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Lily Dale : The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead by Christine Wicker (2003, Hardcover)

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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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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060086661
ISBN-13
9780060086664
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2248001

Product Key Features

Book Title
Lily Dale : the True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead
Author
Christine Wicker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Spirituality, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 20th Century, Spiritualism, Supernatural
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Bf1242.U6w53 2002
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-068900
Dewey Decimal
133.9/09747/95
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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Lily Dale : The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead by Christine Wicker (2003, Hardcover)

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