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Vol. 10/No. 3
JUNE/JULY 2013
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THURSDAY, JUNE 27 at 6:30pm
MAJESTIC THEATER 25 Carlisle Street, Gettysburg, PA
Ticket Info: (717) 337-8200 http://goo.gl/RTNvX
A portion of ticket sales will benefit the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership.
Arrive when the doors open at 5:30 p.m.
to purchase your Civil War merchandise including
a Limited Edition Collector’s Box Set of
Gettysburg
and Gods and Generals
and have it autographed by the movie director.
What’s Inside
june/july
2013
Vol.10, No. 3
Seminary Ridge Museum Opens.......................................................................16
Ways To See The Battle..........................................................................................20
150th Anniversary: Boon to Businesses..........................................................24
Features
REGULAR
Editor’s Notebook
5
Community Faces................. 6
What’s Goin’ On................... 8
By Alex J. Hayes........................
Personality Profile
Foundation’s Joanne Hanley....
12
One Tank Traveler
National Museum
of Civil War Medicine...............
Delectable Dining
Hickory Bridge Farm...............
The Untold Story
Black History Tour..................
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Photo by Darryl Wheeler
Our Supporting Advertisers
Adams County Transit Authority............................. 37
Belle Jewelers....................................................................4
Blue & Gray Bar & Grill................................................. 29
Catoctin Colorfest........................................................ 14
Catoctin Mountain Orchard...................................... 23
Catoctin Zoo................................................................... 28
The Christmas Haus..................................................... 27
Cozy Country Inn.......................................................... 23
Ernie’s Texas Lunch....................................................... 37
Fitzgerald’s Shamrock Restaurant.......................... 29
Foremost Insurance Group....................................... 40
Franklin County Visitor Center....................................4
Garma............................................................................. 39
Gettysburg College...................................................... 29
Gettysburg Companion................................................7
ON THE COVER
Gettysburg Family Restaurant................................. 37
Gettysburg Hotel.......................................................... 15
Gettysburg Times......................................................... 32
Homewood at Plum Creek...........................................4
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground................2
Kennie’s Marketplace.................................................. 36
Maggie’s Restaurant.................................................... 33
Mount St. Mary’s University...................................... 26
National Apple Harvest.............................................. 19
New Oxford Coffee Co. Bakery & Café................... 33
O’Rorke’s Family Eatery & Spirits............................. 19
Penn National................................................................ 32
Snyder’s of Hanover..................................................... 15
Yesteryear Antique Center of Hanover ................ 23
The Village of Laurel Run........................................... 36
The Lutheran Theological
Seminary cupola, atop the
newly opened Seminary Ridge
Museum, is one of the best
places to view the battlefield.
During the battle, it was used
by Union Brig. Gen. John
Buford to scout the arrival
of Confederate soldiers and
hail the approach of Union
reinforcements.
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EDITOR’S
BY Alex J. Hayes
A publication of
Gettysburg Times, LLC
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Editor
Alex J. Hayes
Magazine Design & Production
Chris Blaska
Kate Delano
Matt Fern
Contributing Writers
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Jessica A. Haines
Jim Hale
Jarrad Hedes
Tommy Riggs
Dick Watson
Photography
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Darryl Wheeler
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When Gettysburg officials started planning the 150th Anniversary of the Battle
of Gettysburg in 2011, it seemed to be so far away. Now it’s here, it’s almost hard to
believe. Several million visitors will enjoy our small town and all its history in the
next few weeks giving all of us who live here the unique opportunity to honor those
soldiers who fought here 150 years ago as well as show America what Adams County
has to offer.
One of the newest offerings is pictured on the cover. It’s the historic cupola that
sits atop Schmucker Hall on the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Civil
War generals used this cupola to watch for Confederate troops approaching from the
west. Schmucker Hall was also used as a hospital for Union and Confederate troops.
Today, it’s been transformed into a museum opening July 1. Writer Jarrad Hedes
shares the story of the hospital, now museum.
Visitors to Gettysburg this summer certainly have a lot of options when it comes
time to touring the battlefield. Jim Hale writes about how to tour on a horse, via
Segway, in your own car and more. We now fully understand how July 1, 2 and 3 transformed Gettysburg in 1863,
but what effect will those same three days in 2013 have on Gettysburg’s future?
Tommy Riggs talked to tourism officials and historians about their predictions.
Many of our regular features also relate to the battle anniversary. Ashley Andyshak
Hayes profiles Gettysburg Foundation President Joanne Hanley. Jessica Haines
recently took a trip to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine for “One Tank
Traveler.”
After a long day on the battlefield and at various attractions, visitors will certainly
be hungry. Hickory Bridge Farm was established in the 1600s and now houses a
unique restaurant that serves its meals family style. Dick Watson has more in
“Delectable Dining.”
I hope you enjoy this magazine, and if you are a visitor, I hope you enjoy our town.
This entire year is especially unique, so in our August/September issue, look for a
feature on the 2013 Congressional Medal of Honor Society Convention that will be
happening here in September. I talked to Convention CEO Bob Monahan recently
and he assures me that we will all be moved by the incredible stories of these brave
men and women.
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Faces
COMMUNITY
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Area residents from all walks of life,
who are out & about, doing this & that.
1. Staff from the Littlestown Area School District
presented a mixed-up comedy featuring three
pigs, three billy goats and three bears for the
benefit of the Littlestown Library on April 26.
3. Bob MacBeth laughs as he instructs the
assembled tractor drivers prior to the South
Mountain Antique Engine Association’s Tractor
Parade on May 11.
2. Kristi Kraft was crowned the 2013
Pennsylvania Apple Queen during the Apple
Blossom Festival on May 5 at South Mountain
Fairgrounds. The daughter of Robert and
Mary Kraft, Kristi is 17 years old and a junior at
Fairfield High School.
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6. Larry Kennedy, former Upper Adams School
District teacher and principal, gives the “Go!”
command during the relay race event at
Upper Adams Color Day on May 17. This was
Kennedy’s 50th year working Color Day.
5. Viewing flowers created by local artist
Annie Byrne for the children’s portion of the
Gettysburg Festival are, from left, Stephen
Moores, Byrne, Gettysburg Festival Executive
Director Randy Prasse, Mary Moores, Ella
Moores and Sophia Moores. This year’s festival
will be June 8 – 16.
Photo by John Armstrong
4. The owner and staff of Mamma Ventura’s
Restaurant and Lounge on Chambersburg
Street in Gettysburg work hard to treat their
guests to an authentic Italian dining experience.
Front row from left: Cristina Fazzolari, Gioconda
Fazzolari, Mona Stull and Jennifer Krape Miller;
back row: Stephen Ian Price, Christopher
Garrison and Juan Carlo Barbosa.
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8. Amy Beckman of New Oxford Middle School
was named the 2013 Gettysburg Adams
Chamber of Commerce Educator of the Year
on May 16. Pictured from left are: Sen. Rich
Alloway, Commissioner Marty Qually, Beckman,
Commissioner Randy Phiel, Chamber President
Carrie Stuart and Adams County Commissioner
Jim Martin.
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7. The “Smurfs” and the “Diablos” battled in a
fundraising dodgeball tournament on April 13
at Gettysburg Area High School. Approximately
$1,500 was raised for the school’s band
program.
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Photo by john armstrong
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Photo by john armstrong
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Goin’ On
WHAT’S
Compiled by Jessica A. Haines
Saturdays, June-July, 11 a.m.
Ongoing
Historic Gettysburg Adams County offers tours
of the Underground Railroad at McAllister Mill.
Meet at 1360 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg. (717)
659-8827
Saturdays, June-July, 5-8 p.m.
Music in the Valley concert series is held at
Reid’s Orchard & Winery, Orrtanna. www.
reidsorchardwinery.com
Saturdays and Sundays,
June-July, 2-5 p.m.
Music in the Valley concert series is held at
Reid’s Orchard & Winery, Orrtanna. www.
reidsorchardwinery.com
Saturdays, July 6-27, 2-5 p.m.
