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Dress Up Your Voice, page 4; Songs of the Deep South, 16;
Engineer Turned Artist, 32; New at Sculpture Grounds, 37.
Business Meetings
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Preview
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Opportunities
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PRST STD
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What Is Your Voice Wearing to the Interview?
Remembering Conservationist Larry Keller
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Survival Guide
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Open Houses for Adult Education
Using Adwords to Grow Business
LinkedIn and the Social Media Revolution
Business Incubator Comes to Trenton
Homeowners, Beware of Scams
First-Time Buyer Credit Almost Up
Business Meetings
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Who Knew?...Rutgers Gardens
Navigating a Sense of the Deep South, Fret by Fret
Jamie Saxon: Letter from Maine
U.S. 1 Crashes a Party: Big Brothers Big Sisters
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At the Movies
U.S. 1 Singles Exchange
A Former Engineer Picks Up a Brush
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n a phone interview,
you are your voice — or so the interviewer thinks. Research tells us
that 93 percent of what we say is
communicated by how we say it.
The phone interviewer is making
an assessment of you based on how
your voice is coming across, or
“landing” on them. They are forming a picture of you in their mind
based on the volume, tone, cadence, and mood of your voice.
In today’s job market with unprecedented numbers of candidates available, phone interviews
are the avenue of choice to narrow
the candidate pool. In addition, we
are using our voices more in teleconferences, on Skype, and in virtual meetings, as the need to cut
costs continues.
Have you ever been on a call
with someone and their voice “hits
you” in such a way that it is difficult to even hear what they are saying? I’m referring to that person
whose voice is high-pitched, who
speaks quickly and nasally. Or the
voice that has a lot of linguistic
ticks such as “like,” “you know,”
or “ummm.”
You find yourself looking for
ways to get off the phone. Their
voice outfit is clashing with you.
You are paying more attention to
counting the ticks then what they
are saying? You might say their
voice is over-accessorized.
If you think about it, even dogs
have a sense of how my voice lands
by Amy Castoro
on them — whether they decide to
pay attention to it or not. My dog
responds better to me when my
voice comes from a deep place in
my body, delivered slower, and
with intention.
Our voice is actually a practiced
pattern of communicating that we
develop as children. In most cases
we model our parent’s voice, as
well as their language, mannerisms, and often mood or outlook on
life. Instinctively, we learn to respond to someone’s inner state by
the tone of their voice — anxious,
angry, happy, or sad. We can also
hear distrust, resignation, ambition, or stress through their tone.
My work as a national retained
search consultant requires an extensive assessment of leadership
Losing a job is as
easy as saying
‘ummm’ and ‘like’
with every other word
in a phone interview.
skills done completely over the
phone. I either move someone forward in the interview process or
not based solely on how their voice
lands on me in a phone interview.
The people I speak with who
create a connection through the
phone are able to listen intently, re-
spond authentically, and project a
balanced cadence in their voice.
I’m listening for the extent to
which they embody fundamental
leadership qualities defined by
Richard Strozzi-Heckler in his
book “The Leadership Dojo.” I am
listening for the qualities of mood,
ability to coordinate action, capacity for learning, balance, and how
well they work with others. These
qualities are observable through
their voice and language.
The ability to coordinate action
requires that the person be able to
connect well with others. I am listening to how well are they connected to me — Are they aware of
my time or do their answers just
keep going? How well do their responses reflect my questions?
In their responses I am listening
AUGUST 12, 2009
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Remembering Larry Keller: Developer & Conservationist
For more than 23 years I was
fortunate to work with, and come
to know as a friend, an extraordinary human being.
He was Larry Keller, a builder
of office parks, birdhouses, and
lifelong relationships.Larry was
absolutely the most passionate advocate for land conservation I have
ever met. He was a force of positive thinking, joy, and living life
fully.
A longtime resident of Short
Hills, he joined the New Jersey
Conservation Foundation board of
trustees in 1986 and served as
board president from 1995 to 1998.
He served on the board for 18
years, and on numerous committees until his passing on July 7.
I lost not only a great friend and
mentor, but New Jersey lost a conservation trailblazer who lived his
life with passion and integrity.
One of the remarkable things
about his involvement with land
conservation was that Larry was,
by trade, a developer.
He was chairman of the board of
Keller, Dodd and Woodworth Inc.
in Princeton, developers of Princeton’s Forrestal and Carnegie Cen-
for how authentically they recognize others for their accomplishments — or whether they place
blame on others. As in balance, I
am listening for how well they
have managed their commitments
at work, their ability to consistently complete projects on time, within budget. Are they balanced between home and work? Are they
committed to their career and how
does that commitment align with
the position for which they are interviewing?
Voice, breath, and mood are the
key indicators of how believable
someone is over the phone. When
we are stressed (as in an interview)
our breath is often high, our voice
is higher pitched, and we speak
more quickly. Oftentimes this happens because our attention is “in
our head,” thinking about how we
did on the last question or if the
questions will get tougher. When
we are relaxed our voice tends to
reflect our inner state by sounding
deeper, slower, and more connected to what is happening around us
— thus giving the person on the
other end of the line an instant
sense of our competence.
When your voice resonates from
deep in your torso, your breath is
low, and your mood is relaxed you
stand a better chance of forming a
more compelling image for the interviewer.
The response to the question
“Why do you see yourself as a
strong candidate for this position?”
by Michele S. Byers
ters, among many other projects.
But, in the words of David
Moore, former director of the New
Jersey Conservation Foundation:
“Mr. Keller has understood for a
long time that conservation and
economic development can’t get
along without each other.”
Larry was an invaluable bridge
between the business and conservation communities. He believed
that the relationship between the
environmental and business communities has often been antagonistic and doesn’t need to be.
It’s best to put buildings where
there are major highways and
transportation available, he once
told a reporter, than to put them in
the middle of beautiful farmland
and on lands that should be preserved.
That is as pure and straightforward a summary of what conservation is all about as you are likely to
find. Larry deeply cared about conservation and acted on his commitment. During his three-year term as
president, well more than 12,000
acres were permanently preserved
in the Pine Barrens, the Highlands,
coastal Atlantic and Cape May
counties, suburban communities,
when spoken at a slower cadence,
reflects back the concerns of the
job for which you are interviewing,
and comes from deep in your body
sends a message of congruence to
the listener. If your response is delivered quickly, with too many
umms or ahhhs, and your breath
quick, the image projected is nervousness. You are not really present
and therefore not connected with
the interviewer.
Actions you can take to project a
leadership presence all live in the
source from which your voice emanates — your body. By learning to
settle your breath low into your
body, your voice will automatically come from a more resonate
place. The voice will typically
come out slower, deeper, with a
softer more compelling quality.
Taking a few minutes before the interview to consciously notice
where your breath is in your body
and consciously dropping it lower
in your body will help you relax.
By noticing where you hold tension, perhaps dropping your shoulders, relaxing your jaw, and softening your eyes will begin to take you
from orienting just from your
thoughts and into your body sending a more congruent message.
Amy Castoro will present “The
Power of Your Presence” before
the central New Jersey chapter of
the Association for Women In Science on Wednesday, August 12, at
5:30 p.m. at Miele Princeton
Gallery, Route 1 North. Free. For
the Black River, and Delaware river and bay regions. In short, he had
a hand in preservation in just about
every spot in the state.
Larry’s joy and enthusiasm for
nature and his friends and family
were infectious and boundless.
With his huge heart, smile, and
twinkling eyes, he inspired us to
take on and achieve many land
preservation successes.
In a spring 1998 newsletter Larry wrote: “Some of you know that
building things is what I do best. As
a real estate developer, I build office parks. I also build birdhouses.
And one spring, a tiny yellow prothonotary warbler built her nest in
one of them.
She had traveled 2,500 miles to
reach her destination — my little
house, on her favorite old black
gum tree in an unfragmented
stretch of New Jersey forest.”
The New Jersey Conservation
Foundation has permanently preserved this warbler’s home. That is
an example of what we do best.
May we urge all conservationists,
developers and everyone in between to live up to Larry Keller’s
fine example.
Michele S. Byers is executive director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation.
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Thursday, August 13
For Adult Students,
Schools Host Open Houses
A
dults, facing the realities of shaky job
markets and unsecured futures, are heading
back to school to become more valuable in
what they do.
Or more marketable for what they would
rather do.
Several schools are setting out the welcome table for adults considering a return to
the classroom this fall. Mercer County College and NJIT each are holding orientation
events on Thursday, August 13.
Mercer’s “Back to School Night for
Adults” begins at 5 p.m. at the school’s West
Windsor campus on Old Trenton Road. Attendees will receive a coupon for a 10 percent discount on fall registration, plus the
chance to win a free class.
Noncredit programs for fall include professional licensure and certificate programs
in graphic design, project management,
nonprofit management, dental radiologic
technology, green management, and
ServSafe certification for food service managers. “Locomotive Engineer & Conductor
Basic Training,” which prepares workers for
the growing rail transportation industry, returns for its second year.
To view the course bulletin of the Center
for Continuing Studies online, go to www.
mccc.edu/ccs, or for more information Email [email protected] or call 609-5703311.
NJIT’s “Adult Learner Open House” also
begins at 5 p.m. at the school’s main campus
in Newark. The night is designed to introduce adults to NJIT’s “weekend university,”
as well as its graduate degree and certificate
programs, online courses, and extension
sites. For more information, visit
http://adultlearner.njit.edu/about/openhouse.
Burlington County College is hosting a
quartet of open houses at two of its campuses. On Monday, August 17, or Thursday, August 20, adult and degree-program students
can visit BCC’s Pemberton campus 1 to 4
p.m., or 5 to 8 p.m.
On Tuesday, August 18, prospective students can learn about BCC’s programs and
courses at the Mount Laurel campus from 1
to 4 p.m., or from 5 to 8 p.m. Or they can visit on Wednesday, August 19, from 5 to 8 p.m.
Go to www.bcc.edu for more information.
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College
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students on Wednesday, August 19, from 6
to 8 p.m.
Participants will learn about FDU’s transfer policies, financial aid and financing options, and talk to faculty about programs
such as business, education and nursing,
plus FDU’s bachelor of arts in individualized studies (BAIS). Faculty and staff will
answer questions about the university’s
weekend and evening classes, short-term
certificate programs, and credit for life experience.
Adults interested in enrolling in this fall
can also receive an on-the-spot conditional
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Raritan Valley College will be hosting its
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AdWords: Frank
Montero knows the
value that just the
right words can bring
to online adverting.
Wednesday, August 19
Online Advertising’s
Paradigm Shift
D
emocracy has come to advertising. The ancient business of
subtle manipulation has gone online and is finding that Internet
users, not slick ad men, have become the copywriters. The question no longer is what sly appeal
will pry open the customers’ wallets, but what information does the
user want to learn and how does he
demand it be presented?
The two steps of online advertising — bringing people to the site,
and leading them to the purchaseurging information they seek —
mandates a new kind of search optimization. “You’ve got eight seconds to funnel that browser to exactly what he wants. Then he hits
the ‘back’ button,” says Frank
Montero, founder of Monterey Internet, and qualified advertising
professional for both Google and
Yahoo.
To help business people understand the value of the precise, right
words in online ads and sites, the
Princeton Regional Chamber of
Commerce has asked Montero to
present “How to Use Google AdWords to Grow Your Business,” on
Wednesday, August 19, 7:30 a.m.
at the Erdman Center in the Princeton Theological Seminary. Cost:
$30. Visit www.princetonchamber.org.
Since 1996 Montero has developed cutting edge online marketing advertising and user analytics.
Growing up in Monterey, California, with an accountant father,
Montero originally followed the
family trade, graduating from
Florida International University in
1978 with an accounting bachelor’s. After being lured into a variety of ventures he deemed more interesting he finally ended up as
president of NNC Inc., a firm that
oversaw 70 healthcare and rehabilitation centers. “This is where I got
my first taste of the strange and
new world of Internet marketing,”
Montero says. He marketed his
company’s services on Google, Yahoo, Overture, and SEO until 2003.
Montero then launched simultaneously Economy Printing Service, Ryan Ranch Printers, and
Monterey Internet. He has come
east to operate his Internet advertising services and to support his
wife, an executive with ETS.
“Google is, above all, an advertising company,” says Montero.
Those keyword purchases and display ads bring in 95 percent of their
revenue. In return, you get your information placed in the most relevant context — but only if you do it
right and listen to your browsers.
One little word. “The whole
goal is to pick words that people
are looking for, then analyze the response, and adjust it accordingly,”
explains Montero. If you are a
plumber with a shop in Princeton,
you might go for the obvious
“Plumber” and then add a geographical modifier “Mercer,”
which is your business range.
Makes sense, but which is the better listing to buy: “Mercer
Plumber” or “Plumber Mercer?”
Each of the listing choices provides a broad scope to a broad
client base. And more broad usually means more costly. For a small
extra price, our plumber might purchase what’s termed a long tail specific, such as “Kohler Rialto 123
Toilet.” It’s obviously something
few others would bid on, and thus
is cheaply obtained. However, the
individual seeking that replacement will find our Mercer Plumber
alone and at the ready.
Contextual ads broaden the advertiser’s scope and allow for some
great mutual piggybacking. The
producer of specialty kitchen appliances might go beyond his own
and his vendor’s websites and try
placing an ad on Martha
Stewart.com. The trick here is to
study the site and follow the path
that leads to your ad. If it’s under
the “Daily Inspiration” section, the
wording must differ vastly from
the more traditional “Home Tours”
section.
Testing the waters. The real
benefit of online marketing lies in
the evaluation. The same tech miracles that are placing your ad in
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, can instantly analyze the most effective
way for this spot, today. And it can
guide how to keep changing it according to browser acceptance.
Suppose a bank is seeking the most
effective landing page. Should
their opening picture be large or
small? Should the customer depicted be a black-suited business man
or a young couple with child in
tow?
“A good online analytic firm
will simply do an ‘A-B split’ to determine the value of each,” says
Montero. Such a firm will set up
both sites, and see how long what
kind of browsers remain with the
small vs. the larger picture. Ad professionals don’t theorize on preferences, the users provide the facts.
“It’s not impossible to do this kind
of analysis in-house,” says Montero, “but it’s a little like trying to
do an appendectomy on yourself.”
If a link is properly set up, the
company can arrange it so the
user’s click takes him past the vendor’s site, right to the picture and
text describing the product. The
browser immediately views the
product, then, if he wants it, can
backtrack to the actual vendor’s
landing page and make the purchase. Such direct funneling is a
win-win for producer, vendor, and
customer.
Business stages. How far along
your company and product has
come determines how you advertise, Montero feels. If your new
non-slip ladder holder is barely beyond the invention stage, and the
company has just formed, people
don’t know to ask for it. They
won’t search conventionally. The
best plan is to employ social networking, a la YouTube, LinkedIn,
et cetera, and work to establish
contextual ads with known companies.
“This is also a good stage to use
behavioral targeting,” says Montero. “If you are selling products
for Yom Kippur, you can go to various Jewish journals and sites online.” He also notes that some companies might plant a benign spyware to find out if the user has been
browsing flights to Israel, and thus
might be interested in this product.
As the product becomes known,
the user moves on to the consideration stage. He knows he wants a
new television, but he has not decided on which one, nor whether to
splurge on a huge plasma model.
At this point the advertiser’s copy
should best point toward comparison. Mention the factors that differentiate his company and product
— and set him above the competition.
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plasma TV, much to his wife’s hor-
ror. Now he is going online and
hunting for price. “At each stage,
the ad wording must reflect the
need,” says Montero.
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opyright law is often the
first and best line of defense against unauthorized reproduction of the products of the creative mind. As important as the law is to the work
of so many firms, such as advertising agencies, software developers, artists and music publishers, it is a frequently misunderstood law. The following illustrations highlight a few of the important pillars of federal copyright
law everyone should know:
1. You recently wrote a scholarly article for a trade journal,
and shortly after it was published
discovered that a substantially
similar article appeared in another journal. Unfortunately, you
never registered the work with
the U.S. Copyright Office, nor did
you put any copyright notice on
the article. Do you have any
rights? Yes. Under the Copyright
Act of 1909, copyright owners
forfeited their rights when they
failed to mark each copy of their
work with a proper copyright notice (name, date and copyright
symbol). Under the 1976 and
1988 amendments to the statute,
however, the formalities of the
earlier law have been all but
eliminated. Now, for all works
first published after March 1,
1989, no copyright notice is required to secure protection for
the author (although it is still recommended and used widely).
Moreover, contrary to popular
myth, registration affects only the
enforceability, not the existence,
of copyright. Copyright arises upon creation of the work, and registration merely gives the author
certain additional rights, such as
the right to sue to enforce the
copyright and the right to claim
enhanced damages.
2. You discover that someone
first copied and sold your com-
by Craig S. Hilliard, Esq.
puter program ten years ago,
and is continuing to infringe the
work to this day. Can you pursue
such a claim even though it is so
old? Yes. Although the Copyright
Act contains a three-year statute
of limitations, most courts hold
that either: 1) the statute does
not begin to run until the date of
the last act of infringement; or 2)
the statute permits recovery of all
damages occurring within the
three-year period preceding suit,
even if some acts of infringement
occurred beyond that period.
Therefore, you can probably still
pursue much of the claim.
3. You are the owner of an advertising agency, and your creative director tells you that she
had no idea that employees were
making unauthorized use of
copyrighted material for the benefit of the agency. Is this a defense? No. Innocent intent, good
faith, or even subconscious
copying are not defenses to
copyright infringement. Although
it may have a great bearing on
the issue of whether the infringement was willful (subjecting the
company to enhanced damages), the copyright owner only
needs to prove that unlawful
copying occurred. The company
itself may be liable if it provided
the means for its employees to
commit the infringement, and
had or should have had knowledge of the infringing activity
(known under the law as “contributory” infringement), or if it
had the right to control the employee’s conduct and received a
financial benefit from the infringement (known as “vicarious”
infringement).
4. You have a great idea you
want to copyright, and it involves
a new system for processing cus-
tomer orders. You have written
down your ideas in a concise document. Will a copyright registration protect this idea? Probably
not. Unlike patents, copyrights do
not protect ideas, only the expression of those ideas. Moreover, the
rights granted by Congress to
copyright holders in the Copyright
Act are not unlimited. The statute
grants a copyright holder certain
exclusive rights, including: 1) the
right to reproduce; 2) the right to
prepare derivative works; 3) the
right of public distribution; 4) the
right of public performance; and
5) the right of public display. The
Act does not give the owner a monopoly on the ideas embodied in
the work, and in fact the statute is
explicit in stating that “[i]n no case
does copyright protection for an
original work of authorship extend
to any idea, procedure, process,
system, method of operation,
concept, principle, or discovery....” This is the famous
“idea/expression” dichotomy of
copyright law. Therefore, even if
you file a registration, the scope
of protection may be quite limited.
Craig S. Hilliard is a Shareholder and member of the Litigation, Intellectual Property and
Mass Tort Groups of Stark &
Stark. Mr. Hilliard can be reached
by phone at 609-895-7346,
or by email at chilliard@
stark-stark.com.
Unlike patents, copyrights do not protect ideas, only the expression of those ideas.
Moreover, the rights granted to copyright holders are not unlimited.
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sumers have now armed themselves with sophistication against
such heavy handed ads.
Montero always advises against
the use of superlatives in any Internet ad. “People nowadays are looking for information and value,” he
says. “They want to find our about
quality from others’ recommendations.”
In many ways, the interactive
web 2.0 has come to emulate traditional life 1.0. And that’s not a bad
model.
— Bart Jackson
Getting LinkedIn
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ocial media have drastically
changed the way we do business.
Think about how we have networked in the past or even looked
for jobs. Social media allow individuals and businesses to take control of what we want consumers to
see and read, and they connect us to
people we didn’t even know we
were not connected to in the first
place.
Tom Townes, principal of Focus Architecture in Pennington and
public relations manager for the
princeton Corridor Rotary Club,
tells the story about club members
who sat alongside each other for
years. These members knew each
other, but it was not until they each
had shared information on
LinkedIn that they realized they
both attended the same college, in
the same graduating class.
The Princeton Corridor Rotary
will present “The Power of
LinkedIn,” a look at the growing
importance of social media on
business and our lives, on Wednesday, August 19, at 4 p.m. at the
Doubletree Hotel, 4355 Route 1.
The program will address how effectively LinkedIn can be used for
businesses and will provide business writing skills that are appropriate to Internet use. Cost: $30.
Call 609-439-9080, or visit
www.signaturetitle-nj.com/rotary.
The presenters of the event will
be Fred Young and his wife Joy
Stocke of Glenmede Investment
and Wealth Management, 16
Chambers Street. Young is vice
president and new business development manager in the Princeton
office of Glenmede, a financial
firm with offices in New York,
Cleveland, Philadelphia, and
Delaware. He is responsible for the
development of new high net
worth business in the central New
Jersey area.
Previously, Young was senior
vice president and regional director of portfolio management and
investment strategy at Wachovia.
He also was an equity partner at
Organic Alchemy,
He received his bachelor’s in finance from Penn.
Trenton Gets a New
Business Incubator
E
lizabeth Faircloth’s plan is
straightforward — she wants to
build and develop business in
Trenton. As co-owner, along with
her husband, Matt, of the citybased DeRosa Group, Faircloth
has made it her mission to develop
in urban areas that, like Trenton,
show promise, but do not always
get the a lot of investment.
The DeRosa Group recently announced its first commercial project in Trenton, a business incubator/accelerator at 354 South Broad
Street, in the heart of the city’s
business district near Mill Hill.
This is where the firm itself is
headquartered, in a 10,000-squarefoot space that Faircloth envisions
will hold eight or nine small and
start-up businesses when it is fully
completed.
At the moment, Faircloth says,
the building, next to the vacant lot
where the Mill Hill Hotel once
stood, is broken into a 4,000square-foot front section that has
been finished with recycled carpet
and eco-friendly materials and will
house the nine offices, and a more
open 6,000-square-foot back section designed to house some office
suites, and possibly a daycare,
gym, or educational facility. The
back section is usable, Faircloth
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Urban Renewal: The
husband-and-wife
team of Matt and Liz
Faircloth have
launched the latest
business accelerator
in Trenton, in a quest
to revitalize decimated urban economics.
says, but not quite finished.
The project is the latest part of
the firm’s push in the capital city.
DeRosa Group first zeroed in on
Trenton’s residential market a few
years ago after the Faircloths attended a real estate seminar and
came to understand “the power of
real estate to shape an area,” she
says. The couple, who met in college, started their real estate investing in Philadelphia, where Matt
Faircloth is from and where Elizabeth Faircloth earned her master’s
in social work, from Penn.
The two wanted to do something
socially oriented, she says. He was
an engineer with an interest in environmentalism and she was an organizational development pro who
had an interest in society at large.
Together they bought a property in
Philadelphia in hopes of renovating it and getting it rented out, but
they had no real focus, she says.
Having grown up in New Jersey
and been familiar with Trenton,
Elizabeth says the capital seemed a
good place to build that focus. So
the firm started investing in dilapidated residential properties and
started working toward commercial development. DeRosa Group
now owns some residential and
some vacant commercial properties in the city, including the building at 354 South Broad Street.
The plan, says Faircloth, is to
think big by thinking small. Because it is an undervalued market,
Trenton allows for lower rents.
“We didn’t want to price this thing
out so no one could afford it,” she
says. Spaces in the accelerator will
range from 100 square feet that
would rent for $250 a month to 500
square feet that would rent for $600
a month. The building will share
internet connections and offer optin services such as telephone and
utilities, all of which will cost extra. But, Faircloth says, the point is
to get small and starter businesses
into a space with affordable rent
and let them grow from there.
