October
2002
DOWNTOWN
NEWS
Trenton
Battlefield Tours feature lower-rate walking
Trenton Battlefield Tours resumes its discount Select Saturday
tours on Oct. 5 at Café Olé.
Tickets
are $5 and include coffee for a two-hour walking tour that features
the Trenton Battle Monument and Mill Hill Park. All are asked
to gather at 9 a.m. if they can for chatter, handouts and Q-and-A.
Trenton Battlefield Tours has also cut the rate to $18 for the
private two-hour walking tours that can be scheduled at any time.
The old rate of $35 for two hours will still apply for groups
of two or more. Tours for six or more cost $50.
"The
initial rates were set in keeping with professional battlefield
guide programs at parks such as Gettysburg and Vicksburg, and
by the minimum rates that freelance guides like me were charging
at other national battlefields," said Ralph Siegel, founder
and proprietor.
"Problem
is, the Trenton battlefield is not a park. The public does not
identify it as a park. I start my tours outside a dry cleaners,
for Pete's sake," Siegel said. "This whole project remains
an exciting work in progress. As does my capacity to grasp the
obvious."
Siegel said business has been promising for group tours and the
Select Saturday tours done in conjunction with Café Ole
on South Warren Street. And still intact is the old policy of
providing tours free-of-charge to any schools in Trenton and to
area organizations that do not have the means to pay a fee.
Siegel leads a 10-block walk along Warren and Broad streets that
includes the Trenton Battle Monument and Mill Hill Park. The park
is a key point for the famous Dec. 26 battle in 1776 and for the
second battle seven days later.
Folks can also arrange a three-hour motor tour of Mercer County's
"Victory Trail" for $50 to follow the movement of the
Continental Army from Washington's Crossing to Trenton to Princeton,
with brief walks at each of the three points.
Trenton Battlefield Tours can be reached at 609 584-1614 or at
www.trentonbattlefieldtours.org.
Michael Mandel of BusinessWeek to keynote October Trenton Forum
on Interactive Publishing
The
Trenton Forum on Interactive Publishing-"Putting the Web
in Perspective" will be headlined by Michael Mandel, Economics
Editor and Chief Economist of BusinessWeek and author of the 2000
book The Coming Internet Depression.
The
Forum, which will be held Friday, October 25 from 8 a.m. to noon
at Thomas Edison State College, will focus on what makes interactive
publishing effective. Mandel, one of the most astute observers
of the new economy, will speak on the topic of "The World
We Live In and The Future We Face." Following his keynote
presentation, he will be joined on a panel discussion by Bill
Martin, Editor of FindProfit, the Web's first "as it happens"
investment advisory service geared specifically to profit-oriented
and information hungry individual investors, and Founding Partner
of the investment Web site RagingBull.com; Walter Fields, CEO
and publisher of the NorthStar Network, a start-up cross-media
company providing news and information relevant to the experiences
of Black Americans; and Dave Iannone, Founder and Publisher, and
Paul Andrews, Vice President of Interactive Sales, of Firehouse.com,
a Web site published primarily for paid and volunteer firefighters
reaching all echelons within the organizations.
Sponsors
of the event include the City of Trenton and the County of Mercer.
Additionally the event is being supported by Trenton businesses.
The Marriott Lafayette Yard is offering a special discounted room
rate for the night before, and Café Ole and Utopia International
Bistro are offering 10% discounts on food and beverage for Forum
attendees.
Past
Trenton Forums on Interactive Publishing had hosted executives
and professionals from leading interactive and technology companies
like America Online, The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Bloomberg,
internet.com, and a variety of local and regional companies. This
event is third in a series of forums being produced by Tramp Steamer
Media, L.L.C. For more information and to register, visit http://www.trentonforum.org.
YWCA
to run ninth annual Week Without Violence program
The YWCA of Trenton will run its Week Without Violence community
service program from October 20-26. The program will spotlight
alternatives to violence for the Trenton community. Preventing
violence, particularly domestic violence, is one of the most important
aspects of the YWCA's mission. Many of the week's programs are
free and all are open to the public.
The YWCA's Week Without Violence campaign emphasizes alternatives
to family violence, gun violence, violence linked to racism and
bigotry, and violence in the media. This year's initiative is
the seventh annual campaign and is led by YWCAs in thousands of
communities in all 50 states and in more than 40 countries on
six continents.
In 2002, the YWCA Week Without Violence is on October 20-26. The
week includes the following: Dine Out Against Violence, Tuesday,
October 22nd; dine at a participating restaurant and a portion
of your bill will be donated to the YWCA's programs; Day Against
Gun Violence, Friday, October 25, noon to -2 p.m. in downtown
Trenton, where people can design T-shirt to express sentiments
about gun violence; and a children's poetry contest, deadline
Friday October 25. People may submit poems with themes of peace
to Children's Poetry Contest, YWCA of Trenton, 140 East Hanover
Street, Trenton, N.J. 08608.
The YWCA will also hold a pre-event performance of Crowns, on
October 17, which is a celebration of black women in their church
hats at McCarter Theatre in Princeton. The reception is at 6 p.m.,
the performance at 8 p.m.
"Except for self-defense, violence for any reason and under
any circumstance is just not acceptable. That's what the Week
Without Violence is all about." said Anne Broomfield, chief
executive officer of the YWCA of Trenton.
