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Some of you may remember the 300th year anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials. Perhaps you watched as the memorials were dedicated. Or you followed Laurie Cabot and her fellow witches up to Gallows Hill. But surely none of you were around in 1892! Nearly a century and a half ago, Salem was commemorating the bicentenary of the Salem Witch Trials... or were they? What exactly did Salem look like and how did they treat this grim history? Join Sarah and Jeffrey, your favorite Salem tour guides, for a little 1892 adventure. Are you buying Witch Cream and cigars from the pharmacy at the Witch House? Or being taken on a carriage tour to the hanging grounds. And which house inspired Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables again? Endless Night Salem Vampire Salon : discount code SALEMTHEPOD https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-endless-night-salem-vampire-salon-noir-blanc-tickets-1090074324649?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete 1892 Jan 12. "To Erect a Tablet on Witch Hill" Boston Evening Transcript. 8. 1892 Jan 2. "Origin of Souvenir Spoons" The Evening World. 4. 1892 Sept 26. "The Witch Tragedy" The Lima News. 6. 1892 Jan 16. "Witch Cream" Boston Evening Transcript. 8. Interested in Salem The Podcast Merch!? CLICK HERE! Interested in supporting the Podcast? Looking for more Salem content? CLICK HERE! www.salemthepodcast.com NEW INSTAGRAM - @salemthepod Email - hello@salemthepodcast.com Book a tour with Jeffrey at Salem Uncovered Tours www.salemuncoveredtours.com Book a tour with Sarah at Bewitched Historical Tours www.bewitchedtours.com Intro/Outro Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/unfamiliar-faces License code: NGSBY7LA1HTVAUJE
Some of you may remember the 300th year anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials. Perhaps you watched as the memorials were dedicated. Or you followed Laurie Cabot and her fellow witches up to Gallows Hill. But surely none of you were around in 1892! Nearly a century and a half ago, Salem was commemorating the bicentenary of the Salem Witch Trials... or were they? What exactly did Salem look like and how did they treat this grim history? Join Sarah and Jeffrey, your favorite Salem tour guides, for a little 1892 adventure. Are you buying Witch Cream and cigars from the pharmacy at the Witch House? Or being taken on a carriage tour to the hanging grounds. And which house inspired Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables again? Endless Night Salem Vampire Salon : discount code SALEMTHEPOD https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-endless-night-salem-vampire-salon-noir-blanc-tickets-1090074324649?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete 1892 Jan 12. "To Erect a Tablet on Witch Hill" Boston Evening Transcript. 8. 1892 Jan 2. "Origin of Souvenir Spoons" The Evening World. 4. 1892 Sept 26. "The Witch Tragedy" The Lima News. 6. 1892 Jan 16. "Witch Cream" Boston Evening Transcript. 8. Interested in Salem The Podcast Merch!? CLICK HERE! Interested in supporting the Podcast? Looking for more Salem content? CLICK HERE! www.salemthepodcast.com NEW INSTAGRAM - @salemthepod Email - hello@salemthepodcast.com Book a tour with Jeffrey at Salem Uncovered Tours www.salemuncoveredtours.com Book a tour with Sarah at Bewitched Historical Tours www.bewitchedtours.com Intro/Outro Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/unfamiliar-faces License code: NGSBY7LA1HTVAUJE
After a visit to The House of the Seven Gables in Salem, MA, we were inspired to read the book and watch a few notable adaptations of this gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/ill-buy-the-popcorn-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The House of Seven Gables became a popular tourist spot for those obsessed with the Salem Witch Trials and Nathaniel Hawthorne. What ghosts have been known to hang out here?Raynham Hall is a lavish building in Norfolk, England that gave the paranormal world its most infamous photo of the "Brown Lady." Is it haunted?Sources:https://ghostcitytours.com/salem/haunted-places/house-seven-gables/?srsltid=AfmBOormbJLhdKOjYJ_N5KbPUddZ6RwnwJrmDxl-NTsZcFSDBjovQ_I1https://www.hauntedhappenings.org/listing/the-house-of-the-seven-gables/https://7gables.org/salem-beyond/explore-haunted-salem/https://salemghosts.com/house-of-the-seven-gables/https://hauntedus.com/massachusetts/salem-house-of-seven-gables-haunted/#google_vignettehttps://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/michigan-life/seven-gables-road-haunted-michigan/69-e2f92018-59da-473c-ae32-1d7de68dd65ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Lady_of_Raynham_Hallhttps://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/raynham-hall-norfolkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynham_Hall Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/lattes-and-legends-1. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week we discuss the immediate aftermath of the Montgomery firing, whether or not we think Swayman and Korpisalo should have a regular rotation until Swayman finds his way, car colors, and what we thought of House of the Seven Gables. No, seriously. It fits in a weird way
New England is the perfect place to enjoy the changing leaves, clam chowder, and unsolved double homicides. This episode Lily details the infamous murders that took place at the Lizzy Borden house in Fall River, MA. Afterwards, and just slightly North of there, Chase covers the history of the ominous "House of Seven Gables" in Salem, MA.
Join us as we welcome back Dr. Carl Sederholm, a professor of horror and early American studies at BYU, to explore the haunting world of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. Although the novel unfolds at a slow pace, it offers a rich foundation for discussing how individuals and families grapple with ancestral guilt and inherited curses. Together, we'll examine themes like wealth, greed, isolation, and untimely death. We'll also delve into Hawthorne's personal struggles with ancestral guilt, particularly his connection to the Salem witch trials through his Puritan ancestors. Could this novel represent Hawthorne's attempt to confront and heal the past? Tune in for an insightful conversation on how The House of the Seven Gables continues to resonate with readers through its exploration of history, legacy, and haunting family secrets.
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This episode originates with a diary written in by three individuals and because they did, Sally was able to discover a wonderful story--The House of Seven Gables.This house in West Plains, Missouri, has a long history of occupants and use, including the birth of 167 babies! One family left most of the furniture, and over 600 books to the next occupants of the home and among the books, was this diary. The current occupants bought the dilapidated, nearly condemned, structure and lovingly restored it to beauty and function. We ask this question: Would you ever write in someone else's diary? Fortunately for us, these people did and we can now enjoy this story.Send us a textPlease go to: https://diarydiscoveries.com to see episode photos and read our blog. Thank You.
