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RoadTrip Eerie Pennsylvania

Now a gallery, New Hope Arts was once the town theater, where showgoers Take a scenic ride aboard Coryell’s Ferry, named for Colonial ferry master 81 reportedly saw a phantom caretaker appear behind the back row. 32 202 Emanuel Coryell, whose apparition is said to walk New Hope’s streets at night. 476 PENNSYLVANIA 179 78 263 New Hope 76 95 76 Philadelphia 83 NEW New JERSEY Hope IDGE ST. 95 BR 81 The Indian Logan sculpture resembles 70 FERRY ST. an oversize weather vane; legend says it MAIN protects New Hope from a curse cast by STREET D.C. DEL. 202 the Lenape (Delaware) tribe. H VA. S MARYLAND U B D Y A R I O V IND R E W R

A Practice your witchy D After dinner in 1983, TV news broadcaster ways at the Wiccan-run Jessica Savitch drowned in a canal near the Gypsy Heaven, supplier now-shuttered Odette’s Restaurant, a

of ritualistic candles, A former riverside hangout for celebrities. Q 413 U E goddess sculptures and T ON other bits of sorcery. G RD. Washington Crossing Historic Park Pid (Thompson’s Mill Section) co ck COVERED NEW JERSEY 0 2 C BRIDGE r 232 ROAD e MILES Logan e Inn is purportedly h k VAN SANT ghost named Emily. A p aunted by a you ROAD 202 ng 32 hangs in the lobby, an ortrait of her parents LURGAN RD. RIVER ROAD smel d some claim th STREET ROAD D 263 l the lavender ey can e in her mother’s hair. law loating orbs atop the 125-foot a Look for f re Tower, which offers PENNSYLVANIA Ri Bowman’s Hill D v cks County. el e aw r panoramic views of Bu a WHERE: re Bucks County, Pa. C an al WHY: Haunted history, smells like old spirits and “Signs” of the times. 546 232 HOW FAR: About 17 miles from start to finish. Washington Crossing Historic Park (McConkey’s Ferry Section) Get chills at Washington Washington Crossing ystery meets history in Bucks County, where haunted sites and a dark past make for a sinis- 532 Crossing ter trip into southeast Pennsylvania. Historic Park, where Bucks’s ominousness dates from an infamous land-buying deal called the Walking Pur- memories of chase, which contributed to a deadly conflict between settlers and an indigenous tribe and Revolutionary supposedly prompted the Native Americans to cast a curse on the area. War soldiers still MIn 1737, Thomas Penn, son of William Penn, enforced a treaty in which the Lenape (Delaware) tribe TAYLORSVILLE ROAD linger around the agreed to cede to the newcomers all of the land west of the Delaware River as far as a man could walk in a day 32 Delaware River. and a half. Assuming the colonists couldn’t travel far on foot in the tangled vegetation, the Indians agreed to the deal. Penn outwitted them by hiring the three fastest men in the region to run along a carefully cleared R I V E trail, thus gaining 1,200 square miles. The tribe was furious at the swindle and eventually joined forces with Listen for the cries of a weeping. ghost child at the Dolington R R 95 Van Sant Bridge O the French to attack the Pennsylvania frontier during the French and Indian War. But battle was not enough covered A 532 D revenge: According to local lore, the Indians also bewitched Bucks, causing floods and fires. The county, which saw some heavy Revolutionary War action, also claims dozens of documented su- BUCKS COUNTY pernatural spots. Ghosts — from a man in knee britches to a woman in a high-collared gown — are said to OAD haunt inns, restaurants, covered bridges and streets. Their presence is reflected by the nomenclature in such 413 places as Haunted Lane, Ghost Mountain and Devil’s Half-Acre. The bucolic hamlets of Newtown and New Driver’s route Hope are especially fertile ground for paranormal hunters — and film directors. Scarefest impresario M. DURHAM ROAD Night Shyamalan, who resides in the region, shot “Lady in the Water” and “Signs” here. (With the latter, WASHINGTON CROSSING R sightings of Mel Gibson caused many a female to scream.) Whether or not you believe, many locals agree that a certain spirit does pervade Bucks County. “You can in- vite that energy in and have a ghostly experience,” says Charles J. Adams III, author of “Bucks County Ghost Stories.” “Many of us just ignore it.” — Ben Chapman Two poltergeists — SYCAMORE AVE. a boy and girl dressed STREET WASHINGTON STATE ST. Newtown in 19th-century attire Road Trip maps are available at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are addresses and — are said to inhabit Mel Gibson ate a s 332 lice at Mom hours of operation (be sure to check before you go). Have an idea for a trip? E-mail roadtrip@ the Temperance 332 Pizza, which appeared as 2 Aldo’s’s Bake Pizzeria at Home in washpost.com. House and to often M. Night Shyamalan’s scary BUCK ROAD movie “Signs.” materialize near the NEWTOWN BYPASS Edward Hicks room. StartStartStart hereherehere WEDNESDAY IN STYLE Escapes’ college tour continues with top party school West Virginia University in Morgantown. MAP BY JEROME COOKSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; PHOTOS BY BEN CHAPMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

