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Lily Dale Research Paper

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“In the psychic town of Lily Dale, New York the veil between life and death is especially thin,” according to Greg Newkirk in Week In Weird article. Lily Dale formally known as Lily Dale Assembly, is a small town located on a lake in New York, about an hour south of Buffalo. The ghost town was founded in 1879 as the Cassadaga Lake Free Association. It took its current in in 1906, named for the lilies covering Cassadaga Lake. Just like any other town, Lily Dale has a post office, volunteer fire department, library, and a playground. There also is a coffee shop, two restaurants, a couple of gift shops, a handful of guesthouses and a beautiful museum. For a 133 years the town has been home to the Lily Dale Assembly, “ a religious organization …show more content…

One of the spiritual retreats is found at the end of the quiet trail of the Leolyn Woods called Inspiration Stump. Lily Dale Museum is for visitors to experience a blast to the past with amid photos, artifacts and memorabilia from the first days of the Spiritualist movement and the founding of Lily Dale. Another exciting event for people who have lost their beloved pets and would want to find peace would be the Pet Cemetery. “It is a place that honors the incredible bond between people and their pets” (LilyDaleAssembly). Last but not least, The Healing Temple is where tourists go “hoping to get a message at the outdoor message service” …show more content…

Two times a day during the camp sessions, “[visitors] walk past the pet cemetery through the Leolyn woods to the Inspiration Stump” (nsac.org). The Inspiration Stump began when student mediums wanted a place to practice their talents with their peers, giving messages to one another. After many years went by, the Stump became the place where others gathered to receive messages from their loved ones. The Inspiration Stump started up at 1898, demonstrating the mediums channeling their powers to receive short messages for those in the audience. There are three types of mediums who speak here: The mediums that are registered and vouched for by the Lily Dale Assembly; visiting mediums from other communities; and student mediums. A journalist who has visited the town wrote on laurendevoe.com, “Originally the mediums stood on the huge stump that still sits at the top of the meeting place. That way they could see the audience gathered to hear the words of the spirits from above, and were able to pick out those who the spirits wished them to give messages to.” The Lily Dale websites states, “In 1890 one-room school house is now home to the Lily Dale Museum.” The museum takes the visitors back in time along with photos, artifacts and memorabilia from the first days of the Spiritualist movement and the founding of Lily Dale. In the past few

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