Catherine Fenwright has the sincerest pumpkin patch

updated shroud and paint

Creepy Photograph

Scene Props: Old Mantle Clock

This heirloom clock has been featured in Hallowe'en set-ups and will be replicated for a scene in the attraction.



2001 set-up with proper cobwebs

Mantle clock from the previous photograph




 







internal gears

Since the flash music player I use does not want to work properly, I have to add my music or sounds to slideshows or videos, so here's the clock chime and the hourly chime.



From The old Myspace profile

Rip Van Winkle and other stories

This is an old copy of "Rip Van Winkle and other stories" by Washington Irving.  It contains " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".   It used to be listed among the volumes of the library and was on the "Artifacts" album from the Myspace profile

Countdown to Halloween

Come read a Countdown to Halloween post at my museum blog

Tell your Friends

A reminder to readers, they can follow Fenwright Manor on Facebook through the network blogs app on this blog.
You  can also be a fan of this haunted house project, Fenwright Manor on Facebook. 
Mr. Ghost, the mascot of Fenwright Manor aslo has a page on Facebook.

Tell your friends, tell your neighbors.

A little bit of fun

This fun survey was from Myspace in 2008 and was originally posted by Herr Mozart, the author of this blog.  It is a series of questions and I reposted it as if I were the ghost of Catherine Fenwright.  I thought it was a good glimpse into the mind of a lady froma different era, now deceased.

Here is the survey:

1. If I looked on your bed, what would I find?
Cobwebs mostly, dust

2. Do you go to the bathroom with the door open or closed?
Bathroom? yes I used to bathe with the door closed

3. Are your underwear and socks folded in your drawer or just thrown in?
Undergarments?... A lady does not discuss such things

4. Sleep on your back or stomach?
how would sleeping in a casket be?

5. Are you a cuddler?
How Scandalous!!

6. What would I find if I looked under your bed?
Refer to answer # 1 please

7. Something that happened today that made you angry?
emotions are like an echo

8. What were you doing before this survey?
weeping

9. What will you do after the survey?
rest

10. Marriage or living together?
Marriage is a must, for it is the foundation of family

11. What shirt are you wearing now?
my burial shroud

12. How many times have you been in love?
Love? many times as a schoolgirl

13. Do you talk about your feelings or hide them?
I must hide my feelings, they will be my ruination

14. Is there something you regret and wish you could take back?
yes

15. First thing you do when you wake up?
wait for visitors to call

16. Last person you told you love them?
My husband

17. Kiss with your eyes open or closed?
How scandalous

18. Last argument you got into?
my friend Sarah in 1890

19. What do you want for Christmas?
my long lost dog

20. What's one thing about the girl/boy you like?
N/a

21. When you shut off your alarm clock, do you tend to fall back asleep?
Alarm Clock? why would a clock have an alarm, however my maid used to wake me.

22. If you were given the chance to take care of a monkey for a weekend, would you?
Heavens no

23. What are you doing this weekend?
hoping to go outside and work at gardening

24. What are you looking forward to in the next few months?
my paintings being photo-graphed

25. When will you turn 50?
1917

26. Are you ticklish?
no

27. Where do you wish you were right now?
in a proper sepulchre

28. What song are you currently listening to
the library organ

29. Last date you went on?
N/a

30. What time did you wake up this morning?
10 in the morning

31. Do you have any cousins?
yes

32. What makes you laugh?
N/a

33. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
the tele-phone?

34. What is the worst subject they teach in school?
n/a

35. Where do you want to live when you grow up?
live?

36. What was your dream this morning?
a dream of a garden, and I was meeting
Lord Godalming.

37. Where was the last place you traveled?
San Francisco