Christmas Superstitions by Carlotta Holton
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7_2kkdGzmzc%3Fhd%3D1%26wmode%3Dopaque%26autohide%3D1%26showinfo%3D0 May 6, 2015 by holton in Announcements, News no Comments Christmas is a holiday steeped in superstition and folk belief. Learn more with Carlotta Holton on “the Jack Evans Show,” WMBS-CBS, Uniontown, NJ.
Carlotta Holton discussing Vampire Resurrection on The Jack Evans Show
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkMOk4u0j0Q%3Fhd%3D1%26wmode%3Dopaque%26autohide%3D1%26showinfo%3D0 May 6, 2015 by holton in Announcements, News no Comments In 1587 a small band of English settlers landed on the shores of Roanoke Island where established a colony. They encountered strange incidents and eventually mysteriously disappeared. Were they murdered by local Indians? Did they set out to sea for help and were drowned? No one knows, […]
Carlotta Holton discusses Night Sounds The Jack Evans Show
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dgYTgLOsi7U%3Fhd%3D1%26wmode%3Dopaque%26autohide%3D1%26showinfo%3D0 May 6, 2015 by holton in Announcements, News no Comments Carlotta is a guest host on “The Jack Evans Show,” WMBS-CBS, Union town, PA takling about “Haunted Vacations.”
Salem Pact on Community Corner
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n6yN-xskenQ%3Fhd%3D1%26wmode%3Dopaque%26autohide%3D1%26showinfo%3D0 May 6, 2015 by holton in Announcements, News no Comments In the year of our lord, 1692, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the County of Essex and in the Village of Salem, 19 men and women were executed as witches. How and why this occurred has remained one of the greatest mysteries in American history. But […]
Pet Superstitions
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0QCs3sJ9hBY%3Fhd%3D1%26wmode%3Dopaque%26autohide%3D1%26showinfo%3D0 May 6, 2015 by holton in Announcements, News no Comments In the 17th century, a cat washing her face meant a storm was brewing. But if the cat washes her face in front of a group of people, the first person she looks at will get married. Today people continue to harbor superstitions surrounding their pets, many […]
Writers News Weekly Author’s Studio Interview: Carlotta G. Holton
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L9FcMy9ZJxY%3Fhd%3D1%26wmode%3Dopaque%26autohide%3D1%26showinfo%3D0 May 6, 2015 by holton in Announcements, News no Comments Carlotta shares the background story of Vampire Resurrection at the Book of America Expo at the Jacob Javits Center, New York City November, 2009.
Hats off to Victorian Women!
They’ve got Hattitude! This is a new program Hats off to Victorian Women!Historical “Hatiquette” Trimmed with frills, feathers, flowers, veils, jewels and ribbons, hats were a “must-have” fashion accessory for women in the 1800s. From the frilly bonnets of the 30’s and 40’s to the elaborate touring and tea hats of the 40s’ and 60’s […]
Carlotta at the Lainston House
Carlotta at the Lainston House, Westminster, Cotswold’s, United Kingdom on her vacation to England and Wales.
Is Murder a Family Tradition In Some Families?
This performance is also done in appropriate costume. If Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks in 1892, was she carrying out a family tradition? Some 219 years earlier, her ancestor Thomas Cornell was hanged in Rhode Island for the murder of his elderly mother, Rebekkah. He was convicted in1673 of […]
A Dickens Haunted Christmas
THIS PRESENTATION IS PERFORMED IN VICTORIAN COSTUMES Since its publication in 1843 the novella A Christmas Carol has transformed our present day notions of Christmas. But Charles Dickens’ tale of familial joy and repentance was actually rooted in ghost stories. A closer examination of other works will uncover his lifelong interest in the paranormal. In […]