[Pharmboy]

Great find! Go to the source and watch the video...

[Pharmboy]

The Washington Family Coat of Arms

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I do not know how to post a direct link to the video--could one of you digitally-enhanced Freepers do that please?

[arderkrag]

On a side note, Washington's desk calendar was found, marked with an entry for September 28, 1781 that reads, "Buy a bagel. Pick up milk & eggs on way home. Kill British guys."

[HYPOCRACY]

They had slaves in Philadelphia? I also thought Washington freed all his slaves after the war?

[RDTF]

super kewl

[hedgetrimmer]

In other news....

Independence Hall Adopts New Security Procedure
(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia’s Old City section has decided to implement new security procedures.

The new screening process allows visitors with no bags or packages to pass through quickly, without going through a metal detector.

Security will still ask visitors with bags or packages to open them for inspection.

The new security plan includes moving visitor screenings out of Old City Hall and into a new Visitor Use Area. The Visitor Use Area is currently under construction and will be open later this year.

http://cbs3.com/local/local_story_170131007.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pharmboy.

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[aculeus]

Thanks for posting.

[Mannaggia l'America]

Note the emphasis on the "enslaved". This is a politically correct archeological dig.

See this article for details.

From the other article:

Philadelphia - At the controls of a hydraulic excavator, Mayor John Street hoisted the first mound of dirt from an archeological site on Independence Mall yesterday.

The dig was in commemoration of the slaves held by former president George Washington and John Adams centuries ago. It will supplement the site of the President's House, where an architectural design was announced last month of a proposed monument that will be built adjacent to the Liberty Bell Center.

The dig is designed to determine if there are any artifacts in the ground that might tell more about the people who lived and worked in the President's House, especially the slaves.

"We have a long history of archaeology in this park and it's been feral ground for generations of archaeologists," said Dennis Reidenbach, superintendent of Independence National Historic Park said. "Archeology started her in the 1950s and continued ever since. We are now sifting the soil for clues of the past."

A three- to six-week painstaking process of identifying and removing archaeological features started yesterday. An oversight committee will be responsible for tracking the dig and the construction of the President's House. Members from the African American Museum, Avenging the Ancestors Coalition, the Philadelphia Multicultural Affairs Congress, the Independence Hall Association, the Pennsylvania Historical Association and others make up the oversight committee.

"We're here because we're digging for the truth," said Street, addressing young people from several local high schools. "We spent $1.5 million on this project. At the end of the day we wanted something to make a statement, to recognize that there were slaves here.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Ddin’t we have a thread about this some months ago?

[O Neill]

The North-West corner is, I believe, where President Washington often prayed to the Creator, a Christian God once enshrined in our Constitution (before being usurped & dissolved into its own "penumbra" by a plethora of fuzzy-headed activist judges)...

Thanks for the info, though...interesting Dig!

[Think free or die]

THanks for the update! I’ll have to take our sons into town to take a look. We haven’t been to the Constitution Center yet either. Good time for a visit.