Re: The Lara Parker/DS Celebration

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Hey Bob, I do remember that Liz had a security alarm or bell in her coffin. Im surprised it wasn’t
A automatic coffin opener  . I’m sure it was a lot for the arrangements.
Perhaps Tony Peterson being the lawyer he was probably charged a lot for his services .
Anne 

Anne,

And after Liz miraculously recovered from Cassandra’s truly nasty, vindictive and also totally unnecessary “fear of imminent death curse,” we never saw that high-priced, wired-for-sound mausoleum of Liz’s ever again. I wonder if the family made “use” of it years later? 

In fact, there were other buildings on the vast Collins estate, that we never heard of again, like the very cool and very secluded House-by-the-Sea (my personal favorite place to crash on the grounds of Collinwood) and the seaside house that Vicky wanted to move into after she and Burke got married (Sea View, wasn’t it?).

Can you think of any other houses on the Collinwood estate that we only saw for a few times and then never again?

[ProfStokes]

Video of the tribute to Parker is now available to view:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=p8JwEABMryHbp_cXlink&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0jsuXQb1IIDwwom0Xnmp0pZnVUnwbtgWuVGaMfeMKD8MUfxOXK_PTTJiI_aem_nzMaYgu2ulqeCS4XXp8alg&v=QKc8qdWsM7o&feature=youtu.be

ProfStokes

[Annie]

Bob, I think Julia Hoffmann house where was her place and dry Eric lang as well.
Hmm. Interesting.
Anne

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Anne,

Julia Hoffman’s home (which she rarely ever stayed at) was at her hospital, Wyndcliff, which was either twenty miles or one hundred miles from Collinwood (depending on which specific DS episode you were watching).

I wonder if Dr. Hoffman had an assisted living facility at Wyndcliff? No doubt, the Eagle Hill Cemetery caretaker and the venerable Ezra Braithwaite moved there as they were approaching nonagenarian status (90-years-young)? I can think of two prominent politicians, who might want to check-out the amenities at Wyndcliff’s assisted living facility.

Heck, maybe Barnabas, Liz, Roger and the “ageless” Quentin also checked-out the Wyndcliff assisted living facility? I like to think of that Wyndcliff senior center as  “A Place for Buzz Hackett!!!”) 

[Annie]

Bob, you’re right I didn’t think of that Julia Hoffman.might of had assisted living all though we
Never saw it, before. Maybe they hopefully had Medicare or Medicaid . To get in.
i wonder if they had food food there. Maybe some food chiefs .
Who knows?
Anne

[Uncle Roger]

I think that we saw Joe Haskell's apartment a few times.

[Bob_the_Bartender]

On a more serious note, there was one aspect of the “DS Celebration,” held on July 6, 2024, that I approved of. During past DS Festivals, which happened to coincide with US presidential elections, several DS actors discussed those upcoming elections and one DS actor enthusiastically advocated for his choice for POTUS that year.

As a result, one DS fan expressed resentment here on the Dark Shadows Forums, that he had to sit there at the festival and be subjected to a speech in favor of one presidential candidate. Another DS fan here stated that the actor had every right to express his opinion on the upcoming presidential election at the event.  I expressed the opinion here, that I also did not want to hear a political speech, for either a liberal or conservative candidate, at a nonpolitical event like a DS Festival.

So, I am glad that there was apparently no politicking at this recent DS “celebration.” Clearly, such politicking would seem to be very inappropriate in retrospect, considering the tragic events that followed on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Please, leave the politics out of any other Dark Shadows events if any more of them are held in the future.