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New Public Transit Is About More Than Replacing the FreeB

Trenton Circus Squad Takes a Leap Forward . . . . . . . . 5 Project Involve Informs and Engages . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Shakespeare Theatre Overcomes Wild Weather to Launch Summer Season . . . . . . 10 PU Women’s Rowing Legend Stone Headed to Third Olympics . . . . . 25 Former Princeton Fencing Star Holmes Hungry for Medals at Tokyo Games . . . . . . 26

Reading Ernest Hemingway On His Birthday . . . . . . . 15 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 21 Classified Ads . . . . . . 31 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 14 New to Us . . . . . . . . . . 24 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . 30 Performing Arts . . . . . 16 Real Estate . . . . . . . . 31 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . 6

Following a 16-month suspension due to the pandemic, free public transit is about to return to Princeton. Starting next month, fully accessible, free bus service will resume weekday mornings and afternoons on a continuous 30-minute loop. This is a three-month interim program that will follow a route similar to the one covered by the nowdefunct FreeB buses, focusing on residents of senior and affordable housing communities. Once the three months is up, the town, in partnership with Princeton University, is planning for an expanded, more ambitious program that not only replaces the former service, but also adapts to the needs of a growing population. “We’re looking at how public transit can be a solution to a whole host of issues,” said Princeton Councilwoman Mia Sacks, who serves on Council’s Public Transit Advisory Committee. “It will alleviate pressure on things like permit parking and congestion. We’ll be growing at a tremendous rate in the next few years due to affordable housing. So it’s not just about replacement, but what we need for real transit right now. That’s the big question.” The partnership with the University is part of the transit committee’s work, over the past year, to significantly enhance Princeton’s system of free public transportation. Several subcommittees were involved, doing outreach to underserved community members and other constituencies. The transit advisory committee also collaborated with the Princeton Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee and the Vision Zero Task Force on the launch of a community survey exploring how residents and visitors move through town, and how transportation can be improved. “The silver lining of COVID was that it gave us an opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at how transit can make sense for a wider swath of people,” Sacks said. “The University has a new director of transportation and parking services, Charlie Tennyson, and he is very committed to a holistic vision of transit in the town.” For its Tiger Transit system, the University now uses WeDriveU, a Continued on Page 12

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HPC Considers Club Row Historic District Resuming a process that began in 1992 before lying dormant for the past 26 years, the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) held a concept discussion on Monday, July 19, on the designation of a Club Row historic district on Prospect Avenue. Club Row is already on the National Register of Historic Places, but designation as a local historic district would provide a greater level of future protection to the Prospect Avenue streetscape with its stately eating clubs and other buildings on both sides of the street. It would also prevent future demolitions or construction without town approval. The creation of the district could not have any direct effect on pending applications before the Princeton Planning Board, according to New Jersey’s time of application rule, and historic preservationist Clifford Zink assured the HPC, “This process is not being done to try to make changes to existing applications. This is about the long-term future. This is not an effort to stop what is going on now.” But Princeton University’s pending application to move its 91 Prospect Avenue

building, the former Court Clubhouse, across the street in order to make room for construction of the “gateway” to its new Environmental Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences complex was a significant factor in instigating Monday’s proceedings. Princeton Prospect Foundation Chairman Sandy Harrison, who has been a leading spokesperson in opposition to the University’s planned encroachments on Prospect Avenue, expressed his support of the historic district designation for Prospect and alerted the HPC to “the threat that is perceived because of what we are going through now with the Court Clubhouse controversy. That threat is so palpable and real now, and I worry that the University is establishing a beachhead on Prospect that could threaten the clubs’ viability going forward. The next steps are moving and demolishing.” Quoting Marvin Reed, who was Princeton Borough mayor at the time of the 1995 hearings on the subject, and Wanda Gunning, who was HPC chairwoman at the time, Zink emphasized that their warnings about the need to protect Prospect

Avenue against future encroachments were “completely applicable to this present effort.” Gunning, as reported in the May 10, 1995 Town Topics, supported designation of Prospect Avenue as a local historic district. “It is important to look at Prospect as a group, a unique configuration of fine architecture,” she was quoted as saying. “I’d like to see a really wonderful group of buildings by fine architects preserved as a group, and see the architectural heritage of Prospect Avenue become part of the town’s heritage. It is surely one of Princeton’s assets.” Borough Council, according to the Town Topics 1995 article, instructed zoning and HPC officials to prepare an ordinance designating the area as an historic district. Reed, as reported by The Daily Princetonian of May 8, 1995, said that the motivation behind the recommendation to designate Prospect as an historic district was “the Borough’s fear that the university would raze the eating clubs and construct other buildings in their place.” Continued on Page 12

LOCAL HERO: Ross Colton, right, signs a jersey for Jackson Purdy last Friday at the Ice Land Rink in Hamilton in one of his stops with the Stanley Cup after he helped Tampa Bay Lightning win the NHL title . Former Princeton Day School boys’ hockey star and Robbinsville native Colton scored the lone goal in Tampa Bay’s 1-0 victory over Montreal on July 7 in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final as it won the series 4-1 and earned the franchise’s second straight NHL title . For more details on Colton’s Stanley Cup experience, see page 28 . (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Under the Big Top—Trenton Circus Squad Looks Ahead with New Tent and Big Plans

The Trenton Circus Squad (TCS ), whose mission is all about inspiring youths to take big leaps in life, is preparing to take some big leaps of its own. The TSC has just received a gift of $250,000 for the purchase

of a big top circus tent, currently being manufactured in Italy by the same company that creates tents for the Cirque de Soleil. “This grant will certainly inspire TCS to take a huge leap as an organization,” said TCS executive director and co-founder Tom von Oehsen. “This is very exciting. What it will mean is bringing together all the locations that we’ve been serving throughout New Jersey so it’s building community statewide instead of just locally in the Mercer County area.”

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Pamela Carter, trustee of The Carter Rowe Charitable Trust, which made the gift, is one of many fans and supporters of the TCS. “I have been a proud benefactor since the Squad’s first day,” she said. “The tent is a gift to show my complete awe of this successful project. May it last for generations. In 25 years this has been the most incredible and successful project for the CRCT to support.” Carter’s son participated in the TCS’s after-school program at Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart, one of several area school residencies they have held in recent years. The Squad completed a week-long residency in Camden last month, followed by a two-week stay at their headquarters in the former Roebling Wire Works building on South Clinton Avenue in Trenton. They are currently in Asbury Park for a one-week residency, will return to Trenton for two weeks before heading to Newark on August 9 for another week-long residency, then back to Trenton for the duration of the summer. Partnering with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, city recreat ion depar t ments, YMCAs, and other organizations that serve youths, the TCS is “still transitioning back to normal” after the pandemic, von Oehsen said. L ast su m mer t hey led virtual workshops and performed online in all four cit ie s, but t h is su m mer

their residencies are in person, working with kids face to face. More than 1,000 young people participated during TCS’s week in Camden. In addition to learning circus skills, squad members, ages 12 to 18, learn life skills, build trust with teens from other neighborhoods, and serve their communities. They lead community engagement through workshops and performances for younger children and families. “It’s an often-breathtaking experience filled with exercise, learning, and joyful laughter for kids of all ages,” the TCS website notes. TCS is open year-round

virtual learning, and everything.” He continued, “When we got back into our circus ring, it became a ring of reflection for them to talk about this stuff and figure out what was fact and what was false. After those talks they really wanted to do something. They felt that they had to do something to share their anger, their fears, their hopes. So they started using their circus skills in a different way to convey their sense of what they were dealing with as individuals and as a group.” After they researched and discussed social issues ranging from COVID-19 to police brutality to sexual harassment, the performance they created, titled “Change,” became an icebreaker to initiate discussions on Zoom, as they reached out to a broader group than ever before. “These conversations were not easy and many times left all of us feeling heartbroken and discouraged,” the TCS website states, but “the results were phenomenal,” and “these young people embodied everything that’s right with the world and made us proud that these are the leaders of tomorrow.” Von Oehsen added, “Some amazing things came about in those dark days that we all had to deal with. It was a real departure from our usual comedy and beautiful aerials — and we still do those too — led by our youth who felt they really needed to do something, using their skills to engage kids not just in Mercer County but statewide and beyond.”

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CIRCUS MAGIC: The Trenton Circus Squad, a nonprofit teaching both life skills and circus skills, recently completed a one-week residency in Camden, with more than 1,000 local youths participating. The organization, which is also touring to Asbury Park and Newark this summer before returning to Trenton, has just received a $250,000 gift to purchase a big top circus tent, which, starting in 2022, will house their expanding endeavors. (Photo by Avi Steinhardt)

with after-school sessions from September to June followed by the summer residencies and tour. About half of the 60 squad members this summer are from innercity Trenton and about half from surrounding suburban communities. TCS is in expansion mode, Von Oehsen says, and he’s hoping to be working with about 100 kids per week as the fall season gets started in September. “What’s great is that a lot of our older squad members are working as junior coaches and interns,” said von O e h s e n. “ We were able to offer them summer employment and for some that will also be year-round while they’re taking classes at Mercer County Community College. And they stick around. These kids don’t leave us.” One of the founding squad members was 15 years old when he started six years ago, became a junior coach when he graduated from high school, and was just hired as a full-time coach to accommodate the demand for an outreach program in the city of Trenton. Von Oehsen descr ibed how TCS responded to the pandemic and the surrounding political turmoil and social unrest as it opened again in July 2020 after shutting down from March to July last year. “ T h e k i d s c a m e b ack needing to deal with a lot of stuff that was going on in society,” he said. “There were demonstrations going on in Trenton that led to violence, police cars on fire, broken w indows, G eorge F loyd, t h e B lack L ive s Mat te r movement, then pandemic,

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Local Teenager Launches Ambitious Project, Helping Peers Get Informed and Involved I n e a rl y 2020, A a s h i Chandna, at the time a ninth grader at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, observed her world in the midst of a spreading pandemic, climate crisis, and widespread social unrest. She wanted to get involved, to make a difference for the better. “For me, natural disaster relief is something that I really care about,” she said. She had lived through a deadly tsunami with her family in Japan in 2011. Chandna found that her friends had their own experiences that connected them with certain causes, but none of them knew what to do or how best to participate beyond posting on social media and making small donations. “It shouldn’t be this difficult to get involved,” said Chandna. So she came up with a solution to help teenagers to get involved, make a difference and keep up to date with the latest headlines. “Everyone’s biggest excuse for why they don’t

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Information on the NGOs includes time commitments, age restrictions, skill requirements, and other details for volunteers. Project Involve is currently partnered with 18 different NGOs. The initial goal was to target only high school st udents, but t he NGOs provide many opportunities for all age groups. The American Heart Association, GiveWell, GlobalGiving, Feeding America, The Hunger Project, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Doctors Without Borders, the Humane Society of the US, Children International, and Girls Inc. are among the NGOs represented on the website. Chandna, who is preparing for the start of her junior year this fall, discussed the growing enterprise she has created. “I feel like today’s youth is more vocal and politically driven than ever before, and I think we want to find the right avenues to direct our passions,” she said. “A lot of people feel overwhelmed when they’re reading the news and struggle to understand how best to tackle the problems we see. Ultimately the goal of Project Involve is to give people an avenue to become more aware of what’s going on and to apply their understanding and passion.” She added, “This project connects the world’s most passionate young students with the world’s most deserving nonprofits. I am passionate about tackling large social inequities, and I hope to transform the world for the better.” —Donald Gilpin

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P r i n c e to n C o m m u n i t y Te l e v i s i o n ( P C T V ) h a s named Deborah J. Frazier to its Board of Trustees as part of its efforts to revamp the Board to more closely match the region’s needs. Frazier is a wealth management advisor at Hightower Advisor Services. Prior to that, she was in wealth management with Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and RBD Capital. In addition, she was executive director of the National Junior Tennis and Learning of Trenton, where she was instrumental in developing tennis “life learning” programs for youth in Trenton. She was also the past PCTV host of “Managing Your Wealth,” a weekly financial show at the station. Frazier is a graduate of Indiana University and Columbia University. “Deborah is a well respected leader in the financial services industry, and we are thrilled to have her on the board,” said George McCullough, PCTV program manager and head of operations. “Her show Managing Your Wealth was

The 20th anniversary of Girls on the Run of Central New Jersey is underway as registration for the fall season is scheduled to open August 15. Coaches are needed for the program to start the week of September 27. The physical-activitybased, positive youth development initiative for girls in grades 3-5 is an eight-week, in-person program that incorporates running to teach critical life skills, encourage personal development, and foster team-building and communit y ser v ice. Volunteer coaches use a curriculum to engage teams of girls in fun and interactive lessons. They meet twice a week for eight weeks, 75 minutes a session. The program culminates in November with all teams participating in a 5K run. Volunteers provide critical leadership, and are currently sought to facilitate the program with teams of 8 to 20 girls. Coaches do not need to be athletic; they just need to have energy and enthusiasm. All coaches receive a three-hour program training. For more information, contact Donna York at donna. york@girlsontherun.org or call her at (908) 642-4321.

