Cup Of Joe's

6 Cleveland Street
Lily Dale, New York 14752
716.595.3775

An Experience

Lily Dale is a spiritualist community of the "Modern Spiritualist Movement" in Western New York, an hour south of Buffalo, 25 minutes east of Lake Erie. Psychic mediums live here in story book houses set close together on dirt roads. They stick pieces of paper on the front doors for visitors to sign up for private readings. The town (only about 4 acres square) is on a lake and has it's own beach, a small (haunted) hotel you can stay in for $50/night, a town library (filled with books about new age crafts, astrology, ghost sitings etc.), a town historical museum, pet cemetary, two swans named Lily and Dale, and many make shift chapels "for the national religion of spiritual healing".

There are 3 restaurants in town, and the most unique of the eateries is a cafe called Cup of Joe's. Cup of Joe's is located inside Joseph Shiel's home, Joesph Shiel is a registered medium in the town of Lily dale and has his own website http://www.joeshiel.com/. His historic house is located on Cleveland St., the main dirt road. Inside, the living room has tables for seating and wall space for curated art shows. The current show housed watercolors of mandalas with titles like "New Energy". Through the living room is the kitchen and Joe's wife standing behind huge stacks of trays filled with fresh homemade baked goods- peach ginger scones, chocolate covered black current biscotti. The kitchen was beautiful and smelled like a hot oven baking. Everything was delicious, and the coffee was strong. Probably the best cup of coffee you can get in Lily Dale, and while you are there you can sign up with Joe for a reading. They also have live music.

After our coffee we headed down to the woods for a scheduled meeting at the Inspiration Stump, believed to be an ENERGY VORTEX. There were about 10 long benches set up around the stump, and many people (mostly middle aged woman) joined us on the benches. The town's local mediums were shuttled in on golf carts, and stood close to the stump. The mediums began talking to the crowd, picking people at random and telling them that dead people from their past were communicating to them.

"Lady with the hat there, do you have a woman with gray hair from your past? She misses you, she had a dog and was very kind".

"Lady there in the red shirt and glasses, I see that you feel stuck in your life, you need a career change, or a life change, something new, perhaps a move?".

"Woman in the robe, your husband is still in love with you."