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Phone Call Privacy, page 4; In Art, Size May Matter, 10;
Shopping For Foodies, 17; Hotel Price Gouging Alleged, 39.
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Needless to say we ran that letter
in the very next issue, November
21. Now, two weeks later, we are
senting it again: We really like let- printing on page 35 of this issue a
ters to the editor. Letters usually comprehensive article by Michele
offer a fresh point of view to any Alperin on all sides of the rift bediscussion. Letters can correct ob- tween the United Way and some of
the nonprofits that used
vious mistakes, and also
to operate under its umadd nuances to a story
Between brella. Business people
that has been previously
who have long urged
printed. And because a
The
nonprofits to behave in a
letter writer is representLines
more businesslike maning only himself and is
ner will admire Herb
not expected to be the
objective, open-minded reporter, Klein of United Way for his hardletters can be strident, opinionated, nosed approach to social service,
including his quote from former
and sharply critical.
In other words letters can be ITT executive Harold Geneen:
“That which is measured is done.”
fresh in more ways than one.
On the other hand Mark Lamar
As measured by the criteria
above, we discovered a pretty good is not exactly your typical bleeding
letter in our “[email protected] heart, hand outstretched charity
com” mailbox on Wednesday, No- worker. He is not only a part-time
vember 14. Since it came to our lecturer at Rutgers School of Sogeneral inbox — instead of our ed- cial Work, but also a recipient of a
itor’s inbox, [email protected] Rutgers MBA. “I love business,”
com — it might have been passed Lamar told Alperin. “Nonprofits
over. But the subject line made it are businesses.”
stand out from the usual spam and
SPEAKING OF LETTERS and good
sales solicitations:
causes, we received another letter
“Letter regarding United Way from Jeff Nathanson, executive difunding elimination for area serv- rector, of the Arts Council of
ices.”
Princeton. His subject: “Why Give
It was from Mark Lamar, execu- to the ACP’s Annual Fund Drive
tive director of Family Guidance this year?” His answer:
Center of Nottingham, who got
• Because you believe in the
right to the point. “United Way of
Greater Mercer County recently power of art to connect and inspire
announced its plan to defund a all of us.
• Your support enables us to denumber of long standing nonprofit
liver high-quality FREE outreach
organizations.”
Lamar noted that “United Way’s programs to at-risk youth, seniors,
drifting direction is troubling. and other hard-to-reach audiences.
United Way has changed its role as
• Your tax-deductible donation
a community fund raiser and will, of any amount truly makes a differaccording to CEO Herb Klein III, ence: $100 supports a free creative
begin to provide services at United workshop for seniors; $500 proWay itself. United Way is also no vides a two week scholarship for
longer funding emergency food summer art camp; and $1,000 unprograms for our area’s neediest derwrites one week of free afterfamilies, citing this sector as unat- school art classes for 100 at-risk
tractive to donors.”
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Wednesday, December 5
Are Private Calls
Really Private?
W
hen it comes to matters
deemed to be important to national
security, even a general’s private
E-mails might be subject to investigation by a governmental agency.
Just ask the former CIA director,
General David Petraeus.
Private telephone calls may not
be so private, either, as Yale Law
School professor Owen Fiss will
discuss in a public lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study on
Wednesday, December 5, at 5 p.m.
in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute
campus. Go to www.ias.edu/news/public-events for more information.
Fiss, professor emeritus at Yale
Law School, talks about the current state of constitutional rules
protecting the privacy of telephone
conversations in an event titled
“The Lives of Others.”
The constitutional rules protecting the privacy of telephone conversations first came about as the
result of a 1967 Supreme Court de-
Who’s Listening?
Owen Fiss will talk
about the loss of privacy rights in a public
lecture at the Institute
for Advanced Study
on Wednesday, December 5.
cision and were then extended in
1972. They have been weakened
since then, says a release on the
event, “in part because of a general
retrenchment of privacy rights that
began in the mid-1970s and continues to this day.”
“This turn of events is also
linked to the events of September
11, 2001, which turned the fight
against international terrorism into
an urgent public issue and, Fiss argues, led to the compromise of fundamental principles of our constitutional order,” says the release.
“The War Against Terrorism has
put into issue two tenets of the
American constitutional tradi-
Some Supreme Court
cases have held that
you have no reasonable expectation of
privacy in information you have ‘knowingly exposed’ to a
third party — for example, bank records.
tion,” says an abstract for a 2006
article by Fiss in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. “The first denies the government the power to
imprison anyone unless that person
is charged with a crime and swiftly
brought to trial. The other requires
the government to abide by the
Constitution’s restrictions on its
power no matter where or against
whom it acts.”
In a 2010 article in the Utah Law
Review, Fiss writes about the impact of 9/11 on telephone privacy.
“In conducting his War on Terror,
(President George) Bush showed
little respect for the Fourth Amendment protection of privacy. In the
immediate wake of 9/11, he authorized the National Security
Agency (NSA) to tap telephones
without prior judicial authorization. These taps were aimed at international telephone calls between persons in America and individuals abroad suspected of having
ties to Al Qaeda.”
According to Fiss, the Supreme
Court ruled in 1967 that wiretapping was the functional equivalent
of a search, and thus subject to the
warrant requirement of the Fourth
Amendment. But the court reserved judgment on whether such a
rule would extend to cases of national security.
In 1972 the Supreme Court extended the warrant requirement of
the Fourth Amendment to a prose-
DECEMBER 5, 2012
cution involving the bombing of a CIA
building in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fiss said
that in that case, the Supreme Court once
again did not address whether the warrant
requirement should apply to wiretaps aimed
at obtaining foreign intelligence.
Not wanting to wait any longer for the
Supreme Court to rule on the issue, Congress in 1978 passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that required
warrants for wiretaps seeking foreign intelligence. It established a secret tribunal —
with judges appointed by the chief justice —
that had streamlined procedures for obtaining such warrants.
“Bush’s NSA wiretapping program violated the terms of the 1978 statute and, even
more fundamentally, the constitutional principles that it sought to further,” says Fiss.
“The warrant requirement creates a check
on arbitrary executive action and, to that
end, protects the Fourth Amendment’s right
of private communication so essential to the
development of the human personality and
political freedom.”
According to the Surveillance Self Defence Project website (ssd.eff.org), determining whether someone’s expectation of
privacy is protected by the Fourth Amendment depends on whether they have knowingly exposed something to another person
or to the public at large.
“Some Supreme Court cases have held
that you have no reasonable expectation of
privacy in information you have ‘knowingly
exposed’ to a third party — for example,
bank records or records of telephone numbers you have dialed — even if you intended
for that third party to keep the information
secret,” says the website. “In other words,
by engaging in transactions with your bank
or communicating phone numbers to your
phone company for the purpose of connecting a call, you’ve assumed the risk that they
will share that information with the government.”
People often “knowingly expose” much
more information that they really know or
intend. This information includes insurance
records, credit records, bank records, travel
records, library records, phone records, and
even information that retail stores track
when you use loyalty cards to get discounts.
Fiss received his undergraduate education at Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford and earned his law degree at
Harvard. He clerked for Thurgood Marshall,
when Marshall was a judge on the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as well as William J. Brennan Jr. on the
United States Supreme Court.
He also served in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. He taught at the University of Chicago
from prior to coming to Yale
Friss’ talk is part of Lectures on Public
Policy, an annual series at the Institute that
addresses issues of broad importance to contemporary politics, social conditions and
scientific matters.
— Bill Sanservino
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whether they realize it or not.”
Intellectual property runs the gamut from
the name of a company to the apps it sells or
the next generation automatic thermostats it
designs. “Customer lists, marketing plans,
research, notes, databases, it’s all intellectual property,” says Catalina. And it all needs
to be protected.
Catalina and his colleague, Lionel
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Catalina is a 1983 graduate of
Trenton State College who earned
his law degree from Syracuse University. He and his wife, Marge,
who works at St. Gregory the Great
grammar school, have three children. A lawyer for most of his life,
Catalina also got some experience
in running a small business when
his parents, Richard and Maureen
Catalina, made a midlife move into
the restaurant business, opening
two Mr. C’s restaurants, one in
West Windsor and one in Plainsboro, when he was in college.
The senior Richard Catalina had
been a buyer for Sears, headquartered in the retailer’s New York
City offices. “Then the Sears Tower in Chicago was finished and they
wanted to move his whole department to Chicago,” his son recalls.
But none of the four Catalina children wanted to move. “My parents
considered going on their own,” he
says, noting that he and his siblings
were nearly independent by that
time. But the senior Catalinas really didn’t want to leave West Windsor, either, and Richard Catalina
had always wanted to start a business of his own.
So, for seven years in the early
1980s the family ran the restaurants while the youngsters continued their academic careers and
their mother kept on working as the
secretary to the West Windsor
schools’ superintendent.
Catalina’s main takeaway from
those years: “The buck really does
stop with the business’ owner. If a
bus boy doesn’t show up, you have
to get out there and bus the tables.
You have to be willing to do everything.” He says that when he meets
with fledgling business owners
who understand that, “I know they
have a good chance of succeeding.”
Another ingredient in success
involves a smart strategy for taking
care of intellectual property.
Take a good look around.
“What do you have?” is the first
question to ask, says Catalina. Start
to protect the intellectual property
that defines and powers your company by making a list. Procedures,
software, processes, product
names, client addresses, mailing
Protect Your Rights: Attorneys Richard Catalina,
left, and Lionel Frank of Szaferman Lakind talk
about intellectual property rights in an event sponsored by the MIDJersey Chamber on Tuesday,
December 11.
lists, and training manuals could all
be valuable assets.
Let your plan guide you. If a
business owner plans to stay small
and local, minimal protection may
be required. But any owner with
thoughts of franchising or growing
substantially needs to put in place a
comprehensive plan for protecting
intellectual property.
Start early. Catalina has seen
time and again that where there is a
successful product or a catchy
If intellectual property protection had an
alarm bell, it would be
the start of hiring —
or of retaining independent contractors
to work on projects.
name, “there will be knock-offs.”
Sometimes lots of knock offs. Better to add protection, possibly via a
copyright or a patent, before the
knock-offs start.
One of his clients, a local company that once ruled the dietary
supplement weight loss category,
attracted legions of copycats that
tried to roll out identical looking
tiny bottles with very similar
names and nearly identical labels.
But the supplement name had been
registered and courts ruled time
and again that copycats had to re-
move the knock-offs from shelves.
Rein in employees. If intellectual property protection had an
alarm bell, it would be the start of
hiring — or of retaining independent contractors to work on projects.
As soon as a young company begins to hire, it needs to have confidentiality and non-compete documents drawn up.
Catalina says that it’s prudent to
allow employees and contractors
access to intellectual property only
on a need-to-know basis. But these
people will still have access to
everything from marketing plans
to key software in the course of
their work.
Sometimes, he points out, the
information will be “in their
heads.” Without a confidentiality
agreement, any employee can take
that information, walk across the
street, sign on with a competitor,
and seriously hurt a former employer.
A confidentiality agreement or
non-compete contract can cause
the employee to think twice.
Courts, says Catalina, will enforce
these documents if they are reasonable. A reason to retain an attorney
to draw them up, he says, is that
documents that are draconian, that
effectively keep an ex-employee or
contractor from earning a living,
will not hold up in court. “You need
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to work for certain direct competitors for a year or not to work in a
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Obtain a patent — or don’t.
Patents provide protection, but at a
price. Good for 20 years, a patent is
public information. “The recipe for
Coke isn’t protected by a patent,”
says Catalina. And that has worked
out well for the soft drink giant,
which would face two problems if
it patented the recipe for its cola.
For one thing, competing companies would know just how to make
the internationally famous drink.
Also, the protection comes with an
expiration date.
Often, says Catalina, it’s in a
company’s best interest to keep vital information as a trade secret, as
Coke has with its cola. Many of his
clients are technology companies.
For them, he says, it is often a good
idea to hold software as trade secrets — which is where those confidentiality agreements come into
play — but to obtain patents for its
processes, say smartphone apps or
next-gen home security alarms.
This is so, in part, because, “the
processes will be obsolete in 20
years anyway.”
Play offense. Multinational corporate giants have entire departments dedicated to fighting off the
tiniest infringement on their
patents, which are legion. (“IBM
obtains 3,000 patents a year, every
year,” says Catalina.)
A small business that has been
diligent in obtaining patents can
more easily hold its own in these
battles, he says. What’s more, with
patents in hand, it can threaten to
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“it can be a defensive or an offensive tool.”
Business, after all, is a game,
and the winners will not only build
up substantial assets, but will recognize the importance of every one
of those assets — and will put in
place the best possible protections
to keep them working.
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at them.
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everything on the major social media platforms. Yunghans’ company’s motto is “give away relevant
information for free.” Says Yunghans, “People follow me because I
find information and let other people know about it. I am building
trust.”
Add followers. Start with one,
build slowly and honestly. Think of
Aunt Minnie, the town gossip on
the party line. You want the Aunt
Minnies to talk about you. With social media we can, as one person,
talk to many people.
Yunghans suggests, though, that
you shouldn’t share personal information on your organization account or even your a personal account that you are using for business.
Keep Track of Yourself. Keep
checking your reputation with Socialmention.com. You can set the
search to find anything said about
you in the past 24 hours or in the
past week or month. Among other
measures, it measures sentiment
and passion (more than one visit).
Use a Boolean search (in quotes)
for a more accurate search.
Tell the truth. People will verify it. On the web, 98 percent speak
of you in a positive or neutral way.
One percent are trolls, so ignore
them, don’t engage. The other one
percent may be telling the truth —
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Save the date for our Holiday Event!
An Eye Enhancement Seminar
with
Dr. Schrader
Marketing & Social
Media For Nonprofits
R
aising money and awareness are key functions for any nonprofit organization — but are also
among the most difficult. But
thanks to new ways of marketing in
conjunction with the far reach of
social media, these tasks can be
made significantly easier if you go
about it in the right way, says
David Yunghans of Constant
Contact, a global marketing firm
headquartered in Waltham, MA.
Yunghans spoke recently on the
topic of social media for nonprofit
organizations as the first part of the
Princeton Regional Chamber’s
Non-Profit Development Series.
The second session in November
was on the effective use of E-mail
for marketing, and the third, “From
Brand Awareness to Driving Donations,” will be on Tuesday, December 11, at 8 a.m. at the Nassau Club
on Mercer Street. Cost: $20 for
chamber members, $25 for others.
Call 609-924-1776 or go to princetonchamber.org to register.
Information is everywhere,
Yunghans said. People are using
Facebook as a search engine. His
first anecdote was about how one
tweet, “How about helping a charity that helps kids,” resulted in a
sponsored fundraiser netting
$75,000. (It was his Tweet, and it
helped the charity his wife runs.)
He says he can reach 1 million people in 60 seconds.
During his presentation to the
chamber Yunghans offered several
tips for maximizing the use of social media.
Save time. Clean up your inbox
— use www.nutshellmail.com to
organize and combine your comments, alerts, etc. from Facebook,
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Holiday Gift Guide
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THE FARMHOUSE STORE: ONE-OF-A-KIND GIFTS
ONSEN FOR ALL: GIVE THE GIFT OF RELAXATION THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
O
nsen for All, located in
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Kingston offers a variety of
gift options for everyone on
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to a boutique that features
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artwork, and other health
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Onsen for All is known for
their high quality massage
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The best way to give the gift
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ones this year is to purchase
gift cards which can be used
for massage, facials, waxing,
yoga, or meditation classes, or
soaking in the signature
cedar-lined soaking tubs in the
outdoor Zen garden. With
each gift card purchase, you
will receive a discount coupon
for 50 percent off a 30-minute
soak in the outdoor tubs. You
can pass that savings along to
your recipient, or use the
coupon yourself to unwind
while getting your holiday
shopping done. Gift cards can
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ters are made
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With a price under
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DECEMBER 5, 2012
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FILM
LITERATURE
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DRAMA
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DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, DECEMBER 5 TO 12
We’re Dreaming of a Light Christmas
For more event listings visit
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Twitter and Facebook. Before attending an event, call or check the
website. Want to list an event?
Submit details and photos to
[email protected].
For listings of meetings, networking groups, trade associations, and training organizations,
see Business Meetings in the Survival Guide section.
Wednesday
December 5
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Who Can Hear Me Now?
Public Policy Lecture Series, Institute for Advanced Study,
Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein Drive,
Princeton, 609-734-8228. www.ias.edu. Owen M. Fiss, professor
emeritus of law, Yale Law School,
speaks on the dismantling of rules
protecting the privacy of phone
conversations. Register. Free. 5
p.m.
Classical Music
Noontime Recital Series, Witherspoon Street Presbyterian
Church, 124 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-1666.
“African-American Influence in
T
he house at 128 North Main Street in Cranbury
is taking the holiday lyrics “may your days be merry
and bright” literally and turning itself into a center for
music and light. Created by township resident Keith A.
Shaw, the homegrown spectacle now in its sixth year.
“In 2012 we can fully say our display is like a
Broadway show,” says Shaw, “with 75,000 lights
dancing to the music while being controlled by 432
channels and 22,000 feet of extension cords.” The ears
will be filled with bright sounds as synchronized holiday music makes the lights dance during the three 50minute shows that run every night at 6, 7, and 8 p.m.
Then there’s the heart. In addition to being in the
wine business for 25 years, Shaw is an active volunteer for charitiable organizations and annually picks a
charity to benefit from his holiday effort. This year’s
cause is He Cares we Care. Charity contributions in
2011 totalled nearly $9,000 in cash and $3,500 in food.
the Concert Hall” presented by Diane Goldsmith on piano. Light
lunch follows. Register. Free.
Noon.
This lighthouse for the holidays will also become a
gathering site for two special events. On Saturday, December 8, at 7 p.m., singer and songwriter Judy Pancoast makes it her only Garden State stop on her “The
House on Christmas Street Tour 2012.” That tour takes
Grammy nominee around the U.S. to perform in concert on the lawns and driveways of homeowners who
use her “The House on Christmas Street” song and CD
in their light displays. Pancoast will sing lyrics created
specifically for her Cranbury appearance.
Then on Saturday, December 22, from 7 to 8 p.m.,
Santa Claus arrives. Both outside events are free. Ample parking is available. Since the music for the light
show is being broadcast on FM radio, people can also
chose to enjoy a drive-in experience. The light show
stays bright until New Year’s Eve, Monday, December
31. That’s when the 8 p.m. show concludes this season’s spectacle and the year.
www.cranburychristmaslights.com
Open Mic, Alchemist &
Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555. www.theaandb.com. 21 plus. 10 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Pop Music
Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensemble, Mason Gross School of the
Arts, Schare Recital Hall, New
Brunswick, 732-932-7511. Free.
7:30 p.m.
An Evening with Kenny Loggins,
State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-2467469. Pop rock icon in concert
features his hit songs from the
past four decades and holiday favorites. $20 to $75. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Arturo Romay, Jester’s, 233
Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown,
609-298-9963. 6 to 9 p.m.
Dick Gratton, Trenton Social Bar
and Restaurant, 449 South
Broad Street Trenton, 609-9897777. Solo jazz guitar. 6 to 10
p.m.
Art
Mel Leipzig Presents, Mercer
County College, 102 North
Broad Street, Trenton, 609-5703404. “Costume and Textiles in
the History of Painting” presented
by Mel Leipzig. Free. Noon.
Art After Hours, Zimmerli Art
Museum, George and Hamilton
streets, New Brunswick, 732-9327237. Reception for “Lynd Ward
Draws Stories: Inspired by Mexico’s History, Mark Twain, and Adventures in the Woods,” with a
tour of the exhibit by Marilyn
Symmes and Beth McKeown.
There are 37 original illustrations
in the exhibit. Screening of “O
Brother Man: The Art and Life of
Lynd Ward,” a 2012 documentary.
$6. 5 to 9 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Gallery at Mercer
County College, Communications Center, West Windsor, 609586-4800, ext. 3589.Gallery talk in
conjunction with “Mel Leipzig:
Mostly Recent Paintings” featuring
an exhibition of works by Leipzig, a
professor retiring in June. On view
to December 27. 7 p.m.
EVENTS EDITOR:
LYNN MILLER
[email protected]
Meeting, South Brunswick Arts
Commission, Public Works
Building, 540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000.
www.sbarts.org. 7 p.m.
On Stage
A Christmas Carol, McCarter
Theater, 91 University Place,
Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Holiday classic by
Charles Dickens. $20 to $60. 5:30
p.m.
The Sound of Music, Paper Mill
Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drive,
Millburn, 973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. Musical based on
the Von Trapp family story.
Through December 30. $26 to
$97. 7 p.m.
A Raisin in the Sun, Mason
Gross School of the Arts, Levin
Theater, George Street, New
Brunswick, 732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Drama
by Lorraine Hansberry. $25. 7:30
p.m.
Trelawny of the Wells, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey,
F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600.
www.shakespearenj.org. Drama
by Arthur Wing Pinero directed by
Bonnie J. Monte. Through December 30. 7:30 p.m.
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DECEMBER 5, 2012
Size Matters –– And Smaller Can Be Better
W
by Ilene Dube
e long to walk the
boardwalk again, smelling the sea
air, hearing the children laugh, and
the gulls cry. Finding fireworks is
our common religion.
Jonas Lie’s painting of a beach
house, on view in the New Jersey
State Museum’s “Size Matters” exhibit, depicts a placid place, a
beach devoid of bathers, reminding
us of the quiet retreat the Jersey
Shore was a century ago.
Next to it is an early 20th-century watercolor by an unknown
American showing another peaceful shore, before Mother Nature
exhibited her wrath.
The works in “Size Matters”
may be diminutive — none is larger than 12 inches in any direction
— but they tell big stories. In some
cases you may need to stand close
to see the detail, but you will spend
a good amount of time looking and
examining. Just as in a well-written
short story, every component matters in these small works.
Charles Ward, known for his
New Deal murals, including three
in downtown Trenton, is here represented by two prints that are no
larger than a 35mm contact print.
One shows a man sitting on a
bench, birds at his feet. Is one hand
stretched out to feed the birds? Did
the artist feel small while making
this tiny image? Another similarly
sized print shows a man in a hat and
coat walking in a woods, a fox
nearby. These look like fables.
“When working small, overall
composition and the scale of the elements that make up the work become critical,” says curator of fine
arts Margaret O’Reilly. “Because
there is so little space to work within, every element included in the
work takes on added importance.
Each line, shape, color, texture
must be carefully considered to ensure that it does not become a distracting element. Small works require the viewer to move in for a
closer look and to discover the importance of each element.”
O’Reilly had been researching
landscapes and looking through
the drawers of works on paper in
the collection when she came
across the small Oscar Bluemner
works on view here.
“We have two major paintings
by Bluemner, as well as 40 to 50 of
these small studies,” she says of the
German-born American modernist. Bluemner, who painted
many scenes of New Jersey, had
been part of influential American
(and sometimes New Jerseybased)
photographer
Arthur
Stieglitz’s circle of artists, though
not as well known as other members, such as Georgia O’Keeffe.
At the same time, O’Reilly came
across small works by self-taught
artist Gregory Van Maanen, who
uses art to exorcise memories of
the Vietnam War, in which he
served. Skulls and eyeballs predominate in his larger works, as
well as these two small acrylics.
“All of a sudden the idea of ‘little’ began reverberating,” says
O’Reilly. “You know how you may
be searching for something on the
Internet and three hours later you
discover something else? I
thought, I can use these ideas to do
an interesting show of works I hadn’t seen in a while. Small works
don’t get shown very often, because they would get lost next to
larger paintings.”
With all the small works in the
collection, O’Reilly says she could
have done four shows.
“The artists were making a conscious decision to work small,” she
says. Since size, and not style or
time period, is the unifying theme,
laying them out in a cohesive way
presented a challenge O’Reilly eagerly met. “Creating a dialogue between the works was the fun part,”
she says.
The works in “Size Matters” are
Voices of Angels
Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 7:30pm
Princeton University Chapel
A Tribute to Roberta N. Ellsworth
Nathan Gunn joins The American Boychoir this season, singing
all your holiday favorites. Come hear the country’s premiere
boychoir, with one of the most in-demand singers of our time,
highlighted by festive readings.
Winter Wonderland
Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 4:00pm
Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University
Ring in the season with illustrious opera star
Nathan Gunn and the world famous American
Boychoir! There’s fun for the whole family during
this festive program of much loved holiday classics,
including a sing-along!
To purchase concert tickets,
please call (609) 258-9220 or buy
online at www.princeton.edu/utickets
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency
of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the
National Endowment for the Arts.
from 1876 to contemporary times,
and include such artists as Alex
Katz, Max Weber, Ben Shahn,
Elsie Driggs, William Wegman,
and John Marin, among others.
The collection, which includes a
diversity of artists from New Jersey, has been growing since 1960.
Funds come from donations, deaccessions, and bequests, and collectors and artists may donate work.
“Usually a gift starts with a
phone call,” says O’Reilly. “We
have a collection protocol. I will
ask them to send an image; then I
consider the provenance and con-
dition. We have to be judicious in
what we collect. It has to be in good
condition to store and be cared for.”
The work should also fill a gap. For
example, a work should supplement, not duplicate, the works already owned.
O
’Reilly, who has been
building the collection since 1997,
goes to auctions and galleries to
looks for works of art and communicates with other museum curators. She keeps a list of artwork she
would like to acquire that will com-
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Small Art, Big Ideas:
‘All My Children,’ opposite page, by Stella
Waitzkin, ‘Standing
Nude,’ near right, by
Gaston Lachaise, and
Self Portrait by
Joseph Stella, are all
among the smallscale works on view
in the State Museum’s ‘Size Matters’
exhibit.
plement the collection of American
art with a focus on New Jersey. “I
also have to think of curators who
will follow me, and what they will
want to represent this time.”
When putting together an exhibit from the collection, some of the
artwork may need to be framed. In
the case of this exhibit of small
works, the museum preparator was
able to build frames and mats from
museum stock.
O’Reilly built an image bank of
all the small works she was considering for the exhibit, and then created a slideshow on her home computer so the works could tell their
stories.
“I kept coming back to Bluemner,” she says of the artist who had
no recognition in his lifetime. “I
started with his sketches, grouping
them together, to see what would
work.” She paired them with landscapes of different time periods to
show the breadth of artists approaching the same subject matter.
She also grouped together several
other series, some with animals
(birds and horses) and some with
simple shapes.
In some cases the works are
preparatory drawings for works
that are scaled up, but sometimes
these are the final works. Ruth
Vollmer’s sculptural work “Oscule,” in wax, is a preparatory
study for a bronze in the same size.
“She was testing the material,”
says O’Reilly.
The smallest work in the show is
Berendina Buist’s “Wrevenge is
rong, Eye for a Tooth and Tooth for
an Eye” — in fact the title is bigger
than the work, a pupil and a tooth
on toothpick-size pedestals.
Among the largest icons of our
state are those oil refineries. In a
section of urban landscapes,
Robert Kogge shows those tanks
reigning over a slice of the state at
dusk, reflecting white cylindrical
forms in a sliver of what could be
water or oil spill.
O’Reilly hopes the small works
will lead viewers to the museum’s
larger exhibit of permanent works
in “American Perspectives,” where
there is a study for a Charles Ward
mural. There is also a large canvas
of Paterson — also known as Silktown — by Bluemner. That artist
traveled to Europe and, exposed to
modernism, returned with a new
intensity of color, exploring cu-
bism and prismatic color. In this
painting his colors take on the brilliant hues of the dyes used in that
city’s factories.
There’s also a large Joseph Stella painting of gas tanks belching
black fumes against a blue sky.
Back in “Size Matters,” Stella’s
color pencil and watercolor sketches show the roots of how he developed his visual vocabulary that led
to precisionism.
“These works are little gems,”
says O’Reilly. “You can be having
a bad day and come and look and
suddenly all is right with the
world.” And after our storms, a visit to the State Museum, where admission is always free, could be
just the thing.
Size Matters: Small Works
from the Fine Art Collection at
the New Jersey State Museum,
205 West State Street, Trenton. On
view through Sunday, December
30, Tuesdays through Sundays, 9
a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Free. 609-2926464 or www.newjerseystatemuseum.org.
