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Tuesday, September 29

Forum to Showcase PU’s Innovation Pipeline

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world applications — will be on full display, in a virtual setting, at the annual Innovation Forum presented by Princeton University’s Keller Center on Tuesday, September 29, from 1 to 5 p.m. The free event is open to the public, but registration is required at kellercenter. princeton.edu.

The event features presentations by students and faculty whose work has high potential to be commercialized along with demo stations and question-and-answer sessions. In addition to highlighting projects underway in engineering and natural sciences, the event is for the first time also open to researchers in the humanities.

After opening remarks by Andrea Goldsmith, dean of engineering and applied science; Naveen Verma, director of the Keller Center; and Cornelia Huellstrunk,

executive director of the Keller Center, will be the following presentations.

• Chao Yan, a research associate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, on direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries.

• Maryam Elfeki, postdoctoral fellow in chemistry, on highthroughput elicitor screening (HiTES), which is a new method for investigating the properties of biosynthetic gene clusters (BCGs).

BCGs play an important role in bacteria’s generation of secondary metabolites, a major source of new drugs.

• Erik Gilson, principal research physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, on improved separation of nuclear waste using a low-turbulence centrifuge.

• Jordan Suchow, assistant professor at Stevens School of Business, on data-driven, photorealistic social face-trait encoding, prediction, and manipulation using deep neural networks • Preeti Iyer, Class of 2020, and Kyle Barnes, a current senior, on Representable.org, a web-based platform they co-founded to support redistricting efforts and combat gerrymandering.

• Laurence Ralph, professor of anthropology, on animation and graphics for justice, with the aim of using creative media to education new audiences about the juvenile justice system.

• Effie Rentzou, associate professor in the Department of French and Italian, on Poetrygo!, an app that would integrate poetry into every day life by pairing objects and locations with relevant poems.

• Brooke Holmes, professor in the humanities, and Dan-El Padilla Peralta, associate professor of

classics, with “Rupturing Tradition,” an experimental form of graduate seminar.

• Alexander Ploss, associate professor of molecular biology, on novel therapeutics for the treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis virus infections.

• Dalton Conley, professor of sociology, on “costly virtual rating slider,” based on the notion that people are less like to leave lazy or false online reviews on sites like Yelp or for services like Uber if there is some cost associated with leaving the review.

• Cathy Tang, PhD candidate in chemical and biological engineering, on metabolite potentiation of nitrofuran activity in drug-tolerant bacteria.

• Caleb Bastian, visiting scientist in applied mathematics, on “bring back the wonder.”

• Sujit Datta, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering on PoreBiome, a “porous petri dish” for microbial assays in complex environments.

Business Meetings Thursday, September 24

NJ Conference on Diversity & Inclusion, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.princetonmercerchamber. org. Two keynote speakers, a general session, and two breakout sessions. Keynote speakers are Debby Irving, racial justice educator and writer; and Randal Pinkett, chairman and CEO, BCT Partners. General session speaker is Avery Ince, vice president, medical affairs - cardiovascular & metabolism franchise, for Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Register. $125; $99 members. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Virtual Meeting, Mercer’s Best Toastmasters. mercersbest. toastmastersclubs.org. Communications and leadership development. Guests welcome. Email contact-3375@toastmastersclubs.org for an invitation. 6:45 to 7:45 p.m.

Friday, September 25

JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County. www.psgofmercercounty.org. Career coach Erin Haywood offers tips to build your online presence, including how to engage online readers, what recruiters look for online, and what to avoid in online branding. Free. 9:45 a.m. to noon.

Tuesday, September 29

LeadershipConnect Seminar, NonProfitConnect. www.nonprofitconnectnj.org. Christine Michelle Duffy, Esq. from ProBono Partnership discusses “Reopening Plan: Tackling Legal and Human Resources Issues under COVID-19.” Register. 12:30 p.m.

Innovation Forum, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton University. kellercenter.princeton.edu. Presentations celebrating innovations in the sciences and humanities by Princeton faculty, postdocs, and graduate students.

Short pitches followed by Q&A from a feedback panel. Opportunity for audience interaction through on-screen demo stations.

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Shopify, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. Webinar led

by Anuj Kumar, founder of eKnous LLC, a company specializing in web and mobile-based solutions.

Topics covered include: What is eCommerce? How much investment do I need to start my online

Racial justice educator Debby Irving is the keynote speaker at the New Jersey Conference on Diversity & Inclusion on Thursday, September 24. business? Do I need to be a technology professional to start an eCommerce business? How do I manage inventory, eCommerce shipping, customers, etc.? Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.

JobSeekers. sites.google.com/ site/njjobseekers. Virtual meeting for those seeking employment.

Visit website for GoTo Meeting link. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 30

Business After Business Virtual Networking, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Virtual networking, cocktails, and connections from home. Opportunity to deliver a 30-second commercial and hold topical conversations in virtual breakout sessions. Register. $25; $15 members. 5 to 7 p.m.

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Farm Markets

Events for each day are divided into two categories: socially distanced, in-person gatherings, and virtual gatherings taking place online. Visit venue websites for information about how to access the events. To include your event in this section email events@princetoninfo.com.

Princeton Farmers Market, Franklin Avenue Lot, Princeton. www.princetonfarmersmarket. com. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and artisanal products. Face coverings and social distancing required. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Mental Amusements, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage.org. Interactive, virtual mind-reading show by mentalist Vinny DePonto. Front row tickets, $50, allow for audience participation. General admission $35. 7:30 p.m.

In Person Gardens

Garden Tours, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven.org. Docent-led what’s in bloom tours.

Face masks and registration required. Tours available Wednesdays through Saturdays. $10. For additional $20, box lunch included Wednesdays through Fridays.

Masks required. Register. 11 a.m.

Wellness

Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans connect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can. 8 to 9 a.m.

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Classical Music

Downtown Lunchtime Recital Series, First Reformed Church of New Brunswick. www.facebook.com/FRCNewBrunswick.

Trillium, featuring Marjorie Selden, violist, and Jill Crawford, flutist, who will play compositions by late 18th century composers Francois Devienne and Franz Anton Hoffmeister. Livestreamed via Facebook. 12:15 p.m.

Piano Competition Finals, Princeton Festival. www.princetonfestival.org. Three finalists in six age categories ranging from age 6 to 25 demonstrate their mastery of works by major composers in a video concert. Winners announced at the concert’s conclusion. Register. $10. Two-hour concert will be available online until 10 p.m. on Sunday, September 27. 6 p.m.

Live Music

Bob Egan and Friends Virtual Piano Bar. www.bobeganentertainment.com. Bob Egan and Friends perform music of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Visit www.facebook.com/onlinePianoBar. 8 p.m.

Literati

Our American Heritage The Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey gives a free outdoor concert under the pavilion at Cadwalader Park in Trenton on Saturday, September 26. The performance features marches, music from Broadway, and patriotic works, all by American composers.

History

Understanding Princeton’s African-American History: An Exploration Through Places, Historical Society of Princeton. www.princetonhistory.org. Join historian and multi-generational Witherspoon-Jackson resident, Shirley Satterfield, for a live virtual presentation showcasing the 29 plaques that have been installed and will soon be installed as the Heritage Tour in the WitherspoonJackson neighborhood, Princeton’s 20th historic district. These plaques tell the rich history of African-American establishments in Princeton. Register for CrowdCast presentation. 7 p.m.

Lectures

Environmental Entrepreneurship in India: Air, Water, Waste, Keller Center, Princeton University. kellercenter.princeton.edu.

Social entrepreneurs in India are tackling three complex and critical social challenges: air quality, water resilience, and clean energy access. Free panel discussion with environmental entrepreneurs working towards a solution to these issues. Register for link.

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The Growth of Unique Sports Content on New Media Platforms, Rider University. www. rider.edu/events/business-medialecture. Annual Business of Media Lecture features Jason Brown, who gained national attention as the head football coach of Independence Community College on the Netflix documentary series “Last Chance U.” Register to join the virtual event. Free. Noon.

Architecture and Experience: Designing a New Art Museum for Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum. princeton.edu. Architect Sir David Adjaye and museum director James Steward discuss the concepts, ideas, and insights that are driving the design for the new Princeton University Art Museum.

Register for Zoom discussion. 1 p.m.

