1/22/2010 : According to the York Daily Record/Sunday News, the Civil War Preservation Trust launched a campaign to raise funds to purchase a 2-acre piece of land on Emmittsburg Road, which runs through the Gettysburg Battlefield. The land and the houses that now occupy it were once part of the Philip Snyder Farm. This acreage, adjacent to Little Round Top and the Peach Orchard, played a major role in the Battle of Gettysburg and has been on the minds of the Park Service to acquire it someday. This property has now become available and the CWPT will try to purchase it and then sell it back to the National Park Service. Log onto their website and read how the Trust plans to buy this land.

Follow this journey of a sculpture, Robert H. Smith, who set out to show an incredible likeness of Abraham Lincoln for all the world to see and appreciate. One difference between this sculpture and all the others is that this Lincoln is life-size and you can sit on the bench next to him and have a chat about all things or of war. Mr Lincoln now resides in the Museum and Visitor Center and if you get the chance to visit Gettysburg, stop by and set a spell with Mr. President.

The Gettysburg National Military Park and the Gettysburg Foundation will offer a free, national broadcast on February 12, 2010. Schools and broadcast stations are invited to register for this event, which is called "Big Deal At Gettysburg: The Value of Historical Places". Follow this one hour broadcast and learn how one woman's quest for adding more prestige for her firm, using Gettysburg as the means to that end, learned a powerful lesson along the way. For more information about this broadcast, click on the Foundation link above, read about it on http://gettysblog.blogspot.com/  or contact Heidi Myers at 1-717-338-1243 or e-mail at programs@gettysburgfoundation.org.

The Cyclorama Painting at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center will be closed to the public from January 25-29, 2010 for adjustments to the program. The other exhibits (the film and the museum) will be open at that time for you to see. According to the Gettysburg Foundation, the adjustments will allow visitors to spend more time viewing the painting.

Well, here it is, another year beginning in the "Little Town With The Big History". The previous year saw quite a few changes to the town of Gettysburg and the Battlefield that engulfs it. We opened up a gas station at the corner of Steinweir Avenue & Baltimore Street that was part of that corner in the past but missed so much by the residents and visitors alike; we changed the name of a few existing places, like the Holiday Inn , (now the 1863 Inn of Gettysburg) and The Gingerbread Man Resturant, (now Gettysburg Eddies),  and we'll have to see if there is a difference in how they are embraced by the people who use their facilities; another motel, (Comfort Suites) officially opened between the Pike Resturant and Evergreen Cemetery on Baltimore Pike.

It was quite a year, and now we begin anew. The first New Year Event for 2010 is the appointment of James Robert (Bob) Kirby who is the new Superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park and the Eisenhower National Historic Site. The announcement came as the new year began on January 8, 2010.