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From the Editor<br />
left my job at the Daily Record in 2004 after a 20-year career—10 as a staff photographer<br />
I and 10 as the photo editor. It was not an easy decision. I was struggling to remain inspired<br />
in a position that was more corporate than creative, frustrated and disappointed that I no longer<br />
found joy in the only profession I had ever known.<br />
At the time, I was convinced I was done with journalism.<br />
Still needing and wanting to work in a field that allowed me to flex my creative muscles, I took<br />
a job in a furniture repair shop, refinishing and repairing old furniture.<br />
I had been collecting all sorts of dressers, credenzas, tables and chairs for years, fixing and<br />
refinishing most back to their original glory. I made some money doing commission work and<br />
reselling some of my roadside finds. It was a hobby I thought I wanted to work at full-time.<br />
But after a year, what turned out to be just a job ended abruptly and I was at a crossroads,<br />
facing another career decision.<br />
Journalism, as luck would have it, was not done with me yet.<br />
For the next seven years, I worked with friend and former Daily Record colleague, Maria<br />
DaSilva Gordon, bringing newspaper workshops to elementary schools throughout northern<br />
New Jersey. We would spend one hour every day for two weeks in a classroom teaching fourthand<br />
fifth-graders how to be reporters, writers, photographers and editors. At the end of each<br />
two-week session, the class produced its own two-page newspaper. It was very educational for the<br />
students and extremely rewarding for us. We had such fun together and we truly enjoyed being<br />
with the kids.<br />
By the way, Maria and I are still working together. She is the person who edits the stories and<br />
columns for Lake Hopatcong News. We still have so much fun working with each other.<br />
In between time in schools, I freelanced for any publication that would hire me, including<br />
going back to the Daily Record and many of the hyperlocal online news websites in the area.<br />
My year away from journalism restored my passion for the profession and I once again looked<br />
forward to the challenges of being visually creative and meeting deadlines.<br />
It was during this time I met Jessica Murphy, the first editor of Lake Hopatcong News.<br />
That chance meeting with Jess would change the course of my professional career again, leading<br />
to my current job as editor of this publication. Again, my life pivoted in a direction I was not<br />
expecting, certainly a direction I did not plan for.<br />
When you read some of the articles in this issue, you’ll learn how others have handled life’s<br />
unexpected twists and turns, something we all get to experience occasionally.<br />
As many of you know, when Jess stepped away as editor, she stepped into the role of executive<br />
director at the Lake Hopatcong Foundation. The cover story is a retrospect of the Lake<br />
Hopatcong Foundation, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary.<br />
It’s an organization Jess helped found, then ran for the first nine years<br />
and she kindly sat with writer Melissa Summers for an interview (see<br />
page 22).<br />
Also in this issue is Mike Daigle’s story about a proposal for the<br />
redesignation of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area<br />
becoming a national park. An interesting proposition that has sparked<br />
a grassroots movement opposing the suggestion (see page 26).<br />
Ah, the twists and turns. It’s what makes up the stories of our lives.<br />
The unknown, the unexpected, the unplanned.<br />
That’s been my story—so far.<br />
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ake Hopatcong News<br />
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From Center Court to Center<br />
Stage, He Spreads Positivity<br />
Cornell Thomas demonstrates a drive to<br />
the basket at a recent training session.<br />
Thomas gets a<br />
high five during<br />
the Positivity<br />
Summit in July.<br />
Thomas watches his campers go through<br />
drills during summer basketball camp.<br />
Story by ELLEN WILKOWE<br />
Photos by KAREN FUCITO<br />
As a teenager, Cornell Thomas found<br />
meaning through basketball as well as a<br />
mantra: “Everything happens for a reason”—a<br />
philosophy imparted by his mother.<br />
Growing up, “basketball was my<br />
therapy, only I didn’t know it at the time,”<br />
said the Mount Arlington resident. “I<br />
needed it.”<br />
As for his mother’s mantra? That<br />
would help him forge his way forward<br />
after a life-changing injury sidelined him<br />
from a professional basketball career and<br />
catapulted him onto center stage instead<br />
of center court.<br />
Now, the former basketball playerturned<br />
coach, author and public speaker<br />
has taken on the power of positivity and<br />
hopes to pass it on to those around him.<br />
And that is exactly what he and a group<br />
of speakers accomplished at the Positivity<br />
Summit held in July at the Ukrainian<br />
American Cultural Center of New Jersey<br />
in Whippany.<br />
The daylong event, which served as<br />
the first in-person workshop for Thomas<br />
in two years, featured 10 speakers and<br />
an audience of more than 50 attendees<br />
representing all walks of life, from entrepreneurs<br />
to retirees.<br />
As emcee and keynote speaker, Thomas<br />
captivated his audience simply by being<br />
himself. There was laughter and the kind of<br />
silence indicative of sincere listening. There<br />
were also murmurs and head nods of relatable<br />
understanding.<br />
Born in Passaic, Thomas is one of five siblings<br />
who was raised by his mother, Tina.<br />
His father, Bobby Thomas, a former police<br />
officer, died at 41 when Thomas was 4 years old.<br />
He remembers very little about his father except<br />
for his illness and the limo ride to the funeral.<br />
A pillar of the Passaic community, there<br />
are many remaining tributes to the elder<br />
Thomas, including a street named in his<br />
honor.<br />
As a result of his father’s untimely death,<br />
Thomas’ mother worked three jobs to<br />
support him and his siblings.<br />
“My mother is a very determined, strongwilled<br />
person,” he said. “When Passaic started<br />
getting bad, my mother moved us to Rockaway.<br />
That was a culture shock for me. I didn’t get why<br />
we had to move. But she got us out of Passaic for<br />
a better education.”<br />
As a young teenager, a visit to his cousin’s<br />
home in Birdsnest, Virginia, set the course for<br />
the rest of his life.<br />
“I found old newspaper articles under his<br />
bed,” he said of his older cousin, a three-sport<br />
high school athlete. “I never played organized<br />
sports, but I was amazed that they put kids in<br />
the paper.”<br />
It was at that moment Thomas discovered<br />
basketball and returned home ready for the<br />
challenge.<br />
“At first I sucked at it,” he said. “But I didn’t<br />
stop fighting. I had no understanding of [the<br />
game] but people in my life showed me.”<br />
After finally making his varsity high school<br />
team, his mother approached him with a reality<br />
check, saying she could not afford to send him<br />
to college. “I had never heard her say ‘I can’t,’”<br />
he said.<br />
Thomas spent two years after high school<br />
graduation working so he could attend Sussex<br />
County Community College and play basketball.<br />
“After four years of being horrible, everything<br />
took off,” he said. “There were all-star teams<br />
and all-regions—enough attention to get a<br />
scholarship to Minot State University in North<br />
Dakota.”<br />
There, he would meet his future wife, Melissa,<br />
who played on the women’s basketball team. The<br />
couple, married 17 years, have two children;<br />
Brice, 9 and Naya, 7.<br />
After college, Thomas continued his training<br />
and workouts in pursuit of that elusive<br />
professional basketball contract.<br />
His perseverance and patience paid off when<br />
he was awarded a basketball contract for a team<br />
in Lisbon, Portugal.<br />
“I very nonchalantly told my mother that I got<br />
a basketball contract,” he said, always knowing<br />
that it would be the financial boost needed to<br />
help her.<br />
But one week before leaving for Portugal,<br />
Thomas was thrown a curveball that would<br />
Thomas, center, leads an early morning<br />
workout at Evergreen Park in Tranquility.<br />
An animated Thomas at the<br />
Positivity Summit.<br />
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change his life’s path, as well as those around<br />
him.<br />
“I was playing 3-on-3 in Sparta, and I went to<br />
make a basket and then heard a pop,” he said. “I<br />
fell to the ground and couldn’t put any weight in<br />
my right foot.”<br />
While a ruptured Achilles derailed his<br />
basketball career, Thomas was most devastated<br />
by feeling as though he had failed his mother<br />
after promising her that she would never have to<br />
work three jobs again.<br />
“While I was recovering, I would keep it<br />
together but when my mom would go to work,<br />
I would let it all out.”<br />
That was in 2003.<br />
A year later, he became head coach at Sussex<br />
County Community College for the 2004<br />
season and stayed there for the next six years.<br />
In 2005 he started his own program,<br />
Crossroads Basketball, to help kids in the<br />
Sussex and Morris area develop skills both<br />
on and off the court. “We have had over 100<br />
players play college basketball, four of them play<br />
professionally and now we have doctors, police<br />
officers, teachers, coaches, from our alumni, all<br />
doing good in the world,” he said.<br />
In 2010, he became an assistant coach at<br />
Blair Academy in Blairstown under head coach<br />
Joe Mantegna. He remained there for the next<br />
seven years.<br />
During this time, his identity morphed into<br />
“Cornell the basketball coach,” and he began<br />
thinking beyond the confines of a high school<br />
gym. But, as the birth of his first child neared,<br />
he felt another internal shift.<br />
“I knew that a Division I school’s schedule<br />
would consume most of my time,” he said. “I<br />
grew up without a father and was like, ‘How<br />
could I not be here for my son?’ I would look<br />
around the neighborhood and see dads playing<br />
ball with their kids and was like, ‘That’s going<br />
to be me.’”<br />
Immersed in his basketball identity, he set<br />
out to discover who he was outside of the game.<br />
In making a case for “everything happens for a<br />
reason,” the positivity movement was already<br />
percolating and coming from an unlikely source.<br />
“I’d be on Facebook and notice super negative<br />
people,” he said. “It’s like these people wake up,<br />
get a cup of coffee and talk trash to each other.”<br />
To counter the toxicity, Thomas started posting<br />
positive quotations he found in books, which<br />
led to him posting his own quotes, which led to<br />
the creation of his blog.<br />
His first blog post traveled across the globe.<br />
“I looked at the analytics and there were people<br />
from Germany and Vietnam. I mean, I’m just<br />
a kid from Passaic. Why would anyone want to<br />
read my blog?”<br />
In 2013 he published his first book, “The<br />
