National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Eisenhower National Historic Site
1195 Baltimore Pike, Suite 100
Gettysburg , PA 17325
717/338-9114 phone
717/338-0821 fax
Eisenhower National Historic Site News Release
For Release: October 2, 2008
Contact: Carol Hegeman
Phone: 717/ 338-9114
Visitors
take part in a recent program at Eisenhower National
Historic Site. (Photo courtesy: Bill Dowling)
Eisenhower
Site Introduces
New Cell Phone Tour
Would you like to hear if President Eisenhower's reputation in Gettysburg for terrible driving was well deserved? Or what the artist Andrew Wyeth chose as his subject when setting up his easel on a visit to the President's Gettysburg farm? Or why First Lady Mamie Eisenhower forever exiled the first couple's favorite Weimaraner from the White House? Just pick up the phone.
Eisenhower National Historic Site has introduced a new cell phone audio tour, providing visitors of all ages a closer look at President and Mrs. Eisenhower's life and times in Gettysburg. Simply by dialing 717-253-9256, visitors to the site are regaled with a selection of stories about the Eisenhowers, their family, and features around their home and farm.
Seventeen stops on the new tour include the guest house, garage, rose gardens, show barn, putting green, orchard and bird coop - dog pens. The cell phone tour compliments several other interpretive offerings available daily at the site: a staff conducted grounds tour, a living room orientation talk, a self guided tour of the Eisenhower farm, and numerous wayside exhibits posted around the farm.
While visiting the site, or even within the comfort of their own home, the public may access any of the Eisenhower stories by entering the number of each stop in any sequence. Story topics and stop numbers are listed on the Eisenhower NHS Web site at www.nps.gov/eise/planyourvisit/cell-phone-tour.htm. The tour is free but cell phone minutes apply.
The cell phone tour is made possible by a generous grant from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Society.
Eisenhower National Historic Site is open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the site is by shuttle bus that departs regularly from the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center at 1195 Baltimore Pike. Fees are adults, $6.50; children 6-12, $4.00; children under 6, free. For more information contact the Eisenhower National Historic Site at 717-338-9114 or visit the Web site at www.nps.gov/eise.
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