It was a cold hard rain yesterday, on top of the prior nights snow and icy slush. Some of the reenactors marched to the reconstructed Durham boats at the dock. Yet the crossing was called off on account of inclement weather, and very few spectators showed up. Where the crowd in recent years has grown to 10 to 15 thousand, this year it only counted in the hundreds.
Washington Crossing is a great place to visit, and the open-in-the-summer kiddie theme park "Sesame Place" is only fifteen minutes away. Six miles north of the Crossing there is a hill commanding the river -- Bowman's Hill, on which a tower was built during the 30's by the CCC. That tower has a mighty fine view and shoould also be visited. The main attraction at the Crossing itself are the park center buildings, one in Jersey that houses the most excellent Swann collection of revolutionary military kits, guns and such, and the one in Pennsylvania with a great reproduction of the famous Leutze painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware".
Both centers have filmstrips describing the events of the Crossing.
On the Pennsylvania side there is an excellent art gallery on General Greene Road which has some very nice original and print art of Washington Crossing and the local area.