Mini Lecture: The Real-Life Witches of NYC
Join author and NYC tour guide Marie Carter for a Halloween mini lecture on the history of the holiday, and the world of nineteenth-century New York fortune tellers. Drawing on her book, Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers, Carter will introduce us to Mortimer Thomson, the humor writer and reporter who went undercover to investigate fortune tellers in New York’s tenements and slums.

























