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coming up Find tricks and treats on haunted tours this October By Sam Sciarrotta
The coronavirus pandemic may have altered the way we start to usher in spooky season, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still celebrate—safely and responsibly. Take Cape May, known regionally as one of New Jersey’s most haunted towns. The Cape May MAC (Museum, Arts and Culture) hosts annual ghost tours and other seasonally appropriate haunts, and though this year has been “challenge,” said Susan Krysiak, director of media relations, the organization has adapted. The MAC will still host its popular Halloween Happenings series, just with a few more rules and regulations put in place. “Cape May has a reputation among ghost hunters,” Krysiak said. “Perhaps it is the fact this seaside town is surrounded by water, or that it is America’s oldest seaside resort, recognized since 1976 as a National Historic Landmark City for its wellpreserved concentration of Victorian seaside architecture, but the fact remains that many people have documented experiences here that they cannot explain in any other way than
to say they felt a ghostly presence.” Some events, like the Ghosts of Cape May Trolley Tours and Historic Haunts Combo Tours, run year-round. Those tours are based on the findings of medium and writer Craig McManus, who helped develop the tours with the MAC. The 30-minute trolley tour takes attendees through Cape May’s Historic District, while the one-hour Historic Haunts tour starts with a trolley ride and ends at the Emlen Physick House. This year’s Halloween Happenings, though—set for Oct. 16-3—has several unique offerings for those who crave a little more trick than treat. “Guests can expect to be immersed in stories that cause one to pause, and wonder, what could be beyond one’s senses,” Krysiak said. “Guests will also learn some of the history of magic and mystery, for example, on those tours that touch on Victorian spiritualism.” First up is the Magic and Myster y House Tour, which uses the circa-1879 Physick House to demonstrate Victorians’ fascination with magic, illusion, the mysterious and the odd. Learn about magicians like
Learn about Cape May’s haunted history through the Cape May MAC’s ghost tour offerings, running Oct. 16-31. Similar events will be held in Princeton and Bordentown. (Photo by Susan Krisyak.)
Harry Houdini and the Great Lafayette, Ionia, the Goddess of Mystery, Pepper’s ghost, Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper. The MAC’s Ghost Walks, hosted by McManus, leads guests around some of Cape May’s most notorious haunted properties. The one-hour tour is packed with McManus’s own tales of personal paranormal experiences.
The Spirits and Oddities Trolley Tour is a motorized journey through Cape May’s Historic District. Hear about some of the strange fads, superstitions and oddities of the Victorian era, as well as bizarre and inexplicable stories from Cape May’s history. Interested in something more immersive? Try A Gloomy Apparition. The 45-minute performance, held at the Physick House Museum, follows Helen, who finds herself in the middle of a mystery when she travels to a friend’s home in a remote shore town. Audience members are encouraged to help Helen figure out who—or what—the Gloomy Apparition really is. Finally, Tea and Confessions: An Expose of Victorian Spiritualism reveals the practice’s ruses and hidden tricks that helped create believers during the Victorian era over brunch at Vintage on the grounds of the Physick estate. And don’t underestimate the haunts. Krysiak has had her own unexplained experiences. “I stepped outside of the museum onto the grounds during a break very late at night and happened to walk past the estate’s 1876 Carriage House, where Dr. Emlen Physick used to keep his horses and carriages during the late 1800s,” she said. “I heard a distinctly loud, sustained ‘neigh’ as I passed by the entryway. It was startling to say the least, as there were
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no horses on the street, or anywhere nearby at that very late hour close to midnight.” Halloween Happenings events run Oct. 16-31 at various dates and times. For more information, or to book tickets, visit capemaymac.org. *** The Princeton Tour Company is hosting private ghost and cemetery tours throughout October. Ghost hunter guides lead guests through the university’s darkest corners and into Princeton Cemetery, operated by Nassau Presbyterian Church. Guides help attendees use paranormal investigation tools like EMF meters, dowsing dowsing rods, thermometers and the Psyleron lamp, though not at the cemetery— since it is a resting place, tours walk through without investigating. Instead, historians point out the gravestones of and tell stories Grover Cleveland, Aaron Burr, Jr., Paul Tulane and others. The tales can be graphic, so attendees should be ages 13 and up. Group tours are $400 for the first eight people, then $35 per person. All tours are limited to 10 participants, and guests and guides are expected to maintain a six-foot distance. Masks are required. Participants must also
sign a waiver stating that they are not experiencing symptoms of the coronavirus and have not for two weeks. Guides will receive wellness checks before all tours. For more information or to book a tour, visit princetontourcompany.com. Bordentown Walking Tours will also host a Halloween-themed event. Haunted History Tours run Wednesday to Sunday throughout October. The one-hour walking tours feature tales of the macabre, haunting and spooky hidden history of Bordentown. Guides will lead guests through downtown Bordentown, along different routes and with all-new stories from years past. Tours are family friendly. “Our ghost stories and paranormal experiences are a retelling of legends and historical events that have been reported in Bordentown throughout the centuries,” the website says. “It may give you a spooky chill down your spine, but not a big scream.” Masks are required. Adults are $15. Children 10 and under are $7.50. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit bordentownwalkingtours.com.
