31 days of halloween | archer avenue
Way back in 2005, I worked on a heavily researched and very fun project about another urban legend / Chicago ghostie favorite, Resurrection Mary that resulted in a chapbook. While the sightings have died down over time after peaking in the 70's and the Willowbrook Ballroom burned down a couple years back, I had a glorious good time reading about the history of the sightings and going on ghost tours that autumn. And of course Mary is just one of these vanishing hitchhiker legends that crop up everywhere and in every culture, all of them really fascinating in their own way. Chicago's was something that caught my attention in junior high and even then I was obsessed...
*{All month long , I will be sharing work that delves into the strange and spookier side of things--poems, drafts, books, projects, artwork and more, some old, some brand spanking new.}
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