http://picasaweb.google.com/PaulMSheaffer/Gettysburg
Photos of Devil's Den. Very popular. Potential site in rural Gettysburg. Also, the Pennsylvania monument, to my knowledge the most recent and expensive monument at the battlefield, a grand gesture with little emotion.
This site relates to the case study of Eisenman's Memorial in Berlin. This is an untouched site which encourages experience and informs and raises questions as you traverse through it. There are a few small information markers that detail events, but an understanding of romantic warfare is felt as you imagine what it was like hiding from and picking off soldiers between, behind, above, or below the rocks. A visitor's imagination and curiosity runs wild here, evidence to the power of experiencing space.
The second image is the Pennsylvania Monument. Apparently a big undertaking at the turn of the century, and a nice, solid monument, the most grand in Gettyburg. I don't know what it stands for. I wasn't compelled to take the time to understand all of its facets or explore and wait in line to read its info marker. A beautiful gesture but just a landmark, its effectiveness has wained over time and it feels irrevelant. There is tremendous embodied energy in this architecture of permanence, energy that has diminished quickly and no longer generates experiential/historical curiosity.
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