When wife and I worked for Gettysburg National Military Park, we lived on the the Clem Redding Farm. It is today part of the Eisenhower National Historic Site, which is immediately adjacent to Gettysburg and preserves the agricultural landscape that can be seen to the west of the Eisenhower Farm.

Andrew Wyeth once said that he painted places that had some sort of emotional connection to him. Later, when I visited the Brandywine Museum and the adjacent farm where he painted most of his Pennsylvania landscapes, I found that he painted the same hill many times. That hill was where his father and younger brother were killed when their car stalled on the railroad track and was hit by an oncoming train. Wyeth was about 16 years old and the farm was adjacent to Wyeth's home. He revisited the farm again and again in many drawings and paintings including views of the farm and portraits of the owners. I felt that I had a similar, though much less dramatic feeling for the Redding Farm. Most of the paintings that I did of the Redding farm were done after we moved away. I used the many drawings that I did when we lived there and would imagine where I once stood trying to convey the feeling Of actually being there.