Dorothy Wickenden is the author of Nothing Daunted and The Agitators, and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for
During the month of February 2021, the Seward House Museum will be spotlighting three generations of Seward couples and sharing historic family letters. This month-long
Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and the darkened streets of Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from
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