By Jared VanDyke Part five of a five-part series I kept watch while John took a leak among Lily Dale’s sacred trees. “Hey, at least I’m not peeing on The Stump,” said […]
Lily Dale: Last call
Lily Dale: Getting a read on a reading
By Jared VanDyke Part four of a five-part series Rev. Bonnie White, spiritual artist and medium, pegged my age without asking. “Oh,” said Bonnie. “A digital recorder. How does it work?” With […]
Lily Dale: A spiritualist by any other name…
By Jared VanDyke Part three in a five-part series “(The Church of the Living Spirit is) nothing but bunch of pagan heathens who serve Satan.” — George Mayer, Lily Dale Spiritualist Church […]
Lily Dale: Sunday morning with the spiritualists
by Jared VanDyke Part two of a five-part series I spent Sunday morning worrying more about the color of my aura than what outfit to wear to church. If my body projected […]
Lily Dale: The town that talks to the dead
by Jared VanDyke Part one of a five-part series The winding backwoods roads of Chautauqua County, New York, are lined with churches and scrap heaps. Trailers and half-completed ranch-style homes, surrounded by […]
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