Send us a Text Message.This week on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast Jennie and Dianne chat about Dianne's recent East Coast adventures in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Dianne shares about the many historical locations she visited including the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River Massachusetts, sites important to the American revolution and of course several of America's oldest cemeteries. Get ready for a dose of history, humor and inspiration to explore history in your own backyard!Now on YouTube! https://youtu.be/Rrzm1xKSkSY?si=BNGrhQV2Vbjtu_x_To shop Hart and Horn click here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HartandHornIf you are interested in visiting some of the sites mentioned in this episode, follow the links below to learn more:In Providence, Rhode Island: https://www.goprovidence.com/things-to-do/historic-providence/historic-attractions/?bounds=false&view=list&sort=qualityScoreIn Fall River, Massachusetts:Lizzie Borden House: https://lizzie-borden.com/Additional Historical Sites: https://stantonhouseinn.com/things-to-do-in-fall-river-ma-attractionsIn Ipswich, Massachusetts: https://historicipswich.net/In Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Witch Museum: https://salemwitchmuseum.com/The House of the Seven Gables: https://7gables.org/The Peabody Essex Museum: https://www.pem.org/The Charter Street Cemetery: https://www.charterstreetcemetery.com/All things Salem: https://www.salem.org/What It's Like To Be...What's it like to be a Cattle Rancher? FBI Special Agent? Professional Santa? Find out!Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1217, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Getting Jazzed 1: Introduced in 1948, these items let jazz become more complex by allowing longer performances on a single side. LPs. 2: Look away, look away, look away, it's a revivalist style of New Orleans jazz. Dixieland. 3: Billy Strayhorn composed classics like "Take The 'A' Train" during his collaboration with this bandleader. Duke Ellington. 4: In 1998 Ellis, patriarch of this jazz family, released his own trio album, "Twelve's It". Marsalis. 5: In the '70s Weather Report had "nuclear" results with this style that combined jazz and rock. fusion. Round 2. Category: 1949 1: On August 23 a manslaughter charge was filed against the cabbie who killed this "Gone with the Wind" author. (Margaret) Mitchell. 2: On January 31 the U.S. formally recognized Transjordan and this country. Israel. 3: This camera which produced a print in 60 seconds went on sale May 11. a Polaroid. 4: There were about 40,000 horologists making these in the U.S.. clocks (watches). 5: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of this country, was wounded when a reporter fired 5 shots at him. Iran. Round 3. Category: Waist Up, Neck Down 1: "Breadbasket" is slang for the midsection or specifically this digestive organ. the stomach. 2: The cecum is part of the large intestine; animals use it to digest this kind of food, so in koalas, it's 3 times body length. plants (vegetation). 3: Filtering the entire contents of your blood as many as 40 times a day is the job of this pair of organs. the kidneys. 4: As part of the body's immune response, the spleen releases these proteins such as IgM that counteract pathogens. antibodies. 5: The formation of solid deposits also called choleliths is a common occurrence in this organ. the gallbladder. Round 4. Category: Show Biz Shelleys 1: 3 "cheers" for this actress who played waitress Diane Chambers. Shelley Long. 2: While playing Mary Stone on The Donna Reed Show, she had a #1 hit with "Johnny Angel". Shelley Fabares. 3: The TV boss she worked for and perfume she represented were both named Charlie. Shelley Hack. 4: He said, "I'm not a sick comedian; I'm a healthy actor". Shelley Berman. 5: When Clark Gable came to pick her up, she thinks her mother may have said, "Don't be careful". Shelley Winters. Round 5. Category: America Literature 1: While walking, this Washington Irving character comes upon a party of odd-looking men playing ninepins. Rip Van Winkle. 2: In "Moby Dick" this captain dies when a harpoon line loops around his neck and pulls him overboard. Ahab. 3: In this Steinbeck work, dimwitted Lennie Small has a vision of his Aunt Clara. Of Mice and Men. 4: After Judge Pyncheon's death, this Hawthorne title home is left to Hepzibah and her brother Clifford. the House of Seven Gables. 5: Tom Sawyer is ordered to whitewash a fence because this brother tells Aunt Polly Tom played hooky. Sid. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used
Sometimes you hunt down urban legends, and sometimes urban legends hunt down you. Author unknown Guest narration by Tracy Nicholas This story can be found on creepypasta.wikia.com and is protected by creative commons license. Visit Tracy's game company at www.madmenandheroes.com Listen to Tracy's podcast at www.folkloringpodcast.com
Morgan, Mindy, Darby, and Zlobs are still missing. The Shadows, the back-ups fort he Sunflowers, are embroiled in a series of challenges in the House of Seven Gables to save their friends.This is an emotional episode. CW: discussion of hangings, allusions to suicide, painful parental relationshipsBlittle League is a theatrical tabletop rpg live play using the Monster of the Week system set in the Blaseball universe. We follow the adventures of a team of youth Blaseball players from Somerville, Massachusetts.Music and Sound Engineering by Kate HardlyBlittleLeague.comtwitch.tv/JoeyTBadgertwitter.com/TheSplortsHubBlaseball was created by The Game Band and Blittle League is not affiliated with either entity. Play Blaseball at blaseball.com
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At a pivotal moment in Chapter 17 of Nathanael Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, two of his protagonists escape from haunted Salem, Massachusetts, and are whirled away from its power by the even greater power of steam: “…Looking from the window, they could see the world racing past them. At one moment, they were rattling through a solitude; the next, a village had grown up around them; a few breaths more, and it had vanished, as if swallowed by an earthquake. The spires of meeting-houses seemed set adrift from their foundations; the broad-based hills glided away. Everything was unfixed from its age-long rest, and moving at whirlwind speed in a direction opposite to their own.” As in Hawthorne, American literature of all kinds abounded with railroad and steam power metaphors. In an incredibly short time, a new technology became a point of reference for a nation. In 1858, when Sallie McNeill of Brazoria County in Texas first saw a train, she noted in her diary that “I could hardly realize that this was my first sight of the ‘iron horse', because I have read and heard of the cars so often, that everything seemed natural.” With me to discuss steamboats, railroads, and steam engines, and their cultural power in the antebellum United States, is Andrew W. Marrs, author of The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History. Andrew Marrs is a historian at the Department of State; and I should announce here that his views on steamboats, railroads, and steam engines, and related topics, are his own, and not those of the State Department or the federal government. For Further Investigation In Episode 134, Cynthia Kierner and I touched on steamboat disasters–among many other disasters; and if you're interested in an overview of the history of technology since approximately 1450, listen to Episode 251. Andrew W. Marrs, Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society–"Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order." February 27, 1859: The Steamboat Princess Disaster Mark Aldrich, Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965 Michael J. Connolly, Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1140, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Asian Bodies Of Water 1: Although called a sea, it's actually a large salty lake between Israel and Jordan. the Dead Sea. 2: According to Hindu myth, this river once flowed in the heavens but was ordered to go down to Earth. the Ganges. 3: This holy river of India was named for the daughter of the Mountain God Himalaya. the Ganges. 4: Arabs call this river Nahr Al-Urdun; the Hebrew name is Ha-Yarden. the Jordan (River). 5: This Siberian lake contains around 20% of the fresh water on the world's surface. Baikal. Round 2. Category: Eat Your Foreign Vegetables 1: In Italy these are distinguished as peperoni rossi and peperoni verdi. red and green peppers. 2: In Espanol it's espinaca (and I'm still not eating it). spinach. 3: In French they're petits pois and weird people use a knife and honey to eat them. peas. 4: In Polish it's cebula; you can cry out your response now. onions. 