The Wren, a wood engraving by Thomas Bewick,
A History of British Birds, Vol. I
Containing the History and Description of Land Birds, 1797
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Battlefield Tour
We will provide bus tours of the Gettysburg National Military Park for those who wish to get at least an overview of the sites of the most significant actions in the three day battle in July 1863 and to visit the National Cemetery where many of the fallen Northern and Southern combatants are buried and where Abraham Lincoln delivered his dedicatory address on 19 November 1863. Giving commentary and answering questions on each bus will be a guide certified by the National Park.
Guided Walking Tours of Gettysburg
For those who would enjoy hearing about the civilian experience during and after the great battle, we have arranged through Main Street Gettysburg ninety-minute guided walking tours though the town of Gettysburg. On such tours participants learn what the town residents witnessed during and after the Battle of Gettysburg. The guides draw upon diary entries, personal accounts, letters, drawings and photographs. The Association of Licensed Town Guides, modeled after the licensed Battlefield guide Program, requires applicants to undergo a series of examinations before licensure. In April 2006, the National Geographic Traveler wrote: "You can't appreciate the full battle story without seeing the bullet-scarred brick walls and learning how untrained townswomen nursed the flash flood of injured soldiers." The Washington Post advised in March 2006: "Get the town's take on the great battle, and the epic cleanup, on a walking tour with a licensed town guide." If some members are more interested in the eighteenth-century settlement of Gettysburg, one of the guides, whose family has lived in the Gettysburg area since the eighteenth century, will focus his tour on Gettysburg's origins in the eighteenth century.
Birdwatching Walk; or, Birding at Gettysbird
Sayre Greenfield has consented to lead a birdwatch on the battlefield. He will be assisted by Nancy Locher, a retired Associate Dean of Gettysburg College, who is an active member of The South Mountain Audubon Society, an avid birdwatcher who has traveled worldwide to spot birds but who has never neglected spotting birds in her own backyard which literally backs up to the battlefield along Confederate Avenue. Like Sayre, Nancy wears her knowledge lightly and has a good eye for spotting birds none of the rest of us see, a sharp wit, and good humor.
The Wren, a wood engraving by Thomas Bewick,
A History of British Birds, Vol. I
Containing the
History and Description of Land Birds, 1797
Oral/Aural Experience
Oral/Aural experience, produced, and directed by talented and resourceful Peter Staffel (pstatfel@verizonmail.com). The Oral/Aural experience marks the uniqueness of EC/ASECS and provides a happy note on which to begin a scholarly conference. Peter always welcomes ideas and suggestions. Since Gettysburg is full of ghosts (and ghost walks), perhaps we should focus on ghosts in our readings and performances.
Music
The faculty of Gettysburg College’s Sunderman Conservatory of Music with the guidance of John William Jones, Director of Sunderman Conservatory of Music, will recreate an evening of eighteenth-century chamber music. Both the College’s harpsichord and its forte piano will be featured in the evening’s concert.
Anonymous Eighteenth Century German engraving
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