Wednesday, September 3. 2008

Electric Gettysburg Map Still has no Home

More than a year ago I noted the huge old map was too big to move from its building, which is being torn down, so the plan was to cut it up. Now an update:

No one's yet claimed ownership, but the Park Service is speaking to six organizations interested in taking it. It would be donated to a non-profit or government agency. The plan is to cut up the map, mitigate issues with embedded asbestos and have it out by October or November. The building is to be demolished in December and the area returned to how it looked during the battle.

The savetheelectricmap.com website, developed by Jon DeKeles of Post Falls, Idaho, in April, is still fighting the good fight.

- York Daily Record

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Drive-in movies, neighborhood ice-cream trucks, miniature golf. Sweaty eight-year old boys hot from trekking a huge unknown park, wanting ice-cream in the shade, but Dad says, "Come with me. . . " And so a big cool hall, with darkening lights, and a vividly told tale of high drama and heroism. The boys emerge blinking in the sunlight, and look at the huge expanses of lawns, fields, drives and monuments with the sound of horses, men, and guns in their ears. In some new way, they understand. . . .
Modernity robs us of so much.

#1 Bruce Westcott on 2008-09-04 08:46 (Reply)

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