Shirley Jackson's Haunts [580]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2019
- More than 50 years after her death, the legacy of author Shirley Jackson lives on. With a recent film adaptation based on her book We Have Always Lived in the Castle and a Netflix series loosely inspired by The Haunting of Hill House, new readers continue to discover this prolific author. Many of Jackson's novels, memoirs and short stories were written in the small town of North Bennington, where she lived with her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, and their four children.
We met up with Barry Hyman, Jackson's youngest son, to tour the small town and visit some of their old haunts - like the general store, the post office and the library, which are recounted in her popular memoirs. We also visited the second house the family lived in and got a tour of the room Jackson wrote in and eventually died in, at the age of 48.
Shirley Jackson Day takes place in North Bennington around June 27 each year, the date the ritual stoning takes place in in her infamous story "The Lottery." This year, the event will be held on June 22 at the Left Bank gallery in North Bennington between 6:30 and 9 p.m. Barry Hyman will be playing music, there will be a gallery exhibit inspired by Jackson and an hour of her work will be read out loud by Barry, her daughter Jai Holly and two authors connected to the Shirley Jackson Awards.
While Jackson's former homes are not open to the public, you can visit the lawn of her former Main Street home from July 1 to November 1 for the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show. And there is talk of renting out her study for an Airbnb someday, as well.
shirleyjackson.org/index.html
/ nboutdoorsculptureshow
/ mcculloughfreelibrary
Music: Barry Hyman, "A Quiet Day" & "Green and Leafy" The Spice of Life, "When I Look in Her Eye," "Seven Confused Ghosts" & "Anthem for Kindness"
www.barryhyman.com/
Shooting date: 5/26/19
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Shirley Jackson was and still is ahead of the times. Love this.
A great fan of Shirley's work (especially *The Haunting Hill House* ) it is so much fun for me watching this guided tour with Barry!
Thank you! I am also a big fan so it was quite a wonderful experience meeting Barry and being in the room where SJ wrote many of her books.
@@StuckinVermont YES
How kind of Barry to host the tour and give insight into his mother’s life and writing.
I agree, Barry is a wonderful human.
Thanks, Beekman !!
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Thank you, Barry and Stuck in Vermont, for the tour and recollections and comments! I'm a Hoosier in Indiana and a great admirer of Shirley Jackson and of her work. I would have loved to have met her but, in reading her work, to a degree I have had the pleasure and honor of meeting her and I enjoyed both of the biographies I've read.
How nice to meet Barry !!
Yes!
Isn't he lovely! :)
"she had four children, and a husband who didn't go in the kitchen except to eat"
His tone says it all.
That husband also, supposedly, kept the money she made for all her writing, and gave her an allowance out of it.
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