This project is the amalgamation of my own adventures and a great deal of investigation. In curating and researching this collection of sites and events I relied on the research of travel writers, folklorists, historians, herbalists, photographers, geologists, artists, bloggers, scholars, magical practitioners, lovers of the land (and sea), and many others, all of whom I want to acknowledge and thank. Due to space constraints, what follows is a list of works as well as blogs and websites for further reading. Please note that factual details were also gleaned from official webpages, the URLs of which appear in the contact information in the text.
A complete bibliography, as well as a long list of acknowledgments, is posted on my website at http://nataliezaman.blogspot.com/p/magical-destinations-of-northeast.html.
Aburrow, Yvonne. The Enchanted Forest: The Magical Lore of Trees. Berks: Capall Bann Publishing, 1993.
Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and Other Pagans in America Today (revised and expanded). New York: Penguin/Arkana, 1997.
Blue Spruce, Duane. The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian. Edited by Tanya Thrasher. Washington, DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 2008.
Boynton, Patrick. Snallygaster: The Lost Legend of Frederick County. Patrick Boynton, 2011.
Bridgman, Richard. Dark Thoreau. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Browder, Anthony T. Egypt on the Potomac (Washington, DC: IKG, 2004).
Burns, Robert, and Allan Cunningham. The Poetical and Prose Works of Robert Burns. London: Charles Daly, 1857.
Carlson, Suzanne. “The Spirit Pond Inscription Stone Rhyme and Reason.” NEARA Journal XXVIII, no. 3 & 4, issue 90, http://www.neara.org/images/pdf/SpiritPondVol28.1-2SummerFall_1993.pdf and http://www.neara.org/images/pdf/SpiritPondReasonVol%2028.3-4_1994.pdf.
Carter, Jamie. A Stargazing Program for Beginners: A Pocket Field Guide. Cardiff: Springer, 2015.
Cartland, Henry J. Twenty Years at Pemaquid: Sketches of Its History and Its Remains Ancient and Modern. Boothbay Harbor: L.A. Moore, 1891.
Champoux, Peter, and William Stuart Buehler. The Gaia Matrix: Arkhom and the Geometrics of Destiny in the North American Landscape. Washington, MA: Franklin Media, 1999.
Christino, Karen. “Evangeline Adam’s Decumbitures,” The Traditional Astrologer Magazine, issue 14 (May 1997), http://www.skyscript.co.uk/adams.html.
Cowin, Verna L. “National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Indian God Rock Petroglyphs Site,” National Park Service, April 15, 1982, http://www.dot7.state.pa.us/CRGIS_Attachments/SiteResource/H064449_01H.pdf.
Cox, William T. Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods. Washington, DC: Press of Judd and Detweiler, Inc., 1910.
Cunningham, Scott. Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic. St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 2003.
———. Magical Herbalism. St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 2013.
D’Agostino, Thomas. A History of Vampires in New England. Charleston: Haunted America/The History Press, 2010.
Dandola, John, and John W. Pettibone. The Ghosts of Hammond Castle. Glen Ridge: Tory Corner Editions, 2001.
De Ravel d’Esclapon, Pierre F. “The Masonic Career of Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant.” The Journal of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Supreme Council 33° Southern Jurisdiction (March/April 2011), https://scottishrite.org/about/media-publications/journal/article/the-masonic-career-of-major-pierre-charles-lenfant.
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, and Gloria T. Hull, ed. The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Volume 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Dunphy, D. W. “The Whole Truth About The ‘Spy House.’” Middletown Patch (March 9, 2012), http://patch.com/new-jersey/middletown-nj/why-spy-house-nothing-but-the-truth-about-the-seabroo9992c52ae9.
DuPont, Ron. “Vernon’s ‘Indian Marker Tree’—Believe It or Not?” NorthJersey.com (May 13, 2011), http://www.northjersey.com/community-news/vernon-s-indian-marker-tree-believe-it-or-not-1.178157.
Eckhardt, Jason, C. Off the Ancient Track: A Lovecraftian Guide to New England and Adjacent New York. Jason C. Eckhardt, 2013.
