The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog

You may first know Jeff Shaara for his cooperative effort with his father Michael Shaara; together they brought the Civil War into comfy chairs all across the country. The two partnered to render the thrilling Civil War trilogy: “Killer Angels,” “Gods and Generals” and “The Last Full Measure.”
Maybe books aren’t for you, but you’ve sat through [...]

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 [...]

Last Friday the Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog reported that a KKK rally was being planned for the battlefield on November 15. According to the original source, that rally has been canceled.
This is good news. As an alternative, a Unity Day celebration was scheduled for the same day as an alternative to the KKK rally. Meeting [...]

The last time the KKK, the historic hate group Ku Klux Klan, was in Gettysburg Pennsylvania was in September 2006. Now, a branch of the World Knights of the KKK are planning to descend upon Gettysburg Battlefield in November to protest the presidential election, interracial relationships, gay marriages, and black on white crime. They’re driving [...]

In April this year, Gettysburg saw the opening of its brand new visitor center and museum. It’s a real beauty. It cost $103 million to build and admission has been free - until now.
Starting today, if you want to visit the new visitor center and museum then you’ll have to pay to see some of [...]

From October through March, a federal program is allowing deer hunting at the Gettysburg National Military Park and the Eisenhower National Historic Site, but only qualified federal employees will be allowed to shoot deer.
According to a National Park Service study conducted in 1995 concluded that the military park in Gettysburg had 333 deer per [...]

Gettysburg Pennsylvania, as small a community as it is, is one of the most commercialized communities in the nation. Most people who come to Gettysburg come to see the battlefield, but there is more to do here than just walk around (or drive through) an old battlefield. Though, if you do come to Gettysburg, you [...]

President George and First Lady Laura Bush received a private tour of Gettysburg Battlefield on Friday. Just about every newspaper in the country is reporting the story now. That should give the area big boost for the fall tourism season.
The Bush’s tour guide was Professor Gabor Boritt, a history professor at Gettysburg College. Boritt [...]

If you are planning to visit the new Taj Mahal of visitor centers, the Gettysburg Battlefield Visitor Center, then you’d better do it before October. The center administrators are planning to start charging an admission fee starting that month.
The Gettysburg Foundation is the organization that suggested charging $7.50 admission to participate in some of the [...]

Enjoy this video footage of a Gettysburg reenactment: