Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly hit the road and travel to the place that started this whole venture--the Fox sisters home in Hydesville, NY. They are there to celebrate the anniversary of the knocking that launched the spiritualist movement and enjoy the thicker thin mints.
Theme music: Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands.
In their inaugural episode, Beth and Kelly talk about Maggie and Kate Fox, two young sisters who claimed they could communicate with the dead. The girls were eventually credited with founding the Modern Spiritualism movement.
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Sources used in the making of the podcast:
Weisberg, Barbara. Talking to the dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the rise of spiritualism. San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.
Abbott, Karen. “The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 30 Oct. 2012, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/. Accessed 30 July 2017.
“One of the Fox Sisters Arrested.” New York Times, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/05/05/106321124.html?pageNumber=5. Accessed 30 July 2017. Article originally published in print on May 5, 1888.
“One of the Fox Sisters Dead.” New York Times, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/07/03/104139081.html?pageNumber=5. Accessed 30 July 2017. Article originally published on July 3, 1892.
“Death of Margaret Kane Fox.” New York Times, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/03/10/106862739.html?pageNumber=8. Accessed 30 July 2017. Article originally published on March 10, 1893.