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Generals Washington and Rochambeau
from a painting by Auguste Couder at Versailles

MANY NEW YORK REVOLUTIONARY WAR PARKS TO CLOSE:

To help deal with New York's state budget crisis Governor David Paterson has proposed closing to public use 55 state parks and sites, including the Revolutionary War historic sites of Stony Point Battlefield, Fort Montgomery, Knox Headquarters, and New Windsor Cantonment in the lower Hudson Valley as well as Newtown Battle and Oriskany Battle historic sites upstate. The park buildings will be maintained, but not the grounds.
See Poughkeepsie Journal (NY) article

Ten Videos Related to the W3R

Rich Borkow, Village Historian of Dobbs Ferry (and a member of the W3R-US) has posted ten short videos related to the W3R. On them he interviews historians David Hackett Fischer, Thomas Fleming, and Mary Sudman Donovan.
For details and links see our video link page.

Read our monthly E-newsletter, An Urgent Dispatch for the General Staff.
The February 2010 issue [PDF] is now available.

Recent Events: Gala Banquet in France, [photos] Workshop on Mission and Priorities for the W3R-NHT [photos]
Upcoming Events: More Workshops on Mission and Priorities for the W3R-NHT, Movie Premiere on the Rev. War, W3R-US Annual Meeting, Tour of Charleville and Mézières (France)
For details see Events in 2010

The Delaware Kiosk is Back in Operation

Thanks to two of our affiliates -- the Pencader Heritage Area Association (PHAA) and Talisman Interactive (TA) -- the W3R-DE kiosk's computer was cleaned, repaired, and reprogrammed for off-Web use (by TA). Then Ralph Nelson re-assembled the kiosk and programmed it for operation as a disk-based Web site and arranged for the W3R-DE to loan the kiosk for testing and use at the PHAA .

On Dec 12 a team of W3R-DE and PHAA members moved it from Ralph's garage to the Pencader Heritage Museum. This is located on Rt 72 just south of Old Baltimore Pike (which follows the W3R-NHT) in Delaware Bing Map
The kiosk will be available for museum visitors during museum hours -- 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month.


PHAA volunteers Barbara White, Bob Barnes, and Frank Romanelli
with the W3R-DE kiosk in its new home

Where can you see markers about Rochambeau? Look at Rochambeau markers listed on www.waymarking.com

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