Power of Positivity: Controlling Where the Ball<br />
Bounces.” That was also the year his son, Brice,<br />
was born; three subsequent books have followed.<br />
It was also the year of his first speaking<br />
engagement at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio<br />
of Denville where he addressed a dozen people.<br />
He pocketed his first paycheck—$100—as<br />
a panelist at an event at Centenary College in<br />
Hackettstown. These opportunities opened the<br />
door to more talks, this time across the country<br />
in Las Vegas, Michigan and Wisconsin.<br />
After seeing motivational speaker Tony<br />
Robbins in 2015, Thomas was driven to<br />
organize his own speaking events with a focus<br />
on positivity and participation.<br />
“I said, ‘What if I get everybody together and<br />
call it a positivity summit?’” He held the first<br />
summit in 2017 in Allamuchy Township.<br />
At this year’s July event, the theme “What<br />
Now” served as a post-pandemic call to stop<br />
saying “why me” and “pick ourselves back up<br />
and continue to fight for our dreams and goals,”<br />
said Thomas.<br />
Thomas said he is always looking to make<br />
connections, whether it’s on the court with<br />
the athletes at his basketball camps, with an<br />
audience at his summits or with a stranger.<br />
Enter Sharon Dwyer of Tranquility, who<br />
attended the summit and spent the lunch break<br />
with Thomas.<br />
Dwyer met Thomas in a park where he was<br />
coaching basketball and she was walking the<br />
track. The two would exchange friendly waves<br />
and eventually a conversation. Thomas then<br />
invited her to attend the summit.<br />
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“You can feel him,” she said. “There’s this<br />
goodness and love.”<br />
Thomas would incorporate Dwyer into his<br />
talk as an opportunity to explain the difference<br />
between needs and wants.<br />
During lunch, he recounted, Sharon said, “I<br />
don’t have the words to thank you for inviting<br />
me.”<br />
Thomas would respond: “No, I don’t know<br />
how to thank you.”<br />
“You see there are needs and wants,” he said.<br />
“Sharon needs to be here, and I need Sharon<br />
here today. We need connection. We need each<br />
other.”<br />
Other attendees such as Alexia Lewis, a<br />
financial adviser, and Jordana Van Wolde, an<br />
in-home personal assistant, both from Jefferson,<br />
met Thomas at a Jefferson Township Chamber<br />
of Commerce meeting.<br />
“He’s really down-to-earth and very relatable,”<br />
said Lewis. “He has this aura, this energy and<br />
he’s funny.”<br />
Thomas is moving ahead full speed, coaching,<br />
teaching basketball and scheduling speaking<br />
engagements, which he is hoping to expand to<br />
schools and corporations. He is also working<br />
on another book and a TV show called “On<br />
Purpose.”<br />
Despite his growing success, Thomas always<br />
gives credit where credit is due—to his mother,<br />
“who everyone wants to meet,” he said proudly.<br />
“I am who I am today because of her,” he said.<br />
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Stigliano, Kenny Hanna and Barkman<br />
during a recent rehearsal.<br />
Stigliano and Barkman having<br />
fun with their guitars.<br />
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Debra Stigliano and<br />
daughter Star Barkman.<br />
Rock Star Mom Shares<br />
Musical Gift, Puts Daughter<br />
Story by MELISSA SUMMERS<br />
in the Spotlight<br />
Photos by KAREN FUCITO<br />
To every little girl who throws on<br />
headphones, sings into a hairbrush and<br />
dances in front of a mirror in her bedroom, the<br />
dreams of becoming a rock star are as real as<br />
spiked hair and sequined clothes. Not everyone<br />
gets to live out that dream, but sometimes it’s<br />
not reaching a goal that counts, but the lives you<br />
touch in the end.<br />
Debra Stigliano, 65, of Mount Arlington was<br />
once one of those girls. Growing up on Bertrand<br />
Island, she learned guitar at a young age, and by<br />
13 she was writing her own songs. She played<br />
primarily with family and friends and took<br />
lessons in voice, piano, harmonica, saxophone<br />
and even drums.<br />
After high school, she attended County College<br />
of Morris, graduating in 1976 and taking a job<br />
at a music store. By 1979, at 23 years old, she<br />
joined her first rock band, Hero.<br />
“We had some local success, playing at places<br />
like the Stanhope House, picnics, clubhouses,<br />
parties, that kind of thing,” Stigliano recalled.<br />
“After going through some bands and trying to<br />
make it out here, I decided to move out west.”<br />
In 1984 she packed up and headed to the<br />
College for Recording Arts in San Francisco,<br />
where she earned a certificate in audio<br />
engineering.<br />
“I wanted to be a recording engineer, an artist,<br />
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Barkman rehearsing at<br />
home. The painting on the<br />
wall is one she did in 2015.<br />
a songwriter … [and] produce younger acts if I<br />
could,” she said. “If I wasn’t going to be a rock<br />
star myself I at least wanted to record them. I<br />
concentrated on my schooling and meeting<br />
people.”<br />
San Francisco was a hot spot in the music<br />
industry at the time, Stigliano said, adding that<br />
she met with stars like Huey Lewis during her<br />
time on the west coast. “It was a little scary,<br />
totally different [from] what I grew up with.”<br />
Not only did she gain her independence,<br />
knowledge of the music industry, and studio<br />
experience, but she also became more confident<br />
in her life and goals. “I was a bit lonely, missing<br />
my Jersey peeps and my family, but I knew I<br />
would come back, and I did.”<br />
Stigliano returned to New Jersey in 1986,<br />
taking a job at House of Music, a recording<br />
studio in West Orange. There, she rubbed elbows<br />
with the likes of Bruce Springsteen’s band, Meat<br />
Loaf and Cyndi Lauper. But she was finding it<br />
hard to break through the “boys’ club” that is the<br />
recording industry.<br />
“It’s a real man’s world,” the musician said. “So,<br />
it’s really hard to crack into audio engineering as<br />
a female. I wasn’t getting paid a lot and it was<br />
hard to support myself.”<br />
She also tried her luck at 39th Street Music<br />
Studio in Manhattan, but ultimately found the<br />
task of sitting 12 to 15 hours a day in a<br />
dark basement studio was “just not a girls’<br />
thing.”<br />
“It’s hard to become a rock star,” she<br />
added. “You try and try and try and send<br />
demos to people you don’t know, and it’s<br />
just really hard to get anybody to notice<br />
you. Although we had some success, it’s<br />
hard to become famous. You’ve got to be<br />
lucky.”<br />
Everything changed in 1989 when a star was<br />
born—Stigliano’s daughter, Star.<br />
“Most of my focus went to her instead of<br />
music, although I still played with friends,”<br />
Stigliano said. “Around 12 or 13 years old, she<br />
showed an interest, so I taught her how to play<br />
guitar and sing. She was good at writing poems.<br />
I helped her start writing music.”<br />
“In my little girl eyes, my mom was the coolest<br />
rock star in all the land,” said Star Barkman,<br />
32, of Chester, as she recalls listening to her<br />
mother’s CDs in her room. “From a young age,<br />
she was married to my stepfather who was also a<br />
musician. They used to sing together and I would<br />
hear them do harmonies. I was just floating<br />
around in the background, but I just thought it<br />
was the coolest thing ever.”<br />
Growing up, Barkman would tag along to her<br />
parents’ gigs, and mother and daughter would<br />
spend their free time practicing guitar chords.<br />
“I think the first song I learned was a Maroon<br />
5 song and I’d sing it over and over and over,”<br />
she said.<br />
Barkman loved music, but never really thought<br />
about taking it outside her living room. “I was so<br />
afraid to do anything in front of people—there<br />
was no way I could actually pull the trigger,” she<br />
said.<br />
That all changed after Stigliano and a few<br />
friends put together a band called Polaris in<br />
2010 and invited Barkman to join. The teenager<br />
harmonized the melodies but remained in the<br />
background.<br />
It was in 2014, as a “favor” to her stepfather,<br />
Michael Sodano, who performed regularly at<br />
Brasserie 513 in Califon, that Barkman finally
gave solo performance a try. He was doublebooked<br />
for New Year’s Eve and couldn’t play at<br />
the restaurant.<br />
“If anyone else had asked me [to play] I would<br />
have said no,” Barkman said. “He was someone I<br />
always looked up to.”<br />
Sodano bought her all the equipment she<br />
needed and she had a month to prepare. “I put a<br />
bunch of songs in a book and I had no idea what<br />
I was doing,” Barkman said, adding that her first<br />
performance was enough to kick-start her love<br />
for the stage.<br />
“After it was over, it was like ‘Oh my God, that<br />
was amazing.’ I had experienced the adrenaline,<br />
the high, for the first time in my life. You’re<br />
sweating, you’re going to pass out, you just rise<br />
above your own body,” she said.<br />
Brasserie’s owner wanted her back, but she<br />
felt like she wasn’t ready. After about a year of<br />
practice, she returned there for a few appearances.<br />
Beginning in February 2016, she took regular<br />
jobs at Alice’s in Lake Hopatcong and later<br />
Muldoon’s in Ledgewood, as well as side gigs at<br />
local street fairs.<br />
Stigliano acts as manager but has been known<br />
to join her daughter in the spotlight for some<br />
harmonies. “She decides when she’s in the mood<br />
to sing with me, and it’s really fun,” Barkman<br />
said.<br />
Her art isn’t limited to music. She graduated<br />
with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from<br />
Ramapo College in 2012 and works as a<br />
muralist, faux painter and house painter. “I think<br />
it’s a similar part of my brain,” Barkman noted.<br />
“I have always been a creative person. I can’t do<br />
the same thing over and over again. I bounce<br />
around, but it’s always been the artistic stuff that<br />
stuck.”<br />
Not surprisingly, the two worlds often collide.<br />
She listens to music while she paints and, more<br />
recently, her painting led to a new musical<br />
partnership.<br />
Barkman met Kenny Hanna, who also owns<br />
a painting business, on a job years ago. “We’d<br />
joke around and sing in garages when we were<br />
painting,” Barkman said. “One day he came to<br />
one of my gigs. He used to be a drummer, and<br />
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Stigliano stepped in, teaching Hanna<br />
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“When you are singing by yourself it’s just<br />
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someone sings harmony with me it gives me that<br />
feeling that I had when I first started singing<br />
with my mom. That was something special for<br />
me that I’ve never really been able to have for<br />
full gigs.”<br />
The drums brought Barkman’s performance<br />
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It’s just what she needed to make performing a<br />
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Now that more musical opportunities are<br />