5: In a Caribbean mood in Sweden? You might serve your svarta bonor, these, with kokat ris, "white rice". black beans. Round 3. Category: The Girls In The Group 1: Emma, Geri, Mel B, Mel C, and Victoria. the Spice Girls. 2: LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson, Kelly Rowland and some singer with the last name Knowles. Destiny's Child. 3: Anita, June and Ruth, so excited to be these eponymic siblings. the Pointer Sisters. 4: "Don't Cha" remember Ashley, Carmit, Jessica, Kimberly, Melody and Nicole, these kittens?. the Pussycat Dolls. 5: Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin and Siobhan Fahey, who were really saying something in the 1980s and still in the 20-teens. Bananarama. Round 4. Category: Austen-Tatious 1: While prince regent during his father's madness, this king had a set of Austen's novels in each of his residences. George IV. 2: Jane Austen said Elizabeth Bennet, the hero of this novel, was "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". "Pride and Prejudice". 3: After her unsuccessful and meddlesome matchmaking, this title character realizes she loves Mr. Knightley. Emma Woodhouse. 4: This author of "Orlando" said, "Of all the great writers" Jane "is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness". Virginia Woolf. 5: This title abbey is the home of clergyman Henry Tilney. "Northanger Abbey". Round 5. Category: 20Th Century Authors 1: In 1974 this Brit turned out another novel like clockwork, "The Clockwork Testament". Anthony Burgess. 2: Pennsylvania-born expatriate author depicted here in a 1917 sculpture by Jo Davidson. Gertrude Stein. 3: Ancestors of this elusive modern author protested after Hawthorne used their name in "The House of the Seven Gables". Thomas Pynchon. 4: This "Humboldt's Gift" author won both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes in 1976. Saul Bellow. 5: "There is no contentment on the road" says this CBS correspondent in "A Life on the Road". Charles Kuralt. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used
Welcome to a new series on The Literary Life Podcast with Angelina Stanford and husband Thomas Banks. This week they begin talking about E. M. Forster's book Howards End, giving some introductory information about Forster and also cover the first seven chapters of the book. Thomas shares some background on the Bloomsbury Group authors in contrast to their Victorian predecessors. Angelina highlights the literary tradition of naming books after houses and invites us to consider the importance of place in this story as we go forward. We hope you will join us for the sixth annual Literary Life Online Conference, “Dispelling the Myth of Modernity: A Recovery of the Medieval Imagination.” During the live or later series of webinars, we will seek to dis-spell the Myth of Modernity and gain eyes to see and ears to hear Reality as it truly is. Speakers include Jason Baxter, Jenn Rogers, and Kelly Cumbee, in addition to Angelina and Thomas. Also, The House of Humane Letters is expanding to include more classes, and pre-registration for returning students and registration for new students opens soon. Sign up for their email list to find out when you can sign up at houseofhumaneletters.com. Commonplace Quotes: We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. E. M. Forster, Howards End Howards End is Mr. Forster's first fully adult book. It is richly packed with meanings; it has a mellow brilliance, a kind of shot beauty of texture; it runs like a bright, slowish, flickering river, in which different kinds of exciting fish swim and dart among mysterious reedy leptons and are observed and described by a highly interested, humane, sympathetic, often compassionate, and usually ironic commentator. The effect is of uncommon beauty and charm; the fusion of humor, perception, social comedy, witty realism, and soaring moral idealism, weaves a rare captivating, almost hypnotic spell; and many people think it (in spite of the more impressive theme and more serious technique of A Passage in India) Mr. Forester's best book. Rose Macaulay, The Writings of E. M. Forster The Pity of It By Thomas Hardy April 1915 I walked in loamy Wessex lanes, afar From rail-track and from highway, and I heard In field and farmstead many an ancient word Of local lineage like 'Thu bist,' 'Er war,' 'Ich woll', 'Er sholl', and by-talk similar, Nigh as they speak who in this month's moon gird At England's very loins, thereunto spurred By gangs whose glory threats and slaughters are. Then seemed a Heart crying: 'Whosoever they be At root and bottom of this, who flung this flame Between kin folk kin tongued even as are we, 'Sinister, ugly, lurid, be their fame; May their familiars grow to shun their name, And their brood perish everlastingly.' Source: Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems (Palgrave, 2001) Book List: Howards End by E. M. Forster The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim Rose Macaulay Dorothy Parker Virginia Woolf George Eliot Matthew Arnold Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Wendell Berry An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let's get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. From The House of the Seven Gables (praised by Opera News for its "maximum drama and melodically memorable set pieces") to Missa Brevis No. 2 (called by Choral Journal "a study in beauty and simplicity"), Eyerly brings to all his works a direct, American lyricism. Eyerly notes, "I grew up singing hymns, but also show tunes. Then at college, I studied with composers from opposite corners of the ring, William Bolcom and Elliott Carter. In those days, after a lesson with Carter in the morning, I'd rush to rehearse songs for a theater revue that afternoon! Later I taught musical theater courses at Juilliard, interviewing masters like Sondheim, Harnick, and Burton Lane. My love of musicals has always 'balanced' my love of the longhairs." An active lecturer, Eyerly is on the faculty of The Juilliard School where he teaches sold-out courses on opera, musical theater and classical music. Since 2007 he has given popular talks at the Mahaiwe Theater in the Berkshires to introduce each Metropolitan Opera HD broadcast, a series which continues to grow and is now available online. Born in a suburb of Chicago, he and his wife live in New York City. POOCH is a zany musical set in present day Manhattan, based on real events. A once-proud classical music label has been taken over by a conglomerate that makes dog food. The head office installs a new C.E.O. who knows nothing about music. He hears that one classical artist is making a fortune – so he orders Samantha, his new Sales Director, to set up dinner with Puccini... who's been dead 100 years. Sam vows to meet the challenge – and expose her sexist boss. To do so, she enlists the help of Clark, a shy colleague so smitten he writes poetry about her. In their quest to prevail over corporate madness, Sam and Clark encounter snooping journalists, unexpected judo, a missing dog, and an oversupply of fake mustaches. All roads lead to the climax in a Village opera café, where Sam & Clark & C.E.O. sit down to… dinner with Puccini!
In this episode, we interviewed our very first guest on In The Weedz; Chris Greenshields. Chris is a published author, riverkeeper, and practitioner located in Lansing, Michigan. Our conversation went from where we began our friendship, to our original Coven, the infamous woods we all practiced in, and ended with his and his wife's conservation efforts as a River Keeper. This was a lot of fun and we had a great conversation. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
The Book Cougars are thrilled to welcome Laurie Lico Albanese, author of HESTER, our second readalong for Scarlet Summer. Laurie dishes on Hawthorne, shares her inspiration for Isobel, and talks about her writing process. Don't miss our Author Spotlight with Laurie at the end of the episode. Other highlights include: In our “Just Read” segment we talk about DEER SEASON by Erin Flanagan, THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES by Sangu Mandanna, THE RED GARDEN by Alice Hoffman, THE WITCHES OF MOONSHYNE MANOR by Bianca Marais, and two short stories: “The Profile” by Willa Cather and “The Wehrwolf” by Alma Katsu. We recap our two-day Biblio Adventure to the Berkshires that included finding Hawthorne's Little Red Cottage, a tour of The Mount, a visit with librarian Nynke Dorhout, an author event with Stacy Schiff in conversation with André Bernard, and a truncated hike up Monument Mountain. In Upcoming Jaunts, we're heading to Salem, Massachusetts to visit The House of the Seven Gables and other Hawthorne historic sites on Wednesday, 8/30. We're also planning on attending a conference on our home turf here in New Haven, Popular Romance Fiction: The Literature of Hope at Yale University on September 8-9th. We hope you enjoy the episode!
