My Cassadaga Halloween

by Anne C. Petty Years ago, I spent one memorable Halloween along with three friends at Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, the famous enclave of mediums in central Florida. We stayed with friends in nearby Deland, who were openly wary of the place and suggested we should just go trick or treating with them around their safe little neighborhood. But we’d made advance appointments with several famous mediums living in Cassadaga and were, ahem, stoked. On Halloween morning, we drove out to Cassadaga, which was appropriately spooky looking, with very old wooden two-storey houses slouching under ancient thick-limbed, moss-draped oaks. We strolled…