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Wild Weather is No Match For Shakespeare Theatre

As if coming back from COVID-19 wasn’t enough, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey had a new hurdle to overcome this month when a ferocious storm ripped up the set of its Outdoor Stage — just days before the scheduled openings of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors and Snug, artistic director Bonnie Monte’s homage to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But Monte and her staff were not about to let this latest assault keep the company off the Outdoor Stage, which is in Morristown. After scrambling to get things back on track, the opening was delayed by only one week. The shows are scheduled through August 1. Monte spoke about the storm, the recovery, surviving the pandemic, and more, in a telephone conversation a day after the deluge. The company had been scheduled to rehearse for the upcoming performances, but the ravaged set – some of it was actually impaled – made that impossible. “We are fighting the clock to get everything not just rebuilt, but rehearsed,” she said. “The weather during the entire 10-day period when we are typically scheduled to set up, rehearse, and tech, was rain, rain, and more rain. Then, when the big storm hit, we weren’t ready. So we have had no rehearsal yet. These are very complicated shows, so we are getting really nervous. But the show must go on, as they say, and we will open.

My company is extraordinary.” COVID and climate were just the latest challenges to the Shakespeare troupe. “When the pandemic hit, we were actually plowing our way out of a massive crisis already,” said Monte. “We were one of the many victims of a huge ransomware attack that spread across America. We were one of the nonprofits that got hit. It almost shut us down. We were just slowly emerging and starting to rebuild our data and get things back on track. So we kind of went from the frying pan into the fire.” Monte said navigating the past 14 months has been the most challenging experience of her career. But there have been silver linings. “We were one of the only theaters last summer to actually build a pandemic-safe performance venue,” she said. “It was modest, but it was something. And I think it gave a lot of people hope, and much needed exposure, to some semblance of normalcy again. It’s so important to experience the arts live, and we were able to make that happen.” L as t s u m mer’s p er formances bought the company enough time to carefully contemplate what kind of online content to offer. “Pandemic Playhouse,” filmed on stage without an audience but with professional crews, offered five productions. The company also initiated virtual book clubs.

“We found all kinds of ways to stay in touch with our audience,” Monte said. “And the group of actors we have was a huge source of energy and inspiration through the first 12-month period. They inspired me to write Snug.” As opening days ap proached for The Comedy of Errors and Snug, the set was essentially built. But there was still much to be done when the big storm hit because of the delays caused by rain in the preceding weeks. “We were trying to rehearse in the blazing sun, and had to take a break every 20 minutes because of the heat,” said Monte. “We could barely get anything done. Then the storm wiped out all of my sound cues anyway.” Luckily, there were no injuries to cast or crew during the pounding rain and wind gusts clocked at up to 70 miles per hour. “Thankfully, the destruction was wreaked on inanimate objects only — all of our crew members are safe but for the instantaneous despair the sight of our mangled set caused in all of us,” Monte wrote in a letter to patrons and volunteers after the storm. Last week, Monte was hoping the set would be rebuilt in time for a few hours of rehearsal before the opening. “We’ve got 12 hours instead of two days to get ready for two shows,” she said. “We are feeling quite challenged at the moment. But we’re not walking around moaning and groaning. We’ve got

IMPALED AND UPTURNED: The set for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s summer productions took a brutal beating from a storm on July 6. But “The Comedy of Errors” and “Snug” are back on track. work to do.” The efforts clearly worked. The company was able to open both plays last week. Pe r f o r m a n c e s c o n t i n u e through the evening of Sunday, August 1. Some extra shows have been added to accommodate those who had bought tickets for performances that were canceled. The Outdoor Stage is located at Saint Elizabeth University, 2 Convent Road, Morristown. Visit Shakespearenj.org for ticket information. — Anne Levin

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Over the course of two weeks, par ticipants and sponsors of the 16th annual ETS Firecracker 5K helped raise over $20,000 in support of the mission and programs at YWCA Princeton. Because of the v ir tual components of the event, participants got their steps in throughout Mercer County, all the way to Somerset, Ky. “We’re grateful for the continued partnership of our longtime supporters at ETS,” said YWCA Princeton CEO Tay Walker. “Our work would not be possible without the sustaining efforts of our community partners, staff, and board members, and we’re able to provide essential services like childcare, ESL classes, and support programs for breast

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Reed added, “The university has made major changes to the face of Prospect Ave. in the past, most obviously the Woodrow Wilson School. We’ve been told there are no plans to do so, but this adds an element of protection to the ‘Street’.” In a July 20 phone conversation, Zink emphasized the importance of a local historic designation for Prospect Avenue. “It’s important to try to preserve these streets that are so iconic to the history of the town,” he said. “The present situation has highlighted that Mayor Reed was prescient in his comments. Ideally Prospect would have been designated an historic district years ago. It’s time to get this district protected.” Zink went on to warn that Prospect Avenue would undoubtedly come under increasing threats in the future. “Disrupting Prospect Avenue is a bridge too far. It’s impinging on what makes Princeton Princeton.” Harrison, in a July 20 phone conversation, pointed out that Monday’s HPC proceedings were just the first round of renewed discussions on historic district designation for Club

Row. He noted that “everybody on the call seemed to agree on moving forward and making this happen.” Harrison and the PPF, along with Zink and others, will be proceeding with additional research and helping to navigate the application through the HPC process in the coming weeks and months. Harrison said he thought the process might take six months or more to complete. Zink, author of a highly acclaimed 2017 book on the Princeton eating clubs, is looking to also use the application process as an opportunity to highlight the interaction between the Prospect Avenue eating clubs and the Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District, where many of the clubs’ employees lived. Harrison said that he would be collaborating with board chairs of the eating clubs and other graduate inter-club council (GICC) members in writing a joint statement of support for the historic district designation for Prospect Avenue. He added that all current club leadership is in agreement that the time has come for the historic designation process for Prospect Avenue to move forward. —Donald Gilpin

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Registration is open for fall 2021 Italian language classes at Dorothea’s House, the Italian American cultural center at 120 John Street. Classes begin the week of September 13 and run for 12 weeks. D ue to t he COV I D -19 pandemic, all fall language classes will be taught remotely. Instructors will notify students in each class as to the internet-based tool they will use. With an internet connection, access to the selected tool is free. Visit dorotheashouse.org/ classes to find all the needed information to register: class descriptions, schedule, forms, and payment options. If a book is required for a class, it is noted in the class descriptions section. The fee for each class is $155. Register and pay entirely online. Register and pay by September 3 to avoid a $20 late fee and possible cancellation of classes due to low enrollment. Contact Linda Br uschi at lindabr us ch i @ dorot h eashouse.org or by calling (609) 306-0773 with any questions.

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Mailbox Resident Questions Lack Of Dog Park in Princeton To the Editor: At the entrance of most parks in Princeton there is a sign stating that dogs are permitted, but must be on leads, and that to clean up after them is essential. This is so at Johnson, at the University, at IAS, at Mountain Lakes. In addition, there are many narrow trails where this is difficult, particularly when one is older, and rather unsteady (I’m 87). One place where there is NO sign, none at all, is at the Princeton Shopping Center. Perhaps they do not want dogs there at all and don’t want to be too obvious about it. In any case, because it is the only place in town which is covered, it is the one that I have utilized when it rains, usually with leads in place, but if there are no other dogs around, and few people, I dispense with the leads and permit them to run. At least, not until I was given a summons, for which

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I am to go to court next month. This is not something I anticipated. I’ve had questions about the lack of a dog park in Princeton, and had presented them to our former mayor, who suggested that she would bring it up, but that, meanwhile, the facility in Kingston (on Route 27) was available (if, that is, you have a key and the township’s permission). In any case, it is of interest that all the other Mercer County townships, other than Princeton, have such a facility. I therefore protest said summons, especially given the lack of signs at the Shopping Center, and no evidence that a dog park with even a partial covering is to be built. HOWARD LIEBERMAN, MD CLARKE COURT

PU Stonewalls the Community On Its Engineering Complex

To the Editor: There have been many articles and letters on Princeton’s plans and application to the Planning Board for approval of the ES-SEAS project, a 15-acre engineering campus to be constructed between the Eating Clubs and Princeton Stadium. The plans include building a modern engineering pavilion spanning two lots on Prospect Avenue which is a historic district on the NJ State and National Register. To do this, the architects want to pick up the former Court Club, a massive brick and stone mansion, and move it across the street, demolishing three Victorian houses on the site where they propose to relocate Court Club. I’m an alum who lives in the area and am on the board of the Cap and Gown Club, so I drove down Prospect Avenue to try to envision this plan, and it’s shocking to think of the disruption and destruction it will cause to a residential neighborhood and to one of the most historic streetscapes in America. There has been so much protest from the local community, including residents, historians, faculty, and local officials, that the University application will carry forward to a third Princeton Planning Board meeting, on September 23. At a meeting in June, the Princeton Historic Preservation Commission unanimously agreed to recommend that the Princeton Planning Board deny the University’s application. Clifford Zink, a local author and historian who wrote the book The Princeton Eating Clubs (published by the Princeton Prospect Foundation), has documented how the University’s plan violates every one of the National Park Service Guidelines for the Treatment of Historic Properties. The University claims it’s not subject to the National Register Guidelines and has refused to consider any of the suggestions or ideas from the community, and says if their plan is not approved they will just demolish the former Court Club. There is more information on the Princeton Prospect Foundation website: princetonprospectfoundation.org. I was one of the first women to attend Princeton. Princeton is where I discovered my love and respect for history,

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rnest Hemingway began The Sun Also Rises (1926) on his 26th birthday, July 21, 1925. “Everybody my age had written a novel,” he told the Paris Review’s George Plimpton, “and I was still having a difficult time writing a paragraph.” He finished the first draft exactly six weeks later in Paris. I came back to Hemingway’s “Lost Generation” novel by way of John McPhee’s April 19, 2021 piece in the New Yorker (“Tabula Rasa: Volume Two”). Referring to a passage in which the protagonist Jake Barnes and his pal Bill Gorton are walking “across a meadow and through rising woods and across high open fields and down to a stream,” McPhee, who turned 90 on March 8, observes how “each successive sentence, in stairstep form, contains something of its predecessor and something new — repeating, advancing, repeating, advancing, like fracture zones on the bed of the ocean. It is not unaffective. It is lyrical.” Years later when he was teaching his Princeton course in creative non-fiction, McPhee assigned the passage to writing students, “asking if they could see a way to shorten it without damaging the repetition.” Don’t Touch a Word Reading the opening chapters of The Sun Also Rises for the first time in decades, I was surprised to find evidence of the “elephantine facetiousness” Scott Fitzgerald pointed out in the ten-page-long handwritten letter he sent to Hemingway in the spring of 1926. I was 16 when I first read the book, although “read” isn’t the word for it. I drank it down like an underage drinker on a binge. Three years later I opened A Farewell to Arms (1929) to one of the most celebrated examples of Hemingway’s “repeating, advancing, repeating, advancing” don’ttouch-a-word-of-it prose topography: “In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.”