December 5
Continued from page 9
The Best of Enemies, George
Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7717. Drama based on the
true story between C.P. Ellis, a
member of the KKK, and Ann Atwater, an African-American civil
rights activist, during the desegregation of the Durham, North Carolina schools in 1971. Directed by
Julianne Boyd. $25 to $62. 8 p.m.
BOOK YOUR PARTIES
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Central Jersey’s Premier Gastropub
137 Washington Street (Rt. 518) • Reservations: 609.683.8930
Dancing
www.rockyhilltavern.com
Newcomer’s Dance, American
Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149.
$10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Literati
Peter Brown & Elaine Pagels,
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau
Street Princeton, 609-497-1600.
“Through the Eye of a Needle:
Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the
Making of Christianity in the
West.” Peter Brown is a professor
of history at Princeton. Elaine
Pagels is a professor of religion at
Princeton. 6 p.m.
Food & Dining
Dreamy: The Alborada Spanish Dance Theater
presents ‘El Sueno,’ their adaptation of ‘The Nutcracker,’ on Friday and Saturday, December 7
and 8, at Kelsey Theater in West Windsor.
Health
Cornerstone Community
Kitchen, Princeton United
Methodist Church, Nassau at
Vandeventer Street, Princeton,
609-924-2613. Hot meals served,
prepared by TASK. Free. 5 to
6:30 p.m.
Mushroom Tasting Dinner,
Brothers Moon, 7 West Broad
Street, Hopewell, 609-333-1330.
www.brothersMoon.com. Four
courses of mushroom dishes with
Alan Kaufman of Shibumi Farm.
Register. $49. 6:30 p.m.
Attention Deficit Disorder Lecture and Discussion, Children
and Adults with AttentionDeficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
Riverside School, 58 Riverside
Drive, Princeton, 609-683-8787.
“Food and Mood: How Changes
in Diet Reduce the Symptoms of
ADHD in Children, Teens, and
Adults” presented by Dorothy
Mullen, founder of the Suppers
programs; and Raoul Momo, Terra Momo Restaurant Group. Lisa
Maniaci presents the “Feingold
Diet: Impact on ADHD Symptom
Reduction.” 7 to 9 p.m.
Gardens
Wellness
Meeting, Central Jersey Orchid
Society, D&R Greenway Land
Trust, Johnson Education Center,
1 Preservation Place, Princeton,
609-924-1380. 7:30 p.m.
Introductory Class, Shaolin Kung
Fu, 276 North Main Street, Pennington, 609-577-8511. Northern
Dragon Kung Fu presented by
Darren Doty. Free. 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Community Yoga, Four Winds
Yoga, 114 West Franklin Avenue,
Pennington, 609-818-9888. Jill
Gutowski leads an all level class.
$5. 7 to 9 p.m.
History
Stroller Strides, Historical Society of Princeton, Bainbridge
House, 158 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-6748. Walking tour of Princeton for moms,
dads, grandparents, caregivers,
and their tiny tots. Register. $7.
10 to 11 a.m.
Holiday Open House,
Drumthwacket Foundation, 354
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609683-0057. Tour the official residence of the Governor of New
Jersey featuring “Songs of the
Season” theme. Register. $5 donation. 11 a.m.
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Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. Holiday trees decorated by area business and organizations. $6. Wednesday to
Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Summerseat Remembers, Historic Morrisville, Summerseat,
140 Legion Avenue, Morrisville,
PA, 215-295-1706. Carol sing
and refreshments. Free. 6 p.m.
For Families
Where Do They Go?, Stony
Brook Millstone Watershed, 31
Titus Mill Road, Pennington, 609737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. For ages 3 to 5 with an adult.
Register. $15. 1 p.m.
For Teens
Preparing Students with Disabilities for College, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Elizabeth
Hamblet presents a talk for students, parents, and teachers. 7
p.m.
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Lecture Series, Monroe Public
Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe, 732-521-5000. www.monroetwplibrary.org. “The Attack on
Pearl Harbor” presented by
James P. Kane, a professor of education at William Paterson University. Register. Free. 2 and
6:30 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall, Dodds, 609-258-0157. “Little
America: The War Within the War
for Afghanistan” presented by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of
“Little America.” Book sale, signing, and public reception follow
the talk. 4:30 p.m.
Public Policy Lecture Series, Institute for Advanced Study,
Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein Drive,
Princeton, 609-734-8228. www.ias.edu. Owen M. Fiss, professor
emeritus of law, Yale Law School,
speaks on the dismantling of
rules protecting the privacy of
phone conversations. Register.
Free. 5 p.m.
Levin Fund Lecture, CASA of
Mercer County, Presbyterian
Church of Lawrenceville, 609434-0050. www.casamercer.org.
“Meeting the Needs of Women
and Girls in Mercer County” presented by Cassandra Gibson, assistant professor at the College of
New Jersey. Register. Free. 7
p.m.
Happy Holidays: Mannheim Steamroller Christmas comes to the State Theater in New
Brunswick on Friday, December 7.
Hopewell Public Library Wednesday Night Out,
Hopewell Train Station, 5 Railroad Place. www.redlibrary.org.
“Gadgets for Holiday Giving,”
Doug Dixon, an independent
technology consultant, author,
and speaker specializing in digital
media and portable devices. 7
p.m.
UFO Ghosts and Earth Mysteries, UFO and Paranormal Study
Group, Hamilton Township Library, Municipal Drive, 609-6318955. www.drufo.org. Discussion
about UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena, crop circles, poltergeists, channeling, and government cover-ups facilitated by Pat
Marcattilio. Free. 7 to 10 p.m.
Socials
Knitting Circle, Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896920. www.mcl.org. Ann Garwig
assists. Register. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Camera Club, South Brunswick
Arts Commission, Conference
Room, Public Works Building,
540 Ridge Road, Monmouth
Junction, 732-821-6196. Free. 7
to 9 p.m.
Meeting, Outer Circle Ski Club,
Chili’s Restaurant, Route 1 South,
West Windsor, 609-721-4358.
www.outercircleskiclub.org. Open
to adults interested in ski trips,
hikes, picnics, and game nights.
New members welcome. 8 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Gingerbread House Craft, Bordentown Library, 18 East Union
Street, Bordentown, 609-2980622. For ages 5 to 10 at 4 p.m.
For ages 11 to 17 at 6 p.m. Register. 4:30 p.m.
American Repertory Ballet’s
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McCarter
Theatre
Princeton, NJ
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the Performing Arts
Information:
732.249.1254
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Rahway, NJ
one hour family presentation
Patriots Theater at
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Trenton, NJ
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State Theatre
New Brunswick, NJ
with Live Orchestra and Choir
American Repertory Ballet’s programs
are made possible in part by funds from
the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/
Department of State, a Partner Agency of
the National Endowment for the Arts
ARB’s Nutcracker Season is sponsored in part by
Covance Foundation.
Official Airlines of American Repertory Ballet
Thursday
December 6
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Keeping
Up With The Von Trapps
Millburn, 973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical based on the
Von Trapp family story stars Ben
Davis, Elena Shaddow, and Edward Hibbert. $26 to $97. 1:30
and 7 p.m.
Classical Music
After Noon Concert, Princeton
University Chapel, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3654. www.princeton.edu. Thomas Purviance on piano. Free. 12:30 to 1
p.m.
Rutgers Symphony Band, Mason Gross School of the Arts,
Nicholas Music Center, 85
George Street, New Brunswick,
732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Darryl Bott
conducts. $15. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
Arturo Romay, Luchento’s, 520
Route 33, Millstone, 732-4464800. 6 to 9 p.m.
Mike Montrey Band, Cedar Pub
at Cedar Gardens, 661 Route
33, Mercerville, 609-587-0930.
www.allaboutjazz.com. 8 p.m.
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Three Meals a Day the Authentic Mexican Way
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right and cheerful, the ambiance at A Taste of Mexico transports you to an oasis south of the border. Felipe
Cruz, the owner, smiles as he
goes from table to table greeting
the regular lunch crowd that fills
the space, spilling onto the patio
when weather permits. The
friendly atmosphere, attentive
service, and authentic fare draw
diners to all three of his locations: 180 Nassau Street in
Princeton, Princeton Shopping
Center on Harrison Street, and
El Oaxaqueno #2 at 260 Drift
Street in New Brunswick.
Dinner entrees range in price
from $6.99 to $10.99 and include
traditional Mexican favorites like
tamales, enchiladas, marinated
pork, and flautas. His mole
sauce (a rare find on many Mexican menus) is a special recipe
with more than 40 ingredients including chocolate, raisins, a variety of peppers, and more. In addition to being tasty, most of the
dishes are steamed and grilled
with only the flautas and chips
deep-fried in vegetable oil. Many
low-fat platters such as grilled
quesadillas, shrimp, chicken,
steak and a selection of salads
may be found on the menu.
Ditch the bagels and pancakes and wake up with a hot
breakfast of Huevos Ranchero
(fried eggs with black beans and
World Music
Kwanzaa Festival of Family,
Community, and Culture, Raritan Valley Community College,
Route 28, North Branch, 908725-3420. www.rvccarts.org. Kofi
and Sankofa African Drum and
Dance Ensemble, composed of
four drummers and three
dancers, perform. The festivities
include a celebration of the seven
principles of Kwanzaa. Free. 6 to
8 p.m.
Art
Princeton ArtWalk, Downtown
Princeton. www.facebook.com/princetonartwalk. Sample the visual arts related events and activities featuring music, entertainment, and refreshments. The destinations include the Princeton
University Art Museum, Arts
Council of Princeton, Bernstein
Gallery, Firestone Library, Princeton Historical Society, Princeton
Public Library, Labyrinth Books,
and Small World Coffee. Free. 5
to 8 p.m.
Christmas Art Sale, Kanevsky
Gallery of Art, 366 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-955-0163.
www.alexanderkanevsky.com. 6
to 7 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Plainsboro Public
Library, 9 Van Doren Street, 609275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Reception for “Clay Monoprints,” a collection created by
Priscilla Snow Algava, created by
prints pulled from a slab of wet
clay and color pigments added.
An art specialist at South
Brunswick High School, she has
taught at DePauw University,
Marist College, and Mercer Community College. Andrew Marfitsin
presents classical guitar music.
The exhibit is on view to January
2. Note cards and small works
available for purchase. 6 to 8
p.m.
On Stage
Millburn, 973-376-4343. www.papermill.org. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical based on the
Von Trapp family story stars Ben
Davis, Elena Shaddow, and Edward Hibbert. $26 to $97. 1:30
and 7 p.m.
Felipe Cruz and Leslie Paredes
ranchero salsa topped with fresh
cheese) and flour tortillas or opt
for the Spanish Continental (fired
eggs, black beans, and tomato
salsa, topped with queso fresco)
dand flour tortillas. The Spanish
Continental, with fried eggs,
black beans, and tomato salsa,
topped with fresh cheese, is another tasty option and comes
with Fried plaintains and flour
tortillas.
Or take a break in the middle
of a busy day and fuel up for the
afternoon by taking advantage of
the restaurant's $7.99 lunch special, which is available until 3
p.m. daily. Your choice of a burrito, two tacos, two tostadas, or
two enchiladas comes with rice,
beans, and all the chips and salsa you can eat.
Whichever meal you decide to
have at Taste of Mexico, you
can't go wrong. The attention to
authentic detail, healthy cooking,
and pleasing presentation will
surely make it a memorable dining experience.
A Taste of Mexico, 180 Nassau Street, down the alley behind Cox’s Market. 609-9240500.
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7717. www.gsponline.org.
Drama based on the true story
between C.P. Ellis, a member of
the KKK, and Ann Atwater, an
African-American civil rights activist, during the desegregation of
the Durham, North Carolina
schools in 1971. Directed by Julianne Boyd. $25 to $62. 2 p.m.
p.m.
Charles Dickens. $20 to $60.
7:30 p.m.
Misery, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street,
New Hope, 215-862-2121. www.bcptheater.org. World premiere
by William Goldman, who also
wrote the screenplay based on
the novel by Stephen King. Directed by Will Frears. $39 to $54.
8 p.m.
Holiday Jubilee, Crossroads
Theater, 7 Livingston Avenue,
New Brunswick, 732-545-8100.
www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org. Multicultural celebration of holiday traditions
around the world. Concept by
Sibusiso Mamba features the music of Motown. Through December 16. $40. 8 p.m.
King Lear, Princeton Shakespeare Company, Theater at
Whitman College, 609-258-3000.
www.princeton.edu/~psc. Shakespeare drama. $10. 8 p.m.
by Arthur Wing Pinero and directed by Bonnie J. Monte. Through
December 30. 8 p.m.
Foreign and Independent Films,
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6920. Screening of
“Amador,” 2010. Spanish with
English subtitles. 6:30 p.m.
Film
International Film, Monroe Public Library, 4 Municipal Plaza,
Monroe, 732-521-5000. www.monroetwplibrary.org. Screening
of “The Salt of Life” with English
subtitles. Register. $1. 2 and 6:30
p.m.
Dancing
Country and Western Dance,
Bordentown Elks, 11 Amboy
Road, Bordentown, 609-2982085. Lessons. 7:30 to 10 p.m.
Argentine Tango, Viva Tango,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 732789-5272. vivatango.org. Class
and practice session. $12. 8 p.m.
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609-275-7111. Christmas carols,
cookies, baked goods, coffee, apple juice, and wassail. Free. 7:30
to 9 p.m.
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History
Sounds of Christmas, Kuser
Farm Mansion, 390 Newkirk Avenue, Hamilton, 609-890-3630.
Guided tour of the decorated
1892 Victorian mansion. Register.
Free. 6 p.m.
Lectures
Meeting, 55-Plus, Jewish Center
of Princeton, 435 Nassau Street,
609-896-2923. “The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books
that Shaped the Cold War” presented by John V. Fleming, former professor of English and
comparative literature at Princeton University. $3. 10 a.m.
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall, Bowl 001, 609-258-0157.
“Abortion and the ‘Woman Question’ at Roe’s 40th” presented by
Reva Siegal, professor of law,
Yale University. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Princeton University, Whig Hall,
609-258-0157. “Can You Believe
Your Eyes? Eyewitness Identification in the 21st Century” presented by Stuart J. Rabner, chief
justice of the Supreme Court of
New Jersey. Free. 4:30 p.m.
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December 6
Public Lecture, Archaeological
Institute of America: Princeton,
McCormick, 106, Princeton University, 609-448-7356. www.archaeological.org. Susan Hueck
Allen, author of “Classical Spies,”
a book featuring espionage activities carried out in Greece during
World War II by American archaeologists. Free. 5 p.m.
Good Causes
Open House, Interfaith Caregivers Mercer, 3635 Quakerbridge Road, Suite 16, Hamilton,
609-393-9922. www.icgmc.org.
Light refreshments will be served.
Drawing the winner of Holiday 5050. Tickets $50 each. Proceeds
go toward programs and services
to benefit the homebound elderly.
5:30 to 8 p.m.
Happy Helping Hour, JobAnts.com, Yankee Doodle Tap Room,
Nassau Inn, Princeton. Networking for those affected by the recent storms for those in the pharmaceutical, health, and IT fields.
Bring a non perishable food item
for NJ Foodbank. Register at
meetup.com. 6 p.m.
Socials
Inspired Hour, A New Equilibrium, Washington Crossing Inn,
1295 Washington Memorial
Boulevard, Washington Crossing,
PA. Meet with colleagues who are
utilizing their spiritual journey to
enhance their leadership roles.
Register. Cash bar. 6 p.m.
For Seniors
Computer Classes, West Windsor Senior Center, 271
Clarksville Road, West Windsor,
609-799-9068. E-mail lab. Register. $3. 11 a.m.
Stress Relief, West Windsor Senior Center, 271 Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 609-7999068. Register. Free. 11 a.m.
Caring for the Caregiver, Hickory Corner Library, 138 Hickory
Corner Road, East Windsor, 609448-1330. www.mcl.org. Support
group presented by Barbara
Stender with Greater Trenton Behavioral Healthcare. Register.
Free. 1:30 p.m.
Pop Star: Kenny G.
presents holiday music at the State Theater in New Brunswick
on Wednesday, December 12.
Friday
December 7
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
For Chocoholics
Chocolate Walk, Downtown Bordentown Association,
609-298-9422. www.downtownbordentown.com. Tastings of
chocolate throughout shops, boutiques, and galleries. 5 to 8 p.m.
Classical Music
Meeting, Piano Teachers’
Forum, Jacobs Music, Route 1,
Lawrence, 609-921-1510.
Catherine Kautsky presents
“Clowns, Colonies and Cakewalks: Playing Debussy While
Looking at Paris.” $10. 9:15 a.m.
Master Class, Princeton String
Academy, Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church, West Windsor,
609-951-7664. Violin and viola
master class with Marvin Moon,
violist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. A former member of the
Boston Symphony, he was a substitute player with the New York
Philharmonic. Some of the students will be performing. Free. 6
p.m.
American Boychoir in concert,
Grounds For Sculpture, 126
Sculptors Way, Hamilton, 609586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Register. $27. 7:30
p.m.
Rutgers Symphony Orchestra,
Mason Gross School of the
Arts, Nicholas Music Center, 85
732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. “Holiday Pops”
concert. Kynan Johns directs.
$15. 7:30 p.m.
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Princeton University Orchestra,
Princeton University, Richardson Auditorium, 609-258-9220.
Works by Bartok and Strauss performed by winners of the concerto
competition. Soprano Martha Elliott joins the orchestra for the
world premiere of “Dragon Mother” by graduate student composer
Gilad Cohen. Concert conducted
by Michael Pratt. Register. $15.
7:30 p.m.
Holiday Concert, Rider University, Gill Chapel, Lawrenceville,
609-258-9220. www.rider.edu/arts. Rider University
Chorale performs. Free. 7:30
p.m.
TCNJ Orchestra, College of New
Jersey, Mayo Concert Hall, 2000
Pennington Road, Ewing, 609771-2585. www.tcnj.edu. Holiday
concert. $5 to $15. 8 p.m.
An Evening of Readings and
Carols, Westminster Choir College, Princeton University
Chapel, 609-921-2663. Holiday
music for choir, organ, and brass.
Register. $40 to $70. 8 p.m.
Folk Music
Chorus Song Night, Folk
Project, Morristown Unitarian
Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights
Road, Morristown, 973-335-9489.
Stuart Markus, Jeff DeSmedt,
Mike Agranoff, and Katie Weiss.
$7. 8 p.m.
Men’s Night
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Does she was a boyshort or thong? Knowing her taste
in lingerie will set you on the right track to picking out
the perfect gift.
• Know her size. It’s okay to do a little snooping! Check
her lingerie drawer for two size: a panty size and a bra
size. It’s also helpful to know a dress size. Each
designer will run a little differently, but with this
information we can help you find just the right thing.
• Know where to shop. We’ll make sure you have a
personal shopper to help you find a gift she’ll love.
We also know that women love opening presents, and
we believe in complimentary wrapping to make your
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On Key: Alan Mallach presents ‘Beethoven the Revolutionary,’ a solo piano concert
at the Roosevelt Municipal
Building on Saturday, December 8.
Live Music
Dick Gratton, Chambers Walk Cafe, 2667
Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995.
Solo jazz guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Music, Pizza, and Wine, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington,
609-737-4465. Wine by the glass or bottle,
brick oven pizza, and cheese platters are
available. Ron Orlando with blues and folk
music. 6 to 9 p.m.
Joe Saint Michael Trio, Olden Avenue
Diner, 1980 North Olden Avenue, Ewing,
609-771-4447. Joe Saint Michael on keyboards and vocals, Lou Cordas on sax,
Paul Duritt on drums perform hits from the
last 70 years. 6 to 9 p.m.
Arturo Romay, Villa Romanza, 429 Route
156, Hamilton, 609-585-1717. 6 to 9 p.m.
Open Mic Night, West Windsor Arts
Council, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, 609-716-1931. www.westwindsorarts.org. Register online. $5 cover. 7 p.m.
Joe Hutchinson, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road,
West Windsor, 609-716-8771.7:30 p.m.
The Successful Failures, The Record
Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue,
Bordentown, 609-324-0880. www.therecord-collector.com. $15. 7:30 p.m.
Bob Egan, Bowman’s Tavern, 1600 River
Road, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2972.
Open mic and sing-a-long night. 8 p.m.
Suzzy and Maggie Roche, Randy Now’s
Man Cave, Crosswicks Street and
Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, 609424-3766. www.mancavenj.com. Musical
holiday evening. 9 p.m.
Christine Havrilla and Gypsy Fuzz, Triumph Brewing Company, 400 Union
Square, New Hope, 215-862-8300. www.triumphbrew.com. 18 plus. $5. 10 p.m.
Rhymageddon, Old Bay, 61-63 Church
Street, New Brunswick, 732-246-3111.
www.oldbayrest.com. Hip hop. $4. 11 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Holiday Music, Palmer Square, On the
Green, 609-921-2333. www.palmersquare.com. Nine Princeton University a
cappella groups perform. Bring a new unwrapped toy to donate to the YMCA St.
Nicholas Project. 6 to 8 p.m.
Pop Music
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, State
Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick, 732-246-7469. www.StateTheatreNJ.org. Chip Davis created a show
with multimedia effects and musicians. The
group has released 19 classic Christmas
albums and compilations since their start in
1984. $50 to $90. 8 p.m.
World’s Largest Paint Party, Sun National Bank Center, Hamilton Avenue at
Route 129, Trenton, 800-298-4200. www.comcasttix.com. Multimedia show that fuses high-energy music, art, dance, and
paint into one. $48 to $58.85. 8 p.m.
World Music
Fund for Irish Studies, Princeton University, 185 Nassau Street, 609-258-5262.
princeton.edu. “Gra Agus as: Love and
Death” presented by Donnacha Dennehy,
composer, global scholar, and visiting lecturer. Free. 4:30 p.m.
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December 7
Art
Drawing Workshop, Zimmerli
Art Museum, George and Hamilton streets, New Brunswick, 732932-7237. www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu. “Two Ways
of Knowing” presented by Betty
Edwards, author of “Drawing on
the Right Side of the Brain,” In
collaboration with “Art=Text=Art.”
Register. $50 includes breakfast,
lunch, and supplies. 9 a.m.
Food For Thought Gallery Talk,
New Jersey State Museum, 205
West State Street, Trenton, 609292-6464. www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. “Civil War Flag Collection of New Jersey” presented
on Pearl Harbor Day by Nicholas
Ciotala, curator of cultural history
at the museum. For adult learners. Free. 12:10 p.m.
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 12:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Gallery and Academy of Robert Beck, 204 North
Union Street, Lambertville, 215982-0074. www.robertbeck.net.
Reception for “Small Captivations,” an exhibition of paintings
by Alex Cohen. A second reception will be held Sunday, December 9, from 1 to 4 p.m. 6 to 9 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Silva Gallery of Art,
Pennington School, 112 West
Delaware Avenue, Pennington,
609-737-8069. www.pennington.org. Reception for “People,
Places, Poetry, and Prose,” a solo
exhibit featuring works by Lionel
Goodman of Princeton. A retired
chemical physicist, he observes
the world through a camera. On
view to December 19. 6 to 8 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Alfa Art Gallery, 108
Church Street, New Brunswick,
732-296-6720. Opening reception for small format and affordable group exhibition. On view to
December 22. 7 p.m.
Color Coated: ‘Letting Go,’ by Priscilla
Snow Algava, from
her exhibit of monoprints on view through
Wednesday, January
2, at the Plainsboro
Public Library.
Dance
Dance Plus Fall, Mason Gross
School of the Arts, Mastrobuono
Theater, 85 George Street, New
Brunswick, 732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Works
by Robert Battle, Julie Bour,
Patrick Corbin, and faculty members. $25. 7:30 p.m.
Alborada Spanish Dance Theater, Kelsey Theater, Mercer
County Community College,
1200 Old Trenton Road, West
Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. “El Sueno”
(The Dream) based on the Nutcracker. $16. 8 p.m.
On Stage
Talking to Westfield, Premiere
Stages, 1000 Morris Avenue,
Union, 908-737-4077. Playwright
E.M. Lewis lives in Princeton.
$15. 6 p.m.
There’s a Burglar in My Bed, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Farce about a couple,
their lovers, mistaken identities, a
nymphomaniac, and a necklace.
$29.50 to $31.50 includes
dessert. 7 p.m.
the Von Trapp family story.
Through December 30. $26 to
$97. 7 p.m.
Brunswick, 732-932-7511Drama
p.m.
Charles Dickens. $20 to $60.
Opening night. 7:30 p.m.
You Can’t Take it With You, Actors’ NET, 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-2953694. www.actorsnetbucks.org.
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s comedy about an eccentric
family. $20. 8 p.m.
New Hope, 215-862-2121. www.bcptheater.org. World premiere
by William Goldman, who also
wrote the screenplay based on
the novel by Stephen King. Directed by Will Frears. $39 to $54.
8 p.m.
www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org. Multicultural celebration of holiday traditions
around the world. Concept by
Sibusiso Mamba features the music of Motown. $40. 8 p.m.
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7717. www.gsponline.org.
Drama based on the true story
between C.P. Ellis, a member of
the KKK, and Ann Atwater, an
African-American civil rights activist, during the desegregation of
the Durham, North Carolina
schools in 1971. Directed by Julianne Boyd. $25 to $62. 8 p.m.
The Vagina Monologues and the
Funny House of the Negro,
Mercer County Community
College, Studio Theater, Communications Building, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609570-3524. Eve Ensler’s work is
directed by Robert Terrano and
Adrianne Kennedy’s work is directed by Jody Person. $16. 8
p.m.
DECEMBER 5, 2012
Pat Tanner: Shopping For Foodies
eady or not, it is time
once again for my recommendations on the gift books, tools, ingredients, and luxury foods and drinks
for the serious gourmands and
cooks on your holiday list. Let’s
start with books.
Last year I was hard-pressed to
recommend more than one cookbook; this year I have had to severely edit my picks. One unexpected one is Maria Speck’s “Ancient Grains for Modern Meals,”
subtitled “Mediterranean Whole
Grain Recipes for Barley, Farro,
Kamut, Polenta, Wheat Berries &
More” (Ten Speed Press, $30).
With recipes such as honey-nut
granola with olive oil, sweet zucchini bread with mint, and
Mediterranean mussels with farro
and white wine, it is no wonder the
book was named to top lists of the
Washington Post and the New York
Times (twice) and won this year’s
the Julia Child Book Award.
Another award-winning chef
and author is Maricel Presilla, coowner of Hoboken’s Cucharamama and Zafra restaurants. She was
named Best Chef Mid-Atlantic this
year by the James Beard Foundation. Her 900-page magnum opus,
“Gran Cocina Latina,” debuted in
October (W.W. Norton, $45), and I
predict it will garner major awards
in 2013. The book is the result of
more than three decades of travel
to every Spanish or Portuguesespeaking country in Latin America
and the Caribbean on the part of
Presilla, who has a doctorate from
NYU in medieval Spanish history.
The result is a landmark work that
contains not only 500 meticulous,
authentic recipes covering everything from empanadas, tamales,
cebiches, and soups and stews to
sweets and drinks (all updated for
the modern American kitchen), but
also engrossing stories of the people, places, and social history of
this important cuisine.
As long as those award-winning
Canal House gals, Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hersheimer,
keep producing excellent cookbooks “by home cooks, for home
cooks” from their Lambertville atelier, I will continue to recommend
them. But you don’t have to take
my word for it, just read the testimonials for this year’s output,
“Canal House Cooks Every Day,”
by the likes of Lidia Bastianich,
Mario Batali, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Hamilton and Hersheimer call
this tome “big, fat, and delicious,”
and so it is, with 250 new, seasonal
recipes, 130-plus photos and illustrations, 12 essays (e.g., foraging
for wild mushrooms), and a cheery
red cover. Suggested retail is $45,
but a sneak peek, slightly discounted price, and free gift wrapping are
available
at
www.thecanalhouse.com.
Not a cookbook but an enthralling bedtime read is “Consider
the Fork: A History of How We
Cook and Eat” by Bee Wilson, a
celebrated British food writer and
historian. In a lively, engrossing
manner she shows how, in her
words, “the history of food is the
history of kitchen technology,” —
and an ever-changing one that began with fire and ice. (Actually,
Wilson points out that knives predate the discovery of fire.) Drawing upon history, science, and anthropology, she argues that the implements we use to prepare and
consume food wind up changing
our societies — and always have.
