Family Stories, and the Nature of Time

This is a true family story from the 1800's.

My great-great-grandmother Helen Reed was born in Watkins Glen. According to family accounts, she was an Episcopalian, an accomplished horsewoman, spoke fluent French and Swedish (which she learned from her housekeeper) and was skilled at the Victorian parlor activity of table tipping, a form of séance. 

Her re…