8 Scary Tale Castles
When I posted 7 Fairy Tale Castles, there were quite a few castles that didn’t make the cut. Some were just too frightening to think of as part of a children’s princess-type story, but the legends behind them make great tales for telling around a campfire on a dark and spooky night.
1. Dalhousie
Dalhousie Castle was [...]
The Inebriate in Captivity
John F. Ptak came across an 1908 newspaper photo essay entitled “The Pleasant Lot of the Inebriate in Captivity: The comfortable quarters of the inmates of a state reformatory for inebriates.”
The life in the state reformatory as an alcoholic British woman was hardly “pleasant” as the title states, though we don’t know what the author [...]
