IT WAS LIBERTY

Recollect their amazing fortitude, their bitter sufferings! Recollect the civil and religious principles and hopes and expectations, which constantly supported and carried them through all hardships, and patience and resignation! Let us recollect it was liberty!


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Reblogged from vintagesevensisters
vintagesevensisters: “Nearly a hundred years ago, some history-minded students braved the cold for another reason: to reenact George Washington’s famed Christmas crossing of the Delaware River. Starring Margaret Armstrong Howe ’14 as Washington, this makeshift crossing of February 22, 1914, honored Washington’s birthday.” This is amazing for all the reasons.  Happy birthday (observed), Mr. Washington! (Vassar Quarterly) 

vintagesevensisters:

“Nearly a hundred years ago, some history-minded students braved the cold for another reason: to reenact George Washington’s famed Christmas crossing of the Delaware River. Starring Margaret Armstrong Howe ’14 as Washington, this makeshift crossing of February 22, 1914, honored Washington’s birthday.”

This is amazing for all the reasons.  Happy birthday (observed), Mr. Washington!

(Vassar Quarterly) 

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    Vassar, I’ll never make fun of you again for not being hardcore enough to stay all-women. You’re a darling and I love...
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    reasons. Happy birthday (observed), Mr. Washington!
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    This is so amazing. adfkjgh
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