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movers & shakers The legend of the Jersey Devil lives on in song, art and words
The Jersey Devil is at the heart of local folklore. Left, one recent Jersey Devil image is securely in place in a very secure and prominent location: the New Jersey State House Complex. Center, an illustration of the Jersey Devil connected the sighting of a creature in Edison to the realization that a New Jersey couple may have encountered the Jersey Devil itself. Right, a work by northern New Jersey sculptor Michael Locascio. By Dan Aubrey
“I have horns on the top of my head. I have a great big tail. I have wings like a vampire bat and over the night winds I sail.” So starts New Jersey songwriter and conservationist Russel Juleg’s song, “The Devil From Leeds.” The song was a highlight of many Jersey Devil Nights at the famed Pinelands music center Albert Music Hall in Waretown, New Jersey. Presented by the Pinelands Cultural Society, this year’s annual event is set for an outside concert on Sunday, October 4, and high on the bill is a special appearance by the critter itself. And while focusing on the legendary creature during this time of year gets one in the spooky mood for Halloween, it misses a point. The centuries-old Pinelands creature born by poor Mother Leeds is a demon for all seasons. And forget about the professional hockey team that has brought the creature regular attention. The Jersey Devil’s bigger-than-life status has been helped by a growing number of books, films, visual art works, and even songs inspired by what has been dubbed New Jersey’s official state demon.
In song
Jersey Devil music, like the legendary creature itself, doesn’t seem to exist until it suddenly appears — sometimes seemingly from nowhere. That’s the case with a song that starts with the Jersey Devil declaring, “Hear me now! I was born 13th child, ’neath the 13th moon/Spit out hungry
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and born anew.” The song is Bruce Springsteen’s “A Night with the Jersey Devil.” The New Jersey rock ‘n’ roll legend released it on Halloween 2008 as a free download-only single. Springsteen accompanied it with the following note: “Dear Friends and Fans, if you grew up in central or south Jersey, you grew up with the ‘Jersey Devil.’ Here’s a little musical Halloween treat. Have fun!” With a driving blues rhythm and a revivalist’s fiery phrasing, Springsteen pulls from Southern Gospel Blues and hometown folklore to create a piece that breathes contemporary fire into the Jersey Devil theme and contributes to the storytelling on both a CD and in a video. The latter features Springsteen as various characters — devil and pastor appearing in moments evoking haunted Colonial landscapes and sinister American Gothic moods and raging country ministers. “Ram’s head, forked tail, clove hoof, loves my trail,” he proclaims menacingly. It’s followed up with the lines, “I sup on your body, sip on your blood like wine,” soon moves to “So kiss me baby till it hurts/Gods lost in heaven, we lost on earth,” and ends by making rock ‘n’ roll’s roots very clear by evoking Gene Vincent’s “Baby Blue.” A nod to American and New Jersey traditions, “A Night With the Jersey Devil” can be seen at brucespringsteen.net/news/2012/a-night-with-thejersey-devil. The song at the top of the article, “The Devil From Leeds” is part and parcel of the Pinelands tradition of Jersey Devil storytelling and music —
although its composer is a Texan conservationist who had moved to New Jersey. In a recent telephone discussion, Russell Juelg, now a senior land steward at the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, says he was volunteering at the Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge in Medford when he got involved with education programs. One of the events involved the musicians Carol Ann and Jim Sweet. “Jim and Carol were wonderful musicians,” he says, “I was trying to teach myself the five string banjo. Little by little we got better acquainted and played music together. They were teaching me. There were a couple of other guys who joined us, and we formed the Sugar Sand Ramblers. And we put together enough songs to play at Albert Music Hall.” Juelg says he learned about the Jersey Devil from the daughter of the refuge’s founder and thought the “bizarre piece of folklore” could be used for ecological programs and Pinelands conservation efforts “because the Jersey Devil symbolizes the wildness of the Pine Barrens and the distinctiveness of the region.” But he says the main thing about writing the song “was that I was fascinated with the Jersey Devil. Some line and chord progression in a minor key occurred to me, and I put the song together. We played that at Albert Hall for at least several years until I dropped out of the band. I don’t know if anyone continues the song or not. “It’s a fun song. I try to have a mixture of drama and humor. It’s one of those songs that had a very distinct sound.”
