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The Haunted History of the Omni Bedford Springs Resort and Spa

Author: John Sabol

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781723145339

A human presence has 'occupied' the interior spaces of Bedford Springs for more than 200 years. It has never been 'unoccupied', even during the period in its history when Bedford Springs ceased to function as a 'living' tourist accommodation (1986-2007). During this 'dead time', the hotel complex continued to function for the 'ghosts' of its past, and 'they' still do today. Many of these 'ghosts' have been identified as former 'guests' or staff who remain or come back to 'haunt' (as a 'return') to spaces remembered (or work labored) as a place of leisure, comfort, and unique experience. The image of the hauntings at Bedford Springs is the re-conceptualization of the landscape based on notions of corporeality, on the interaction between remembering and being entertained, and on an alternative view of time that has not yet passed. Bedford Springs is a place of people and 'ghosts' becoming present, the presence of the past in the present. Our 'haunted history' tours, now two years old, affords this 'haunting' character to remain present today.

The Haunting of the Omni Bedford Springs Resort and Spa

Author: John G. Sabol

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-09-21

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781537781730

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The Bedford Springs Resort and Spa is haunted. This haunting takes the form of two materializations. First are the historical documents, objects, and photographs on display there, the things left behind. The second involves those presences who have remained behind and/or have returned, former guests who continue to partake of the 'Bedford Springs Experience'. These returning guests are not professional 'ghosts', those encountered on 'ghost hunts' or sensed by mediums. They are also not commercial 'ghosts', those marketed by the resort for their economic potential. These ghosts are those frequently encountered by both staff and guests during the daily activities and routine tasks performed there. They add an uncanny element to the social character that is the Bedford Springs Resort and Spa.

The Haunting Presences of the Omni Bedford Springs

Author: John G. Sabol

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781544847313

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At Bedford Springs, seeped in and surrounded by re-collected things, beings, and atmospheres, remembrance comes in multiple forms: historical documents and photographs, in the exhibition and use of antique furniture, in the daily practices of a contemporary, modern resort. It even comes in the form of 'ghost tours' that emphasize the archaeological and anthropological routes and roots of layers of embedded memories. Finally, it materializes as 'ghostly presences' who remain attached to that unique and lasting Bedford Springs experience.

Victorian Ghosts of the Omni Bedford Springs

Author: John G. Sabol

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781546392798

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There are many different past presences that continue to 'reside' at Bedford Springs as 'permanent' guests. That is part of the charm of Bedford Springs, its haunting ambiance. In this book, however, the focus will center on the continuing Victorian presence at Bedford Springs. Many contemporary 'sightings', from both staff and guests, have involved Victorian ghosts. Is this mere coincidence, a mistaken identity of perception, a 'normalcy' turned 'anomaly', or is it something more? We will explore that latter possibility: the Victorian ghost as 'returning guest'. We will also discuss why they may return and become attached to the 'Bedford Springs experience', a 'return' that still continues through time.

Walking the Ghostly Spaces of Bedford Springs

Author: John G. Sabol

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-08-02

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781974093663

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In this book an emphasis is placed on an archaeological approach to a haunted building complex. Within its walls, multiple layers of construction, functionality, social occupation, cultural tradition, memory, and presence are present (and materializing). The Omni Bedford Springs and Spa complex is viewed as a tangible and material 'bricolage', or haunted 'brick (and limestone) collage' of past presences. Its historical evolution of (and 'revolutionary') sociability has created and enabled different senses of place (as experience and memory) to become embedded and attached to a constructed social reality of this well-known tourist destination. The tour will map out this haunted space.

Plague and the End of Antiquity

Author: Lester K. Little

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0521846390

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In this volume, 12 scholars from various disciplines - have produced a comprehensive account of the pandemic's origins, spread, and mortality, as well as its economic, social, political, and religious effects.

Haunted Otero

Author: Diana Delugan

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-08-11

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781500808761

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Based on actual reports of paranormal activity. During the 19th and 20th century, the Hacienda de Otero and surrounding ranch grounds were the target of repeated Apache Indian attacks. Historic documents confirm at least two documented murders during these attacks. Staff and visitors of the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa, a Historic Hotels of American Member, have disclosed their experiences of why the resort may be one of the most haunted sites in southern Arizona. You will hear about cowboys who refuse to leave the ranch and about the spirit of a murdered boy that has been heard and seen playing inside the Hacienda. A real historic site, the Otero ranch land was part of a Spanish land grant issued in 1789.

Wendell Phillips: the Agitator

Author: William Carlos Martyn

Publisher:

Published: 1890

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13:

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How the Essay Film Thinks

Author: Laura Rascaroli

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-05-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0190656395

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This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Adorno's discussion of the essay form's anachronistic, anti-systematic and disjunctive mode of resistance, and capitalizing on the centrality of the interstice in Deleuze's understanding of the cinema as image of thought, the book discusses the essay film as future philosophy-as a contrarian, political cinema whose argumentation engages with us in a space beyond the verbal. A diverse range of case studies discloses how the essay film can be a medium of thought on the basis of its dialectic use of audiovisual interstitiality. The book shows how the essay film's disjunctive method comes to be realized at the level of medium, montage, genre, temporality, sound, narration, and framing-all of these emerging as interstitial spaces of intelligence that illustrate how essayistic meaning can be sustained, often in contexts of political, historical or cultural extremity. The essayistic urge is not to be identified with a fixed generic form, but is rather situated within processes of filmic thinking that thrive in gaps.