Gettysburg's Electric Map Is Doomed

I can remember visiting Gettysburg as a kid and sitting in a square auditorium and watching a big map covered with little colored light bulbs light up to show how Union and Confederate troops were deployed during the three days of the battle. I loved it! Well, okay, I was a history geek.

Turns out the government officials who administer Gettysburg have decided that the electric map, which was built in the 1960s, doesn't fit into the new high-tech multimedia facility being built for visitors. That's right. The electric map is doomed.

Thankfully, it isn't being demolished, merely put into storage (well, perhaps forever). But some Gettysburg buffs who appreciate the old school brilliance of the electric map are trying to come to the rescue, and have launched an effort to Save the Electric Map. I wish them well!