In their new book “Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale,” four co-authors — all friends, scholars and UB alumni — share their curiosity and enthusiasm for uncovering ...

Lily Dale is home to about 40 mediums who connect thousands of spiritual seekers with their deceased loved ones Erin Donaghue Visitors participate in a Forest Temple service in the spiritualist ...

Though photographer Shannon Taggart grew up only an hour from Lily Dale, New York, the lakeside hamlet where people congregate to commune with the dead, she didn’t visit until she was 26 years old.

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 ...

The Lily Dale Assembly is trying again to put an end to a bed and breakfast whose owners have refused to pay business taxes the spiritualist assembly says it is owed. While the assembly will get a ...

The Lily Dale Assembly, in New York, is the “Largest Spiritualist Camp in the World.” There each summer spiritualism bursts into full bloom. Last week its 61st annual session drew believers and ...

Years ago, San Francisco-based musician Jill Tracy read about the New York state hamlet of Lily Dale, becoming intrigued by the small, private community of mediums and spiritualists and hoped that one ...

LILY DALE, N.Y. (WKBW) — It is a gated community, but every summer the gates swing open and visitors swarm to Lily Dale in Chautauqua County. The Spiritualist community just kicked off what appears to ...

Did you know that “the world’s largest center for spiritualism” is located just south of Buffalo? An hour’s drive away is Lily Dale, which was founded in 1879. Lily Dale is home to a butterfly habitat ...