Spirit and Spa Book Reading

Tuesday, November 12, 2:00 pm until 3:00 pm
Hadley Senior Center

As part of the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Montague’s Village of Lake Pleasant, David James -- co-author of “Spirit and Spa” with the late Louise Shattuck -- and Sheryl Sadler-Twyon -- whose great-grandparents were early residents of the village, he an herbalist and she a medium -- will read excerpts from the book for 45 minutes, then answer questions Tuesday, October 22, from 7-8 p.m. at the Warwick Free Public Library. “Spirit and Spa” is a memoiristic and vintage photo portrait of the history of Spiritualism in Lake Pleasant. Shattuck was a third-generation Spiritualist and the book traces Lake Pleasant from the early 1870s as initially a “tent city” which morphed into a religious resort for thousands, then shrunk to the quiet hamlet of less than 200 residents that it is today. "Spirit and Spa" also looks at the Spiritualist remnant which remains, The National Spiritual Alliance, whose core belief is communication between humans on Earth and the living-dead in the Spirit World. Lake Pleasant is the oldest continuously-existing, same-site, year-round Spiritualist center in the United States.