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 in Washington to hear comments from the public about the Cyclorama’s future.

The former building of the Cyclorama is itself considered historic and that’s the reason the Virginia-based group wants to preserve it despite the National Park Service’s desire to restore the area to its Civil War era beauty. This is an interesting twist to the fight over preservation of historical landmarks. The question is, which value should take priority: Federal desires to preserve past history or local desires to preserve more recent history?

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