As the idea of 5-year-olds addressing their peers suggests, training for leadership, whether in doing business or in "doing politics," starts early in the Somerset Hills.

"The sad thing is that people will not get immunized," said Karen Ellis, the community health program manager for the Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills.

The Brick Academy is the current home of the Historical Society of the Somerset Hills.

Along with the development has come a shopping center, a fancy supermarket, a bookstore that sells "The Somerset Hills Landed Gentry Map."

For many of these figures, New York was the city, and the Somerset Hills was the country.

Still, the numbers of prominent politicians from the Somerset Hills seem disproportional to the state's population.

Whatever the actual basis of those concerns, Mrs. Martindell did something few successful politicians from the Somerset Hills have done: become a Democrat.

The former governor, who lost re-election to Mrs. Whitman in 1993, is an unrestrained critic of the Somerset Hills set.

The school relocated to Somerset Hill in Bellevue in 1971.

On our fifth wedding anniversary, when we couldn't find a sitter for 2-year-old Aaron, we risked bringing him to an elegant restaurant in the tony Somerset Hills.