The National Park Service is planning to pull the plug on the 1960s era battlefield map that showed troop movements. It is a 30 by 30 foot map with 625 lights and is regarded as being too technologically backward to fir in with the new $103 million visitors center.
Jon Dekeles of Post Falls, Idaho, visited the center recently and is so upset that he set up his own website to gather support for the old map. It is at http://www.savetheelectricmap.com.
The NPS calls it the "Electric Nap. It was good in its day, but the light bulb concept just doesn't cut it anymore."
It was originally designed and constructed 1937-1938 after a huge amount of research. A new map was constructed for the Civil War Centennial 1962-1963 with miles of wire and 250 switches.
File Under Old Things Being Sent Out to Pasture Such as Myself. --Old B-Runner
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