July 24 Monuments galore

July 24 After a very heated run/walk up to Culp's Hill Observatory, it was time to get to the 'Visitors Center' !! Should always start with the visitor's center, but oh we'll. Viewed a IMAX-type Gettysburg film and cyclorama, walked the museum, and began my auto tour with CD tour guide. 4 - 1/2 hours later and sunburned I was almost done! But, the fun news is that what I had run/walked this a.m. was the rest of the tour - so, I'm done!!! It's an auto tour (reminded me of Stocking Scenic Drive- one way mostly, but with Civil War stops rather than Lake Michigan stops!) Monuments, tributes, plaques, statues, cannons, fences, fields, rocks..farms.. SO much to see !!! Late lunch was at the Dobbin House Tavern. This has Revolutionary (establshed in 1776) and Civil War history - first underground railroad stop north of the Mason-Dixon Line and served as a field hospital (like most all buildings in this town). The tavern is downstairs and lit by candles. I had a Corn Beef on rye :-) Found Robert E. Lee's headquarters :-) and where Lincoln scratched out revisions to his Gettysburg Cemetery dedication - The Wills House. Wonder what it would be like to live in such an historical place? AND have decided everyone needs to memorize the Gettysburg Address. 'Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged In a great civil war...'