Friday, December 08, 2006

"Washington in Fairfield" not online

I was looking into a musical, perhaps a historical musical play, which I once found called "Washington in Fairfield" about the times of George Washington in Connecticut where he was during the American Revolutionary War. Connecticut is where King George's Hanover Square, NYC statue was carted away to be melted down into thousands of musket balls, before or after the British Army pulled down and beheaded the statue of William Pitt, a pro-American politician in Parliament (the headless statue is said to be in the New-York Historical Society, once in a famous hotel downtown on view for many years) and came across this interesting play and playwright, "Boston's Brothers in Liberty" by Geralyn Horton, who has had quite an interesting career and written many interesting plays. "The gentleman asks, When were the colonies emancipated? I desire to know when they were made slaves." - William Pitt (1708-1778 "The Great Commoner" in Historical Biographies) Victims of Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster are commemorated in a garden in Hanover Square, just recently dedicated by Prince Charles of Great Britain. Today they began the dismantling of the Deutsche Bank building one of the two damaged buildings still left there, and they're finally going to test some other buildings! Does President Bush have a double? We heard Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi head-of-state, had doubles in case of assassination attempts, hearkening in my mind to some of the dramatic roles of alter-leaders, Churchill and dramatic US presidents, such as "Dave" (1993 tagline: "In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did"). I can't recall if "Washington in Fairfield" was musical comedy about his double. I once stopped by the graveside of James McCrory in Alabama ("He was one of George Washington's body guards at Valley Forge and he served his Country faithfully during that was. Peace to the soldier's dust." - Pickens County, Alabama. They were called "lifeguard" then.) At the time, 1979, someone had recently set a car tire on-fire in front of the family stones, joined together by brick, and the fire had blackened them, and someone left a toy M-16 on a recent child's grave, not sure if they're connected). What today would be called the "Secret Service" protects the "higher-ups" in government, I doubt the current President has a double, but who knows?

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  1. George Bush having a double. Interesting thought.

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