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Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part Two

From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Length: 28:56

The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants. Read the full description.

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Playing: Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part Two
From: Helen Borten

Default-piece-image-1 A journey through time in the company of the historical character most responsible for America's one-hundred year love affair with spiritualism. Bizarre, brilliant and larger than life, Mme.Blavatsky's own words bring this dramatic story alive. Her modern-day coubnterparts in Lily Dale--a village in upstate New York reminscent of Brigadoon--round out a narrative that is always stranger than fiction. This program was included in the second season of A SENSE OF PLACE and distributed by PRI in 2001. One :15 promo for parts 1 & 2 (click "listen" page, promo labeled "Segment 2") One :30 promo for parts 1 & 2 (click "listen" page, promo labeled "Segment 3")

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Piece Description

A journey through time in the company of the historical character most responsible for America's one-hundred year love affair with spiritualism. Bizarre, brilliant and larger than life, Mme.Blavatsky's own words bring this dramatic story alive. Her modern-day coubnterparts in Lily Dale--a village in upstate New York reminscent of Brigadoon--round out a narrative that is always stranger than fiction. This program was included in the second season of A SENSE OF PLACE and distributed by PRI in 2001. One :15 promo for parts 1 & 2 (click "listen" page, promo labeled "Segment 2") One :30 promo for parts 1 & 2 (click "listen" page, promo labeled "Segment 3")