HARPERS FERRY
GETTYSBURG
In the Visitor Center there is a room where a Cyclorama fills the whole perimeter of the walls. It is an oil painting of the Gettysburg battlefield measuring 377’ in circumference and 42’ high. You pay to go into this room where you feel like you’re standing in the midst of the battle with sound effects and light flashes etc. Anyways after it was over and everyone was filtering out of the room Lynn was talking to one of the employees who showed him where to look to see that the cyclorama artist had painted in a wounded President Lincoln into the battlefield – representative of a wounded country – we felt pretty privileged to learn this interesting tidbit since it wasn’t mentioned during the show to the crowd that was in the room 🤓
We also went on a narrated bus tour of the battlefield. Hard to describe the somber feeling you get standing right on the ground where thousands of men died during this bloodiest 3 day battle, July 1-3, 1863. To hear the stories, visualize the scenes, the emotion and intensity of this event … can’t help but feel a heaviness in your chest 😔
Those Relive videos are very cool! and that’s cool you got the insider info on the memorial painting.
Ya well you know … Dad is quite the socializer so he often gets us great information we wouldn’t otherwise know
What a moving place, it’s incredible the things people endured for the modernity we enjoy today. Very neat about the statue being made out of a melted cannon too.
Haha awesome that you noticed that, and yes very cool that The Goddess of Victory and Peace was sculpted from a melted cannon!