Gettysburg was in the national news recently.

Renovations are good, but there is a tendency to look at the past nostlgically while portraying forward-looking innovations as bad. But reality is reality. People don’t want to walk around and look at some staid exhibit. Past generations may have been awed by this, as was the World War II generation, but new generations care more for interactivity. That’s just the way it is.

So if you want to appeal to younger crowds and attract the traveling set with extra money to spend, you’d better make it appealing to them. And that’s what Gettysburg is trying to do.

How are they doing it? By adding a restaurant in the visitor center. That’s good, because people do like to eat.

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