hillcrest hospital

https://www.google.com/local/place/fid/0x89e751de89f263db:0x74c24bc928639069/photosphere?iu=https://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?panoid%3Dnf4D3R6ZiZxyARLPTCgBjg%26cb_client%3Dlu.gallery.gps%26w%3D160%26h%3D106%26yaw%3D12.05348%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100&ik=CAISFm5mNEQzUjZaaVp4eUFSTFBUQ2dCamc%3D

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54585060/laura-hall-jennings

https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/7098/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/the-haunting-of-hill-house-real-life-inspiration-2018-10%3famp

https://theberkshireedge.com/theater-review-a-mansion-well-known-to-shirley-jackson-serves-as-venue-for-bennington-community-theaters-the-haunting-of-hill-house/

'In the modern United States, the term national bank has a precise meaning: a banking institution chartered and supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC"), an agency in the U.S. Treasury Department, pursuant to the National Bank Act. Inclusion in the bank's name of the word National,[6][7] the designation National Association, or its abbreviation N.A. is a required part of the distinguishing legal title of a national bank, as in "Farmers National Bank" or "Citibank, N.A." Many state banks, by contrast, are chartered by the applicable state government agencies (usually the state's department of banking). The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insures deposits at both national and state banks.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_bank

can kind of read the novel for free here:

https://tinyurl.com/34cxfkvy

maps of 41,39 341 hillsdale

https://www.google.com/search?q=route+39+new+york+connecticut&client=ms-android-uscellular-us-revc&sxsrf=ALiCzsaPk2YJibDSP5M_gqBcA-8xMC6MGA%3A1659626236462&ei=_OLrYpjpG_nJptQPuaSioA8&oq=route+39+new+york+connecticut&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsANKBAhBGABQAFgAYOkhaAFwAHgAgAEAiAEAkgEAmAEAyAEIwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp

oh there is a hillsdale, ny, just west of egremont

route 39 is in connecticut and it connects to route 41 in ny via route 7 and route 341 which might have been built after 1959 and route 41 ends in pittsfield at route 20, which is west housatonic street where i used to camp out behind the mall louis lent worked at

take a left on fort hill road from west housatonic street and you find yourself in the 1950s at the former taconic farm where j d rockefeller was found in 1908 in a internationally reported subpoena  hunt at taconic lodge

it became the tor estate with a labyrinth of underground tunnels, owned by the salisbury family who owned kimball pianos

joe bergeron says taconic lodge was where hillcrest hospital is today, as it was purchased by the hospital in 1948

could hillcrest hospital be the 1954 based - made in 1985 - 'clue' movie 'hill house' and 1959 released novel 'the haunting of hill house' building ?

https://www.trekaroo.com/activities/taconic-farm-estate-pittsfield-massachusetts

https://www.chuppspianos.com/kimball-pianos/

hmm dad and aunt sally might have been patients there together but they wouldn't let dad visit his sister

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillcrest_Hospital_(Pittsfield,_Massachusetts)

shirley jackson reportedly had 2 psych conditions...was she a patient at hillcrest ?

'Shirley Jackson, author of “The Lottery”, suffered from mental illnesses called agoraphobia and depression (Heller, 2012). In spite of her struggles with these incurable diseases, Jackson channeled her dark thoughts into her writing; one out of 75 short stories, “The Lottery” was published in 1948 (Jackson, 1948).'

https://www.ipl.org/essay/Mental-Illness-In-Shirley-Jacksons-The-Lottery-PJR7VFGYV#:~:text=Shirley%20Jackson%2C%20author%20of%20%E2%80%9CThe,1948%20(Jackson%2C%201948).

'Agoraphobia[1] is a mental and behavioral disorder,[5] specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives their environment to be unsafe with no easy way to escape.[1] These situations can include open spaces, public transit, shopping centers, or simply being outside their home.[1] Being in these situations may result in a panic attack.[2] Those affected will go to great lengths to avoid these situations.[1] In severe cases people may become completely unable to leave their homes.[2]'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia

so the tv movie 'clue' is probably inspired by 'the haunting of hill house' since the producer of the 'clue' movie was debra hill

'According to a Bennington student Tumblr, before it was a music building, Jennings was home to Frederic and Laura ‘Lila’ Hall Jennings.

Lila was the daughter of a well-known philanthropist and Frederic was a wealthy New York lawyer who summered in North Bennington.'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mynbc5.com/amp/article/this-creepy-vermont-building-may-have-inspired-netflixs-haunting-of-hill-house/23946339

hiland hall's grand daughter laura hall park married trenor park, who founded the bennington national bank

he and his wife owned both the park mccollough house and jennings hall, before they donated jennings hall to the college

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%E2%80%93McCullough_Historic_House

'Hall died in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is interred in the Old Bennington Cemetery. The Hiland Hall School in Bennington is named for him.'

