The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog

Well, the election is over and now Gettysburg Pennslvania, along with the rest of the country, has a new president-elect. Barack Obama won the election handily and already his historic win is receiving accolades and driving a nostalgia for a time when another historic president made his way through Gettysburg. Obama has been compared with [...]

I didn’t realize that George Will, a popular conservative columnist for The Washington Post, had written a column honoring the new Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center. But he did.
He said some pretty striking things in that column, some of them politically charged, others of them socially on target, and all of them historically enlightening. Among [...]

Eight-year-old Daniel Kyle arrived in Gettysburg Pennsylvania yesterday. He lives with his parents in Edinburgh, Indiana and was invited to Gettsyburg by Gettysburg Hotel General Manager Phil Murray when balloons that Daniel let go of in Edinburgh landed in Gettysburg. Murray paid for gas and gave a free room to the Kyles for their stay [...]

The superintendent of Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg says that ghost walkers are trespassing on the cemetery property at night. The problem is, it’s a private cemetery and besides property rights issues, there are safety issues. The cemetery is 153 years old and sits right next to the National Cemetery, which is a public cemetery owned [...]

For years, Gettysburg Pennsylvania has been haunted by ghosts, ghouls, and groovy ooey-gooeys. At least, that’s the word on the street.
And, no, I’m not just talking about some tourist trap souvenir shops that provide back street alley tours so you can inspect Gettysburg’s creeks and stone bridges in the dark. I’m talking about real live [...]

If you are sending a son or daughter to Gettysburg for college then you might want to know that the college security is clamping down on off-campus parties held by fraternities and sororities. Some of the concerns of local residents who must endure the drunkenness, loud music, and fighting in their neighborhoods include local high [...]

Gettysburg Borough and several downtown Gettysburg Pennsylvania businesses are the target of Americans With Disabilities Act complaints due to noncompliance with the 1990 federal law that makes handicap accessibility a civil right. This is a real double-edged sword because many of these businesses have been around a lot longer than 1990. Gettysburg itself predates 1990 [...]

Every now and then I read a heartwarming story of courage and commitment. Recently, it was in the Gettysburg Times.
Daniel Kyle is 8 years old. He released 30 balloons on his grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary with a note attached for whoever finds them to let him know where they landed. A man in Gettysburg, Bill Anders, [...]

Gettysburg residents will soon have the opportunity to see the low-budget film “Route 30″ right here at home. The movie was produced by John Putch, who has ties to this area through Totem Pole Playhouse Director Bill Putch and actress Jean Stapleton to whom Bill was married.
“Route 30″, named for Lincoln Highway, of course, [...]

I’ve lived in Adams County, Pennsylvania now for over two years. Prior to that my wife lived in York County for two years while I was deployed to Iraq with my National Guard officer. I visited when I could.
In the four years that we’ve lived in Pennsylvania, I’ve noticed that the attitude of the people [...]