Our route from Valley Forge towards Gettysburg took us through a bit of Lancaster County. This is famously Amish territory, which was apparent on the road.
School bus, two wagons & us all converging. When we arrived at the first little town I got pretty excited to see quilts and crafts.
This quilt was the top one in a stack of dozens. All were beautifully hand quilted.
I opted to purchase a little fabric for my own creations. The way I spread my scraps out, these will end up on a dozen or more projects, each time reminding me of our trip trough Pennsylvania.
Next stop Gettysburg. It was an appropriately gloomy day to visit such a somber place. Upon arriving we went to the film and cyclorama. The cyclorama is a huge round oil painting with foreground "real" stuff. We viewed the painting from a round platform 30ft from the painting. They play a dialogue with music and lights that make it feel like you are in the middle of the battle on Cemetery Ridge. We explored part of the museum before our bus tour through a large part of the battleground.
Fences and orchards have been reconstructed to attempt to replicate 1863.
Here is a view from the Union army's high ground. The final day's charge by the confederates was from the tree line up to this area. In the 3 day battle 51,000 soldiers were killed or sustained wounds that would kill them.
These are a few faces of the confederate soldiers. There were two big walls of these images.
Sunset over Gettysburg last night. The old rhyme about pink sky at night did not hold out... We awoke to rain and the path to the bath put a different spin on the importance of "high ground".
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