Phillips Exeter Academy: The School of Legend
There is a special kind of lore for boarding schools. They are full of century-old traditions, ghost stories, and sneaky romances. This might be why so many famous books have…
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New England Travel
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Happy Halloween From Literary Traveler!
Literary Traveler has been very excited about Halloween…and it’s finally here! To celebrate, we’d like to show off all the work we did in advance of the spookiest day of…
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Mercy Brown: American Vampire
Halloween is big in the Northeast – a liberating blast of Pagan thrills before the bleak snows and Puritan thrift of winter. As the festival approaches, New England’s colors turn…
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Living Literary History at Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables
Located on the waterfront in Salem, Massachusetts, The House of the Seven Gables is a higgledy-piggledy pile of secret staircases, parlors and garrets – an eccentric collage architectural styles that has…
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The “Psychology” of Salem
And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of…
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Master of Creep: Edgar Allan Poe
As Halloween draws near, and ghostly decorations and leering jack-o-lanterns begin to appear, I find myself thinking about the Master of Gloom, Doom, and Murder: New England’s very own, Edgar…
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A Traveler through the Seasons
When fall comes to New England, as it does every year, there is a certain melancholy that comes with the change of season. It’s a subtle change, but one day…
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Fall Rituals: Apple Picking In Stow, Massachusetts
For as long as I can remember, autumn has always been my favorite season. I love Halloween, the lengthening evenings, and the way dead leaves crunch underfoot. I love the…
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Third-hand captivity narratives
When I read Katy’s post about LT’s Dark New England theme, I thought of centuries-old stories set in a wilderness that no longer exists, Hawthorne’s characters tempted by the devil…
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Announcement: Literary Traveler Goes Dark For October
In the rich literary tradition of America, tales of the supernatural have always occupied a special place. Stories of the fantastic and the unreal have not only entered our imaginations,…
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