Summer concert series at Adams County
Winery, Orrtanna. www.adamscountywinery.
com/events (717) 334-4631
Now-June 9
Totem Pole Playhouse, Fayetteville, presents
“Noises Off.” www.totempoleplayhouse.org
(717) 352-2164
Wednesdays, June-July,
9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Adams County Farmers Market is held at the
Gettysburg Recreation Park, Gettysburg. www.
acfarmersmarkets.org.
Thursdays, June 13-Aug. 15, 7:15 p.m.
Hike with Ike is offered in Gettysburg, meeting
at the Gettysburg College gates on North
Washington Street. www.nps.gov/eise (717)
338-9114.
Thursdays, June-July, 6-9 p.m.
Thirsty Thursday at Hauser Estate Winery,
Biglerville. www.hauserestate.com.
Fridays June-July, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Adams County Farmers Market is held at
the Outlet Shoppes at Gettysburg. www.
acfarmersmarkets.org.
Fridays and Saturdays,
June-July, 6-9 p.m.
june
June 1, 6-8 p.m.
Murder Mystery Wine Dinner at the
Adams County Winery, Orrtanna. www.
adamscountywinery.com/events (717) 334-4631
June 1, 6:30 p.m.
The Adams County Arts Council celebrates its
20th anniversary at Sidney at Willoughby Run,
Gettysburg. www.adamsarts.org (717) 3345006.
June 1, 6 p.m.
“An Evening with the Painting” will be offered
at the Gettysburg National Military Park
Museum and Visitor Center, Gettysburg. www.
gettysburgfoundation.org , (877) 874-2478.
June 2, noon-4:30 p.m.
Adult & Child CPR/AED will be offered at
Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve, Fairfield. Preregistration preferred. www.strawberryhill.org
(717) 642-5840
June 4, 7-8:30 p.m.
Saturdays , June-July, 7 a.m.-noon
Nature Arts & Crafts Summer Series at the
Preserve, Part 2: Painting, will be offered at
(717) 642-5840
The Gettysburg Farmers’ Market is held on
Lincoln Square, Gettysburg.
“The Ten Commandments” will be shown at the
Hauser After Hours at Hauser Estate Winery,
Biglerville. www.hauserestate.com.
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June 5, 7:30 p.m.
Majestic Theater, 25 Carlisle St., Gettysburg.
www.gettysburgmajestic.org. (717) 337-8200.
June 7
First Friday, Gettysburg Style, is celebrated
at stores, galleries and restaurants
throughout downtown Gettysburg.
gettysburgretailmerchants.com.
June 7-July 7
Gettysburg Community Theatre, 49 York St.,
Gettysburg, presents “The Civil War (For the
Glory).” www.gettysburgcommunitytheatre.org
(717) 334-2692.
June 7-July 7
Gettysburg, presents “Children of Gettysburg.”
www.gettysburgcommunitytheatre.org (717)
334-2692.
June 8, 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
The 38th annual Gettysburg Region Antique
and Classic Auto and Truck Show at Flea
Market, Latimore Valley Fairgrounds, York
Springs. (717) 451-0092
June 8, 1-5 p.m.
Adams County Winery, Orrtanna, celebrates the
25th anniversary of Tears of Gettysburg. www.
June 8, 8 p.m.
Songs and Stories of a Civil War Hospital at
historic Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 30
Chambersburg St., Gettysburg. (717) 334-5212.
June 8 & June 15
The Pennsylvania Lavender Festival is held
at Willow Pond Farm, Fairfield. www.
palavenderfestival.com
June 8-9, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
“Wilderness Medicine” will be offered at
(717) 642-5840
June 8-9
D-Day Anniversary Weekend at the Eisenhower
National Historic Site, Gettysburg.
www.nps.gov/eise (717) 338-9114.
June 8-16
The Gettysburg Festival, featuring arts,
theater, music and culinary arts is held at sites
throughout Gettysburg. www.gettysburgfestival.
org (717) 334-0853
Goin’ On
WHAT’S
CONTINUED
June 8-Aug. 18
June 15, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Daily Ranger Walks and programs are offered
at the Gettysburg National Military Park.
www.nps.gov/gett (717) 334-1124, ext. 8023.
The 57th annual New Oxford Antique Market
is held throughout downtown New Oxford.
(717) 624-2800.
June 8-Aug. 18
June 15, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Daily Exploring Eisenhower Programs are
offered at the Eisenhower National Historic Site.
www.nps.gov/eise (717) 338-9114.
The 4th annual Rusty’s Birthday Bash is
celebrated at the Adams County Winery,
Orrtanna. www.adamscountywinery.com/events
(717) 334-4631
June 15, 8 p.m.
June 24-Aug. 2
Gettysburg, offers summer theatre day camps.
www.gettysburgcommuntytheatre.org (717)
334-2692.
June 25, 7-8 p.m.
Nature Arts & Crafts Summer Series, Part 1:
Pottery, will be offered at Strawberry Hill Nature
Preserve, Fairfield. Pre-registration preferred.
www.strawberryhill.org (717) 642-5840
June 16, 1-4 p.m.
June 25-June 29
Picnic Day at the Adams County Winery,
Orrtanna. www.adamscountywinery.com/events
(717) 334-4631
Gettysburg Fireman’s Carnival, Gettysburg
Recreation Park, Gettysburg. (717) 334-7548
June 16, 3 p.m.
“The Gettysburg Story,” will premiere at the
Movie will be shown nightly June 28-July 11.
www.gettysburgmajestic.org, (717) 337-8200.
June 17-Aug. 9
June 11-23
“A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline.” www.
totempleplayhouse.org (717) 352-2164
June 12, 7:30 p.m.
“Singin’ In the Rain” will be shown at the
Wednesdays, June 12-Aug. 28,
6 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.
Historic Church Tours of Gettysburg are
offered. Tours change each week. www.
historicchurchwalkingtours.org
June 13-15
Summer camp will be offered at Strawberry Hill
Nature Preserve, Fairfield. www.strawberryhill.
org (717) 642-5840
June 18, 7:30 p.m.
Frank Orlando as Robert E. Lee is the
educational speaker at the monthly meeting
of Historic Gettysburg Adams County, 53 E.
Middle St., Gettysburg. hgaconline.org (717)
334-8312.
June 19, 7:30 p.m.
“Lawrence of Arabia” will be shown at the
www.gettysburgmajestic.org (717) 337-8200.
June 21-25
The annual Civil War Institute is held at
Gettysburg College. www.gettysburg.edu/cwi
(717) 337-6590
“History Meets the Arts” is celebrated at art
galleries throughout downtown Gettysburg and
at the Gettysburg Fire Department, N. Stratton
St., Gettysburg. (717)334-7950
June 21-23
June 15
June 22, 8 a.m.
The Gettysburg National Military Park’s Brass
Band Concert, Gettysburg National Military
Park Museum and Visitors Center, www.nps.
gov/gett (717) 334-1124, ext. 8023
The annual Latimore Valley Fair is held at
the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing, York
Springs. (717) 528-8279
The 23rd annual Spirit of Gettysburg kicks off at
the YWCA Gettysburg & Adams County. (717)
334- 9171. www.ywcagettysburg.org
June 22, 8 p.m.
June 25-July 7
“Dames at Sea.” www.totempleplayhouse.org
(717) 352-2164
June 26, 7:30 p.m.
“His Gal Friday” will be shown at the Majestic
Theater, 25 Carlisle St., Gettysburg. www.
gettysburgmajestic.org, (717) 337-8200.
June 27, 6:30 p.m.
“Copperhead” will premiere at the Majestic
Theater, 25 Carlisle St., Gettysburg. Movie
will be shown nightly June 28-July 11. www.
June 28-30
Annual Gettysburg Civil War Collectors Show,
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Goin’ On
WHAT’S
CONTINUED
Allstar Events Complex, Emmitsburg Road,
Gettysburg. (717) 334-2350
org/Flohrs_Lutheran_09/Welcome.html
July 1-4
June 28, 10 a.m.
June 29-30
150th Gettysburg Re-enactment – A Blue Gray
Alliance Event, held at 1845 Pumping Station
Road, Gettysburg. www.bluegraygettysburg.com.
The 150th anniversary of the Battle of
Gettysburg will be commemorated with a
series of interpretive programs by the National
Park Service. Programs include Key Moment
Programs, Overview Hikes, Battlefield Experience
Programs, Voices Programs featuring living
historians, specially scheduled ranger programs,
and ranger programs at the Gettysburg National
Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. A full
schedule of is at www.gettysburgcivilwar150.com
or www.nps.gov/gett.
