At Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, $8,243 in Eastern National (the parent of America’s National Parks) donations funded interpretive programming costs. The park purchased two replacement wayside panels and restored an original, 3-inch ordnance rifle, or “trophy gun,” through Texas A&M’s Conservation Research Laboratory. The park’s cultural resource and maintenance teams cleaned and painted the carriage during the canon’s preservation.
EN contributions were also valuable during Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park’s 160th Battle Anniversary. From May to June, the park hosted “The 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Lecture Series” and a “Battle Anniversary Weekend,” where visitors participated in guided hikes and living history demonstrations.