Her argument for why the
wooden spoon has maintained its
unequaled place in kitchens even
in this age of plastic and metal is as
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lyrical as it is convincing. I guarantee that your foodie friend will
never look the same way at, nor
take for granted, such mundane
objects as egg beaters, microwave
ovens, chopsticks, and, of course,
forks.
I asked Doug Dixon, a technology consultant, author, and speaker
whose Princeton-based company
is Manifest Technology (www.manifest-tech.com), for a tech
geek’s suggestions for foodie gifts.
I was not surprised when this former Sarnoff exec named Nathan
Myrvold’s book, “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking,” which I recommended last
year.
Dixon characterizes this sixvolume, 2,400-page groundbreaker as “the classic geek approach to
cooking — experiment, analyze,
report” while employing “scienceinspired techniques for achieving
astounding new flavors and textures by using tools.” He points out
that the set is now reduced from
$625 to only $446 (!) at Amazon.
Those of us with tighter holiday
budgets might consider instead
Top gift choices for
foodies this year include the new cook
book from The Canal
House, the iSi mini
cream whipper, and
Duchy Originals biscuits.
Myrvold’s latest entry, “Modernist
Cuisine at Home,” at Amazon for
$103.60.
Gadgets with true nerd appeal,
per Dixon, include the iSi mini
cream whipper that employs NO2
cartridges (both sold at WilliamsSonoma and other local kitchenware shops, approximately $55 for
the whipper) and the Brookstone
Aero Wine Aerator (approximately
$50), that works in 30 seconds and
has a built-in LED light. He also
highly recommends two eats: First
Field Jersey Ketchup (www.firstfield.com), a locally made and locally available product that I have
touted before (U.S. 1, July 21,
2010), and Your Choice Brands
Granola
(www.yourchoicebrands.com), which donates 100
percent of after-tax profits to charities selected by customers. It is,
Dixon shares, a “growing type of
company based on a philanthropic
business model,” and adds this disclaimer: “I’m related to them.”
While we are talking edibles,
you might want to pick up on the
emerging trend of single-estate
olive oils. Last Christmas my
daughter enrolled me in the Nudo
Adopt an Olive Tree program in
Italy (www.nudo-italia.com). The
result was two seasonal deliveries
of a variety of Nudo oils, including
some from my personally adopted
and numbered tree. This year, the
Nudo adoption program entails
four deliveries, at $49 each, but
you can also shop for individual
cans on the website.
Another kitchen staple, salt,
continues to evolve. I was particularly taken at this summer’s Fancy
Food Show with gift packs with
geek appeal from the gourmet sea
salt company, The Spice Lab
(www.thespicelab.com). Assorted
salts come inside cork-topped test
tubes set into wooden bases in a variety of sizes and price points.
There are even specialized collec-
tions, such as the Chili Head,
Hawaiian Aloha, and BBQ
Smoked Salts.
The company also makes Himalayan salt shot glasses, and I
was personally intrigued by grains
of their rare Persian Blue Diamond
salt, which I had never encountered
before. (It looked bluer in real life
than it does on the website.) For the
do-it-yourself types on your list, I
was also impressed at the show by
Joe Bellavance, whose Average
Joe Artisan Bread Kit (www.breadkit.com) allows home bakers to
produce
professional-quality
loaves.
Let’s leave savories and talk
sweets. Since the moment they debuted I have been a fan of Duchy
Originals. That’s the line of environmentally conscious biscuits and
cookies founded by HRH Prince
Charles, who also holds the title of
duke of the Duchy of Cornwall.
I’m partial to the original savory
oaten biscuits, but at the Fancy
Food Show I was smitten as well
with the Highland All-Butter
Shortbread, plain and flavored
with stem ginger or Sicilian lemon.
They make a great hostess gift or
stocking stuffer, at $5 to $6.50 on
Amazon.
Fans of vintage cookie molds
will swoon over the gorgeous, allnatural Queen City Cookies
(www.queencitycookies.com),
based in Cincinnati. Not only are
the sweets handmade from
scratch, but the company supports
numerous local charities. Each
classic springerle cookie — in
scores of designs and sizes — is
nestled in a custom box and tied
with a satin ribbon. Or you can buy
bags of pachyderm-shaped cookies in assorted flavors for $7 for
6.5 ounces.
Of course, chocolates are a
perennial favorite. Donna & Company
(www.shopdonna.com),
based in Kenilworth, has been
racking up awards this year, the latest a silver for her truffles from the
International and Luxury Chocolate Salons. Diane (not Donna!)
Pinder is the chocolatier and
founder, and she has also won assorted bold, silver, and bronze
awards for her Donna Toscana
brand.
Her small-batch, hand-crafted
artisanal wares include seasonal
chocolates. For winter, there is a
five-piece box with one each of
pumpkin caramel, tiramisu, cranberry orange, vanilla honey, and
eggnog, for $15. Other holiday options: a chocolate holiday wreath
and honey and port wine mission
figs enrobed in chocolate. All (and
more) are available on the company website, although you’ll also
find some of her wares at Bon Appetit in the Princeton Shopping
Center.
Those looking for even more exotic chocolates should check out
Delhi-based Chockriti (www.chockriti.com). Their French-style
truffles and bon bons are spiked
with the traditional flavors and
spices of India. “Choc” stands for
chocolate, of course, while “kriti”
is Sanskrit for work of art. The winter assortment includes cardamom
coffee, chili chocolate, Earl Grey
truffle, and chai. To ascertain
prices in U.S. dollars, E-mail them
and you’ll get the figure, including
shipping. They use PayPal. The
chocolate maker behind these elegant creations is Pragati Sawhney,
a one-time NYC dentist who
taught herself the art of chocolate
making.
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Q
The Holiday Blues
UESTION: I’m dreading
the holidays. Every year
at this time, I get a bad
case of “the blues” and can’t
seem to shake them. My family
gets frustrated with me, and I just
don’t understand why I’m down
when everybody else is up. What
can I do to cope better?
ANSWER: Why is it that some
people dread the holidays, often
getting a bad case of “the
blues”? To understand why many
people get depressed during
what most people picture as the
happiest time of the year, we
must look at what was and what
might have been.
1. WHAT WAS: Imagine
someone whose parents or
spouse has recently died. Their
first Christmas alone finds their
minds irresistibly drawn back to
past holidays filled with laughter
and joy, all the more intensifying
their feelings of loss. While this
phenomenon is normal, and
while one adjusts to death with
time, nonetheless, it is important
to note that some remnant of this
feeling will remain, the holidays
forever having a twinge of pain
amidst a season of cheer.
2. WHAT MIGHT HAVE
BEEN: Far more difficult is the
problem of what might have
been. Imagine now someone
who has been recently divorced.
The holidays, a time when families are together with children
“nestled in their beds” finds this
person often bitterly separated
from their spouse and grudgingly
shuffling their children back and
forth hoping to foster some semblance of family. Knowing it could
be different, this person agonizes over what might have been
December 7
A Christmas Carol, Playhouse
22, 721 Cranbury Road, East
Brunswick, 732-254-3939. www.playhouse22.org. Classic story
adapted and directed by Tony
Adase. Through December 16.
$12. 8 p.m.
Lewis Center for the Arts,
Princeton University, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-2581500. www.princeton.edu/arts.
“Kiss Me, Kate” in concert. $12. 8
p.m.
December 30. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
The Lion, The Witch, and The
Wardrobe, Somerset Valley
Players, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, 908-369-7469. www.svptheatre.org. $15. 8 p.m.
Film
Matinees, Ewing Library, 61
Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-8823130. Screening of “A Separation,” Persian. For ages 18 and
up. Free. 1 p.m.
Acme Screening Room, Lambertville Public Library, 25
South Union Street, Lambertville,
609-397-0275. www.acmescreeningroom.ticketleap.com.
Screening of “Searching for Sugarman.” $8. 7 p.m.
by the Rev. Peter K. Stimpson
if only certain mistakes had not
been made, usually in their mind
by the other person.
3. WHAT WAS BAD: Now
think of someone whose past is
anything but happy, perhaps
having lived at odds with their
parents, feeling that their parents
never really cared. Imagine the
pain of an adult child of an alcoholic or an adult survivor of incest. Watching numerous saccharine and ubiquitous Christmas specials on television depicting unrealistically happy families sitting arm in arm together in
front of “the old Yule log” may be
torture, producing feelings of
jealousy, sadness, and intense
anger.
4. WHAT CAN HELP?
a. What Was Good: We need
to cherish our memories, realizing that our loved ones would not
want us to endlessly suffer. They
would want us to go on, reassuring us that to enjoy today is not to
be disrespectful to yesterday.
b. What Might Have Been:
While it is important to reflect on
a past divorce to learn from our
mistakes, it is not healthy to
dwell on them. Instead of being
stuck on what was lost in the
past, it seems best to free ourselves to see what we have in
the present.
c. What Was Bad: Dealing
with emotional or physical abuse
from childhood is far more difficult, probably requiring therapy,
expressing anger assertively
when possible, and, ultimately,
forgiveness.
d. Perfect Happiness: Some
of what underlies the holiday
blues is an innate desire to be
perfectly happy. Unfortunately,
this is an impossible task, for
perfect happiness can only be attained through union with a perfect being, namely, God. Our
earthly life, being limited, is,
therefore, open to suffering. We
all need to reflect upon the true
meaning of Christmas and of life,
realizing that Christ was born in a
manger and died on a cross, but
brought us eternal salvation.
That Christmas present will not
fade or tarnish, its value being so
wonderful as to bring a smile to
our face, and, hopefully, us to
church to give thanks.
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Dancing
Health
Friday Night Social, American
Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149.
www.americanballroomco.com.
$15. 8 to 11 p.m.
Dance Jam, Dance Improv Live,
Princeton Center for Yoga Health,
88 Orchard Road, Skillman, 609924-7294. www.danceimprov.com. Lightly guided dance improvisation with live music and refreshments. $20. 8 to 10 p.m.
Dance Practice, G&J Studios, 5
Jill Court, Suite 15, Hillsborough,
908-892-0344. www.gandjstudios.com. $10. 8 p.m.
Folk Dance, Princeton Folk
Dance, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-912-1272. www.princetonfolkdance.org. Beginners welcome. Lesson followed by dance.
No partner needed. $5. 8 to 11
p.m.
Blood Drive, West Windsor Human Services Department,
West Windsor Senior Center, 271
Clarksville Road, West Windsor,
609-936-8400. All blood collected
is for patients at the University
Medical Center of Princeton at
Plainsboro. Eat a meal, drink fluids, and bring photo ID. Lunch for
donors provided by It’s a Grind
Coffeehouse. E-mail Marlene Ihle
at [email protected]. 9
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Good Causes
Tree of Light Celebration, The
Lewis School, 53 Bayard Lane,
Princeton, 609-924-8120. www.lewisschool.org. Annual event to
benefit the scholarship and program fund features the lighting of
the tree, a holiday concert, gourmet foods, and a silent auction.
The thousands of lights lit on the
stately outdoor tree represent the
30 million Americans who are
struggling with learning and literacy. Warm clothing is recommended. 6 to 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Seven Fish Dinner, Italian American Festival Association, John
Henry’s Stone Terrace, 2275
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-6317544. www.italianamericanfestival.com. Register. $70 includes gratuity and two glasses of
wine. 6 p.m.
Mental Health
South Asian Mental Health Awareness in Jersey, NAMI NJ, 1562
Route 130, North Brunswick, 732940-0991. Holiday party. Buffet dinner. Register. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Wellness
Meditation Circle, Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896920. Stretching and relaxation
techniques with Ann Kerr. Register. 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
History
Free. 6 p.m.
For Families
Chocolate Walk, Downtown Bordentown Association, Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, 609298-9422. Tastings of chocolate
throughout shops, boutiques, and
galleries. 5 to 8 p.m.
Mr. Ray, Forrestal Village, College Road West and Route 1
South, Plainsboro, 609-799-7400.
Family concert. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
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Opportunities
Auditions
Playhouse 22 has announced its audition
schedule for the upcoming season. Auditions for “The Uninvited” are Wednesday
and Thursday, January 2 and 3, at 7 p.m. Auditions for “Twist of Faith” are Tuesday,
January 15, and Thursday, January 17, at 7
p.m. Auditions for “Sunday in the Park with
George” are Sunday, January 27, at 1 p.m.;
and Tuesday, January 29, at 7 p.m.
Auditions will be held at the East
Brunswick Community Arts Center, 721
Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. Visit
www.Playhouse22.org for more information.
Call for Art
Monmouth Museum calls for art for its
annual juried art exhibition. Open to all
artists world-wide age 17 and over. Artwork
will be considered in all media except film
and video. Artists are requested to submit
digital images in jpeg format on a CD. All
artwork entered must be the artist’s original
creations completed within the last five
years, and must not have been exhibited in
past Monmouth Museum exhibitions. Submission fee is $20 per piece with a limit of
two pieces. For information contact Catherine Clark at 732-747-2266, ext. 6, or E-mail
[email protected]. The deadline is Friday, December 14.
Learn to Snowshoe
Delaware Canal State Park will be offering a snowshoe walk program on the
Delaware Canal Towpath beginning at Wy
Hit Tuk Park in Easton, on Saturday, December 8, at 10 a.m. The park will provide
10 pairs of snowshoes of varying sizes for
participants to use. If there is not enough
snow on the ground, participants are still
welcome to join park staff for a towpath
hike. Register online at tinyurl.com/DCSPcal. Free.
The park towpath also offers hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing opportunities
along its length. For a full list of programs
visit www.dcnr.state.pa.us, call Sarah Berg
at 610-982-0161, or E-mail [email protected].
For the Young
Nassau Tennis Club offers a holiday
tennis camp for young people on Wednesday to Friday, December 26 to 28. The half
day program includes tennis instructions,
drills, fitness, and more. $60 a day includes
lunch. 1800 Route 206, Skillman. Visit
nassautennis.net or call 908-359-8730 for
information.
Mercer Museum offers a Lego robotics
workshop focusing on 3construction, manipulation, and computer technology, on
Wednesday, December 26, from 8:30 to
11:30 a.m. or 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. $85 a session. Visit www.mercermuseum.org or call
215-348-9461.
Early Closing
New Jersey Social Security have reduced hours for the public. Effective Monday, December 17, offices will be open
Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. Beginning Wednesday, January 2, the
office will close to the public at noon every
Wednesday.
While agency employees will continue
to work their regular hours, this shorter public window will allow them to complete
face-to-face interviews and process claims
work without incurring the cost of overtime.
Many services, including applying for retirement, disability or Medicare benefits,
signing up for direct deposit, replacing a
Medicare card, obtaining a proof of income
letter, or change of address or telephone
number are available at www.socialsecurity.gov or by calling 800-772-1213.
People who are deaf or hard of hearing may
call 800-325-0778.
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DECEMBER 5, 2012
December 7
Politics
Holiday Party and Open House,
Community Justice Center, 310
West State Street, Trenton. Refreshments, holiday songs by
Tom Glover. 1 to 5 p.m.
Schools
Talk and Tour, Princeton Junior
School, 90 Fackler Road, Lawrenceville, 609-924-8126. www.pjs.org. “Reggio Emilia: Bringing
the Philosophy to America: Creative, Developmentally Appropriate Learning Environments for
Youth Children” presented by
Rick Ellis. Tour for parents of children age two through grade five
follows. Register. 8:30 a.m.
Shopping News
Craft and Gift Show, Studio Artisans, 326 Stonybrook Road,
Newtown, PA, 215-862-2076.
Artist made ceramics, jewelry,
chocolates, clothing, soaps,
cards, woodcraft, papercraft, and
paintings. 5 to 9 p.m.
Singles
Brunch, Princeton Singles,
Michael’s, Route 1 South, Lawrenceville, 732-329-9470. Age 50
plus. Register. 9:30 a.m.
At The Podium: Pete
Earley, best-selling
author of ‘CRAZY: A
Father’s Search
Through America’s
Mental Health Madness,’ gives the
keynote address at
NAMI New Jersey’s
annual conference at
the Crowne Plaza in
Monroe on Saturday,
December 8.
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Non-denominational
support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Brown Bag Discussion, Princeton Senior Resource Center,
Suzanne Patterson Building, 45
Stockton Street, 609-924-7108.
www.princetonsenior.org.
“Preparing for Your Doctor’s Visit”
presented by Robert Platzman,
M.D. Bring your own lunch. Beverages and desserts provided.
Register. Free. Noon.
Saturday
December 8
Chanukah begins at sunset.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
All Aboard!
Holiday Trolley Tours, Princeton
Tour Company, Downtown
Princeton, 609-902-3637. www.princetontourcompany.com. Introduction to Princeton history, view
the homes and hangouts of Albert
Einstein, Woodrow Wilson,
Grover Cleveland, TS Eliot,
Robert Oppenheimer, and
more. Hourly from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Register. $15. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Classical Music
Holiday Handbell Concert,
Princeton Theological Seminary, Miller Chapel, 609-4977760. www.ptsem.edu. Ringing of
holiday songs by students,
spouses, staff, alumni, and
friends. Free. 3 p.m.
Holiday Concert, Voices
Chorale, Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, 609-7992211. www.voiceschorale.org.
“Christmastide: Choral Gems
Through the Centuries.” $25. 3
and 5:30 p.m.
Christmas in Carol and Song,
Arts, Kirkpatrick Chapel, 81 Somerset Street, New Brunswick,
732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Patrick Gardner conducts. $15. 6 and 9 p.m.
Princeton University Orchestra,
Princeton University, Richardson Auditorium, 609-258-9220.
princeton.edu/music. Works by
Bartok and Strauss performed by
winners of the concerto competition. Soprano Martha Elliott joins
the orchestra for the world premiere of “Dragon Mother” by
graduate student composer Gilad
Cohen. Concert conducted by
Michael Pratt. Register. $15. 7:30
p.m.
Holiday Concert, Westminster
Choir College, Luedeke Theater,
Rider University, Lawrenceville,
609-921-2663. www.rider.edu.
Rider University Choir performs
holiday favorites. Philip Orr conducts. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Alan Mallach, Roosevelt Arts
Project, Municipal Building, Roosevelt, 609-448-4616. www.music.columbia.edu/roosevelt.
“Beethoven the Revolutionary,” a
solo piano recital by Alan Mallach,
features music of Beethoven. $5
donation. 8 p.m.
An Evening of Readings and
Carols, Westminster Choir College, Princeton University
Chapel, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Holiday music for choir,
organ, and brass. Register. $40 to
$70. 8 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
A Winter Jazz Holiday Concert,
Bucks County Performing Arts
Center, Yardley Community Center, 64 South Main Street, Yardley,
PA, 215-493-3010. www.bcpac.org. Performance by the David
Leonhardt Jazz Group. $18. 7:30
p.m.
DECEMBER 5, 2012
Live Music
Music, Pizza, and Wine,
Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46
Yard Road, Pennington, 609-7374465. Wine, brick oven pizza, and
cheese platters are available. Living the Dream with acoustic rock.
6 to 9 p.m.
American Bluegrass and Country, Grover’s Mill Coffee House,
335 Princeton Hightstown Road,
7:30 p.m.
Spanking Charlene and Sad
Bastard, The Record Collector
Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue,
Bordentown, 609-324-0880. Holiday show. $15. 7:30 p.m.
Bob Orlowski, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road,
Plainsboro, 609-275-2919. Easy
listening and jazz. 8 to 10 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Christmas Spectacular, Cranbury, Main Street, 609-395-0900.
cranburychristmaslights.com.
Light show and performance by
Judy Pancoast. Free. 7 p.m.
Art
Holiday Exhibit, Gold Medal Impressions, 43 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609606-9001. Sports photographer
Richard Druckman features photographs from Super Bowls, Giants, Jets, Eagles, Yankees,
Mets, Nets, Devils, Flyers, Rutgers, Georgetown, and West
Windsor-Plainsboro High School
North and South. Sale continues
through Monday, December 24. 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Prallsville Mills, 33
Risler Street, Stockton, 215-5983961. First day for a holiday exhibition and sale of works by the
Princeton Artists Alliance. On
view to December 22. Gallery
tour with Harry Naar at 1 p.m. 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Highlight Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Bray Gallery, 202
North Union Street, Lambertville,
609-397-1858. Opening reception for “Art of Three Innovators,”
a shared show with works by
Joseph Bottari, Malcolm Bray,
and Andrew Wilkinson. On view
to January 6. 6 to 9 p.m.
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Washington Was Here: Rockingham Historic
Site holds its Holiday Candlelight Open House on
Sunday, December 9.
Art Exhibit, JB Kline Gallery, 25
Bridge Street, Lambertville, 609397-7026. Opening reception for
“Elements Five,” a solo photography exhibit by Catherine Sebastian. Music by Vinnie Zummo. On
view to December 31. 6 to 9 p.m.
Dance
The Nutcracker, American
Repertory Ballet, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.arballet.org. Tchaikovsky’s score
with a cast of more than 100
dancers including ARB’s professional dancers, ARB trainees,
and Princeton Ballet School students. A newly designed and constructed snow forest scene set by
Carl Sprague and restored
scenes from the company’s first
Nutcracker production are featured. Choreography by Douglas
Martin and Mary Barton. $25 to
$45. 1 and 4:30 p.m.
Alborada Spanish Dance Theater, Kelsey Theater, Mercer
County Community College,
1200 Old Trenton Road, West
Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. “El Sueno”
(The Dream) is an adaptation of
the Nutcracker with dances from
Spain and Latin America cultures,
live music, and professional
dancers. $16. 2 and 8 p.m.
The Great Russian Nutcracker,
Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28, North Branch,
908-725-3420. www.rvccarts.edu. Russian classical dance.
$37 and $47. 3 and 7 p.m.
Winter Dance Showcase, CaRu
Entertainment, 259 PenningtonTitusville Road, 609-737-4288.
www.carunj.com. Dancers perform. Collection of new, unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots.
$20. 7 p.m.
Brunswick, 732-932-7511. Works
Patrick Corbin, and faculty members. $25. 7:30 p.m.
On Stage
Millburn, 973-376-4343.Musical
based on the Von Trapp family
story. $26 to $97. 1:30 and 7 p.m.
New Hope, 215-862-2121. World
premiere by William Goldman,
who also wrote the screenplay
based on the novel by Stephen
King. Directed by Will Frears. $39
to $54. 2 and 8 p.m.
Julianne Boyd. $25 to $62. 2 and
8 p.m.
Princeton, 609-258-2787. Holiday
classic by Charles Dickens. $20
to $60. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
$15. 2 p.m.
Lewis Center for the Arts,
Princeton University, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-2581500. “Kiss Me, Kate” in concert.
$12. 2 p.m.
December 30. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Multicultural celebration of holiday traditions around the world.
Concept by Sibusiso Mamba features the music of Motown. $40. 3
and 8 p.m.
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Morven is the perfect setting for your holiday party.
Between late November and early January, Morven’s Festival
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adorned with more than a dozen holiday trees decorated by
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Please join us for a service of hope and healing, acknowledging
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to remember that you do not grieve alone.
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Review: ‘The Best of Enemies’
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Ryan James Brandau, Artistic Director
Messiah
George Frideric Handel
Sunday, December 16, 2012
3:00 pm
Patriots Theater at the War Memorial
Memorial Drive, Trenton, NJ
Soloists
Melanie Russell, soprano • Nicholas Tamagna, counter tenor
Steven Brennfleck, tenor • Douglas Williams, bass
Tickets at $55, 42 and 25
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tand up and be counted,
show the world that you’re a man!
Stand up and be counted and go
with the Klu Klux Klan! We are a
sacred brotherhood, who love our
country too. We always can be
counted on, when there’s a job to
do.”
A chill went up and down my
spine as I listened to the above
words. They’re from a recording of
a song sung by the National
Knights of the Klu Klux Klan,
played before the action begins in
Mark St. Germain’s compelling
play “The Best of Enemies,” at the
George Street Playhouse until Sunday, December 23.
The song is an apt introduction
to the astonishing dramatization of
the very real events and unexpected shifts in behavior by the main
characters in this play inspired by
Osha Gray Davidson’s 1996 book
of the same name.
That above mentioned chill is replaced by chagrin and then by cheers
as we are made to feel as if we are involved participants in the volatile
confrontations and subsequent unlikely relationship (and eventual
friendship) forged between two formidable, disparate protagonists ––
the black North Carolina civil rights
activist Ann Atwater (Aisha Hinds)
and the white “exalted cyclops” of
the Durham Chapter of the Ku Klux
Klan C.P. Ellis (John Bedford
Lloyd).
The two diametrically opposing
representatives of the future of
racial relationships are reluctantly
brought together when a state department of education representative (played by actor Don Guillory)
persuades them to participate in a
grant funded program to address
racial issues in the Durham schools
in 1971. Soon we are able to see the
extent to which the two’s personal
socio-political posturing and their
inability to compromise — especially in the light of their own limiting and limited perspectives —
has been a deterrent for progress.
This is a play that is as uncompromisingly punctuated with
shockingly brutal rhetoric as it is
also peppered with more funny,
snappy, pungent dialogue than you
generally get even in an all-out
comedy. Most importantly, “The
Best of Enemies” gets its heft from
its seriously considered subject
and from its underlying theme —
the possibility and potential for
transformation and change through
thoughts, words and deeds, or to
use a Christian metaphor, be born
again.
A special cheer is in order for the
George Street Theater for presenting this production that had its
world premiere at the Barrington
Stage Company in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts in July 2011 and re-
by Simon Saltzman
turned there in October, under the
direction of the Barrington’s Artistic Director Julianne Boyd.
Boyd, who has garnered praise
for her artistic and executive leadership of the theater that she cofounded in 1995, achieved national
attention with the development and
production of William Finn and
Rachel Sheinkin’s musical “The
25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee” which went on to
great success on Broadway and
helped to finance the acquisition of
Barrington’s handsome year-round
theater in Pittsfield.
It was also at Barrington Stage
where St. Germain’s acclaimed
play “Freud’s Last Session,” an
imaginary meeting between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, had
its premiere prior to its long run
success Off Broadway as well as
elsewhere.
There is nothing imaginary,
however, about the meeting between Ann and C.P. in “The Best of
Enemies,” which follow the unexpected path toward n alliance gradually paved between the two. If
each, as we initially see them, is fueled by a shared and strongly committed hatred and prejudice for
each other and for each other’s race,
they are gradually revealed ready
for a change of heart and hope. This
‘The Best of Enemies’
is a thought-provoking and exciting theatrical brew.
occurs through a series of contentious meetings and by also confronting the issues that they have to
deal with in their personal lives.
The play becomes much more
than whether the contemptuously
condescending C.P. can pull back
from attacking Ann and what she
represents, and whether he is motivated to reconsider his hate-filled
rants at meetings with his fellow
members of the K.K.K.
While these things are addressed, as is the embittered Ann’s
past, the play brings us into the
more personalized fray as C.P. has
to deal with a serious health issue
with his wife Mary (Susan Wands).
Her instinct to be supportive to C.P.
despite his overt bigotry and active
racism is also challenged by having to cope with a child (unseen)
who is both blind and retarded.
With characters sharing Southern roots, lowly economic status,
opposing factions and views in the
fight for civil rights, the plot’s most
significant twist shows C.P.’s gradual rejection of the KKK and his
eventual standing up with Ann in
her cause. At first, Hinds shows us
Playwright: Mark St.
Germain wrote ‘The
Best of Enemies,’ now
playing at George
Street Playhouse.
Ann as an uncompromising, grittily
determined force of nature. She’s a
hoot, but it’s only a clue to the depth
and degree of emotional range that
finally defines her performance.
C.P.’s evolution from a monstrous, uneducated victim of an unconscionable society into a mature
and sensitized man is something to
see, made memorable through
Lloyd’s amazing performance. It
may be next to impossible not to
see a young Barack Obama in the
good-looking Guillory’s steadfast,
unfettered performance as Riddick, the designated community
organizer. Wands is very affecting
and real as Mary whom we also see
reaching out in the only way she
can to Ann, but without her husband’s knowledge.
