[Thursday] Oregon Museum Using Ghosts to Teach Aviation History | Flying

Tue Nov 2 12:19:05 MDT 2021

Randy,
Glad you liked the idea.We can easily add several more charactersand background props.
Agreed that we need several people to volunteer as 'characters'. We do have quite a few characters who are also knownas volunteers. Learn their role and offthey go.
All of those recordings are fully availableon the internet. Someone operating acassette deck or computer with an audiooutput to a transmitter could easily transmitthe desired programming when our actors (volunteers) turn on a radio or desirea runaway steam engine whistle to blare.
And for anyone who wants to read about mydaughter's ghostly encounter, the book isMore Ghosts of Block Island by Fran Migliaccio.Melanie's story, The Woman in White at BridgegateSquare, is on page.75.

Ken Carr 

    On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 10:32:14 AM EDT, Randall Snow <pleaseleaveamessage4me at gmail.com> wrote:  

 Ken,
Fantastic creativity!  This is definitely the sort of thing we could do to bring more life and humanity to our displays.  Of course, we need a bit more following to make it worthwhile, but the idea is wonderful.  The only missing thing is the 1930's gentleman radio listener glancing at his watch as he turns the radios on and off, proclaiming "1963?! Can you believe how the time flies!"  We should plan for this sort of thing for next year.  We could put it on the schedule and advertise it to everyone who comes through the summer and at Steam Up.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 8:58 AM Ken Carr via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

Spruce (birch) Goose and The Man in Brown: chills can be real
Craig, I will be on the lookout for that man. My first thought was thathe might be a station operator who lived in he building. A second possibility might be someone who once lived on this land. Are there anygravesites here? Spring? Isn’t that about the time we set up the TR7 transceiver,said to be one of Mr. Merriam’s favorites? 
Len, that article opens up a host of ideas. Winter may currently be ouroff season; but, we certainly could offer special events. We couldintroduce a tour hosted by several properly schooled and dressedactors. The cast:
Master Curator and Records Keeper: A bespectacled gentleman whoappears at the doorway of his tiny office. He has a distracted air about himas he rapidly hauls out from his office some of his favorite treasures,all the while mussing about their significance to the museum collection.Each artifact (textbook, record book, patent grant, blue print, etc.) isplaced on a large table in front of the spectators.
The Gentleman Radio Listener: Dressed in 1930’s evening attire, readingglasses drooping below his nose, an unlit pipe in his mouth, he is seatedin his period correct lounger while reading the newspaper. Theheadline observed by our guests, reads “Hindenburg Disaster in NJ”.Next to our gentleman is a chairside Zenith from which we hear quiet music. Noticing our presence he suddenly says “Hello” andbegins to ask how we feel about the tragic event of May 6, 1937.“I first heard about it on this very radio. It was last night at about7:30.” He turns on the radio and we hear the actual live broadcast.The Gentleman then reminisces about other events he has heardon his radios throughout time past, present and future. As he doesthis he is walking around the room and stopping at various displayradios which he describes and then turn on. Magically theactual relevant broadcast booms from the speakers: Bombing of PearlHarbor, FDR Fireside Chat, Assassination of JFK, a popularentertainment program, etc.
And many more characters: The Factory Boiler Maintenance ManThe Proud Engine Designer, Mr. CorlissThe Housewife to the Wireless Station OperatorMr. Massie, the Engineer and Designer of Wireless EquipmentMr. Armstrong, the Feverish Inventor Mr. Edison, the nearly deaf man with an ear for musicMr. Crosley, and many others to choose from.
Tours every 90 minutes. Register ahead.Free to members, a nominal fee for guests.
Regarding ghosts, my daughter, Melanie, saw one.The experience resulted in her immediately exiting her residenceand lodging with her boyfriend (now husband) at his mother’s house. The details are to be found in a book about ghostson Block Island, that same place that our PJ station hadconstant contact with. And we are back where we began.

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On Sunday, October 31, 2021, 12:15 PM, Craig Moody via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

I actually saw something once when I came down the stairs from the transmitter room by myself. It was in the Spring of this year.  As I turned left into the room on the main floor I was caught off-guard by a distinct full-size shadow-like male figure dressed in a dark brown overcoat standing in the center of that room with his hands in his coat pockets. It was just to the left of my direct line of sight, just in the area of my forward peripheral vision. When I looked at it full-on it was no longer visible.My first though was that it was Bob, judging by the height and slightly hunched stature.  I never would have said anything because I’ve pretty much kept those things to myself. Everybody has their opinions of this kind of thing, but there have been many such occurrences in my lifetime.To me, it’s a pretty cool thing when it happens.
Craig

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:53 AM Lens Email via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

On the occasion of Halloween, has anyone seen Massie’s ghost in station PJ?

Len

http://www.flyingmag.com/story/news/ghosts-museum-education/

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