Im the curator here at Washington Crossing historic park in pennsylvania. Today is a very exciting day. We are doing a reenactment of George Washingtons crossing of the Delaware River on christmas night 1776. What happened here is actually one of the most unexpected and daring military maneuvers of the American Revolution. And the story is washington and the Continental Army after having lost battled in new york and retreating across new jersey came into bucks county in the beginning of december 1776. They encamped in several locations around this area including the Thompson Neely house which is also part of our park. And things are pretty desperate at this point for washington and the patriot cause. The Continental Army really needed a win. Washington was afraid that the british were going to invade philadelphia and take over the capitol and he really knew that what he needed was a bold, bold action. After meeting with his war council they made the decision that on christmas night the
So think you guys for coming out tonight my name is ginger and a part of the team here. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We have had it author who has had his phone go off. We do about 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list and want to know what else is coming up, you should sign up for mailing list at the front. We will not spam you we will send three to four emails. Month. Tonight we welcome for contributors to the anthology reckoning, going to see if i get this right, tony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hudson, and iv bashir. This is a diverse response to hillbilly allergy. Shares a little bit about eat these for contributors and then ill turn the floor over to them. Tony harkins is the author of hillbilly a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is a directive writing and rhetoric at Bowdoin College he is an author. Bob hudson teaches at the university of tennessee and kn
About world war ii soviet soldiers. My name is kim mccarty. Im a curator here at Washington Crossing historic park in pennsylvania. Today is a very exciting day. We are doing a reenactment of George Washingtons crossing of the Delaware River on christmas night 1776. Well, what happened here is one of the most unexpected and daring military maneuvers of the American Revolution. And the story is washington and the Continental Army after having lost battles in new york and retreating across new jersey came into bucks county in the beginning of december 17, 1776. They encamped in several locations around this area including the Thompson Neely house which is also part of our park. And things were pretty desperate at this point for washington and the patriot cause. The Continental Army really needed a win. Washington was afraid about the british were going to invade philadelphia and take over the capitol. And he really knew that what he needed was a bold bold action. And after meeting with h
You are growing up and you have a stepsister. That is true. You are being raised by a single mother and how did she support herself . Mom i remember became a nurse sometime after i was 8 or 9. As i write about in the book, these were good times economically. We were not struggling during that time. Before that i dont know. My grandparents helped out a little bit and one of the stories in the book was they, after mom was no longer in nursing things were tough for the family economically and they were tough socially. Your mother was married or has relationships with people, 4 or 56 different times. With that disconcerting to see a different man . It was an unstable childhood from the perspective of people coming in and out of our lives. I didnt realize until i was older what effect that was having on me. I didnt like it when i was a kid or that i would befriend this guy or feel this guy was becoming a father figure and was out of our lives. I know a lot of my friends were going through t
The most unexpected and daring military maneuvers of the American Revolution. And the story is, washington and the Continental Army, after having lost battles in new york and retreating across new jersey, came into bucks county and its getting of december 1776. They encampments ever locations around this area, including the tops in the only house which is also part of our park and things were pretty desperate at this point for washington and the patriots cause. The Continental Army really needed a win. Washington was afraid that the british were going to invade in philadelphia and take over the capital and you really knew that what he needed was a bold action and after meeting with his war counsel, they made a decision that on christmas night, they would cross the delaware and march to trenton to attack a post at trenton. As they began to march from the thompson has down here, a snowstorm it started and the weather was terrible, there was snow and hail and it was basically a pretty bad