“Unavoidable Awkwardness” Asked by George Plimpton in the same interview how much thought and effort went into the “evolvement” of his “distinctive style,” Hemingway said, “What amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardness in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.” Hemingway makes a virtue of unavoidable awkwardness when he opens the last chapter of Death in the Afternoon (1932) by proclaiming, “If I could have made this enough of a book it would have had everything in it.” In the nine pages that follow, he manages to put everything he’d

the whole if it’s made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. No. It is not enough of a book, but still there were a few things to be said. There were a few practical things to be said.” To that you can add what John McPhee says in Volume Two of “Tabula Rasa,” that after reading every book on the subject of bullfighting, “there was only one Death in the Afternoon.” McPhee’s Variation McPhee’s premise in the two Tabula Rasa pieces resembles a variation on Hemingway’s “if I could have made this enough of a book.” In Volume One, from January 2020, he’s in Spain, “so beguiled

have wanted to put into it into it anyway. It’s Hemingway’s variation on Faulkner’s metaphor for the enormity of the novelist’s task (“putting the Lord’s Prayer on the head of a pin”) — he’s putting Spain on the head of a nine-page pin in sentences like “Clouds come across the mountans from the sea but when the wind is from the south Navarra is all the color of wheat except it does not grow on level plains but up and down the sides of hills and cut by roads with trees and many villages with bells, pelota courts, the smell of sheep manure and squares with standing horses.” The book that would have been “enough” if it had had everything in it ends: “Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent

by Extremadura that I started writing a short story called ‘The Girl from Badajoz.’ With respect to publication, she stayed in Badajoz.” McPhee kept thinking about Extremadura as a subject for a piece in The New Yorker, “the sort of thing I would actually do about Alaska, Wyoming, and the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. I kept thinking of the storks in the church towers of almost every Extremaduran town. I kept thinking of the cork of those oaks — six inches thick. I kept thinking of the dehesa, the vast dry woodlands with fighting bulls in them and jamón ibérico hogs, and trees spread out like checkers on a board.” He presented the idea to his editor William Shawn, who was all for it: “But I went to Alaska. I went to Wyoming. And although I had been obsessed with the subject since

1954, I never took my notebooks to Extremadura.” Don’t worry. The article ends with McPhee giving you everything you need to know about Extremadura, putting it on the head of a two-page pin, from the conquest of the Aztecs to the battle of Guadalcanal. Doing It Anyway In the third chapter of A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway’s protagonist Frederick Henry is explaining what kept him from visiting his friend the priest’s home in Abruzzi. The priest had made preparations for the visit and felt sorry that Henry had not been able to come. “I myself felt as badly as he did and could not understand why I had not gone,” Henry admits, and goes on to say that he tried to explain to the priest “how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.” Henry had wanted to go to Abruzzi, “where the roads were frozen and hard as iron, where it was clear cold and dry and the snow was dry and powdery and hare-tracks in the snow and the peasants took off their hats and called you Lord and there was good hunting,” but “had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafés and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring. Suddenly to care very much and to sleep to wake with it sometimes morning and all that had been there gone and everything sharp and hard and clear ... ” The passage continues as Hemingway describes Henry’s awkward attempt to make the priest understand how drinking and whoring diverted him from the promised visit. Hemingway finally has to admit, as Faulkner admitted about the writing of The Sound and the Fury (“I never could tell it right”), “I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now.” he passage about not going to Abruzzi is hard to read aloud without being moved because you can feel Hemingway’s excitement in writing it and you wish someone had been there to read it back to him on the early morning of July 2, 1961, the day he ended his life with a double-barrel 12-gauge Boss & Co. shotgun. —Stuart Mitchner

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Hub City Sounds Festival on September 11, Arts New and enjoy the festivities Is Virtual and In-Person Brunswick Festival and MC- from the comfort of their New Brunswick Cultural Center/Arts New Brunswick presents the 11th annual Hub City Sounds series, taking place this summer to fall from August 7 through October 31. The free series combines performing, visual, and culinary arts and has events for all ages and tastes. This year’s festival is both virtual and in-person. Hub City Sounds events include the Indo American Festival on August 7, the New Br unsw ick HE A RT Festival on August 14, the Sixth Annual Carifest on August 21, the 10th Annual Central Jersey Jazz Festival

FOODS Food Drive on September 18, and the Corazon Latino/ Dia De Muertos / Halloween Celebration on October 31. “The arts scene in New Brunswick is back and we are thrilled to announce the return of Hub City Sounds, which will provide entertainment both in-person and virtually,” said Tracey O’Reggio Clark, interim executive director of the New Brunswick Cultural Center. “This year’s hybrid model allows for our guests to choose their arts viewing experience. They can join us live and in-person or they can sit back, relax,

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Horn Player from Princeton Studies with Her Idol

French horn player Elizabeth “E.J.” Ferrara, 17, of Princeton, was among the students at the Philadelphia International Music Festival (PIMF), which resumed its

in-person summer model while retaining its popular online option. Elizabeth studied with her idol Jennifer Montone, who plays French horn with the Philadelphia Orchestra, during the session June 19-July 2, on the campus of Valley Forge Militar y Academy in Wayne, Pa. The second session runs through July 30. Montone was among 25 members of The Philadelphia Orchestra to work with students in individual and group lessons and master classes, and inspire them in faculty recitals. “PIMF was a breath of fresh air for me, and I loved every second of it,” said E.J. “This was my first opportunity in over a year to share my love of music with others. My favorite par t was that everyone was as in love with music as I was. My roommate and I even woke up to a different orchestral piece every morning as our alarm.” “What a joy to remove the screens and bring these talented young musicians together again,” said PIMF President Sandy Marcucci. “While we had to cap enrollment to allow for distancing and our international students aren’t able to travel from overseas yet, we have been excited and thrilled beyond measure to experience the camaraderie, the fun, the sheer humanity of making music and memories together in person.” Wit h st r ingent COV I D screening and monitoring protocols in place, PIMF was able to offer its training program to 110 residential as well as day campers. “I loved how close to the staff we all got,” E.J. said. “They kept that teacher/student relationship but didn’t make us feel like children, we were all friends and everyone (was) accepted. I’m normally a very homesick person but I felt at home at PIMF. I also loved how encouraging everyone was. Say I had a bad practice or a bad performance, everyone around me would make sure I knew my worth. That’s something that’s really important in the music life.” The second session currently underway includes high school and m iddle school symphony orchestra programs and a junior orchestra program for ages 8 through 10, as well as College Audition Preparation Camp. Limited openings are still available in all programs. Visit PIMFOnline.org for information.

LESSONS FROM THE BEST: French horn player Elizabeth “E.J.” Ferrara took lessons from Philadelphia Orchestra member Jennifer Montone at a recent summer music festival.

Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra smaller ones. It is crucial for Announces Director, Partnership groups like ours to work to-

T he Greater Pr inceton Youth Orchestra ( GPYO ) a n n ou n c e s t h e app oi ntment of Jessica Morel as the Orchestra’s music director, effective immediately. Morel was most recently the primary conductor for the Charlotte Symphony Youth Philharmonic. She has also served as the music director of the Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Orchestras Program, which saw significant growth under her leadership. A native of Los Angeles, Morel received her bachelor’s degree in music education from Indiana University and her master’s degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She recently completed her doctorate in orchestral conducting at the University of North Texas, where she studied with David Itkin and Clay Couturiaux. Past GPYO music directors include Mark Laycock and Fernando Raucci, as well founder Matteo Giammario, who led the group for the first 25 years of its 60-year history. In a newly-formed partner s h ip, t he G P YO a nd Westminster Conservatory (WC) will join forces effective July 31, to increase opportunities for their students to learn and perform. GPYO will become the orchestra for students of the Westminster Conservatory. GPYO students are encouraged to increase their music literacy and proficiency through enrollment in WC programs, and will be offered a 10% discount on tuition. While the GPYO provides financial support for promising young musicians with demonstrated financial need, participants in the joint program will be eligible to apply to WC for financial aid and scholarships, which will be awarded at the discretion of a special WC committee. “The pandemic has challenged so many performing arts organizations, especially

gether, particularly when the education of the next generation of artists and audiences is at stake,” said GPYO Board member and interim executive director Wendy Norris. “Working together, we know we can serve our students so much more effectively than we could before, and we are excited to explore joint projects. This is a striking step forward given the challenges we all faced this past year and a half.” WC E xecutive Director Scott Hoerl said, “Because the pandemic has almost erased ‘normal’ for the music education community, we will proceed incrementally to shape our relationship in a way that allows for evaluation of best steps along the way. I find it so exciting that we are ready to launch with bringing our students together in a larger, more diverse community than before.” “It is an absolute honor and privilege to be named the new Music Director for the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra,” said Morel. “I am looking forward to meeting the students in September. I think that there is going to be a lot of excitement for the start of the 2021 season, especially since the pandemic was tough on student musicians who missed out on getting to play as an ensemble for over a year. Everyone is eager for things to return to normal, to play music and harmonize with others again, and I’m thrilled to lead these talented students during this period of revitalization.” T h e G P YO e n s e m b l e s include the flagship Symphonic Orchestra, the Concert Orchestra for intermediate level musicians, and the Preparatory String Ensemble and Preparatory Wind Ensemble for younger students. In-person rehearsals resume on Monday, September 13. Video auditions for new members age 8 to 18 are welcome until August 30. Visit www.gpyo.org for complete details.

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“CARNEGIE HALL”: This painting by award-winning artist Robert Beck is featured in “It’s Personal: The Art of Robert Beck,” on view July 30 through January 2 at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa.

“The Art of Robert Beck” Exhibit at Michener Museum

The Michener Ar t Museum in Doylestown, Pa., presents “It’s Personal: The Art of Robert Beck,” opening July 30. The exhibition focuses on Robert Beck’s place in the storied world of the New Hope-Lambertville arts community. Beck has played an important role in advancing and expanding the region’s traditions of Impressionism and Urban Realism, with distinctive oil paintings of

the people, places, and occupations of our time. He is well known for documentary paintings, as he refers to his paintings done on site in one go. Whether single works or multi-image “visual essays,” these distinct paintings record his world much like the Pennsylvania Impressionists recorded theirs in their time. Unlike those images, Beck describes a world that contemporary audiences recognize as their own. Viewers respond to his keen perspective on the

storefronts, street corners, bars, restaurants, carnivals, basketball games, funeral homes, and parades. While New York, Bucks County, and the villages along the upper coast of Maine present subjects and contrast for his examinations, the exhibit includes work from series he created in the American West, Europe, and Africa. “For more than 30 years, Beck has been an integral part of the Bucks County art community as both a leader and an iconoclast,”

work has been presented in 30 solo gallery exhibitions, including at the National Arts Club (New York), the Rosenfeld Gallery (Philadelphia), the Morpeth Gallery (Pennington and Hopewell), New Hope Arts Center, and the Gallery of Robert Beck (Lambertville). B eck ’s pai nt i ngs have been accepted to more than 70 juried exhibitions. He has received 29 significant painting awards, was a finalist for the Pew Fellowship in 2000, and in 2014 was awarded the Philadelphia Sketch Club Medal for Excellence and Contribution to the Arts by the oldest arts club in America. He was the Honored Artist at the 2017 Phillips Mill Exhibition and the New Hope Arts Center Legacy Artist in 2018. In 2020 he was elected a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Painters. Beck is a teacher, curator, lecturer, and writer, and he

has hosted a radio interview program. His column on his art-related experiences, entitled “A Thousand Words,” has appeared monthly in ICON magazine since 2005. “For many in this area, Robert Beck’s paintings are as much a part of their world as Redfield, Garber, and Lathrop’s were to their time and community,” says Leopold, who has spent five years organizing the exhibition. “This show will be a wonderful homecoming for the community at the Michener. Beck is so deeply rooted in the area, and this exhibition shows — like much of what the Michener does — that the legacy of the arts in this region is alive and well.” The exhibition runs through January 2, 202, at the Michener Art Museum, 138 S out h P ine St reet, Doylestown, Pa. For more information, visit michenerartmesuem.org.

