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Newcomerstown display to honor Native Americans

ZANESVILLE — Six figures, bathed in golden afternoon light rest on a table in sculptor Alan Cottrill’s Zanesville studio. They represent one of the most personal projects of the artist to date.

The figures, about 18 inches tall, are models for a larger project planned for downtown Newcomerstown called the Lenape Diaspora Memorial. Cottrill is related to each of the figures represented, having traced his family tree back more than 300 years.

The figures tell the story of the Lenape, or Delaware tribe of Native Americans. Pushed out of their original home in the Mid-Atlantic region, they continued to relocate as white settlers pushed them further west. Eventually, around 1759, they settled in Newcomerstown, known as Gekelmukpechunk to the Lenape.

The six statues will stand seven feet tall and represent some of the most important figures in Lenape history. First is Chief Tamanend (1625-1701), who signed treaties with William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. Both believed the natives and the white settlers could coexist in peace.

Tamanend’s son, Chief Nutimus (1650-1756), signed the notorious Walking Purchase treaty, which pushed the tribe away from the Delaware River valley between modern day Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 

Nutimus’ son, Chief Netawatwees (1686-1776), moved the tribe to modern day Ohio, settling at both Newcomerstown and Coshocton.

Bemino “John Killbuck Sr.” (1704-1779), Netawatwees’ son, aligned the tribe with the French during the French and Indian War, fighting mostly in eastern West Virginia.

Miatoka Nyeswanon (1740-1779) was Bemino’s daughter. She married John Schoolcraft and had several children, including Jacob Schoolcraft (1761-1850). Schoolcraft was captured by another tribe during a raid. He escaped four years later. 

As part of his family’s oral history, Cottrill always heard Jacob Schoolcraft married an Indian princess. Miatoka was the daughter of Bemino, who was known as the King of the Delaware by white settlers despite the fact the Delaware had no royalty. Thus, Miatoka would have…

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No. 2 Bergen Catholic 28, No. 3 St. Joseph (Mont.) 23

No. 6 Kingsway 37, St. Augustine 33

No. 12 Warren Hills 73, Hackettstown 0

Friday, Jan. 28

BIG NORTH

West Milford 34, New Milford 33 – Box Score

Clifton 83, Paterson Kennedy 0 – Box Score

Westwood 48, Ramapo 22 – Box Score

Paramus 51, Ridgewood 20 – Box Score

Bergen Catholic 28, St. Joseph (Mont.) 23 – Box Score

Passaic Valley 52, Fair Lawn 28 – Box Score

CAPE-ATLANTIC

Kingsway 37, St. Augustine 33 – Box Score

COLONIAL

Shawnee 40, West Deptford 15 – Box Score

Shawnee 74, Haddon Heights 0 – Box Score

Haddon Township 45, Sterling 33 – Box Score

Collingswood 51, Gateway 17 – Box Score

Paulsboro 47, Haddonfield 15 – Box Score

HCIAL

Kearny 54, Belleville 27 – Box Score

Bayonne 57, Cedar Grove 21 – Box Score

Hasbrouck Heights 60, Union City 12 – Box Score

NJIC

West Milford 34, New Milford 33 – Box Score

Hasbrouck Heights 60, Union City 12 – Box Score

OLYMPIC

Shawnee 40, West Deptford 15 – Box Score

Shawnee 74, Haddon Heights 0 – Box Score

Cherry Hill West 63, Cherry Hill East 18 – Box Score

SEC

Caldwell 42, West Orange 34 – Box Score

Kearny 54, Belleville 27 – Box Score

Livingston 44, West Essex 18 – Box Score

Verona 63, Glen Ridge 10 – Box Score

Bloomfield 48, Irvington 36 – Box Score

Bayonne 57, Cedar Grove 21 – Box Score

SHORE

Colts Neck 48, Donovan Catholic 30 – Box Score

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After four days of voting, Lenape Valley senior Josh Valencia has been selected as the Morris/Sussex Wrestler of the Week for Week 5.

Valencia extended his win streak to five bouts as he improved to 10-4 on the year. He avenged a loss to Vernon/Wallkill Valley’s Shane Saulnier with an 8-3 win. Valencia also picked up a 1-0 win over Dover’s Dixon Dominguez and 2-0 win over Morris Hills’ Tyler Fro.

Here were the other nominees:

Steven Dalling

Kittatinny senior

Despite a tough week from the Kittatinny squad, Dalling provided wins in each of his bouts against High Point and Phillipsburg. He decked High Point’s Nick Marangi in 27 seconds and followed it up with a 7-1 win over the Stateliners’ Hunter Cleaver.

