Gaslight Digest Monday, October 19 1998 Volume 01 : Number 008 In this issue: Wilkie Collins Articles Re: CHAT: RE: Returned from Vacation Re: Re: CHAT: RE: Returned from Vacation Re: Re: CHAT: RE: Returned from Vacation Re: dueling Today in History - Oct. 16 RE: Today in History - Oct. 16 RE: Crime and Punishment movie readings Re: duelling Re: duelling Chat: Book Reviews Available Re: Today in History - Oct. 16 Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery Re: Today in History - Oct. 16 Re: Returned from Vacation Re: Mervyn Peake Re: Another Return: New Orleans Re: readings Victorian Crime Conference Chat: Joan Hickson dies at 92 Chat: Laughlin and local ghosts Chat: know this movie? Oklahoma [Was: Re: Returned from Vacation] Re: a ghost story for everyone Re: readings Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery Haunted San Francisco Oklahoma [Was: Re: Returned from Vacation] Re: Haunted San Francisco Re: Haunted San Francisco ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 23:41:31 -0500 From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU> Subject: Wilkie Collins Articles Here is a site with some unusual looking Wilkie Collins commentary. I'm not sure what it is about, but it looks interesting: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/stacy.gillis/abstract.htm The title of one of them certainly is intriguing: "A Bastard-Masculine Licence in their Opinions": Wilkie Collins and Socially Deviant Women. Looks liked an M.A. thesis. Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 04:02:24 -0500
From: Brian McMillan <brianbks(at)netins.net>
Subject: Re: CHAT: RE: Returned from Vacation
> While we are discussing great historical sites in the area, I
> shouldn't forget to mention the still gorgeous Cain's Ballroom...."Let me
> off at Archer and I'll walk down to Greenwood". About 5 minutes drive
from
> an old home of the Ma Barker gang and a rather dramatic police shoot out
> with Pretty Boy Floyd (old friend of my mother's family, along with Ned
> Christie).
>
> James
> James Michael Rogers
> jetan(at)ionet.net
> Mundus Vult Decipi
Hello everyone in Gaslight Land,
Iowa is also part of Tornado Alley (hoorah..); in fact, one touched down
just last night about 20-30 miles away (didn't cause any damage,
apparently). My dad knows some people who hid in their basement from a
tornado a few years ago & when it had passed they discovered much to their
surprise that the house
was blown away and that they were looking at the sky, a truck had been
placed neatly behind them in the basement & somebodies car outside (that
was ok structurally) got its paint removed
entirely-all this without anyone hearing anything (due to the force of the
vacuum).
I've been through the panhandle of OK but didn't stop anywhere special-I
was amazed at the amount of rusting material along the way-makes one wonder
about our foreign dependence on oil. I have somewhere an Oklahoma newspaper
from the 1920's filled with
stories of period interest-a little late for gas-lighters but interesting
none-the-less. Mostly oil company reports, but if I remember right there
was something about a lost gold cache, hidden eons ago by Spanish explorers
or some such. Maybe I can make the Gaslighter's rich! :{)
Brian
Who's Grampa B. said that Jesse James once rode by here (I'm in NE Iowa;
is this likely? Would the gang have been on their way to Northfield?)