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“Mom passed the torch,” said Barkman. “She<br />
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The mother/daughter voice thing is great. But<br />
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Live! From Lake Hopatcong<br />
Story by ELLEN WILKOWE<br />
Photos by KAREN FUCITO<br />
There’s rocking the<br />
boat and then there’s<br />
rocking out the boat.<br />
That was exactly the<br />
scenario that played out<br />
when Stanhope-based<br />
rock band The City<br />
Limit transformed Lake<br />
Hopatcong’s Raccoon<br />
Island ferry into a makeshift<br />
stage for the fifth annual<br />
Live from the Lake cruise<br />
extravaganza.<br />
The event is the<br />
brainchild of Lee Moreau,<br />
one of the captains for Lake<br />
Hopatcong Cruises. Live<br />
from the Lake is an idea<br />
born from a retirement<br />
party for lake historian<br />
Marty Kane, he said.<br />
As a tribute to Kane’s<br />
continued dedication to<br />
Lake Hopatcong history, the<br />
party planners paid homage<br />
to some of the lake’s legendary<br />
residents by bringing to life<br />
some well-known characters<br />
from the early 1900s, including<br />
inventor Hudson Maxim and<br />
actress Lotta Crabtree.<br />
“It was so much fun and wellreceived<br />
we couldn’t do it just<br />
one time. We brainstormed<br />
other venues to keep it alive and<br />
thus, the Live from the Lake<br />
cruise aboard Miss Lotta was<br />
created,” said Moreau.<br />
On board, passengers got to rub elbows with<br />
the lake’s most famous resident, Lotta Crabtree,<br />
who was accompanied by her mother, Mary Ann<br />
Crabtree. But the vast majority of characters<br />
perform on the land, Moreau said or, in the case<br />
of The City Limit, on the ferry.<br />
It was the band’s first time testing the lake<br />
waters, said drummer Sean Farrelly.<br />
The gig was organized by Farrelly, who works<br />
on the ferry during the summer months<br />
and runs The Original Music School in<br />
Morristown.<br />
Farrelly keeps good company with<br />
guitarist/vocalist Scott Lewis, bassist<br />
Anthony Ambrosio and keyboardist Mike<br />
Casson.<br />
While the band played its original song,<br />
“Last to Notice,” boats running the gamut<br />
Top: Lorraine Tuths, Miss<br />
Ingram Cove, greets Miss Lotta.<br />
Left: Much to the delight of<br />
passengers aboard Miss Lotta,<br />
Tito swims to shore after<br />
retrieving two tennis balls.<br />
Below: The band The City Limit<br />
performs from the Raccoon<br />
Island ferry.<br />
Second from bottom: Kathy<br />
Hargaden and Richard Gaynor<br />
show off their dance moves.<br />
Bottom: With Miss Lotta<br />
in position, the Pinknic<br />
performers get started.<br />
from pontoon to fishing to one lone kayak<br />
stopped to linger and rock out. Making way<br />
for Miss Lotta, which was expertly maneuvered<br />
into position by Captain Tom Bush, the smaller<br />
boats moved aside as Lotta nosed up next to the<br />
ferry just in time for the band to cover “Get<br />
Lucky” by Daft Punk.<br />
As passengers aboard Miss Lotta continued<br />
to rock and raise their glasses, she tooted her<br />
signature farewell horn and headed out for<br />
her next port of call just across the channel for<br />
even more rock. That’s where Tito, a sevenyear-old<br />
golden retriever, used a rocky cliff as<br />
his launch pad to fetch two balls thrown by his<br />
human Debbie Hartmann, a summer-only lake<br />
resident.<br />
Tito—yes, he’s named for the vodka—<br />
fetched his way to fame by delighting boaters<br />
who happened to catch him in the act of, well,<br />
catching the ball. He has been fetching balls<br />
from the water since the maiden voyage of the<br />
Live from the Lake event.<br />
“It doesn’t take much,” Hartmann said. “I<br />
throw a ball and people applaud and we interact<br />
with the boat.”<br />
According to Hartmann, Tito laps up the<br />
attention and will bolt down the stairs to the<br />
dock if she yells, “Miss Lotta is coming.”<br />
“He really likes performing for Miss Lotta<br />
and he likes the recognition,” Hartmann<br />
said. A sprinkle of treats thrown to the dock<br />
by passengers on board adds to the positive<br />
reinforcement.<br />
While Tito cooled down in the water, a crowd<br />
over in Davis Cove was just starting to heat<br />
up—even more so on the nearly 100-degree day.<br />
The pink-clad participants—known as<br />
Pinknic—were in formation rehearsing<br />
their dance routine to “What I Like About<br />
You,” which they would later perform for the<br />
passengers aboard Miss Lotta.<br />
All shades of pink were represented in fashion,<br />
furniture and food. Pink Jello shots, anyone?<br />
The pinked-out party served not only as a<br />
lakeside performance but also a fundraiser for<br />
breast cancer that included a silent auction.<br />
The brainchild of lakefront resident Kaiya<br />
Hefele, Pinknic started as a small gathering to<br />
pay homage to her best friend Mary, who passed<br />
away from breast cancer. (Hefele’s Pinknic is not<br />
affiliated with any other event with the same<br />
name, she said.)<br />
“I said to my girls, let’s have our own Pinknic,”<br />
she said. “It was just the 12 of us, sitting by the<br />
lake, toasting my friend Mary.”<br />
Over the years, the intimate gathering of<br />
twelve expanded into a crowd of 50 and then<br />
hit the triple digits.<br />
“So, now we have a celebration,” she said.
“We want people to be happy.”<br />
Happy underscores the ambiance on this<br />
Saturday in August at what Moreau refers to as<br />
“Camp Hefele.”<br />
“It was downright unbelievable,” said Carl<br />
Steen, who traveled with his wife Christina from<br />
the Catskill Mountains in New York to get his<br />
pink on.<br />
A newcomer to the Pinknic, he fit right in<br />
with his pink flamingo shirt as if he had been<br />
attending for years. “I love it,” he said. The<br />
couple found out about the event from mutual<br />
lake friends.<br />
Lillian Issat, a Hefele family friend, was also<br />
a first-time Pinknic participant. Having lost her<br />
sister to breast cancer, Issat was attending to<br />
honor her sister’s memory.<br />
With Miss Lotta sitting just offshore, the<br />
dancers assumed their positions on the lawn,<br />
pink pom-poms in hand and ready to shake to<br />
the beat.<br />
“The dance is the big draw,” Hefele added.<br />
When the performance ended, a sea of pink<br />
headed to the dock to greet the passengers.<br />
To their surprise, Captain Moreau came on<br />
land with a special celebrity in tow. Marilyn<br />
Monroe—also known as crew member Trisha<br />
Camelot—did her best to replicate the seductive<br />
rendition of “Happy Birthday” that the late<br />
actress once sang to former President John F.<br />
Kennedy.<br />
The one caveat?<br />
“It wasn’t anyone’s birthday,” said Hefele. To<br />
everyone’s delight, Monroe’s attention was paid<br />
directly to Hefele’s husband, Bernd.<br />
According to Kaiya, Pinknic raised more than<br />
$7,000, which was to be donated to a local<br />
breast cancer charity.<br />
“Everyone around the lake contributed [to the<br />
silent auction] and there was really unbelievable<br />
participation. I didn’t even ask. That’s what<br />
showed up and it’s so incredibly wonderful,” she<br />
said.<br />
Being bid a bon voyage by the Pinknic, Miss<br />
Lotta headed to the Miss American tribute<br />
pageant on Bertrand Island. Here, the 22 tiaratopped<br />
beauties represented every cove and<br />
corner of the lake, from Miss Bed Bug Island to<br />
Miss Crescent Cove.<br />
“Places everyone! Everyone take your places,”<br />
emcee Kimberly Hipwell, known this day<br />
as Miss Bertrand Island, crooned through a<br />
megaphone as the boat approached. Places,<br />
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Lakeshore Village, the condo community that<br />
occupies the same space where Bertrand Island<br />
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“The first year was my sister and myself, and<br />
I said, ‘That was great and fun, but Miss Lotta<br />
deserves more action and turnout,’” Hipwell<br />
said. “I recruited neighbors and friends and<br />
now we have grown to 22 [participants]. Our<br />
goal is to have a beauty contestant on each dock<br />
finger.”<br />
The traditional waves were returned by<br />
passengers on board and punctuated by Miss<br />
Lotta’s traditional “toot,” and she was off and<br />
running to her next destination.<br />
In addition to Marilyn Monroe, other crew<br />
members offered up onboard entertainment,<br />
including a “Greased Lightning” skit to muchdeserved<br />
applause, Moreau said.<br />
For first-time passengers Yahaira Giron of<br />
Hoboken and Luciani Neku of Belleville, the<br />
cruise was a hit. The couple, who found out<br />
about the event through social media, were on<br />
board to celebrate their third anniversary.<br />
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This year, lake dwellers offered up seven<br />
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In planning ahead, Moreau already has his<br />
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Dental implant abutments can be a confusing topic. Let’s talk about a single implant, which would replace a single tooth. There are 3 components: the implant<br />
or fixture, the crown or cap, and an “invisible” connector called an abutment. You can view a diagram of these three parts on my website: go to “For Patients,”<br />
then “Patient Education,” and look for the Information Sheet, “General Info Regarding Dental Implants.”<br />
There are two basic types of abutments: stock and custom. A stock abutment is pre-manufactured by implant companies.<br />
A custom abutment is fabricated by a dental lab. Materials can also vary: titanium, gold, and zirconia are examples. The<br />
manufacturing process is also another variable: milling & casting are examples.<br />
How does your dentist select which is appropriate for you? The biggest variables are: location in the mouth, amount of<br />
available bone, and type of gum tissue.<br />
An implant in the top front of the mouth oftentimes requires a custom abutment. The bone in this region is angled, and<br />
esthetics are critical. There is minimal room for error, and the “emergence profile,” meaning how the tooth exits from the<br />
gum, is important. In the back of the mouth you can get away with a lot more. Although the emergence profile isn’t as<br />
important from an esthetic standpoint, it can be important from a functional standpoint so that you don’t trap lots of Ira Goldberg, DDS, FAGD, DICOI<br />
food and have irritated gums.<br />
The information above covers abutments for single implants. There are other situations calling for dental implant abutments, too. You may have a bridge, a<br />
denture, or an All-On-Four type of appliance. These all use various types of abutments.<br />
About the author: Dr. Ira Goldberg has been performing implant procedures for over 27 years. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology/<br />
Implant Dentistry, a Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. For a free<br />
consultation, please call his office at (973) 328-1225 or visit his website at www.MorrisCountyDentist.com Dr. Goldberg is a general dentist, and also a Fellow<br />
of the Academy of General Dentistry.<br />
