The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog

Gettysburg borough leaders are kicking around a plan to add a bike and pedestrian loop in Gettysburg. The plan allegedly would reduce traffic and increase health among area residents and visitors. Is it a good idea?
Well, likely it would cost locals some money. But if the borough leaders could sell it as another activity for [...]

In Dallas, Texas, where I’m from, we don’t take holidays for hunting season. Sure, there may be a few kids that skip school to go hunting with Dad, but I wasn’t one of them.
Like Texans, Pennsylvanians love to hunt. Any opportunity to play with guns is a welcome event.
Every year my father-in-law brings [...]

The Gettysburg borough police department suspects that some motorists are using counterfeit parking stickers to keep from paying the $1 per hour parking fee downtown. Rates went up earlier this year amid a firestorm of protest. If you are using one of these counterfeit stickers, be on notice: It’s called theft of services and it [...]

City officials are saying they are going to have to get tougher on ADA compliance issues for Gettysburg downtown businesses. Currently, the borough is embroiled in 26 different lawsuits regarding the rights of disabled citizens to move about downtown. That doesn’t sit pretty with local businesses.
What that means for local businesses is that those existing [...]

Thanks to social networking and other online social communication tools, travelers and tourists can brag more effectively than ever before. Visit the most popular battlefield in history and take some of the most striking photos of tombstones the world has ever seen - then upload them to your favorite photo sharing site, networking community, or [...]

Stanley Watts, who constructed the bronze memorial of fire fighters for Ground Zero in Manhattan following Sept 11, 2001, has built a similar bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln reading the Gettysburg Address. He wants to put it in Gettysburg. Of course, there is already a statue of Lincoln reading the Gettysburg Address on the square. [...]

Have a unique story to tell about Gettysburg Pennsylvania? Did you live here and do something crazy? Pay a visit to Gettysburg during spring break and lose something? I’d like to read your Gettysburg stories. Become a guest blogger.
Yes, if you submit your stories about Gettysburg Pennsylvania we will publish them right here on the [...]

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 [...]

Do you pair your peppercorn encrusted lamb chop with a nice, full bodied Cabernet Sauvignon? I myself prefer a frosty, carmel Yeungling to wash down my secret recipe grilled flank steak — but there is room for both of us at the 2008 Pennsylvania Food and Beverage Show! Hosted by the the Toyota Arena York Expo [...]

Are you struggling to find plans for the weekend? If you’re in to the strange and often times disturbing world of the underground, then you may want to join some fellow horror hopefuls on November 14 and 15 at a ghastly event sponsored by the Chestnut Hall Bed and Breakfast in New Oxford, PA: A [...]