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In 1970, John Schackerman was riding a motorcycle when he was hit head-on by an automobile. The accident left him with a paralyzed arm and hand. It also prompted the former tool and die maker from Collingswood, New Jersey, to enroll in Rutgers University where he discovered a talent for sculpting. Mr. Schackerman, who uses native New Jersey hardwoods to produce organically inspired art that is reminiscent of Brancusi and Moore, is among the artists whose work is on display in the fourth annual ArtFirst! exhibition at the University Medical Center of Princeton (UCMP).
As a $150,000 fund-raising effort to permanently illuminate the Revolutionary War Monument at Borough Hall continues, a picture of Princeton's past, not only historical, but developmental, is beginning to surface.
Kristin Appelget, the four-year president of the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce, and a seven-year member of the West Windsor Township Council, was named Monday as Princeton University's director of Community and Regional Affairs.
It took almost a decade of juggling part-time teaching and performances as a storyteller, not to mention raising her son, before Princeton resident Susan Danoff, was able to launch her career as a full-time professional educational storyteller.