Sender: |
|
Subject: |
|
From: |
|
Date: |
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 10:00:44 EDT |
In-Reply-To: |
from "Katherine Jones-Garmil" at Jul 19, 94 4:04 pm |
Reply-To: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
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
[log in to unmask]
|
|
|