re "ghoulishness" &c
 
-psychiatric exhibit in replicated hospital at Colonial Williamsburg
includes a video of an actor in the horizontal wire cage used for
confinement at one of the periods of treatment illustrated there
 
-various historic sites associated with the conspirators in Lincoln's
assassination
 
-not a museum exhibit, but listed on the National Register of Historic
Places, is the "one million liter test sphere" at Fort Dietrick,
Frederick, Maryland, formerly used in testing biological warfare gasses
&c
 
-many battlefield exhibits have deeply bloody angles, forgive me Civil
War fans--including "The Bloody Angle" on Spotsylvania Battlefield, the
place on Chancellorsville Battlefield where Jackson was wounded, the
site of the burial of Jackson's arm (Ellwood, a National Park
Service-owned site, not yet open to the public)
 
-archaeologically, the coffins of (probably) Calvert family members
recently dug up at St. Mary's City, Maryland
 
-Pine Street Jail, Baltimore
 
-every year, historic preservation students at Mary Washington College
stage "Ghostwalk," leading people through Fredericksburg to sites of
famous sightings of ghosts (actors portray ghosts or those who "saw"
them)
 
-and more, but that may suggest the great variety of possibilities
"outside the museum building"
 
John
John Pearce
Center for Historic Preservation
Mary Washington College
 
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