The Washington Post, June 10th, 1993
Samantha Hamilton says she met her first ghost eight years ago when the invisible specter tirelessly banged and bumped its way up and down the stairs of her historic Maryland home. "That house was haunted to the gunwales," the Leesburg author recalls. "But my roommates and I told it, `If you don't terrify us, we won't harm you,' and after that we felt a great sense of protection." Today, Hamilton is confronting ghosts of a different sort. The 36- year-old writer has adapted her experiences with a poltergeist into a play that reflects the local conflict between historic preservation and land d...
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