Frances died in 1986, and Elsie died in 1988. However, Frances insisted until her death that at least one of the "fairy photos" was real. Elsie explained that they were too embarrassed to admit the truth about the photos after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the legendary creator of Sherlock Holmes, accepted them as genuine. Years later, as adults, the girls admitted they had faked the photos using cardboard cutouts of fairies taken from a children's book. The two girls never accepted any money for them, or tried to swindle anyone with their claims of fairy encounters. Several photographic experts examined them and pronounced them "genuine," while other photo experts found "evidence of fakery." (A few experts who examined the photos noted that the "fairies" had "Parisienne-style haircuts," which were popular in the day.) In the end, no real harm came from the photos. Opinions over the authenticity of the photos were divided. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published the photos with an article on spiritualism in "The Strand" Magazine in December 1920. (The woodland scenes in "FairyTale: A True Story" are filmed in Cottingley Beck, the actual location where Frances and Elsie supposedly encountered the fairies in 1917.) The photographs became public in 1919 (not during World War I, as depicted in the film), when Elsie's mother gave the photos to Edward Gardner, President of the Theosophical Society of Bradford. Using Arthur Wright's camera, the girls took a series of pictures of themselves with fairies in the nearby woodland brook of Cottingley Beck. In the summer of 1917, Frances Griffiths (then ten years old) and her cousin Elsie Wright (then sixteen years old) were living with Elsie's parents in the town of Cottingley in West Yorkshire. Special thanks to Don Capria, co-author of Colombo: The Unsolved Murder Selwyn Raab, veteran Mafia reporter and author of Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires and Geoff Schumacher, vice president of exhibits and programs for the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.The film is based on the true story of the Cottingley Fairies. On this day, Colombo’s dual life-as an media-facing advocate and as an underground criminal-will come crashing down in a violent display. It’s an open secret many people across the city know who he really is, and the FBI is hot on his tail, trying to catch him in the act. The problem? That same Joe Colombo is a leader of the Mafia, one of the heads of the “Five Families” in New York. Joe Colombo is the very public face of the League, a group that actively fights discrimination and ugly stereotypes against the Italian-American community, such as their association with organized crime and the Mafia. It’s the second annual “Unity Day” rally at Columbus Circle in New York City, organized by the Italian American Civil Rights League. Special thanks to Kisha James, Paula Peters, and David Silverman, author of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.Ĭlick here for a transcript of this episode. So what is the true story of Thanksgiving? And why is it so important for us to remember? This protest – a National Day of Mourning – continues to this day, now led by James’s granddaughter. America’s reckoning with the truth of Thanksgiving, James argued, would empower indigenous people to fight for their equal rights. This protest was organized by Wamsutta Frank James, a Wampanoag activist who wanted to draw attention to the full story of Thanksgiving – a story of fear, violence, and oppression that spanned generations. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the 350th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival, protestors gather under a statue of Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader who had made peace with the Pilgrims, and partook in the legendary Thanksgiving meal.
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