TZAIMS LUKSUS & HILL HOUSE
HILL HOUSE A/K/A BUCKTHORNE HALL ● THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE By: Shirley Jackson ● THE LOOTING OF HILL HOUSE By: Ian Ludders ● History Shirley Jackson was inspired by Buckthorne Hall, earlier known as HILL HOUSE because it was on the hill. ● Bennington is made up of three villages, VILLAGE OF OLD BENNINGTON VILLAGE OF NORTH BENNINGTON TOWN OF BENNINGTON ● in Shirley Jackson's day when she was writing ● THE LOTTERY ● The Town 's people in their way of life, inspired her finding how the were acting this way. ● A yearly sacrifice of one town's person had to die each year. So they formed a lottery of all the women. ● The story was of a town that held a lottery each year and the winner, always a woman, was stoned to death by the town's people. She was inspired by the Town of Bennington, to write this, when her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman was hired by Bennington College in North Bennington where she and Edgar both lived ● The stories about Hill House in the Vi...