Mr. Gene Barr, a member of the National Civil War Museum’s Board of Directors, appeared on Radio Smart Talk, a local talk show on WITF, the Harrisburg public radio station. You can listen to the interview here. Mr. Barr told us the museum is now the #1 tourist attraction for Harrisburg. He also provided the […]

Out of Douglasville, Georgia we have a story of some redneck racists who are obviously overcompensating as they drive around in their pickup trucks festooned with confederate flags, riding past a black child’s birthday party making what appears to be obscene gestures and shouting racial epithets and threatening to “kill y’all [n-word]s.”  See story with […]

Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse called the National Civil War Museum a “monument to corruption.” According to the office of Pennsylvania’s Attorney General, that statement was a falsehood. The Attorney General’s office confirmed the museum’s artifacts are not part of the investigation into former Mayor Stephen Reed’s activities. Chuck Ardo, spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office, […]

In light of information that shutting down the National Civil war Museum would not be so easy, and might even cost Harrisburg taxpayers a lot more money, to the tune of a possible $16.2 million, Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse is doubling down on his effort to close the museum and keep Pennsylvania school children out […]