debra Samdperil: ster. For more information, are beyond excited to see L ayere d C onver s at ion s” call (908) 234-2345 or visit countless hours of volunteer presents the work of artist ccabedminster.org. efforts contributed by many Debra Samdperil. SamdperAppointments Encouraged translate into a thriving Tour il‘s painting explores current Hunterdon Art Tour oakgem.com and community for THAT’s and past personal stories Kicks Off on April 29 artists and partners,” said through engaged discovery, The Hunterdon Art Tour Kathleen Thompson, THAT both unconscious and inten(THAT), a self-guided tour co -fou nder. “We cannot 39 Bridge Street 4 via Sunset tional —always questioning s h owc as i n g t h e s t u d io s wait to welcome visitors and whether self-determination Lambertville, NJ 08530 Palm Beach, FL 33480 and exhibition spaces of guide their exploration and is possible. 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MAPPING HISTORY: “A Map of the Trenton to New Brunswick Turnpike-road,” circa early 1800s, is featured in “Kingston: On the Map,” on view at the D&R Canal Locktender’s House through November. (Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division) armies during the American nity. One map shows how “Kingston: On the Map” Highlights Historical Maps Revolution, canal boats, rail- Kingston moved between the

“Kingston: On The Map” is now on exhibit in the History Room at the D&R Canal Locktender’s House, on old Lincoln Highway (off Route 27) in Kingston on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through November. Masks and distancing are requested. The village of Kingston has hosted colonial taverns,

road trains, and travelers on the Lincoln Highway. One of the oldest settlements in central New Jersey, Kingston evolved with America over its 340-year history. The display uses journal entries and prints of a dozen historical maps to illustrate Kingston’s evolution, from settlement to commercial center to modern commu-

colonies of East and West New Jersey. Another shows both Kingston and Princeton divided by county lines. Railroads appeared in the 19th century, disappearing by the 20th. The Delaware and Raritan Canal was built for commerce, but is now a recreation destination. T his display follows a talk by George Luck Jr. and

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Charlie Dieterich, “Why is Kingston Here?,” given this past February. Dieterich said that “in preparing for our talk I looked at dozens of historical maps of central New Jersey. I was str uck by the ways Kingston reinvented itself in every generation. In the 1600s it was a place to rest after crossing the Millstone River. In the 1700s Kingston thrived as the midway tavern stop on the Kings Highway and a place to change horses. During the American Revolution, Washington used the Kingston hill to gain perspective, returning to pass through the settlement in several directions during the war. “ I n t h e 19 t h c e n t u r y Kingston changed to a prosperous mill town, a port on the canal, a station on two railroads (now long gone) and a stop on the Lincoln Highway. The village included t wo schools and supported two industries: Kingston Quarry and Princeton Nurseries. In the 21st century Kingston has become a multicultural community with many parks and open space.” The display allows visitors to go deeper on each of these “Kingstons.” The Kingston Historical Society is planning events including a community walk on May 21 and a panel discussion later this spring. Details of future events and a video of the February talk are available at khsnj.org.

Area Exhibits Check websites for information on safety protocols. Ar t @ Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Elizabeth Colomba: Repainting

the Story” through May 8. artmuseum.princeton.edu. A r t i st s’ G a l l e r y, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Begin, Again” through May 1. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com. Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “Native America: In Translation” through April 24. artmuseum.princeton. edu. Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Still Lives from a Mostly Stilled Life” through April 30. artscouncilofprinceton.org. D & R Greenway Land Trust, One Preservation Place, has “Space to Dream: Nature and Creative Freedom” through May 27. drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Mus eu m i n C adwa lader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has “Painting the Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends Explore the Night Sky” through April 29. Visit ellarslie.org for museum hours and timed entry tickets. Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell has “The Warp of Time” and ”Tree Talk” through May 1. Open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. or by appointment. gallery14.org. Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has photographs by members of the Cranbury Digital Camera Club through April 28. cranburyartscouncil.org. Gratz Gallery and Conservation Studio, 5230 Silo Hill Road, Doylestown, Pa., has “Peter Miller — For-

gotten Woman of American Modernism” April 23 through May 31. A preview and gallery 40th anniversary party will be held on April 23 from 5 to 9 p.m. Gratzgallery.com. Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Einstein Salon and Innovator’s Gallery,” “Princeton’s Portrait,” and other exhibits. Museum hours are Thursday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m. princetonhistory.org. Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Ma Bell: The Mother of Invention in New Jersey” through March 2023 and the online exhibits “Slavery at Morven,” “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761– 1898,” and others. morven. org. The Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, has “Emergence: Expanding in Light” through June 6. lagphotography.com. New Hope Arts, 2 Stockton Avenue, New Hope, Pa., has “Spring Salon” through May 1. newhopearts.org. Phillips’ Mill, 2619 River Road, New Hope, Pa., has “Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition” through April 22. phillipsmill.org. Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has paintings by Meredith Remz through May 3. “Real Life Magic” is at the 254 Nassau Street location through May 3. smallworldcoffee.com. West Windsor Arts Center, 52 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Member Show: Horizon” through May 14. westwindsorarts.org.

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AMERICAN MODERNIST: Works from the estate of Peter Miller, shown in her studio, will be on view in “Peter Miller — Forgotten Woman of American Modernism,” running April 23 through May 31 at Gratz Gallery and Conservation Studio in Doylestown, Pa. A 40th anniversary party for the gallery and preview of the exhibit are on April 23 from 5 to 9 p.m. For more information, visit gratzgallery.com. (Julien Levy Gallery Records, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archive)

Wednesday, April 20 7:30-9:45 a.m.: Adaptive Reuse: A Path for Sustainability, presented by Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber at Springdale Golf Club, 1895 Clu b h ou s e D r ive. Princetonmercer.org. 4:30 p.m.: Athens, Georgia, a new rock musical based on The Frogs by Aristophanes, presented by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts at Hearst Dance Theater. Free; tickets required. Tickets. princeton.edu. 6 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meet either in the Library’s Community Room or via Zoom. Princetonlibrary.org. 6 p.m.: Avram Alpert and Christy Wampole of Princeton University discuss The Good Enough Life, in a hybrid event co-sponsored by Princeton Public Library, Labyrinth Books and Princeton University Press. It will be held live at the library. Princetonlibrary.org. 7 p.m.: “Patriot or Loyalist: The Case of Dr. William Bryant.” Virtual talk sponsored by the Trent House Association, with speaker Larry Kidder. Bryant owned the Trent House at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Williamtrenthouse.org. 8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers presents a contra dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive. Bob Isaacs with Mind the Gap. $10. Princetoncountrydancers.org. 8 p.m.: “Riverdance: 25th Anniversary Show” comes to the State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $40-$98. STNJ.org. Thursday, April 21 4:30 p.m.: Open master class with jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan and students in the Lee Music Room at Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University. Free; tickets required. Tickets.princeton.edu. 6 p.m.: Aldriana Petryna and Rob Nixon discuss the book Horizon Work – At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change, in a hybrid event co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books and Princeton University. Labyrinthbooks.com. 7 p.m.: “Roosevelt’s Tree Army: The History of the Civilian Conservation Corps.” Historian Mary Rasa presents this virtual talk, sponsored by Mercer Count y Library System. Email hopeprogs@mcl.org to register. 8 p.m.: “Riverdance: 25th Anniversary Show” comes to the State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $40-$98. STNJ.org. Friday, April 22 7 p.m.: Artist/musician Alex Fam does an album release show for her new album, Real Life Magic, at Small World Coffee, 254 Nassau Street, in conjunction with her art exhibit. 7 p.m.: Bass player Gene Perla and his Parker Trio perform outdoors at the