Egan, Jim. “The John Dee Tower of 1583: A Renaissance Building in Newport Rhode Island” (2010), http://www.newporttowermuseum.com/resources/1-The-History-of-the-John-Dee-Tower.pdf.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1904.
Father Pitt. Father Pitt’s Pittsburgh Cemeteries: The Art and Architecture of Death. Create Space, 2014.
Fawcett, Melissa Jayne. The Lasting of the Mohegans: The Story of the Wolf People, Part 1. Uncasville: The Mohegan Tribe, 1995.
Federal Writers’ Project. Delaware: A Guide to the First State. New York: The Viking Press, 2006.
“Five Prime Moose-Viewing Areas in Maine,” Bangor Daily News (June 8, 2012), http://bangordailynews.com/2012/05/29/outdoors/outdoors-extra/five-prime-moose-viewing-areas-in-maine/.
Franck, Frederick. Pacem in Terris: A Love Story. New Paltz: Codhill Press, 2000.
Furmansky, Dyana. Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists. Athens: Georgia University Press, 2009.
Gannett, Henry. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Library of Congress, 1902.
Gannon, Megan, “Nikola Tesla’s Once-Neglected NY Lab Gets a New Life,” Live Science (July 10, 2014), http://www.livescience.com/46742-nikola-tesla-wardenclyffe-museum.html.
Glaza, Tobias, and Paul Grant-Costa. “Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape.” Connecticut Explored 10, no. 2 (spring 2012).
Godfrey, Robert, “Close Encounters with the Old Sow,” Smithsonian Magazine (August 2001), http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/close-encounters-with-the-old-sow-48091759/?page=1.
Goode, James M. Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation’s Capital. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Grotta, Daniel. J. R. R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth. Philadelphia: Running Press Books, 1992.
Graham, Adam H. “Forgotten Florida, Through a Writer’s Eyes.” The New York Times (March 31, 2010), http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/travel/04culture.html?_r=0.
Harmon, James M., and Jessica L. Neuwirth. “Archaeological Investigations at the James Brice House (18AP38): A National Historic Site, 42 East Street, City of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland,” Archaeology in Annapolis (2000).
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe. “The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation’s Millenium General Assembly,” Boston: Museum of Fine Arts (1976), http://www.fredweaver.com/throne/throneessay.html.
Heald, Bruce D. The History of the New Hampshire Abenaki (American Heritage). Charleston: The History Press, 2014.
Heid, Matt. “Moose Encounters: Do You Know How to Respond?” AMC Outdoors (July/August 2010), http://www.outdoors.org/publications/outdoors/2010/learnhow/responding-to-moose-encounters.cfm.
Hodgman, Edwin Ruthven, and the Westford Town History Association. History of the Town of Westford in the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, 1659–1883. Lowell: Morning Mail Company Printers, 1883.
Hoffman, Walter James. The Mide’wiwin or “Grand Medicine Society” of the Ojibwa. Project Gutenberg (September 25, 2006), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19368/19368-h.htm
Holman, Johann Georg, and Patrick J. Donomoyer. Der Freund in der Noth Or: The Friend in Need; An Annotated Translation of an Early Pennsylvania Folk-Healing Manual. Kutztown: Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
Hooke, Della. Trees in Anglo Saxon England: Literature Lore and Landscape. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010.
Horowitz, Mitch. Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation. New York: Bantam, 2010, 59–60.
Hymenaeus Alpha 777, “Tales from the Caliph: Continuity in the Order,” Berkeley: O.T.O Newsletter I, no. 2 (autumn 1977), http://www.cornelius93.com/Grady-TalesfromtheCaliph-1.html.
Jackson, Kenneth T., and Lisa Keller. The Encyclopedia of New York: Second Edition. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010.
Jackson, Shirley. Essays on the Literary Legacy. Jefferson: McFarland and Company, 2005.
Kaiser, James. Acadia, the Complete Guide: Mt. Desert Island & Acadia National Park, Third Edition. Destination Press, 2010.
Keeler, Harriet Louise. Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Peculiarities. Middletown: Forgotten Books, 2014 (original publication date: 1900).
Kerouac, Jack. Desolation Angels. New York: Riverhead Books, 1995.
