Wharton's Ghost Stories: A Live Reading
with Mary Anne Grammer
October 26, 2022
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
“‘I don’t believe in ghosts, but I’m afraid of them,’ is much more than the cheap paradox it seems to many,” Edith Wharton wrote in the preface to the 1937 collection Ghosts. “‘To believe,’ in that sense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warm darkness of the prenatal fluid far below our conscious reason that the faculty dwells with which we apprehend the ghosts we may not be endowed with the gift of seeing.”
In October, we celebrate Halloween with a live reading of Edith Wharton's short ghost story, "Bewitched," published in 1926 in the collection, Here and Beyond. Join us on the Terrace for this reading and complimentary hot apple cider and donuts!
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The Mount is a Massachusetts Cultural Council UP designated organization welcoming participants of all disabilities. Please contact The Mount at 413-551-5100 or by email, info@edithwharton.org, to discuss accommodations needed to participate fully in this event.
Purchase the new edition of Wharton Ghost Stories from The Mount's bookshop.org page!
- $10 for members; $15 non-members.
- We recommend advance registration; the event is on the Terrace--the café is open for drinks by 4 pm..
- Tickets include hot apple cider and donuts!
You may have seen Mary Anne Grammer in various roles with the Sandisfield Players, their productions of Our Town, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Jack and the Giant Beanstalk, and A Christmas Carol. She also performed in an original play by Val Coleman, The Stamp Collection. This summer, she appeared in Liz Lehrman’s production of Wicked Bodies at Jacob’s Pillow. In the fall, she’ll read a short story by Dylan Thomas at the Sandisfield Arts Center with Ben Luxon and Simon Winchester. On Sundays, she sings with the Grace Church choir in Great Barrington and continues to write her to play Cold, Naked, Yoga.