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Colchester: Britains oldest recorded town is awash with fascinating relics. The 2,000 – year-old Roman town wall provides a handy basic for a self-guided, 1.75 mile tour, taking in two surviving exits: Balkerne Gate and Duncan’s Gate. The Norman era Colchester Castle also has an impotant collection and the temple of Claudius can still be seen beneath. www.visitcolchester.com
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This theater was on of the earl hubs of local entertainment . It is namd for Annie Russel
| Annie Russell | |
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| Born | Annie Ellen Russell 12 January 1864 Liverpool, England, U.K. |
| Died | 16 January 1936 (aged 72) Winter Park, Florida, U.S. |
Miss Russel lhad a permanent home on
here in Winter Park.
Miss Russell staged
many plays and concert starting in 1931—and which are continued by the college to this day—infact two years after she retired two troups formed—one named Th Anne Russell Troupe.
The college also started an annual
(starting 1916)
as well as the
Girl’s Athletic Association
Sponsored by the College (1925)
Rollins’ Alumni include (among many):
Buddy Ebsen (of Beverly Hillbillies fame)
Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
Mr. Rogers (well you know)
Winter Park has many other things for you to enjoy including a
it’s lovely mansions and thru a whole chain of lakes.
Winter Park Hannibal Square Walking Tour
and how about
(First Black Women’s Club: The Ideal Club was estiblished in this area in 1907
on the edge of Winter Park and not far from
Both were two of the earliest black communities in the USA
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While Edward triumphed in the south. Aethelflaed led an army against Derby. It has been suggested that the Viking army of Derby was absent at the time, fighting in the south against Edward. If this is true, then it shows the good strategic sense of Aethelflad. exploiting the diversion wrought by her brother, Aethelflaed took the Viking military centre without need of a seige. But her entry into Derby was not completely unopposed. Some of her clossest thanes were cut down within the gates of the town. By the winter of 917 AD, the Viking armies of East Anglia, Cambridge, Bedford, Huntingdon, Northampton and Derby had ceased to exist or offered their allegiance to Edward. Brother and sister planned the next step.
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Gonna do a few of these today—some less conventional places to go for Halloween:
Boris Karloff: The Gentle Monster | Frankenstein Documentary | Classic Monsters
Boris Karloff 11/28/1887 – 2/2/1969
Born a son of a wealthy British diplomat—-his life was presumed to follow in his father’s foot steps—but as well all not the best laid plans don’t alway take monsters into account. For at ag 21 Boris abandond the who aristocracy thing, eloped with the first (of Five) wif and escaped to Cannada. H e made a living at heavy labor and the like while presuing his desire to be an actor—but let’s face it Cannada in the early 20th century wasn’t the best placee to persue that kind of a dream—He ended up divorced and pennilss at 30 and made the decision to try Hollywood.
In 1931 fate took a hand in all this when Bela Lugosi refused to take the role of Frankenstien (he didn’t want all that junk over his face) and they then offered it to Karloff who as we all know took it….and the rest is as thy say history, as the film became a classic and Karloff became the only actor consistently associated with the classic horror story monster (that was brought to by a young woman and first told to the like as Lord Byron. Karloff went on to a full career and became a legnd of Hollywood Horror Movie Stars.
He passd away at ag 81 at his home from emphysemia. He was creamated and his ashes buried in
The Garden of Rembrance
at
Mount Cemetery
High on a hill over
Gilford, England
| Garden of Remembrance, his name is on a marker under a rose bush. Plot 2, on the left hand side. |
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In Brooksville, May-Stringer House owns its ‘Florida’s most haunted’ title
Hernando County
May-Stringer House goes from history to horror for Halloween
Hernando County Historic Museum
601 Museum Court
Brooksville, Fl.
4-story Victorian. First four rooms were built in 1856. Occupied by Frank Saxon 1866-72. Purchased by Sheldon Stringer during the 1880s. Originally the home of Dr. Stringer, this house was bought by the Hernando County Historical Museum in 1981 and has been preservd as it looked in 1885.
Individual Tours $20.00
The tour is two (2) hours 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
During the first hour a docent will take you through the house and tell you about actual evidence collected over the years. During the second hour you can revisit any area of the house and conduct you own investigation! A fun evening for a great cause.
Late Night Investigations – Group Tours – Flat Fee $200.00
Your group must arrive by 8:30 PM, get a quick walk-through, then set up your equipment. Your group can investigate until 2:00 AM. All equipment must be out of the house by 2:30 AM.
