Evacuation Day, a New York Holiday
“Why the New Yorkers celebrate this evacuation day annually, I don’t know. Isn’t it as well to forget that an enemy once had possession of your city?” —the Portland [Maine] […]
“Why the New Yorkers celebrate this evacuation day annually, I don’t know. Isn’t it as well to forget that an enemy once had possession of your city?” —the Portland [Maine] […]
“Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the […]
“I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter’s pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck…no dray moves more readily to the Thrill, than I do to […]
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” —George Washington (1732–1799) By his peers and the public, George Washington was considered such a man, virtuous to a very high […]
“I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of […]
“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” —George Washington (1732–1799) A great fan of sculptural art that I am, here is an off-the-beaten path tribute to the […]
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we […]
I’m not throwin’ away my shot. Hey yo, I’m just like my country. I’m young, scrappy and hungry. —some of the lyrics used by Alexander Hamilton to introduce himself in […]