Do Good things

We visited President and First Lady Eisenhower’s farm in Gettysburg recently. I enjoy history and it is especially fascinating to see living history. After Mamie Eisenhower died in the 1970s, the land was turned over to the National Parks Service, who opened it to the public for tours. At Christmas, Park Rangers put up the family tree and decorate with bobbles and lights that the family used when they lived there.

Ike's dream was to leave a piece of land better than he found it with this plot of 189 acres (neighbors the Gettysburg battlefields) by bettering the soil and farming responsibly.

In an interview with Walter Cronkite reminiscing about Normandy two decades after D-Day, he spoke emotionally ... "I think and hope, and pray, that humanity will have learned … we must find some way … to gain an eternal peace for this world."

I also hope for peace.
Happy New Year, y’all!

Side view of the Eisenhower farmhouse.

The stone part dates to the 1700’s. The rest of the house was completed in the 1950’s when Ike & Mamie purchased the property. There was an amazing old fireplace that would have likely been the kitchen, but was now used as a sitting room.