From Cub Scouts to College Kids

April 28, 2007 Seminary Ridge

7:30 PM

The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association, of which I am a volunteer, had a group of scouts camping at the Daniel Lady Farm to do some community service and a group of about 50 joined me on the Seminary. I thought I was going to be dealing with Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, but when the group showed up these kids were Cub Scouts and Jr. Girl Scouts! Big difference! I eventually wrangled control of these kids and freaked them out a little. I think they learned a little something from my interpretive rants and we finished up and I prepared for the next group.

9:45

A group of college kids from Manchester came down and met me on the Seminary. It got started a little late but we had a good time. Summer is coming!

"RS"

April Entries All Thrown Together!

I gave a ton of tours over the last few weeks and can not keep track of them all. The first couple of weeks of April were "Spring Break" and families were coming to Gettysburg. It was a wierd batch of weather that the area got so our busier nights were actually Mondays and Tuesdays when the temperatures hit highs in the 80's! Then the cold would come and settle in and we led some walks against the stiff breeze.

The school groups braved the weather and I actually had a group from New Hampshire that was worried that it was going to be two cold to go on tour! They left the Granite State in a snow storm and sub-freezing weather and were concerned that 40 degrees was going to be too cold! I had to stroke their New England egos a little and told them that they were hurting my New England pride! Starting temperature for the walk was around 45 degrees and we had a good time.

Is it June yet?

"RS"