Kreskin and Dame Sybil Leek. The Amazing World of Kreskin, season 13, episode 5, 1972.
Kriebel, David, W. “Powwowing: A Persistent American Esoteric Tradition,” Esotericism, Religion and Nature, IV, http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeIV/Powwow.htm.
Kunz, Dora. Devic Consciousness (pamphlet produced by the Pumpkin Hollow Foundation), 2012.
Kynes, Sandra. Whispers from the Woods: The Lore and Magic of Trees. Woodbury: Llewellyn, 2013.
Lander, James. Lincoln and Darwin: Shared Visions of Race, Science and Religion. Chicago: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Leff, David K. “Bring Stones: An Unusual War Memorial” (February 21, 2014), http://davidkleff.typepad.com/home/2014/02/bring-stones-an-unusual-war-memorial.html.
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
MacDougall, Barbara. Letters from the Labyrinth. San Francisco: The Bindery at the Well, 2009.
Mangin, Julie, “Hoodoo Marker Quest,” JulieMangin.com (August 18, 2013), http://www.juliemangin.com/hoodoo-marker-quest/index.html.
Mann, Charles E. The Heart of Cape Ann, or The Story of Dogtown. Gloucester: Proctor Brothers Publishers, 1896.
Martello, Leo Louis. “Handwriting Giving 3 Zones: Mind, Soul, Body.” The Aberree 1, no. 10 (March 1955), http://www.aberree.com/v01/n10p03.html.
Martinelli, Patricia A. Haunted Delaware: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the First State. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2006.
McGowan, James A., and William C. Kashatus. Station Master on the Underground Railroad: The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett. Glasgow: McFarland and Company, 2004.
Melody. Love Is in the Earth: The Crystal and Mineral Encyclopedia, The Light Fantastic, and the Last Testament. Wheat Ridge: Earth Love Publishing House, 2007.
Mitchell, John Hanson. “The Cult of Monadnock,” : Sanctuary: Journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society 38, no. 6 (July/August 1999), http://johnhansonmitchell.com/pages/essays/cult.html.
“Moose in Maine: Do You Know Where to Find Them?” Yankee Magazine (May 2008), http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/topfivetravel/travel-bonus/moose#_.
Muhaiyaddeen, Bawa, M. R. (Ral). Questions of Life, Answers of Wisdom. Philadelphia: The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, 1991.
Nash, Ogden. “The Passionate Pagan and the Dispassionate Public,” The New Yorker Magazine (April 9, 1932).
Neff, John W., and Howard R. Whitcomb. Images of America: Baxter State Park and Katahdin. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.
Newell, William Wells. Games and Songs of American Children. Harper & Brothers: New York and London, 1883.
Ocker, J. W. Poe Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe. Woodstock: Countryman Press, 2015.
Odale, Robert. “Cape Cod’s ‘Magic’ Quartz Pebbles.” Cape Naturalist 24 (1997), http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/staffpages/boldale/pebbles/.
Penczak, Christopher. Foundations of the Temple: A Witchcraft Tradition of Love, Will and Wisdom. Salem: Copper Cauldron Publishing, 2014.
Penre, Wes. “Plan Nine from Outer Space,” Fortean Times Magazine 126 (August 14, 1999), http://www.rense.com/ufo4/plan9.htm and http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/The_Council_of_Nine.pdf.
“Peter Wolf Toth and His Trail of Whispering Giants,” Daytona Beach News Journal (March 28, 2009), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE4Y_zBY4J0.
Pickles, Shela, ed. The Language of Flowers. New York: Harmony Books, 1989.
Pittman Light, Patsy. Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriguez. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2008.
RavenWolf, Silver. HexCraft: Dutch Country Pow-Wow Magick. St. Paul: Lewellyn, 1995.
Reiss, Jana. The Spiritual Traveler: Boston and New England. Mahwah: Hidden Spring, 2002.
Robinett, Kristy. It’s a Wonderful Afterlife: Inspiring Stories from a Psychic Medium. Woodbury: Llewellyn, 2015.
Robinson, Dennis J. “The Hexploitation of Goody Cole,” SeacoastNH.com, (2006), http://www.seacoastnh.com/famous-people/link-free-or-die/goody-cole-accused-as-nh-witch/.
