Occult Utica: Rest Stop on the Psychic Highway

Come take a strange trip through Utica's esoteric past. This illustrated lecture explore's Utica's hidden history as home to occultists, Spiritualists, alchemists, communitarians, hollow-earth theorists, and much more. Groups covered include: Freemasons, Mormons, Spiritualism, Paschal Beverly Randolph, the Oneida Community, and the Koreshan Unity.

Presenter: Christian Goodwillie is Director and Curator of Special Collections at the Burke Library of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He also serves as Editor of the Richard W. Couper Press. He was Curator of Collections at Hancock Shaker Village from 2001-2009, and past president of the Communal Studies Association. He has authored, co-authored, or edited twelve books and more than twenty articles on the Shakers, Freemasonry, and other topics.