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We visited Gettysburg on our Honeymoon
By Franklyn Gallup of MouseSpace.net
My wife and I were were married on June 9, 1973 in Cobleskill, NY. We had gone alone to Niagara Falls while we were going together so we set out plans on Disney World as our honeymoon destination. Since we were driving we decided to include a day at Gettysburg. We are both glad that we did and have been back twice with the kids. One of the things we did is purchase an audio tour at the main museum. This tour consisted of a cassette that we just plugged into our cassette player. This is something I would highly recommend. The audio tour is designed to be played as you drive through the park at 15 miles an hour. The tape included peppy marching music when something upbeat was happening and very droll music when something sad was happening. The strings were played when the activity was tense and suspenseful. Over and between the background music you could hear the sounds of cannon wheels, horses, Musket fire, Cannon Fire, cries of pain, and shouts of rallying the troops. It was almost like being IN a movie. My wife and I both laughed when the tape said up here on the right you will see an old barn. ...and there was the barn. When we got to a stop where there was a lot to see the tape would tell us to park here and stop the tape. When you start again turn the tape back on. This let us take as much time as we wanted absorbing the ambiance of the history we were looking at. The narrator would fill in funny little stories in between stops. I was amazed at how close the South came to winning the Battle of Gettysburg. I remember one point where the Confederate Army was camped out within 1000 yards of the railroad tracks that would later be bringing in reinforcements, guns and artillery for the Union Army. If they had only known and destroyed that track the outcome of Gettysburg could have been much different. I was touched by the description of Pickett's Charge. The music changed from upbeat to suspenseful to morbid. I could imagine what it was like on that day. The Soldier's National Cemetery was a emotional place after all we had seen and heard that day. I got a new understanding and appreciation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. I would recommend Gettysburg as a place to visit especially with children. When me moved to Northern Virginia we spent a day with the kids at Manassas, VA which is also full of history. |
Gettysburg National Military Park - Getting Around
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Leaving the church where we got married
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I sooooooo want to visit Gettysburg. I'd love to be there to see reenactments, but I understand that they are rarely done in the park itself. They do it somewhere to the west. (I've talked to some guys who do this at Hale Farm last summer.)
I absolutely love your wedding picture!
We must have been the only couple that never went to Niagara Falls. In fact we did not have a honeymoon until some years after we married. We just drove up to Reno, got hitched, and came back early the next morning as we both had to go to work. But it was a good marriage just the same. Great photo 
Thank you for sharing this fun filled story, Franklyn.
There really is fun in history.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Very nice story, I would love to go to Gettysburg.
I certainly would visit Gettysburg if I ever came to the USA.
What I found fascinating is, how the author describes the help and fun he and his wife had by listening to an unusual tape while driving. It was their 'high tech' guide of the historical location.
I heard about such tapes but, have no experience with them.
I have used tapes like this once or twice many years ago, and they work - but only if you go at the speed of the tape. In other words, you have to be at the place the tape is describing for it to work. I did it at a museum once and the tape was really boring. Maybe now they have radio transmissions at Gettysburg, that would be really good, with very localized transmissions for each area. Just tune in the car radio to listen...
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