November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal Although Steve Wiley lived in Gettysburg, Pa., for a long time and even had a business there, it wasn’t until 1991 that he realized how the great Civil War battle related to business leadership.
Wiley looked around and researched the history of the 1863 battle and saw how leadership was the key to some of the [...]
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November 18, 2009 | Posted by javal DATE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19
TIME: 10:00 A.M.
LOCATION: WWW.PALINCOLN.ORG
WHAT: On Thursday, November 19, the 2009 Dedication Day Ceremony will be live streamed on the Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission webpage at WWW.PALINCOLN.ORG The Dedication Day Ceremony is held annually at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery. In case of inclement weather, the location will be The Majestic Theater in [...]
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November 18, 2009 | Posted by javal A boy who was mocked by his disbelieving classmates after he met former President Lincoln has sweet revenge more than a century later.
Eight-year-old George Patten met the commander-in-chief with his father, a journalist.
The American Civil War leader wrote to the young boy, after his school friends refused to believe he had met the 16th President.
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November 17, 2009 | Posted by javal Another significant Abraham Lincoln anniversary will pass this week with no showing from the 16th president’s 7-foot-6-inch bronze likeness that a Utah-based sculptor has offered as a gift to Gettysburg.
Though the statue itself is finished, the logistics of finding it a permanent home are far from complete.
Thursday — the 146th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address [...]
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November 17, 2009 | Posted by javal The person who stole a gravestone from the Christ Church-Old Swedes cemetery in Swedesburg may have thought they were walking off with a valuable Civil War artifact.
Although the stone marks the grave of Sarah Priest, who nursed soldiers during the Civil War, her gravestone only dates back as far as 2007, when the Daughters of [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal For a nine-foot statue of President Abraham Lincoln and a 15-foot wall with the Gettysburg Address etched into it to be erected on Gettysburg School District property along Baltimore Street by Remembrance Day, the subject would need to be on the agenda for Monday night’s school board meeting.
It isn’t.
The items are expected to arrive in [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
November 19, the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, was formally designated as Dedication Day by a joint resolution of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on August 7, 1946. Through the efforts of Congressman Todd R. Platts (PA-19) a 2009 resolution (HRes736) was introduced and passed by unanimous vote of the House of Representatives [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal National Park Service Northeast Regional Director Dennis R. Reidenbach has named Mel Poole as interim superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park. Poole, who is currently superintendent of Catoctin Mountain Park in Thurmont, Maryland, will assume his duties on November 23, 2009. Reidenbach also named Gettysburg Chief Ranger Brion Fitzgerald as acting deputy superintendent.
“I appreciate that [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal Former Armstrong County resident and Civil War Pvt. Chauncey Flower was remembered for his service to his country in a tribute that included the presentation of the colors and the playing of taps.
On Oct. 29, Las Vegas, N.M., veterans representing Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1547, along with Flower’s great-grandchildren and a few guests, honored [...]
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November 9, 2009 | Posted by javal On the seventh day, members of the Sweeney family always knew where to find dad.
“He spent every Sunday at the historical society,” Kara Sweeney said of her father, Alan.
The former president of the Lackawanna Historical Society – a beloved fixture at the group’s Catlin House on Monroe Avenue – died of cancer in December at [...]
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