The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog

High gasoline prices haven’t made Gettysburg Pennsylvania any less desirable among tourists looking for a place to get away. Hotel occupancy for Gettysburg is up 10% according to a Smith Travel Research report. That also applies to Adams County.
Among the great events hosted in Gettysburg that tend to draw large crowds include The Apple Blossom [...]

We in Gettysburg Pennsylvania and the surrounding area love our shrimp feeds almost as much as we love our volunteer fire departments. That’s why we usually share the two in the same evening.
Tonight my wife and I went to the Hampton Fire Company’s shrimp feed. They do it twice a year and we never miss. [...]

Gettysburg built its new visitor center and museum and restored the Cyclorama, but now the National Park Service is involved in a lawsuit over the old location of Cyclorama. They want to demolish the building while Recent Past Preservation Network located in Virginia wants to keep it.
A public hearing is taking place right now [...]

The town of Littlestown is just a little drive from Gettysburg. The 81st National FFA Convention was held in Indianapolis, Indiana from October 21-25 and five of Littletown FFAs members came back award winners.
Junior Corbin Wood won a gold medal in Dairy Showmanship. Silver medal winners include Clifton Bittle, Sarah Hurlock, Cassie Klinedinst, and Jodi [...]

PA Farm News says Adams County is one of three counties that have reaped the wine harvest this year.
Adams County, along with Lancaster and York counties, is a part of the Pennsylvania rich wine country. There are more than half a dozen good wineries in the area and this year was ripe for grape growing. [...]

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
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Everybody believes in something and everybody use that something to support their own existence.
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Everybody believes in something and everybody use that something to support their own existence.
- Frank Zappa #
The [...]

According to Daniel Klotz, a Lancaster County resident, York County is becoming “Marylandized”. What exactly does that mean?
I think what he means is that there has been an influx of Marylanders migrating north to Pennsylvania, primarily York and Adams counties, mainly due to Carroll County’s moratorium on new housing starts. But also because the economy [...]

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Does this mean N. Korea is no longer a member of the “axis [...]