For over a century, the YWCA has built a stronger community through
its hallmark programs that focus on racial justice and women's
economic empowerment as well as its flagship programs in health
& wellness and childcare.
For more information on the YWCA's Week Without Violence, check
out the National YWCA website at www.ywca.org, stop by the YWCA
at 140 East Hanover Street or call (609) 396-8291, Ext. 16.
Fashion
show and networking event to benefit sickle-cell anemia programs
Independent beauty consultant Brenda J. Scott, who has the sickle-cell
trait, will host "WII-FM Celebration," a business reception,
fashion show and networking event to benefit sickle-cell anemia
programs and research of women's cancer and domestic violence
programs on October 11 at the West Trenton Fire Company ballroom.
The show will feature creations by Shirley Stewart, fashions by
Just For You Boutique, and music by DJ Ms Sue. There will also
be refreshments and door prizes.
September was Sickle-Cell Anemia Awareness Month and National
Minority Health Month. October is National Breast Cancer Month
and National Domestic Violence Month.
For more information, contact Brenda J. Scott at (609) 394-0799.
Tickets will not be available at the door.
Jewish
Community Center announces October events
The "Amazing Autumn Auction," a benefit for the Jewish
Community Center of the Delaware Valley, will take place on Saturday,
Oct. 12 at Greenacres Country Club in Lawrenceville. The evening
will include a silent auction beginning at 7:30 p.m., followed
by a live art auction produced by the Ross Galleries, at 8:30
p.m. There will be a dessert buffet, coffee bar and wine. The
event committee requests donations for the silent auction, both
for goods and for volunteers.
Ross Galleries will present fine-quality art ranging in price
from $35 to several thousand-dollar opening bids. The cost of
the evening is $25 per person or $40 per couple.
On Sunday, Oct. 27, the Jewish Community Center will hold the
2002 Family Fall Festival. Attractions include music by Ultrax
DJ, trivia games, crafts, face painting, food, pumpkin painting,
moonwalk, CIT clowns and more. Horse-drawn hayrides and pony rides
will be featured from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., while area team mascots
will visit throughout the day. The event will run from 1 to 4
p.m. at the Jewish Community Center, 999 Lower Ferry Road in Ewing.
For more information, call (609) 883-9550 or (215) 750-6676.
Rhinehart-Fischer
Gallery to offer two October exhibits
During
the month of October, the Rhinehart-Fischer Gallery will be hosting
two exhibitions: "The Retrospective Work Of Armando Sozio
-1897-1966" and "Magic Realism: The Male Nude From 1649-
2002. The opening reception is Friday, October 4 from 5 p.m. to
9 p.m.
The
retrospective exhibition of work by Armando Sozio has been culled
from several phases of the artist's work. It also measures his
achievements since his resolution in 1929 to concentrate his life
to painting and teaching.
The
National Academy of Design recognized his excellence in anatomical
studies by awarding him the Sydom Bronze Medal in 1917, and then
the Silver Medal in 1918 and 1922. In 1919, he won the Academy's
coveted Hallgarten Painters Prize. While attending the Fawcett
School of Industrial Arts in Newark, he was a student of John
E. Grabach.
A
staunch plein-air advocate, Sozio often looked to his locales
for inspiration. This is evident in such works as "Main Street,
Blairstown" and "Blossom Time," a vibrant rendering
of the Japanese cherry blossoms in Branch Brook Park. The latter
piece earned him the prestigious Gold Medal of Honor at the Allied
Artists of American 42nd Annual Show. At the 44th annual show,
his painting "The Garden" took the Florence Cooney Ellerhusen
Memorial Prize. This piece would go on to hang in the Smithsonian
Institute.
Sozio
amassed an impressive exhibition record, having displayed his
art at numerous galleries, museums and institutions. In the spring
of 1966, Sozio's health began to fail. Diagnosed with leukemia,
he died in Newark on October 23, 1966. Mrs. Sozio gathered up
his work and stored it away. His son, Armando, Jr., has made these
investment-quality, museum-quality paintings available to the
Gallery.
Rhinehart-Fischer
Gallery, at 46 W. Lafayette St., is located across the street
from the War Memorial Building in Trenton, NJ. Hours are Mon.-Sat.
10am-5pm or by appointment. Phone is (609) 695-0061.
N.J.
State Museum showing September 11 photo exhibit
The N.J. State Museum is currently exhibiting Searching: New Jersey
Photographers and September 11. The exhibit opened on September
7 and will be on display through November 24. It consists of 40
color and black-and-white photographs in the Cityside Gallery,
on the museum's second floor.
In the days and weeks following the tragedy of September 11, photographers
from New Jersey recorded the reactions and responses to the disaster,
as well as events held to memorialize the victims. The photographers
included in the exhibition are Stanley Brick and Phil McAuliffe
of Mercerville, Donna Clovis of Princeton Junction and Donald
Lokuta of Union.
"I
wished I was a construction worker or a steel worker-at least
I could help," said Lokuta of his experiences. "But
I'm a photographer, not even a photojournalist-an artist. No one
needed an artist at Ground Zero. So the photographs that I made
are a personal reaction to what I saw."
During Trenton First Friday on October 4, the photographers will
be in the gallery to answer questions and share their thoughts.
The event is free and will go from 6 to 8 p.m. For more information,
call (609) 292-6464 or visit the museum's Web site at www.newjerseystatemuseum.org.
