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was born. Writer Art Wallace developed Curtis’s vague idea into a 91-page series bible entitled
Shadows On The Wall. This bible became a gothic soap opera, wherein slightly oddball orphan Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke) came to work in the town of Collinsport, for the charming yet unsettling Collins family, at the big old house of Collinwood, high atop Widows Hill. This was
Dark Shadows.
Hollywood star Joan Bennett got top billing as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the loving but somewhat distant matriarch of the family. Her rather caddish brother Roger was played by Louis Edmonds, her daughter Carolyn by Nancy Barrett. Roger’s troubled son David, for whom Vicky was hired as a governess, was David Henesy. Rounding out the main cast were Kathryn Leigh Scott as waitress Maggie Evans and Mitchell Ryan as Burke Devlin, a local man with a vendetta against the Collins family. The show premiered in June 1966.
Nicola Sturgeon s official residence has been dubbed a building of historic racial injustice by a council review of controversial landmarks in Edinburgh.
The home of the First Minister of Scotland was one of several buildings highlighted by the Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group, lead by Scotland s first black professor Sir Geoff Palmer, 80.
The review - launched by the city s SNP and Labour council coalition - has vowed to rectify the glorification of slavery in the city and would consider the removal of statues , The Daily Telegraph reports.
Bute House was formerly occupied by Jamaican sugar plantation owner John Innes Crawford.
A woke travel guide on Edinburgh s links with the slave trade calls for the removal of the statue of 18th-century MP Henry Dundas.
Exploring Edinburgh examines how much of the city s wealth was built on its involvement in the Caribbean slave trade between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Compiled by Glaswegian writer Robin Ward, the book says that Tory politician Dundas is the least deserving of the honour of having a statue, which rests on top of Melville Monument in St Andrews Square.
According to his critics, Dundas, a lawyer and politician, delayed the abolition of slavery in British colonies for 15 years.