GDG- Disgusted

[Dave and Deb Ward]

I didn't see the article or the photograph. I agree it is wrong. I also get irritated to see these parents letting their kids climb on cannons at battlefield.

Dave Ward
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: JIM COOKE<mailto:cooke1863 at embarqmail.com> 
  To: GDG<mailto:gettysburg at arthes.com> 
  Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:02 PM
  Subject: Re: GDG- Disgusted


  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


  No way would the park have allowed this.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Basecat1 at aol.com<mailto:Basecat1 at aol.com>
  To: gettysburg at arthes.com<mailto:gettysburg at arthes.com>
  Sent: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:14:13 -0400 (EDT)
  Subject: GDG- Disgusted

  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


  Am not one to complain much, but after seeing an ad for the Gettysburg Arts  
  Festival, which will take place from June 19th to the 29th, in the Arts and  
  Leisure section of the NY Times today, I had to say something.
   
  The photo that accompanies the announcement of the festival is so wrong for  
  so many reasons.  It is a photo of Warren's Monument on LRT.  With an  added 
  addition to the monument. Someone got the "bright" idea to draw folks  to the 
  festival, by placing a sax on his statue dangling behind his back.   No 
  monument or statue at the park should be exploited in this way, and I am  hoping the 
  NPS had no clue that a photo such as this would be taken.  It's  a disgrace 
  and really bothered me today.  Have your arts festival, but have  some taste as 
  well, as those who found themselves fighting for their lives on  LRT 145 years 
  ago were doing so to save this nation.  If the NPS  did know that a photo 
  like this would be included in a print ad campaign,  well they should be ashamed 
  of themselves.  
   
  Am sure some will say lighten up Steve, but in a case like this I will  not.  
  Many other ways to entice folks to come to Gettysburg for their  festival, 
  and this ad just shows poor taste and bad judgment.  The  battlefield at 
  Gettysburg is sacred ground, and to see it exploited this way for  a freaking 
  festival makes me ill.
   
  Regards from the Garden State,
   
  Steve Basic
   
     



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