![]() ![]() Sugrue worked as a reporter at the former Naugatuck Daily News, before being hired by the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. His first reading was given in Virginia Beach on June 7, 1927, at the request of Hugh Lynn. After meeting Edgar Cayce, he decided that there was no deception. Sugrue made the five-hour trip from Lexington to Virginia Beach with Hugh Lynn, thinking that he would debunk a fraud. The subjects included diagnosis and treatment of illness, finding hidden items, universal laws, karma, and even past lives. Edgar Cayce had the strange gift of going into a trance-like state and providing answers to questions. ![]() It was there he was introduced to classmate Hugh Lynn Cayce, the eldest son of Edgar and Gertrude Cayce. Īfter graduating in 1924 from Naugatuck High School where dancing was "his favorite pastime" according to a yearbook, Sugrue worked briefly as a teller for the Naugatuck Savings Bank, before attending Washington and Lee University in Virginia, where he graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in English. His early memories of life in the borough's Irish section were captured in a 1940 autobiographical novel, Such Is the Kingdom, which was recast as the fictional "Kelly Hill". ![]() He grew up in a staunch Irish Catholic background. Thomas Sugrue was born in a house on Ward Street in Naugatuck, Connecticut, in 1907 to Michael and Mary Sugrue. There Is a River, originally published in 1942 Life ![]()
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