At 12:00 AM 6/13/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Date:    Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:38:18 -0500
>From:    Santa Fe Trail Center <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: haunted house
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>Our staff has been approached by a local organization which wants to run a
>haunted house on the museum's grounds, NOT in the museum proper.  I have
>been asked to see what others in the museum field are doing about
>non-standard use of the facilities.

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At the Higgins, every Halloween we decorate the hands-on room, the Quest
gallery, with construction-paper cut-out bats and ghosts, play spooky
music, and give free admission to kids who come in wearing costumes. Not
really a haunted house, but not exacty...umm...historically accurate either
(please refrain from posting the Celtic history of Halloween in response).
More haunted-house like is the Haunted Overknight, which is the one time
that individuals from the general public can sign up for a sleep-over in
the museum -- all the other overknights are booked as groups. It didn't
happen last year because of lack of interest -- not enough folks signed up.

As for scaring kids, well, that happens during the rest of the year: every
so often a preschooler or toddler will come up to the Great Hall and be
frightened by the dark entrance and, of course, the knights, and run away
screaming or in tears.


---Amy

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