HISTORIC GETTYSBURG -ADAMS COUNTY
EDUCATIONAL SPEAKER PROGRAM
FOR 2012
March 20 - James Getty presents a program on Mr. Getty's start
as a living history actor and then we welcome Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
April 17 - Samuel Wilkeson, chief New York Times reporter in 1863 shares his memories of his assignment
to the Gettysburg battle where his son was fighting only to arrive one day too late to talk to his son alive. Mr. Wilkeson
revisits the battlefield 14 later and once again shares his memories with the audience.
May
15 - Bert Barnett of the Park Service treats us to an evening of Civil War poetry he has discovered through old letters,
in antique shops hidden in books and tells the story behind the author of the poem if his research has discovered that story.
August 21 - Ulysses S. Grant and his future bride, Julia Dent, join us in the GAR building
on the eve of their wedding and share their courtship and life together and apart while the future president of the United
States traveled across the United States fighting wars before the start of The Civil War. Grant will share his growing up
years and interesting facts of his life such as how he became known as Ulysses S. Grant.
September
18 - Cal and Suzanne Doucette have so many living history personalities to share with us this evening that I can't
decide who to ask them to share with us. Could it be Horace Greely, founder and editor of The New York Tribune? Or, Robert
Harper, Editor of The Adams County Sentinel? Will Ms Doucette, be Harper's wife and share how she cared for the soldiers left
behind. Or maybe, Eizabeth Van Lew, Union spy will surprise us.
October 16
- Ken Zaveckas is returning by request to share his intense research on the hauntings of the soldiers, civilians, and children
the days after the 3 day battles. Mr. Zaveckas will tell of the written stories he has discovered through letters written
by veterans and civilians left behind to care for the wounded, dead and the search for medical and food supplies.
November 20 - Happy Birthday George Washington Sandoe !!! presented by Sandoe's relative
Deb McCauslin. Ms. McCauslin will present her well documented life of George Washington Sandoe, local resident and Union soldier
who history has written that Sandoe was the first Union soldier to be killed the first day of fighting.
