Dealing with lines for Gettysburg restaurants

 Gettysburg  restaurants were hopping on Saturday night 10/9/21 at 7PM . My cohorts wanted to go to the Blue-Gray bar but it was a 90- minute wait, and while I was pondering the history of the defunct Blue-Gray Bowl football game, a kind lady standing on the sidewalk suggested we try a back alley lounge connected to an Italian restaurant a block away. We found the place, walked by the lines down a narrow alleyway for about a minute, and turned a corner to the left  and heard a bouncer state, "don't be scared , we're friendly."  

We entered the lounge, walked up to the bar and asked for menus to the joint upstairs and received menus, fast service, and decent food. Mamma Ventura Restaurant & Lounge is the name of the establishment.

The next night we didn't have to wait for some bar grub at the Blue-Gray.

Oct 17, 2021

On the way home to Baltimore from Gettysburg we took a detour and visited the Seton Shrine in Emmitsburg, Md. The grotto was closed for on-going construction, but the Visitors center and museum were open. The museum was small but filled with a lot of items and data.   While looking at  a sketch of Seton's trek from Paca St in Baltimore to Emmitsburg, two Maryland town names caught my attention, Delight and Frizzellburg.

April 9, 2022

Eisenhower Farm site was closed during our November visit. Located adjacent to the Gettysburg Battlefield, the farm served President Eisenhower as a weekend retreat and a meeting place for world leaders. Maybe a current version of Ike, if he's out there,  is an answer to our Presidential woes?

June 12, 2022

Checking in on Gettysburg: The Gettysburg & Northern Railroad Co. is receiving up to $1.8 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to rehabilitate approximately 24 miles of the Gettysburg & Northern Railway (GET) mainline in Adams and Cumberland Counties.

July 1, 2022

The first day’s Battle of Gettysburg (July 1, 1863)

Buford’s Union brigades, armed with the newly issued Spencer repeating carbines, delayed Heth’s division until Gen. Reynolds’s Corps began to arrive around 11 AM.

Oct 27, 2022

The snipers' nest at Devils Den within Gettysburg National Military Park re-opened on September 30, 2022 after a six-month rehabilitation project. However, one part remains fenced in.

Jan 17, 2023

Why should the Robert E Lee Statue remain standing in Gettysburg? It's integral to telling the story of what happened there in July 1863.