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Casa de la Paz: St Augustine is a bed and breakfast in a historic Mediterranean style home built in 1915 or possibly earlier, as records are not clear. It is within walking distance of the Castillio de San Marcus, the Bridge o the Lions and many of the rstaurants and cafes in th nation’s oldest city. Guests come to experience the rason behind the home Casa de la Paz which means “House of Peace”. However, ther sms to be at least one spirit her that still refuses to rest and rlax–the spirit of the morose bride.
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And how about looking at the UK off the beaten tourist track (bad place—tourist track that is)
TAUNTON Somerset | Walk through Taunton Town Centre, Somerset England
For 500 Years Taunton was a wool town
Today you can visit Skippey’s Farm for some Hard Cider
The church featured at the top is
Built in 1388 -1414 it is described as a massive church with a glorious tower.
12th c. building. Local history. Star exhibit Roman mosiac from a villa at Low Hom—it shows the love story of Dido and Aeneas.
Somerset County and Military Museum
Taunton’s Castle notorious for Bloody Assezes and Judge Jefferies
and retribution for Duke Monmouth Up Rising
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Taunton is surrounded by wooded Quantucks and Blackdown hills on the River Tone in the vale of Taunton Deane . It is now a lively commerical and agicultural center and apple orchards. They had a large live stock market until 2008.
The cityis the headquartrs of th Somrset Cricket Team and National Hunt racing.
3 miles north of town:
Claire Greenslade takes us on a tour of Hestercombe
Developed 1905 by Sir Edwin Lutyen and Gertrude Jekyll
HALLOWEEN 2021 IN TAUNTON
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Barlings Abbey – A Short Video of the Premonstratensian Monastery (this one is in England)
Three more places of rest to visit during this spooky season:
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10/20.1882 – 8/16/1956
Lugosi was a sucessful and serious stage actor in his native Hungary before he moved to America to persue a silent film career.
He landed the role of Dracula in a Broadway production and when Universal bought the rights to the story they also signed Lugosi up to play the lead character, making him a sucess in films as well.
For the next 20 years he played in all manner of horror films from White Zombie
to Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstien.
But there was a major problem: he had an addiction to morphine and as that progressed it became impossible for him to get jobs—his last work was with a transvestite
–who actually is said to have pieced together scenes from some of Lugosi’s movies after his death, made
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
.Oh and he is said to have used his wife—with her face shrouded in a cape to stand in for Lugosi in some of the new scenes he made for the Plan 9 movie.
Lugosi was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery
at Culver CIty, California—wearing his Dracula cape of course.
It is said that Lugosi died a pauper—and rumors were that Frank Sinatra paid for the ceremony and a descent grave.
So you can check out:
5835 W. Slauson Avenue,
Culver City, CA. / (310) 670-7697
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The final resting place of actor Bela Lugosi (1884-1956), famous as Hollywood’s “Count Dracula,” is located just five spaces to the right (east) of Bing Crosby’s grave: four rows back (south) from the grotto, and about 15 graves from the western edge, between markers #126 & #127.
Did you notice the cross —- bad form for a vampire
OK so there’s another Halloween site for a visit
and while you’re in town check this out:
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Lizzy would never have been on this list of visits if her parents hadn’t ben killed during August 1892. To this day, no one has ever been named as guilty for the murders.
Lizzy was their youngest child and she was arrested and tried (it was reported that both of her parent’s heads were exhibited as evidence at the trial!!!!!!!!). Lizzy was found not guilty but it is said that she lived the rest of her life as a recluse given the fact that everyone (except the jury) felt she was guilty–and she even had a rhyme about her giving her parents so many wacks with that ax.
She died at age 66 of natural causes (unlike her parents) and is buried at
Oak Grove Cemetery
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765 Prospect Street Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts, 02720 USA |
There is a large monument there which says Borden—but that is her parents’;
This is hers
and while your in town you can enjoy:
HALLOWEEN 2021 IN FALL RIVER
Hey you could stay at the
Lizzy Boarden Bed & Breakfast and Museum
or at least visit the museum
“She also had parts in Universal’s The Invisible Woman (1940), William Castle’s 13 Ghosts (1960), the television movie Ghostbreakers (1967), and the Kolchak film, The Night Strangler (1973). She was even a member of the Addams Family, playing Morticia’s mother Granny Hester Frump in a few of the episodes of that television show.”
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Callanish Stond: On Lewis’ west coast, the Callanish Stones are a group of 5,000 year-old mounment in close poximity. The main stone circle–Callanish I–is known as the “Stonehenge of Scotland” and is made of Lauisian Gneiss. The largest, central monolith is 16′ high and weighs around 56.6 tons.
www.callanshvisitorscentre. co.uk
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