- Joined
- Aug 8, 2011
- Location
- Gettysburg area
I read somewhere just recently that the peach orchard was replanted with ornamentals that don't bear fruit. Is that right? A most vivid museum memory of my first visit to Gettysburg as a young teenager was the jar of peaches at the old visitor center, with its faded, yellowed, handwritten label identifying the contents as peaches from the famous peach orchard, preserved during the fall after the battle. By the time we saw them, they were as pallid as dumplings, packed in a thin, inky black liquid. Wonder whatever happened to them. What struck me at the time, apart from their being a curiosity, was how even the most ordinary objects became souvenirs of the battlefield, and how soon afterward.