Excursions into the Un-Remembered Past: What People Want from Visits to Historical Sites

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CATHERINE M. CAMERON received her Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an anthropologist specializing in tourism studies and expressive culture, particularly twentieth-century American experimental music. Since 1983, she has taught at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Cameron has been studying cultural tourism and economic revitalization in Bethlehem and the larger Lehigh Valley. Cameron can be reached at ccameron@cedarcrest.edu. JOHN B. GATEWOOD is an anthropologist (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978) specializing in cognitive anthropology, fisheries, and research methods. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He has worked with Dr. Cameron on local community development issues for the past several years. Gatewood can be reached atjbgl@lehigh.edu. The authors would like to thank two undergraduate students, Patricia Marnien and Jennifer Hunt, for administering the survey and Cedar Crest College for a faculty development grant in support of this work. They also thank the late Jerry Bastoni (Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor), Beverly Sheppard (formerly of the Chester County Historical