Storyteller john flashal who leads walking tours at the site where the statues are located. So you are now currently on the property of mr. Howard hankins, a Business Owner of Hamilton Road materials. Its an Industrial Recycling area. Mr. Hankins owned as much as 600 acres here and partitioned off a couple Hundred Acres to the nearby golf course. And this is a small sliver of whats remaining of the 400 acres. The significance of that he was involved, partially involved in the creation of the original president s park, a tourist site 12 miles from here that was open from 2004 until 2010. That was the home of all 42 of these sculptures. He was actually also instrumental and commissioned in 2010 to come take these sculptures when that park went bankrupt and put them in his stone crusher. So he did not have the heart to do that, thank god. And spent a considerable amount of his own money to transport every one of these one by one from that bankrupt, nonfunctional park 12 miles from here to
Exhaustion. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an wary eye on that well fit british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast. Morning,one chilling 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. One third to one half of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, huts of clay with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the leak lonely , whiteness, the only cover is blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them bitter words and , bitter memories of the war of king george as they left their bloody footprints on the snows of valley forge. Yes, the revolutionary war could have ended here. Yet somehow, this winter of despair becomes the turning point of the revolution. Corps] from it, comes defeat for the , the birth of the United Stat
Acres. The significance of that he was involved, partially involved in the creation of the original president s park, a tourist site 12 myles from here that was open from 2004 until 2010. That was the home of all 42 of these sculptures. He was actually also instrumental and commissioned in 2010 to come take these sculptures when that park went bankrupt and put them in his stone crusher. So he did not have the heart to do that, thank god. And spent a considerable amount of his own money to transport every one of these one by one from that bankrupt, nonfunctional park 12 miles from here to his property here as a way to store them temporarily until he figured out what he wanted to do with them. The sculptor of all of these is a gentleman by the named of david adickes. Not in the home attic but adickes. And he, if hes still alive, is probably in his early 90s. He was a painter and artist out of houston who was visiting friends in canada and was coming home by way of Mount Rushmore and beca
Sustainability. He received his phd from the college of william and mary. In 2008 he gained International Attention as part of the team that found the remains of George Washingtons childhood farm at ferry farm. He recounted it in his 2013 book where the cherry tree grew the story of ferry farm, George Washingtons boyhood home. His 2015 book, which i have right here in my hand, is called George Washington written upon the land. We have three copies in the bookstore if youre interested in purchasing one of them later. This book explores the many retellings of washingtons much fabled childhood and covers things ranging from biography to archaeology to environmental history. He is currently writing the archaeology of George Washington a survey of all the washingtonrelated sites and their stories. He has also conducted a reassessment of the 1930s archaeological record at George Washingtons birthplace. He says this site is one of the most intriguing and misunderstood archaeological sites. He
Sustainability. He received his phd from the college of william and mary. In 2008 he gained International Attention as part of the team that found the remains of George Washingtons childhood farm at ferry farm. He recounted it in his 2013 book where the cherry tree grew the story of ferry farm, George Washingtons boyhood home. His 2015 book, which i have right here in my hand, is called George Washington written upon the land. We have three copies in the bookstore if youre interested in purchasing one of them later. This book explores the many retellings of washingtons much fabled childhood and covers things ranging from biography to archaeology to environmental history. He is currently writing the archaeology of George Washington a survey of all the washingtonrelated sites and their stories. He has also conducted a reassessment of the 1930s archaeological record at George Washingtons birthplace. He says this site is one of the most intriguing and misunderstood archaeological sites. He