The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg : Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past /

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"On any given night, hundreds of guests walk the darkened streets of Colonial Williamsburg looking for ghosts. Since the early 2000s, both the museum and private companies have facilitated these hunts, offering year-round ghost tours. Critics have called these excursions a cash grab, but in tru...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pirok, Alena, 1988- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Historiography.
Historic sites > Interpretive programs.
Heritage tourism > Social aspects.
Folklore and history.
Heritage tourism > Social aspects > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Public history > Methodology.
Folklore and history > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Ghost stories, American > Social aspects > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Ghost tours > Social aspects > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Historic sites > Interpretive programs > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Virginia > Williamsburg > Colonial Williamsburg.
Virginia > Williamsburg.
Williamsburg (Va.) > Historiography.
Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The age of ghosts in Virginia
  • Restoring the "ghosts of the past"
  • The question of interpretation
  • A magnificent stage setting
  • The spirits of '76 come alive
  • Conjectural Williamsburg
  • The rehaunting of Williamsburg.

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