Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead by Christine Wicker

Description: Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead by Christine Wicker First Edition Hardcover published in 2003 (Good to Very Good Condition) Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead by Christine WickerHardcover – March 4, 2003 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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Type: True Stories

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Features: Dust Jacket

Original Language: English

Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Edition: First Edition

Book Title: Lily Dale : the True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead

Item Length: 8.2in.

Item Height: 1in.

Item Width: 5.5in.

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

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Year: 2003

Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, History

Item Weight: 16.4 Oz

Number of Pages: 288 Pages