CONTENTS
FALL 2016
FEATURES
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This beautiful estate on Rensselaer Road is one of the original homes in EssexFells, builtbythe company of community founderand banking titan Anthony Drexel.
ON THIS PAGE Local painters Donna( Grant) Grande, Dante Guariglia and Rebecca Rosenheck. Special thanks to the Montclair Art Museum.
PHOTO BY ANNE-MARIE CARUSO
ON THE COVER Shawn and Sarah Williams relax on their front porch.
PHOTO BY ANNE-MARIE CARUSO
Three local painters showthatwhen it comes to creativity, it’ snot just the end product, but the journeyitself, that’ simportant.
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Constructing anew house can be less expensive than buying, then renovating, an old one. The challenge: Finding available land in a town as developed as Montclair. It’ s hard, but not impossible, as these four stories show.
As executiveeditorofBloomberg Politics, veteranTVnews producerand Montclair resident TomJohnson has afront seatto one of the most highly-chargedcliffhangers in history: the 2016 presidential election.
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DEPARTMENTS
FIRST PERSON MARK YOUR CALENDAR SOCIAL SCENE ON THE TABLE DINING OUT LOOKING BACK
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