New Visitor Center Opens at Gettysburg
The new facility looks like a nineteenth-century barn, but is filled with audio and video presentations. The visitor center cost about $125 million and offers a dozen galleries — with one devoted to each day of the 1863 Pennsylvania battle.
Tim Lambert reports for member station WITF in Harrisburg, Pa.
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