Rose, Jeanne. Herbs and Things. New York: Perigee, 1972.
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.
Schlosser, S. E. E., and Paul Hoffman. Spooky New England: Tales of Haunting, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore. Guildford: The Globe Pequot Press, 2004.
Schreiwer, Robert L., and Eckhart Ammerili. A Dictionary of Urglaawe Terminology. Bristol: Robert L. Schreiwer, 2012.
Schultes, Richard Evans, and William A. Davis. The Glass Flowers At Harvard. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982.
Silverthorne, Elizabeth. Legends and Lore of Texas Wildflowers. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1996.
Stansfield, Charles A. Jr. Haunted Jersey Shore: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State Coast. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2006.
Strepek Shea, Suzanne. Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
Sutin, Lawrence. Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
“The Dalai Lama Walks into a Pizza Shop…” I Wake Up with Today (June 9, 2011), https://youtube/xlIrI80og8c.
The Munsters (TV series), “Cyrano de Munster” episode, 1966.
“The Shakers of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village,” Chilton Furniture (April 9, 2014), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzuShZCcSY.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. New York: Thomas Crowell & Company, 1910.
Trinklein, Michael J. Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania and Other States That Never Made It. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2010.
Van Aken, Sam. “The Tree of 40 Fruits,” TEDxManhattan (March 24, 2014), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9EuJ9QlikY.
Viet, Richard F., and Mark Nonestied. New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape. New Brunswick: Rivergate Books, 2008.
Wicker, Christine. Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2003.
Wilson, Robert, and Victoria Blewer. Vermont Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities and Other Offbeat Stuff. Augusta: Morris Publishing Group, 2008.
Zimmer, Melanie. Central New York and the Finger Lakes: Myths, Legends, and Lore. Charleston: The History Press, 2008.
Zwicker, Roxie. The New Hampshire Book of the Dead. Charleston: The History Press, 2012.
Websites and Blogs
Acadian Genealogy Homepage: http://www.acadian.org
Atlas Obscura: http://www.atlasobscura.com
Boroughs of the Dead: http://boroughsofthedead.com
Boudillion: http://www.boudillion.com
Connecticut History: http://connecticuthistory.org
Controverscial: http://www.controverscial.com
Coven Oldenwilde: http://www.oldenwilde.org
Danu’s Cauldron: http://witchesandpagans.com/sagewoman-blogs/danu-s-cauldron
Enchanting the Day: http://enchantingtheday.blogspot.com
Epoch Times: http://www.theepochtimes.com
Exploring Upstate: http://exploringupstate.com
Forgotten Delights: http://www.forgottendelights.com
Haunted Places: http://ghosts101.com
Jason Colavito Blog: http://www.jasoncolavito.com
Legends of America: http://www.legendsofamerica.com
Mary Greer’s Tarot Blog: http://www.marygreer.wordpress.com
New England Folklore: http://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com
New York Songlines: http://www.nysonglines.com/
O.T.I.S.: http://www.oddthingsiveseen.com/
Pamela Colman Smith Biography: http://pcs2051.tripod.com
Patheos Pagan: http://www.patheos.com
Quahog.org: http://quahog.org/
Roadside America: http://www.roadsideamerica.com
Roadtrippers: http://roadtrippers.com
Rune Soup: http://runesoup.com
Sacred Texts: http://www.sacred-texts.com
Skeptical Inquirer: http://www.csicop.org
State Symbols USA: http://www.statesymbolsusa.org
The Art of Mourning: http://artofmourning.com
The Association for Gravestone Studies: https://www.gravestonestudies.org
The Cemetery Traveler: http://thecemeterytraveler.blogspot.com
The Folklorist: http://thefolklorist.newtv.org
The Llewellyn Journal: http://www.llewellyn.com
The Tesla Memorial Society of New York: http://www.teslasociety.com
The Wild Hunt: http://wildhunt.org
Untapped Cities: http://untappedcities.com
Upper Delaware Scenic Byway: http://www.upperdelawarescenicbyway.org
Upton Heritage Commission: http://www.upton.ma.us