After saying he doesn’t really know how to explain the Sugar Sand Ramblers, he says it was music played by most of their friends and other Pinelands musicians — “Mostly folk, old style country, and some elements of old blue grass, but not the newer bluegrass and country stuff. It’s the ‘Albert Hall’ kind of genre — old folk, old bluegrass, and old country. There is a nostalgic element to it and not much innovation. It is mostly celebrating those old sounds.” Juelg eventually worked for the Pinelands Preservation Alliance (PPA), where the staff and a group of artists from Monmouth University created a life size papier mache and wood figure of the Jersey Devil that keeps watch over a room used for meetings and for brides who hold their weddings at the PPA barn in Vincentown. Juelg says one activity he conducted for the PPA was the regular Jersey Devil Hunts — designed as outreach and community events. “I had a specific dramatic version of the story and found what worked dramatically and what worked from a comedy standpoint. I always tied to make it funny,” he says. Asked if the hunts yielded any catches, Juelg says, “The only thing I can say is that there were times we were out there and heard and saw things we couldn’t account for. But we never had the classic Jersey Devil encounter where you actually see it and say, ‘That had to be the Jersey Devil,’ or heard something that was so frightening you’d have to conclude that it was the Jersey Devil.” Thinking about the hunts and
Left, a 1970s bootleg album depicts Bruce Springsteen as the Jersey Devil. Later, in 2008, Springsteen released a single called “A Night with the Jersey Devil,” and portrayed the devil in the song’s music video (right).
the stories, Juelg says, “That’s what makes folklore so interesting. You really do have a lot of stories too hard to explain in one consistent way. People say they heard mountain lions or saw some large birds ahead. And there are a lot of different kinds of experience, so there isn’t one explanation for all these encounters that people have reported. “I don’t want to disturb the mystique of the Jersey Devil, but I’ll tell you what I think. If you look around the world you see the depictions of strange creatures that are remarkably consistent although they’re from different places of the world — totem pole figures, Hindu images of demonic creatures. I think we carry this imagery around in our subconscious. “We used to be the prey at one time, and I think there are some images that are still with us. My hypothesis is that at certain moments, in scary situations we encounter, that imagery can come forward in the consciousness. So someone can ‘see’ one of these bizarre-looking creatures. It’s dark and it’s spooky and suddenly we see something up close, and we see some imagery tucked deep in our brains.”
In visual art
Jersey Devil images began to appear in the early 20th century and were related to either reported sightings or around manufactured events. One such created event was a Philadelphia entrepreneur’s campaign to drum up audiences to see the legendary creature. A “Jersey Devil Wanted Dead or Alive” poster illustrating the creature was followed with announcements that the creature — a painted kangaroo with wings — had been captured on view at his 9th and Arch Street Museum — an arcade of sorts. Jersey Devil illustrations also made front-page news when reporters exposed the hoax and then reported on an unprecedented number of Jersey Devil sightings occurring during a single week in 1909. Newspaper illustrations kept the Jersey Devil alive in the area’s visual
imagination until the 1960s, when artists started taking advantage of new technologies for creating and reproducing art, like Ed Sheetz’s popular Jersey Devil portrait. Another popular image was the painting of the Jersey Devil appearing in a misty bog. The work by an unknown artist was on display at the New Gretna House along Route 9 until it vanished one night — several years before the building was closed and demolished. One recent Jersey Devil image is securely in place in a very secure and prominent location: the New Jersey State House Complex. Part of the public art project component of the 1990s-era State House renovations, the Jersey Devil can be spotted in the massive skylight stained glass “New Jersey: A 360 Degree View,” a fact and fiction depiction of New Jersey history. The image is by Runnemede, New Jersey, based stained glass master J. Kenneth Leap, who chose to depict a more conventional red devil seemingly fleeing from some invisible tormentors. In a quick exchange with Six09 about the work, the South Jerseybased Leap says, “My dad gave ‘lost towns tours’ of the New Jersey Pinelands, and the Jersey Devil was a favorite subject of his. He had a book on the Jersey Devil in his study. The ‘eyewitness’ descriptions of the Jersey Devil are pretty out there — horse’s head, cat body, leathery wings. I opted for something a little more classical and depicted him as a tragic figure — a little misunderstood but not malicious.” Leap says he also put a Jersey Devil in the windows for the Ocean County Library in Toms River Township but “used a different graphic entirely.” For more on the artist, visit www. jkennethleap.com. A Jersey Devil sculpture stands tall in the midst of the Pine Barrens out front of Lucille’s Restaurant on Route 539 in Warren Grove. Its maker, New Jersey native and chainsaw carver Joe Wenal, says by cellphone as he drives from a “carve
off” in Montana to his home in Colorado that the Jersey Devil is “one of the funnest sculptures I can do.” He also says he doesn’t really recall how the Lucille statue got started because he has been going there since he was a boy — he grew up in nearby Cedar Run where his parents still live on Route 9. The local institution founded in the 1975 by the late Lucille Bates caters to locals, hunters, travelers, and sometimes those on a quest —like the late New Jersey-raised food adventurer Anthony Bourdain.
