Tag: Gettysburg

Getting Close at Gettysburg

Spent some time in Gettysburg recently. Been there many times. It’s an important place – the setting of a nineteenth-century event that changed the country, for the better. We’re still learning from it. Getting close to what the individual people experienced before, during, and after the event interests me. The human side of things. Here’s […]

What Draws Me To Gettysburg

I’m drawn to Gettysburg because of the larger story it tells about our civilization. After all, it is a people story; a tragic one, but one that made significant impacts and changes we continue to feel today. I’ve always questioned in my mind what I would have done if I had lived then, and had […]