brianbks(at)netins.net
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:54:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Re: CHAT: RE: Returned from Vacation In a message dated 10/16/98 1:12:41 PM, you wrote: <<Iowa is also part of Tornado Alley>> Well -- so is Ayer, Massachusetts, of all places. About fifteen years ago, one came skipping into town, took out an apple tree in the front yard, jumped the house, took out ONE of two matching junipers on either side of a porch on the back lawn, then bounced over the house and left. A kind of a tree-trimming tornado, we guessed. best phoebe
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:46:07 -0500 From: Brian McMillan <brianbks(at)netins.net> Subject: Re: Re: CHAT: RE: Returned from Vacation Strange. I read a book not long ago called MYSTERIES OF THE UNEXPLAINED that noted that sometime back in the 1800's a farmer in Kentucky got visited by a "superheated whirlwind" which set fire to a number of tress, singed the tails off several horses, set the farmer's house onfire & continued onwards, gaining in momentum till it came to a river, wherein it turned downstream, sent up a cloud of steam & eventually fizzled out. Maybe this was what inspired the original "pillar of fire" in the bible? Brian - ---------- > From: Zozie(at)aol.com > To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Subject: Re: Re: CHAT: RE: Returned from Vacation > Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 8:54 AM > > > In a message dated 10/16/98 1:12:41 PM, you wrote: > > <<Iowa is also part of Tornado Alley>> > > Well -- so is Ayer, Massachusetts, of all places. About fifteen years ago, > one came skipping into town, took out an apple tree in the front yard, jumped > the house, took out ONE of two matching junipers on either side of a porch on > the back lawn, then bounced over the house and left. > > A kind of a tree-trimming tornado, we guessed. > > best > phoebe
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 08:28:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "linda j. holland-toll" <ljht(at)SCS.UNR.EDU> Subject: Re: dueling On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 Zozie(at)aol.com wrote: > Greetings all... > > Ron wrote that dueling was illegal after 1888. I thought it was earlier, but > I guess I am thinking about its becoming unfashionable. A little out of our > time frame, but I'm thinking about the swirl of trend-setting at Bath in the > latter days of the 18th century, when Beau Nashe decreed that dueling was not > a manly sport. Remembering that Sheridan fought some duels and even was > horribly wounded in one. My recollection is that the combatants fled to > France. I thought it was because they would be arrested. > > Is my memory failing here? Anyone remember this? > > best > phoebe > that is what i thought - fleeing for the continent was not unusual, especially if the duel was successful and someone got killed, but anne perry, in -highgate road- has Pitt unable to arrest two duelists becasue neither will charge the other with assault and he doesn' think disturbing the queen's peace will hold up. i know perry is pretty good on her history, overall, and so i thought Pitt could arrest them both. if ron is right, though, why doesn't he arrst them. -highgate road takes place in 1888, so i wonder....linda
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:43:31 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - Oct. 16
1846
Ether was first administered in public at the Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston by
Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation performed
by Dr. John Collins
Warren.
1859
Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the U.S. Armory at
Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S.
Marines capture the raiders, killing several. John Brown is
later hanged in Virginia for
treason.
1901
President Theodore Roosevelt incites controversy by inviting
black leader Booker T.
Washington to the White House.
1908
The first airplane flight in England is made at Farnsborough,
by Samuel Cody, a U.S.
citizen.
Born on October 16
1758
Noah Webster, U.S. teacher and publisher who wrote the American
Dictionary of the
English Language
1797
Lord Cardigan, leader of the famed Light Brigade which was
decimated in the Crimean
War, who eventually had a jacket named after him
1854
Oscar Wilde, dramatist, poet, novelist and critic.