Effects of the American Presidential Election on European Politics, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. spia.princeton.edu. Harold James, professor of European studies, history, and international affairs, and Andrew Moravcsik, professor of politics and international affairs, discuss, moderated by anthropology professor John Borneman. Free. Registration required for Zoom presentation.

4:30 p.m.

Rock & Roll: From the Blues to the British Invasion, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Rock ‘n roll historian, and native of Liverpool, John Paul Groom tells the story of the Beatles’ rise from obscurity to the moment when they stood on the verge of international stardom.

Last in a three-part series. Register via email for GoToMeeting link.

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Socials

Library Drawing Party, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Follow along for a librarian-led drawing lesson, then share your finished work. For all ages. 7 p.m.

Thursday September 24 In Person Classical Music

PSO Brass Quintet, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Morven Music and Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.princetonsymphony.org. Eclectic program of music of the Renaissance period, selections from Bernstein’s West Side Story, and more. Outdoor concert on Morven’s grounds. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Register. $35 per twoperson pod. 5:30 p.m.

Jazz & Blues

Sharp Radaway Trio, New Brunswick Jazz Project, Tavern on George, 361 George Street, New Brunswick. www.nbjp.org.

Outdoor performance. Weather permitting. 7 to 10 p.m.

Live Music

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Robert Ruffis Experience with R&B. 6 to 9 p.m.

Film

Outdoor Screening, Rutgers Nursery, 1051 U.S. Highway 202, Ringoes. www.rutgersln.com/ events. Artist Andy Goldsworthy coaxes leaves, grass, twigs,

Sam Farmer: “A Long Walk Down a Winding Road”, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. From the perspective of someone living on the autism spectrum, author Sam Farmer interweaves real stories of personal triumphs with advice for overcoming adversity. 7 to 8 p.m.

Gardens

Thursday Night Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, Pennsylvania. www. bhwp.org. Series of guest lectures via Zoom continues with “Rain Gardens” with Samantha Bean.

Register. $15. 7 to 8 p.m.

Lectures

Panel Discussion: Behind the Iconic Images in Life Magazine, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

Live webinar roundtable with contributors to the publication Life Magazine and the Power of Photography as they discuss some of the magazine’s most recognizable, beloved, and controversial pictures based on new archival research. Participants include Sharon Corwin (Colby College/ Terra Foundation), Robert Hariman (Northwestern University), Jason Hill (University of Delaware), John Louis Lucaites (Indiana University emeritus), Paul Roth (Ryerson Image Center), and Catherine Zuromskis (Rochester Institute of Technology).

Moderated by Katherine A. Bussard, curator of photography.

Register for Zoom presentation.

Free. 5:30 p.m.

A Virtual Discussion with Christine Todd Whitman, Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics, Rider University. www.rider. edu/events/governorwhitman.

Talk features topics that include the former Republican governor of New Jersey’s recent role at the Democratic National Convention and her views on partisanship.

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The Haunting and Humorous Art of the Jersey Devil

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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-thanlife 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.

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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 two-legged dragon figure) with a horse and dragon head, leathery wings, and 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 identify.

River Eno’s “The Unspoiled Harmonious Wilderness” fancifully bundles 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.

In a note sent to U.S. 1 regarding the new anthology’s birth, 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

‘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.’ 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 — as are all the following.

Another new book, very hot off the presses, “Naked With The New Jersey Devil,” obviously takes liberties with the legend. It turns the Jersey Devil into a shapeshifter hiding in public as an Atlantic City casino manager.

The book is one in a series in the Florida-based 4 Horseman publications Urban Legends Erotica Collection. “Naked’s” companion works include “Cuddling with Chupacabra” and “Sleeping with Sasquatch” (there are several fairytale themed stories such as “Goldie and the Three Beards” and “Beau and the Professor Beastialora.”

Editor Erika Lance says during some email exchanges that the book “came about while discussing doing an erotica series for 4 Horseman Publications. After much research, the top seller turned out to be ‘Shifter Romance/Erotica’ and thus, I needed my own unique spin on this. I hadn’t seen anyone really going all the way into the Urban Legends, and I know quite a few due to my other hobbies and writing.”

She says her choice of monster came when she “broke the Urban Legend collection into thirds, and so I used classic North American Urban Legend cryptids starting with Sasquatch, Chupracabra, and as you know, New Jersey Devil.”

Regarding her audience, Lance says, “Based on my reviews, I have a wide variety of ages reading this series from early 20s to well into retirement age. However, interestingly enough, I discovered male and females over the age of 40 make up easily 40 percent of my

The legend of the Jersey Devil has sparked a number of fictional representations in genres ranging from erotic fiction, left, classic horror novels, and short fiction.

Facebook impressions.

The story penned by Honey Cummings focuses on a sadder but wiser young woman with the Puritan-sounding name Abigail.

Jilted by her two-timing adulterous minister boyfriend, the Philly girl reluctantly joins a friend on a church trip to an Atlantic City casino.

That’s where the Jersey Devil manager spots her in the lounge and is smitten by her looks and an unknown force that becomes a key plot element.

But that something really doesn’t matter. The point is that this literally handsome devil can’t resist temptation, abandons all caution of being involved with a human, and does more than rush in where angels fear to tread.

It is through his attention to Abigail — depicted in a series of graphically reported encounters — that he helps both of them to realize their physical and spiritual selves.

True to its intention to provide an easy-reading titillating story that focuses on an urban legend, the 100-page book spiced with sex scenes doesn’t take itself seriously — especially in crating a scene where shape shifters arrive for a regular get-together in a casino conference room.

Cummings dedicates the book “To Kim & Deidre” and says,

‘Naked With The New Jersey Devil’ obviously takes liberties with the legend. It turns the Jersey Devil into a shape-shifter hiding in public as an Atlantic City casino manager.

“Your real life stories of Jersey & Philly were quite the inspiration!”

Asked to elaborate on that dedication, the writer says, “Sadly, it wasn’t due to any sightings or experiences with the Jersey Devil. In fact, Kim once told me she dated a pastor and that he cheated on her (when she lived in Jersey), and I was trying to figure out how to connect the church scene to getting the character to the casino where the Jersey Devil would be. Deidre

lived in Philadelphia and once at a writing session at our local cafe, she shared how the church she went to had busses to Atlantic City. Voila! I had the missing pieces and a fun contrasting feature to have in my saucy story.”

While elaborating on how she wrote amorous scenes from a male perspective, the writer says, “I have been happily married to the same man for over 13 wonderful years.

We are all human. There is always something extra special about the excitement of pleasing our opposites, in and out of the bedroom. I focus more on the things leading into those moments, adding to the moment well before the climax comes. They say in writing to ‘remember to use all the senses’ and so, I do my best to heed this even if I find myself blushing and covering my face attempting to type onehanded.”

While Jersey Devil purists will want to take up pitchforks and torches, that this type of book seizes on the legend is an indication that the story is growing in power rather than diminishing with time.

Hunter Shea’s 2016 “The Jersey Devil” novel gets back to basics of telling a horror yarn. The 378-page Pinnacle press paperback’s plot is simple. When the Jersey Devil starts making headlines after years of inactivity, octogenarian Sam Willet and his family head to the Pine Barrens to settle a grudge that started decades before the current action.

The 52-year-old Bronx-born author of a string of horror stories — including “The Montauk Monster,” “Loch Ness Revenge,” and “The Dover Demon” — says in a recent telephone interview from his New York City residence, that he was always a monster enthusiast.

“As a kid, I was attracted to monsters and scary stories. I was obsessed with Bigfoot. I read all the books in the library on Bigfoot over and over. My father bought me a book, and it had all these monsters. And I said if I could ever write, I’d like to do books on monsters.”

His first book was the novella “Swamp Monster Massacre.” Its star is the Florida “skunk ape” or, as Shea calls it, “The southern cousin of Bigfoot.”

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I couldn’t take it out. I could do it forever,” he says of writing horror.

The Jersey Devil book came to him when “I was on my way to a meeting with my editor. I always have a bunch of ideas. But sometimes it just hits you out of nowhere and you have to ride it.

“I started thinking about the Jersey Devil. I had an idea that a family that had encountered the Jersey Devil in the past and now multiple generations now faces it when it rears its ugly head again. I liked the idea that the characters were not running from the monster but towards it.”

He says he had the story’s general idea by the time his train arrived at Grand Central Station.

Then there was a surprise. “My editor asked what I was going to write about and said, ‘I hope it is something like the Jersey Devil.’ I almost fell off the chair.”

