Gettysburg!
Last weekend I had an unanticipated treat thanks to my daughter Elizabeth– a trip to Gettysburg! She is heavily involved in a symposium on the premiere of a play that will be presented in the Stephen Foster Memorial on the University of Pittsburgh campus at 7:30 pm on September 14, 2019. The play is based on one of the fundamental subplots in the drama of the Battle of Gettysburg, the overpowering friendship of two key antagonists in the conflict – Confederate General Lewis Armistead and Union General Winfield Scott Hancock. The opportunity to revisit the battlefield was too much for…