“Attack of Culp’s Hill - Wounded Converge
on the Lady Farm CSA Field Hospital” at
the Daniel Lady Farm, 986 Hanover Road,
Gettysburg. www.gbpa.org.
June 28, 6 p.m.
gettysburgfoundation.org , (877) 874-2478.
June 28-July 4
“War Meets Compassion, The Confederate Field
Hospital,” will feature interactive programs and
displays at the Daniel Lady Farm, 986 Hanover
Road, Gettysburg. www.gbpa.org
June 29-July 5
“Celebrate History Music Festival” at the
American Civil War Wax Museum, 297
Steinwehr Ave., Gettysburg. www.celebratehistory-music-festival.com
June 30, 9 a.m.
Prince of Peace Episcopal Church, Gettysburg,
marks its 125th anniversary with a service of
commemoration. (717) 334-8554
June 30, 7:30 p.m.
“Skirmishes on Seminary Ridge” opening events
for the Seminary Ridge Museum, will be held
at 111 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg. (717) 3391300
“Gettysburg: A New Birth of Freedom”
Commemorative Ceremony at Meade’s
Headquarters, Gettysburg National Military
Park, Gettysburg. Featuring keynote speaker
Doris Kearns Goodwin, country music artist
Trace Adkins, and the United States Military
Academy Orchestra.
June 29, 1-5 p.m.
June 30, 9-10:30 p.m.
“150th Gettysburg Commemoration Family
Festival” will be held at the Adams County
Winery, 251 Peach Tree Road in Orrtanna. The
event will feature living history figures, local
authors, re-enactors, live music, family- and
children-related activities, the only official
150th Anniversary wines, and more. www.
150th Commemorative Illumination, Soldiers’
National Cemetery, Gettysburg.
June 28-July 1
June 29, 2 p.m.
Eternal Peace Light Memorial Commemoration
featuring guest speaker Maj. Gen. Anthony
Cucolo, Commandant of the U.S. Army War
College. Shuttles will be provided from HACC
Gettysburg Campus, 731 Old Harrisburg Road.
June 29, 8 p.m.
June 29-30
“A Sacred Trust” lecture series featuring notable
historians on a variety of topics will be held
gettysburgfoundation.org, (877) 874-2478
June 29-30
“Prelude to Gettysburg: The Cashtown Road”
held at sites in Cashtown. www.flohrslutheran.
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July 2, 11 a.m.
Annual Battle of Hunterstown Commemoration,
Tate Farm, 1975 Shrivers Corner Road,
Hunterstown. www.hunterstown1863.org
July 2, 1 p.m.
150th Re-enactment of the Battle of Hanover,
1750 Westminster Road, Hanover. www.lcacnet.
org.
July 3, 7 p.m.
Independence Day in downtown Gettysburg.
Parade kicks off from Lefever Street and
continues to East Middle Street before
proceeding south on Baltimore Street and
Steinwehr Avenue. www.gettysburgcivilwar150.
com.
July 3, 7:30 p.m.
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July 1, 8 a.m.
Grand opening of the Seminary Ridge Museum,
Gettysburg. www.seminaryridgemuseum.org,
(717) 339-1300.
July 1, 7-8:30 p.m.
“The Landscape and Rocks of the Gettysburg
National Military Park” will be offered by
Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve at 670 Old
Harrisburg Road, Gettysburg. Pre-registration
preferred. www.strawberryhill.org (717) 6425840
July 1, 8 p.m.
July 1-4
“Preserving Schmucker Hall: Seminary Ridge
Museum” will be held at the Seminary Ridge
Museum, 111 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg.
(717) 339-1300.
“Gettysburg” will be shown at the Majestic
July 4, 2-4 p.m.
Marching Orders: A Tour for the Whole Family,
Museum and Visitor Center. 1-877-874-2478
July 4, 5-7 p.m.
The Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra presents a
Fourth of July gala concert on the north lawn of
Pennsylvania Hall at Gettysburg College. (717)
337-6390.
July 4-7
Gettysburg 150th National Civil War Battle
Re-enactment, Gettysburg Anniversary
Committee, 1085 Table Rock Road,
Gettysburg. A full events schedule is at www.
gettysburgreenactment.com.
July 5
First Friday, Gettysburg Style, is celebrated
at stores, galleries and restaurants
throughout downtown Gettysburg.
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WHAT’S
CONTINUED
July 5
Coronets and Cannons brass band concert will
be held on Steinwehr Avenue near the Lincoln
Train Museum. (717) 337-1698.
present “The Road from Appomattox” at the
Majestic Theater, Gettysburg.
www.gettysburgmajestictheater.org (717) 3378200.
July 5-7
July 11, 7-8:30 p.m.
“A Sacred Trust” lecture series featuring notable
historians on a variety of topics will be held
gettysburgfoundation.org, (877) 874-2478
“Summer Tree ID” will be offered at Strawberry
Hill Nature Preserve, Fairfield. Pre-registration
preferred. www.strawberryhill.org (717) 6425840
July 6, 5-9 p.m.
The 12th annual Gettysburg Bike Week at
various sites. www.gettysburgbikeweek.com.
“Confederates Take the Shriver House” at
Shriver House Museum, Gettysburg. www.
shriverhouse.org.
July 6, 8 p.m.
July 6, 8 p.m.
Sweet Honey in the Rock will perform at
the Majestic Theater, Gettysburg. www.
gettysburgmajestictheater.org (717) 337-8200.
preferred. www.strawberryhill.org (717) 642-5840
July 24, 7:30 p.m.
“American in Paris” will be shown at the
July 11-14
July 13, noon-2 p.m.
“Bee Keeping for Bee-ginners, Part 3 of 4” will
be offered at Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve,
Fairfield. Pre-registration preferred. www.
strawberryhill.org (717) 642-5840
“Backcountry Navigation” will be offered at
(717) 642-5840
The Gettysburg Cook-off with games, samples
and competition, at Gateway Gettysburg,
sponsored by the Adams County Arts Council.
www.adamsarts.org.
July 20, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
The 14th annual Adams County Irish Festival,
Gettysburg Moose Lodge Park, Gettysburg.
(717) 337-3500
July 20, 8 p.m.
July 20-21
The 4th annual Gettysburg 19th century Base
Ball Tournament is held at the Schroeder
Farm, 965 Pumping Station Road, Gettysburg.
gettysburgbaseballfestival.com.
July 21, 6 p.m.
July 9-21
“The Sunshine Boys.” www.totempleplayhouse.
org (717) 352-2164
July 10-21
Totem Pole Playhouse and Majestic Theater
gettysburgfoundation.org (877) 874-2478.
July 23, 1-2:30 p.m.
Nature Arts & Crafts Summer Series, Part 3:
Pressed Flowers, will be offered at Strawberry
Hill Nature Preserve, Fairfield. Pre-registration
July 23-Aug. 4
“Boeing, Boeing.” www.totempleplayhouse.org
(717) 352-2164
July 25, 7-8:30 p.m.
Nature Arts & Crafts Summer Series at the
Preserve, Part 4: Photography, will be offered at
(717) 642-5840.
July 26-28
The Mountain Folk and Roots Festival, South
Mountain Fairgrounds, Arendtsville. (570) 4196236
July 27, 8 p.m.
July 31, 7:30 p.m.
“Fort Apache” will be shown at the Majestic
gettysburgmajestic.org (717) 337-8200.
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PERSONALITY
Profile
Text By Ashley Andyshak Hayes
Photos By John Armstrong
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Joanne Hanley
Head of Gettysburg Foundation enjoys
turning love of history into preservation
J
oanne Hanley’s office sits on the
top floor of the new Gettysburg
National Military Park Visitor
Center. It’s fitting that her office is part
of this building, since the foundation
she oversees is an integral part of the
preservation of the park.
Hanley became president of the
Gettysburg Foundation in 2011,
after working for the National Park
Service for 32 years. The Foundation
is a non-profit organization formed by
the merging in 2006 of two groups,
the Gettysburg National Battlefield
Museum Foundation and the Friends
of the National Parks at Gettysburg.
