4th +: Gettysburg Seminar on Youth Leadership
Date – Time
March 24, 2021
– 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Location
Gettysburg Heritage Center
297 Steinwehr Ave
Gettysburg, PA 17325 US
Since we will be driving to various places throughout the battlefield, it would be more convenient for traffic control purposes if you found a friend (or made a friend) and carpooled.
Additional Information
4th +: Gettysburg Seminar on Youth Leadership
Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2021
Time: 9:00a – 4:30p
Cost: $32/person (this includes the seminar facilitator’s fee and the Heritage Center)
Ages: 4th grade and up
Location: Heritage Center, 297 Steinwehr Ave, Gettysburg, PA 17325
Sign up: ALL attendees 4th grade and older (INCLUDING adults). Please pay via PayPal at the time of sign up.
Group Size: min – 34; max - 50
Contact: Beth Mellott: dagwood5@hotmail.com
[NOTE: This seminar is being offered to HAHA members FIRST. If we do not have the minimum number of attendees by Jan 1, 2021, we will open it up to our local co-ops.]
We will be given a personal, full-day Youth Leadership Seminar on the Gettysburg Battlefield. This seminar will be provided in the rich context of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War campaign of which it is a part. This seminar will be provided by Dr. Michael McGough.
Dr. McGough spent over 30 years in academia in the various roles of teacher, administrator, and professor. Since 1976 he has served (and continues to serve) as a Licensed Guide with the National Park Service. His passions for history and teaching young people will combine to make this a day your child will not forget.
(Visit Dr. McGough's website: https://leadershipmrm.com/seminar-overviews/ to read a brief synopsis of his adult tour or sign up for his monthly blog: https://leadershipmrm.com/blog/)
Our day will begin at 9 am at the Heritage Center where we will watch the award-winning movie, “Gettysburg: An Animated Map” - a 20-minute presentation that orients visitors to the battle. We will drive to the Battlefield where we will discuss the battle from both the soldier’s AND the civilian’s point-of-view. We will learn about various military strategies as well as the social aspects of the war and how the battle changed sleepy, little Gettysburg forever.
The history lessons will be infused with life lessons as Dr. McGough will also talk about the importance of making decent plans, having a plan B, having a moral compass, solid decision-making skills, owning your decisions, and choosing your words wisely. Each of these life lessons will be a natural extension of the history and personal accounts of which we will learn.
During this seminar, we will take a lunch break at a picnic spot on the Battlefield where we will eat our (bring your own) brown bag lunch. We will return to the Heritage Center around 3:30 where we will have an ice cream debrief (bring money to buy the ice cream treat of your choice.) [Anyone who needs to leave at this point may do so] At 4:00p the third phase of our seminar will commence as we do a “Lincoln Walk” starting at the train station and following the path of Abraham Lincoln as he arrives in Gettysburg, spends the night at a local home and then makes his way to the National Cemetery to deliver his famous Gettysburg Address.
This seminar replaces the Visitor’s Center and offers SO much more!
(Places visited include: the Heritage Center, the Peace Light, the Virginia Memorial, Little Round Top, Culp’s Hill, the Pennsylvania Monument, the High Water Mark, the Train Station, the David Wills House, and the Cemetery.)
NOTE: Since we will be driving to various places throughout the battlefield, it would be more convenient for traffic control purposes if you found a friend (or made a friend) and carpooled. If you are interested in giving your child some info before this seminar, you may visit the Gettysburg National Park Service website here.
Covid info: In signing up for a HAHA field trip or class, you are agreeing to our COVID waiver. The waiver is viewable on our homepage. Masks are TBD at this time. We will keep you updated as the day of the seminar draws near.