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Connecticut in the Golden Age of Spiritualism

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Within the aftermath of the Civil War, distraught Connecticut residents turned to Spiritualism as a way of connecting with their lost family members. Daniel Dunglas Home of New London held his first public séance as a young person in 1851, and he reportedly levitated and handled hot coals without injury. Famous Litchfield native Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband, Calvin, were believers, and Harriet’s sister Isabella Beecher Hooker practiced mediumship. After the death in their son Willie, President Abraham Lincoln and the primary woman invited Hartford medium Nettie Colburn Maynard to conduct secret séances on the White House. Even nowadays, believers congregate on the Pine Grove Spiritualist Camp. Writer Elaine Kuzmeskus investigates this dramatic, mystical history.

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