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“When he was about nineteen, and had started This genre-defying philosophical At times, reading the book can be The Quiet Girl Famed circus clown Kasper Krone’s fate to make a name for himself, he had discovered thriller with absurdist ﬂ ourishes physically disorienting, so dizzying are By Peter Hoeg becomes inextricably linked to a mysterious that there was money in his ability to access stays grounded in emotional the “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” author’s Farrar, Straus — and endangered — group of children people’s acoustic essence, especially children’s.” B and Giroux believability despite an “Alice in narrative pyrotechnics. BOOK with mystical abilities. — The gift that brings together — Reviewed by Adriana Leshko $26 Krone and the novel’s title character Wonderland”-on-acid plot. »

The best-selling novelist crafts “ ‘Give me your help and your hand,’ he The writing is ﬂ at, the characters The Race a timely political tale about a told them, ‘and together we will build an Patterson has a good grasp on bartering for are boring (with the exception of the By Richard dashing good-guy presidential American future kinder than our present, power in Washington, which makes this an protagonist’s girlfriend, who seems modeled North Patterson candidate’s bid to beat out his and even greater than our past.’ ” instructive, if depressing, primer for those after Halle Barry) and there’s not a shred of D+ Henry Holt and Co. BOOK corrupt cohorts for the — The candidate delivers curious about the nominating process. tension in the proceedings. $26 Republican nomination in 2008. « a platitude-packed speech — Sara Cardace

“I’m Miss American Dream since I No ballads and no rough edges: Tabloid-reading rubberneckers Triumphant rebound or cosmic jonesing for a musical train wreck Blackout was 17 / Don’t matter if I step on the This is clinical dance pop on a par ﬂ uke? Either way, Ms. Spears to coincide with Britney’s career Britney Spears scene / Or sneak away to the with Kylie Minogue’s best efforts. outshines the paparazzi ﬂ ash with woes have only one song to latch A- CD Even Brit’s cloying schoolgirl coo Jive the most delectable album of her tumultuous Philippines / They still gon’ put pictures of my is given a robotic sheen that onto: the lame Kevin Federline $18.98 career. derriere in the magazine” — “Piece of Me” totally works. » diss track “Toy Soldier.” — Chris Richards

The handsomest voice in “Oh, the longer the waiting, the sweeter the Everything kiss / It’s better my darling, I promise you this / Is Fine country music delivers The singer’s sterling baritone gives a striking Eyebrows should be raised on “South Carolina some exquisite love The next time I hold you I’m not letting go / Josh Turner elegance to almost every Low Country” when Turner thanks Confederate B- CD songs and plenty of low I will give up the ocean forever, I know” MCA Nashville lyric that comes out of general and slave owner Wade Hampton for notes, fi guratively and — Turner heads off to sea on $13.98 his mouth. fi ghting for “a fl ag, a state and a way of life.” » literally. “The Longer the Waiting” — C.R.

The Nightmare “Until that moment, there was a limit to Though the creative teams Factory what I believed was the evil of these people. change for each story, the Just in time for Halloween, four stories by By various But with the scene I then witnessed, my moody art and ominous The terrors that haunt the stories are more contemporary horror master Thomas Ligotti writers and artists conscience bounded into a realm from which it pacing create an air of psychological than physical, so readers with get translated into comics form for a new B Fox Atomic/ will never return.” creeping mystery that gentler psyches may want to tread carefully. — Evan Narcisse COMIC collection. HarperCollins — The narrator of “The Last Feast » suits Ligotti’s macabre $17.99 of Harlequin” tales. “When we started the reconstruction, Ferguson’s critique is No End First-time director Charles there were 500 ways to do it wrong and Though the absences of Paul Wolfowitz, Donald bipartisan: The ﬁ lm in Sight Ferguson’s documentary is a two or three ways to do it right. What we Rumsfeld and L. Paul Bremer are understandable, features Republicans, Democrats, military Not rated devastating take on the didn’t understand is that we were going to some viewers might think it a shame that they ofﬁ cers, scholars and civilians expressing their A- DVD Magnolia bureaucratic blunders of go through all 500.” didn’t agree to be interviewed. frustration with the incompetent policy decisions $26.98 post-invasion Iraq. — Diplomat Barbara Bodine is — Greg Zinman » guiding the rebuilding of Iraq. a bit critical of her time in Baghdad “But [Uncle Ben] wouldn’t want us living Viewers who take comic Spider-Man 3: Spidey (Tobey Maguire) battles one second with revenge in our hearts. The action scenes are delirious, kinetic fun, book fare seriously Two-Disc an alien symbiote that darkens It’s like a poison. It can take you over — before and there’s a webful of extras detailing the will blanch at “evil” Special Edition his mood, causing girl problems and making it you know it, turn us into something ugly.” creation of the Sandman (Thomas Peter’s dance num- Rated PG-13 B DVD hard to battle the New Goblin (James Franco) and — Aunt May (Rosemary Haden Church) and the hassles ber. Yes, dance Sony Venom (Topher Grace). Harris) tries to calm of shooting in New York. number. $36.95 » Peter Parker (Maguire) — G.Z.

Mercury Meltdown Each course is more than You’ll lose sight of your wobbly hero at times, Revolution just a maze; it’s a brain-teasing Tilt the Wii remote to guide a slippery dollop of Games that cost $20 are a rarity, and and having to manually shift the camera angle Nintendo Wii puzzle. To reach the ﬁ nish, mercury through a series of increasingly difﬁ cult the entertainment-to-dollar ratio on while keeping your remote still to balance the Rated Everyone you may need to run through B Ignition obstacle courses. this one is remarkably high. blob on a thin beam is no easy task. GAME a paint machine and change — Christopher Healy Entertainment your blob’s color. »

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