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Harry - sounds like your pal Al, the interpreter, has a sideline
job at the B&B (just kid-ding!)
>The piece de resistance came at the end, when he asked
> if there were any questions. Someone asked if the battlefield
>were haunted. Al, the interpreter, smiled and replied, "Ah! I
>can see you've been to Gettysburg! Well, at Antietam, we don't
>talk much about our ghosts, but I'll tell you what. You see that
>little white farmhouse over there? That's the Piper House, General
>Longstreet's headquarters during the battle and now a B&B.
>They'll give you a good meal and you can sleep in Old Pete's bed.
>But, after dinner, when it gets dark, you go outside, walk around
>to the back of the house and you'll find a gravelled path. Follow it
>for a few hundred yards and you'll be at the edge of the Bloody
>Lane. Stay there for half an hour and YOU decide if Antietam's
>haunted! Any more questions? No? Then have a good visit, folks!"
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