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:14:30 -0400 From: "Marcella, Michelle E" <MMARCELLA(at)PARTNERS.ORG> Subject: RE: Today in History - Oct. 16 MGH still celebrates this as employee recognition day. Interesting history to this: much controversy over who "discovered" ether. Morton credited since his was the first successful demonstration. Patient Gilbert Abbott had a vascular jaw tumor removed while under sedation. After operation was completed and Abbott insisted he had felt no pain, Warren turned the assembled audience and declared: "Gentleman, this is no humbug." If anyone is interested, I have an eight-page publication that was produced for the 150th anniversary of the celebration in '96. Michelle Marcella Public Affairs Office Mass. General Hospital > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Carlson [SMTP:gmc(at)libra.pvh.org] > Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 1:44 PM > To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Subject: Today in History - Oct. 16 > > 1846 > Ether was first administered in public at the > Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by > Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation > performed by Dr. John Collins > Warren. >
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:28:45 -0400 From: "James D. Hake" <jdh(at)apk.net> Subject: RE: Crime and Punishment movie At 09:54 PM 10/11/98 -0400, you wrote: >If you liked the movie, why not visit the setting in person? For your >reading pleasure during commercials, here's something from the Frommer's >website: > >The Economist, the famous British magazine, got their "Intelligence Unit" to >work figuring out the cost of living in cities around the world, with prices >measured against those of New York City (already high enough!). On the list >of 120 cities, Budapest came in 116th, making it the cheapest in Europe, the >magazine says. Personal experience says if you want to spend a lot of money on a meal you can. And as I recall the hotel wasn't cheap either ;-) BUT it is a beautiful city and I highly recommend a visit if anyone is considering it. Regards, Jim jdh(at)apk.net ICQ 13319161 Online superstore at http://www.vibc.com/ImpactIntl.html A Thousand Roads to Mecca - Ten Centuries of Traveler's Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage (Library) (338) Sixteen Short Novels [ ] (259) Rhetoric/Poetics - Aristotle (60) All for the Union - the Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes (14) Earth Song, Sky Spirit, Edited by Clifford Trafzer (385) Patriots by ??, (100) Vampires - The Greatest Stories, Ed. by Martin H. Greenberg (42) On Deck Recent Acquisitions Ya-Ya Flanders Panel Note -- Most books removed from the list available for barter/trade/sale
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:15:23 -0500 From: Deborah Mattingly Conner <muse(at)iland.net> Subject: readings She looks at her shoe, and asks with embarrassment: what story are we on? (She was having a strange daydream about tornadoes...) With heart, Deborah Mattingly Conner muse(at)iland.net http://www.iland.net/~muse "Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain." ~Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth -
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 23:34:14 -0600 (MDT) From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Re: duelling A case in point; I cite from Cecil Woodham-Smith's "The Reason Why", which discusses the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the how and why of the whole affair. In 1840 one Captain Harvey Tuckett had insulted Lord Cardigan by publishing a letter which attacked him in the strongest terms as having "grossly and wantonly insulted officers at the mess table, and when called to account had pleaded his privilege as a commanding officer to avoid a duel". Number 60 of the British Army's Articles of War laid it down that to challenge another officer to a duel was a cashiering offence upon conviction. However, Tuckett had recently left the service, and Cardigan could, and did, challenge him without breaking Army regulations. At 5 p.m. on September 12 they met at the windmill on Wimbledon Common. Shots were exchanged and Tuckett was wounded. The miller (a civilian), arrested all those involved and took them to Wandsworth police station, where they were charged to appear at the Old Bailey on October 20th. Here a grand jury found the Earl of Cardigan and his second fit to be charged with intent to murder, maim, and cause bodily harm to Captain Tuckett. The Earl, as a Peer of the Realm, was to appear before the House of Lords on February 16 1841. Duelling had been illegal under Lord Lansdowne's Act since 1828, carrying the death penalty; in 1837 this was modified to apply only if injury or death resulted, otherwise the penalty was three years' hard labour or transportation for fifteen years. The Earl of Cardigan was acquitted on a technicality by a unanimous vote of his peers - the prosecution failed to show that the victim named in the charge and the man found wounded on Wimbledon Common were one and the same person. For further details of this typical episode in the life of a Victorian peer - it would be, I feel, an oxymoron to describe him as a gentleman - I refer those interested to Cecil Woodham-Smith's excellent book. Peter Wood