Dominic DelleMonache

Morris Knolls junior

DelleMonache was at the forefront of Morris Knolls’ success on the week as it went 5-0 including a big win over Mendham. DelleMonache was 5-0 himself, including three first-period wins and major decisions over Madison’s Michael McGuire and Mendham’s Michael Oths.

Aidan Murtagh

Newton senior

Murtagh has consistently wrestled up in weight this season to help the Braves fill out their lineup. Last week, Murtagh was 3-1 with a 9-0 major decision over Egg Harbor’s Justus Bird, 7-5 win over Austin Boos of Delsea and pin of Colton Calhoun of Holy Spirit. His lone loss came when bumped up to 165 pounds.

DJ Ryerson

Mount Olive senior

Ryerson was a perfect 4-0 on the week, matching the Marauders’ mark, to improve to 17-5. He pinned Pope John’s Joe Rozynski, earned a 13-0 major decision over St. Thomas Aquinas’ Liam Zeh and grabbed decision wins against Hunterdon Central’s Henry Wilkinson and Westfield’s Luke Jacobs

Andrew Troczynski

Delbarton senior

The Green Wave middleweight added to his growing list of accolades with the 100th win of his career during the Jack Welch Duals on Saturday. He reached the mark with a pin…

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Art lovers will get a chance to explore “gravity-defying” world of Jennifer Zackin this February at East Stroudsburg University. 

ESU’s Madelon Powers Gallery will present Transfiguration: Woven Forms by Zackin in February, starting with a reception slated for 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 2. 

Transfiguration: Woven Forms presents new sculptural works created by Zackin during the pandemic. In this body of work, Zackin takes a deeper dive into her Vortex Weavings. Mathematically speaking, a vortex is a three-dimensional ring or doughnut shaped-object around which energy can flow. As it spins, a vortex forms through its central axis. This pattern can be found throughout the universe in hurricanes, galaxies, and atoms.

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The artist’s ongoing Vortex works are woven with various materials — often cotton rope — on large cube-shaped looms.

For the current exhibition, Zackin has created Phoenix, a 44-inch by 44-inch loom onto which she has woven a fabric made from her own old clothing, piecing together bits and scraps to create a new, cohesive, multidimensional form. 

The exhibit will feature Zackin’s 7 Chairs series, which utilizes late-20th Century lawn furniture and tractor seat stools as armatures for “imaginary 3-dimensional landscapes”. The landscapes are woven from materials such as colorful rope and scraps of fabric to craft gravity-defying, “underwater-like” worlds that incorporate mountain ranges, escape hatches and refuges. 

Visitors to the gallery, which is free and open to the public, are invited to bring an article of clothing to be woven into a community Vortex project. Over the course of the exhibition, through the interweaving of parts of our personal history, a unique collective fabric will begin to emerge. 

For the last 22 years, Zackin has been integrating public art, sculpture, installation, performance,…

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Michael Crispino scored 20 points in Lenape Valley’s 62-58 victory over Boonton in Boonton.

Dylan Pellinger had 12 points for Lenape Valley (7-5), which closed the game with a 22-12 fourth quarter surge. Troy Brennan added 10 points and Nate Sarnella chipped in with nine.

Charlie Hurd scored 13 points for Boonton (4-8). Ibrahim Fall had 11 points, while Madrit Asani and Peter Delaporte added 10 apiece.

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The Lenape culture, which flourished in the mid-1500s in areas that became New York and various other mid-Atlantic coastal states following European colonisation, has a complex and often misunderstood history. The original stewards of Manhattan, the Lenape are said to have sold the resource-rich island to Dutch colonists in 1626, and over the next three centuries were the victims of genocide and forced relocation, with the largest population of Lenape-associated tribes now inhabiting Oklahoma.

The cultural traditions of Lenape communities have been disquietingly understudied but are highlighted in a small exhibition titled Lenapehoking at the Brooklyn Public Library branch in Greenpoint (until 30 April) that is billed as the first-ever Lenape-curated exhibition in New York. The show and its adjacent programmes, which have been organised by the artist and curator Joe Baker—an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians and the executive director of the Lenape Center, a non-profit organisation founded in 2009 to uplift the Lenape diaspora—aims to correct the perception of the Lenape as an extinct culture.

According to Baker, the project most importantly serves to upend hierarchical museum practices that have failed to address Lenape heritage in New York City. “Most major cities in the US have some recognition of the ancestral, original people who inhabited the place, but here in New York City there’s been almost total erasure,” he says. “Museums are just now being called upon to rethink their curatorial practice, to rethink their relationship with the communities around them and to advance dialogues and narratives, which can be challenging at times.”