She also plans to have a common meeting room that could be
rented out to accelerator businesses (though she says all tenants will
likely get four free hours a month)
and to outside businesses for “an
affordable rate.” This space also is
intended to host business seminars
and workshops.
One main goal is to get a mix of
businesses that could complement
other tenants. Faircloth says the incubator is not meant to attract a single type of business, such as the
state EDA’s Commercialization
Center for Innovative Technologies in North Brunswick. Rather,
she hopes to be able to have tenants
that can use the services of other
tenants — say, a computer tech
who needs a lawyer, or an architect
who could cross-promote an engineering firm.
Faircloth does face some familiar realities about business in Trenton. While a good many businesses
downtown have held on, incubators have run into trouble. In 2008
the Trenton Business and Technology incubator, right down the road
at 36 South Broad Street, closed
down for lack of renewed business.
Most businesses from that incubator relocated and are still in operation, but the center that housed
them is no more. The incubator
boasted 21 tenants just two years
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fate of that incubator. DeRosa
Group has owned 354 South Broad
for some time already, and she says
she has spent much time researching and interviewing business people about what has worked and
what has not in the city. One major
difference, she says, is that the accelerator will be a self-sustaining
enterprise that will be kept alive by
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Faircloth is optimistic in any
case, and says the accelerator’s location a few blocks from the Trenton train station puts it in a prime
location. Then again, she considers
Trenton itself a prime location for
new businesses to grow. “Princeton has been taken care of,” she
says. “There are a lot of spaces
there.” She says the accelerator
“will offer business opportunities
that just simply are not available
anywhere else in New Jersey.”
— Scott Morgan
The DeRosa Group, 354 South
Broad Street, Suite 114, Trenton 08638; 888-482-8776;
Elizabeth Faircloth, COO.
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Homeowners:
Beware of Scams
A
recent spate of unethical
business practices against homeowners in Mercer County has
stirred warnings. A deed company
and shifty tree removal contractors
have claimed much attention.
Certified deeds. If you have received an official-looking letter
from National Deed Service Inc. of
Northbrook, Illinois, offering to
provide a certified copy of your
house’s deed for $69.50, throw it
out, says Mercer County clerk
Paula Sollami Covello. It is just
someone looking to cash in.
It is not a scam — National
Deed Service is a legitimate business and can be contacted at 888480-1977 — but paying for the
service is unnecessary. The U.S.
Government Federal Citizen Information Center, based in Pueblo,
Colorado, recommends that all
homeowners have a certified copy
of their deeds, and National Deed
Service has used this as a reason to
use its services.
But, says Sollami Covello, a
certified deed in Mercer County is
$1.50 per page, with a $10 certification fee. Most deeds are no more
than four pages, meaning that if
you were to do it yourself, you
would likely pay no more than $16.
Letters from National Deed Service started arriving around central
New Jersey earlier this year and became prevalent in Mercer County
by late July.
The letters are sent in an official-looking, government-type envelope, advises property owners
that their deed is recorded by the
county clerk and leads the recipient
to believe a certified copy of the
deed is necessary.
It is not necessary to have a certified copy, says Sollami Covello,
only recommended.
“This fee is excessive,” she
says. “It is regretful that a company
would prey upon unknowing, financially overburdened homeowners, especially during this difficult economy, by offering a service that already exists.”
Sollami Covello herself received a solicitation recently.
The Mercer County Office of
Consumer Affairs and county
National Deed Service is a real company, but no one needs
to pay $69 for a deed.
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clerks throughout New Jersey have
been successful in forcing National
Deed Service to disclose that it is
not a government agency, and that
such records are available free or at
nominal cost. Sollami Covello said
she is working with state legislators to subject such outfits to criminal penalties if they fail to meet
certain disclosure and registration
requirements.
The Mercer County Clerk’s Office files and records all documents
concerning real estate ownership,
mortgages, and transfers. Homeowners looking to obtain a certified copy of their deed should go to
the Courthouse Annex at 209
South Broad Street in Trenton,
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m on regular business days.
Homeowners who cannot go in
person should call 609-989-6464
and provide their complete property address, purchase date and lot
and block number if available,
along with the full name of the
owner in order to send a letter and
the appropriate payment to the
county.
Tree removal. This summer’s
stormy weather has brought out
some unethical contractors, according to state Senator Bill Baroni
(R-Hamilton). Baroni has warned
residents to beware of contractors
gouging people for tree removal
and other repair services. Baroni
recently talked to a homeowner
who had spent $8,000 for the re-
moval of one tree, something he
said was as “textbook price gouging.”
Should a tree need removal, Baroni said, residents should contact
their homeowner’s insurance companies immediately.
— Scott Morgan
First-Time Buyers:
Credit and Caution
P
ragmatic people understand
that no one is ever really ready to
buy a house or have kids, so you
might as well just go for it.
There is some wisdom in his
leap-before-you-look approach —
if you are actually waiting for the
day when you can afford to buy a
house outright, you will wait at
least until the day you hit Lotto.
More likely, you’ll still be waiting
when they stick you in the ground.
Still, being a buyer, particularly
a first-timer, can be excruciating.
Instantly tacking $200,000 (or
much more) onto your bills-due list
has to be bad enough. But on top of
everything, you have to contend
with the daunting issue of getting
past creditors that have become
what could most charitably be described as gun shy.
However, a first-time buyer has
an ally in the federal government,
at least until November 30. That is
the date on which the first-time
buyer credit of $8,000 expires. But,
as the New Jersey Association of
Realtors, based in Edison, reminds, November is not as far
away as you might think, particularly when dealing with a house.
“Potential buyers need to account for the time it takes to shop
for a home, present an offer on the
property of their choosing, and
manage the various contracts and
logistics that are required in a real
estate transaction,” says NJAR
president Diane Dilzell. “Starting
the process now should allow just
enough time to reach closing before the expiration of the credit.”
First-time buyers might be unaware of what they need to consider when buying a house. Dilzell
says buyers need to factor in the
following steps that are typically
involved in the purchase of real estate: shopping for and securing a
mortgage, finding an agent, creating a list of preferable features for
the home, searching for homes that
fit criteria, settling on a home, presenting an offer, obtaining a home
inspection, shopping for homeowners insurance, and closing.
You also need to factor in extra
time to allow for unforeseen circumstances and any additional
steps that may be necessary in their
particular transaction.
What helps the first-time buyer
is that sales prices are as low as
they are likely to get, and creditors
looking to reignite some business
are offering mortgages with good
interest rates. It is not a stretch to
say that based on the asking price
of a property, the right offer could
spell a savings of $20,000 to
$30,000 for the first-time buyer, after the $8,000 credit goes through.
Just remember, you have to
close on the house in order to get
that $8,000, and closing will take
you past November 30 if you wait
too long. As Dilzell reminds, “The
clock is ticking.”
“Unique circumstances can be
encountered in any transaction so it
is important to get started early to
account for those factors,” she
says. “Since numerous third parties are involved, delays can often
be expected no matter how swiftly
you act. That wait time can be very
detrimental if it is the difference
between $8,000 and nothing.”
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DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, AUGUST 12 TO 20
For more event listings visit
www.princetoninfo.com.
PREVIEW EDITOR:
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Wednesday
August 12
[email protected]
Overeaters Anonymous, Princeton Alliance Church, Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609750-7349. www.overeatersanonymous.com. 12-step program with meetings, studies, discussion, and speakers. 7:30 to
8:30 p.m.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Better
Than a Shooting Star
History
Meteor Watch, Mercer County
Park Commission, Mercer Park
Northwest, Cold Soil Road at
Keefe Road entrance, 609-9896540. www.mercercounty.org.
The Perseid Meteor showers, an
annual natural spectacle, are
forecast to peak between August
11 and 14. Bring flashlights, lawn
chairs, and blankets. For families.
Rain date is Thursday, August 13.
Free. 10 p.m.
Hunger Pains: Feeding People
in Central New Jersey, Historical Society of Princeton, Updike
Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road,
Princeton, 609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. “A Hunger
Roundtable” in conjunction with
the summer exhibit highlighting
the work performed by the Mercer
Street Friends Food Bank, Crisis
Ministry of Princeton and Trenton,
and the Trenton Area Soup
Kitchen. Representatives from
Farmers Against Hunger and
America’s Grow-A-Row discuss
how farmers, home gardeners,
and schools can help alleviate the
problem of hunger in Central New
Jersey. Register. $8. Ongoing
food drive to benefit the three organizations. 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Bella Sorella, Doylestown Community Performing Arts Council, Central Park, 425 Wells Road,
Doylestown, PA, 215-348-9915.
www.doylestownpa.org. Nova
and Susanna Jimenez, sopranos,
and Shinobu Kameyama, piano,
present classical and contemporary styles. Bring blankets, chairs,
and picnics. At Central Bucks
West High School, 375 West
Court Street, if raining. Free. 7
p.m.
Kids Stuff
Young Playwrights, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, 609-258-7062.
www.princetonsummertheater.org. Five new plays performed.
Free. 7 p.m.
Drama
A Chorus Line, Bucks County
Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28, North Branch,
908-725-3420. www.rvccarts.edu.
Student production. $5. 7:30 p.m.
Noises Off, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby
Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Comedy by Michael
Frayn about a troupe of actors
presenting a farce. $29 to $70.
7:30 p.m.
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Rock with a Celtic Beat
The LA-based Young Dubliners perform at the Record Collector in
Bordentown on Wednesday, August 12. www.the-record-collector.com.
Singin’ in the Rain, Plays-in-thePark, Capestro Theater, Roosevelt Park, Route 1 South, Edison, 732-548-2884. www.playsinthepark.com. Musical. Bring a
chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Film
High School Confidential!,
County Theater, 20 East State
Street, Doylestown, PA. www.countytheater.org. 1958 movie. 7
p.m.
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Screening of “Woodstock,” the
concert film made in 1970 that
won an Oscar for best documentary feature. The three-day festival in Bethel, New York, features
Arlo Guthrie, Joe Cocker, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Baez, and
Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Free. 7
p.m.
Dancing
Belly Dance for Beginners, Actor’s Dance Studio, 1012
Brunswick Avenue, Ewing, 609213-4578. Introductory class.
Free with registration. 7 to 8 p.m.
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For
newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609-
924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction and
dance. $7. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m.
Motorcycle Cruise
Allentown/Upper Freehold Municipal Alliance, Byron Johnson
Recreation Area, Ellisdale Road,
Allentown, 609-570-5376. www.ufadrugalliance.org. American
stock, metric stock, American
custom, antique, and people’s
choice trophies. Food, vendors,
door prizes. Rain date is Wednesday, August 19. Donations to benefit drug and alcohol prevention
programs invited. 5 to 9 p.m.
Volunteer Please
Information Session, CASA, 180
Ewingville Road, Ewing, 609-4340050. www.casamercer.org.
Court Appointed Special Advocates is a non-profit organization
committed to speaking up in court
for the best interests of abused
and neglected children who have
been removed from their homes.
Register. 7 to 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Farmers Market, Hopewell Train
Station, 1 Railroad Place,
Hopewell, 609-466-8330. Farm
fresh vegetables, breads, maple
syrup, meats, and more. 2 to 7
p.m.
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 344
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com.
White wine. 5 to 8 p.m.
Italian Regional Cuisine: Sicily,
Eno Terra Restaurant, 4484
Route 27, Kingston, 609-4971777. www.enoterra.com. Fivecourse tasting with wine pairing
presented by chef Christopher Albrecht. Register. $80. 6 p.m.
Let’s Cook Together Cooking
Camp, Miele Design Center, 9
Independence Way, Princeton,
800-843-7231. www.mieleusa.com. Culinary program for ages 5
to 10 with adult supervision. Register. $45. 6 p.m.
Gardens
Farmer Twilight Meetings,
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey, Genesis Farm, 41A Silver Lake East,
Lambertville, 908-371-1111.
www.nofanj.org. “Designing a
Winter CSA” presented by Mike
Baki, the head grower, who will
talk about storage methods. Register. $15. 5 to 7 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Capital Health System,
750 Brunswick Avenue, Trenton,
800-GIVELIFE. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Blood Drive, New Jersey Blood
Services, St. David’s Episcopal
Church, 90 South Main Street,
Cranbury, 800-933-2566. www.nybloodcenter.org. 1:30 to 7 p.m.
Lectures
Tarot, East Brunswick Library,
Jean Walling Civic Center, 732390-6767. www.ebpl.org. Ruth
Golush presents the three parts of
the tarot deck and how to use it.
Free. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Happy Hours, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Live music. Food and wine available. Free admission. 5 to 8 p.m.
Arhythmia, Limelight, 812 North
Easton Road, Doylestown, PA,
215-345-6330. Jazz combo. 6 to
11 p.m.
Acoustic Showcase, KatManDu,
Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-393-7300. www.katmandutrenton.com. Mary Scholz,
Karen and Amy Jones, Chris
Morse, Brian Thomas Jackson,
Sara Lewis, Matthew Pop, Four
the Day Band, Manifest Destiny,
Astronaut Jones, and Don Lee.
Register by E-mail at [email protected]. Free. 7 to 11
p.m.
The Young Dubliners, The
Record Collector Store, 358
Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown.
www.the-record-collector.com.
Celtic rock. $20. 7:30 p.m.
Pete Chambers and Travis Wetzel, John & Peter’s, 96 South
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8625981. www.johnandpeters.com.
9:30 p.m.
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A Princeton institution for more than a century
180 Nassau Street, 609-924-6269, fax 609-924-5442
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million times.
I must have passed it a million times on my constant
commute along Route 1. A
little sign, it’s just a little
sign that says Ryder Lane,
but it’s a sign that takes
you to a big surprize. Just a
few yards down the road
and there’s a turn that takes
you out of the mainstream
and puts you next to a bubbling stream that meanders
past a bamboo grove and
down a tiny waterfall.
Welcome to the Rutgers
Gardens.
Begun in 1917 as a
teaching and collections
garden associated with Cook College, now part of Rutgers University, it has expanded over the years to
encompass 180 acres. The first
large collection, of lilacs, was established in 1928 and the succeeding decades saw the addition of
other species as part of the experimental breeding program. The site
now boasts a collection of hollies, a
forest of rhododendrons and azaleas, a large evergreen grove, an ornamental grasses garden, and several other specific plots, all aimed
at teaching students and the public
about nature and her bounty.
The director, Bruce Crawford,
has built on the efforts of prior visionary staff to bring attention to
the gardens and encourage their
use. Now tended by professional
staff and a lively crew of over 120
volunteers, the gardens, which are
open from 8 a.m. to dusk 363 days
a year, have thriving programs for
children and adults. Daily maintenance is now done by undergraduates and the breeding program is
the focus of graduate students from
the various disciplines at Rutgers.
Classes for the public are held
Fresh Made To Order Sushi
Freshness is what matters in Sushi.
Comparable in quality & freshness to the
finest restaurants in the area.
Teriyaki Boy can’ t be beat for its combination of
well-prepared food and inexpensive prices.
—Princeton Living
$
20
Sushi
selections from 2.29
Choose from Teriyaki, Tempura, Udon or Combos & Platters.
Over
Take-out & Catering
Service Available.
All food is cooked
to order in 100% vegetable oil.
MARKETFAIR
609-897-7979 Fax: 609-897-1204
Mon-Thurs. 10am-9pm, Fri-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 11am-7:30pm
Blooming Color:
Bruce Crawford,
director of Rutgers Gardens, in
one of the oversized Adirondack chairs.
covered that still supported these trees. Seeds from
there were distributed
around the world after the
war and both Rutgers and
PrincetonuUniversities received them. The specimen at the gardens has
found its home so compatiable that it has propagatevery month, year round. A recent
class explored the difference be- ed and the offspring is now a good
tween a Janpanese garden and a 10 feet tall. (Another Dawn RedChinese one. Another took partici- wood can be found at Marquand
pants through the process of plant- Park in Princeton.)
The gardens and groves are deing and tending an ornamental
grasses garden. Classes usually signed to encourage walking. A turn
cost $47.50 and are typically two of the path in the rhododendron
grove yields the delight of meeting
weeks long.
A recently added project is the the Lady of the Woods, a modern
Community Youth Garden, an off- bronze sculputure of a young girl
shoot of the farmers’ market held tucked into the greenery. The full extent of the area
each Friday to
only becomes
share
the
evident
when
wealth of proThanks to the garyou
realize
you
duce raised on
dens’ microclimates
have
been
walksite. This proing for ages
visitors can see
gram is for
through
cool
third through
plants from regions
shade
down
to
sixth graders
as diverse as India,
the
Westin
Mill
and runs from
pond or through
China, Africa, and
March to Octothe 70 acres Helber, showing
Puerto Rico.
yar Wood trails
children the
and you haven’t
cycle of the
seasons from seed to harvest. The heard a sound that betrays the fact
focus is to educate students on that a highway is just over there.
healthy eating and respect for the
environment. An added benefit is
students get to eat their own produce.
Another program offered in
conjunction with the New
Brunswick schools is a garden of
ethnic plantings. This space gives
visitors one of the first “who knew”
moments of their visit. Who knew
that plants from regions as diverse
as India, China, Africa, or Puerto
Rico could thrive in New Jersey?
In fact, one of the more fascinating
aspects of the Rutgers Gardens to
this possessor of a black thumb was
the fact that it contains two distinct
microclimates within a few yards
of each other. At one spot, the region is consided a Zone 6 and just a
quarter mile away, a very short
walk, it is Zone 7. This means that
a species of holly from the Canary
Islands can thrive in one spot but
can’t grow just up the road.
Visitors may see one of the only
examples of Dawn Redwood in the
world. This soaring example of
prehistory had been considered extinct before World War II. Scientists had known it only from the
fossil record. The pressures from
the fighting during the war drove
people further into the hinterlands
of China, where a valley was dis-
T
he gardens are a unique venue for weddings and parties — including a log cabin dating from
1935 includes a picnic pavilion,
and the evergreen grove. Future
plans include a new visitor center
and redesigned, less intrusive
roadways. Crawford also is designing a horticultural therapy program to assist those with physical,
emotional, or learning disabilities.
Eagle Scout projects have already
helped enhance areas of the gardens in specific areas and more are
encouraged. A farmers market
takes place every Friday through
October 30, from 1 to 6 p.m.
Support for the gardens comes
from fundraising efforts utilizing
the nonprofit status of the Rutgers
Foundation. Membership ranges
from $10 for students through $65
for families. The annual gala is
scheduled for Saturday, September
12, and will include a silent auction
and other events and serves as the
kickoff for fundraising for the new
master plan for the future.
— E.E. Whiting
Rutgers Gardens, 112 Ryders
Lane, New Brunswick, 732-9328451.
www.rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu.
AUGUST 12, 2009
MoMA, Condensed:
Princeton Public
Library hosts a slide
talk, ‘History of the
Museum of Modern
Art,’ on Monday, August 17, presented by
a member of the staff.
Explore highlights of
Cezanne, Seurat, Van
Gogh, Picasso (‘Three
Musicians,’ at right),
Kandinsky, and Pollack. 609-924-8822.
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$32
3-Course
Prix Fixe Dinner
Monday - Saturday
thru August
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Plus:
Outdoor Action
Special
$25 Wine List
Meteor Watch, Mercer County
Park Commission, Mercer Park
Northwest, Cold Soil Road at
Keefe Road entrance, 609-9896540. www.mercercounty.org.
The Perseid Meteor showers, an
annual natural spectacle, are
forecast to peak between August
11 and 14. Bring flashlights, lawn
chairs, and blankets. For families.
Rain date is Thursday, August 13.
Free. 10 p.m.
Singles
A Walk in the Park, Yardley Singles, Washington Crossing State
Park, Titusville, 215-736-1288.
www.yardleysingles.org. Meet in
front of public restrooms in picnic
area. Weather permitting. 6 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Reading. $5 to $10.
7:05 p.m.
Thursday
August 13
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: U.S. 1
Summer Fiction Party
Summer Fiction Party, U.S. 1,
Tre Piani, Forrestal Village,
Plainsboro, 609-452-7000. www.princetoninfo.com. Introductions
of and readings by authors published in the annual fiction issue,
Wednesday, July 22. Open to the
community. Cash bar. 5 to 7:30
p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Jazz Concert, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Antonow Trio in concert. 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Carnegie Center Concert Series,
Patio at 502 Carnegie Center,
609-452-1444. Free. Noon.
Rackett, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton Shopping Center,
609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Garage rock.
Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Music in the Park Summer Series, Monroe Township Cultural
Arts Commission, Open Grove
Gazebo, Thompson Park, Forsgate Drive, 732-521-4400. www.monroetownshipculturalarts.com.
Josh Robinson presents Latin
night. Bring chair or blanket. Free.
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Pop Music
Broadway Starlight, Bristol
Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe
Street, Bristol, 215-785-0100.
www.brtstage.org. Compositions
of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Elton
John, Stephen Sondheim, and
Mel Brooks. $29. 8 p.m.
Drama
Live Music
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 2 and 8 p.m.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28, North Branch,
908-725-3420. www.rvccarts.edu. Student production. $5. 7:30
p.m.
How It Works, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Chimera
Productions presents a drama
about the power of stories in our
lives. Through Saturday, August
15. $10. 8 p.m.
The Underpants, Princeton
www.princetonsummertheater.org. Steve Martin’s adaptation of
a German classic about a woman
who loses her underpants in full
view of the town. $20. 8 p.m.
Know the Show at 7 p.m. 8 p.m.
chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Vinnie Rome, Limelight, 812
North Easton Road, Doylestown,
PA, 215-345-6330. Piano and vocals. 6 to 11 p.m.
Film
International Film Festival, Monroe Public Library, 4 Municipal
Plaza, Monroe, 732-521-5000.
www.monroetwplibrary.org.
Screening of “Tell No One,”
France, 2009. Register. $1. 2 and
6:30 p.m.
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6922. www.mcl.org. Screening of “The Window,”
2008, English subtitles. Free.
6:30 p.m.
Dancing
Summer Night Swing, Forrestal
Village, College Road West and
Route 1 South, Plainsboro, 609799-7400. www.princetonforrestalvillage.com. Ray Rodriguez y Swing Sambroso and
Art Baron and the Duke’s Men.
Dance lessons, 7 to 8 p.m.; open
dance at 8 p.m. Behind Salt
Creek Grille. 7 p.m.
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, 609-273-1378.
www.theblackcattango.com. Beginner and intermediate classes
followed by guided practice. $10.
8 p.m.
Literati
Summer Fiction Party, U.S. 1,
Tre Piani, Forrestal Village,
Plainsboro, 609-452-7000. www.princetoninfo.com. Introductions
of and readings by authors published in the annual fiction issue,
Wednesday, July 22. Open to the
community. Cash bar. 5 to 7:30
p.m.
Does not include
tax, gratuity
or drinks.
Expires 8-31-09.
www.lahieres.com
Witherspoon St. ~ Princeton, NJ
609-921-2798
Now Serving Lunch!
Lunch:
Thursdays & Fridays
11:30 to 2:00
Serving Dinner
Daily at 5:30
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August 13
Like eating at “Nonna’s” house!
Singer Songwriter Showcase,
Triumph Brewing Company,
138 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. Hosted by Frank
Thewes. 9 p.m.
The Lawsuits, John & Peter’s, 96
South Main Street, New Hope,
215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
R Musicians
on Fridays & Saturdays R
Unwind at the End of the Week
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Catering for All Occasions R
On or Off Premises
206 Farnsworth Avenue • Bordentown • 609-298-8360
www.ilovemarcellos.com
Localpalooza, Whole Foods
Market, Windsor Green Shopping Center, West Windsor, 609799-2919. www.wholefoods.com.
Live music, artists, vendors, and
businesses. 4 to 7 p.m.
Meet and Greet, Mediterra, 29
Hulfish Street, Princeton, 609252-9680. www.terramomo.com.
Winemaker Alberto Antonini.
