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“Walking the Right Away” from “Station Agent” soundtrack Composed by Stephen Trask, performed by Ben Ross, Julian Koster, Ann West and Stephen Trask

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“Waking on the Tracks” from “Station Agent” soundtrack Composed by Stephen Trask, performed by Ben Ross, Julian Koster, Ann West and Stephen Trask

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13th April

Ann West’s Tomb

Source: Deborah Contessa on Facebook

On this day in 1803, Ann West died and was buried in Pembury Old Church, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Her tomb has a small hole in the side, a not uncommon precaution in the early nineteenth century when over zealous declaration of death led to the horrendous situation of comatose people being literally buried alive - Edgar Allen Poe’s gothic horror story was based on real events. Ann was particularly worried about this fate and specified that not only should her enclosed tomb have an air hole but that her coffin should be lidless and that bread and water should be placed next to her grave for twelve months after her supposed death. Fortunately for Ann, none of these precautions proved necessary because she turned out to be well and truly dead when interred.

The hole in the tomb however led to a macabre children’s game, in which kids would drop stones in the hole in order to hear them bounce of poor Ann’s skeleton. Whether it was this desecration that disturbed her ghost is not known, but Ann continues to haunt her former home at Great Bayhall Manor in Pembury, appearing as a white-clothed apparition or as disembodied footsteps. No supernatural vengeance visited on the annoying local children has been mentioned, however.

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“Travelling to New Foundland” from “Station Agent” soundtrack Composed by Stephen Trask, performed by Ben Ross, Julian Koster, Ann West and Stephen Trask

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In case you too live under a rock, HANG ART has online exhibitions and a totally user-friendly/potential-collector friendly website!  This was one of my favorite works from the online exhibit of petite landscapes,"Big Spaces for Small Places." 

Check it out for yourself:

 http://www.hangart.com/art/curated_shows/index.cfm

(Clement, Ann West, Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches, $600)