What to Know About Visiting Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania
How best to explore where a major Union victory changed the course of the Civil War
by Bill Fink, AARP, May 25, 2021 |
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COVID-19 Update: Gettysburg s visitor center and its museum are open, as are the park grounds. Bus tours are operating again, but park ranger tours remain suspended. The Eisenhower National Historic Site is open, but the Eisenhower Home is closed. The David Willis House and Lincoln Railroad Station in town are also closed. Check the park website for updates. You ll want to cover your ears,” the Union officer says as he readies his cannon. I step back a few paces as uniformed Civil War re-enactors on the fields of Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania fire their artillery. The thundering blasts rattle my chest, pound my eardrums and cloud my vision with drifting smoke.
between behemoth granite shafts, shove
my body by their force, leave me roadside
and wandering fields. Little is funny
when you’re Chicana and walking
a Civil War site not meant for walking.
Regardless, I ask park rangers and guides
for stories on Mexican soldiers,
receive shrugs. No evidence in statues
or statistics. In the cemetery, not one
Spanish name. I’m alone in the wine shop.
It’s the same in the post office, the market,
the antique shop with KKK books on display.
In the peach orchard, I prepare a séance,
sit cross-legged in grass, and hold
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And then another. And another. And four more.
In maybe a third of a square foot of dirt, the University of Maryland entomologists find at least seven cicadas a rate just shy of a million per acre. A nearby yard yielded a rate closer to 1.5 million.
And there’s much more afoot. Trillions of the red-eyed black bugs are coming, scientists say.
Within days, a couple weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X (the X is the Roman numeral for 10) will emerge after 17 years underground. There are many broods of periodic cicadas that appear on rigid schedules in different years, but this is one of the largest and most noticeable. They’ll be in 15 statesfrom Indiana to Georgia to New York; they’re coming out now in mass numbers in Tennessee and North Carolina.