Class Year
2016
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
11-12-2014
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
If you were in Gettysburg during the summer of 2013, you surely encountered the ubiquitous 150th Gettysburg logo branded on everything from promotional materials to souvenirs. The latter – tacky at best and irreverent at worst – filled the town to the point of excess, making some of us wonder how many people completely missed the point of the sesquicentennial. Anniversaries exert a powerful force on the American historical psyche, but it is dubious whether Gettysburg’s celebration exerted an appropriate one. The sesquicentennial was a wonderful opportunity to refocus on the events of July 1863, but sadly many businesses in Gettysburg seemed unable to look past their profit margins. [excerpt]
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This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Lavery, Kevin P., "Lost: Sesquicentennial Sanity. If found, please contact Borough of Gettysburg." (2014). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 73.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/73
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This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.