| ...if someone in your community proposes real estate development or a new gambling casino or even a new fence. It usually arouses some local controversy. If someone proposes to do the same thing anywhere near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, it is a national issue. Gettysburg is Ground Zero for America Civil War tourism. Some 3 million people visit the area each year and the main thing they come to see, Gettysburg National Military Park. Who is responsible for keeping it up? Building fences or removing them and fending off neighboring casinos? The man with that job today is James Robert Kirby, Superintendent at Gettysburg National Military Park. We will talk with Bob Kirby today about the past, present and future of America's greatest battlefield park on Civil War Talk Radio." |