Dead people aren't normally talkative, but they seemed to make excellent conversationalists in the late 19th century. Hands clasped in a darkened room, Akron residents held séances and hoped for tearful reunions with the dearly departed. Night after night in the 1890s, people gathered in the Sherman Street home of German immigrants Gustav and Theresa Thiese to make contact with the other side. The seven-room dwelling at 121 Sherman St., later renumbered 401 Sherman, was located between Torrey and Wheeler streets, the eighth house south of Exchange Street...