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:54:47 -0500 From: Robert Raven <rraven(at)alaska.net> Subject: Re: duelling Peter, Glad to see you recommend this book. I concur. For those of you unfamiliar with it, I can only recommend it most highly. It's one of the best and most accessible popular histories I've ever read. Bob Raven
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:46:33 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)javanet.com> Subject: Chat: Book Reviews Available Two book reviews appearing recently in The Scotsman Online may interest Gaslight readers. The first is a review of a history of WW1 by John Keegan. The second is a review of the second volume of a biography of Coleridge, by Richard Holmes. You can read these reviews online by navigating to the site (http://www.scotsman.com/) or request them via email from me. To receive both reviews, send me email with '1017A' in the Subject line. A copy will be sent automatically in reply. (I don't read these.) Here are excerpts from the reviews: The First World War By John Keegan Hutchinson, ?25 Reviewed by Sir Julian Critchley JOHN Keegan and Andrew Roberts are probably today the best writers of the Great War, Keegan on the political and military side: Roberts rivalling Marder, on the war at sea. I took Keegan's book with me to Brittany, where it handsomely filled the time between seafood and oversauced fish. I found it magisterial in its scope, beautifully written, and (how often is the phrase used when you do not really mean it?), literally unputdownable. The Great War was an accidental war, fuelled by the vanity of Conrad Von Hotzendorf, the Austria/Hungarian commander-in-chief, and triggered by a gang of murderous Croats. The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand set in train a sequence of events which even the Tsar and the Kaiser were powerless to prevent. At the time of the Cold War, nuclear strategists feared war by accident as the most likely way in which the world would end in conflagration. In 1914, the remorseless need to mobilise in time, and by so doing deny the advantage to the rival powers, brought war to Europe by a thousand trains. Exploits of a holy opium addict The second half of a great poet's story is fascinating fare, despite the decline that dogged Coleridge's later life, writes Robert Nye Reflections on Coleridge By Richard Holmes HarperCollins, ?19.99 ON an April morning in 1804, a man with the look of a dolphin set sail for the Mediterranean wearing four waistcoats and two pairs of flannel drawers under cloth pantaloons. He looked like a dolphin because he could not breathe properly through his nose, with the consequence that his mouth always hung slightly open. He was fat, 31, and addicted to opium. His name was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The second and concluding volume of Richard Holmes's life of Coleridge begins at this point, and very dramatically and well he begins it, making the most of a rare moment of decisive action in an existence that was otherwise pure dithering. ----------------------------------------------------------------- James E. Kearman mailto:jkearman(at)javanet.com http://www.javanet.com/~jkearman Why do you wander further and further? Look! All good is here. Only learn to seize your joy, For joy is always near.?? --Goethe
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:15:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History - Oct. 16 In a message dated 10/16/98 5:49:23 PM, you wrote: <<1846 Ether was first administered in public at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation performed by Dr. John Collins Warren. >> For you vacationers -- Dr Morton's grave marker (a lengthy one) is right by the tower in Mount Auburn Cementery in Cambridge, MA. And just above the soaring Cleo's needle that marks the bones of Charlotte Cushman, the great 19th C American actress. Mount Auburn is a very special place. An arboretum as well, and one of the great spring bird-watching sites in New England -- with the flowering trees and bushes, the periwinkles, the soft snoozing of Mary Baker Eddy and Longfellow and Bucky Fuller and Winslow Homer and Edwin Booth, et al, it is lovely to wander around looking for the return wahblas (warblers to you non- Bostonians)... best phoebe
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:52:34 -0600 (MDT) From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery For a different approach to this spot, I recommend reading H.P. Lovecraft's story "Pickman's Model", where Mount Auburn Cemetery is also mentioned... Peter Wood
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:57:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Today in History - Oct. 16
At 06:15 PM 10/16/98 -0400,Phubby wrote:
>
>Mount Auburn is a very special place. An arboretum as well, and one of the
>great spring bird-watching sites in New England -- with the flowering trees
>and bushes, the periwinkles, the soft snoozing of Mary Baker Eddy and
>Longfellow and Bucky Fuller and Winslow Homer and Edwin Booth, et al, it is
>lovely to wander around looking for the return wahblas (warblers to you non-
>Bostonians)...
>
>best
>phoebe
>
Lovecraft has already told us that them folks is all dug up
("Pickman's Model").
