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Tag: Fox Sisters

The Fox Sisters, Spiritualism, and the Burned-Over District

September 4, 2014

If you were mystically inclined in 19th century America, the best place for you to be was New York state. While the runner up might have been New England, with its Transcendentalism, for pure religious and spiritual fervor, there was nowhere quite like New York.

TAGS: Burned Over District, Fox Sisters, New York State, Spiritualism

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