GDG- Triangular Field

Sun Dec 2 15:10:32 CST 2007

I think he was referring to a story that was circulating through the troops, not a personal sighting.

Margaret 

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From: "The Mills" <kkamills at embarqmail.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> Margaret: 
> 
> But didn't Chamberlain believe he saw the ghost of Washington as he led his 
> men at LRT? 
> 
> Thanks 
> Andy 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] 
> On Behalf Of Margaret D. Blough 
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 11:06 AM 
> To: GDG 
> Subject: Re: GDG- Triangular Field 
> 
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> 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 
> 
> 
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> From: "Linda J. Guy" 
> 
> > 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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