Monday, April 2, 2012


"As you can see on the picture, it was taken on 9/21/2005. My wife and I were on vacation and spending a couple nights in Gettysburg. We went for one of the town ghost tours and afterwards we decided to go out around the area with our digital camera (Kodak Easy Share - the camera was fairly new, was working fine, lens was clean and was fully charged). We went to, I believe, Cemetery Ridge (the battlefield by the Jennie Wade home), and we were taking pictures around there and then all of a sudden the camera stopped working. The battery indicator showed a low status, and we had to keep turning the camera off and on to get it to work. We thought our evening was done, but we waited a little while and tried it again, and the battery display showed it was fully charged. So we started again taking pictures. We went over to the cemetery; it's the one that used to be across from the old Visitor Center, and were taking pictures there. We walked along the wall of the cemetery and at one point I reached in over the gate and snapped some pictures. This photo them being one of them. It was a clear quiet night; no moon. It was so dark we had trouble seeing ourselves. At the point the picture was taken, there was no traffic nor anyone else around but the two of us.  "