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Tony award winner Blair Brown sat down with McCarter Theatre Artistic Director and playwright Emily Mann at the Princeton Public Library last Wednesday night to talk about the work of English playwright Harold Pinter, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
There is no shortage of worthy causes and there are plenty of nonprofit groups and individuals in the Princeton community ready to offer their time, energy, and money to them. What is often needed, however, is the financial know-how that connects the two in the most beneficial way. That's where the Princeton Area Community Foundation (PACF) comes in.
Earlier this year, the Princeton Environmental Commission launched a Sustainable Princeton campaign that sought to honor and make an example of area businesses and individuals whose actions or professions remove various burdens—financial, energy, materials—from future generations. The initiative also sought to bring awareness to alternate sources of energy, a community's social needs, and economic wellbeing.
Sixth grader Maddy Lies was just 7 when she made the remark that set her father thinking about bats and beaches. Getting ready for school one morning, she noticed a curious pattern of frost on the windowpane, and exclaimed: "Look, it's a bat in seafoam."
Maddy's father, children's book author and illustrator Brian Lies, was intrigued. The shape did indeed look like "a happy bat waist deep in the ocean."
It also inspired the image that illustrates the title page of Mr. Lies's latest book, Bats at the Beach, published in April and listed #2 on the New York Times Children's Best Sellers and selected for the Book Sense 2006 Summer Children's Pick List.