At the height of Puritan New England, Captain John Turner the First, built a home for his family on the coast of Massachusetts Bay. This simple two-story, two-room home circled a tall chimney to keep in the warmth during the chilly winters.The house would expand considerably over the coming years and features would be added, removed, and added back again to match various styles over the decades, but its famed “seven gables” would become the home's most iconic feature.In this episode of the true hauntings podcast we take you to Salem and one of the most famous landmarks in that city THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES as we dig into its history of ghostly residents.Consider supporting our work by buying us a "cup of coffee" https://www.buymeacoffee.com/anneandrenataORbecome a Grand Poobah Patreon supporter, and join our inner circle of craziness!https://www.patreon.com/anneandrenataJoin us on our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/TrueHauntingsPodcastP.S. If you want more Anne and Renata - catch our PODCAST - Diary of a Ghost Hunter on all the best streaming platforms to find out what our life as female ghost hunters is really like (no Bullsh*t).NOW we also have SERIOUSLY WEIRD on our YouTube Channel just because we LOVE story telling and who doesn't love a seriously weird spooky story!Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel as we are wanting to get more views and engagement and check out our travel videos Frightfully Good MisadventuresAlso Follow Anne and Renata:Facebook: @AnneAndRenataInstagram: @AnneAndRenataYouTube: @AnneAndRenataTikTok: @AnneAndRenata#anneandrenata #ghosts #hauntings #paranormalpodcast #frightfullygood #salemusa #hauntedUSA #paranormalstories #turneringersollhouse #houseofthesevengables #hauntedhouseusa #houseofthesevengablessalem #hauntedhistory #hauntings #hauntedholiday #hauntingsinsalem #frightfullygoodstories #frightfullygoodinvestigations #diaryofaghosthunter #paranormalinvestigators #paranormalpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Book reports are due! Did Sarah and Jeffrey do their homework? Absolutely. Join us as Sarah covers Hawthorne's first major novel The Scarlet Letter and Jeffrey covers The House of the Seven Gables. Let's talk about Hester Prynn, adultery, and puritanical laws; how people are burdened by the past and how the sins of the father are the problems we must deal with in the present. Both of these books, written over a century and a half ago, still have resounding themes even today. The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne 1850 The House of the Seven Gables, Nathanial Hawthorne 1851 Interested in Salem The Podcast Merch!? CLICK HERE! www.salemthepodcast.com NEW INSTAGRAM - @salemthepod Email - hello@salemthepodcast.com Book a tour with Jeffrey at Better Than Fiction Tours www.btftours.com Book a tour with Sarah at Bewitched Historical Tours www.bewitchedtours.com Intro/Outro Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/unfamiliar-faces License code: NGSBY7LA1HTVAUJE
Book reports are due! Did Sarah and Jeffrey do their homework? Absolutely. Join us as Sarah covers Hawthorne's first major novel The Scarlet Letter and Jeffrey covers The House of the Seven Gables. Let's talk about Hester Prynn, adultery, and puritanical laws; how people are burdened by the past and how the sins of the father are the problems we must deal with in the present. Both of these books, written over a century and a half ago, still have resounding themes even today. The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne 1850 The House of the Seven Gables, Nathanial Hawthorne 1851 Interested in Salem The Podcast Merch!? CLICK HERE! www.salemthepodcast.com NEW INSTAGRAM - @salemthepod Email - hello@salemthepodcast.com Book a tour with Jeffrey at Better Than Fiction Tours www.btftours.com Book a tour with Sarah at Bewitched Historical Tours www.bewitchedtours.com Intro/Outro Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/unfamiliar-faces License code: NGSBY7LA1HTVAUJE
Perhaps one day we'll summon Caroline Emmerton from the grave... But until then, we got you the next best thing: David Moffat, Visitor Services Specialist at The House of the Seven Gables. David is a wealth of information about the site, the buildings, the history, and everything that goes with it. Join us for a fantastic history lesson inside one of the oldest buildings we've ever recorded in. We learned about everything from dendrochronology (using tree rings to date wood) to the secrets of the secret staircase. Interested in Salem The Podcast Merch!? CLICK HERE! Interested in supporting the Podcast? Looking for more Salem content? CLICK HERE! www.salemthepodcast.com NEW INSTAGRAM - @salemthepod Email - hello@salemthepodcast.com Book a tour with Jeffrey at Better Than Fiction Tours www.btftours.com Book a tour with Sarah at Bewitched Historical Tours www.bewitchedtours.com Intro/Outro Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/unfamiliar-faces License code: NGSBY7LA1HTVAUJE
Perhaps one day we'll summon Caroline Emmerton from the grave... But until then, we got you the next best thing: David Moffat, Visitor Services Specialist at The House of the Seven Gables. David is a wealth of information about the site, the buildings, the history, and everything that goes with it. Join us for a fantastic history lesson inside one of the oldest buildings we've ever recorded in. We learned about everything from dendrochronology (using tree rings to date wood) to the secrets of the secret staircase. Interested in Salem The Podcast Merch!? CLICK HERE! Interested in supporting the Podcast? Looking for more Salem content? CLICK HERE! www.salemthepodcast.com NEW INSTAGRAM - @salemthepod Email - hello@salemthepodcast.com Book a tour with Jeffrey at Better Than Fiction Tours www.btftours.com Book a tour with Sarah at Bewitched Historical Tours www.bewitchedtours.com Intro/Outro Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/unfamiliar-faces License code: NGSBY7LA1HTVAUJE
There are very few individual people who have had as much of an impact on Salem as Caroline Emmerton. Philanthropist is the best word to describe her, but she did so much for Salem that it also falls short. Join Jeffrey and Sarah, your favorite Salem tour guides, as they weave through Caroline's life and talk about how she took the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion (aka House of Seven Gables), preserved its history, expanded its reach, and used the income generated to help Salem's immigrant communities. Interested in Salem The Podcast Merch!? CLICK HERE! Interested in supporting the Podcast? Looking for more Salem content? CLICK HERE! www.salemthepodcast.com NEW INSTAGRAM - @salemthepod Email - hello@salemthepodcast.com Book a tour with Sarah (For 2023) www.bewitchedtours.com Book a tour with Jeffrey (For 2023) www.btftours.com Intro/Outro Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/unfamiliar-faces License code: NGSBY7LA1HTVAUJE
There are very few individual people who have had as much of an impact on Salem as Caroline Emmerton. Philanthropist is the best word to describe her, but she did so much for Salem that it also falls short. Join Jeffrey and Sarah, your favorite Salem tour guides, as they weave through Caroline's life and talk about how she took the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion (aka House of Seven Gables), preserved its history, expanded its reach, and used the income generated to help Salem's immigrant communities. Interested in Salem The Podcast Merch!? CLICK HERE! Interested in supporting the Podcast? Looking for more Salem content? CLICK HERE! www.salemthepodcast.com NEW INSTAGRAM - @salemthepod Email - hello@salemthepodcast.com Book a tour with Sarah (For 2023) www.bewitchedtours.com Book a tour with Jeffrey (For 2023) www.btftours.com Intro/Outro Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/unfamiliar-faces License code: NGSBY7LA1HTVAUJE
Vintage Classic Radio presents Friday Night Noir where we bring to life timeless classic detective noir, mystery and suspense from the golden age of radio between the 1930s and the 1960s. Episode Description: Immerse yourself in the supernatural world of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables" in this episode of “Friday Night Noir” presented by Vintage Classic Radio. This CBS Radio Mystery Theater adaptation brings to life the eerie tale of the Pyncheon family, cursed by a wronged ancestor and haunted by the legacy of their forebears. This chilling narrative, set within a dark and ominous mansion, explores themes of inherited guilt, retribution, and redemption. Fans of "The Haunting of Hill House" will find familiar elements in the Pyncheon's spectral encounters and psychological terrors. CBS Radio Mystery Theater presented a radio adaptation written by Ian Martin.
Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping and the fifth installment of "The Secret History of MasSUSchusetts". It's a surprise double header! This was initially going to be one episode, but I got so obsessed w/ mapping William Pynchon's fur-trading monopoly and decoding the Rosicrucian wordplay in Thomas Pynchon's short story "Under the Rose" that I had to split it into 2. This episode covers: our cont'd serialization of Winthrop the Younger's alchemical Rosicrucian plantation; the enabling of his settlement of the Pequot lands of Nameaug/ New London by his daddy's war against the Pequot; the complex territorial power dynamics b/w Winthrop Jr., the Mohegan chief Uncas, the Pequot Robin Cassacinamon, & the Connecticut & Massachusetts colonies; Winthrop's attempt to use his alchemedicine practice to consolidate power & respect among Pequot by posing as a "powwaw" (medicine doctor); Uncas's strategic wifing up & the rad counter-revolutionary moment when Robin helped a Pequot woman escape from her enslavement in Winthrop Sr.'s compound in Boston; Uncas & his war band's raid on New London—attempt to assert his power over Pequot villagers & make his tributaries return to his camp; the rare instance where the colonial authorities sided w/ Uncas (an indigenous sachem) instead of English grievances; Winthrop's enslavement of Robin; Uncas's obstruction of Winthrop the Younger's shipments of ore from his Tantiusque mine site... ...a brief Puritanical backlash against alchemy in the 1640s, & Winthrop Jr.'s ally Robert Child's house arrest; Child's dissident faction, which petitioned the colonies to change their enfranchisement laws & push MA + CT to become more religiously tolerant... ...William Pynchon's defense of Robert Child's crew; his "heretical" text The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption; William Pynchon family's gentry status & property-holdings in Chelmsford; his status as churchwarden & "Matthew Yglesias-like hall monitoring" of his fellow villagers (basically he was a pain in everyone's ass); Pynchon fam's decision to join the Puritan emigres to NE for economic reasons; his founding of Roxbury & Springfield; preexisting relationship w/ the Winthrop's; the tragic smallpox epidemic that killed 12,000 indigenous in the Connecticut River Valley in 1633, "clearing the way" for Pynchon's Springfield; Pynchon's land & fur speculation; his role as colonial treasurer; the Springfielders' belief that Connecticut indigenous cursed their settlement by invoking Hobbamock; Pynchon as magistrate & overlord of his village; his prosecution of Hugh & Mary Parsons for witchcraft, which may have acted as a convenient distraction from his heresy case; Pynchon's proto-capitalist system of keeping villagers indebted to him indefinitely so he could work them to death, particularly Hugh Parsons; witch's teats, purple milk, a calf w/ 3 heads, witch-y night terrors, UAP lights over Boston, bloody rain, & other "Memorable Providences"; Mary Parson's shock confession of witchcraft & death in prison; Pynchon's Biblical exegesis of the Atonement; & his return to Old England... ...a mapping of W. Pynchon's powerful descendants; Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables & the Pynchon fam's piss-iness that he "slandered" them; a glossing of Thomas Pynchon's early life, matriculation at Cornell, Navy deployment, Greenwich Village connections, & early writing career; a semi-close-reading (possibly schizo) of one of Pynchon's earliest stories, the spy-caper "Under the Rose" (which was repurposed in V. & Slow Learner), especially the rampant Rosicrucian symbolism & wordplay; his use of his colonial heritage; & other speculations... Songs: | Maas — “San Narciso” | | The Insect Trust — “The Eyes of a New York Woman” | | 15 seconds of... Dropkick Murphys — “Shipping Up to Boston” ...for comedic effect | | Sheb Wooley — “The Purple People Eater” | | Radiohead — “We Drink Young Blood” | | Greenfield Leisure — “Too Fat to Frug” |
During the 19th Century, growing international trade and imperialist conquest combined with new technologies to transport and care for flora led to a burgeoning fascination with plant life. American writers, from Emily Dickinson to Frederick Douglass played with plant imagery to make sense of their world and their country and to bolster their political arguments. Joining me in this episode is Dr. Mary Kuhn, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and author of The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is “Down by the Salley Gardens,” performed by Celtic Aire, United States Air Force Band; the composition is traditional, and the lyrics are by Willian Butler Yeats; the recording is in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons. The episode image is from Plate VI of Familiar Lectures on Botany, by Almira Phelps, 1838 edition. Additional Sources and References: “The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved the Plant Kingdom,” by Luke Keogh, Arnoldia Volume 74, Issue 4, May 17, 2017. “History of Kew,” Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. “The Great British Tea Heist,” by Sarah Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, March 9, 2010. “Almira Phelps,” History of American Women. “‘How Many Stamens Has Your Flower?' The Botanical Education of Emily Dickinson,” by Anne Garner, New York Academy of Medicine, April 28, 2016. “Emily Dickinson's Schooling: Amherst Academy,” Emily Dickinson Museum. “Gardens at the Stowe Center,” Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. “Hawthorne in the Garden,” by W.H. Demick, The House of the Seven Gables, July 1, 2020. “Frederick Douglass On How Slave Owners Used Food As A Weapon Of Control,” by Nina Martyris, NPR, February 10, 2017. “Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass's Rustic Sanctuary,” National Park Service. “Amoral Abolitionism: Frederick Douglass and the Environmental Case against Slavery,” by Cristin Ellis, American Literature 1 June 2014; 86 (2): 275–303. “‘Buried in Guano': Race, Labor, and Sustainability,” by Jennifer C. James, American Literary History 24, no. 1 (2012): 115–42. “The Intelligent Plant,” by Michael Pollan, The New Yorker, December 15, 2013. Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, 2015. The Overstory, by Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World, by Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we dive into a location located in Dansville, Michigan. Just miles from the town's downtown area this location has had locals spooked for decades. Seven Gables Road has a lore that surrounds cursed land, a witch seeking revenge, and a demolished home that had a horrific event transpire within it's walls. Throughout the stories we give our own opinions, history and the backstory and in this episode we started doing a new aspect to our haunted location episode. Megan remote viewed and channeled the location and shares what she saw. Make sure to check out our Instagram for links to videos you can watch that take you to Seven Gables Road.We'll Catch You Weirdos In The Next One..What's coming next? : An episode all about the pyramids (Monday) and a guest episode (Wednesday) with Lindsey Bisbane from The Chilling Podcast.Contact Us Or Follow Us!If you're needing to get in contact with us or want to follow us on social media...here's all our links!Tik Tok: @hiddeninthepodca2Instagram: @hiddenintheshadowspodcastFacebook: Hidden In The Shadows PodcastGmail: Hiddenintheshadowspodcast@gmail.comWebsite: www.Hiddenintheshadowspodcast.comTwitter:@hiddeninthesha6Digging our intro and Outro music? It's actually by an awesome band called Maudlin! Check out more of their stuff and social media listed below!Tik Tok: @_maudlin_Instagram: @_maudlin_Listen to more of their music on Spotify and YouTube!Song featured: Stacy Dahl- MaudlinAs always if you ever want to submit or talk to us about your paranormal experiences make sure to message us on any of our social media, fill out our contact form on our website or shoot us an email! More Spooky content coming soon! Follow us for more information! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join us this week as we journey to Dansville, Michigan, and explore the chilling legends surrounding Seven Gables Road. Just miles from the town's downtown area, this location has been a source of fear and fascination for locals for decades, with tales of cursed land, a witch seeking revenge, and a demolished home where a horrific event transpired. In this episode, we delve into the history and backstory of Seven Gables Road, share our personal opinions and insights on the stories, and introduce a new aspect to our haunted location episodes: remote viewing and channeling. Listen as Megan channels the location and shares what she saw, adding a spine-tingling new layer to the already eerie atmosphere of Seven Gables Road. Don't miss this gripping episode!Make sure to check out our Instagram for links to videos you can watch that take you to Seven Gables Road.We'll Catch You Weirdos In The Next One..What's coming next? : An episode all about the pyramids (Monday) and a guest episode (Wednesday) with Lindsey Bisbane from The Chilling Podcast.Contact Us Or Follow Us!If you're needing to get in contact with us or want to follow us on social media...here's all our links!Tik Tok: @hiddeninthepodca2Instagram: @hiddenintheshadowspodcastFacebook: Hidden In The Shadows PodcastGmail: Hiddenintheshadowspodcast@gmail.comWebsite: www.Hiddenintheshadowspodcast.comTwitter:@hiddeninthesha6Digging our intro and Outro music? It's actually by an awesome band called Maudlin! Check out more of their stuff and social media listed below!Tik Tok: @_maudlin_Instagram: @_maudlin_Listen to more of their music on Spotify and YouTube!Song featured: Stacy Dahl- MaudlinAs always if you ever want to submit or talk to us about your paranormal experiences make sure to message us on any of our social media, fill out our contact form on our website or shoot us an email! More Spooky content coming soon! Follow us for more information! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Another episode of 3 AM Tales of Terror is here! This week Kenny & I tell you the story about the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, better known as the House of the Seven Gables! With it's wild history relating to the Salem Witch Trials and now it's ghosts, this house is surely a sight to see! 3 AM TALES OF TERROR CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISEDJoin us every Monday @ 3am EST for new episodes!Subscribe and view pictures from episodes at https://www.3amtalesofterror.comQuestions or story ideas for us? Email us at info@3amtalesofterror.comWant to support us? Become a member of our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/threeamtalesofterrorLike, follow, and subscribe to us on:Facebook https://www.facebook.com/3amtalesofterrorInstagram https://www.instagram.com/3amtalesofterror/And as always,Stay Terrified!We would also like to put a special thanks out to Tabletop Audio for having such amazing background/ambience sounds we use in each episode!
