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Orange mansion owner starts fundraiser for hedge maze garden
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Orange mansion owner starts fundraiser for hedge maze garden

“Our goal is to build a garden that will help attract tourists far and wide, and be a destination for local visitors who have enjoyed the beauty of the mansion for years,” the fundraising page reads.

Anyone is welcome to visit bit.ly/3GOy39E to buy a 4-by-8-inch brick for $100 or a 8-by-8-inch one for $250. The smaller of the bricks will have enough space for three lines of text, 18 characters each, while the larger one will have room for six lines of text, also 18 characters each. People can also make a PayPal donation.

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Shining Lights guest Cynthia Butler of Return to Hogwarts

Check out this video where Cynthia recently went on AOTV to talk about ‘Return to Hogwarts’ and the different events taking place at the Revival Wheeler Mansion and also around Orange, as well as how to learn more about them. If you are a Harry Potter fan, make sure to check this out!

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What’s Haunting Revival Wheeler Mansion?
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Scared & Alone – What’s Haunting Revival Wheeler Mansion?

The Wheeler mansion on East Main Street will be visited by paranormal enthusiasts and, with any luck, a few spirits this weekend.

A New York group called Misfits Paranormal is coming to Orange for a paranormal investigation while The Crooked Path, an occult apothecary store in Burbank, Calif., hosts The Symposium Khthonia, billed as “a spellbinding weekend of witchcraft and the paranormal.”
Melissa Savage of Misfits Paranormal said she and her crew will be on site to participate in “The World’s Largest Ghost Hunt,” which will take place at roughly 150 presumed haunted locations all over the world at around the same time on Saturday. She said she and her comrades will meet mansion owner Cindy Butler at the property and an investigation will begin at 11 p.m. Saturday, with a livestream lasting from 2 to 3 a.m.

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Greenfield Recorder – Here comes Santa Claus: Revival Wheeler Mansion to host St. Nick

The Revival Wheeler Mansion at 75 East Main St., the only Gilded Age mansion in the North Quabbin region, will host a Nov. 26 visit from jolly old Saint Nicholas for little ones from 5 to 8 p.m.

Owner Cynthia Butler is working with other members of the Orange Merchants Group, a voluntary collection of local businesses, to put together the free event to share with the community the grand mansion built nearly 120 years ago. Orange has a history of hosting Santa, usually at Memorial Park, though last year he was limited to a socially distanced drive-thru event at the Orange Municipal Airport due to COVID-19 health safety protocols.

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