Re-enactor bids farewell to Gettysburg with a cigar saved for the occasion

 

(Delaware County Daily Times) Among the items John Haynes packed neatly inside his A-frame tent at the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee re-enactment was a cigar he bought especially to commemorate the closing of the 150th anniversary.
"It's a really good Dominican cigar," he said, looking down at the thick stogie he'd been storing in rags to keep it from drying out.
Haynes planned to smoke the cigar Sunday evening. Sunday was the last day of the multi-day re-enactment and marked the end of 10 days commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Continued