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Posted on 07/05/2010 6:15:30 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Edited on 07/05/2010 6:22:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
NORTH WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Wonderful picture. If they move it, I wonder if the tree will survive. While jaunting through Washington’s Crossing Park in NJ I often think about the huge old trees lining the path to the Delaware and who leaned against them.
One more item on the conservative agenda - to preserve our (physical) national heritage. We are truly being overwhelmed (a la Cloward Piven).
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Didn’t the New York delegation abstain from voting on the Declaration of Independence in July ‘76?
Every other old house in New Jersey and New York is claimed to have been used by some revolutionary war figure at some point. Hard to substantiate the claims, but what you surely have is a crappy old house.
If I were a fabulously wealthy American, I would buy it and retore it. Perhaps such a person exists...
Thanks to the New York Times for waiting until the sixth month of Republican administration to bring this important matter to our attention.
Mere Survival <————— Ducks for cover.
Moving the building loses it’s significance. Move the artifacts to the local museum and be done with it.
They took the longest to be brought into the fold...many Loyalists with business interests there; also, the Brit influence in NYC was huge, partly stemming from the fact that NYC was the HQ for operations during the French and Indian wars and alliances had been made.
Thanks for bringing your ignorance to the thread...it’s been a while since we’ve had any and it’s always important to have diversity here.
But why did you cut back the copy even though it was under 300 words?
$1.2 million? I could do it for under 200K, easy. It’s a cracker box, a shack. I work on these dumps all the time.
Oh, I forgot, I have to pay a bunch of tweed coated historians, their Apple laptop assistants, archetypes, lawyers, union prevailing wage goons.
I was thinking just regular carpenters, that build wood sailboats in their spare time. People like that.
Perhaps you would correct our ignorance for us.
If we had any spine like our government overthrowing forefathers, with the taxes we pay, and the parasitical master government and it’s minions at our throats each and every day, we’d burn that shack down to the ground rather than give them another chance to tax rape us.
I often think that we may be too focused on preserving historical artifacts, places, etc. in this country based on our relative latck of them. The fact that GW may have slept or even had a meeting somewhere does not in itself qualify it as historical in nature.
Is this house truly historicial? Being old alone does not make something historical, and if we preserve everything that is old, simply because it is old, we will quickly become a very unproductive society.
The natural order of things is that what is not truly important or significant falls away along the trail. That may sadly be the situation with this house.
It is good that Gettysburg has been preserved, but it is probably more important that most of the other battlefields of the Civil War haven’t been. We must continue to be a living developing society.
I think that always happens when the mods "moderate" a post. Not sure why.
The same type of responses on this thread.... Clinton announces U.S. pledge of $15M for Auschwitz preservation
See number 12...that was meant for you. Keep ducking...
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