Shea says the book’s accurate descriptions and geography came from “doing a lot of research going to libraries and going to Google maps. But my sister and brother-inlaw live in New Jersey, and I said, ‘Let’s take a road trip.”

After spending a few days researching to the point “where it wasn’t going to overwhelm me,” Shea says he was struck by the mystery of the Pine Barrens’ landscape. He encapsulates his visit with, “After being there, if you said, ‘A dinosaur just came out of the woods, ’I’d go, ‘Okay.’ “ He says, “I read books about the Jersey Devil, about real accounts, but no one did it justice as a monster story.” And that his “fly by the seat of your pants” approach to writing flowed freely and “didn’t feel like I was working at all. And if I’m surprised then the audience is going to be surprised. I just keep it lean and mean and moving. I took actual history and myth and roll it up in one and let it go.”

“The Pinelands Horror: The Story of the Jersey Devil” appeared in 2015. The 92-page story begins with a Lenni Lenape hunter being slaughtered by a winged monster after he enters Popuessing, the Lenape name for the place of the dragon.

Centuries later, in 1735, the Leeds family unwisely builds a house on the same location. And their hard life gets harder when Mrs. Leeds sneaks out to have an amorous rendezvous with a wood spirit, and a horrified Mr. Leeds takes off. Then the Mrs. bears a child that has a ram’s head, bat’s wings, and supernatural yearning to fly into the night.

When the mother and devil child also disappear, all hell breaks loose, and the children ask a nearby pastor to help them sort things out.

It’s then that the book turns into a paranormal Agatha Christie-like yarn that has the bewildered pastor picking up clues while burying family members being picked off by an unknown menace.

Add lots of Bible quoting, grizzly killings, an intriguing section about Satan from British poet John

Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” mixing up names in scenes, and the elimination anything dealing the Lenapes, and the result is a clumsy read that takes a new slant on the old story.

The author is Gary Botsch, a writer of two other books who mysteriously leaves no trace of a personal history. The publisher is Gottfried & Fritz, a division of the Acropolitan News and Media Group LLC, a Miscellaneous Publishing company in Freehold.

“The Legend of the Jersey Devil,” 2013, proves that it is never too early to introduce kids to a good local monster tale. Written by Montclair writer Trinka Hakes Noble and illustrated by Coloradobased illustrator Gerald Kelley, the 32-page children’s book starts off on a spooky night near Halloween

‘I realized that there wasn’t anything about the Jersey Devil for the younger readers. everything written about our folklore character was for adults. So I decided to write a picture book about the Jersey Devil for young readers,’ says trinka Hakes Noble of her inspiration to write ‘the Legend of the Jersey Devil.’ to provide the traditional account of Mrs. Leeds’ 13th child being born a devil and taking off up the chimney.

The devil has the townsfolk up in arms by scaring their livestock and disturbing their peace until they get a taste of some other devils: city slickers hoping to make a buck on snagging the monster and tromping through their farms and town while they do so.

Adopting the adage “Better the devil we know than the devil we don’t,” the townies mobilize to protect their monster, who is heartened by the gestures, helps chase the urbanites away, and “continues to preserve the wild and ancient ways” of the Pines.

Explaining how the book came to be written, Hakes Noble says, “I write and sometimes illustrate books for children. I also visit many elementary schools as a visiting author, especially here in New Jersey and the east coast. At schools I noticed many kids wearing the NHL Jersey Devils logo and sport jerseys. And that’s when I learned that the kids had no idea how or why the NHL hockey team got its name.

“So I first wrote about the Jersey Devil in a book titled ‘The New Jersey Reader’ which is all about everything New Jersey, from his-

The Jersey Devil has also found a home in popular comics, including a 2001 issue of ‘ScoobyDoo,’ left, ‘Salem’s Daughter,’ and ‘Spidergirl.’ tory to riddles to poems to non-fiction, including a historical timeline and a reader theater, all for the elementary school grades. I included a short section in this book on the Jersey Devil, tying it to our NHL team, and teachers and librarians told me the most popular section of that book was about the Jersey Devil. The kids wanted to learn about it!

“I realized that there wasn’t anything about the Jersey Devil for the younger readers. Everything written about our folklore character was for adults. So I decided to write a picture book about the Jersey Devil for young readers. Because it is for elementary children, I made it a bit tongue-in-cheek, with humorous illustrations, and in the end, the Jersey Devil turned out to be a good guy because he kept outsiders and developers out of the Pine Barrens, leaving it to those who lived there.

Consequently, today, we have the protected Pinelands Reserve for all to enjoy, thanks to the Jersey Devil.”

“The Call of the Jersey Devil,” also published in 2013, mixes New Jersey’s teenage mall-rat culture with the Pine Barrens legend. The story written by Aurelio Voltaire involves a group of North Jerseyites who head to a Goth music concert in the Pinelands. Since the story opens with young witch seeing her older mentor die while subduing the Jersey Devil, it is clear where this dark yet tongue-incheek tale is heading — a tone reinforced as the concert-bound reclusive New York City-based Goth musician says, after being driven through the Holland Tunnel, “I am pretty sure I am in hell now.” Over all, it’s a breezy and snarky read.

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ther quick references in light fare include the appearance of the Jersey Devil in several comic books.

In perhaps one of his most mainstream comic forays, the Jersey Devil has an encounter with the popular TV cartoon character Scooby-Doo. It’s part of the lovable big dog’s mystery outings and involves solving a problem with the Jersey Devil spoiling a kite competition. While nothing really noteworthy, the 2001 issue produced by DC comics introduced the regional monster to a national audience of young readers.

The Jersey Devil comics were developed in 1996 by South Jersey writer/illustrator Tony DiGerolamo and published through his own company, South Jersey Rebellion Productions. While having a healthy presence in the regional comic book market, the illustrated tales of the mysterious Pine Barrens-dweller was unable to find a strong market for distribution and

ceased after 12 issues in 1999. The books were well designed and certainly engaging to New Jersey history buffs.

“Salem’s Daughters — The Legend of the Jersey Devil” is another comic book take with a twist.

Here the writers connect the Jersey Devil to a descendent of a “real” Salem witch who ends up hunting for the Jersey Devil.

Produced by Zenescope in 2009, the expertly illustrated books with creaky story-lines present another look at the Jersey Devil and attract readers with covers depicting sexy witches — including one in a Jersey Devilish hockey uniform-like costume.

Sex selling the Jersey Devil seems also to be an ongoing theme.

In addition to the erotic series already mentioned, carnal romps with the Jersey Devil are featured in the Monstergasm and Monsters Made Me Gay series, not reviewed at press time.

And just when one thinks they’ve seen everything, Janet Evanovich’s Trenton bounty hunter Stephanie Plum gets into the spirit when she accompanies her supernatural bounty hunter guy pal into the Pines in “Plum Spooky.”

While the book hypes the Jersey Devil, the monster’s appearance is fleeting — literally — and does little for the plot except providing a connection between the 25-book franchise and the enduring myth.

Speaking of myth, one recent nonfiction book needs to be mentioned — especially since it draws on the same materials as the previously mentioned Susan Tulio’s speculative fiction story.

The 2018 “The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster” shows how one of the founding fathers’ hellish satire against rival almanac publishers Daniel and Titan Leeds helped brand the Leeds family as being in cahoots with the devil — something unexpectedly reinforced by the Leeds family’s crest with a two-footed dragon.

he Jersey Devil has been a frequent documentary film subject, such as in New Jersey Network’s 1972 documentary, but its fictional screen time seems to start rolling in 1993 on the popular television show “The X-Files.”

The program deals with an FBI paranormal investigation unit led by agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, the latter played by Princeton University graduate David Duchovny, Class of 1982.

In this program, the fifth in the show’s first season, the unit is dispatched to Atlantic City to investigate human remains that seemed to have been gnawed by a human-like creature — one similar to the legend of a large creature roaming the woods.

While a visit to the nearby Pinelands provides some details, Mulder hits pay dirt when he interviews an AC skid row resident. The down-and-outer provides a sketch of the creature that immediately lets viewers know episode writer and series creator Chris Carter substituted the state’s dreaded wingedhorse-headed creature for a more pedestrian and Sasquatch-like figure.

He says in a published interview that he wanted to explore the idea of a missing link that resisted any form of evolution. He also saw Atlantic City as “an interesting place to put a de-evolved, or a less evolved character,” adding that, “Atlantic City almost represents the decay of Western Civilization.”

