GDG- Triangular Field

[Margaret D. Blough]

To me, what you experienced and the whole "ghost story" industry are two different things.  I don't believe in ghosts, in the ghost industry sense.  I really believe that men who gave their lives for their country believed in, deserved, and received a far better eternal reward than being shills to attract tourists.  On the other hand, I believe in what you experienced and that it is best explained in the moving speech that Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain gave at the dedication of the 20th Maine monument at Gettysburg on October 3, 1889:

>>In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field to ponder and dream; And lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.<<

Regards,

Margaret 


-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Linda J. Guy" <lindajguy at embarqmail.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> But Nesbitt comes out with more books, I think there are four now. Is he 
> getting the stories the guides are making up and then copyrighting them? 
> That wouldn't be fair. 
> 
> On another note, I am sensitive to these things, and I had such a 
> feeling of depression in the cemetery at the 135th re-enactment that I 
> had to leave it. There was so much going on there at the time I really 
> wanted to stay and see it all, but couldn't. The rest of Gettysburg was 
> fine with me. Weird! 
> 
> Bob Vary wrote: 
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> > 
> > 
> > As of 2002 tour guides were still being told not to use any stories that 
> > appeared in Nesbitt's books. The feeling, at that time at least, was that 
> > as long as Nesbitt is allowed to copyright his printed presentations the 
> > tours do not want their guides using those stories out of fear of 
> > litigation. It's better to make up stories for the tours and avoid having 
> > issues with publishers of printed material. 
> > 
> > Bob 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] 
> > On Behalf Of Margaret D. Blough 
> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:57 PM 
> > To: GDG 
> > Subject: Re: GDG- Triangular Field 
> > 
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>> One reason for that is that all of the stories in the various Ghosts of 
> >>> 
> > Gettysburg books have been copyrighted and cannot legally be used by the 
> > ghost tours without permission.<< 
> > Actually, that's not correct. It probably was the understanding, though, at 
> > the time that your son gave tours, but it hasn't been the case since 2001. 
> > In 2000, Mark Nesbitt sued the owners of the Farnsworth House ghost tours 
> > for copyright infringement. In 2001, Judge Sylvia Rambo ruled that with one 
> > exception (a story in which Nesbitt admitted an error was made in the 
> > printed version), the stories were in the public domain and, thus, their 
> > content could not be copyrighted. She ruled that Nesbitt could validly 
> > copyright his printed presentation of the stories, though. 
> > 
> > Regards, 
> > 
> > Margaret 
> > 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> > From: gburg74 at comcast.net 
> > 
> > 
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> My son used to give ghost tours in Gettysburg. He can tell you for a fact 
> >> 
> > that 
> > 
> >> many, if not most, of the ghost stories have been made up in recent years. 
> >> 
> > One 
> > 
> >> professor at the college has even admitted making up one of the more 
> >> 
> > famous of 
> > 
> >> them. Guides are also encouraged to make things up. One reason for that is 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> >> that all of the stories in the various Ghosts of Gettysburg books have 
> >> 
> > been 
> > 
> >> copyrighted and cannot legally be used by the ghost tours without 
> >> 
> > permission. 
> > 
> >> On the other hand, I was seriously spooked one evening at dusk in the 
> >> 
> > Triagular 
> > 
> >> Field when I swore I heard footsteps right in back of me as if walking 
> >> 
> > through 
> > 
> >> the high weeds. But nothing was there. Probably the wind, or deer in the 
> >> woods, but it sure sent a bit of a shiver down my spine. 
> >> 
> >> Back to lurking with the other ghosts. 
> >> 
> >> Bob 
> >> 
> >> 
> > ysburg/ 
> > 
> > 
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