Wines and hors d’oeuvres will be
served. Register. $25. 6 p.m.
Let’s Cook Together Cooking
Camp, Miele Design Center, 9
Independence Way, Princeton,
800-843-7231. www.mieleusa.com. Culinary program for ages 5
to 10 with adult supervision. Register. $45. 6 p.m.
Open House, The Grape Escape,
12 Stults Road, Dayton, 609-4099463. www.thegrapeescape.net.
Chocolate and wine tasting. Music by Darla Rich Trio. Free. 6 to 8
p.m.
Health & Wellness
Cross, Capital Health System,
446 Bellevue Avenue, Trenton,
800-GIVELIFE. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wine Dinner
Tuesday, August 18., 6:30 p.m.,
5-course dinner paired with world wines, $70
Outdoor Seating
Private Rooms
Available for Parties
and Meetings.
for reservations:
609-683-8930
137 Washington Street (Rt. 518) • Rocky Hill, NJ 08553
History
Lunchtime Tour, First Presbyterian Church, 120 East State
Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400.
www.trenton-downtown.com.
Tour the church, formed in 1712
and built in 1726, and its burial
grounds. Free. Noon.
For Teens
Drop-In Program, Princeton
Public Library, Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Crafts,
games, improvisation, music, and
poetry. 3:30 p.m.
Lectures
Workshop, Princeton Chamber,
NJHA Conference Center, 676
Alexander Road, West Windsor,
609-924-1776. www.princetonchamber.org. “Work Is Theater:
Strive for an Award Winning Performance” presented by Eileen J.
Kennedy, CEO of the Kennedy
Factor. Register. 8:30 a.m. and 1
p.m.
Personal Safety Seminar, Mercer County Connection, 957
Route 33, Hamilton, 609-8909800. www.mercercounty.org.
Sheriff Kevin C. Larkin presents
information to reduce the likelihood of becoming a target. Free
personal alarms for participants.
Register. Free. 11 a.m. and 6:30
p.m.
Laser Concert
Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North
Branch, 908-526-1200. www.raritanval.edu. Laser ‘80s. $6.
8:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Naturalist II Day Program, Mercer County Park Commission,
Baldpate Mountain, 609-9896540. www.mercercounty.org.
Hike the mountain, maintain trails,
monitor songbirds, and sit by the
babbling brook. For children entering grades 5 to 8. Register.
$20. 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Politics
Meet the Freehold Candidates,
Ewing Republican Club, 10
Ronit Drive, Ewing, 609-5709430. www.ewinggop.com. Meet
Joe D’Angelo, Russel Wojtenko
Jr., and Cindy Randazzo. Wine
Urban Study: ‘Just Off Broadway’ by Martin
Schwartz, from an exhibit opening with a reception on Friday, August 14, 6 to 9 p.m., at Cafe Ole,
126 South Warren Street, Trenton, as part of
Trenton2nite, a second Fridays event featuring
live music, art, poetry, and food. 609-396-9788.
and hors d’oeuvres. Donations invited. 6 to 8 p.m.
Friday
August 14
Schools
Open House, Pegasus Children’s Academy, 281 Pennington Lawrenceville Road, Pennington, 609-737-2693. www.pegasuschildrensacademy.com.
Full and part time programs for infants through kindergarten. 10
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Colleges
Back to School Night for Adults,
Mercer County Community
College, Conference Center,
West Windsor, 609-570-3311.
www.mccc.edu. For adults to begin or return to college. Register.
5 p.m.
Careers in Court Reporting, Raritan Valley Community College,
Route 28, North Branch, 908253-6688. www.raritanval.edu.
Information session presented by
Court Reporters of America. Register. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
What’s in Store
Preview Sale, Simon Pearce, 27
Palmer Square West, Princeton,
609-279-0444. www.simonpearce.com. First and second
quality designs and home accents. Through Sunday, August
16. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, BT Bistro, 3499
Route 1 South, West Windsor,
609-919-9403. Discount appetizers and drinks. 5 to 8 p.m.
Divorce Support Group,
Hopewell Presbyterian Church,
Hopewell, 609-213-9509. Support, personal growth, and social.
Call for location. 7:30 p.m.
Sports
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Reading. $5 to $10.
7:05 p.m.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Salsa,
Mojitos, and Guac, Oh My!
Latin Night, Rats Restaurant,
Grounds for Sculpture, 16 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, 609584-7800. www.ratsrestaurant.org. Salsa band, mojitos, fireroasted pork, Creole grilled chicken, guacamole, and plantains.
Register. $44. 5 to 11 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Family Concert, Community
Conservatory, 4355 County Line
Road, Chalfont, 215-340-7979.
www.communityconservatory.org. Student recitals evening.
Bring picnic, chair, blanket. Free.
6:30 p.m.
Tres Compadres Band, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853
Wrightstown Road, Washington
Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
www.crossingvineyards.com. Flamenco jazz fusion. Rain or shine.
Bring a chair. Wine and cheese
available. Register. Concert only,
$15. Buffet dinner and concert,
$25. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
Art
Art Exhibit, Bistro Soleil, 173
Mercer Street, Hightstown, 609443-9700. “Hibiscus Hula,” an exhibit of works by Gwen Toma, and
West Windsor residents Kathleen
Liao and Carmen Williams. 10
a.m.
Art by Candlelight, Content
Trenton, 38 West Lafayette
Street, Trenton. www.contenttrenton.com. Opening reception
for exhibit featuring recent works
by Russell Murray. 5 to 9 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Gallery 125, 125
South Warren Street, Trenton,
609-989-9119. www.gallery125.-
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Power Pop: Don Lee appears on
Wednesday, August 12, at the acoustic
showcase at KatManDu, Trenton.
609-393-7300.
com. Opening reception for
“Dreaming,” an art exhibit featuring 32 works in various media
based on the theme of dreaming.
On view through September 4. 6
to 9 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Monmouth Museum,
Brookdale Community College,
Newman Springs Road, Lincroft,
732-747-2266. www.monmouthmuseum.org. Opening
reception for “Collage” by Rachel
Leibman. On view to September
13. Gallery talk on Wednesday,
September 9, at 7 p.m. 6 to 8
p.m.
Drama
Very Vaudeville, Actors’ NET,
635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, 215-295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. Musical comedy revue by Joe Doyle stars Ed
Patton, Dennis McGuire, Vince
Pileggi, Susan Fowler, Matt
South, Janice McEwen, and
Cheryl Doyle. $20 8 p.m.
lives. Also, Saturday, August 15.
$10. 8 p.m.
20th Century, Center Playhouse,
35 South Street, Freehold, 732462-9093. www.centerplayers.org. Comedy adapted from the
1934 film. $24. Through Sunday,
August 23. 8 p.m.
The Music of Musicals: The Musical, Kelsey Theater, Mercer
County Community College,
1200 Old Trenton Road, 609-5703333. www.kelseytheatre.net.
Musical satire pays tribute and
pokes fun at Broadway musicals
— especially those by Rodgers
and Hammerstein, Stephen
Sondheim, Jerry Herman, and
Andrew Lloyd Webber. Four actors recreate a hero, a villain, an
ingenue, and a matron in each of
four scenes — all with the plot, I
can’t pay my rent. Kyle Westcott
directs the Pennington Players
production. Reception with cast
and crew follows performance.
On stage through Sunday, August
23. $16. 8 p.m.
There Goes the Bride, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Comedy farce by Ray
Cooney. $27.50 to $29.50. 8 p.m.
presenting a farce. $29 to $70. 8
p.m.
chair. $5. 8:30 p.m.
Film
Movies on Main Street, Forrestal
Route 1 South, Plainsboro, 609799-7400. www.princetonforrestalvillage.com. Screening of
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World.”
Bring a chair. In the food court if
raining.Free. 8:30 p.m.
Dancing
Salsa Mambo Dance Class, Pennington Ewing Athletic Club,
1440 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing,
609-883-2000. www.peachealth-
fitness.com. Fundamentals and basics on
how to dance properly
with your partner. $15.
7:30 to 9:45 p.m.
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569
Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149.
www.americanballroomco.com. $15. 8 to
11 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J Studios, 5
Jill Court, Building 14,
Hillsborough, 908892-0344. www.gandjstudios.com.
Standard, Latin,
smooth, and rhythm.
Refreshments. BYOB.
$12. 8 to 11 p.m.
Contra Dance, Lambertville Country
Dancers, Titusville United
Methodist Church, 7 Church
Road, Titusville. www.Lambertvillecountrydancers.org. No partner needed. Beginners welcome.
$8. 8 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Dena Blizzard, Steve Golasa,
and Jason Hazelwood, Bucks
County Comedy Cabaret, 625
North Main Street, Doylestown,
215-345-5653. www.comedycabaret.com. $20. 9 p.m.
Faith
Shabbat Under the Stars and
Open House, Beth El Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream Road,
East Windsor, 609-443-4454.
www.bethel.net. Meet and greet
reception, services, dairy dinner,
and ice cream bar. Register. $13.
5:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Farmers Market, Greater Hightstown East Windsor Improvement Project, Memorial Park.
www.downtownhightstown.org. 3
to 7 p.m.
Wine Tasting, Joe Canal’s Liquors, 3375 Route 1 South, Lawrenceville, 609-520-0008. www.ultimatewineshop.com. Free. 4 to
6 p.m.
Latin Night, Rats Restaurant,
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Friday Night Flights: Burgundy,
Elements, 163 Bayard Lane,
Princeton, 609-924-0078. www.elementsprinceton.com. Wine
pairing and tasting menu. Register. $45. 5:30 p.m.
Brewery Night, Mercer Museum,
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Navigating a Sense of the Deep South, Fret by Fret
E
very August at the
Philadelphia Folk Festival, many
of the main stage, night-time performers are also asked to perform
at afternoon workshops on smaller
stages, where three or four musicians will sit around and play and
discuss various themes, for example, political songs, women’s
songs, work songs, or blues and
spirituals. Inevitably, the phrase
“folk process” gets bandied about.
It refers to how musicians like Tom
Paxton, Peggy Seeger, Del McCoury, Tony Trischka, Tom Rush,
or even up-and-comers like Justin
Townes Earle learned their craft, be
it songwriting, singing, fingerpicking guitar styles, or claw-hammer banjo playing.
For guitarist and singer/songwriter Sonny Landreth, who appears at the festival this year, his
own folk process began when he
was 13, in his native Lafayette,
Louisiana, when he got his first
guitar. Two years later, working in
a music store in his hometown, he
rapidly began expanding his
knowledge of popular music as
well as his repertoire on guitar. A
child of the 1960s, Landreth was
keenly influenced by acoustic performers like Bob Dylan and Joan
Baez, at least as far as gaining the
notion he could write and perform
his own songs. But he was even
more indebted to the acoustic
bluesmen who were getting attention through the folk music revival
of those years, musicians like Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James,
Son House, and Rev. Gary Davis.
Before picking up the guitar,
Landreth began playing trumpet as
a 10-year-old and continued play-
by Richard J. Skelly
ing trumpet in high school bands
and into college for a time (he attended the University of Lafayette), all the while honing his craft
as a slide blues and rock guitarist
and singer-songwriter.
He is the author of “Congo
Square,” “Bayou Teche,” and
many other songs that have a keen
sense of place to them. As a songwriter, his themes are mostly
places he knows well, like Lafayette in southwest Louisiana and
New Orleans, where he’s performed hundreds of shows through
the years.
At the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Landreth will be backed by
Brian Britnack on drums and
David Ranson on bass in the trio
format he has preferred since his
earliest days as a professional musician in college.
Landreth was born February 1,
1951, in Mississippi, and his family moved to the Lafayette area
when he was seven. “My family is
from Mississippi, so Elvis was
hard to ignore,” Landreth says in a
phone interview from his home in
Breaux Bridge, which is not far
from Lafayette. “The great thing
for me once we moved to Lafayette
was the music that was there, the
culture there — the music and food
and dance and the outlook on life is
all a part of that. And of course we
weren’t far from New Orleans, so
that was the first time I heard jazz
and classic rhythm and blues.”
Landreth says his family often took
trips into the Crescent City.
Landreth says he also got classical and jazz exposure while playing the trumpet in school. He
dropped out of the University of
Lafayette after two years. “I was
taking classes at the University of
Lafayette and doing gigs on weekends. Once I realized I couldn’t
book any more gigs with a degree
than without one, I was gone,” he
says. “I figured the way to do it was
get out there and play shows.”
Shortly after leaving college, he
caught his first big break by joining
the band of legendary zydeco musician Clifton Chenier. “He was a
terrific player and a terrific guy,”
Landreth says of the late accordionist, “and there’s been no musician like him since he was around.”
Certainly Chenier was a mentor,
but he was a bandleader and an ac-
Sonny Landreth has
become such an accomplished guitarist
that he has drawn the
respect of prominent
musicians including
John Hiatt and, in the
early 1990s, Clapton
himself.
cordion player — did Landreth
have any other mentors? He admits
after one guitar teacher didn’t work
out so well, he mostly taught himself, nights and weekends while
working at the music store in
Lafayette. “I began making my
way through the forest on my own,
and around the same time I began
listening to the blues of Mississippi
John Hurt, Fred MacDowell,
Robert Johnson, Charley Patton,
all the Delta players. And that’s
when I began using the slide too,
the Chet Atkins technique and the
slide on the left hand.”
Landreth’s father was a lawyer
who ended up working in the
claims department at State Farm
Insurance in Lafayette, and his
mother also took a job at a State
Farm agency. He has an older
brother, Steve, who he credits with
making sure there was good rock
‘n’ roll music around the house.
“Back in the day, people were still
buying albums and 45s, and there
was also this great jazz and classical and pop music and all the band
directors would come in to the
store I worked at to get their sheet
music,” he says, so working in a
store that not only sold records but
also musical instruments and
equipment was a huge step in his
education, or “folk process.”
‘W
e sold reel to reel tapes
and I played my first Echoplex amp
in that store, so I had the chance to
experiment with all kinds of
sounds, getting a better grasp of
how to work with all the developing technology,” he says. Hearing
Landreth play guitar is akin to
hearing Louis Armstrong play
trumpet: it only takes a few lines to
know it’s him. In a way, it’s a blessing that his local guitar teacher didn’t work out and he took on the burden of educating himself on guitar,
otherwise he might not have come
up with his own economical, distinctive style.
“The folk process for me started
in the music store, and the folk
thing was big, Joan Baez and Bob
Dylan were huge, and Peter, Paul
and Mary,” he says. “The folk thing
was a really big influence on rock
‘n’ roll, too, from the early to the
late ‘60s, and I saw all of that happen working in the store. My first
guitar was an acoustic and that folk
music exposure was important in
getting me grounded, and got me
thinking about writing my own
songs.”
FM radio was just developing in
the late 1960s and early ’70s as
well, free of focus groups and research and heavy formats and play
lists of any kind, so that also
opened up his mind to the possibilities of pursuing a career as a performer.
“Radio just did not have the kind
of exclusivity it does now,” he argues, “so you could hear Jeff Beck,
the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Joan Baez, all in the same hour
or so, and you never knew what to
expect on FM radio back in those
days.”
Later on, he admits, having the
real world experience of driving a
delivery truck around proved more
helpful than any college degree, and
both his parents lived to see his international success as a blues and
blues-rock guitarist and bandleader.
Interestingly, Landreth has become such an accomplished guitarist that he has drawn the respect
and admiration of dozens of prominent musicians around the world,
including John Hiatt, the aforementioned “King of Zydeco” Chenier, and, in the early 1990s, Clapton himself.
“I remember hearing Clapton on
the radio in high school,” Landreth
says, “and later, when I got to meet
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Landreth has shared the stage
with Clapton at both of his Crossroads Guitar Festivals in recent
years, one held in Dallas, the second
in Chicago. “He’s a very gracious
and humble person,” Landreth says,
“and his enthusiasm has been really
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New Drama: Samantha Tower, seated,
and Barbara Hatch are featured in ‘How
It Works,’ a drama about the power of
stories in our lives, opening on Thursday,
August 13, at the Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon. 609-924-8777.
August 14
Trenton2nite, Downtown Trenton,
609-396-9788. www.trenton2nite.com. Sue Giles, Marriott,
5:30 to 9 p.m.; photography by
Martin Schwartz, Cafe Ole, 126
South Warren Street, 6 to 9 p.m.;
opening reception for “Dreaming,”
Gallery 125, 125 South Warren
Street, 6 to 7 p.m.; dancing,
Phoenix, 120 South Warren
Street, 7:30 p.m.; Ghandi’s poetry, Cafe International, 241 East
Front Street, $7 cover; scrabble,
Classics, 6:30 to midnight. 5:30
p.m.
Rockout, Vibe Cafe, Joe’s Mill Hill
Saloon, 300 South Broad Street,
Trenton, 609-394-7222. www.vibecafe.googlepages.com. Music by Eastside Vibe, Daddy
Green Jeans, Chattahoochee
Payload, the Escapists, the
Mean, Mark Dapp, Sideshow
Prophets, Lost in Company, and
Amleah. Beer-paired dinner specials. 21 plus. $10. 6 p.m.
Darla Rich Jazz Duo,
Positano Mediterranean Grill, 5 Shalk’s
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609-799-8900.
www.positanoplainsboro.com. 6:30
to 9:30 p.m.
Uncle Monk and Tommy Ramone of the
Travis Wetzel Trio,
The Record Collector
Store, 358 Farnsworth
Avenue, Bordentown.
www.the-record-collector.com.
Bluegrass-Americana. $12. 7:30
p.m.
Bob Egan, Bowman’s Tavern,
1600 River Road, New Hope, PA,
215-862-2972. www.bowmanstavernrestaurant.com. Open mic
and piano. 8 p.m.
John Patrick, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Pop. 8 p.m.
Sonance, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
Grey Campaign, Triumph Brewing Company, 138 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-924-7855.
www.triumphbrew.com. $5 cover.
Must be 21. 10:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Summer Barn Dance, Howell
Living History Farm, Valley
Road, off Route 29, Titusville,
609-737-3299. www.howellfarm.org. Jugtown Mountain String
Band teams up with Sue Dupre.
Beginners welcome. Free. 7:30
p.m.
Schools
Open House, Pegasus Children’s Academy, 281 Pennington Lawrenceville Road, Pennington, 609-737-2693. www.pegasuschildrensacademy.com. Full
and part time programs for infants
through kindergarten. 10 a.m. to
6 p.m.
What’s in Store
Sidewalk Sale, Palmer Square,
609-921-2333. www.palmersquare.com. Thursday Night Jazz
performs from 5 to 8 p.m. 10 a.m.
Also, Sidewalk Sale, Simon
Pearce, 27 Palmer Square West,
Princeton, 609-279-0444. www.simonpearce.com. First and second quality designs and home accents. Through Sunday, August
16. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Singles
Wine Tasting for Singles, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853
Wrightstown Road, Washington
Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
www.crossingvineyards.com.
Wine, cheese, and music. Register. $20. 7 to 9 p.m.
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Support group for
men and women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Professional and Business Singles Network, Brookside Manor,
50 Bustleton Pike, Trevose, PA,
888-348-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com. Dance and social. Cash bar.
Ages 40 to 65. $15. 8 p.m.
Drop-In, Yardley Singles, The
Runway, Trenton Mercer Airport,
Ewing, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Music, dancing, and cash bar. Register. 9
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Pop Music
The Original Rock-n-Rollers,
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Association, 54 Pitman Avenue,
800-965-9324. www.oceangrove.org. Jam out with Tommy
James & the Shondells and Felix
Cavaliere & the Rascals. $30 to
$35. 8 p.m.
World Music
West African Drumming Workshop, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland Drive,
Suite 506, Skillman, 609-9247294. www.princetonyoga.com.
Sharon Silverstein presents
djembe drumming workshop,
$20; community drumming circle
at 8 p.m., $15. $30 for both. 6:30
p.m.
Art
Tots on Tour, Grounds For
Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. For
ages 3 to 5. Listen to a story, become park explorers, make original works of art. One adult must
accompany each child. Register.
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646-345-5538. New works by
painter Marilyn Honig. 11 a.m. to
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Gallery Talk, Grounds For
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Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Sculptor
Jesus Moroles in conjunction with
the spring/summer exhibition.
Free with park admission. 2 to 6
p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2
p.m.
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p.m. 2 and 8 p.m
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lives. $10. 8 p.m.
1934 film. $24. 8 p.m.
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Jamie Saxon: Letter from Maine
I
think I found the way to
have a perfect vacation, quite by
accident. Leave your husband at
home and take two spunky 14year-olds somewhere where you
can’t get a cell phone signal. Then
the most remarkable things will
happen.
First, let’s put the accidental
tourist in perspective. I consider
myself to be a typical working mother. Not the magazine-type who
changes the bed sheets every Saturday whether they need it or not, buys
sympathy cards in a six-pack at Target (hey, six people might die this
year!), makes five family-friendly
entrees and freezes them on Sundays, and programs her kids’ sports
schedules and dates for sex with her
husband twice a month into her
BlackBerry. Beep! OK, honey, let’s
get crazy. No, wait, I made a mistake, that’s Cindy’s diving clinic.
You’re next Tuesday at 11 p.m.
Me, I might walk the walk but
after hours I’m a little more unkempt. I change my bed sheets
when even my beagles won’t deign
to sleep on them, and I never think
about what’s for dinner (my son is
constantly begging me to go food
shopping — mom, we have no
food! — so demanding). I believe a
little mold in the shower builds up
your immune system, and that you
should never return your library
books on time because the library
needs the money from fines. I don’t
feel guilty that I don’t volunteer for
any type of committee (no good
deed goes unpunished)and I don’t
floss every night.
My vacations, too, tend to be a
little unkempt. While other families
I know were charging trips to Europe on their credit cards or planning to build schools in sub-Saharan
Africa coupled with spa treatments
at night (a vacation with a conscience!), I said hallelujah when my
friends offered me their house in
Maine for a week all to ourselves
(we had visited for the first time on
Memorial Day weekend and I
yearned to go back). The only catch
— my husband couldn’t come due
to work commitments. Fortunately,
I don’t require my whole family to
come on the family vacation (we’re
going to Disney World, it will be
fun!). In fact, I thought of it as a vacation from being married. Why
not? It’s so millennial.
I left the beagles with my husband and piled my son, Mackenzie,
and his best friend, Lexi, into the
car and drove for eight hours to the
bottom of one of those long fingers
tapping the ocean off the southern
coast of Maine. Lexi is the proverbial girl next door (who really does
in fact live next door), and like
Mackenzie, is an only child. (Only
children, you see, are so easy to
pawn off on others and in general
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they are quite well-mannered and
pleasant to be around.) They have
been friends since age four and operate rather like twins. We stopped
halfway at Food & Books, where
the walls are lined with books,
much of them library cast-offs —
you’re allowed to take three for
free. Mackenzie picked “America’s
Top Jobs for People Without a College Degree.”
We eventually rumbled through
the sleepy little town of Brunswick,
home of Bowdoin College, where
Main Street is spelled Maine Street,
with a town green and a gazebo,
where summer college students play
Frisbee in their bare feet. Where little shops with funny names like
Gelato Fiasco and the Great Impasta
give way to stately New England
homes with columns on the front
porches, one or two of which have
been turned into fabulous antique
stores, and where children ride their
bikes downtown, God forbid, unaccompanied by adults.
But we went even further. Down
Route 24, over the little bridge and
the inconspicuous sign that announces you’ve crossed onto Great
Island. Left on Cundy’s Harbor
Road, past a graveyard where the
At low tide mussels
as big as a baby’s fist
fight for your
attention, teasing,
‘Pick me! Pick me!’
headstones lean this way and that,
past Moody’s Seafood, where lobsters start at $2.99, and then right on
a tiny country road, finally turning
in at the driveway (not a driveway
at all, just battened down grass).