Plainsboro Preser ve, 80 Scotts Corner Road, as part of Jazz Appreciation Month. Free. Plainsborolibrary.org. 7-8:30 p.m.: Campfire storytelling at The Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington. Ages 5 and up, $10, adult attendance required. Thewatershed.org. 7:30 p.m.: Princeton University Glee Club Earth Day concert featuring Princeton composer Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, and works by Lili Boulanger, conducted by Gabriel Crouch, at Richardson Auditor ium. $15 (students $5). Music.princeton.edu. 8 p.m.: Blues duo Jon Shain and FJ Ventre perform at Christ Congregational Church, 50 Walnut Lane. Presented by the Princeton Folk Music Society. $5-$25. Tickets at the door. 8 p.m.: The Diary of Anne Frank, presented by Mercer Count y Communit y College Academic Theatre and Dance Company at Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road. $18-$20. Kelseytheatre.org. Saturday, April 23 8 -11 p.m . : P r i n c e to n Country Dancers presents contra dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive. Kappy Laning with PUB. $11. Princetoncountrydancers.org. 9 a.m.-12 p.m.: Document shredding for Mercer County residents at Lot 4, 641 South Broad Street, Trenton. Rain or shine, sponsored by Mercer County Improvement Association. Mcianj.org. 9 a.m.-2 p.m.: Indoor flea market at Princeton Elks, 354 Route 518, Skillman. Furniture, kitchen items, antiques, bric-a-brac, art, linens, vintage items, jewelry, toys, and more. Thrift shop is also open. Food available for purchase. (609 ) 9218972. 9 : 3 0 a .m . : L aw r e n c e Hopewell Trail hosts a combined walk and bicycle ride starting at the ETS parking lot, Assessment Road south of Messick Hall. The event is in recognition of Celebrate Trails Day. Lhtrail.org. 10 a.m.: Potato planting at Howell Living History Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell Township. Help plant a field of potatoes that will yield over 2,000 pounds for local soup kitchens. Howellfarm. org. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Arbor Day celebration at Marquand Park Children’s Arboretum, Lovers Lane. Take home a seedling; free children’s book featuring the park’s special trees. Cookies and lemonade will be served. Rain date is April 24. Marquandpark.org. 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.: Spring clean-up day at Princeton Battlefield State Park, rescheduled from April 9. Garden tools and gloves available, but bring your own if you can. Water and snacks provided. Register at pbs1777.org.

12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Music by Bud Belviso. Terhuneorchards.com. 12 - 6 p.m . : P r i n c e to n Porchfest, walkable music festival on front porches throughout town, featuring local talent playing rotating sets. Part of April ARTS festival. For a full list of performances, visit artscouncilofprinceton.org. 1 p.m.: Paddington Gets in a Jam, at State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Street, New Brunswick. Musical comedy for the whole family. $15-$65. STNJ.org. 8:30 p.m.: The Diary of Anne Frank, presented by Mercer County Community College Academic Theatre and Dance Company at Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road. $25, benefits the Mercer Count y Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Center. Kelseytheatre.org. Sunday, April 24 9-11 a.m.: Spring cleanup at Hilltop Park, 782 Bunn Drive. Help remove trash, litter, and debris as part of the annual stream cleanup series. Register at thewatershed.org. 12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Music by Mike & Laura. Terhuneorchards.com. 1 p.m.: Princeton carillon concert performed by Lisa Lonie, Princeton University carillonneur, at Cleveland Tower on the campus. Listen outside with plenty of room to socially distance. Free, rain or shine. 1-4 p.m.: Trenton Author Book Fair at Trenton Free Public Library, 120 Academy Street, Trenton. More

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than 20 local authors, light refreshments, free books for k ids. trentonlib.org / events. 2-4 p.m.: “Building Princeton” at the Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, Quaker Road. Teams use LEGOs to build historic structures in Princeton. Family-oriented. Visit P r inceton h istor y.org for more information. 2 p.m.: The Diary of Anne Frank, presented by Mercer County Community College Academic Theatre and Dance Company at Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road. $18$20. Kelseytheatre.org. 3 p.m.: “Becoming a Steward of Your Local Environment: An Introduction,” a day of exploring and learning in nature, at Herrontown Woods, 600 Snowden Lane. Visit Herrontownwoods.org for a schedule of events. 3 p.m.: The Concordia Chamber Players presents Seven Pillars by composer Andy Akiho at the Solebury S chool Per for m ing A r ts Center, 6832 Phillips Mill Road, New Hope, Pa. Concordiaplayers.org. 7 p.m.: Princeton Seminary Chapel Choir will hold a concert honoring the Rev. Janice Smith Ammon, who is retiring from her position as Bryant M. Kirkland Minister of the Chapel. 64 Mercer Street. Free and open to the public. Followed by a reception. Ptsem.edu. Monday, April 25 Recycling 10 a.m.: Princeton Senior Resource Center presents “Faith Seeking Peace and Justice,” an interfaith panel via Zoom, focused on the role that the Abrahamic faith traditions have in peace-

making and justice-seeking. Princetonsenior.org. 6 p.m.: Annual meeting of The Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington. Light refreshments will begin at 5 p.m. Guest speaker is New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. Latourette. Also, an awards ceremony for distinguished volunteers, members, or local educators who have helped with the mission of keeping water safe, clean, and healthy will be held. Thewatershed.org. 6 p.m.: Jon Gertner and The Idea Factory celebrate National Telephone Day at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Live and virtual. Morven.org. Tuesday April 26 9:30 and 11 a.m.: Read & Pick Program at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Hands-on farm activity for kids ages preschool to 8. $12. Purchase online at Terhuneorchards.com. 10 :30-11:30 a.m.: Preschool nature class: Mammal animals, at The Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Penning ton. Ages 3-5, $10, adult attendance required. Thewatershed.org. 3 p.m.: Princeton Senior Resource Center presents FYI Seminar “This was Toscanini: Remembering the Musical Genius of Legendary Conductor Arturo Toscanini.” Zoom event with Lucy Antek-Johnson, whose father worked with Toscanini as a first-chair violinist for 17 years. Princetonsenior.org. 7 p.m.: Jonathan Galassi and Martha McPhee discuss Galassi’s School Days: A Novel, in an online event sponsored by L aby r int h Books and Princeton Public Library. Labyrinthbooks.com.

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Wednesday, April 27 8-10:30 a.m.: Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber presents “Women in the Workforce: Navigating Success in the Evolving Workplace,” at Mercer Oaks Catering, 725 Village Road West. Networking and discussion. Princetonmercerchamber.org. 3 p.m.: Princeton University Library Author Talk by Jennifer Rampling, on The Experimental Fire, about alchemy in medieval and modern Europe. Zoom event. Registration required. Visit Library.princeton.edu for link. 8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers presents a contra dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive. Sue Gola with Contra Rebels. $10; free for dancers under 35. Princetoncountrydancers.org. 1-3 p.m.: Panel discussion, “Become a Biotech Entrepreneur,” virtual event presented by Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs and other organizations. Registration information at Princetonbiolabs.com Thursday, April 28 6 p.m.: Autumn Womack and Imani Perry discuss The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data 1880-1930, in an online event presented by Labyrinth Books, Princeton Public Library, and Princeton University. Labyrinthbooks.com. Friday, April 29 7 p.m.: Tenor saxophonist Jerry Weldon and his trio perform outside Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, as part of Jazz Appreciat ion Mont h. Free. Plainsborolibrary.org.

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In 1911, only eight years after the Wright brothers made aviation history, Richard A. Newhouse arrived from Germany, settled in Rocky Hill, and began designing and building airplanes. The land where he tested his planes was Bolmer’s Field, later to become the site of Princeton Airport. History was made at the airport on November 19, 1916, when 10 pioneer aviators, members of New York’s 1st Aero Company (National Guard) completed a formation round trip from Mineola, N.Y., to Princeton. The flight, hailed by the press as “the largest number ever seen on one flight in this country,” was the first mass cross-country flight in U.S. military aviation. Years later, in 1929, Newhouse and his eldest son Werner established the Newhouse Flying Service, and named the site Princeton Airport. Their advertising flyer offered “Charter Flights to All Points: Planes for Hire: Student Instruction at Moderate Rates and Terms.” History continued to be made

at the airport. It was from there that the first Air Mail Flight took off on November 16, 1937. Also, on weekends, visitors could watch an air show, complete with “barrel rolls and wing over loops.” During World War II, restrictions on general aviation within 50 miles of the coast were instituted, and activity at the airport decreased. However, the airport’s two runways accommodated military aircraft, including B-10 bombers and DC-3s. Area Pilots Over the years, ownership of the airport changed hands, and in 1985, the Nierenberg family, including Dick, Naomi, and their son Ken, purchased the airport, which had been dormant and for sale for four years. The Nierenbergs had previously overseen a full service fixedwing base operation at Kupper Airport in Hillsborough for 18 years. Area pilots responded enthusiastically to the return of the airport service. The Nierenbergs began to improve the facility with an upgraded lighting

FAIR SKIES AHEAD: “In 1985, when we moved here, we had no idea we were carrying forward the torch of aviators from 1911 at this site. We think those early aviators would be very pleased with the expansion of the runway, taxiway, lighting system, hangars, and all the navigational aids that have come into being.” Ken Nierenberg, right, manager of Princeton Airport, is also very proud that his son Jack, left, is now the third generation of the Nierenberg family to help guide and maintain the airport’s highest professional standards. They are shown beside a Cessna-172, one of the instruction planes. system, and in 1987 a set of 16 T-hangars was constructed. Also, the FAA-certified flight school grew rapidly, a variety of planes became available to rent, the maintenance shop expanded, the tie-down area increased, and Princeton Airport was a full-service operation again. Improvements have continued in the years since, notes Steven Nierenberg, Airport director of operations, and an attorney in

