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Lutheran Theological Seminary and Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum Participates in the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership Living Legacy Project: Middle School Students from Gettysburg and Vermont Help with Commemoration by Planting Two Trees Dedicated to Fallen Soldiers and Tagging a 190 Year-Old Witness Tree. (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 A sweeping and ambitious effort to plant or dedicate a tree for each of the more than 620,000 soldiers who died during the American Civil War continues...
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Gettysburg Foundation, in cooperation with the International Panorama Council (IPC), will host the 2011 International Panorama Conference at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center September 14 - 17. The conference will feature two full days of presentations delivered by cyclorama experts from around the globe, and other activities including a behind-the-scenes look at Gettysburg's own cyclorama. (Photo:...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Officials from the United States Mint and the National Park Service will launch the Gettysburg National Military Park on January 25, 11 a.m. Eastern Time (EST), at the Gettysburg National Military Park Visitor Center. Invited guests include Governor Tom Corbett, First Lady Susan Manbeck Corbett and Gettysburg Foundation President Bob Kinsley. Following the ceremony, the public can exchange their cash for $10 rolls of the Gettysburg...
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough, President Eisenhower's granddaughter Susan Eisenhower and Medal of Honor recipient Paul W. Bucha discuss their heartfelt objections to the proposed Gettysburg casino (1/2 mile from the Gettysburg National Military Park) in four emotional videos just released from No Casino Gettysburg and the Civil War Preservation Trust. The musical...
Celebrities and public figures provide moving recitation of Lincoln's address for Remembrance Day commemoration GETTYSBURG, Pa., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 147 years ago this week, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to central Pennsylvania to deliver one of the most famous speeches in world history, the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln delivered his remarks on November 19, 1863, during ceremonies dedicating the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. To commemorate this...
Facility is first museum in Pennsylvania, only fourth in nation, to achieve Gold certification GETTYSBURG, Pa., July 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center has achieved Gold certification in the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Green Building Rating System(TM). The LEED Green Building Rating System is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of...
'Abraham Lincoln: One Man, Two Views' at Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center GETTYSBURG, Pa., June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The amazing creative and visual journey taken by artists to represent Abraham Lincoln through sculpture is the focus of a new exhibit at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100610/DC19206 ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100610/DC19206 ) The exhibit --...
One of the last living "witness trees" to the decisive Civil War battle in Gettysburg, Pa., has been felled by a storm, National Park Service officials say. The tree, a honey locust situated on Cemetery Hill in the Gettysburg National Military Park, split and crashed to the ground during a severe storm last week, leaving only three such "witness trees" remaining, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Sunday. Historians said the tree was only 150 feet from the platform where U.S. President...