While “X-Files” is standard fare, the show is a Garden State disappointment. It promises a Jersey Devil, but instead delivers a large, nude, Bigfoot-like woman chomping down derelicts. And the Vancouver, Canada, locations are visually and geographically a world away from Atlantic City. Nevertheless, it is fun and worth a free look at www.dailymotion.com/video/ x4v10q5.

The Jersey Devil also made a few guest television appearances but in different manifestations. In a 2007 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode, a diminutive red devil rips up a diner kitchen before getting into a couple of minute fight with one of the turtles. See it at www. youtube.com/watch?v=G3YP_ C3SZAs&list=PLkTrfa_aPRsPZWywXIC9z4IqzPzr9YUqR.

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t wasn’t until 1998 that the Jersey Devil got big screen time with a small budget film with a big impact: “The Last Broadcast.”

The documentary-style film focuses in on the final tapes created by a pair of hosts of a public access paranormal show who perished on a midnight trek to the New Jersey Pinelands to locate the Jersey Devil.

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While no Jersey Devil is actual- venge on the unfortunate person ly seen in the film, and the film’s who had desecrated the bones of conclusion seems more handy than the forest spirit.

But that brief dramatic monstercreative, there is a presence moment isn’t enough to make up throughout of something mysterifor the film’s murky plot and clumous and evil.

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Yet it still has some interest. $13,000 domestically, it grossed $5 Other actors include “Blue Lamillion internationally. goon” frolicker Chris Aikens and The film is familiar sit-com also forever conactor Robert nected to the Guillaume, and A 1993 ‘X-Files’ epimore successful the filming loca“Blair Witch sode featuring the tions include the Project,” which Jersey Devil spawned New Jersey came out around State House in a number of reprethe same time Trenton, the and had a similar sentations in films Wharton Tract, plot. www.daiand on television. and the mansion lymotion.com/ and village at video/xb50ma Batsto. Take a A bigger budlook at it on tuget production with some film star bitv.com/movies/477957/13th_ power, “The 13th Child: The child_legend_of_the_jersey_devil Legend of the Jersey Devil” folPaterson-born director/writer lowed in 2002.

The story follows a New Jersey Dante Tomaselli’s 2006 “Satan’s prosecutor’s office agent (Leslie- Playground” is the exact opposite Anne Down) investigating a series of the “The 13th Child” and goes of grizzly killings in the Pine Bar- all in on the winged Jersey Devil rens. Soon she encounters Mr. and Mother Leeds.

The plot is standard haunted Shroud (Cliff Robertson), a person house fare: a group of people (here of Native American decent with a a North Jersey family that includes secret.

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Friday September 25 In Person Live Music

Sunset Sips & Sounds, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com.

Live music by Mark Mikklos, light fare, and wines by the glass. Face masks required on premises. 4 to 7 p.m.

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards. com. Deb & Mike with pop/rock. 6 to 9 p.m.

Film

Drive-In Movie Night, Rosedale Park, Hopewell. www.mercercountyparks.org.

Screening of “Sonic the Hedgehog.” Each parking spot comes with a designated lounging area. Bring your own chairs, blankets, food, and drinks. No glass bottles or liquor. Free. Gates open one hour prior to showtime. 7:30 p.m.

For Families

Creepy Spider Hunt, The Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington. www. thewatershed.org. Night hunt with a nocturnal naturalist in hunt of many different types of spiders. For ages 5 and up with an adult.

Masks required; groups will be staggered to ensure social distancing. Bring a flashlight or headlamp and dress for the weather.

Register. $15. 7 p.m.

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Mental Amusements, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage.org. Interactive, virtual mind-reading show by mentalist Vinny DePonto. Front row tickets, $50, allow for

help from the closest house they can find.

Unfortunately for the family members, the old place belongs to a fortune teller, Mrs. Leeds. Reminiscent of the Addams Family’s “Ma-ma,” this mistress of the house presides over a family of a couple of cartoonish “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” offspring — a mute clown-dressed killer daughter and a half-witted son. But the other member of the family is the winged devil flying overhead and picking off individuals here and there. Add devil worshippers and police officers getting whacked with frying pans and this intentionally overthe-top grotesque film filmed at Whitesbog Village in the Pines either derails or delivers the train wreck it set out to be. It’s available on DVD. “Leeds Point,” made in 2008, is a low-budget film striving to be an earnest horror mystery. The film centers on the killing of a group of campers at the Leeds Point — the Atlantic County town where the Jersey Devil was born.

The community members begin to suspect the stepfather of one of the slain campers as the killer. The innocent man attempts to exoner-

audience participation. General admission $35. 7:30 p.m.

Literati

The Books and Prints of Anais Nin and her Gemor Press, Friends of Princeton University Library. libcal.princeton.edu/ events. Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, joins Julie Mellby, graphic arts curator, to talk about the studios and homes of writers we all know and love.

Princeton University Library recently aquired acquired most of the rare, letterpress editions printed by Nin. Register. 2 p.m.

Author Talk, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org. Emmy Awardwinning journalist Maria Hinojosa discusses her book, “Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America,” a story of immigration in America told through her family’s experiences and decades of reporting, that paints a portrait of a country in crisis. Free. Register for CrowdCast event. 6 to 7 p.m.

Benefit Galas

One Voice 2020 Virtual Gala and Auction, Trenton Children’s Chorus. www.trentonchildrenschorus.org. Guest speakers, performances, and a silent auction. Register. $100 and up. Proceeds benefit the choral program that empowers the academic, social, and spiritual lives of children through artistry in music. 7 p.m.

Lectures

SAB Presents: A Conversation with Howardena Pindell, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu. The Princeton University Art Museum’s Student Advisory Board welcomes Howardena Pindell, a leader whose career broke ground for women and artists of color in gallery representation and as a curator at The Museum of Modern Art. Pindell’s art often addresses such social issues as homelessness, AIDS, war, genocide, sexism, xenophobia, and apartheid. Register for Zoom presentation. Free. 5:30 p.m.

Socials

Virtual Victorian Pressed Flower Wreath

Left, the Leeds family at the window in the 2006 film ‘Satan’s Playground.’ Right, media related to an episode of the ‘X-Files’ featuring the Jersey Devil. ate himself, and with the help of a newspaper reporter who believes the father is innocent starts an investigation that leads to a conclusion that neither wants to believe: The Jersey Devil did it.

Eventually the two track the devil to its home within a home and confront it. Hampered by production values and acting, the old-style story filmed in Brick and Jackson, New Jersey, lets the audience imagine the monster.

Its writers are two Jersey boys, Brick’s Jeff Heimbuch and Whiting’s Santo Scardillo, who also directs this interesting home-brewed addition to Jersey Devil story telling. See it for free at www.youtube. com/watch?v=io0VE8AOvmo “Carny,” the 2009 SyFy television production, gets high marks for presenting the Jersey Devil in its horrific splendor. However, forget about New Jersey.

For some reason, the story opens with after the Jersey Devil has been

captured and sold to a carnival in Nebraska. Of course, the creature escapes and creates mayhem until people get their thoughts together and figure out how to fight back.

Popular actor Lou Diamond Phillips is the star of this predictable film that simply uses the Jersey Devil as a plot element without fully exploiting its background or home state. It’s available online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUrodCa0o.

“The Barrens” is “Saw II” and “Saw III” director Darren Lynn Bousman’s 2012 story of an increasingly troubled man retracing his youthful camping days with his father by taking his family to the Pinelands — with the forests near Toronto, Canada, standing in for New Jersey.

Suffering from a dog bite fever received when the man decided to strangle his family dog and unnerved by the disappearance of nearby campers, the man believes

Workshop, Morven Museum and Garden. www.morven.org. Create flower art wreaths with many flowers pressed from Morven’s historic gardens with Curator of Education Debra Lampert-Rudman. Learn the “love language” of flowers, enjoy an illustrated powerpoint on this Victorian art, and create wreath cards of your own special design suitable for framing or gift giving.

Register for Zoom workshop. $35 includes all materials. For ages 12 and up. Noon.

For Seniors

FYI Seminar, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Social worker Christopher Kellogg presents “Combatting Isolation and Loneliness in Elders” via Zoom. Register. Free. 11:45 a.m.

Saturday September 26 In Person Jazz & Blues

Billy Kilson Trio, New Brunswick Jazz Project, Tavern on George, 361 George Street, New Brunswick. www.nbjp.org. Outdoor performance. Weather permitting. 6 to 9 p.m.