The Foundation is the only private nonprofit organization within the NPS,
Hanley said, and this partnership allows
Hanley to combine the historical and
natural resources of the NPS with the
fundraising and marketing capabilities
of the Foundation.
Hanley loves helping people express
their appreciation for Gettysburg. She
said her favorite part of the job is helping
turn people’s love of Gettysburg and its
history into tangible ways they can help
preserve it: through donations of their
time and money and by supporting
Foundation events throughout the year.
The Foundation encourages people who
appreciate Gettysburg’s history and want
to preserve it to become “Friends of
Gettysburg” at a variety of membership
levels. “People want to connect to
history here,” she said. “I try to help
people tap into that history in ways that
are meaningful to them.”
Hanley’s career with the National Park
Service has been life-long. She was born
and raised on Long Island and earned
her bachelor’s degree in environmental
science from Long Island University.
She earned her graduate degree in
the same field from Washington State
University. It was there that she was
introduced to the Park Service. During
her graduate studies, her academic
advisor encouraged her to complete a
yearlong internship with the National
Park Service, and she returned to work
there after graduation.
Hanley’s love of the outdoors also
helped lead her into working for
the National Park Service. “I loved
backpacking, canoeing and the outdoors,
so it was a natural thing for me,” she
said. “Mine is a natural resources focus.”
She also appreciates the natural
resources of other countries, and said
one of her favorite vacation spots is
Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario,
Canada, where she enjoys wilderness
canoeing.
Hanley’s more than three decades of
service with the National Park Service
took her to Alabama, Colorado, New
York and Washington, D.C. in the
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United States, along with southeast Asia
and Africa. Her most recent position was
superintendent of the National Parks of
Western Pennsylvania, which include the
Fort Necessity National Battlefield, the
Johnstown Flood National Memorial,
the Allegheny Portage Railroad National
Historic Site, Friendship Hill National
Historic Site and the Flight 93 National
Memorial.
The Flight 93 memorial was created
through a partnership between the
National Park Service and other groups
to memorialize the 40 people who died
on Sept. 11, 2001, when their plane
crashed in a Shanksville, Pa., field after
terrorists on board the plane stormed
the cockpit. Hanley was superintendent
of the Western Pennsylvania Parks when
the attack occurred and was instrumental
in developing the memorial.
Hanley said she believes that every
experience she’s had has prepared her to
accept her current position in Gettysburg.
“I’m not a historian or a scholar, but I
feel strongly about preserving the ideals
and history of America,” she said. “We
can’t lose sense of what we’ve done, or
we’ll lose our sense of country.”
“
People want to connect
to history here. I try to
help people tap into that
history in ways that are
meaningful to them.
”
While in her position in western
Pennsylvania,
Hanley
had
the
opportunity to give leadership talks
to various groups about the people on
board Flight 93 who gave their lives to
thwart the attempted terrorist attack
on Washington, D.C. These same
characteristics of courage and readiness
to act can be found many times in many
stories of the men who died during the
Battle of Gettysburg, she said.
“Character has to be built before we’re
called to act,” she said. “What made the
people on that plane ready to act? The
men on that battlefield were ready to
act.”
On a personal level, Hanley said she
prioritizes her life and work into five
areas. The first four are God, family,
country and avocation. Hanley says her
avocation is “to preserve history to give
others the opportunity to have [these
strong] feelings,” she said. These four
help her with the fifth area, which are
the day-to-day duties of her job.
Hanley’s faith is an important part of
her life. She joined the Roman Catholic
Church in 2012. She said her 21-year-old
daughter, Annie, piqued her intellectual
curiosity about Catholicism. “I had been
exposed to it all my life, as my father was
Catholic. I was a lifelong Protestant,”
she said. “But my daughter challenged
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me to read about Catholicism. The
more I read, the more I had to find
out.”
Hanley said her limited free time
is spent visiting family. Hanley’s
husband, Matthew, still lives in
Ligonier, Pa., and her daughter
attends the University of South
Carolina, so much of her time
outside of work is spent traveling to
see them.
Through her daily work, Hanley
said she strives to carry out the ideals
set forth by President Abraham
Lincoln in his famous address: “It
is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced. It is
rather for us to be here dedicated to
the great task remaining before us —
that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for
which they gave the last full measure
of devotion — that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain.”
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Schmucker Hall to Re-Open July 1 as
Civil War Hospital Museum
By Jarrad Hedes | Photos by Darryl Wheeler
Schmucker Hall is going back to its
roots. The Battle of Gettysburg’s largest
field hospital has been transformed after
seven-months of construction into a Civil
War enthusiast’s paradise.
The $13.3 million, 20,000-squarefoot Seminary Ridge Museum is slated
to open July 1 on the campus of the
Lutheran Theological Seminary, featuring
interactive exhibit galleries and educational
programming.
The four-floor museum and its “Voices
of Duty and Devotion” exhibits will feature
themes “not focused on anywhere else in
Gettysburg,” according to Barbara Franco,
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the museum’s executive director.
The exhibits include an in-depth look at
the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg,
waged along Seminary Ridge; detailed
insight into the care of the wounded at
“Each room will be
historically accurate and
set up to look like what
it would have looked like
when Schmucker Hall
was used as a hospital
during the battle.”
Schmucker Hall, home of the largest field
hospital at Gettysburg; exploration of the
topics of faith and freedom; the role of
religion in the Civil War and the meaning
of freedom.
“Over 90 percent of the original fabric
of the building is still here,” Franco said of
Schmucker Hall, which was built in 1832
and underwent a few renovations in 1895
after the completion of the seminary’s
Valentine Hall. “This was a historic tax
credit project and part of that requires us
to maintain as much of the original fabric
of the building as we could.”
Construction on the museum began
in April 2012 and was completed in
November. Then a Virginia company
began installing exhibits in January 2013,
setting up each room in the building.
Crews installed, for example, an 1840s
farm door, which would have been used
as an operating table during the Battle of
Gettysburg in 1863.
“Each room will be historically accurate
and set up to look like what it would have
looked like when Schmucker Hall was
used as a hospital during the battle,” said
J. Craig Nannos, a historical and military
consultant who has worked on Hollywood
films such as “The Last of the Mohicans”
and “The Patriot.” “There will be rooms
depicting everything from soldiers lying
on the floor waiting to be treated to the
surgery room to a room where officers
were recovering months after the battle.”
Nannos said he tracked down many of
the artifacts for the museum as he did for
other projects and movies. His collection
included a set of Civil War era crutches
recovered from Adams County. Of the
other artifact donations, of note is a bone
from a knee of a Civil War soldier who had
his leg amputated in Schmucker Hall.
“That came from the National Museum
of Health and Medicine,” Franco said.
“I think the allure is that part of the
amputation was done right here in the
building. We know the soldier’s name and
that he was in the Massachusetts Regiment.
He was a shoemaker from Ireland and was
21 when he died.”
The exhibits are more about the stories
that go along with them than the actual
artifacts, Franco said.
Crews installed a door from the
McPherson Barn, which still stands
just west and within view of the
museum. The barn saw heavy
fighting on the first day of the battle.
“The door, which will be featured on the
fourth floor of the permanent exhibit that
examines the first day of the battle, is on
loan from museum supporters Dr. and
Mrs. Paul and Bailey Orange,” museum
spokesperson Dru Ann Neil added.
Several exhibits also ask visitors to put
themselves in the shoes of the Ziegler
family, who lived in the building when its
use as a hospital started. “Many wounded
soldiers could not even feed themselves,”
one display reads. “The Ziegler children
assisted the nurses changing bandages
and chamber pots or bedpans! They also
fed patients, or just read or talked to the
wounded to help them rest.”
The exhibit contains a Bible passage and
visitors are asked to read it aloud as if they
were soothing a wounded soldier. It also
includes 10 original Dale Gallon paintings,
which will be included in the “Voices of
Duty and Devotion” exhibit.
The museum will be open for visitors to
go through on their own, with admission
set for $9 for adults and $7 for senior
citizens and students, with group discounts
available. The museum will offer guided
tours of the seminary’s cupola, from which
Union General John Buford observed
the first day’s battle movements, and will
require a separate ticket.
