LILY DALE, N.Y.— It was the last Friday in June, and in this tiny community in western New York, everything adhered to a postcard quaintness, except for a few details: Many of the front doors were ...

Several prospective mediums have filed a lawsuit seeking admittance to serve as mediums in the Lily Dale Assembly. Barbara Robinson, Linda Struble and Natalie Scobercea, all dues-paying members of the ...

As I enter through the gates of Lily Dale, beneath a sign that reads “World’s Largest Center for the Religion of Spiritualism,” life’s pace seems to slow. People rest and chat on the wide porches of ...

South of Buffalo, in Chautauqua County, there’s a unique gathering place of mediums that’s the only place like it in the world. People travel from all over to receive messages from those who have ...

The sign in Lily Dale's Maplewood Hotel, a slice of America's Spiritualist history, reminds visitors that they are in the town that talks to the dead. And while trances have long been out of favor ...

Imagine a Victorian town full of mediums whose job it is to channel the dead. There is such a place in New York state. It's the town of Lily Dale, the historic home of the Spiritualist community for ...

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LILY DALE – The Lily Dale Volunteer Fire Company will have its annual Fireman’s/EMT Day on Saturday. All active firefighters with a current fire company card will be allowed through the Lily Dale ...

I am sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of a little hotel in a town called Lily Dale in upstate New York. The lake out front is tinged pink with the sunset. A swan glides by. Frogs croak. I curl ...

LILY DALE, N.Y.— It was the last Friday in June, and in this tiny community in western New York, everything adhered to a postcard quaintness, except for a few details: Many of the front doors were ...