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WHERE DO YOU LIVE AND WHO MAKES UP YOUR FAMILY?<br />
I live in Hopatcong with my husband, Jeff, and our two cats, Pixie and Trixie.<br />
DO YOU MAKE A LIVING OUT OF PLAYING MUSIC? IF NOT, WHAT IS YOUR FULL-TIME PROFESSION?<br />
I am a retired public school music teacher who gigs occasionally and joyfully serves on the worship team and kids’ ministry at Calvary Chapel<br />
Morris Hills. I also did quite a bit of musical direction and acting at Brundage Park Playhouse and Sussex Community College.<br />
ARE YOU CURRENTLY PART OF A BAND OR HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE PAST? NAME IT, PLEASE.<br />
Jeff and I perform as a duo under the name House of Guenther. Jeff is now a full-time musician/songwriter. He returned to music full-time<br />
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HOW OFTEN ARE YOU PERFORMING/RECORDING?<br />
I am currently performing at the Hopatcong Marketplace for the <strong>2022</strong> season and recording vocals<br />
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When I perform, I sing and play keyboard.<br />
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Julie Andrews in “The Sound of Music.” I knew I wanted to sing the moment I saw her<br />
on screen singing in the Alps! The movie premiered when I was around 5, and I’ve been<br />
singing since then. I have also been playing piano since I was 10.<br />
WHO HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCE IN LIFE AND WHY?<br />
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IT ORIGINAL? COVERS? COMBINATION OF BOTH?<br />
I perform mostly covers and a few Jeff Guenther originals. The styles<br />
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WHAT’S THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE ANYONE HAS EVER<br />
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I couldn’t say, because I was never good at taking advice as a<br />
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childhood home in<br />
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Brendan Buckley at the Colosseum at<br />
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Musician Travels the World but<br />
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Story by BONNIE-LYNN NADZEIKA<br />
Photo by Karen Fucito<br />
Brendan Buckley grew up in Mount<br />
Arlington in the 1980s doing all the typical<br />
things a kid from Mount Arlington did at the<br />
time. He went fishing. He rode his bike around<br />
town with his friends. He hung out at Fireman’s<br />
Field. He went swimming in Lake Hopatcong.<br />
He attended Edith M. Decker Elementary<br />
School, then Mount Arlington Public School<br />
before heading off to Roxbury High School.<br />
While at Decker, he learned to play the<br />
trumpet, the instrument he would stay with until<br />
high school.<br />
Music, Buckley said, was always important in<br />
his life. He credits his parents, Dennis and Soon<br />
Ja Buckley, who still live in his childhood home<br />
in Mount Arlington, for instilling in him a love<br />
of music at an early age.<br />
“They were huge music lovers,” said Buckley,<br />
48. “They had a gigantic vinyl record collection<br />
and music was always playing in our house.”<br />
The collection was eclectic: big band, swing,<br />
Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Motown,<br />
Soul music and disco. But what wasn’t heard in<br />
the house at the time was music by The Ducanes,<br />
a doo-wop group that included the senior<br />
Buckley and was produced by Phil Spector. The<br />
group’s single “I’m So Happy,” reached No. 109<br />
on the Billboard charts in 1961.<br />
The younger Buckley was shocked to learn<br />
about his father’s connection to the music<br />
producer-turned convicted killer during the<br />
singer’s 2007 murder trial. During that time,<br />
Dennis Buckley told his son: “Phil Spector was<br />
such a weird guy.”<br />
By the time Buckley made it to high school,<br />
his choice of music and the instrument he played<br />
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changed.<br />
“I’m a product of MTV,” he said of his youth<br />
spent watching videos of every genre from<br />
heavy metal to alternative rock. It is here that<br />
he found himself drawn to the sound and look<br />
of drum sets and the drummers themselves. The<br />
Police, specifically the band’s drummer Stewart<br />
Copeland, stood out to him as a major early<br />
influence, he said.<br />
With the purchase of his first drum kit at 14,<br />
Buckley went from air drumming in his parents’<br />
living room to joining the Roxbury High School<br />
band. Shortly thereafter, music teacher Darryl<br />
Bott brought in professional drummer Tommy<br />
Igoe to work with the drum line. Buckley became<br />
Igoe’s student, taking lessons and often joining<br />
his mentor in New York City for gigs. The two<br />
remain close.<br />
Buckley never really imagined drumming as a<br />
career move until he witnessed Igoe, a freelance<br />
drummer, make a living at what he loved to do.<br />
At only 15 years of age and sneaking into clubs<br />
in Greenwich Village with Igoe, Buckley found<br />
his calling.<br />
Buckley credits his mother with pushing him<br />
to think big in terms of his college education, the<br />
natural next step in his music career. When it was<br />
time to choose a school, Buckley had his sights<br />
set on Rutgers University or William Paterson,<br />
but she had other plans in mind.<br />
“‘You should move as far away from us as you<br />
can,’” he remembers his mother telling him.<br />
So, he did, attending the University of Miami’s<br />
School of Music, where he double-majored in<br />
music education and music performance. He also<br />
became active in the Miami music scene.<br />
Now, decades later and out of Miami, Buckley<br />
is one of the most accomplished professional<br />
drummers in the Los Angeles music scene, where<br />
he lives with his wife and son, whom he shields<br />
from public view.<br />
A longtime member of pop star Shakira’s band,<br />
he co-wrote the song “Fool” on her recordbreaking<br />
first English language album, “Laundry<br />
Service.” His resume is a who’s who of music,<br />
having performed or worked with Julio Iglesias,<br />
Shelby Lynne, Gloria Estefan, Melissa Etheridge,<br />
Tegan and Sara and Miley Cyrus. Most recently<br />
he toured with Morrissey and performed with<br />
Perry Farrell.<br />
He has also played on television shows,<br />
including “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,”<br />
“The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” “Late<br />
Night with David Letterman,” “America’s Got<br />
Talent,” “Saturday Night Live,” the Grammys<br />
and the Latin Grammys. He is a regular guest<br />
drummer on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” a<br />
gig he continued remotely during the pandemic.<br />
Buckley’s versatility came into play during the<br />
shutdown when he created a weekly one-minute<br />
broadcast called “Drummer Plus Drummer,”<br />
where he and another drummer would play<br />
together, recording each session. “Drummer Plus<br />
Drummer” ran for 50 weeks and Buckley has<br />
since created an album based on those sessions.<br />
Buckley’s take on the music industry is<br />
pragmatic—comparing different aspects of<br />
music to the service industry or manufacturing.<br />
While he finds it easy to drift into performance,<br />
he is also passionate about creating. “I want<br />
to make sure that I am doing enough in both<br />
departments,” he said. He uses his Instagram and<br />
YouTube pages to showcase his original creations.<br />
In addition to recording and touring, Buckley<br />
also produces and teaches music. His first<br />
teaching job was as a high school student working<br />
with students his own age at Bernardsville High<br />
School. Today, he is a faculty member at the<br />
Musicians Institute in Los Angeles. He also<br />
conducts drum clinics around the world and<br />
offers private lessons to musicians who seek him<br />
out for his expertise.<br />
While drumming has provided a livelihood
for Buckley, his passion also reflects the values<br />
his parents instilled in him at an early age.<br />
Hailing from a multicultural family (his father<br />
is American and his mother was born in<br />
South Korea), Buckley was taught to have an<br />
appreciation for an array of different cultures,<br />
cuisines and musical styles.<br />
“We went to a different restaurant every Friday<br />
night. My father sought out Jamaican restaurants,<br />
Portuguese restaurants,” Buckley said.<br />
His music enables him to explore the world,<br />
even commuting weekly to China for two years<br />
in order to play drums on Friday nights with<br />
artists based in Taiwan and Singapore. He treated<br />
the 14-hour flight as office hours, working on his<br />
computer and catching up on movies. “It was not<br />
a long-term model,” Buckley said with a laugh.<br />
“I grew up fascinated with culture. Learning<br />
about the world is one of my favorite by-products<br />
of touring. Meeting people and learning about<br />
the globe is the best education I ever got,” he<br />
added.<br />
As an artist, Buckley sees an endless challenge<br />
to grow. As a young drummer he developed a<br />
competitive edge. “I looked around and saw<br />
drummers my own age that were better than<br />
me,” he said. It inspired him to practice, so much<br />
so that some of his high school teachers would<br />
reprimand him to stop tapping out music on his<br />
desk in class.<br />
Today he is less competitive and more inspired<br />
by his peers and the talented drummers he comes<br />
across, describing himself as a “sponge” when he<br />
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Volunteers and students in the<br />
Musconetcong River during a 2015 field trip.<br />
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Béla Szigethy at this year’s Lake<br />
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Jessica Murphy and<br />
Tom Flinn at the Block<br />
Party in 2014.<br />
Donna Macalle-Holly<br />
during the Musconetcong<br />
River cleanup in 2015.<br />
Lake Hopatcong Foundation Ce<br />
Story by MELISSA SUMMERS<br />
Photos by KAREN FUCITO<br />
s Jessica Murphy looked around at<br />
Awell-dressed patrons enjoying glasses<br />
of wine and nibbles of food while listening<br />
to music and chatting about the beautiful<br />
aquatic centerpiece of North Jersey known<br />
as Lake Hopatcong, she couldn’t help<br />
but soak it all in.<br />
“I was thinking that I wish I<br />
could go back and show a picture to<br />
my ‘ten years ago self’ of the whole<br />
scene because it would have been<br />
very comforting,” said Murphy,<br />
recalling a moment during this year’s<br />
Lake Hopatcong Foundation gala at<br />
Stone Water restaurant in Jefferson.<br />
Murphy, 39, of Maplewood, is a<br />
founding member of the foundation<br />
who also served as the organization’s<br />
first executive director for its first nine<br />
years. “I probably would have gotten a<br />
lot more sleep,” Murphy joked.<br />
The July event celebrated the 10th<br />
anniversary of the foundation, a local<br />
non-profit group committed to<br />
the health and prosperity of Lake<br />
Hopatcong and its surrounding<br />
communities.<br />
Similar organizations have<br />
existed throughout the years,<br />