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renberg. “They say it was thrilling, fantastic. There are lots of emotions — joy, excitement, a real mix of feelings.” Ken Nierenberg can relate to that. “I started flying when I was 12 years old, and I loved it. I still do! When I’m flying, I feel free. You’re on your own, alone in the clouds. No one is telling you what to do. it’s still like an adventure. “Also, one of the things I love to see is when students reach a milestone. Soloing is a milestone, and another is when they fly 150 miles and return. This requires landing at another airport, and then flying back here. We enjoy being part of a student’s life. It’s very exciting for them to say ‘I can fly a plane.’” He points out that pilots have embarked from Princeton Airport to such locations as Cape Cod, Block Island, Martha’s Vineyard, the Jersey Shore, and so on. “There is also the utility of flying. You can get to places so much faster. No long road delays and traffic jams.” Pleasure and Excitement As in nearly all businesses today, advances in technology are key, and that is certainly true in aviation. “There is more technology in the planes now, more electronics in the cockpit, even GPS systems, and the planes are also more expensive,” reports Nierenberg. “And, of course, there are all the rules and regulations you have to keep up with.” He is pleased to be busier than ever, and he looks forward to offering even more people the opportunity to experience the pleasure and excitement of flying. “I have a chance to meet people who really want to be here, and who want to fly. We are a nice model for people. We have built something special here, and we’ve been able to do what we love and make it even better. We have very loyal employees. Many have been with us a long time, and everyone here loves aviation. “I am very proud to continue our family business, and now with my son Jack, it is our third generation.” Princeton Airport offers so many opportunities for flying enthusiasts, including just the fun of coming over and watching planes take off and land. That can still be a thrill for future pilots! The airport also offers its hangars to rent for parties and special occasions. Area organizations, including SAVE, have had events at the airport. rinceton Airport is open every day, except Christmas and New Year’s Day. The office is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (609) 921-3100. Website: princetonairport.com. —Jean Stratton

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n paper, it looked like a mismatch when the Princeton University men’s lacrosse team hosted Dartmouth last Saturday afternoon at Class of 1952 Stadium. Princeton came into the contest riding high, ranked third nationally, and boasting a record of 8-2 overall and 2-1 Ivy League while Dartmouth, 4-6 overall and 0-3 Ivy, was mired in last place in the Ancient 8 having lost 31 straight league contests since a 12-11 overtime win against Harvard on March 21, 2015. But at halftime, the rivals were locked in a 5-5 deadlock and Princeton junior midfielder Sam English knew the Tigers were in a battle. “Anybody on any day can come into wherever and beat anyone,” said English. “At halftime, it was just lock it in, just play better. We were a little sketchy on the clear in the first half.” English got locked in as he scored two straight goals in the third quarter to help Princeton go up 9-5. “We call it the NASCAR offense, run it up and down the field,” said English, a 6’1, 180-pound native of Burlington, Ontario. “We got it from coach Mitchell (Princeton offensive coordinator Jim Mitchell) at Rutgers. The first one was just coming across the top and capitalizing on the matchup. The second was a 6-on-6 goal that kept the run going.” Dartmouth, though, responded with a five-goal run to go up 10-9 before Princeton answered with three straight goals and pulled out a 12-10 win. English, who assisted on the go-ahead goal by Chris Brown with 10:51 left in regulation, was confident that the Tigers were going to pull out the victory. “There was never a point where I thought we were going to lose that game but it was a little sketchy,” said English. “We slowed it down on offense and the defense held it down. We made the adjustments we needed and got the W.” Finding Brown with a feed was a no-brainer for English. “Chris scored the one before to tie it and we just got the ball back to him,” said English, who ended up with three goals and two assists in the win. “He was able to find the back of the net and put us up one, which was a massive one.” While the Tiger offense struggled at times on Saturday, English believed the win showed Princeton has developed a knack of doing whatever it takes to prevail. “We can win in every way,” said English. “We have scored 21 against Penn (in a 21-20 win on March 19), we allowed eight against Georgetown (a 10-8 win on March 5) and seven against BU (a 12-7 win on April 9). We can win close games, we can win big games. We are a good team and that is all that matters.” After scoring just two points with a goal and an assist in his freshman season in 2020 that was halted after five games

due to the global pandemic, English is helping Princeton in a lot of ways this spring as he has hit the field after the 2021 season was canceled due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns. “That off year was very helpful for me where I honed in and got my skills right,” said English, who has 18 goals and 13 assists so far in 2022 along with 15 ground balls. “I lived in Charleston in the fall and then I came here and lived here with the freshmen and sophomores last spring. That gave us some nice bonding and it’s got me to the point where I needed to be.” English displayed his skills with a career-high four goals in a 15-10 loss to top-ranked Maryland on February 26. “Maryland is the best team in the nation right now and for good reason,” said English. “It was a good confidence booster, knowing that I could play with any team in the nation.” Princeton head coach Matt Madalon acknowledged that gritty Dartmouth proved to be a tough team to overcome. “I am going to say that is how good our league is, they did a great job,” said Madalon. “They coached a great game, they played a great game. They came here with a good crowd, they had good energy. They set the tone at the face-off X against us. That really sways the possessions on the ground ball battle. We take a lot of pride in winning the ground balls. Our group did a good job away from the face-off X on ground balls. They played a really good game.” At halftime, Madalon urged his players to be patient and execute. “Dartmouth has played everybody tight all year in the first half,” said Madalon. “For us it was more or less, doing what we do and stick to the game plan. Shots will open up, shots will start dropping and they did. We came out and got the lead.” There were some nervous moments for Princeton as Dartmouth took the lead with 12:27 left in the contest. “We made a couple of careless plays that let them back in the game a little bit,” said Madalon. “Then they take the lead and they were executing.” Madalon was not surprised to see senior star Brown come through with two straight goals to give Princeton a lead it never relinquished. “He was good, he struggled a little early in shooting the ball a little bit,” said Madalon of Brown, who ended up with two goals and three assists in the win.

“If there is a guy we are going to give it to in that moment, it is him. He is a bigtime player and he makes bigtime plays. He is a senior, he can handle that kind of pressure.” English is emerging as a big-time player for the Tigers. “He is awesome, he is all over the field,” said Madalon of English. “We are using him for defense, we use him on man-up, and we use him on offense. He is such an electric player. He is a guy that keeps getting better every time. We are thrilled to have him, in between the lines, he makes a huge impact on the offensive side and now the defensive side. He is a true utility player.” The Tiger defense came up big as it stifled Dartmouth down the stretch, producing 18 caused turnovers on the day. “Dartmouth played long possessions, they took the shot clock down to the last 15-20 seconds every time,” said Madalon. “They were deliberate, they made great adjustments. Our defense withstood some stuff. There were a couple of mistakes that they capitalized on but all in all it was a good defensive battle. Andrew Song and Pace Billings are excellent at the pole position, those guys do a really nice job. Erik Peters made five fourth quarter saves, thank god.” Madalon was relieved to see his team overcome a pesky Big Green squad to pull out the win. “We are thrilled to win, it is less about character and more about cleaning up our mistakes,” said Madalon. “Any time you can win in Class of ’52 in front of the home crowd, we are really excited.” Looking ahead, Princeton is excited to wrap up its Ivy campaign as it plays at No. 17 Harvard on April 23 before hosting No. 8 Cornell on April 30. “Those are awesome teams,” said Madalon. “Harvard has done a great job this year. We expect an absolute battle with those guys. Cornell is one of the top teams in the country. We expect nothing but a great game.” English, for his part, expects the Tigers to keep rising to the occasion. “It is stick to the game plan, not overthink too many things, come out on Saturday and get the win,” said English. “Every game is going to be a hard one. We are in control of our own destiny. We go out there and we win two games and we come back here the week after and we play the Ivy championship.” — Bill Alden

