Jackson'sArm
Corporal
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2017
- Location
- just south of the Red River
Ghost tours always seem like an odd little embarrassment around the battlefields. Who would pay for such a thing? And then there are the theological difficulties. Traveling with a friend once, who really REALLY wanted to go on a ghost tour, I did the gracious thing (well, she had gone to the Maritime Museum with me) and went along. I must say, it was fascinating historically. I'm sure there are good and bad tour guides, but we got a good 'un.
The article below begins with a defense of ghost tours and folklore, and ends up with a perspective on battlefield preservation and manipulation.
"The result is a battlefield highly effective in educating visitors of the events, but a landscape devoid of meaning and memory to residents who lived there after the battle had subsided... This dark side of preservation is rarely recognized."
https://thehistorybandits.com/2015/10/29/a-defense-of-ghost-tours-in-gettysburg-pa/
The article below begins with a defense of ghost tours and folklore, and ends up with a perspective on battlefield preservation and manipulation.
"The result is a battlefield highly effective in educating visitors of the events, but a landscape devoid of meaning and memory to residents who lived there after the battle had subsided... This dark side of preservation is rarely recognized."
https://thehistorybandits.com/2015/10/29/a-defense-of-ghost-tours-in-gettysburg-pa/