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Happy Halloween from The Copper Quill!

October 31, 2025

Happy Halloween! Here at The Copper Quill, we encourage you to celebrate this spooky time of the year by reading a good ghost story and perhaps even writing a scary tale of your own. Maybe you could find inspiration in these photographs Julie Castner Shepard, one of our faculty advisors, took on a ghost tour of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, she went on with her husband and parents this past summer!

This photograph shows a closeup of the tower of Gonder Mansion in Strasburg, PA. Decorative stonework on the tower looks a bit like faces are starting from the wall.

It's said that if you look carefully at the decorative stonework of the tower of the Gonder Mansion, Strasburg, PA, you can see hidden faces gazing back at you.

This is a photograph of Annie Gonder's grave taken at night. Her tombstone is lighted up by the camera's flash. Smaller graves surround hers. A towering monument and trees appear in the background.

This is the grave of Annie Gonder, who is also known locally as "Laughing Annie." Some believe that, even though Annie was not permitted to live in the Gonder Mansion during her lifetime, she now haunts the home.

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