GDG- Battlefield Tour Guides

[Tom]

   Fantastic - we'll be rootin' for you.

Regards,
Tom B.




-----Original Message----- 
From: Nancy Householder
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:59 AM
To: GDG
Subject: Re: GDG- Battlefield Tour Guides

Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
Jack- Actually HACC does offer those classes for potential Licensed 
Battlefield Guides, but only in the year in
which the test will be offered.  They did the classes in 2008 and 2010 from 
August thru Nov. and the test
was in Dec of those years. I took all 16 classes in 2008, and took the test, 
missed the cut off score by 12 points.
Took 3 of the classes again in 2010, to brush up on info I missed or was not 
sure about, and took the test in Dec.
165 people took the test in Dec 2010, and 19 passed. I was #18.  I am still 
waiting to give my oral test sometime
this year. They have not announce when the next test will be given.


Nancy Householder
Westminster, MD



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From: Jack Lawrence <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: GDG- Battlefield Tour Guides

Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
No. The guides at Gettysburg are unique, they trace their history back to 
the day after the battle.
The NPS inherited them when they took over the park and there has been a 
partnership of sorts ever since.
Can you imagine the any bureaucracy recruiting an outside guide service, 
officially sanctioned, to run free across the property.

The other parks do provide tours though, which can be spotty, but generally 
good.
They do have these NPS tours at Gettysburg.

In a perfect world, every battlefield guide everywhere would be a retired 
infantry officer with a degree in history.

But, having sat in on a couple of the prep classes for Battlefield Guides at 
the HACC, (they don't hold them anymore) I stumbled into, the LBG guys do 
yeomen's work in assuring that their guides are a quality product in terms 
of the minituae of the field.

Wish they had that kind of program at Normandy.

Regards,

Jack





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----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Mills" <amills at jplcreative.com>
To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:12 AM
Subject: GDG- Battlefield Tour Guides


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> I hope this is "on-topic" and offer my apologies if it is not.
>
> At some point this summer (I don't have anything planned at the moment 
> other than this is a goal of mine but depends upon having free weekends 
> which are in short supply due to some family issues), I would like to get 
> to Fredericksburg and tour some of those battlefields.
>
> Is there anything like the Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Tour Guides one 
> could use for the Fredericksburg area battlefields?  Or does anyone know 
> of people who do it in their spare time or through a company in the area 
> in which one could hire a guide?
>
> It is one of those things where I know the history of what transpired in 
> Fredericksburg but someone familiar with the ground and area could show 
> you those "out of the way" type places and with the modern town almost on 
> the edge of the NPS land, it is very hard to know "the ground" as the time 
> of the battle and where various points are in relation to each other (I 
> hope this makes sense).
>
> Thanks,
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