The juxtaposition of these events seems bitterly ironic and somehow emblematic of the larger context in which our country observes its 25oth anniversary.
Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site is located Newburgh. It is the house where Washington lived and worked during the final sixteen months of the Revolutionary War. Washington's Headquarters is also the country's first publicly owned historic site, acquired by the State of New York in 1850 and opened to the public on July 4 of that year.
It is for good reason then that Washington's Headquarters is the focal point of Newburgh's Fourth of July celebration for the Semiquincentennial, the details of which are described by Secret NYC: "Less than 2 hours from NYC: this historic Hudson Valley small town is transforming its waterfront into a sprawling Revolutionary craft beverage trail for the July 4th weekend."
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| Photo: Michael Goldin | Secret NYC |
In sad contrast to the plans for Washington's Headquarters and the Newburgh waterfront for the upcoming weekend, Hudson Valley Post reported this morning that in the wee hours of Saturday morning "gunfire erupted . . . right across from George Washington's historic headquarters": "Historic Area in Hudson Valley Now a Huge Crime Scene."
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| Photo: Rockland Video | Hudson Valley Post |
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