
Tracy Murphy
Executive Director of Historic Palmyra Museums and historian/caretaker of the Fox Sisters' Hydesville Memorial Park in Newark, NY.
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Oct 28, 2026
Sybil Phelps: The Palmyra Spiritualist - Tour of her home - Willa White and Tracy Murphy
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Tracy MurphyGUEST
But for her 130th birthday, we had a private seance with 10 guests and a medium.

Willa WhiteHOST
In terms of her spiritualist beliefs, how do you feel that she brought those into her everyday life or regular life?
Tour of Rochester sites of the Fox Sisters - Fox Family Series - Willa White and Tracy Murphy
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Tracy MurphyGUEST
But this is where her house would have stood when Kate and Maggie were living with her here in Rochester.

Tracy MurphyGUEST
also the site of the first Plymouth Spiritualist Church because there is a second church.
TOUR of Fox Sisters Hydesville Memorial Park - Willa White and Tracy Murphy
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Tracy MurphyGUEST
And I think that says a lot for a man who lived in Canada and just showed up here one day and said, looks like a good place to build a house.

Tracy MurphyGUEST
and that's not just anyhow but not just anyhow yeah the replica cottage so you know i think that says a lot about him and his uh for sure his eccentricities what should we focus on next uh well i have this is interesting here um when people come in they can see things that have actually been found on the property um unfortunately Around 1905, the property was being used as a junkyard on the north end.

Tracy MurphyGUEST
I have a friend that lives up the road, Christine, and she would come down and say, would you mind? She's very respectful.

Tracy MurphyGUEST
She doesn't leave big holes or you know things in the grass and then once she started accumulating some stuff she built this little shadow box so to speak for us to be displayed down here and then this is a special letter that this is a very special letter that uh kate fox wrote to amy post Oh, yes, Isaac and Amy
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