'Laura was the wife of businessman and lawyer Trenor W. Park. Elizabeth Hall Park, the daughter of Laura Hall and Trenor Park, was the wife of Governor John G. McCullough.

Hiland Hall originally owned the land where the Park-McCullough Historic House now stands, and sold it to Trenor Park in the 1860s so Park could have a home constructed on it. The Park-McCullough House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiland_Hall

'Hall died in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is interred in the Old Bennington Cemetery. The Hiland Hall School in Bennington is named for him.'

'Laura was the wife of businessman and lawyer Trenor W. Park. Elizabeth Hall Park, the daughter of Laura Hall and Trenor Park, was the wife of Governor John G. McCullough.

Hiland Hall originally owned the land where the Park-McCullough Historic House now stands, and sold it to Trenor Park in the 1860s so Park could have a home constructed on it. The Park-McCullough House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiland_Hall

uh oh

newsweek says shirley jackson was a witch :

'Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin describes the author's interest in the occult, including her large library of grimoires. Her interests in witchcraft were well-known enough to become literary circle jokes, such as the rumor Jackson spread that it was her spellcasting that caused publisher Alfred A. Knopf to break his leg while skiing. Franklin relays the description from jacket copy for Jackson's first novel, The Road Through the Wall: "perhaps the only contemporary writer who is a practicing amateur witch."'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/haunting-hill-house-based-true-story-ghosts-book-shirley-jackson-1171314%3famp=1

want to delete the comments not able to right now ok i leave them up just wanted to neaten up the post in a blog post

laura (lila) hall's dad created the first national bank in bennington and her grand father, hiland hall was...the 25th governor of vermont

https://bennington.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/B6F64A3E-9011-4269-B5A5-662928541185

'Author note: it is an unusual coincidence, but Hendrick Hudson’s lions were not the only pair that were relocated from Albany to Williamstown. A pair of stone lions that had graced the Ezra Parmalee Prentice mansion at the south end of Albany also made the trip. They were taken from Prentice’s Mount Hope estate to his Mount Hope Farm, located on Green River Road in Williamstown, probably sometime in the late 1920s or 1930s. In 1962, the Prentice lions, reportedly made of stone rather than plaster, were boxed up and trucked to another Prentice family farm, operated by American Breeders Service near Madison, Wisconsin.'

https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2016/10/lions-have-an-albany-hudson-fulton-celebration-past/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%E2%80%93McCullough_Historic_House

'Eleanor means to “savor each turn of her traveling.” She teases herself that she might stop anywhere and stay forever—or perhaps just go to Hill House, where she’s expected. Following the “magic thread” of Route 39, Eleanor imagines time itself gone strange: within a few seconds of passing a place, she may have lived a lifetime there. A grand house with pillared porch and stone lions becomes her home, where a little old lady tends her and the townspeople bow to her as mistress of the lions.'

https://www.tor.com/2020/10/07/following-the-directions-too-far-the-haunting-of-hill-house-part-2/

'Ryan got her MFA in fiction at Bennington College. While she was there, she read “The Missing Girl” by Shirley Jackson. In her research, she found that Jackson’s story was presumed to be based on the disappearance of Paula Jean Welden in 1946.'

https://www.reformer.com/arts_and_culture/missing-girl-from-bennington-inspires-a-novel/article_d233e194-c0b6-11ec-9ca7-abab87dc6f20.html

so red and wes czerwinzki were wpd dispatchers with dad and red or wes had a camp on lake woodford and dad and gramps built a camp next to theirs

the knapps owned and operated the motel across the road from our camp and next door to our camp there was a combination gas station/ restaurant/deli...

there was a road up the mountain on the north side of lake woodford that I was told connected to the long trail

shirley jackson wrote a story about this missing girl:

'Welden walked down the campus driveway and hitched a ride from State Route 67A near the college entrance to a point on State Route 9 near the Furnace Bridge, between downtown Bennington and Woodford Hollow. Local contractor Louis Knapp picked Welden up and drove her as far as his house on Route 9, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from the Long Trail. From this point, Welden either hitchhiked or walked the rest of the way to the start of the trail in Woodford Hollow.[4][page needed]'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jean_Welden

'In 2010 his short story "The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale" was nominated for a World Fantasy Award;[3] and his novella "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" was nominated for a 2010 Nebula Award.[4]'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Park