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his house is my idea of nirvana. An 1830 white clapboard
farmhouse set on 40 acres of woods
beside a cove that has been in the
family for four generations — a
family of Harvard grads and private school teachers, bibliophiles
and Francophiles — evidence of
which hits you as you push open
the front door, swollen against the
summer heat, and inhale that
musty, quiet, library smell that old
houses have, especially a house
like this one, where the walls are
lined with books and much of the
furniture is antique, in this case
from Brittany. Toss in a working
fireplace, a wide enclosed sun
porch, a real pantry, and a creaking
steep staircase leading to the upstairs bedrooms hidden under the
sloping eaves (where I happily
spent one rainy afternoon curled up
with the 1899 Harvard yearbook
and a Life magazine from 1963).
I claimed the big bedroom
downstairs (a king-sized bed all to
myself! No snorers allowed!),
Mackenzie the sunporch, and Lexi
one of the upstairs bedrooms.
To get to the cove, you walk to
the far end of the lawn, where you
find the start of a path, worn
smooth by decades of little bare
feet and sandaled feet and sneakered feet, winding around gnarled
tree roots, a dark but inviting
palace floor in a kingdom of pines.
Each twist and turn in the path
reveals a new view, astonishing
both for its simplicity and its complexity: a burst of fresh green moss
kindly serves as a blanket for an old
dead tree that’s fallen on its own; a
scrap of white birch bark becomes
a portico over the entrance to a tiny
creature’s home; a descending
track of tree roots paved in between
by packed pine needles serves as a
natural staircase to a stream. Five
large flat stones form a safe bridge
across.
A few more twists and turns,
past pine trees that have scented
this forest for centuries, stood firm
against hundreds of nor’easters,
and held millions upon millions of
snowflakes, and you have arrived
at the cove, first high on a hill.
Down below the water licks the
salty rocks like a mother cat absently licking her kittens and the
thick seaweed languishes upon the
shore like a recalcitrant child who
refuses to budge. At low tide mussels as big as a baby’s fist fight for
your attention, teasing, “Pick me!
Pick me!” Mackenzie and Lexi
spent the better part of the week
there, often taking the canoe out of
the boathouse and paddling about
the cove. Sometimes they just lay
on the dock or the rocks and read.
I found my own peaceful occupations. First thing every morning
before the kids got up I would slip
outside and take a walk. Out on this
road less taken the sun can barely
penetrate the canopy of pine boughs
that cross and recross overhead like
sentries, shifting expertly to protect
the teeming life that makes its home
among the branches, inside the
bark, and down among the tangled
roots. You can hear a thousand different animal sounds, scurries and
calls, rustles and caws. Up a long
hill and just over its crest the bay
spreads out on both sides, dotted
with lobster boats and errant seagulls determined to find breakfast
among the whitecaps.
The briny, salty air knocks you
awake with its ancient power,
bathing your nostrils with its tangy,
wet mist. Suddenly you’re breathing as deeply as you can so as not to
miss one molecule of its organic
scent. The end of the road simply
slopes down to the water’s edge, an
old dockyard to your right with
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Maine, Unplugged: A view of the cove.
towers of forgotten lobster traps
now past their prime and covered
in thick, climbing weeds. As you
walk back, you can see more details you may have missed: purple
columbine climbing over a garden
fence, spilling like a bridal veil
over the other side; nature’s abstract sculptures of dry fallen limbs
in stark poses; and baby pine trees
nestling against their grandfathers’
trunks, bravely trying to grow up.
The only snag I encountered
while steeped in this pristine natural setting was letting go of my
lustful obsession with my new cell
phone. Not the phone part, but the
texting part. I have resisted texting
up to this point but just a few weeks
ago surrendered. With Mackenzie
entering high school in the fall I
knew if I had any hopes of communicating with him I would have to
enter the world of OMG, LOL, and
TTYL.
The first afternoon, I found myself lying on the chaise longue on the
lawn, supposedly relaxing. But what
I really wanted to do was play with
my slide-out keyboard and see if I
could get a signal under the cherry
tree. I found that if I held the phone
exactly at my belly button and didn’t
breathe when I hit the send button it
worked. I felt a little like an addict.
When the phone said, “Message
sent,” I felt just a little rush, a little bit
high. This can’t be healthy, said my
mother-y voice. This can’t be good.
You’re going to end up like the
cretins who text in the movie theater
and at the ballet or those Facebook
addicts who post their every move
— “I just ordered a pizza!” and their
friends post back “Yummy!”
Right before I went on vacation
I read an article in Oprah magazine
about getting rest. It has nothing to
do with sleep, the magazine promised. It said turn off your cell phone
and laptop. So, here I am in this
magnificent place, all peaceful and
green, and on day one, I become
pathologically concerned about
whether I have a cell phone signal.
It seems suddenly very important
to be able to communicate — to
connect, perchance to text! — even
though I came up to Maine with the
express directive to disconnect.
But those cute black keys, so tiny
and shiny, called to me like sirens,
“Love me! Use me! Reach out and
touch someone!”
I wondered absently if we are
defined by how many people are on
our speed-dial and who are we if
we cannot connect with them?
Must resist, said my inner Virgo.
So for the remainder of the week, I
committed to only checking my
messages once in the morning and
once at night; the rest of the time
my phone was off. And suddenly,
free of technology, I really began,
as the yogis would say, to be in the
present moment.
D
own at Watson’s General
Store on the wharf, we picked lobsters out of the trap that Mr. Watson
himself (a salty old soul with a
pitch-perfect down east accent), his
faithful dog trailing behind him,
hauled up out of the water. We took
them home and screamed as we
snatched the rubber bands off their
claws, danced around the kitchen
with them to Linkin Park’s “New
Divide” cranked up on the iPod
dock in the living room, then bravely plunged them into boiling water.
At night we would ride into
town, past roads with Beatrix Potter-like names — Snow Country
Lane and Sweet Williams Way —
to get our fix of molasses peppermint and stratiatella at Gelato Fiasco, the kids hanging practically by
their knees out the car windows,
singing at the top of their lungs. For
some reason this didn’t bother me,
you know, that whole falling out of
the car thing. Didn’t give it a
thought. One night, possessed by
the urge to read a text message that
had just come in (you see, I didn’t
lick the habit entirely), I pulled
over by the graveyard. Mackenzie,
still hanging out the window, saw a
flashlight beam among the headstones and heard kids’ voices. Hey,
what are you doing, he called out.
He was answered only by maniacal
giggles emanating from the shifting shadows. We drove off, yelling
“Graveyard stalkers!”
We came home to a night sky so
black, so devoid of light pollution,
that we turned off all the lights in
the house and lay on our backs on
the wet grass, staring up in silence
and awe at thousands of stars illuminated by two great swaths of the
Milky Way, accompanied by a
sotto voce chorale of crickets,
owls, and a loon or two.
Another night, also in the pitch
black, we tore open two giant packages of glow sticks we had brought,
left over from Mackenzie’s last
party. We set them all alight, and
had a Star Wars battle on the lawn,
where all you could see was dozens
of these little neon bars, glowing
pink, purple, green, orange, yellow, and blue against the night sky,
falling like shooting stars on the
lawn. If other grown-ups had been
there, we no doubt would have
been sipping Chardonnay and discussing the merits of Sotomayor’s
appointment. I would much rather
hurl a glow stick and watch its
phosphorescent flare arc towards
my son, landing with a satisfying
thwack against his butt.
One afternoon we drove by a
clearly-confused painted turtle on
the side of the road.. A few miles
later, I announced, let’s go save that
turtle. Lexi yelled out the window,
“We have no agenda!” as I turned
the car around. The turtle, having
survived between the wheels of
several more cars, was now threequarters of the way across the road.
The kids leapt out and carried him
to safety by the stream on the other
side of the road, but not before taking its picture with Mackenzie’s
cell phone. No need to travel to
sub-Saharan Africa to prove our
good stewardship to the earth.
It was awfully hard to leave. For
the first time in such a long time I felt
as if I had truly disconnected from
my day-to-day life. I hate to say it but
Oprah was entirely right: if you
don’t turn off your cell phone, you
are not really resting, especially on
vacation. You are not resting your
“monkey mind” (yogi for the ballistics inside our head) if your Blackberry Curve, Samsung Gravity, or
iPhone is on red alert in your pocket.
Turning off your phone may
seem a little scary at first, but if you
can do it, it’s like putting your mind
on vacation any time you want to.
And you might find, as I did, that
sometimes it’s a lot more fun to talk
to lobsters and turtles.
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Tom Brown, left, and Bob Casey, both attorneys for
the law firm Lenox Socey Wilgus Formidoni on
Princeton Pike in Lawrenceville.
Susan Veltre, purchasing manager, Church & Dwight; and
Scott Boeselager, sales manager for SCI, a plastic bottle
company in Milwaukee.
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Kati Larson,
far left, sales,
Business News
Publishing in
Princeton; and
Jacqueline Brendel, director of
development for
Big Brothers Big
Sisters of Mercer
County.
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY FUNDRAISER,
SALT CREEK GRILLE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15
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Kathy Hatrak,
near right, director
of marketing for
Guest Supply on
Route 1; and Gary
O’Connor, an architect based in
Lambertville.
Patty Murphy, left, a rolfer (bodywork) in
Princeton and Belmar, and Diane Brooks, a
unit manager in solar cell teachnology coding
for DuPont in central New Jersey.
Ed Breen, left, CEO of Tyco International; Jane O’Connor, director of marketing, Capital Health Systems; and John Buschman, managing principal of the
commercial real estate firm Newmark Knight Frank in Carnegie Center.
Linda Hoang, above left,
senior manager, risk management, and Jennifer Corson,
senior associate of treasury,
both of Tyco.
John Smack of Middleton, NJ.
here’s a reason you’ll see a
lot of photos of Tyco International
employees on these pages. The
corporation, headquartered on
Roszel Road (right across the street
from U.S. 1’s office), was honored
for its outstanding record of service to the community by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer County,
on Wednesday, July 15, at BBBS’s
Summer Charity Classic. Approximately 150 guests gathered in the
private room at Salt Creek Grille to
enjoy classic summer cocktails
and Salt Creek Grille specialties
(all the service and food was a donation; alcohol and wine tastings
courtesy of Allied Beverage, R&R
Marketing, and Winebow).
The event raised $10,000 for the
Mercer County chapter of this century-old nonprofit, which pairs
adult mentors in one-to-one partnerships with children, ages 6
through 18. Big Brothers Big Sisters has earned high marks from
the nonprofit watchdogs: Forbes
gave it a “gold star” rating as one of
its top 10 charities; Charitable
Navigator gave it a “four-star, exceptional” rating, and the American Institute of Philanthropy gave
it an “A+ rating.”
BBBS of Mercer County has
measured the impact of the match
relationship using a validated instrument designed by BBBS-National and the United Way. Of the
parents and mentors who completed the survey in 2008, the results
show that of the children who participated in the program for a minimum of one year: 90 percent were
more self-confident; 82 percent
had an improved sense of the future; 77 percent improved their attitude toward school, and 78 percent
improved their academic performance; 72 percent were more able to
avoid substance abuse; and 80 per-
cent improved relationships with
peers and 64 percent with adults.
While many people think of
BBBS partnerships as between one
adult (called a “Big”) and one child
(called a “Little”), there are also
opportunities for couples to be a
Big, as well as high school and college students. There is also schoolbased mentoring, where Bigs meet
with their Littles one hour a week
in their school. According to executive director Susan M. Dunning,
BBBS of Mercer County, in 2008
532 children were matched with a
Big, who provide children with
“guidance, friendship, and advice,
versus the alternatives of despair,
drugs, and dropping-out.” BBBS’s
goal in 2009 is to serve more than
600 children in Mercer County.
If you’re interested in becoming
a Big, visit www.bbbsmercer.org.
There are currently 40 children on
the waiting list. (There is a particularly strong need for men interested in becoming Big Brothers.) And
if you like to eat mark your calendar for the organization’s next
fundraiser, the Autumn Culinaire,
which takes place on Thursday,
October 19, 6 to 9:30 p.m., at
Greenacres Country Club in
Lawrenceville. You can taste over
150 wines and international beers
and sample the menus from restaurants including, Acacia, Blue Point
Grill, Ota-Ya, Elements, Witherspoon Grill, and more. And for you
chocoholics, Lindt Chocolates will
be there too. The Meg Hanson
band will perform. Bloomberg,
Goldman Sachs, Capital Health
Systems, and Klatzkin and Company have already signed on as
corporate sponsors. Call Jackie
Brendel at 609-656-1000 to discuss sponsorship opportunities.
— Jamie Saxon
Visit www.bbbsmercer.org.
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Alex Salaman, senior analyst,
Tyco International.
Bill Alexander, director, global
real estate, Tyco Internationa
in Chicago.
Scott Pital, regional VP of sales, and
Catherine Daler, territory manager, both of
AIS, a contract furniture company headquartered in Hudson, MA.
Mandyee Kuenzle, left, a New Hope-based photographer/ desigger; and
Denise H. Frederickson, chief liaison for designer Zahra Saeed (wearing a
dress by the desginer).
Hugh Preece, managing partner,
Salt Creek Grille.
Janis Kersten, director of mergers
and acquisitions, Tyco International.
Trish Zita, left, senior partner at the Kaufman Zita Group, a public affairs
and lobbying firm at 12 Roszel Road; and Mary Anne Yeager, development
director for Catholic Charities in Trenton.
Natacha Smight, above left, investment advisor, David Lerner Associates in Forrestal Village; Deborah Levine, center,
senior technical recruiter for Dimension Data, a global IT services company in Edison; and Regina Monte, above right,
a model with Ford Models in New York City.
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Nadia Hohgrawe, left, event planner for restaurateur Bobby Trigg; John
Bushman of Newmark Knight Frank; and Ruby Hofmann, national director of
business development for TrafGroup, an accounts receivable management
group in Lawrenceville.
Matt Schoenberger, left, of Plainsboro, VP of sales for Standard Lighting in
New York City; his wife, Michelle, a preschool teacher at Beth Chaim; and
Randy Hanks, president and CEO, First Choice Bank, Lawrenceville.
Tom Richards of Tom Artisan Home,
custom bathroom and kitchens and
finish carpentry.
Sara Cooper, assistant director of
community affairs and special
events at the College of New Jersey.
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August 15
Dancing
Salsa Sensation, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Road,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Mambo
lesson with Jose Papo Diaz followed by open dancing. No partner needed. $12. 7:30 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J
Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14,
Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
www.gandjstudios.com. Standard, Latin, smooth, and rhythm.
Refreshments. BYOB. $12. 8 to
11 p.m.
Good Causes
Because Your Dog Is Worth It Too
Day, Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation Central and
South Jersey, L’Oreal, 35 Broadway Road, Cranbury, 609-8607601. www.yourdogisworthittoo.com. Dog beauty contest, dog
swimming pools, hay maze for
dogs, games for children, food,
vendors, music. Dogs must be
leashed at all times and wear identification and current rabies tags.
Register for doggie bag from L’Oreal. Benefit for Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation. $10
per adult. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Bluegrass Concert and Dinner
Benefit, New Jersey Museum of
Agriculture, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington,
609-651-1018. www.agriculturemuseum.org. Benefit evening to
benefit the organization’s education department features Jersey
Fresh produce, two glasses of
wine, and a bluegrass concert by
the Riverside Bluegrass Band.
Register. $50. 5:30 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Andres Fernandez and Steve
Trevalise, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, 609-987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Reservation. $20. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Dena Blizzard, Jimmy Carroll,
and Jason Hazelwood, Bucks
County Comedy Cabaret, 625
North Main Street, Doylestown,
215-345-5653. www.comedycabaret.com. $20. 9:30 p.m.
Butterly Festival
Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington, 609-737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. Annual festival
celebrates the beauty and magical qualities of the Garden State’s
native butterflies. Tours of the
Kate Gorrie Memorial Butterfly
House, naturalist-led hikes, live
music, children’s games, crafts,
and organic food vendors. $15
per car or $5 per individual. 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Faith
New Fellowship Group, Har
Sinai Temple, private home, 609730-8100. www.harsinai.org. New
Chavurah for members with children in preschool or religious
school. Cocktail party is also open
to perspective members. Light refreshments. BYOB. Register. 7
p.m.
Food & Dining
Farmers Market, Montgomery
Friends of Open Space, Village
Shopping Center, Routes 206
and 518, 908-359-9665. www.Montgomeryfriends.org. Organic
vegetables, breads, flowers, popcorn, honey, and pasture-fed beef
and pork. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Farmers Market, Pennington Market, 25 Route 31, Pennington, 609737-0058. Local produce, cooking
classes, live music, environmental
workshops, and demonstrations of
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On Exhibit: ‘Celestial,’ left, by Thomas George,
from a benefit exhibit and sale of the artist’s brush
and ink drawings, abstract oil paintings, watercolors, and pastels, beginning on Wednesday, August
19, at Princeton Area Community Foundation, 15
Princess Road, Lawrenceville. 609-219-1800.
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Smight, from a solo show of drawings on view
through Tuesday, September 1, at Small World
Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street. 609-924-2715.
earth-friendly products and ideas.
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
West Windsor Community
Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive
Parking Lot, Princeton Junction
Train Station, 609-577-5113.
www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Music by Max
McGuire and Dan Corica, college
students from Hightstown. Yes
We Can collects donations of
fresh produce for the Crisis Ministry of Princeton’s food pantry.
Produce, bakery items, meat, coffee, tea, sandwiches, ice cream,
pickles, sauces, and flowers. Arts,
crafts, and children’s activities. 9
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wine Tasting, Joe Canal’s
Liquors, 3375 Route 1 South,
Lawrenceville, 609-520-0008.
www.ultimatewineshop.com.
Free. 1 to 3 p.m.
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AUGUST 12, 2009
Opportunities
Volunteer Please
Princeton HomeCare Services
Hospice program is offering an
eight-week volunteer training
course on Wednesdays, beginning
September 9, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in
Princeton. The program seeks
compassionate and caring people
to visit hospice patients who have
chosen to be cared for at home by
their families and the hospice program team. Call Marueer Marchetta at 609-497-4959 for information
and registration.
Food Drive
Historical Society of Princeton
is running a food drive through Sunday, August 16, to benefit Mercer
Street Friends Food Bank, Crisis
Ministry, and Trenton Area Soup
Kitchen. Items accepted include
canned proteins (tuna, salmon,
chicken, and chili), shelf-stable
milk, peanut butter, canned potatoes, and cans of fruits. Bainbridge
House, 158 Nassau Street, Princeton. www.princetonhistory.org.
The Arts
George Street Playhouse offers “Read. Talk. See: A Moon to
Dance By,” a package that includes
a novel, a script, and theater tickets
for book clubs. Read “Women in
Love” by D.H. Lawrence, whose
widow, Frieda Weekley is the inspiration. Her story continues in
the new play, “A Moon to Dance
By.” Discuss among yourselves or
invite a member of the theater staff
to attend your club meeting or meet
your group before or after the
show. See “A Moon to Dance” at
the theater Tuesday, November 17
to Sunday, December 13. $56.50
per person. For information or registration call Michelle at 732-8462895, ext. 134 or E-mail [email protected].
Artworks offers shared studio
space with 24/7 access, an easel and
chair, personal locker, file drawer,
and wireless internet. $70 a month,
six or 12 month lease. 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, 609-394-9436.
Westminster Conservatory,
the community music school of
Westminster College, is accepting
registrations for lessons and classes for all ages and stages of ability.
Classes offered include instruction
in early childhood music (four
months to nine years), musical theater, voice, instruments, and music
therapy. Visit www.rider.edu/conservatory or call 609-921-7104.
Musicians Wanted
Jersey Shore Pops seeks new
musicians for its debut concert on
Saturday, October 17, in Cape May
County. The group is founded by
pianist Linda Gentille, who began
her career as a teenager with the
Liberace Show. Musicians needed
for trumpet, electric bass, alto sax,
bass sax, tenor sax, and flute, who
can double on sax, trumpet, trombone, cello, violin, percussion, or
upright bass. Send resume and tape
or CD to Jersey Shore Pops, 88
Route 610, Petersburg 08270, or
Email
[email protected]. Call 609-628-4544
for information.
Young Arts
West Windsor Arts Council
seeks art by children in grades two
to eight for “Avenue of the Arts” to
be displayed at the West Windsor
Library in September. Artwork
must be two dimensional, no longer
than 16 inches in any direction.
Drop off at the library on Wednesday, August 16 to be juried. Artists
will be notified by E-mail if their
work was selected. An opening reception is Sunday, September 13, 2
to 4 p.m. E-mail [email protected] for a submission form.
Jurors are Maxine Shore, a painter;
and Carol Schepps, a fiber artist.
Centenary Stage Company’s
Young Performers Workshop offers open registration and interviews for perspective students on
Sunday, August 16. A professional
theater training program for ages 8
to 18, the group is the educational
arm of the Centenary Stage Company, an Equity theater in residence at Centenary College. The
fall session takes place on Saturdays, from September 12 to December 20. Visit www.centenarystageco.org or call 908-9790900 for information or to register
for an interview.
Good Causes
HomeFront seeks new clothing
and school supplies for children
from low-income families as well
as donations to help with school tutoring, cultural enrichment, recreational programs, class photos,
field trips, and class activities. Donations may be made online at
www.homefrontnj.org are invited.
Checks may be sent to HomeFront,
1880 Princeton Avenue, Lawrenceville 08648.
Plainsboro Township seeks
food and personal care items for its
food pantry. Grocery items needed
include canned fruits, breadcrumbs, boxed meals, muffin mixes, cereal, coffee, tea, condiments,
cookies, four, gravy, juice, mayonnaise, canned meats, peanut butter
and jelly, salad dressings, and
tomato sauce. Also, deodorant, disposable razors, shampoo, soap,
toothpaste, and sanitary pads and
tampons. Call 609-799-0909, ext.
352 for information.
WPRB, a community supported
independent radio station, has its
third annual membership drive beginning on Wednesday, October 7.
Last year’s drive brought in more
than $25,000 to pay transmitter
fees, repair equipment, upgrade
online audio streaming services,
and expand its music library. Live
performances, on-air guests, and a
special programming schedule are
planned. Visit www.wprb.com or
call 609-258-3655 for information.
For Seniors
Princeton Senior Resource
Center offers “Evergreen Forum,”
a volunteer organization offering
interactive courses to support
learning in retirement. The 15
courses offered include literature,
history, science, and the arts. Classes begin Thursday, October 1. Register by the first week in September
at www.theevergreenforum.org or
call 609-924-7108.
Call for Art
Gallery at Mercer College
seeks photographs, book art, and
computer derived photography for
“Mercer County Photography
2009” open to anyone 18 or older
who lives, works, or goes to school
in Mercer County. Deliver to the
Gallery on Saturday, August 29,
from 9:30 am. to noon. All work
not selected for the exhibit must be
picked up by 5 p.m. that day. Opening reception is Wednesday, September 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. On view
to Thursday, October 8. www.mccc.edu or call 609-530-3589.
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String of Pearls, a Reconstructionist Jewish congregation, offers
registration for classes for grades
K to 6, on Mondays, from 4:15 to
6:15 p.m., beginning September
14, at Princeton Day School.
www.stringofpearlsweb.org or Email [email protected].
Audition
Pierrot Productions has auditions for “The Producers” on Sunday, August 30, at 1 p.m.; and Monday, August 31, at 7 p.m. Prepare
an uptempo vocal selection from
any stage music and a one to threeminute monologue. Be prepared
for dance or movement work. Register by E-mail to [email protected]. Production opens Friday,
November 13, at Kelsey Theater.
Scholarships
Higher Education Student Assistance Authority approved the tuition aid grant program and parttime tuition aide grant program for
community college students. www.hessa.org or call 800-792-8670.
