The Keyhole Vortex, the portal of entry for the dark and commanding league of Ghost Walkers, recently experienced an anomaly which can best be described as a cosmic belch.  Out of the throes of this mighty and relatively disgusting emittance (believed to have been caused by the accidental  inhalation of Dr. Nutter's Infallible Scrofulic
Thrips Cure) was delivered a prominent citizen of Mount Dora's past, the Widow Priscilla St Abrams Hamlin Beauclaire.

A proud member of the St Abrams clan, who settled near Tangerine, Florida, Priscilla was among the pioneer families of our fair city.  Distantly related to the well-known Donner  family, the St Abrams became famous in their own right when, during the Great Depression, they became purveyors of inexpensive comestibles for the surrounding community; they are known for their experimentation with fungal growths and for being purveyors of the fine neurotoxic mold spores that Torquemada uses on his search for
Dr. Nutter. 

Sadly, the archives are silent about  the recipes for these life-rotting victuals, but the
 names remain to us, a reminder of simple times:  Mrs. Nappleworth's Turpentine Gumdrops,  Father Abram's Gallberry Paste, and a delicacy no doubt prized by the protein-starved populace,  Your Neighbor's Tender Rump Roasts. It is  believed that the nefarious Calvin Calhoun is  the inbred product of illicit liaisons under the
influence of these evil concoctions.

In one of the  ironies that haunts our past, the surrounding populace was so grateful that they staged a torchlight procession at the St Abrams home, which was unfortunately burned down  during the festivities. Evidence now suggests that this possibly was the first recorded event of Torquemada's spells of spontaneous combustion, or Borgia's Electrical Resonance tests.

Priscilla went on to marry her cousin, Vasco Hamlin Beauclaire. Both of Mr. Beauclaire's  grandfathers on the paternal side fought posthumously in the Civil War. Lake Beauclaire, just east of Mt. Dora, was named in honor of the  young couple, who took great delight in sporting  in its crystal waters, and sinking large burlap sacks
 full of undisclosed contents in the deep end.  The famous underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau attempted to recover these sacks, but perished from
 an Amoebic blood infestation from the putrid waters of the lake. To this date  Mortissimo enjoys  skinny dipping there, under the full moon, while growing a full hairy coat and barking into the night..

Priscilla was a Sunday School teacher for many years, in addition to volunteering at the Mount Dora Women's Hospital where she sold her emollients, tinctures and emulsions. Retiring after the tragedy at Lake Beauclaire  Pier when all of her small charges were mysteriously  lost during a weenie roast. She continued active in  the Dorcas Circle, and was famous at church  bazaars for her crocheted steel-wool afghans made of burnt Llama prepubescent fur. Brilliantly skilled in the cookery of the native Florida abundance,  Priscilla's Royellou Quality Boardinghouse boasted a fine table,  with exotic meats in abundance, although  her business was somewhat impaired by the sudden disappearances of many of her guests.  A true daughter of the post-war South, it was Priscilla's  modest boast that nothing went to waste in her abode - everything got eaten.

An ardent angler, she disappeared on Lake Dora  while fishing for narwhal in her small rowboat. The absence of an anchor indicated that she must  have clutched it in her desperate bid for life. Her faithful little dog Bug-Eye accompanied his  mistress on her last journey.  It is well remembered by the old-timers that she was especially fond of
cats and children.

Lineage and Pedigree validated  by
Durban Porterfoy
Genealogist  to the Mount Dora Ghost Walk

Priscilla St Abrams Hamlin Beauclaire.



Young Priscilla at the fondling hospital
where she spend 3 years in Wilkes Barre,PA

Various tinctures and emulsions produced and sold via the Tangerine Florida manufacturing company  that also produced Dr. Nutter's Infallible Scrofulic Thrips Cure.