While noted for its pies, Lucille’s family continues the operations and provides general cafe fare, a Jersey Devil hot sauce dish, and T and sweatshirts with signage that lets wearers brag, “I ate with the Jersey Devil.” The logo image depicts a hiking winged devil with a walking stick. Wenal says, “When I started to talk with Lucille, they wanted it to be too close to their logo and not too scary. I’m waiting for that perfect costumer who will let me loose and do what I want.” See DEVIL, Page 6
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The 45-year Army veteran then adds, “I’m drawn to the meaner, more classic version of the Jersey Devil, not the goblin version. For years I wanted to do a scarier one that makes people go ‘whoa!’” Wenal says he learned about the Jersey Devil by simply growing up in the Pines and that he heard all the legends. He and his pals also went out on hunts. “There were a couple of places we’d be out looking.” Returning to the topic of creating figures of the famous monster, Wenal says, “There are so many different ways to do the Jersey Devil. I have done some small ones, tiny two-footers. But I wished more people would order (life-sized ones) because I’d love to carve them.” He says that the Lucille’s Devil is made of pine wood. “It’s a soft wood that carves a lot easier and takes the sealer well for the weather.” A full-time carver, Wenal says he didn’t set out to become a professional wood sculptor. “I was never an artist. I never had an artistic bone in my body.” He says his path to his art making happened when he made houses in the Army and learned how to use wood tools. Then, he says, “I had ruptured some tendons and started making furniture to keep myself from going crazy. I started making more and said I could do this full-time. My first sculpture was a bear — it wasn’t made for anyone. I just decided to do it. I went into the back yard and made a bear and someone stopped and asked if it were for sale and I said ‘yeah.’” He says the price of his works ranges from $100 to $8,000, depending on the size and figure. He says cute bears are popular and that “no one wants a mean bear on their porch.” There are also requests for nautical figures and dragonflies.
He also says he is involved with Carve Wars — or chainsaw competition. One usually occurs at the Tuckerton Seaport and may happen this fall if COVID conditions allow. Turning back to the devil, Wenal says, “With the Jersey Devil you can get scary, you can do something different. You’ve got me thinking. I am going back to New Jersey in October. I’ll carve a Jersey Devil. I’m sure someone will buy it.” More on Wenal at facebook.com/ rockymountaincarvers. While Wenal’s sculpture comes directly through the Pinelands folk tradition, the northern New Jersey sculptor Michael Locascio’s approach reflects his training. In a biographical statement, Locascio says, “I studied classical sculpture at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Newington-Cropsey Foundation. Working with live models, skeletons, and annual cadaver dissections, I trained in anatomy and the bronze monument process there while studying at New York University. Since then I’ve worked as a fine artist in addition to building a prolific career sculpting action figures, toys, and collectible statues.” Ask about his interest in the Jersey Devil, the sculptor says, “Since I was born and raised in New Jersey, I’ve always known about the legend, and I remember having lessons about it in grade school. My inspiration in sculpting for my business, Dellamorte & Co., is focused on mythology, legends, and lore. It was a natural subject, and I wanted to give it my own take while still maintaining details from the devil’s descriptions. “My design process is to look at primary source references, both written and visual. I take from that what inspires me and begin sculpting. I rarely render concept drawings; I try to solve the creative challenges in clay. “With my background in anatomy
and classical sculpture training, I wanted to depict the devil naturalistically — to breathe life into some of the old depictions. I actually wasn’t aware that Albright knew about my work! With all of my pieces, I sculpt in a type of wax or clay by hand, and I work with a mold maker and resin caster. We produce the statues locally, and I sell them through my Etsy site. I still sell the resin castings. The benefit of keeping a master copy and making silicone molds is that I can make as many as I want. It is a popular piece, so I have no plans to stop producing it.” For more, visit www.facebook.com/ dellamorteco.
In literature
A list of books suggests the Jersey Devil is equally at home in the Pines bogs and on the pages — mainly within books devoted to New Jersey legends and history. High on the list is James McCloy and Ray Miller Jr.’s 1976 classic “The Jersey Devil.” Yet the devil has been successfully tempting fiction writers over the past few decades with a steady arrival of devilish titles — including a few appearing during the first part of 2020. One hot-off-the-presses offering is “The Jersey Devil: A Collection of Utter Speculation.” The Freeze Time Media publication features five stories by five Bucks County-based writers who collaborate as part of the group The Writers Block. The introduction to the 180-page book puts the devil and writing about legends in perspective. “Folklore is defined as popular myths and beliefs relating to a particular place and circulated orally among a people. The folktale of the Jersey Devil began in 1735. As legend has it the 13th child of a family, local to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, was born cursed and deformed. The elusive creature moves quickly through the Barrens and is said to resemble a Wyvern (a twolegged dragon figure) with a horse and dragon head, leathery wings, and
A list of books suggests the Jersey Devil is equally at home in the Pines bogs and on the pages. High on the list is James McCloy and Ray Miller Jr.’s 1976 classic “The Jersey Devil.” A hot-off-the-presses offering is “The Jersey Devil: A Collection of Utter Speculation.”
