Volume LXXVIII, Number 31
Hammerstein House Summer Tours Put Musical Theater History On Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Events Commemorate Anniversary Of Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings . . . . 8 Brothers with Local Roots Write, Perform, And Produce Their Own Songs . . . . . . . 11 Reading J.D. Vance On the Rebound . . . . . 14 Princeton Summer Theater Presents Emergency . . . . . . . . 15 PU Rowing Alums Roll Into Medal Contention in Opening Weekend of Paris 2024 Olympics . . . . . 23 Starring on International Stage in U18 European Tourney, Hun Baseball’s Kraemer Helped Great Britain Place 4th . . . 25
Local and State Activist Ingrid W. Reed Dies At 88 . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Art . . . . . . . . . . . .19, 20 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 21 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . 30 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 12 New to Us . . . . . . . . . . 27 Obituaries . . . . . . .28, 29 Performing Arts . . . . . 18 Police Blotter . . . . . . . 10 Real Estate. . . . . . . . . 30 Religion . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Summer Senior Options . . 16, 17 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . 6 Welcome August . . . . . . 3
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Funding From NJEDA Allows Share My Meals To Expand Its Reach Share My Meals, the Princeton-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing food insecurity and the environmental impact of food waste, has been awarded a $125,000 sponsorship from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) to establish a statewide Meal Recovery Coalition (MRC). The funding will allow the organization, which recovers surplus nutritious, prepared meals from cafeterias and food services and delivers them to those in need, to expand its reach statewide. According to sharemymeals.org, 1.2 million people in New Jersey are food insecure. And in the food service sector alone, an estimated five million prepared meals are being wasted each year in the Garden State. The sponsorship from the NJEDA “will make a substantial difference in fighting food insecurity and food waste in the local community,” said Share My Meals CEO Helene Lanctuit, in a press release. “The support exemplifies Gov. Murphy’s commitment to creating a stronger, fairer, New Jersey, where every individual has access to nutritious food and no meal goes to waste. We look forward to announcing the members of the MRC in the fall.” Share My Meals and the NJEDA have been partners in the past. Just two months after the nonprofit was founded in January 2020, COVID-19 hit, forcing Share My Meals to switch from its original premise of recovering meals from corporations to buying meals at cost from local
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Annual Joint Effort Safe Streets Program Kicks Off Friday It’s a celebration of, and a reflection on, where the Witherspoon-Jackson community has been, and where it is going. And it’s an annual coming together of the community. The Witherspoon-Jackson Joint Effort Princeton Safe Streets Summer Program kicks off this Friday, August 2, acknowledging the legacy of Princeton resident Paul Robeson, and heralding many more local heroes. Each day in the program, which runs from Friday, August 2 through Sunday, August 11, is named for someone important to the Witherspoon-Jackson community, and also important to Princeton. “Each one is a ‘hero and sheroe’ to the community,” said John Bailey, Joint Effort Community Sports Program and Joint Effort Princeton Witherspoon-Jackson Community Safe Streets Summer Program founder and director. “The kickoff brings elected officials and concerned citizens together to recognize
and acknowledge the contributions of African Americans to the Princeton Community,” said Bailey, who grew up in Princeton and is now a consultant and community organizer in Denver, Colo., but gives back to Princeton in many ways. The festive and informational event has been going on for almost 40 years. In addition to this year’s focus on Princeton activist Paul Robeson, the future of Princeton, and community bonding through panels, sports, and honorees are all on the schedule. The kick-off event on Friday, August 2, a reception at Studio Hillier, 190 Witherspoon Street from 5 to 7 p.m., is named “A Salute to Our Ancestors.” Remarks by Princeton Mayor Mark Freda, Council President Mia Sacks, and Councilman Leighton Newlin will precede recognition of several award winners. These include Dr. Terry McEwen, president and CEO of Tioga Franklin Savings
Bank, the Jim Floyd Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, with remarks by Shirley Satterfield, founder and president of the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society; and Councilwoman Eve Niedergang, winner of the Mildred Trotman Community Service Award, with remarks by Newlin. Also to be recognized are Jon Bucchere, recently retired Princeton Police chief, with remarks by Bernie Hvozdovic, Princeton administrator; Anastasia ‘Stacie’ Ryan, retiring administrative assistant at the Princeton Recreation Department, with remarks by Evan Moorhead, director of Princeton Recreation Department; and Felicia Spitz, board chair of the Princeton Housing Authority and chair, Princeton Municipal Democratic Committee, with remarks by Sacks. The Paul Robeson WitherspoonJackson Community Honors will be presented to J. Robert Hillier, principal of Continued on Page 9
IAS Announces Launch Of New Center for Collaborative Research
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Six Candidates Running For Three School Board Seats
Six candidates have filed to run for three, three-year term seats on the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education (BOE) in the November election. The deadline to file with the Mercer County Clerk’s office was Monday, July 29 at 4 p.m. The candidates are Christopher Santarpio, Ari Meisel, Erica Snyder, Mara Franceschi, Z. Lisa Potter, and Shenwei Zhao. Franceschi is the only incumbent on the list. BOE members Brian McDonald and Betsy Baglio are not seeking an additional term. McDonald is seeking a spot on Princeton Council, and ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.
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SHOW TIME: Teens show their goats last Saturday at the 105th Annual Mercer County 4-H Fair at Howell Living History Farm in Hopewell Township. Attendees share what they liked best about the fair in this week’s Town Talk on page 6. (Photo by Sarah Teo)
A new initiative designed to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary projects that are beyond the reach of single scholars has been announced by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). The Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Collaborative Research will launch its first call for proposals this fall. The goal is to support “team-based, theme-based, inter-institutional, and interdisciplinary projects led by Institute scholars in collaboration with researchers across and beyond academia,” reads a release from the IAS. “The Nelson Center will provide seed funding to develop earlystage research ideas, large-scale funding for multi-year research agendas, and the space, infrastructure, and expertise for collaborative projects with partners across the globe.” Like so many sweeping concepts credited to the IAS — Albert Einstein’s idea of quantum entanglement among them — the plan for the center began germinating over the Institute’s daily ritual of faculty afternoon tea, said IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg. “The Institute is famous for the way in which faculty get together over tea. We have such intimacy, and such a drive toward collaboration that comes from that Continued on Page 7