Live Music

Fall Music, Palmer Square Green, Princeton. www.palmersquare.com. SunDog performs a mix of classic rock and country rock with splashes of Motown and early rock & roll. Free. Noon to 2:30 p.m.

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards. com. Silent Q with pop/rock in the afternoon, The Lifters with classic rock in the evening. 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m.

Chris Swatt, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-371-6000. www.workingdogwinerynj. com. Free live music. Wine available for purchase. Food from Vesuvio’s Pizza and Nick’s Place for sale starting at noon. 1 to 5 p.m.

Former Republican governor Christine Whitman speaks on partisanship and her role at the Democratic National Convention in a virtual talk for Rider University on Thursday, September 24.

Drive-In Concert, Mercer County Park, Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. www. mercercountyparks.org. Performances by Sounds of Sandstorm and Instant Funk.

Each parking spot comes with a designated lounging area. Bring your own chairs, blankets, food, and drinks. No glass bottles or liquor. Free. Gates open one hour prior to showtime. 6 p.m.

Pop Music

Our American Heritage, Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, Pavilion at Cadwalader Park, Trenton. Outdoor concert featuring marches, music from Broadway,

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the Jersey Devil is in the woods and insists his family move deeper into the forest to save themselves.

The Kansas-raised Bousman also wrote the screenplay, which was inspired in part by his youthful reading of a book with the Jersey Devil legend. But the inspiration here is more in the vein of the “Saw” franchise, leading the man, his family, and the audience to a grim encounter with evil.

Meanwhile Lee Albright of Albright Productions in Colorado is in the process of making what he hopes will be “the” Jersey Devil film audiences have been waiting for, “The Jersey Devil — the Legend Lives.”

With a production team, screenplay, and some resources already in place, Albright is in the process of raising $1.5 million to get the production rolling.

A Camden native — his dad worked at RCA — and 1962 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, Albright says he learned about the Jersey Devil when he was in grade school and during camping trips to the Pines.

He also taught as part of the New Jersey folklore curriculum when he was a South Jersey grade school instructor.

His interest in filmmaking started as a youngster at the ARLO Theater in Camden and after seeing a Hopalong Cassidy cowboy movie.

He says the desire drove him to create his film company in 1987 in Haddon Heights.

During a recent telephone interview, Albright says the company produces films for business and government agencies as well as his own projects — such as the short historical film “The Hamilton-Burr Duel,” available on DVD. He moved the enterprise to Colorado after he spent his honeymoon there in 1992 and decided to stay.

“The Jersey Devil actually be-

gan percolating in the 1980s. I teamed up with the New Jersey Film Commission’s executive director and talked about making a film in New Jersey,” says Albright.

“It was on the back burner and I finally got the initiative to resurrect it.”

He says that he and cowriter Skip Rose, “a buddy who lives in Swedesboro,” created a screenplay based on a story that appeared in a Hammonton Newspaper in 1938.

The account described Jeremiah Watson’s encounter with a creature whose description matches that of the Jersey Devil.

When the man continues to insist that he had an encounter with a mysterious creature, his fellow townspeople decide that he is crazy.

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lbright says that while that fact-based 20th-century encounter is important, the screenplay is set in the present and involves a fictional story of Jeremiah’s now aged son, Jessie, who, upon hearing that the creature may be resurfacing, sees it as a chance to redeem his father’s name.

Albright says his treatment of the monster is different from other filmmakers’. “All the stories have a one-sided version of the beast, a blood-thirsty creature. But we bring out his human side because he was born human and was transformed into this creature. All the other films exploit the vicious side of him. But there is not one instance of a Jersey Devil killing.”

Trying to stay as true as he can to the myth, Albright says during the writing process he researched the story and spoke with people who had been involved with strange cases in the Pines.

But things then got mysterious.

“When we were writing the screenplay we spoke with the chief of po-

lice in Mullica Township and asked him if he believed in the Jersey Devil. He said he was a tracker and had seen tracks and mutilations and couldn’t identify what had happened. Then he looked me in the eye and said he couldn’t disbelieve in it.”

Talking more about his approach to the film, Albright says, “People try to categorize the type of film you’re making — a romantic comedy or a number of things. (The Academy Award winning fantastic creature film) ‘The Shape of Water’ is as close as you are going to get to this. It is not a gasher, and there’s very little blood.

“It’s a very personal movie from Jessie’s point of view. What if you had a father who was considered crazy, and you had to prove otherwise?”

As he waits for filming to begin, Albright says, “We’re currently at the point of proof of concept — that we have something that is profitable and unique. We have developed a 3-D character that we have brought to life and can match anything from Hollywood.”

He goes on to say he envisions the film as being distributed as a feature film release followed by availability on DVD and streaming.

But he says it is mainly designed as a theatrical screening. “The Pine Barrens is a main character. It is one of the unique places in the world. It is beautiful. It has to be on a big screen. The key to the success of the movie is seeing the (Pinelands) through the Jersey Devil’s point of view as he flies over the Pines. You’ll be like on a roller coaster over the Pine Barrens. That is what (film’s approach) is designed for.”

He also points to the creature’s design that involved three artists and decades of research “I’ve had a file on the Jersey Devil for a long

time.

Anytime anything comes out in the paper I put it in the file.”

He says a good deal of descriptions came from 1909, when monster sightings occurred across New Jersey, and the Trenton Times decided to drop the name Leeds and christen it the Jersey Devil.

Albright says the look of his monster involved several artists.

One is Michael Locascio in Fairlawn, New Jersey.

“He did a sculpture of the Jersey Devil in flight. I contacted him and asked if we could incorporate some of the features — his sculpture has spikes in the back, and it looked neat.”

Another is Venezuelan artist Alfredo Rivera. “I sent him the copy of the Locasio image, and he created a model that is on the website.”

And Kansas 3-D artist Kenray Barnabas enhanced the model that is in use on the website.

Albright says once the budget is in place he can then take advantage of the New Jersey Film Commission’s 35 percent tax break for filming in New Jersey and help reduce costs.

Going for the pitch, Albright says, “There is huge market for this in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania,” he says. “After (a theatrical release) we can go to DVD, streaming, and products — Jersey Devil Halloween costumes and Jersey Devil music.”

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‘The 13th Child: The Legend of the Jersey Devil,’ released in 2002, received universally poor reviews.

Albright says people can learn more at his website and advises they “take their time. And if they’re really interested we have a 38-page business plan.”

Then thinking back at his days as a boy in the Pinelands, Albright says, “There is something out there in those million acres. I want to present to the world what I think the Jersey Devil should be. Not what Hollywood thinks, it’s a mood — something you can’t put your finger on.

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Art and About: pottery in Action, Arts Council of princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. First in a six-week series of public art-inspired popup experiences. Executive director and ceramic artist Adam Welch in action on the potter’s wheel and auctioning off work from his collection. The Arts Council has hidden five handmade ceramic pieces around town - finders keepers.

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The Devil in Song

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ersey 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 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-the-jersey-devil.

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he 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

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Good Causes

Outdoor Benefit Concert, Grace Presbyterian Church, 57 Sand Hills Road, Kendall Park. www.gracepcsb.org. Bring your own food and drink as well as chairs or blanket. Social distancing circles can accommodate up to six people. Suggested $20 donation benefits Grace Presbyterian Church, Sand Hills Community Wellness Center, and Sand Hills Preschool. Register via EventBrite. 4 to 7 p.m.

Farm Markets

Farmers Market, Montgomery Friends of Open Space, Village Shopping Center, 1340 Route 206 South, Skillman, 609-9150817. www.montgomeryfriends.org. Jersey Fresh produce and farm products, baked goods, chicken, eggs, sausage, and more.

One person per family. Face covering and social distancing required. 9 a.m. to noon.

Pennington Farmers Market, Rosedale Mills, 101 Route 31, Pennington. www.penningtonfarmersmarket.org. Face masks required for everyone over age 2. Social distancing measures in place. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, Princeton Junction Train Station. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and more. Yes We Can! food drive ongoing. Face masks required. Bring your own bags. Limit of two shoppers per family. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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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

‘I was fascinated with the Jersey Devil,’ says ‘Devil from Leeds’ composer Russell Juleg. ‘Some line and chord progression in a minor key occurred to me, and I put the song together.’ 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 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

Left, artwork for Bruce Springsteen’s 2008 single ‘A Night with the Jersey Devil.’