horns and cloven hooves. The Writers Block writers have tried to capture the spirit of the folklore tradition by creating their own tales of wonder and speculation.” The first story is Melissa Sullivan’s “Land of Hope and Dreams.” It is a science fiction tale involving a young girl whose mother is part of an international field operation in a post-industrial Pine Barrens. It’s followed by LCW Allingham’s “Seeking Monsters,” a mystery involving two Jersey Devil encounters separated by 50 years yet connected by a spirit larger than the devil itself. H.A. Callum provides “Under My Skin” about a female reporter investigating a Jersey Devil sighting and becoming involved with a man whose thin skin is unable to contain his true identity. River Eno’s “The Unspoiled Harmonious Wilderness” fancifully bun-
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dles the Pinelands figure with ancient Greek myths and has two sisters encounter the Jersey Devil’s protector, the forest god Pan. And finally there is Susan Tulio’s “The Secret,” a history-driven story based on actual events that helped bring forth the legend of the Jersey Devil. The writers say, “As a group, we would start brainstorming months ahead of time and throw out ideas for topics. We tend to lean towards unsolved mysteries and phenomena that took place in the United States. Local legends are always a bonus to write about, and when the Jersey Devil as a topic surfaced, we knew we had to write about it. Here we were faced with a legend steeped in local lore and speculation. One that we all grew up knowing about. One that made each of us shudder when we ventured into the shadows of the Pine Barrens.
“For Melissa D. Sullivan, it was a part of who she is growing up in South Jersey (Eastampton, Burlington County), attending Rutgers, and marrying a boy from the Jersey Shore. Her high school mascot was the Red Devil. She grew up surrounded by the legend and took this anthology as an opportunity to rethink the stories and give representation to other voices that aren’t generally represented by the myth. Topping it off was the fact that the special ecology of the Pine Barrens is under constant threat, a topic she wanted to bring to readers. “Susan Tulio’s historical fiction story led to interesting research that uncovered a potential hoax involving an extremely famous historical figure orchestrating the myth to snuff out a competitor. Her research also led her down the backroads of the Pine Barrens for personal interviews with friends and residents who have firsthand knowledge of the region and the sightings of this legendary being. “Some of us have had an even more personal connection to the mythical creature. LCW Allingham’s family has had personal encounters with the devil. (Something she declined to discuss further). “Aside from all of this, we are local to the region. These are stories from our childhood, the things of dares on dark nights. The stories that made campfires a little less unsettling as the coals burned down to ash.” The end result is an attractive, engaging, and surprising book. While Callum’s tale is more in the horror vein, several others stir environmental issues below the service and show — intentionally or not — how an ancient tale can become relevant to the concerns of a contemporary audience. “The Jersey Devil: A Collection of Utter Speculation,” $12.99 paperback, $2.99 Kindle, is available at Amazon. Want more on the Jersey Devil? Go to communitynews.org to read about the local legend’s appearance in pop culture, film and fiction writing.
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Murr’s book is no joke James Murray talks about his hit TV show, life in Princeton and his horror novel, “Don’t Move,” out Oct. 20 By Rob Anthes
As a best-selling horror novelist, James Murray spends a lot of time dreaming up terrifying scenarios. But to him, there’s nothing he could imagine that would be scarier than hanging out with his three best friends. And for good reason. Best known as one of the stars of TruTV’s hit show Impractical Jokers, Murray has been strapped atop a plane while it did stunts, been forced to interview actress Danica McKellar—his childhood celebrity crush—while wearing an American flag Speedo, and made to get a tattoo of a skydiving ferret, all at the behest of his longtime friends and co-stars. It comes with the territory on Impractical Jokers, which features Murray, Joe Gatto, Sal Vulcano and Brian “Q” Quinn competing in hidden-camera missions designed to push the participants beyond their comfort level—and occasionally common decency. Whoever fails to do the most tasks gets “punished” by the three winners with an even-more-extreme challenge that the loser must do. It might be scary stuff for Murray, but the show—which started filming its ninth season Sept. 10—has catapulted the four friends to celebrity and spawned multiple TV shows, national tours, a movie and even a fan cruise. “Just to have a show that goes this many years, I think that we don’t take it for granted, ever,” Murray said. “It is astounding to me what has been able to be built from it. I think it’s a combination of the guys and I still being invested in it 100%, and having the right team of people around us that help us come up with these ideas.” Murray, 44, has been busy away from his role with Impractical Jokers, too. He moved to Princeton last year, a relocation that also saw him purchase his first car. (“Think about that—44, I’ve never owned a car in my life until I bought the house. It’s crazy, right?” Murray jokes.) He married Melyssa Davies Sept. 25 in a ceremony scaled down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And he has been growing his reputation and his catalogue as an author. Murray, along with co-author Darren Wearmouth, published the final book in his Awakened trilogy in June. The pair’s fourth book, Don’t Move—the tale of a West Virginia camping trip gone awry—will be released Tuesday, Oct. 20. Then, the writing team has another standalone book called The Stowaway due out June 2021,