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If you could peer inside the souls of all your loved ones and learn their hidden mysteries, would you choose to do so? If the answer is yes, this story is for you! Born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hawthorne was best known for his novels 'The Scarlet Letter' in 1850 and 'The House of Seven Gables' in 1851. Talk about a writer with family drama! He changed his name from Hathorne to Hawthorne to try to distance himself from his great-great-grandfather's guilt and involvement in the infamous Salem Witch Trial persecutions. Find out more at https://electricliterature.com/move-over-poe-the-real-godfather-of-gothic-horror-was-nathaniel-hawthorne/John Bell is our narrator and he is also the writer, producer, and actor on the award-winning "Bell's in the Batfry" podcast, which can be found at http://thebatfry.libsyn.com/We are always looking forward to discovering our next writer, so if you are interested in contributing, please send us your short story of fewer than 5,000 words to cathy@widowmakerindustries.comMy name is Cathy McCarthy and I write under the name of C. Mack Lewis. You can request my books from your local library and I would greatly appreciate your opinion in an honest online review of The Fallen Angels Detective Series, written by C. Mack Lewis. For more information about me, go to https://cmacklewis.com/You can read the Kirkus Review of my latest book, The Angel Wore Black at https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/c-mack-lewis/the-angel-wore-black/If you enjoy our podcast, we would love it if you would rate, review, and share our podcast with other lovers of short fiction. Thank you for listening!
SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first story comes from South Korea. He shares the legend of their “egg ghosts.” Sound harmless but it's definitely NOT harmless. Then he will share a smaller story that comes from Salem, Massachusetts - lore and a modern encounter centered around the reportedly haunted and very old for America House of Seven Gables. Lynze will tell us a tale about the possible sighting of a werewolf. What do you think about werewolves? Are they real? A final tale, a sweeter kind of story about a simple light being left on. New Merch: Introducing the Yesteryear collection. A really cool vintage text based design on premium tees and hoodies. We also saw in the facebook group that many of you were looking for office supplies, particularly mousepads. Well now we got em. Head to badmagicmerch.com Bad Magic Productions Monthly Patreon Donation: Since we are working diligently to get ahead, we don't have the amount of this months donation yet but we do know we will be donating to Teach For America, a diverse network of leaders who work to confront the injustice of education inequity through teaching.You can learn more about Teach for America or get involved by going to teachforamerica.orgCummins Family Scholarhip: 1. Visit the program information page at https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/cummins2. Click the “Apply Now” button at the bottom of the page.3. Register to create a Hub account with a unique username and password.4. Log into your account and complete the questions in the profile section.5. The list of scholarships will display on the website. Locate the Cummins Family Scholarship Fund application and click the “Apply Now” link to fill out your information.6. An online recommendation form must be submitted on your behalf. It is the student's responsibility to follow up with their recommender to ensure they submit the information before the deadline.7. Next start filling out the application by completing all required fields and click the “Save answers” button. If all required data was entered, the Application section in the progress bar at the top of the page will turn green. An error message will display at the top of the page if any fields are missing or have incomplete information.8. Click the “Next” button at the top of the page and use the Add a Document tool available to upload your documents.9. Once all documents have been uploaded, click the “Next” button again to review your information before submitting your application.10. If all information appears correct, click the “Lock and Submit” button and click “OK” to submit your data to Scholarship America for processing. You will receive an email confirmation once the application has been successfully submitted. If you don't receive the email confirmation, please check your spam or junk mail folder or search for an email fromstudentsupport@scholarshipamerica.org to confirm your application has been received. Questions can be emailed to cummins@scholarshipamerica.org Standup:If you want to see a very different side of Dan than you see here and possibly see Lynze in the crowd, his Burn It All Down standup tour is in full swing! Go to dancummins.tv for ticket links to shows in San Antonio, Dallas, Pontiac, Indianapolis Cleveland and more!Thank you for continuing to send in your stories, Creeps and Peepers!**Please keep doing so. Send them to mystory@scaredtodeathpodcasts.comSend everything else to info@scaredtodeathpodcast.comWant to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen and watch before they are released to anyone else, bonus episodes, a 20% merch discount, additional content, and more! Learn more by visiting: https://www.patreon.com/scaredtodeathpodcastPlease rate, review, and subscribe anywhere you listen. Thank you for listening!Follow the show on social media: @scaredtodeathpodcast on Facebook and IGWatch this episode: https://youtu.be/PCuJmG3fljwWebsite: https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/](https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/)Instagram: https://bit.ly/2miPLf5Mailing Address:Scared to Deathc/o Timesuck PodcastPO Box 3891Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816Video/Audio by Bad Magic ProductionsAdditional music production by Jeffrey MontoyaAdditional music production by Zach CohenVarious free audio provided byhttp://freesound.orgOpening Sumerian protection spell (adapted):"Whether thou art a ghost that hath come from the earth, or a phantom of night that hath no home… or one that lieth dead in the desert… or a ghost unburied… or a demon or a ghoul… Whatever thou be until thou art removed… thou shalt find here no water to drink… Thou shalt not stretch forth thy hand to our own… Into our house enter thou not. Through our fence, breakthrough thou not… we are protected though we may be frightened. Our life you may not steal, though we may feel SCARED TO DEATH."
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On the 49th episode of Legend Amy tells Samm about the famous House of Seven Gables in Salem Massachusetts. We dive into a bit of Nathanial Hawthorne's family history to discover what inspired the House of Seven Gables novel and talk about if there is anything paranormal really happening in the home. Then as a little bonus, did you know there was a Seven Gables road in Michigan that is also said to be haunted? Must be something about seven gables that attracts some spirits.
It's Halloween! There is no more perfect time to take a trip to Salem, Mass than now - and Danielle did just that! She recaps her Salem trip and tells us the must-see places and gives us a little history. Plus, she lets us know EXACTLY how she feels about Boston-Logan Airport. Danielle's Hit List: Old Bank Building - https://www.blackcraftcult.com/ Witch Museum - https://salemwitchmuseum.com/ Witch House - https://www.thewitchhouse.org/ House Of the Seven Gables - https://7gables.org/ Welcome to B.A.D. Moms in Business. We are Bridgette Robertson, Amanda Sharp, and Danielle Monaghan. We are a group of working moms wanting to help create a community for others like us. Thanks so much for watching and/or listening! Don't forget to like and subscribe! ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ INSTAGRAM / FB ➙ @badmomsinbusiness YOUTUBE ➙ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZA4D2rJ72yubWQgZtBi2AA/videos?view_as=subscriber S U B S C R I B E ! ⤴ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ FTC DISCLAIMER ➙ This video is sponsored by ANCHOR. LEGAL DISCLAIMER ➙ Please do not take anything in this podcast as legal advice. We are not attorneys, if you have legal questions please consult your own attorney. ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ M O R E I N F O ⤵ Business EMAIL ➙ badmomsinbusiness@gmail.com Business WEBSITE ➙ badmomsinbusiness.com ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ BECOME A SUPPORTER ➙ https://anchor.fm/badmomsinbusiness/support --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/badmomsinbusiness/support
E49: The hosts have arrived back home from their Salem trip and are here to talk all about it! Hannah starts us off by sharing two of her favorite Salem haunts; the Broad Street Cemetery and the House of Seven Gables. Next up are some tales from The Witch House, Howard Street Cemetery, and Broad Street Cemetery told by Ivy! Towards the end of the episode, Hannah and Ivy share more details on what it was like to visit Salem during the month of October. They list the do's, the don'ts, and most importantly...their favorite places to eat! https://www.redbubble.com/people/GhoulsTripPod/explore?asc=u www.instagram.com/ghoulstrippodcast http://twitter.com/ghoulstrippod https://www.facebook.com/GhoulsTripPodcast/ Contact us at ghoulstrippodcast@gmail.com (We would love to hear your own personal paranormal encounters, episode suggestions, or thoughts you have on a topic we have covered!) Music by Ivy - made in Bandlab.