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Health & Wellness
Caregiver Support Group,
Alzheimer’s Association,
Woodlands, 256 Bunn Drive,
Suite 6, Princeton, 800-883-1180.
www.alz.org. 2 p.m.
History
Pleasant Valley Wagon Tours,
Howell Living History Farm,
Valley Road, off Route 29, Titusville, 609-737-3299. www.howellfarm.org. 30-minute tours
of the school, five farmsteads, a
family burying ground, a millstream with archaeologic sites,
and elements of historic landscape. Hosted by historians Larry
and Jane Kidder, David Blackwell,
and Charles Hunter of the Pleasant Valley Vigilant Association.
Free. 10:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Guided Tour, NJ State House,
West State Street, Trenton, 609633-2709. www.njleg.state.nj.us.
Guided tours hourly. Free. Noon
to 3 p.m.
Civil War and Native American
Museum, Camp Olden, 2202
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5858900. www.campolden.org. Exhibits featuring Civil War soldiers
from New Jersey include their
original uniforms, weapons, and
medical equipment. Diorama of
the Swamp Angel artillery piece
and Native American artifacts.
Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
For Families
Community Yoga, In Balance
Center for Living, 230 South
Branch Road, Hillsborough, 908369-4949. www.inbalancecenter.com. Mixed level class. $17. 9
a.m.
A Taste of the Wild, East Brunswick Library, Jean Walling Civic
Center, 732-390-6767. www.ebpl.org. Traveling zoo includes a
wallaby. Free. 7 p.m.
Family Theater
Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street,
New Hope, 215-862-2041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. $8.
11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
The Emperor’s New Clothes,
Somerset Valley Players,
Amwell Road, Hillsborough, 908369-7469. www.svptheatre.org.
Family drama. $14. 1 and 4 p.m.
Live Music
Country and Bluegrass Music
Show, WDVR-FM, Lambertville
Assembly of God Church, 638
Route 518, Lambertville, 609397-1620. www.wdvrfm.org.
Heartlands Hayride Band. $10.
Food available. 6 to 8 p.m.
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7 p.m.
Carole Lynne and Pat Pratico
Duo, Jester’s Cafe, 233 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, 609298-9963. Register. 7 to 10 p.m.
Clifford Adams, The Record Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. www.therecord-collector.com. Jazz organ
trio. $12. 7:30 p.m.
Tony M, Bowman’s Tavern, 1600
River Road, New Hope, PA, 215862-2972. www.bowmanstavernrestaurant.com. 8 p.m.
Jim Gaven, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing
www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
Bob Egan’s Open Mic Night, Logan Inn, 10 West Ferry Street,
New Hope, PA, 215-862-2300.
www.loganinn.com. 8 p.m.
Gerrence McManus and Gerry
Hemingway Duo, Small World
Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-4377. www.smallworldcoffee.com. McManus
on guitar and Hemingway on
drums. This is the group’s final
concert in the area as Hemingway
is relocating to Switzerland. 8:30
to 11 p.m.
Meg Hansen Group, Sotto 128,
128 1/2 Nassau Street, 609-9217555. Featuring Billy Hill. 9 p.m.
to midnight.
Sean Cox Band, JoJo’s Tavern,
2677 Nottingham Way, Trenton,
609-586-2678. www.jojostavern.com. 9:30 p.m.
Wunderlust, Triumph Brewing
Company, 138 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. $5 cover. Must
be 21. 10:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Wonder Walk for Families: Surprises in the Stream, Duke
Farms, 80 Route 206 South,
Hillsborough, 908-722-3700.
www.dukefarms.org. Bring your
boots or stream-walking shoes.
Register. $8; $20 per family. 10
a.m. to noon.
Also, Walk on the Wild Side.
Self-guided nature walk. Free. 10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Family Nature Programs, Plainsboro Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner
www.njaudubon.org. “Forest Foray” presented by Shari-Beth
Nadell. Register. $5. 3:30 to 5
p.m.
Night Hike, Washington Crossing State Park, Visitor Center, Titusville, 609-737-0609. Naturalistguided hike and campfire. Bring a
flashlight. Register. $5 per car.
Enter the park from the Bear Tavern Road entrance. 8:30 p.m.
Schools
Open House, Pegasus Children’s Academy, 281 Pennington Lawrenceville Road, Pennington, 609-737-2693. www.pegasuschildrensacademy.com.
Full and part time programs for infants through kindergarten. 10
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Pure Farce: The Shakespeare Theater of New
Jersey in Madison presents 'Noises Off,' the
quintessential farce about the theater, through
Sunday, August 30. 973-408-5600 Pictured:
Katie Fabel and Scott Barrow. Photo: Gerry Goodstein
What’s in Store
Socials
609-921-2333. www.palmersquare.com. Karl Latham performs from 2 to 4 p.m. 10 a.m.
16. 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Class of 1989 Reunion, West
Windsor-Plainsboro School
District, Mercer Oaks Golf Club,
725 Village Road West, West
Windsor, 609-275-9260. www.wwphs1989.com. 20-year reunion. Open bar, hors d’oeuvres,
and dancing. Music by Hyperactive. $85. Spouses and significant
others are welcome. The weekend events also include a golf outing and a family picnic. E-mail
[email protected] for information. 7 p.m.
Singles
Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates,
Princeton Area, 732-759-2174.
dinnermates.com. Ages 30s to early 50s. Call for and location. $20
plus dinner and drinks. 7:30 p.m.
Dance Party, Steppin’ Out Singles, Hyatt, 3 Speedwell Avenue,
Morristown, 732-656-1801. www.steppinoutsingles.com. Ages 40
and up. $15. 8:30 p.m.
Sports
Bicycle Tours, Duke Farms, 80
Route 206 South, Hillsborough,
908-722-3700. www.dukefarms.org. Seven-mile ride. Bring mountain bike and helmet. Register.
$10. 8 to 10 a.m.
AUGUST 12, 2009
Sunday
August 16
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Have You
Tried a Meetup?
Brunch, Central Jersey Dining
Out Meetup, Bistro Soleil, 173
Mercer Street, Hightstown, 609577-2802. www.diningoutmeetup.com. Register. 10 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Classical Music
Carillon Concert, Princeton University, Grover Cleveland Tower,
Graduate College, 609-258-3654.
Concert on the fifth largest carillon in the country. Free. 1 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Summer Concert Series, Morrisville, Williamson Park, Delmorr
Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-2958181. www.morrisville-boro-gov.com. Thursday Night Jazz. Bring
a blanket or chair. Free. 6 to 8
p.m.
Pop Music
Creed, PNC Bank Arts Center,
Holmdel, 732-203-2500. www.livenation.com. Prices vary. 8
p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Honig Gallery, 47
West Broad Street, Hopewell,
646-345-5538. New works by
painter Marilyn Honig. 11 a.m. to
5:30 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. www.artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2
p.m.
Dance
Rahul Acharya, Integral Yoga Institute Princeton, 613 Ridge
Road, Monmouth Junction, 732274-2410. www.iyiprinceton.com.
“Transforming the Soul Through
Dance.” Register. $25 to $30. 6
p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Drama
1934 film. $24. 2 p.m.
Musical about popular musicals
presented by Pennington Players. $16. 2 p.m.
Cooney. $27.50 to $29.50. 2 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Good Causes
Civil War and Native American
Museum, Camp Olden, 2202
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5858900. www.campolden.org. Exhibits featuring Civil War soldiers
from New Jersey include their
original uniforms, weapons, and
medical equipment. Diorama of
the Swamp Angel artillery piece
and Native American artifacts.
Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
Open Hearth Cooking, Pennsbury Manor, 400 Pennsbury
Memorial Road, Morrisville, PA,
215-946-0400. www.pennsbudymanor.org. “Spring in the 17th
Century.” $5; children, $3. 1 to 4
p.m.
From Revolution to Relativity,
Historical Society of Princeton,
Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau
www.princetonhistory.org. Classic
walking tour of downtown Princeton and Princeton University includes stops at Nassau Hall, University Chapel, Woodrow Wilson’s homes, and Einstein’s residence. Register by phone or Email [email protected]. $7. 2 p.m.
Art Show and Sale, That Pottery
Place, 217 Clarksville Road,
Richi Patel, a rising junior at High
School North, hosts an art gallery
to benefit HomeFront. All paintings are original. 6 to 8 p.m.
Classic Car Show
Bear Creek Assisted Living, 291
Village Road East, West Windsor,
609-918-1075. www.bearcreekassistedliving.com. Classic and
collectble cars. Food and covered
picnic area available. 11 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Faith
Summer Lectures, Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, 39 Mt. Airy Village Road, Lambertville, 609397-2086. Explore the Old Testament prophets and prophecies
with Jeremy M. Hutton, Princeton
Theological Seminary professor.
5:30 p.m.
Our Capital City’s
Premier Historic Site
Guided Tours: Daily 12:30 to 4:00pm
Family Fun Saturdays:
September 12th
2 pm
Learn Easy Colonial
Dances! Fun for Everyone –
Even Those with 2 left feet!
Ample Free Parking
15 Market Street ★ Trenton, New Jersey ★ (609) 989-3027
www.williamtrenthouse.org
The 1719 William Trent House Museum is owned, maintained and operated by the City of Trenton,
Department of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture, Division of Culture, with assistance from the
New Jersey Historical Commission, Department of State
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Farmers Market, Lawrenceville
Main Street, 16 Gordon Avenue,
Lawrenceville, 609-219-9300.
www.LawrencevilleMainStreet.com. Vegetables, fruits, flowers,
herbs, meat, and poultry. 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Brunch, Central Jersey Dining
Out Meetup, Bistro Soleil, 173
Mercer Street, Hightstown, 609577-2802. www.diningoutmeetup.com. Register. 10 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Trenton Farmers’ Market, 960
Spruce Street, Lawrence, 609695-2998. www.thetrentonfarmersmarket.com. Farm vendors, food producers, wineries,
cooking demonstrations, and musical entertainment. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Wine Tasting for Dummies,
Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road,
Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Wine, cheese, fruit,
and instructions for savoring the
flavors. Register. $30. 2 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Relaxation Workshop, Needs
Approach Counseling, Relaxation and Intuition Training, 4446
Route 27, Kingston, 732-2201663. www.needsapproach.com.
Andrew Arneson facilitates intensive workshop for relaxation,
emotional healing, and intuition
development. Register. $20. 7 to
8:45 p.m.
History
Just Jazz: Clifford Adams brings his jazz organ
trio to the Record Collector in Bordentown on Saturday, August 15. www.the-record-collector.com.
Family Theater
The Emperor’s New Clothes,
Somerset Valley Players,
Amwell Road, Hillsborough, 908369-7469. www.svptheatre.org.
Family drama. $14. 1 and 4 p.m.
Live Music
Aimee Robidoux, Stockton Inn,
1 Main Street, Stockton, 609-3971250. www.stocktoninn.com. $15
cover, $10 minimum. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
6 Day Bender, John & Peter’s, 96
South Main Street, New Hope,
215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
District, Rosedale Park, Federal
City Road, Pennington, 609-2759260. www.wwphs1989.com. 20year reunion. Family picnic with
subs, hot dogs, hamburgers, and
soft drinks. BYO wine or beer. Email [email protected]
for information. Noon.
Sports
Softball Game, Outer Circle Ski
Club, Plainsboro Park, 609-7994674. outercircleskiclub.org. Pick
up game for adults over 21. 2 p.m.
Monday
August 17
What’s in Store
609-921-2333. www.palmersquare.com. Eric Mintel performs
from 1 to 3 p.m. 10 a.m.
16. Noon to 5 p.m.
Reunion
Class of 1989 Reunion, West
Windsor-Plainsboro School
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Children’s Hospital Benefit
Golf Outing, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Foundation, Jasna Polana, Princeton,
732-937-8750. www.rwjuhfdn.org. Benefit for the children’s hospital. Register. $500 includes
greens fee, golf cart, barbecue
lunch, snacks, cocktail reception,
buffet dinner, awards, and program. 11 a.m.
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August 17
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 5000 Windrows Drive,
Plainsboro, 732-469-3983. www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15
p.m.
Art
Dancing
Salsa Dance Lessons, International Arts Collaborative,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609333-0266. www.princetonsalsa.org. Jose (Papo) Diaz instructs
advanced beginners at 7; and beginners at 8:30 p.m. No partner
necessary. $20. 7 p.m.
Health & Wellness
MoMA Highlights, Princeton
Public Library, Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. “History of
the Museum of Modern Art” presented by a member of the staff.
Explore highlights of Cezanne,
Seurat, Van Gogh, Picasso,
Kandinsky, and Pollack in a slide
talk. Free. 7 p.m.
Blood Drive, University Medical
Center at Princeton, Medical
Arts Building, Witherspoon Street,
609-497-4366. www.princetonhcs.org. All blood types needed
— especially O negative and O
positive blood. Thomas Sweet
Pint for Pint ice cream program.
Free valet parking for donors.
Open Mondays to Fridays, 7:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Kids Stuff
Panic Relief, Lambertville Public
Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0275. www.lambertvillelibrary.org. “Letting Go of
Anger.” Free. 7 p.m.
Professor W’s Earth Science
Circus, South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000.
www.sbpl.info. Juggling, magic,
audience participation focuses on
environmental concerns. For K to
6. Register. Free. 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Drama
For Families
Film
Lectures
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township,
609-989-6922. www.mcl.org.
Screening of “Coraline,” 2009.
Free. 6:30 p.m.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, County Theater, 20
East State Street, Doylestown,
PA. www.countytheater.org. 1969
movie starring Paul Newman and
Robert Redford. 7 p.m.
New Member Orientation, Professional Service Group of Mercer County, One Stop Career
Center, 26 Yard Avenue, Trenton,
609-292-7535. “How Can PSG
Help in Job Search?” Free. 10
a.m.
Autism Bounce Night, Bounce
U, 410 Princeton Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-4435867. www.bounceu.com. $7.95;
adults, free. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
West Windsor Senior Center,
609-799-9068. Computerized
photo for photo ID card. Register.
Free. Noon.
RALPH LAUREN • ELLEN TRACY • ESCADA
YES!
You Can Buy
Beautiful Clothes
on a Limited Budget.
1378 Route 206, Village Shopper Skillman, NJ 08558 • 609-924-2288
M-F 10-6; Thurs. 10-7; Sat. 10:30-5 • Consignments by appointment
DONNA KARAN • LOUIS FERAUD • MONDI
LAGERFELD • CHLOE • JAEGER
ARMANI • CHANEL • HERMES
Can You Hear Them Crying,
Center Playhouse, 35 South
Street, Freehold, 732-462-9093.
www.centerplayers.org. Staged
reading and discussion of drama
by and for children based on the
book, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly.” Free. 8 p.m.
Funk, Jazz, Groove: Eastside Vibe, right,
performs on Friday, August 14, a part of the
Rockout event at Joe’s Mill Hill Saloon, 300 South
Broad Street, Trenton. Also, Daddy Green Jeans,
Chattahoochee Payload, the Escapists, the
Mean, Mark Dapp, Sideshow Prophets, Lost in
Company, and Amleah. 609-394-7222.
Sports for Causes
Golf Classic, UIH Family Partners, Hopewell Valley Golf Club,
609-695-3663. www.uih.org. Luncheon, silent auction, scramble
format tournament, putting contest, buffet dinner, awards, and
cash bar. Register. $150; dinner
only, $50. 10 a.m.
Golf Outing, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Foundation, Jasna Polana, Princeton,
732-937-8750. www.rwjuhfdn.org. Benefit for the children’s hospital. Register. $500 includes
greens fee, golf cart, barbecue
lunch, snacks, cocktail reception,
buffet dinner, awards, and program. 11 a.m.
Tuesday
August 18
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Jersey Corn for Dinner
Jersey Fresh Tuesdays, Bistro
Soleil, 173 Mercer Street, Hightstown, 609-443-9700. Cornthemed dinner menu featuring
Jersey Fresh produce. Call for
reservations. 6:30 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Greenway Amphitheater at 202
Carnegie Center, 609-452-1444.
Lunchtime music series. Free.
Noon.
Concerts on the Landing, Patriots Theater at the War
Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive,
Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. B.D. Lenz.
Free. Noon.
Pop Music
Crue Fest, PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, 732-203-2500. livenation.com. Prices vary. 2 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Barron Arts Center,
582 Rahway Avenue, Woodbridge, 732-634-0413. Opening
reception for “Body Scapes,” a
collection of professional life model drawings by members of the
Barron Life Drawing Group. On
view to August 28. Donations invited. Reservations suggested.
Free. 7:30 p.m.
Drama
7:30 p.m.
Film
Psycho, County Theater, 20 East
State Street, Doylestown, PA.
www.countytheater.org. 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic starring
Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins.
Also, Wednesday, August 19, at 7
p.m. 4 p.m.
Artists and Art, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Screening of “George
Segal: American Still Life,” a documentary produced by New Jersey Network in 2008. Based in
South Brunswick, Segal was a
pop artist known for life-size plaster casts in major museums and
public spaces throughout the
country. Free. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Bollywood Dance Workshop,
East Brunswick Library, Jean
Walling Civic Center, 732-3906767. www.ebpl.org. Madhavi
Devasthali of the Nupur School of
Dance presents Bollywood dance
moves to the tune of “Jai Ho,” a
song from “Slumdog Millionaire.”
Free. 7 p.m.
Food & Dining
Princeton Farmers Market, Pine
and Nassau streets, Princeton,
609-924-8431. www.princetonfarmersmarket.com. Produce,
poultry, eggs, cheese, breads,
baked goods, flowers, and chef
cooking demonstrations. Rain or
shine. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Jersey Fresh Tuesdays, Bistro
Soleil, 173 Mercer Street, Hightstown, 609-443-9700. Cornthemed dinner menu featuring
Jersey Fresh produce. Call for
reservations. 6:30 p.m.
Wine Dinner, Rocky Hill Inn, 137
Washington Street, Rocky Hill,
609-683-8930. Six-course dinner.
Health & Wellness
Free Screenings, Centra State
Medical Center, 312 Applegarth
Road, Suite 103, Monroe, 732308-0570. Free glucose and
blood pressure screenings. Register. 10 a.m.
Open House, Sunny Health Center, 16 Seminary Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-1227. Free 15minute massage. Register. 10
a.m. to 8 p.m.
Cross, Adath Israel, 1958 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville,
800-GIVELIFE. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 2 to 8 p.m.
Alzheimer’s Association,
Abrams Assisted Living, 50 Walter Street, Ewing, 800-883-1180.
www.alz.org. 7 p.m.
Wellness, Cailen Ascher Designs, 118 Worman Road, Stockton, 908-581-8191. Nutrition, fitness, and motivation. Register.
$25. 7 to 8 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Read & Pick on the Farm: Pears,
Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold
Soil Road, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Story time,
craft activity, and fruit or vegetable picking. Register. $7. 9:30
and 11 a.m.
Storytime, Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor, 609-7161570. www.bn.com. 10:30 a.m.
For Parents
Special Education Basics Parent Training, Family Support
Organization, 3535 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-5861200. “Tips for All Parents and
Recognizing Your Child’s Special
Needs.” Register. Free. 6 to 8:30
p.m.
Lectures
Quick Books Class, Joseph
Gormley, Mercerville Fire Company, 2711 Nottingham Way,
Hamilton, 609-936-9336. www.joegormleycpa.com. Basics. Register. $149. 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ewing Library, 61 Scotch Road,
Ewing, 609-882-3148. “Overcoming Circumstances: Past and Present” presented by Panic Relief.
Register. 7 p.m.
Hamilton Philatelic Society,
Hamilton Library, Justice Samuel
A. Alito Jr. Way, Hamilton, 609890-8211. www.hamilton.home.att.net. Meeting. 7 p.m.
South Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. “Improving Your Workplace
Performance with Meditation” presented by Jim Rose. 7 p.m.
AUGUST 12, 2009
Laser Concert
Branch, 908-526-1200. www.raritanval.edu. Laser U2. $6. 8:30
p.m.
Live Music
George Sinkler, Limelight, 812
North Easton Road, Doylestown,
PA, 215-345-6330. Piano bar with
guest musicians and singers. 7 to
11 p.m.
Colleges
Information Sessions, Raritan
Valley Community College,
Route 28, North Branch, 908-2536688. Information for working
adults. 5 to 7 p.m.
Singles
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
Yardley, 215-736-1288. Register.
6 p.m.
Socials
Men’s Circle, West Windsor, 609933-4280. Share, listen, and support other men and yourself. Talk
about relationship, no relationship, separation, divorce, sex, no
sex, money, job, no job, aging
parents, raising children, teens,
addictions, illness, and fear of aging. All men are expected to commit to confidentiality. Call for location. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
Sports
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Erie. Latin American
Night presented by the Latino
Women’s Council. Robinson
Cano photo mini bats to the first
1,000 fans. Bring used baseball
equipment to benefit Roberto’s
kids. $5 to $10. 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday
August 19
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Happy Baby
Hands-On Skills with Your Baby,
Princeton HealthCare System,
Hamilton Area YMCA, 1315
Whitehorse Mercerville Road,
Hamilton, 888-897-8979. www.princetonhcs.org. Part two of
class, “The Happiest Baby on the
Block.” Register. $60. 7 to 8:30
p.m.
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At the Movies
Confirm titles with theaters.
(500) Days of Summer. Romantic comedy starring Joseph
Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. AMC, MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
Aliens in the Attic. Sci-fi with
alien invaders. AMC, Destinta,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Away We Go. Romantic drama
starring John Krasinski and Maya
Rudolph in search of a place to
raise their family. Montgomery.
Cheri. Romantic drama set in
France stars Michelle Pfeiffer and
Kathy Bates. Montgomery.
The Collector. Horror crime
film. AMC, Destinta, Multiplex,
Regal.
Food, Inc. Documentary about
food industry in the United States.
Montgomery.
Funny People. Comedy with
Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan.
AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
G-Force. Disney digital 3D
with animated guinea pigs in action. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra. Action directed by Stephen
Sommers. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
The Hangover. Comedy about
a bachelor party in Vegas. AMC,
MarketFair, Regal.
Bana Bares All:
Rachel McAdams
and Eric Bana star in
‘The Time Traveler’s
Wife,’ opening on
Friday, August 14.
Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince. Daniel Radcliffe returns in the title role. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
The Hurt Locker. War adventure set in Baghdad in 2004. AMC,
Montgomery, Multiplex.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Animation with voices of
Ray Romano, John Leguizamo,
Denis Leary, and Queen Latifah.
AMC, Destinta, Regal.
In the Loop. Comedy about
war. Montgomery.
Julie & Julia. Comedy with
Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
AMC, MarketFair, Montgomery,
Multiplex, Regal.
My Sister’s Keeper. Drama
about a child with leukemia starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, and Alec Baldwin. AMC.
Orphan. Horror with Peter
Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, and Isabelle Fuhrman. AMC, Destinta,
Multiplex, Regal.
A Perfect Getaway. Thriller directed by David Twohy. AMC,
Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex.
Classical Music
Art
Summer Sing Session, Bucks
County Choral Society, Lutheran Church of the Resurrection,
1700 Makefield Road, Yardley,
PA, 215-598-6142. www.buckschoral.org. Mozart’s Requiem.
Rental scores available, $1. Reception follows. $8. 7 p.m.
Exhibition and Sale, Princeton
Area Community Foundation,
15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville,
609-219-1800. www.pacf.org. Exhibition and sale featuring works
of Princeton artist Thomas
George including brush and ink
drawings, abstract oil paintings,
watercolors, and the last remaining pastels of the Institute Pond
series. Through Thursday, December 31. 9 a.m.
Pop Music
Allman Brothers, PNC Bank Arts
Center, Holmdel, 732-203-2500.
www.livenation.com. Prices vary.
8 p.m.
Drama
Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakes-
The Proposal. Romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock and Ryan
Reynolds. AMC, MarketFair,
Multiplex.
