Big Book Getaway, Mohegan Sun, sponsored by the Mark Twain House and Museum!

The fact that this event is being sponsored by the Mark Twain House and Museum is really thrilling for me. More about why later....

 you can register for the event here: http://www.thebigbookclub.org/register-here/

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http://www.thebigbookclub.org/toil-trouble-witches-occult/

Toil and Trouble ~ Witches and the Occult

Saturday, February 22 at 4:00 p.m.

I will be sharing the panel with: 
 Brunonia Barry
"the New York Times and international best selling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She was the first American author to win the International Women’s Fiction Festival’s Baccante Award and was a past recipient of Ragdale Artists’ Colony’s Strand Fellowship as well as the winner of New England Book Festival’s award for Best Fiction.."

and

Marybeth Reilly McGreen "Marybeth is the author of a series of books of Rhode Island history and folklore: “Witches, Wenches and Wild Women of Rhode Island (The History Press, 2010),” Revolutionaries, Rebels and Rogues of Rhode Island” (2011) and “Rhode Island Tales: Haunted Hallows and Monsters’ Lairs” (2012). She is currently at work on a new book about the history of slavery in Rhode Island."

Maggi Smith-Dalton, a historian and writer, writes about the history of spiritualism and the occult in Salem, Massachusetts. She describes occult aspects earlier in the region’s history, such as mesmerism, religious sects, and Mormonism, then Salem just before the Civil War through the end of the nineteenth century. She provides the historical and social context for the city, including its link to witchcraft, and tells of key individuals, such as Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Anton Mesmer, Andrew Jackson Davis, Charles Wentworth Upham, Charles Henry Foster, Allen Putnam, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other psychics, healers, and clairvoyants. (Annotation ©2013 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

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