Salem Historical Society talk to highlight circus fortune teller

Laura Kessel, Alliance Review
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Carol Novose of Sharon, Pennsylvania, will speak Oct. 10 at Salem Historical Society.
Carol Novose of Sharon, Pennsylvania, will speak Oct. 10 at Salem Historical Society.

A folk artist and historian from Sharon, Pennsylvania, will share the tale of a fallen gypsy during Salem Historical Society’s October meeting.

Carol Novose will discuss Gypsy Queen Lena Miller, who traveled to Sharon in May 1921 with the Wallis Brothers Circus. The 32-year-old mother of six, who appeared as a fortune teller, died in Pennsylvania of pneumonia and was buried in the local Oakwood Cemetery.

She was from a formidable Romany clan, and about 1,000 gypsies traveled in for her funeral, and local spectators brought the crowd to almost 5,000.

Lena Miller, the so-called Gypsy Queen whose grave is seen at Oakwood Cemetery in Sharon, Pennsylvania, will be the subject of a talk Oct. 10 at Salem Historical Society.
Lena Miller, the so-called Gypsy Queen whose grave is seen at Oakwood Cemetery in Sharon, Pennsylvania, will be the subject of a talk Oct. 10 at Salem Historical Society.

The Oct. 10program will be presented at 7 p.m. at the Shaffer Library, located at 239 S. Lundy Ave. Non-members of the society are welcome to attend.

Novose is a historian and volunteer with the Sharon Historical Society.

Contact Salem Historical Society with questions at 330-337-8514.

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