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says Curator David Leo pold, who organized the exhibition. “A generation has come to expect Beck at his easel wherever they are in the community. For the first time we have gathered paintings for all parts of his career and will present them in an installation that will also include short videos of different aspects of his work, along with audio of Beck recounting remarkable stories.” Separated from the bravura style of his plein air work, Beck’s studio images reveal the seriousness of his painting. His technique is solid, and his ability to manipulate even strong graphic elements, such as recasting the contrast in his nocturnes into something more explicitly designed, often edges his images away from Realism and toward the poetic suggestiveness of Symbolism. “Beck’s approach to his subjects is personal, but his subjective vision is relatable and familiar to many of us,” said Laura Turner Igoe, Ph.D., chief curator of the Michener Art Museum. “Beck’s paintings convey a strong sense of community and belonging that we are sure will resonate with many visitors.” Beck attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and cur rently maintains studios in New Hope, Pa., and New York City. His work has been the subject of three in-depth museum exhibitions at the Michener Art Museum (1999), the City of Trenton Museum at Ellarslie (2007), and the Maine Maritime Museum (2016). Beck’s

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A virtual art exhibit opening will be held on Friday, July Continued from Page 17 16, 7:15–9 p.m. via Zoom. It will prove to be an interesting evening reviewing the work of the Garden State Watercolor Society board members. This is a great time to learn the processes that the artists use while creating their art. The public is invited, but must register for the event, free, via the link on the exhibit opening web page at westwindsorarts.org. All the artists’ styles vary greatly, but each is accomplished in her own right. The award-winning artists, who all happen to be women, include Joanne Amantea (treasurer), Linda Arnold, Clara Sue Beym, Joan Capaldo, Grace Chiarella, Tess Fields (president), Judith Hummer (vice president), Monica Kennedy, Barbara March, Jinnie May (secretary), Margaret Simpson, Chris Valente, Lynn Cheng Varga, and Lois Westerfield. Garden State Water“PETAL PARTY”: This painting by Carol Sanzalone is featured in color Society’s Board of Direc“Creating Joy,” her dual exhibit with Alla Podolsky, on view at tors and distinguished chairs’ Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville August 5 through September 5. art is available for sale in this exhibit online and in person. From sales, 30 percent becomes a donation to support West Windsor Art’s nonprofit mission of providing highquality cultural programming. The art centers bring people together and transform the world around us by inspiring, educating, and promoting the arts and art appreciation for the community. Tess Fields, president of Garden State Watercolor Society, said “I want to thank West Windsor Ar t Center for this great opportunity. To my knowledge this is the first time in over 50 years of its existence that the board members of the Garden State Watercolor Society have had their own exhibit. We have developed wonderful friendships working together over the years and we are so happy to be collaborating on this special exhibit.” For more information, visit westwindsorarts.org. “CHELSEA MORNING”: This work by Alla Podolsky is part of “Creating Joy,” her dual exhibit with Carol Sanzalone, coming to Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville August 5 through September 5.

West Windsor Arts Council “Across the Board” Exhibit

West Windsor Arts Council presents “Across the Board: Garden State Watercolor Society,” an in-person and online exhibition of original fine art for sale, on view through August 27. The exhibit spaces are at West Windsor Arts, 952

Alexander Road, Princeton Junction, with gallery hours by appointment, and at the new Whole World Arts in the MarketFair shopping center on Route 1. The current hours of operation for this new location are Wednesday through Friday, 3-6 p.m. and Saturday 1-4 p.m.

D & R G ree nway L a nd Tr ust, One Preser vation Place, has the ongoing virtual galleries “Trail of Breadcrumbs: Nature in Fairytales” and “Portraits of Preservation: James Fiorentino Art.” The center is currently closed to the public. drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has the “Ellarslie Open 37/38” annual juried exhibition through October 1. Visit ellarslie.org for mus eu m hours and timed entry tickets. Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Rebirth : Kang Muxiang,” “Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 19602020,” and other exhibits. Hours are Thursday through Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. T i m e d t i cke t s r e q u i r e d. groundsforsculpture.org. H istor ical Soc iet y of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Princeton and Women’s Suffrage” and other online exhibits, as well as the “History@ Home” series. The museum is currently closed to the public. princetonhistory.org. James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Through the Lens: Modern Photography in the Delaware Valley” through August 15 and “It’s Personal: The Art of Robert Beck” July 30 through January 2. The museum is open to the public. michenerartmuseum.org. Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “In Nature’s Realm: The Art of Gerard Rutgers Hardenberg” through January 9 and the online exhibit “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey,

ART AT SMALL WORLD: Paintings by Adriana Groza are featured at Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, through August 3. The show includes original artworks from several series including Abstracts, Beach, Floral, and Underwater Worlds, all informed in one way or another by her interpretation and perception of time. 1761–1898.” Open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. morven.org. Plainsboro Public Library Art Gallery, 9 Van Doren Street, Plainsboro, has “Fall in Love with Felt” through August 26. plainsborolibrary.org. Pr inceton Universit y Art Museum has the online exhibits “Looking at 17th-Century Dutch Painting,” “Life Magazine and

the Power of Photography,” “The Eclectic Eye: A Tribute to Duane Wilder,” and more, along w it h many online events. The museum is currently closed to the public. artmuseum.princeton.edu. We s t W i n d s o r A r t s C e n te r, 953 A lexander Road, West Windsor, has “Across the Board: GSWS Board Member Exhibition” through August 27. westwindsorarts.org.

Area Exhibits Check websites for information on safety protocols. Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “InBetween” through August 1. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com.

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Being There Listening in on Maya Glyphic Writing Thursday, July 29, 5:30 p.m. The stillness of art runs counter to its reception. The ancient Maya of Central America and Mexico left images and texts that ripple with sound, recreating cackles, howls, speech, and song. Stephen D. Houston, professor of anthropology, Brown University, reports on these lost worlds of experience, and how we might listen in.

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“SHINE”: This work by Vincent Bush won the Ben Whitmire Emerging Artist Award in the “Ellarslie Open 37/38” exhibition at the Trenton City Museum in Cadwalader Park. Five galleries are filled with 136 works by 126 artists in the show, which runs through October 3. For more information, visit ellarslie.org.

LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. This program, including live closed-captioning, is made possible by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation. Maya, Late Classic, Chocolate cup depicting a mythic scene (detail at right) , A.D. 600–700. Ceramic with polychrome slip. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Stephanie H. Bernheim and Leonard H. Bernheim Jr. in honor of Gillett G. Griffin

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Wednesday, July 21 6 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meeting. Princetonlibrary. org. 6 p.m.: A Special Evening w ith Jennifer Weiner at Princeton Shopping Center, co-sponsored by Princeton Public Library. $30 includes a signed copy of her latest book That Summer. Bring a lawn chair. Registration required; tickets limited to 150. Princetonlibrary.org. 7:30 p.m.: “Since You Love Me and I Love You — Songs and Arias Revealing All Aspects of Love,” recital presented virtually by Westminster Choir College of Rider University’s CoOPERAtive program for young singers. Rider.edu/arts. Thursday, July 22 10-11:30 a.m.: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Forum, presented virtually by Princeton Mercer Chamber. Pamela Pruitt, executive director of Rider University’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion, will facilitate. Princetonmercer.org. 10 a.m.: Storytime Shorts, v i r t u a l pr e s e nt at i o n b y Princeton Public Library. Stories, songs, and more, for kids and parents. Princetonlibrary.org. 1:30-3 p.m.: English Conversation Group, on Google Meet from Princeton Public Library. Register in advance at Princetonlibrary.org. 5:30 p.m.: Artist Talk by Katie Peterson, presented virtually by Princeton University Art Museum. Artmuseum.princeton.edu. 7-8:30 p.m.: So Percussion Summer Institute gives a virtual concert, followed by a Q&A. Presented by So Percussion and Princeton Public Library. Princetonlibrary.org. 7:30 p.m.: “Magic, Manipulation and Marriage — Just Another Night in the Opera House,” recital presented virtually by Westminster Choir College of Rider University’s CoOPERAtive program for young singers. Rider.edu/arts. Friday, July 23 11:45 a.m.: “What Gives You Hope? ” Free Zoom event presented by sociologist Joan Goldstein, sponsored by Princeton Senior Resource Center. Princetonsenior.org. 4-5 p.m.: Illustrator/cartoonist Rick Stromoski holds an interactive virtual workshop drawing outlandish dinosaurs. Presented by Princeton Public Library. Register at princetonlibrary.org. 5 - 8 p.m.: Sunset Sips & Sounds at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. terhuneorchards.com. 6 p.m.: Big Country and the Finger Pick’n Good Band perform at Princeton Shopping Center. Free, bring a lawn chair or blanket. To be rescheduled in event of rain. 7:30 p.m.: Godzilla vs. Kong is screened at Arm & Hammer Park, Trenton. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Mercercountyparks. org. 7:30 p.m.: “An Evening of Opera Spanning the Centuries — Handel to Bernstein,” recital presented virtually by Westminster Choir College

History and Heritage.” Historian Larry Kidder discusses the farm and its unique role in preserving the past and educating about the future. Free virtual event presented by Mercer County Library Lawrence Headquarters Branch. Visit mcl. org for link. Friday July 30 5 - 8 p.m.: Sunset Sips & Sounds at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. terhuneorchards.com. 6 p.m.: Motown Night at Mercer County Park Festival Grounds, West Windsor, presented by Mercer County Park Commission. Bring chairs and blankets. $5 parking fee. Mercercountyparks.org. 7 p.m.: Jill Sobule performs a benefit concert for the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, at 50 Cherry Hill Road. $25 ($50 includes VIP after party). RustinCenter.org. 8:30 p.m.: Kusama-Infinity is screened at Woolsey Park, Hopewell. Buy tickets online. Hvartscouncil.org. Saturday, July 31 8 a.m.-2 p.m.: Rummage sale at Slackwood Pres b y te r i a n C h u r c h , 2 02 0 Brunswick Avenue, Lawrence Township. All items $5 a bag unless otherwise marked. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Princeton Junction. Enter at 877 Alexander Road through the Vaughn lot. 17 farms and 20 artisan food makers. Music group This Old House entertains. Wwfm.org. 10 a.m.: Mercer County 4-H Fair and wheat threshing at Howell Living History Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell. Animal shows, ex h ibits, homemade ice cream, hay rides, music, pony rides, magic shows, and farm tours. Bring a nonperishable food donation for Rutgers Against Hunger. Howellfarm.org. 6 p.m. Jersey Shore Night at Mercer County Park Festival Grounds, West Windsor. Artists to be announced. Bring lawn chairs, blankets. $5 parking fee. Mercercountyparks.org. 6-7:30 p.m.: Joe Divita performs on steel drums at Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street. Smallworldcoffee.com. 7 p.m.: Princeton Symp h o n i c B r a s s p e r for m s “Brass on the Lawn” in the quad outside of Hillman Hall, Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane. American classics, Broadway, and film music. $5$17. Psbrass.com. Sunday, August 1 10 a.m.-4 p.m.: Mercer County 4-H Fair and wheat threshing at Howell Living History Farm, 70 Woodens L ane, Hopewell. A nimal shows, exhibits, homemade ice cream, hay rides, music, pony rides, magic shows, and farm tours. Bring a nonperishable food donation for Rutgers Against Hunger. Howellfarm.org. 11 a.m.: GBC Trio performs in front of LiLLiPiES Bakery at Princeton Shopping Center as part of a summer Jazz Brunch series. Free. 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, with Bob O’Connell. Terhuneorchards.com.

