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The Critters of Cragsmoor Chapel
Ontario & Western Railway (The "Old & Weary")
Brigadier General Benjamin H. King
Planning The Perfect Business Event
Gabe and The Ghost in the Church Yard
Stories On Other Sites
Bannerman Island: A Mystery Island on the Hudson
Welcome to Wilmington
Blues
On August 16th, 2004 Wilmington Blues ended its
five year run as a bi-monthly literary journal.
Back issues are still available for browsing
Front line of freedom
By Robert Marchant
The Jpurnal News (Original publication: July 4, 2005)
The price of liberty ran high in the lower Hudson Valley during a war
that bought freedom with blood.
It began with the arrival of the Union Jack fluttering atop a massive
fleet of British ships sailing into New York Harbor in July 1776. It
ended, after seven years of hard fighting, when the forces of the Crown
went home in defeat.
Early Americans In 1976, It Was a Fourth of
Firsts
By Hanna Rosin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 4, 2005; Page
C01
I wish I could start the story this way: All their youth my parents
dreamed of coming to America. For years they saved up their shekels and
then, come July 4, 1976, they landed with the cork popping, ready to
fete their new homeland on her 200th birthday
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