Above, the Sugar Sand Ramblers, with one member dressed as the Jersey Devil himself. 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.”

Hear the Sugar Sand Ramblers sing at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Hw3m1QXgxHA.

The work at right by Richard Saunders is part of the ‘Art and Music: Touching Sound’ exhibit opening Saturday, September 26,at the Arts Council of Princeton. cal Society, Divine Word Missionaries, 101 Park Street, Bordentown. www.bordentownhistory.org. Six of Bordentown’s most shocking 19th and early 20th century true tales will come to life in an evening of theatrical storytelling, held outdoors under a tent.

Register at brownpapertickets.com. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

For Families

Family Fun Fall Weekends, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com.

Activities for kids including adventure barn, hay bale maze, pony rides, pumpkin picking & painting, pedal tractors, and exploring the farm trail. Live music, apple products, wine, and more. Timed entry ticket required. $10; children under 3 free. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Corn Maze, Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell, 609-397-2555. www.howellfarm.org. Four-acre maze with the theme “bridges of Mercer County” with two miles of paths, victory bridge, games, and more.

Courtyard with pumpkins, food tent, private hayrides, and more. Register. $10. Noon to 4 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Fall Bird Walks, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Search the woods for

warblers, thrushes and other species and learn about the plants that fuel their flight.

Register. $8. 8 to 9:30 a.m.

Ride Crosswicks Creek, Burlington Meeting House, Bordentown Beach, West Park Street, Bordentown. www.burlmhcc.org/ isaac-watson-house. Kayak or canoe 4 miles up Crosswicks Creek with the incoming tide from Bordentown to John A. Roebling Memorial Park and the Isaac Watson House and hear short talk by docent Diane Argraves. Proceeds benefit Burlington Quaker Meeting House. Register. $25. 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Outdoor Flea Market, Princeton Elks, 354

Route 518, Blawenburg, 609-466-9813.

Weather permitting. Vendor spots are $10 each. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Mental Amusements, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage.org. Interactive, virtual mind-reading show by mentalist Vinny DePonto. Front row tickets, $50, allow for audience participation. General admission $35. 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.

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In Visual Art

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ersey 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.

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ne 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 U.S. 1 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.

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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 sweat-shirts 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.”

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 (lifesized 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 www.facebook.com/rockymountaincarvers.

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hile Wenal’s sculpture comes directly through the Pine-

An early 20th century poster, above, lured audiences to a Philadelphia museum. At right, from top, the devil outside Lucille’s; J. Kenneth Leap’s stained glass at the State House; and a life-size model made from papier mache and wood at the Pinelands Preservation Alliance in Vincentown. lands 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.

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Opportunities

Call for Donations

September 26 Continued from page 10

Film

Saturday Night at the Movies: A Room with a View, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org.

Borrow the featured title from the Hoopla catalog with a Mercer County Library card and watch it in the virtual company of your community. 8 p.m.

Gardens

Knowing Native Plants, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve. www.bhwp.org. Naturalist Mary Anne Borge presents “The Amazing Aster Family Part 2, Classic Asters and Their Colorful Companions.” Register. $20. 10 a.m. to noon.

Politics

Chapter Meeting, Represent NJ. volunteer.represent.us. Zoom meeting with Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker, who leads a discussion of how New Jersey is prepared for a safe and secure election. Register. 11 a.m.

Sports for Causes

Walk of Hope, Hackensack Meridian Carrier Clinic. give.hackensackmeridianhealth. org/2020WalkofHope. Participants are invited to walk, run, bike, swim, etc., from anywhere, at any time, and for any distance.

Event raises awareness and support for fellow New Jerseyans who are suffering from behavioral health challenges. Register.

NAMIWalks Your Way, NAMI NJ. www.namiwalks.org/newjersey.

Participants will choose an activity of their choice and join virtually with mental health advocates from across the state. NAMI offers livestream presentations and ceremonies via Facebook Live and Zoom. There is no registration fee, but fundraising is encouraged. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sunday September 27 Yom Kippur begins at sundown.

In Person

Jazz & Blues

Freddie Hendrix Trio, New Brunswick Jazz Project, Tavern on George, 361 George Street, New Brunswick. www.nbjp.org.

Outdoor performance. Weather permitting. 6 to 9 p.m.

Live Music

Love & Duffy Duo, Working Dog Winery, 610 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, 609-3716000. www.workingdogwinerynj. com. Free live music. Wine available for purchase. Food from Wanna Pizza This Food Truck starting at noon. 2 to 5 p.m.

Sunday Afternoon Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. HVV Jazz performs. 3 to 6 p.m.

Farm Markets

Hopewell Farmers Market, , 62 East Broad Street, Hopewell. www.fairgrownfarm.com/ hopewell-farmers-market. Locally

Vinny DePonto leads ‘Mental Amusements,’ an interactive virtual show offered

by Bristol Riverside Theater from September 24 to 26. produced foods, plants, wines, and more. Masks and social distancing required. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For Families

Family Fun Fall Weekends, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Activities for kids including adventure barn, hay bale maze, pony rides, pumpkin picking & painting, pedal tractors, and exploring the farm trail. Live music, apple products, wine, and more. Timed entry ticket required. $10; children under 3 free. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Corn Maze, Howell Farm, 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell, 609397-2555. www.howellfarm.org.

Four-acre maze with the theme “bridges of Mercer County” with two miles of paths, victory bridge, games, and more. Courtyard with pumpkins, food tent, private hayrides, and more. Register. $10.

Noon to 4 p.m.

Virtual

Classical Music

Faculty Recital, New School for Music Study, Kingston. www. nsmspiano.org. Virtual recital featuring the music of Beethoven.

Register to receive listening link. $10 minimum per family recommended ticket price. 2:30 p.m.

Literati

Collectors’ Showcase, Friends of Princeton University Library. libcal.princeton.edu/events.

Princeton Bibliophiles & Collectors members are encouraged to share an item and to describe what they have learned from their research about the item. All are welcome to mention news items about bibliographic matters. Open to all. Register for Zoom link. 4 p.m.

Lectures

Science on the Small Screen: A Short History of Science Education via Remote Learning, The Sarnoff Collection, College of New Jersey. davidsarnoff.tcnj. edu.Learning through the small screen isn’t a new idea; in fact, educators have debated the merit of educational television since the 1940s. In the 1950s, science educators, convinced of the merits of medium, pioneered television shows about science. Science historian Ingrid Ockert gives a whirlwind tour of the groundbreaking science television genre and will discuss what early lessons are useful for educators today. Via Zoom. Register. Free. 1:30 p.m.

Monday September 28 In Person Farm Markets

Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market, Corner of Hudson and

The Friends of South Brunswick Public Library are holding an outdoor book and media donation drive in the rear of the library parking lot on Friday, September 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Saturday, September 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please donate only new and gently used books and media items in good condition.

No magazines, encyclopedias, VHS, or audio cassette tapes. The library is located at 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction. Visit www.sbpl.info.

Call for Photography The New Brunswick Free Public Library’s 13th annual photography contest will take place virtually. Submissions are due by Thursday, October 15.

Professional photographers and library staff will judge submissions. On Friday, November 20, at 6:30 p.m., there will be a virtual opening reception through Zoom where the winners will be announced.

After the reception, winners will be allowed to pick up their prizes at the library by arranging a time they would like to come in.

The winning photographs will be displayed in an exhibition at Above Art Studios until December 12.

Greenwood Avenue, 609-2789677. www.greenwoodavefm.org.

Fresh produce, vegetables, tropical fruit, meat, and eggs. Reserved for seniors and people with disabilities, noon to 1 p.m.

Free youth meals served 1 to 3 p.m. Noon to 4 p.m.

Virtual

Lectures

Book Talk, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. spia.princeton.edu. Katharina Pistor, professor of comparative law at Columbia University, presents “The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality.” Register for Zoom broadcast.

Free. Noon.

Tuesday September 29 Virtual Gardens

Tulip Planting Tips and Tricks Workshop, Morven Museum and Garden. www.morven.org. In honor of Richard Stockton’s 290th birthday on October 1, join Morven’s Horticulturist Louise Senior as she demonstrates methods for planting and enjoying your newly purchased bulbs, along with a bit of history and growing tips. Register for Zoom presentation. $10. 4 p.m.

