Category - Misc

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 in 1673 …

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 …