Moving along briskly under
Boyd’s direction, the often bristling play has been inventively designed by David M. Barber to take
its participants with ease from
place to place through the use of
projections and sliding panels on a
stage divided into three sections.
In a pre-curtain speech, George
Street’s artistic director, David
Saint, let the audience know that
although the real seventy-seven
year-old Ann Atwater wasn’t able
to attend the opening night performance, she was “alive and kicking.” The same can be said for St.
Germain’s play.
“The Best of Enemies” is a
thought-provoking and exciting
theatrical brew for those who enjoy
a stimulating, excellently acted
evening of theater.
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DECEMBER 5, 2012
Charles Willson Peale: Painter, Patriot, Princeton Icon
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by Dan Aubrey
here are two reasons to
assume that American artist
Charles Willson Peale’s 1784
painting “George Washington at
the Battle of Princeton” — on permanent view at the Princeton University Art Museum — is an accurate depiction of our nation’s first
president.
First, Washington sat at least
seven times for Peale, who used
those sittings to create nearly 60
portraits.
But more importantly, Peale
fought in the battles of Trenton and
Princeton and witnessed Washington in action
A phenomenon in any century,
Charles Willson Peale’s life reads
like a scenario for a screenplay.
He is born in Maryland in 1741
to an English father who comes to
the colonies to escape being
hanged for forgery.
Apprenticed to a saddle maker
when he was nine (around the time
of his father’s death), he starts his
own saddle business a decade later.
He also teaches himself sign painting and tries his hand at creating
portraits. At 21, he studies with
John Hesselius, son of the one of
the first major American portrait
painters.
Poor business practices and
strong political enemies force him
into bankruptcy; he escapes creditors by going to Boston, where he
meets and learns from American
artist John Singleton Copley.
After a two-year trip to England
to study with famed expatriate
American painter Benjamin West,
Peale returns to Maryland in 1769,
begins a career as an itinerant portrait artist, and creates his first portrait of George Washington, who
appears in the red British officer’s
uniform he wore during the French
and Indian War.
In 1775 Peale, his wife Rachel,
and their son, Rembrandt (the first
of several named after prominent
European artists) move to
Philadelphia where Peale establishes his painting studio. But on
July 8, 1776, he hears the Declaration of Independence read in front
of what is now known as Independence Hall, becomes a patriot, and
joins the Revolutionary Army. He
serves under John Cadwalalder, the
Trenton-born leader whose family
is the namesake for Trenton’s Cadwalader Park.
Then there are the battles of
Trenton and Princeton, moments
where Peale encounters, as he later
writes, “the most hellish scene I
have ever beheld.” Those moments
affected his paintings.
“During the Revolution, Peale
replaced symbolic objects with
straightforward narrative details
describing the sitter and his situation in life. Such details form the
background of ‘George Washington at the Battle of Princeton,’”
notes Louise Lippincott, art historian and curator of fine arts at the
Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.
Recalling her research on Peale
when she worked for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in
Philadelphia, Lippincott says during an interview that Peale was
“wonderfully entrepreneurial” and
that through his paintings and cultural efforts “he has left us with the
Charles Willson
Peale’s ‘Washington at
Princeton’ portraits
are ‘an icon of American art,’ says curator
Karl Kusserow.
best of the 18th century.”
His artistry, she notes, came
from a personal attempt to excel
and to support his family, “He mastered portraiture in the same way
he learned to fix watches — by trying. Seeing the work of a local
painter in 1763, he determined to
do better, and, equipped with a few
home-made brushes and paints, he
executed a self-portrait. From the
beginning, Peale viewed painting
as a craft rather than as an art.”
She says that from the work of
Hesselius and Copley, Peale
learned to respect a good likeness
and to think of painting as an imitation of reality. Additionally, the
scrupulous likeness of the sitter
guaranteed a pleasing portrait that
in turn would provide more income.
So would his popular replications of Washington. In fact, there
are eight paintings depicting Washington at the January 3, 1777,
Princeton battle. Two versions are
on the Princeton campus.
The Princeton Museum image
shows Washington with sword
raised and Nassau Hall in the distance. The other painting in Nassau
Hall depicts Washington after the
war and gracefully leaning on a
cannon.
Princeton University Art Museum curator of American art Karl
Kusserow says, “Princeton University is especially fortunate to
own both versions of Peale’s great
‘Washington at Princeton’ portraits
— one, which is unique, showing
him during the battle, with the dying General Mercer at his feet, the
other depicting the victorious aftermath, as captive British soldiers
are led from the field. Each is an
icon of American art, and together
they provide a kind of capsule narrative of this crucial event in the
nation’s history.”
Speaking of the museum’s
painting, Kusserow says, “It’s
probably the most important
American painting on the Princeton campus.”
While the two curators focus on
the painting’s artistry and history,
there is another element that intrigues people. Six years ago one of
Peale’s Washington at Princeton
paintings sold for $21.3 million.
Sold through Christies, the painting was part of a collection of
American art acquired by John Insley Blair (grandson of the John Insley Blair who gave the university
Blair Hall) and purchased by Yardley, PA, art dealer C.L. Prickett.
Yet the human and symbolic
connection to Nassau Hall make
the museum’s “Washington at the
Battle of Princeton” priceless, an
aspect that reflects Kusserow’s
statement: “It’s my favorite painting in the collection.”
That symbolism is striking, literally. During the Princeton battle,
a cannon ball fired by the Americans smashed into the Nassau Hall
and ruined a large painting of
George II. In 1783 when the Continental Congress met in the building, Washington visited the hall.
There the general was persuaded
by the college trustees to pose for
the painting by Peale. When completed, that full body portrait of
Washington in the Princeton battle
filled the frame that once honored a
king.
Now to finish the Peale scenario: he concludes his military
service, returns to Philadelphia,
Elder Statesman: This 1784 version of Charles
Willson Peale’s ‘Washington at Princeton’ (93” x
57”) is in the permanent collection of the Princeton University Art Museum.
serves in the General Assembly of
Pennsylvania, and paints and exhibits portraits of the patriots Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock,
Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander
Hamilton (who also fought in the
battles of Trenton and Princeton).
In his old age, he settles down by
getting involved with studying science, participating in fossil digs,
painting the portraits of Lewis and
Clark, and runs one of the country’s
first museums, located in Philadelphia.
Yet Peale’s depiction of Washington in the battle of Princeton is
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one of his greatest and lasting efforts. After all, the painting lets us
see one of the most important moments of our nation’s history
through the eyes of a man who
lived it.
“Washington at the Battle of
Princeton” is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum, open
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays,
and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and
Sundays 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is
free. For more information, go to
www.princetonartmuseum.org or
call 609-258-3788.
Family Theater
A Year with Frog and Toad,
Sculptors Way, Hamilton, 609586-0616. Centenary Stages
presents. Free with park admission. 1 p.m.
Wardrobe, Somerset Valley Players, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, 908-369-7469. $15. 8 p.m.
Film
Indian-American Comunity,
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. Screening of “Not a Feather, But a Dot” followed by a discussion with director Teju Prasad.
Free. 2 p.m.
Dancing
Holiday Party, American Legion
Post 401, 148 Major Road, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-9861.
Dinner buffet, dancing, and
prizes. 21 plus. Register. $12.50.
6:30 p.m.
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This Cop’s Hobby? Being George Washington
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by Dan Aubrey
ohn Godzieba not only
looks like the Washington in
Princeton University Art Museum’s 1784 painting of “George
Washington at the Battle of Princeton,” but he is standing in for him.
Godzieba, recently reappointed
by the Friends of Washington
Crossing Historic Park to perform
Washington, will lead the Revolutionary Army across the Delaware
River for the park’s 60th Christmas
Day re-enactment of the event that
changed the tides of America’s War
for Independence. A rehearsal for
the crossing re-enactment is set for
this Sunday, December 9 (see details below).
While the 53-year-old lieutenant with the Bristol Township
Police Department calls re-enacting history a hobby, his involvement and dedication suggests
more.
“I was a terrible history student.
But I developed an interest in the
18th century,” says Godzieba who
attended the now closed Marist
Prep in Penndel, PA, before studying at Drexel and Temple universities. Initially a chemistry student,
he changed to criminal justice and
has served with the Bristol police
for 33 years.
Then in 1992 a chance advertisement in a local newspaper
brought the man who would be
Washington into living history.
The ad was for volunteers for the
Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment. That
group commemorates the one
formed by Pennsylvania Revolutionary War hero “Mad” Anthony
Wayne and involved fighters from
Bucks County. Its contemporary
patriots recreate military life, customs, and events to inform the public about colonial soldiery and the
war.
“I went to an initial meeting that
ironically was held at Washington
Crossing Historic Park. I liked
what I heard,” says the Philadelphia native whose father worked as
a welder for the historic Baldwin
Locomotive Company.
The historic re-enactor entered
the regiment as a private. His wife,
Joanne, soon joined as a camp follower. “A lot of soldiers would
bring their wives along,” says
Godzieba, adding that it “bothered
Washington because women and
children were riding on the wagons
and slowing them down and using
rations.”
But this Washington enjoys his
wife’s participation in regiment activities that have taken them as far
north as Quebec City, where the
regiment enacted the Battle of
Quebec for 60,000 spectators.
Godzieba says that through dedication and experience he was promoted to an officer who oversaw
troop movements during re-enactments. Eventually he thought that
he could do a credible job of performing Washington for the public
and decided to enter the auditions
that the park hosts every three
years.
The audition process involves
an application letter stating why
the applicant should be selected, a
resume of re-enactment experiences, and a 4 x 6 inch photograph
of the candidate dressed as Washington. Then each person meets
with a panel of seven judges who
will evaluate each applicant on his
ability to look the part and evaluate
his knowledge of both the American Revolution and Washington.
“The panel gives you a list of
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Author Event, Classics Used
and Rare Books, 4 West
Lafayette Street, Trenton, 609394-8400. Marion Deutsche Cohen, author of “Crossing the
Equal Sign,” “Chronic Progressive,” and 17 other books of poetry, at noon. Jeff Farley, author of
“Illegal Ambitions” and “You Get
What You Pay For” at 2 p.m.
Noon.
Author Event, Classics Used
and Rare Books, 4 West
Lafayette Street, Trenton, 609394-8400. Elias Keller, author of
“The Strange Case of Mr. Bodkin
and Father Whitechapel.” 2 p.m.
Alex Stone, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street Princeton,
609-497-1600. “Fooling Houdini:
Magicians, Mentalists, Math
Geeks, and Powers of the Mind.”
Alex Stone has written for Harper’s, Discover, Science, and The
Wall Street Journal. 3 p.m.
Reading Series, Panoply Bookstore, 46 North Union Street,
Lambertville, 609-397-1145. Lorraine Henrie Lins, the 2010 Bucks
County poet laureate. 6 p.m.
Giving a Portrait Day, Princeton
Senior Resource Center,
Suzanne Patterson Building, 45
Stockton Street, 609-924-7108.
www.princetonsenior.org. Volunteers from Princeton Photography
Club present photographs to give
individuals and families a portrait
at no cost. 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Celebrity Auction, Passage Theater, Marriott, Lafayette Yard,
Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Benefit
evening for visual and performing
arts and an arts education movement in Trenton. Winning bidders
will dine with a celebrity of their
choice over a prixe fixe menu or
cocktails at the hostel. Notable
celebrities include former NYC
Mayor, David N. Dinkins; Nancy
Giles, a comedienne; Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson-Coleman,
Civil Rights icon Edith Savage
Jennings, and others. Performance by jazz singer Barbara
Trent. Register. $50 admission. 4
to 7 p.m.
Multimedia Light Show, Cranbury Christmas Lights, 128
North Main Street, Cranbury.
‘You take on a lot of
expense when you
do Washington, if you
do it right,’ says John
Godzieba. ‘You want
to give a quality impression for people.’
questions that deal with his life and
battles in 1776. They can ask you
any of those questions. Some people were interested in just the battles. Some were just interested in
Washington’s life,” says Godzieba
who
successfully
competed
against 14 other applicants and secured his second term as the general.
His first three-year term started
in 2009, a year that he recalls well,
“It was my third audition and
thought if I didn’t get it I would forget it. But it was also the same year
that the state closed the park.”
Understanding that the state was
beset by financial problems, the
park’s friends group decided to
continue the Christmas tradition
and Godzieba was able to lead the
crossing.
To help him enliven the past,
Godzieba credits two factors. “I
was a voracious reader of 18thcentury revolution, which involved
a lot of research of uniforms and
battles. Then there’s the military
drill. To be more period-correct
you train with other soldiers to drill
properly, which was no different
than what happened in the 18th
century. I learned how to handle a
musket. I learned from repetition,”
he says.
About his uniform (and he’s
quick to say that it is not a costume), Godzieba says, “Everything
that I have is handmade. You can’t
get it off the rack.” His wardrobe
includes the 19th-century-styled
clothing fitted for him by a member
of the Fifth Regiment, hats specially made by a Maryland milliner,
boots fashioned in Canada, and
wigs by a woman at Colonial
Williamsburg.
“You take on a lot of expense
when you do Washington, if you do
it right. You want to give a quality
impression for people who are
coming out to see you. You want to
give the best you can give them,”
says Godzieba, who adds that
Washington did not wear a wig. Yet
for the police officer who needs to
keep hair short on duty but long on
the battlefield, a wig is a necessity.
While the hair is a minor problem, Godzieba credits his experience in law enforcement as a big
contribution to his success. “From
being a police officer for 33 years
you learn how to talk to a lot of people. If you were 100 percent in period it would make people uncomfortable. I try to adjust myself to the
audience,” he says.
As may be expected by a man
with a career, duties as General
Washington, and the responsibilities of being the president of the
Friends of Washington Crossing
Historic Park, there is a demand on
time. “Many years ago when you
performed Washington you were
responsible to be here four days a
year. When the friends group took
over in 2009, the time involved became greater. You are always asked
to do talks and meet people. It has
become more involved. I became
the face of the park. It was needed
because the state was no longer
supporting the park; we needed to
step up and do our own fundraising,” says Godzieba.
Currently the park’s friends association partners with the Pennsylvania Historic Museum Commission to keep the 500-acre park
open. With the state having a handful of people to provide maintenance, the friends pay for repairs
and provide staff for programs, including the crossing that annually
attracts 5,000 spectators.
The friends also raise money for
special projects, such as the crecranburyChristmasLights.com.
More than 20,000 lights controlled
by 432 channels and 22,000 feet
of extension cords includes a
“Shooting Fountain of Light,” a
wall of snowflakes, and a mega
tree. The 14 songs range from
traditional to whimsical. Free will
donations for area food banks.
Judy Pancoast sings from 7 to 8
p.m. Nightly through Monday, December 31. The 50-minute show
begins on the hour. Visitors may
tune to the radio station posted to
watch the lights dance to the music. 6 to 9 p.m.
Comedy
Adam Kerr, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. www.catcharisingstar.com.
Register. $22. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Faith
Chanukah Celebration, Chabad
Jewish Center of South
Brunswick, 1 Riva Avenue,
South Brunswick, 732-398-9492.
Kindling of the menorah of freedom, an 18 foot high menorah.
Olive oil demonstration, latkes,
Revolutionary: John Godzieba is George Washington in the annual re-enactment of his Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware River.
ation of a replica of Washington’s
sword that will be handed over to
each successive Washington and
be a feature in park re-enactments.
The sword replication required
sending an artist in the regiment to
the Smithsonian to measure and
make drawings.
Godzieba says that the community can join in a variety of ways.
People can come to the events, including the dress rehearsal that
serves as a fundraiser. Or they can
get physically involved. “We’re
looking for people who want to
learn more about history. We offer
a variety of volunteer opportunities. We’re looking for people who
will give tours and will provide the
training. There’s always something
that needs to be done.” This will be
especially true when the park
opens a new visitors’ center in the
spring.
Yet for this poor history student
keeping history alive is important.
Godzieba says, “People from
around the world come here to see
this place. When you talk about famous places in the American Revo-
lution, you’re talking about Washington’s Crossing. We take it for
granted, but after 20 years I am still
excited to be here.”
After 236 years, so is General
Washington.
The Annual Christmas Day
Crossing commences at 1 p.m. on
Christmas Day, but visitors can arrive early to inspect historical
buildings and watch the period
dress troops assemble hours.
For those unable to make the
event on Christmas, a dress rehearsal that serves as a fundraiser
for the Friends of Washington
Crossing Park is set for Sunday,
December 9, at 1 p.m. Admission
$8, $4 for children five to 11, and
free for youngsters under age five.
Both events are at Washington
Crossing Historic Park, located at
the intersection of routes 32 and
532, Washington Crossing, PA,
across the river from New Jersey’s
Washington Crossing State Park,
Route 29, Titusville.
215-493-4076 or www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing/index.htm.
doughnuts, dreidels, chocolate
gelt, activities, and music by the
Baker Brothers. 6:30 p.m.
Christmas Carol Festival, St. Anthony of Padua Church, 251
Franklin Avenue, Hightstown,
609-448-0974. Sing a-long. Refreshments. Free. 6:30 p.m.
Mental Health
Food & Dining
Greek Jewish Night, Beth El
Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream
Road, East Windsor, 609-4434454. www.bethel.net. Screening
of a documentary about Greeks
on Broome Street, Greek food,
and dancing Greek style. Register. $18. 7:30 p.m.
Blood Drives
American Red Cross, Central
Jersey Donor Center, 707 Alexander Road, West Windsor, 800448-3543. www.redcrossblood.org. 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Gothic Fraternal Lodge 270,
Poor Boy Sub Shop, 950 Route
33, Hamilton, 609-883-9750. All
donors receive a half sub for free.
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Annual Conference, Nami New
Jersey, Crowne Plaza, Monroe.
www.naminj.org. “Recovery, Resilience, and Wellness Across the
Lifespan” with keynote address
by Pete Earley, author of “Crazy:
A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness.”
Opening remarks by Lynn A.
Kovich, assistant commissioner
for the NJ Division of Mental
Health and Addiction Services.
Luncheon presentation, “11
Points Regarding How We Can
Improve Mental Health Treatment, Outcomes, and Lives” by
Dr. Steven Silverstein, director of
the Division of Schizophrenia Research at UMDNJ. Booksignings
by Earley, Dr. Rosalie Greenberg,
author of “Bicolor Kids: Helping
Your Child Find Calm in the Mood
Storm,” Kimee Carlos, author of
“The Window of Grace: Living in
Recovery Through Christian
Faith;” and Jacquese Armstrong,
author of a poetry chapbook. Afternoon workshops. Register.
$65. 9 a.m.
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Monk And More:
Wenonah Brooks performs jazz standards at
Off-Broadstreet Theater in Hopewell on
Sunday, December 9.
December 8
Wellness
Community Yoga, Integral Yoga
of Princeton, 613 Ridge Road,
Monmouth Junction, 732-2742410. Free. 8 and 9:45 a.m.
Yoga at Home Workshop, Onsen
For All, 4451 Route 27, Princeton, 609-924-4800. Workshop focuses on tools, techniques, and
knowledge to develop your own
home practice. Register. 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Tai Chi Class, Southern Shaolin
Academy, 5 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-883-0303. No experience needed. $25. 10 a.m.
Worldwide Candle Lighting, Compassionate Friends, 609-5168047. www.compassionatefriends.org. Light a candle in your home to
remember children around the
world who have died. 7 p.m.
History
Summerseat Remembers, Historic Morrisville, Summerseat,
140 Legion Avenue, Morrisville,
PA, 215-295-1706. Activities and
colonial era reenactors. Colonial
caning demonstrations, gingerbread house room, display of toy,
scale, and N-gauge trains by
Delaware Valley Chapter of the
National Historic Railway Society.
Free. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Holiday Trolley Tours, Princeton
Tour Company, Downtown
Princeton, 609-902-3637. Introduction to Princeton history.
Hourly from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Register. $15. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Guided Tours, Historic Society
of Hamilton, Historic John Abbott
II House, 2200 Kuser Road,
Hamilton, 609-585-1686. Tours of
the historic home. Donations invited. Noon to 5 p.m.
Civil War and Native American
Museum, Camp Olden, 2202
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5858900. Exhibits featuring Civil War
soldiers from New Jersey including their original uniforms, weapons, and medical equipment.
Diorama of the Swamp Angel artillery piece and Native American
artifacts. Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
Holiday Open House, Historical
Society of West Windsor,
Schenck House, 50 Southfield
Road, West Windsor, 609-7991278. Holiday decorations and refreshments. Self-guided tour of
1790-1830 kitchen and Victorian
double parlor. Exhibit of West
Windsor history in museum
rooms. English-Dutch barn, out-
house, corn crib, and other farm
buildings on view. Donations welcome. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Centennial
Walk Tour, Historical Society of
Princeton, Bainbridge House,
158 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-6748. Celebrate the
100th anniversary of Woodrow
Wilson’s election as President of
the U.S. with a walking tour of
places in Princeton that were a
part of his life as a student, faculty
member, and university president. Register. $7. 2 p.m.
Holiday Historic Homes Tour,
Downtown Bordentown Association, Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, 609-298-9422. www.downtownbordentown.com. Several private homes and historic
sites include Friends Meetng
House and the Clara Barton
school house. 3 to 7 p.m.
Free. 6 p.m.
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Princeton Canal Walkers, Turning Basin Park, Alexander Road,
Princeton, 609-896-0546. Threemile walk on the towpath. Bad
weather cancels. Free. 10 a.m.
North Pole, Simonson Farms,
120 Cranbury Neck Road, Plainsboro, 609-799-0140. www.simonsonfarms.com. Kids crafts,
activities, hay bale maze,
hayrides through the fields. Santa
visits from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. U-cut
Christmas trees, fresh-cut and
live trees available, wreaths, tree
stands, lights, gifts, ornaments,
and more. Candy cane hunt for
age 7 and under at 11 a.m. 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Trash to Treasure, Plainsboro
Preserve, Plainsboro, 609-8979400. www.njaudubon.org. Make
a birdhouse or birdfeeder. Register. $5. 2:30 p.m.
Family Nature Programs, New
Jersey Audubon, Plainsboro
Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner Road,
Plainsboro, 609-897-9400. www.njaudubon.org. “Trash to Treasure,” focuses on making a birdhouse or birdfeeder. Register. $5.
3:30 to 5 p.m.
Shopping News
Warehouse Sale, Conair, 150
Milford Road, East Windsor. Hair
dryers, shavers, kitchen appliances, cookware, and more by
Conair, Cuisinart, Waring, and
Scunci. All items warranteed. 7
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Holiday Bazaar, First Baptist
Church of Princeton, John
Street and Paul Robeson Place,
Princeton, 609-902-6435. fbcpnj.org. Holiday, everyday items, and
baked goods for sale. Vendor tables available for $20. 8 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Flea Market, St. Mary’s School,
30 Elizabeth Street, Bordentown,
609-298-7768. Vendors and refreshments. Space available, $5
to $10. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Light Up The Night:
The Lewis School’s
annual Tree of Light
celebration takes
place Friday, December 7.
St. Nicholas Bazaar, Trinity
Church, 33 Mercer Street,
Princeton, 609-924-2277. The
annual holiday event features holiday shopping and family activities including gingerbread houses, balsam wreaths, hand-knit
sweaters, evening shawls, grassfed beef, cookie walk, bake sale,
boxwood topiaries, and more.
Children’s activities, story telling,
and shopping. Photos with
Nicholas. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Yulefest, Waldorf School, 1062
Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, 609466-1970. Holiday craft market,
cafe, puppet show, and more. 9
a.m.
Holiday Adornments Open Studio, Beth Ann Designs, 20 Seminary Avenue, Hopewell, 609-4666467. Beth Ann Judge and Sheila
Fernekes present unique jewelry.
Refreshments. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Craft and Gift Show, Studio Artisans, 326 Stonybrook Road,
Newtown, PA, 215-862-2076.
Artist made ceramics, jewelry,
chocolates, clothing, soaps,
cards, woodcraft, papercraft, and
paintings. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Holiday Artisan Boutique,
Sculptors Way, Hamilton, 609586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Toad Hall Shop
and Gallery features one of a kind
artwork by area artists. Noon to 5
p.m.
Choral Reading, Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 50
Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, 609587-7123. www.princetonol.com/groups/psma. Paul Chapin conducts chorus and orchestra in a
reading of Handel’s “Messiah.” All
singers are invited to join. No auditions. Vocal scores provided.
Refreshments. $10 for singers.
Free for students and non-singing
guests. 4 to 7 p.m.
Christmas in Carol and Song,
Arts, 81 Somerset Street, New
Brunswick, 732-932-7511.$15. 5
and 7:30 p.m.
Concert, First Reformed
Church, 9 Bayard Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-1005. “Die
Schone Mullerin” performed by
Benjamin Berman, tenor, and
Lachlan Glen, piano. $20. 7 p.m.
Singles
Hiking, Princeton Singles, Sourland Mountain Reserve, 732-3299470. Age 50 plus. Register. 10
a.m.
Dance Party, Steppin’ Out Singles, Woodbridge Hilton, 120
Wood Avenue South, Iselin, 862397-4723. Music and dancing for
ages 40 plus. $15. 8 p.m.
Sports
Winter Series, Hunter Farms,
246 Burnt Hill Road, Skillman,
609-924-2932. 8 a.m.
Princeton Basketball, Jadwin
Gym, 609-258-4849. Drexel. $12.
2 p.m.
Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink,
609-258-4849. Quinnipiac. $10. 4
p.m.
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11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Classical Music
Princeton University Glee Club
and Training Choir, Princeton
University, Richardson Auditorium, 609-258-9220.“A Holiday
Celebration of Latin American
Music” conducted by Gabriel
Crouch. Register. $15. 3 p.m.
All the World Sings Nowell, Cantus Novus, Christ Congregation
Church, 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton, 215-968-3414. Joyous seasonal works for chorus, brass,
and organ features works by
Bach, Mendelsson, Leontovich,
Schutz, and more. $20. 4 p.m.
Holiday Concert, Hopewell Valley Chorus, Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing, 268 Washington CrossingPennington Road, Titusville, 609737-3177. “A Ceremony of Carols: Holiday Songs from the
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Folk Music
Music of the Season Concert,
Kingston Women’s Chorus,
Kingston United Methodist
Church, 9 Church Street,
Kingston, 609-921-6812. “There
is No Rose,” a concert with a
community carol sing-along. Refreshments served following the
concert. Free-will donation. 7
p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Wenonah Brooks, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 908249-3403. www.off-broadstreet.com. Jazz standards from Basie,
Porter, Monk, and Paul Simon.
Accompanied by her trio of Aaron
Graves on piano, Matthew Parrish on bass, and Peyton Crossley on drums. $25 to $30 includes
dessert and coffee. BYOB. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Jazzy Sundays, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Wine by the glass or bottle and
cheese platters are available. The
John Barry Group. 2 to 5 p.m.
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School, 95 Grovers Mill Road,
Plainsboro, 732-469-3983. “A Musical Journey Celebrating the Season’s Tradition of Love, Friendship, and Family” includes songs
from the holidays, upbeat songs,
and ballads sung by the chorus in
a cappella, four-part harmony, barbershop style. $20 . 2 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Gallery and Academy of Robert Beck, 204 North
Union Street, Lambertville, 215982-0074. www.robertbeck.net.
Reception for “Small Captivations,” an exhibition of paintings
by Alex Cohen. 1 to 4 p.m.
Gallery Talk and Highlight Tour,
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-2583788. Free. 2 p.m.
Holiday Tram Rides, Grounds
For Sculpture, 126 Sculptors
Way, Hamilton, 609-586-0616.
Travel through the park on a decorated tram. Free with park admission. 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Dance
Brunswick, 732-932-7511.Works
Patrick Corbin, and faculty members. $25. 2 p.m.
Tap Dogs, State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick,
732-246-7469. Family-friendly
performance features top
dancers from around the world.
$32 to $67. 3 p.m.
On Stage
Princeton, 609-258-2787.Holiday
classic by Charles Dickens. $20
to $60. 1 and 5:30 p.m.
