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Behind the Scenes at Hopewell Museum’s ‘Reimagination’ BY ERIC LUBELL
The Hopewell Valley tennis team of head coach Dave Burchell, Om Sharma, Adithya Shrikanth, Zach Weisenfeld, Danyal Rizavi, Manas Sinha, Eshaan Doshi, Kaito Mahon, Andrew Hou and assistant coach Gary Gall with the state champion plaque at Mercer County Park on June 7, 2024.
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Hopewell Valley Central High “I said ‘This is your life, this is that were pure. They genuinely boys tennis team had just gotten your tennis career, you choose wanted to do this,” Deeds conspanked, 5-0, by West Windsor- how you want it to go,’” Deeds tinued. “Once we established Plainsboro North and then lost, said. “‘Coach (Dave) Burchell that, I felt like we really got on 3-2, to Marlboro in the consola- is the most dedicated coach I a good track and we started gettion match of the Moorestown know. I’ve seen so many differ- ting better mentally. They were Classic. ent coaches in sports over the really bummed out after the loss Bradley Deeds, the only years and I know how badly to North but I told them one Welcome Capital Health. senior in the startingto lineup and he wants us to do this. if you’re loss doesn’t affect our overall See TENNIS, Page 6 in his fourth year as the Bull- gonna be on this team you gotta 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.
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For anyone walking the north side of East Broad Street in Hopewell, New Jersey, the picturesque edifice at Number 28—home to The Hopewell Museum—has been a welcoming landmark since its opening in 1922. The storied 1877 Victorian brownstone has been bustling and brightening over the past few years, despite the necessary closing of its doors to the public in 2022. What’s going on? Reimagination—the museum’s multistaged renovation and conservation initiative. Like many changes that have transpired over the museum’s 100-plus years, Reimagination came about through that wonderful stroke called serendipity. In 2020, the pandemic prompted the museum to close. But this unexpected shutdown provided a rare opportunity: to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of where the museum was, and what steps were needed to take to ensure
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the museum’s vibrancy and relevance for generations to come. Thus a vision and plan, which was dubbed Reimagination. The museum launched it in 2021 by restoring the building’s exterior; in 2022 came a rigorous assessment of archaeology objects (Delaware Indian and Early American). At the same time, we restored our eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fine clocks; and, in 2023, we catalogued our extensive ceramics collection, and appointed our first-ever executive director, Asher Lurie. The year 2024 marks Reimagination’s next phase: the cataloguing and remediation of our 250-plus-year Hopewell Valley textiles collection. To give these classic garments, flags, bed linens, and curtains proper stewardship, the museum went big. engaging a pioneering innovator in the discipline of preventative conservation, Wendy Jessup. Through Jessup’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Smithsonian Institution, she’s employed new techniques and nurtured fresh talent. To start the project, she brought in a graduate fellow at the Winterthur and University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, Binh-An See MUSEUM, Page 8
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