GDG- Cost of the new Museum

[Peggy Rock]

That's everything I have "heard" has been great.
Regards from my "old" fingers
Peggy Rock
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peggy Rock" <mrock at embarqmail.com>
To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: GDG- Cost of the new Museum


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> ok, Charles, go ahead and hate the new VC but "old geezer" and you were 
> "young" watching Dick Vandyke?  I don't think so.  I watched Dick VanDyke 
> and I am not old anything.
>
> Living in Gettysburg, I have I heard much feedback about the new VC.  If 
> you want to believe it is not good enough and too expensive, you will. 
> But everything I have had has been great and I for one, say Hurrah!
>
> Respectfully,
> Peggy
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Kann" <ckann at comcast.net>
> To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 4:27 PM
> Subject: GDG- Cost of the new Museum
>
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>
> Esteemed gdg member wrote:
>
>>>>>  I'm not the most hardcore Civil War buff and have a long way to go to
> know all there is to know.  But one thing I do know, is that Gettysburg 
> has
> a world-class museum and visitor center in town now.  Wow!  That's about 
> all
> I can say about what I saw last night at the sneak peek.  Now I know where
> $104 million went.  They spared no expense on the facility and it's a gem.
> I'm not sure how you could be disappointed in it as someone else 
> mentioned,
> because it is one of the nicest museums I've been to.    <<<<
>
> I am the person who was disappointed when I saw the new museum.  To say I
> was disappointed is actually an understatement.  I remember the day when
> $100M bought something!  I still think of $100M as "real money".  (I know 
> I
> am a quaint, old geezer.  But $100M here, $100M there, pretty soon you are
> talking about real money).  There is a need for $3M to buy land on the
> battle field for sale right now.  For "noise" in the new VC budget, 
> probably
> less than to restore Ziegler's Grove, you could probably save all that
> endangered land (the real jewel of Gettysburg), and do much more.  I can't
> help but feel that the Park Service and Gettysburg Foundation were taken.
>
> But I would love to know what I am missing here.   I have seen many 
> museums
> that were as nice (or nicer), and were no where near as expensive.  What 
> was
> so "WOW" about this museum?  I am sorry, but whatever it was, I missed it.
> I did not see anything that was such new technology, or anything that
> engaged me.  I left thinking "that was nice, but $100M?".  I hope someone
> can outline what was so great, wow, cutting edge, and impressive.  Maybe I
> have a jaundiced eye, but compared to the Smithsonian, the museums around
> Williamsburg like Jamestown Colony, or even Monocacy Battle Field in
> Frederick I did not see what was incredibly better.  And I really wonder 
> if
> my eye is that much more jaundiced than the typical middle school student.
>
> On top of that, I saw nothing that made me want to rush out to the
> battlefield.  That should have been the central focus of the new VC and
> museum.  I do not think it met its purpose.
>
> I will give my age away when I say when I was young I saw an episode of 
> "The
> Dick Van Dyke Show".  Laura bought Rob a very nice new watch.  When Rob
> found out how much it was, he said "for that money you could have bought 
> me
> a piano, and had enough money left over to have bought me ... a nice 
> watch".
> I can't help but feel for $100M there would have been money to have bought 
> a
> nice park, with enough left over to have bought a nice, new VC.
>
> Chuck Kann
>
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