There’s a Burglar in My Bed,
Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5
South Greenwood Avenue,
Hopewell, 609-466-2766. Farce
about a couple, their lovers, mistaken identities, a nymphomaniac,
and a necklace. $29.50 to $31.50
includes dessert. 1:30 p.m.
the Von Trapp family story. $26 to
$97. 1:30 and 7 p.m.
You Can’t Take it With You, Actors’ NET, 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-2953694. Moss Hart and George S.
Kaufman’s comedy about an eccentric family. $20. 2 p.m.
A Christmas Carol, Ewing Library, 61 Scotch Road, Ewing,
609-882-3130. Traveling Literary
Theater presents with James
Dyne as Scrooge. Free. 2 p.m.
rights activist, during the desegregation of the Durham, North
Carolina schools in 1971. Directed by Julianne Boyd. $25 to $62.
2 and 7 p.m.
Monologist: Mike
Daisey presents
‘American Utopias’ at
McCarter Theater,
Thursday, December
13.
Brunswick, 732-932-7511. Drama
by Lorraine Hansberry. $25. 2
p.m.
Drama by Arthur Wing Pinero and
directed by Bonnie J. Monte.
Through December 30. 2 and
7:30 p.m.
Multicultural celebration of holiday traditions around the world.
Concept by Sibusiso Mamba features the music of Motown. $40. 3
p.m.
Brunswick, 732-254-3939. Classic story adapted and directed by
Tony Adase. $12. 3 p.m.
$15. 3 p.m.
Princeton Writers Block, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
Works by David Ives and Shel Silverstein will be presented by a
group of actors and writers. Free.
3 p.m.
A John Waters Christmas, Raritan Valley Community College,
Route 28, North Branch, 908725-3420. A one man show with
adult humor. $30 and $40. 7 p.m.
Family Theater
Wardrobe, Somerset Valley
Players, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, 908-369-7469. www.svptheatre.org. $15. 2 p.m.
Film
Film Screening, Trenton Film
Society, Mill Hill Playhouse, 205
East Front Street, Trenton, 609396-6966. www.trentonfilmfestival.org. Screening of “leben,
um zu sagen (live to tell)” documentary exploring one family’s
journey from Nazi-occupied Vienna to America. The 30-minute film
produced by Dan Bauer explores
his family’s journey told through
the eyes of his 100-year-old
grandmother, his father, and a
cousin. A post film panel discussion features Lynne Azarchi, executive director of Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum; and Ryan Stark
Lilienthal, an immigration attorney
who recently returned from Germany where he explored documents illuminating the experience
of relatives deported to and murdered in Poland during the Holocaust. Bauer is a longtime Princeton resident, director of public relations at McCarter Theater, a
tour guide for Princeton Tour
Company, and works with Smart
Talk Connected Conversations.
Free. 3 p.m.
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On Tap: Tap Dogs brings its family-friendly tap
dancing show to the State Theater in New
Brunswick, Sunday, December 9.
Dancing
Dance Practice, G&J Studios, 5
Jill Court, Suite 15, Hillsborough,
908-892-0344. www.gandjstudios.com. Competition simulation. Ballroom from 2 to 4 p.m.
Latin from 4 to 5 p.m. $10. 2 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Open Door Publications, Aurora Kitchen Designs,
10 East Cliff Street, Somerville,
609-620-0188. L.E. Rose, author
of “Mirage of Truth,” presents her
first novel. A Plainsboro resident
and school teacher, she uses her
pen name. Register. [email protected]. 2 to 4 p.m.
Poetry Reading, South
Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Timothy Donnelly and
Adam Fitzgerald read. Donation
of a non-perishable food item is
encouraged. 2 to 4 p.m.
Good Causes
Christmas Open House, McCormick Family, 153 Route 526,
Allentown, 609-208-9991. www.operationjerseyshoresanta.org.
More than 150 Christmas trees inside and outside of the home decorated with more than 15,000
lights. Donations of toys, decorations, and Christmas gift items will
be accepted for Operation Jersey
Shore Santa. Monetary donations
will go to the Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund established by Governor
Christie. 1 to 8 p.m.
Holiday in the Village
Lawrenceville Main Street, Weeden Park, 609-219-9300. www.LawrencevilleMainStreet.com.
Music, crafts fair, refreshments,
visit with Santa, and tree lighting.
Free. 2 to 4 p.m.
Faith
Advent Services, United Presbyterian Church, 12 YardvilleHamilton Square Road, Yardville,
609-585-5770. www.upcnj.org.
“Enlighten, Empower, Engage”
service for young children. Traditional service at 11 a.m. 9:30 a.m.
Christmas Pageant Service,
Princeton United Methodist
Church, Nassau at Vandeventer
Street, 609-924-2613. www.princetonumc.org. Presentation
of “On This Night of Nights” by the
Sunday school and youth choirs.
5 p.m.
Original Mind Zen Sangha, Fellowship in Prayer, 291 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.originalmindzen.com. Zen meditation and Buddhist services.
Free. 6:45 to 9 p.m.
Food & Dining
Sunday Brunch, Grounds For
Sculpture, 126 Sculptors Way,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Peacock Cafe offers a la carte menu.
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wellness
Classes, Onsen For All, 4451
Route 27, Princeton, 609-9244800. www.onsenforall.com. Introduction to yoga at 9:15 a.m.
Gentle yoga at 10:25 a.m. Multilevel yoga at 11:30 a.m. Register.
$15 each. 9:15 a.m.
History
Holiday Open House,
Drumthwacket Foundation, 354
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609683-0057. www.drumthwacket.org. Tour the official residence of
the Governor of New Jersey featuring “Songs of the Season”
theme created by garden clubs
throughout the state. The gift
shop presents seasonal gift
items. Register. $5 donation. 11
a.m.
Dress Rehearsal for Crossing
Re-Enactment, Friends of
Washington Crossing State
Park, Washington Crossing Historic Park, Route 32, Washington
Crossing, PA, 215-493-4076.
www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing. Historical reenactment
of George Washington’s daring
1776 river crossing. Reenactors
in Continental military dress listen
to an inspiring speech by Washington and then row across the
Delaware River in three replica
Durham boats at 1 p.m. Activities
and demonstrations throughout
the historic village. $8. 11 a.m.
Holiday Candlelight Open
House, Rockingham Historic
Site, 84 Laurel Avenue, Kingston,
NJ, 609-683-7136. www.rockingham.net. House tours,
music by Practitioners of Musick,
18th century activities, refreshments, and the “Rules of Civility
and Decent Behavior in Company
and Conversation.” Tours every
30 minutes. $5 suggested donation. Advanced registration required. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Holiday Festivities, Mercer Museum, Pine and Ashland streets,
Doylestown, 215-348-9461.
www.mercermuseum.org. Decorate a tree with handmade ornaments, sip hot cider, make an ornament, visit with Santa, and holiday music. Free. Noon to 4 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 including their
original uniforms, weapons, and
medical equipment. Diorama of
the Swamp Angel artillery piece
and Native American artifacts.
Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
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December 9
Holiday Open House, Historical Society
of West Windsor, Schenck House, 50
Southfield Road, West Windsor, 609-7991278. Holiday decorations and refreshments. Self-guided tour of 1790-1830
kitchen and Victorian double parlor. Exhibit
of West Windsor history in museum rooms.
English-Dutch barn, outhouse, corn crib,
and other farm buildings on view. Donations welcome. 1 to 4 p.m.
Wassail Party, Historic Society of Hamilton, Historic John Abbott II House, 2200
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-585-1686.
Tours of the historic home and refreshments. Donations invited. 2 to 4 p.m.
Walking Tour, Historical Society of
Princeton, Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-921-6748. Two-hour
walking tour of downtown Princeton and
Princeton University. $7; $4 for ages 6 to
12. 2 to 4 p.m.
Sounds of Christmas, Kuser Farm Mansion, 390 Newkirk Avenue, Hamilton, 609890-3630. Guided tour of the decorated
1892 Victorian mansion. Register. Free. 6
p.m.
For Families
Truly Grimm, Cotsen Children’s Library,
Princeton Public Library, 609-258-2697.
Susan Danoff and Tara McGowan present
traditional tales to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Grimms’ famous fairy tales.
The stories will be told in their original versions — not suitable for children under the
age of nine. Register. Free. 3:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
North Pole, Simonson Farms, 120 Cranbury Neck Road, Plainsboro, 609-7990140. Kids crafts, activities, hay bale maze,
hayrides through the fields. Santa visits
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. U-cut Christmas
trees, fresh-cut and live trees available,
wreaths, tree stands, lights, gifts, ornaments, and more. Candy cane hunt for age
7 and under at 11 a.m. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Winter Wander on Strawberry Hill,
Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space,
Fiddler’s Creek Road, Titusville, 609-7301560. www.fohvos.org. Slide presentation
about winter ecology and reading land history through plants presented by Rachel
Mackow, land steward. Guided hike follows. Refreshments. Free. 1 to 3 p.m.
Shopping News
Holiday Open House, Art Station Studios,
148 Monmouth Street, Hightstown, 609473-0374. Open house and studio tour features artists demonstrating their craft and
selling original art. Artists include Robert
Hummel, painter; Sam Kifer, Anne Siemnecki, and Karen Cybulski, potters; Susan
Winter, painter and jewelry maker; Juanita
Yoder, silk painter and stained glass artist;
and Robert Cagan, Bonnie Long, Enrico
Bombieri, and Linda Gebhard. Free admission. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Holiday Artisan Boutique, Grounds For
Sculpture, 126 Sculptors Way, Hamilton,
609-586-0616. Toad Hall Shop and Gallery
features one of a kind artwork by area
artists. Noon to 5 p.m.
Holiday Sale, New Jersey State Museum,
205 West State Street, Trenton, 609-2926464. Ornaments, jewelry, pottery, home
decor, silk scarves, educational toys, books,
puzzles, and more. Proceeds benefit the museum. Noon to 4 p.m.
Singles
On Stage
Lunch, Princeton Singles, Metro North
Restaurant 378 Alexander Road Princeton,
732-329-9470. Age 50 plus. Register. 1 p.m.
Something Merry This Way Comes,
Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey,
F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600. Holiday tales, songs,
and poems performed by a cast of actors
and musicians. $32. 7:30 p.m.
Monday
December 10
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: On Architecture
Robert Geddes, Labyrinth Books, 122
Nassau Street Princeton, 609-497-1600.
“Fit: An Architect’s Manifesto.” Robert Geddes is Professor Emeritus and former Dean
of Princeton University’s School of Architecture. 6 p.m.
Classical Music
Carols of Many Nations, Princeton Theological Seminary, Miller Chapel, 609-4977760. www.ptsem.edu. Readings, choral
anthems, and congregational carols led by
the choir, international students, and staff.
Carol by candlelight outside following the
service. Free. 3:30 and 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Messiah Community Sing, Princeton University Chapel, Princeton campus, 609258-3654. Bring a score or borrow one at
the door. Accompanied by strings, trumpet,
and organ. Conducted by Penna Rose. $5.
7:30 p.m.
Rehearsal, Voices Chorale, Music Together, 225 Pennington-Hopewell Road,
Hopewell, 609-924-7801. www.musictogetherprinceton.com. Register. 7:30 p.m.
Film
Movie Matinee, Lawrence Library, Darrah
Lane and Route 1, Lawrence Township,
609-989-6920. Screening of “Italian for Beginners,” 2000. Register. Free. 2 p.m.
Literati
Robert Geddes, Labyrinth Books, 122
Nassau Street Princeton, 609-497-1600.
“Fit: An Architect’s Manifesto.” Robert Geddes is Professor Emeritus and former Dean
of Princeton University’s School of Architecture. 6 p.m.
Poets at the Library, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-924-9529. Reading services with Delaware Valley Poets and U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative. James Arthur and Gail Gerwin are featured readers. Open mic follows. 7:30 p.m.
Storytime: Former Bucks
County Poet Laureate Lorraine Henrie Lins appears
Saturday, December 8, at
the Panoply Bookstore reading series in Lambertville.
Good Causes
Zumba Love for New Jersey, Combined
Forces Martial Arts, 1090 Route 130,
Trenton, 609-259-4926. Benefit evening
with eight Zumba instructors and a conga
player with two hours of music and routines. $20 plus an item to be donated. Suggested donations include blankets, pillows,
tooth brushes, toothpaste, dry foods, flashlights, batteries, and warm clothing for
adults and children. 7 to 9 p.m.
Author of “Building Resilience in Children
and Teens” and “Letting Go with Love and
Confidence,” books will be available. Register to [email protected]. $5. 7 to 9 p.m.
Lectures
Rutgers Jazz Ensemble, Mason Gross
School of the Arts, Nicholas Music Center,
85 George Street, New Brunswick, 732932-7511. $15. 7:30 p.m.
Menorah Lighting, Palmer Square, North
Hulfish Plaza, 800-644-3489. Klezmer music by the Odessa Klezmer Band, hot
latkes, donuts, and Chanukah gelt. Rain or
shine. Free. 5 to 6 p.m
James Madison Program in American
Ideals, Princeton University, Richardson
Auditorium, 609-258-3000. “Reading Law”
presented by U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia. Register. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall,
609-258-0157. Conversation with Aneesh
Chopra, former chief technology officer,
Obama administration. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Health
Singles
Avi Wisnia, Grundy Memorial Library, 680
Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA, 215-788-7891.
www.grundylibrary.org. Solo performance
featuring an eclectic misc of original songs
and covers. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony Chorus,
1065 Canal Road, Princeton, 732-4693983. www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15 p.m.
Rehearsal, New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton. www.njgmc.org. New
members are welcome. E-mail [email protected]. 7:30 to 10 p.m.
Caregiver Resource Workshop, Buckingham Place, 155 Raymond Road, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-8954. Guidance
as you navigate through services and programs in the area. Network with other caregivers about approaches that work when
coping with changing health needs and behaviors associated with memory loss. Facilitated by Barbara Stender, caregiver specialist with Senior Well Being program. Refreshments. Register. Free. 1 to 3 p.m.
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road,
West Windsor, 609-716-8771. Drop in.
Register at http://ht.ly/3gd9w 6:30 to 8
p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Art
Art History Lecture, Institute for Advanced Study, Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein
Drive, Princeton, 609-734-8228. “Up Close
and Far Away: Artists, Memorialization, and
Uganda’s Troubled Past” presented by Sidney Kasfir, professor emerita, Emory University. Register. Free. 5 p.m.
Dance
Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, 185 Nassau Street, 609-258-1500.
“Choreographers in Residence and Conversation” series presents Ann Carlson,
Sharon Moore, and Aynsley Vandenbroucke with works in progress and discussion of their current artistic undertakings.
Refreshments. Free. 6:15 p.m.
Holiday Market:
Dec. 13th 11am - 5pm
Winter Markets:
Jan 10, Feb 14, Mar 14, April 11
Princeton Public Library
Community Room
65 Witherspoon Street
Princeton Farmers & Crafters Market
vegetables G cheeses G fruits G honey G breads
desserts G eggs G meats G pickles
gift baskets G lovely crafts
Sponsors are Witherspoon Grill, Bank of Princeton, Pr. Public Library,
Terra Momo Rest. Group, MacLean Agency, LOTGD Law
www.princetonfarmersmarket.com
Faith
Wellness
Introductory Class, Shaolin Kung Fu, 276
North Main Street, Pennington, 609-5778511. Northern Dragon Kung Fu presented
by Darren Doty. Free. 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Gentle Yoga, Heart to Heart Women’s
Health Center, 20 Armour Avenue, Hamilton, 609-689-3131. Gentle alignment-focused. Register. $15. 7 to 8 p.m.
Healing Music and Mantras: The Power
of Sacred Sound, Center for Relaxation
and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite
635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. Register.
$18. 7:30 p.m.
For Parents
For Parents Only, West Windsor-Plainsboro School District, High School South,
346 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609716-5000. “Raising Resilient Children and
Teens Poised for Success” presented by
Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine at CHOP.
Socials
Meeting, Women’s College Club of
Princeton, All Saints Church, 16 All Saints
Road, Princeton, 609-924-9181. The American Boy Choir will present the holiday program. Light refreshments. Free. 1 p.m.
Tuesday
December 11
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
780 Menorahs Needed
Chanukah for the Record, Princeton Jewish Center, Princeton Airport, 41 Airpark
Road, Princeton, 609-921-0100. www.thejewishcenter.org. Break the Guinness
world record for the most menorahs lit at
one time in one place. Bring your own
menorah and five candles. More than 780
menorahs will need to be lit simultaneously.
Register by E-mail to [email protected]. $3 per person.
5:30 p.m.
DECEMBER 5, 2012
At the Movies
Mainstream Movies
Confirm titles, dates, and times
with theaters.
A Royal Affair. En kongelig affaere. Montgomery.
Anna Karenina. Keira Knightley and Jude Law in drama set in
19th-century Russia. Garden,
Montgomery, Multiplex.
Argo. Action with Ben Affleck.
AMC, Garden, Montgomery,
Multiplex, Regal.
The Collection. Thriller about a
serial killer with Josh Stewart and
Emma Fitzpatrick. AMC, Regal.
Flight. Drama about a plane
crash with Denzel Washington.
AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Killing Them Softly. Crime
drama with Brad Pitt. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Life of Pi. An Indian boy is left
with an orangutan, a hyena, and a
Bengal tiger after a shipwreck.
AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Lincoln. Daniel Day Lewis portrays Lincoln. AMC, Destiny, Garden, MarketFair, Montgomery,
Multiplex, Regal.
The Man with the Iron Fists.
Action with Russell Crowe and
Lucy Liu. Destiny.
The Other Son. Le fils de
L’autre. Montgomery.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Romance with Emma Watson. Garden.
Red Dawn. Action directed by
Dan Bradley. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Rise of the Guardians. Animated fantasy. AMC, Destiny,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
The Sessions. Stars John
Hawkes, Helen Hunt, and William
H. Macy in a drama about a young
man in an iron lung with wants to
lose his virginity. Montgomery,
Multiplex.
Silver Linings Playbook. Stars
Classical Music
Rutgers Wind Ensemble, Mason
Gross School of the Arts,
Nicholas Music Center, 85
732-932-7511. $15. 7:30 p.m.
Choral Concert, Mercer College,
Kelsey Theater, West Windsor,
609-570-3735. Winter concert,
“Gloria in Excelsis Deo” includes
works by Holst, Britten, and Rutter. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Princeton Garden
Statesmen, Plainsboro Library, 9
Van Doren Street, Plainsboro,
888-636-4449. Men of all ages
and experience levels are invited
to sing in four-part harmony. Free.
7:30 to 10 p.m.
Art
Annual Art Luncheon, Beth El
Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream
Road, East Windsor, 609-4434454. Barbara Tomlinson speaks
about Florine Stettheimer, an
American artist who studied in Europe during the 1920s and ’30s.
Light lunch. Register. $7. Noon.
On Stage
Drama by Arthur Wing Pinero and
directed by Bonnie J. Monte.
Through December 30. 7:30 p.m.
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer
Lawrence. AMC, Montgomery.
Skyfall. 007 returns with Daniel
Craig and Judi Dench. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Taken 2. Liam Neeson in action. AMC, Destiny.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn Part 2. Stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. AMC,
Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal
Wreck-It Ralph. Animated adventure with the voices of John C.
Reilly and Jane Lynch. AMC, Destiny, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Venues
AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, 325
Sloan Avenue, I-295 Exit 65-A, 888262-4386.
Destiny 12, 2465 South Broad
Street, Hamilton, 609-888-1110.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-683-7595.
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, 800-315-4000.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South,
Dancing
International Folk Dancing,
Princeton Folk Dance, Riverside School, 58 Riverside Drive,
Princeton, 609-921-9340. Ethnic
dances of many cultures and
countries using their original music. Beginners welcome. For all
ages. Lesson followed by dance.
No partner needed. $3. 7 to 9
p.m.
Literati
Hamid Dabashi, Labyrinth
Books, 122 Nassau Street
Princeton, 609-497-1600. “The
World of Persian Literary Humanism.” Hamid Debashi is Professor
of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has written 25 books.
The lecture explores what it
means to be human. 6 p.m.
Good Causes
Meeting, Allies, 1262 Whitehorse-Hamilton Square Road,
Hamilton, 609-689-0136. For
adult volunteers with hobbies or
interests to share with adults who
have developmental disabilities.
Register with Linda Barton. 5:30
to 7:30 p.m.
From Russia: Keira
Knightley stars
alongside Jude Law
in the new film adaptation of LeoTolstoy’s
‘Anna Karenina,’
now playing.
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SINGLES
MEN SEEKING WOMEN
WOMEN SEEKING MEN
WOMEN SEEKING MEN
60 y/o Widowed WM intelligent, attractive, caring, active and fun loving
genuine nice guy seeking a drama
free, attractive and fit single lady between the ages of 45-65 for friendship
with the possibly a LTR. I don’t smoke
or use drugs and you shouldn’t either.
I enjoy travel, theater, movies and
quiet times together. I believe that
any good relationships require work
and that life is too short to sweat the
small stuff. If you have similar interests and the willingness to work at a
relationship lets explore the possibilities together. Please respond with a
recent picture and contact information (email or phone would be nice).
Box 238405
football. I hope you’re willing to take a
chance at true happiness. Phone, no
e-mail. Box 237369
along the canal and my delicious coffee
in the morning. Looking for someone
special to relax by the fireplace with now
that the cold winter is upon us. Please
only age appropriate responses. Box
236720
The holidays are coming ... And I
still haven’t found that special lady. If
you’re 60-70, about 5’6”, shapely,
and enjoy music, films, theater, art
exhibits, walking, and quiet times at
home, please consider responding.
Picture and phone number appreciated. Box 236262
WOMEN SEEKING MEN
Come Home For The Holidays.
We can enjoy the holidays together!
DWCF, very special, attractive,loving, kind,retired teacher, 5ft.5”, seeks
attractive WCM, non smoker, who is
tall, respectful, caring, well educated
and interested in plays, music, dining
out, walking, movies and reading,
conversation and keeping fit. I’ll
share my Christmas tree and fireplace with you if you’re between the
ages of 62 and 75 and you are a mature, sincere and caring gentleman.
Please enclose a photo and tell me
about yourself. Let’s enjoy the
warmth of companionship this Christmas and see where it leads in the new
year! Box 236063
Dear Santa: I’ve been very good.
Please reward me with a handsome
boyfriend to enjoy the holidays with
(and beyond). Please let him be 5’10”
- 6’1”, approximately 180-220 lbs,
clean shaven, non-hirusute (think
Brad Pitt without the goatee). Let him
be financially stable, generous, and
fun to be with. Prefer someone who
wants to be in a relationship. Photo
please. Box 236082
Devil in Blue Jeans! Attractive 59year-old, sincere, fun-loving lady, in
search of an above-average single
gentleman who is searching for a
long-term relationship. Prefer someone clean-cut, no heavy drinkers. I
enjoy moon-lit walks, driving in a car,
dancing, trips, Sunday afternoon
Hi there, I just want to say, after this
ad, if I can’t meet one person — not
even one — I’m giving up. I am a woman
who acts very real and down-to-earth. I
love Jesus Christ. I am Catholic, though
I have been attending services in a
church that is not Catholic. I am in my
60s and I am 5’10”, blue eyes, and dark
brown hair. I am also a plus-size
woman. I love going to dinner and
shows, taking walks holding hands with
that special someone. I love to cuddlen-kiss. I am loving-n-caring. I am a very
good listener. I have no baggage. I live
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Faith
Science Lectures
Chanukah Meeting, Hadassah
Trenton-Lawrence, Greenwood
House, 609-883-4598. Hazzan
Arthur Katlin of Adath Israel presents Chanukah songs and other
Jewish melodies. Register. 2
p.m.
Chanukah Open House, Adath
Israel Congregation, 1958
Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville,
609-896-4977. www.adathisraelnj.org. Lighting of the outdoor menorah, singing, and Israeli dancing. 4:40 p.m.
Chanukah for the Record,
Princeton Jewish Center,
Princeton Airport, 41 Airpark
Road, Princeton, 609-921-0100.
www.thejewishcenter.org. Break
the Guinness world record for the
most menorahs lit at one time in
one place. Bring your own menorah and five candles. More than
780 menorahs will need to be lit
simultaneously. Register by Email to [email protected]. $3 per person. 5:30 p.m.
Taize Evening Prayer, Princeton
Lutheran Church, Princeton
University Chapel. www.princetonlutheranchurch.org.
Christian service of prayer, scripture, and song. 7:30 p.m.
Meeting, Amateur Astronomers
Association of Princeton, Peyton Hall, 4 Ivy Lane, Princeton
University. “Curiosity and the
Search for Life on Mars in 3-D”
presented by Ken Kremer. Free.
8 p.m.
Gardens
Meeting, Lingohocken Garden
Club, Forest Grove Church, 1856
Forest Grove Road, Forest
Grove, PA, 215-340-7677. www.lingohockengardenclub.info. Annual Christmas tea with Christmas carols. 12:30 p.m.
Health
Caregivers Support Group,
Alzheimer’s Association,
Brandywine Senior Living, 155
Raymond Road, Monmouth
Junction, 609-987-8121. www.alz.org. 1 p.m.
Mental Health
NAMI Connection, NAMI Mercer,
3371 Brunswick Pike, Suite 124,
Lawrenceville, 609-799-8994.
www.namimercer.org. Support
group for people affected by mental illness. E-mail
[email protected] for information. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Wellness
Hatha Yoga, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. Register.
$15. 9:30 a.m.
Community Acquired Pneumonia, Robert Wood Johnson
Hamilton Center for Health and
Wellness, 3100 Quakerbridge
Road, Mercerville, 609-584-5900.
Information about prevention, risk
factors, and treatment. Register.
$5. 6:30 p.m.
History
Holiday Open House, Mercer
Museum, Pine and Ashland
streets, Doylestown, 215-3450210. Free. 7 p.m.
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Lectures
Consumer Affairs, Mercer County Connection, 957 Route 33,
Hamilton, 609-890-9800. Discuss
how to avoid credit, home improvement, difficulty with a local
business, Internet fraud, or unreliable repairmen with the chief of
the county Consumer Affairs Commission. Free. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 609-2580157. “New Turmoil in the Middle
East” presented by Daniel Kurtzer,
former U.S. ambassador to Israel
and Egypt. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Politics
Breakfast Meeting, Lincoln Club
of New Jersey, Cranbury Inn, 21
South Main Street, Cranbury,
609-306-0551. www.lc-nj.org.
“Contemplating Your Finances
and Your Future,” a roundtable
discussion featuring three investment and wealth management
advisors Catherine SidamonEristoff, Constellation Wealth Advisors: Fernando Guerrero,
Varedero Capital; and Robert
Gregov, Roche Financial Planners. Register by E-mail to [email protected]. $10. 8 a.m.
Meeting, League of Women Voters, Suzanne Patterson Center,
45 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-658-6107. Note new time
and place. 7 to 9 p.m.
Singles
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
Yardley, PA, 215-736-1288. Register. 6 p.m.
Socials
Public Speaking, Mid-Day Toastmasters, Robbinsville Library, 42
Allentown-Robbinsville Road,
Robbinsville, 609-585-0822.
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Members meet for prepared and
impromptu speeches to improve
as speakers and as leaders.
11:30 a.m.
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru Palace, 2215 Route 1
South, North Brunswick, 732213-0095. 7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Memoir Writing Workshop,
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6920. Intro course
for seniors to reflect on a significant life experience and put it on
paper. E-mail [email protected].
Register. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday
December 12
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Choo!
Choo!
Free. Jersey Valley Model Railroad. 6 p.m.
Classical Music
Candlelight Service of Lessons
and Carols, Princeton University Chapel, Princeton campus,
609-258-3654. A service of readings and music featuring the
Chapel Choir, Glee Club, and a
cappella groups. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Winter Concert, Mercer College,
Kelsey Theater, West Windsor,
609-570-3735. www.mccc.edu.
MCCC Jazz Band with works by
Tadd Dameron, Hank Mobley,
Joe Zawinul, and Kurt Cobain.
Free. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Arturo Romay, Jester’s, 233
609-298-9963. www.jesterscafe.net. 6 to 9 p.m.
Open Mic Night, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
Sign up at 6:45 p.m. 7 to 8:45 p.m.
