Gettysburg

The new Gettysburg Expedition guide could make a Civil War enthusiast out of children as well as adults. The three-part multimedia kit (the first product for the travel guide company TravelBrains) uses interactive games, quizzes, movies and tour narration to give users a better understanding of one of the most decisive battles in the Civil War. A six-section CD-ROM takes you step-by-step through the battle and the history leading up to it, and includes a 30-minute movie, animated battle maps, soldier biog-raphies, a game that puts you in the position of field commander and a trip planner.

Under the Friday night lights at Homewood Field, the Johns Hopkins running attack could not be stopped. Tied at 28 heading into the fourth quarter, the Blue Jays scored 21 unanswered points in the game's final 14 minutes, including a 63-yard run by Jonathan Rigaud, to seal a 49-35 victory over Gettysburg, and remain undefeated on the season. Rigaud, JD Abbott and quarterback Robbie Matey combined for 372 rushing yards and six touchdowns on the ground. With 7:22 remaining, Matey capped a 12-play drive with a 3-yard touchdown run to give the Blue Jays (7-0, 6-0 Centennial Conference)

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- DeWayne Marcus rushed 33 times for 163 yards to lead Gettysburg (3-1, 2-1) past Johns Hopkins (2-2, 1-1), 25-6, in a Centennial Conference game yesterday.Marcus scored on runs of 3 and 61 yards as Gettysburg used three turnovers to jump out to an 18-0 lead. Chris Notarfranceszo caught four passes for 112 yards and one touchdown for Gettysburg.Hopkins, which used three quarterbacks during the game, scored when Mike Bopp threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Joe Richards in the fourth quarter.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Dwayne Marcus ran for 155 yards and three touchdowns to lead Gettysburg (2-0, 1-0) past Western Maryland (1-1, 0-1), 38-17, yesterday in a Centennial Conference game.The loss overshadowed a record-setting day by Western Maryland quarterback Brian Van Deusen. The sophomore set school and conference records for completions and attempts. He went 29-for-52 for 337 yards. Western Maryland finished with 31 completions in 56 attempts for 401 yards, school and conference single-game highs.

Senior running back Scott Martorana rushed for a game-high 147 yards and three touchdowns and junior quarterback Rob Heleniak threw for a career-high 286 yards and three touchdowns as Johns Hopkins rolled to a 54-13 victory over visiting Gettysburg at Homewood Field last night. The win was the third straight for the Blue Jays, who improved to 3-1, 2-0 in the Centennial Conference. Gettysburg fell to 0-5, 0-3. After Gettysburg and Hopkins exchanged touchdowns in the first seven minutes of the game, Martorana gave the Blue Jays the lead for good with back-to-back touchdowns in a span of less than six minutes midway through he first half.

Re-enactors will commemorate the 135th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg by re-creating important moments from the struggle. The original battle took place on July 1-3, 1863, and was the culmination of the Confederacy's second invasion of the North. When the fighting ended, the South had been defeated with devastating losses.Pub Date: 6/28/98

Gettysburg, by Stephen W. Sears. Houghton Mifflin. 640 pages. $30. No American place is so captivating, or confusing, as the battlefield at Gettysburg. War changed the course of history there, but the field is so vast and contains so many monuments (more than 1,300) that it is hard to count them, much less measure the parts of valor and vanity carved into each. So, during the last 140 years, the fighting of July 1-3, 1863, has been reduced in the popular imagination to a few places and events.

GettysburgBulletsCoach: Barry Streeter, 13th yearAssistant coaches: John Campo, Joe Reich, Jeff Little, Ted Sawchuck, Phil Bassi, John SchmidLast year's record: 4-5-1, 4-3 in the Centennial Football ConferenceTop returnees: Seniors, running back Chuck Borromeo, defensive tackle Don DeLisi, defensive back Brian Latz, defensive back Mark Sadlero;juniors, fullback Greg Sommer, halfback Darren Smith, split end MikeSimons, offensive tackle Bill Koras, offensive tackle...

Experience a Civil War Christmas at the Shriver House Museum in Gettysburg, Pa., Saturdays through Dec. 17. Visit the holiday-decorated 1860-era home of George and Hettie Shriver (below), and learn how the war affected them, their children and their home. Tours of the home will feature a candle-laden Christmas tree on the parlor table, a fire roaring in the quiet room and a Confederate sharpshooters' nest in the attic. Guides in period dress will recount the tale of the Shriver family, including how George went off to join the Union army in 1861, and Hettie, fearing the war getting ever nearer to her home in 1863, left with her young children to seek refuge at her parents' farm three miles south.

Thomas R. Ottenstein, 70, the developer whose observation tower overlooking Gettysburg's historic fields drew tourists and wrath until it was felled by government fiat last month, died Thursday at his home in Washington. His family said the cause of death was prostate cancer. The 307-foot galvanized steel tower with four observation decks developed by Mr. Ottenstein opened in 1974 on private land on the fringe of the 6,000-acre Gettysburg National Military Park. It spawned legal battles and debate ever since he first conceived it 30 years ago. Mr. Ottenstein was born in Washington and graduated from Syracuse University and Georgetown University's law school.