re: #345 Blind Frog Belly White

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As an aside, having grown up 8 miles away from Gettysburg, it’s kind of weird. To us, it was the nearest town big enough to have decent shopping, including grocery stores. Tourists were an annoyance - the Battlefield roads were our shortcuts, except from July 4th through Labor Day, when they’d be clogged with station wagons full of bored kids that stopped at every one of the 3000 monuments - in the middle of the fucking road!

I studied history in college, taking a minor in it. My favorite prof was a Civil War buff who took a group of students every year on a tour of the battlefields in Virginia (Gettysburg was too developed for the sort of tromping we did). So, I know how crucial it was to the war, and what it symbolizes. But to me, it’s still where we’d go to buy groceries, and where Mom worked in the hospital lab, running the blood bank.

*Pronounced Gettissburg, not Gettiesburg, BTW. Named after James Gettys.

8 miles away, huh. So you didn’t have a Gettysburg address….