The Rev. John Spangler, president of
the Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation
Foundation, said that during the early
stages of Schmucker Hall’s rehab, a shoe
was found in one of the walls. This was
a German-American tradition to ensure
good luck when buildings were erected.
“Schmucker Hall has had a lot of good
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luck and that luck continues today,”
Spangler said.
Jefferson Coates was a Union Army
soldier and one of 64 men who received
the Medal of Honor for his actions during
the Battle of Gettysburg. During combat,
he was blinded in both eyes. One of his
descendants donated a Bible he carried with
him that will be placed in the museum.
“I have a feeling that after we open,
and people see what we are doing and the
kind of things we have in the museum,
we’re going to have people coming out of
the woodwork with artifacts they have,”
said Ben Neely, Adams County Historical
Society executive director.
Franco said the museum isn’t accepting
any artifacts directly, but will instead pull
from the collection of the historical society
and seminary archives.
Schmucker Hall was once referred to as
“Old Dorm,” and it served as a military
observation post and field hospital during
the July 1-3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.
It was originally built to prepare public
theologians to serve “at the crossroads of
hope and history.”
From the building’s cupola, Union
cavalry commander Gen. John Buford
observed Confederate forces advancing
on Gettysburg from the west. Within a
few hours, Seminary Ridge became, most
likely, the largest field hospital of the
three-day battle. Care for more than 600
wounded soldiers on both sides continued
in the building until September 1863.
Rehabilitation of the building, in
preparation for the museum, included
masonry restoration, window, dormer
and lintel repair and replacement,
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cupola restoration, roof repair, moisture
inhibition and a new lighting protection
system. Structural work was also needed to
stabilize portions of the foundation walls,
which were settling.
Other work included restoration of the
Peace Portico, added in 1914, in honor of
the 50th anniversary of the Civil War the
previous year. “It was added as a memorial
to the many wounded soldiers cared for in
the building,” Neil explained.
State Sen. Rich Alloway with the support
of Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi
and Governors Ed Rendell and Tom
Corbett, was able to obtain $4 million
in 2010 in state grant funding through
the Redevelopment Assistance Capital
Program.
Approximately $1 million in Scenic
Byway funds, new market and historic
tax credits, and gifts from individuals,
organizations and foundations went
toward the cost of the project.
Economic studies predicted the project
would generate $23 million during the
15-month construction phase, and $5
million in new annual spending after the
grand opening.
In addition to the renovation and
transformation of Schmucker Hall into
a museum, the project called for two
pathways, an eastern and western leg,
a roughly mile-long gravel path with
historic wayside markers to portray the
seminary coming to Gettysburg, black
theologian Daniel Alexander Payne, the
Battle for McPherson’s Ridge and defense
of Seminary Ridge, the Lincoln Highway,
civilians at Gettysburg and the natural
habitat of the landscape.
“It’s part of the Gettysburg Borough’s
1990 interpretive plan in making
Gettysburg a more pedestrian-friendly
area,” said the Rev. John Spangler,
president of the Seminary Ridge Historic
Preservation Foundation.
The 10-foot-wide trail will accommodate
bikers, pedestrians and those using mass
transit with various drop-off and loading
zones for tour buses and Freedom Transit.
It will be comprised of crushed stone
with a binder that enables wheelchairs
and bicycles to use the pathway. The “tan
path” that runs from Hay Street westward
to the front door of Schmucker Hall
will be restored as part of the project. A
portion of the trail will also seek linkage
to the proposed Gettysburg Inner Loop,
a bicycle and pedestrian path that will
circumnavigate the Gettysburg Borough.
On the west side, a redesign of campus
parking relocates high-density parking to
a space behind the seminary’s A.R. Wentz
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of the grove where on July 1, 1863, Union
forces made their heroic last stand.
The plan, created by the seminary and
the Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation
Foundation, replants two trees for each
one of the remaining trees in the grove.
Plans for replanting appropriate oak trees
in the seminary grove were aided by the
National Park Service’s Olmsted Center
for Landscape Preservation. They have
recommended native oak species that will
not block the view of the historic seminary
building cupola once they mature.
“We are losing the grove of trees to age
and ash-boring insects and the current
view is interrupted by concentrated
parking of 68 vehicles,” said Spangler.
“This project will preserve the viewshed
of Schmucker Hall from the west and
restore a grove-like appearance to the
area that now has only about 20 trees
left, none of which are historic ‘witness
trees.’”
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Seeing the
Battlefield
Guided tours come in a variety of styles — from those using new
technology to more traditional approaches.
By Jim Hale | Photos by Darryl Wheeler
Back in the days of the Gettysburg battle, the boys in blue and gray grew up with horses
and carriages, locomotives were high tech and bicycles hadn’t evolved into their modern
form. In the heat of the battle, soldiers were on foot or horses, so it seems a bit surreal to
see today’s motorized scooters and Segways traversing the battlfield. Yet, those are two of
the many means of taking in the battlefield. From the old-fashioned hooved to the newfangled wheeled, numerous options are available for tours of the sprawling 6,000-acre
Gettysburg Battlefield, and each provide a different way to view history.
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Segway Tours
A top-ranking local activity on Tripadvisor.com is a Segway tour.
Segways “merge new technology with the 19th century, and it’s a
good pairing,” said Bob Velke, owner of Segway Tours of Gettysburg.
The six-year-old business offers two historic routes aboard the
self-balancing, two-wheeled, near-silent mechanical marvels. The
machines are fun to ride for the whole family, including those less
interested in history, said Velke, and they provide a perfect way to
absorb the terrain while sweating less than bicyclists and moving
faster than equestrians. The 150-minute, nine-mile western route
encompasses historical highlights such as Pickett’s Charge, Little
Round Top and the High Watermark of the Confederacy. The price,
$70 per person, includes recorded narration by a Licensed Battlefield
Guide (LBG). A live LBG costs $15 per person, with a minimum
charge of $60. The eastern route, recommended for those who
already have a good general understanding of the battle, focuses on
Culp’s Hill, East Cemetery Hill and Spangler’s Spring. The price of
$50 again includes recorded narration with the same fee structure
for a live LBG. Staff members accompany all tours as well as rides
without historic narration, which are also available. Riders must
be at least 8 years old and weigh 100 to 280 pounds. Gettysburg
owner Rachel Stephens and her husband, Doug, are attuned to the
experience of soldiers. The pace of a horse tour “gives you time to
really think about and process what they went through here,” Rachel
Stephens said. With an LBG, tours are $70 per person for one hour
and $105 for two hours. A ride with a re-enactor in period clothing
focuses on the life of a soldier rather than battle strategy. The onehour experience costs $65 per person. A ride with recorded narration
is $60 per person for an hour and $85 for two hours. Call 724-315RIDE to make a reservation or visit confederatetrails.com.
After Doug Stephens suffered a hip injury in Afghanistan that made
riding uncomfortable, Confederate Trails’ sister business was formed.
The Victorian Carriage Company makes an equine experience of the
battlefield available to those who can’t ride a horse solo and to families
with small children, Stephens said. A two-hour, horse-drawn tour
with recorded narration is $55 per person, with $5 off for those with
a military ID. Kids ages 2 to 10 are $35. The company also plans
to add live LBGs this year. The 12-person carriage provides each
passenger space equivalent to a movie-theater seat. A rider in need of
more space for comfort may consider purchasing two seats, Stephens
said. Call 530-535-8687 or visit victoriancarriagecompany.com.
A ride with “General Lee” (re-enactor Frank Orlando) is among
residents (verified by a driver’s license address) receive a 50 percent
discount, which does not extend to their guests. The business is in
the Gettysburg Shopping Center at Buford and West streets. Call
717-253-7987 or 888-4SEGTOURS, or visit segtours.com.
options offered by Cornerstone Farm Horseback Tours. A one-hour
ride is $45 per person if escorted by wranglers and $55 if led by
LBG and published author Andie Custer Donahue. Prices are $67
and $82 for two hours, and $90 and $110 for two hours. Rides with
“Lee” are $70 for one hour, $105 for 90 minutes, and $120 for two
hours. “Nuances of terrain meant life and death” for soldiers, and
riding horseback is the best way to understand the lay of the land, said
Alice Paxson, who along with her husband, John, co-owns the tour
business and the Cornerstone Farm Bed and Breakfast at 305 Crooked
Creek Road. She said that Cornerstone treats their quarter horses
like family. Riders must weigh less than 240 pounds and be at least 8
years old. Private rides can be arranged. Call 717-334-8205 or visit
ridehorsesgettysburg.com.