Monday, August 2 Recycling Tuesday, August 3 7 p.m.: Family Night at Lawrence Nature Center, 481 Drexel Road, Lawrence. “I Like Lichen.” (609) 8447067. Thursday, August 5 11 a.m.: “Drying Herbs and Flowers,” virtual program from Mercer County Library System. Email hopeprogs@ mcl.org for the link. 5:30 p.m.: “Guided Listening: Medieval Music and Art.” Virtual talk by Caroline Harris and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, presented by Princeton University Art Museum. Free. Artmuseum. princeton.edu. 6 p.m.: Amazing Grace Little Band performs R&B at Princeton Shopping Center. Free, bring lawn chairs or blanket. Will be rescheduled in the event of rain. 6:30 p.m.: “Dems Night Out — If Not Us, Who? ” held by Capital City Area Black Caucus, Mercer County Freeholder Sam Frisby, and John Bailey, to demonstrate leadership in the Trenton and Mercer County area, at 431 Pennington Avenue, Trenton. For more information, call Frisby at (609) 638-0644. Friday, August 6 5 - 8 p.m.: Sunset Sips & Sounds at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. terhuneorchards.com. Saturday, August 7 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Princeton Junction. Enter at 877 Alexander Road through the Vaughn lot. 17 farms and 20 artisan food makers. Music group Magnolias entertains. Wwfm.org. 10 a .m .- 5 p.m . : J u s t Peachy Festival at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Terhuneorchards.com. 3-6 p.m.: Indo-American Festival with theater, music, dance, and food, at Monument Square on Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. Free. NewBrunswickArts.org. Sunday, August 8 10 a .m .- 5 p.m . : J u s t Peachy Festival at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Terhuneorchards.com. Tuesday, August 10 9:30 a.m.: Read and Pick: Peaches at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Terhuneorchards.com. 7 p.m.: Family Night at Lawrence Nature Center, 481 Drexel Road, Lawrence. Kids activities, “Compost, Seeds and More.” ( 609 ) 844-7067.

Wednesday, August 11 9:30 a.m.: Read and Pick: Peaches at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Terhuneorchards.com. Thursday, August 12 5-7 p.m.: Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber hosts networking at Stumpy’s Hatchet House, 745 Alexander Road. Princetonmercer.org. 6:30 p.m.: Family Fun, followed by the movie Raya and the Dragon at 8:15 p.m. At Princeton Shopping Center. Free, bring lawn chairs or blanket. Will be rescheduled in the event of rain. 7 p.m.: “Birdwatching for Beginners,” virtual program from Mercer County Library System. Email hopeprogs@ mcl.org for link. Friday, August 13 5 - 8 p.m.: Sunset Sips & Sounds at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. terhuneorchards.com. 8:30 p.m.: Hopewell Valley Arts Council’s Outdoor Ar t Film series presents Loving Vincent at Woolsey Park, Titusville. Hvartscouncil.org. Saturday, August 14 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, with Brian Bortnick. Terhuneorchards.com. Sunday, August 15 11 a.m.: The Liam Sutcliffe Combo performs in front of LiLLiPiES Bakery at Princeton Shopping Center as part of a summer Jazz Brunch series. Free. 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, with Mike & Laura. Terhuneorchards.com. Monday, August 16 Recycling Tuesday, August 17 9:30 a.m.: Read and Pick: Pears at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Terhuneorchards.com. 7 p.m.: Family Night at Lawrence Nature Center, 481 Drexel Road, Lawrence. Aldo Leopold Tribute Night. “What is Blooming Now?” (609) 844-7067. 7 p.m.: “Animals of World War II,” vir tual program from Mercer County Library System. Email hopeprogs@ mal.org for link. Wednesday, August 18 9:30 a.m.: Read and Pick: Pears at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Terhuneorchards.com. 6 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meeting. Princetonlibrary. org.

Thursday, August 19 5:30 p.m.: Artist Conversation: Sky Hopinka. Virtual event presented by Princeton University Art Museum, free. Artmuseum.princeton. edu. 6 : 3 0 p.m . : D i s c o D J dance party with DJ Darius 1st, followed by movie The High Note at 8:15 p.m. at Princeton Shopping Center. Free, bring lawn chairs or blanket. To be rescheduled if it rains. 7 p.m.: The documentary Observatory is screened, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Jared Flesher, in a virtual program from Mercer County Library System. Email hopeprogs@msl.org. Friday, August 20 5 - 8 p.m.: Sunset Sips & Sounds at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. terhuneorchards.com. Saturday, August 21 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, with the Fabulous Benson Boys. Terhuneorchards.com. 3-6 p.m.: 6th Annual CariFest presented virtually. Caribbean dance, music, and food. Free. NewBrunswickArts.org. Sunday, August 22 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, with Maggs & Budd. Terhuneorchards.com. Tuesday, August 24 7 p.m.: Family Night at Lawrence Nature Center, 481 Drexel Road, Lawrence. “How Did Our Town Figure in the Victory at Yorktown?” (609) 844-7067. Thursday, August 26 5:30 p.m.: Conversation bet ween elect roacoust ic composer Tarek Atouil and Princeton University professor Elizabeth Margulis on the expansive potential of sound as an artistic material. Virtual, free event presented by Princeton University Art Museum. Artmuseum.princeton.edu. Friday, August 27 5 - 8 p.m.: Sunset Sips & Sounds at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. terhuneorchards.com. 8:30 p.m.: Hopewell Valley Arts Council hosts an Outdoor Art Film series at Woolsey Park in Titusville, screening The Great Buster. Hvartscouncil.org. Sunday, August 29 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, with Jerr y Steele. Terhuneorchards.com.

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of Rider University’s CoOPERAtive program for young singers. Rider.edu/arts. Saturday, July 24 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Princeton Junction. Enter at 877 Alexander Road through the Vaughn lot. 17 farms and 20 artisan food makers. Musicians Dave San Soucie and Josh Leik perform. Wwfm.org. 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, with Kingston Ridge. Terhuneorchards.com. 5 p.m.: “Evening Livestock Chores” at Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell. Bring boots and work gloves to help out on the farm. Howellfarm.org. 6-7:30 p.m.: Jazz musician Tom Tallitsch performs at Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street. Smallworldcoffee.com. 6 :30 -7:30 p.m.: “Walk the Interfaith Talk” picnic and walk, sponsored by the Coalition for Peace Action. At Mercer Count y Park. Meet by the flagpole 9/11 Memorial Plaza in front of the boathouse parking area. Peacecoalition.org. 7:30 p.m.: Wonder Woman 1984 is screened at Arm & Hammer Park, Trenton. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Mercercountyparks. org. Sunday, July 25 1-3 p.m.: Free sanctified vegetarian food distribution at the Princeton Family YMCA, under the big red tent. Bviscs.org//linktr.ee/ bviscs. 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, with R ich S einer. Terhuneorchards.com. 3-5 p.m.: Princeton University Library hosts free online lecture, “The Greek World : Before and After 1821” with professor Molly Greene, director of the Program in Hellenic Studies. Library.princeton.edu. Monday, July 26 7 p.m.: “An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe,” presented by storyteller Uncle Aloysius in the parking lot of Hickory Corner Branch of Mercer Count y Librar y, Hickor y Corner Road (rain date July 28). Register at mcl.org. Tuesday, July 27 9:30 and 11 a.m.: Read and Pick: Flowers at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Terhuneorchards. com 7 p.m.: Family Night at Lawrence Nature Center, 481 Drexel Road, Lawrence. “Do Rocks Fall from the Sky?” (609) 844-7067. Wednesday, July 28 9:30 and 11 a.m.: Read and Pick: Flowers at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Terhuneorchards. com Thursday, July 29 5:30 p.m.: “Being There: Listening in on Maya Glyphic Writing.” Free virtual lecture by Brown University professor Stephen D. Houston. Presented by Princeton University Art Museum. Artmuseum.princeton.edu. 6 p.m.: Summer Nights Series at Princeton Shopping Center, with We May Be Right, a Billy Joel Tribute Band. Rescheduled from July 9; free. Princetonshoppingcenter.com. 7 p.m.: “Howell Farm: Its

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omfort and conversation, connection and culture, f lavor and atmosphere; over-stuffed, piled-high delicious deli sandwiches; expertly-made egg creams; 1950s sound track vibrating in the background. Where can you find such an energizing experience? It’s not far away! The new Borscht Belt Delicatessen is located in the Stockton Market at 19 Bridge Street in Stockton. Just opened on June 19, it is already attracting hungry visitors who are lining up around

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the block to sample both its New York City-style Jewish deli atmosphere and its variety of classic deli culinary treats. Owners Nick Liberato, Mike Dalewitz, and Steve Lau wanted to bring something unique to Stockton. Family and Friends “We thought there was a need for something like this in Stockton,” says Chef Liberato, who also oversees the operations. His longtime background in the food and restaurant business includes serving as “Chef to the Stars” when he opened a catering company in Los Angeles, and then as host of the popular Bar Rescue and Restaurants on Edge TV shows. The latter experiences included helping at risk bars and restaurants to regain both popularity and profits. “I was raised in an Italian family, and I watched my mother and grandmother cook,” he recalls. “I was always interested, and realized how much a part of getting together with family and friends is centered around food.” So how did a young man from an Italian family in Yardley, Pa., become a partner in

a classic Jewish delicatessen? He was introduced to partner Mike Dalewitz at Shir Ami Temple in Newtown, Pa., by the rabbi. Liberato’s family are members, as is Dalewitz and his family. Looking for new business opportunities, both men saw the chance for a partnership for something special, and reached out to Steve Lau, owner of the Stockton Market. The three joined forces, and Borscht Belt Delicatessen was born. The idea stems from the former favorite getaway area in the New York Catskill Mountains, known as the “Borscht Belt.” A summer vacation stop, especially for Jewish families, it experienced its greatest popularity in the mid 20th century. Culture and Cuisine Borscht refers to a soup of Ukrainian origin, made of beet root, which was brought to the U.S. primarily by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia. M i ke D a l e w i t z’s f a m ily owned a number of the Borscht Belt hotels, and he was familiar with the culture and cuisine of the area. As the Borscht Belt hotels — and also many famous NYC Jewish delis — have been disappearing due to changing times and circumstances, the partners wanted to offer a salute to the memorable days and special time of that Catskill community. “This is a love letter to the Jewish deli and an important part of the Jewish American culture,” explains Liberato. “Community, family, and of course, food, are all part of this. Also, people are so glad to be out together again, now that the virus cases are decreasing, and things are opening up again. This is good timing for us. “We are extremely busy. People are here every day, and we already have regulars. The response has been incredible — way more than we even hoped for. The first day