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With Mulham Emerging as an Offensive Force, PU Women’s Lax Routs Dartmouth, Now 3-0 Ivy Kate Mulham’s freshman season for the Princeton University women’s lacrosse team was derailed on the first day of fall practice when she suffered a leg injury that sidelined her for the 2019 campaign. Recovering for her sophomore season, Mulham started three games in 2020, tallying six goals and two assists before that season was halted due to the global pandemic. After taking a gap year, Mulham is making the most of her junior season, emerging as a key offensive weapon for the Tigers. Coming into Princeton’s game against Dartmouth, Mulham had tallied 24 points on 16 goals and eight assists. “It has been a long time coming, it is just confidence,” said Mulham, a 5’8 native of Setauket, N.Y. “Everyone is so supportive on this team and really wants ever yone to p er for m at their best. There are some great leaders on this team. I think everyone is starting to come into their own and feel more confident as the season goes on.” In the matchup against Dar tmouth, Mulham dis played her comfort level, scoring a team-high three goals to help the Tigers cruise to a 17-5 win over the Big Green as the improved to 8-3 overall and 3-0 Ivy League. “I was feeling it, the ball was moving so well,” said Mulham. “Everyone was looking to the inside for those feeds and those onemore passes. The selfless play today really paid off in the end.” Coming into Saturday, t h e 12t h - r a n ke d T i g e r s were look ing to bou nce back from a tough 19-9 loss to No. 8 Maryland last Wednesday evening. “Maryland is obviously a great team and we really felt that loss,” said Mulham, who scored a careerhigh five goals in the defeat. “Today was about proving ourselves and getting back to the level of play we have been doing all season.” A f ter an up - and - dow n first quarter against Dartmouth which saw Princeton up 4-2, the Tigers outscored the Big Green 5-1 in the second to break the game open. “I think the offense was really starting to click, we were riding on the momentum from our defense that (goalie) Sam Fish was giving us with those great defensive stops,” said Mulham. “All the credit to them, they

gave us the extra opportunities on the offensive end.” As Princeton pulled away to the win, the Tiger offense displayed its balance as nine different players found the back of the net. “That is something we pr ide our s elve s on, t he depth of our bench,” said Mulham. “Different girls can come in and still make a difference. I think that is one of the stronger points of our game.” P r i n ce ton h e ad co ach Chris Sailer was pleased w it h t he s t rong p er for mance she got from her squad as it rebounded from the Maryland loss. “We were excited to get back on the field to continue with our April lacrosse; except for Maryland game, it is all about the Ivy League,” said Sailer. “To be able to come out here and play as well as we did from start to finish and both ends of the field was great to see. The ride was so much improved. We just had a nice day offensively, sharing the ball and feeding the ball.” S ailer li ked s eeing s o many players involved in the offense. S enior star Kyla Sears tallied two goals and six assists in the win and was later named the Ivy Offensive Player of the Week. In addition to the production from Mulham and Sears, Princeton got two goals apiece from Gaby Hamburger, Lillian Stout, Grace Tauckus, McKenzie Blake and Lucie Gildehaus with Shannon Berr y and Nina Montes each scoring one goal. “It was great, we have been s eeing some play ers step up at practice so we have been intentionally trying to get more kids in the rotation,” said Sailer. “It was nice to see people coming through today and playing well.” It has been nice for Sailer to see Mulham’s progress. “She is a junior but she is really like a freshman in terms of experience,” said Sailer of Mulham. “As the season has gone on and on, she has gotten more confident at reading the game better.” The Tiger defense read the game well, highlighted by Mary Murray putting the clamps on Dartmouth star Katie Elders, holding her to a pair of goals. “I thought Murphy did a good job against her,” and Sailer. “It was a good call t hat coach [ Jen n ] Cook made. I thought the defense rebounded well.” With Princeton hosting

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Penn on April 20 and then playing at Harvard on April 23 as it heads into the Ivy stretch drive, Sailer knows her squad has to keep playing well to stay atop the league standings along with Yale (9-2 overall, 5-0 Ivy). “The focus is on just continuing to get better every day, to be ready to play on game day and just execute the fundamentals, the small parts of the game that bring you success on the field,” said Sailer. “It is a grueling stretch over the next two weeks but we have to be ready every day. That is the thing about the league, you can’t have an off day.” Mulham and her teammates are ready for the league battles ahead. “We are really excited, the Iv y L eague is really competitive this year,” said Mulham. “Dartmouth was a good team and we are ready for the next one. We are going to ride the high of this win and take it to the rest of the Ivy League.” —Bill Alden

HAMMING IT UP: Princeton University women’s lacrosse player Kate Mulham heads to goal in a game earlier this season. Last Saturday, junior Mulham scored three goals to help Princeton defeat Dartmouth 17-5. The 12th-ranked Tigers, now 8-3 overall and 3-0 Ivy League, host Penn on April 20 and then play at Harvard on April 23. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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A trio of Princeton Universit y senior basketball players, men’s stars Jaelin Llewellyn and Ethan Wright along with women’s standout Abby Meyers, revealed last week where they will be continuing their college hoops careers as grad students. Star guard Llewellyn, a two-time All-Ivy League performer who averaged 15.7 points a game in 2021-22 and passed the 1,000-point mark in his career, will be heading to play at Clemson. Fellow backcourt standout Wright, a second-team AllIvy choice this winter after averaging 14.7 points and 6.9 rebounds a game, is going west to compete for Colorado. The Ivy Women’s Player of the Year this winter, guard Meyers, who averaged 17.9 points and 5.9 rebounds a contest, is heading to the University of Maryland.

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Despite averaging five runs a game, the Princeton University baseball team went 0-3 at Dartmouth last weekend. The Tigers fell 6-2 and 11-6 in a doubleheader on Saturday and then lost 16-7 a day later in the series finale. Princeton, now 4-24 overall and 2-10 Ivy League, hosts Rutgers on April 20 and then hosts Harvard for a three game series with a doubleheader on April 23 and a single game on April 24.

PU Hockey Alum Véronneau Signs with San Jose Sharks

Coming off a 2021-22 season where he earned Most Valuable Player honors in the Swedish Hockey League, former Princeton University men’s hockey star Max Véronneau ’19 has signed a one-year contract with the San Jose Sharks and will return to the NHL for the 2022-23 season. A member of Princeton’s 2018 ECAC Championship team, Véronneau signed with the Ottawa Senators as an undrafted free agent in 2019. He went on to play in 16 games dur ing the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons, tallying four points (2 goals, 2 assists) for the Sens. He also skated in 36 AHL games with the Belleville Senators and Toronto Marlies, scoring 10 points (5 goals, 5 assists). Véronneau spent the last t wo s easons in Sweden where he first played for IK Oskarshamn in 2020-21 before signing with Leksands IF this season. In 51 games with Leksands, he led the SHL in scoring with 34 goals and was second with 60 points. A nominee for Princeton’s Roper Trophy as most outstanding senior male athlete in 2018, Véronneau graduated second all-time in program history in assists (92) and fourth all-time in points (144). A 2018 second-team All-American and first-team All-ECAC forward, Véronneau was also a two-time All-Ivy selection and earned Academic All-Ivy honors. As a junior, Véronneau led Princeton in scoring with 55 points (17 goals, 38 assists) as the Tigers claimed the ECAC championship and qualified for the NCAA Tournament. His 38 assists led the nation that season. Véronneau is one of four players from that 2017-18 team who went on to play NHL games, joining Eric Robinson ’18 ( Columbus Blue Jackets), Ryan Kuffner ’19 (Detroit Red Wings), and Josh Teves ’19 (Vancouver Canucks). This past winter, Veronneau was at the Beijing Olympics as a reserve for the Canadian men’s team.

Tiger Men’s Lightweights Edged by Cornell

Coming up just short in a tight race, the fourth-ranked Princeton University men’s lightweight varsity 8 lost to third-ranked Cornell on Lake Carnegie last Saturday. Cornell clocked a winning time of 5:38.5 over t he 2,000 -meter course with Princeton coming in at 5:41.5 in the race for the Platt Cup. The Tigers host No. 6 Penn for the Wood-Hammond Cup on April 23 with

No. 5 Georgetown guesting the pole vault with a leap into the regatta. of 5.63 meters. In the high PU Women’s Lightweights jump, Jeffrey Hollis earned first place with a distance of Defeat Stanford 2.14 meters. In a battle of national As for the Tiger women, p ower s, t he top -ra n ke d Princeton University wom- Siniru Iheoma starred, taken’s lightweight varsity 8 ing first in the discus with defeated third-ranked Stan- a throw of 50.12 meters, a ford last Saturday in Red- personal best for the freshwood City, Calif. The Tigers man. She also took second clocked a winning time of in the shot put with a toss 7:28.77 over the 2,000-me- of 15.58 meters, second allter course with the Cardinal time mark in program history. coming at 7:37.59. Tia Rozario recorded a Princeton is next in action when it competes in the leap of 12.40 meters in Eastern Sprints on May 1 at the triple jump to take first p l a c e . M e n a S c atc h a r d Worcester, Mass. and India Weir went onePrinceton Open Crew t wo in t he 800 meters, Defeats Yale with times of 2:11.75 and Remaining undefeated, the Princeton Universit y women’s open crew varsity 8 edged Yale last Saturday in New Haven, Conn. in the race for the Eisenberg Cup. Princeton posted a winning time of 6 :16.2 over the 2,000-meter course on the Housatonic River with Yale coming in at 6:18.2. Princeton hosts defending national champion Texas and Rutgers on April 23.