Wednesday September 30 In Person Wellness

Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans

Submission forms and full details are available on the library’s website at www.nbfpl.org/photocontest. This is a digital submission only contest; please do not send any hard copies of your photos to the library. For any questions, contact Kavita Pandey at kavita@lmxac.org.

For Seniors Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton invites seniors 65 and older to join its free Better Health Program, based out of the RWJ Fitness & Wellness Center, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton. The program combines medical education, interesting lifestyle topics, and fun activities, offered yearround, both in-person and online.

The program is free to join for adults over 65 and registration is now available by calling 609584-6422 or visiting www.rwjbh. org/hamiltonbetterhealth.

Sports for Causes The Boys and Girls Clubs of Mercer County has taken its annual Run for Club Kids virtual.

Participants can choose how, when, where, and with whom they want to participate. Run/ walk 5K, 10K, or a half marathon alone, as a family, or form a team and encourage neighbors, colconnect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can. 8 to 9 a.m.

Gardens

Garden Tours, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven.org. Docent-led what’s in bloom tours.

Face masks and registration required. Tours available Wednesdays through Saturdays. $10. For additional $20, box lunch included Wednesdays through Fridays.

Masks required. Register. 11 a.m.

Virtual

Live Music

Bob Egan and Friends Virtual Piano Bar, . www.bobeganentertainment.com. Bob Egan and Friends perform music of Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles. Visit www.facebook.com/onlinePianoBar. 8 p.m.

Literati

Reading by Rabih Alameddine, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. arts.princeton. edu. Zoom-based reading by fiction writer Rabih Alameddine, author of five novels and a book of short stories whose sixth novel, “The Wrong End of the Telescope,” will be published next year, and several seniors in the Program in Creative Writing.

Free. 6 p.m.

Mental Health

COVID-19, Youth of Color, and Suicide Risk Indicators, Mercer County Division of Mental Health. www.mercercounty.org.

Kimme Carlos, founder of the Urban Mental Health Alliance, addresses the impact of systemic injustices on risks factors for suicide in youth of color and will include topics such as trauma associated with structural racism, generational poverty, and disparities related to COVID-19 that youth of color have endured. Register. Free. 10 a.m.

History

Understanding the History of Racism in Princeton: An Exploration Through Archives, Historical Society of Princeton.

leagues, or friends to join.

Create a safe route or run on a treadmill. Complete the “race” anytime between October 1 and November 1. Registration is $30 for adults and $20 for kids. Additional fundraising is encouraged: those who raise $300 or more receive BGC Mercer Swag.

All registrants will receive a race t-shirt, a race bib, & a finisher medal. Please take a photo as you run and tag @bgcmercer #rfck2020. For more information or to register visit www.bgcmercer. org/upcoming-events.

For Singers Voices Chorale NJ is offering a fall program of online education for singers who would like an opportunity to hone musical and singing skills. Classes will meet on Monday nights from 7:30 to 9 p.m., September 28 through December 14.

The series will be curated by David A. McConnell, the artistic director of VCNJ. Guest artists and educators will join some sessions. Topics will include vocal development, ear training, sight singing, study of choral literature, and more.

All members of the singing community are welcome to participate. The cost for the program is $115. Interested singers should email info@voiceschoralenj.org. www.princetonhistory.org. Join HSP staff and members of the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society for a conversational exploration of ten historic documents from Princeton via Zoom. Register. 7 p.m.

For Teens

College Admissions for NonTraditional Applicants, Princeton Learning Cooperative. www. princetonlearningcooperative.org.

Discussion on college admissions for families who choose homeschooling or other non-conventional educational paths through high school. An admissions officer from St. John’s College and Alison Snieckus (PLC staff member and homeschooling mom) will be on hand to describe the college admissions process for homeschoolers and other non-conventional students. Q&A will follow.

On Zoom. Free. 7 p.m.

Lectures

The Privileged Poor, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. spia.princeton. edu. Anthony Jack, assistant professor of education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Cecilia Rouse, professor of economics and education, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, consider the campus lives of lower-income students, the “unwritten rules” or “hidden curriculum” of elite colleges, and the difference between “access” and “inclusion” at elite institutions. Free. Registration required for Zoom presentation.

4:30 p.m.

Ask an Expert about EVs: How to Choose, Charge & Change, Sustainable Princeton. www. sustainableprinceton.org/event/ ask-an-expert-about-evs. Eve Gabel-Frank, an expert in environmental and transportation planning, and Tom Moloughney, electric vehicle advocate and industry consultant, answer questions about owning electric vehicles via Zoom. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Socials

Library Drawing Party, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Follow along for a librarian-led drawing lesson, then share your finished work. For all ages. 7 p.m.

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Princeton Symphony Goes Live at Morven

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he Princeton Symphony Orchestra is using a small presentation to make a big statement on Thursday, September 24, when the PSO Brass Quintet performs at Morven Museum & Garden.

The 5:30 p.m. outdoor presentation also marks a new partnership between the museum and the orchestra.

The offering is the first of the new “Chamber Music in the Garden” series of small presentations designed to help the orchestra reconnect to its audience after the state of New Jersey closed performances venues in March to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Audience seating consists of designated socially distanced pods for one or two people. The cost per pod is $35 and attendees must bring their own lawn chairs or blankets.

The quintet featuring Jerry Bryant, trumpet; Tom Cook, trumpet; Jonathan Clark, horn; Lars Wendt, trombone; and Jonathan Fowler, tuba, will perform music styles ranging from Renaissance to Broadway.

PSO trombonist Wendt seemingly speaks for the orchestra when he says, “I’m excited.

It’s good community outreach.”

One of the numerous musicians whose life was disrupted by music venue closures to stem the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Wendt says, “I’ve been one of those musicians who has been doing Facebook live things. And people are hungry for art and culture and to experience art and music and feel a sense of community. It’s exciting to have a chance to play for people and a great way to use a beautiful place. This season has been devastating, and people are hungry. This synergistic connection with Morven is a great opportunity. “ Wendt credits the PSO administration’s innovative planning and outreach for providing several new opportunities and building new audiences. Executive director Marc Uys, he says, “is doing a lot of things to spread the organization through partnerships with McCarter Theater, the New Jersey Youth Orchestra, and a lot of things to pull people in.”

Wendt says his own history with the orchestra began in 1994. “I had more hair then and used to be one of the younger people. I watched the orchestra grow and attract so many musicians from outside the region.”

Although not part of the original “Little Orchestra” launched by Portia Sonnenfeld, Wendt has the professional overview to say, “It is amazing how all orchestras started out with community passion and to make friends and connect. It’s an amazing story to see how it grew.”

Wendt says he appreciates the PSO’s push to provide opportunities for young composers and those from different cultures. “There is always this push. It’s great to play a lot of classical music, but there is a push to include other cultures.”

He also points to the changes in program.

“We’ve gone from orchestra that plays five concerts a year and pops — they’re trying to expand. There are a lot of exciting things. In spite of all these things, we’re trying to thrive.”

Speaking for many, Wendt says “It’s a year I’d rather not remember. It’s been hard to create that safe opportunity for people to experience music as a great thing.”

A resident of Titusville for 20 years and 10 years prior in Ewing, the married father of twin sons and a daughter says he is “a central New Jersey boy” who grew up in Bridgewater.

“I remember as a young child when a brass

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Trombonist Lars Wendt performs with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s Brass Quintet on Thursday, September 24, in the first concert in the PSO’s ‘Chamber Music in the Garden’ series offered in conjunction with Morven Museum and Gardens. quintet came to school, and I heard that sound and wanted to be a musician,” he says of his early interest in music.

Yet despite that desire, when he graduated from Bridgewater High School in 1983, he entered the College of New Jersey as a science major.

He says the reason was that he “also liked science. My father said do both. My brother was a bass player playing in bands and didn’t have a degree. And I decided to do music on the side.”

He elaborates more on his choice. “Being a musician is not an easy thing. It’s a hard career. While it can be musically satisfying, finding a full-time position is hard. If you love teaching, it can be very rewarding. But you’re working when people are relaxing.

While that’s satisfying, if there are people outside your circle, it’s more difficult. A lot of people I know are married to non-musi-

cians. I wanted the stability of a day job that would give me the chance to enjoy music and not feel the pressure.

For Wendt that was teaching physics at Hunterdon Central for 26 years. “I just retired. That was a rewarding career. I enjoyed working with the kids. (But) it was time for a change.”

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hat includes working for Princeton University’s Department of Civil Engineering and researching the connection between global warming and land use management.

