Truly Patriotic!

Several times now I have participated in the Washington's crossing reenactments. Couldn't go this year but I knew it was going to be really cold this time. Well the Pennsylvania park service folks wimped out. Several weeks ago they announced that the river was around 6 inches too shallow for the Durham Boats. They have a practice run two weeks beforehand. Then from Philadelphia a group who teach boat building rounded up a small fleet of shallow draft row boats to use. Well today the final straw, it was too windy. Now let me tell ya. When the wind is gusting to be 35-40 mph at 30? you are out on the Delaware in some stupid boat with about 18 other crazy people, The current is pushing the boats down river as fast as the oarsman can row, and lastly the wind is blowing Down the river, just give up! Let the Hessian Troupes keep Trenton. They canceled the reenactment. History has now been changed. We are a colony of BRITIAN once again. Funny thing is that renactors are a bunch of nuts! They couldn't care if icebergs were floating down the river, they want to go! Washington did. Two solders froze to death on the way to Trenton. The Hessian commander had a note in his pocket when he died from a loyalist telling that there was going to be some kind of attack. He never read it.
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Here is one about the shallow draft rowboats they were going to use. This would have been somewhat correct but should be Klinker boats. Still would have been just terrific.
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jeffcat I don't know why you are surprised with the left taking down all of the statutes of the heroes that fought for freedom begin taken down👍

Breaks your heart what is coming to be in this country, doesn't it. Now in NYC there were about 100 aoles That filled out a partition to take down Columbus, Teddy Roosevelt, and some other statues. If you don't like it here LEAVE!

Jeff, I figure you for someone that wont give up, you will never let this rest, so I'm not worried, I think in my book, I call it true grit.

I trust next year you WILL take the colony back

I know what you mean.

In the Dallas area they have been renaming schools, streets, taking down statues of Confederate leaders.

Imagine what it costs to rename a school, street?

Just one statue, small enough to fit on a 16' trailer behind a 1/2 ton PU, cost the city $116,000 to cut it loose, pick it up, sit it on the trailer!

And that was just a temporary move (storage), another move (more money), finding it another home (still more money)!

Why does this reak of politics?

Since I'm not familiar with the area, how wide are we talking at the crossing area Jeff?

Say it ain't so Jeff. The Brits still in charge on the Jersey side. Does this mean at own tractor show, third weekend in September, at Washington crossing there's going to be a lot more English fordsons?

How come they didn't walk over the bridge? Usually when the water is to low, they walk. Being out on the Delaware river in good weather can be exciting with that current.

Not that wide, maybe 800 feet max. If you look on Google map and look just north of 5he bridge you see an island. From that island is a sand bar and that is the trouble maker. If the river is very low 5hose Durham boats get stuck. They are pretty deep and heavy. The jersey side shallows out as you get near. Also they don't beleive in cleaning stuff so there are snags and old tree trash along the bank.