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I have posted clips from this documentary before but have been asked so many questions about it so I decided to tell the background story. Here I post the full interview. It is a strange and sad story and my documentary details the efforts my team and I made to decide if it was true. And indeed, we found evidence sufficient to conclude that it was. Rural Maine in the 1800s was a rough place to be sure. Cold weather. Puritan people. Shunning an active part of community life. To me, local journalist Nettie Mitchell was a hero and I deeply appreciated her sharing her story with me. She had held it inside for so long. And her presentation is in my view, beyond spectacular. Basically, it is the story of how sin was perceived in that society at that time.

CurtEastPoint
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This URL https://tinyurl.com/49sejrer goes to the Wikipedia article on the Rossner novel on Emmeline.
Kali
(56,170 posts)I had to copy and paste full link into my browser to get to the correct page. something about the punctuation in your link doesn't work.
mahatmakanejeeves
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(39,436 posts)MLAA
(19,049 posts)Familys and the towns religion.
Celerity
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Celerity
(48,962 posts)Beatlelvr
(723 posts)This is something Jesus would do? I doubt it. How unholy can that be.
A nephew has gone crazy Catholic, has 7 kids and "shunned" his brother's wedding because he wasn't in the same church. I would never forget
a sibbling had done that.
Celerity
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Celerity
(48,962 posts)Nowadays you have to add this, lol.
wackadoo wabbit
(1,241 posts)I read Rossner's book decades ago, and it's haunted me ever since. The fact that it was true makes it even more disturbing (and I didn't think that was possible).
drmeow
(5,510 posts)was a teenager in Lodi, California, in the 1920s, one of her friends bobbed her hair. Her friend's father kicked her friend out of the house - disowned her - FOR CUTTING HER F**KING HAIR and she disappeared. My grandmother never knew what happened to her. The control and abuse of women and their bodies has always been cruel and inhumane.