October Salem adventures continue! Welcome to the city of Salem which, according to Chelle, walks the balance between witches, witchcraft, history, and pop culture.Chelle and Laylla discuss Samantha from Bewitched and how they feel about her statue in the heart of Salem. Borah and Salem's Black Hat Society get a mention yet again because they are just that awesome. And of course, we gush over The Ropes Mansion also known as The Hocus Pocus House, yet again. Its such a fun spot. We should have asked one of the many Sanderson sisters walking around to pose with us so we could be a trio of witches. MuahahahaIn this episode our high duo of wayward witches find themselves visiting the Charter St cemetery, also known as The Burying Point Cemetery. There are several notable souls buried here, and also rumored to haunt its pathways, including a Judge from the witch trials, Judge John Hathorne, who is the great great grandfather of author Nathaniel Hawthorne.Just outside the haunted cemetery (the second oldest kept up cemetery in the USA), is The Witch Trials Memorial, not to be confused with the OTHER memorial site called Proctor's Ledge. This memorial has the names, date of death, and means of execution etched in stone. The memorial ledges are often adorned with flowers and tokens from visitors.While respectfully toking in public on "Laylla's Dad's Sungrown" and EndGame, the witches also headed down to tour The House of The Seven Gables, (also called The Turner Ingersoll Mansion) made famous by the book of the same name written by Nathanial Hawthorne. Is the house haunted? Did anyone see a ghost? Who is "Duchess" Susannah Ingersoll and why is she so freaking cool?Is there an update to Never Again The Burning? https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Face-Goddess-Gale-Hamby-ebook/dp/B00DPUI2E8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=285DUMTQVCE8X&keywords=the+fourth+face+of+the+goddess&qid=1664376718&s=digital-text&sprefix=the+fourth+face+of+the+goddess%2Cdigital-text%2C92&sr=1-1
La sonrisa muerta (The Dead Smile) es un relato de terror del escritor británico Francias Marion Crawford (1854-1909), publicado originalmente en la edición de agosto de 1899 de la revista Ainslee's; y luego reeditado en la antología de 1911: Cuentos misteriosos (Uncanny Tales). Posteriormente aparecería en 65 relatos para temblar de miedo (65 Great Spine Chillers) y Un siglo de historias de terror (A Century Of Horror Stories) Antes de comenzar a analizar La sonrisa muerta, uno de los mejores cuentos de Francis Marion Crawford, es pertinente mencionar algunas influencias. Dos de ellas son evidentes: Edgar Allan Poe y Nathaniel Hawthorne, particularmente los cuentos Berenice (Berenice), La caída de la Casa Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) y La Casa de los Siete Tejados (The House of the Seven Gables). Estas son historias sobre males familiares que son heredados por las generaciones más jóvenes, casi como una infección que se activa cuando el miembro más viejo de la familia fallece. En otras palabras, F. Marion Crawford emplea esta herencia maldita que parece entrar en conflicto entre el libre albedrío y el destino [ver: El horror hereditario y la enfermedad de Lovecraft] ¡¡¡¡¡¡ATENCION: SPOILER!!!!!!! En Berenice, Edgar Allan Poe sigue la obsesión morbosa de un hombre con los dientes de su prima. Es una historia cuyo punto de ebullición combina la necrofilia, entierros en vida y mutilación dental. E.A. Poe utilizó el motivo de los dientes para simbolizar el punto de contacto entre la lujuria física y la adoración espiritual. En La sonrisa muerta, F. Marion Crawford emplea el rictus post-mortem como símbolo de carnalidad, odio y maldad. El risus sardonicus [«risa sardónica»] es un espasmo involuntario de los músculos faciales que produce una especie de sonrisa [al parecer, era común en los ahorcados]. El término también se utiliza para referirse a un fenómeno post-mortem que consiste en el retraimiento de los labios del difunto durante las primeras fases de la descomposición, generando lo que parece ser una sonrisa. Si bien la sonrisa muerta del relato de F. Marion Crawford tiene una fuente más sobrenatural que médica, funciona del mismo modo, al menos en el cuerpo de los difuntos Ockram; porque en este caso es un rictus contagioso, capaz de aparecer inesperadamente en el rostro de las personas vivas en Ockram Hall [ver: Psicología de las Casas Embrujadas] La historia comienza con sir Hugh Ockram. El anciano está muriendo y sabe que irá al infierno. Fue un notorio libertino que arruinó la vida de muchas mujeres. Ahora yace en su lecho de muerte con el gesto de suficiencia del pecador impenitente que nunca se arrepentirá. Sir Hugh es anciano, pero la mujer que fue su nodriza [la señora MacDonald, una mujer centenaria] contempla con horror su rostro amarillento y contorsionado por la maldad. También están presentes su sobrina, Evelyn, y su hijo, Gabriel, que han venido a pedir su bendición para casarse. Malévolo hasta el final, sir Hugh señala cínicamente que su bendición no importa, pero que hay una muy buena razón por la que no deberían casarse, una razón que se niega a revelar. Se queda dormido y los novios salen a reflexionar sobre el significado de este secreto. En la bóveda familiar, debajo de Ockram Hall, yacen los cadáveres de generaciones de libertinos. Gabriel solo espera no haber heredado su maldad. El joven relata la historia de un antepasado que fue decapitado, cuya cabeza tiene el pernicioso hábito de salir rodando de su ataúd y mostrar una sonrisa muy parecida a la de sir Hugh, una rictus presente en todos los Ockram desde entonces. Adentro, mientras oscurece, la nodriza MacDonald cree ver a una mujer en la ventana, una mujer que se parece a Evelyn, con los labios fríos y muertos manchados de sangre. El fantasma de repente muestra sus colmillos y emite un gemido espeluznante. La nodriza supone que es un sueño, pero cuando la sirvienta menciona que ella también ha visto a la figura [y comenta su similitud con Evelyn], la nodriza decide que era el alma en pena de la familia y se estremece de miedo. Conmovida, la señora MacDonald se coloca al lado de la cama de sir Hugh y le ruega que revele su «secreto» en nombre de todas las mujeres que ha destruido: su madre [no sabemos cómo], su desconsolada esposa y su amante abandonada. Sin preocuparse por su alma, sir Hugh la rechaza, sonriendo maliciosamente. De repente, Evelyn entra en la habitación, mira hacia afuera y ve a su doppelgänger en la ventana. Momentos después, sir Hugh muere con el rostro contorsionado en esta sonrisa malvada; y Evelyn siente que en su propio rostro comienza a insinuarse un rictus similar, que no puede detener a pesar de sus esfuerzos. Sir Hugh es llevado a la bóveda. Los sirvientes que lo trasladan se niegan a mirarse: cada uno luce una macabra sonrisa involuntaria que no se desvanece hasta que han salido de la bóveda. Tiempo después, Gabriel y Evelyn organizan una fiesta para anunciar su próxima boda. Cuando los invitados se disponen a brindar, resuenan gritos en el salón: el rostro de cada persona está torcido por la sonrisa macabra que no pueden reprimir. Se produce una huida precipitada. Los únicos que quedan son Gabriel y Evelyn, sentados uno junto al otro, incapaces de mirarse porque saben que en el rostro del otro está la sonrisa muerta. Sin embargo, esto no es lo peor. Ambos comienzan a sentir el impulso irresistible de visitar la bóveda para ver el rostro de sir Hugh una vez más. Una noche, casi al borde de la locura, Gabriel se arrastra hasta la bóveda para ver a su padre muerto. Mientras camina por los pasillos, baja las escaleras y se adentra en la oscuridad y el moho, reprime la sonrisa muerta en sus propios labios. Finalmente encuentra el ataúd y retira la mortaja. El rostro de sir Hugh, horriblemente deteriorado, todavía muestra una sonrisa de odio, pero Gabriel se siente