News from Gettysburg

Adams County Irish Festival hits the stage July 17

Annual event brings full slate of performers to Gettysburg

The Irish Heritage Foundation of Gettysburg will present the 11th annual Adams County Irish Festival on Saturday, July 17, 2010. The event will run from10 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. and will feature all things Irish – music, dance, food, merchandise and more.

Each year, the event draws thousands to the shady grounds of Moose Park for Adams County’s only Irish festival. Making their Festival debut is this year’s headliner, the Makem & Spain Brothers, who hail from New England, and bring their robust and hearty voices and instrumentation to a new generation of Irish folk music fans.

Visitors to the festival will also be entertained by regional favorites Irishtown Road, Kilshanny, and Barleyjuice, and will be introduced to new regional favorites, Raining Hearts and Rigadoo. The Coyle School of Irish Dance and the Broesler School of Irish Dance will also be featured.

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Gettysburg hosts 19^th Century Base Ball Festival on July 17-18

Inaugural event features 1800s rules, equipment and uniforms

The first Gettysburg Vintage Base Ball Tournament will take place the weekend of July 17-18 at Hickory HollowFarm just outside Historic Gettysburg, Pa.

Six 19^th Century base ball clubs will be competing in a tournament using the same rules and customs and playing with the same style uniforms and equipment as would have been used in 1864. When spectators make the three-mile trek on Route 30 west to Crooked Creek Lane to Hickory Hollow Farm they will be transported back in to time to witness what a sporting event was like during and just after the Civil War. 

The ball players are not re-enactors, they are actual base ball (two word) players who play a full schedule of matches from April until the end of October all up and down the East Coast of the United States. 

“The games are not scripted,” said Greg Rodenbaugh. “If we were like the re-enactors you see out on the battlefields of Gettysburg, we’d be using real bullets.”

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Gettysburg churches highlight evening walking tours

Tours continue Wednesdays throughout summer

Historic Church Walking Tours of Gettysburg starts its seventh season of providing local residents and tourists alike with visits to their historic churches.  On Wednesday evenings during the summer months, church volunteers provide short programs about their church and how it played a crucial role during and
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