2:12.66, respectively. In the 1,500 meters, Lexi Allen (4:38.04) and Lucca Fulkerson (4:41.18) finished third and fourth. In the 100-meter hurdles, Lily Parris finished fourth with a time of 14.41. The Tigers are next in action when they compete at the Virginia Challenge from April 22-23 in Charlottesville, Va.

Tiger Men’s Tennis Tops Dartmouth

Ryan Seggerman had a big day to help the Princeton University men’s tennis team defeat Dartmouth 5-2 last Sunday. Senior standout Seggerman cruised to a straight-set win at first singles and helped the Tigers

earn the doubles point as they improved to 17-7 overall and 3-1 Ivy League. Princeton hosts Cornell on April 22 and then plays at Columbia on April 24.

PU Women’s Tennis Defeats Dartmouth

Neha Velega starred as the Princeton University women’s tennis team defeated Dartmouth 4-0 last Sunday. Sophomore Velega helped the Tigers win the doubles point and posted a straight-set win at second singles. P r i n c e t o n , n o w 9 -10 overall and 4-1 Ivy League, plays at Cornell on April 22 and then hosts Columbia on April 24.

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Princeton Baseball Goes 0-3 at Dartmouth

PU Men’s Heavyweights Fall to Harvard

Suffering it first loss of the spring, the Princeton University men’s heavyweight varsity 8 fell to Harvard last Saturday on the Charles River in the race for the Compton Cup. Harvard covered t he 2,000 -meter course in 6:15.0 with Princeton clocking a time of 6:21.0. The Tigers head back to New England next weekend to face Yale and Cornell in New Haven, Conn. on April 23 with the Carnegie Cup on the line.

Tiger Men’s Volleyball Defeats Sacred Heart

E x tend i ng it s w i n n i ng streak to seven matches, as the Princeton University men’s volleyball team defeated Sacred Heart 3-0 last Saturday. Senior Niko Gjaja had a match and career-high 11 kills to help the Tigers prevail 25-16, 25-16, 31-29. P r i n ce ton, now 12-12 overall and 10-6 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, will be facing St. Francis (Pa.) on April 20 in the first round of the EIVA Championship Tournament in University Park, Pa.

SECOND EFFORT: Princeton University softball player Alexis Laudenslager fires a pitch in recent action. Last weekend, junior pitcher Laudenslager made history to help Princeton sweep a three-game series at Yale. In the opening game of a doubleheader on Sunday, Laudenslager threw a five-inning no-hitter as Princeton prevailed 12-0. Laudenslager, who pitched a no-hitter against Brown on March 20, struck out 10 with three walks. Laudenslager is the second player in program history to throw two solo no-hitters in the same year, along with Erin Snyder ’06 in 2005. Princeton won 9-1 over Yale in five innings on Saturday to open the series and edged the Bulldogs 5-4 in the nightcap on Sunday. The Tigers, now 19-13-1 overall and 11-4 Ivy League, host Penn for a three-game set next weekend with a doubleheader on April 23 and a single game on April 24. (Photo by Sideline Photos, provided courtesy of Princeton Athletics)

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Sparked by Clutch Hitting from McDowell, PHS Baseball Rallies to Edge Lawrenceville Before the Princeton High baseball team took the field to host Lawrenceville last week, it engaged in some soul-searching. “We had a talk before the game about resilience and picking it up,” said PHS senior Connor McDowell. “After that last game (a 2-0 loss to Robbinsville on April 11), we knew we had to perform. It was that or nothing.” With McDowell picking up the offense by going 3 for 4 with three RBIs, PHS rallied from a 4-0 deficit to pull out an 8-7 walk-off win over the Big Red in the April 12 contest. I n t h e b ot tom of t h e second inning, McDowell helped get the Tigers back in the game, banging out a two-run single that narrowed the Lawrenceville lead to 4-3. “I knew the pitcher was probably going to throw me a fastball,” said McDowell, recalling that at-bat. “I just needed to stay down and hit a line drive. I didn’t need to hit anything crazy, just hit through the ball and hit a single, that is all I need.” In the sixth inning, McDowell came through again, driving in another run to help spark a three-run rally as PHS forged ahead 7-6. “I was thinking hit a ball to the outfield because that will score a run no matter what,” said McDowell. “I just hit it to the outfield and there you go.” The Big Red responded with a run in the top off the seventh to knot the contrast at 7-7 but the Tigers pulled out the walk-off triumph pushing across the winning run on an Alex Winters bunt after Aiden Castillo started the frame with a double. “When it was a tie game, I knew we would be able to hit,” said McDowell. “We had been hitting all game, we would be able to do it. After Aiden’s double, I knew we had it under control.”

In the view of McDowell, the win over the Big Red could get the Tigers rolling. “It is the starting point, it will catapult us forward,” said McDowell. “Like Cap (PHS head coach Dominic Capuano) said, from here we have to ride the momentum and keep going. We have had some tough games early; we have to let this be the start and only go up from there.” Capuano acknowledged that he was looking to light a fire under his squad with the pregame talk. “We have got 13 seniors and they needed to step up,” said Capuano. “With the size of that class and the quality of our guys, I felt that in our losses to Robbinsville and Steinert (3-1 on April 1), we just beat ourselves. I told them that your friend (Kenny Schiavone) is pitching his butt off and you guys have to step up a little bit.” Wit h t he T iger s t rai l ing Lawrenceville 4-0 in the second, Capuano was concerned that his players might hang their heads. “It was early; I wasn’t concerned about the ability or talent to come back,” said Capuano. “I was concerned about whether we would mentally shut down because that is what has beat us — our mentality and approach in two of the three games so far.” Capuano liked the mentality displayed by seniors McDowell and Castillo as they stepped up in clutch moments. “Con nor played really well, especially not be ing here yesterday,” said Capuano. “He was coming back from a college visit. He came back and stepped right it. Aiden came up with a triple and a double, that is taking advantage of opportunities. You never know, guys are pushing each other all of the time so both of them did well.” A not h er s e n ior, Pe ter

Hare, did very well in a relief pitching stint, giving up two runs in four innings of work. “It was big for him to come in and settle that down,” said Capuano. “It was really big, especially those last two innings when he got tired. He hasn’t pitched a whole lot, he threw one inning against Hightstown but that was his first long, extended outing. He kept us in it.” T he T igers kept t heir heads when Lawrenceville tied the game in the seventh. “That was what we talked about, having the mentality of never giving up and wanting it more,” said Capuano. “You need to want it more. Part of the talk we had is that we are much better 1-19 together than we are individually. That is part of it, sticking together, making sure that everybody is just doing their job.” Capuano hopes that the rally against Lawrenceville can be a harbinger of things to come. “It was a group effort and that is how we are going to win,” said Capuano, whose squad fell 13-1 to Notre Dame on Monday to move to 3-4 and hosts Princeton Day School on April 20, WW/PSouth on April 21, Ewing on April 23, and Allentown on April 25. “I hope is not something that we celebrate because it is a walk off. I hope it is the turning point to what we need to do and be.” McDowell and his fellow seniors are determined to make their final campaign for PHS something to celebrate. “This is my last shot at baseball; I see my role as being a leader and bringing these kids along with me, keeping them focused and trying to do the best for the team,” said McDowell. “The team success is more important. This is the team that is going to do big things; we have got to hold ourselves to a higher standard.” —Bill Alden

BIG MAC: Princeton High baseball player Connor McDowell takes a cut in recent action. Last week, senior McDowell went 3 for 4 with three RBIs to help PHS rally from a 4-0 deficit to edge Lawrenceville 8-7. The Tigers, who fell 13-1 to Notre Dame last Monday to move to 3-4, host Princeton Day School on April 20, WW/P-South on April 21, Ewing on April 23, and Allentown on April 25. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Kate Becker knew that the Princeton High girls’ lacrosse team faced a major challenge as it looked to break down a stingy Notre Dame defense last Wednesday. “They are notorious for their defense, they play it so well,” said PHS senior star and co-captain Becker. “It is hard to simulate in practice. They just work for it, they are shifting, and they are incredibly well-coached.” With PHS trailing 2- 0, Becker got things working, finding the back of the net with 8:59 left in the first half. “We wanted to take our time, it was really hot out and we wanted to pass it around and give the middies a break,” said Becker, who added two more goals in the half as the teams went into halftime tied at 3-3. “It just took us a second to look for their weaknesses, they don’t have a lot. We were just looking for that right pass. We said going in that we wanted to make passes that are going to be 100 percent going to be catches and just maintain our energy and keep our composure on offense.” Keeping its composure in the second half, PHS pulled away to a 9-6 victory. “They were just getting rowdy and we were saying play the game, let them foul, take the hits, and move it on offense,” said Becker. “We were really focusing on when their backer plays us out, beating one and then passing it or moving it. I think that is what we were able to do, even in our stall at the end.” D i s p l ay i n g h e r fo c u s, Becker ended up with five goals and an assist in the win. “I wanted to play t he full 50 minutes and really take our time and work for those,” said Becker, who exploded for nine goals as