“You wouldn’t believe the difference” between viewing the
battlefield from high up on the back of a horse — ‘a general’s
Horseback
While the Segway may be ultra-modern, the allure of a horse
is timeless. Previous riding experience is not required by any
of Gettysburg’s equestrian tour providers. All send experienced
wranglers along with tour groups. None allow more than one rider
per horse. Generally, tours begin at the National Park’s McMillan
Woods trail, off of Confederate Drive about three-fourths of a mile
south of Route 116 (Middle Street). Minimum ages vary from 7 to
8. Rider weight limits are between 240 and 250 pounds.
As military veterans themselves, Confederate Trails of Gettysburg
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perspective’ — as opposed to down at infantry level,” said Pam
Grimes, owner of Hickory Hollow Farm, a family-owned business
in operation for 30 years. During that time, she said, she has never
grown tired of the National Park’s trails. Every tour offers something
new, she said: the light, the people, perhaps an owl or deer, and
once an albino fox sleeping on the trail. An un-narrated trail ride
is $40 per hour. Add an LBG and the price is $45 per hour with a
two-hour minimum. Grimes said she invests in “happy horses” and
comfortable saddles. Riders must weigh less than 250 pounds and
be at least 7 years old. Tours are by appointment only. Call 717334-0349 or 717-253-6300 or visit hickoryhollowfarm.com.
The National Riding Stables at the Artillery Range Campground
have been offering tours for 32 years, including 22 years under
the current ownership. Tours start at 610 Taneytown Road (as
the Union line and costs $56 per person. The Town Tour — three
hours, 4.5 miles, $51 per person — is for ages 13 and up due to
traffic. The Grand, at $71 per person, lasts four hours, examines
all three days of the battle, and covers 13 miles.
Gettysbike, located in the bus and recreational vehicle lot at
the National Park Visitor Center at 1195 Baltimore St., requires
riders to be four feet tall, but tandem and trailer-tandem bikes
are available. Bring your own bike and get a $5 discount. The
minimum number of riders for a tour is two although a lone rider
can pay double. Custom tours can be arranged. Call 717-7527752 or visit gettysbike.com.
Motorized scooters combine the mobility of a car or bus with
the unrestricted view of a horse or bike, said Josh Henson, who
owns GettyPeds along with David Henson. The business at 39
Washington Street is known south of town). A two-hour tour with
a live LBG traces the Union’s “fishhook” line and crosses to the
rebel side. It costs $80 per person, including taxes. A one-hour tour
with recorded narration is $50 per person. Special group and private
tours are available. “People are so glad they got the opportunity to
experience the battlefield like the soldiers did,” said Office Manager
Sue Conover. Riders must be at least 8 years old. Call 717-3341288 to make a reservation.
N. Washington St. has a fleet of one-person scooters and twopassenger “coupes” that can reach 25 miles per hour, all with
automatic transmissions. The 2 ½-hour Blue Tour with an
LBG focuses on the battle’s first day and Culp’s and Cemetery
hills. It costs $50 per person for a scooter and $90 for a coupe.
The family rate provides one scooter at the regular price and a
second for $30, or one coupe at the regular price and a second
for $50. The three-hour Gray Tour focuses on the second and
third days, including Pickett’s Charge. Scooters are $55, coupes
$95. At the family rate, add a second scooter for $35 or coupe
for $55. Reservations are recommended, and riders should arrive
30-minutes early to complete paperwork and training. Drivers
must be 18 and have a valid license. Kids as young as 6 years old
can ride in a coupe. Helmets and gas are included in the price.
Non-tour rentals are also available. Call 717-398-2600 or visit
gettypeds.net.
Bicycles and Scooters
Two-wheelers, motorized or not, bridge the technological gap
between the 19th and 21st centuries. Bicycles not only let you
slow down and smell the flowers, said Gettysbike Tours Coowner Kelly Steenstra, but they also teach you the tactical lessons
of terrain: “why soldiers like high ground and how hard it is to
get to it.” But, unlike soldiers, Gettysbike’s guests never quickmarch and they get to stop and rest as they absorb knowledge
from their guides. The family business (co-owned by Kelly’s
father, Bob) covers both the battlefield, with live LBGs, and the
Borough of Gettysburg, where combat also raged, with Licensed
Town Guides. The three-hour, 7.5-mile Yanks Tour focuses on
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All tour operators recommend booking as far ahead as possible,
though many can serve a limited number of walk-up customers. All
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T
he once-in-a-lifetime event of the
150th anniversary of the Battle of
Gettysburg is going to be a huge boon
for the town of Gettysburg, drawing
in visitors and re-enactors from at least
16 different countries and providing a
major economic impact that will extend
all summer long and throughout the
fall. It will also likely renew people’s
interest in the Civil War and the Battle
of Gettysburg. All of which has business
leaders, tourism officials, historians and
shop owners excited.
“The biggest positive impact on the
community is going to be economic, with
tourism being the largest industry, the
largest employer,” said Norris Flowers,
president of the Gettysburg Convention
& Visitors Bureau. “This is how the
businesses make their money, so this will
be a boon to the local businesses.”
Randy Phiel, Gettysburg Anniversary
Committee Chairman and Adams County
Commissioner, echoed that thought.
“We’re looking for economic stimulus all
the time now. This is probably the best
short-term opportunity that we’re going
to have for economic stimulus.”
Gettysburg businesses are hoping to take
advantage of the increase in visitors.
“We’re going to be extraordinarily busy,”
said Johlene “Spooky” Riley, manager at
Gettysburg Ghost Tours. “We certainly
had the 150th in mind when we made
the decision to double our storefront.
We’ve added a number of staff to assist our
customers.”
Paul Witt, owner of the Quality Inn
Motor Lodge and America’s Best Value Inn
in Gettysburg, said the hotels in the greater
region are benefiting from this as well.
“We sold out last July for this July,” said
Witt. “I think a lot of the hotels in town are
probably full by now. The hotels that will
benefit the most are overflow, places such
as York, Chambersburg and Frederick.”
The Gettysburg Civil War Battle Reenactment, taking place this year July 4-7,
is a boost for the local economy in itself.
“The re-enactment always means a lot
to the community because we employ so
many people during the summer,” said
Andrea DiMartino, media/public relations
coordinator for the Gettysburg Anniversary
Committee. “We essentially put up a small
city out at the Redding Farm for this event.
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It’s not just hiring people; it’s the resources.
I can assure you that we’ll have 500 or
better staff. It’s all within the community.
The same goes for rentals and suppliers —
we use all local people.”
The number of re-enactors coming is
also expected to take a big jump. “Right
now, we have in excess of 9,000 re-enactors,
including 300 from other counties, already
registered, as well as 135 full-size cannons
and 375 horses,” said Phiel. “We’re
anticipating between 10,000 and 12,000
re-enactors by the time of the event.”
For the re-enactment, visitor numbers
are important. However, numbers are not
everything. “Sheer numbers alone don’t
begin to reveal the interest and the passion
that Americans have for the Civil War
past,” said Peter Carmichael, director of the
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
“People can see the battlefield and converse
with the historians through the Internet.
“The goal of any historical site is not
simply numbers, but to deepen historical
awareness. We want a program that will
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reach the hearts and the minds of our
visitors,” Carmichael said. “When you can
touch people in an emotional way as well
as an intellectual way, that’s the gauge of
success.”
Repeat visitation is especially important
to the small business owners in town.
“I believe we hold the record for the
most repeat customers in Gettysburg,” said
Riley. “You can’t keep a repeat customer
if you haven’t given them everything that
you’ve promised them. If you exceed their
expectations and give them a favorable
experience, they’re more likely to come
back. It begins right from the moment
they walk in the door. We pride ourselves
on exceptional service.”
Witt noted that visitation in town has
increased in the past due to other events
involving the battle. “We noticed when
the movie ‘Gettysburg’ came out that
visitation did go up, and then it kind of
plateaued instead of coming back down,”
he said. “We’re hoping that people will like
(the events this summer) and pass the word
so people come back in future years.”