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with young adult series Interns of Area 51 hitting stores starting the end of 2021. Out this month, Don’t Move is an indirect result of the pandemic. When COVID19 caused the New York metro area to shut down, it shelved filming for Impractical Jokers as well as a national tour of live comedy shows. It left Murray with a lot of time to write in his new house. Being stuck at home also made Murray acutely aware that he had never lived anywhere other than densely populated cities before moving to Princeton Township. Murray grew up in Staten Island, went to college at Georgetown University in Washington, and later moved to Brooklyn and Manhattan. The idea that it’s dark, lonely and sometimes scary away from the city had been bouncing around Murray’s head since his first night in Princeton. It wasn’t until that first night that he noticed how dark it got on his property and how the darkness lent the trees there a different aura. It scared him a bit initially, but he shook the feeling and went to bed. When morning came, Murray had another surprise. “I remember the first night we slept in Princeton,” Murray said. “I woke up the next morning, and the back door was open. Just wide open. I must not have locked it correctly because in a Manhattan apartment, when the door closes it’s bolted shut. In the suburbs, you’ve got to lock everything, and the door was open. I lost it, man. I was so scared.” This fear got his imagination working, and several months later, the shutdown gave him time to put the idea to paper. The result is Don’t Move. The novel follows Megan Forrester as she grapples with the trauma of witnessing her husband and son die in a horrific accident and the guilt of knowing she could have done more to save them. In an attempt to heal herself, Megan joins a local church group on a camping trip to West Virginia. The group makes a navigational mistake, leaving them stranded in an untouched canyon. The canyon also happens to be home to a large, hungry arachnid that can stalk its prey through even the slightest movement or vibration. In her attempts to survive, Megan draws on her professional experience managing the logistics at Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in the Bronx, a massive operation that requires a keen attention to detail. Murray borrowed the idea from a show he created on Hunts Point in his pre-Jokers career in TV development. “It was important to me that she has skills and possesses an inner strength that the average person doesn’t have to figure out a seemingly impossible puzzle,” Murray said. “You’re being surrounded slowly by all sides, you’re cornered in the forest. It’s a logistical nightmare. How do you get out?”
Murray’s TV development background comes in handy while writing, too, approaching his novels as if they are scripts for television shows. It’s a vivid, descriptive style that’s apparent from the first page of Don’t Move. “My style of writing is very much cliffhanger endings, fast-paced visuals, action packed, punchy dialogue, definitive action sequences,” Murray said. “It’s written like a TV show or like a TV treatment, like I was selling a TV show. It grabs you in Chapter One, and I like that the pace is unrelenting and you are on board for the characters. It’s almost like reading the best episode of the TV show 24. Some of those episodes, man, they freaking got you, and you just couldn’t stop watching. It’s so catchy. “That’s the way I think we write, too. You get to the end of the chapter, and you’re like, ‘I have to see what happens.’ Just like you have to come back from a commercial break.” The experience developing and pitching TV shows provides one last thing that Murray believes is an advantage: extra perspective on how lucky he is to do what he’s doing. The company he worked for—NorthSouth Productions—produced shows like Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta and Say Yes To The Dress: Bridesmaids. So, Murray saw what can happen to a business and the people who work there when their shows are successful. But far more often, he saw the opposite result. “I knew in my mind it could happen,” Murray said. “When it works, it can really work. But 99% of the time, it
James “Murr” Murray (far right) is best known for his TruTV show Impractical Jokers, which also stars his childhood friends Joe Gatto, Sal Vulcano and Brian “Q” Quinn. Murray jokes the premise of the show—allowing your best friends to put you through embarrassing, dangerous or otherwise uncomfortable tasks—is far scarier than anything he can dream up for his novels. doesn’t. Most shows get cancelled in the first couple episodes, in the first season, and never make it past that. So, it’s very, very rare.” This unlikely success—and the potential for it to disappear any moment— inspire him to make the most of the opportunity, even if that means writing multiple books, moving, planning a wedding and filming multiple TV shows and
a movie at the same time. One anecdote in particular motivates him. Murray said he wrote his first novel Awakened 17 years ago, before Impractical Jokers had started. No one would read the manuscript or even meet with him about the book until Jokers hit it big. Now, he has a team of people to help make his projects happen—to secure a meeting with a publisher, to pitch a
