The worst part is that they’re trying to take the experiential marketing too far in the battlefields with the effort to make them look like they did in 1863. They’ve cut down a lot of trees to thin out some areas (unfortunately even some battle witness trees) and planted new trees in others. But how can you possibly make trees stay the way they were on that day unless you use fake ones? Trees take time to grow to the right hight, and they don’t stay there — they keep growing!

I agree with the concept, people are looking for an experience, but it will be as a visitor over 150 years later. It will never be as an 1863 civillian. Gettysburg is not Williamsburg.