More than a dozen people—maintenance workers, curators, historians and exhibit specialists—are toiling at the Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center to remove exhibits installed at the dawn of the Space Age and prepare four rooms on two floors for new ones. “The 1962 exhibits were useful and powerful in their own time. ... But we’ve learned more,” said National Park Service historian Frank A. O’Reilly, author of “The Fredericksburg Campaign,” the authoritative book on the battle fought here in 1862. “We not only have more of a story to tell, but we have more ways to tell the story ... I think that we’ll make the story far more accessible this way.” The new exhibits at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park will examine Fredericksburg’s role in the Civil War through many different lenses, O’Reilly said. ...
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 01:46:09 +0000
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