including the Lake Hopatcong<br />
Watershed Association, which<br />
was active in the 1970s, the<br />
Lake Hopatcong Alliance,<br />
existing in the 2000s, and The<br />
Lake Hopatcong Protective<br />
Association, founded in the<br />
1890s. The latter remained<br />
active in some form until 2017,<br />
according to Cliff Lundin, a<br />
lifelong resident of Hopatcong<br />
and an active LHF volunteer. The group was<br />
composed of small communities and camps and<br />
was most active in the 1950s and ‘60s, as well as<br />
later in the 1980s, he said.<br />
Murphy, previously a writer for New Jersey<br />
Monthly, had written a story about the lake and<br />
met Béla Szigethy. In 2009, he approached her<br />
about starting the foundation.<br />
“As a resident of New York City since 1979, I<br />
watched Central Park get significantly improved<br />
by the Central Park Conservancy, which was a<br />
privately-funded organization that turned it into<br />
the jewel that it is today,” he said. “My thought was,<br />
‘why not have some of the concerned citizens of<br />
this area, or anyone else who is interested in Lake<br />
Hopatcong, put up private money into a non-profit<br />
foundation for the benefit of the lake.’”<br />
Murphy began focusing on the development of<br />
the foundation, with her and Szigethy enlisting<br />
two other longtime lake residents to form the<br />
initial board: attorney Tom Flinn and historian<br />
Marty Kane. Soon after, Szigethy made a $300,000<br />
donation to get the foundation started.<br />
“That allowed us to have this lovely launch party at<br />
Alice’s restaurant in June of 2012 where we invited<br />
leaders from organizations and groups around the<br />
lake and officials from local towns,” Murphy said.<br />
“We were able to introduce ourselves and hit the<br />
ground running with projects right out of the gate.”<br />
The foundation was flush with donors and<br />
volunteers from the beginning, Murphy added. “It<br />
made a huge difference. At the launch we let people<br />
sign up for committees on things that were most<br />
important to them—water quality, fundraising,<br />
safety, things like that.”<br />
One of the organization’s first events was a trash<br />
cleanup around the lake the morning after the<br />
annual fireworks show in July. Another goal was<br />
to increase police presence in the hopes of making<br />
the lake safer. “We started a partnership with the<br />
Morris County Sheriff’s office and the State Police<br />
to get more patrols on the water,” Murphy said.<br />
Those early projects were important, said
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lebrates Ten Years of Advocacy<br />
Murphy, but it was the seed money that really made<br />
the difference. “Having money to spend gave the<br />
organization credibility right away,” she said. “It<br />
allowed people to see what we could do.”<br />
“It was the right idea at the right time,” said<br />
Szigethy.<br />
Staff members included Lauren Rossi and Donna<br />
Macalle-Holly. Rossi, the first board secretary and<br />
development director, was on maternity leave<br />
during the launch, but still provided Murphy with<br />
significant support. “I don’t know what I would<br />
have done without her,” she said.<br />
Macalle-Holly was scooped up in January 2013<br />
after being laid off from the Lake Hopatcong<br />
Commission when that organization lost<br />
government funding. Her presence, said Murphy,<br />
has been instrumental in the foundation’s success.<br />
Macalle-Holly currently serves as the grants and<br />
programs director.<br />
In November 2013, Murphy recalls, Macalle-<br />
Holly organized the inaugural lake-wide cleanup in<br />
conjunction with a five-foot drawdown of the lake<br />
water.<br />
“She had a vision,” said Murphy of Macalle-<br />
Holly. “We had over three hundred volunteers and<br />
removed more than 10,000 pounds of garbage. It<br />
was an event that put the foundation on the map<br />
for a lot of people. It showed what potential we had<br />
and a need we were filling. It was about the lake but<br />
it was also about the community around the lake.<br />
The way the community cares about the lake really<br />
showed that day.”<br />
The five-foot drawdown now occurs every five<br />
years, with the next drawdown scheduled for<br />
November 2023.<br />
The foundation has flourished under strong<br />
leadership and very enthusiastic volunteers, said<br />
Szigethy, noting that “the money from private<br />
sources has increased every year and it’s become a<br />
broad-based, donation-funded organization.” It<br />
has also been successful in attracting grants and<br />
government money, he said.<br />
Kyle Richter, 33, of Bridgewater, has served<br />
as the foundation’s executive director since<br />
April 2021. He worked previously with the<br />
Musconetcong Watershed Association, which<br />
often collaborated with the foundation on area<br />
cleanups, water quality projects and public<br />
events. “Ever since I was a young child I have<br />
been fascinated with our shared environment<br />
and water in particular,” he said. “It is the<br />
backbone of life.”<br />
Joining Richter and Macalle-Holly on staff<br />
is communications director Holly Odgers and<br />
development director Caitlin Doran. The board<br />
now has 11 members, according to Richter.<br />
Richter said the organization offers a variety<br />
of programs and initiatives, including the<br />
Floating Classroom and field trip programs, the<br />
Block Party, and the Lake Loop as well as water<br />
quality monitoring programs.<br />
“We work closely with the Lake Hopatcong<br />
Commission to implement water quality<br />
improvement,” Richter said. Fundraising and<br />
outreach opportunities like the block party and<br />
the Lake Loop are now supported by focused<br />
committees, he added.<br />
“Most importantly, we advocate for Lake<br />
Hopatcong at every level of government to<br />
bring attention and secure more funding and<br />
resources for our lake,” said Richter.<br />
Stacey Allen, 50, is a longtime volunteer<br />
with the foundation and has lived in Mount<br />
Arlington since she was five years old. Her<br />
children are the fifth generation to live on the<br />
lake, she said. Allen and her family were among<br />
the 300 to help with drawdown cleanup in<br />
2013, cleaning the water’s edge near where they<br />
live. “My three children got to see firsthand<br />
the amount of garbage that others just threw<br />
into the lake,” she said of the experience. “It<br />
taught them how to be more environmentally<br />
conscious about the lake we all love.”<br />
Two of Allen’s children volunteered with the<br />
Floating Classroom this spring and summer.<br />
Her daughter Jess, 20, “felt it was a great way<br />
Upper left: Walkers set out from Nixon<br />
Elementary School at the 2014 Lake Loop.<br />
Lower left: Foundation board members during<br />
the plaque dedication ceremony in 2015.<br />
Left: Lauren Rossi and Jessica Murphy at the 2014<br />
foundation gala.<br />
Above: Jeff Allen and William Richardson at the<br />
2015 foundation plaque ceremony.<br />
to give back to the younger children on those<br />
class trips and show them how special the<br />
lake is and how important it is to preserve the<br />
environment.” Her son Greg, 21, was a first<br />
mate.<br />
“There has always been some effort underway<br />
for citizens to communicate and work together<br />
to protect the lake,” echoed Lundin about the<br />
foundation.<br />
At the gala, Kerry Kirk Pflugh, a former<br />
longtime New Jersey Department of<br />
Environmental Protection representative on<br />
the Lake Hopatcong Commission and now a<br />
foundation trustee, said the organization was<br />
the “best thing that has ever happened to the<br />
lake,” calling it a “non-partisan organization<br />
with the opportunity to work collaboratively<br />
with businesses and the public.”<br />
Morris County Sheriff James Gannon added<br />
that the foundation is all about innovation<br />
and how to do things better. “You can tell by<br />
meeting the staff, volunteers, and supporters—<br />
their heart is in it,” he said. “We provide safety<br />
on the water, but everyone has to do their part<br />
to keep the lake safe and clean and that all starts<br />
with the foundation. It’s like a family, not a<br />
business.”<br />
And that is precisely what the founders had in<br />
mind, said Murphy.<br />
“The best thing about the foundation is that<br />
it brings people together who share a love for<br />
Lake Hopatcong,” she said. “For some people,<br />
it’s about the natural beauty, for others it’s<br />
about recreation, and for others it’s about family<br />
history at the lake. The foundation gave people<br />
a place to put that love into action.”<br />
“It’s serving a purpose beyond what I<br />
intended,” Szigethy added. “I had hoped for an<br />
organization that did a little good and it’s done<br />
a lot of good.”<br />
In the next 10 years, Richter hopes that the<br />
foundation continues to grow and engages<br />
more people in its programs.<br />
“Everyone can take care of their own little<br />
corner of the lake but collectively we can do so<br />
much more,” Murphy said. “I’m really excited at<br />
what has been accomplished.”<br />
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Proposed Change Sparks<br />
Grassroots Campaign<br />
Story by MICHAEL DAIGLE<br />
Photos by KAREN FUCITO<br />
Fifty-five years ago, the battle along the<br />
Delaware River was whether a dam at<br />
Tocks Island would be built to prevent severe<br />
flooding and provide storage for public drinking<br />
water supplies.<br />
In 1955, two hurricanes resulted in hundreds<br />
of deaths and millions in property damage. The<br />
Tocks Island Dam would prevent such flooding,<br />
authorities said at the time. A plan was devised<br />
to dam the river based on a study from the<br />
1930s.<br />
The Tocks Island Dam was never built, lost in<br />
a fog of changing national priorities, a lack of<br />
funding and a strong local outcry; the dam was<br />
deauthorized in 1992. Despite the opposition,<br />
the property-taking was completed, leaving<br />
vacant land and hard feelings.<br />
Today, the fight is over whether that land—<br />
70,000 acres that straddle the Delaware River<br />
between New Jersey and Pennsylvania called<br />
the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation<br />
Area and Middle Delaware National Scenic<br />
and Recreational River—should be designated<br />
a national park.<br />
The current debate began in 2021 when an<br />
unofficial proposal by the Sierra Clubs of New<br />
Jersey and Pennsylvania announced it was<br />
time to ask Congress to designate the DWRA<br />
as a national park called the Delaware River<br />
National Park and Lenape Preserve.<br />
Visitors to the DWRA can hike, swim, boat,<br />
picnic, hunt and fish or simply enjoy the wooded<br />
landscape dotted with ponds, waterfalls, streams<br />
and historic sites. The recreation area also<br />
contains sections of the Appalachian Trail, the<br />
9/11 Memorial Trail and 40 miles of the longest<br />
undammed river in the United States. According<br />
to a 2021 National<br />
Park Service<br />
report, its annual<br />
attendance rivals better known national parks<br />
such as Yellowstone.<br />
The DWRA had 4.1 million visitors in 2020<br />
