But for others, Lily Dale is nothing so very out of the ordinary. “Lily Dale is a small town. It’s a lot like a lot of small towns,” says Lynne Wiltsie, former President of the Lily Dale Assembly. “We have our ups and our downs and our personalities and we’re free thinkers.”

‘Free thinking’ is certainly one way of describing the town residents’ unique outlook, and the one point on which they can all agree: “There is no death and there are no dead, that’s an illusion.”

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