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan(at)ionet.net
Mundus Vult Decipi
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:45:43 -0400 From: "Kevin J. Clement" <clementk(at)alink.com> Subject: Re: Returned from Vacation Patricia Teter wrote: > Western/Frontier dating to the late 1860s - early 1870s when Custer and > Sheridan were in OK territory. This gathering was so small there was not > much chance of running each other over, however, several riders were > rather expert. The canon was the best, since firing and loading were explained > and demonstrated. My uncle from Louisville, KY highly recommends the > reenactment of the battle of Perryville, KY with thousands on horseback. > Have you seen this? > > best regards, > Patricia > > Patricia A. Teter > PTeter(at)Getty.edu I've not been down to KY in a while but it sounds like a good reason to go. A cousin of mine currently in reenacting may have been there though. Glad to hear there were several expert riders, a good rider treats the horse much better and is IMO much more worth watching. (don't know how to ride yet but respect those who do) I've not really been to a large battle reenactment but enjoy skirmishes. There's a small battle/camp reenactment (100-200 a side?) every summer in a county park about 3-5 miles from where I live and this year they put more permanent sites up and had tours disguised as soldiers escorting civilians back to their homes. Allowed visitors to see more up close and learn a bit more about the life of a soldier, weapons, causes, etc. At one point the escorts stop near canon crews who go through the whole drill under fire. Much better for newcomers than just watching a battle with no explanation of the action, though there used to be more civilian renactors, which I miss. Always nice to have more than just soldiers and I enjoyed having a band strike up before and during the battle haggling the crowd & the soldiers. That ties into why I've been going to the Ohio Renaissance Festival more than local ACW; the RenFest is more entertaining. I've also been overexposed to ACW; hence my current interest in Napoleon III and the various Victorian Era Wars. Glad to hear of people living other parts of history more than just the major eastern ACW battles. Kevin Clement clementk(at)alink.com
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:14:52 -0400 From: "Kevin J. Clement" <clementk(at)alink.com> Subject: Re: Mervyn Peake Ginger Johnson wrote: > > The Ballantine editions published in the early 70s do have Peake's > illustrations - wonderful things. He also illustrated Treasure Island in > a frightening manner. > > Ginger Johnson > > "An oyster may be crossed in love." > - Sheridan Comparing the Ballantines (assume this means the paperbacks) to the newer tpbs by Tusk, it seems like the 70's paperbacks cut out several illustrations and rearranged the order. Granted I don't have access to any older copies of the books but the illustrations in the newer editions tend to match characters/actions/scenes better and also include covers and endpieces by Peake, which greatly add to the look of the book. Reasons why I chose Lord_Sepulchrave for my yahoo handle - when I signed up for the account to handle extra email I was running out of names that hadn't already been taken and didn't want kkkeving2890(at)yahoo.com as my email address. The Gormenghast books happened to be on a shelf to my right...thinking that since I seem to be the only one who knows about Peake (ahh the wasteland that is central Ohio :P ) that I know, the odds that someone's taken a name from the books for email would be next to nil. That's one more reason why I like this list; having discussions about authors like Peake who either I don't know much or anything about or who I had the hardest time finding anything about. (and such great people on the list!) Kevin Clement (who just watched Shelly's Frankenstein yesterday and thought it wasn't *that* bad until 3/4's of the way through but who still enjoys the book far more; *too* many stitches IMO and did they have to use that much embryonic fluid?) clementk(at)alink.com
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:33:03 -0400 From: "Kevin J. Clement" <clementk(at)alink.com> Subject: Re: Another Return: New Orleans JDS Books wrote: > > Deborah, > Speaking of Mississippi ghosts, I presume you are familiar with > Clarence John Laughlin's haunting _Ghosts Along the Mississippi_ > (1948)? A truly marvelous book of photographs, with commentary. > Kevin Clement may be interested to hear that Laughlin was another Shiel > fan. Thanks for the info, sounds like another book to look up. > I only got one further letter from Laughlin. Did he ever finish the New > Orleans > book? Does anyone know? Ghosts seems to be out of print (according to Amazon, not the best source I admit) but there is a book called Haunter of Ruins with photographs by him on New Orleans at Amazon that came out about a year ago. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0821223615/qid=908763876/sr=1-1/002-02343 04-9000643 looks like this may the book your're thinking about. Guess I'll have to check up on some of the local Ohio ghost books. BTW, Granville has at least two haunted inns, Granville Inn & Buxton Inn. Buxton has far more ghosts (at least 4) and more publicity. Sorry to say I've not seen any. > Still muttering to myself, > in Shadow haunted Kettering, OH > > John Squires Kevin Clement in way too lit up but we still won't allow Neon signs Granville, OH (glad I live out of the village and can actually see the sky, storms, and shadows...)
