OUr Guests
Bob Steenstra- Our resident Licensed Battlefield Guide (LBG)Producer's Note: LBG, Bob Steenstra, is our resient guide on the podcast. "Bob's role is unique," says AG host, Matt Callery, "It's like watching two jazz musicians because Bob will say to the guest'hey what about the story of Jeremiah Gage' and the guest will go 'ah! Yes, so that story is...' and tell the story. That's my favorite part of the show." Bob has known Matt and Pete since 2005 when he signed up as a guide for GettysBike Tours
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Bob Steenstra talking July 1, 1863, on a beautiful Gettysburg evening behing the GettysBike Tours studio.
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Bob, recently retired after 38 years of teaching history at the secondary level, has been a battlefield guide since 1991. An avid life-long cyclist who has twice biked across the United States, Bob is a former owner of Gettysbike Tours and, though he still gives car and bus tours, he is happiest when giving tours for Gettysbike. Bob is married to Diane, his wife of over forty years. Daughter Nicole used to be the photographer of Gettysbike and his second daughter, Kelly, co-owned Gettysbike with him.
LBG, Jim Pangburn talking about the months and battles leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg
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Jim Pangurn- LBGProducer's Note: We first met Jim Pangburn when we opened GettysBike Tours in 2005. He was the first guide we met and the guide who gave us our first bike tour. It was Jim's version of a tour that we used to base our basic route on. So, it was pretty cool that Jim was able to join Pete and I for our first four episodes in 2018.
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From reenactorappreciationweekend.com :
A graduate of Bucknell University, Mr. Pangburn is in his 17th year as a Licensed Battlefield Guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park. He has been the past 13 years as a full-time guide, in which time he has performed nearly 4,000 tours of various types and lengths. He has been a serious student of the American Civil War and the Gettysburg Campaign for nearly 25 years.
Mr. Pangburn has served as the historical narrator for Gettysburg's annual Civil War reenactment for the last 12 years. He also narrated Antietam's 150th Anniversary reeenactment in 2012, and the Greencastle, Pennsylvania's commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the beginning of the American Civil War in the Spring of 2011.
A Pennsylvania resident since 1967, he has lived in South-central Pennsylvania for 13 years, including six-and-a-half years in Gettysburg.
In addition to teaching test-prep classes for the Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, Mr. Pangburn participated in the Association's Evening Summer Walking Tours program and performed tours for the Gettysburg Foundation's Spring Muster. A member of the ALBG's Executive Committee, he currently serves on the Association's Guide Centennial Committee, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the nation's oldest professional guide service.
A graduate of Bucknell University, Mr. Pangburn is in his 17th year as a Licensed Battlefield Guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park. He has been the past 13 years as a full-time guide, in which time he has performed nearly 4,000 tours of various types and lengths. He has been a serious student of the American Civil War and the Gettysburg Campaign for nearly 25 years.
Mr. Pangburn has served as the historical narrator for Gettysburg's annual Civil War reenactment for the last 12 years. He also narrated Antietam's 150th Anniversary reeenactment in 2012, and the Greencastle, Pennsylvania's commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the beginning of the American Civil War in the Spring of 2011.
A Pennsylvania resident since 1967, he has lived in South-central Pennsylvania for 13 years, including six-and-a-half years in Gettysburg.
In addition to teaching test-prep classes for the Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, Mr. Pangburn participated in the Association's Evening Summer Walking Tours program and performed tours for the Gettysburg Foundation's Spring Muster. A member of the ALBG's Executive Committee, he currently serves on the Association's Guide Centennial Committee, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the nation's oldest professional guide service.
Charlie Fennell- LBGProducer's note: When we started spreading the word about Addressing Gettysburg, there was only one name everyone immediately suggested when it came to the question of who to get for Culp's Hill: Charlie Fennell. Not only is Charlie's knowledge of history so deep and extensive, his passion for it proves that history is definitely not boring. He's a funny guy to talk to. And who doesn't like to laugh while they learn?