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Kenny G, State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-246-7469. Holiday show with classic holiday music. $55 to
$95. 8 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Gallery at Mercer County College, Communications Center, West Windsor, 609-586-4800, ext. 3589. Gallery talk
in conjunction with “Mel Leipzig: Mostly Recent Paintings” featuring an exhibition of
works by Leipzig. Noon.
On Stage
A Christmas Carol, McCarter Theater, 91
University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787.
Holiday classic by Charles Dickens. $20 to
$60. 7:30 p.m.
The Best of Enemies, George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-246-7717. Drama based on the
true story between C.P. Ellis, a member of
the KKK, and Ann Atwater, an AfricanAmerican civil rights activist. Directed by
Dancing
Newcomer’s Dance, American Ballroom,
1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-9310149. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Literati
Writers Room, Princeton Public Library,
65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609924-9529. Members will read excerpts
from “The Holiday Pines,” a fictional family
newsletter. 7 p.m.
Food & Dining
Cornerstone Community Kitchen,
Princeton United Methodist Church,
Nassau at Vandeventer Street, Princeton,
609-924-2613. Hot meals served, prepared
by TASK. Free. 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Wellness
Simple Suppers, Robert Wood Johnson
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Festival of Lights: Palmer
Square celebrates Chanukah with a menorah lighting,
Monday, December 10.
Introductory Class, Shaolin Kung Fu, 276
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Community Yoga, Four Winds Yoga, 114
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History
Holiday Open House, Drumthwacket
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the Season” theme. Register. $5 donation.
11 a.m.
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144.
Decorated holiday trees. $6. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sounds of Christmas, Kuser Farm Mansion, 390 Newkirk Avenue, Hamilton, 609890-3630. Register. Free. 6 p.m.
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Everygreens for Everyone, Stony Brook
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Crafts
Christmas Centerpiece Making Class,
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Kosher Cafe East, Jewish Family and
Children’s Service, Beth El Synagogue,
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presented by Linda Kanner, interfaith coordinator. Kosher meal and speaker for ages
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Making Scrooge Fly: Backstage at McCarter’s ‘Carol’
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very December a curious sort of magic appears at McCarter Theater: its adaptation of “A
Christmas Carol.”
You know the story. English
miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited
on Christmas Eve by spirits in a
last-ditch effort to save his soul and
change his life for the better.
But the McCarter experience is
a presentation unlike any other.
As you settle into the plush vermilion seats and the lights go
down, there’s an announcement
that you’re in for something special — the booming score kicks up
as a giant fir tree is illuminated,
center stage. When it begins to
snow right there in front of you
that lump in your throat becomes
an anticipatory sign of the joy to
come.
There’s nothing else you can
call it, really, but magic, and this
particular production of “A Christmas Carol,” now in its 13th year at
McCarter, is filled to the brim with
sleights-of-hand, flying spirits,
snowfalls, and beautiful and mysterious moments of spectacle.
Yet with those magical moments
comes a well-oiled machine of a
team of theatrical professionals
who work tirelessly behind the
scenes in the weeks leading up to
opening night.
The production — which employs 40 actors (including children
from throughout the greater
Princeton area), 21 technicians,
and four stage managers — is directed by Michael Unger, who has
helmed this production since its inception 13 years ago. He also
served as assistant director on a
previous adaptation of the show at
McCarter.
“This ‘A Christmas Carol’ has
never been the same two years in a
row,” said Unger. “It is a constantly
evolving organism. This is because
of my desire, and McCarter’s, to
keep discovering new things that
the piece can offer audiences year
after year.”
This constant state of evolution
and rediscovery is made possible
by a production team that reunites,
year after year.
Wardrobe manager Lindsay Rae
Barnes is currently in her 10th year
on the production. “I think one of
my favorite parts is all the actors
who come back to the show multiple years, even the kids,” said
Barnes. “There was one boy who
started the same year I did, and I
watched him grow up from Tiny
Tim to being a responsible, helpful
young man. After a decade of being
in a big group of like minded technicians and actors and staff all getting through the holidays together,
this process defines the holiday
season for me now.”
Like Barnes, many members of
the team have spent numerous
years learning the ins-and-outs of
the production, which allows for
further growth and variation as
Unger explores new elements of
the script.
“I am constantly looking for
new magic that we can add to the
show,” said Unger. “One year, a
by Jonathan Elliott
small gesture our Scrooge made inspired me to ponder if there might
be a way to make his cane fly up
through the air and descend, returning to its cane stand from
whence it came. I presented a few
ideas to the prop department, they
added their ‘special sauce’ and we
now have one of my favorite effects in the show.”
That same affection for the show
— and its audiences — is prevalent
throughout the team, many of
whom work year-round for McCarter and live in the area.
“My favorite part of ‘A Christmas Carol’ is getting to watch the
faces of the audience members, especially little children seeing the
show for the first time,” said Bill
Kirby, a Princeton resident and the
production’s sound engineer and
assistant sound designer. Responsible for everything from the cell
phone announcement to the proper
balance of actors’ voices, Kirby
runs sound from a board at the back
of the orchestra section of the audience. “I’m in the unique position of
being the only crew member in the
house, and I really get a kick out of
interacting with people coming to
see the show.”
Master electrician and associate
lighting designer Paul Kilsdonk is
tasked with the annual recreation
of the original lighting design by
Stephen Strawbridge. The Lambertville-based Kilsdonk is responsible for maintaining and improving lighting technology in keeping
with industry standards, and collaborating with Unger to produce
the director’s changes and improvements.
Several of the most gasp-worthy
effects of each performance involve flying. “A Christmas Carol”
utilizes flight in a crucial scene in
which Scrooge is kept off balance
via adventurous swoops and tumbles that would make Peter Pan envious.
Meredith Scheibner of Deptford
has spent seven years working on
“A Christmas Carol,” three controlling the flying elements. Even
as a seasoned veteran, she is still affected by the magic. “Last year
during a rehearsal we were flying
Scrooge around the stage to get
back into the swing of things and
there was this moment when I
looked up to see his eyes were
closed and he was just enjoying
himself. He was at such peace, and
I got to see it. I am not sure I had
ever witnessed another’s sheer
contentment like that, but I did in
that moment and it was just awesome,” said Scheibner.
With the return to this production year after year comes a sense
of family and tradition, in both the
metaphorical and literal sense.
“The themes of this show have always been a wonderful lesson for
any family to witness, and my chil-
dren are no exception,” said Unger.
“It has also provided many wonderful,
lifelong
friendships
throughout the years for all of us.”
Unger himself — the Chicagoborn son of an engineering firm executive and a special education
teacher — understands the importance of this coming together, especially as a freelance director who
often needs to travel from his New
York City-based family. That includes his 11-year-old twins,
Phoebe and Nathaniel, who have
been attending the McCarter show
all their lives.
In his return to McCarter to create this play in celebration of the
holiday season, Unger is also careful to remember Charles Dickens’
Behind the Scenes: Clockwise from top left, stage
carpenter Meredith Scheibner, wardrobe supervisor Lindsay Rae Barnes, and sound engineer Bill
Kirby work to make the ‘magic’ audiences at McCarter Theater’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ see on stage.
original intent and specific message of the story. During the first
rehearsal with the child actors of
the production, Unger presents historical accounts of child labor during the period of the play.
This touchstone serves as a reminder of the transformative purpose of “A Christmas Carol,” and
the spirit of giving. “I take great
pride when the young ensemble de-
This particular production of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ now in its 13th year
at McCarter, is filled to the brim with sleights-of-hand, flying spirits,
snowfalls, and beautiful and mysterious moments of spectacle.
cides to donate money, originally
raised for a pizza party, to charities
that fight child labor abuses around
the world. We must never forget
those less fortunate than us —
those Tiny Tims of the world.”
There is magic and more in this
Christmas Carol.
Princeton. Thursdays through Sundays until Friday, December 28
(with presentations also on
Wednesdays, December 19 and
26). Tickets are $20-$75.
For more information: visit
www.mccarter.org, or call 609258-2787.
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The Battle Over United Way’s Dwindling Dollars
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by Michele Alperin
hen a difficult economy exacerbates changes already
occurring in philanthropic giving,
nonprofits hoping to make the
world a better place can end up
locking horns. In Mercer County
this scenario has been playing out
between Mark Lamar, executive
director of Hamilton-based Family
Guidance Center, and Herbert
Klein III, president and chief executive officer of United Way of
Greater Mercer County.
The quarrel between the two
men came to fore in the wake of
cuts made by United Way of Mercer County after its total revenues
slipped to about $4.5 million in the
fiscal year ending June 30, 2012
from a high of $10.1 million in
2007. “We have not gotten the donations from corporate donors and
individual donors to the programs
we were funding,” says Klein.
This topline revenue includes
revenue from all sources, with $3.5
million from the United Way campaign (about 77 percent of total
revenue). Of the remaining $1 million in revenue, $600,000 comes
from grants (about 13.3 percent of
total revenue), which are restricted
to being spent on the program they
are funding; and the remaining
$400,000 is from gifts in kind,
smaller drives, and other miscellaneous revenue.
The two largest grants are from
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a $354,000 community impact grant and a $125,000 public
health partnership grant (the second year of a $250,000 grant); the
others are from smaller foundations.
Thompson Management
From the $3.5 million raised by
the campaign, $1.6 million is money designated by donors to 501c3s
anywhere in the country, for which
the United Way functions as a pass
through for a small administrative
fee; the remaining $1.9 million of
resources under management is the
money United Way of Mercer
County can actually spend on programs, operations, and administration, and Klein notes that 80 percent of administrative monies are
attributable to programs.
The lowered revenue has led to
big changes over the last few
months: cutting operating costs by
35 percent, laying off four employees, and delaying payments to area
nonprofits.
The belt tightening is continuing
during the fourth quarter with
“significant chunk of the reserves
we had,” says Klein.
Lamar, a longtime activist and
cheerleader for United Way, is very
unhappy about how the organization has responded to cuts in donations and is concerned that it is
abandoning its commitment to a
safety net for the poor in its cuts to
food, family, and other programs.
His thoughts were expressed
publicly in a letter to the editor
(U.S. 1, November 21, 2012),
signed by Lamar, and the directors
of CASA of Mercer County, CONTACT, Womanspace, HomeFront,
Rise, and PEIKids.
Klein, on the other hand, maintains that United Way, both nationally and locally, has been pressed to
develop a new model as more individuals designate their charitable
gifts rather than donate to a community pot for United Way to distribute.
“Funding agencies is not my objective,” says Klein. “I am interested in solving problems that move
the needle.” Because United Way
no longer had sufficient donations
to support all of its organizations,
the board decided to narrow its focus to what it can measure and
where it can have the greatest impact — it will be working to improve health, education, and income outcomes while working
with nonprofits that are able to
show measurable improvements in
these areas.
In these three areas, United Way
of Mercer County is following a
change of direction for its parent
organization, specified in its vision
of “a world where all individuals
and families achieve their human
‘Funding agencies is
not my objective,’
says Klein. ‘I am interested in solving
problems that move
the needle.’
funding cuts of $162,000 to about
two dozen agencies. In 2013 United Way will stop funding two multi-agency collaborations, Lamar’s
United Family Strengthening Partnership and the United Early Education Connection. The total reduction to Mercer County nonprofits next year will be $635,000.
Last year, to honor contracts it
had with several organizations, the
agency had to spend $700,000, a
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Money Matters: Herb Klein, president and CEO
of United Way of Greater Mercer, left, and Mark
Lamar, executive director of the Family Guidance
Center are at odds over funding cuts to member
organizations due to decreased revenues.
potential through education, income stability, and healthy lives.”
In line with this vision, in 2008
United Way initiated a 10-year program to achieve three goals: improving education and cutting the
number of high school dropouts in
half; helping people achieve financial stability and getting 1.9 million working families on the road
to economic independence; and
promoting healthy lives and increase by one-third the number of
youth and adults who are healthy
and avoid risky behaviors.
To achieve these goals, United
Way says that it plans to mobilize
millions to give, advocate, and volunteer to improve the conditions in
which they live; to connect all sectors of society to create long-term
social change in its three areas of
endeavor; to raise, invest, and
leverage philanthropic contribu-
tions to create and support innovative programs and approaches to
generate sustained impact in local
communities; and to hold itself accountable through a commitment to
continually measure improvements
in education, income, and health.
A 2008 report that introduced
United Way’s goals for the common good, declares on page 2 that
“what gets measured gets done,”
something Klein is very comfortable with. “I come from a measurement world, the management consulting and startup world, and I am
a firm believer in that which is
measured is done,” says Klein,
who attributes this line to Harold
Geneen of IT&T.
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tained since its 1887 founding in
Denver, Colorado, by a local
woman, two ministers, and a rabbi
who recognized the need for cooperative action to address their city’s
welfare problems. The organization they created served as an
agency for a united campaign to
collect funds for local charities as
well as to coordinate relief services, to counsel and refer clients to
cooperating agencies, and to provide emergency assistance where
necessary.
“The face of the nonprofit world
is changing dramatically,” says
Klein. “Government funding is going to be cut, and U.S. citizens have
lost in the last four years over $20
trillion of net worth.” The result is
fewer dollars for nonprofits at a
time when there has been an explosion of 501c3s, each with their own
boards and overhead, and all chasing the same charity dollars.
How the actors in the world of
philanthropy and in the human
services sector move forward amid
the new financial realities reflects
their own deeply held beliefs.
Klein, on the one hand, says, “If
you’re going to invest in a 501c3,
you’re going to want to know
where your money goes, who was
helped, and was that help successful in moving the needle permanently for that person.”
An example of what Klein has in
mind is the United Housing First
program, which gets individuals
off the street and into permanent
housing and then provides them
with a caseworker and wraparound
services. “We are about transforming lives permanently,” says Klein,
who adds that United Way employs
Ray Myrie and Eric Williams, two
individuals who went through this
program, both of whom Klein has
mentored.
K
lein met Williams two years
ago when he was homeless, a drug
dealer, and a former convict. Today
he is married, has his own home,
works at United Way two days a
week, has gotten his GED is in college learning to be a substance
abuse counselor, and has been proposed as facilitator for one of United Way of Mercer County’s grants.
He has also gotten healthcare for
his heart, is learning how to eat better in nutrition classes, and has reconnected to his four-year-old
daughter. “He has a long way still
to go, but Housing First was designed for the long haul,” says
Klein. “We here at United Way take
those opportunities to transform
someone’s life very seriously; we are involved in the
first person, not just as a conduit of money.”
To make such global
changes in people’s lives requires bringing together a
basket of services. “We at
United Way are integrators,”
says Klein. “Most 501c3s
are single-issue 501c3s; in
order to produce an environment where a person can
thrive, you have to integrate multiple 501c3s to be successful.”
Certainly Lamar also supports
long-term change and social transformation, but he suggests that
Klein has perhaps misjudged
donors’ interests in sacrificing organizations that focus on pressing
short-term needs, like food or domestic violence counseling, to
those that can demonstrate longterm social change.
Lamar says about Klein, “He has
seen difficulties in the results and
has said the causes are not attractive to donors — that they are not
interested in what United Way is
supporting and don’t feel like giving to it. He is blaming the relevance of the causes, and we highly
dispute that.”
The two men’s philosophical
differences come to fore around the
issue of funding food banks like
Fund Raisers: Klein, third from right, with Sanjay
Mandloli, left, Elinor Riggs, and Paul DeMarco,
Johnson & Johnson employees who work with
United Way on their company’s fundraising campaign. They are also part of the United Way’s
Emerging Leaders program.
Mercer Street Friends, funding for the organization, he would rather
which was cut not long after Klein see United Way of Mercer County
firming up its traditional role. “I
came in.
Whereas for Lamar simply pro- love United Way, and I think that as
viding meals to hungry people is a a convener of communal funds and
countable outcome, Klein main- as a decision-making body it has a
tains that the “eat for a day” model role, and it has always had a role,”
is not transformational. “It solves he says.
Its approach has been for a colno problems other than ‘I’m hungry,’” says Klein. With any pro- lective group of charitable, comgram around food and nutrition, he munity-minded volunteers to make
suggests, the issue is typically decisions about where donations
poverty, which itself has many con- should go and what causes it should
tributors and manifestations that support; and as new social causes
like domestic violence, AIDS, and
must be addressed.
For Klein, a better way to give relief efforts come to fore, United
families access to food is a new Way brings them into the fold.
Klein, however, thinks Lamar’s
United Way program to help people fill out the forms for the earned vision for United Way is history,
income tax credit, which only 25 not present reality. He says, “Their
percent of those eligible claim. “It model, which is that United Way
puts thousands of dollars into the funds agencies and the agencies do
hands of families so they have the work — that model has not
money for food as opposed to go- been a United Way model for many
ing to a food bank,” he says. “A years.” He adds that the change of
direction he has brought to the local
food bank addresses a symptom.”
Food aid, Klein suggests, should group is in line with the worldwide
be part of a larger program, noting United Way model.
The model Klein has implethat United Youth Metro is adding a
nutrition component by providing mented at United Way of Mercer
an after-school snack and teaching County focuses on oversight and
outcomes, he says, pointing an artiabout nutrition.
“We look at the problems we cle in the November 1 Chronicle of
want to solve and then construct Philanthropy that his approach
programs that will address those mirrors.
“There is a shift in the philanproblems,” says Klein, and food is
not a current focus for United Way thropic sector to being able to proof Mercer County, which Klein duce real outcomes and to measure
those outcomes,” says Klein.
notes has 21 separate food banks.
For Lamar, however, food in and Lamar and his nonprofit colleagues,
he
of itself is an
says, focus inoutcome.
stead on how
“Food is a pre‘There is a shift in the
many units of
condition
to
philanthropic sector
service were
getting
anyto being able to prodelivered and
thing
else
who
got
done,” he says.
duce real outcomes
helped.
“It is the metaand to measure those
But Klein
bolic reality to
outcomes,’ says Klein.
probes further,
outcomes. Deasking, “Was it
funding food,
permanent?
saying it is not
an outcome and not the thing that Can you measure their progress?
makes the difference — I think that They can’t tell you that, and donors
reveals a flawed philosophy about want more.” Klein asks whether it
makes more sense to evaluate the
what people need.”
Lamar also maintains that pro- effectiveness of the United Youth
viding food for hungry people con- Mentoring Link at Trenton Central
tributes to one of Klein’s three spec- High School by noting the number
ified outcomes — health. He says, of mentoring visits and students
“You would have to play a trick on served or by comparing the 90 peryourself if you don’t think food is cent graduation rate of students in
germane to health.” The defunded the program with the 47 percent
Mercer Street Friends, he adds, rate for the school overall.
In Klein’s view, outcomes must
sends food home with children
every weekend, because it knows also be tied to an economic effect.
they are hungry then, and it also has For example, he notes, the United
Aging and Disability Partnership
a food and nutrition program.
Lamar adds that he himself it is has been keeping seniors in their
criminal that our society still has homes about 18 months longer,
homeless shelters and food banks with an annualized economic bene— but only because these shouldn’t fit of close to $16 million to Mercer
be causes anymore — not because County.
When Klein introduced this apsuch services should not be funded
proach of measuring outcomes in a
by the community.
With regard to the Klein’s focus different way, the initial responses
on transformational change, Lamar of agencies were that they could
asks, “Do you really say, unless we not afford the tools necessary for
see people going to college or hav- such measurement.
Klein is not surprised by the difing good-paying jobs, feeding
them wasn’t worth it? If you don’t ficulty agencies have in changing
eat for three days, what can you how they do evaluation, because it
means redefining what success
possibly be good at?”
Although Lamar is comfortable means, and, he adds, agencies need
with the three new focal points of to be trained to do this.
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Community Giving: Reverend Donald
Sullivan Medley of the Kiwanis Club of
Trenton, left, presents a check to
Lamar to help support Family Guidance Center’s Children’s Day School
Summer Program.
Nonprofits, he says, have been
accustomed to measuring themselves via the efficiency rating they
list on the 990 forms that federally
tax-exempt organizations must file
yearly with the IRS, that is, the
amount spent on programming divided by the total amount spent,
but Klein maintains that this only
tells a very small part of the story.
“It ignores the most important
question — of the money you do
spend, what is the return on investment to the community for that
money. That has to be dollars.”
Despite the belief he has heard
expressed by people in social services that their outcomes cannot be
measured because they are talking
about people, Klein looks at it differently. “I believe that if it is real,
it can be measured.”
Recognizing that making the
change to this new paradigm can
be difficult, United Way is helping
agencies make the transition.
Klein, for example, has invested in
software, used by 3,000 projects
nationwide, as well as a fulltime
person whose entire job is to measure outcomes for every project that
United Way has funded.
The change of perspective that
Klein is bringing forward is not optional, but a requirement for agencies who seek United Way funding.
Klein says, “We will not fund any
project that does not begin with
that end in mind, which is outcomes. That represents a clear
strategic direction change for United Way of Mercer County, but we
believe it is a strategy change rec-
ognized by the industry as a whole.”
One thing that has surprised
Klein during his tenure is that some
groups actually refused to report to
him, and they in fact were cut
loose. “If you get funded, you report; there are no two ways about
it,” he says. “I found it incredibly
disappointing that an agency did
not believe that they would have to
report to a funder.”
For Lamar, it is not just the substance of recent changes that is a
matter of concern, but also the way
the new United Way strategy has
been implemented. In particular,
he is not comfortable with the fact
Lamar is upset that
the specifics of the
changes did not grow
out of a communal
decision-making
process.
that the specifics of the changes did
not grow out of a communal decision-making process.
Community involvement in decision-making has been a hallmark
of how United Way functions. In
2006, for example, United Way of
Mercer County embarked on a major fact-finding mission that included a community survey to over
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needs were important to the community members. One of the focus
groups, notes Lamar, took place in
a Presbyterian church with a large
Latino population in Hightstown, a
town where United Way has in fact
defunded all its services.
Out of that 2006 communal
process United Way’s board determined that agencies should be collaborating officially through a formal affiliation that would allow the
staffs of individual nonprofits to
work together more closely — so
that clients wouldn’t fall through
the cracks as they moved from one
agency to another.
The United Way originally set
up 11collaborations that started in
January 2007, and Lamar calls the
approach “very creative, inventive, and innovative” and says
about his own collaboration, which
comprises eight agencies, “It was a
great idea, and we got very good at
it.”
When Klein arrived in 2010only
nine collaborations were still functioning; then last year they were cut
to six. “It was a case of refining our
approach and narrowing our focus,” he says. "The approach before was like spreading peanut butter thin on a piece of bread. As a
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For Klein, the development of
collaborations was a first step toward the move from an agency focus to a solution focus. At that time
the initial set of collaborations
were formed, says Klein, “We said,
‘These are the problems we want to
solve, and we have all these agencies being funded,’ and they were
asked to organize themselves in
such a way as to address these
problems,” says Klein.
Despite the success of the United Family Strengthening Partnership, Klein maintains that there
was little support for the organizations that were part of it and he deduces this from data on donation
designations — very little was given to the Family Guidance Center,
even though Mark Lamar would
come and present regularly during
United Way campaigns to employee groups, most recently at Johnson & Johnson, Janssen, United
Parcel Service, JC Penney, Keebler, and Rhodia, as well as at
Princeton and Rider universities.
“Our community votes with dollars,” says Klein. “We look at
where people want to give their
money, and it tells us where they
care about.”
It is this attitude even more than
the United Way’s strategic changes
and the funding choices those implied that really makes Lamar angry. Klein’s “conclusion is that
people are not giving to you because you don’t have outcomes and
donors aren’t buying what you are
selling,” says Lamar, who sees no
evidence that the donation shortfall
is because the causes are not attractive to donors.
In fact, the reason people did not
designate the Family Guidance
Center and the other agencies in the
collaboration, says Lamar, is that
these agencies specifically dis-
couraged potential donor’s from
designating agencies and told them
instead, “We hope you will give to
the community impact fund, where
we will distribute funds based on
need in traditional United Way
fashion.” Lamar continues: “If we
encouraged them to designate, the
money could go to TriState, or to
Oregon. Our emphasis was to keep
money in Mercer County.”
Another serious criticism that
Lamar makes of United Way’s new
approach is that it is trying to do
services itself. “This was never
their strong suit; it’s not what they
do,” he says. “They raise funds and
identify organizations that have
competencies to do this work. But
to preserve itself in its mission
drift, United Way is saying it is going to start doing its own programming.”
“What I don’t like,” he says, “is
that they are taking donor funds
now and paying for themselves to
do services.” For example, rather
than paying Family Guidance to do
financial counseling, an area in
which it is licensed and certified,
United Way is doing an 11-week financial counseling program for 25
families in a church. “Not only is it
a bad design,” says Lamar, “but it
won’t work. United Way shouldn’t
be using community donor dollars
to do its own programs — it is a
conduit.” Instead of investing in
community agencies and raising
money on their behalf, he adds,
“they are pulling money away from
them and putting it into United
Way.”
Lamar is also uncomfortable
with the way the United Way has
claimed as a new program an effort
that has been done for years by
people in the Mercer County community — helping low and moderate-income people complete applications for earned income tax credits, which can entitle a family to a
credit of $3,000 to $4,000. Accord-
ing to Klein, this program has
helped people complete 1,052 returns, which produced an economic return, using the Internal Revenue Services 4.33 multiplier, of
over $6.5 million to the citizens
served and the larger community.
“It’s been going on forever,”
says Lamar, noting that efforts like
these are not really a professional
program, but a matter of training
volunteers to help people out.
“Donor funds don’t help that,” he
says. “Volunteers do the work.”
‘United Way shouldn’t be using community donor dollars to
do its own programs
— it is a conduit,’
says Lamar.
“It has been going on forever
and has returned lots of money to
the community and to people,”
says Lamar. “It is a positive thing,
but my concern is that Herb is representing it as something United
Way is deeply involved in — like
they own it and have created this
brand-new thing.”
Lamar adds that at the same time
that Klein is playing up this effort
as returning significant economic
benefit to the community, he is
walking away from Family Guidance Center’s consumer credit
counseling program — which is licensed and certified and also does
debt consolidation, mortgage foreclosure prevention and loan modification, and housing counseling
— efforts that similarly have substantial economic outcomes for the
community.
Lamar also raises alternative approaches that United Way has not
followed. To improve fundraising,
for example, he would like to see
Klein and his agency promoting
the services of existing communal
organizations that are already
skilled and effective in what they
do. “There should be an emphasis
on the good things going on,” he
says. “We think they are missing
opportunities — every organization is managing to raise lots of
money for its specific services.”
He also notes that it would have
been far more palatable to the human services community than disaffiliating existing organizations.
“There was no discussion about an
across-the-board cut, which everyone thought would be more equitable,” he says.
Finally, Lamar is very concerned with process, especially
during a period of crisis. “When
making changes,” he says, “certain attributes are important: transparency — there is none; a certain
amount of open thinking — it is a
closed group not making good decisions using a calculus of convenience and is not coming up with
good programs; honesty — it is not
being honest, the EITC is being
projected as if it is a great new thing
they are doing, but it has gone on
forever.”
A
glaring example is the way
he learned about United Way’s
elimination of funding to his
agency. His first inkling was when
a Trenton Times reporter called
him on a Friday before the meeting
he had scheduled Monday with
Klein and asked, “How do you feel
about losing all your collaboration’s funding?”
Lamar grew up in Albany, New
York, where his 90-year-old father
is a social activist and an ordained
Presbyterian minister. His mother,
he ways, marched on Washington
more than a few times for civil
rights. A favorite expression of
Lamar’s father, who is a graduate
of both Yale University and Yale
Divinity School and does not see
the spiritual and secular worlds as
separate, is “You do religion with a
New York Times in one hand and a
Bible in the other.” Noting that his
was a “great house to be raised in,”
he says that his siblings also work
in the community — as teachers.
Lamar graduated from Boston
University in 1972 with a degree in
history. After a couple of years in
business managing a steel scaffolding warehouse, painting houses,
and driving trucks, he earned a
master’s degree in social work at
Rutgers University. He started out
as a family therapist and case
worker at the Community Guidance Center of Mercer County. He
became the executive director of
his agency in 1986 and has been a
part-time lecturer at Rutgers
School of Social Work since 1997.
He earned an MBA in 1991, after
studying part-time while working
at the Rutgers School of Management. “I love business,” he says.