Public Enemies. Crime drama
with Johnny Depp and Christian
Bale. AMC.
The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Opens Friday, August 14. Romantic drama based on Audrey Niffenegger’s novel. AMC, Regal.
Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen. Action with Megan Fox
and Shia LaBeouf. AMC, Destinta,
Regal.
The Ugly Truth. Romantic
comedy starring Katherine Heigl
and Gerard Butler. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Up. Disney animation with
voices of Edward Asner, Jordan
Nagai, Christopher Plummer, and
John Ratzenberger. AMC.
Whatever Works. Romantic
comedy with Larry David. Montgomery.
pearenj.org. Comedy by Michael
7:30 p.m.
All Shook Up, Bucks County
Center, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, 609-4972484. Screening of “A Man
Named Pearl.” Refreshments.
Register. Free. 1 p.m.
Psycho, County Theater, 20 East
State Street, Doylestown, PA.
www.countytheater.org. 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic starring
Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins.
7 p.m.
Film
NJN Film, New Jersey State Museum, Auditorium, 225 West
State Street, Trenton, 609-2925420. www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. Screening of “Touring New Jersey.” Free. 1 p.m.
Movie Series for Seniors,
Princeton Senior Resource
Venues
AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, 325
Sloan Avenue , I-295 Exit 65-A, 609890-8307.
Destinta, Independence Plaza,
264 South Broad Street, Hamilton,
609-888-4500.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau
MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South,
Montgomery Center Theater,
Routes 206 and 518, Rocky Hill,
609-924-7444.
Multiplex Cinemas Town Center
Plaza, 319 Route 130 North, East
Windsor, 609-371-8472.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South,
New Brunswick, 732-940-8343.
Dancing
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
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August 19
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction and
dance. $7. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Hickory Corner
Library, 138 Hickory Corner
Road, East Windsor, 609-4481330. Shobham Bantwal, author
of “The Dowry Bride” and “The
Forbidden Daughter,” discusses
her two novels. 7 p.m.
Food & Dining
Farmers Market, Hopewell Train
Station, 1 Railroad Place,
Hopewell, 609-466-8330. Farm
fresh vegetables, breads, maple
syrup, meats, and more. 2 to 7
p.m.
Red wine. 5 to 8 p.m.
Health & Wellness
609-716-8700. www.windsorholistichealth.com. One on one.
Register. $60. 9 a.m.
Assisted Living and Adult Day
Care Services, West Windsor
Library, 333 North Post Road,
609-799-0462. A representative
from Buckingham Place explains
senior services available in the
community. 6:30 p.m.
Seminar, Chicklet Bookstore,
Princeton Shopping Center, 301
North Harrison Street, 609-2792121. www.chickletbooks.com.
“What Is a Guru and Why You
Need One” presented by Acharya
Girish Jha. Register. 7 to 8:30
p.m.
Hands-On Skills with Your Baby,
Princeton HealthCare System,
Hamilton Area YMCA, 1315
Whitehorse Mercerville Road,
Hamilton, 888-897-8979. www.princetonhcs.org. Part two of
class, “The Happiest Baby on the
Block.” Register. $60. 7 to 8:30
p.m.
Overeaters Anonymous, Princeton Alliance Church, Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609750-7349. www.overeatersanonymous.com. 12-step program with meetings, studies, discussion, and speakers. 7:30 to
8:30 p.m.
Resonance Repatterning, Windsor Holistic Health, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 435, Plainsboro,
Saritha Regulapati, MD
Board Certified, Internal Medicine
Primary Care - Above 12 Years
USCIS Medical Exam
462 New Road • Monmouth Jct.
(Near South Brunswick YMCA)
Mon-Fri: 9 am-7pm • Sat: 9am-2pm
DoctorSaritha.com • 732-274-2557
For Parents
Breastfeeding Support, La
Leche League of Princeton,
Princeton Alliance Church, Scudders Mill and Schalks Crossing
roads, Plainsboro, 609-799-1302.
Information and support for mothers and expectant mothers. Babies are welcome. Free. 10 a.m.
Parent Anonymous Meeting,
Family Support Organization,
3535 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-586-1200. Share questions, concerns, problems, and
solutions about parenting. 6 to 8
p.m.
Lectures
Princeton Corridor Rotary, Doubletree Hotel, 4355 Route 1
South, 609-448-0110. www.princetoncorridorrotary.org. “The
Power of LinkedIn” presented as
a means to facilitate peer-to-peer
interactions, commentary, and information-sharing presented by
Fred Young, Glenmede Trust
Company, and Joy E. Stocke,
Wild River Review. $30. 3 p.m.
Manifestations of the Prodigal
Daughter, Lawrence Library,
Darrah Lane and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-577-4249.
www.mcl.org. Discussion of the
impact of separation in the lives of
children with incarcerated parents
and at risk youth with the focus on
the benefits of mentoring. Opportunities for volunteers. Refreshments. 6 to 8 p.m.
Live Music
Live music with Darla Rich Duo.
Food and wine available. Free
admission. 5 to 8 p.m.
Acoustic Singer-Songwriter
Showcase, KatManDu, Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton,
609-393-7300. www.katmandutrenton.com. Sandy Zio, Shaun
Ruymen, Danny Defonza, Jon
Lall, Kevin Toft, Jason Ager, Deb
Cohen, Papa Carl and Brian
Summers, and Four the
Day Band. 7:30 to 11
p.m.
Jason Sprague, John &
Peter’s, 96 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Nature at the Farm, Mercer County Park Commission, Howell Living
History Farm, Titusville,
609-989-6540. www.mercercounty.org. Farmers rely on the environment and how nature interacts with plants and
animals on the farm. For
families. Free. 10 to
11:30 a.m.
Sports
Bring Your Blankie:
The Karl Latham
Group performs jazz
on Saturday, August
15, outdoors on the
green at Palmer
Square. 609-9212333.
609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com. Erie. $5 to $10.
7:05 p.m.
Thursday
August 20
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: A Party with
Swing Dance Lessons
Outdoor Concerts
Patio at 502 Carnegie Center,
609-452-1444. Free. Noon.
Rackett, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton Shopping Center,
609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Cover band.
Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Drama
All Shook Up, Bucks County
p.m.
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Film
International Film Festival, Monroe Public Library, 4 Municipal
Plaza, Monroe, 732-521-5000.
www.monroetwplibrary.org.
Screening of “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation,” Portugal,
2007. Register. $1. 2 and 6:30
p.m.
Dancing
Rahul Acharya, Integral Yoga Institute Princeton, 613 Ridge
Road, Monmouth Junction, 732274-2410. www.iyiprinceton.com.
Dance workshop. Register. $40.
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, 609-273-1378.
www.theblackcattango.com. Beginner and intermediate classes
followed by guided practice. $10.
8 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
JB Smoove, The Stress Factory,
90 Church Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-4242. www.stressfactory.com. $20 to $22. 8
p.m.
Market
Capital City Market, Trenton
Downtown Association, State
Street Commons, East State between Warren and Broad streets,
Trenton, 609-393-8998. www.trenton-downtown.com. Music,
vendors, and historical tours. 11
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Food & Dining
Making the Most of Local Produce, Lawrence Library, Darrah
Lane and Route 1, Lawrence
Township, 609-989-6922. www.mcl.org. Linda Aldrich, a holistic
health counselor, discusses the
health and cost benefits of eating
locally grown produce. Refreshments. Register. Free. 7 to 8:30
p.m.
Reading Labels in the Library,
The Inn at Fernbrook Farm, 146
Bordentown Georgetown Road,
Chesterfield, 609-298-3868. Register. $35. 7 to 9 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Alzheimer’s Association, RWJ
Center for Health and Wellness,
3100 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 800-883-1180.6:30 p.m.
WOMEN SEEKING MEN
Is there a retired (or close to it) gent
who would like to meet this petite,
healthy, educated but middlebrow,
60ish JDF? I am financially secure (but
not wealthy), relocatable, sadly without
much family. Let’s go Dutch for dinner.
Box 235930.
WWF Seeks WW/D Gentleman mid
70s. I’m blond, pretty, vivacious, classy,
and fun to be with. I enjoy the outdoors
as well as museums, theatre, dancing,
fine dining, and quiet times. I’m very discriminating and hope you are too. Do
you ever feel alone in a crowded room?
If you are lonely but unwilling to settle,
as I am, then you know the feeling.
Yoga, Lambertville Public Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville,
609-397-0275. www.lambertvillelibrary.org. Ogden Kruger presents gentle yoga with asanas,
breathing exercises, and simple
mantras. Bring a mat and blanket.
Free. 6:30 p.m.
History
Lunchtime Tour, First Presbyterian Church, 120 East State
Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400.
www.trenton-downtown.com.
Tour the church, formed in 1712
and built in 1726, and its burial
grounds. Free. Noon.
For Parents
Parenting Your Teen, Windsor
Holistic Health, 666 Plainsboro
Road, Suite 435, Plainsboro, 609716-8700. www.windsorholistichealth.com. “Nine Keys,” a workshop to restore communication
and respect in the home. Register. $45. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Lectures
Seminar for Professional Advisors, Princeton Area Community Foundation, Nassau Club,
Princeton, 609-219-1800. www.pacf.org. “Investing with a longterm view in interesting times”
presented by Andrew K. Golden,
trustee and president of PRINCO.
Register. $35. 7:30 a.m.
Meeting, Toastmasters Club,
CUH2A, 1000 Lenox Drive, Lawrenceville, 609-252-9667. www.tmdistrict38.org. Bring lunch.
Beverages provided. Noon.
Laser Concert
Branch, 908-526-1200. www.raritanval.edu. Best of Pink Floyd.
$6. 8:30 p.m.
Live Music
Karen Zumbrunn Jazz Trio,
Hillsborough Library, 379 South
Branch Road, Hillsborough, 908369-2200. Free. 7 to 8 p.m.
Gentle Jazz, Nick’s Cafe 72, 72
West Upper Ferry Road, West
Trenton, 609-882-0087. www.cafe72nj.com. Al Oliver, sax and
vocals; and Gerry Groves, flute.
BYOB. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Singer Songwriter Showcase,
Triumph Brewing Company,
138 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-924-7855. www.triumphbrew.com. Hosted by Frank
Thewes. 9 p.m.
Justin Pope and Friends, John
& Peter’s, 96 South Main Street,
New Hope, 215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
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Outdoor Action
Pontoon Boat Tours, Mercer
County Park Commission, Mercer County Park Marina, West
Windsor, 609-989-6540. Search
for the flora and fauna in the lake
area. Binoculars for birding invited. For families and adults. 2 to
3:30 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, BT Bistro, 3499
Route 1 South, West Windsor,
609-919-9403. Discount appetizers and drinks. 5 to 8 p.m.
Dinner, Yardley Singles, Barbara’s Hungarian Food, 1400
Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 215736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. BYOB. 6 p.m.
Meeting, Mercer Single Volunteers, Lawrence Library, Route 1
South and Darrah Lane, 609-8821339. www.mcsvnj.org. Connect
by helping others. New members
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AUGUST 12, 2009
FILM
LITERATURE
DANCE
DRAMA
MUSIC
PREVIEW
A Former Computer Engineer Picks Up a Brush
by Susan Van Dongen
A
n Internet friend came
up with a little game that artist Andrew Werth enjoys playing. He
reaches for the nearest book —
making sure it’s not the “coolest”
one — opens it to page 56, goes to
the fifth sentence, then sets it to his
status on Facebook. Recently, he
tried this exercise and wound up
with his hands on “Teach Yourself
to Dream,” by David Fontana. It
was a bit of synchronicity for
Werth since he was preparing to exhibit his large, acrylic-on-wood
painting “Expectation” at Trenton’s Gallery 125, in a group show
titled “Dreaming.”
“I found this book, which I
thought was a practical way to get
into lucid dreaming, with a lot of
different visualization techniques
you can do to direct your dreams,”
Werth says. “I’ve always been interested in dreaming, but more in
philosophy of mind, how we make
sense of the world, what happens in
our unconscious, what happens in
sleep. And of course, dreams are an
important part of that.”
“Dreaming” features 32 works
in various media by 20 artists from
the Trenton Artists’ Workshop Association, based on the theme of
dreaming. Curated by Gallery 125
manager Joanne Donnelly Seglem,
the exhibit captures imaginative
and surrealistic depictions of the
dream world and gives a glimpse
into the artists’ hidden fantasies,
ideas, and emotions, which range
from silly and childlike to emotive
and contemplative. “Dreaming”
opens with a reception on Friday,
August 14, and runs through Friday, September 4.
A West Windsor resident, Werth
was not only inspired by dreams
and dream philosophies, but by the
wood itself on which “Expectation” is painted. At 18-by-60 inches the heavy hunk of wood was
once a table top and still has the
spacers attached to its back, so it
hangs several inches off the wall.
“It was a side or end table, something that I had in my apartment for
years,” Werth says. “The table legs
weren’t holding up but it was such
beautiful wood, I didn’t want to
discard it. I mostly paint on canvas
or Ampersand pre-gessoed panels,
so this makes a nice surface, something different.”
Like most of his works, which
might be described as abstract
“mindscapes,” “Expectation” has a
maze-like, brainy quality to it — in
fact, the myriad squiggles might
even remind you of the brain’s surface. With his passion for cognitive
science and philosophy, it’s no surprise that Werth’s paintings have an
essence of “brainiac” to them.
“(These subjects) definitely inform
my brainy paintings,” he says.
“The book might be talking about a
topic and I’ll start thinking, ‘that’s
an interesting title for a painting,
but how to capture it?’ Sometimes
it will be through form, sometimes
through color, or even something
even looser.”
Making His Mark: ‘Expectation,' above, acrylic
on wood, on view in the group show 'Dreaming,'
opening on Friday, August 14, at Gallery 125, and
'The Reality Problem,' right, acrylic panel, on view
in a duo show with Marc Reed, opening on Friday,
September 11, at Artists' Gallery in Lambertville.
In his artist’s statement, he says:
“In particular, my recent paintings
deal with the embodied mind, a
contemporary theory of mind
which says that the way we think
about the world is directly shaped
by the physical nature of our bodies
and that our abstract reasoning
processes are largely metaphorical.”
W
erth points to Douglas
Hofstadter, author, philosopher,
and professor of cognitive science
at Indiana University in Bloomington as a major influence, especially
his Pulitzer Prize-winning book,
“Godel, Escher, and Bach: An
Eternal Golden Braid.” And yes,
you might see a bit of M.C. Escher’s influence in Werth’s paintings
as well, with their tiny, interconnected brushstrokes. The artist
says childhood was another influence for him, a time when he would
absorb himself in his pencil-on-paper “brainiac” mazes.
Although Werth enjoyed creating Escher-like doodles as a child,
he recalls having to be “dragged to
art museums, kicking and screaming” by his parents. He grew up in a
handful of towns in central and
northern New Jersey, notably Teaneck and Freehold. His father was
in market research for Westwood
One and other radio networks, and
his mother was a stay-at-home
mom. But she was determined to
inoculate some culture into Werth
and his brother, so the family often
visited the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, the Whitney Museum and
other landmark museums and galleries in Manhattan.
“I liked taking art classes in the
lower grades but then it fell away
from my life and I focused instead
on software and technology,” he
says. In 1991, Werth earned a B.S.
in computer engineering from the
Carnegie Institute of Technology,
part of Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh. In 1992, he followed
that up with a B.S. in information
networking from the university’s
Information Networking Institute.
Werth, 39, worked successfully in
software development for Bellcore
in Piscataway from 1991 to 1995,
then for CNET in Bridgewater until 1999, but found himself on the
management side of the company,
which he felt was less stimulating.
“Software development can be
very creative, but then I got into
management and got really burned
out by that,” he says. “I found myself spending all my time in meetings. That’s when I decided I wanted to get back into something more
creative.”
He moved into Manhattan early
in 2000, and vigorously began taking art and photography classes at
the School of Visual Arts, the Art
Students League, the International
Center of Photography, and the
New School. Werth also studied
philosophy of mind and cognitive
psychology at the New School.
In 2004, he had a piece in a
group show at the Salmagundi
Club and his work has appeared in
several shows at Artists Space in
New York. Werth has had an especially fortunate run in this area, and
has exhibited in a variety of galleries in central New Jersey, particularly Artworks, the Ellarslie Museum, and Gallery 125 in Trenton;
the gallery at Mercer County Community College; Conant Hall
Gallery at Educational Testing Service in Princeton (where he had a
solo show); the Johnson Education
Center of the D&R Greenway
Land Trust in Princeton; and
Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville,
where he is a member. Werth has
also shown his work at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, among other
non-local venues.
Four years ago, he settled in West
Windsor with his now-wife Karen
Yee, who is in management at Ortho-McNeill-Janssen Pharmaceuti-
cals in Titusville. “We both wanted
to get out of the city,” Werth says.
“As soon as we moved here, I
jumped right into the arts community. The first month I was here, I had
a painting accepted at Gallery 125,
titled ‘Awakening from a Dream
from a Problem Not Yet Solved.’”
He says he has left software development behind and is focusing on
art as a full-time career. “I’m working on it anyway,” Werth says.
N
ext up is a two-person show
at Artists’ Gallery, which opens on
Friday, September 11. Titled “Internal/External,” Werth will show
his paintings alongside works by
Marc Reed.
In addition to author Hofstadter,
Werth’s influences include Paul
Cezanne, Chuck Close, and especially Oscar Bleumner, noted for
his boldly simplified geometric
compositions and intense, colorinfused landscapes. “I first saw his
work at the Whitney, really liked it
and wanted to learn more about it,”
Werth says. “A few years later, the
Whitney had a huge Bleumner retrospective.”
There’s an element of rumination as the eye attempts to follow
Werth’s thousands of hand-painted
Artist Andrew Werth says creating his paintings ‘absolutely is
a meditative process. In fact, I get into the ‘flow,’ this state where
you’re so focused you lose track of time.’
marks of varying colors on multiple layers of paint — you get almost hypnotized focusing in on the
canvas. “When I decided to get
back into art, I asked myself, ‘what
would be personal for me?’ In
Manhattan, I saw shows where
mark-making was an important
part of the piece, that artists were
making valid artwork from repetition. I realized this would be a personal form of expression for me,
and would also make my paintings
pretty distinct. You can recognize
my work.”
Creating the paintings sends the
artist into a meditative state as well.
“Since it’s one stroke at a time, it
absolutely is a meditative process,”
Werth says. “In fact, I get into the
‘flow,’ this state where you’re so
focused you lose track of time. You
might have heard of musicians and
athletes getting into ‘flow’ as well.
When the painting process is going
at its best, that’s what’s happening
to me.”
Art Exhibit, Gallery 125, 125
South Warren Street, Trenton. Friday, August 14, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Opening reception for “Dreaming,” an art exhibit featuring 32
works in various media based on
the theme of dreaming, by 20
artists including Andrew Werth.
On view through Friday, September 4. Andrew Werth on the Web:
www.andrewwerth.com. 609-9899119 or www.gallery125.com.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through
Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday,
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Plainsboro Business, Reaching for the Stars
by Scott Morgan
Y
ou’re right. We should all
have jet packs by now. We should all
be vacationing on the moon, dining at
lunar satellite stations shaped like
colossal roulette wheels that serve the
best astro-burgers in the galaxy.
But just when things were heading
that way people stopped caring about
extraterrestrial endeavors, and the
Space Age came to a whimpering
end. In fits and starts, scientists who
had set out with dreams of colonizing
Mars long before 2001 tried to electroshock the American space program back to life, but even with the
promise of the space shuttle it never
regained its luster. Disaster and failure dogged NASA for years, and the
agency’s pleas for funding met a public that considered the conquest of
space little more than a dangerous
vanity project; that there are more important things to take care of right here on
Earth.
Even so, Michael Paluszek refuses to pull
the plug on the Space Age. As president and
founder of Princeton Satellite Systems, a
systems and software design firm that recently moved from downtown Princeton to
Market Street in Plainsboro, space science is
not just his business, it is what keeps his neck
perpetually craned toward the stars.
A software design firm, even one built for
outer space, sounds far more pedestrian than
what is actually going on here. For one thing,
the room to the far left of this otherwise ordinary office is a repository for some of the
coolest toys you could never afford to put
your hands on. Rough-hewn, looking more
like the patchwork assembly of spare parts
than a finished product, these prototypes of
hardware and delivery systems are the physical manifestation of minds fortunate enough
to divine the cosmic through basic physics.
One intriguing-looking piece of hardware
is the company’s optical navigation system,
a small mock-up satellite that looks exactly
like two 35mm SLR cameras pointing in opposite directions, mounted on an erector set.
Its purpose is to channel an orbital path
through stargazing — one lens looks at a star
field, the other at a particular star.
This particular setup is being developed
for NASA. So far, Princeton Satellite has one
camera working and is trying to perfect the
fully autonomous software the system will
need to stay aloft and functional in space.
The company also is working on a twostage orbiter system, one that will deliver
smaller, lower-cost payloads and return them
safely to Earth. While the romantic view of
space is the manned flight, the majority of
the space business deals with unmanned
payloads. And given how expensive it is to
put anything into space — “$237,000 is almost nothing” — any agency, public or private, wants to shave as much off the sticker
price as possible, Paluszek says. Perfection
of the two-stage model, however, seems to
be a while away.
Less tangible are the bread-and-butter
projects Princeton Satellite is working on
and marketing — the software and the guid-
ance systems. Here is where
The Limits of infinity:
the company is working on
Space conjures up romantic
things like collision-avoidvisions of exploration, but the
ance systems and its VisualCommander software, an inreality is something else.
tegrated high-tech flight simMichael Paluszek, president
ulator and data collection proof Princeton Satellite Sysgram.
tems, demonstrates his comPrinceton Satellite also is
working on missile defense.
pany’s wind turbine design —
You might remember the amone of the firm’s more earthbitious Reagan-era Strategic
bound projects.
Defense Initiative. Well, the
American military has never
really let the idea go. The basic plan is for a network of
the same batch of seasonings;
satellites to pick off enemy missiles as they how to get just the right conmake their way here. Fundamentally, the sistency. It is finesse built alplan has not changed. The technology just most entirely through years of
needs refining.
experience with ingredients,
Refinement. This ultimately is what sepa- temperatures, and timing.
rates working space technology from abject
In rocket science finesse
failure. It also belies a paradox. While the plays just as big a role. You
technology needed for a successful mission wouldn’t think so, given that at
— launch, payload delivery, and safe return its core mathematics is con— needs to be precise and dense, in the end, cerned with pinpoint precisuccess is seen in very simple, black-and- sion, no matter how knotty the
white terms. A project either works or it does equation.
not. Pieces of it working do not count — a
But, says Paluszek, the difrocket that takes off and can’t come back is ference between a booster that
as useless as a parachute made of mesh. If fires and one that impotently
any tiny part of a system does not work, the sloughs away is something
project could either not get off the ground, you just can’t learn in textbreak down, or even explode.
books. Textbooks, remember, are academic.
Most of the science is known to every- They are not designed to build rockets, they
body — college kids in Alabama or physi- are designed to teach how rockets work. Scicists in North Korea can buy college text- entists need to figure out the variables, the
books filled with long, dense equations built intangibles, and the unforeseeables themto untangle rocket science, Paluszek says. selves.
But even this much readily available inforThere was a time when such finesse was
mation does not a successful mission make. commonplace. Back in the 1960s, when the
Exact science, after all, is not always an ex- American and Soviet space programs were
act science. It is actually a bit like cooking the only two kids on the block, the concenfrom a recipe.
tration of minds here and in the U.S.S.R. was
You or I could follow the same recipe as at its zenith. But as the public lost interest
Wolfgang Puck — we could even write it — and NASA lost funding, the scientists who
and yet our chocolate chip souffle will not knew the subtleties of space technology
hold a candle to his. As a master chef who started leaving the field, retiring, and dying,
learned from other master chefs, Puck sim- Paluszek says. The resulting loss of experiply knows things even other top-notch cooks ence did to space science what the destrucdo not — how to tease delicate flavors from tion of the library at Alexandria did to some
of the ancient world’s most important documents — wiped it away in toto.
