Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 14:22:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dennis P. Lawrence" <lawrence%tyrell.net@KSUVM.KSU.EDU>
Re: Bill Welsch's note about Gettysburg Institute Papers:
I would assume by your reply that nothing is available on line of
these papers. I am interested in finding research of the political and
commercial influences which play a role in the development and
preservation of the field at Gettysburg. Research of the type conducted
by John Patterson of Penn State in his papers _From Battle Ground to
Pleasure Ground: Gettysburg as a Tourist Site_ and _A Patriotic
Landscape: Gettysburg 1863 - 1913_ . Or by Kathy Georg-Harrison _ This
Grand National Enterprise: The Origins of Gettysburg's Soldiers' National
Cemetery_ . This last, and perhaps the second are unpublished and
available at GNMP library. I hope that perhaps some other unpublished sources
might be lying out
there waiting for me to grab them. However, I am also interested in
printed sources.
I wish I had the $$ to attend the Institute. I just returned from
Gettysburg in May and will be returning in August to pursue my interest
in the battlefield development. I have documented the destruction of the
eastern RR Cut and its devastation sickens me. Two thoughts came to my
mind as I stood there 1) How could the Park Service have been so passive
as the bulldozers rolled ? (lots of finger pointing out here, little
action.) 2) What was Gabor Boritt doing while all this was going on?
I guess it's not fair to single them out, but who is
better suited to protect the field?
Dennis Lawrence
lawrence@tyrell.net