we opened, we went through one thousand pounds of pastrami, and a thousand pounds of bagels! And this has happened more than once. “Customers are coming from all over, including lots from Princeton, and we have one couple that comes in often, picks up their sandwiches, and then get on their boat for lunch on the river!” Signature Sandwiches Certainly, customers love t he m enu. Hous e - made corned beef and pastrami and homemade matzo ball soup are big-time favorites. Signature sandwiches are named for celebrities, such as Joan Rivers, Jerry Lewis, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Special fish sandwiches including The Concord, The Raleigh, Brown’s, and The Nevele celebrate former Borscht Belt hotels. They feature everything from pastrami-cured salmon, white fish, and gravalax to tuna and shrimp. Other classic sandwiches include hot pastrami, salami, chopped liver, and fresh roasted turkey, among others. There is also a special Borscht Belt Burger, triple decker club sandwich, and cases filled with salads and “schmears.” Israeli, borscht beet, chicken, baked salmon, and whitefish are just some of the salads, Schmears consist of every kind of cream cheese available, as well as horseradish and sour cream. Don’t forget the knishes (square or round) and latkes, and a full range of caviar. The famous Ess-a-Bagels from New York are delivered fresh daily, and breakfast specials include egg and cheese sandwiches, lox scrambles (lox, eggs, caramelized onions, and rye toast), and avocado toast. Coffee from the Paper Plane, a fifth generation Colombian family-owned coffee company, is another highlight. Other beverages are tea and a variety of sodas, including Dr. Brown’s, Mexican Coke, Abita root beer, Natalie’s

lemonade, and many others. The special Brooklyn-style egg cream, with chocolate or vanilla syrup, is a highlight for many customers. Rugelach, babka, cheesecake, black-and-white cookies are all there to top off the lunch. Wide Range Prices cover a wide range, with soup and sandwiches from $7 (up to $20 for overstuffed sandwiches); bagels, coffee, and sodas from $2, and egg creams at $5. Offering the best is very important to the Borscht Belt Delicatessen partners, says Liberato. “You are only as good as your ingredients, and we want the best. I have learned where to find the best, and I go to numerous purveyors, and locally as much as possible. “I am very goal-oriented, and it is important to prepare for everything you can, and pay close attention to detail and to customer service. We also have a great team, and I am enjoying seeing how well we all work together. In this time after COVID, we are looking for more people to join our staff. We have a great working environment. “It is also a very welcoming atmosphere for customers. We want people to feel at home. This is key.” They have certainly accomplished that. In addition to consuming memorable meals, customers are having fun! The relaxed and congenial ambiance is conducive to interaction, and the closeness of the tables invites conversation among customers, who do not remain strangers. Recently, people from California, Florida, Long Island, Brooklyn, New Hope, and Princeton all got to know each other over pastrami, matzo ball soup, bagels, and egg creams. Era and Energy Black-and-white photos on the walls depict Catskill Borscht Belt scenes and celebrities, capturing the era and energy of that special time and place. The ’50s music in the background (a nod to the heyday of the Borsch Belt) so resonated with one customer

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PU Rowing Legend Stone Heading to 3rd Olympics, Competing in Double Sculls after Medaling in Single

hen Gevvie Stone earned a silver medal in the single sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics, it appeared to be the culmination of a storied rowing career. Having starred for the Princeton University women’s open rowing program and helping the Tiger varsity 8 win a national title in 2006 and then moving to sculling and taking seventh in the single sculls at the 2012 London Olympics, Stone’s trip to the podium in Rio at age 31 seemed to be a fitting final chapter to her life on the water. With Stone, a 2007 Princeton alum, having earned a medical degree from Tufts University in 2014 and done a year of residency in emergency medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, her career path after rowing was set. But the pull of rowing brought her back to the water and Stone resumed training in 2018 with an eye toward making the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She came in second in the single at the U.S. trials for the 2019 World Championships and turned to the double sculls. “You adapt or die,” said Stone. “I jumped in the double that spring with my training partner Cicely Madden and we finished fifth. It was a good learning experience for both of us.” As Stone was regaining her

form in early 2020, the pandemic hit and she had to adjust the workouts with her training group that rows on the Charles River. “We cut down the intensity in terms of volume but also in terms of the types of practices we were doing and how we were approaching them,” said Stone, who is based in her native Boston and coached by her father, Gregg Stone, a former star rower for Harvard. “We did more cross training and stopped taking times for all of the workouts. That let us train in a fun way. In a way that you would do for the love of the sport which was also great because COVID had enough stress.” After racheting up her training last fall, Stone, now 36, is looking for another fun experience at the Olympics, having made the U.S. team in the double sculls with former Yale standout Kristi Wagner when the pair took first in the U.S. Trials in April to book their spot at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. The partnership with Wagner stemmed from Stone’s loss to Kara Kohler in the single sculls at the U.S. trials. “I worked very hard in training, I was very focused on that race, I executed and Kara is faster than I am,” said Stone. “As one wise coach said, you can have a good race and not have it yield the desired outcome. I am proud of all of the

work I had done. Sometimes I am surprised that I think I want one thing and it turns out that something else may be better for me.” Rowing with Wagner has been very good for Stone. “Kristi and I won trials and it has been great to work with her,” said Stone. “For me at the this stage of my career, it helps me bring my ‘A’ game everyday to be doing it for someone else and not just for myself. Having that teammate in the boat helps me find another gear and she makes it fun. It is fun to share the experience with a teammate.” The pair have been working on meshing their skills since coming together in April. “We are built the same way but our natural rowing styles are different,” said Stone, who stands 6’0, one inch shorter than Wagner. “Once we started rowing together, we have switched the lineup back and forth. I stroked at trials but then we switched for a week and then we switched for another week recently. It is easier to find the average when we are playing both roles. There is a lot of drilling as well, putting pauses in the strokes and focusing the stroke on one part. You are only doing a quarter of the stroke to simplify it and match up for that little bit and extend it and extend it and hopefully the matching continues.”

DOUBLE VISION: Gevvie Stone, front, along with Kristi Wagner row in the women’s double sculls for the U.S. national team. Former Princeton standout Stone ’07 and Wagner, who starred at Yale, will be competing in the double for the U.S. at the Tokyo Olympics next week. (Photo by Ben Tufnell, Row 360, provided courtesy of USRowing)

The U.S. rowers headed to Honolulu, Hawaii where they held a camp from July 7-14 to acclimatize themselves to the Asian climate and time zone. With the experience of having competed in two previous Olympics, Stone is looking to help Wagner adjust to the high-stakes atmosphere and the hoopla surrounding the Summer Games. “There is less sticker shock which helps to focus on the racing,” said Stone, whose boat will start heats on July 23 on the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo Bay with the final slated for July 30. “Hopefully some of what I have learned from past Games, I will be able to help Kristi through it so she is able to enjoy it and the experience. We have trained to race and go fast, that is the primary

objective.” In Stone’s view, the boat is picking up speed. “We have been getting faster the last couple of weeks,” said Stone. “We raced internationally at the World Cup in May and finished third. It was and wasn’t a confidence builder. We realized how slow we are off the starting line but the rest of race is respectable. We have been working on that; we hope that everything comes together.” Coming to a third Olympics is beyond what Stone could have hoped for when she started her rowing career as a prep star at the Winsor School (Mass.) 20 years ago. “It is even hard for me to wrap my head around it, each one is unique and special in its own way,” said Stone. “I am currently treating this one as separate from the rest

in terms of it still being ahead of me and still having goals for it. Eventually at some point in my life, I hopefully will be able to look back and appreciate the fact that there were three of them. In my head now, they each seem like different segments in the same journey, they are very unique in their own way.” After competing in Tokyo, Stone is headed back to the emergency room medicine residency at Beth Israel where she will apply some of the lessons she has learned on the water. “I like adrenaline, I like stress,” said Stone. “It is the same way in life, you never know what is going to happen. In rowing in terms of the race, you are in control of what you are doing but you can’t control your competitors. You have to react and do your best.” —Bill Alden

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After Frustrating Results in Olympic Debut at Rio Games, PU Fencing Alumna Holmes Hungry for Medals in Tokyo While Princeton University fencing standout Kat Holmes was thrilled to compete in the epee in the 2016 Rio Olympics, she was left with a bitter taste in her mouth after the competition. “My team and I lost in overtime for the medal round so we knew we had to go for another one,” said Holmes, who helped the U.S. place fifth in the team epee at Rio and took 25th herself in the individual competition. Holmes returned to Princeton after the Olympics for the 2016-17 school year to compete in her senior season and earn her neuroscience degree. A native of Washington, D.C., Holmes ended up as a four-time All-American and All-Iv y League fencer during her Tiger career. Staying in international competition, Holmes used that Olympic disappointment to fuel a gold medal performance in the team epee at the 2018 World Championships in Wu xi, China along with the Hurley sisters, Kelley and Courtney. “I think before we knew that we could win gold but that really changed it to now we believed that we can,” said Holmes reflecting on the victory which saw her take the anchor role for the team. “It is a very subtle dichotomy but the difference between knowing and believing is really huge because one has that emotional salience that really carries it forward.”

Now, Holmes, 28, is carrying forward her dreams of medalling at the Olympics as she will be representing the U.S. in the individual and team epee at the upcoming Tokyo Summer Games. Earning the trip to Tokyo has been an arduous process for Holmes, who was accepted to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai and had planned to start there last fall after the 2020 Olympic push. But the pandemic halted competition in March, 2020 and Holmes deferred medical school to keep training for the Tokyo Olympics. She qualified for the U.S. squad with a top-64 finish at the Kazan World Cup this March. “It was the longest qualification process, it is relief at first because there was so much pressure for so long,” said Holmes. “It is almost two full years of pressure of looking to make an Oly mpic team. That sense of relief was overwhelming. When I qualified for my first team it was just overwhelming joy and happiness. This was oh my god, thank god it is over.” D ur i ng t he pa ndem ic, Holmes had to be creative to get in her training. “I couldn’t use the Princeton gym until February, I couldn’t use the weight room,” recalled Holmes. “Everything was closed. My coach [Zoltan Dudas ] said grab some weights no one else is using them, you can bring them home. I live

across Route 1 in Princeton Junction. I train right here. I was taking lessons in his basement. I looked at it that if I am going to have an extra year, I better make the most of it. I would still have preferred to continue last summer.” Over the last year, Holmes put a greater emphasis on weight lifting to help her get better, working through the Future exercise app with former Princeton strength coach Matt Fleekop. “He can talk to me thorough the app, it made it much more interactive,” said the 5’11, 175-pound Holmes. “T hey have hear t rate monitoring along with it. It is really more sports specific because I was able to look at my heart rate when I fence and when I train and simulate different types of competition based on heart rate flow. I feel like that has really given me a leg up going into this Olympics. I am definitely in the best shape I could possibly be in.” With things opening up this spr ing, Holmes has been able to diversify her workouts. “I still lift in my apartment, I have basically built a home gym with the equipment,” said Holmes. “In season when the students were coming to Princeton, I was fencing with them but now I have been going into New York Cit y. Normally I w ill go into New York on Mondays and We d ne s days in t he

MEDAL HUNT: Katherine Holmes displays the gold medal she earned for winning the individual epee at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Former Princeton University women’s fencing standout Holmes ’17 also helped the U.S. to gold in the team epee at the competition. Previously, she had helped the U.S. win the team epee at the 2018 World Championships. Next week, Holmes will be fencing for the U.S. at the Tokyo Olympics in both epee competitions, hoping to add to her medal collection. (Photo provided courtesy of Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications) morning and I will fence for two hours. After that, I will come back, take a break and I will take a lesson, lift, and condition.” With the athletes in Tokyo being limited to the Olympic Village and their venues due to COVID-19 concerns, Holmes believes that will help her hone in on the competition that will take place in a Tokyo suburb at a hall in the Makuhari Messe, one of Japan’s largest convention centers. “Their protocols are super strict but I am also vaccinated so it is a little less concerning for me,” said Holmes, who will be competing in the individual epee from July 23-24 and the team epee from July 26-27. “Basically, they are like wear your mask at all times. It is more like a business trip in a way, it is going to enable me to be more focused.”

