Similarchonicity

We start not far from the banks of the Ohio River in Evansville, Indiana. 

We are not ghost hunting.  But we haunt buildings haunted by ghosts.  The Willard library in Evansville has seen its share of the grey lady ghost.  The grey lady is thought to be Louise Carpenter, the daughter of the Libraries' founder Willard Carpenter.   But we know better.  Though Louise may have had an axe to grind against the Trustees of the library because old Willard gave a bunch of money to found the library in the 1870s and 1880s, the grey lady ghost is not malevolent and has a taste for Imperial Stout.

Some say the grey lady ghost was last seen lumbering up to the bar at the Tin Man brewery in Evansville.  But we saw her after that.

Further down the Ohio River the good townspeople in Owensboro, Kentucky  built a monument in 1999 to honor Air Force Colonel Charles E. Shelton, who was shot down over Laos in 1965.  Shelton apparently lived many years in captivity was finally declared dead by the U.S. Government in 1994.

Shelton had a wife.   Dorothy Marian Vollman Shelton married Charles in 1952 at age 17.   This grey lady did not give up hope in locating her husband until October 4, 1990, when she took her own life.   She is currently buried next to her husband's empty grave in Arlington National Cemetery.

Next to the Shelton monument in Owensboro is the National Bluegrass Museum which has had its own share of ghost siting's.   Visitors to the museum in 2014 allegedly saw the spirit of Bill Monroe still pursuing the high lonesome sound in tribute to the grey lady, all the while mentoring and encouraging new generations of pickers and players and just generally making himself beloved to plain folks.

But the grey lady now rests gratefully dead further down the Ohio at the Terrapin Hill Farm near Harrodsburg, Kentucky.  She and former Grateful Dead front man Jerry Garcia are buried in a sealed vault on the side of a great hill that doubles as an outdoor amphitheater and music festival venue.   The venue is the best kept secret on the festival music scene and is notorious for dosing unsuspecting patrons with hallucinogenic beer cocktails.