That includes conducting reports of farming practice and ammonia deposition from manure and urine waste.

Looking back at his TCNJ days, Wendt says he spent a lot of time in the music department and took lessons from trombonist David Uber, who, among other credits,

‘The problem is that we think that music and art are disposable, that we really don’t need it. But I think it’s air, like oxygen. It’s important. What would life be without music, without art? It makes us human.’

played first chair trombone with the New York City Ballet Orchestra, New York City Opera, and NBC Symphony Orchestra.

“He was a huge influence,” says Wendt.

“There were good professors there who were very supportive.”

That includes noted Pennington-born big band drummer Tony DeNicola. “He’d let me sit in and play with him at the Rathskeller (a performing space at TCNJ). He was very generous. He was a great guy. He was old school, played with Harry James, great drummer and great pedagogue.”

Thinking of his own music development, Wendt says, “You meet someone who inspires you, and it makes you want to improve and get better.”

He adds that education programs, such as the ones the PSO is initiating, and playing with better musicians in a regional ensemble all help with help with challenging and improving young musicians.

Wendt says there were several reasons he chose to pursue the trombone. First, it was there “the first time I ever heard a brass instrument.”

He says another reason is that his Bell Labs plant manager father used to play music by the 1960s big band leader Bert Kaempfert.

Then it also was connected with something very simple. “My best friend played trombone in elementary school, and my mother (a telephone operator) said I should play trombone too. I didn’t like it, and my music teacher wouldn’t let me quit.”

In retrospect, Wendt says, “Someone told me that you don’t pick your instrument, your instrument picks you. I think that’s an interesting twist.”

Wendt says that he started getting more interested when brass-using bands such as Blood, Sweat, and Tears hit the radio waves and his sister bought a Count Basie recording. “It was electrifying,” he says.

Asked how the pandemic has affected his own playing Wendt says he has surprisingly been playing more than he thought he would.

“I do a lot of different things. I play with a wedding band and play socially distant events. And playing at home and multi-tracking — I’ll use a multi-tracking program and use duet books and record myself and record the second track for practice — to challenge myself.

Yet he says other musicians are struggling. “For a lot of them, it’s full-time. Anecdotally, on Facebook some are considering career shifts. Some are in difficult situations.

Orchestras are struggling, wedding venues have closed. It is devastating and sad. My sense is that a lot of them feel forgotten.

That’s my sense.

“The problem is that we think that music and art are disposable, that we really don’t need it. But I think it’s air, like oxygen. It’s important. What would life be without music, without art? It makes us human. Music in so many ways has been a comfort to me in tough times. Whether you’re a musician or not, you can still enjoy it. That’s the whole point. We need people who listen as well as people who play.”

Princeton Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet, Morven Museum and Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. Thursday, September 24, 5:30 p.m. The series continues on Thursdays October 8 and October 15. There is ample free parking at the end of the museum’s driveway. 609-497-0020 or www. princetonsymphony.org.

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he Lawrenceville-based Medical Society of New Jersey (MSNJ) has announced the launch of a new insurance denial registry for physicians and physician office staff in New Jersey.

Tracking denials of healthcare to resident will help the society identify areas for advocacy and areas where the process for patients and providers can be improved.

“Contributing to the registry is quick and easy for a busy practice,” said MSNJ president Philip Kline.

“Our hope is that the data collected through this registry can serve as a way to identify trends in denials of care to patients and payment to physicians.”

The registry is designed for medical practices. Patients may file complaints through the registry directly with the New Jersey Department of Banking & Insurance. All contributions are confidential.

“This registry further demonstrates MSNJ’s ongoing commitment to improving the overall healthcare landscape for physicians and patients throughout the state,” said Larry Downs, CEO of MSNJ. “We hope that all New Jersey physicians and their practices will recognize its importance and be willing to contribute freely to the registry should any denial issues arise.”

For more information visit www.msnj.org/denialregistry. medical Society of New Jersey, 2 Princess Road, Lawrenceville 08648. 609-8961766. Larry Downs, CEO. www.msnj.org.

CIS, Rutgers Partner to Help Families

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ommunity Investment Strategies, a Lawrence-based real estate firm, and Rutgers’ School of Social Work have collaborated on a plan to provide resources and opportunities for families in low-income housing facing additional challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CIS, which specializes in the development and management of housing for low- and moderate-income demographics, owns more than 3,000 affordable rental units.

“Some of our families were facing extreme difficulties, from food insecurity to an inability of parents to manage their children’s virtual education,” CIS founder Christina Foglio noted in a statement. “Others had limited capacity for quarantining if anyone in the family had been exposed to COVID.” To assist, an arrangement was made for 10 Rutgers students pursuing their master’s in social work to be placed in these communities to conduct the field work that is required to achieve that degree.

Services to be provided by the students will include ensuring food security, assisting with resources for child supervision and internet access for remote learning, and aiding senior citizens with safety protocols.

Community Investment Strategies, 1970 Brunswick Avenue, Suite 100, Lawrenceville 08648. 609-298-2229. Christina Foglio, founder and CEO. www.cisnj.com.

East Windsor officials join Novitium executives for a groundbreaking to celebrate the pharmaceutical company’s expansion of its East Windsor facility.

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ovitium Pharma, a company founded in 2016 that focuses on developing and manufacturing generic pharmaceuticals, has begun a 17,760 square foot expansion of its existing East Windsor headquarters.

The addition to its existing 35,963-square-foot facility on Lake Drive is expected to add 10 jobs and allow for the installation of new testing equipment.

“Novitium Pharma’s decision to expand their existing East Windsor facility underscores the vibrancy of our business community, and demonstrates once again the tremendous attraction of the township for high-tech, high-growth, research and development pharmaceuticalrelated companies,” East Windsor mayor Janice Mironov said in a statement at a groundbreaking ceremony.

Novitium pharmaceuticals, 70 Lake Drive, East Windsor 08520. Chad Gassert, CEO. w w w. n o v i t i u m p h a r m a . com.

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he nonprofit Princeton Festival has announced the departure of executive and artistic director Richard Tang Yuk after 16 years at the helm of the annual celebration of opera, theater, and music.

“I am excited to pass the reins to its next leaders and watch the festival continue to thrive and move to the next level,” Tang Yuk said in a statement. “I will forever cherish the great experiences I enjoyed at the festival, which is so dear to my heart.”

Gregory Jon Geehern, the festival’s associate conductor and assistant to the artistic director, has been appointed acting artistic director.

“Everyone associated with the Princeton Festival is sorry to see Richard leave,” said Benedikt von Schröder, chair of the board of trustees. “He was instrumental in building the festival into a major presence in the cultural life of our community and our region. We hope to honor him with a special celebration in the near future.

Under Tang Yuk’s leadership the Princeton Festival grew from two events and four performances in 2004 to 22 performances of eight events plus 20 free lectures and workshops in 2019. This year’s pandemic-altered festival featured

Executive and artistic director Richard Tang Yuk has left the Princeton Festival after leading the organization for 16 years. a full slate of live and recorded online events. the princeton Festival, Box 2063, Princeton 08543. 609759-1979. www.princetonfestival.org.

Deaths Peter Paret, 96, on September 11. In 1986 he became a faculty member in the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Historical Studies, where he was a cultural and intellectual historian focused on the historiography of war as well as the relationship between art, society, and politics.

Stephen F. Cohen, 81, on September 18. He was a professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton known for his often controversial views. His final book, “War with Russia?,” was published in 2019.

Ronald V. Dobrowolski, 78, on September 21. He was retired from Trane Inc. Salvatore Morreale Sr., 88, on September 18. He worked for 31 years as a machinist and maintenance foreman with the Homasote Company.

Josephine K. Donovan, 92, on September 18. She worked for the New Jersey State Fire Safety Bureau.

Donald P. Nuels, 75, on September 18. He was the owner of Don Neuls Plumbing and Heating in Hamilton for 40 years.

John Suydam Kuhlthau, 83, on September 4. The Princeton resident served as a public defender and Middlesex County prosecutor before becoming a Superior Court judge.

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Realtor® Owned HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Susan A Cook $459,000 MLS# NJME301262

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PENNINGTON BOROUGH Maura Mills $735,000 MLS# NJME300882

ALLENTOWN BORO David M Schure $950,000 MLS# NJMM110468

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP Sylmarie Trowbridge $1,550,000 MLS# NJSO113674

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