Norman Gasbarro | November 2, 2011
A revised and expanded edition of Civil War Harrisburg: A Guide to Capital Area Sites, Incidents and Personalities has recently been published by the Camp Curtin Historical Society. The book which is edited by Lawrence E. Keener-Farley and James E. Schmick, is available directly through the web site of the Camp Curtin Historical Society and […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 1, 2011
During Gratz Fair Week, 18-24 September 2011, there were a number of Abraham Lincoln sightings in and around the Gratz area. At the Fair’s Agricultural Hall, across from displays of prize-winning apples, was a gold-framed portrait of Lincoln. In the art exhibit in one of the exhibition buildings, a portrait of Lincoln was hanging amid […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 31, 2011
The population of the United States was only about 30 million at the time of the Civil War. More than a half million lost their lives in the war. Few went off to war expecting not to return. Many believe that ghosts of the men and women whose lives were suddenly cut short still wander […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 26, 2011
An exhibit sponsored by the Mütter Museum was part of the Civil War Sesquicentennial festivities at Franklin Square, Philadelphia, on the Fourth of July weekend 2011. The Mütter Museum is part of The College of Physicians, located at 19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia. The history of the museum is as follows: In 1856, Thomas Dent […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 25, 2011
In the Lower Cape Fear area of North Carolina is a mansion and plantation with a direct connection to the Civil War and to the Lykens Valley area. The painting shown above was completed in the 1970s by Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, artist Leah [Radel] Weaver. Leah Weaver began painting shortly after she married Ned […]
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