We get many bus  tours which have step-on guides.  Not only do we not know
what the passengers have or have not been told about our site, by the time
they  arrive, many of them have been "historied out."    On the other hand,
they sometimes seem to have tuned out the guide, because they will look
around the house, and say, with  puzzled expressions on their  faces, "Now,
who  lived here?"

Susannah West
John Rankin House, Ripley, Ohio

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