Paluszek is not self-impressed enough to
see himself as one of the keepers of knowledge who managed to save at least a few of
Alexandria’s tomes from extinction. But he
is trying to rebuild the knowledge of his
NASA predecessors, from much of the same
information base as was available to those
predecessors. His generation is just doing it a
little more fragmented and with a lot less
money. Advances, he says, come incrementally, as improvements over existing technology, and as a matter of practice and routine,
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Or a ballet dancer. Michael
Paluszek has been both. Born and
raised mainly in White plains and
Rye, New York, Paluszek relocated
to Ontario when his father, a mechanical engineer for large construction firms such as Bechtel,
was reassigned.
Following in his dad’s technically oriented steps, Paluszek enrolled in MIT, where he did his undergraduate and graduate work in
the 1970s. Here he rowed crew as
an undergraduate, and met his wife
(Marilyn Hamm, manager of the
music department at Princeton
University).
Michael and Marilyn had met as
undergrads, but she was dating
someone else at the time. When
Paluszek moved onto graduate
school, where he studied helicopter systems — a course taught by
Hamm’s father — they met for real. A dancer at MIT, Hamm helped
convince Paluszek to try ballroom
dancing. He had done crew to get
around his physical education
credit, but soon learned he had a
love for dancing.
Now he spends four to five days
a week studying at Princeton Ballet, which has open classes and an
atmosphere Paluszek finds refreshingly “not snooty.”
Among the high-tech tomes, mini rocket models, and posters featuring everything from propulsion
systems to the iconic image of the
hammer thrower from Apple Computers’ “1984” commercial, it
seems incongruous to hear the
president and founder of Princeton
Satellite Systems say that he
dances ballet.
But he apparently is the norm
among male ballet enthusiasts.
Something about ballet’s precision
draws the athletically inclined sci-
A Numbers Game: Much of Princeton Satellite’s
job is to figure out the math that separates a working system from a flop. Here, Paluszek and chief
engineer Stephanie Thomas go over a problem.
(“Those are only used by statisticians”) or mixed numbers (“No engineer uses mixed numbers”), they
just learned to think.
“The kids really responded,” he
says. “They loved it. You couldn’t
tell who the ‘weak’ students were.”
The staff at Princeton Satellite
has even written a book — “Learning Algebra, Trigonometry, and
Calculus through Physics for
Fourth through Eighth Graders,”
available as a free PDF on the company’s
website,
www.psatellite.com. And it contends that learning how to solve interesting problems, rather than being taught about “math,” is key. After all, the book avers, math was
created to solve engineering problems in the first place.
Getting kids excited about math
and science will go a long way tos if through genetic endow- ward rebuilding the Space Age,
ment, Paluszek has passed on the Paluszek says. With luck, excitelove of dance and a love of math ment over space might reach the
and science to his son, Eric, now level he experienced when he was a
kid. After all,
i n m i d d l e
when he was a
school. Eric, he
young man assays, has been
Princeton Satellite is
tronauts were
studying ballet
helping to rebuild
rock stars and
for a few years
kowledge lost when
the belief that a
and also is a
moon landing
competitive
NASA’s cadre of sciwould soon bechess
player
entists retired or died.
come a Mars
who looks to
landing was a
follow his fagimmie.
ther’s footsteps
After college, as the space shutinto engineering. Or not.
Like a true science whiz, tle program was working out its
Michael Paluszek doesn’t see math last major kinks, Paluszek was
as complicated. Our daily lives are content to stay at MIT. He was
rife with calculus, we just don’t working on rocket propulsion at
recognize it, he says. Knowing Draper Laboratory there, not at all
when to apply the brakes, where to looking for a job. But a recruiter
put your mitt when the ball is head- from GE AstroSpace brought
ing for you, when to jump for a re- Paluszek to GE’s East Windsor fabound — these are all calculus cilities. Here he worked for six
equations, rating velocity and ac- years, moving up from basic rocket
operations to dealing with satellite
celeration.
Like the space program, operations.
His tenure at GE taught him a
Paluszek says, math has a bad rep
for a bad reason. People perceive it dynamic he didn’t expect, though
to be something only the gifted and — the more you move up in a givso-inclined can do. “I hate that,” he en field, the further you get from
says. “People always say, ‘I’m not what drew you to it in the first
good at math.’ No, you’re not good place. “When you get more seniority you end up in more meetings
at what you’re being taught.”
Why this irks him so is because and doing less engineering,” he
kids who flop at math stay as far says.
Still, at GE Paluszek did some
away from it as possible as they
age. And the world, not just his pro- engineering, including on the GGS
fession, needs scientists and math- (or, Global Geoscience Satellite)
ematical thinking. The more kids Polar despun platform controller,
get turned off by what he says are one of the first applications of acidiotic ways of teaching, the more tive vibration control on a satellite
will never enter the sciences. there. He also managed the ACS
Which could always use a fresh (attitude control system) analysis
unit and was lead attitude analyst
perspective.
When his son was in elementary on more than a dozen satellite
school Paluszek used to go into Er- launches.
Paluszek started Princeton
ic’s class to teach kids new ways of
thinking mathematically. Primari- Satellite in 1992. By 1997 he had
ly, he taught problem solving — in designed the ACS system and ACS
other words, applying mathemati- flight software for the Indostar-1
cal and analytical thinking to real- satellite, which has been flying
world scenarios. Groups of kids since 1997. He led the effort to dewould be broken into different as- velop the momentum management
pects of a car company, for exam- system for the Tracking and Data
ple. Each would devise ideas for Relay Satellite (known by its phodesign, or technology, or whatever netic nickname, pronounced
else. Nobody was taught graphs “TEE-dris”), one of a network of
entist, mathematician, and engineer — which make up the bulk of
his male co-students.
Paluszek also is captain of the
supernumeraries (non-singing actors) for the Opera Company of
New Jersey. As such, he has even
coaxed Princeton Satellite’s chief
engineer, Pradeep Bhatta, who
earned his doctorate in mechanical
and aerospace engineering from
Princeton in 2006, into doing opera
with him.
The performing arts, particularly music, have for millennia been
linked to mathematics. Pythagoras,
in fact, was the first to publish details on tuning stringed instruments
using math. “At Princeton University, half the people in the orchestra
are engineers,” Paluszek says.
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communications satellites used by
NASA for communication to satellites or the International Space Station, for Hughes. Paluszek is especially happy about this one. “It’s
one of the few pieces of software
that worked with no problems,” he
says.
Princeton Satellite is not concerned solely with the extraterrestrial. The company also is working
on some very inner space projects,
including guidance and control
systems for high-altitude airships,
autonomous underwater vehicles,
and a deep-sea navigation system.
Princeton Satellite’s core thread
is in controls. Like space, the deep
sea is an alien environment to humans, and shares many traits with
space — weightlessness, extreme
cold, pressure issues, and lack of
oxygen. Their shared inhospitality
to man is leading science to find
ways to crack these environments
without risking human lives.
P
rinceton Satellite deals with
autonomous systems that need to
be navigated and remotely controlled, whether single vehicles or,
as is becoming more common,
fleets. Much of the firm’s controls
are aimed at coordinated formation
“flying,” in the air, under water, or
in space.
Unmanned vehicles, by the way,
are the foreseeable future of space
exploration. Just as unmanned
deep-sea vehicles have led to discoveries of entirely unheard-of
ecosystems clung to the sides of
boiling volcanic vents, so will unmanned spacecraft help unfold the
wonders of space, Paluszek says. If
Princeton Satellite is doing anything to keep space exploration
alive it is in allowing us to navigate
the near reaches of space without
risking the lives of humans.
But, Paluszek says, there will always be a place for people in space.
“We’ve sent unmanned spacecraft
to Mars and we still don’t know if
there’s any life there. If we had sent
people, we’d know.”
The earthbound project with the
most broad potential is a mobile
wind turbine setup for the U.S.
Army. Princeton Satellite recently
submitted its proposal for the project, which came out of a conversation with two veterans of the
Afghanistan campaign. The army
is looking for a standardized, 5
kilowatt power station that it can
mount on the tops of desert vehicles.
While it sounds out of character
for a satellite software company to
build a two-bladed turbine — a
model of it is in the same room as
the two-camera optical navigation
system — the principles of the
technology are well-aligned with
those needed for satellites. They
must work in harsh environments,
yet be sensitive and delicate while
generating power. Paluszek is
pleased with how the prototype has
come out. If it works as it should,
he says, it could have far-reaching
In the Beginning: SSI at Princeton
Back in the 1960s vacations on the moon and explo-
rations of Mars were not so
much dreams as just a matter of
time. But as Michael Paluszek,
the founder and CEO of Princeton Satellite Systems explains in
this week’s cover story, space
dreams and space realities are
two very different things.
Still, it was not long ago that
visionary scientists with impeccable credentials offered us
glimpses of what could be. In
1976 Gerard O’Neill, the late
Princeton University physics
professor and founder of the
non-profit Space Studies Institute, published “The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space,”
a book that sketched out what the
American space program could
be once we were done with Project Apollo and its quest to put a
man on the moon. The book envisions large-scale mining operations on the moon and nearEarth asteroids. Colonies of
workers would use the sun and
simulated gravity to survive
while harvesting valuable resources from surfaces beyond
the Earth.
The book was extremely popular at the time, and laid the essential foundation for the Space
Studies Institute, which sought
ways to tap the vast resources
and power of space. O’Neill,
who died in 1992 of leukemia,
founded the organization in
Princeton in 1978. His ideas on
colonizing space first gained
public interest at a conference he
put together at Princeton University in 1974. Those ideas
were powerful enough to court
research money from NASA,
which even asked O’Neill to direct NASA studies at the Ames
Research Laboratory in 1976
and 1977.
effects on poor, dry countries like
Kenya, where small, portable
sources of power could be of great
benefit on small farms or in areas
far-removed from the grid.
As a power generator, the turbine project shows much promise.
As an income generator, it could
lay new trails for Princeton Satellite.
The company makes much of its
money the contractual way — research grants from the National
Science Foundation, government
accounts through the General Services Administration, and software
sales to overseas markets.
Most of the company’s outright
software sales, in fact, go to markets in Europe and Asia, Paluszek
says. “We had to learn that ourselves,” he says.
Swedish Space Corporation is a
major buyer of Princeton Satellite’s guidance software, as is Chi-
But after Project Apollo
achieved its goal the public lost
interest in space exploration and
NASA funding began to dry up.
O’Neill founded SSI in a small
office at Princeton University, as
part of the physics department,
only to find that space dreams
come with a heavy sticker price.
Through the ensuing years SSI,
often with the help of NASA, researched high-velocity drivers
that could punch through the
stratosphere.
The institute completed many
tests and projects through various contractors, but O’Neill’s
plans for space colonies never
materialized. Michael Paluszek,
who has been familiar with the
work of SSI, says the problem
was not with O’Neill’s physics,
but with the engineering. As a
matter of physics, Paluszek says,
O’Neill’s ideas were sound. But
the materials and scale needed to
bring them to reality turned to be
“much more massive” than
physics could have anticipated.
Nevertheless, SSI continued
its mission to understand space
and solar technologies. The institute was presided over by
O’Neill’s son, Roger, who
worked with no less than Freeman Dyson to continue Gerard
O’Neill’s vision.
Alas, the Space Studies Institute is no longer in Princeton and
might not be in existence at all.
SSI had occupied an office at
707 Alexander Road — a shared
space — until late 2008 or early
2009. The institute’s last entry at
its blog site, http://spacestudiesinstitute.wordpress.com, was
posted in 2007. The institute’s
Princeton contact information
has not been valid for months,
and the only contact information
refers to Mojave, California.
–Scott Morgan
na. Were Princeton Satellite to
stick with the domestic market,
revenue would be trim indeed.
“The U.S. doesn’t lead in any aspect of space anymore,” Paluszek
says. In fact, no one nation or entity really does. China looks to be a
big spender, but Paluszek says
“they’re not there yet.”
The company also must do business amid an inverse relationship
— while space is infinite, the pool
of customers for the technology
could fit into a small room. “Our
first software was a spacecraft control toolbox,” Paluszek says. “It’s
used by everybody in the space
market, but that’s only 50 customers.”
Let us not forget, too, that not
every possible customer is a good
one. Princeton Satellite, after all,
deals with technology that is used
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has to evolve, says
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industry didn’t start
with 747s.’
funds, Paluszek says, competition
would have driven innovation,
would have created a whole subindustry, and would have given us
all those weird and wonderful toys
floating out there above the ozone
layer.
Actually, Paluszek goes one better: Had we invested in space exploration in the 1970s to the extent
with which we had invested in it
the decade prior, “We’d have gone
to Mars in the ‘80s,” he says. “It’s
just a matter of spending the money.”
B
etween 1963 and 1969, the
peak years of the moon race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.,
NASA received between 2.1 and
5.5 percent of the entire federal
budget. In 1970 that share went
down to 1.7 percent and continued
to sift away until it reached 0.8 percent of the federal budget by 1980.
The agency’s share has continued
to erode in the ensuing decades —
NASA’s budget has been reduced
by Congress seven times since
1994 alone — and now sits at a little more than half a percent.
In raw dollars, the U.S. government allotted about $17 billion to
NASA in 2009. In 1966, when
NASA’s budget reflected 5.5 percent of the national economy, the
agency received almost $6 billion.
Adjusted for inflation, that appropriation today would total more
than $32 billion.
It is little comfort to Paluszek to
know that the United States still
spends more on space technology
than every other nation combined.
This century, which has witnessed
the demise of the space shuttle program and one brief flirtation with
the resurrection of the Mars mis-
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allowed outside American borders.
Remember how North Korean
physicists can buy textbooks on
rocket science? Well, they cannot
buy a thing from Princeton Satellite. And it isn’t just because
Paluszek doesn’t want to sell to
dangerous nations, it is outright illegal for him to trade with certain
nations.
Not many terrorists can afford to
build anything that could use the
company’s technology, of course.
To say it is expensive to develop
space technology is a major understatement. Space technology costs
billions to research and develop,
much less put into the final stages.
And even projects that get to the
launch pad offer no guarantee of
actually working — a cursory
glance at the fiascoes of the American Apollo missions and space
shuttle program, not to mention
those of the Soviet Soyuz program,
will bear that out.
And for those projects that do
manage to get off the ground and
do what they are supposed to do,
maintaining them is an investment
in time and money unlike anything
short of a lingering war.
Like all dreams, the one about
conquering space starts out with
wild enthusiasm and quickly notices what’s left in the check book.
Dreamers and sci-fi writers have
painted endless magic, but in the
end, only filmmakers have spent
any money on bringing such
dreams to life.
This bothers Michael Paluszek
because he knows it doesn’t have
to be this way. Those sights we see
in the movies not only could have
been, they should have been, he
says. The film “2001: A Space
Odyssey,” for example, is not far
off from what that actual year
should have offered.
Stanley Kubrick’s vision of life
in 2001, from his looking glass in
1968, was based on where futurists
figured technology would be by
the new century, based on contemporary spending of space projects.
Had the American space program
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average of about $55 for every
American citizen on the space program. The governments of Europe,
Asia, Brazil, and Russia, combined, have spent about $35 per
person.
For Paluszek, the lack of spending — indeed the steady and seemingly bottomless decline in the interest in allotting public money to
space science — has preempted
what he believes would be a
bustling industry. A popular criticism of the space program, particularly in this economically troubled
decade, is that spending money on
space is at best irresponsible. And
at worst reprehensible. With a surplus of homegrown ills to attend,
say critics, spending billions to get
five people to outer space for a few
days is simply not the finest use of
public dollars.
But, Paluszek asks, where
would we be had people taken such
attitudes toward, say, the computer? Or airplanes? Granted, the development of the technologies for
those endeavors is a lot less pricey
than those needed to slip the surly
bonds of Earth (not to mention privately funded for the most part),
but think for a moment about what
he is saying. Had visionaries not
invested in advances in flight and
computers and medicines and cars
and cameras, some of this planet’s
most cornerstone industries would
never have been.
Think of the size of the movie
industry. Or sports. Or automobiles
— how many people they employ.
How much money they generate.
How much recreation they bring,
and how they have managed to tie
pieces of the international community together. The car alone created
side industries such as highway
construction and safety equipment
manufacturers, and popular use of
the car ignited businesses from
small roadside diners and motels to
large travel-booking agencies and
restaurant chains.
Space offered similar promise,
and we blew it, Paluszek says. Not
one to mince words, Paluszek
imagines a well-developed space
industry that would long ago have
shed the miscalculations and growing pains and would have by now
evolved into a safe, thriving business. What that industry would
look like, exactly, Paluszek cannot
say. He speculates that space at
least would be a decent tourist attraction. But his best guess is that a
space industry would have evolved
in numerous unexpected ways.
“First you get people there, and
then they’ll come up with the industry,” he says.
So space might make a good
destination, but Paluszek is convinced it wouldn’t stop there. Like
the airline industry, he would expect the space industry to be one
that has multiple support arms. Not
just pilots, but technicians, food
servers, security staff, suppliers of
motion sickness bags, architects —
the list goes on. It could still happen, he says, so long as we don’t
look at it with the totality we have
now, as if everything has to be done
at once. It has to evolve. “The airline industry didn’t start with
747s.”
Patience, unfortunately, is often
in shorter supply than money.
What complicates things is the fact
that perception dictates the supply
of both. And the space program has
suffered some of the worst PR of
the past half century. Not just seen
as clunky, expensive, and pointless, space technologies are seen as
completely dangerous. Vivid still
are the memories of Apollo 1,
which erupted on the launch pad in
1967, the space shuttle Challenger
explosion in 1986, and the space
shuttle Columbia crash in 2003 —
the last coming just as the Bush administration was pushing for renewed interest in the moon and
AUGUST 12, 2009
Life in the Fast Lane
T
he Grounds for Sculpture has a new executive director.
David Miller, who has spent most
of his professional life promoting
the arts, says that his mission includes evaluating every aspect of
the multi-faceted organization’s
operations with a eye toward raising its national and international
profile and making sure that it is
making the best use of its revenue
and funding. Also on the horizon is
planning for the development of a
recently-acquired seven-acre tract
of land adjacent to the original 35acre arts campus.
By coincidence Miller’s first
day, July 20, fell on the date of the
Grounds for Sculpture’s first ever
staff art exhibition.
Would he be contributing? “Oh,
no,” Miller laughs, “but it was a
wonderful way to meet staff members.” In answer to a question on
whether he is an artist, he says, “it’s
debatable.” The son of a Medford
dentist with a keen interest in politics and a mom who spent her days
keeping up with four active boys,
Miller says that he started taking
piano lessons at age 7 and played
professionally as a young man.
“The music was eclectic,” he
says, “ragtime, the Beatles, all
sorts of songs.” Performing in
“seedy bars” with a good friend, he
performed as he began what he
thought would be a career in teaching social studies. A 1973 graduate
of the University of Pennsylvania,
he had majored in English literature and minored in history. Soon
after graduation he began to work
toward his teaching certification
and became a permanent substitute
at Rancocas High School, his alma
mater. But after two years the economy had turned sour and he was
RIFed, which is education speak
for laid off.
“I was disappointed,” he says. “I
really enjoyed teaching. I enjoyed
working with students.” He quickly adds, “I still enjoy teaching.” In
addition to being the acolyte master at St. David’s church in Cranbury, where he “trains, schedules,
and teaches” 22 youngsters, the
work he found after leaving Rancocas High School has provided
rich opportunities for teaching.
Miller has been instrumental in
working to raise the profile and the
status of the arts in New Jersey and
Mars missions. News of several
gruesome Soviet deaths and a
string of non-fatal failures from
smaller space agencies worldwide
over the years has not helped.
Changing attitudes to the point
where people will want to open
their wallets is no small task, even
for rocket scientists.
Paluszek wishes people would
realize how much modern life is indebted to space science. Consider
digital control systems, for example — mandatory on all commercial aircraft and standard on all late
model cars. The first people to use
digital navigation, though, were
Apollo astronauts. Without that
program, we never would have advanced in the private sector,
Paluszek says.
“You could write an encyclopedia on the technologies NASA was
working on,” he says. That planned
trip to Mars was largely a matter of
propulsion, and NASA had conducted extensive tests on nuclear
propulsion systems. Had those
been allowed to develop and not
languish with scads of NASA’s
other failed dreams, industries
around the world might have been
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to help all kinds of arts organizations to work together, a strategy
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His first job in arts administration and planning came in 1976
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People, he says, have an unfortunate habit of politicizing and criticizing., and they do not often consider the revenues governmentfunded space technologies have
generated. The GPS network has
generated hundreds of billions in
revenues around the world. “I
know many businesses that exist
because of GPS,” he says.
If there is hope for a vibrant
space industry, it might take the
same route as almost every other
major industry throughout history
— private investment. A great
many industries, from computers
to television, have deep roots in the
military. Were private investors to
latch onto space science, Paluszek
says, the technology needed to
build that sweeping industry he
dreams of could get rescued from
the Dark Ages.
But it will still need heavy backing from the government and the
public before it ever gets there.
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lucky,” he says. “They needed
somebody who knew a little about
a lot of things. It was a great opportunity to learn.”
It turns out that he was in the
right place at the right time. “There
was a transition in 1980-’81,” he
says. “The New Jersey Council on
the Arts had a brand new grant program to promote local cultural programs. The first grants went to organizations like ours.” The definition of “the arts” was being expanded. All kinds of programs and
initiatives were being tucked under
the arts umbrella. It was a heady
time, and Miller soon had an opportunity to make a contribution on
the state level. His good friend, Jeffery Kesper, who had held the Cultural and Heritage Commission job
in Middlesex County, was named
executive director of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in
1983. A year later he invited Miller
to work with him to develop grant
funding programs.
Again, the timing was just right.
“Tom Kean was governor,” Miller
recalls. “He was the most amazing
supporter of the arts.” Kean substantially increased the state’s
budget for the arts. “There were
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supported. “A good example is the
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Cape May,” he says. “They hold an
amazing music festival in May and
June; they restored the Cape May
Lighthouse; they give tours of historic properties.”
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horrified to learn that public funds
helped to support the likes of
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Miller realized that the arts
would have to make a better case
for themselves if they were to continue to attract support. “We had to
have a larger understanding of
what the arts mean to people and to
communities and to industry,” he
says. So, in 1990, he and Barbara
Moran, who succeeded his friend
Jeff Kesper as executive director of
the New Jersey State Council on
the Arts, began a decade-long project that resulted in the first
statewide Arts Plan for New Jersey.
They worked with hundreds of
people and organizations, and set
about forging new partnerships.
“We worked with travel, hospitality, hospitals,” he says. “We talked
about public value.”
One result was partnerships
among arts organizations that, says
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such ads, and a misstep could spell
trouble for a company.
A graduate of NYC Community
College in 1964, Block has studied
advertising through City College
of New York and the School of Visual Arts. He has worked as an art
director and senior account executive for several recruitment ad
agencies in New York before
founding Devon Advertising in
2005.
— Scott Morgan
Devon Advertising Agency
LLC (DevonAd), 96 Drawbridge Drive, Monroe 08831;
609-235-9452. Fred Block,
president and CEO. Home
page: www.devonad.com.
New in Town
PSI Test Center, 3525 Quakerbridge Road, Suite 1000,
Hamilton
609-588-0919.
Steve Tapp, CEO. Home
page: www.psionline.com.
PSI, a national chain of testing
centers for the real estate, insurance, and other trade industries,
has opened a location in Hamilton.