PHS defeated Hop ewell Valley 14-8 last Monday and improved to 7-2. “I am pretty happy with my shooting today but it can always get better.” Becker feels very happy about the connection she has developed with classmate Grace Rebak, who had two goals and five assists against Notre Dame. “Grace has been great, she has stepped it up, she has been grinding on her stick skills,” said Becker. “We knew she was going to have to play up at mid and she has exceeded our expectations. She knows where we are going to be. She has phenomenal field vision, that is why we wanted to push her up on offense.” As a battle-tested senior, Becker looks to push her teammates to excel. “I am just trying to lead a nd br i ng ever yone to gether; we are working on having an individual goal of playing our individual best,” said Becker. “We did it against Lawrenceville (a 10-9 loss on April 6) and we did it here. That is just how to get better every day. Everybody has something that they need to be working on, it is not the same for anybody. That will help us elevate this team.” PHS head coach Katie Federico liked the way her team elevated things against Notre Dame. “Our girls played their game, they played smart and they played together,” said Federico. “I think that was the winning piece of it. The key is that they rely on each other. They all rely on each and every single person and they know they can trust them.” The Tigers are relying on the combination of Rebak and Becker to trigger the offense. “Grace was unbelievable, she was getting beat up the whole time and just hung in

there,” said Federico. “Kate just moves them all around as she sees it. I could not be more proud of the girls, they played a tremendous game.” At the defensive end, senior goalie Gigi Peloso made six saves to help PHS hold the fort. “Gigi made some amazing saves and she kept us in it,” said Federico. “I think just them believing in themselves that they could do it.” Coming up with a number of draw controls in the second half helped the Tigers overcome the Irish. “That is a huge piece of it and it was a game changer for us,” said Federico. “We were also patient when we had the ball. They were able to hold on until they saw the good cut and they were able to capitalize on it. I am just thrilled.” With PHS playing at Lawrence High on April 20, at Pingry School on April 23, and at WW/P-North on April 25, Federico believes the win over Notre Dame will give the squad a lift. “I think it gives them the confidence that they can do it,” said Federico. “We played so well against Lawrenceville and were so proud of ourselves coming out of that. I think it gave us that kind of boost and this gave us the next boost to keep going. It shows the girls that if you put in the work and put in the effort, you will come out on top.” Becker, for her part, believes that focusing on basics will help the Tigers to keep coming out on top. “Going forward, we just need to work on the small things like communication and rides,” said Becker. “We have to get everybody to where we can make that pass to anybody and have confidence that they are going to get it in the back of the net.” — Bill Alden

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Sarah Hibbert has been doing some m i x ing and matching this spring with the Princeton High boys’ tennis team. With last year’s second singles star Jack Ling deciding not to play this spring in his sophomore season so he can focus on junior tennis, PHS head coach Hibbert has been forced to shuffle things around. “That is obviously a big gap in our singles lineup,” said Hibbert, referring to the loss of Ling. “Jonathan [Gu] returned to give us a lot of strength at first singles. Melvin [ Huang ] has been working really hard as well at second. All of the other guys have been working really hard to step into the starting varsity lineup.” In the early stages that work has been paying off as PHS defeated W W/ PNorth 3-2 on April 11 and Robbinsville 3-2 on April 13 with makeshift lineups.

“We were able to get past North which was a nice win for us, especially considering that our second doubles played at one and we had Luke Bornstein filling in at second doubles,” said Hibbert, whose team defeated Allentown 5-0 last Monday to improved to 5-0. “He really stepped up. He got called up in a big spot twice this week; he is usually right on the cusp there for third doubles. He moved in and won a match at second doubles for us against North and moved into first doubles for us against Robbinsville and were still able to pull off the win. We had JV doubles at second. It made it a lot more exciting than perhaps it needed to be.” PHS figures to get some exciting play all spring from junior Jonathan Gu at first singles. “He has a fantastic allaround game,” said Hibbert of Gu. “He has a really

impressive serve and can follow it up with either the groundstroke or a volley combination. He has a lot of pace on all of his shots. He can outplay even the best in the county so far.” At second singles, sophomore Melvin Huang brings a special work ethic and tenacity. “Melvin is one of the hardest working players, he plays very long, grinding matches,” said Hibbert. “The Robbinsville match was another testament to that, Jonathan had finished his match while Melvin was still in the first set. He has added more pace to his shots this year, he is more match tough.” Senior Eric Zhu has worked his way up the PHS ladder to earn a spot at third singles. “I think the doubles play from last year helped his singles game because it made him more willing to come to net and put away volleys,”

said Hibbert. “He has really solid groundstrokes and a big forehand. He has gained more confidence over the years. He worked his way up, starting on JV as a sophomore and making varsity last year before getting into the singles lineup this year.” The duo of senior Roberto Haubold and sophomore Jason Singer has the potential to do some big things this spring. “Roberto is a really solid doubles player, he has great volleys and a good sense of where to be on the court,” said Hibbert. “Jason is new to doubles, he played third singles at times last year. He adds the steadiness, the groundstrokes and the solid serve. He and Roberto are learning how to work together to be a good doubles pairing. It does take time to put the pieces together to be a solid team.” At second doubles, sophomore Nikita Medvedev and senior Varun Vaidyanathan have quickly developed a good chemistry. “The first time they played

together was in preseason and they seemed to click with their styles,” said Hibbert. “Nikita has a great serve, Varun has worked hard on his game as well.” The Tigers are looking for ward to competing in the MCT which is back to its flighted format for the first time since 2019 where players compete at first, second or third singles and first and second doubles, earning team points with their wins. “None of these guys have played in one because the seniors were not on varsity

then,” said Hibbert, whose squad won the CVC tournament last year which featured head-to-head team matches. “We should definitely be in the running for it. We were able to win the CVC tournament, but that was last year and we are down a player. The other teams have gained players and the prep schools are in the counties this year. I think, as usual, it could be a really exciting tournament with a lot of close matches and good competition.” — Bill Alden

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STRINGING IT TOGETHER: Princeton High boys’ tennis player Jonathan Gu hits a shot in action last spring. With junior Gu starring at first singles, PHS is off to a 5-0 start. In upcoming action, the Tigers host Notre Dame on April 21 before starting play in the Mercer County Tournament on April 25 at the Mercer County Park tennis complex. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Over the course of this spring, the Princeton Day School boys’ tennis team is going to be tested early and often. PDS is facing a gauntlet of tough foes in regular season action, featuring a schedule packed with formidable prep and public school opponents. As for postseason play, the Panthers will be competing in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) tournament for the first time in addition to their annual tradition of taking part in the state Prep B tourney and the Mercer County Tournament (MCT). For PDS head coach Michael Augsberger, facing challenges is the key to making progress. “I tell them it is really important for me to be playing the best because it means that we are trying to become the best tennis players that we can be and not just win matches,” said Augsberger. “That is impotent but it is more important to improve and to test yourself and your mettle. The challenge with that is that you have to try to keep spirits up.” The chance to test their mettle in the NJSIAA competition is a big motivation for the PDS players. “The guys are really excited, I think part of it is the success, ending on a high note last year and getting excited about it,” said Augsberger, whose team topped Peddie 5-0 last week to improve to 2-3 and hosts Haddonfield on April 20 before starting play in the MCT on April 25. “Also I think it is entering the states. They see in the fall what the girls could do (winning a sectional title) and they are really excited about it. We are really happy to be

a part of it. They really understand that this is a neat opportunity that no one else in school history has had.” At first singles, junior Joshua Chu is getting a boost this spring from having the opportunity to spend two weeks training in Spain prior to the season. “Playing on the clay for two straight weeks, you learn the game a little bit differently from here,” said Augsberger. “He is working his drop shots more up and down, not just side to side. Your initial thought is to move them around side to side but you have to move them depthwise too. He has come out and is probably the most improved player on the team.” Senior Andrew Marshall has been playing well at second singles. “It is impressive, he can hit an offensive shot from anywhere on the court; we try to work on that, relaxing the trigger just a little bit,” said Augsberger. “He wants to do it often and sometimes it is worth it just to hit that ball crosscourt, give it some height so you can get back in the point. He was lost for us last year because of injury and for him to come back as hungry as he has been and to really claim that second spot has been impressive to see. His upper body strength is much more than it was last year. He has bulked up and you can really see that. His groundstrokes have always had a lot of spin. I would say they really dig into the court and get that high bounce more so now because of that extra strength.” At third singles, junior Jason Wu has displayed impressive growth in his mental game on the court. “I think the biggest thing he has wanted to work on is

