Preserving Your Ride Into History
Posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:32 pm
BY SCOT ANDREW PITZER Times Staff Writer |
The two-year-old Gettysburg Battlefield Visitor Center & Museum has achieved an unprecedented environmental sustainability standard in Pennsylvania. Continue reading →
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George Sivits stooped a little as he reached out his right hand and, trembling, slipped a ring on the finger of his fiancée Kerri Decker.He had to stoop. The ceiling beams in the Civil War Chapel on Chambersburg Street were low and George, in his replica 1863 boots, crowded the rafters. Continue reading →
Karina Schroeder A child is tended to by onlookers after a horse got loose, trampling people at a Fourth of July parade in downtown Bellevue, Iowa, on Sunday, July 4, 2010. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reported at least 13 people were injured, including several children. (AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Karina Schroeder) Continue reading →
GETTYSBURG — Unlike the rest of Hampton’s Legion, the standard bearer has no facial hair — not the scruffy Confederate beard or even a 5 o’clock shadow.That won’t come for several more years for D.J. Gregory, the 10-year-old who, atop an 800-pound American quarter horse named Copper, joined Hampton’s Legion to re-enact a cavalry battle during the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Continue reading →
By Dick Watson
Times Staff Writer Walking through the Union camp west of the 147th re-enactment site Friday, one could see and smell the still smoldering fires from breakfast. Continue reading →
I would like to thank all the GEHS members who attended the June work detail. The weather was HOT, HOT, HOT. 90 degree temps and a blazing sun greeted all who attended. The work detail tackled the Trostle Lane snake rail fence area. A group also went over to Pitzer’s Woods and cut back brush on both ends of the woods. Carl Athey side mowed various areas of the trail with his tractor and brush hog. Everyone worked hard to get the trails ready for our equine visitors over the 4th of July weekend and beyond. THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE.
More extensions and connections are planned among walking and biking routes in Franklin and Cumberland counties. Continue reading →