novel, to get it sold—and a fan base who will read them. Like his writing career, Murray’s comedy career only took off after years of false starts. Murray, Gatto, Vulcano and Quinn formed The Tenderloins comedy troupe after they graduated from college in the late 1990s, and tried and failed for years to get a TV deal. Murray wound up pitching the concept of Impractical Jokers to his bosses at NorthSouth Productions, who agreed to produce the show. Now a decade later, the quartet have three TV shows: Impractical Jokers and Impractical Jokers Dinner Party on TruTV and game show The Misery Index on TBS. “Imagine 15 years of not succeeding,” Murray said. “And then finally succeeding. So, I’m gonna run with it, you know?” This success also indirectly led him to Princeton. Murray said he has always loved the town, particularly for the restaurants and culture in downtown Princeton. He had some time to explore the area the past few years, thanks to book signings at Barnes and Noble in West Windsor. The trips made an impression. When it came time for him and Davies to settle down, Princeton immediately came to mind. As a bonus, the town was halfway between her family in Philadelphia and his in New York. They found a listing for a house, toured it and put an offer in the next day. They never looked at another house. Murray said they didn’t even do any research, and he sometimes feels like fortune led him to the home. The couple has been further familiarSee MURRAY, Page 10
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izing itself with the area. They had their engagement dinner at Mistral in Princeton, have become regulars at Witherspoon Grill and La Mezzaluna and started exploring new eateries. They recently tried the Peacock Inn for the first time. “Not a day goes by that I don’t thank God that I’m here,” Murray said in midSeptember. “I look outside, and it’s fresh air and trees. Take the puppy on a hike, or go kayak in town. We go to Witherspoon Grill, and have a couple pineapple cosmos. On Sunday, we went to Hopewell Valley Vineyards, and that was great, too. It’s great. We love it.” Wife, house in the suburbs, a car and a puppy—it’s a life Murray never thought he’d live, and neither did his Jokers co-stars. It became a joke among his three friends that, until recently, they had no idea what Murray’s life was like because their lives were so different. While Gatto, Vulcano and Quinn had hour commutes and homes outside the city, Murray lived in a Manhattan apartment and could make it to and from the Impractical Jokers set in 10 minutes by bicycle. And once home, Murray was single and had the time and the freedom to enjoy all Manhattan had to offer. His co-stars couldn’t relate. They immortalized the inside joke by including a running gag in Impractical Jokers: The Movie, where the guys—on a New York-to-Miami road trip—would knock on Murray’s hotel room door each night only to find zany things behind it when Murray answered. “Now my life has kind of normalized a bit,” Murray said. “But that’s the gag in the movie—the guys for the past 10 years are like, ‘What the hell does Murray do?’” The movie, by the way, is one of the few that has been released in theaters in 2020, a fact that has not escaped Murray. “It came out in theaters two weeks before theaters shut down. Somebody joked with me recently that just because of the nature of the world, since we were the last comedy to come out in 2020— there’s only a few movies that came out before us in 2020—we have a chance of winning an Academy Award. A win by forfeit is still a win, my friend.” As much as an Oscar win would alter life for Murray, the pandemic already has changed things for the Impractical Jokers TV show and forced the team to adapt. In the spring, they launched Impractical Jokers Dinner Party, a TV show filmed via Zoom where the four Jokers eat dinner together from the safety of their respective homes. The format highlighted their friendship perhaps even more than the original show, and was a ratings success. It ranked as cable’s No. 1 new unscripted comedy series, with WarnerMedia ordering 10 additional episodes, to be aired this fall. With Impractical Jokers itself now resuming filming in a distanced world, Murray and his friends have been faced with another challenge. The show—the No. 1 unscripted comedy on television— largely relies on strangers’ genuine reactions and interactions with the four stars. How do they adjust to the realities of a pandemic without losing what has made Jokers work?
Don’t Move, the fourth book co-authored by James Murray and Darren Wearmouth, follows a church group whose camping trip in West Virginia gets upended by a very large, very hungry spider. The book is available Oct. 20. “It’s been an amazing ride and an interesting, fun challenge to keep evolving the show not just creatively over the past 10 years but also the past six months,” Murray said. “How do we envision Jokers in the new world? I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. I think it’s working really well.” Murray said the show has found success in the past going with the flow and taking advantage of the opportunities that come along the way. The fan cruise, for example, came to be after The Tenderloins filmed an episode of Impractical Jokers aboard a cruise ship filled only with fans of the pop rock band Train. They wondered, “If Train can pull this off, could we?” They tried it, and had thousands of people sign up. They’ve done four fan cruises to-date now. “A lot of the opportunities just come like that,” Murray said. “It’s born out of the moments of inspiration or somebody simply saying, ‘I wonder if we can do that.’ So it’s been a wild ride, man.” Murray said he’s enjoyed the wild ride, but whatever he’s working on— whether a novel or a hidden-camera TV show—he finds the most satisfaction knowing his work allows people to take a break from the stresses of the world. “We need more things in this world that bring people together and show the good of the world,” Murray said. “I think what the guys and I are trying to do is make Jokers an island of positivity in what can be a very cynical world. We hope that by laughing at us, it makes your life just a little bit better.” James Murray’s latest novel, “Don’t Move,” from Blackstone Publishing, will be available Tuesday, Oct. 20 in hardcover, e-book and audio formats. For an autographed book and an invite to a virtual launch party with Murray, go online to meetmurr.com.
