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The Death Of Professor Jones: Ghosts And Memory In A Small University Archives, Erin Dix
The Death Of Professor Jones: Ghosts And Memory In A Small University Archives, Erin Dix
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
The following is a true story of hauntings, literal and figurative, at a small liberal arts college in the Midwest. It is the tale of Haunted Lawrence: a walking tour of the Lawrence University campus featuring historical stories of the ghostly and unexplained, designed and led by staff in the University Archives for the past ten years. Perennially popular with the campus community, the tour has grown to plague the university archivist. This essay is an attempt to exorcise her personal Haunted Lawrence demons.