Military Park offers special Winter Lecture Series
Seminars address perspectives on the battle and campaign
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) - 12/8/2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...
CONTACT:
Katie Lawhon
Gettysburg National Military Park
(717) 334-1124, ext. 3121
[email protected]
To mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s first year, the National Park Service free winter lecture series in 2011 will explore events and personalities who figured prominently in 1861, and also return to the popular “Perspectives on the Gettysburg Campaign and Battle.”
This year’s programs will range from Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in 1861, to Dan Sickles at Gettysburg and the July 3 experience of Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing’s battery. These, and more, are among the topics of the 2011, 1861 – The Civil War Begins & Gettysburg: Perspectives on the Battle and Campaign at Gettysburg National Military Park.
National Park Rangers will offer the programs on weekends beginning Saturday, Jan. 8, and running through Sunday, March 13. They are free of charge and will be held at the new Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, in one of the film theaters through February 27 and in the Ford Motor Company Fund Education Center on March 6, 12, and 13.
Programs begin at 1:30 p.m. and last approximately one hour. A full schedule of lectures can be found at www.nps.gov/gett/parknews/mid-winter-lecture-series-2011.htm.
For more information go to Gettysburg National Military Park’s website at www.nps.gov/gett or call 717/ 334-1124 x 8023.
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