“Nonprofits are businesses.”
Klein’s father is a retired engineer who used to be head of information systems for the New York
State tax and finance department.
His mother is a retired registered
nurse. He grew up in Latham,
which is five miles north of Albany,
New York.
Klein majored in economics and
minored in computer science at the
State University of New York-Albany, class of 1980.
He spent the majority of his career in management consulting for
Accensure and Price Waterhouse,
working on large systems integration for manufacturing and for
computer and shop floor control
systems. Then he served as chief
executive officer of three startups:
an asset management firm, from
1997 to 1998; the second Agilquest, an enterprise software
company from 1998 to 2001, and
an asset holding company. Look-
ing back, he says, “Most of my career has been in turnaround and
fast-growing companies. I took
this United Way over because it is a
turnaround.”
Before coming to United Way,
having sold his interest in the last
startup, he heard that the Lewis August Jones Foundation, which had
sponsored an international, fullscholarship camp for gifted and talented teenagers, Camp Rising Sun,
was looking for a chief executive
officer.
He remembers the camp as a
transformational experience; he
was 13 and at just that point in his
life when his life, which had up until
then been controlled by his parents,
began to open up. “It changed the
way I viewed the world, because I
was sleeping in tents with boys from
all over the world,” he says.
The camp was designed so that
each teen would get a chance to run
the day, including orchestrating
food, jobs, assemblies, and cleaning the bathrooms. Each kid also
had a project they would lead to
build or create something, learning
thereby how to form a team.
Klein worked at the foundation
from 2004 to 2009 when his contract expired, and he felt he was
leaving the organization in good
hands. He heard about the United
Way job through networking and
decided he would give it a try.
Lamar has been deeply involved
with United Way, working closely
with four different directors before
Klein came on the scene. Not only
has he been on the receiving end, as
an agency director for 27 years, but
he has been a United Way fundraiser, speaking at corporations, running a campaign at his agency, and
giving through his own family.
“I think United Way should be
deeply in the safety net business
and very happy about it and finding
new ways to keep the community
strong and help those most in need
and not think this is a waste of money, throwing money after a chronic
problem,” he says. “If people have
a need and you have an ability to
help them, you help them. That is
the beauty of United Way as a
broad-based organization.”
Lamar and his colleagues are
not happy with the way things are
going and expect to continue
speaking out about them. “We have
always looked at United Way as
public good that has helped community, and we feel it has been kidnapped,” he says. “Its scope is narrowing, and it is a place we don’t
recognize anymore.”
Klein, on the other hand, notes
that a change agent has to have a
thick skin, and he characterizes the
attitude that is causing people to
drag him through the mud because
of a financial decision he had to
make as a “guard the feed bowl
mentality.”
He says that 501c3s are notorious for not working well, duplicating services, and wasting donor
money, but then putting forward an
efficiency rating of 88 percent.
He’s not comfortable with that. His
question remains, “What economic
value did you deliver to your community and were you efficient in
delivering it? Did you work with
others or did you just duplicate
things in place.”
Family Guidance Center
Family and Children’s Services, 1931 Nottingham
Way, Hamilton 08619; 609586-0668; fax, 609-5864759. Mark Lamar LCSW,
MBA, executive director.
www.fgccorp.org.
County, 3150 Brunswick
Pike,
Suite
230,
Lawrenceville 08648; 609896-1912; fax, 609-8951245. Herbert Klein, president/CEO. www.uwgmc.org.
DECEMBER 5, 2012
Life in the Fast Lane
T
he MIDJersey Chamber
of Commerce and the 2014 Special
Olympics USA Games have partnered to raise awareness for the
games that are expected to bring
some 70,000 people to the region
in 2014.
The Special Olympics is scheduled to take place between Saturday, June 14, and Saturday, June
21, at sporting venues throughout
New Jersey with more than 3,500
athletes from across the country
competing in 17 sports.
“The MIDJersey Chamber will
be the resource for athletes, coaches, families, and volunteers participating in the games,” said Robert
Prunetti, chamber president and
CEO at an announcement at the
Special Olympics headquarters on
Princess Road in Lawrenceville.
“Our members will experience
first-hand the economic impact
that this event will bring to our
mid-Jersey region.”
Prunetti added that businesses
can donate and volunteer at the
games through the chamber, which
will serve as the local information
source for families, spectators, and
fans attending the games.
Prunetti made the announcement on November 29 along with
Tom Varga, senior vice president of
the 2014 Special Olympics USA
Games, and Lillian Narvaez, COO
of the games.
The chamber will also serve as
the presenting sponsor of the Special Olympics Unified Sports Festival, scheduled for the Friday of
the Games, prior to closing ceremonies. This event involves sports
activities where community members play with the athletes.
MIDJersey Chamber of Commerce, 1A Quakerbridge
Plaza Drive, Suite 2, Mercerville 08619; 609-6899960; fax, 609-586-9989.
Robert Prunetti, president
and CEO. www.MIDJerseychamber.org.
Edited by Bill Sanservino
Each of the companies will receive
about $920,000.
The program enables technology and biotechnology companies
to sell New Jersey tax losses and/or
research and development tax
credits to raise cash to finance their
growth and operations. Since the
program was established in 1999,
more than 500 businesses have
been approved for awards totaling
$710 million.
“Governor Christie understands
that the success of the state’s
greater technology industry is fundamentally tied to the growth of
New Jersey’s economy,” said EDA
Chief Executive Officer Michele
Brown. “The many companies that
have been able to raise capital and
build their businesses in New Jersey as a result of this innovative
program illustrate how critical it is
to provide support at this early
stage.”
Mercer County companies
awarded include Voxware, 200
American Metro Boulevard;
Princeton Optronics, 1 Electronics
Drive; Ocean Power Technologies,
1590 Reed Road; Advaxis, 305
College Road East; Agennix USA,
101 College Road East; IntegriChain, 100 Canal Pointe Boulevard; SightLogix, 745 Alexander
Road; Soligenix, 29 Emmons Drive; and Alphion Corporation, 196
Princeton-Hightstown Road.
Middlesex companies include
Amicus Therapeutics, 1 Cedar
Brook Drive; Blacklight Power,
493 Old Trenton Road; Palatin
Technologies, 4 Cedar Brook Drive, Princeton Lightwave, 2555
Route 130 South; Replication
Medical, 7 Clarke Drive; Vaxinnate Corporation, 3 Cedar Brook
Drive; Argyle Therapeutics, 7 Deer
Park Drive; CytoSorbents, 7 Deer
Park Drive; Insmed, 9 Deer Park
Drive; Rive Technology, 1 Deer
Park Drive; Signum Biosciences, 7
Deer Park Drive; TyRx Pharma, 1
Deer Park Drive; and Liquid Light,
11 Deer Park Drive.
Sandy Price Gouging
Complaint Filed
T
he state filed a lawsuit on
November 28 against the Extended
Stay America hotel at 3450 Route 1
in West Windsor for allegedly price
gouging during the aftermath of
Hurricane Sandy.
The hotel was one of 10 additional businesses — mainly hotels
and gas stations — targeted by the
state in a second round of price
gouging lawsuits, according to a
release by N.J. Attorney General
Jeff Chiesa.
Totaled, the businesses engaged
in more than 1,000 instances of
price gouging — illegally overcharging consumers. The first
group of lawsuits was filed against
eight businesses on November 9.
M
ore than 20 U.S. 1-area
tech firms will share $60 million in
grants issued by the state Economic Development Authority. A total
of 65 companies statewide were
awarded funds as part of the state’s
Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer Program for 2013.
Office Opportunities
Pennington - Retail, 23,000 SF
Rt. 31 South @ Tree Farm Road.
1,265 SF Available - Retail
Al Toto - [email protected]
Office - Pennington Point
450 - 2,370 SF Office
FREE RENT and FLEXIBLE LEASE TERMS.
Immediate occupancy.
Al Toto [email protected]
Visit www.penningtonpointoffice.com
Hopewell Boro, Office/Professional/Records
500-30,000/SF Office & low priced storage, warehouse
William Barish [email protected]
Special Olympics New Jersey, 3 Princess Road,
Lawrenceville 08648; 609896-8000; fax, 609-8968040. Marc Edenzon, president. www.sonj.org.
State Funding For
Area Tech Firms
U.S. 1
Pennington Office For Lease
1500 SF - 9000 SF office available for lease or sale. Free rent
available and very aggressive rental rates.
• Turnkey suites immediately available:
2,040 SF, 1,785 SF and 884 SF
• 1.9 miles from RWJ University Hospital
• Close to I-295, I-95, Route 1 and NJ Turnpike
• Gross lease structure insulates tenants from increasing utilities/
operating expenses
• Newly renovated common areas and ADA bathrooms
• 24/7 card key access provides secure work environment
Pennington Office For Lease
Howe Commons, 65 S. Main St., Downtown Pennington.
342 SF - 1,315 SF. 1 to 5-Year Term. Close to
restaurants, banks and shopping. Ample parking on site.
www.cpnrealestate.com
For more information and other opportunities, please
call Commercial Property Network, 609-921-8844
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Extended Stay America, which
has been at the location since 1999,
allegedly raised its room rates by
varying excessive amounts, up to
59.8 percent, according to the state.
The hotel allegedly charged as
much as $154.99 for double rooms
during the state of emergency,
compared with its highest prestorm rate for double rooms of
$96.99. The hotel allegedly engaged in price gouging on 107 instances during the state of emergency.
New Jersey’s law against price
gouging prohibits excessive price
increases during a declared state of
emergency or for 30 days after the
end of the state of emergency is declared. An excessive price increases is defined as charges that are
more than 10 percent higher than
the price for which merchandise
was sold during the normal course
of business prior to the state of
emergency.
Each business charged in the
lawsuit faces fines up to $10,000
for the first offense, or up to
$20,000 for each subsequent offense.
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3 tailgate loading, 22’ ceilings
Building #15
16,000 sq. ft. (1,500 sq. ft. office, 14,500 sq. ft.
warehouse distribution space), 9 loading docks,
tractor trailer parking.
Building #8
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BROKERS PROTECTED
Extended Stay America, 3450
Route 1 North, Princeton
08540; 609-919-9000; fax,
609-919-1000. Paul Rosen,
general manager. www.extstay.com.
Management Moves
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), 1
Johnson & Johnson Plaza,
New Brunswick 08903; 732524-0400; fax, 732-2140332. Alex Gorsky, CEO.
www.jnj.com.
Johnson & Johnson chairman
Bill Weldon will step down at the
end of this month, the company
said on November 30. Weldon,
who will end his tenure as chairman on Friday, December 28, and
said he plans to retire during the
first quarter of 2013, will be replaced as chairman by Alex
Gorsky. Gorsky was appointed to
replace Weldon as CEO in April.
Weldon stepped down as chairman earlier this year following a a
string of recalls of some of the
company’s best-known drugs. Beginning in 2009 there were more
than two dozen recalls, including
over the counter Tylenol, Motrin,
and Benadryl.
Presiding director James Cullen
said that the board, “gave thoughtful and rigorous consideration to
our governance structure and determined that combining the chairman and CEO positions under the
strong leadership of Alex Gorsky
will benefit all our stakeholders.”
The company also said it plans
to expanding the responsibilities of
the presiding director to include
more involvement in stakeholder
communications, board and executive performance evaluations, and
succession planning. The duties
and responsibilities of the position,
which will carry the title of lead director, will be detailed in the company’s 2013 statement of proxy.
Gorsky, who earned a BS from
West Point in 1982 and an MBA
from the Wharton School in 1996,
began his career in pharma as a
sales representative. He has held
various roles in sales, marketing,
and general management.
Gorsky has been the worldwide
chairman of J&J’s Surgical Care
Group since 2009 and served for 15
years in various roles with Janssen
Pharmaceutica, a Johnson & Johnson unit. He left Johnson & Johnson in 2004 to work for Novartis
Pharmaceuticals and returned in
2008.
Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton
Road, West Windsor 08550;
609-586-4800; fax, 609-5703845. Patricia Donohue,
president. www.mccc.edu.
Gwendolyn Harris has been
elected chair of the Mercer County
College board of trustees during.
Harris, who previously served as
board vice chair, succeeds Mark
Matzen, who did not seek a second
term.
“These are exciting times for
Mercer County Community College, with the recent expansion of
the Trenton campus and the addition of several new programs, both
in Trenton and West Windsor,” said
Harris, who is the executive director of the Walter Rand Institute for
Public Affairs at Rutgers University-Camden. She also served as
commissioner of the state Department of Human Services.
Contracts Awarded
Princeton Financial Systems,
a State Street Company,
600 College Road East,
Fourth
Floor,
Princeton
08540; 609-987-2400; fax,
609-514-4794. James Russo, president. www.pfs.com.
DECEMBER 5, 2012
College Road-based Princeton
Financial Systems, a provider of
accounting, compliance and reporting products for the investment
industry, will provide its MIG21
compliance platform to Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones
Habitat (AFP).
The system will help serve the
investment compliance needs for
AFP — the second largest pension
fund in Chile’s private pension system. According to a company release, MIG21 optimizes and automates pre-trade and post-trade investment compliance checking,
and improves the administration of
regulatory, prospectus, and internal investment guidelines and resolution workflows.
“The MIG21 platform supports
the evolving needs of firms around
the world dealing with multiple jurisdictions, asset classes, and
funds. Princeton Financial’s extensive background in the industry
provides us with a deep understanding of the constant challenges
faced by our global clients,” said
Christian J. Farber, chief marketing officer of Princeton Financial
Systems.
Princeton Power Systems
Inc., 3175 Princeton Pike,
Lawrenceville 08648; 609955-5390; fax, 609-7519225. Marshall Cohen, CEO.
www.princetonpower.com.
Princeton Power Systems, manufacturer of alternative energy
products, has received a federal
grant for the development of a twomegawatt inverter for the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot initiative.
Since SunShot was launched in
2007 as an effort to reduce the cost
of installing solar arrays by 75 percent through technology innovation, more than 50 small businesses
have received a total of $92 million
in government funding.
To shorten the length of time between the development and the
full-scale manufacturing of its
two-megawatt solar inverter technology, Princeton Power has received a $1 million grant from the
DOE and will invest $318,700 of
its own funds.
“Typically a system of this size
would require several different
parts such as multiple inverters,
separate transformers, and disconnects,” said Darren Hammell,
Princeton Power Systems executive vice president. “What we have
managed to develop is an inverter
that incorporates energy storage
capabilities with an integrated
high-frequency transformer, merging the power and capability of six
inverters into one enclosure.”
Name Changes
MiddleLINK
Technologies
LLC, 379 Princeton-Hightstown Road, Building 1, East
Windsor 08512-2960; 609751-9552; fax, 609-3018906. Upendra Shah, CEO.
www.middlelink.com.
DHIRA Middle Office Solutions, an East Windsor-based financial software products firm, has
changed its name to MiddleLINK
Technologies.
The company specializes in providing profitability, productivity,
risk, and compliance solutions to
agency broker/dealers, hedge
funds, prime brokers, and trading
and clearing firms.
“I think our new image reflects
who we are and what we do,” said
Upendra Shah, co-founder and
CEO. “We have also modularized
our product so that it is easier than
ever for a company to utilize our
services, whether it be only for our
expense management or real-time
portfolio margin product. We can
now bring products to the consumer at a lower price point.”
The company also announced
that it has introduced a new billing
software — BillingLink, stating
that it is the first platform to offer
trade affirmation and dispute resolution in a communications portal.
New in Town
iSite
Technologies,
379
Princeton-Hightstown Road,
Building 1, first floor, Cranbury 08512; 484-585-1203;
fax, 484-518-0800. www.isiteinfo.com.
iSite Technologies, a provider of
IT services and solutions, has
moved to 379 Princeton-Hightstown Road. The company, which
also develops enterprise software,
is based in King of Prussia, PA.
Found Guilty
Melrose Place, was acquitted of a
second and more serious charge,
aggravated manslaughter.
Locane-Bovenizer slammed into the passenger side of an SUV
driven by Fred Seeman with his
wife, Helene Seeman, a passenger,
in front of the couple’s Montgomery Township home, killing
her and seriously injuring him. Police found her to be drunk at the
time of the accident, with a bloodalcohol content of three times the
legal limit of .08.
She faces 5 to 10 years in prison
on the vehicular homicide count
and must serve a minimum of 85
percent of that sentence without
parole. She also faces three to five
years in prison for her conviction
on a second count of assault by auto, which stemmed from injuries to
Fred Seeman. Sentencing is set for
March 1.
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1. 101 Interchange Plaza
4. 821 Alexander Road
Cranbury, NJ

Excellent location at Exit 8A of NJTP
Renovated common areas, restrooms
and office suites
934 SF, 1,779 SF, 2,033 SF, 2,769 SF,
3,787 SF, 3,456 SF & 7,088 SF
CALL FOR LEASE INCENTIVES
Walk to the train
Class A office with high-end finishes
Fitness room and showers
2nd floor – 13,652 SF divisible
1st floor – 4,637 SF
5. 300 Carnegie Center
Princeton, NJ
2. 104 Interchange Plaza

Monroe, NJ

Convenient access to 8A of NJTP
Well maintained, high-end ﬁnishes
2nd ﬂoor – 2,445 SF
Suite 101 – 4,446 SF
Suite 102 – 4,160 SF

3. Windsor Business Park
186 & 196 Princeton Hightstown
Rd, Princeton Junction, NJ

4 building ofﬁce park
1.5 miles from Princeton Junction
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Passenger elevators
Newly constructed ofﬁce spaces
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609 921 6060
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Renovated in 2007
On-site gym, showers, café, security
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Route 1 visibility
Quality corporate tenant base
Suite 301 – 2,830 SF
Suite 402 – 5,622 SF
10. North Brunswick
Commerce Center
Princeton, NJ

Class A building constructed in 2007
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Adjacent to Princeton Marketfair
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4301 Route 1, Monmouth Jct, NJ

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9. Lawrence Executive Center
3120 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ

Matt Malatich
[email protected]
Office/medical building
New landscaping
New common area improvements
and office suites
Great visibility
Easy access to 95 and Route 1
1st floor – 1,321 SF
Suite 301 – 2,235 SF
Suite 304 – 6,320 SF
Jon Brush
[email protected]
North Brunswick, NJ

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Easy access to NJ Turnpike & Route 1
Walking distance to numerous
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Units ranging from 2,226 SF to
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11. Research Park
Wall Street, Princeton, NJ

18 building ofﬁce and medical complex
Adjacent to Montgomery Park and
a retail shopping center
On-site café, business services and
fee based gym
Great value with ﬂexible lease terms
Units ranging from 540 SF to
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12. Enterprise Park
800 Silvia Street, West Trenton, NJ

4 Building flex and warehouse complex
New construction with high bay
space and roll up doors
Adjacent to the West Trenton Train
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24,000 SF warehouse divisible
10,000 SF flex (3,821 SF office)
5,072 SF flex (641 SF office)
9,358 SF storage
9,663 SF office
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902 Carnegie Center, Suite 400, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 www.hiltonrealtyco.com
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ample parking in lighted paved parking areas. Close to
the new Capital Health facility, with easy access to I-95,
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OFFICE SPACE
Ewing - Entire second floor 2400 +/- SF includes 3 private offices,
4 half baths & mini kitchen $9.00 p/SF - mod gross.
Ewing - 1,000 SF available for lease close to new Capital Health
facility.
Ewing - Professional/Medical office suites available. 620 SF, 1,368
SF and 1,882 SF. Close to Capital Health facility, 1-95 & US 1. Easy
access to Princeton and State Capital office buildings and courts.
$12.00/SF gross.
EWING - 6,000 SF masonry bldg. ideal for prof. or medical, church or
day care. 10 offices/exam rooms and large staff area. Near Capital
Health. FOR SALE/FOR LEASE.
RETAIL SPACE
Ewing Twp. - 1,000 SF available for lease located in neighborhood shopping center. Close to New Capital Health facility and 1-95.
Hamilton - 1,200 +/- SF available for lease in Municipal Square
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COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Ewing - 6,000 +/- SF, masonry single-story bldg., ideal for
medical, 10 exam/treatment rooms plus large offices. One mile
south of Capital Health’s new hospital – FOR SALE.
Ewing - 17,600 sf Industrial/warehouse available. Easily divisible
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office zone, one mile south of I-95, Merrill Lynch facility and Capital
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Lawrence Twp. - 2.28 +/- acres in zoned office. Also good for day
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5 p.m.: Institute for Advanced
Study, Owen M. Fiss, professor
Yale Law School, speaks on the
dismantling of rules protecting the
privacy of phone conversations.
Free. Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein
Drive, Princeton. 609-734-8228.
6 p.m.: MIDJersey Chamber, A
Night at the Museum. A Celebration of the capital’s past, present
& future. The chamber will honor
William Schofield, PNC Bank.
Cost: $125. New Jersey State
Museum, 205 West State Street,
Trenton. 609-689-9960.
7 p.m.: Hopewell Public Library,
“Gadgets for Holiday Giving,”
Doug Dixon, an independent
technology consultant, author,
and speaker specializing in digital
media and portable devices.
Hopewell Train Station, 5 Railroad Place. www.redlibrary.org.
Saturday, December 8
Thursday, December 6
Monday, December 10
7 a.m.: BNI Top Flight, weekly networking, free to attend. Clairmont
Diner, East Windsor. 609-7994444.
7 a.m.: Central Jersey Business
Association, weekly networking
breakfast, free. Americana Diner,
East Windsor. 800-985-1121.
5 p.m.: Princeton Chamber, Business After Business networking,
and Annual Holiday Party. $40.
Morven Museum & Garden. 609924-1776.
6 p.m.: A New Equilibrium, Meet
with colleagues who are utilizing
their spiritual journey to enhance
their leadership roles. Washington Crossing Inn, 1295 Washington Memorial Boulevard, Washington Crossing, PA. www.anewequilibrium.org.
6 p.m.: Association for Corporate
Growth NJ, “Path to Going Public
— Latest Trends in Financing and
Growth Strategies.” Panelists:
David Feldman, Richardson &
Patel; Jeff Margolis, founder Aurora Capital; and David Richter,
president Hill International. Cost:
$80. Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village. 609-249-0040.
4:30 p.m.: Princeton University,
conversation with Aneesh
Chopra, former chief technology
officer, Obama administration.
Free. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. 609-258-0157.
4:30 p.m.: Princeton University,
“Reading Law” presented by U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia. Free. Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu. 609258-3000.
5:30 p.m.: Human Resources
Management Association, “Leading with RESPECT,” Paul Marciano, Whiteboard. Cost: $50. Hyatt Regency Princeton. hrmanj.shrm.org. 609-844-0200.
Friday, December 7
8 a.m.: MIDJersey Chamber, new
member orientation, free. MRCC
Headquarters, Quakerbridge
Road. www.mercerchamber.org.
609-689-9960.
10 a.m.: Professional Service
Group, weekly career meeting,
support, and networking for unemployed professionals, free.
Princeton Public Library.
www.mercopsg.net. 609-2927535.
10 a.m.: Hamilton Public Library,
“Nest Eggs for Retirement or Savings and Mutual Funds,” King Kovacs. 1 Justice Samuel A. Alito,
Jr. Way. hamiltonnjpl.org. 609581-4060.
Tuesday, December 11
7 a.m.: Capital Networking Group,
weekly networking, free. Princeton United Methodist Church, 7
Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton.
609-434-1144.
8 a.m.: MIDJersey Chamber, “Intellectual property law for the
small business owner — know
your rights, what to protect and
how.” Speaking are Szaferman
Lakind attorneys Richard Catalina and Lionel Frank. Cost: $35.
County, 3150 Brunswick Pike
Suite 230. 609-689-90960.
8 a.m.: Princeton Chamber, NonProfit Development Series Part
Three: “From Brand Awareness
to Driving Donations.” Cost: $25.
Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street.
www.princetonchamber.org. 609924-1776.
11:30 a.m.: Venture Association of
New Jersey, Monthly Workshop,
$55 Marriott Hanover, Whippany.
www.vanj.org. 973-631-5680.
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OFFICE RENTALS
Hopewell office suite, 1,450 SF on
Carter Road adjacent to Borough. Second floor elevator building, 8 rooms,
$15/SF. Includes heat, AC, and CAM.
609-529-6891.
Pennington - Hopewell: Straube
Center Office from virtual office, 12 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,
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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]
Prime Princeton Office Space
available for rent. Beautiful 1st floor
690 sq ft., 5-room suite. Walking distance to arts center, library, downtown
restaurants and shopping. Quite, friendly office environment. On-site parking
and utilities included. Reasonable rent $1600/month. Interested parties contact
[email protected], Doug 603642-8692 or Jill 603-315-9867.
5:30 p.m.: ActionCoach Business
Coaching, Networking with a Purpose, Sal Levatino. Cost: $15.95
Pellettieri, Rabstein and Altman,
100 Nassau Park Boulevard. actioncoach.com. 609-799-7177.
6 p.m.: NJ Unemployed, Celebrate the holidays. Networking.
Free. UNO Chicago Grill, Hamilton. www.njunemployed.com.
609-570-8765.
6:15 p.m.: Princeton Macintosh
Users Group, “Mac Security,”
Khurt Williams. Stuart Hall, Room
6, Princeton Theological Seminary. www.pmug-nj.org. 609-3758479.
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, networking and job support, free. Trinity
Church, 33 Mercer Street.
www.trinityprinceton.org. 609924-2277.
7 a.m.: BNI West Windsor chapter, weekly networking, free. BMS
Building, Pelletieri Rabstein & Altman, Nassau Park. 609-4623875.
1 p.m.: Team Nimbus, “Small
Business Insight.” Camillo’s
Cafe, Princeton Shopping Center. 908-359-4787.
5:30 p.m.: MIDJersey Chamber,
“Celebrate the Holidays On 1212-12 Evening Quarterly.” Networking. Cost: $35. Regus, 100
Horizon Boulevard, Hamilton.
www.midjerseychamber.org.
609-689-9960.
7 p.m.: Linux Users Group, Free.
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane.
www.lugip.org. 609-937-7442.
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OFFICE RENTALS
OFFICE RENTALS
AREA OFFICE RENTALS
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Hamilton, Hopewell,
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rates, contact:
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contact
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www.WeidelCommercial.com
Princeton Area Office Suite for
Lease Unionline Building, 4438 Rt. 27,
Kingston. Great Location. Beautifully
Renovated, Bright 1000 SF. Plenty of
Parking. $1750 per month. Weinberg
Management - 609-924-8535.
Princeton Downtown Office Suites
from $395 to $995, in a Princeton landmark, 20 Nassau St, across from
Princeton University, with easy parking
nearby. Some suites with views of campus, some with waiting rooms. On-site
management. Visit www.twentynassaustreet.com. Call 609-924-9201 or email [email protected].
Princeton Office Suite for Lease
Central downtown location w/ University
view. Great layout, 1,400 SF, reception
+ 3 private offices. Weinberg Management 609-924-8535 [email protected]
MANSFIELD PROPERTY
FOR LEASE
Mansfield, NJ. Office/warehouse located in
three buildings available for lease. 3,500± SF
heated warehouse, 1,000± SF storage building
and 2,200± SF office. Ideal for contractor or
small distributor, with a need for office and
warehouse or workshop. Parking for 30±
on site.
Princeton: Central Nassau Street
corner Four rooms & bath. Ground floor.
Recently decorated. Low rent. 609-6881600.
Professional Office Space: 1 to 3 offices. Private garden setting. Waiting
room, parking, utilities. Will sublet. North
Harrison Street. Available immediately.
609-865-3443.
Robbinsville 2nd floor office space
immediately available. 3,090 sq. ft at under market rent. Less than $11 per sq. ft.
includes CAMs. Conference room,
kitchen, 2 private bathrooms, parking.
Easy access to Routes 195, 130, and
NJTP. Call 856-534-9577 or email
[email protected].
UPGRADED OFFICE
SERVICE STATION FOR SALE
Hamilton, NJ. 2,541± square foot Class A
office space located on Hamilton/Washington
Township Line for Lease. Ready for immediate
occupancy. Currently configured with waiting/
reception area, two large offices, conference
room, large open area, two ½ baths, kitchen
and an executive office. Many upgrades!!!