Holmes is confident that her previous Olympic experience will also help her take care of business in Tokyo. “I know what to expect and how to filter distractions, I think that will help me,” said Holmes. “It is going to be different distractions but I think it is really going to help me focus on what I need to do to succeed.” In order to succeed in the indiv idual epee, Holmes will be relying on her vast international experience and intense preparation to help her deal with the pressure on the strip. “It is staying focused, I have known everyone in the field for so, so long,” said Holmes. “I have been doing video review and lots of prep, just trying to put myself in the best situation to succeed on that day and then keeping

the nerves in check.” As for the team epee, Holmes and the Hurley sisters, who were both fencing standouts at the University of Notre Dame, feel they have put themselves in position to win the competition. “We would be happy with a medal of any color but we won’t be satisfied unless it is gold,” said Holmes. “Over the past couple of years they have become two of my best friends. When you share such intense experiences with people, they are the only two people who truly, truly understand some of the most emotional things I have ever been through. It is the same for me in their regard in a lot of ways. We don’t live in the same place, we don’t see each other on a day-to-day basis but we understand each other in an innate way that almost nobody else does.” —Bill Alden

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PU Rowers Wrap Up U23 Worlds By Earning More Medals

Wrapping up competition last week at the U-23 World Rowing Championships in Racice, Czech Republic, three Princeton University crew standouts earned medals in the same race. Star coxswain Sydney Edwards ’21 helped the U.S. men’s 8+ take a silver medal on the last day of competition. The U.S. clocked a time of 5:34.55 over the 2,000-meter course with Great Britain finishing first in 5:34.34. “Sydney is making history at the helm of men’s boats at the international level,” said Princeton men’s lightweight head coach Marty Crotty. “It is representative of her talent and leadership qualities and we’re very proud of her.” G er ma ny place d t h ird in the race with a time of 5:35.58 with a boat that included Tiger men’s heavyweights Tassilo von Mueller ’21 and Floyd Benedikter ’23. “I am so pumped for Tass and Floyd on rowing such a gutsy race today,” said P r i n ce ton m e n’s h e av y weight head coach Greg Hughes. “That bronze medal was hard fought for and well deserved. It’s a great way to finish off a crazy and challenging year. They’ve both worked very hard here at Princeton and in Germany to overcome the obstacles presented by COVID-19.”

PU Field Hockey’s Roth Nominated for NCAA Award

Recently graduated Princeton University field hockey standout Clara Roth has been selected as the Princeton nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, the organization announced. The NCAA Woman of the Year program celebrates the

2021 NCAA Woman of the if it’s just the two of us on the river.” Year will be named. Preparing for the OlymPrinceton Alumna Noble to be 1st Ugandan Rower at Olympics pics has been a challenge for Former Princeton Univer- Noble. While in Utah, Noble sity women’s lightweight was working full time at a rowing star Kathleen Noble cancer research lab in addi’18 will be making history tion to her rowing preparanext week at the Tokyo tion. Her work was flexible Olympics as the first Ugan- and now she’s a full-time dan rower to compete in the athlete. Currently, she’s in Philadelphia, training with Summer Games. Vesper. Noble, who hails from “I learned how to row at Kampala, Uganda, won the single sculls event at the Princeton, and I learned 2019 FISA African Olympic how to race and while racQualification Regatta, clocking in a coxed eight is quite ing a time of 8:36.87 over different to racing a single the 2,000-meter course to the pain is pretty similar,” win the race by 2.97 sec- said Noble. “Racing at Princeton was onds. the only preparation I had Noble, a swimming star in high school, never rowed for racing internationally until she came to Princeton and it was good preparaand walked on the Tiger tion.” women’s lightweight pro- Princeton Field Hockey gram. Announces 2021 Schedule In the spring of her sophHaving not played a game omore year, Noble went since losing to North Caroon the team’s training trip lina in the NCAA championto Tampa and won several ship game on November 24, seat races against recruited 2019, the Princeton Univerathletes. By the end of the sity field hockey team will year, she was on the var- return to action after its sity 8 at the Intercollegiate 2020 season was canceled Rowing Association (IRA) due to the pandemic with National Championships. a rematch against the Tar Noble helped the Tigers to Heels. two bronze medals in her Princeton will host North career. Carolina, the three-time deAfter graduating, Noble re- fending national champion, tired from rowing and didn’t on September 3 at Bedcompete for a year. She was ford Field in its 2021 seathen invited to the Olympic son opener. The Tar Heels Qualifiers and immediately have won 65 of their last needed to find a place to 66 games, including winrow in Utah where she was ning the 2020 national title living. She found the Utah game over Michigan. Crew, a high school team. It will be a busy opening Ahsan and Linda Iqbal took weekend for the Tigers as her in, and they’ve been they will also be hosting family ever since. Louisville, who reached the “I’ve spent Thanksgiv- national semifinals last seaing with them, I’ve been on son, on September 5. exotic vacations with them, and they’ve stayed up in the middle of the night to cheer me on when I was racing in the indoor rowing world championships,” said Noble. “They’re the first people I’d call if I needed help. Linda and Ahsan are so supportive and encouraging. Ahsan is always down to come out and coach even

Over the course of the season, Princeton will have eight regular season home games. The Tigers will start their Ivy League campaign on September 24 with a game at Penn. The Tigers are coming off a superb 2019 season which saw them go 16-5 overall and 7-0 Ivy, winning the program’s 26th league title and making its fourth trip to the national title game.

3 PU Women’s Lightweights Earn All-America Honors

The Princeton University women’s lightweight crew program had three athletes, A nnie A nezak is, L auren Sanchez, and Ashley Scott, recently named as Pocock Lightweight All-Americans for the 2021 campaign. The trio of recently graduated standouts were on the varsity 8 boat that won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association ( IR A ) national championship, defeating Wisconsin by 26.3 seconds in a two-boat final. T he team ear ned I R A Lightweight program of the year while Paul Rassam was tabbed as Coach of the Year. The national crown marked Princeton Athletics’ 207th national championship and the sixth in program history.

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PU Track Alumna Bird Sets British Record

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KICKING OFF: Princeton University women’s soccer player Caroline Noonan prepares to boot the ball in a 2019 game. Senior midfielder Noonan and the Tigers will be returning to action after the pandemic-related cancellation of the 2020 season by hosting Loyola (Md.) on August 27 at Class of 1952 Stadium. Princeton was last in game action when it defeated Penn 1-0 on November 9, 2019 to finish that season at 8-6-3 overall and 3-3-1 Ivy League. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Former PDS Hockey Star Colton Lives Out Dreams, Savoring Five-Month Whirlwind to Stanley Cup The last five months have been a whirlwind for Ross Colton. In February, the former Princeton Day School boys’ hockey standout started his third pro season by playing for Syracuse of the AHL. Weeks later, Colton, 24, had been called up to the Tampa Bay Lightning and scored a goal on the second shift of his NHL debut. Carving out a niche on the squad by tallying nine goals and three assists in 30 regular season games, Colton, a 6’0, 202-pound forward, raised the level of his game as Tampa Bay entered the playoffs looking for its second straight Stanley Cup. Starting on the fourth line and seeing time on second and third lines, Colton helped the Lightning top Florida 4-2 in a bruising first round series, top Carolina 4-1 in the second round and then edge New York Islanders 4-3 in a thrilling seven-game series to make it to the Stanley Cup Final against Montreal. After Tampa Bay built a 3-1 lead in the Finals, Colton closed the deal on July 7, tallying a goal for the ages, notching the lone score in Game 5 as Tampa prevailed 1-0 to win the series 4-1 and win its second straight title. Last Friday morning, the Stanley Cup was delivered to Colton’s home in Robbinsville. Over the next 24 hours, Colton took the Cup around to some of his Garden State stomping grounds, starting at the Ice Land Rink where he learned the game and played for the Mercer Chiefs, going to a park in his hometown for the celebration of “Ross Colton Day,” and then ending the day with a rooftop dinner at the Hotel LBI in Ship Bottom. “It is crazy; this was always my dream as a kid, I put in so much time and effort,” said Colton last Thursday, his voice hoarse from a week of celebrations. “I still remember watching

last year when they won the Cup. I was so devastated that I wasn’t there. We had nine months off and I used that time to better myself and my mind to get in the right mindset so that I deserved to be there. Once I got called up, I didn’t want to look back. That is how I attacked it.” After getting called up, Colton developed into a steady performer for the Lightning. “When I first got called up, you are always nervous and don’t know what to expect,” said Colton. “We had such a great group of older guys in the room and the coaching staff was awesome with me. The more games I got under my belt, the more confidence I got. I felt I was part of the team, not just the rookie call up. I solidified my spot. Once playoffs started and I was in the lineup, I just knew that hey this is it, I am a part of this team. I have got to contribute. I just wanted to roll with that.” Thriving in the increased intensity of postseason action, Colton ended up with four goals and two assists in 23 playoff contests. “Coming from the regular season with there barely being anyone in the stands and to go from like 5,000 people in the stands to 20,000 was a very big difference,” said Colton, who ended up with four goals and two assists in 23 playoff contests. “There was a little more nerves, a little more energy. It is more physical, guys aren’t taking shifts off. Guys are going 100 percent every single shift with the hitting, backchecking, and forechecking. It is a different energy level from every single person, top to bottom.” While the energy level may have increased, Colton maintained an unflappable mindset. “I am trying to stay evenkeeled, not get too high, not

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CUP CELEBRATION: Ross Colton, left, and Steven Stamkos celebrate in the locker room after the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated Montreal 1-0 on July 7 in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final to win the series 4-1 and earn the franchise’s second straight NHL title. Former Princeton Day School boys’ hockey standout Colton scored the lone goal in the finale to clinch the title. (Photo provided by Ross Colton)

As the puck hit the net, Colton reacted by lifting his stick and hollering but doesn’t remember much else. “That happened so fast, I kind of blacked out in the celebration stuff,” added Colton. “It was unbelievable. I was just happy that I could seal the deal. The best way to put it is that is the biggest goal I will ever score in my life.” In the aftermath of the win, Colton created another unbelievable memory as hoisted the Cup and skated around the rink in the traditional victory celebration. “That is something I will remember forever,” said Colton. “It is heavier than I thought it would be, it was like 35 pounds. I was out of breath still, my heart hadn’t settled. Once I got it, I was almost shaking. There were so many people on the ice, they have these little wristbands all over the ice. I was like oh my god, I am going to step on one of those. Once you put it over your head, you lose all control. It is such a state of joy, to look around and see all of the fans going nuts.” There was more joy for Colton after leaving the ice that night. “Right after the game we went down the locker room with all of the champagne, cigars and beer set up for us,” said Colton. “Everybody’s family and friends came down and they were celebrating with us. My dad and brother were in there with me.” After a weekend of team partying, the Lightning festivities concluded with a boat parade along the Tampa Riverwalk last Monday. “That was probably the best day of my life, besides the final game,” said Colton. “We woke up in the morning, we all met at the rink.

