However, rumor has it, the Disney Corporation is quietly buying up land in the Mansfield, Ohio, area for further development. Does anyone know anything about this? At 7:42 PM 5/19/94 -0500, Carolyn wrote: >MORE ON DISNEY'S AMERICA THEME PARK --sorry it's a little old. The National >Trust for Historic Preservation ran a full-page ad in the May 2 Washington >Post asking Disney not to site the park in the Haymarket, VA area. >--Carolyn Brady ([log in to unmask]) >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > >Wasn't Mickey serving on General Lee's staff. > ---------- >From: owner-h-civwar >To: Multiple recipients of list H-CIVWAR >Subject: NEWS: Historians vs. Disney? >Date: Tuesday, May 17, 1994 11:03AM > >From: H-Civwar Co-moderator Peter Knupfer: > >"Historians Declare War on Disney Theme Park," by Mike Feinsilber, AP >correspondent, adapted from _Topeka Capital-Journal_, Thursday May 12, 1994: > >David McCullough, president of the Society of American Historians, has begun >a campaign to prevent the Walt Disney Co. from building a Civil War theme >park near Manassas Battlefield in Virginia. At a press conference, >McCullough charged Disney with mounting a "blitzkrieg," a "sacrilege" that >would create "synthetic history by destroying real history." According to >Feinsilber, McCullough claimed that no historian supports Disney's plans who >"is not on the payroll of the Disney company in one way or another." The >article indicates that Eric Foner and James Oliver Horton have been hired by >Disney as consultants. > >McCullough announced the creation of Project Historic America, a group of 30 >historians and writers (including Shelby Foote, James McPherson, C. Vann >Woodward, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.) that would try to persuade Disney to >go elsewhere. The park would be constructed on farmland 35 miles west of >Washington, a few miles from the battlefield. According to Feinsilber: >"McCullough said Disney's park would generate urban sprawl, ruining the >countryside that George Washington surveyed and endangering 16 Civil War >battlefields within an hour's drive. 'Would we allow the construction of an >amusement park at Normandy Beach?' he asked. 'In the name of jobs, would we >make splinters of Mount Vernon?'" > >Virginia Gov. George Allen defended Disney's plans, arguing that history is >one of the best ways to attract tourists. The state legislature has >appropriated $160 million toward the project. The article contains no >comments from the Disney organization. > >Any comments from H-CivWarriors on this? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - M R . M E D I A alias ||||||| - - [log in to unmask] | _ _ | - - ( o)o ) - - or | \_/ | - - Snail Mail Address: \___/ - - __ /----| |---\ - - R. Douglas Ramsey \\\ / \___/ \ - - c/o Heidelberg College \\\\// | | | | - - 310 East Market Street \---\ | | ***** | | - - Tiffin, Ohio 44883-2462 \ | | *** | | - - (419) 448-4627, 2124 Fax! \ | * | | - - \ /| | | - - \___/ |=======| | - - | | | - --------------------------------------------------------------------------