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his mental strength, his ability to bounce back from disappointment and manage his emotions,” said Augsberger. “We saw that when he was tested in the last home match that we played against Peddie. He was in a bit of dogfight with his opponent, there were times last year where he may have lost his cool. It was a real struggle for him. I went up to him and he wanted to handle it on his own. He was able to play through that instead of, like in the past, allowing his opponent’s consistency to get to him.” The pair of senior Neel Adusumilli and junior Oliver Silverio is developing into a strong team at first doubles. Neel last year was supposed to partner with Aaron [Phogat], who won the Prep B title with Oliver,” said Augsberger. “He is very similar in mentality, I think that is why he has partnered so well with Oliver. He is extremely competitive, maybe the most on the team, and has a similar flair that Phogat had. He has focus on power and Oliver pairs up well with that. Oliver is more of the creative groundstroke guy. He will play angles, he will hustle, and he will cover the court.” At second doubles, Augsberger has has been rotating junior Farhan Mohammad, sophomore Jaylen Peng, and freshman Steven Li. “Farhan played soccer, we love the soccer guys because they bring that competitive mentality and the team ethos like our Prep B champions (Mark Santamaria and Will Sedgley) did at second doubles last year,” said Augsberger. “Farhan is the ultimate team guy and we want to get him in there as often as we can. The young guys, Stephen and Jaylen, are very, very strong with their volleys and they are strong on their tennis IQ. Jaylen is a big guy with a huge serve. We just want to beef up that first serve percentage. He moves well for a big guy, his groundstrokes are strong.” With PDS competing in the MCT for the first time since 2019 as the 2020 tourney was canceled and the event last year was modified to a CVC team competition only, the Panthers will need to bring patience along with their skill. “We are really excited; it is the U.S. Open day of the tennis season, it is all there in the one location,” said Augsberger of the event which is held at the Mercer County Park tennis complex and starts next Monday with the semis and finals slated for April 27. “The boys will realize very quickly that the level of competition is very high. The guys know it is not a matter of talent that is going to decide it. It is going to come down to decision-making and making the right calls on court because any of these matches against the top players could go either way. They have a chance in all of them and they have a chance to fall. It can be a 10-hour day, there can just be a lot of waiting around. You have to maintain mental focus the entire day because you don’t know when you are going to go on, you don’t know how long your matches are going to be or whether rain is going delay stuff.” —Bill Alden

With Hun School Girls’ Lax Finding a Rhythm, Raiders Looking Forward to Big Stretch Drive Kathleen Jaeger wasn’t fazed when her Hun School girls’ lacrosse team started the 2022 season by suffering two lopsided losses. “We are a relatively young team so the beginning of the season is all about growth,” said Hun head coach Jaeger, whose team fell 15-7 to Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) in its season opener on March 26 and then lost 17-5 to Lawrenceville four days later. “They were just improving on consistency and learning to manage the highs and lows of the game.” The Raiders experienced a high when they topped Villa Joseph Marie (Pa.) 18-8 on April 2 to earn their first win of the season. “It was definitely a good game for the girls to come to ge t h er a l l ac ros s t h e field,” said Jaeger, who got six goals from Ava Olender in the victory with Abby O’Brien scoring four and M ag g i e M a f f i a a n d O l ivia Kim chipping in three apiece. “We actually played that game on grass so it was an adjustment for them. In that game you saw a lot of different people stepping up. We saw scores from six different people and that was players looking for each other, getting their heads up on the field in transition and not being afraid to be a little more aggressive than they had been in recent games.” A pair of sophomores, Kim

and Olender, have provided a potent one-two offensive punch for Hun. “Olivia plays more attack and Ava has been more in the midfield,” said Jaeger, whose team defeated Moorestown Friends 16-4 last Wednesday to improve to 3-3 with Olender tallying seven goals and an assist in the victory. “They have done a very good job of creating space for themselves and finding that space and being aggressive towards the goal. It is fun to see them grow more confident on the field, they held back a little last year.” The Hun attack had also been bolstered by a trio of juniors in Maffia, O’Brien, and Priscilla Stelmach. “Abby has been playing more attack, she has been battling an injury this season,” said Jaeger. “Priscilla and Maggie are the two other midfielders, they do a very good job of leading.” On defense, junior Tyler Neely and senior Kiki Mauer have been leading the way. “Tyler is our very strong leader on defense, she is calling everyone together in the moment,” said Jaeger. “It is amazing to watch her play in the moment, she will teach the person next to her because we have newer girls on our defensive end this year. She has been that verbal lacrosse IQ leader back there. Kiki is this all-around

girl, she is very coachable. She can also play midfielder for us a little bit even though she doesn’t have any attacking experience.” Junior A ngelina Vitale provides experience and leadership at goalie. “Her confidence in net stands out,” said Jaeger. “She also does a really good job of pulling in those defenders after each goal and saying this is where the breakdown was and this is how we can fix it. To watch her share that w ith her teammates is fun. I see a big transition in her.” With the Raiders playing at the Hill School (Pa.) on April 20 and at the Princeton Day School on April 22 before hosting the Shipley School (Pa.) on April 25, Jaeger is looking for her squad to keep playing with the confidence they have displayed over the last few weeks. “I think one of the main focuses is to continue playing to our strengths; there is a lot going on the field at one time and we have to go with whatever is working in that given game,” said Jaeger. “Most of all, it is just working together all of the time. I think it is getting on the same page at both ends of the field and continuing to get more set in our transition. That was a struggle in the beginning of the season. We are getting back into the rhythm and reading each other. I am very excited.” —Bill Alden

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Facing a Gauntlet of Tough Tests This Spring, PDS Boys’ Tennis Primed to Compete in MCT

BRING HER A-GAME: Hun School girls’ lacrosse player Ava Olender, right, runs upfield in a game earlier this season. Last Wednesday, sophomore star Olender tallied seven goals and an assist to help Hun defeat Moorestown Friends 16-4. The Raiders, now 3-3, play at the Hill School (Pa.) on April 20 and at the Princeton Day School on April 22 before hosting the Shipley School (Pa.) on April 25. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Hun Baseball: Sparked by Ben Romano, Hun defeated the Hill School (Pa.) 13-3 last Wednesday. Romano went 2-for-3 with two runs and four RBIs to help the Raiders improve to 6-1. Hun plays at the Hill School (Pa.) on April 20, hosts Seton Hall Prep on April 21, hosts the Blair Academy on April 23, plays at Lawrenceville School on April 25, and plays at Allentown on April 26.

Sof tball : Lexi Kobr yn had a big day to help Hun defeat the Hill School (Pa.) 17-0 last Wednesday. Sophomore star Kobryn pitched a three-inning no-hitter and went 2 for 3 at the plate with a homer and four RBIs as the Raiders improved to 7-0. Hun hosts the Hill School (Pa.) on April 21 and the Blair Academy on April 23 before playing at Lawrenceville on April 25. Boys’ Lacrosse: Posting its fourth win in its last five games, Hun defeated Peddie 10-4 on April 12. In upcoming action, the Raiders, now 4-2, play at the Hill School

(Pa.) on April 20, at Princ- on April 25, and then play eton Day School on April at Pennington on April 26. 23, and at the Perkiomen Girls’ Lacrosse : Bella School (Pa.) on April 26. Koch had two goals and an assist but it wasn’t enough as Lawrenceville fell 12-9 to Sacred Heart Academy last Thursday. The Big Red, who moved to 3-3 with the defeat, play at the Blair AcadBaseball: Jackson Sgro, emy on April 23. Shaun McMillan, and Connor Kilgallon each had three RBIs as Lawrenceville defeated Princeton Day School 19-9 last Monday. The Big Red, now 4-2, play at the Blair Academy on April 21, Baseball: Connor Tophost the Hill School (Pa.) on ping starred as PDS deApril 23 and the Hun School feated Not t ingham 11- 6 last week to get its first win of the spring. Topping went 1-3 with two runs and two RBIs and got the win on the mound for the Panthers in the April 12 contest. PDS, which fell 19-9 to L awrenceville last Monday to move to 1-4, plays at Princeton High on April 20 before hosting Pennington on April 22, Burlington Township on April 23, and Montclair Kimberley on April 26. Boys’ Lacrosse: Unable to get its offense going, PDS fell 7-3 to Pennington last Monday. The Panthers, now 2-4, play at Morristown on April 20, host the Hun School on April 22, and then start action in the state Prep B tournament by playing at Morristown-Beard on April 25 in an opening round contest.

