David is a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg National Military Park. He conducts groups and individuals across the historic battlefields around Gettysburg, PA. During the off-season he does reading, writing and extensive research at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. For the past several years he has also been doing book reviews in Blue & Gray magazine. David is Proprietor of Chamouni Grove Press, dedicated to preserving the history of central-Pennsylvania. A Picture Rocks native, he has published the extensively researched book: Masten: Lumber Giant, Charles W. Sones and the Story of a Pennsylvania Lumber Ghost Town, 1906-1930. Richards recounts the rise and fall of the town of Masten, which at one time boasted “two sawmills, a clothespin factory, a lath mill and nearly a thousand people.”