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:58:39 -0700 From: John Elliott <john(at)AT-FIRST-SITE.COM> Subject: Re: readings I, too, have to wonder what stories we are reading now. I have been away for some tme, and have eagerly looked on the next few months with anticipation as I have set them aside to read gaslight-era stories and hopefully get involved in the discussions, but I cannot find a "current list" that goes beyond "1998-July: Fourth annual all-Canadian month." I linked to the "Current Reading List" from the Gaslight Home Page. Am I missing something? John Elliott Albany, Oregon, USA http://at-first-site.com/ (web site) john(at)at-first-site.com (use this for all normal email) http://at-first-site.com/mdw/ (Maurine Watkins web site) mdw(at)at-first-site.com (for all email relating to Maurine Watkins) - -----Original Message----- From: Deborah Mattingly Conner <muse(at)iland.net> To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA <gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA> Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 8:11 PM Subject: readings >She looks at her shoe, and asks with embarrassment: what story are we on? >(She was having a strange daydream about tornadoes...) > >With heart, >Deborah Mattingly Conner >muse(at)iland.net >http://www.iland.net/~muse >"Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is >love. The stronger the love, the more the pain." ~Joseph Campbell The >Power of Myth > > - > >
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:44:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Willis <c.willis(at)english.bbk.ac.uk> Subject: Victorian Crime Conference (Apologies for cross-posting) VICTORIAN CRIME UNIVERSITY OF LONDON CENTRE FOR ENGLISH STUDIES SATURDAY 24 APRIL 1999 The aim of this one-day interdisciplinary conference is to explore the relationship between crime and nineteenth century society. COST: ?18 (concessions ?10) Cheques payable to "The University of London" BOOKINGS AND ENQUIRIES: Centre for English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU tel: 0171 862 8675 fax: 0171 862 8672 e-mail: ces(at)sas.ac.uk CALL FOR PAPERS: Possible themes could include: crime fiction the birth of forensic science police history crime journalism slums and rookeries Jack the Ripper Mayhew and other social observers frauds and fakes political unrest prostitution prisons and punishment legal history crime, gender and sexuality Proposals for 20-minute papers (not more than 250 words) should be sent by 15 December 1998 to: Chris Willis Department of English Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX e-mail: 100415.1234(at)compuserve.com OR c.willis(at)english.bbk.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:12:02 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)javanet.com> Subject: Chat: Joan Hickson dies at 92 From the London Times, 19 Oct 98: Joan Hickson dies at 92 JOAN HICKSON, the actress who found stardom in her seventies as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, has died in a Colchester hospital aged 92. Miss Hickson made her acting debut in 1927, had a long stage career, and appeared in more than a hundred films. But it will be as the spinster detective in the BBC television adaptations of the Christie stories that she will be best remembered. ----------------------------------------------------------------- James E. Kearman mailto:jkearman(at)javanet.com http://www.javanet.com/~jkearman Why do you wander further and further? Look! All good is here. Only learn to seize your joy, For joy is always near. --Goethe
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:50:32 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Chat: Laughlin and local ghosts Ghosts of The Mississippi is out of print, by Laughlin, but you can find used copies easily on the used nets like Biblios or Interloc Haunter of Ruins is kind of a "best of" Laughlin--has some photos of Mississippi ruins, some of New Orleans cemeteries and even some of San Francisco...the very recognizable building with the wrought iron railings and elevator used in both BLADE RUNNER and Outer Limits' "Man with the glass hand". >check up on some of the local Ohio ghost books. BTW, Granville has at >least two >haunted inns, Granville Inn & Buxton Inn. One of the best sources of "local" ghost story resources (one I always check before I travel) is Invisible Ink's listings. More ghost stories than you can shake a stake at (oops, wrong cure!). They are now Online, but the catalogues are fun. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:45:25 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Chat: know this movie? This movie is offered by Invisible Ink, I've never seen or heard about it, anyone else know? Orson Welles' Ghost Story [Return to Glennascaull] Shot between filming Othello, in angular black and white. A young man drives two mysterious ladies/nominated for Academy Award for short subject. Anyone seen this? Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:47:14 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Oklahoma [Was: Re: Returned from Vacation]
Is Oklahoma still called the "Sooner" state?