This property won't last!
Trenton, NJ. A 1,450± sf gas/service station with
an office and two bay garages available for sale.
This is a turn-key business opportunity for an
experienced gas station operator. The site provides high traffic volume.
HISTORIC ROEBLING
PROPERTY
A 4,874± square foot two story office building
available for sale. Beautiful former bank branch
in the heart of the historic Roebling. Ideal for
professional offices, retail or restaurant use.
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LEASE/SALE 250 Phillips Blvd-Ewing
RT 206 MONTGOMERY KNOLL
1,500SF END UNIT for rent or sale.
Newly painted, new carpet, move-in
condition. Seven offices plus ample secretarial space, kitchen, copy room, two
half-baths, great parking, principals only. 212-223-0404.
conveniently located - competitively priced
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Princeton Crossroads Corporate Center
2,221 - 21,300 square feet of office space for lease
Owner/Occupy vacant space for $8.91/SF Gross*!
R&D/Office/Light Manufacturing
Near PEAC Fitness, New Hotel & Capital Health - Hopewell
Easy Access to Interstate 95 and 295
Trillium Realty Advisors, L.L.C.
www.trilliumrealty.com
609-466-0400
* - Call for details - assumes purchase of the entire building with in-place income
Skillman/Montgomery. 250 square
feet. Large, beautifully furnished office
space in renovated farm house. (Part of
Princeton Center for Yoga and Health
complex). Seeking Therapist, Mental
Health or quiet professional to sublet 15. Great location off Rt. 206 (5 miles
from Princeton). UTILITIES AND WIFI
INCLUDED. Separate waiting area, reception, kitchen and private parking.
Principles only! Immediate occupancy.
Very reasonable rent. Flexible hours
and days. Weekends available. Call
973-851-5095
or
email
[email protected]
RETAIL SPACE
Hair Salon Space for Lease, Montgomery Center, Rt. 206 Skillman NJ.
Center anchored by 65,000 SF “World
Class” Shop-Rite. Space totals 1,450
SF. Plumbing (not fixtures) in place;
present salon been in same location
over 15 years. Please contact Hilton Realty 609-921-6060 or [email protected] www.hiltonrealtyco.com.
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
COMMERCIAL SPACE
HOME MAINTENANCE
300
to
50,000
SF
Office/WH/Flex/Showroom/Studios.
Amazing spaces in extraordinary buildings! Low rents / high quality units with
all you need! Brian @ 609-731-0378,
[email protected].
A Quick Response Handyman: will
give you a free estimate for electrical,
plumbing, painting, repair or other project around your house. Please call 609275-6631
STORAGE
902 Carnegie Center, Princeton:
Clean, dry, humidity controlled storage
on Route 1 in West Windsor. Spaces
start at 878 SF. Please contact Hilton
Realty 609-921-6060 or [email protected] www.hiltonrealtyco.com.
Kuser Plaza, Hamilton: 1077 & 6333
SF (divisible) storage/warehouse space
available immediately. Please call 609921-6060 for details.
HOUSING FOR SALE
Franklin Twp: Beautifully restored
circa 1855 Italianate Victorian by prominent local historic preservation architects, Tarantino Studio.Chef’s kitchen,
luxurious master suite, pool, spa & meditation garden. $998,000 Contact Virginia Harpell at 973-650-1637 or Doris
Ju at 201-572-8424. Turpin Real Estate.
973-543-7400. Turpinrealtors.com.
HOUSING FOR RENT
Cranbury efficiency near Post Office one large room divided into sleeping and living area, full bath. Avail immediately $600 plus utilities. 609-529-6891
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.
EAST WINDSOR 2 bedroom, 1 1/2
bath townhouse with finished basement, W/D, ceramic tile flooring, new
kitchen cabinets. Backs on large open
rec area. Pool membership. Fully renovated - available immediately, $1,400.
609-529-6891.
Wet Chemistry Lab for rent, located
at Levittown, PA, easy commuting, low
rate, 5,000 or 10,000 sf. 609-865-5071
or [email protected].
Hamilton Clean and quiet 1+ bedroom, 1 bath, washer/dryer, central air,
near train and shops. All yard maintenance included. Non-smoking, no pets.
609-587-7682.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
Princeton - 1 BR Duplex house for
rent. $1,495/mo. Parking available. Adjacent to Princeton University. 609-9217655.
HAMILTON & LAMBERTVILLE -
West Windsor 6 bedroom, 3 bath
house available January 1, 2013. Close
proximity to train station. $3,400/month
plus utilities. Call 609-924-7538.
CLEANING SERVICES
Monica’s Cleaning Service. Highest
quality, reasonable prices, free estimates. 609-577-2126.
Polish cleaning service by Lucy.
Trustworthy, responsible, excellent references. Please call for free estimate.
201-786-3877.
Amazing
house
painting.
Interior/exterior. Wallpaper removal,
deck & fence staining, powerwashing.
Licensed and fully insured. Owner operated. Free estimates. 215-736-2398.
Fall Yard Work - leaves, trimming,
clean up, planting, or more. Please call
609 722-1137.
Generator and Electrical Service
Panel setup and instructions. Free estimate. Call 609-275-6631.
HANDYMAN FOR ALL HOME REPAIRS. Specializing in kitchen and bath
remodeling, drywall, painting, ceramic
tile, wood flooring. 35 years experience.
New Jersey Licensed and insured. Call
908-966-0662 for a free estimate.
robthehandyman- licensed, insured, all work guaranteed. Free Estimates. We do it all - electric, plumbing,
paint, wallpaper, powerwashing, tile,
see website for more: robthehandym a n . v p w e b . c o m
[email protected],
609-2695919.
Window treatment installation and
measuring. Blinds, drapes, shades,
etc. 25 years experience. Call Bill 609315-1004.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Bookkeeper/Administrative Specialist: Versatile & experienced professional will gladly handle your bookkeeping and/or administrative needs. Many
services available. Reasonable rates.
Work done at your office or mine. Call
Debra @ 609-448-6005 or visit www.vyours.com.
Cinema Quality Video: Large sensor digital filming and post production.
High end results for corporate video,
trade shows, spirit videos and web production, without the barrier of a traditional film budget. Visit www.RandomThought.tv.
Contact:
[email protected]
Feeling overwhelmed with completing your daily tasks? Need help?
Contact JDS Concierge Service 6099
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Writer available for book, article,
business plan projects, and others. Expertise in business, technology, investments. Former Computerworld and
McKinsey Quarterly editor. Drafted Wall
Street Journal columns, wrote New York
Times articles. Helped Bobby Kennedy
Jr. write Harper Collins book. Business
plans used to raise $70 million.
[email protected] or 646-528-3231.
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HELP WANTED
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NOW HIRING IN
WEST WINDSOR!
Full and Part-Time: Managers,
Shift supervisors,
Grill & Prep Cooks, Cashiers,
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If you are:
A strong Team Player; A great
communicator; Organized with a great
attention for details; At least 16 years
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food with uncompromising Health &
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Training will be provided.
Contact:
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Fax or E-Mail: That’s all it takes to order a U.S. 1 Classified. Fax your ad to
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Our classifieds are just 50 cents a word,
with a $7 minimum. Repeats in succeeding issues are just 40 cents per word,
and if your ad runs for 16 consecutive issues, it’s only 30 cents per word. Questions? Call us at 609-452-7000.
HELP WANTED
ADVOCATES: Jobs in new office.
Help homeowners. $30K P/T - $80K F/T.
We train - For info 609-510-9667. [email protected].
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HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED
Every Wednesday we deliver 19,000 copies
of U.S.1 Newspaper to 4,500 business locations
in the greater Princeton area. Every other Friday
we deliver the West Windsor & Plainsboro News
to homes in those towns. We welcome people
with common sense, curiosity, and a reliable car
to help us do the job.
Earn $100 per day! Plus Mileage!
Plus Bonuses for information you provide our editors!
Mail or fax us a note. We hope to hear from you.
Tell us about yourself and why you
are free to deliver on Wednesdays.
and communication skills. Business
computer knowledge, bookkeeping experience are desirable. Please email resume with salary requirements and references to: [email protected].
Fast Growing Engineering and
Construction Management company
looking for receptionist/admin. assistant
to start ASAP. Will train, but some experience preferred. Knowledge in Microsoft Office required. Please contact
Amr at 609-720-1200 or [email protected].
Help Wanted: Part-Time Office Assistant/Receptionist For Professional
Office located in Mercerville. Hourly
Rate- Negotiable. Mon, Thurs, Fri, 9am4pm. Please call to schedule interview:
609-586-3350.
HELP WANTED
JOBS WANTED
JOBS WANTED
Judy 609-586-1400, [email protected]; Princeton: Mike 609-9212700, [email protected].
Job Hunters: If you are looking for a
full-time position, we will run a reasonably worded classified ad for you at no
charge. The U.S. 1 Jobs Wanted section
has helped people like you find challenging opportunities for years now. We
know this because we often hear from
the people we have helped. 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
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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).
ing companion. References available; own
transportation. Please call 908-745-8603.
Servers and deliverers are needed
for restaurant in Pennington Shopping
Center. Please inquire: 917-215-1404.
Systems Analysts (multiple positions) - Princeton IT consulting firm. Analyze, design, develop, code, test, implement, & maintain computer systems
using J2EE, StarTeam, CVS, Eclipse,
RSA, RAD, Oracle, DB2, Windows, &
Linux. Must have Bachelor’s degree (or
equivalent as evaluated by a credential
evaluation service) in Computer Science
or Computer Apps or Tech or any field of
Engineering + 5 yrs progressive experience. Respond with Job Ref #109 to: HR
Dept., PamTen, Inc, 5 Independence
Way, Ste 300, Princeton, NJ 08540.
TRANSPORTATION
INSTRUCTION
ENTERTAINMENT
Personal Driver seeking to transport
commuters, shopping trips, etc. Modern, attractive car. References provided.
E-mail to [email protected] or call
609-331-3370.
Fear Away Driving School Learn to
drive from the best. Special rate. 609924-9700. Lic. 0001999.
Gather ‘Round the Piano and Sing
Your Favorite Carols: Pianist available
for your holiday party. Song sheets included. 609-423-9693.
GRAPHIC ARTS
etc. Reasonable rates. Fast turnaround.
Call
732-331-2717
or
email
[email protected]
www.kathysmythdesign.com
GRAPHIC ARTS
Graphic Design Services: Logos,
Newsletters, Brochures, Direct Mail,
Accounting and tax services for individuals, families, and businesses;
free initial consultation in home or office;
CPA, 30 years experience in healthcare,
small business and other areas of accounting.
908-907-3702,
e-mail
[email protected]
Nanny Available: Do you need a nanny with excellent Princeton, NJ, references? Great with children and pets! Semi-retired R.N. Please call 609-651-5711
at 9 to 11 p.m. during the week or anytime
weekends. Live out only. Available for ambulatory senior care. Background specialty pediatrics and geriatrics - available
as personal assistant in companion-related area. PT or FT, Princeton area.
Companion Position Full/part-time.
College graduate seeking ideal position as
a companian or personal assistant/travel-
COMPUTER SERVICES
Simple to complex engineering Android apps development. See free
sample apps under kokeb.com in
Google Play or call 215-860-1916.
Accountant/Bookkeeper looking for
a permanent full/part-time job. I am flexible, reliable, computer literate, and require no medical benefits. Call 732-7941277.
Home Health Aide interested in providing patient care in your home, an extended care facility, or hospital room. I
have over 25 years expereince and own
a car. References upon request, available immediately. 609-356-9473.
Seasoned Manager: Are you looking
for a seasoned manager with extensive
experience in administration, operations, sales, and distribution in both the
private and public sectors? Thorough
computer, communication, HR, and organizational skills. Call 732-407-0762.
Warehouse Asst-FT Assembles
equipment. Maintains Recordkeeping.
Ability to lift up to 80 lbs. Must have a
clean and valid driver’s license. Apply
[email protected].
FINANCIAL SERVICES
The WW-P News, the biweekly paper
serving West Windsor and Plainsboro, seeks
a reporter/writer who wants to sharpen his or
her skills in a dynamic editorial environment.
Respond to editor Richard K. Rein: [email protected].
Client Assistant Part time position in
East Windsor. Start out working 10
hours per week with potential 20 hours
after training period. We require mature
individuals with strong organizational
Computer problem? Or need a
used computer in good condition $80? Call 609-275-6631.
Writing, Editing,
& Online Media
Salary + Benefits + Opportunity to grow with Community News Service,
publisher of 10 community newspapers in Central New Jersey.
Mail to U.S. 1 Delivery Team, 12 Roszel Road,
Princeton 08540; or fax to 609-452-0033
HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED:
Can You Deliver?
SALES - REAL ESTATE Need a
Change? Looking to get a RE License?
We take you by the hand to ensure your
success and income! FREE Coaching!
Unlimited Income! No Experience needed! Contact Weidel Today! Hamilton:
HELP WANTED
HEALTH
European Massage: On Route 1
North by Princeton BMW. Minutes from
Trenton. 609-716-1070.
Massage and Reflexology: Immeasurable benefits include deep relaxation, improved health, pain relief. Holistic practitioner offers Swedish, shiatsu,
reflexology, chair massage on-site. Gift
certificates, accommodating hours. Call
Marilyn: 609-403-8403.
MENTAL HEALTH
Having problems with life issues?
Stress, anxiety, depression, relationships. Free consultation. Working in person or by phone. Rafe Sharon, Psychoanalyst 609-683-7808.
INSTRUCTION
Biology Tutor: high school, Mercer
County only. 609-392-8897.
Math, Science, English, ACT & SAT
Tutoring: Available in your home.
Brown University-educated college professor. Experienced with gifted, underachieving and learning-disabled students. Web: http://ivytutoring.intuitwebsites.com Call Bruce 609-371-0950.
Music Lessons: Piano, guitar, drum,
sax, clarinet, F. horn, oboe, t-bone,
voice, flute, trumpet, violin, cello, banjo,
mandolin, harmonica, uke, and more.
$28 half hour. School of Rock. Adults or
kids. Join the band! Princeton 609-9248282. Princeton Junction 609-8970032.
Hightstown
609-448-7170.
www.farringtonsmusic.com.
Science and Math Tutoring: Biology, Chemistry, Algebra, Geometry.
Taught by college professor. 18 years
experience. Recipient of two national
teaching awards. Discoverygenics 609581-5686.
Writing Tutorials: Former Princeton
University writing instructor can help
with essays for college applications and
school work. All ages. www.princetonwritingtutor.com. 609-921-0916.
Able Cleaning Service
877•225•3253
“More Cleaning - Less Money”
>EMAIL [email protected]
>WEB www.ablecleaninginc.com
MERCHANDISE MART
1966 Live Action TV series Batmobile Replica Only 2,500 made, retails
$250, now $180. Also comic books, variant covers, action figures. Send me your
wants.
E-mail
[email protected], 848-459-4892.
For sale: Furniture, 2 wing chairs
$75. each, cherry curio cabinet $ 225. All
in excellent condition. Please call 609577-8244.
MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS
I Buy Guitars and All Musical Instruments in Any Condition: Call Rob at 609457-5501.
WANTED TO BUY
Antique Military Items: And war
relics wanted from all wars and countries. Top prices paid. “Armies of the
Past LTD”. 2038 Greenwood Ave.,
Hamilton Twp., 609-890-0142. Our retail outlet is open Saturdays 10 to 4:00,
or by appointment.
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DECEMBER 5, 2012
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classic reporter’s
notebook I offered
to Geddes back in
the 1980s.
In the book I
came across a section on public
spaces. I have been interested in
them ever since I read William H.
Whyte’s “The Last Landscape.”
When our condominium association created a small plaza in our
courtyard, I eagerly offered suggestions for the placement of the
patio and the types of seating —
two single chairs and two longer
benches. After the installation was
complete, I realized an error. The
seating was bolted to the patio to
prevent theft. But that prevented
the seats from being repositioned
to accommodate individual preferences and intimate conversations.
In Geddes’s book he describes
how Bryant Park in New York was
rebuilt according to Whyte’s ideas
about the “social life of small urban
spaces” and featuring “movable tables and chairs.” The word “movable” leaped off the page.
I felt as if the notebook had been
slid back across the table from
Geddes to me. And this time, no
joke, I should be taking notes.
Robert Geddes will appear at
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau
Street, on Monday, December 10,
at 6 p.m. 609-497-1600.
U.S. 1
Richard K. Rein
ears ago, when
I was younger and more
foolish, I went off to cover the annual meeting of what was then
called the MSM Regional Planning
Council. Back then the MSM
meeting was viewed as the pre-eminent power networking event in
central New Jersey. I waltzed in
with my classic “professional reporter’s notebook,” the kind that
can fit in the inside pocket of your
sports coat, and found myself sitting at the same table with Robert
Geddes, the recently retired dean
of the Princeton University architecture school.
The networking over, the meeting turned to various award presentations. One of the recipients, an
earnest young man from Johnson
& Johnson, came to the podium
and began to pontificate on what
J&J was doing to save the downtown in New Brunswick.
At our table, everyone was
braced for the long lecture. I
thought it was time for a little sight
gag, so I pulled my reporter’s notebook out and slid it across the table
to Geddes. “Here you go, Bob,” I
said with a straight face. “Maybe
you’ll want to take notes.”
Geddes smiled. He had probably forgotten more about architecture and urban planning than the
suit from J&J knew. In addition to
his role as the university’s dean, the
Yale and Harvard-trained Geddes
had designed the original master
plan for Liberty State Park in Jersey City and would later design
Bloomberg Hall at the Institute for
Advanced Study, among many other projects.
In Princeton his influence can
also be felt through Princeton Future, a farsighted group that calls
attention to planning issues that
otherwise only come into view
when they reach the planning
board for a yes or no vote.
Now Geddes has left another
calling card on the public table: A
slim book called “Fit” and subtitled “an architect’s manifesto.”
“We need a better way to evaluate architecture,” writes Geddes.
“It should replace the modernists’
‘Form follows function’ and the always fashionable ‘What does it
look like?’ It should be widely debated by architects and clients,
users of buildings, community
leaders, and makers of public policies and plans. It should be focused, seemingly obvious but actually unlimited in its implications
and connections.
“Architecture should embrace
fitness — order and organization,
growth and form. The ‘oath of architecture’ should be loud and
clear: make it fit.”
As one who had a college roommate who studied architecture under Geddes, I suspect some architects would read the book with a
“been there, done that” yawn. But
for the layman, especially those
community policy makers and
planners, “Fit” is a succinct definition of architecture from its most
elemental beginnings.
If clothing is our second skin,
Geddes writes, then architecture is
our third skin. “In our ‘second
skin,’clothing, we live as individuals. Clothing is not shared as a covering. But when we want to assemble in groups, to live together in society, we need outer shelters, our
‘third skin.’
“We are social animals, and we
need social shelters. Buildings do
that job. They become architecture
when, beyond serving to protect
and shelter us, they become our
shared, functional, and expressive
places. Architecture is an assemblage of places.”
It gets a little more complicated
when architects encounter the need
to fit various elements together.
[email protected]
“Ever since classical antiquity,
some sort of ‘modularity’ has been
used by architects and builders to
make things fit together,” Geddes
writes. “To make things fit, the
Classical architect’s task was
Take note: Geddes’
manifesto on architecture will fit in your
sports coat pocket.
‘combinatorial.’” And, he writes,
“to make things fit together, the
modern architect’s task remains
combinatorial.”
One of the unusual aspects of
the Geddes book, released last
month by the Princeton University
Press, is its size. With just 100
pages of text, plus two dozen more
pages of footnotes and index and illustrations, a full-size book would
have been very thin indeed. But
this is not a coffee table book, it’s a
manifesto, and Geddes and designer Jason Alejandro created a book
that is just eight by four inches.
Exactly the same size as that
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FLORENCE - 2,000 to 12,000 sq. ft on Rt. 130 at NJ Turnpike entrance.
PENNINGTON - 400 sq. ft. office space at Pennington Circle.
DOYLESTOWN, (CHALFONT) PA - 2,000 sq. ft.
Ideal for office or medical. Near PA Turnpike
BUILDINGS FOR SALE
EWING - 6,300 Sq. ft. multi-tenant
office building. Great upside
potential. Reduced for quick
sale - $395,000.
LAWRENCE - 11,000 sq. ft.
multi-tenant office building
(2 bldgs). Ideal for
user/investor. $995,000
www.HowcoManagement.com
NEW LISTING
Ewing Twp. $222,500
18 Currier Way
Village on the green. Lg. 4BR rancher featuring
FR w/stone FP, lg DR, 3 Full baths,1/2 car garage,
huge front porch, corner lot. Anyone w/decorating
Ability to up-date this home will have a winner!
609-921-2700
ID#6004072
Lawrenceville $309,900
30 Jackie Dr.
End unit town home in the "Woodmont" community. 2 BR, 2.5 BTHS, loft/study. Newer Kit. w/SS
appl. LR w/FP, DR, laundry rm., rear patio & 2 car
garage. Easy access to NYC & Phil., min. to
Princeton.
609-921-2700
ID#6131583
Lawrence Twp. $225,000
719 Mayflower Ave.
Charming on the outside!Spacious on the
inside!Offering NEW renovations from Top to
Bottom (roof, windows, doors, kitchen, bath,
waterproofed basement, gutters, chimney & liner
and so much more!)Welcome Home!
609-921-2700
ID#5986740
Lawrenceville $224,900
2 Bonnie Court
Beautiful 4 BR, 3.5 baths in Tiffany Woods. LR,
DR, kit. One car garage & 3 car parking. Lots of
storage space. Min. To train to NY & Phil. & major
highways.
609-921-2700
ID#6112717
CHARMING 1920'S 3 BEDROOM BRICK CAPE
Ewing Twp. $224,900
115 W. Upper Ferry Rd.
Desirable W. Trenton location near train station. Nice sized lot, front and back porches and
large garage/workshop.
Ewing $274,900
32 Brophy Drive
Unique layout! in this 3 BR, 2.5 BA ranch home
boasting beautiful updates/upgrades throughout!
Set on a picture perfect lot! Welcome Home for
the Holidays!
609-921-2700
ID#6126824
609-921-2700
Hamilton $409,900
67 Monte Carlo Drive
2BR/2BA Enchantment 55+ Colonial on oversize
corner lot. Library/office, great room, loft, sunroom, laundry room, 2car garage. Over $125,000
in upgrades. Kit has additional custom cabinets
& Corian. HW, 10' ceilings, FP, recessed lighting
… Total elegance for a unique life style.
609-586-1400
ID#6092543
Hamilton $165,900
4 Hickman Drive
4BR high on a hill overlooking lake. LR w/picture
window to the lake, DR, EIK, FR, Den, patio. New
heater & remodeled lower level. Unique opportunity to own lakefront property in Hamilton.
NEW PRICE
NEW PRICE
NEW PRICE
East Windsor $129,900
1832 Old Stone Mill Dr.
Windsor Mill condo w/ 2 BR, 2 full baths. Freshly
painted, New floors in kit. & foyer. Gas heat Lovely
complex with clubhouse, Pool, tennis courts
& playground. Near transportation and new
Hospital.
609-921-2700
ID#6102191
Hamilton $279,999
2 Coronet Court
5BR/2.5BA Colonial located in Village on the
Green. Oversized rooms, FR w/fireplace & wetbar, MBR w/sitting area, large deck & in-ground
pool. Newer roof, heating & AC.
609-586-1400
ID#6122675
Mercerville $289,900
10 Andree Place
3BR center hall Ranch on 1/3 acre lot. Totally
renovated in last 6 months, new maple cabinets
w/granite counters in kitchen, new main bath with
CT, maple vanity and granite. Interior is newly
painted & HW floors throughout gleam.
609-586-1400
ID#6075403
Ewing $329,995
30 Malaga Drive
Custom built 4BR Ranch with 2 kitchens, 3 full
bathrooms, full basement,3 car garage and inlaw-suite. Maintenance free stone exterior.
Hamilton $155,000
248 Samdin Blvd
Upgrades and expansion give this Ranch an edge.
FR, generous MBR, sunny EIK with pantry. New
heating, HWH, AC, carpet and roof. Large wood
deck and fenced yard plus storage shed w/electric.
Quick closing
609-586-1400
609-586-1400
ID#6025660
Hamilton $389,900
9 Cavalier Drive
Impressive 3BR Colonial. New front door
w/etched glass, formal DR, Fin bsmt, HW flooring, recessed lighting, CT floors, crown mldgs,
new roof. Large kitchen & breakfast area w/bay
window. Trex deck & bluestone patio.
609-586-1400
ID#6127780
Hightstown Boro $169,000
188 Mill Run E 16
First floor Condo in Wyckoffs Mill. Updated and
freshly painted this 2 BR. 2 full bath is sure to
please. Great for 1st time buyer or investor. Easy
commute to Princeton, NY & Phil. Absolutely
beautiful!!
609-921-2700
ID#6120157
ID # 6105229
ID#5964501
609-586-1400
ID#6128691
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Hopewell Twp
$275,000
128 Blackwell Road. Ready to go - complete with new septic. 3 BRs, 2 baths, formal DR, LR, EIK, Fam Rm, part fin. bsmt.
DIR: From Pennington Town center - S.
Main to Penn-Lawrenceville Rd, L on
Blackwell.
Hopewell Twp
$200,000
68 Marshall Cnr Woodsville. Lovely home
in the Village of Woodsville. This 2 bedroom 2 bath home has so much potential!
DIR: Rt 31 To Marshalls Cor Woodsville Rd
- on L before blinking light at Rt 518
(Lamb.Hopewell Rd).
Cranbury
$439,000
Country living at its best! Expanded ranch
4 bdr,Custom built quality, old world construction.
Hopewell
$829,000
Bring your imagination! Mini-estate on 7+
ac. 6BR cape w/spacious rms, plus
income-producing 2BR farmhouse; lg barn;
several out-bldgs; pool.
Pennington Office 609-737-9100
Princeton Junction Office 609-750-2020
Princeton Office 609-921-2600
Hopewell Boro
$599,000
Location says it all! Overlook the open
space of Hopewell every morning &
evening! 4BD, 3 B, new KIT.
Millstone
$629,000
Peaceful & private estate home professional landscaped & set back on 2.39
acres. 5 bedrooms & 4 full baths.
Montgomery Twp
$1,125,000
14 farmland assessed acres - tillable, but
amenable to other uses. Main house has 4
BRs, 2BAs, built in the 1900's, H/W flrs,
fpl; subdividable.
Montgomery Twp
$649,900
Extra clean & up-to-date 5BR, 2.5BA turnkey home. Features include granite in KIT
& BAs, & huge fin bsmt. Outside, tall trees
shelter an acre+ yard.
Montgomery Twp
$535,000
Clubside at Cherry Valley Capri model
w/fabulous details. 2BRs, 2.5BAs, den, loft,
crown moulding, sunrm w/cath ceiling,
paver patio, treed backyard.
Montgomery Twp
$449,000
Lovely 2 BR, 2.5BA home in the popular
Clubside 55+ community at Cherry Valley
Country Club overlooking a beautiful
wooded area. A gem!
Princeton
$2,390,000
Elegant home in the Western section on
2.85 resort-style acs w/ heated pool.
5BRs, 5.5BAs. Granite & cherry KIT, fin
basement, Florida rm. Beautiful!
Princeton
$759,000
Stunning in-town 4 BR colonial lovingly
cared for inside and out. just a few minutes walk to town.
Rocky Hill
$525,000
Sitting on a park like yard, this 5 bed col.
has been beautifully updated w/country &
European flair
So Brunswick
$529,900
Beautiful Princeton Walk home feat. 3 br,
3.5 bath, 1st fl master ste. and library, full
fin. walkout bsmt with extra full bath,
backing wood!
So. Brunswick
$519,900
Gorgeous 4 br, 2.5 ba loaded w/upgrades
in premium location. Upgr. eat-in kit., spa
master bath, light & bright. Move right in!
West Windsor
$585,000
Sitting pretty on one half acre is where
you will find this lovely 4 BR 2.5 bath
hamilton model.
South Brunswick Office 732-398-2600
South Brunswick Office 732-398-2600