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Small World, big dreams Hopewell teen set for solo art exhibition at noted Princeton coffeehouse
Margot Stern prepares the dining area for service at The Hopewell on Nov. 5, 2022 for a pop-up dinner with Chef Amanda Shulman of Her Place Supper Club. (Photo by Laura Pedrick.)
Proposed boutique hotel would how far would breathe new life into historic site BY JOE EMANSKI
you go if they name in his day, the site has hiswere sick? tory that involves Joseph Titus,
few hours, recharging their batteries and reconnecting with the On Fiddlers Creek Road across the namesake of Titusville. land, whether by exploring it, eatthe way from the Ted Stiles PreWhere many a passerby sees ing the food grown on it, or just serve at Baldpate Mountain sits a a rambling stone mansion and breathing in its air. centuries-old farmstead that has, ivy-choked stone barn in need of The Hopewell, Stern calls it, for the first time in a long time, got some serious TLC, Margot Stern and if she can get the zoning varipeople talking. sees something more. She sees a ances she needs, she hopes to The sign on the drive reads quiet destination for jaded urban- turn it into the kind of boutique HOLLYS ONE because it’s miss- ites, a place in the country where destination that has become popuWelcome to Capital ing a T. This is Hollystone Manor, people fromHealth. near and far can lar up in the Hudson Valley of New See HOTEL, Page 4 and while it wasn’t known by that spend a few days, or even just a When someone you care about is sick, you’ll do whatever it takes to make sure they get the best care. And so do we.
the borough. “She was looking at one piece and she said to me, ‘How much?’ and I said, ‘What do you mean? I’ll just give it to you.’ I had no idea what to say. And she said, BY JOE EMANSKI ‘No, how much?’ So I ended up selling that piece to her. I signed Artist Zarina Morgan fulfilled a the back, I titled it — I had never lifelong dream last summer when done any of that before. I had just she exhibited some of her paint- made art in my bedroom for fun. ings at Boro Bean in Hopewell She displayed it in her home, and Borough. that’s when I realized people actuThe fact that she was not yet a ally might want to buy my art.” high school senior at the time may Impressive milestones for any have hinted at the possiartist, much less one bility that she had more who is still working such exhibitions in her toward a high school future. diploma. And indeed, another Zarina Morgan one is coming up Cohan — she uses just already. Morgan’s arther first two names as works will be on display an artist — says she at Small World Coffee’s has been making art Nassau Street location since she was at least Morgan in Princeton from Jan. 4 three years old. The through Feb. 7. Hopewell Valley CenNor are those the only tral High School senior venues where her original works had attended Hopewell Elemenhave been on view. Over the sum- tary School, Timberlane Middle mer, she created a butterfly mural School and the Pennington School at the Quarry Swim Club, where before settling in at Central, she was also working as a life- where she says teacher Carolyn guard. And in April, she also had a McGrath has been instrumental show at Time restaurant and whis- in her development as an artist. key bar in Philadelphia. She describes her style as modThen there was that day when ern figurism — or maybe a modshe was showing some of her ern version of surrealism. pieces to a friend’s mother, who is “I’m not really sure. It’s modern, an art collector. She recounted the especially when I use spray paint. experience during a phone inter- It’s modern especially because of See ZARINA, Page 6 view from her home attic studio in
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