Stephen
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:49:12 -0600 From: athan chilton <ayc(at)UIUC.EDU> Subject: Re: a ghost story for everyone The only comment I would make concerns the >willow-maiden. It would have been nice to learn more about her tale and >the circumstances that led to her fate. But then ghosts are mysterious, >I suppose. BB Thanks very much, BB (purrs like cat) Wait'll I find a story in which I can use some descriptions of where I spent this weekend--Ft. Massac, on the Ohio River in southern Illinois... imagine the sound of bagpipes, or fife & drum corp To learn more about the willow-maiden you will have to read Hearn himself--I lifted, from one of his tales, the idea of a maiden who 'belongs' to a tree and who dies when her tree is felled. athan ayc(at)uiuc.edu ayc(at)uiuc.edu
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:52:16 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Re: readings
John, Deborah, et alia,
you're not missing something. It's those of us at Gaslight central
who are missing: coordination, time and clear memory.
The next reading schedule is planned, but I have the nagging feeling
that I had processed an etext for the last week of October (a ghost story).
I've etexted Reade's "A Knightsbridge mystery" for this week, but can't
find the etext. (This was done some time ago. November will be filled by
welcome contributions by Lucy, Toni and Bob B.
Stephen
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:03:01 -0600 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery I remember seeing the _Night Gallery_ teleplay of that story, at about the age of 10. Worst willies I've ever had. Jerry gmc(at)libra.pvh.org >>> "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> 10/17 7:52 PM >>> For a different approach to this spot, I recommend reading H.P. Lovecraft's story "Pickman's Model", where Mount Auburn Cemetery is also mentioned... Peter Wood
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:29:05 -0600 From: athan chilton <ayc(at)UIUC.EDU> Subject: Haunted San Francisco ... some of San >Francisco...the very recognizable building with the wrought iron railings >and elevator used in both BLADE RUNNER and Outer Limits' "Man with the >glass hand". I don't remember this! What building is it, and where in SF--if anybody happens to know?? athan (big fan of haunted SF, w/some experience of same!) ayc(at)uiuc.edu
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:31:12 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Oklahoma [Was: Re: Returned from Vacation] Stephen wrote: <<Is Oklahoma still called the "Sooner" state?>> Indeed it is. PT
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:35:36 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Haunted San Francisco someone wrote: <<.. some of San >Francisco...the very recognizable building with the wrought iron railings >and elevator used in both BLADE RUNNER and Outer Limits' "Man with the >glass hand". I thought this was the building in downtown LA that has recently been restored....the Bradbury building, or something like that. Patricia
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:43:38 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Haunted San Francisco >... some of San >>Francisco...the very recognizable building with the wrought iron railings >>and elevator used in both BLADE RUNNER and Outer Limits' "Man with the >>glass hand". > >I don't remember this! What building is it, and where in SF--if anybody >happens to know?? My apologies, this was in a group of photos from scattered places in Calif, it is the Bradbury building and it is in Los Angeles. Designed in 1893 by George Wyman, it is a five storied brick shell, with a "magnificent central court, all the office backed up against the walls of the shell, and faced with superb iron balconies anticipating modern architects and breaking away from European traditions." Other innovations in this building were elevator shafts completely exposed, and far above, the whole top of the building is glass. The best photos are in Laughlin's THE PERSONAL EYE, also out of print but easily available used and in librariers. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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