By: Gene Robbins, Managing Editor
Doreen Lorenzetti wants to put you on Hillsborough’s map.
Twenty years ago, longtime township resident Ms. Lorenzetti was hired to design and create and draw a comic-style map that pictured businesses, major roads and landmarks in the township. The result was a multi-colored, laminated poster-size map that was seen framed and hanging in stores and businesses for years.
It was the kind of map that draws the viewer in and begs to be studied — who’s there, how was the place depicted, who’s missing. A beer mug might represent a bar, a hair dryer for a salon, etc. You can point to the familiar corn maze, the airport, the schools.
Now the map is coming back and being reprised by Ms. Lorenzetti at the behest of the township administration.
The map won’t come at taxpayer expense. A business that wishes to be depicted will pay a $250 fee, but that could amount to years of advertising, said Ms. Lorenzetti. There were 116 places on the 1994 map, but she’s designing the new one with more spaces.
She has set a deadline of June 30 to place an order to be placed on the map. People can reach her at [email protected] or at 908-229-2186.
“I put it together like a puzzle,” she said. “It’s a bit of a challenge, but I grew up here in Hillsborough, so I can do it in my head.”
Ms. Lorenzetti uses art as a medium in her work with the residential teenage population at Carrier Clinic treatment center, on East Mountain Road, to expressive themselves. She has created set designs and painted murals throughout the tri-state area.
She was the artist who created the historical diorama in the plaza at the Shoppes at Woods Road complex, at the corner of Amwell Road and Route 206.
