GDG- News release from GBPA

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News Release
Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association
PO Box 4087
986 Hanover Road
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Ghost conference scares up Lady Farm donation
Gettysburg, Sept. 2 -- It was no apparition when the organizers of the first annual Ghost World Conference pledged to donate proceeds from raffles to the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association for the restoration of the farmhouse of the Daniel Lady Farm.
In all 1,210 “dead presidents” were presented to GBPA board member-emeritus Mark Nesbitt himself the author of the Ghost of Gettysburg series.
More than 300 paranormal enthusiasts from the U.S. and Canada attended the late July conference in Gettysburg that includes lectures, workshops and discussions.
“This was as especially pleasant surprise because the donation off came from ‘out of the blue,“ said GBPA President Kathi Schue. “Jeff Belanger of Ghost World, LLC, called and told me that in organizing the conference, they had looked into worthy historic causes in Gettysburg where their donation could make a big difference and that a number of people had told him about the Lady Farm.”
“You can’t study ghosts without also exploring history,” said Vince Wilson, one of the founding partners of Ghost World, LLC, “and if we can help the GBPA continue their great work in some small way, that alone makes our weekend conference a big success.”
One aspect of the Lady farmhouse that the conference organizers found especially intriguing is the plethora of bloodstains on the floors of some rooms where wounded an dying Confederates were treated.
The Ghost World donation was a one-time benefit for the GBPA. Next year’s Ghost World Conference will be held in Salem, Massachusetts and the raffle will benefit a historic preservation cause there. 
GBPA is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was founded in
1959 as the first public/private partnership at Gettysburg. The GBPA has played a continuous role in purchasing endangered battlefield land such as the Meals Farm, Timbers Farm, Wolf Farm, Taney Farm, the Colgrove tract, the Willoughby Run tract, the East Cavalry Field tract, and other parcels to save them from have been saved from development and commercialism. The GBPA has a web site at www.gbpa.org.
Ghost World Conference Web site: www.ghostworldconference.com.
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Contact: Jay Purdy w: 717-787-7895 h: 717-540-5534