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Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead

Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead by Wicker, Christine

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Title
Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead
Author
Wicker, Christine
Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780061153747
Condition
Fine
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San Francisco, California: Harper San Francisco, 2004. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First paperback printing. Brand new. 2004 Trade Paperback. 282 pp. Black-and-white photographs. "In Lily Dale, New York, the dead don't die. Instead, spirits flit among the elms and stroll along the streets, sometimes dressed in garb more common 120 years ago, when Lily Dale was founded and suffragette Susan B. Anthony was a frequent guest. According to Spiritualists who have ruled this Victorian hamlet for five generations, the dead don't go away and they stay anything but quiet. Every summer twenty thousand guests come to consult the town's mediums, who can hang out a shingle only after passing a test that confirms their connection to the spirit world. On the hot June day when reporter Christine Wicker comes to the world's oldest and largest Spiritualist community, she is determined to understand the secret forces -- human or otherwise -- that keep Lily Dale alive. She follows three visitors: a newly bereaved widow; a mother whose son killed himself; and a beautiful, happily married wife whose first visit to Lily Dale brings an ominous warning. Are the mediums cold-hearted charlatans, as Sinclair Lewis wrote of them' Or are they conduits for a hidden world that longs to bring peace and healing to the living, as psychologist William James and muckraker Upton Sinclair once hoped to prove' Investigating a movement that attracted millions of Americans in the 1800s and now barely survives, Wicker moves beyond the mediums' front parlors and into the lives that tourists never see. She follows the mediums to a place where what we know and how we know it is the greatest mystery of all.

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