Monday, November 24. 2008

Quote of the Week

"She [Catherine Litvack, executive director of the Crossroads of the American Revolution Association in New Jersey] said the groups are trying to arrange with Google Earth to snap a photograph of the light show."

The light show in question will be on Tuesday night and will cover 108 miles from Beacon, N.Y., to Princeton to mark the day 225 years ago when the last British troops boarded ships in New York harbor and sailed away, leaving behind a free nation. Xenon spotlights will be mounted atop spots that approximate the sites of Revolutionary War beacon fires (map). Tuesday is one of the Evacuation Days celebrated in the United States. Here in Massachusetts we celebrate when the troops left Boston on March 17 (also St. Patrick's Day).

- The Daily Record

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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