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To: Corin Stormhands
This area is rich in history; we haven't explored nearly enough of it! DO plan to visit if you come up, though. Our little town even has some 'history' to it. There is a museum in town, an old house, that belonged to a General Artemas Ward. He thought he was going to be leading the Colonial Army until politics brought about the choice of George Washington in order to bring the Southern colonies into the fight. Story is, when Washington led the troops through town on the Post Road, that Artemas Ward, who had been standing at the window in his house on the Road, turned his back on the parade when Washington passed by. Not sure if it's true, but it shows that "t'was ever thus" when it comes to politics.
302 posted on 05/06/2004 7:18:08 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
And we'll have to get together when you do the Williamsburg thing. Keep in mind that 2007 is the 400th Anniversary of Jamestown. It's gonna be HUGH.
306 posted on 05/06/2004 7:22:02 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (To be willing to march into Hell, Boston and Chappauqua for a heavenly cause...)
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