26 / matters magazine / summer 2019 children ages 6 months to 5 years in a relaxed, fun setting. For details, call 973- 761-6116, visit communitycoalitionon- race.org or join the Facebook group. Friends of Maplewood Library will sponsor a Bag-of-Books Sale July 13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Maplewood Memorial Library, 51 Baker Street. Books in all genres as well as CDs and DVDs are available. Fill a bag (provided by Friends) with your choice of material (items are also sold separately). Browse and buy on your way to Maplewoodstock! For de- tails, call Laura at 973-762-4136. Parker Sketchbook, signed cards or the chance to design one’s own corrupt CEO card to include in the game. The campaign kicked off on March 26 and was a nail-biter to the end. Al- though Newman wasn’t able to find a huge social media influencer to help his campaign, he did secure an official endorsement from reformed fraudster Walt Pavlo. Having spent two years in prison for the MCI WorldCom ac- counting fraud, Pavlo now speaks and writes about fraud, forensic accounting and other related topics. Recounting the final days, New- man says, “I was 77 percent funded on Easter Sunday, with four or five days to go. And within two days, I was 97 per- cent funded.” Twenty hours from the finish line, he still needed $700. That’s when he sweetened the deal by offering Jeff Kreisler’s book Get Rich Cheating as an incentive to backers to increase their pledge or push others to fund the campaign at the $50 level or above. Kreisler, in turn, helped Newman by tweeting out to his followers on Twit- ter and Facebook. He reached his goal 14 hours be- fore the deadline with 181 backers and $18,292. “In the end, it was friends and family, people who found me on the web, and Kickstarter, who pushed me over the top.” Newman hopes to start shipping games out to backers in September and to sell the game on Amazon. For more information, go to fraud-game.com. Ellen Donker loves games and has fond memories of playing Mille Bornes in her youth. She looks forward to receiving her copy of Fraud. This sampling of cards shows the imagina- tion that went into developing this clever game. Pete Newman gets an official endorse- ment from Walt Pavlo who spent two years in prison for accounting fraud. MAPLEWOODSTOCK Music & Arts Festival July 13 - 14 T he 16th Annual Maplewoodstock Music & Arts Festival comes to Memorial Park July 13 and 14 from noon to 10 p.m. both days. This free, two-day live music and arts event features headliners Antibalas on Saturday night and Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds and Turkuaz on Sunday night. More than 20 bands will perform continuously over the two-day festival. In addition to the music, there will be local arts and crafts vendors, a food court, a beer gar- den, a large KidZone with games, inflatable rides, crafts, and more. The town of Maplewood also offers a senior-friendly tent for older residents who want to sit in the shade, enjoy the music and order a meal that can be delivered by volunteers from the Age Friendly Committee for Maplewood and South Orange. For the hearing impaired, there will be a volunteer- organized sign language interpretation for several hours a day (typically 5 p.m. until closing). Bring blankets, lawn chairs and picnic baskets and pack the hillside park for a family-friendly weekend of music, art, food and the best of the Maplewood community. For a full line-up of bands, bios, directions, rules and real-time updates, please visit maplewoodstock.com. The Community Coalition on Race will hold a SOMA Integrated Playgroup July 13 at Le Parc Place, Maplewood. The Friends of Maplewood Library will hold a book sale July 13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Maplewood Memorial Library. continued from p. 9