Ghosts of the Civil War: Shades of Blue and Gray

 Largely Literary Theater Company co-founders Sara Showman (from the South) and Mark Dawidziak (from the North) will examine the War Between the States with a mixture of haunting tales, literary selections, song and history when they visit Rodman Public Library's Main Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 6 to present "The Ghosts of the Civil War: Shades of Blue and Gray."

The program is presented by Alliance's Civil War-era historic home, the Haines House Underground Railroad Museum. 

Dawidziak and Showman, a husband-and-wife team, will take the audience on a 90-minute ghostly tour that begins in Ohio, with stories drawn from Marietta, a stop on the Underground Railroad and the still-standing Hope iron furnace, as well as the two Confederate cemeteries that were part of prisoner of war camps in Columbus and on Johnson's Island. The journey continues with stories from South Carolina and Virginia, with a special section about Abraham Lincoln and the White House hauntings. Literary selections include poems by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.