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STEPPING UP: Princeton Day School softball star Adriana Salzano delivers a pitch in recent action. Salzano starred with her arm and her bat as PDS defeated Princeton High 15-3 on April 12. Salzano got the win in the circle and went 4-for-4 with a homer, five runs, and four RBIs for the Panthers. PDS, which defeated Rutgers Prep 18-7 last Monday to improve to 3-2, hosts Peddie on April 20 and plays at Hamilton West on April 26. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Boys’ Lacrosse: Andrew Rosa and Nicky Esposito each scored two goals as Pennington defeated Princeton Day School 7-3 last M o n d a y. B u r ke d eTu r o chipped in a goal and an assist in the victory while Ben Snider and Ben Clabbers each had a goal as the squad improved to 2-3. Pennington starts play in the state Prep B tournament by playing at Montclair Kimberley Academy on April 20 in an opening round contest

and then hosts Hightstown on April 22. Baseball: Bryce Meccage starred in a losing cause as Pennington fell 7-3 to Hamilton West last Saturday. Meccage went 2-for-2 with two RBIs as the squad moved to 2-3. Pennington plays at Princeton Day School on April 22 and at Old Bridge on April 23 before hosting Lawrenceville on April 26. Boys’ Tennis: Continuing its hot start, Pennington defeated the Hun School 4-1 last week. In upcoming action, the squad, now 3-0, plays at the Lawrenceville School on April 20 and at the Blair Academy on April 22 before starting play in the Mercer County Tournament on April 25.

PHS Softball: Jumping out a 3-0 first inning lead over Notre Dame last Monday, PHS couldn’t hold off the Irish as it fell 18-5. The Tigers, now 0-8, host Allentown on April 25 and then play at W W/ P-Nor th on April 26. B oys’ L ac rosse : Will Doran had a big game in a losing cause as PHS lost 14-12 to Notre Dame last week. Senior star Doran tallied five goals and three assists in the April 12 contest as the Tigers moved to 3-3. PHS plays at Hightstown on April 21 before hosting Allentown on April 23 and WW/P-South on April 26.

Stuart L acrosse : Allison Lee triggered the offense as Stuart defeated George School (Pa.) 15-8 last Thursday to earn its first win of the season. Freshman midfielder Lee tallied six goals and an assist as the Tartans improved to 1-4. Stuart hosts Rutgers Prep on April 20, plays at the Ranney School on April 22, and then starts play in the Prep B tournament on April 25.

In addition, first year college freshman born in 2003 are also eligible to play this year. For more information on the program and to RSVP for the tryouts, contact Jon D u r b i n at j onwd u r b i n @ gmail.com.

Run for Kate 5K Slated for May 1

The Hun School is holding its 24th annual Run for Kate on May 1 at 9 a.m. as part of its alumni weekend celebration. The five-kilometer run/ walk starts and finishes on the Hun School track and features a course that winds through the neighborhood surrounding the school. For more information on the event and to register, log onto hunschool.org, hit the alumni link, and go to the news and events section. The event honors the late Kate Gorrie ’98, and provides an opportunity to support the Katherine Wright Gorrie ’98 Memorial Scholarship, that allows a deserving student to have the opportunity to attend Hun. This scholarship is awarded to a student who “best exemplifies Kate’s qualities – love of family and friends, respect for the environment, joy and radiance of expression and demeanor, integrity, a desire to acquire and impart knowledge, and a commitment to community service.”

Bailey Basketball Academy Offering Spring Programs

T he B ailey B asketball Academy ( BBA ) has announced the schedule for its upcoming spring hoops programs. Participants will have an opportunity for competitive travel play, individualized instruction, skills development, and fundamentals as well as league play. BBA is led by former Princeton Day School girls’ hoops coach a n d Ph i lad elp h ia 76 e r s camp director and clinician, Kamau Bailey. The BBA spring program will include two competitive boys’ travel teams (secondfifth grade and sixth-eighth grade), weekly practices, and the Shot King Shooting Program and Player Development Skill Sessions for elementar y through high school players (boys and girls). BBA programs stress fundamentals and team play with emphasis on ball handling, shooting, passing, footwork, speed, agility, movement with and without the ball, one-on-one moves, defense, and other hoops skills. Parents can sign their players up for hoops programs for boys and girls all ages through the month of April. For more infor mation, contact Kamau Bailey at (917) 626-5785 or kamau. bailey@gmail.com.

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Princeton Post 218 Legion Baseball Holding Tryouts April 24, May 1

The Princeton American Legion Post 218 baseball team is holding tryouts on April 24 from 1-3 p.m. at Smoyer Field and on May 1 from 1-3 p.m. at Smoyer Field. The program encourages all interested high school p l aye r s f r om P r i n c e ton High, Princeton Day School, Hu n S chool, and Not re Dame High or any players who live in the towns of Princeton and Cranbury to attend these two sessions.

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spending time at the family farm in Barnard, Vermont. T here, she fou nd peace and comfort working in the raspber r y patch, hiking, cooking, eating, and laughing with friends and family; reminded of the carefree days of her early childhood and the summers spent in Bavaria, before the war altered the course of her life. Hannah Kahn was loved

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RELIGIOUS SERVICES

Sunday 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I 9:00 a.m. Christian Education for All Ages 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II 5:00 p.m. Evensong with Communion following

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Tuesday 8am Holy Communion 12:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist

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10:30am Live-stream

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5pm Choral Compline

St. Paul’s Catholic Church St. All Paul’s Catholic Church 216Nassau Nassau Street, Princeton services are online. 214 Street, Princeton

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Msgr. Walter Nolan,5:30 Pastor Saturday Vigil Mass: p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass: 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 and The Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector, 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 and 5:00 Mass in Spanish: Sunday at 7:00 p.m. p.m. The Rev.Mass Canon Dr. Kara Slade, Rector, in Spanish: SundayAssoc. at 7:00 p.m.

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Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church 124 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 10:00 a.m. Worship Service During this time of COVID-19 crisis, Witherspoon is finding new 10:00 a.m. Children’s Sunday School ways to continue our worship. While our sanctuary doors may be closed, and Youth Bible Study church is open and we willAdult find new avenues to proclaim the Gospel and to Bible Classes as one faith community! (Acontinue multi-ethnic congregation) 609-924-1666 • Fax Join us for worship on Facebook Live609-924-0365 every Sunday at 10:00 a.m. witherspoonchurch.org

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When you’re preparing your home for sale, decluttering is one of the most effective ways to show your home at its best. The process may seem overwhelming, but there are simple changes you can make for maximum impact. Here are some ideas to get started:

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127 Reservoir Road, Hopewell

Lisa Theodore

Real Estate Salesperson

lisa.theodore@compass.com M 908.872.1840

Kathleen Milano, Amanda J Botwood, Lisa Candella-Hulbert, Lisa Theodore, and Donna M. Murray are licensed real estate salespeople affiliated with Compass RE, a licensed real estate broker and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdrawal without notice. Photos may be virtually staged or digitally enhanced and may not reflect actual property conditions. 47 Hulfish Street, Suite 310, Princeton, NJ 08542 609.710.2021

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5 Monroe Court, Princeton

Kathleen Milano

Real Estate Salesperson

kathleen.milano@compass.com M 908.406.4652

4 BD | 2.1 BA | 2,200 SF | $669,000

Castle Lane

Hopewell Amwell Road

Battle Road

Hopewell Township, NJ | $4,995,000

Hopewell Township, NJ | $3,500,000

Princeton, NJ | $3,200,000

Jennifer E Curtis: 609.610.0809

Joan Loraine Otis: 908.415.3062

Barbara Blackwell: 609.915.5000

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Province Line Road

Hageman Lane

Introducing: Victoria Mews

Lawrence Township, NJ | $2,700,000

Princeton, NJ | $2,195,000

Princeton, NJ | $1,695,000

Barbara Blackwell: 609.915.5000

Maura Mills: 609.947.5757

Kimberly A Rizk, Eleanor Deardorff: 609.203.4807

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Introducing: Allison Road

Income Producing: Wertsville Road

Introducing: Harris Road

Princeton, NJ | $1,600,000

East Amwell Township, NJ | $1,350,000

Princeton, NJ | $795,000

Kimberly A Rizk, Eleanor Deardorff: 609.203.4807

Beth M Steffanelli: 609.915.2360

Sarah Stong Drake: 908.229.4260

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Introducing: Old Mill Road

North Union Street

Introducing: Harbourton Woodsville Road

Hopewell Township, NJ | $625,000

Lambertville City, NJ | $599,000

Hopewell Township, NJ | $385,000 (2.03 acres)

Valerie Smith: 609.658.0394

Cheryl Goldman: 609.439.9072

Princeton Office: 609.921.1050

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