The sparseness of the exhibition itself poignantly echoes the fact that the Lenape were among the Indigenous communities most afflicted by colonisation and forced removal. It features a small vitrine containing context writings, a strikingly well-preserved beaded bandolier bag from around 1850, tapestries,…

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Craig Shipps had 19 points to help North Warren best Lenape Valley, 41-36 in Stanhope.

Collin Price added eight points for the Patriots (5-8).

Anthony Kali led Lenape Valley with 17 points on four 3s. Troy Brennan posted 16 points in the win.

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After four days of voting, Lenape Valley senior guard Julia Johnson has been selected as the Morris/Sussex Athlete of the Week for Jan. 9-15.

Johnson averaged 11.7 points and three steals as the Patriots went 3-0, defeating Hackettstown, Newton and Sussex Tech.

Here were the other nominees:

Jake Benitz, Newton junior forward

Benitz averaged 15 points, four rebounds and two blocks as the Braves went 2-1 last week. He shot 54% from the field, and 30% from long range.

Mikayla Caruso, Kittatinny senior forward

Caruso averaged 10 points, nine rebounds, four blocks, two steals and three assists as the Cougars knocked off Wallkill Valley, St. Elizabeth and High Point.

Lucci Ferrara, Hackettstown senior forward

Ferrara averaged 9.3 points and 9.9 rebounds as the Tiers beat North Warren and Wallkill Valley, and lost to Lenape Valley.

Pat Ferrare, Montville junior guard

Ferrare averaged 17 points and 4.7 assists as the Mustangs went 2-1 last week. Ferrare hit key free throws and a late 3-pointer to upend host Roxbury, 41-40, on Monday. He also sank the game-winning basket with 2.4 seconds left at Pequannock.

Abby Hawes, Mountain Lakes freshman guard/forward

Hawes averaged six points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.3 steals as the Lakers lost to Pequannock, 38-35, then defeated Dover and Morris Tech.

Madison Jenisch, Randolph junior guard

Jenisch averaged 11.7 points, three rebounds, 3.3 steals and 1.3 assists as Randolph went 2-1 last week.

Eddie Karpinski, Park Regional senior defender

Karpinski had four goals — including a natural hat trick — and five assists in Park Regional’s 10-0 defeat of Parsippany on Wednesday. The Hanover Park senior also had a power-play goal in a 1-1 tie against Mount Olive/Hopatcong/Hackettstown on Monday, and a hat trick and three assists versus High Point/Kittatinny/Wallkill Valley on Saturday. The Hanover Park/Whippany Park co-op finished the four-game week 2-1-1.

Brynn McCurry, Sparta junior forward

McCurry averaged 18 points, nine rebounds and nine assists as Sparta…

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Kaitlyn King scored 16 points to give Lenape a 55-32 victory over Seneca in Medford.

Kasey Louie had 11 points and Alexa Henry added nine for Lenape (9-3), which led by two at halftime before erupting for a 20-3 third quarter run.

Vickie Crooker had 11 points for Seneca (4-9) in defeat.

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This current iteration of Greenpoint Library (107 Norman Avenue), with its focus on sustainability and environmental education, took years to be fully realized. The original library building opened in 1906, before undergoing demolition in the early 1970s. A replacement building was constructed shortly after.

In 2014, the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund awarded the library a legacy grant worth around $5 million. With almost $18 million of matching funds, construction started in 2017, and after asbestos and pandemic delays, the new building opened in October 2020. 

The library building earned LEED Gold certification, the second-highest level of LEED certification, due to its environmentally conscious design.

The Greenpoint Library serves as a hub for environmental education. It hosts the Greenpoint Environmental History Project, which “is dedicated to documenting and preserving the environmental history of Greenpoint through oral histories and community scanning” according to the library’s website. You can also access the collection online here. 

The library’s Document Repository is home to a wealth of information concerning environmental injustice in the area, such as reports and studies concerning the Newtown Creek Superfund site.

While the pandemic hampers the library’s full use as an in-person event space, events and activities still take place. February 3rd will see a workshop entitled “Herbal Remedies for Heartbreak” (though unfortunately, it has already sold out). The next meeting of the virtual sewing circle takes place on January 25th, the same day that Solar One kicks off a three-part series of talks dedicated to helping teens and young adults explore careers in climate justice. 

On January 20th, a first-of-its-kind exhibit called Lenapehoking opens at the Greenpoint Library. The exhibit, named after the Lenape name for their homeland that the city of New York currently sits on, “features masterworks by…

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