Insider Tips for a Visit to Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

In this article I鈥檓 sharing my insider tips for a visit to Gettysburg. I鈥檝e visited the town and surrounding battlefield at least a dozen times and always manage to find something new. Here are a few of my favorite under-the-radar things to do in Gettysburg.聽

I remember the first time I 鈥渃onnected鈥� with history. I was about 10 years old. My family took a summer trip to Gettysburg, and we pulled to the side of the road near some large boulders. A signpost displayed a black and white photo of a dead rifleman, lying alongside a big rock.聽

I studied the picture and realized it was taken more than a century earlier at that very spot. The rock in that old photograph was the boulder right in front of me! I walked straight up to it. I ran my hands over that boulder and crouched beside it like the soldier had done.聽

It wasn鈥檛 hard to imagine myself in his shoes. I studied his face in the photo and wondered what his name was. Where was he from, and what happened to him? I still don鈥檛 know, although I did聽learn something interesting about the photo itself. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).

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Guide Name: Insider Tips for a Visit to Gettysburg
Guide Location: USA » Gettysburg
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Insider Tips)
Author: David Dummer
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