Biking the Battlefield 3
GYE: Day 4
Battlefield Tour with Ray
Talent Show
Lincoln Diner
Woke up a bit before six. Dave and I headed out on another battlefield tour by bike. We went up through town and then over to Culp's Hill. There we climbed the third of the three observation towers. The big battle here took place on the evening of the second day.
Civil War home with bullet holes.
From Culp's Hill Observation Tower
From there we went down to Spangler's Spring, our original destination. It was the very end of the barb on the "fish hook." From there we went out to the main road and up and over past the new visitor's center. Next we worked our way past the Pennsylvania monument over near Little Round Top and down through Devil's Den where we met Ray and another guy on bikes to. Next we went over through the Wheatfield and down to the Peach Orchard. I also wanted to see the barn with the shell hole it it called the Trostle farm so we rode there. WE headed back down along cemetery ridge and then back through town to the college.
Spangler's Spring
Above Devil's Den
Barn with the shell hole.
Jim at the Trostle Farm
We were back by 7:30 or so and I puttered around a bit and made it to breakfast right at 8:30. I wasn't going to but I did go by the Photography session but left anf got to my classroom by nine.
In the 9:45 session we did some brainstorming with them about their first week plans and then I took them through the copy stuff, paired them up and we wrote angles and leads for the rest of the time. They were all exhausted from working all night on theme packets so I really didn't push it.
The Westfield girls.
The Potomac Falls Girls.
Lake Braddock. Theme: Impact
Kendall and Katie from Chantilly.
Sara from
Megan from Oakton
Taylor and Jenna.
Partner interview Mishaal and Stephanie.
Katie and Taylor
Robyn and Robin
In the afternoon hour I divided them into groups of four to look at the editor scenario lists. They were to discuss among each other, take notes, and then share with the bigger group. It actually worked out quite well.
After class we had the theme presentations (3:30-5:30) in the lounge and we had 14 we had to judge. We switched and judged the groups that another group had helped and vice versa. We were done in less than an hour and a half and the other group that judged the books we had helped were still going when we got into the CUB. I think they had ten. After the judging we had a special dinner in the specialty dining area and then we met the battlefield tour bus at 6.
The bus tour begins with Dave and Lynne
Stop 1: Near the Peace Memorial; Discussion of Day One of the Battle-July 1, 1863
Ray the tour guide. We had him when I was here in 2006
Stop 2: Ray looking toward Cemetary Ridge from the North Carolina Memorial
North Carolina Memorial on Seminary Ridge.
We left the North Carolina memorial, drove around the Lee Memorial near the site of Pickett's Charge and then headed over to Little Round Top. On the way we passed the Peach Orchard, the Wheatfield, went in toward Devil's Den and then up to Little Round Top for our third stop. We walked up to the observation area and there was something going on with a camera production company and to the best of our knowledge we saw Henry Louis Gates, a renown African, American Studies professor at Harvard, who was filming a PBS show on finding Abraham Lincoln which would air in February. It was pretty cool. We watched them film him and he spoke to the crowd and interacted with the people who were watching.
Stop 3: Little Round Top
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates at Little Round Top
Statue of Gouverneur K. Warren–the man who held Little Round Top after Sickles left it vulnerable.
We got back in the bus and drove down the shaft of the fish hook, from the finger nail to the knuckle and then past the High Water Mark of the Confederacy, the Angle and the Copse of Trees that was the final destination of Pickett's Charge. From there we drove back to the college past the cemetery and down town Gettysburg. We were back around 8 or so. I went back to dump my card so I could shoot a video of MK's kids at the talent show. Kendall from my class did a skit from Mad TV, "Can I Have Yopur Number?" that was hilarious. One of Gary's kids did a sng that was also amazing. They said the talent show wasn't going to be that good, but it was a lot better than last year's.
After the talent show we went to the Lincoln Diner for ice cream, but I had a patty melt.
I must have stayed up talking with Mitch after he got back with part of the drinking group. The other group, the lkids, didn't get back until 3;30. So glad I missed that one.
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