atraído por algo que el cadáver sostiene entre sus dedos: un paquete que contiene su «secreto». No se trata de una confesión, sino de un alarde escrito, una jactancia del mal que sir Hugh ha cometido en vida. Según este testimonio, la madre de Evelyn [que era hermana de la esposa de sir Hugh] había estado casada con uno de los camaradas de sir Hugh en el ejército británico. El hombre murió en Afganistán. Sir Hugh la llevó a vivir a Ockram Hall, la sedujo, la embarazó y rechazó a su esposa [madre de Gabriel], que murió de vergüenza. Poco después del nacimiento de Evelyn, hizo lo mismo con su madre, y crió a la niña como su sobrina. Su deseo era ver a su hijo casarse con su media hermana para atormentar el alma de estas dos mujeres: su difunta esposa y su cuñada. Escribió el relato de sus acciones con la esperanza de que algún día, quizás cuando Gabriel y Evelyn estuviesen casados y con hijos, se enteraran de su incesto. En cierto modo, les heredaría el «secreto», que Gabriel y Evelyn se verían obligados a perpetuar para no arruinar la vida de sus propios hijos [endogámicos]. Al leer esto, Gabriel agradece que hayan retrasado la boda. Levanta la vista y ve que la mandíbula de sir Hugh se relaja y se abre; su sonrisa se desvanece. De repente nota a alguien más detrás de él. Es Evelyn, que lo ha seguido hasta la bóveda y ha leído el manuscrito por encima de su hombro. Por un momento se miran, luego se abrazan, tristes pero agradecidos, como hermanos. Hay muchos elementos para analizar en La sonrisa muerta de F. Marion Crawford. Lo primero que asombra es la cantidad de tropos góticos: amantes desafortunados, maldiciones familiares, incesto, antiguas mansiones familiares, bóvedas decrépitas, patriarcas siniestros, fantasmas, secretos y... banshees. Su delicioso goticismo se adentra en lo sobrenatural pero sin hacerlo obvio, empleando sugerencias e insinuaciones para forzar al lector a interpretar los eventos más sensacionales. El alma en pena, la cabeza que se rehúsa a permanecer en el ataúd, el cadáver de pie, las sonrisas inquietantes y todas las coincidencias que unen a Gabriel y Evelyn en una red, parecen genuinamente sobrenaturales, pero en realidad son vulnerables a la investigación escéptica: la cabeza y el cadáver pueden haber sido movidos por un sirviente bromista [o rencoroso], la mujer en la ventana y las sonrisas pueden ser muestras de histeria colectiva. Sin embargo, tal vez son exactamente lo que parecen [ver: Casas como metáfora de la psique en el Horror] La sonrisa muerta parece terminar con una nota feliz: Gabriel y Evelyn descubren que son hermanos, se aceptan como tales y la boda se cancelará. El plan siniestro de sir Hugh ha sido desbaratado. El lector sacude la cabeza, se frota los ojos, y se pregunta si todos estos elementos sobrenaturales fueron causados sólo por sugerencias y completados con sus propias expectativas. Sin embargo, tampoco estamos seguros de que sea un final feliz. En efecto, al final Evelyn llama a Gabriel «mi hermano», y se abrazan, pero, en una consideración más detallada, no sabemos qué ocurrió después. Es un final relativamente vago, donde la posibilidad de que Evelyn y Gabriel se casaran más adelante, aún sabiendo que son hermanos, sigue siendo válida [ver: Casa Tabú] De hecho, podríamos preguntarnos si los jóvenes amantes ya sospechaban de su relación incestuosa, autoproclamándose actores condenados de un melodrama gótico. Al principio esperan la «bendición» de sir Hugh [que no obtienen], pero después de la muerte del anciano no hay razón para postergar la boda; sin embargo, la postergan durante varios meses. Más aún, F. Marion Crawford no hace mucho por ocultar que hay algo extraño entre Evelyn y Gabriel; más bien todo lo contrario. La insinuación de que son dos hermanos a punto de contraer un matrimonio es bastante obvia desde el principio Si bien este final seguramente resulta artificial o insatisfactorio para el lector moderno, es importante mencionar que Francis Marion Crawford estaba derribando el final convencional de las novelas góticas, el cual generalmente involucra alguna forma de incesto involuntario y cuya revelación conduce a la locura o el suicidio de alguno de los protagonistas. Al hacer que Evelyn y Gabriel sobrevivan a esta prueba, F. Marion Crawford no solo está desafiando un motivo común en la literatura gótica, sino que no les hace perder la razón [o la vida], sino que les permite recuperarla. En efecto, Evelyn y Gabriel no enloquecen ni son empujados a una furia homicida al descubrir que son hermanos: se abrazan y siguen adelante. De este modo, una maldición familiar puede ser vencida por la fuerza de voluntad; los pecados del padre pueden ser absueltos por la resolución del hijo. Uno no puede simplemente aceptar que los errores de nuestros padres se perpetúan invariablemente en nosotros. No podemos refugiarnos en la predestinación. Sin embargo, F. Marion Crawford no cierra la puerta a una interpretación inversa: Evelyn y Gabriel se reconocen como hermanos, se abrazan y siguen adelante... como pareja. Ahora bien, el elemento central del relato es la «sonrisa muerta», este rictus que vemos en el rostro de sir Hugh y luego sobre los labios de Evelyn y Gabriel. ¿Se trata de una maldición familiar? ¿De un rasgo degenerativo en la familia? Si es así, ¿por qué la centenaria nodriza Macdonald también lo tiene? ¿Acaso ella también es la hija bastarda de algún Ockram? Ciertamente es curiosa la presencia de esta mujer centenaria que cuidó a sir Hugh cuando era un bebé, y que ahora está maternalmente presente en su lecho de muerte. De hecho, la nodriza MacDonald intenta que sir Hugh confiese su «secreto» [que ella sospecha y calla] para que su alma descanse en paz. ¿La malevolencia de sir Hugh, queriendo hacer sufrir eternamente a sus mujeres a través de la unión incestuosa entre Evelyn y Gabriel es una especie de castigo a su verdadera madre? Quizás la señora MacDonald es su madre después de todo, quizás no. Nunca lo sabremos [ver: La Casa Embrujada como representación del cuerpo de la mujer] ¿Y qué hay de la banshee con la cara de Evelyn que aparece en la ventana? Casi con certeza es el fantasma de la madre de Evelyn, seducida y abandonada por sir Hugh. La sonrisa muerta de F. Marion Crawford tiene una cadencia singular, pero el horror de la historia no está unido de manera explícita y coherente. Evelyn parece decididamente lenta en la comprensión de las insinuaciones de la señora Macdonald, aunque dada su declaración final, tal vez deberíamos concluir que no se permitió darse cuenta de talas implicaciones. Uno se pregunta sobre el plan de sir Hugh. Causó de alguna manera la obsesión de Gabriel, pero calculó mal la intensidad apropiada para hacerle descubrir el documento solo después de haberse casado y engendrado hijos con Evelyn. A propósito, ¿cómo terminó el documento en manos del cadáver? ¿Acaso sir Hugh dispuso que algún sirviente lo colocara entre sus manos tiempo después de ser inhumado en la bóveda? Esta sería una explicación lógica, pero sabemos que las cosas se mueven solas en esa cripta todo el tiempo, como la cabeza inquieta de Vernon Ockram. Análisis de: El Espejo Gótico https://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2022/09/la-sonrisa-muerta-f-marion-crawford.html Texto del relato extraído de: https://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2022/09/la-sonrisa-muerta-f-marion-crawford.html Traducido al español: Sebastián Beringheli para El Espejo Gótico Musicas: - 01. 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Jenny talks about a 1960s horror anthology film starring Vincent Price in three different adaptations of the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne: “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” and The House of the Seven Gables. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: Twice Told Tales (1963)
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