'A third featured reader, Williams College professor Paul Park, is the author of multiple novels in a variety of genres including science fiction, fantasy, and historical metafiction. His story "The Statue in the Garden," a part of his second story collection, was nominated for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction.'

https://www.benningtonbanner.com/archives/shirley-jackson-day-returns-to-north-bennington/article_d0287ac2-4401-5148-9da1-63c3a0a52e66.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1951/09/the-best-american-short-stories-of-1951/642486/

https://flynndagnoli.frontrunnerpro.com/book-of-memories/4874926/Goodman-Josephine/index.php

carol moved to williamstown in 2009:

'Carol had one of her stories published in "The Best Short Stories of 1951" while a student at Bennington, in a collection that also included stories by John Cheever and Shirley Jackson. She also studied visual art at Bennington, beginning there her lifelong careers as a writer and as a visual artist.'

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/berkshire/name/josephine-goodman-obituary?id=33570917

'Hall died in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is interred in the Old Bennington Cemetery. The Hiland Hall School in Bennington is named for him.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiland_Hall

'Added by hiland turner'

'Attorney and businessman. He was raised in Bennington, began studying law when he was 16, and became an attorney. In 1852 his father in law Hiland Hall became Chairman of the U.S. Land Commission empowered to settle titles after California's admission to the Union, and Park went to San Francisco as his assistant. He remained there, became a partner in a local law firm, and helped establish a newspaper dedicated to reform of the city's politics, the "San Francisco Bulletin." In 1863 he returned to Vermont established Bennington's First National Bank and became involved in several railroads and other businesses, frequently working with his son in law John Griffith McCullough. Park also served in the Vermont House of Representatives, was a Trustee of the University of Vermont and was involved in several other civic causes.'

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41314974/

trenor-william-park

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54585060/

laura-hall-jennings

'According to a Bennington student Tumblr, before it was a music building, Jennings was home to Frederic and Laura ‘Lila’ Hall Jennings.

Lila was the daughter of a well-known philanthropist and Frederic was a wealthy New York lawyer who summered in North Bennington.'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mynbc5.com/amp/article/this-creepy-vermont-building-may-have-inspired-netflixs-haunting-of-hill-house/23946339

https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/7098/

'According to reports in The Sun, The Haunting of Hill House is based on the story of two young English girls, Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, who in 1901 visited the historic Palace of Versailles, while on a trip to Paris.'

'The two women later chronicled their encounter in their book An Adventure, which was widely ridiculed for its claims.'

'They came across some men, dressed like palace gardeners in long, greyish, green coats and 'small three-cornered hats' who told them to go.'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tyla.com/entertaining/tv-and-film-the-real-story-behind-the-haunting-of-hill-house-will-terrify-you-20181017.amp.html

'Eleanor means to “savor each turn of her traveling.” She teases herself that she might stop anywhere and stay forever—or perhaps just go to Hill House, where she’s expected. Following the “magic thread” of Route 39, Eleanor imagines time itself gone strange: within a few seconds of passing a place, she may have lived a lifetime there. A grand house with pillared porch and stone lions becomes her home, where a little old lady tends her and the townspeople bow to her as mistress of the lions.'

https://www.tor.com/2020/10/07/following-the-directions-too-far-the-haunting-of-hill-house-part-2/

'Author note: it is an unusual coincidence, but Hendrick Hudson’s lions were not the only pair that were relocated from Albany to Williamstown. A pair of stone lions that had graced the Ezra Parmalee Prentice mansion at the south end of Albany also made the trip. They were taken from Prentice’s Mount Hope estate to his Mount Hope Farm, located on Green River Road in Williamstown, probably sometime in the late 1920s or 1930s. In 1962, the Prentice lions, reportedly made of stone rather than plaster, were boxed up and trucked to another Prentice family farm, operated by American Breeders Service near Madison, Wisconsin.'

https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2016/10/lions-have-an-albany-hudson-fulton-celebration-past/

uh oh

newsweek says shirley jackson was a witch :

'Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin describes the author's interest in the occult, including her large library of grimoires. Her interests in witchcraft were well-known enough to become literary circle jokes, such as the rumor Jackson spread that it was her spellcasting that caused publisher Alfred A. Knopf to break his leg while skiing. Franklin relays the description from jacket copy for Jackson's first novel, The Road Through the Wall: "perhaps the only contemporary writer who is a practicing amateur witch."'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/haunting-hill-house-based-true-story-ghosts-book-shirley-jackson-1171314%3famp=1

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/the-haunting-of-hill-house-real-life-inspiration-2018-10%3famp