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Corporal
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2012
- Location
- Pennsylvania
John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh:
When the Civil War and Pennsylvania are mentioned together, the sentence often has to do with Gettysburg.
But Leslie Przybylek, a curator at the Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District, says the story of the war and the state goes far beyond that battle.
“It is the story of how people experienced the war,” she says of the exhibit, “Pennsylvania's Civil War,” which opens at the center June 22. “In this state, there wasn't great consensus of what to think. Western Pennsylvania was very pro-Union, but there were businesspeople in the Philadelphia area who were thinking that some sort of agreement could be reached.”
Przybylek is one of the main planners of the exhibit that will run through Jan. 5. It is being presented this year because it is the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War event for which Pennsylvania is most famous, Przybylek says.
http://triblive.com/lifestyles/history/4143364-74/history-center-pennsylvania#axzz2Wa1WIJ8l
When the Civil War and Pennsylvania are mentioned together, the sentence often has to do with Gettysburg.
But Leslie Przybylek, a curator at the Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District, says the story of the war and the state goes far beyond that battle.
“It is the story of how people experienced the war,” she says of the exhibit, “Pennsylvania's Civil War,” which opens at the center June 22. “In this state, there wasn't great consensus of what to think. Western Pennsylvania was very pro-Union, but there were businesspeople in the Philadelphia area who were thinking that some sort of agreement could be reached.”
Przybylek is one of the main planners of the exhibit that will run through Jan. 5. It is being presented this year because it is the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War event for which Pennsylvania is most famous, Przybylek says.
http://triblive.com/lifestyles/history/4143364-74/history-center-pennsylvania#axzz2Wa1WIJ8l