The "Queen City" of Texas they called her--or the "Octopus of the Gulf." Galveston from 1845 to 1860 was the center of culture in Texas--or the monster with an economic strangle hold on all Texas trade. It was a gracious city with wide paved streets, impressive buildings, and neat gardens; yet it was also a pestilence-ridden place where no sanitary code was ever enforced and where one in every two children died before reaching maturity. Its citizens, avid for culture and knowledge, attended concerts and plays in great numbers and exhibited an eager interest in science and history; yet they...
The "Queen City" of Texas they called her--or the "Octopus of the Gulf." Galveston from 1845 to 1860 was the center of culture in Texas--or the mon...
"Here, Mr. Split-Foot, do as I do " exclaimed the child, and the spirits obeyed her command. Thus, in 1848, thirteen-year-old Margaret Fox inaugurated the age of spiritualism. Those early spirit manifestations in a humble New York farmhouse were "but the beginning of a grand seance which for the next half century was to see persons returned from the dead walking upon the earth, mingling freely with mortal Americans. Ceremonies were performed which united in wedlock the living and the dead; ghostly schoolboys returned from the land of the spirits to revisit their old schoolhouses, upsetting...
"Here, Mr. Split-Foot, do as I do " exclaimed the child, and the spirits obeyed her command. Thus, in 1848, thirteen-year-old Margaret Fox inaugura...
