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To: trad_anglican
Good for you. I am a member of The Friends of Gettysburg and I go twice a year. Your experience is exactly the kind we love to hear about.

You'll be happy to know that we are making a number of changes in the battlefield to restore it to a condition closer to its original state.

The telephone and cable lines that ran across Devil's Den in front of Little Round Top have now been rerouted or buried beneath the soil.

The Visitor's Center is in the process of being removed from Cemetery Ridge just in front of the Angle and a new state-of-the-art Visitor's Center is now sited adjacent to the battlefield in an unobtrusive place. Soon visitors should be able to have a view from Seminary Ridge similar to the one that Pickett himself had at the time of his division's famous charge.

16 posted on 07/02/2008 6:28:39 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
Visitor's Center is now sited adjacent to the battlefield in an unobtrusive place.

We were there just before they closed the old visitor's center. We hired a park service guide to take us around the site and he was just awesome. He really brought the whole experience to life for us, including our 4 year old.

I'm glad to hear of the improvements. You have every reason to be proud. Hopefully, we'll get back there some day and see all the new things.

20 posted on 07/02/2008 6:38:59 AM PDT by trad_anglican
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To: wideawake
You'll be happy to know that we are making a number of changes in the battlefield to restore it to a condition closer to its original state. - Thank you for the work you are doing. I visited the site 15 years ago am very much looking forward to taking the family to Washington DC with a trek to Gettysburg when the kids are a bit older.
78 posted on 07/02/2008 4:10:37 PM PDT by SF Republican
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