2009.11.02
Photos and video from the Salem Museum Ghost Walk
While So Salem didn't get to go to the October 24 showing of the annual Salem Museum Ghost Walk, which one visitor said was "the perfect night for a ghost walk: windy, a little bit cloudy, and moonlit;" Tuesday ghost-walk-goers got a downpour of rain that forced even the actors of the dead under the picnic shelters in Longwood Park. Even those with umbrellas got wet in that sopping wet soak.
Ghost actors included Willie Robertson as Thomas Cooper, Marylen Harmon as Mary Eliza Davenport, Mike Thomas as Thomas Chapman, Rob Laing as Charles Johnston, Joe LaRocco and Eddie Goode as Andrew Lewis, Eddie Hite as Abraham Hupp, Ann Sampson as Anna Crawford Deyerle, and Greg Gallion and Junior Switzer as West Virginian veterans of the Confederate War who came to Salem to train.
Students from across the Roanoke Valley, primarily those from Cave Spring High (Joe LaRocco's classes) and from Andrew Lewis Middle School (Greg Gallion's classes), visited and paid close attention. Maybe a few of those students even got extra credit, depending on the assignment.
For more information about Salem history and the Salem ghost characters, go to www.salemmuseum.org. The Salem Museum's next big event is the Salem Museum Holiday Homes Tour from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, December 6. This year, the McVitty Mansion is among the beautiful old homes on the tour.
Do you have ghostly, ghastly, or cute Halloween pictures to share? If they're ghostly or ghastly, send them to news@sosalem.com. If they're cute and under 12 years old, you can enter in the Roanoke Times' costume contest. Click here for the details.