Headquartered in Burbank, California, the center offers assessment programs and administers
certification tests for insurance and
real estate professionals.
Management Moves
Educational Testing Service,
Rosedale Road, Princeton
08541; 609-921-9000; fax,
609-734-5410. Kurt F. Landgraf, president. Home page:
www.ets.org.
Pascal (Pat) D. Forgione Jr.,
who was superintendent of the
Austin Independent School District (AISD) for 10 years, has
joined Educational Testing Service
(ETS) as executive director of a
new Center on K-12 Assessment
and Performance Management.
This new position at ETS will focus on social responsibility, equity,
opportunity, and quality in its research and development work to
advance the field of educational
testing and data management in
public and private school systems.
The center will focus on the improvement of assessment and performance management methodologies, technologies, policies and
practices through useful, timely
and high-quality guidance and
scholarship. Forgione and his staff
also will conduct periodic surveys
to identify timely and policy-relevant issues and topics in assessment and will issue regular reports
on developments in K-12 assessment.
Prior to heading the AISD, Forgione held leadership positions in
other assessment and management
programs at the national and state
levels. From 1979 to 1991, he oversaw Connecticut’s statewide stu-
dent and teacher assessment programs, as well as the evaluation of
the state’s major state and federal
compensatory programs. Forgione
also served as U.S. Commissioner
of Education Statistics under Secretary of Education Richard Riley.
From 1996 to 1999, he headed the
National Center for Education Statistics in Washington, D.C., which
collects, analyzes and disseminates data on all levels of education
in the United States, conducts studies on international comparisons of
education statistics, and develops
the use of standardized terminology and definitions for the collection of those statistics.
Intellisphere, 666 Plainsboro
Road, Suite 300, , Plainsboro
08536; 609-716-7777; fax,
609-716-4747. Michael Hennessy, CEO. Home page:
www.mdnetguide.com.
Pharmacy & Healthcare Communications, an Intellisphere company, has named Bea Riemschneider editorial director of Pharmacy
Times, a monthly journal for pharmacists. Riemschneider will oversee the 112-year-old publication as
well as its website, www.PharmacyTimes.com. She will also direct
the custom supplements, including
Pharmacy Times Careers and Pharmacy Times OTC Guide, as well as
the new website, OTCGuide.net,
which provides data on pharmacists’ recommendations for 145
categories of over-the-counter
products.
Riemschneider was formerly
editor-in-chief of Physicians’
Travel & Meeting Guide, a monthly publication. She directed custom publishing efforts for the
brand.
Riemschneider
also
launched a medical meetings website in 2000 with more than 40
physician specialties and disease
states represented.
Pharmacy Times is the largest
circulation publication in the field
with 162,000 pharmacists in chain
drug stores, community pharmacies, supermarkets, hospitals, and
other care facilities.
PharmacyTimes.com is part of
HCPLive Healthcare Professional
Network (www.hcplive.com), a
website for health care professionals.
Laureate Pharma LLP (SFE),
201 College Road East,
Princeton 08540; 609-9193300; fax, 609-452-7211.
Robert J. Broeze PhD, president. Home page: www.laureatepharma.com.
Laureate Pharma, a biopharmaceutical development and protein
production company, has appointed Daniel E. Leone as vice president of business development.
Leone will be responsible for Laureate’s worldwide business development activities, including sales
and marketing. He will be supporting the company’s contract development, manufacturing, and bioprocessing business.
Leone comes to Laureate from
Ben Venue Laboratories, where he
was executive director of contract
manufacturing. He holds an MBA
from Duke University and masters
and bachelors degrees in chemical
engineering from Manhattan College.
Novo Nordisk Inc. (NVO), 100
College Road West, Princeton 08540-6213; 609-9875800; fax, 609-919-7801.
Jerzy Gruhn, president.
www.novonordisk-us.com.
Novo Nordisk, the global
healthcare company focusing on
diabetes care, has appointed Per
Falk as vice president for Clinical,
Medical and Regulatory Affairs for
North America.
Falk brings 23 years of medical,
research, and pharmaceutical experience to his new position, where
he will lead clinical research and
medical affairs in endocrinology
and biopharmaceuticals, as well as
regulatory affairs and medical
communications.
He joined Novo Nordisk in 2002
as a vice president to establish the
experimental medicine unit in
Denmark. Later he served the company in Tokyo where he was responsible for drug development
and market authorization of Novo
Nordisk’s medical entities in Japan
and Australia. In 2008 he became
associate vice president responsible for clinical development and
medical affairs for all of Novo
Nordisk’s diabetes and metabolism
products.
Falk earned his M.D. and Ph.D.
from the University of Gothenberg
in Sweden.
Stimulus Contract
Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory, James Forrestal
Campus, Box 451, Princeton
08543-0451; 609-243-2000;
fax, 609-243-2751. Stewart
Prager, director. Home page:
www.pppl.gov.
Federal stimulus funding worth
$13.8 million has been earmarked
for use at the Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory under a twoyear grant that has been announced
by U.S. Department of Energy.
The grant provides $8.8 million
for fusion energy initiatives plus an
additional $5 million for work on
infrastructure at the laboratory, a
collaborative national center run
by the federal government and
Princeton University.
The lab was one of 10 U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories selected to receive funding
out of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, the stimulus bill
signed into law earlier this year.
“The additional research capabilities enabled by this funding will
accelerate the advancement of understanding in plasma science, fusion science and fusion technology, which form the knowledge base
needed for an economically and
environmentally attractive fusion
energy source,” Stewart Prager, director of the laboratory, said in a
prepared statement.
Laboratory officials plan on using the federal stimulus funding to
“upgrade and expand the use of the
laboratory’s primary fusion device, the National Spherical Torus
Experiment.”
The stimulus dollars represent
extra support beyond the laboratory’s regular annual funding. The
funding will allow fusion operations at the laboratory to be expanded by at least five weeks over
the next two years. Also, the lab
will have the funding to hire additional postgraduate staff.
Milestones
Charles Baldwin Sr., 83, on
August 9. The Pennington resident
was the owner of Charles Baldwin
Tractors.
Marie Josephine Carveth
Woodbridge, 90, on August 7. Interest in drama and stage make-up
led to her involvement with the
Princeton Community Players and
the Princeton Ballet Society. She
was also a horticulturist who became one of Mercer County College’s oldest graduates when she
earned a degree in 1997.
Richard G. Van Noy, 68, on
August 4. After retiring from General Electric he served as deputy director ofthe Delaware River Joint
Toll Bridge Commission, executive director of the Mercer County
Improvement Authority, and administrator of Hopewell, West
Windsor, and Robbinsville townships. He also served as mayor of
Hopewell and as a director of the
Mercer Insurance Group.
AUGUST 12, 2009
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OFFICES FOR SALE
Two story office condo (1850 sq.
ft.)in office complex in vicinity of New
Princeton Medical Center. S. Brunswick
with Princeton address and vicinity. Use
1 level and rent the other. asking
$375,000. Re/Max Princeton (609)4521887(Ali)/902-0709.
OFFICE RENTALS
1st Month FREE: Princeton Route 1.
Single Offices, Office Suites, Virtual Offices, 50MB High Speed Internet, Great
Reception Team, Instant Activation,
Flexible Terms. Call 609-514-5100 or
visit www.princeton-office.com
Cranbury Office or Retail: In Village
near Post Office. Three rooms on Main
Street. Good visibility. $1,200. Also three
rooms on Park Place, $965, good parking. 609-529-6891.
East Windsor, Route 130. 2-room office in professional building. Ample parking. $395 monthly. Call 609-730-0575.
Kingston Professional office space
for rent. 700-1000 sq. ft. Parking available in the back. Located on Rte. 27 next
to Charlie Brown’s restaurant. Please
call 609-203-3717.
Lawrenceville: Psychotherapy/professional service office, third floor suite,
2 offices available with shared waiting
and group therapy rooms. Handicapped
accessible. Copier, fax machine, and
kitchen included. High speed Internet
available. Great location on Princeton
Pike. Immediate availability. Contact
Rosemarie 267-391-7351.
Survival Guide
Real estate experts remind that it
often takes 60 days or more to close
on a home purchase.
The tax credit is available to
buyers who have not owned a principal residence during the threeyear period prior to the purchase.
The credit does not have to be repaid, but it does have to be claimed
on your federal income tax return.
The good news is that the credit
can be applied toward repairs and
renovations in fixer-uppers that
buyers might not otherwise have
been able to afford, be invested for
future use, or used to buy new furniture and appliances.
The bad news is that if you try to
take the credit and do not qualify,
you are screwing with the IRS, and
the IRS has started prosecuting
frauds. On July 23 a Florida tax
preparer pled guilty to falsely
claiming the first-time homebuyer
credit on a client’s federal tax return. Price faces up to three years in
jail and a $250,000 fine.
The IRS has 24 open fraud investigations relating to the credit,
and the agency claims to have “sophisticated computer screening
tools to identify returns that may
contain fraudulent claims for the
first-time homebuyer credit.”
Eileen Mayer, IRS’s criminal investigation chief, has warned,
“The penalties for tax fraud are
steep. Taxpayers should be wary of
anyone who promises to get them a
big refund.”
Whether a taxpayer prepares his
or her own return or uses the serv-
OFFICE RENTALS
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U.S. 1
...Freedom of Choice
West Windsor/571, Sale/lease
4,000 SF. 1 acre. Income-development potential.
Princeton, Trenton, Hamilton, Hopewell, Montgomery,
Ewing, Hightstown, Lawrenceville and other Mercer,
Somerset & Middlesex Communities. Class A, B and
C Space Available.
For details on space
and rates, contact
www.WeidelCommercial.com
Monroe Township: 450 square foot
stand alone building, across from Clearbrook, $825/month + utilities. 609-6558700.
Montgomery Knoll: Skillman address. CPA with 1,500 SF space wishes
to sublet 12’x12’ ground floor windowed
office. $500 to a CPA or attorney, $700
otherwise. Call or E-mail Henry at 609497-2929; [email protected].
Pennington - Hopewell: Straube
Center offices from virtual office, 25 to
300 square feet and office suites, 500 to
2,400 square feet. From $100 per
month, short and long term. Storage
space, individual signage, conference
rooms, copier, Verizon FIOS available,
call
609-737-3322
or
e-mail
[email protected] www.straubecenter.com
Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in
well maintained office park off Plainsboro Road. Immediately available. Individual entrance and signage, separate
AC/Heat and electricity. Call 609-7992466 or E-mail [email protected]
Princeton - Heart of Downtown: single office with shared conference and
coffee rooms, parking available. Professional, non-therapeutic uses only with
low client traffic. Call 609-252-1111.
Princeton - Location, Location: Jefferson Plaza, Princeton. 600/1200 sq.
ft., 1 block off Route 1, private entrance,
private
bathroom
and
parking.
$960/$1700 plus utilities. 609-5772793; [email protected].
Princeton Junction: Prof. Office
space in highly visible spot near trains.
All utilities/maintenance included in rent,
except electric. Units from $450 to
$2330 per month. Call Ali at Re/max of
Princeton 609-452-1887 or cell 609902-0709.
Princeton Prof. Office Park, off
Route One. 600 sq. ft. Perfect for Law
Firm, CPAs, Consultants, Medical. Call
732-329-1601 for details.
Princeton-Nassau Street: Sublet 13 rooms, 2nd floor, includes parking/utilities. Call 609-924-6270. Ask for Wendy.
Princeton Commerce Center
750-7000 SF, Immediate Occupancy
Just Off Route One at Meadow Road Overpass
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
Trenton: 70,000 sqft warehouse/light
mfg. 4000 sqft office. Ideal for distributors/re-packing. Sell or lease - option to
purchase. Owner anxious. 732-4330809. Century21 GPR Piscataway.
Unique Rental Space zoning (I3), ordinance passed for retail and recreation
activities, ample parking all utilities, one
1200’, one 2000’, one 2500’ one 3600’,
and one 10,000. Located at 325 and 335
New Road, Monmouth Junction. Call
Harold 732-329-2311.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
194 Nassau Street, 953 sq. ft. office
for lease. Reception area, three offices,
kitchen, storage, private restroom, single parking space included. Please call
609-921-6060 for details.
www.29emmons.com
Available - Near Train - 9300 SF
777 Alexander Park. Will Divide, Great Signage
Immediate Occupancy, Cafe On Site
ices of a paid preparer, it is the taxpayer who is ultimately responsible for the accuracy of the return.
Fraudulent returns could cost you
payment of back taxes, plus penalties and interest. For more information from the NJAR, visit www.RealStoryNJ.com.
— Scott Morgan
Business Meetings
5:30 p.m.: Association for Women
In Science, “The Power of Your
Presence,” Amy Castoro, free.
Miele, Route 1 North, [email protected]. 609-937-2658.
Thursday, August 13
7 a.m.: DBA Networking Group,
free. Americana Diner, East
Windsor. 800-985-1121.
1 p.m.: Princeton Chamber/Mercer Chamber, “Positioning Business for a Fourth Quarter Recovery: Work Is Theater,” $99. NJHA
Conference Center, Alexander
Road. 609-924-1776.
4- p.m.: Morris Solutions, “TweetUp,” to share Twitter success stories for businesses, free. Salt
Creek Grille, Rockingham Row.
609-419-4200.
5 p.m.: MCCC, “Back To School
Night for Adults,” free. West Windsor campus, [email protected].
609-570-3311.
5 p.m.: NJIT, Open house for adult
and continuing ed. Newark,
[email protected]. 800-624-9850.
7 p.m.: East Brunswick Library,
“Learn How To Stand Out,” career
and job search help, free. Civic
Center Drive. 732-390-6789.
Friday, August 14
7:30 a.m.: Greater Philadelphia
Senior Executive Group, networking, $35. Princeton Hyatt, [email protected].
215-393-3144.
Monday, August 17
9 a.m.: Rutgers, “Mini MBA: Business Essentials,” one-week class
through August 21. Piscataway
campus. 732-445-5526.
Tuesday, August 18
7 a.m.: LeTip Networking Group,
Tuesday Morning Networking,
free breakfast. Clarion Hotel at
Palmer Inn. 609-243-7860.
5 p.m.: IncreMental Advantage,
“Marketing Strategies for Professional Services Firms,” David Wanetick, $45. 4390 Route 1. Call
ext. 101. 609-919-1895.
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, Networking and support, free. Parish Hall
entrance, Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. 609-924-2277.
New Construction - Medical/Retail
Pennington - Rte. 31
5,100 SF. Will Divide.
7:30 a.m.: Princeton Chamber,
“Using Google Adwords to Grow
Your Business,” Frank Montero,
$30 Princeton Theological Seminary, . 609-924-1776.
9:30 a.m.: Robbinsville Business
Networking Group, networking,
free. Robbinsville Firehouse,
Route 130 North. 609-945-7330.
4 p.m.: Princeton Corridor Rotary,
“The Power of LinkedIn,” $30.
Double Tree Hotel.
7 p.m.: Robert Wood Johnson
Hamilton Center for Health and
Wellness, health and fitness jobs
fair. 3100 Quakerbridge Road,
Mercerville, [email protected]. 609-584-5900.
Commercial Property Network
609-921-8844 • www.cpnrealestate.com
For more information and other opportunities, please
call Commercial Property Network, 609-921-8844
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Richard K. Rein
Our editor is busily transforming himself into emcee, preparing to host our
annual Summer Fiction reception
Thursday, August 13, from 5 to 7:30
at Tre Piani Restaurant in Princeton
Forrestal Village. Everyone is welcome
to attend this free event. (No tweeting,
please, during the readings.)
Job Fair August 19th!
Fitness & Wellness Professional Services
is holding a job fair Wednesday,
August 19th from 7pm-9pm at
RWJ Hamilton Center
for Fitness and Wellness
(3100 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, NJ).
F&WPS is looking for qualified
candidates to fill the roles of membership
counselors, personal trainers and group
fitness instructors in six locations
throughout Central New Jersey.
All positions offer a complimentary
fitness center membership, fun working
environment, and opportunities
for advancement within
an exciting and growing company.
To register for our Job fair please
send a cover letter and resume to:
[email protected]
Employment Exchange
HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED
JOBS WANTED
JOBS WANTED
Avon Hiring: $10 to start. 50%
percent of sales. 609-275-5080.
perience, will train. Call Tom,
609-731-3333.
ing medical and ethical dilemmas. Pamala Zill 609 468 4232.
Bookkeepers: Detail oriented. Organized. Comfortable with
emails and internet. Please send
resume
to
[email protected]
Real Estate Sales: No Experience Needed, Free Training, License Info Available. Weidel Realtors.
[email protected],
800-288-7653 x260, www.Wweidel.com.
Job Hunters: If you are looking for a full-time position, we
will run a reasonably worded
classified ad for you at no
charge. We reserve the right to
edit the ads and to limit the number of times they run. If you require confidentiality, send a
check for $4 with your ad and request a U.S. 1 Response Box.
Replies will be forwarded to you
at no extra charge. Mail or Fax
your ad to U.S. 1 Jobs Wanted,
12 Roszel Road, Princeton, NJ
08540. You must include your
name, address, and phone number (for our records only).
Affordable, compassionate
caregiver:
English-speaking;
part-time, live-in or full-time; Mercer County area. Call 609-3945128.
Princeton Grad Seeks Work
in Town: Member of the Class of
‘02, recently returned from working in Africa, seeks employment
in Princeton. I studied Politics,
am an Iraq veteran, and have
successfully run my own business. Open to any interesting opportunities. Please contact me at
[email protected].
Dog Groomer: Experienced.
Also a student to learn dog
grooming. Job guaranteed.
Princeton Junction location. 609897-9500. 609-477-4683.
Editor: Work from home and
proof federal court transcripts.
Will supervise a small team.
Work 25 hours per week during
business hours. Income to $35
per hour, plus bonuses. Must
have transcription experience, 4year college degree, and type 70
words per minute. Send resume
to [email protected].
Help wanted excellent pay,
work from the comfort of home.
For details & application send a
long stamped self-addressed envelope to NDN DEPT NJ PO Box
26 Bushkill, PA 18324.
Part-time needed for doggy
daycare/kennel in Lawrenceville.
Hard work caring for dogs and
cleaning. All shifts available. Email [email protected].
Property Inspectors: Parttime $30k, full-time $80k. No ex-
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Carnegie Center: Elegant
space in landscaped office park
with Princeton address. Executive office with separate entrance
& inviting reception area with
spacious storage closet. 2-year
sublet $2,100 per month. 748 sq
ft. Call Louise, 212-727-1444.
Hamilton Flex/WH: Need
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high ceilings and docks/driveins. 1,800 to 15,000 sf Flex units
at UNDER MARKET rents. Must
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Lambertville Office & Retail:
Canal studios. Attractive, creative exec offices with tons of
style in NY Style Mill Bldg @ low
prices. Several bright spaces
available from 300-6,600 sf. Perfect for atty, studio, prof, couns,
web, massage, spa, bakery,
wellness. MUST SEE! Brian @
609-731-0378
or
[email protected]
STORAGE
Storage Space two miles
north of Princeton: Great Road
and Route 518. http://princetonstorage.homestead.com/. 609333-6932.
STUDIO SPACE
Studio space for classes,
workshops, etc. 19 ft x 19 ft.
space with lots of natural light.
$30 per hour. Kingston. Call 609468-1286.
HOUSING
FOR RENT
Hamilton: Remodeled, immaculate, 3 bedroom, with finished basement, private yard. No
pets. Available now. 609-2737186.
Plainsboro: 3 bedroom ranch
house on wooded lot. Full basement and attic. Central AC. Nonsmoking. $1790. 609-683-1515
or
908-229-9056
or
www.tinyurl.com/nwxvxn.
Sales, Account Executives:
Ambitious and results driven. Excellent phone manners. Comfortable with emails and internet. Organized. Huge potential. Please
send resume to [email protected]
Web Designers, e-commerce
architect, and programmers: All
levels, all areas. Please send resume and samples of finished
web sites to [email protected]
CAREER SERVICES
Certified Professional Resume Writer, Licensed Career
Counselor: Assessments/job
search/career. Resumes/cover
letters. Guarneri Associates. [email protected].
866-8814055 toll-free.
Job Worries? Let Dr. Sandra
Grundfest, licensed psychologist
and certified career counselor,
help you with your career goals
and job search skills. Call 609921-8401 or 732-873-1212 (License #2855)
Care Giver: Experienced and
cheerful care giver, seeking employment. I have a background in
physical therapy. Can help with
daily routines, provide transportation, run errands, provide
all-around help. Experienced
with all age groups as well as
pets. I speak English, Russian,
and other languages. References upon request. Call Rita at
609-213-0510 or 609-883-6267.
Caring, experienced, medical
advocate and hands-on healer,
interested in assisting holisticminded physicians, or individuals seeking care. Knowledgeable about dialysis and negotiat-
Local grad student with international professional exposure: Recently returned from
working in China and Hong Kong
in brand protection and related
consulting. 7 years of experience
with YMCA youth programs.
Specialize in youth development,
education/exam process security & product integrity. Seeking FT
or PT employment opportunity in
related fields. If interested please
contact Matthew at 908-6426201 or at [email protected].
Real Estate/Property Manager experienced with everything from framing to farming (for
new clients). Licensed California
real estate agent relocated locally. Started in contracting including window replacement and
electric. Specialized in rehabbing
and flipping foreclosures. Contact Mark, 609-879-4223. [email protected].
HOUSING
FOR RENT
CLEANING
SERVICES
BUSINESS
SERVICES
Princeton House For Rent:
Short walk to University, town,
Nassau Street & Choir College. 3
BR, 1.5 bath, New hardwood
floors, new carpeting. W/D, central air, off street parking, small
fenced yard. $2,300/mo. Available for Sept to May school year
lease term or longer Available
immediately. 609-865-4966 or
[email protected].
Window Washing: Lolio Window Washing. Also gutter cleaning and power washing. 609271-8860.
enced professional will gladly
handle your bookkeeping and/or
administrative needs. Many
services available. Reasonable
rates. Call Debra @ 609-4486005 or visit www.v-yours.com.
South Brunswick: Immaculate, large, 2 bedrooms, living
room, dining room, kitchen,
cathedral ceilings, hardwood
floors, washer/dryer, deck, pool,
private entrance. Great location.
Off-street parking. No pets,
smoke-free. $1350/month plus
utilities. 732-213-1060.
CONDOS FOR RENT
Lawrenceville: 1 BR, LR, DA
condo in very well kept complex
and convenient location. Freshly
painted and updated. end unit
w/private porch/patio. $1050
PM.
Re/Max
Princeton
(609)452-1887 (Ali)/902-0709.
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SERVICES
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program. I’ll sell your home in 14
days.
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INVESTMENT
PROPERTY
Investment/Vacation Property for SALE: Vermont condo
with spectacular views of Stratton and surrounding mountains
in the year-round resort area of
Manchester. 3 bedrooms+ loft.
Low taxes, fully furnished, a
great
get-away!
$359,000.
[email protected].
CLEANING
SERVICES
Quality Commercial Cleaning: We offer great office cleaning, good rates and most of all,
good quality of work. We are insured and bonded. For a free estimate, please call Lidia, 609989-7799.
HOME
MAINTENANCE
Green your home with new energy efficient windows and cut
your heating and cooling bills by
up to 50 percent. Federal government program covers 30 percent of installation cost. Free estimates and guaranteed lowest
prices from local multimillion dollar company. Call Doug Zehr at
Premier Remodeling: 609-2163123.
Dr. Honey-Do List, Handyman for Hire: Odd jobs/yard
work/you name it. $20 per man
hour. Serving Mercer and Hunterdon Counties and Bucks
County, Pa. Call Alex at 609-2134899.
Handyman: Electrical, plumbing, any projects around the
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