who spent $144 million in local communities,<br />
supporting 1,970 jobs and contributing toward<br />
a total economic output of $212 million in<br />
communities within 60 miles of the recreation<br />
area, the park service reported.<br />
“We are starting with a much larger visitation<br />
of 4 million and don’t expect the visitation<br />
to grow all at once, but over time,” the Sierra<br />
Club proposal said. “The tourists will buy food,<br />
gasoline and hotel rooms locally. All boats rise<br />
with a high tide and the national park and<br />
preserve designation will aid all of the local<br />
economies.”<br />
A map issued by the Sierra Club in August<br />
showed the potential use of the 9,700-acre<br />
national park lining both sides of the river<br />
with an additional 1,300 spur near a pair of<br />
Pennsylvania features and 56,000 acres called<br />
the Lenape Preserve. The new park would be<br />
contained inside the existing recreation area<br />
boundaries.<br />
Proponents of the change claim the<br />
redesignation would add prestige to the<br />
recreation area, providing New Jersey and<br />
Pennsylvania with the region’s first national<br />
park, which could open the area to greater<br />
visitation levels and better funding possibilities.<br />
“The park has surprisingly little infrastructure<br />
to support this number of visitors,” the Sierra<br />
Club proposal said. “Better visitor facilities will<br />
help visitors gain a fuller appreciation of the<br />
value of wild and natural spaces.”<br />
“We are likely to see an increase in visitors and<br />
spending. West Virginia’s recently redesignated<br />
New River Gorge, as a National Park and<br />
Preserve, reported an increase of 600,000 visitors<br />
in the first year, increasing from 1.1 million to<br />
1.7 million,” the Sierra Club proposal added.<br />
The American Mountain Club, which<br />
operates the Mohican Outdoor Center within<br />
DWRA, supports the national park effort.<br />
“AMC supports the change in designation<br />
because it will bring funding, awareness, and<br />
recognition,” Mark Zakutansky, AMC’s director<br />
of conservation policy engagement, said in a<br />
press release. “That stance matches our legacy of<br />
supporting public lands.”<br />
In 2021, citing the “overwhelming need”<br />
for more parks, Pennsylvania Department of<br />
Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary<br />
Cindy Adams Dunn said having a national<br />
park within Pennsylvania’s borders would have<br />
“many benefits.”<br />
The Sierra Club pointed out some of the<br />
benefits: “The park is an easy day trip from two<br />
major metropolitan areas. We want to fulfill<br />
Congress’ original intention for national parks,<br />
to create equity in nature-based recreational<br />
opportunities,” the organization wrote. “Over 40<br />
million people live in New Jersey, Pennsylvania<br />
and New York, and 60 million live within a<br />
3-hour drive of the existing park. We see an<br />
unprecedented opportunity to introduce many<br />
urban and suburban dwellers to the benefits of<br />
our natural world.”<br />
Local opposition surfaced in February when<br />
Sandy Hull, 75, of Layton co-founded The<br />
Delaware Water Gap Defense Fund, a group<br />
aimed at stopping the redesignation of the<br />
recreation area to a national park. Hull also<br />
started a website, nonationalpark.org and a<br />
Facebook page, No National Park, which had<br />
3,500 members as of August.<br />
“There is no clear plan disclosed to the public,<br />
no details,” Hull said.<br />
Her group’s main points of contention are:<br />
• The Sierra Club’s proposal lacks any detail<br />
as to changes in park boundaries, permitted<br />
uses, fees and visitation, as well as impacts on<br />
local environment, economy and infrastructure.<br />
No entities should be supporting any proposal<br />
without this detailed information.<br />
• Recreation areas are among the most diverse<br />
units in the National Park Service system. A<br />
change to a National Park could reduce this<br />
diversity if an entrance fee is implemented.<br />
• A stated goal of the change is to increase<br />
visitation to DWRA. Increased visitation means<br />
increased impacts on infrastructure inside the<br />
park and in surrounding local communities.<br />
The park already has $145 million in delayed<br />
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Sandy Hull with signs<br />
opposing a national<br />
park designation.<br />
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A historic building on Walpack Flatbrook<br />
Road showing signs of neglect and decay.<br />
Jimmy Heigis, owner of<br />
the Walpack Inn.
maintenance. The designation change would<br />
not address this issue.<br />
• Currently, there are tracts of land along the<br />
Delaware river that are leased to farmers. The<br />
group said the park service could take those<br />
farms through eminent domain. The groups<br />
also claimed that New Jersey parks, Stokes State<br />
Forest, High Point State Park and Worthington<br />
State Forest would be annexed into the new<br />
national park.<br />
John Donahue, a former DWRA<br />
superintendent and spokesman for the pro-park<br />
group, said there is no plan to acquire land for<br />
the national park but “private willing sellers”<br />
can choose to sell their property at any time. He<br />
also said that the status of New Jersey parks and<br />
forests adjacent to the proposed national park<br />
would not change.<br />
The Delaware Riverkeeper Network has also<br />
voiced opposition to the plan.<br />
“National Park status will significantly increase<br />
the number of visitors to the park in the near<br />
term and the long term—thereby increasing<br />
the environmental footprint and creating<br />
increasing rationale for additional infrastructure<br />
including parking lots, sewage treatment and<br />
other utility facilities, hotel housing, and other<br />
development,” said Maya van Rossum, the<br />
Delaware Riverkeeper.<br />
Opposition spans the river. Nine New Jersey<br />
towns and both Sussex and Warren counties have<br />
issued statements or resolutions in opposition.<br />
Six Pennsylvania towns, three counties and two<br />
community associations joined the opposition.<br />
U.S. Sen. Steve Oroho of New Jersey and<br />
Sussex County Assemblymen Harold Wirths<br />
and Parker Space also voiced opposition, as did<br />
U.S. Reps. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and<br />
Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania.<br />
The Sussex politicians’ main concern is the<br />
potential loss of hunting in the new park,<br />
along with a drop in hunting-related revenue.<br />
Hunting is currently allowed in the area except<br />
for 29 specific spots near public gathering areas<br />
or parking lots. But while national parks do not<br />
allow hunting, the Sierra Club proposal said<br />
hunting would be allowed in the 56,000-acre<br />
Lenape Preserve.<br />
What’s lacking in the entire discussion, said<br />
Walpack Mayor Frank Maglio, is a real plan<br />
to consider, which is why the township has<br />
not taken a formal position yet. “No official<br />
plan exists,” he said. To create an actual plan,<br />
Congress must approve a study, vote on the<br />
redesignation, and pass legislation to fund the<br />
change, Maglio said.<br />
Donahue, spokesman for the pro-park group,<br />
said “there is no legislation. We are building<br />
consensus.”<br />
The lack of definitive goals and plans is one<br />
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reason the Lake Hopatcong<br />
community has not entered<br />
the fray, said Marty Kane,<br />
board chairman of the Lake<br />
Hopatcong Foundation.<br />
“I’m happy not to take a<br />
position on this issue,” he<br />
said.<br />
Jimmy Heigis, 85, is a Walpack committeeman<br />
whose family has been operating the Walpack<br />
Inn since 1949, after buying the inn from its<br />
original owners. He said he fought the federal<br />
government for seven years to keep his business<br />
and not lose it to the Tocks Island Dam project,<br />
adding that he was one of the lucky ones to keep<br />
his land.<br />
“I guess I’m ambivalent about it,” he said of<br />
the national park plan. “If it got the funding<br />
that other national parks get, then it might be<br />
good. It might improve the roads. I’ve been to<br />
many national parks, for the most part they’re<br />
pretty well funded. I don’t know if that will<br />
happen here. It’s beautiful the way it is.”<br />
Maglio is resigned to the loss of the township,<br />
which has just seven residents according to<br />
the 2020 U.S. Census. The township, like<br />
neighboring Pahaquarry, was absorbed into the<br />
national recreation area. Both Pahaquarry and<br />
Walpack trace their founding to the early 1700s.<br />
The National Park Service has generated two documents that detail the conditions of the<br />
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, operating challenges and possible plans to<br />
address them. The documents are found at these links:<br />
• Foundation Document - Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (nps.gov)<br />
• Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Visitor Use Management Plan, November 2020 (nps.gov)<br />
Pahaquarry, whose population had dwindled<br />
to fewer than a dozen people, was incorporated<br />
into Hardwick Township in 1997. Maglio wants<br />
to ensure that Walpack’s history is preserved.<br />
Hull has turned the disappointment of losing<br />
family homes and having to leave her home<br />
in Sandyston in the Tocks Island years into<br />
determination to fight the national park plan.<br />
“That was a long, long time ago,” Hull said.<br />
“That was then. This is now. It’s time to face<br />
the new challenge of the potential national park<br />
designation and the changes that might come.”<br />
Michaeline Picardo, a spokeswoman for the<br />
Lenape Tribe of Andover, has a different take on<br />
the use of DWRA.<br />
The recreation area was part of a vast Lenape<br />
territory for more than 12,000 years. Their<br />
campsites, trails and sacred sites are among the<br />
600 historic places noted in the DWRA.<br />
“The best way to preserve the land is to do<br />
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and the land will heal itself.” She said her tribe<br />
and other New Jersey recognized tribes have<br />
been pushing to be included more deeply into<br />
the discussions about the future of the DWRA<br />
and that the potential of a Lenape cultural<br />
center in the preserve is troubling.<br />
“We are concerned with the destruction of<br />
our sacred land along the Delaware to construct<br />
this education building,” Picardo added. “Will<br />
this education center have any representation<br />
from New Jersey state tribes? Will the process<br />
destroy our trail markers?”<br />
She characterized the possible center as<br />
“Hollywood,” meaning that it will be considered<br />
just for show.<br />
Beyond the cultural concerns, Picardo said<br />
there is great concern that removing trees, as<br />
well as building roads and parking lots, will<br />
cause additional harm to the land.<br />
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Braxton Bodziak, Dorothy Chang, Sloane Bodziak<br />
and Jean Dussalt<br />
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Floating Classroom Offers<br />