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Charlie Fennell schooling us on the chaotic and long fighting over Culp's Hill
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From battlefields.org :
Charlie Fennell, a native of western Pennsylvania, became interested in the Civil War at a very early age and leveraged his love of the American history into undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees from Frostburg State College, Clarion State College and West Virginia University, respectively. Fennell is a frequent lecturer at various Civil War Round Tables, participates in National Park seminars events for Friends of the Foundation at Gettysburg National Military Park. He is the author of numerous journal articles and a chapter a collegiate-level military textbook. Fennell has been an adjunct professor at Harrisburg Area Community College Gettysburg Campus since 1990 and a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg for the 27 years. He and his wife of 32 years, Joleen, have three grown children and live in Hanover. Pa.
Charlie Fennell, a native of western Pennsylvania, became interested in the Civil War at a very early age and leveraged his love of the American history into undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees from Frostburg State College, Clarion State College and West Virginia University, respectively. Fennell is a frequent lecturer at various Civil War Round Tables, participates in National Park seminars events for Friends of the Foundation at Gettysburg National Military Park. He is the author of numerous journal articles and a chapter a collegiate-level military textbook. Fennell has been an adjunct professor at Harrisburg Area Community College Gettysburg Campus since 1990 and a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg for the 27 years. He and his wife of 32 years, Joleen, have three grown children and live in Hanover. Pa.
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Tim Smith- LBG, AuthorProducer's note: Tim Smith was also a guide during the early years of GettysBike Tours and, as you'll see below, does and knows a lot for and about Gettysburg.
From battlefields.org:
Timothy H. Smith is a longtime Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg and the author of several Gettysburg books and articles. He teaches classes on the battle and local history at the Gettysburg Campus of Harrisburg Area Community College and has appeared regularly on the popular Pennsylvania Cable Network Gettysburg Battle Walk series. He is a research historian with the Adams County Historical Society. |
D. Scott Hartwig- US Park Ranger (ret), Author, historian, TV personalityProducer's note: We were very lucky to have Scott Hartwig on a bonus episode of Addressing Gettysburg. Well, first, we were lucky to meet his wife, Barb Sanders who then put us in touch with Scott, THEN, we were luck that he accepted our invitation (free buffalo wings go a long way). But, seriously, Scott was a lot of fun to talk. The man knows it all. That's probably why he has such an impressive bio.
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Scott Hartwig
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Scott Hartwig (l), Matt Callery (r) and Peter Bonfanti (invisible because he's on the phone).
Check out Scott's website.
D. Scott Hartwig retired in 2014 as the supervisory park historian at Gettysburg National Military Park after a 34-year career in the National Park Service, nearly all of it spent at Gettysburg. He won the regional Freeman Tilden Award for excellence in interpretation in 1993, and was a key player for the design of all aspects of the new Gettysburg museum/visitor center. He has authored numerous articles, essays and books on Civil War subjects, and has appeared on the History Channel, Discovery Channel and Pennsylvania Cable Network. He is the author of To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign from September 3 to September 16, published in September 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press, and is currently working on the second volume, tentatively titled, I Dread The Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam, which covers the battle and end of the Maryland Campaign.
D. Scott Hartwig retired in 2014 as the supervisory park historian at Gettysburg National Military Park after a 34-year career in the National Park Service, nearly all of it spent at Gettysburg. He won the regional Freeman Tilden Award for excellence in interpretation in 1993, and was a key player for the design of all aspects of the new Gettysburg museum/visitor center. He has authored numerous articles, essays and books on Civil War subjects, and has appeared on the History Channel, Discovery Channel and Pennsylvania Cable Network. He is the author of To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign from September 3 to September 16, published in September 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press, and is currently working on the second volume, tentatively titled, I Dread The Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam, which covers the battle and end of the Maryland Campaign.
Christopher E. LoperfidoChristopher E. Loperfido, a native of Weedsport, New York, graduated from Oswego State University with a bachelor's degree in history and political science and has a strong passion for American history. He has spent two summers volunteering at the William Seward House in Auburn, New York, and worked for the National Park Service at Gettysburg National Military Park in the summers of 2007 and 2008 as both a park intern and National Park Service Ranger. He is currently employed by the Department of Homeland Security and lives with his wife, son, and pug in Washington State. His hobbies include following his beloved Boston Red Sox, golfing, and spending time with his family. "Death, Disease, and Life at War" is his first book.
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Christopher E. Loperfido having fun for a test shot before a speaking engagment
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