I was up in the observation tower on West Confederate Avenue, scanning the horizon, and saw nothing. By the time I got back down and in the car, the fire radio was toning Gettysburg out to 28 West Middle St. for a fire reportedly in the rear of a building. I kept an ear on it, and as I crossed Emmitsburg Road heard an additional report that the ( Read more... )

Pick up Eastern National's 2005 Annual Report which was distributed today, and on one page is none other than a picture of Stout performing at Ft. Wadsworth on Memorial Day (of course they couldn't have run a picture of me and Jay doing skirmish drill, but Annie's dad is playing fiddle in it, so that's cool) right above a picture of our favorite ( Read more... )

Please note: my appearance hereon does not mean I endorse the bad acting, lousy stuntmen, or "Gettysburg" ripoffery that pervaded every aspect of this production.

http://www.gatewaygettysburg.com/pdf/Poster_outlined.pdf

http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=129339&format=print

http://www.dieselairhorns.com/sounds.html

Crank up your speakers, close your eyes, and dream...

While visiting the flower shop cats, the wig-wags at the Washington Street grade crossing went off, and so I happily skipped over to the curb to watch the Dash-8's in all their gray-and-blue-and-yellow might pull the cavalcade of rolling stock eastward. Among the notable cars were at least two hopper cars with the old Chessie System paint scheme, ( Read more... )

To bring readers up to date, the current Gettysburg Visitor Center has ALWAYS been horribly insufficient as a public facility, and even worse as a storage and display facility. A private firm is financing and building a new Visitor Center, which is slated to open in late 2007, about a half mile away from the current one ( Read more... )

I am wearing on my right hand a ring picked up by a G.I. in Sicily in '44. Crudely engraved on it is "1944 Sicily." It's a classic war souvenir, and I love it.

We're at my aunt & uncle's now, where I found this snapshot on their mantle. Regular readers will recognize some of the folks in it.


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Home again in Brooklyn. The day started at 6:00 A.M., and with MTO's from Sheetz and a full tank of gas, Loretta took me to the Harrisburg train station (where there's currently a lovely photo exhibit of station operations in winter over the years). I slept on and off much of the way to Philly, and dozed occasionally between Philly and New York, ( Read more... )

Hooray for new period civilian shoes!! Made off of original lasts, too. Ridiculously narrow, just the way they oughtta be.


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