Unique Learning Experience<br />
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Story and photos by KAREN FUCITO<br />
Almost two dozen people recently boarded the Lake Hopatcong Foundation’s Floating<br />
Classroom for an informational and ecology-based learning experience on Lake Hopatcong.<br />
The public cruise is offered throughout the summer on Mondays.<br />
Despite a day-long mist and cool breeze on August 1, the group took part in hands-on<br />
experiments, first collecting lake water, then using high-powered microscopes to study plankton<br />
living in the water. The group also used a device known as a Secchi disk to test water clarity.<br />
The 90-minute cruise was led by lead educator Patrick Krudop, a student at Kean University,<br />
and staffed by volunteer educators and boat operators.<br />
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HISTORY<br />
Hudson Maxim and his wife Lillian Maxim with an unknown passenger<br />
(left) in his boat, the Maxzim, in front of his boat house, circa 1913.<br />
Maxim playing tennis at his<br />
Maxim Park cottage, 1915.<br />
He Put the ‘Hop’ in Hopatcong<br />
by MARTY KANE<br />
Photos courtesy of the<br />
LAKE HOPATCONG<br />
HISTORICAL MUSEUM<br />
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Almost 100<br />
years after<br />
his death, Hudson<br />
Maxim’s name is still widely recognized around<br />
Lake Hopatcong. During his lifetime, Maxim<br />
was known nationwide and was considered<br />
a leading voice on issues across the political<br />
spectrum.<br />
Thomas Edison called him “the most<br />
versatile man in America.” Three photos of<br />
U.S. presidents in the collection of the Lake<br />
Hopatcong Historical Museum, all bearing<br />
personal messages to Maxim, provide further<br />
evidence of his prominence.<br />
An inventor, scientist and author, Maxim’s<br />
greatest fame came from his contributions to<br />
modern warfare as the creator of smokeless<br />
powder in the U.S. and other propellants,<br />
shells and torpedoes. One of his most famous<br />
patents was for Maximite, a high-explosive 50<br />
percent more powerful than dynamite. When<br />
placed in torpedoes, the powder resisted the<br />
shock of firing and the shock of piercing armor<br />
plate without bursting. Maxim held many<br />
other patents for items that ran the gamut<br />
from a board game to a new-style coffee pot.<br />
There is often confusion about some of<br />
Maxim’s inventions as both his brother and<br />
nephew were also prolific inventors. Hiram<br />
Maxim, the older brother of Hudson, invented<br />
the Maxim gun, the first truly automatic<br />
machine gun.<br />
Hiram Percy Maxim, Hudson’s nephew,<br />
invented the first commercially successful<br />
firearm silencer known as the Maxim Silencer.<br />
Hudson Maxim sold his factory and most<br />
important patents to E.I. du Pont de Nemours<br />
and Company in 1897 but remained with<br />
DuPont as a consulting engineer until his<br />
death.<br />
During this era, northern New Jersey was<br />
the epicenter of America’s explosives industry<br />
with operations at the Picatinny Powder<br />
Depot, Atlantic Giant Powder Company<br />
(later Hercules) and American Forcite Powder<br />
Company, which became Atlas Powder<br />
Company in 1913. American Forcite was<br />
located in what today is the Shore Hills section<br />
of Landing. It was a visit to this plant that first<br />
brought Maxim to Lake Hopatcong.<br />
Maxim fell in love with the area and<br />
purchased a large parcel on the west shore of<br />
the lake near Sharp’s Rock in 1901. In 1904,<br />
he built his main house, initially known as<br />
Maximhurst and then simply as Maxim Park.<br />
Two years later, he added the distinct<br />
Venetian-style boathouse that would dominate<br />
the west shore for the next 50 years. Built of<br />
stone and wood with two steel girders, the<br />
three-story structure extended out over the<br />
water and resembled a medieval fortress.<br />
Maxim Park included tennis courts, a garage<br />
and a combination observatory/icehouse. There<br />
were also three guest houses to accommodate<br />
Maxim’s many visitors—including Annie<br />
Oakley, Edwin Markham, Thomas Edison and<br />
Francis DuPont—and a full laboratory on the<br />
hill above today’s Lakeside Boulevard.<br />
For many years, Maxim maintained a<br />
townhouse in Brooklyn, New York, but spent<br />
most of the year at Maxim Park where he<br />
was extremely active in the Lake Hopatcong<br />
community.<br />
Maxim served as a councilman for the<br />
Borough of Hopatcong from 1907 to 1923,<br />
was elected in 1910 as an early board member<br />
of the Lake Hopatcong Yacht Club and was a<br />
founding member and the first Commodore<br />
of the Maxim Park Yacht Club, which opened<br />
in 1914.<br />
Passionate about the lake, Maxim also saw<br />
Maxim with Thomas Edison at Edison’s<br />
West Orange <strong>Labor</strong>atory, circa 1920.<br />
opportunities in its development. In 1910,<br />
he and his wife, Lillian, purchased the Byram<br />
Cove Land Company, which consisted of<br />
over 650 acres and 2.5 miles of lakefront –<br />
approximately three-quarters of what was then<br />
the Borough of Hopatcong. His Maxim Park<br />
Land Company was responsible for much<br />
of the development of Hopatcong, which<br />
explains why the names Hudson, Maxim<br />
and Durban (Lillian’s maiden name) appear<br />
frequently in the borough.<br />
While developing their land, the Maxims<br />
donated several lots for public use, including<br />
the Hopatcong or River Styx School (which<br />
would later be renamed Hudson Maxim<br />
School), Byram Bay Christian Church, Maxim<br />
Park Yacht Club and the properties that are<br />
now Modick Park and Maxim Glen. Maxim<br />
was a vocal advocate for Lake Hopatcong. He<br />
led the effort to abolish the Morris Canal and<br />
have the lake declared a public aquatic park for<br />
boating, bathing, fishing and winter sports.<br />
In spite of his military work, Maxim often<br />
lectured and wrote on the importance of<br />
arbitration over war. He spoke and wrote<br />
prolifically on other topics as well, from his<br />
opposition of maintaining the Morris Canal<br />
to his disdain of Prohibition to his support<br />
of women’s suffrage to his love of poetry and<br />
boxing.<br />
During World War I, Maxim was appointed<br />
to the Naval Consulting Board, a brain trust of<br />
civilian experts to advise on matters of military<br />
technology that was chaired by Thomas<br />
Edison. Maxim chaired the committee on<br />
ordnance and explosives. During this period,<br />
he interfaced with a young assistant secretary<br />
of the Navy named Franklin D. Roosevelt.<br />
Maxim’s popular book, “Defenseless<br />
America,” which was published in 1915, and<br />
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Lillian and Maxim on the porch of their<br />
Lake Hopatcong cottage, circa 1912.<br />
the resulting movie “The Battle Cry of Peace,”<br />
are considered pivotal by many historians<br />
for impacting the change of public opinion<br />
in America from neutralism to supporting<br />
England and France. Theodore Roosevelt<br />
stated, “‘The Battle Cry of Peace’ has done<br />
more for the Allied cause than 20 battalions<br />
of soldiers.”<br />
After Maxim’s death in 1927, Lillian<br />
continued to reside at Maxim Park. In 1932,<br />
she married New York attorney Michael Dee,<br />
with whom she wintered in Grand Viewon-the-Hudson<br />
in Rockland County and<br />
summered at Lake Hopatcong.<br />
Following Lillian’s death in 1952, Dee<br />
donated much of what he considered to be<br />
Hudson Maxim’s treasures to the New York<br />
Public Library, where they are still housed<br />
today. Many of his other papers and photos<br />
are maintained in the archives of<br />
the Hagley Museum and Library in<br />
Wilmington, Delaware, and the Lake<br />
Hopatcong Historical Museum.<br />
Lillian Maxim’s wish for their Lake<br />
Hopatcong house to become a museum<br />
dedicated to her late husband never<br />
came to fruition. The main house and<br />
boathouse were regrettably torn down<br />
in the late 1950s, after their sale by the<br />
Lillian Maxim estate. The property was<br />
subdivided and two of the guest houses,<br />
as well as the former garage, survive today as<br />
private residences.<br />
A modern boathouse was built on the<br />
original dock cribbing around 1970. Much<br />
of the original stonework that landscaped<br />
the property is still visible along Lakeside<br />
Boulevard and the unique round stone<br />
icehouse/observatory still stands on the<br />
shoreline.<br />
A monument dedicated to Hudson Maxim<br />
at Hopatcong State Park in 1929 was<br />
recently refurbished by the Lake Hopatcong<br />
Historical Museum and is visible from<br />
Lakeside Boulevard. In 2002, the Borough<br />
of Hopatcong established Maxim Glen Park.<br />
Road names such as Hudson Avenue, Maxim<br />
Drive and Durban Road are still in use, and<br />
Maxim’s name is still associated with the<br />
school building located at Lakeside Boulevard<br />
Upper left: In front, Thomas Edison and Hudson<br />
Maxim at Edison’s West Orange <strong>Labor</strong>atory,<br />
August 9, 1915. In back, Edison’s chief engineer<br />
Miller Reese Hutchinson (far left), other<br />
gentleman unknown.<br />
Upper right: Lillian and Hudson (center) at the<br />
dedication ceremony at Maxim Park Yacht Club,<br />
1915. The building still stands on Cow Tongue<br />
Point.<br />
and River Styx Road.<br />
A headline in the August 13, 1922 Newark<br />
Sunday Call referred to Maxim as the man<br />
“Who Put ‘Hop’ In Hopatcong.” One hundred<br />
years later, Hopatcong still remembers Hudson<br />
Maxim.<br />
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COOKING<br />
WITH SCRATCH ©<br />
Those Viral Recipes<br />
Have you ever<br />
been sucked<br />
into looking at<br />
cooking demos<br />
on Instagram and<br />
TikTok?<br />
I swear it’s like eating candy: It’s hard to stop.<br />
I’ve picked up the habit of death-scrolling both<br />
platforms for hours this summer.<br />
I had to set a timer on my phone to get myself<br />
to stop!<br />
My mother, Gertrude, used to say that<br />
people who lived alone and didn’t cook enjoyed<br />
watching cooking shows because it made them<br />
feel like their mother was taking care of them<br />
and making their favorite home-cooked meal.<br />
I think there is some truth to that. In reading<br />
up on this new phenomenon, I found out that<br />
watching someone perform an action elicits<br />
the same neurological response as performing<br />
that action yourself. According to Anita Deak,<br />
Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University<br />
of Pécs, this is called the “mirror neuron theory.”<br />
Don’t get me wrong, you can learn a lot from<br />
watching cooking demonstrations on TV or<br />
online, but there are several drawbacks. If you<br />
have no idea how long the actual prep work<br />
takes or how much of a mess you will make in<br />
your kitchen, replicating one of these recipes<br />
can be a rude awakening.<br />
There are house cleaning TikTok videos for<br />
that, though.<br />
In general, the internet sure has changed<br />
how people cook. It’s so easy to just Google<br />
“blueberry muffins” and come up with 21.7<br />
million results in 47 seconds.<br />
