Screen shot 2012-01-13 at 8.15.40 PM.pngThe stone observatory on the Bloody lane is now finished and ready for visitors. The view from this point alone is worth a visit to the famous Bloody lane as you can take in the entire right to the left nearly four miles. There will be, when all planted, nearly four hundred markers, giving one a good idea of the entire battle field with the advantage of the good roads. Every body ought to visit it and make a study of this great battle.
Just talk to me...
Submitted by StephenRecker on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 8:15pm
Speaking of postcards, last I spoke at the Franklin County Historical Society as a fill-in for a friend who was ill. The folks at the venue expected A/V but said I could only bring my presentation on a flash drive. Now, I have enough Antietam materials on my laptop to speak for days, but I did not want to spend four hours deciding what to show during a one-hour talk. Then it hit me.
A few years ago I put a bunch of my older Antietam postcards on a CD-ROM and called it Antietam Artifacts. I remember how excited I was a few days ago to find that old Burgan of Mountain View and decided to just go through the CD and talk about some of my old card, and the stories they tell.
Well, I think the evening was a success. I never use a script when I do talks and I enjoy it when I hear others talk extemporaneously. So my unsolicited advice to speakers who may be more interesting at the dinner before the talk than during the talk after the dinner (phew) ... when you get up there - just talk to me!
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Hello. I'm Stephen Recker and welcome to my blog. In it I will be discussing the different projects I am working on related to the American Civil War with a focus on photography related to the battle of Antietam. I am particularly interested in how the battlefield has been interpreted throughout the years. I will be discussing how it was done then and how new technologies can be brought to bear to bring life to those old materials as well as new ones. See the 99 Places Every Antietam Battlefield Guide Should Know.
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Antietam Valley Record
Thursday, September 5, 1895