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SUMMARY:Family Spirits: Haunted History Tours at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism
DESCRIPTION:Spirits and séances at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n        Did you know that Harriet Beecher Stowe practiced spiritualism throughout her life? Together with family\, friends\, and her Hartford neighbors\, she would hold séances to try to speak with the spirits of people who had passed on to the next life. Over the years\, visitors and staff at the Stowe Center have experienced many mysterious and unexplainable events in Harriet’s historic home—just as Harriet did during her spiritualist explorations. \n          Join us for our Family Spirits Tours\, where we’ll learn all about spiritualism in the 1800’s\, and how people spoke to departed spirits looking for wisdom\, comfort\, and knowledge. We’ll also hear stories of some of the most haunting encounters in the history of our museum! \n\n[Please note\, this tour talks openly about death and grief. Recommended for ages 8+]
URL:https://stowecenter.org/event/family-spirits-haunted-history-tours-at-the-stowe-center-for-literary-activism-7/
LOCATION:Stowe Center for Literary Activism\, 77 Forest Street\, Hartford\, CT\, 06106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Family Spirits: Haunted History Tours at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism
DESCRIPTION:Spirits and séances at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n        Did you know that Harriet Beecher Stowe practiced spiritualism throughout her life? Together with family\, friends\, and her Hartford neighbors\, she would hold séances to try to speak with the spirits of people who had passed on to the next life. Over the years\, visitors and staff at the Stowe Center have experienced many mysterious and unexplainable events in Harriet’s historic home—just as Harriet did during her spiritualist explorations. \n          Join us for our Family Spirits Tours\, where we’ll learn all about spiritualism in the 1800’s\, and how people spoke to departed spirits looking for wisdom\, comfort\, and knowledge. We’ll also hear stories of some of the most haunting encounters in the history of our museum! \n\n[Please note\, this tour talks openly about death and grief. Recommended for ages 8+]
URL:https://stowecenter.org/event/family-spirits-haunted-history-tours-at-the-stowe-center-for-literary-activism-8/
LOCATION:Stowe Center for Literary Activism\, 77 Forest Street\, Hartford\, CT\, 06106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Spirits at Stowe,Tours
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SUMMARY:Family Spirits: Haunted History Tours at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism
DESCRIPTION:Spirits and séances at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n        Did you know that Harriet Beecher Stowe practiced spiritualism throughout her life? Together with family\, friends\, and her Hartford neighbors\, she would hold séances to try to speak with the spirits of people who had passed on to the next life. Over the years\, visitors and staff at the Stowe Center have experienced many mysterious and unexplainable events in Harriet’s historic home—just as Harriet did during her spiritualist explorations. \n          Join us for our Family Spirits Tours\, where we’ll learn all about spiritualism in the 1800’s\, and how people spoke to departed spirits looking for wisdom\, comfort\, and knowledge. We’ll also hear stories of some of the most haunting encounters in the history of our museum! \n\n[Please note\, this tour talks openly about death and grief. Recommended for ages 8+]
URL:https://stowecenter.org/event/family-spirits-haunted-history-tours-at-the-stowe-center-for-literary-activism-9/
LOCATION:Stowe Center for Literary Activism\, 77 Forest Street\, Hartford\, CT\, 06106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Spirits at Stowe,Tours
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SUMMARY:Spirits at Stowe
DESCRIPTION:Spirits at Stowe considers spiritualism as a tool of resistance among radicals and reformers of the 19th century. \nThrough contact with spirits\, radical women claimed authority to speak the unspeakable\, especially the right to full control and autonomy over their own bodies and families. Throughout the tour\, we will delve into the historic\, social\, and political context of the 19th century and explore the role of spiritualism in the lives of reformers\, suffragists\, and Black activists\, including Harriet Jacobs\, Frederick Douglass\, and Harriet Wilson. \nDuring the tour\, the house is “set” to reflect a Spiritualist setting. It takes place later in the evening and is by (electric) candlelight. Participants on the tour will observe and engage with materials and primary sources related to spiritualism\, including a planchette\, spiritualist newspapers\, seance accounts\, and letter excerpts from leading 19th century activists. \nSpirits at Stowe deals with themes such as violence\, sexuality\, and reproductive rights.\nIt is not recommended for children under 13.  \n  \nWhat is spiritualism?  \nBroadly speaking\, spiritualism is the belief that an individual’s awareness persists after death and can be contacted by the living. During Spirits at Stowe\, we discuss the histories of multiple spiritualist traditions in U.S. history\, and how these beliefs helped inspire\, nourish\, and connect politically radical individuals and communities – paying special attention to abolitionism\, women’s rights\, labor rights\, and the intersection among them. \n 
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LOCATION:Stowe Center for Literary Activism\, 77 Forest Street\, Hartford\, CT\, 06106\, United States
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