The tragical procession

[Jim Garrett]

The season for Gettysburg is pretty much April 15th to October 15th, with a small increase on the anniversary of the address. The rest of the late fall and winter, you pretty much have the place to yourself.

While I certainly think computers are great (we wouldn't have the great Lincoln Discussion Symposium without them), nothing replaces face to face contact. Computers have limits and pretty much cannot create a dialogue. Sometimes when I'm volunteering at Ford's, I will go over to the deringer when there is a crowd and just say that they are looking at the most valuable gun in history. That gets their attention and usually opens up a few questions.