Add to ORKGA couple months ago, at the annual spring Gettysburg antique show, I found a small display of Civilian Conservation Corps items. Pennants and coins, matchbook covers and pins all displayed on a piece of foam-core. One caught my eye. For $10, I became the proud owner of a matchbook cover, never used, from a CCC Camp in Gettysburg. Company 1355 was stationed at Camp NP - 2 - Pa., now known as the Boy Scout / youth camping area at McMillan woods. I was thrilled. [excerpt
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Back at the beginning of the summer, I was asked by the College to write a piece on the history of t...
I have been digging quite heavily into the history of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College and the Amer...
The battle anniversary loomed in the waning days of June. And Gettysburg was preparing. Aside from t...
A few months ago I took a quick jaunt to Carlisle to see the Pennsylvania Civil War Sesquicentennial...
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Today the Sons of Confederate Veterans ‘celebrated’ the confederate flag at the Peace Light Memorial...
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