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We are so excited to have Betsy join us in store to talk about her new book, This Haunted Land. One of the stories she talks about takes place in a nearby ghost town, Uravan. A great way to spend a weekend evening right in the middle of spooky season! Preorder your copy here: https://square.link/u/DHmiCFYs
This Haunted Land investigates some of America’s most enduring legends and uncovers how ghost stories can illuminate some of the most unsettling parts of history. With curiosity, a touch of skepticism, and an open-hearted
willingness to learn from the living and the dead, Betsy Gaines Quammen takes readers on a journey into haunted towns, forgotten lives, and abandoned places. From a once-booming uranium mining community in Colorado to a fort on the coast of Florida that predates the United States itself, this riveting exploration of memory, mourning, folklore, and social anxiety shows that politicized efforts to rewrite history can only be defeated by bearing witness to the specters of the past.
“You will gobble up this spooky folklore like handfuls of candy corn. Betsy Gaines Quammen deftly guides us through the house of horrors that is America’s colonial past. The true gift of this book is that it not only encourages America’s settler descendants to remember the dark truths about our nation’s history, but also enables us to reconcile with these hungry ghosts so that they no longer haunt the present.”
—ANNETTE MCGIVNEY, Pure Land and Plastic Shaman
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