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Take-out options to try when hungering for something new Six cuisines worth trying when you’re ready for something truly different By Joe Emanski
Half a year into a pandemic and somehow take-out pizza still tastes great. If the coronavirus was sent to test our talents for putting away two pepperoni pies a week, well then we have answered that question once and for all. Still, there are those days when we hunger for something new, and by that we don’t mean ordering a slightly different burger from Red Robin. Nor should it mean trying a new place for sushi, or Chinese, or Indian, or burritos, only to order the same old things and hope they’re kinda not too different from the usual place. When you’re ready for something truly different from what you’ve been eating these past six months, here are six cuisines worth giving a try. Haitian. Kafé Kreyòl (960 Spruce St., Lawrence 08648; 609-551-1370) opened in the Trenton Farmers Market in June where the Amish stuffed pretzel stand used to be, serving up
Caribbean specialties like fried red snapper and pork griot, a spicy Haitian classic. Vietnamese. If it’s phô you’re after, there’s always Community News favorite The Phô Spot (301 N. Harrison St., Princeton 08540), in Princeton Shopping Center. The Phô Spot does just the one thing—phô—so you know it’s got to be good. For phô plus a little added variety— vermicelli salad, say, or a classic bánh mì—try Baguette Bistro (319 U.S. 130, East Windsor 08520; 609-490-0839). Jamaican. Also in the East Windsor area is Morgan’s Island Grill (110 Mercer St., Hightstown 08520; 609308-2108), where chef and Jamaica native Kenny Morgan is dishing out Caribbean favorites including jerk chicken, oxtails, curry goat roti and more. For another take on Jamaican cuisine, head over to the Scotch Bonnet Kitchen (901 Pennington Ave., Ewing 08618; 609-218-5787) which opened in January. Afghan. Middle Eastern cuisine remains underrepresented in Mercer County, but you can get tasty Afghan dishes at two restaurants a mile apart in Mercerville. Aryana Kabab and Grill (335 Route 33, Hamilton 08619; 609-528-0141)
offers a variety of skewered meats including tikka kabab (chicken, beef or lamb) and kofta kabab (chicken or beef), served over a heaping bed of Afghan rice. But don’t sleep on the stewed chickpea side, which I would and have ordered on its own. Just down the highway is Afghan Kabob and Grill (888 Route 33, Hamilton 08690; 609-584-5566) with a similar menu, although it is there that you can splurge on T-bone or salmon kabob, if your heart desires. And for the scaredy-cats in your dining party, both restaurants also serve a wide variety of greasy spoon favorites including cheesesteaks, burgers, gyros and fried shrimp. Hungarian. In Mercer County, there are basically two kinds of European cuisine: Italian food and Sicilian food. But here and there you can find other inspirations, including three restaurants that feature Hungarian dishes on their menus. One is Barbara’s Hungarian Food (1400 Parkway Ave., Ewing 08628; 609-882-5500), serving traditional favorites like goulash, chicken paprikas (or beef, pork or mushroom paprikas), stuffed cabbage and, of course, apple or cherry strudel. Another is Blue Danube (538 Adeline St., Trenton 08611; 609-393-6133),
where you can get stuffed cabbage and chicken paprikas, but also a variety of Eastern European specialties including dishes from Romania, Poland, Germany and, befitting the restaurant’s Chambersburg location, Italy. Try the Chicken Mehedinti, a Romanian-inspired dish served with sauerkraut, cabbage and dill sour cream. And in Hopewell there’s the Hopewell Valley Bistro and Inn (15 E. Broad St., Hopewell 08525; 609466-9889). Closed for much of the pandemic, the restaurant is now open serving a handful of Hungarian dishes, including goulash, chicken paprikas and wiener schnitzel among its traditional pub offerings. Trinidadian. Annie’s Hot on D Spot Roti Shop (1469 Nottingham Way, Hamilton 08619) is officially West Indian cuisine, but there’s no mistaking the Trinidadian influence in owner Annie Sewdass’s dishes, such as paratha roti (AKA “buss up shut,”) dhal puri (a roti stuffed with ground split peas) and aloo pie (fried dumplings stuffed with potato. But don’t stop there: Hot on D Spot is noted for its desserts, including cassava pone (a West Indian bread pudding) and mango chow (which is spicy and sweet!).
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Wednesday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. October 20 through 31 - Justice Bell replica on display with programming on October 21 and 22 October 25 - Roosevelt String Band concert sold out! - Live stream tickets still available November 12, 14, & 19 - Virtual Program: Morven Sampler/Ornament Cross Stitch Workshops with Marisa Simon November 18 - Festival of Trees opens! November 19 - Virtual Program: Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden with author Perdita Buchan November 20 - 22 - Holiday Pop Up Craft Sale - New! December 2 - Virtual Program: The Houses of Louis Kahn with William Whitaker, curator of the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania December 3 - Festival of Trees “Outdoor Winter Wonderland” Party - New! Book Holiday Parties for your company or family at Morven indoors or out with CDC Guidelines Garden Tours and Private Box Lunch picnics on the grounds now through November 1 Dreaming of Utopia: Roosevelt, NJ exhibition on view through January 24, 2021 Museum Shop is open onsite and online Small and private group tours available
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