Back to the battlefields

The National Park Service has done a fantastic job here at Gettysburg. What an impressive museum. Overwhelming, actually. Rather than just focusing on the battle here, it tells the whole story of the Civil War, and I thought it did a very fair representation of both sides of the conflict. But, as always, "us old folks" learned as much from the junior ranger program as we did from the adult-oriented exhibits. Collin was involved in an hour-long program with a ranger entitled "Join the Army" that enabled the kids to feel what it must have been like to be a soldier then. They got to lift the actual equipment and see the uniforms that would have been worn. And the ranger conducting the program was so good with kids (kind of a kid himself) and had so much personality, the hour flew by. My advice: If you really want to see one of the National Parks, go with someone aged 6-12.