Local historian Walter Powell agreed,
saying, “Every time you have a major
commemorative event like this, it will have
a multiplier effect for a while, but then it
will level off.”
Possibly the biggest aspect that leads
to repeat visitation is the experience
that visitors have with members of the
community and employees of local
businesses.
“We have to put our best foot forward on
this,” said Flowers. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity. Another thing the locals need
to understand is there are events going on
all summer and all year long. We have to
be prepared and treat the visitors right and
expect what’s coming down the pike. It’s
critical that our visitors are treated well
and that our local citizens have a smile on
their faces. At the end of the day, it benefits
everybody.”
Phiel also stressed the importance of good
impressions from the local community.
“This should be viewed as an opportunity
not as an annoyance,” he said, “I hope that
our local community can appreciate all the
events and activities that are being offered
this year and take advantage of them. We’re
going to have a lot of guests, and hopefully
we are good hosts.”
Many bucket-list items involve
entertainment. While the entertainment
aspect is big, Powell says it might take away
from the educational aspect.
“I’m one of those historians who is
worried about the disconnect between
what happened at Gettysburg and the
understanding of people,” said Powell, who
teaches a course in battlefield preservation
at Shippensburg University. “The most
popular tours are the ones that are the most
entertaining. Ghost tours are immensely
popular. Entertainment versus education is
a continuing challenge here.”
Powell thinks the entertainment aspect
caters to the visitors, but he is unsure of
the educational aspect. “There are so many
competing objectives in this 150th,” he said.
“The event says a great deal about what the
public is looking for. The re-enactments
are great pageants. I don’t know how much
the public ultimately learns from watching
them. The quality of the experience is going
to be varied.”
Carmichael hopes the sesquicentennial
events will broaden Americans’ perceptions
of the Civil War.
“For the vast majority of American
people, their understanding of the Civil
War resides here at Gettysburg,” he said.
“That perception is off because the Civil
War was obviously much more vast and
complicated than those three days in July.
The 150th events give us the opportunity
to expand their understanding of the Civil
War.
“I think the educational experience
depends on how they engage the historic
resources here in town. I don’t see how
it’s possible for anyone who is coming
to Gettysburg to think deeply about
what occurred here without spending
an extraordinary amount of time at the
National Park Visitor Center.”
Ben Neely, executive director of the
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Adams County Historical Society, believes
all of the sesquicentennial events will
complement each other. “I think they
support each other more than
they beat against one another,”
he said.
Gettysburg National Military
Park Superintendent Bob
Kirby pointed out the allure of
the battlefield and the extensive
amount
of
information
available at the visitor center.
“The story is so complex and so
rich and so deep that the more
you explore it, the more you
want to know,” he said. “There’s
an endless menu of different aspects of the
Civil War. We get to show the world what the
story is here. The more people understand
and appreciate the resources here, the more
likely they are to come back, maybe donate
money to preserve these resources.”
The town is looking to benefit from
this summer’s events after the summer is
over. The Medal of Honor Convention is
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scheduled for September and will bring
in many of America’s bravest men and
women.
“With the additional visitors this year,
the focus has been put on our little town,”
said Riley. “I think it’s going to renew
interest in the time, and I think we’re going
to continue seeing a lot of folks. People
who couldn’t get in because the rooms are
booked will probably come well past the
July re-enactment season.”
The Convention & Visitors Bureau has
been working for four years to make the
sesquicentennial events successful.
“Certainly, our biggest period of time is
2013, and inside that, those 10
days, but we have big events
throughout the year,” said
Flowers. “Our long-term goal
is beyond 2013. Using 2013,
the spike we have is kind of a
jumping off point for the next
five or 10 years. I think that’s
absolutely critical to the longterm success of the tourism
industry in Adams County.”
With all of the different
aspects of the Civil War and
the sesquicentennial commemoration
in Gettysburg, the town is going to be
showcased in a way that it has not seen in
quite some time.
“It’s sort of the community’s Olympic
moment,” said Phiel. “We’re being
recognized as one of the top five travel
destinations in the world by several
sources.”
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Muiseum of civil war medicine
National Museum of
Civil War Medicine
Nestled in a beautiful, multi-story building
in downtown Frederick, Md., is the National
Museum of Civil War Medicine. The museum,
which opened in 1996, underwent a major
renovation in 2000. Since then it has risen to
prominence as one of the top locations to learn
about medicine and medical innovations during
the Civil War.
The museum, which has exhibits displayed
on two floors, allows visitors the opportunity to
learn about medical practices at the start of the
war and study how those practices played into
recruiting and camp life. Additionally, exhibits
display medical education, treatment both on
the battlefield and beyond and how modern
military medicine compares to that practiced
150 years ago.
According to the National Museum of Civil
War Medicine, the organization was the idea of
dentist Gordon E. Dammann, who by 1971 had
amassed a large collection of Civil War medical
artifacts. Those artifacts make up a large portion
of the museum’s displays.
Not only does the museum offer a walk
through history but living history displays and
lectures are regularly offered at their Frederick
location.
During our visit, a group of historians gathered
in the second-floor lecture hall to discuss the
implements of Civil War medicine. On display
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is an impressive set of instruments, many of
them original items. A small, wooden trumpetlike item sat on a table surrounded by bandages
and surgical instruments. The historians present
at the display told us it was the predecessor to
the modern stethoscope. Close by were scalpels
and scissors, arranged just so in preparation for
surgery. Unsurprisingly, these effective surgical
tools have changed little in 150 years.
Other artifacts on display included a satchel
full of compounds and medications doctors used
to treat soldiers on the go and implements of
anesthesia. A squat metal cylinder with a small
shoot on the top was one of those implements.
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Admission: Adults, $7.50;
Children 10-16: $5.50;
Children under 10: free. Discounts
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and military.
The bizarre tool delivered chloroform in the late
1840s, when it was administered successfully as
an anesthetic during surgery.
Morphine was also used during the Civil
War. According to museum displays, about
95 percent of operations during the Civil War
were done under some sort of anesthetic — a
reassuring figure in the face of portrayals of
surgeries in popular culture, which show little to
no pain relief for the injured.
The living historians on duty were also eager
to share the work of Dr. Johnathan Letterman.
(Adams County readers will be familiar with
his name because of Camp Letterman: the
Gettysburg camp, which was established as a
temporary hospital in the immediate wake of
the Battle of Gettysburg.) Prior to and during
the Civil War, he developed a method of
medical organization in order to treat casualties
as effectively as possible. The living historians
referred to Letterman’s system as a forerunner of
the modern triage system.
Letterman set up aid stations close to battle
action, where wounded soldiers were given first
aid treatment. Those in need were transported
by ambulance corps to a field hospital set up
at the division or corps headquarters, also
near the fighting. After treatment there, the
wounded would then move on to more longterm treatment facilities such as camps like
Gettysburg’s Camp Letterman or pavilion
hospitals.
Letterman also set about reorganizing medical
supply distribution during the war.
His methods, according to the museum, are
credited with making medical treatment during
the war more effective than previously enjoyed
by the military.
After spending some time with the living
historians, we ventured into the exhibit
space. Many of the exhibits are populated by
realistically dressed mannequins and filled with a
variety of period medical equipment. The visuals
are punctuated at certain points with sound
effects.
The museum visitor starts by learning about
the medical education available to doctors
immediately before the Civil War. At the time,
doctors did not have knowledge of germ theory,
or the knowledge of how disease is spread from
person to person. According to the museum
exhibits, medical school often took about a year
and consisted mainly of lectures, though many
doctors became apprentices to physicians.
The doctor took an important role in the life
of a Civil War soldier early. Each soldier recruited
for the army had to undergo a physical. Once
those new recruits reached camp, they had to
deal with the diseases that often came with living
in a large group. According to the museum,
soldiers had a poor diet, and intestinal issues
were not uncommon. Research from the period
indicates that more Civil War soldiers died from
the complications of disease than from wounds
sustained in battle.
Almost halfway through the museum,
visitors are treated to an extensive display on
the Letterman Plan. Interestingly, veterinary
medicine was also important to the armies,
according to the museum. Being largely
dependent on horses and mules for the
transportation of goods and people, the armies
had to ensure those animals were healthy.
