Good Morning Gettysburg! Presented by Neil Beller
25 Miles, 38 Hills, and a Completely Unnecessary Amount of Civil War History What started as a simple bike ride through Gettysburg has somehow turned into a 5,000-mile obsession. For years, Emmy Award-winning editor/producer and storyteller Neil Beller has driven 38 miles from his home in Carroll County to Gettysburg, unloaded his mountain bike, and ridden a roughly 25-mile loop around one of the most famous battlefields in American history. Along the way, something unexpected happened: Neil started paying attention. The monuments became landmarks. The landmarks became stories. The stories became questions. And the questions led him down some fascinating, and occasionally ridiculous rabbit holes into the history of the Battle of Gettysburg. In Good Morning, Gettysburg!, Neil takes audiences on a humorous ride through the battlefield as seen from the seat of a bicycle. He explores the roads, monuments, farms and fields that have become part of his Saturday-morning routine while sharing the history behind the places he passes every week. But this isn’t a traditional Civil War lecture. Neil mixes history with personal storytelling, observations from thousands of miles on the battlefield, encounters with locals, reenactors, tourists, yard sales, and hills that seem to get steeper every week. You’ll learn that “drafting” might be a dirty word, beavers fought at Little Round Top and guns and knives are not allowed around other guns and knives. You’ll also learn the realization that…
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