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President's Message
Greetings from steamy Gettysburg. Summer is in full swing here, and the days are hot! I hope that over the next couple of months you are able to take some time off and enjoy some relaxation with family and friends. I’m a big believer in taking some time off to regroup and reflect. My personal retreat is Nantucket Island. Nothing restores me like a few days enjoying the sun and sand of that special place.
In hopes that you too have a special beach or mountain that you will be visiting this summer, I’d like to share a great summer reading list of leadership books compiled by Dr. Ronald Riggio, a professor of leadership and organizational psychology at Claremont McKenna College. He lists 10 books that cover over 100 years of leadership research. Click here to see what he recommends: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201107/the-top-10-books-really-learn-about-leadership.
Read on and learn about a new donation to the Gettysburg National Military Park, a wonderful new museum in Washington D.C. and much more. Happy summer and make sure you take that time off!
Steven B. Wiley, president & founder
The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg
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Lock of Lincoln’s Hair Comes to Gettysburg
Image courtesy: National Park Service
Gettysburg National Military Park received a donation of a lock of President Abraham Lincoln’s hair, collected during an autopsy of Lincoln’s body following his death.
“This is one of those special objects that gives you the chills when you see it,” said Gettysburg National Military Park Superintendent Bob Kirby. “The lock of Lincoln’s hair will become part of the permanent collection of Gettysburg National Military Park and will go on display in the museum later this year.”
Dr. Robert K. Stone collected the hair during Lincoln’s autopsy and later presented it to Enoch Pratt, a Baltimore unionist and philanthropist. The hair is encased in glass and dated “April 1865.”
Thomas E. Metz, owner of Heritage Inns Inc. and Gettysburg Tours Inc. in Gettysburg, and Max Felty, also of Gettysburg Tours Inc., presented the item to the park on June 29. Felty represented the late Ron Felty, an owner of Heritage Inns, and Donna McLeaf, executrix of the late Ken Rohrbaugh’s estate. Rohrbaugh was also an owner of Heritage Inns Inc.
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African American Civil War Museum Celebrates Grand Opening
A new African American Civil War museum will open in Washington, D.C., on July 18. The African American Civil War Memorial and Museum is designed to tell the story of African-American soldiers and their contributions to the American Civil War effort. The 5,000-square-foot, $5 million facility also hosts a media center and a research area for genealogists and scholars of the Civil War.
“There were more than 200,000 African Americans who fought in the Civil War. That’s 200,000 names and 200,000 stories,” said Frank Smith Jr., a former Washington, D.C. council member and founding director of the museum, in the July 8 issue of The Washington Post.
During the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum will present a series of programs covering the Civil War from its origins to the ending of the Civil War and the post-war environment for newly freed slaves.
The new African American Civil War Memorial and Museum is located at 1925 Vermont Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. Museum hours are: Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free. The African American Civil War Memorial and “The Spirit of Freedom” sculpture is open 24 hours a day. The memorial is located across from the museum at the U Street/African American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo Metro stop.
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Book Review: The Way of the Owl |
Reviewed by: Jared Peatman
Image courtesy: Amazon.com
In The Way of the Owl: Succeeding with Integrity in a Conflicted World (HarperOne, 1997), martial arts expert and naturalist Frank Rivers uses the owl as a model for effective conflict management. The book is full of useful advice, such as:
A sharp blade is both safer and more effective than a dull one (page 6).
Security lies in knowledge, benevolence in training (page 7).
“Engage the enemy as you find him, not as you wish him to be” (page 25).
“A good enemy is a creature of immense values. He holds our feet to the fire and makes us dig for new capabilities and latent talents” (page 35).
You can’t ask good questions if you think you already know the answers (page 63).
You don’t have to rule the forest to thrive in it (page 93).
We don’t see what we look at; we see what we look for (page 109).
The Confederate army at Gettysburg would have benefitted from heeding the third and seventh points. Lee and many of his generals constantly saw the Union army not as it was, but as they wished it was. On the other hand, the Union army had benefitted from the fourth maxim, having a good enemy, and had dug around for new capabilities and talents to the point that it had finally closed the leadership gap with Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Rivers made one more excellent point: “Imagine a boulder rolling down a hill. If you try to stop it with direct force or dogged resistance, you will be defeated. But if you run up alongside it and give it a nudge in a new direction, you will remain safe” (page 18). John Buford’s delaying action on July 1 supports the second part of Rivers’ analogy, while the decimation of the 1st Minnesota on July 2 proves the first. All in all, Rivers has much to teach us about conflict management.
Learn more about this book: [link to: http://www.amazon.com/Way-Owl-Succeeding-Integrity-Conflicted/dp/0062513974]
Jared Peatman is a graduate of Gettysburg College and holds a doctorate in history from Texas A&M University.
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Give 150
 The History Channel is marking the Civil War sesquicentennial by raising money through Give 150, a national campaign aimed to help preserve Civil War sites and stories.
The channel is asking viewers to donate just $1.50 and the channel will match the money contributed, up to $150,000.
Give 150 donations go directly to the Civil War Trust and the National Park Foundation, nonprofit organizations that help protect Civil War sites and lands and preserve their interpretation. View the video to learn more.
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2011 Battle of Gettysburg Reenactment
The York Dispatch reports that more than 20,000 people are expected in Gettysburg for the annual battle reenactment, organized by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee. This year's events fall on the actual days of the battle, July 1-3, and will take place this year on the Yingling Farm, where the 1993 movie "Gettysburg" was filmed. Learn more at www.yorkdispatch.com/news/ci_18306166.
A full schedule of reenactment events may be found at www.gettysburgreenactment.com. Information about the National Park Service events commemorating the battle may be found at www.nps.gov/gett.
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