by DianneSalerni | Apr 9, 2010 | Elisha Kane, Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead
As soon as the press discovered that gentleman adventurer Elisha Kane was courting the spirit medium Maggie Fox, newspapers scrambled to print the story, reporting sightings of them together, repeating gossip, and even following Dr. Kane on the street in the hopes of...
by DianneSalerni | Apr 6, 2010 | Elisha Kane, Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead
Perhaps it’s time to introduce the love interest in We Hear the Dead. He’s not the typical boyfriend you find in a YA novel, although I’m pretty sure women did swoon over him. In fact, Elisha Kent Kane was one of the most beloved celebrities of the 19th century: a...
by DianneSalerni | Mar 31, 2010 | Maggie Fox, spiritualism, We Hear the Dead
One hundred and sixty-two years ago today, in the hamlet of Hydesville in upstate New York, there was a small commotion surrounding the house of Mr. John D. Fox. Mr. Fox roused his neighbors, banging on their doors around 8 o’clock in the evening, and asked them to...
by DianneSalerni | Feb 15, 2010 | Elisha Kane, Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead, writing
It’s probably time I explain the volcano picture at the top of this blog site. People who are familiar with the historical characters in We Hear the Dead have probably already guessed – that’s Dr. Elisha Kane’s volcano.Not his personal volcano, of course, but the one...
by Dianne Salerni | Jan 24, 2010 | Fox sisters, Maggie Fox, spiritualism, We Hear the Dead
Last night I had the honor of attending the mid-winter concert of SATORI, a professional chamber music ensemble based in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, to hear the premiere performance of Witches and Rappings, composed by Dr. Paul Salerni, Professor of Music at Lehigh...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 13, 2010 | Elisha Kane, Fox sisters, Maggie Fox, seance, spiritualism, We Hear the Dead
With little more than a clever prank, two adolescent girls hornswoggled scores of adults into believing they had a special power to communicate with the dead. It is tempting to think of these people as ridiculously gullible, but in fact, they lived in an age where the...
