I did a summer internship for two weeks for two summers at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C. The woman I worked for is really nice, and she'd take me to see art museums around the city, and how the NPG worked. Apparently the building that the NPG and SAAM (Smithsonian American Art Museum) share was a war hospital during the Civil War, and Walt Whitman was a nurse there. The NPG now has its offices in the Smithsonian's office building a few blocks away from the museum, but before the move, the offices were in the wing where the hospital had been. Sometimes at night, if most of the people were gone, and only a few people were working late using their desk lamps - so the wing was dark - you could see a dark shape moving around in the desks. I forget how they decided, but the general consensus seems to be that it was Walt Whitman checking on soldiers.
One of the other interns went to school at Gettysburg, and so she told us about the ghost tours that would come through campus. She says the students make up a lot of stories for the tourists, but they've got some of their own stories that they believe, like one about a sentry on campus.
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I did a summer internship for two weeks for two summers at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C. The woman I worked for is really nice, and she'd take me to see art museums around the city, and how the NPG worked. Apparently the building that the NPG and SAAM (Smithsonian American Art Museum) share was a war hospital during the Civil War, and Walt Whitman was a nurse there. The NPG now has its offices in the Smithsonian's office building a few blocks away from the museum, but before the move, the offices were in the wing where the hospital had been. Sometimes at night, if most of the people were gone, and only a few people were working late using their desk lamps - so the wing was dark - you could see a dark shape moving around in the desks. I forget how they decided, but the general consensus seems to be that it was Walt Whitman checking on soldiers.
One of the other interns went to school at Gettysburg, and so she told us about the ghost tours that would come through campus. She says the students make up a lot of stories for the tourists, but they've got some of their own stories that they believe, like one about a sentry on campus.
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