Why would anyone crack open a cookbook<br />
these days?<br />
It’s such a shame, though. The effort that goes<br />
into the production of a beautiful cookbook<br />
is staggering. I enjoy reading and owning<br />
cookbooks and have a large collection myself.<br />
However, when I can’t remember which book<br />
contains the recipe I want, I often find myself<br />
searching for it on my computer (not on my<br />
phone, though, because I’m such a boomer).<br />
Case in point: The Ottolenghi cookbooks.<br />
My nieces and friends heard I was a big fan of<br />
Yotam Ottolenghi, the Israeli restaurateur and<br />
cookbook author. His cookbooks are plush,<br />
lavishly illustrated and feature a kaleidoscope of<br />
Middle Eastern cuisine, which I love. Thanks to<br />
friends and family, I now own every single one<br />
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of his cookbooks.<br />
When I hear about someone making<br />
an Ottolenghi recipe, I always ask:<br />
“Which book?”<br />
Ottolenghi eggplant salad?<br />
Which one? “Simple,” “Flavor,”<br />
“Jerusalem,” “Plenty,” or “Plenty More”?<br />
Someone (not me!) should create<br />
a comprehensive index of all of his<br />
cookbooks and make it available online.<br />
I used to make copies of the recipes<br />
I tried that were successful and shove them<br />
into my big binder, which sits alongside my<br />
cookbook collection in my kitchen.<br />
Gertrude named my binder “The Soon to be<br />
Lost Arts of Cooking and Baking.”<br />
She believed that cooking would become a<br />
lost art.<br />
But even in my own binder, I often can’t find<br />
the recipe I am looking for. A few years ago,<br />
I categorized: appetizers, pickles, soups and<br />
stews, pasta dishes, seafood, et cetera. This year,<br />
I started alphabetizing each section by main<br />
ingredient: apples, bananas, blueberries, corn,<br />
and so forth. It has gotten a little easier for me<br />
to find things.<br />
But I digress…<br />
Yes, a person can learn a lot by watching<br />
cooking videos, and this summer I’ve tried my<br />
share of viral TikTok recipes. Most of them<br />
have been “meh” at best. After my daughter,<br />
Erika, raved about the Green Goddess salad, I<br />
figured I would have to give it a shot.<br />
I watched three or four different videos, then<br />
searched the internet and found wildly varying<br />
ingredients and measurements.<br />
I had to “dope this one out.”<br />
I measured, I weighed, I chopped, shredded<br />
and blended until I got what the reviews<br />
claimed the recipe to be:<br />
Got leakys?<br />
“Addicting!”<br />
“How dare this be so amazing?”<br />
“The hype is real.”<br />
I’ve scaled it down a bit because the recipes<br />
I tried made an absolute ton of food. Most<br />
recipes called for half a large head of cabbage—<br />
about 2 pounds. I’ve shaved this down to about<br />
1.5 pounds of cabbage (about 5 cups shredded).<br />
If you’re using half a head of cabbage, wrap<br />
the remainder tightly in plastic and it will last<br />
almost forever in your refrigerator. (Cabbage<br />
seems to have a radioactive half-life of 50 years.)<br />
You can use the rest for coleslaw, a stir fry or<br />
adding to a dinner salad.<br />
Some of the recipes I found online call<br />
for putting the chopped cabbage in a food<br />
processor to very finely shred it. This yields<br />
a more “dippable” texture. If you don’t own<br />
a food processor, do your best and chop it as<br />
finely as you can by hand.<br />
I upped the avocados from one to two—I<br />
liked the additional creaminess and flavor in the<br />
dressing. I also added Greek yogurt (you can<br />
substitute sour cream), making the salad taste<br />
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GREEN GODDESS SALAD/DIP<br />
Ingredients<br />
The veggies:<br />
1½ pounds green cabbage<br />
(1 small head—use the scale in the produce<br />
department)<br />
4 diced Persian cucumbers<br />
½ cup chopped scallions (about ½ a bunch)<br />
2 tablespoons chopped red onion<br />
Dressing:<br />
¼ cup salted cashews or walnuts<br />
2 ripe avocados<br />
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast or grated parmesan<br />
cheese<br />
1½ limes, juiced<br />
1½ teaspoons kosher salt<br />
½ teaspoon pepper<br />
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil<br />
⅓ cup plain Greek yogurt<br />
2 garlic cloves, minced<br />
1 cup cilantro leaves and stems, packed, saving a few leaves for garnish<br />
1½ jalapeño peppers with seeds, sliced<br />
Procedure<br />
Prepare the veggies:<br />
1 Trim the coarse outer leaves from the cabbage, then cut it in half and remove the core.<br />
Roughly chop and add about 3 cups at a time to a food processor. Pulse the cabbage until<br />
it is fairly finely ground.<br />
2 In a large bowl, add the cabbage, diced cucumbers, chopped scallions and red onion.<br />
Don’t bother cleaning out the work bowl of the food processor before starting on the<br />
dressing.<br />
Make the dressing:<br />
3 For creamiest results, use a blender or a food processor.<br />
4 Toast the cashews or walnuts on a plate in the microwave for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes or<br />
in a small frying pan on the stovetop until fragrant. Let cool. Add the nuts to a blender or<br />
nutribullet and grind until fine. Set aside.<br />
5 Cut the avocados in half, removing the pits and scooping out the flesh. Cut it into<br />
chunks.<br />
6 Add the avocado chunks, ground nuts, nutritional yeast, lime juice, salt, pepper, olive<br />
oil, yogurt, garlic, jalapeño peppers and cilantro to the work bowl of the food processor or<br />
a blender and whiz until well combined.<br />
7 Add the dressing to the salad and mix well to distribute. Taste for salt.<br />
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WORDS OF<br />
A FEATHER<br />
Hit the Road, Pup<br />
Last month, I got to enjoy the grand<br />
tradition of a summer road trip. My friend<br />
asked me to join her family vacation in Duck,<br />
North Carolina, on the Outer Banks. Even<br />
better, she invited my dog, a sweet little Boston<br />
Terrier, too. Giddy up!<br />
I figured my dog and I would spend a week<br />
driving from my home in Florida to Duck, then<br />
spend a week there with friends, then a third<br />
week driving home via a different route.<br />
I planned every detail of this three-week<br />
phantasmagoria. I researched places of interest,<br />
plotted driving distances and identified dogfriendly<br />
hotels, restaurants, parks and hiking<br />
trails.<br />
I spent weeks packing to achieve a perfect<br />
balance of having exactly what we’d need, but<br />
not too much.<br />
I love having a plan, and I love doing the<br />
planning, and I was having a ball.<br />
The day before I planned to leave for the first<br />
week, I had to cancel the entire trip for various<br />
reasons. Hours of planning down the drain.<br />
Hours more spent on the phone and online<br />
canceling reservations. Rats!<br />
But the day before the second week—<br />
vacationing with friends in Duck—everything<br />
suddenly worked out, and I could go. In 15<br />
minutes, I threw dog food, a water bowl and<br />
some random clothes in the car. I buckled my<br />
little dog and myself into our seat belts, set<br />
Google Maps for Duck and hit the road. I threw<br />
my plans out the window and instead welcomed<br />
serendipity and spontaneity.<br />
In Santee, South Carolina, the heavens started<br />
raging, dropping sheets of rain and spears of<br />
lightning. I could barely see the road. I took the<br />
next exit and stumbled into the first hotel I saw.<br />
Luckily, they welcomed dogs. Serendipitous<br />
moment number one.<br />
The next morning dawned clear and bright,<br />
38<br />
Summer bloom along the<br />
Blue Ridge Parkway.<br />
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The<br />
Craggy<br />
Gardens.<br />
A log cabin in<br />
Cades Cove,<br />
Great Smoky<br />
Mountains<br />
National Park.<br />
Column and photos by HEATHER SHIRLEY<br />
and we found ourselves right next to a state<br />
park. Serendipity strikes again.<br />
We hiked through glorious towering trees and<br />
breakfasted on the shores of a huge lake ringed<br />
by cypress trees dripping with morning mist.<br />
Then we hustled north again. By the end of the<br />
day, my friend and I were toasting our reunion,<br />
and our dogs were becoming fast friends.<br />
We lived like royalty for a week, indulging in<br />
nothing but beach walks with the dogs, great<br />
food, bike rides, swimming and plenty of time<br />
for long face-to-face conversations that just<br />
aren’t the same over the phone. Bliss.<br />
But nothing lasts forever, and after a delicious<br />
week, my friend and her family headed home<br />
to reality. My dog and I were on the road again<br />
with no plan. Should we go straight home?<br />
Explore? Where?<br />
I decided to go to Asheville, North Carolina.<br />
After six hours of driving, we pulled into<br />
town—and hated it. It’s very trendy and I’m<br />
sure really lovely, but it just didn’t feel right. Too<br />
hot and noisy. We poked around a bit and got<br />
back in the car.<br />
So, where to? We saw a sign for the Blue Ridge<br />
Parkway. Perfect! Serendipity! We hiked the<br />
unique ecosystem of Craggy Gardens, a rocky<br />
heath on high peaks. We saw ravens and bears,<br />
including a cub climbing a tree above its mama,<br />
who was eating wild blueberries. We enjoyed<br />
spectacular mountaintop views across acres of<br />
blooming pink Catawba rhododendrons and<br />
brilliant orange flame azaleas.<br />
We drove west and wound up in Great<br />
Smoky Mountains National Park. More<br />
hiking. More stunning views. More bears.<br />
And elk. And lots and lots of cars and people.<br />
It’s the most visited of America’s national<br />
parks and, after a couple days, I was tired of<br />
the crowds.<br />
Where to next? Scanning Google Maps,<br />
Chattanooga was only a couple hours away. I<br />
booked a night at a fancy historic downtown<br />
hotel.<br />
With my dog tucked under my arm, I entered<br />
the sumptuous lobby and was surprised by a<br />
Roaring ‘20s party in full swing. A band played<br />
and professional dancers in period costumes<br />
did the Charleston. Champagne and gifts<br />
were passed to all guests. Turns out, it was the<br />
150th anniversary of the hotel. We joined the<br />
party and, I daresay, my dog was a big hit. The<br />
dancers even took her for a spin!<br />
We made our way home over a few leisurely<br />
days, with more serendipitous sights and<br />
restaurants festooning our journey like pops<br />
of confetti. We learned about and visited sites<br />
associated with the Trail of Tears, Underground<br />
Railroad and Civil War. We devoured new<br />
foods and discovered new species of plants<br />
and animals. Finally, we were reminded, as we<br />
opened our own door, that as wonderful as it is<br />
to travel, it is just as delightful to get back home.<br />
The road keeps calling to me, and I’m already<br />
dreaming about our next journey. While I’m<br />
sure I’ll do plenty of planning for it, I will<br />
strive to invite serendipity along for the ride.<br />
I hope I’ve inspired you to go on a road trip.<br />
For a day, for a week, for a month—whatever<br />
is manageable.<br />
I might see you along the way.<br />
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