In the downstairs of the museum, exhibits
depict field hospitals and dressing stations,
as well as field hospitals. A large display also
depicts life in a pavilion hospital during the
war. These hospitals, according to the display,
were spacious and airy, and arranged in such a
way to promote recovery for wounded soldiers.
However, many soldiers didn’t make it, driving
the need to prepare people for burial. According
to the museum exhibit, embalmers were
often pharmacists or surgeons with chemical
knowledge who set up near battles.
At the end of the museum’s exhibits, Civil
War medical instruments and technology are
compared with instruments and technologies
used in today’s American military. Soldiers in the
21st century benefit from sophisticated research
and technology, but the basics, like scalpels,
bandages, and the need for clean water, have
remained much the same.
Besides the exhibits, the National Museum
Things to consider
Exhibits at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine are laid out on two floors of
a large building in the museum’s downtown Frederick, Md. location. Paths through
the exhibits are wide and level, making them handicap accessible. Visitors may get to
the upper floor of the exhibit space via stairs or elevator.
Exhibits are largely self-guided, though information and a map of the facility are
available at the front desk of the museum.
Group tours are available through advance arrangements.
It may take anywhere from 45 minutes to several hours to fully enjoy the museum’s
exhibits. The information presented requires a fair amount of reading to fully
understand the context of the displays.
Parking is available immediately next door in the Patrick Street parking garage.
Limited on street parking is also available.
Dining options at a variety of price points are available on East Patrick Street and
nearby Market Street. The museum is located within the heart of Frederick’s historic
district, which offers an array of shopping and eating opportunities.
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of Civil War Medicine also offers an extensive
bookstore for people interested in learning more
about medicine during the Civil War. Many of
the books highlight famous doctors; women
and men serving as nurses, orderlies or stewards;
important hospitals; medical practices and
theories. There are also a few volumes available
on the museum and medical history as it relates
to the city of Frederick and the Maryland
Campaign of 1862.
For those who need to learn more about
Civil War medicine after their museum visit,
the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
plays a large role in two other nearby historical
sites. Currently in the midst of being restored
and preserved is the Clara Barton’s Missing
Soldiers Office in downtown Washington D.C..
Once complete, visitors will be able to explore
Barton’s life and work. Museum officials expect
a welcome center to be completed in 2013. For
more information on this site, call 301-6951864.
Additionally, the museum is heavily involved
in the Pry House Field Hospital Museum.
Located within miles of the Antietam National
Battlefield in Keedysville, Md., the house served
as the headquarters for Union General George
B. McClellan and Dr. Johnathan Letterman
during the September 1862 Battle of Antietam.
Living history exhibits are offered regularly at
the site, which offers a commanding view of the
battlefield.
HOW TO GET THERE from GETTYSBURG
From Adams County, travel south on U.S. Route 15 to Frederick, Md. Exit at Exit 16, Motter
Avenue, and turn right onto Motter Avenue. Continue onto North Bentz Street before
turning left on West Church Street. Then turn right on Maxwell Avenue, and make a quick
right onto East Patrick Street. The street in this area of Frederick is one-way.
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Hickory Bridge Farm
offers one-of-a-kind dining experience
Within one square block of the Gettysburg
Square there are no fewer than 15 restaurants
and eating places featuring American,
Chinese, French, Italian and Mexican
cuisine. Traveling outside Gettysburg, there
are dozens more, which means that even
during this year’s 150th anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg, local residents and
visitors will have little trouble finding a
restaurant — providing reservations are made
and everyone doesn’t have to eat at 6 p.m.
Of all the restaurants, one is truly unique
in its location, its setting, its hours and its
menu. Hickory Bridge Farm, located just off
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rows of fruit orchards, small family farms,
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Hickory Bridge Farm features upscale
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barn that’s decorated with hundreds
of antiques. There is also bed-andbreakfast lodging in cottages and a
restored 170-year-old farmhouse, a
farm museum, a real country store,
a stream with a hickory bridge, a
gift shop and banquet and wedding
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“My parents had previously owned
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realize a slower pace of life by serving
just large parties,” said Hammett’s
daughter Mary Lynn Martin, who
now manages the facility. “It has
grown considerably since then into
serving the public on weekends
and developing other operations.”
Martin’s husband, Robert, also
works at Hickory Bridge, farming
its gardens, beef cattle and 600
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Dining at Hickory Bridge is not
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private table is set with old-fashioned
dinnerware and cloth linens.
Dinners consist of typical American
foods prepared from family recipes
favored by the German settlers in
and around Adams County. Many
of the fruits and vegetables served
are from the farm’s own gardens or
from neighboring gardens. “Our
guests don’t get a printed menu when
they come here,” explains Martin.
“Our menu changes every weekend,
but is set three or four months
in advance and published in our
newsletter that we send to patrons.”
A typical dinner begins with warm
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or cold apple juice and appetizers
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Once seated, guests are served a
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dressing along with homemade
spiced peaches, fresh potato bread
and apple butter. The entrees are
served with several vegetables,
stewed apples and corn fritters,
all passed “farm style” at each
table, plus a choice of dessert.
“Dinner always has three
entrees that go well with whatever
wine a guest chooses to bring,”
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The
Untold story
Black History Tour Offers New
Perspective on Gettysburg
By Ashley Andyshak Hayes
J
ust
when
you
think
you’ve seen, read or heard
everything there is about a place,
there is always more to uncover. So
it is with Gettysburg and the history
of its African American community.
Though Gettysburg is located
north of the Mason-Dixon Line,
black residents had to be brave to
live here during the time of the Civil
War. Gettysburg was “on the knife’s
edge of slavery,” to quote Jim Miller,
licensed town guide and licensed
battlefield guide. The town lay just
eight miles north of the Maryland
border, and black residents had to be
constantly on alert, as slave catchers
from Southern states could appear at
any moment. Free blacks captured in
Northern states could be taken south
and sold into slavery.
At the time of the Battle of
Gettysburg, 189 free blacks were
living in Gettysburg. While most
fled as Confederate troops advanced,
others went into hiding. Only about
69 blacks returned to Gettysburg
following the battle. Some decided
to move farther north, while some
were captured and sent south into
slavery. The stories of black residents
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who lived here before, during and
after the Civil War have long been
absent from Gettysburg’s history,
but many of these stories are now
being highlighted in the Gettysburg
Black History Tour, led by licensed
town guides and sponsored by the
Gettysburg Black History Museum.
One of the favorite stories of many
who have taken the tour is that of
Mag Palm. Mag was a free black
woman of considerable stature who
lived and worked in Gettysburg. She
was purportedly a conductor on the
Underground Railroad, helping black
men, women and children find their
way north to freedom. This made her
a prized target for slave catchers.
After finishing a day’s work, her
boss, who is believed to have played a
dubious role in helping slave catchers
find Mag, asked her to wait for her
pay in the alley that runs parallel to
Chambersburg Street in Gettysburg.
While she waited there, three slave
catchers rode up and tried to subdue
her. They managed to tie both her
hands, but Mag wasn’t giving up
so easily. She fought back with all
her strength, ultimately biting the
thumb off the hand of one of her
would-be captors. Upon hearing
the racket, an elderly neighbor ran
into the street, and when he realized
what was happening, he joined in the
fray, beating the men with his cane.
Needless to say, Mag escaped and
was never captured on the streets of
Gettysburg.
Mag’s story is just one of many.
The Black History Tour also includes
stories of Basil Biggs, a well-known
veterinarian and the last black
resident to leave Gettysburg during
the battle; Lloyd Watts, a sergeant in
the U.S. Colored Troops who later
became a teacher at Gettysburg’s
all-black school; Jack Hopkins, a
janitor at Pennsylvania College (now
Gettysburg College) who worked
very closely with Thaddeus Stevens;
and many others. The tour route
also passes by the St. Paul AME
Zion Church, which has been a
cornerstone of the black community
in Gettysburg, and Lincoln Cemetery,
where black Civil War veterans and
other black residents are buried.
The tour offers a new perspective on
Gettysburg, one that has not been
readily available to visitors before.
The tour is available by appointment.
Visit gettysburgblackhistory.org for
more information.
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