You’re both very welcome.

Sign me up for some of those lessons. 🙂

Eric

Sad, isn’t it? I hope they do put more of the collection out. Why have it if nobody ever gets to see it?

Eric

Stan, classes at The Center start in August. This gives me time to pick up one of those robes with a dragon on the back.

Rick

Thanks for taking a huge chunk out of your busy schedule and showing we three bozo’s thru the back roads from Westminster to Carlisle and back to GB. That was the first time I’d ever had the nuances of the mysterious Gettysburg—Littlestown Railroad explained to me in detail. I spoke to Rick and Phil T last evening and they’ve both decided to purchase a 12 month membership with the Carlisle Kung-Fu Center. I have a bad elbow from drinking so I declined.

I know how busy you, JD and Mike were those coupla’ days and just wanted to take this moment to thank you once again!
I hope you remembered to turn the air conditioning off back at the ECF mansion. The crystal in the chandeliers Karl was swinging from can crack if it gets too cold. Not to mention that the oil in the Monets will lose its texture over 75 degrees. I’d hate to have to call my insurance agent again.

Thanks again Eric, for so generously sharing both your time and your knowledge!

Stan

I agree with your comments about the new Visitors Center. Other than the Farnsworth House there really isn’t a good bookstore in town anymore. There’s a military antique shop near the square that sells second hand books thats pretty cool but they seem to buy up 50 copies of the same book so the selection can be a little thin. Greystone (?) bookstore across from the Holiday Inn used to be my fav. That store was one of the best independant bookstores I’ve ever been in. Too bad it went under. They had pretty good foot traffic in there and it’s a great location so I’m not sure what happened to it. I know I spent my share in there.

I went to this years semi-annual spring seminar that the national park puts on. Part of the weekend schedule was a tour of the new VC and you should have heard some of the comments during the Q and A session. Scott Hartwig felt the need to get up and address some of the concerns that were voiced. Everybody voiced the same things you pointed out. He termed it a work in progress. I thought the whole reason for the new place was to be able to show off all the artifacts??? I feel like the powers that be at the national level overruled the ideas at the Gettysburg park level. They seemed to want a disney world experience. Brian

It was great meeting you and the others. Hope to see you again sometime.