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world class guys in the game playing ahead of him. When those moments arise, he never shied way from it.” In Bertoli’s view, Colton’s success is a watershed moment for the local hockey scene. “I think for the program, for hockey in Mercer County, for hockey in New Jersey, it gives people hope,” said Bertoli. “It is exciting for everybody who has followed him over the last four or five months and everyone who knows him. I think most importantly they know how good of a person he is, both him and his brother [Rob, who also starred for PDS] were such good kids. They made an impact on the ice but they really endeared themselves to everyone in our community.” Getting to work with Colton is a highlight of Bertoli’s coaching career. “It is pretty rewarding, it is not something that you ever anticipate happening,” said Bertoli. “To see him get to that level back in February, I couldn’t be happier for him and his family and everyone who has been part of his growth. Having that connection with Ross and being fortunate enough to work with him for two years, I stayed in touch with him like a lot of people did. What a lot of people appreciate who know Ross and have been a part of his life, whether it be for six months, two years or 15 years, he stayed in touch with people.” Looking ahead, Bertoli believes that Colton has what it takes to be in the NHL for years. “You can’t do anything more than that kid did this year; it will take time to sink in, the magnitude of what he has accomplished,” said Bertoli. “With the work he has put in to improve in the areas he needed to improve on, I know he is going to become a better player and a better pro and continue to impact at that level. I think he has set himself up to have a lengthy career. True to form, Colton is itching to get back on the ice. “I am going to work on my skating, that is the name of the game these days,” said Colton. “Everybody is fast, everybody can fly. I am going to take some time off and get my body right and then in a couple of weeks, get right back at it.” —Bill Alden

As top-seeded LoyalTees faced eighth-seeded The Basketball Team (TBT) last Monday night to tip off the quarterfinals of the Princeton Recreation Department Men’s Summer Basketball League, the two-time defending champs were shorthanded. LoyalTees was missing top inside threat Nick Davidson and the squad ’s leading scorer, former Princeton High standout Zahrion Blue, was en route to the Community Park courts. But that didn’t stop Terrance Bailey and his team-

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TITLE DRIVE: Terrance Bailey, left, drives to the hoop for LoyalTees in a recent game in the Princeton Recreation Department Men’s Summer Basketball League. Last Monday, Bailey scored a game-high 22 points to help top-seeded and two-time defending champion LoyalTees defeat eighth-seeded The Basketball Team (TBT) 71-64 in the league quarterfinals. LoyalTees will now face fifth-seeded Planet Fitness in the semis on July 23 after it edged fourth-seeded SpeedPro 44-42 in the other quarterfinal contest on Monday. The quarterfinals will be concluded on Wednesday when second-seeded Majeski Foundation faces seventh-seeded NJ Path and third-seeded Caesar’s Bagels and Deli takes on sixth-seeded Princeton Supply. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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NJ Wrestling Organization Holding Golf Outing on July 28

The New Jersey Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum will be hosting its 18th annual golf outing on July 28 at Mercer Oaks Golf Club in West Windsor. The price for foursomes is $599, although individuals can enter for $155. Included in the package are green fees, cart, practice range, putting contest, locker, and dinner. Dinner separately is $65. The shotgun event will tee off at 9:30 a.m., rain or shine, with brunch and registration from 8 to 9:15 a.m. In addition to the tournament, golfers can take part in 50/50 chances and mulligans (separate tickets to be purchased), a silent raffle (also separate tickets), longest drive, closest to the pin and best 4-some score (included in fee). Also, each paid golfer will receive a giveaway bag with assorted items. Proceeds w ill sponsor four partial wrestling camp scholarships to two boy students and two girl students, as well as charitable donations to two Veterans organizations. Those interested in sponsorships can contact Pete Frampton at (732) 759-7970 or at PeteFramptonJersey@ gmail.com. For registration forms, one can contact Ed Glassheim at ( 609 ) 947-5885 or at glassheim@yahoo.com. Checks can be made out to NWHF-NJ-Golf. Those having questions about the event can contact Golf Chair Ken Bernabe at (732) 991-3984) or at bernabekenjb@aol.com.

FINAL CUT: Rohan Sheth takes a swing in recent action for the Princeton Post 218 American Legion baseball team. Post 218 wrapped up the 2021 campaign by falling 4-3 to North Hamilton last Thursday in the continuation of game that was suspended on July 6. Princeton ended the summer with a 4-14 record. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Byron Adams Campbell In Memoriam Byron Campbell, Ph.D., died peacefully at home on June 24, due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 94. Byron was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, and then professor emeritus, at Princeton University. Born in Portland, Oregon, Byron grew up in Seattle and loved the mountains and the Pacific Northwest. Summers on his maternal grandfather’s farm, becoming an Eagle Scout, camping with family and friends, and his first adventure in Alaska built the foundation for his lifelong love of the wilderness. His fat her, Rob er t H. Campbell, was a prosperous business owner in the food and grain supply industry, and his mother, Estelle Grettie Campbell, was a capable woman known for baking lemon meringue pies

from scratch on backcountry hiking trips. Sadly, Byron’s father died in an accidental drowning when Byron was just 11. This event no doubt spurred him to make the most of every day, and to work hard to secure financial stability for himself and his family. Eventually this goal led him to supplement the family income by investing in and managing rental real estate. After high school graduation, Byron volunteered for induction into the Navy, and served as a radar technician for the duration of WWII. He then used the GI bill to earn a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Washington. Byron continued his studies at Yale University, earning his Ph.D. in experimental psychology, and then completed his post-doctoral studies at Harvard University. While at Yale, Byron fell in love with fellow graduate student Enid Margaret Hobart. They were married in 1954, and in 1956 Byron joined the faculty of Princeton University. Later that year their daughter Andrea was born and 5 years later they celebrated the arrival of their son, Ian. Over their marriage of 62 years, Byron was always supportive of Enid’s work as a professor at Trenton State College, and as a clinical psychologist in private practice. Throughout his five dec a d e s of r e s e a r c h a n d teaching, Byron treasured his relationships with many colleagues, and with graduate students and post-docs in “the Campbell lab.” He and his team made significant contributions, and he

mentored many of the field’s greatest contributors. His post-doctoral fellows and graduate students, and their post-docs and grad students, have gone on to train over a thousand women and men whose research and teaching continues to push neuropsychology forward around the world. Byron was an amazing trip planner, and he loved sharing his enjoyment of the outdoors and travel with Enid, his children and later his grandchildren, and close friends. There were many adventures in Europe and North America, as well as New Zealand, and China. In addition, he greatly enjoyed spending time in the little house he and Enid acquired in 1984 and fixed up over time, just a few miles from the Canadian border in Northern Vermont, with a spectacular view of Mount Mansfield, and blessed with wonderful neighbors. The family still gathers there for a bit of mountain magic. Camping, canoeing, hiking, snowshoeing, and his annual adventures to Alaska, especially along the Stikine River and near Wrangell, remained active passions for him well into his 80’s. His wife Enid passed away in 2015. He is survived by h is s on, Ia n C a mpb el l, Ph.D., of White Rock, New Mexico; and his daughter, Andrea Sacchetti of Princeton, along with Andrea’s hu sba nd R ay mond, a nd grandchildren Adam Frary and Thomas Sacchetti. In addition, he is survived by Adam’s wife, Rebecca McNichol, greatgrandchildren Simone and Fox, and Thomas’s fiancée, Emily Denton.

He is also survived by his sister-in-law Joan Hobart, nieces Ann and Elizabeth, and nephews John, Ted, and Bill. A memorial gathering is planned in Princeton on August 6. For more information, please contact Andrea at ByronsMemorial@gmail. com In lieu of flowers, please consider contributions in his name to D&R Greenway Land Trust, or The Nature Conservancy.

Natalia Oleynikova Natalia Oleynikova, age 68, passed away in Plainsboro Township, NJ, on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, after a long battle with cancer. She is sur vived by her daughter Julia, son Eugene, daughter-in -law Mak iko, grandson Emil, father Dolya, brother Aleksandr, and other relatives in Minsk, Belarus, and Brooklyn, NY. Natalia will be remembered as a person of integrity, hard work, and passion. She was cremated in accordance with her will. Extend condolences and share remembrances at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com

Kam Amirzafari (Hillsborough, NJ ), and brothers Fred Everson (Toms River, NJ) and F. L. Everson (Tuckerton, NJ). She also leaves a large circle of other close relatives and many dear friends. Ellen was a member of Cape Island Baptist Church in Cape May, NJ for many years, and also of Stonehill Church in Princeton. Ellen loved nature, the town of Cape May, where she had a second home for many years, the scenic countryside in and around Hopewell, and her husband’s beautiful gardens. She will be laid to rest next to her beloved son in Shoreland Memorial Gardens in Hazlet, NJ. Forever

in our hearts. Family and friends were invited to visit on Monday, July 19, 2021 at Shore Point Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 3269 State Hwy/Rt 35 N., Hazlet, NJ 07730. Funeral services were offered at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 2000 Florence Ave, Hazlet, NJ 07730. Interment followed at Shoreland Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Hazlet, NJ. Memorial Contributions in memory of Ellen can be made to Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, at BillyGraham.org. For information, directions, or to send condolences to the family, please v isit, www.shorepointfh.com.

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RESIDENTIAL LISTINGS No Pets & non-smoking tenants: . Princeton – $2400/mo. Includes heat, water & 1 car parking. 2 BR, 1 bath, LR, Den & Eat-in Kitchen. Available 9/8/2021. Princeton – $1900/mo. Includes heat, water, laundry & 1 parking space. 2nd floor, 1 BR, LR, Eat-in Kitchen. Available NOW. Lawrenceville – $1500/mo. Includes heat & hot water. 2 BR, 1 bath, 1st floor apartment. Available September. Princeton Walk– S. Brunswick NJ $2600/mo. .plus utilities. FULLY FURNISHED. 2 BR, 2½ bath. LR, Den, Eat-in Kitchen. Available now. STOCKTON MEANS FULL SERVICE REAL ESTATE Email for more information: sre.marty@gmail.com We list, We sell, We manage. If you have a house to sell or rent we are ready to service you! Call us for any of your real estate needs and check out our website at: http://www.stockton-realtor.com

32 CHAMBERS STREET PRINCETON, NJ 08542

PHONE (609) 924-1416 FAX (609) 228-5151 MARTHA F. STOCKTON, BROKER-OWNER

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Family Serving Princeton 100 Years. Free Estimates

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Princeton law firm is hiring paralegals and a receptionist for its litigation practice. Excellent organizational skills needed for collegial and busy office. Email: joconnor@ wongfleming.com 07-07-3t

HELP WANTEDPIZZA DEN: Driver, front of house position. Apply within. Princeton. (609) 683-8900. 07-21-3t

RETAIL MANAGER Seek mature individual to run busy Princeton Ice Cream/Expresso Store ( 11 to 11, 7 Days ) Full Time. Hire, train, schedule, supervise small team. Responsible for food cost, customer service, etc. Excellent attendance a must. PTO after 6 mos. Call 609-695-3311. ASK FOR CHRISTINA.

Erick Perez

Fully insured 15+ Years Experience Call for free estimate Best Prices

(609)737-2466

Serving the Princeton Area since 1963 Find us on Facebook and Instagram

Specializing in the Unique & Unusual CARPENTRY DETAILS ALTERATIONS • ADDITIONS CUSTOM ALTERATIONS HISTORIC RESTORATIONS KITCHENS •BATHS • DECKS

Professional Kitchen and Bath Design Available

609-466-2693

Donald R. Twomey, Diversified Craftsman

HOUSE PAINTING & MORE

House Painting Interior/Exterior - Stain & Varnish (Benjamin Moore Green promise products)

Wall Paper Installations and Removal Plaster and Drywall Repairs • Carpentry • Power Wash Attics, Basements, Garage and House Cleaning

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609-227-8928

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American Furniture Exchange

30 Years of Experience!

Antiques – Jewelry – Watches – Guitars – Cameras Books - Coins – Artwork – Diamonds – Furniture Unique Items I Will Buy Single Items to the Entire Estate! Are You Moving? House Cleanout Service Available!

609-306-0613

Daniel Downs (Owner) Serving all of Mercer County Area

The Top Spot for Real Estate Advertising Town Topics is the most comprehensive and preferred weekly Real Estate resource in the greater Central New Jersey and Bucks County areas. Every Wednesday, Town Topics reaches every home in Princeton and all high traffic business areas in town, as well as the communities of Lawrenceville, Pennington, Hopewell, Skilllman, Rocky Hill, and Montgomery. We ARE the area’s only community newspaper and most trusted resource since 1946! Call to reserve your space today! (609) 924-2200, ext 27

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