East Coast historical bias

The first sentence of Martin Miller’s article about his trip to Gettysburg [“Living History,” Sept. 6] reveals that he must be from the East Coast. Who else but an East Coaster could buy into the idea that California doesn’t have history?

In these times of reduced family travel budgets, it does a great disservice to readers of the Los Angeles Times, the vast majority of whom are Californians, to imply that they can’t experience history in their own state.

Christine Elowitt

Thousand Oaks