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Like many travelers, I’m a history nerd. Maybe I’m a little worse than most of your groups, but nonetheless, history has a place on almost every tour you run. I cannot link my history fascination to my 8th grade history course, or for that matter, any other course through college. It was a simple board game that hooked me on history. Gettysburg is a board game introduced by Avalon Hill in 1958. I was fascinated by the day-to-day strategy by both sides and how the final outcome was affected. You can probably guess my first visit to a battlefield was Gettysburg National Military Park. During the (many) years that followed, the history bug has drawn me to countless American Revolution and Civil War battlefields and historic sites.

The history nerd in me is also fascinated by state capitol buildings. They have so many stories to tell. My first visit to the Colorado State Capitol had a memorable quilt exhibit that covered every floor and was a Colorado history lesson in itself. The Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge still has the bullet holes in the marble walls from the day Senator Huey P. Long was shot. In Columbia, South Carolina, bronze stars point to where Union artillery struck the under-construction capitol building. It’s understandable the majority of state capitol buildings do not have bullet holes, but it’s always worth looking.

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The beauty of any historic place is it provides an introduction to the people and their stories that impacted the local community, state or our nation. As most history nerds admit, we haven’t even scratched the surface of what we don’t know. I’m still focused on American history and want to learn more about the west. The British drove out the Roman Catholic French Canadians from Arcadia, now Nova Scotia, in the 18th-century. These farmers and fishermen crossed all the way to the Louisiana Bayou. Had they heard of the abundant fishing and fertile farmland of the bayou? That’s what’s on my mind.

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