by DianneSalerni | Feb 7, 2010 | education, PSSA, reading, teaching
I asked my students: “What did Natasha say about men walking on the moon?”Chad had an answer. “She said it never happened. She told Toughboy that his teachers were lying, because it was impossible for men to walk on the moon.”“Were you surprised by what she said?”...
by DianneSalerni | Feb 4, 2010 | Fox sisters, spiritualism, We Hear the Dead
The history of spiritualism in America began in 1848 with a house in Hydesville, New York that was supposedly haunted by the spirit of a murdered man. Instrumental in the spread of this story and the consequent spotlight of attention on two adolescent girls (Maggie...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 30, 2010 | caged graves, Pennsylvania graves
A chill went up and down my spine when I first saw the picture on the internet: a lonely graveyard with worn and tilted tombstones – and one grave with an iron cage built around it. A lovely, decorative cage – but a cage nonetheless! A little digging, with the help of...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 27, 2010 | Strider Nolan
I am pleased to announce the release of Visions Volume 2, the second in a series of pulp fiction anthologies published by Strider Nolan Media in cooperation with Visionary Comics. Ron Fortier, of Pulp Fiction Reviews and Airship27 Productions, calls Visions “the real...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 21, 2010 | screenplay, We Hear the Dead, writing
How many times have you heard someone complain: “The movie isn’t like the book!” I’m pretty sure I have complained about that myself. Never again. Now my sympathies are entirely with the screenwriter!It’s hard to turn a book into a movie. Heck, it was hard...
